Saddle up for a trip through entertainment history with a weekly highlight from Santa Clarita’s Walk of Western Stars! This week, actor David Carradine.  David Carradine was an American actor, director and producer whose career included over 200 major and minor roles in film, television and on stage spanning more than four decades.  The actor was born on Dec. 8, ...

Saddle up for a trip through entertainment history with a weekly highlight from Santa Clarita’s Walk of Western Stars! This week, actor Jack Palance.  Palance was born on Feb. 18, 1919, in Lattimer Mines, Pennsylvania, the son of Anne and Ivan Palahniuk, an anthracite coal miner.   Palance’s parents were Ukrainian Catholic immigrants, his father a native of Ivane-Zolote in southwestern ...

Saddle up for a trip through entertainment history with a weekly highlight from Santa Clarita’s Walk of Western Stars! This week, stuntman, Loren Janes! Loren Janes, born October 1, 1931, was an American stuntman notable for his work in Hollywood films, particularly those starring Steve McQueen, including “Bullitt,” “Nevada Smith” and “The Hunter.”   The stuntman also co-founded the Stuntmen’s Association ...

Saddle up for a trip through entertainment history with a weekly highlight from Santa Clarita’s Walk of Western Stars! This week, actress Linda Gray.  Linda Ann Gray was born Sept. 12, 1940, in Santa Monica, California and grew up in Culver City where her father, Leslie, a watchmaker, owned a shop.  Before acting, Gray worked as a model in the ...

Saddle up for a trip through entertainment history with a weekly highlight from Santa Clarita’s Walk of Western Stars! This week, western star Ricky Schroder. Richard Bartlett Schroder Jr. was born in Staten Island, New York on April 13, 1970 and his mother and father were Diane Schroder and Richard Bartlett Schroder, Sr.  Both of Schorder’s parents worked at an ...

Saddle up for a trip through entertainment history with a weekly highlight from Santa Clarita’s Walk of Western Stars! This week, leading Western actor Joel McCrea.  Joel Albert McCrea was born on Nov. 5, 1905, in South Pasadena, California, as the son of an L.A. Gas & Electric Company executive, and would go on to be a popular leading man ...