Tom, son of Eugene and Fernita (McKillop) Goldrup, was born 1942 in Palo Alto, California, and raised in the historic town of Sonoma in that state. He made his acting debut in the role of Mr. Gibbs in his Sonoma, California high school play of "Arsenic and Old Lace", and continued on at Santa Rosa Junior College in productions including "She Loves Me", "Major Barbara". Following college, Tom worked with his screenwriter brother Ray Goldrup and actor brother Jim Goldrup in their own film production of "Vision of a Poet" in which Tom played the poet. Following a bit part in Five Bloody Graves (1970), filmed in Capitol Reef National Monument in Utah, Tom made his way to Hollywood and obtained an agent and attended the Ivor Francis acting workshop. After working in a CBS Playhouse ("Sadbird"), acting roles were hard to come by so he wrote a screenplay titled "Kelsey", with brothers Ray and Jim. Nothing came of this, but Ray went on to make a career writing for television and motion pictures. Tom left Hollywood in 1971 and settled in Santa Cruz County, California, where he has acted in a number of stage productions, including work with the noted Shakespeare Santa Cruz company.

He and brother Jim also co-produced and acted in several of their own productions (one being a play titled "The Last Bell" written by brother Ray), as well as with Mountain Community Theater. Tom has also worked in bit parts in several films made in the Santa Cruz area ("Out On A Limb", "Sudden Impact", etc) and performed as the hit-man Otto in an unreleased film titled "The Magdaburg Affair" which was shot in 1988 in Utah. Tom and his three brothers became well aware of many of the feature players when they were growing up in the 1950s, with Ray and Tom being presidents of the official Don C. Harvey Fan Club. Years later (beginning in 1983) Tom and Jim began writing a four volume series of books titled "Feature Players: Stories Behind the Faces", which were based on personal interviews with many of the actors and actresses of the Golden era of Hollywood.

In 2002 they published their latest book, Growing Up on the Set: Interviews with 39 Former Child Actors of Classic Film and Television (Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing), which chronicled the lives and careers of 39 former child actors. Tom's latest stage performance was as the character "Angelo" in Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors" (2003).

Mark Gollaher is an extremely accomplished stage and screen actor. Mark's many leading stage roles include: Camelot (Sundance Summer Theatre), Hamlet (Rose Wagner Center), Jane Eyre (Hale Center Theatre), I Do! I Do! (Provo Theatre Company), Dracula (Actors Repertory Theatre Ensemble), Incorruptible (Salt Lake Acting Company), A Chorus Line (Starlight Theatre Company), Sweeney Todd (Pioneer Theatre Company), Bye Bye Birdie (The Grand Theatre), The Wizard Of Oz (Sundance Summer Theatre), The Robber Bridegroom (Sundance Summer Theatre), The Secret Garden (Pioneer Theatre Company), The Lion In Winter (Walkons Inc.), An Ideal Husband (Pioneer Theatre Company), Into The Woods (Pioneer Theatre Company), The Crucible (Pioneer Theatre Company), and The Taming Of The Shrew (Pioneer Theatre Company)

Some of Mark's film credits include: Slow, Euro Disney, She's A Time Bomb, The Road To Amaias, Authority, and How Rare A Possession.

Mark has a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Brigham Young University. In addition, Mark has received training at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Shakespeare Workshop.

Gourgouris previously served for seven years as the production supervisor at Beacon Communications, headed by Armyan Bernstein and Marc Abraham. She worked on Beacon's first film, the international success "The Commitments," followed by "A Midnight Clear," "Sugar Hill," David Mamet's "A Life in the Theatre," "Princess Caraboo" and "The Road to Welville."

Raised in Boulder, Colorado, Gourgouris graduated from Brigham Young University with a B.A. in theater and film. Moving to Los Angeles in 1985, she got her start coordinating a number of television magazine shows and worked as assistant to the director on the sitcoms "Coming of Age" and "Coach." She then coordinated the Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, and began stage managing the annual Children's Miracle Telethon at Disneyland. The next year she took over as unit production manager on the live, six-camera cable show "Shop Television Network."

From Provo, Utah, Ben recently graduated from Brigham Young University, where he studied film acting and directing. His performance as Charles Bingley in "Pride and Prejudice" is his first lead role in a feature film. He played a supporting role in the award-winning war film "Saints and Soldiers," (coming early 2004).

