• Andy Cadiff
• Arnetia Walker
• Billy Van Zandt
• Blanche Devereaux
• Carlos Lacamara
• Danny Smith (writer)
• David Rasche
• Dorothy Zbornak
• Empty Nest
• Epguides
• Florence Stanley
• George Tipton
• Gil Junger
• Jeff Altman
• John Bettis
• Kip Gilman
• Latino
• Lifetime Television
• Loni Anderson
• Markus Flanagan
• Mary Jo Keenen
• Miami, Florida
• Mike Post
• Mitchell Hurwitz
• NBC
• Nurses (TV series)
• Orderly
• Paul Junger Witt
• Robert Berlinger
• Rose Nylund
• Situation comedy
• Sophia Petrillo
• Spin-off (media)
• Stephanie Hodge
• Susan Harris
• The Golden Girls
• The Golden Palace
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• Ada Maris
  Ada Maris (born 13 June 1957 in Los Angeles, California) is a Mexican-American actress. She was born Ada Marentes and has been married to actor Tony Plana since 1988. They have two children.
  From 1986 to 1987, she played the role of Maria Conchita Lopez in the sitcom What a Country! Maris made a big splash on an episode of The Cosby Show playing the girlfriend of a community-center director played by Tony Orlando. This was supposed to be a pilot for a series centered on Maris and Orlando, but it was never picked up by the network. She then went on to play Nurse Gina Cuevas on Nurses for its entire three-season run in the early 1990s.
  Most recently Maris became known for playing Captain Erika Hernandez on Star Trek: Enterprise. Her husband, Tony Plana, had appeared in the earlier Star Trek spin-off, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. She also played Sonia Garcia in the television comedy The Brothers Garcia for the full run of the series. Ada played Markko Rivera's mom Aurelia Rivera on One Life to Live beginning June 12, 2009.
  
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• Andy Cadiff
  Andy Cadiff is an American film, television director and television producer, Broadway Director.
  He has directed episodes for number of notable television series including, Home Improvement, Spin City, My Wife and Kids, Growing Pains, According to Jim, The War at Home, Quintuplets and number of other series.
  He also directed the feature films Leave It to Beaver (1997) and Chasing Liberty (2004) starring Mandy Moore.
  He also directed the audience pleasing Broadway musical "MAIL" with Michael Rupert and Jerry Colker.
  He married actress Susan Diol on December 6, 2003 and is the stepfather of Juliet Jones-Diol Cassidy, Diol's child from her previous marriage to Shaun Cassidy.
  
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• Arnetia Walker
  Arnetia Walker (born 1956) is an American actress whose most famous roles are as Nurse Annie Roland in the NBC sitcom Nurses and Ms. Ross in the WB dramedy Popular.
  Born in Columbus, Georgia, Walker was attending New York’s prestigious High School of the Performing Arts when she was cast in her Broadway debut, "The Sign in Sidney Brustien’s Window" by Lorraine Hansberry. She went on to stand by for Stephanie Mills as Dorothy in the original Broadway run of The Wiz. In 1987 she starred in the Broadway revival of Dreamgirls in the role of Lorrell Robinson, and eventually achieved the distinction of being the only woman to have played all three of that show’s principal characters.
  In March 2008 Arnetia can be seen in the role of Grandma Clara in the feature film comedy College Road Trip, starring Martin Lawrence and Raven-Symoné.
  Walker’s films include For Love of the Game, Love Crimes, Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills, and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. She also appeared in the HBO movie Cast a Deadly Spell. She has worked extensively in television, including as a series regular in the ABC sitcom The Big House, Camp P, the NBC sitcom, Nurses, and as a guest star in "Living Single", Everybody Loves Raymond, City of Angels, Touched by an Angel, The Steve Harvey Show, Just Shoot Me, and NYPD Blue.
  
