- Dick Cusack
Richard John "Dick" Cusack (August 29, 1925 - June 2, 2003) was an Irish-American actor and filmmaker. - Juliet Prowse
Juliet Prowse (September 25, 1936 - September 14, 1996) was a British-American dancer and actress who was born in Bombay, India, to South African parents. Prowse began studying dance at the age of four. In her early twenties she was dancing at a club in Paris when she was spotted by a talent agent and eventually signed to play the part of Claudine in the 1960 Walter Lang film, Can-Can. - Marcello Mastroianni
Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (September 28, 1924 - December 19, 1996) was an Academy Award nominated Italian film actor. Born in Fontana Liri, a small village in the Apennines, Mastroianni grew up in Turin and Rome. During World War II he was interned in a Nazi prison, but he escaped and hid in Venice. In 1945 he started working for a film company and began taking acting lessons. His film debut was in "I Miserabili" (1947). - Fred Gwynne
Frederick Hubbard Gwynne (July 10, 1926 - July 2, 1993) was a 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) tall American actor, best known for starring in the television sitcoms "Car 54, Where Are You?" and "The Munsters". For his role as Herman Munster he had to wear 40 or 50 lb (20 kg) of padding, makeup and elevator shoes. Earlier he was in the cast of "The Phil Silvers Show" as a man of enormous appetite that Sgt. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti or J. Krishnamurti, (May 12, 1895-February 17, 1986) was a well-known writer and speaker on fundamental philosophical and spiritual subjects, such as the purpose of meditation, human relationships, and how to enact positive change in global society. After publically renouncing, at the age of 34, the fame and messiah status he had gained from being proclaimed the new incarnation of the Maitreya Buddha by the Theosophical Society, … - Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21 1917 - January 6 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, singer, and composer. He was born in Cheraw, South Carolina. Together with Charlie Parker, he was a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz. In addition to featuring in these epochal moments in jazz, he was instrumental in founding Afro-Cuban jazz, the modern jazz version of the "Spanish Tinge". Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and gifted improviser, … - Simone Signoret
Simone Signoret (March 25, 1921 - September 30, 1985), was an Academy Award-winning Jewish-French actress. - Aliki Vougiouklaki
Aliki Vougiouklaki (July 20, 1934 - July 23, 1996) was a Greek television, theatre stage, film actress, fashion model, television personality, socialite and singer - William Hootkins
William Michael Hootkins (July 5, 1948 - October 23, 2005) was an American actor who played Red Six (Jek Porkins) in "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope" (1977) and as the crooked Lt. Max Eckhardt in "Batman" (1989). As well as the cult roles that made him a welcome figure at fan conventions, particularly for "Star Wars", he appeared in significant parts in such films as "Hear My Song" (1991), … - Ludwig Bemelmans
Ludwig Bemelmans (April 27, 1898-October 1, 1962) was an American author and children's book writer and illustrator. He is most famous today for the series of Madeline books. - Count Basie
William "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 - April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. Commonly regarded as one of the most important jazz bandleaders of his time, Basie led his popular groups for almost fifty years. Many notable musicians came to prominence under his direction, including saxophonist Lester Young and singers Jimmy Rushing and Joe Williams. - Fiorello H. Laguardia
Fiorello Henry LaGuardia (born Fiorello Enrico LaGuardia; December 11, 1882 - September 20, 1947) (often spelled La Guardia [la 'gwardja]) was the Republican Mayor of New York for three terms from 1934 to 1945. He was popularly known as "the Little Flower," the translation of his Italian first name, "Fiorello" [fjo'rl:o], also perhaps a reference to his short stature. A popular mayor and a strong supporter of the New Deal, … - Donal McCann
Donal McCann (May 7, 1943 - July 17, 1999) was an Irish stage, film, and television actor. McCann was born in Terenure in Dublin. His father was John J. McCann, a playwright and politician who served twice as Dublin's Lord Mayor. Although Donal had acted in a production of his father's "Give Me a Bed of Roses" at Terenure College (see) in 1962, … - John Beradino
John Beradino, born Giovanni Berardino, was an American infielder in Major League Baseball and an actor. He was born in Los Angeles, California. Beradino is often mentioned as having appeared in the silent "Our Gang" comedies produced by Hal Roach as a child actor, but has not been identified as having appeared in any of the existing films. After attending the University of Southern California, where he played baseball under coach Sam Barry, … - Clifton Fadiman
Clifton Fadiman (May 15, 1904-June 20, 1999) was an intellectual, author, radio and television personality and nephew of William James Sidis. - Machiko Soga
