Brad Arrington was born on February 8, 1952, in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is an actor, known for "The Wendell Baker Story" (2005), "The Newton Boys" (1998) and "Armed Response" (1986).

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.

William Paul Dunlap was born on July 19, 1919, in Springfield, Ohio, to William P. and Janice P. Dunlap. By 1930, Dunlap had moved west as his mother had remarried William H. Brock from Los Angeles, California. He studied music composition with Arnold Schoenberg, Ernst Toch, and Nadia Boulanger, and eventually found work as a film composer himself. He eventually wrote the scores for 133 films, mostly in the 1950s and 1960s. He also composed a piano concerto, choral work, and an opera. Dunlap died on March 11, 2010, in Palm Springs, California.