Famous Methodists

Film, Television, Radio:

George Lucas – writer, director, producer Star Wars, etc.
James Arness – actor; Marshall Matt Dillon in Gunsmoke
William Christopher – actor; Father Mulcahy on hit TV sitcom M*A*S*H
Kate Capshaw – actress; Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, etc.
Christopher Walken – actor;
Horton Foote – screenwriter; Academy Awards for Tender Mercies and To Kill a Mockingbird
David Frost – TV producer, performer, interviewer, writer
Rush Limbaugh – popular conservative talk show host
Tim Curry – actor; The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Clue, Etc.
Howard Keel – actor best known as Clayton Farlow on popular primetime drama Dallas
Patricia Neal – actress; Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Fred Gwynne – actor best known as Herman on TV sitcom The Munsters
C Brandon Routh – actor; starred as Superman in Superman Returns
Donna Reed – Academy Award-winning actress
Rex Reed – film critic
D. W. Griffith – pioneering filmmaker ; Birth of a Nation
Will Rogers – popular TV and film cowboy; humorist
Jeff Smith – the “Frugal Gourmet”, television chef; formerly an ordained UMC minister
Darryl Zanuck – important Hollywood studio mogul (Fox)
George Lutz – the real person who bought the haunted house depicted in The Amityville Horror