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• Billy Van Zandt
  William "Billy" Van Zandt (born December 13, 1957) is an American playwright and actor.
  Van Zandt was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, the son of Mary H. Lento and William Brewster Van Zandt. He is of Italian and Dutch descent. He grew up in Middletown Township, New Jersey.
  Van Zandt is the half-brother of musician/actor Steven Van Zandt and brother-in-law of his wife, actress Maureen Van Zandt. He married actress Adrienne Barbeau on December 31, 1992. The couple met in 1991 during the west coast premiere of Billy's play Drop Dead! They have twin sons, William and Walker (born March 17, 1997).
  Van Zandt is the co-author and star of the Off-Broadway plays 'You've Got Hate Mail," "Silent Laughter," "Drop Dead!," and 20 other theatrical plays written with Jane Milmore, including A Night at the Nutcracker," "Wrong WIndow," and summer stock perennial "Love, Sex, and the I.R.S." He also wrote '"The Property Known as Garland"' for wife Adrienne Barbeau, which ran Off-Broadway at the Actor's Playhouse in 2006.
  
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• David Rasche
  David Rasche (born August 7, 1944) is an American actor.
  Rasche was born in St. Louis, Missouri. His father was a minister and farmer. Rasche started in theatre, but also has appeared on numerous movies and television series. He became a member of the Chicago Second City, after John Belushi moved on to Saturday Night Live. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of the title character in the cult television classic, Sledge Hammer!.
  Rasche has a scholarly background (graduate degree from the University of Chicago) and also worked as a teacher and writer before going into show business full-time. After Second City, he starred in the Organic Theater's 1974 production of Mamet's "Sexual Perversity in Chicago," which established the playwright's characteristic blend of earthy, sometimes brutal dialogue. He later played to critical acclaim in the Broadway production of Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow", and an Off-Broadway revival of Mamet's Edmond. He was Petruchio to Frances Conroy's Kate in a production of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew directed by Zoe Caldwell at the American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, Connecticut in the mid-1980s.
  
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• Dorothy Zbornak
  Dorothy Zbornak (née Petrillo, later Hollingsworth) was a fictional character from the TV series The Golden Girls, portrayed by Bea Arthur for 7 years and 183 episodes. Dorothy was the strong, sarcastic, sometimes intimidating, and arguably most grounded of the four women in the house. Even though tough, she is very friendly, polite and does geniunely care for the other girls. In the 1000th issue of Entertainment Weekly, Dorothy Zbornak was selected as the Grandma for "The Perfect TV Family."
  
  
  
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• Florence Stanley
  Florence Stanley (July 1, 1924 – October 3, 2003) was an American actress of stage, film, and television.
  Florence Stanley was born as Florence Schwartz in Chicago, the daughter of Hanna (née Weil) and Jack Schwartz. She began a long career on stage, film and TV starting in the 1940s. Her earliest theatrical performances include The Importance of Being Earnest with the Touring Players, Bury The Dead at New York's Cherry Lane Theatre, and Machinal.
  During the 1950s, Stanley appeared in numerous live TV shows, and gave an acclaimed performance as Clytemnestra in the New York Shakespeare Festival's 1964 production of Electra, opposite Lee Grant, who played the title role. Stanley began her long career on Broadway as Maureen Stapleton's understudy in a 1965 revival of The Glass Menagerie.
  In 1966 she took over the role of Yente in Broadway's Fiddler On The Roof from Beatrice Arthur, leaving in 1971 (after over 2,000 performances) to open in Neil Simon's The Prisoner of Second Avenue, directed by Mike Nichols. In 1972 she went on to tap dance in the Broadway production of The Secret Affairs Of Mildred Wild, and in 1981 went back to work for Neil Simon in the Broadway production of Fools.
  
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• George Tipton
  George Aliceson Tipton, also known as George Tipton (born January 23, 1932) is an American composer, musical arranger and conductor, who is well-known for his work in television and for his collaborations with singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson.
  Among Tipton's works are the themes for the TV shows Soap and its spinoff Benson, It's a Living, I'm a Big Girl Now and Empty Nest, plus incidental music for numerous shows, including The Courtship of Eddie's Father, Soap, The Love Boat, Heartland, The Golden Girls and The Golden Palace. He also wrote music for the movies Badlands and Phantom of the Paradise and, Harry Nilsson's animated film "The Point", and for the television movies The Affair, "Hit Lady", I Want to Keep My Baby!, Mulligan's Stew, The Gift and Gidget's Summer Reunion.
  
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• Gil Junger
  Gil Junger (born November 7, 1954 in New York City) is an American director for Touchstone Pictures, most famous for 10 Things I Hate About You, his directorial film debut. He is a 1972 graduate of the Trinity Pawling School in Pawling, New York.
  
