People you didn't know were from the area.

**robtandersen** · October-25-18, 06:31 PM

Producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Robert Shay were also from Detroit. Let's not forget Sam Raimi, and Bruce Campbell.

**robtandersen** · October-25-18, 06:34 PM

And Roger Corman!

**Danny** · October-26-18, 09:04 AM

Originally Posted by robtandersen

Producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Robert Shay were also from Detroit. Let's not forget Sam Raimi, and Bruce Campbell.

Jerry Bruckheimer used to the on the 19900 block of Ardmore just north of W. 7 Mile Rd near Vassar Dr. in Detroit. just a mile from my old Detroit home on Ardmore St.

**Danny** · October-26-18, 09:10 AM

Danny Thomas grew up on 93 Adelaide St. just east of Woodward Ave. in Brush Park for a while. He and his family were Chaldean descent. His home is still there now a group home.

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3424...7i16384!8i8192

**IrishSpartan** · October-26-18, 09:41 PM

Originally Posted by Danny

Danny Thomas grew up on 93 Adelaide St. just east of Woodward Ave. in Brush Park for a while. He and his family were Chaldean descent. His home is still there now a group home.

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3424...7i16384!8i8192

Danny Thomas was Lebanese.

**IrishSpartan** · October-26-18, 09:44 PM

Originally Posted by Maof

Tom Sizemore went to Bishop Gallagher and grew up in Detroit, I believe near St. John Hospital. Good actor but at some point, his life style screwed that up.

Wally Cox...went to Denby

Actually, Tom Sizemore grew up near Gratiot & 6 mile on Hamburg.

**EastsideAl** · October-27-18, 03:00 PM

Originally Posted by IrishSpartan

Danny Thomas was Lebanese.

His daughter Marlo Thomas was also born here. Casey Kasem was another celebrity who came from Detroit's Lebanese community. As did pioneering [[and later controversial) female White House reporter Helen Thomas.

**Bham1982** · October-27-18, 07:38 PM

Originally Posted by Danny

Jerry Bruckheimer used to the on the 19900 block of Ardmore just north of W. 7 Mile Rd near Vassar Dr. in Detroit. just a mile from my old Detroit home on Ardmore St.

That specific part of NW Detroit was very Jewish 50 years ago, and was home to quite a few future celebrities. They almost all went to Mumford.

**casscorridor** · October-29-18, 11:28 AM

Madonna grew up in Rochester Hills

**shasha** · November-01-18, 02:57 PM

Francis Ford Coppola - from wikipedia
Coppola was born in Detroit, Michigan, to father Carmine Coppola [[1910–1991),^[6] a flautist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra,

**ct_alum** · November-03-18, 08:44 AM

Ray Parker Jr. [[Ghostbusters) went to Cass Tech, he was in a couple of my classes.

**Meddle** · September-05-19, 02:44 PM

Elizabeth Berkley was born and raised in Farmington Hills,

She graduated in 1990 from North Farmington High School in Farmington Hills after previously having attended the Cranbrook Kingswood School,

Berkley's most notable roles were as Jessie Spano in the television series Saved by the Bell, and as Nomi Malone in the 1995 Paul Verhoeven film Showgirls.

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

**Carolyn.F** · September-09-19, 10:30 PM

Casey Kasem

**Meddle** · July-20-20, 06:24 AM

Did we know that Christie Brinkley was born in Monroe?

**masterblaster** · July-20-20, 04:16 PM

Simone [[Cook) Missick, actress, a Detroit native, Renaissance Grad [[1999), got her 1st big break as the police detective in the Marvel Comic Series, Luke Cage. She is now the leading actor in the CBS legal drama, ALL RISE, which debuted in 2019. In May, CBS announced it was renewing the show for a 2nd season.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur0wLc_Di6M

**Brock7** · July-20-20, 04:38 PM

James Gurley, of Big Brother & the Holding Co., father of psychedelic guitar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gurley
Gurley was born in Detroit, Michigan. At the age of nineteen he took up the guitar and began practicing long hours while listening to old Lightnin' Hopkins records. He never had a guitar lesson, preferring to learn by ear. He spent four years at Detroit's Catholic Brothers of the Holy Cross, studying to be a priest.

**Wheels** · July-20-20, 05:17 PM

My classmates at Pershing High.
Spencer Haywood
Ralph Simpson

**JBMcB** · July-20-20, 07:48 PM

George Peppard, of Breakfast at Tiffany's and A-Team fame [[and Banacek, my favorite NBC Wednesday Night Mystery series next to Columbo) was born in Detroit and grew up in Dearborn. He's buried in Northview Cemetary in Dearborn.

**Meddle** · September-06-20, 03:16 PM

Marta Kristen [[aka Judy Robinson), spent early years in the city:

She spent her first years in an orphanage in Norway, and was then adopted in 1949 by an American couple from Detroit, Michigan, Harold Oliver Soderquist, and Bertha, who renamed her Martha Annalise Soderquist. Her adoptive father was a professor of education at Wayne University, Detroit.

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

**Meddle** · September-06-20, 03:22 PM

I think it'd be kinda cool is somebody could arrange a homecoming of sorts to bring all of these who are still alive together.

**Lowell** · September-07-20, 03:54 PM

Originally Posted by Meddle

I think it'd be kinda cool is somebody could arrange a homecoming of sorts to bring all of these who are still alive together.

There's such an attempt with Detroit Homecoming--a think-tankish annual gathering that reaches out to and draws in celebrity Detroit ex-pats. I notice is coming up in mid-Sept. [wondering if it really will happen?]. I recall them having Lily Tomlin highlight it a few years ago. Steve Ballmer, Stephen Ross and others have participated.

"The expats who attend Detroit Homecoming utilize their passion, relationships, expertise, and resources in order to improve the quality of life for Detroit residents. Through using their good fortune to give back to a city which helped make them who they are, Detroit Homecoming expat attendees have become a resource for scores of Detroit projects and initiatives in need of additional support."

They claim to have generated a half billion in economic activity.

**Ray1936** · September-07-20, 04:41 PM

Everybody gotta be from somewhere. Just sayin'.

**softailrider** · September-07-20, 08:38 PM

Originally Posted by Bham1982

That specific part of NW Detroit was very Jewish 50 years ago, and was home to quite a few future celebrities. They almost all went to Mumford.

I lived on Littlefield between Vassar and St. Martins. If we would have stayed I would have gone to Ford, not Mumford. Ms. Softailrider lived on Kentucky, near Curtis. She would have attended Mumford.

**Luke09** · September-08-20, 01:02 PM

Here are 3 guys from the area that each have billions and are known to be philanthropic/charitable :
Eli Broad
Steve Ballmer
Stephen Ross

**Kathleen** · September-16-20, 11:04 AM

During these times, instead of watching the late night shows, we've tuned into the Perry Mason reruns on MeTV at 11:30. The character Hamilton Burger, prosecuting attorney, was played by William Talman, who was born and raised in Detroit. Yes, his name was on a list of Detroiters linked early in this thread, but he has not been called out.

Richard Bak's profile for Hour Detroit in 2012 details William Talman's Detroit roots and his career:
https://www.hourdetroit.com/communit...illiam-talman/