was a Japanese voice actor and actress. Her mother died when she was a child; she was raised by her father. She had two brothers and a sister. One of her brothers died during a war; the other is still alive. Her sister died in childbirth, and her father died of cancer in 1991. Machiko had humble upbringings and was raised to be a singer, though her talents were with acting. She was "discovered" after doing a play in Tokyo Center. - Philip Yordan
Philip Yordan (April 1, 1914 - March 24, 2003) was a popular and talented screenwriter of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. He was also known as a highly regarded script doctor, called in to rewrite and repair flawed screenplays. Born to Polish immigrants, he earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Illinois and a law degree at Chicago-Kent College of Law. Some of his films include "The Chase" (1946), "Whistle Stop" (1946), "House of Strangers" (1949), … - Gustavo Alatriste
Gustavo Alatriste is a Mexican actor, director and producer of films. He was married from 1961 through 1967 to the actress Silvia Pinal. They had one daughter, actress Viridiana Alatriste. He was also married several other times (actresses Ariadne Welter, and Sonia Infante--the latter for 18 years) and had six other children. He began his career producing Luis Buñuel's "Viridiana", which starred his then wife, the actress Silvia Pinal. - Gottfried Reinhardt
Gottfried Reinhardt (born March 20, 1913 in Berlin, Germany; died July 19,1994 in Los Angeles, California, USA.) was a German film director and producer. He was the son of the Austrian theater director Max Reinhardt. - Marian McCargo
Marian McCargo Bell was a former tennis champ who later found success in film and television. Born in Pittsburgh, McCargo attended Boston's West Hills College before winning the Wightman Cup. She defeated Mo Connelly at Forest Hills in 1950, then later won the State Senior Tennis Championship in doubles. In 1951, she married Richard Cantrell Moses, who later became an advertising executive in Los Angeles. They had four sons. - Webb Pierce
Webb Pierce (born August 8, 1921 - February 24, 1991) was an American country music singer. Born Webb Michael Pierce in West Monroe, Louisiana, he became a star performer on the Louisiana Hayride and one of country music's most popular honky tonk songsters. He was a regular performer on the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. His biggest hit, 1953's "There Stands the Glass" is regarded as one of country's all-time classic "drinking songs". - Beni Montresor
Beni Montressor (born March 31, 1926 in Bussolengo, Italy -- died October 11, 2001 in Verona, Italy) was a versatile Italian artist, set designer, and children's book illustrator. He won the Caldecott Medal in 1965 for "May I Bring a Friend?". The Italian government knighted him in 1966 for his contributions to the arts. Montressor was particularly known in the United States as a designer of sets, lighting and costumes for opera. - Kei Tomiyama
"', born "', was a veteran seiyuu born on October 31, 1938 in Manchukuo. Tomiyama died of pancreatic cancer on September 25, 1995. At the time of his death he was represented by Production Baobab. In 2007 he was posthumously awarded a Special Achievement Award at the first Seiyū Awards. - Lily Pons
Lily Pons was a French-American coloratura soprano. Born Alice Joséphine Pons in Draguignan near Cannes, Pons first studied piano at the Paris Conservatory, winning the First Prize at the age of 15. During World War I, she played piano and sang for soldiers in Paris hospitals. She also sang at receptions in Cannes. In 1925, encouraged by soprano Dyna Beumer, she started taking singing lessons from Alberti de Gorostiaga in Paris. - Sonia Arova
Sobnia Arova (born Sonia Errio May 19, 1927 - February 4, 2001) was a Bulgarian ballerina. She was born in Sofia, and began her training in Paris. With the beginning of the Second World War, she barely escaped the Nazi advance through a reckless flight which was attacked by German planes. She finally arrived in England, where she enrolled in an art school and eventually joined the International Ballet in 1942. - George Crile III
George Crile III (March 5 1945 - May 15 2006) was a United States journalist most closely associated with his three decades of work at CBS News. - Phil Tonken
Phil Tonken was an American radio and television announcer and voice-over artist. Tonken started with the Mutual Broadcasting System in the mid-1940s as an announcer via its New York City outlet, WOR radio, announcing on such shows as "Passport to Romance", "The Mysterious Traveler", "High Adventure" and "Quiet, Please". After WOR ended its long-time affiliation with Mutual in 1959, … - Charles Guggenheim
Charles Guggenheim was an American film director and producer. He was born into a prominent German Jewish family in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father was a furniture salesman. While studying farming at Colorado A&M in 1943, Guggenheim was drafted into the United States Army assigned to the 106th Division. Upon discharge from the service, he finished his college education at University of Iowa and then moved to New York City to pursue a career in broadcasting. - Herk Harvey
