Joel and Ethan Coen's The Alamo
by mcinerneythomas230 | created - 24 May 2014 | updated - 24 May 2014 | PublicCast and Crew for The Coen Brothers version of the 1960 film epic about the 1836 Battle of Texas Independence from Mexico
1. Jeff Bridges
Actor | The Big Lebowski
Jeffrey Leon Bridges was born on December 4, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, the son of well-known film and TV star Lloyd Bridges and his long-time wife Dorothy Dean Bridges (née Simpson). He grew up amid the happening Hollywood scene with big brother Beau Bridges. Both boys popped up, without ...
Colonel Davy Crocket
2. Matt Damon
Actor | Good Will Hunting
Matthew Paige Damon was born on October 8, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Kent Damon, a stockbroker, realtor and tax preparer, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, an early childhood education professor at Lesley University. Matt has an older brother, Kyle, a sculptor. His father was of English and ...
Colonel Jim Bowie
3. John Malkovich
Actor | Being John Malkovich
John Gavin Malkovich was born in Christopher, Illinois, to Joe Anne (Choisser), who owned a local newspaper, and Daniel Leon Malkovich, a state conservation director. His paternal grandparents were Croatian. In 1976, Malkovich joined Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, newly founded by his friend Gary ...
Colonel William Travis
4. Zac Efron
Actor | High School Musical 3: Senior Year
Zachary David Alexander Efron was born October 18, 1987 in San Luis Obispo, California, to Starla Baskett, a secretary, and David Efron, an electrical engineer. He has a younger brother, Dylan. The surname "Efron", which is Hebrew and a Biblical place name, comes from Zac's Polish Jewish paternal ...
Smitty
5. Nick Chinlund
Actor | The Chronicles of Riddick
Nick Chinlund was born and raised in New York City. He left the city to play basketball at Brown University, but his hoops career was cut short when he suffered an injury during his freshman year. He stayed at Brown and took up acting classes, and realized it was his true calling. He graduated from...
Captain Dickinson
6. Hudson Leick
Actress | Chill Factor
Heidi Hudson Leick, upon graduating high school, got a modeling gig in Japan; this was perfect because she loves traveling and modeling. When she returned to New York, her dream was to be an international model and then go into acting. One day, she quit modeling while in France, and pursued a TV ...
Sue Dickinson
7. Edward James Olmos
Actor | Battlestar Galactica
Born February 24, 1947, in East Los Angeles, at The First Japanese Hospital to Pedro Olmos and Eleanor Huizar. Raised on Cheesebrough's Lane, he attended Greenwood Elementary and Montebello Junior High. He then graduated from Montebello High School in 1964. After which he received an Associative ...
General Santa Anna
8. Dennis Quaid
Actor | Far from Heaven
Dennis William Quaid was born on April 9, 1954 in Houston, Texas to Juanita Bonniedale "Nita" Quaid (née Jordan), a real estate agent & William Rudy Quaid, an electrician. He grew up in the Houston suburban city of Bellaire. He was raised a Baptist, and studied drama, Mandarin Chinese, and dance ...
General Sam Huston
9. Joel Coen
Producer | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Joel Daniel Coen is an American filmmaker who regularly collaborates with his younger brother Ethan. They made Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, True Grit, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Burn After Reading, A Serious Man, Inside Llewyn Davis, Hail Caesar and other projects. Joel ...
Writer/Producer/Director
10. Ethan Coen
Producer | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The younger brother of Joel, Ethan Coen is an Academy Award and Golden Globe winning writer, producer and director coming from small independent films to big profile Hollywood films. He was born on September 21, 1957 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In some films of the brothers- Ethan & Joel wrote, Joel...
Writer/Producer/Director
11. Scott Rudin
Producer | No Country for Old Men
Scott Rudin was born on July 14, 1958 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a producer and casting director, known for No Country for Old Men (2007), The Social Network (2010) and Lady Bird (2017).
Producer
12. Ellen Chenoweth
Casting_director | No Country for Old Men
Ellen Chenoweth was born on March 20, 1946 in the USA. She is a casting director, known for No Country for Old Men (2007), Past Lives (2023) and In the Shadow of the Moon (2019).
Casting
13. Carter Burwell
Composer | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Carter Burwell was born on November 18, 1954 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a composer and actor, known for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), Carol (2015) and The Banshees of Inisherin (2022). He has been married to Christine Sciulli since 1999.
Composer
14. Mary Zophres
Costume_designer | La La Land
Mary Zophres was born on March 23, 1964 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA. She is a costume designer, known for La La Land (2016), Babylon (2022) and Hail, Caesar! (2016). She has been married to Murray Valeriano since March 9, 2006.
Costume Designer
15. Jess Gonchor
Production_designer | Hail, Caesar!
Jess Gonchor was born on July 15, 1962 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a production designer and art director, known for Hail, Caesar! (2016), No Country for Old Men (2007) and Little Women (2019).
Production Designer
16. Roger Deakins
Cinematographer | Blade Runner 2049
Roger Deakins is an English cinematographer best known for his work on the films of the Coen brothers, Sam Mendes, and Denis Villeneuve.
He is a member of both the American and British Society of Cinematographers.
Deakins' first feature film in America as cinematographer was Mountains of the Moon (...
Director of Photography
17. Skip Lievsay
Sound_department | Gravity
Skip Lievsay is known for Gravity (2013), No Country for Old Men (2007) and Roma (2018).
Supervising Sound Editor
18. Steven Spielberg
Producer | Schindler's List
One of the most influential personalities in the history of cinema, Steven Spielberg is Hollywood's best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. He has an extraordinary number of commercially successful and critically acclaimed credits to his name, either as a director, ...
Executive Producer
19. Robert Graf
Producer | No Country for Old Men
Robert Graf was born on March 18, 1964 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He is a producer and production manager, known for No Country for Old Men (2007), Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) and The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021).
Executive Producer/Unit Production Manager
20. David Ellison
Producer | Top Gun: Maverick
David Ellison is Chief Executive Officer of Skydance Media, the diversified media company he founded in 2010 to create elevated, event-level entertainment for global audiences. As CEO, he sets and executes the strategic vision for the company across all of its divisions: feature film, television, ...
Executive Producer
21. Dana Goldberg
Producer | I Am Legend
As Chief Creative Officer of Skydance, Dana Goldberg helps to set and execute the Company's overall creative vision across its feature film, television and animation units. She oversees Skydance's feature film slate which includes Top Gun: Maverick, Snake Eyes, The Tomorrow War, The Adam Project ...
Executive Producer
22. Paul Schwake
Producer | True Grit
Paul Schwake is known for True Grit (2010), World War Z (2013) and Star Trek Into Darkness (2013).
Executive Producer
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