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• Jeff Altman
  Jeff Altman (born August 13, 1951) is an American stand-up comedian who has appeared as a guest on Late Show with David Letterman 40 times, most recently on October 7, 2011. He has also had numerous acting roles in movies and television such as Dr. Gene Splicer in Tiny Toon Adventures, and is perhaps best known for his recurring role as Hughie Hogg, the nephew of Jefferson Davis Hogg, on the popular television series The Dukes of Hazzard.
  Altman had a starring role as the host of the short-lived NBC variety show Pink Lady and Jeff in 1980 which TV Guide later ranked 35 on its "50 Worst TV Shows of All Time" list. Later in the decade, he became the in-house comedian of Solid Gold, where his characters included Al Punker, fast-talking proprietor of "Al Punker's Music Barn," the "music vampire Count Downula," and the ex-boxer Leonard Moon, the last of whom would admit that he "don't have the brains of a ice cube" and claim, "I am the Solid Gold music critic. Tonight, my subject is music."
  Altman has also directed many sitcoms and in the middle 1980s, he was the spokesman for Arby's restaurants. He also has been the (uncredited) host of the defensive driving course available through Blockbuster Video.
  
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• John Bettis
  John Bettis (born 24 October 1946) is an American lyricist who has co-written many famous popular songs over the years. In 2011, John was inducted into both the Songwriters Hall of Fame as well as the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
  He was originally part of the band Spectrum, which also featured Richard and Karen Carpenter. He provided the lyrics for many hit songs for The Carpenters' ("Top of the World", "Only Yesterday", "Goodbye to Love" and "Yesterday Once More"), and later for other famous artists such as Madonna ("Crazy for You"), Michael Jackson ("Human Nature"), The Pointer Sisters ("Slow Hand") Diana Ross ("When You Tell Me That You Love Me"), Jennifer Warnes ("Nights Are Forever"), Peabo Bryson ("Can You Stop the Rain"), George Strait ("Heartland"), Ronnie Milsap ("Only One Love in My Life"), and Barbara Mandrell ("One Of A Kind Pair Of Fools"). Bettis also co-wrote "One Moment in Time", the 1988 Summer Olympics anthem performed by Whitney Houston, and the theme song to the 1980s sitcom Growing Pains, "As Long As We Got Each Other."
  
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  Loni Anderson
  Loni Kaye Anderson (born August 5, 1945) is an American actress who is known for having played the role of Jennifer Marlowe on the television sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati and for playing Jayne Mansfield and Thelma Todd in television movies.
  Anderson was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, August 5, 1945, the daughter of Maxine Hazel (née Kallin), a model, and Klaydon Carl "Andy" Anderson, an environmental chemist and grew up in suburban Roseville. As a senior at Alexander Ramsey Senior High School in Roseville in 1963, she was voted Valentine Queen of Valentine's Day Winter Formal.^{[citation needed]} She attended the University of Minnesota. As she says in her autobiography, My Life in High Heels, her father was originally going to name her "Leiloni," but then realized to his horror that when she got to her teen years it was liable to be twisted into "Lay Loni." So it was changed to just plain "Loni."
  Anderson's most famous acting role came as the resourceful receptionist Jennifer Marlowe on WKRP in Cincinnati (1978–1982). She was offered the role when producers saw the poster of her in a red bikini; a pose similar to Farrah Fawcett's. WKRP's creator, Hugh Wilson, admitted that Anderson got the part because "She had a body like Jayne Mansfield and the overall sex appeal of Marilyn Monroe." She remained on WRKP until its end in 1982, after four seasons. She and future husband Burt Reynolds made one film together, the 1983 stock-car racing comedy Stroker Ace, a huge box-office failure.
  
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• Markus Flanagan
  Markus Flanagan is an American actor.
  Flanagan was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. He co-starred in the Nickelodeon series Unfabulous as Jeff Singer, the father of Emma Roberts' character, from 2004 to 2007. Other television credits include CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, Judging Amy, and Northern Exposure. Flanagan also played one of Phoebe's many boyfriends in the television sitcom Friends in the third season. He also had a recurring role as Harry Dean on Fox's Melrose Place.
  Flanagan made his major acting debut opposite Matthew Broderick and Christopher Walken in the 1988 film Biloxi Blues based on the Neil Simon play. He was also in Holiday In The Sun with the Olsen twins, playing their father.
  Flanagan has written five plays and is the founder of the L.A. Café Plays series in Santa Monica. He is also the author of One Less Bitter Actor (Sentient Publications, 2008, ISBN 978-1-59181-063-6), a guide for those trying to make it in show business.
  
