- Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks (May 23, 1883 - December 12, 1939) was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer, who became noted for his swashbuckling roles in silent movies such as "The Mark of Zorro" (1920), "The Three Musketeers" (1921), "Robin Hood" (1922), "The Thief of Bagdad" (1924) and "The Black Pirate" (1926). - Cecil B. Demille
Cecil Blount DeMille was a very successful American filmmaker in the first half of the 20th century. - Rudolph Valentino
Rudolph Valentino (May 6, 1895 - August 23, 1926) was an Italian actor. He was born Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Piero Filiberto Guglielmi in Castellaneta, Italy, to a middle-class family. - Mel Blanc
Melvin Jerome Blanc was a prolific American voice actor, performing on radio, in television commercials, and most famously, in hundreds of theatrical animated shorts for Warner Bros. during the Golden Age of American animation--and later for Hanna-Barbera television productions. He is regarded as one of the most gifted and influential persons in his field, providing the definitive voices for iconic characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, … - Janet Gaynor
Janet Gaynor (October 6, 1906 - September 14, 1984) was an American actress who, in 1928, became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress. - John Huston
John Marcellus Huston was an American film director and actor. He was known for directing several classic films, "The Maltese Falcon", "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre", "Key Largo", and "The African Queen". - Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Douglas Elton Fairbanks, Jr., KBE, DSC, K.st.j. (December 9, 1909 - May 7, 2000) was an American actor and a highly decorated naval officer of World War II. - Joseph Schildkraut
Joseph Schildkraut (March 22, 1896 - January 21, 1964) was a stage and film actor. Born in Vienna, Austria, Schildkraut was the son of popular stage (and later motion picture) actor Rudolf Schildkraut. The younger Schildkraut moved to the United States in the early 1900's. He appeared in many Broadway productions. Among the plays that he starred in was a notable production of Peer Gynt. - Tyrone Power
Tyrone Edmund Power, Jr. (May 5, 1914 - November 15, 1958), usually credited simply as Tyrone Power and known sometimes as "Ty Power", was an American film and stage actor who appeared in dozens of films from the 1930s to the 1950s, often as a swashbuckler or romantic lead, in such movies as "The Mark of Zorro", "The Black Swan", "Prince of Foxes", "The Black Rose", and "Captain from Castile". - Johnny Ramone
John William Cummings (October 8, 1948 - September 15, 2004), better known by the stage name Johnny Ramone, was the guitarist for the punk rock group The Ramones. Along with vocalist Joey Ramone, he remained a member of the band throughout their career. - Julia Faye
Julia Faye (24 September 1893 - 6 April 1966) was an actress. She appeared in more Cecil B. DeMille movies than any other actress. She appeared in many of his silents, and in every one of his movies from 1939's Union Pacific on. DeMille's mistress off-screen for quite some time, the devoted Cecil B. kept her employed in bit parts long after her career (and their relationship) was over. - Norma Talmadge
Norma Talmadge was one of the handful of true superstars of the silent screen. She was a major box office draw for more than a decade. A specialist in melodrama, her films are seldom revived today, and the often haughty look of her still pictures give little hint of her animated face and sparkling personality. Norma Talmadge was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, probably in 1893 (though she said 1895 and finally 1897). - Harry Cohn
Harry Cohn (July 23, 1891-February 27, 1958), sometimes nicknamed King Cohn, was president and production director of Columbia Pictures. Cohn was born to a working-class German-Jewish family in New York City. In later years, he appears to have disparaged his heritage. After working for a time as a streetcar conductor, and then as a promoter for a sheet music printer, he got a job with Universal Pictures, where his brother, Jack Cohn, was already employed. - William C. Demille
Willam C. deMille was a screenwriter and film director from the silent movie era through the early 1930s. He was also a noted playwright prior to moving into film. DeMille was born in Washington, D.C. to Henry Churchill DeMille (1853–1893), an Episcopal lay minister and playwright from North Carolina, and Matilda Beatrice Samuel (1853–1923), who was born to a Sephardic Jewish family in England but converted to her husband's faith. - Peter Lorre
