List of University of North Texas Alumni - Arts and Media

Arts and Media

• Jay Boy Adams, attended 1967-1969, singer, songwriter, guitarist
• Theodore Albrecht, musicologist
• Larry Austin, composer
• "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, professional wrestler
• Joe Don Baker, film actor
• Bob Belden, jazz musician, Grammy Award-winning composer
• Joan Blondell, film and television actress
• Pat Boone, pop and gospel singer, actor and television personality
• Billy Lee Brammer, novelist and journalist
• Brave Combo, Grammy-winning polka rock band
• Eden Brent, blues pianist and vocalist
• Jeff Coffin, Jazz saxophones member of Dave Matthews band (temporary), and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
• Rogers Cadenhead, author of computer books, Web publisher and member of the RSS Advisory Board
• Matt Chamberlain, session drummer
• Thomas Haden Church, film and television actor
• Joseph Patrick Cranshaw film actor, best known as "Blue" from movie "Old School"
• Ivan Davis, Classical concert pianist
• Bob Dorough, Bebop and Jazz pianist/vocalist who wrote and sang many of the Schoolhouse Rock songs
• George Dunham, sports radio talk-show host and "voice of the Mean Green Radio Network"
• Greg Edmonson, musician
• Rob Erdle, watercolorist, regents' professor
• Charlie Fern, White House speechwriter, journalist
• Bobby Fuller, Rock singer/guitarist best known for his band's cover of "I Fought the Law"
• O'Neil Ford, major regional architect whose works include San Antonio's Tower of the Americas
• Phyllis George, Miss America 1971, actress and broadcaster
• Jimmy Giuffre, Jazz musician
• James Hampton, actor and director
• Kyle Hebert, voice actor
• Don Henley, singer-songwriter and drummer, both solo and with The Eagles
• Diane Heusted, stage actress and director
• Sara Hickman, Folk singer/songwriter
• Ray Wylie Hubbard, Country music singer
• Timothy Huskey, decorated soldier (Distinguished Flying Cross and Bronze Star) and author
• Norah Jones, Grammy-winning pianist and singer-songwriter
• Joe Kirkland, member of Punk Rock band Artist vs Poet
• Scott Kurtz, creator of the webcomic PvP
• Michael Lark, comic book artist
• Lecrae, Christian hip-hop artist, actor, co-founder of Reach Records
• T. Lewis, illustrator of the comic strip Over the Hedge
• Tom "Bones" Malone, jazz trombonist; played with the Saturday Night Live and the Late Show with David Letterman house bands, and with The Blues Brothers
• "Blue Lou" Marini, saxophonist; played with the Saturday Night Live house band and The Blues Brothers
• Jim Marrs, conspiracy theorist and author of Crossfire: the Plot that Killed Kennedy (the basis for the Oliver Stone film, "JFK")
• Lyle Mays, composer/keyboardist with the Pat Metheny Group
• Dr. Phil McGraw, television personality and psychologist
• Larry McMurtry, novelist, essayist and screenwriter; won a Pulitzer Prize for the novel Lonesome Dove, and an Academy Award for the screenplay of Brokeback Mountain
• Meat Loaf, Rock singer and film actor
• Bill Mercer, former sports and professional wrestling announcer
• Jim Metcalf, news reporter and Peabody Award recipient
• R.K. Milholland, creator of webcomics Something Positive, New Gold Dreams and Midnight Macabre
• Bill Moyers, journalist and commentator
• Warren Carl Norwood author of at least 13 Science-Fiction novels
• Roy Orbison, Rock singer-songwriter
• Brina Palencia, voice actor for Funimation Entertainment.
• Alan Palomo. frontman for Neon Indian
• Jessie Pavelka, television star and model
• Patricia Racette American opera diva
• Anne Rice, American author
• Brandon Rogers, American Idol (season 6) finalist
• Ann Sheridan, film actress
• Patrick O. Strickland, journalist of Middle Eastern affairs.
• Clinton Howard Swindle, journalist and author
• Mark Trojanowski, drummer for Sister Hazel
• Xiaoze Xie, artist
• Paul Varghese, stand-up comedian, seen on NBC's "Last Comic Standing"
• Jennifer Vasquez, "Big Brother" (season 6) contestant and film actor in Idiocracy and Prison Break season 2, as well as Friday Night Lights season 1
• David Von Erich, deceased professional wrestler dubbed the "Yellow Rose of Texas," brother of Kevin Von Erich
• Kevin Von Erich, professional wrestler dubbed "the Golden Warrior", brother of David Von Erich
• Peter Weller, film actor and star of RoboCop
• Noble Willingham, television and film actor, starring in Walker, Texas Ranger
• Shara Worden, musician, performs under the name My Brightest Diamond
• Donny Howard, former touring pianist/backing vocalist for Reba McEntire (1985-1989) and pianist on her album Merry Christmas to You
• Trina Nishimura, voice actor for Funimation Entertainment