scholar
Byron Wade, clergyman
W. Richard West, Jr., founding director of Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian and current director of Autry Museum of the American West
James Q. Wilson, author and professor at Pepperdine University
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Hugh "Lumpy" Brannum, played Mister Green Jeans on Captain Kangaroo, a children's television program
Glen Charles, writer and producer for Cheers
Les Charles, writer and producer for Cheers
Christopher Coppola, film director and producer
David Eick, executive producer of Battlestar Galactica, Bionic Woman and Caprica
David Greenwalt, screenwriter, director and producer
Jessie Kahnweiler, actor, writer, comedian, YouTube personality
David Lee, director, producer and writer
Daniel Petrie Jr., screenwriter
Eric Pierpoint, actor and author
Robert Pierpoint, CBS White House correspondent
John Raitt, singer and actor in musical theater
Thalmus Rasulala, actor
Bjarne Mädel, German sit-com actor, attended for two years but did not attain degree
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