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The Actors' Temple

Many vaudeville, musical theater, television, and nightclub performers attended services there, including Sophie Tucker, Shelley Winters, Milton Berle, Al Jolson, Jack Benny, Joe E. Lewis, Edward G. Robinson, as well as several of the Three Stooges.


Daniel M. Thomas

The first County Supervisors in 1852 for Los Angeles were Jefferson Hunt, Julian A. Chavez, Francisco P. Temple, Manuel Requena, and Samuel Arbuckle.

Herbert R. Temple, Jr.

Fort Leavenworth's Mission Training Complex includes the Herbert R. Temple, Jr.

Ivy Substation

In the 1990s, the Culver City Redevelopment Agency and the City of Los Angeles renovated the building to use as a community theater by the The Actors' Gang.

J. R. Temple

He spend six years with Southland Ice Company (the parent company of 7-Eleven) and vice-president and president of Oak Farms Ltd.

Los Angeles and Independence Railroad

The Los Angeles and Independence Railroad Company was incorporated in January 1875 with Francisco P. Temple, John P. Jones, Robert S. Baker, T. N. Park, James A. Pritchard, J. S. Slauson, and J. U. Crawford, as directors.

Michael Mercurio

In addition to his screen work, Mercurio remains active in the theatre, most notably as a member of The Actors' Gang theatre in Los Angeles, which was founded by acclaimed actor Tim Robbins.

Robert E. Sackley

In 1983, Sackley and his wife became the directors of the visitor's center at the Washington, D.C. Temple in Kensington, Maryland.

Robert K. G. Temple

Robert K. G. Temple (born in 1945) is an American author best known for his controversial book, The Sirius Mystery (1976; though Temple began writing it in 1967) which presents the idea that the Dogon people preserve the tradition of contact with intelligent extraterrestrial beings from the Sirius star-system.

The Actors' Gang

The Gang's latest production is an adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, adapted and performed by Brian T. Finney and directed by Keythe Farley.

Washington D.C. Temple

On November 30, 2011, J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr. and his wife Donna hosted Brazilian Ambassador to the United States Mauro Vieira, with L. Tom Perry of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles presiding.

In late 1973, an unknown person painted "Surrender Dorothy" on the girders of a railroad bridge that crosses the Beltway; to drivers approaching the temple from the east, the words appeared like a caption under the building.

William F. Temple

Temple's son, Cliff Temple, was a leading UK athletics journalist, writer, commentator, and coach; and his daughter, Anne Patrizio MBE is well known in the UK as a campaigner for the rights of LGBT people and their parents.


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