Upon meeting to discuss Hellboy (2004), creator Mike Mignola and director Guillermo del Toro decided to reveal to each other their choice for the lead role. They both said at the same time, Ron Perlman. Revolutions studio wanted a bigger name like Vin Diesel to play the title role, but del Toro fought for Perlman to get the role, and in the end, he did.


Fred Gwynne performed in Harvard's famous drag troupe Hasty Pudding Theatricals from 1949-51. Harvard University Class of '51 Performed in Harvard's famous Hasty Pudding drag revue from '49-'50.



Harry Belafonte performed "Turn the World Around" at Jim Henson's memorial service.





Tom Hanks is related to Bill Cosby's wife Camille (nee Hanks), both share lineage with Abraham Lincoln through his mother Nancy Hanks.






Harry Dean Stanton was tied up and pistol-whipped at his home in L.A. after a robbery. The thieves then took off in the actors car, but were soon apprehended after the car was traced by a tracking device. Stanton suffered only minor injuries. [20 January 1996]







The county clerk misunderstood Davis' mother's dialectal pronunciation of his initials "R.C." when he was born. He thought he heard "Ossie" and registered him as such. The name stuck.

M. Emmett Walsh has been deaf in his left ear since age three.






The athletically gifted James Caan played football at Michigan State University while studying economics, holds a black belt in karate and for several years was even a regular on the rodeo circuit, where he was nicknamed "The Jewish Cowboy"




While filming the movie Dazed and Confused (1993), Milla Jovovich eloped with actor Shawn Andrews to Las Vegas. It was 1992 and a few months before she turned seventeen. Since she was only sixteen at the time, her mother had the marriage annulled.



Rip Torn is the commissioner of the Extreme Dodgeball League on GSN (2005)

The Hellboy directors should have saved their energy and fought for a better script, and better directors.