Peter Lorre, born Ladislav (László) Löwenstein, was a charismatic Austrian stage and screen actor and director, who later became a naturalized US citizen. He was especially known for playing roles with sinister overtones in Hollywood crime films and mysteries alongside iconic leading actors of the day including Humphrey Bogart and Clark Gable. He played Le Chiffre, the first James Bond villain, … - Dee Dee Ramone
Dee Dee Ramone (Douglas Glenn Colvin) (September 18, 1952 - June 5, 2002) was a German American songwriter and bassist, best remembered as a founding member of punk rock band The Ramones. Though nearly all of the Ramones' songs were credited equally to all the band members, Dee Dee was the group's primary lyricist, penning songs such as "53rd & 3rd", "Commando", "Rockaway Beach" and "Poison Heart". - Constance Talmadge
Constance Talmadge (April 19, 1897-November 23, 1973) was a silent movie star born in Brooklyn, New York, USA, and was the sister of fellow actresses Norma Talmadge and Natalie Talmadge. - Bugsy Siegel
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (February 28, 1906 - June 20, 1947) was an American gangster, popularly thought to be the impetus behind large-scale development of Las Vegas. - Leon Schlesinger
Leon Schlesinger was an American film producer, most noted for founding what later became the Warner Bros. Animation studio during the golden age of Hollywood animation. Schlesinger was born in Philadelphia. After working at a theater as an usher, songbook agent, actor, and manager (including the Palace Theater in Buffalo, NY (source Buffalo News, April 15, 1944), he founded Pacific Title and Art in 1919, … - Sylvia Ashley
Sylvia Ashley (April 1, 1904 - June 29, 1977) was an English model, actress and socialite, who was best known for her marriages to British aristocrats and American movie stars. She was born Edith Louisa Hawkes in Paddington, London, England, a daughter of Arthur Hawkes and Edith Florence Hyde. (Although she preferred giving her year of birth as 1906, the England and Wales Civil Registration Index, Vol. - June Mathis
June Mathis (June 30, 1892, Leadville, Colorado USA - July 26, 1927, New York City, USA), was an influential screenwriter and Hollywood executive in the 1920s. Born June Beulah Hughes, she adopted her stepfather's surname, Mathis, and used it throughout her professional career. Mathis began her career as a stage actress, working for several years with the female impersonator Julian Eltinge. She worked on her first script, "House of Tears", in 1915. - Al Christie
Al Christie, (October 23, 1881 - April 14, 1951) was a Canadian-born motion picture director, producer and screenwriter. Born Alfred Ernest Christie, in London, Ontario, Canada, he was one of a number of Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood who made their way to Hollywood, California, attracted by the newly developing motion picture business. Al Christie began his career in 1909 working for David Horsley's Nestor film company. - Franz Waxman
Franz Waxman (December 24 1906 - February 24 1967) was a Jewish German American composer, known for his bravura "Carmen Fantasie" for violin and orchestra, based on musical themes from the Bizet opera "Carmen", and for his musical scores for films. - Marion Davies
Marion Davies (January 3 1897 - September 22, 1961) was an American comedic actress. - Clifton Webb
Clifton Webb was an American actor, dancer and singer. - David Horsley
David Horsley was English born pioneer of the movie industry who built the first movie studio in Hollywood. Born in West Stanley, Durham, England, a small coal mining village where his entire family worked in the mines. At age nine, he fell on the railway tracks and his hand was badly injured when the train ran over it. Without proper medical care, and fearful of deadly gangrene poisoning, his arm was amputated about two inches below the elbow. - Victor Young
Victor Young (August 8, 1899 - November 10, 1956) was an American composer, arranger, violinist and conductor. He was born in Chicago. Young began as a concert violinist but moved into the popular music sphere when he joined Ted Fiorito's orchestra. In the mid-1930s he moved to Hollywood where he concentrated on film work as well as making a large number of recordings of light music and providing the backing for popular singers, including Bing Crosby. - Darla Hood