Benjamin John Gourley was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on May 26, 1978. He is the third oldest of seven children (3 girls, 4 boys). He graduated from Brigham Young University in 2003 with a degree in film production with an emphasis in screenwriting. He served a two year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Russia. He began acting at 22 years of age and has since contributed to many theatre and independent film productions including, Pride and Prejudice (2003), and Saints and Soldiers (2003).

Adjunct Faculty Jazz Instructor. Melissa Graehl graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Utah and has been teaching for over 25 years. She currently teaches Jazz at Utah Valley Stae College. Graehl was a dancer and an extra in the popular movie "Footloose" filmed in Utah County. She has danced in two two jazz companies: "Jazzin Dance Ensemble" and Utah Contemporary Theatre". Melissa currently dancs with "Deseret Dance Theatre".

Jacque has the unique ability to "light up" the screen! Jacque is an accomplished stage, screen and television actress. Jacque's film credits include: God's Army, It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Trying, Brigham City, Drive Me Crazy, Wish Upon A Star, Hostage High [Detention: The Siege at Johnson High], Net Worth, and Only Once.

Jacque has been the Co-Star on two episodes of Touched By An Angel (CBS), Guest Star on two episodes of Promised Land (CBS), Co-Star of Guiding Light (CBS) and has had a recurring role on Resurrection Boulevard.

Jacque's stage credits include: Prince of Peace (City Rep. Theater), Saturday's Warrior (Vine Street Theater), Babes In Toyland (City Rep. Theater), The Weekend (Rocket 66 Entertainment), The Gift of Christmas (Promised Valley Playhouse), Christmas In The Air (Promised Valley Playhouse), and Wonderful Disney Music (City Rep. Theater).

Coz was born in the state of insanity. He is the youngest of three children and the only child to be both conceived and born in a car. He started entertaining professionally at the age of twelve. He entertained audiences in the United States and Europe.

Coz graduated from Hillcrest High School. He was the school's sports anouncer and announced football, basketball, baseball, wrestling and gymnastics. He was voted by his senior classmates as "Most Humorous." He was awarded the Kiwanis International "Student-of-the-Year Award" and the "Distinguished Service Award and Stipend". Coz was recognized two consecutive years as 2nd place in the State of Utah by V.I.C.A. for excellence in graphic arts and commercial printing.

Coz started in broadcasting as a news reporter for an ABC affiliate radio station. Over time, he worked in radio as a news anchor, sportscaster, talk show host, and disc-jockey.

Coz served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Ireland. He had a unique opportunity to pioneer a public relations tour for the Church throughout Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland appearing on stage, radio, and television. He performed over 1,500 public appearances and 250 live comedy shows.

He was director of marketing of a national training and consulting firm. He was responsible for creating and administering marketing efforts for training in the securities industry (stock brokers and financial planners). He became highly skilled in direct mail campaigns, telemarketing operations and advertising. Coz was a district manager for the marketing division of a $1.5 billion NASDAQ traded company. He was recognized as a top producer for personal sales and persistency. He was responsible for hiring, writing and developing the training curriculum, and motivating a team of associates to repeatedly be one of the top districts in the United States.

Coz founded a strategic communications company specializing in strategic planning, communication and personal development services. He has developed and facilitated numerous systems to improve revenues and profits in companies from a wide variety of industries throughout the United States. Coz has real-world experience in television, radio, internet, print and public communications. He is recognized as a highly skilled speaker and trainer. He has inspired audiences from 18 countries on a variety of business and personal development topics. He is the author of "Fulfilling Your Life's Mission," numerous training manuals, and several audio and video programs. Coz is listed in Who's Who Worldwide of Business Leaders for outstanding leadership and achievement.

Coz is an actor in film and on television. His voice is heard nationally on radio, television, and numerous voice-over projects. Coz entertains as Santa Claus at over 100 events each December carrying the torch of peace and happiness. He is currently working on his new book, "Dare to Be You", which will be released in print and on audio soon.

Coz is the father to two wonderful children, Meg, age 7, and Ben, age 3. Coz's greatest joy in life is being their "daddy" and being together. He lives in Salt Lake City and is active in the community. His hobbies and interests include: golf, travel, basketball, movies, world and American history, computers, and public service.

