Edward Asner (born November 15, 1929), commonly known as Ed Asner, is an American film, television, stage, and voice actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild, primarily known for his Emmy Award-winning role as Lou Grant on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off series, Lou Grant. In 2009, he starred as the voice of Carl Fredricksen in Pixar's award-winning animated film, Up...(Wikipedia)

Credits include: Fried Green Tomatoes, Last Flag Flying, Alex Cross, Diary of a Mad Black Woman and Because of Winn-Dixie

Credits include: The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear, Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult, The Towering Inferno and O.J.: Made in America

Levardis Robert Martyn Burton, Jr. professionally known as LeVar Burton, is a German-born African American actor, director, producer and author who first came to prominence portraying Kunta Kinte in the 1977 award-winning ABC television miniseries Roots, based on the novel by Alex Haley. He is also well known for his portrayal of Geordi La Forge on the syndicated science fiction series Star Trek: The Next Generation and as the host of the PBS children's program Reading Rainbow...(Wikipedia)

Credits include: Roots, Good Hair, Madea's Family Reunion, Down in the Delta and Under African Skies

Credits include: The NeverEnding Story, Rollerball, Shaft, Heartbreak Ridge and Firestarter

After arriving in Hollywood with $12 in his pocket, he was first employed as a sweeper for $1 a day. He was an American author and actor whose career spanned three decades beginning around 1960. He was sometimes billed as Harry Rhodes and appeared in sixty-six films or television programs, such as ABC's medical drama about psychiatry, Breaking Point. Most of his appearances were in minor roles, according to IMDB. Rhodes first television role was in a 1957 episode of Dick Powell's Zane Grey

Credits include: Blacula, Roots, The Out-of-Towners, Mom and Dad Save the World and Friday Foster

Ralph Waite's stalwart and steadfast TV homesteader John Walton will endure in the hearts of family-oriented viewers for decades to come. Educated at Bucknell University where he graduated with a BA degree, Waite existed rather aimlessly as a young adult while trying to find his way in the world. Occupations came and went, including social worker, religious editor for Harper & Row, and even Presbyterian minister after spending three years at the Yale School of Divinity. At age 30, however, he b

Credits include: The Jerk, Hair, 9 to 5, The Brother from Another Planet and Beauty and the Beast

Credits include: What's Happening!!, Mega Shark vs. Kolossus, What's Happening Now!, Roots, Part I and The Runaway