  
  
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• Mike Post
  Mike Post (born Leland Michael Postil, September 29, 1944, Berkeley, California) is an American multi-Grammy and Emmy Award winning composer best known for his TV theme songs for such primetime series as Law & Order, NYPD Blue, The Rockford Files, L.A. Law, Quantum Leap, Magnum, P.I. and Hill Street Blues.
  Post's first credited work in music was cutting demos using two singing sisters, Terry and Carol Fischer; with Sally Gordon, they went on to become The Murmaids (their first single, "Popsicles and Icicles" was a #3 hit song in January 1964).
  Post also provided early guidance for the garage rock band the Outcasts while in basic training in San Antonio, Texas; he was the songwriter and producer for both songs on the band's first single, released in 1965, and also arranged a local concert where they served as the back-up band.
  He won his first Grammy at age 23 for Best Instrumental Arrangement on Mason Williams' "Classical Gas", a #2 hit song in 1968. He is also credited as the producer for Williams' LP that included this song, The Mason Williams Phonograph Record.
  
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• Mitchell Hurwitz
  Mitchell D. Hurwitz (born May 29, 1963) is an American television writer and producer. He is best known as the creator of the television sitcom Arrested Development as well as the co-creator of The Ellen Show, and a contributor to The John Larroquette Show and The Golden Girls.
  Hurwitz was born Jewish in Anaheim, California. In 1976, when Hurwitz was 12, he co-founded a chocolate-chip cookie business called the Chipyard, with his older brother, Michael A Chipyard. Their father is still in operation in Boston. He graduated from Estancia High School in Costa Mesa, CA, and from Georgetown University in 1985 with a double major in English and Theology.
  Hurwitz worked on several sitcoms in the 1980s and 1990s, including Nurses, The Golden Girls, The Golden Palace, The John Larroquette Show, The Ellen Show and the Michael J. Fox-produced pilot Hench at Home. He also created, "Everything's Relative," a midseason comedy starring Jeffrey Tambor and Jill Clayburgh for NBC in 1999.
  Hurwitz was chosen by Ron Howard to create a sitcom about a rich dysfunctional family, which eventually turned into Arrested Development. Hurwitz wrote the pilot in 2002, which was filmed in March 2003. FOX added the show to its schedule in May. Although the show premiered to stunning reviews from television critics around the country, the show was plagued by low ratings throughout its three-season run. In July 2004, the show was nominated for 7 Primetime Emmy Awards and won 5, including Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series. Hurwitz won two of the awards: Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series ("Pilot") and Outstanding Comedy Series, along with the other producers of the show.
  
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• Paul Junger Witt
  Paul Junger Witt (born March 20, 1943) is an American film and television producer. He, with his partners Tony Thomas and Susan Harris (also his wife), produced such hit TV shows as Here Come the Brides, The Partridge Family, The Golden Girls, Soap, Benson, Empty Nest and Blossom. He also produced the hit films Dead Poets Society, Three Kings and Insomnia. Witt is a graduate of the University of Virginia.
  
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• Robert Berlinger
  Robert Berlinger (sometimes credited as Bob Berlinger) (born May 31, 1958) is an American television director and producer.
  Berlinger was born in New York City. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree at Dartmouth College. He also graduated from the University of California, San Diego after training in professional theatre directing.
  During much of the 1980s, Berlinger directed a number of stage productions namely Desire Under the Elms (1980), The Voice of the Turtle (1985), On the Verge, or the Geography of Yearning (1986-1987) Orphans (1987), Timon of Athens (1988) and Another Antigone (1988-1989)
  He made his television directorial debut with an episode of Working Girl starring Sandra Bullock. He was the primary director for the entire four season run of the Jamie Lee Curtis-Richard Lewis ABC comedy Anything But Love from 1989 to 1992. He also directed 13 episodes of NBC's Cafe Americain starring Valerie Bertinelli in the 1993-1994 television season. In 2007, Berlinger directed The Dukes of Hazzard prequel, The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning.
  