Specializing in production of long-format documentaries for local and national PBS broadcasts, Nancy Green has produced or co-produced such notable KUED documentaries as "The Journey Home: Stories From Hospice", "Fire In the Hole," "Joe Hill," and "Utah the Struggle for Statehood". Her recognitions include awards from the Rocky Mountain Emmys, IRIS, CINE Golden Eagle, Houston Worldfest, New York Film Festival and Society of Professional Journalists. In addition to experience in the television medium, Nancey also worked on several motion pictures shot in Utah including "A Midnight Clear" (1991 A&M Films). She received a B.A. in Film Studies from the University of Utah in 1990.

Paul Green, 20, has been an ace cinematographer since 1997, when he directed and aranged all camera set-ups for the award winning World War II short film "The Squad." (this short was penned by both Bryan Young and Paul Green.) He followed his success of "The Squad" with a sequel that surpassed the original in quality and action. "The Squad II" also won numerous awards for cinematography at his local high school. Currently, when Shinebox isn't in the middle of production, Paul can be found operating cameras and camera assisting at local studios and for various other film companies.

His hobbies include maintaining this website, taking photgraphs of himself in mirrors (just to check and see if he has a reflection to make sure if he is a vampire or not) and editing various things for various reasons.

By the time she reached college, she was doing handwriting analysis for businessmen and worked as a masseuse for a chiropractor (who happened to be the bishop of her church). Because of her willowy figure and 5' 10" height, Pepper's mother, Betty Morton, kept entering her in beauty pageants. Winning eleven pageants helped pay for her college education. In her senior year she opened Peppermill Designs, designing clothes for individuals, drill teams, rock bands, and restaurants.

Intuitive since childhood, Pepper has been "connected" by thought with her friends and can sense their emotions and conditions thousands of miles away. The psychology department of her college contacted Duke University about Pepper's psychic abilities. A professor was flown in from Duke and began extensive testing on Pepper using Zener cards, or ESP cards. She was found to be 88% accurate, guessing the cards one ahead the majority of the time. Soon numerous friends and family began asking for "readings." To this day Pepper quietly "reads" friends and family, but without charge.

Pepper met her husband, Skip Gregory, at college when she was a Dream Girl for a fraternity and booked his band for a college dance. Tired of dating, Pepper was grateful to finally meet someone who wasn't threatened by her ambition and was charmed by her shyness. Skip inspired and motivated her to write and record 10 songs, several non-fiction books, numerous magazine articles, five children's stories, two books on women, a documentary for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, which stars Michael O'Hearn as a superhero, public service commercials for the American Cancer Society and the American Red Cross, and five grief counselor training videos for The Sharing Place, a non-profit foundation for helping children cope with the death of a loved one.

In 1980, Skip encouraged her to write screenplays which is now her first and foremost love. Pepper has worked with Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival, judged over 10,000 scripts for the New Century Writer's and Writer's at Work screenwriting contests, has been on many panels representing the film industry and taught screenwriting workshops. As the marketing/PR director for Redman Movies & Stories, she has been able to attend and assist filming of television programs such as "Touched By An Angel," "Promised Land" and feature films shot in Utah. Pepper has written scripts for "The New Love Boat," "Touched By An Angel," Disney, Saban, Showtime, Lifetime, and is an advocate for family films without violence. In 1998, she started Gregory Media Group. Her motto is "Movies Change Lives."

Currently, Pepper is a certified grief counselor, and working towards her Doctorate degree in psychology. Her latest books, When Someone Turns Into An Angel, a picture book for children, and Conversations With An Angel, for adults, have paved the way for more projects. She discovered she could communicate with coma patients and unborn children. Her doctoral thesis concerns coma patient therapy and pre-birth fetal studies. Several of her new books are about spirits contacting each other before they meet, and that love never dies.

Mary Ethel Gregory, a Utah actress who had roles in "Footloose" and "The Executioner's Song," died Tuesday in St. George after a long battle with cancer. She was 79.

"She was a born actress, really," her husband, Herold (Huck) Gregory, said Thursday.

She was born Mary Ethel Eccles on Nov. 27, 1925, in Salt Lake City. She caught the acting bug from her father, Albert Eccles, a well-known local theater actor.

Gregory was class valedictorian at Granite High School, and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Utah. She earned her college tuition working on such local radio programs as KSL's "Potluck Party."

