List of Famous people born in California, United States of America
Thor Putnam
John Frazier
John Frazier is a visual effects supervisor.
Tom Oreb
Tony Bancroft
Tony Bancroft is an American animator and film director who frequently collaborates with Disney. He is founder and owner of the faith-driven animation company Toonacious Family Entertainment. Tony currently serves as the Executive VP Creative Development and Production for DivideNine Animation Studios.
Robyn Smith
Robyn Smith is an American retired jockey. Active from 1969 to 1980, Smith accumulated 247 wins in California and New York race tracks, and became the first female jockey to win a stakes race in 1973.
Adela Rogers St. Johns
Adela Nora Rogers St. Johns was an American journalist, novelist, and screenwriter. She wrote a number of screenplays for silent movies but is best remembered for her groundbreaking exploits as "The World's Greatest Girl Reporter" during the 1920s and 1930s and her celebrity interviews for Photoplay magazine.
Robert Williams
Robert L. Williams, often styled Robt. Williams, is an American painter, cartoonist, and founder of Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine. Williams was one of the group of artists who produced Zap Comix, along with other underground cartoonists, such as Robert Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, and Gilbert Shelton. His mix of California car culture, cinematic apocalypticism, and film noir helped to create a new genre of psychedelic imagery.
Bob Beemer
Robert Joseph "Bob" Beemer is an American sound mixer who has won four Oscars.
Josh Randall
Joshua Reeve Randall is an American television actor. He is best known for his role as Dr. Mike Burton in the 2000–2004 NBC sitcom Ed and the recurring guest role of Jake in Scrubs in 2005. He had a recurring role on CBS' CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Doug Wilson in 2012.
Bob Gardiner
James Robbins "Bob" Gardiner was a multi-talented artist, painter, cartoonist, animator, holographer, musician, storyteller and comedy writer, who invented the stop-motion 3-D clay animation technique that Will Vinton would later market as Claymation although Bob preferred the term Sculptimation for his frame-by-frame method of sculpting plasticine clay characters and sets. Closed Mondays was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.