- Ted Casablanca
Texas-born Bruce Bibby, better known by his alter-ego Ted Casablanca, is an American entertainment journalist for E! Online and has a column called "The Awful Truth" where he regularly dispenses gossip on the private lives of celebrities. Casablanca began writing for Premiere magazine in 1987 where he originally conceived his column before transferring it to E! in 1996 as a weekly (then subsequently, daily) column. - David Casablanca
David Casablanca Poyatos is a professional football player, he plays in defense and has been playing in teams since 1996. In the season 2006/07 he plays for CD Castellón. - Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 - January 14, 1957) was an American actor. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Bogart the Greatest Male Star of All Time. Playing primarily smart, playful and reckless characters anchored by an inner moral code while surrounded by a corrupt world, Bogart's most notable films include "The Petrified Forest" (1936), "Kid Galahad" (1937), "Angels with Dirty Faces" (1938), … - Michael Curtiz
Michael Curtiz (December 24, 1886 - April 10, 1962) was a Hungarian-American film director. He directed at least 50 films in Europe and a further hundred in the US, among the best-known being "The Adventures of Robin Hood", "Angels with Dirty Faces", "Casablanca", "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and "White Christmas". He thrived in the heyday of the Warner Bros. studio in the 1930s and 40s, where he gained a reputation for efficient competence, … - Paul Henreid
Paul Georg Julius Hernried Freiherr von Wassel-Waldingau, (January 10, 1908 - March 29, 1992), known professionally as Paul Henreid, was an actor and film director probably best known for his roles in "Casablanca" and "Now, Voyager". Born in Trieste, which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Henreid was the son of an aristocratic Viennese banker. - Conrad Veidt
Conrad Veidt (January 22 1893 - April 3 1943) was a German actor, well known for his roles in such films as "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (1920) and "Casablanca" (1942). - Dooley Wilson
Arthur "Dooley" Wilson (April 3 1886-May 30 1953) was an African American actor and singer. He was born in Tyler, Texas, and is most famous for playing "Sam" in the 1942 film "Casablanca". - Gad Elmaleh
Gad Elmaleh (born April 19 1971, Casablanca, Morocco) is a Moroccan Jewish one man show humorist and actor who lives in France. His latest show is called "L'autre c'est moi" (The other one: that's me). - Roger Karoutchi
Roger Karoutchi is the Secretary of State for Parliamentary Relations in the French government of François Fillon. He is an Jewish-French politician born in Casablanca in a family with Italians roots. - Driss Basri
Driss Basri is a Moroccan politician. Basri was born in Settat in 1938. He began his career as a police officer in Rabat and in 1974 he was appointed as secretary of state for interior affairs. In 1979, Driss Basri was promoted to the post of interior minister in the government of Ahmed Osman, a post he held in all successive governments until [1999]. He later held the post of minister of communication as well. He won the confidence of King Hassan II, and in his term, … - Joy Page
Joy Page is an American actress best known for her role as the Bulgarian bride Annina Brandel in the film "Casablanca". Of the fourteen billed actors, only she and Madeleine LeBeau (who is one year older) are still alive (as of 2006). Born Joy Ann (or Joyce) Paige, she was the daughter of Mexican-American silent film star Don Alvarado (José Paige) and Ann Boyar, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants. - Howard Koch
Howard Koch (December 2, 1902 - August 17, 1995) was an American screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s. Born in New York City, New York, his first accepted screenplay was made into a 1940 film. Koch was blacklisted because of his involvement with pro-Soviet propaganda films such as "Mission to Moscow" (1943), which he wrote the screenplay for. - S.Z. Sakall
Szőke Szakáll known as S.Z. Sakall was a film character actor. He was in many films including "In the Good Old Summertime", "Lullaby of Broadway", "Christmas in Connecticut" and "Casablanca" in which he played Carl, the head waiter. Chubby-jowled Hungarian character actor S. Z. “Cuddles” Sakall played numerous supporting roles in Hollywood musicals and comedies in the 1940s and 1950s. - Philip G. Epstein