Harold Arnold "Herk" Harvey (June 3, 1924 - April 3, 1996), was an American film director, actor, and film producer. - Sy Weintraub
Sy Weintraub (28 May 1923 - 4 April 2000) was a movie producer of Tarzan films, starting with "Tarzan's Greatest Adventure" (1959) and its follow-up, "Tarzan the Magnificent" (1960) as well as a television series that aired in NBC. He was also an owner of Panavision. He claimed to have discovered several Starlets, including actress Goldie Hawn. He was briefly in 1967, the president of the CBS Television Network. - Karl Hardman
Karl Hardman (born March 22, 1927, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), is an American horror film producer and actor. He produced George A. Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) and also co-starred as Harry Cooper. He also appeared in "Santa Claws" (1996) as Bruce Brunswick. - Rocío Jurado
María del Rocío Trinidad Mohedano Jurado, (September 18 1944 - June 1 2006) was a Spanish singer and actress. She was born in Chipiona, Cádiz, Spain and was nicknamed "La más grande" ("The Greatest"). Jurado was once married to boxer Pedro Carrasco, with whom she had a daughter, Rocío Carrasco. Divorced, she married bullfighter José Ortega Cano, and they adopted two children, Gloria Camila and José Fernando. - Richard McKenna
Richard Crenna was born into a modest-income family. His mother managed a small hotel in downtown Los Angeles where Richard and his family resided. When he finished high school he enrolled at the University of Southern California and majored in Theater Arts. He first appeared on network radio while still a teenager as Ougy Pringle in "A Date with Judy" (1946). When that show was canceled he was cast in the role of Walter Denton on "Our Miss Brooks" and stayed in the part when the show... - Emily Couric
Sister of Katie Couric. Mother of Jeff Wadlow. Daughter of John Martin Couric and wife Elinor Tullie. Daughter of John Martin Couric, Jr. and wife Elinor Tullie. Senator of the United States of America. Seventh cousin of Lance Armstrong, Hilary Duff and Haylie Duff. - Lucille Le Sueur
Lucille LeSueur's parents separated before she was born. By age 16 she had known three fathers, one of whom (a vaudeville theater manager) had given her the name Billie Cassin. By 1915 she and her mother lived in Kansas City and Billie worked in a laundry and also as a menial to pay school tuition. Winning an amateur dance contest in 1923 led to chorus work in Chicago, Detroit and New York. On New Year's Day of 1925 she left for Hollywood. Before her second picture, a "Photoplay" contest... - Steven James
Steve James was often cast in action movies as the hero's sidekick, despite usually being a better actor and fighter than the star. James was raised in New York City, attended C.W. Post College as an Arts and Film major, and upon graduating, became involved in stage work and TV commercials. He started in film as a stuntman, working in such New York productions as The Wiz, The Warriors, and The Wanderers. His first major film role was as Robert Ginty's sidekick in The Exterminator; he... - Eddie Jr
With the passing of Irving Foy in 2003, another era in American show business comes to a close. Eddie Foy & the Seven Little Foys appeared in screen together only once, in 1915 in A Favorite Fool (1915), while Eddie Sr., without his progeny, appeared on screen in Actors' Fund Field Day (1910) and Yankee Doodle in Berlin (1919). In the screen biography The Seven Little Foys (1955), Eddie Foy was portrayed by Bob Hope, while Billy Gray (of "Father Knows Best" (1954) fame) portrayed... - Vincent Edward Zoino
Born in Brooklyn, the son of Italian immigrant parents, Vince Edwards early aspired to the theater. He was a swimming champion in high school, attended Ohio State University on an athletic scholarship, and was on their National Championship swimming team. Olympics were on the horizon, but an appendicitis operation cut short his swimming career. He studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and then became a contract actor at Paramount Pictures in the early 1950's. In the 1960's he... - Donna Reed
Donna Reed was born in the midwestern town of Denison, Iowa, on January 27, 1921, as Donna Belle Mullenger. A small town - a population of less than 3,000 people - Denison was located by the Boyer River, and was the county seat of Crawford County. Donna grew up as a farm girl, much like many young girls in western Iowa, except for one thing - Donna was very beautiful. That wasn't to say that others weren't as pretty, it's just that Donna's beauty stood out from all the other local girls,... - Sir Rex Harrison
Born in 1908 in Lancashire, England, Reginald Carey Harrison changed his name to Rex as a young boy, knowing it was the Latin word for King. Starting out on his theater career at age 18, his first job at the Liverpool Rep Theatre was nearly his last - dashing across the stage to say his one line, made his entrance and promptly blew it. Fates were kind, however, and soon he began landing roles in the West End. "French Without Tears", a play by Terence Rattigan, proved to be his...
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