- Peter Ladefoged
Peter Nielsen Ladefoged was an English-American linguist and phonetician who traveled the world to document the distinct sounds of endangered languages and pioneered ways to collect and study data. He was active at the universities of Edinburgh, Scotland and Ibadan, Nigeria 1953-61. At Edinburgh he studied phonetics with David Abercrombie, who himself had studied with Daniel Jones and was thus connected to Henry Sweet. - Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru (November 14, 1889 - May 27, 1964) was a political leader of the Indian National Congress, a pivotal figure in the Indian independence movement and the first Prime Minister of Independent India. He was also a key figure in International politics in the post-war period, and was one of the founding figures of the non-alignment. Popularly referred to as Panditji ("Scholar"), Nehru was also a writer, scholar and amateur historian, … - 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, … - Keye Luke
Keye Luke (June 18, 1904–January 12, 1991) was a Chinese-born American actor. Luke was born in Canton, China to a father who owned an art shop, and grew up in Seattle. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1944. Before becoming an actor he was a local artist in Hollywood and worked on several of the murals inside Grauman's Chinese Theater. Luke made his film debut in "The Painted Veil" in 1934, and the following year gained his first big role, … - Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev born in Sontsovka, Ukraine of the Russian Empire on April 27 (April 15<small><sup>1<;/sup></small> O.S.), 1891-March 5, 1953 was a Russian and Soviet composer who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. (Alternative transliterations of his name include Sergey or Serge, and Prokofief, Prokofieff, … - Arch Oboler
Arch Oboler (December 7, 1909 - March 19, 1987) was a Chicago-born scriptwriter, novelist, producer and director who was active in films, radio and television. Oboler generated much attention for his radio scripts, and his work in radio remains the outstanding period of his career. Although some noted a tendency for gruesomeness, he received praise as one of broadcasting's top talents, and he is regarded today as one of the innovators of old time radio. - Walter Catlett
Walter Catlett (February 4, 1889 - November 14, 1960) was an American actor. Catlett was born in San Francisco, California. He made a career out for himself playing excitable, officious blowhards. As a San Francisco citizen, he started out in vaudeville with a detour for a while in opera before breaking it out into films in the mid-1920s. Catlett also provided the voice of Foulfellow the Fox in the 1940 Disney animated film "Pinocchio". - 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). - Django Reinhardt
Jean "Django" Reinhardt. His name is pronounced - Lillian Disney
Lillian Marie Bounds was the wife of Walt Disney from 1925 until his death in 1966. She later married John L. Truyens in 1969 and remained married to him until his death in 1981. Lillian and Walt Disney married in 1925 and had two daughters - Diane Marie Disney and Sharon Mae Disney, the latter of whom was an adoptee. She is aunt of Roy Edward Disney and grandmother to Chris Miller, Joanna Miller, Tamara Scheer, Jennifer Miller-Goff, Walter Elias Disney Miller, … - Jay Silverheels
Jay Silverheels (June 26, 1912 - March 5, 1980) was a Canadian Mohawk Indian actor. - Maria Ouspenskaya
Maria Ouspenskaya was an Oscar-nominated Russian actress who achieved success as a stage actress as a young woman in Russia, and as an elderly woman in Hollywood films. Ouspenskaya was born in Tula, Russia to a lawyer father. She studied singing in Warsaw and acting in Moscow and performed extensively in Russian theater. A member of the Moscow Art Theatre, Ouspenskaya was directed by Konstantin Stanislavski, and for the remainder of her life advocated and taught his method. - Willie Stargell
Wilver Dornell "Willie" Stargell (March 6, 1940 - April 9, 2001), nicknamed "Pops" in the later years of his career, was a professional baseball player who played his entire Major League career (1962-1982) with the Pittsburgh Pirates as an outfielder and first baseman. Over his 21-year career with the Pirates, he batted .282, with 2,232 hits, 423 doubles, 475 home runs and 1540 runs batted in, … - Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of Trollope's best-loved works, known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire; he also wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and gender issues and conflicts of his day. Trollope has always remained a popular novelist. - Cab Calloway
