Producers, Directors, Writers, & Actors with ties to SW Oklahoma
(*Award-winning/Honors)
Annette Arkeketa* (Otoe-Missouria), Lawton, Hokte Productions
Margaret Avery*, Mangum, Actress, Oscar Nomination, Best Actress in a Supporting Role
for "The Color Purple" (1985)Big Productions*, Dan Big Bee Jr (Comanche) and Lily Shangreaux (Lakota)
Russell Bates*, Lawton, Writer - 1975 Emmy for Animated Startrek
Charlotte Black Elk* (Lakota), Apache, researcher and activist for Native rights, a scholar of Lakota tradition and western technology, featured in many documentaries
Katela Black Elk (Lakota), Apache, Actress
Wallace Bridges, Lawton, Founder and Artistic Director, Idlewild Theatre, Acting professionally on stage, commercials and film, and Educator, www.bridgesweb.com
Layne Brightwell*, Altus, Costume designer, Key costumer, Supervising costumer, Set costumer and Wardrobe supervisor for television series and films such as "Diary of a Mad Black Woman” (2005), “Ghost Whisperer” (2005), “Seabiscuit” (2003) and “The Legend of Bagger Vance” (2000)
Florence Britton (1904 - ?), Lawton, Actress
Cameron University, Department of Communications, various student productions*
Mark Carlton, Lawton, Actor & Second Unit Production Manager
Vicki Caroline Cheatwood-Daves*, Lawton - Fort Sill, Playwright, 1996 Best New Play - Southwest Theatre Association, 1997 Robert Bone Memorial Playwriting Award, Dallas Theatre Critics League Award for Best New Play, 2005 Austin film festival screenplay competition finalist, Potlatch screenplay reading series (Dallas), and Alchemy works “Movie Midwifing” screenplay series (Austin), 2005 Worldfest Houston film festival-Special Gold Jury Award, short film dramatic-adaptation
C. J. Cherryh, Lawton, Writer, John W. Campbell Award, Hugo Award, Locus Award, New England Science Fiction Association's Edward E. Smith Memorial Award (The Skylark), Oklahoma Book Award's Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award, Asteroid 77185 Cherryh, discovered March 20, 2001 and named in her honor
Pamela Clay, Fort Sill, Actress
Tokala Clifford (Lakota), Actor
Kalvin Cook*, Apache, Actor, Guinness World Record Holder, appeared in numerous movies, television shows and commercials
Alvin Dark aka "Blackie" & "The Swamp Fox" (1922 - ?), Comanche, Baseball Player, Played self in movies
Bill Devine, Fort Sill, Production Manager, Voice recordist, & Sound design
Candace Early, Lawton, Actress & Singer appearing on "All My Children"
Judy Guyll, Lawton, Actress
Ava Hamilton* (Arapaho), Weatherford, Producer & Director
David G. Harper, Fort Sill, Actor
Marc Hausman (Comanche), Lawton, Videographer & Photographer
Tony Head, Fort Sill, Actor
Stephen Hillenburg, Fort Sill, Creator & Executive producer, SpongeBob SquarePants
Charles Nedwin "Ned" Hockman*, Carnegie, Producer, Director, Production Manager, & Actor - 1996 Cameron University Distinguished Alumnus; Boyd Professor Emeritus, School of Journalism, The University of Oklahoma; Former delegate to the Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, France; Former Delegate to the International Lision Schools of Cinema and Television, Warsaw/Lodz, Poland; Former Delegate to the Mannheim Documentary Film Festival (Ger.); Visiting Professor, Summer Term, University of Washington, Seattle, USA; For 26 years, Director of the Annual Television-News Video Workshop sponsored by the National Press Photographers Association, Eastman Kodak, Sony and the University of Oklahoma; President, Oklahoma Motion Picture Hall of Fame, Charter member; University Film and Video Association of America, Member; Oklahoma Governor's Film Committee, & Awarded the Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award for Photojournalism by the National Press Photographers Association
Johnny Horn, Lawton, Actor, "Special Ed"; feature film; (2006) "Unsolved Mysteries; NBC TV, commercials
Howard Family, Duncan - Rance, Jean Speegle-Howard, and Ron; Producer, Director & Actors
Tvli Jacobs*, Producer & Director
Cassie Jaye, Fort Sill, Actress
Dr. Matt Jenkins*, Matt Jenkins Productions
Darrell Kosechequetah (Comanche) Producer, Photographer & Graphic Design
Mike Kosechequetah* (Comanche) Producer, Photographer & Graphic Design
Barbara Lawrence, Carnegie, Actress - Among her many roles, in 1955 she was cast as Gertie Cummings in the movie Oklahoma! She reprised the role she played on the stage.
N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa), Lawton, Pulitzer Prize-winning author featured in many documentaries
Lauren Nelson, Lawton, Miss America 2007
Lee Pace*, Chickasha, Actor with a Gotham Award for Breakthrough Actor and nominated for several other awards, including a Golden Globe, for his work in the 2003 "Soldier's Girl"
Pat Payne*, Ringling, Producer & Composer
Tom Platz, Fort Sill, Actor & Body Builder 1973 Mr. Adonis competition & 1978 World Amateur Championship middleweight division
Rod Pocowatchit* (Pawnee, Shawnee and Comanche), Producer, Director & Writer, Sundance Fellow
Rudy Ramos, Lawton, Actor
Leon Russel, Lawton, Singer, Actor & Musical Arranger
Buddy Ryan, Frederick, Sports legend, played self
Alton Tabor, Hobart, Actor
Sunrise Tippeconnie* (Comanche & Navajo) Producer, Director & Actor
Deron Twohatchet * (Kiowa & Comanche), Producer, Director & Actor
Levi West* (Otoe-Missouria) Lawton, Videographer, 5 Time Emmy Award Winner
Bryan White, Lawton, Singer & Voice
Jan Woomavoyah * (Comanche), Lawton, Producer & Director
Rodney Yee, Altus, Self in Yoga series
Brad Yoder, Fort Sill, Producer, Production Manager, Actor& Writer
The research for this data came from many sources such as The Internet Movie Data Base, the Internet Broadway Data Base, Wikipedia, Museum of the Great Plains, and in some cases the person or their family. Should any information need to be updated, corrected, or added, please, call our office at 580-581-3470 or email us at LAHC@cityof.lawton.ok.us.