Thomas Robert Laughlin was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on August 10, 1931. Relocated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Laughlin lived near and attended Washington High School with future actor Gene Wilder.

Laughlin's early film appearances include roles in Vincente Minnelli's Tea and Sympathy (1956), Robert Altman's The Delinquents (1957) and Joshua Logan's South Pacific (1958).

In Hollywood, Laughlin was a neighbor of O.J. Simpson for many years and often told the NFL star turned actor that his drinking and drug use would get him into trouble.

In 1992, Laughlin ran unsuccessfully for President of the United States.

On his website, Tom Laughlin claims credit for inventing "the mega-multiple, blitzkrieg advertising method of distributing and marketing motion pictures."

Producer Delores Taylor is part Swedish and part Lakota Sioux.

As a Navy gunner during World War II, an 18-year-old Jeremy Slate saw action at Normandy Beach.

Jeremy Slate's film debut was as an extra in the Grand Central Station scene of Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959).

Slate also appeared as bikers in The Mini-Skirt Mob (1968), Hells Belles (1970) and Hells Angels '69 (1969).

Although her performance in The Born Losers won her attention from Alfred Hitchcock, Elizabeth James made only one other film appearance.

Jane Russell was born Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell on June 21, 1921, and studied acting with The Wolf Man (1941) star Maria Ouspenskaya before being discovered by director-producer Howard Hughes.

Russell's infamous 38 inch bust earned her the nickname "The Two and Only Jane Russell."

Character actor Stuart Lancaster was the grandson of one of the founders of Ringling Brothers Circus.

Lancaster is most famous to B-movie fans for playing the crippled paterfamilias of Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965).

William Wellman, Jr., is the son of legendary film director William Wellman.

William Wellman, Jr. and Tom Laughlin both had small parts in William Wellman's WWI film Lafayette Escadrille (1958) alongside rising star Clint Eastwood.

Assistant director Jonathan Hayes had been the star of Roger Corman's The Little Shop of Horrors (1960).

Hired for two days work as a special effects coordinator, Gary Kent was later the hero of Al Adamson's Satan's Sadists (1969).

Paul Prokop and Bob Tessier both went on to appear in Stephanie Rothman's The Velvet Vampire (1971).

Robert Cleaves later appeared in the ABC-TV movie Death Scream (1975), which was based on the murder of Kitty Genovese.

In 2000, Cleaves, age 71, was sentenced to 16-years-to-life in prison for second-degree murder stemming from a road rage incident.

Sources:

Tom Laughlin Q&A, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Scarlet Newsletter, October 6, 1995

Jeremy Slate interview by Nelson Basden, Psychotronic Video No. 36, 2002

The Film Encyclopedia by Ephraim Katz

Internet Movie Database

by Richard Harland Smith