Andrew Victor McLaglen was born July 28, 1920, in Greater London, England, to British actor Victor McLaglen. He started his film career in 1945 as a production assistant and eventually became a director, directing his first film, "Gun the Man Down" in 1956. He directed many films over the next 30 years, mostly Westerns, and some of them starring John Wayne. Others starred James Stewart. Andrew McLaglen passed away August 30, 2014, in San Juan County, Washington.

James Vincent D'Arc was born in Los Angeles, California on August 7, 1950. In the early 1970s, D'Arc was accepted into Brigham Young University, where he majored in history. A film appreciation class taught by Dr. Charles M. Metten in 1973 motivated D’Arc to receive a PhD in film history from BYU in 1986. During his time as a student, he was also hired in what was then called the "Archives and Manuscripts Division” at BYU, where he began gathering film-related materials for the Archives. During 1990 D'Arc was also employed as a professor of film in BYU's Theatre and Media Arts College in addition to his position as a curator. James D'Arc retired from BYU in August 2017.