Cab Calloway (December 25, 1907-November 18, 1994) was a famous American jazz singer and bandleader. Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States' most popular African American big bands from the start of the 1930s through the late 1940s. Calloway's Orchestra featured performers that included trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Adolphus "Doc" Cheatham, saxophonists Ben Webster and Leon "Chu" Berry, New Orleans guitar ace Danny Barker, … - Connie Kreski
Connie Kreski (b. 19 September 1946, Wyandotte, Michigan - died 21 March 1995, Beverly Hills, California) was "Playboy" magazine's Playmate of the Month for January 1968 and was Playmate of the Year for 1969. Kreski had long taffy-colored hair and blue near-sighted eyes. - Sebastian Cabot
Sebastian Cabot (July 6, 1918 - August 22, 1977) was a film and television actor, best remembered as a gently composed "gentleman's gentleman" in the 1960s situation comedy "Family Affair", but his sonorous voice and understated style belied his frequent typecasting as an Englishman trying to make sense of America. - Mamie Eisenhower
Mamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower was the wife of General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and First Lady of the United States from 1953 to 1961. - Harry Solter
Henry Lewis "Harry" Solter (1874 - March 2, 1920) was a pioneer silent film actor, screenwriter, and director. Harry Solter began his career as an actor in 1908 with Biograph Studios. That same year he met actress Florence Lawrence while making the film "Romeo and Juliet" for Vitagraph Studios and married on August 30th. In 1909 Solter began working for Carl Laemmle 's Independent Moving Pictures Co. of America (IMP) as an actor but also as a director. - Virginia Valli
Virginia Valli (June 10 1898 - September 24 1968) was an American stage and film actress whose motion picture career started in the silent film era and lasted until the beginning of the sound film era of the 1930s.. Born Virginia McSweeney in Chicago, Illinois, she got her acting start in Milwaukee with a stock company. She also did some film work with Essanay Studios in her hometown of Chicago in 1917. - Bobby Mattick
Robert James "Bobby" Mattick (December 5, 1915 - December 16, 2004) was a shortstop, manager and scout in Major League Baseball, most notably in the Toronto Blue Jays organization. Born in Sioux City, Iowa, Mattick was the son of outfielder Wally Mattick, who played for the Chicago White Sox in 1912 and 1913 and the St. Louis Cardinals in 1918. Bobby played only one season as a regular with the Chicago Cubs in 1940, … - Tommy Seebach
Tommy Seebach (September 14, 1949-March 31, 2003), born Tommy Seebach Mortensen, was a popular Danish singer, composer, organist, pianist and producer. He was married to Karen Seebach and they had three children: Nikolaj, Rasmus and Marie. Seebach was born in Copenhagen. He started his musical career as an organist in his own group "The Colours" at 14 years of age, and in the years to follow he played in many pop and beat groups. - Don Messick
Donald "Don" Messick was an American voice actor, one of the most prolific voice actors of the second half of the 20th century. Messick, a native of Buffalo, New York, was most famous as the voice of several Hanna-Barbera characters, including Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo, Boo-Boo Bear, Muttley from "Wacky Races" and "Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines", Bamm-Bamm Rubble in "The Flintstones", … - Lennie Weinrib
Leonard Weinrib (April 29, 1935 - June 28, 2006) was an American actor, voice actor and writer. He is best known for playing the title role in the children's television show "H.R. Pufnstuf", and as the original voice of Scrappy-Doo. Weinrib, a native of the Bronx, got his start in show business working with comedian and musician Spike Jones, then later in "The Billy Barnes Revue". He made notable guest appearances on "The Dick Van Dyke Show", … - Walter Hampden
Walter Hampden is the artist name of Walter Hampden Dougherty (born June 30, 1879 in Brooklyn; died June 11, 1955 in Los Angeles) was a U.S. actor and theatre manager. He went to England for apprenticeship for six years. Later, he played Hamlet, Henry V and Cyrano de Bergerac on Broadway. In 1925, he became manager of the Colonial Theatre on Broadway. He became noted for his Shakespearean roles as well as for Cyrano. - Michael V. Gazzo
Michael Vincente Gazzo (born April 5, 1923 in Hillside, New Jersey; died February 14) is a noted Broadway playwright who later in life became a prominent American film and television actor. He was a member of the Actors Studio, (and would later go on to train such actors as Henry Silva and Tony Sirico) and was author of the notable Broadway play on drug addiction "A Hatful of Rain", … - Al Trace
