A
Claude Akins (Northwestern) Actor, 100 movies and 140 TV episodes |
Timothy Atzinger (Delaware) Editing/writing in reality TV, Emmy |
B
Lester Beall (Chicago) recipient of the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Graphic Artists |
Walter Becker (UCLA) Director, Van Wilder |
Dr. James Beckett (Southern Methodist) Founder, Beckett Publications |
Michael F. Beckner (Southern California) Co-producer, Sniper, Spy Game, CSI, To Appomattox |
Don Beddoe (Cincinnati) Actor on stage and screen in over 200 movies |
K. Blair Benson (Worcester) Emmy for engineering and technical achievement; videotape |
Powers Boothe (Texas State-San Marcos) Actor, Emmy as Best Actor for Jim Jones |
Benjamin Bratt (California-Santa Barbara) Actor, SAG and ALMA Awards |
C
Eugene F. Callahan (Louisiana State) Two-time Academy Award winning set and production designer for The Hustler and again for America, America |
Dr. John Alexander Carroll (Texas Christian) Pulitzer Prize |
Jay Chattaway (West Virginia) Emmy Award and 8 ASCAP Awards as composer of TV and movies, Star Trek |
Kenny Chesney (East Tennessee State) Singer, 4 x Entertainer of the Year, 4 x Music Video of Year |
W. Kent Cooper (Pennsylvania) Architect of record of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Korean Veterans Memorial, recipient of the AIA Henry Bacon Medal |
E
Brett Eldridge (Elmhurst) American country music singer |
William C. Evans (Butler) Winner of two Emmys |
F
Kimbal Fatica (Bowling Green) \Photographer, Emmy as videographer |
Will Forte (UCLA) Actor; SNL, 30 Rock, Nebraska |
G
Will Geer (Chicago) Actor of stage & screen; The Waltons |
David Patrick Gilkey (Oregon State) Emmy while working for the Detroit Free Press: Band of Brothers |
Chester Gould (Oklahoma State) Creator of Dick Tracy Comics |
Dabbs Greer (Drury) Little House on the Prairie, Gunsmoke |
H
Paul Harvey (Culver-Stockton) Radio personality, recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom |
Jeffrey L. Hayes (Brown) Producer, Law & Order |
John Michael Hayes Jr (Massachusetts) Screenwriter: Rear Window, Peyton Place |
William F. Hayes (DePauw) Actor/Singer |
John Heard (Clark) Actor, Home Alone I & II, Sopranos |
Korre Heggem (Nevada-Las Vegas) Academy Award for visual effects |
Jean Hersholt (Rollins) Actor, 2 Academy Awards and 1 named in his honor |
Robin Hood (Tennessee-Chattanooga) Photographer – Pulitzer Prize |
J
Dean Jagger (Wabash) Actor, Academy Award for High Noon, Emmy |
K
Edward Daniel Kuekes (Baldwin-Wallace) Pulitzer Prize, Freedoms Foundation (3) |
Charles Kelley (Georgia) Singer/writer, Grammy in ’10 & ‘11 |
Chris Klein (Texas Christian) Actor |
L
Frankie Laine (Miami-FL) Singer, 21 gold records, sales over 100 million |
Craig Leake (Memphis) Producer, writer, director, recipient of Emmy Awards in 1973, 1978, 1981, 1990, and 2008; recipient of the George Peabody Award in 1981 and 1990; recipient of Edward R. Murrow Award in 1999 |
LeRoy G. Leighton (Florida) Academy Award for 10 KW lamp |
M
William R. Manchester (Massachusetts) Author, Death of A President |
Edwin Markham (Rollins) Poet, Man With A Hoe |
William “Bill” McCullough (Susquehanna) 9 Emmys |
Joseph Mead (Pennsylvania) Co-founder of Economic Forum |
Kyle Menke (Iowa State) Emmy Award for animation |
Perry Miller (Chicago) Pulitzer Prize winner |
Walter Miller (Hampden-Sydney) Producer/writer for CNN and winner of two Peabody Awards for coverage of the Gulf Oil Spill and Hurricane Katrina, and winner of Emmy for coverage of 9/11 |
Anson Mount (South) Actor, Hell on Wheels |
O
Michael O’Neill (Auburn) Actor, Seabiscuit, West Wing |
P
Woody Paige, Jr. (Tennessee) ESPN Commentator, Around The Horn |
Robert B. Parker (Colby) Author, Spencer for Hire; recipient of Edgar Award |
John J. Peyser (Colgate) Writer, producer/director of many TV shows |
LeRoy Prinz (Northwestern) Choreographer – Golden Globe, Academy Award as director |
Q
John Quinones (St. Mary’s) ABC News anchor, 7 Emmy’s & Peabody Award |
R
James Rebhorn (Wittenberg) Actor, multiple supporting roles |
Frank Reynolds (Wabash) ABC News anchor, recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom and Peabody Award |
Robert “Mac” Ruth (Texas) Sound Engineer, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, The Martian, Blade Runner 2049 |
S
Kirk Scharfenberg (Brown) Shared Pulitzer as editor of the editorial page of The Boston Globe |
Mark Schultz (Kansas State) Musician, recipient of Dove Award |
Adam Joseph Shapiro (Syracuse) Reporter for Fox Business News, winner of 2 Emmy Awards |
T
John Tesh (North Carolina State) Composer/musician , 6 Emmys |
U
Bob Urich (Florida State) Actor, 19 TV series, Lonesome Dove |
W
Ralph Waite (Bucknell) Actor, The Waltons |
Randall Wallace (Duke) Screenwriter/director, Braveheart, Secretariat |
Basil Walters (Indiana) Former editor of the Chicago Daily News |
William Charles Westenhofer (Bucknell) 2 Academy Awards for visual effects |
Michael Westmore (California-Santa Barbara) Academy Award as make-up artist, 9 Emmy’s |
Kurt Williams (Missouri) Producer, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Incredible Hulk |
Mark Young (William & Mary) Animation writer/producer, 2 daytime Emmys |