- Dalton Trumbo
Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 - September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist, and a member of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film professionals who refused to testify before the 1947 House Un-American Activities Committee about alleged communist involvement. Born in Montrose, Colorado, Trumbo attended the University of Colorado for two years. The central fountain at the University was named in his honor in the mid-1990s. - Hoagy Carmichael
Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael was an American composer, pianist, singer, actor and bandleader. He is best known for writing the melody to "Stardust" (1927), one of the most-recorded American songs of all time. Alec Wilder, in his study of the American popular song, concluded that Hoagy Carmichael was the "most talented, inventive, sophisticated and jazz-oriented" of the hundreds of writers composing pop songs in the first half of the 20th century. - Noah Beery Jr.
Noah Beery was an American actor. Born Noah Nicholas Beery in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, he and his younger brothers William Beery and the legendary Wallace Beery all became Hollywood actors. The three Beery brothers were the children of Frances Margaret Fitzgerald and Noah Webster Beery, which made them full brothers (contrary to many sources). Noah Beery worked in the theatre starting at the age of sixteen and by 1905 was performing on Broadway. - Billy Halop
Billy Halop. He was born in New York City and was an American actor. He came from a theatrical family; his mother was a dancer, and his sister Florence Halop was a radio actress. After several years as a well-paid radio juvenile, Billy was cast as Tommy Gordon in the Broadway production of Sidney Kingsley's "Dead End" in 1935, where he was accorded star status. - Nelson Algren
Nelson Algren (March 28, 1909 - May 9, 1981) was an American writer. - Katy Jurado
Katy Jurado was a Mexican actress. Born María Cristina Estela Marcela Jurado García in Guadalajara, Jalisco, she started her career in Hollywood and moved back to continue filming in Mexico. Her role in the Mexican movie "Nosotros Los Pobres" opposite the well-known Mexican actor Pedro Infante brought her fame. She subsequently appeared in many Hollywood movies including "The Bullfighter and the Lady", … - Martin Balsam
Martin Henry Balsam (November 4, 1919 - February 13, 1996) was an American actor. Balsam was born in The Bronx in New York City to Albert Balsam and Lillian Weinstein. He studied dramatics at The New School in New York City and then served in the Army Air Corps during World War II. In 1947, … - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"'"',, (28 August 1749 - 22 March 1832) was a German polymath. Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, Humanism, science, and painting. His most enduring work, the two-part dramatic poem "Faust", is considered one of the peaks of world literature. Goethe's other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the bildungsroman "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship", … - Preston Sturges
Preston Sturges, originally Edmund Preston Biden, was a celebrated screenwriter and director born in Chicago. Sturges took the screwball comedy format of the 1930s to another level, writing dialogue that, heard today, is often surprisingly naturalistic, mature, and ahead of its time, despite the farcical situations. It is not uncommon for one of Sturges' actors to deliver an exquisitely turned phrase and take an elaborate pratfall within the same scene. - Jon Pertwee
John Devon Roland Pertwee, better known as Jon Pertwee, was an English actor. Pertwee is best known for his role in the science fiction television series "Doctor Who", where he played the third incarnation of the Doctor from 1970 to 1974, and as the title character in the series "Worzel Gummidge". He also hosted the murder mystery quiz programme "Whodunnit!" between 1974 and 1978 for Thames Television. - Bernard Malamud
Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 - March 18, 1986) was an American writer. - Rahul Dev Burman
Rahul Dev Burman, also known as, R. D. Burman, Pancham and Pancham da, (June 27, 1939 - January 4, 1994) was a music composer in Bollywood films. He was the son of singer and music composer Sachin Dev Burman and the second husband of playback singer Asha Bhosle. - George Dolenz
George Dolenz (originally George Dolentz) (5 January 1908 - 8 February 1963) was an American film actor born in Trieste, Austria-Hungary (now Italy). He appeared in the 1956 ITC Entertainment series The Count of Monte Cristo as the title character. After appearing in small parts in minor movies, he became leading man under contract to RKO Pictures under Howard Hughes, but soon returned to smaller parts for other studios. - Francis X. Bushman
Francis Xavier Bushman (January 10, 1883 - August 23, 1966) was the first major male movie star to be known by name to the audience. His matinee idol career started in 1911 in the silent film "His Friend's Wife," but it did not survive the silent screen era. Bushman, like many of his contemporaries, broke into the moving picture business via the stage. He was performing at Broncho Billy Anderson's Essanay Studios in Chicago, Illinois, … - Alan Dundes
