The roster, drawn up front, every tie graded — and no mogul

Searched November 2026 · the roster at the strength of the credit records

The roster, complete at the size the record returns: First rank (boundary). Sydney Pollack (born Lafayette, Indiana, 1 July 1934; raised South Bend; died 26 May 2008) — producer of the first rank by any measure the credit record keeps, carried at credit level in the next article. Tie: raised, South Bend. Granger tie: none. Second rank (boundary). Vivica A. Fox (born South Bend, 30 July 1964) — actress-producer, carried in the second-rank article. Tie: born, South Bend. Granger tie: none. Nicholas Sparks (born Omaha, Nebraska, 31 December 1965; University of Notre Dame alumnus; resident of New Bern, North Carolina) — author-producer and founder of Nicholas Sparks Productions. Tie: by education only, at the university across the line — the weakest grade this roster uses, and printed as such. Granger tie: none. Hannah Storm (born Oak Park, Illinois, 13 June 1962; Notre Dame class of 1983; resident of Connecticut) — broadcaster-producer, founder of Brainstormin' Productions. Tie: by education only, same grade as Sparks. Granger tie: none. The resident test. Ken Harrelson, the one national broadcaster the banked People leg verifies as a Granger resident across his Chicago decades, was tested for a production company of his own: none appears in the credit or company record searched — his producing record is the booth, and the documentaries about him were produced by others (MLB Network's 2013 profile of him was produced by Bruce Cornblatt). Tie as producer: none. The local phenomenon (boundary). Dave Williams of South Bend and Beyond Our Control, carried in its own article below. Tie: South Bend, entire.

How the roster was drawn — the searches shown: the AFI Catalog's producer filmography instrument and the standard credit records (AFI / IMDb-pattern credit listings) searched by name for every candidate the neighbouring record supplies; biographical birthplace and residence records for each name, tested against the CDP line and not against a postal address; the People fame band's search instruments extended from acting credits to producing credits; and direct searches for a film, television or record producer born in, raised in or resident in Granger, which returned no Granger name at all — the results resolve, every time, to South Bend, Mishawaka, Notre Dame or nowhere near Indiana. A producer "by adoption of the craft" — formed as a producer on this ground — was tested on the same instruments and returns the same nil: no studio, station or company seated in the CDP has formed a producer of record. The mogul test, answered in the title line and repeated here so it cannot be missed: there is no Granger mogul, and there is no Granger producer of the first rank; the first rank this county can show sits in South Bend, and it is printed next at the size it deserves — as South Bend's.

Sources:

1. AFI Catalog person records and credit listings as searched November 2026; the biographical records cited article by article below (Britannica and the Academy Film Archive for Pollack; the standard birth/residence records for Fox, Sparks and Storm; Notre Dame's Film, Television and Theatre alumni record for Storm); banked Notable People (the Harrelson residence; the fame band's instruments and its actor negative, extended here to producing credits).