List of Los Angeles City College people

This page lists the members of Los Angeles City College, including students, alumni, faculty and academic affiliates associated.

Alumni

Economics

Lawrence Klein, economist, Nobel Prize recipient in Economics (deceased)

Communications

Pete Arbogast, radio announcer
Murray Fromson, broadcast journalist
Paul Olden, radio announcer
Ted Sobel, sports journalist

Education

Maulana Karenga, professor of Black Studies, activist and founder of Kwanzaa
Margaret Martin, Harmony Project Founder and Recipient of President's Citizens Medal

Entertainment

Clint Eastwood

Rodolfo Acosta

Performance

Rene Michelle Aranda, actress
Bob Arbogast, radio broadcaster and voice actor
Alan Arkin, actor, Academy Award recipient
Billy Barty, actor and founder, Little People of America
Brenda Benet, actress
Barbara Billingsley, actor
Tommy Bond, actor
Sufe Bradshaw, actress
Albert Brooks, actor, comedian and director
Diana Canova, actor
Ralph Carter, actor
James Coburn, actor, Academy Award recipient
Angela Dorian, actress and model
Clint Eastwood, actor; producer, Academy Award recipient; director
Christine Elise, actress, author, writer, producer
Mike Evans, actor
Laurence Fishburne, actor
Al Freeman Jr., actor, Emmy
Morgan Freeman, actor, Academy Award recipient;
Don Grady, actor on TV's My Three Sons^[1]
Debbie Shapiro Gravitte, actor, Tony Award recipient
Deidre Hall, actor
Mark Hamill, actor
Earl Hammond, actor, voice actor
Linda Hart, actor
Alex Henteloff, actor
Allen Hoskins, actor
Jackie Joseph, actor
Aron Kader, comedian
Margaret Kerry, actor
Sally Kellerman, actor, Academy Award nominee
Wallace Langham, actor
Ruta Lee, actor
Elliott Lewis, actor, director and producer in old-time radio^[2]
Whitman Mayo, actor
Angela McEwan, actor
James Mitchell, actor and dancer
Dickie Moore, actor
Wayne Morris, actor, WWII ace
Shelley Morrison, actor
Stephen Nichols, actor
Jeanette Nolan, actor
Hugh O'Brian, actor, Golden Globe Award recipient
Rosie Perez, actor and choreographer
Donna Reed, actor, Academy Award recipient
Maggie Roswell, actor
Reiko Sato, dancer and actress^[3]
Wendy Schaal, actress
Alexis Smith, actor, Tony Award recipient
Mila del Sol, Philippine actress, entrepreneur, civic-leader, philanthropist
Louise Sorel, actor
Joseph Stern, actor
Roy Thinnes, actor
Irene Tsu, actress^[4]
Robert Vaughn, actor, Emmy Award recipient
David White, actor; played Larry Tate on the Bewitched TV series
Stuart Whitman, actor
Cindy Williams, actor and producer
Esther Williams, actor, Golden Globe Award recipient
Mykelti Williamson, actor
Paul Winfield, actor, Emmy Award recipient
Jo Anne Worley, actor
Tony Young, actor

Production

Ray Aghayan, costume designer, Emmy Award recipient
Rudy Behlmer, director and author
True Boardman, screenwriter and actor
Zev Buffman, Broadway producer
Charles Burnett, director and writer
Charles Campbell, sound engineer, Academy Award recipient
Tamra Davis, filmmaker
Robert Elswit, cinematographer, Academy Award recipient
F. Gary Gray, director and producer
Maggie Greenwald, director and writer
Ray Harryhausen, producer, director and special effects artist; special Academy Award recipient
Albert Hughes, director, producer, screenwriter
Bruce Kimmel, director, producer, writer, actor and composer
Mimi Leder, director, Emmy Award recipient
Michael Lembeck, director, Emmy Award recipient; actor
William McCloud, camera operator, Emmy Award recipient
John Milius, screenwriter, producer and director
Karen Moncrieff, director
Sharon Oreck, producer and author
Gene Roddenberry, producer and screenwriter
Robert J. Sexton, producer, director, writer, and former musician
Tarsem Singh, director
Kevin Tent, editor, Academy Award nominee
José Quintero, director