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• Rose Nylund
  Rose Nylund (née Lindstrom) is a fictional character featured on the popular 1980s situation comedy The Golden Girls, and its spin-off The Golden Palace. She was portrayed by Betty White for 8 years and 208 episodes.
  Rose was born in May 1930 and her biological parents were a monk named Brother Martin and an 18-year-old girl named Ingrid Kerklavoner, who died giving birth to Rose. Brother Martin claimed to have not known about Rose's existence until after she had been given up for adoption. She was adopted by the Lindstroms at an early age. It was stated that she was valedictorian in her high school graduation (fourth out of nineteen, and was chosen valedictorian because she drew the longest straw), she attended St. Paul Business School, Rockport Community College, and St. Gustaf University, but also that she had never graduated from high school (due to a case of mono). Nevertheless, she was voted "most likely to get stuck in a tuba" by one of her graduating classes. Her parents did not allow her to date until she was a high school senior, and between then and her wedding day, she had fifty-six boyfriends. Charlie Nylund and Rose fell in love and married in 1948. She and Charlie had a very active sex life and a long and happy marriage. Over the course of the series, Rose names five children: Brigit, Gunilla, Kirsten, Adam, and Charlie Jr. Rose also had two granddaughters by Kirsten - Charlie (named for Kirsten's father) and another unnamed, mentioned in the episode where Rose had her heart attack. Of her children, only Brigit and Kirsten appeared on the show (although Kirsten was played by two different actresses).
  
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• Sophia Petrillo
  Sophia Petrillo (née Grisanti, formerly Spirelli, later Weinstock) is a fictional character from the TV series The Golden Girls, and its spin-offs The Golden Palace and Empty Nest. She was portrayed by Estelle Getty for 10 years and 258 episodes and was arguably the breakout character of the show. Bea Arthur, who played her daughter Dorothy Zbornak on the show, was in real life a year older than Getty.
  Sophia Grisanti was born in April 1906 in Sicily to her parents, Eleanor and Don. She had a sister Angela, a brother Angelo, and she mentioned another brother, but he was unnamed and only spoken of a few times. It is revealed that her 50th birthday was in April 1956 in one episode and in the first episode of The Golden Palace (1992) it was revealed that Sophia was 87. However in several episodes, she is revealed to be between the ages of 80 and 85. In her many flashbacks to life in Sicily, she frequently places her herself as being a young woman (having romantic affairs) in dates between 1914 and 1920. This may be due to either continuity errors or dramatic license on the part of Sophia.
  
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• Stephanie Hodge
  Stephanie Hodge (born December 24, 1956) is an American actress and stand-up comedian. She was in the television series Suite Life of Zack and Cody starring as Brianna's mom.
  
  
  
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• Susan Harris
  Susan Harris (born October 28, 1940) is an American television comedy writer and producer.
  Harris created numerous TV series: Soap, Benson, The Golden Girls, Empty Nest, Nurses, and The Golden Palace. She also wrote or co-wrote all of the episodes of Soap and appeared on two episodes of that show as a hooker named Babette. Her most successful show was The Golden Girls. Harris married television producer Paul Junger Witt on September 18, 1983; he co-produced all the shows she created. She was married from 1965 to 1969 to the late actor Berkeley Harris.
  The first script Harris sold was Then Came Bronson. She then wrote for Love, American Style, All in the Family, The Partridge Family and the TV adaptation of Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park. Her abortion episode for the Bea Arthur-starring series Maude in the 1970s won Harris the Humanitas Prize. She would later work with Arthur again in the 1980s when Arthur took one of the lead roles in The Golden Girls.
  Harris has chronic fatigue syndrome, which affected her ability to participate in the production of The Golden Girls. In an episode of that show entitled "Sick and Tired" (1989), Harris wrote some of her struggles into the storyline where Arthur's character Dorothy was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome.
  
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Yes Nurse! No Nurse! (2004)

Actors

• Loes Luca
• Paul R. Kooij
• Tjitske Reidinga
• Waldemar Torenstra
• Lennart Vader
• Edo Brunner
• Frits Lambrechts
• Olga Zuiderhoek
• Paul de Leeuw
• Beppe Costa
• Dorijn Curvers
• Henk Stuurman
• Henny Westerveld
• Paul Kooij

Director

• Pieter Kramer