Jon Cryer
Jonathan Niven Cryer (born April 16, 1965) is an American actor and television director. Born into a show business family, Cryer made his motion picture debut as a teenaged photographer in the 1984 romantic comedy "No Small Affair"; his breakout role came in 1986, playing "Duckie" Dale in the John Hughes-written film "Pretty in Pink". In 1998, he wrote and produced the independent film "Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five".
James Earl Jones
His first film role was as a young and trim Lt. Lothar Zogg, the B-52 bombardier in 1964's "". In 1967, Jones portrayed a surgeon and Haitian rebel leader in "The Comedians". His first starring film role came with his portrayal of boxer Jack Jefferson in "The Great White Hope" (1970), co-starring Jane Alexander. They had played these roles in the original stage production, too. For his role, Jones was nominated Best Actor by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, making him the second African-American male performer (following Sidney Poitier) to receive a nomination. In "" (1972) he starred as a senator who by an unexpected confluence of events becomes the first African-American president of the United States. In 1974, Jones co-starred with Diahann Carroll in the film "Claudine", the story of a woman who raises her six children alone after two failed and two "almost" marriages.