Fine arts

Art

Roberto Esteban Chavez artist, known for his personally symbolic portraits, public murals
Don Bachardy, artist
Billy Al Bengston, painter and sculptor
Melvin Edwards, sculptor
Cristian Gheorghiu, contemporary artist/painter^[5]
Gerhardt Knodel (born 1940), textile artist, educator^[6]^[7]
Doyle Lane, ceramist
John Lees, artist and painter
Kerry James Marshall, artist
Evangeline Montgomery, print-maker, metal smith and weaver
Ruth Orkin, photographer and filmmaker
Hisako Terasaki, artist and etcher
H.C. Westermann, printmaker and sculptor
Robert Williams, painter and cartoonist

Dance

Alvin Ailey, dancer and choreographer
Janet Collins, ballerina

Design

Lester Oliver Bankhead, architect^[8]
Frank Gehry, architect, Pritzker Architecture Prize recipient
Rudi Gernreich, fashion designer

Music

Roy Ayers, jazz musician
Chet Baker, trumpeter and vocalist
Robert Bradley, blues musician
Pamela Courson, singer
Herb Geller, jazz musician
M.C. Hammer, aka Stanley K. Burrell, R&B musician
Eric Dolphy, jazz musician
Jean Fenn, opera singer
Bob Florence, composer, band leader and educator
Don Friedman, jazz pianist
Jerry Goldsmith, composer, Academy Award recipient
DJ Irene, aka Irene M. Gutiérrez, electronic music DJ
Earl Kim, composer
Leon Kirchner, composer
Florence LaRue, lead singer of The 5th Dimension
Howard Leese, rock musician and producer
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, songwriters and Hall of Fame producers, Grammy recipients
David Liebe Hart, outsider musician, street performer, artist, actor, puppeteer
George London, opera singer and administrator
Lebo M, composer
Les McCann, jazz pianist and singer
Charles Mingus, jazz musician
Arthur Nakane, one-man band act
Lennie Niehaus, composer
Marni Nixon, vocalist
Odetta, folk singer
Dianne Reeves, jazz singer, Grammy recipient
Howard Rumsey, jazz musician
Robin Russell, drummer
Jack Sheldon, jazz musician
Leonard Slatkin, conductor, National Medal of Arts recipient
Ed Thigpen, jazz drummer
Russ Titelman, music producer, Grammy recipient; songwriter
John Williams, composer, Academy Award recipient
La Monte Young, composer
Michele Zukovsky, principal and solo clarinetist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Sikiru Ayinde Barrister, Fuji singer

Writing

Byron Barton, author and illustrator
Kurt Boone, author and poet
Charles Bukowski, poet and author
Ed Bullins, playwright, Obie Award recipient
Leonard Buschel, writer, founder of film festival and addiction and recovery organization
Carlos Castaneda, author
Charles Eastman, playwright and screenwriter
Charles Gordone, playwright, Pulitzer Prize recipient; actor, Obie Award recipient; director
Jim Harmon, author and producer
Michael S. Harper, poet, former Poet Laureate of Rhode Island
Bryan Malessa, author
Terry McMillan, author
David Meltzer, poet, musician and educator
Alejandro Murguía, poet, current Poet Laureate of San Francisco
Pat Parker, poet and activist
Judith Reisman, conservative writer
Carolyn See, author and educator
Justin Tanner, playwright
Quincy Troupe, poet; former Poet Laureate of California

Law

John Branca, music attorney, Co-Executor of the Michael Jackson Estate
Albert L. Gordon, lawyer and gay rights advocate

Public service

Military

Susan Ahn Cuddy, U.S. Navy, First Asian-American Female Navy Officer, First Female gunnery officer, WWII
Herbert R. Temple Jr. (Ret.), Chief of the National Guard Bureau