Among Gregory's favorite stage roles, her husband said, were as the drug-addicted Mary Tyrone in Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night" and the long-suffering Nurse Preen in "The Man Who Came to Dinner." When Nurse Preen told off her annoying patient, Gregory "got an ovation every night," her husband said.

She had a supporting role in "The Executioner's Song," the 1982 miniseries about murderer Gary Gilmore's last days before facing a Utah firing squad. Gregory played the wife of Gilmore's best friend, played by Eli Wallach, and in one scene danced with Gilmore (Tommy Lee Jones) in a prison waiting room.

Other notable film roles were as a secretary in "Footloose," and as a rock star's plague-stricken mother in "Stephen King's The Stand." She also played the grandmother who recounts the Mormon migration in "Legacy," the first movie screened in Salt Lake City's Joseph Smith Memorial Building.

Cancer in her lip ended her acting career, her husband said. One of her last acting jobs was providing a voice in the 1997 documentary "Trail of Hope: The Story of the Mormon Trail."

"I remember her putting a piece of tape over her lower lip, so it would mimic her lower lip, and she was able to pronounce clearly," said Lee Groberg, the documentary's director. "She was a lady of the finest, highest quality."

The Gregorys' son, Walt Gregory, also took up show business, recording (as The Walter & Hays Band) the '90s novelty song "The Mormon Rap."

Gregory is survived by her husband and son, daughters Vicki and Suellen, five grandchildren and a brother. Funeral services are set for noon Saturday at the Monument Park 20th Ward, 2795 E. Crestview Drive, Salt Lake City. Visitation is at the chapel tonight, 6 to 8 p.m., and for an hour before Saturday's services. A donation to charity is suggested in lieu of flowers.

Duane Gray Griffith, beloved husband, father, son and brother, died June 14, 2000, after a mercifully brief battle with cancer. He was surrounded by and gently held by all of his family as he quietly slipped away late that night... Duane was very active in the Scouting program in his youth, earning many awards including the God and Country award. He was very instrumental in the development of Scouting camps in the Colorado Rockies. Duane's love of cars began early. At 16 his first car was a '31 Ford Coupe hot rod... He graduated from Mitchell High School in Colorado Springs, Colo. in 1969 and attended Arapahoe Jr. College in Littleton, Colo., where he fine-tuned his mechanical and welding skills... After a season as a mechanic with Sheri Griffith Expeditions, he joined his brother Ron in Griffith Production Services, where his talents took him into a career as a grip. He worked in over 150 commercials in Utah, Colorado, Arizona and Idaho. He also worked in over a dozen movies, such as City Slickers II; Independence Day; Pontiac Moon; Species; Larger Than Life; To Wong Foo; Knights; Passion in the Desert; and Bench at the Edge.

George Griner has over two dozen years of experience shooting film and video as a director of photography and camera operator. His vast filmmaking experience includes 35 mm features, television, large format and educational films, commercials and 16mm documentaries. His specialty filming expertise in aerial helicopter shooting (side, nose and belly mounts, Skycam, Wescam and Photosphere) was utilized in such large format productions as, "Grand Canyon: The Hidden Secrets", "Hearst Castle: Building The Dream" and "The Grand Circle," as well as in the feature film, "To Live And Die In L.A." His feature film credits include: "Harry's War," "Buffalo Rider," "Seven Alone," "Same River Twice" and "The Adventures of the Great Brain."

Allan Groves has always loved performing. His love for acting has brought him to claim numerous roles in theatre as well as film. He debuted in his first film at 16, as Andy in the ABC special Loss of Innocence. Since then he has acted and starred in numerous independent films, commercials and radio voiceovers. He currently studies film and multimedia in Utah, spending his off hours honing his art at Rob Diamond's, "The Actor's Lounge."

If most Georgia girls are peaches, Christine Guerra would be a peanut. She believes in Braves baseball, watermelon seed spitting contests, and Steel Magnolias. She comes from a long line of Southerners fit to populate a Flannery O'Connor short story, from her tobacco chewing, Italian farmer grandfather, to her own floral printed mother. She's been a missionary, a filmmaker, and since the age of three, a tennis player.