Albert J. Trace (December 25, 1900-August 31, 1993) was a prolific American songwriter and orchestra leader whose peak of popularity was reached in the Chicago area during the Big Band era. A native of Chicago, he played professional baseball before deciding on music as a career. His first jobs during the early 1920s included playing the drums and singing with various bands, until he formed his own band in 1933, … - Hermes Pan
Hermes Pan (December 10, 1909 - September 19, 1990) was an American dancer and choreographer, principally celebrated as Fred Astaire's choreographic collaborator on the famous 1930s movie musicals starring Astaire and Ginger Rogers. - Stephen Goosson
Stephen Goosson (1889 - 1973) was an American designer of film sets. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, he won the 1931 Academy Award for Best Art Direction. Gosson's sets for "Lost Horizon" in 1937 have been noted as excellent examples of the Streamline Moderne style that reached the height of its popularity in that year. - Peggy Ashcroft
Dame Peggy Ashcroft DBE (22 December 1907 - 14 June 1991) was an acclaimed Academy Award-winning English actress. - Jane Nigh
Bonnie Lenora "Jane" Nigh (born February 25 1925-5 October 1993) was an American actress. She was discovered in 1944 by Arthur Wenzler while working in a defense plant. She later signed a contract with Fox Studios. She appeared in movies such as "Give My Regards to Broadway" and "Sitting Pretty". She died on October 5, 1993 of a stroke at the age of 68. Nigh, along with Pat McVey, co-starred in the TV series "Big Town". - Slim Summerville
Slim Summerville (July 10, 1892 - January 6, 1946) was an American film actor, best known as a comedy performer. Born George Joseph Summerville in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Summerville began his career as a "Keystone Kop" in 1912. His tall, gangly appearance was well utilised in numerous short comedy films during the silent film era, and in addition to his many acting roles, he directed more than 50 short films. - Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf was a Swedish author and the first woman writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Known internationally for "Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige" (a story for children, in translation "The Wonderful Adventures of Nils"), she was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1909 "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings." - Julius Tannen
Julius Tannen was a comedian – or monologist, as those of his era were known – who had a long and successful career in Vaudeville. He was known to stage audiences (and respected by other monologists) for his witty improvisations and creative word games. He is best known to film audiences from the musical "Singin' in the Rain", in which he appears as the man demonstrating a talking picture early in the film. - Eddie Peabody
Edwin Ellsworth Peabody (February 19 1902 - November 7 1970) was an American musician most notable for his accomplished playing of the plectrum banjo. He was also known professionally as "Eddie," "Little Eddie," "King of the Banjo," and "Happiness Boy". - Blanche Sweet
Blanche Sweet (June 18, 1896 – September 6, 1986) was a silent film actress who began her career in the earliest days of the Hollywood motion picture film industry. - Helen Clark MacInnes
Helen Clark MacInnes (born October 7, 1907, Glasgow; died September 30, 1985, New York City) was a Scottish-American author of espionage novels. She graduated from the University of Glasgow in Scotland in 1928 with a degree in French and German. Working as a librarian, she married the classicist Gilbert Highet in 1932 and moved with her husband to New York in 1937. Among her works are: *"Above Suspicion" (1939) made into a film of the same name. - Irene Worth
Irene Worth, Honorary CBE, (b. June 23 1916, Fairbury, Nebraska - d. March 9 2002, New York City) was a distinguished stage and screen actress who became one of the leading stars of the English and American theatre. - Gerda Nicolson
Gerda Nicolson, (November 11 1937 - June 12 1992) was an Australian theatre and television actor best known for several long-running television roles. Nicolson first reached wide audiences through her long-running role in Australian Broadcasting Corporation daily soap opera "Bellbird". After leaving that series she had a regular role in police drama "Bluey" (1976). - Bob Lido
Bob Lido (born September 21, 1914 - died August 9, 2000) was an American musician and singer who was a regular member of television's "The Lawrence Welk Show", his instrument was the violin. Born in Jersey City, New Jersey; he began playing the violin as a child and later took vocal lessons. His talents led him to stints as a featured performer with Carmen Cavalaro's band and later with Perry Como's supper club.
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