Diana Friedberg was born in South Africa. She began a film career after graduating from the University of Cape Town in 1967. She is the first woman to direct a feature film in South Africa and has edited and produced numerous films and TV shows. Her credits include "Die Spook van Donkergat" (1973) "World on a String" (2007), and "Max Steiner: Maestro of Movie Music" (2019).

Hugo Friedhofer was born May 3, 1901. Hugo began studying the cello as a teenager and worked as a cellist for the People's Symphony Orchestra in San Francisco. After playing in theater orchestras and writing music arrangements, he moved to Los Angeles where he worked as a musician for film music recordings. He became an arranger and orchestrator of over movie scores. He became a film music composer in the 1940s, working through the 1950s and 1960s, eventually composing for television as well. Hugo died May 17, 1981, in Los Angeles, California.

Fred Steiner was born February 24, 1923, in New York City. He was the son of film composer George Steiner. Fred graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio, and, later with a PhD from University of Southern California. Steiner wrote scores for radio broadcasts, then starting in 1947, arranged, conducted and composed film and television scores. He was nominated for an Academy Award for work on "The Color Purple" (1985). Steiner worked in Mexico in the late 1950s archiving Latin American music, and later retired to Mexico, where he died June 23, 2011.