As an avid movie fan, Dorothy got her chance to go to Hollywood when she won a Salt Lake City beauty contest sponsored by Universal Pictures. Signed by Universal after her successful screen test, Dorothy became one of the many contract actors working in small bit parts. She became well known due to her roles in series and serial movies from 'College Love (1929)' to 'The Last Frontier (1932)'. Dorothy appeared in a number of low budget Westerns such as 'In Old Cheyenne (1931)' and 'The Fighting Marshal (1932)'. Over the years that she appeared in Westerns, she worked with actors such as Jack Hoxie, Hoot Gibson, Wild Bill Elliott and John Wayne. By 1933, Dorothy found that her roles had become so small that in the film 'King Kong (1933)', she would be credited as "Girl". For the rest of the decade, she appeared in but a handful of films which were mostly 'B' movie Westerns. After that, she left films.

With four starring serials (and two in supporting roles) to her credit, as well as a string of B-Westerns with the likes of Hoot Gibson and Jack Hoxie, brunette Dorothy Gulliver was an action heroine of some stature in the early days of sound. Yet she is remembered solely for The Collegians, a series of two-reel comedies produced by Universal (who also cast her in a 1929 feature version entitled College Love and voted her a 1928 WAMPAS Baby Star) and as a blowsy harridan in John Cassavetes' Faces (released 1968). This last comeback stunned Hollywood and there were whispers of a possible Academy Award. Alas, it was to be her final film. Gulliver is often credited with appearing as an old lady on a bus in the ill-fated Won Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976), but always vehemently denied any participation in the film.

A former Miss Salt Lake City, Dorothy Gulliver was ready to sign with Paramount when she won another contest, this time conducted by Universal, who sent her to Hollywood. She starred opposite George J. Lewis and Eddie Phillips in all 44 installments of The Collegians (1926-1929), set at imaginary Calford College and did yeoman duty opposite the established serial team of William Desmond and Eileen Sedgwick in both The Winking Idol (1926) and Strings of Steel (1926). She became a serial star in her own right five years later but not at Universal, who had dismissed her along with most of their B-Western units at the changeover to sound.

Picked up by low-budget Mascot Pictures, Gulliver played Tom Tyler's leading lady in the ten-chapter Phantom of the West (1931) and immediately established her potential as a latter-day serial queen. The Galloping Ghost (1931) with sports hero Harold "Red" Grange and The Shadow of the Eagle (1932), with John Wayne, followed and she co-starred opposite Lon Chaney Jr. (known at the time as Creighton Chaney) in RKO's sole attempt at serial making, The Last Frontier (1932).

A non-movie-involved accident curtailed this long string of action successes and when she returned it was in independently produced fare, such as Fighting Caballero (1935) with Rex Lease and Custer's Last Stand (1935), from ultra low-budget Stage and Screen, and her final chapterplay. She would do the odd B-movie until 1942, but then concentrated on her marriage to publicist Jack Proctor. (A previous union, with assistant director Chester De Vito, had ended in divorce.) Gulliver reportedly appeared in summer stock in Laguna, CA, but she was all but forgotten when Cassavetes surprisingly chose her to play a middle-aged woman picking up young hustlers in Faces. Cassavates' slow, methodic way of filming astonished the veteran B-movie performer, who also got a kick out of appearing opposite such modern method actors as Gena Rowlands and John Marley. "They were all such fine actors," she told the Los Angeles Times, "but I admit I was amazed when this actress asked 'What is my motivation for going to the phone?'"

Tony is the writer/director of the upcoming LDS comedy "Smart Single Guys," an adaptation of his successful play (all performances at BYU last fall were completely sold out). Tony will talk about adapting a play for the screen and his approach to film as a first time director.

Tony has been working with high school aged students since 1995. He's worked as an acting coach, director and for the past two years as stage manager and instructor for the BYU High School Theater Workshop. Tony is currently studying directing and playwriting at BYU, where his play "Smart Single Guys" will be performed in November. Directing credits include "The Hothouse", and "So much in Love" at BYU, "Peculiarities" for Under the Radar Productions, and "The Hybrid Solution" and "Undone" for the Provost Humor Company. Tony acts as producing director for the PHC, and as Artistic Director for the Provo Fringe Theater Project, which will begin its first season in January of 2004. He's incredibly excited to be working for the Villa Youth Theater with his incredibly talented wife, Lesley.

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