Brian Kennedy (gallery director)
Brian Patrick Kennedy( born 5 November 1961) is an Irish- born art museum director who has worked in Ireland and Australia, and now lives and works in the United States.
He is currently the director of the Peabody Essex Museum.
He was the director of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio from 2010 to 2019.
He was the director of the Hood Museum of Art from 2005 to 2010, and the National Gallery of Australia( Canberra) from 1997- 2004.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
The Radio Chick
The Radio Chick is the on- air name for Leslie Gold, an American radio personality whose talk show features comedian Chuck Nice and her producer, Paul" Butch" Brennan.
Leslie is a recurring guest host on the Fox News Radio Network heard nationally.
She is the Executive Producer of" The Gong Show Live- Off Broadway", a theatrical recreation of the classic TV show.
She is a graduate of Syracuse University and The Harvard Business School.
The Gong Show Movie
The Gong Show Movie is a 1980 American comedy film starring, written and directed by Chuck Barris.
Gene Gene the Dancing Machine
Eugene Sidney Patton Sr.
(April 25, 1932 – March 9, 2015), also known as Gene Patton and more widely known by his stage name Gene Gene the Dancing Machine, was a television personality, dancer and stagehand who worked at NBC Studios in Burbank, California.
Patton was the first African-American member of the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees, Local 33.
Patton's claim to fame, however, was from his various appearances on the network's talent search game show, "The Gong Show".
In addition to his stage duties, Patton was one of several amateur performers who would warm up and entertain the audience during commercial breaks.
Host Chuck Barris found him so entertaining that he had him dance on the show on-air, and he proved so popular that he soon became a recurring act, then an occasional judge.
The genial Patton usually wore the same outfit each time he appeared, which consisted of a green sweater jacket, a flat cap, bell-bottomed slacks, and sneakers.
On "The Gong Show", Patton's appearances were treated as if they were spontaneous (in reality, they were always written into the show).
After Barris would finish with a certain act, the piano player in Milton DeLugg's band would begin to play in octaves the familiar bass line of the first few bars of "Jumpin' at the Woodside", a popular Count Basie tune, and
the proceedings would come to an immediate halt once Barris heard the music.
Barris would usually react with gleeful surprise, then announce the arrival of Gene Gene.
The curtain would then rise and Patton would come out moving his feet and shoulders to the music, with Barris usually dancing along.
DeLugg's arrangement morphed perfectly into Basie's "One O'Clock Jump" at which time Gene showed off his trademark "armspread" move, along with everyone else in the house.
Patton's fellow stagehands would toss all manner of things onto the stage while he continued to dance.
Through his performances, Patton gained membership in AFTRA.
Patton performed on the NBC edition of "The Gong Show" until its cancellation in the summer of 1978 and on the weekly syndicated series until it was cancelled in 1980.
For the last two seasons of the syndicated series, Patton's appearances were scaled back significantly; NBC had evicted "The Gong Show" from its studios after its cancellation and production moved to what is now KTLA's studios in Los Angeles; since Patton was a full-time NBC employee, he remained there.
Olav Aaraas
Olav Aaraas( born 10 July 1950) is a Norwegian historian and museum director.
He was born in Fredrikstad.
From 1982 to 1993 he was the director of Sogn Folk Museum, from 1993 to 2010 he was the director of Maihaugen and from 2001 he has been the director of the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History.
In 2010 he was decorated with the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Chuck Barris
Charles Hirsch Barris (June 3, 1929 – March 21, 2017) was an American game show creator, producer and host.
Barris was known for hosting "The Gong Show" and creating "The Dating Game" and "The Newlywed Game".
He was also a songwriter who wrote "Palisades Park" for Freddy Cannon.
Barris wrote an autobiography titled "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind", which was made into the film of the same name directed by George Clooney.
Jessica Delfino
Jessica Delfino( born June 8, 1976 in Bridgeport, Connecticut) is a controversial singer, songwriter, and comedian based in New York City.
Her songs tend to ridicule taboos and typically include jokes about vaginas and other sexual or dark topics.
In her act, she plays an assortment of instruments including guitar, flying V ukulele and a rape whistle.
She is also an illustrator and attended Philadelphia's Art Institute, as well as the University of Maine.
She has won numerous awards, including beating out Flight of the Conchords to win the Best Musical Act at the 2005 ECNY awards, and a 2005 Village Voice" Best of" Award, in which the Village Voice declared her to be" fall- off- your- chair hilarious."
She has appeared on" Good Morning America" as a finalist in a national comedy competition.
She has also won many other competitions, some of them unusual, such as The Stoned Spelling Bee in Brooklyn, the Madagascar Institute's Catholic high school talent competition and the Arlene's Grocery" Gong Show," which later became The Gong Show with Dave Attell on Comedy Central.
The Unknown Comic
“ The Unknown Comic ” is the stage name adopted by Canadian actor and stand- up comic Murray Langston( born June 27, 1945 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada), best known for his comic performances on" The Gong Show," in which he usually appeared with a paper bag over his head.

Question: Where did the director of film The Gong Show Movie die?
Answer: Palisades