Alan Dundes, (September 8 1935 - March 30, 2005) was a folklorist at the University of California, Berkeley. His work was said to have been central to establishing the study of folklore as an academic discipline. He wrote 12 books, both academic and popular, and edited or co-wrote two dozen more. One of his most notable articles was called "Seeing is Believing" in which he indicated that Americans value the sense of sight more than the other senses. - Morey Amsterdam
Morey Amsterdam was a veteran television actor and comedian, renowned for his large, ready supply of jokes. Born in Chicago, Illinois, USA, to a Jewish family, he began working in vaudeville in 1922 as the straight man for his brother's jokes. He was also a cellist, a skill which he used throughout his career. By 1924, he was working in a speakeasy operated by Al Capone. After being caught in a gun fight, Amsterdam moved to California and sought work writing jokes. - Cal Tjader
Cal Tjader (July 16 1925-May 5 1982) was an American Latin jazz musician, though he also explored various other jazz idioms. Unlike other American jazz musicians who experimented with the music from Cuba, the Caribbean, and Latin America, he never abandoned it, performing it until his death. Tjader primarily played the vibraphone. He was also accomplished on the drums, bongos, congas, timpani, and the piano. He worked with numerous musicians from several cultures. - Spade Cooley
Donnell Clyde 'Spade' Cooley (December 17, 1910 - November 23, 1969) was an American Western Swing musician, big band leader, actor, and television personality. His career ended when he was arrested and convicted for the murder of his second wife, Ella Mae Evans. - Victor McLaglen
Victor Andrew de Bier McLaglen (December 10, 1886 - November 7,1959) was a British-born boxer and Academy Award winning actor, who later became a naturalized American citizen. - Mariana Levy
Mariana Levy Fernández was a Mexican "telenovela" actress, singer and television show host. She was the daughter of Talina Fernández, who is considered by many to have been the pioneer of television shows like the ones that Silvia Pinal currently does on Mexican television. - Hoyt Axton
Hoyt Wayne Axton was an American country music singer-songwriter, and a film and television actor. He was born in Duncan, Oklahoma and was raised in Comanche, Oklahoma. His mother, Mae Boren Axton, had her own spot in popular culture history and co-wrote the classic rock 'n' roll song "Heartbreak Hotel", which became the first major hit for Elvis Presley. Some of Hoyt's own songs were also later recorded by Elvis. Hoyt served in the US Navy aboard the USS Princeton (LPH-5), … - Domenico Modugno
Domenico Modugno (January 9 1928 - Lampedusa August 6 1994) was a twice Grammy Award-winning Italian singer, songwriter, and later in life, a member of the Italian Parliament - Vince Guaraldi
Vince Guaraldi was an American jazz musician and pianist best known for composing music for animated adaptations of the "Peanuts" comic strip. Guaraldi was born in San Francisco, California. He graduated from Lincoln High School, attended San Francisco State College, and served as an Army cook in the Korean War. In his first serious gig, he had to fill in for Art Tatum. His first recording was made in November of 1951 and came out early in 1953. - Patrick George Troughton
Patrick George Troughton was a versatile and prolific English actor known in his role as the second incarnation of the Doctor in the long running British science-fiction television series "Doctor Who", which he played from 1966 until 1969. - Vincent Gardenia
Vincent Gardenia was an Italian-American Academy Award-nominated and Tony Award-winning stage, film, and television actor. Gardenia was born Vincenzo Scognamiglio in Naples, Italy to Elisa and Gennaro Gardenia Scognamiglio. After emigrating to the United States as a child, he lived most of his life in Brooklyn, New York. - Charles Addams
Charles Samuel Addams (January 7, 1912-September 29, 1988) was an American cartoonist known for his particularly black humor and macabre characters. Some of the recurring characters, who became known as The Addams Family, became the basis for two live-action television series, two cartoon series, and three motion pictures. - Roberto Arlt
Roberto Arlt (Buenos Aires, April 2, 1900 - July 26, 1942) was an Argentine short-story writer, novelist, and playwright. Arlt was born in poverty to his father Karl Arlt and his mother Ekatherine Iobstraibitzer. After being expelled from school at the age of eight, he learned what he could about literature and life on the streets. He worked at various times as a bookstore clerk, an apprentice to a tinsmith, a painter, a mechanic, a vulcanizer, … - Godfrey Cambridge
