Wells Fargo | H. G. Wells | Dawn French | Dawn of the Dead | Junior Wells | Indian Wells | Dawn | Sadler's Wells | Mary Wells | Dawn Fraser | Bishop of Bath and Wells | The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | Golden Dawn | Wells, Somerset | Wells Fargo Center | Spencer Wells | Sadler's Wells Theatre | Red Dawn | Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn | Wells | Kitty Wells | Jonathan Wells | Wells Fargo Center (Philadelphia) | Wells Cathedral | Jonathan Wells (intelligent design advocate) | John Wells | Henry Wells | Dawn Shadforth | David Wells |
Wilson moved to NYC in 1959 where he had a brief acting career playing such roles as Valère to the Mariane of Dawn Wells (later Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island) in Molière's Tartuffe and Older Patrick to Nancy Wilder's Auntie Mame in various stock productions.
Tina Louise didn't reprise her role in the animated-spinoffs either, in The New Adventures of Gilligan Jane Webb voiced her, while in Gilligan's Planet she was replaced by her co-star Dawn Wells.
Dawn Wells, the original Mary Ann from Gilligan's Island founded the festival as a natural outgrowth of the Idaho Film and Television Institute and Film Actors Boot Camp.
It was based on the 1964–1967 CBS television series Gilligan's Island and featured almost all the actors from the show, except for Tina Louise, who was determined to distance herself from the role of Ginger Grant (the animated Ginger became a platinum blonde in case Louise objected to Filmation using her image), and Dawn Wells, who was on the road in a play and was unavailable (Jane Webb voiced both Ginger and Mary Ann; she was credited as Jane Edwards for the latter).