People you didn't know were from the area.

**mikefmich** · September-16-20, 08:21 PM

Maybe I missed it, scrolled thru responses, surprised no one brought up John Hughes. Some very amazing work.

**Zacha341** · September-17-20, 06:18 AM

This John Hughes of Lansing [[filmmaker)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hughes_[[filmmaker)

**mikefmich** · September-17-20, 05:24 PM

Originally Posted by Zacha341

This John Hughes of Lansing [[filmmaker)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hughes_[[filmmaker)

Yes that one, who spent his upbringing in GP, a few skips away from me.

**Henry Whalley** · September-17-20, 07:05 PM

Amy Dorris of Madison Heights. Former model sexually assaulted by very stable genius Trump.

**Meddle** · January-01-21, 09:31 AM

Did we know that Denise Nicholas was born in town?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise_Nicholas

**Henry Whalley** · January-01-21, 05:57 PM

One afternoon in the fall of 1971, I ran into the composer John Cage in the DIA. We had coffee in Kresge Court and talked for half an hour. Henrietta Epstein joined us. His nature was kindly and unassuming.

Cage told us that for a period during his schoolboy days, his family lived in Highland Park where his father was an inventor or stage performer [[I can't recall which -- but I think his dad did some of both.)

That evening I managed to slip past the gendarmes to watch Merce Cunningham and Cage performing in the lower level of the DIA's north wing.

**jiminnm** · January-03-21, 02:47 PM

Dax Shepard was born in Milford and graduated from Walled Lake High. Kristin Bell was born in Huntington Woods and graduated from Royal Oak Shrine.

**Zacha341** · January-04-21, 05:15 AM

Yes, awesome. So is Lonette McKee!

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0571188/..._=nm_ov_bio_sm

Originally Posted by Meddle

Did we know that Denise Nicholas was born in town?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise_Nicholas

**yaktown** · January-05-21, 11:36 PM

Originally Posted by jiminnm

Dax Shepard was born in Milford and graduated from Walled Lake High. Kristin Bell was born in Huntington Woods and graduated from Royal Oak Shrine.

Dax graduated from Walled Lake Central, as did Doug Corella, drummer for pop band The Verve Pipe.

Elvin Jones, jazz drummer, was born and lived in Pontiac until 1955. He ended up playing with some guy named John Coltrane. Hayes Jones won a gold medal in the 1964 Summer Olympics. Said medal is on display at the Pontiac city hall. Boxer Pinklon Thomas is from Pontiac and has a street named after him.

**bibs** · January-10-21, 11:18 PM

Actress Kristen Bell was born and raised in Huntington Woods. Ted Nugent was born in Redford and raised in Metro Detroit. Eminem was raised in Detroit as well as St Joseph, MO. Kid Rock was raised in Romeo. Jack White was born and raised in Detroit. Dave Coulier was born and raised in St Clair Shores. Jeff Daniels was raised in Chelsea and opened the Purple Rose Theater.

**401don** · January-11-21, 08:21 AM

Originally Posted by bibs

Actress Kristen Bell was born and raised in Huntington Woods. Ted Nugent was born in Redford and raised in Metro Detroit. Eminem was raised in Detroit as well as St Joseph, MO. Kid Rock was raised in Romeo. Jack White was born and raised in Detroit. Dave Coulier was born and raised in St Clair Shores. Jeff Daniels was raised in Chelsea and opened the Purple Rose Theater.

It's supposed to be people we didn't know were from Detroit.

**Former_Detroiter** · January-11-21, 10:46 AM

Originally Posted by 401don

It's supposed to be people we didn't know were from Detroit.

It's possible there are people here who didn't know the people mentioned in bibs post were from Detroit.

**Zacha341** · January-11-21, 11:22 AM

Jaws henchman ala James Bond flicks Richard Kiel was from Detroit!

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001423/

**jiminnm** · January-11-21, 11:22 AM

Originally Posted by yaktown

Hayes Jones won a gold medal in the 1964 Summer Olympics. Said medal is on display at the Pontiac city hall.

Hayes Jones was my substitute teacher when I was at Pulaski elementary school c1960-1961.

**hybridy** · January-11-21, 04:57 PM

L I Z Z O #100%thatbitch

**Zacha341** · January-11-21, 05:28 PM

^ Good call. I'm not into Lizzo's music and content [[especially with its impact on girls and teens) on any level [[just more stuffs the 'award' shows celebrate) but despite her crassness what a pretty sweet face!

Many don't know she was born in the D!

**SammyS** · January-11-21, 08:58 PM

Suzi Quatro. Apparently she still lives here........at least partially. Love her

**Henry Whalley** · January-14-21, 07:35 AM

Orton Z. Creswell of 'Mutant Swinger from Mars' born in Hell, MI, in 1909.

Mutant Swinger from Mars [[Video 2009) - IMDb

**Kathleen** · January-27-21, 12:04 AM

H.M. Wynant....perhaps not a well-known name, but certainly a familiar face!

Came across him in tonight's Perry Mason episode [[The Case of the Singing Skirt) and see that he was born in Detroit in 1927 and attended Wayne State for 2 years before leaving for the footlights of Broadway...and then into movies and television. He made appearances in all the popular television shows of the day from the 1950s through the 1990s and beyond. His three sons--William Winant, Bruce Winant, and Scott Winant--are all in show business.

**Meddle** · January-27-21, 07:00 AM

Ahhh, he's one of THOSE guys. You've seen him in everything and can almost hear his voice, but had no idea what his name was:

**night-timer** · January-29-21, 05:28 AM

Did Wally Cox co-star with Darren McGavin in The Night Strangler tele-movie set in Seattle? Is it the same guy?

Oh, and there'd be a lot of famous sports people from Detroit, not just entertainers and musicians.

**Meddle** · January-29-21, 08:18 AM

Originally Posted by night-timer

Did Wally Cox co-star with Darren McGavin in The Night Strangler tele-movie set in Seattle? Is it the same guy?

Had to look, but yeah:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ni...er_[[film)#Cast

Along with Al Lewis [[Grandpa Munster)

**GPguy** · January-29-21, 09:00 PM

New Radicals Gregg Alexander [[You get what you give) is from Grosse Pointe

**Brock7** · February-08-21, 02:25 AM

Never knew of this singer before hearing her tonight in the "Captive Audience" episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour from 1962.

Barbara Dane

Barbara Dane's parents arrived in Detroit from Arkansas in the 1920s. Out of high school, Dane began to sing regularly at demonstrations for racial equality and economic justice. While still in her teens, she sat in with bands around town and won the interest of local music promoters. She got an offer to tour with Alvino Rey's band, but she turned it down in favor of singing at factory gates and in union halls.

She appears beginning at 12:37 to 15:48

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x723fg7