Godfrey MacArthur Cambridge (February 26, 1933 - November 29, 1976) was an American comedian and actor, who was especially popular in the late 1960s and early 1970's as a regular guest on "The Merv Griffin Show" and other talk shows. He had originally received a scholarship to study medicine but opted for an acting career instead. Memorable film roles include "Watermelon Man", where he plays the lead character, … - Leonard Rossiter
Leonard Rossiter was a distinguished English actor, known for his comedy roles in two British television series of the 1970s, and for his roles in two Stanley Kubrick films. Rossiter was born in Liverpool. He began acting when he picked up a girlfriend from her amateur dramatics class and was challenged to do better when he criticised her and her fellow performers. - Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blythe on April 28, 1878 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – November 15, 1954 in Van Nuys, California) was an American Academy Award Winning actor of stage, radio and film. - Persis Khambatta
Persis Khambatta (October 2, 1950 - August 18, 1998) was an Indian model and actress of Parsi ethnicity and Zoroastrian religion. She was born in Bombay, India. At age 15, Khambatta became Miss India and participated in the 1965 Miss Universe pageant, but could not achieve much success in the Indian movie industry in Bollywood, partially due to her relatively Western looks, which appeared unconventional for the Indian audiences. - Phil Silvers
Phil Silvers (May 11, 1911 - November 1, 1985) was an American entertainer and comedy actor. His best-known work is "The Phil Silvers Show", a 1950s sitcom set on a US Army post in which he played Sergeant Bilko; the show was also often referred to by this name. The show's chief writer, Nat Hiken, was TV's first writer-producer, and Hiken helped set a high comic tone for the show through his inventive plots and snappy comedic repartee for the characters. - Lynn Bari
Lynn Bari, born Margaret Schuyler Fisher, was a movie actress (usually in B-movies) who specialized in playing sultry, statuesque man-killers in over one hundred 20th Century Fox films from the early 1930s through the 1940s. Born in Roanoke, Virginia, most of her early films, before getting supporting parts, were uncredited roles usually playing receptionists or chorus girls. In the rare studio "A" films she appeared in, like many of the b's she was in, … - Kay Kyser
James Kern (“Kay”) Kyser was a famous bandleader and one of the first to become a radio celebrity. He was the son of pharmacists Paul and Emily Royster Howell Kyser, and a cousin of Vermont Royster. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Bachelor of Commerce degree, his campus popularity and enthusiasm as a cheerleader caused him to be invited to join a commercial band being formed by other students. - Leopold Stokowski
Leopold Stokowski (born Antoni Stanisław Bolesławowicz was the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and the Symphony of the Air. He was the founder of the New York City Symphony and The American Symphony Orchestra. He conducted the music for and appeared in Disney’s "Fantasia". - Zal Yanovsky
Zalman Yanovsky (December 19 1944 - December 13 2002) was a Canadian rock musician. Son of the political cartoonist Avrom Yanovsky, he played lead guitar and sang for the Lovin' Spoonful, a rock band which he founded with John Sebastian in 1964. According to Sebastian "He could play like Elmore James, he could play like Floyd Cramer, he could play like Chuck Berry. He could play like all these people, yet he still had his own overpowering personality. - Cecil Beaton
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton (January 14, 1904 - January 18, 1980) was an English fashion and portrait photographer and a stage and costume designer for films and the theatre. - Martine Carol
Martine Carol was a French film actress. Born Marie-Louise Jeanne Nicolle Mourer in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne (France), she studied acting under René Simon (1898-1966), making her stage debut in 1940 and her first motion picture in 1943. One of the most beautiful women in film, she was frequently cast as an elegant blonde seductress. During the late 1940s and early 1950s she was the leading sex symbol and a top box office draw of French cinema. - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin - November 8, 1953) was the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. The texture of his poems and stories, sometimes referred to as "Bunin brocade", is one of the richest in the language. His last book of fiction, "The Dark Avenues" (1943), is arguably the most widely read 20th-century collection of short stories in Russia. - Richard Wattis
Richard Cameron Wattis (February 25, 1912 in Wednesbury, Staffordshire, England - February 1, 1975), was an English character actor. His first appearance in a film was "A Yank At Oxford" in 1938, but war service interrupted his career as an actor. Wattis served as a Second Lieutenant with the Arms Section of Special Operations Executive at Station VI during World War II. He is best known for his appearances in innumerable British comedies of the 1950s and 1960s, …
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