Elected officials

Hal Bernson, Los Angeles City Council member
Tom LaBonge, Los Angeles City Council member
Louis R. Nowell, Los Angeles City Council member (former)
Bernard C. Parks, Los Angeles City Council member and former Chief of Police
Arthur K. Snyder, Los Angeles City Council member, lawyer
Diane Watson, Member of Congress

Judiciary

Lourdes Baird, U. S. District Court (Ret.)
Vaino Spencer, Los Angeles County Superior Court, co-founded the Black Women Lawyers Association and the National Association of Women Judges, deceased

Religion

Robert Sirico, Roman Catholic priest, founder of the Acton Institute

Science

Rosella Kanarik, American mathematics professor
Robert B. Leighton, Astrophysicist, Rumsford Prize and James Craig Watson Medal Recipient
Seymour Liebergot, former NASA Flight Controller during the Apollo program
Lawrence H. Johnston, physicist

Sports

Baseball

Emmett Ashford, baseball umpire
Dennis Gilbert, LACC Hall of Fame baseball inductee, sports agent and entrepreneur

Basketball

Larry Friend, professional basketball player

Football

Kermit Alexander, professional football player
Homer Butler, professional football player
Don Bishop, professional football player
Ron Botchan, football coach
Milt Davis, professional football player
Mike Douglass, former NFL player
Vince Evans, professional football player
Reggie Haynes, professional football player
Woodley Lewis, professional football player
Rod Martin, former All-Pro player Oakland Raiders
Jaelan Phillips, professional football player^[9]
Harry Thompson, football player

Track

Jeff Williams, sprinter

Wrestling

José "Pepper" Gomez, professional wrestler and bodybuilder

References

^ Kaufman, Dave (1968). TV 69: Who's Who, What's What in the New TV Season (mass market paperback). New York: Signet. p. 130.
^ DeLong, Thomas A. (1996). Radio Stars: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary of 953 Performers, 1920 through 1960. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7864-2834-2. P. 165.
^ Claesson, Samuel. "The Story of Reiko Sato", Classic Images (July 2024)
^ "Actress Irene Tsu, an LACC Alum, Talks to LACC Cinema Students About her Film Career", Los Angeles City College News, December 1, 2006
^ Gheorghiu, Cristian (July 5, 2012). "KCET interview". www.kcet.org. Retrieved July 8, 2012.
^ Miniature Fiber Arts: A National Exhibition. Textile Workshops. 1980. p. 112. ISBN 978-0-9604110-0-9.
^ "Overview Collection Information: Oral history interview with Gerhardt Knodel". Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. August 3, 2004. Retrieved 2024-01-11.
^ Wilson, Dreck Spurlock (2004-03-01). African American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865-1945. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-95628-8.
^ Perez, Amanda (8 October 2020). "'It's surreal to be back': Former top recruit Jaelan Phillips finds second chance at Miami". ESPN. Retrieved 18 April 2021.

[Kaufman130-1] Kaufman, Dave (1968). TV 69: Who's Who, What's What in the New TV Season (mass market paperback). New York: Signet. p. 130.

[rs-2] DeLong, Thomas A. (1996). Radio Stars: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary of 953 Performers, 1920 through 1960. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7864-2834-2. P. 165.

[3] Claesson, Samuel. "The Story of Reiko Sato", Classic Images (July 2024)

[4] "Actress Irene Tsu, an LACC Alum, Talks to LACC Cinema Students About her Film Career", Los Angeles City College News, December 1, 2006

[5] Gheorghiu, Cristian (July 5, 2012). "KCET interview". www.kcet.org. Retrieved July 8, 2012.

[6] Miniature Fiber Arts: A National Exhibition. Textile Workshops. 1980. p. 112. ISBN 978-0-9604110-0-9.

[AAA-7] "Overview Collection Information: Oral history interview with Gerhardt Knodel". Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. August 3, 2004. Retrieved 2024-01-11.

[:0-8] Wilson, Dreck Spurlock (2004-03-01). African American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865-1945. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-95628-8.

[9] Perez, Amanda (8 October 2020). "'It's surreal to be back': Former top recruit Jaelan Phillips finds second chance at Miami". ESPN. Retrieved 18 April 2021.

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