Darla Jean Hood (November 8, 1931 - June 13, 1979) was an American child actress. She was born in Leedey, Oklahoma, the only child of James Claude Hood and Elizabeth Davner. Her father worked in a bank and her mother was a music teacher. Her mother started her in singing and dancing at an early age, taking her to lessons in Oklahoma City. Just after her third birthday, she was taken to New York City where she was seen by Joe Rivkin, a casting director for Hal Roach Studios, … - Natalie Talmadge
Natalie Talmadge (1896-1969) was an occasional silent film actress who was more well-known as the middle sister of her movie star siblings Norma and Constance Talmadge until her marriage to silent film actor and comedian Buster Keaton. She appeared in D.W. Griffith's "Intolerance" (1916), and Buster Keaton's "Our Hospitality" (1923), her final appearance. Talmadge was born in Brooklyn, New York on April 28, 1896, … - Bebe Daniels
Bebe Daniels (January 14, 1901 - March 16, 1971) was an American actress. She began in Hollywood in the silent movie era and later gained fame on radio and television in England. - Paul Muni
Paul Muni was an Academy Award-winning and Tony Award-winning stage actor. - John Adams
Sir John Bertram Adams KBE FRS (24 May 1920-3 March 1984) was a British nuclear physicist and administrator. During World War II, Adams worked in the Radar laboratories of the British Ministry of Aircraft Production. After the war he moved to Harwell, and the Atomic Energy Research establishment, designing a 180 MeV synchro-cyclotron. In 1953 he joined CERN as director of the Proton Synchotron division. - Don Adams
Don Adams (April 13, 1923 - September 25, 2005), born Donald James Yarmy, was an American actor best known for his role as Maxwell Smart (Agent 86) in the TV situation comedy "Get Smart" (1965-1970, 1995), for which he also directed and wrote. Adams won three consecutive Emmy Awards for his portrayal of Smart (1967-1969). Additional fame came when he provided the voice for "Inspector Gadget" as the title character. - Joan Hackett
Joan Hackett was an American-born actress who appeared on stage, in films, and on television. Born in New York City of Irish and Italian extraction, her immigrant parents raised her Roman Catholic and sent her to Catholic schools, which she did not always attend punctually. Hackett debuted with the role of Gail Prentiss in the TV series "Young Doctor Malone" in 1959. She had a leading role in the Twilight Zone episode "A Piano in the House" (1962). - Arthur Lake
Arthur Lake (b. Arthur Silverlake, Corbin, Kentucky,April 17 1905; d. January 9 1987, Indian Wells, California) was an American actor known best for bringing Dagwood Bumstead, the stumbling husband of "Blondie" to life in film, radio, and television. Lake appeared in films starting in the late 1920's, beginning as an adolescent character actor. By the sound era he was playing light romantic roles, usually with a comic "Mama's Boy" tone to them. - Virginia Rappe
Virginia Rappe (pronounced ) (July 7, 1891 - September 9, 1921) was an American model and silent film actress. - Ben Lyon
Ben Lyon was an United States film actor, and a 20th Century Fox studio executive. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Lyon entered films in 1918 after a successful appearance on Broadway opposite Jeanne Eagels. He attracted attention in the highly successful film "Flaming Youth" (1923), and steadily developed into a leading man. He was most successfully paired with some of the leading actresses of the silent era including Pola Negri, Gloria Swanson, Colleen Moore, … - Peter Finch
Peter Finch was an English-born Australian actor. Born Frederick George Peter Ingle-Finch in London, he lived as a child in France and India, and finally in Australia, his parents' native country. There he grew up in Sydney. After finishing school, he worked in several badly paid jobs until he tried acting. He began in 1935 playing theatre roles, and also working in radio. In 1938, he appeared in his first film, "Dad and Dave Come to Town". - Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (May 29, 1897 - November 29, 1957) was a 20th century romantic composer. - Hattie McDaniel
Hattie McDaniel was an African-American actress. She was the first performer of African descent to ever win an Academy Award. She won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Mammy in "Gone with the Wind" (1939). McDaniel was also a professional singer, stage actress, radio performer and television star.
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