Philip G. Epstein was an American screenwriter most known for his adaptation in partnership with his twin brother, Julius, and others of the unproduced play "Everybody Comes to Rick's" that became the screenplay for the Academy Award-winning film "Casablanca" (1942). Epstein was born in New York City and raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. His father was a livery stable owner in the days when horses were still common on the streets of the city. - Emilie Loit
Emilie Loit (June 9, 1979) is a French professional female tennis player. She was born in Cherbourg, France. She rose to fame when she played against American Serena Williams 6-3, 6-7, 5-7 in this tough match at first round of Australian Open 2003. In her career Loit has won three career singles titles: 2004 Estoril, Casablanca and 2007 Acapulco (all on clay) and eight doubles titles. Emilie's highest WTA Ranking has been #27 in singles and #15 in doubles. - Alain Souchon
Alain Souchon (born Alain Kienast on May 27, 1944, Casablanca, Morocco) is a French singer, songwriter and actor. He has released 15 albums and has played roles in seven films. Six months after Souchon was born his family returned to France. When he was 15 his father died in an accident. Souchon signed his first contract in 1971, but had no success until he began to collaborate with composer/arranger Laurent Voulzy (b. 1948); they would write together, … - Julius J. Epstein
Julius J. Epstein was an American screenwriter, who had a long career, most noted for the adaptation - in partnership with his twin brother, Philip, and others —- of the unproduced play "Everybody Comes to Rick's" that became the screenplay for the film "Casablanca" (1942), for which its team of writers won an Academy Award. Following his brother's death in 1952, he continued writing, garnering two more Oscar nominations and, in 1998, … - Hal B. Wallis
Hal B. Wallis (September 14, 1898 - October 5, 1986) was an American motion picture producer. Born Harold Brent Wallis in Chicago, Illinois, his family moved in 1922 to Los Angeles, California, where he found work as part of the publicity department at Warner Bros. in 1923. Within a few years, Wallis became involved in the production end of the business and would eventually become head of production at Warners. - Nadia Yassine
Nadia Yassine (born Casablanca, Morocco, December 1958) is the founder and head of the feminine branch of the Moroccan banned Islamist movement Al Adl Wa Al Ihssane (Justice and Charity). She is also the daughter of the founder of the same organization Cheikh Abdesslam Yassine. - Abderrahmane Youssoufi
Abderrahmane Youssoufi (born March 8, 1924) is a Moroccan politician who served as the Prime Minister of Morocco from 1998 to 2002. - Marcel Dalio
Marcel Dalio, born Israel Moshe Blauschild (17 July 1900 in Paris, France - 20 November 1983 in Paris), was a French Jewish character actor. He had major roles in two of Jean Renoir's most famous films, "Grand Illusion" and "The Rules of the Game". After divorcing his first wife, he married 17-year old Madeleine LaBeau (Yvonne from "Casablanca") in 1938. - Murray Burnett
Murray Burnett (1911 - September 23, 1997) was a high school teacher and playwright from New York City. Burnett and Joan Alison wrote the play "Everybody Comes to Rick's", which was the basis for the movie "Casablanca" with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. In the summer of 1938, while on vacation from his job as English teacher at a vocational school, Murray and his wife Frances travelled to occupied Vienna to help Jewish relatives there, … - John Qualen
John Qualen (December 8, 1899 - September 12, 1987) was a Canadian film character actor. Qualen was born Johan Mandt Kvalen in Vancouver, British Columbia, the son of immigrants from Norway; his father was a Lutheran minister and changed the family's original surname, "Kvalen", to "Qualen". Qualen grew up in Elgin, Illinois. His acting career began when he was at Northwestern University which he attended on a scholarship from having won an oratory contest. - Driss Chraïbi
Driss Chraïbi was a Moroccan author whose novels deal with colonialism, culture clashes, generational conflict and the treatment of women and are often semi-autobiographical. Born in El Jadida and educated in Casablanca, Chraïbi went to Paris in 1946 to study chemistry before turning to literature and journalism. His first novel, "The Simple Past", was published in 1954. - Fatima Houda-Pepin
Fatima Houda-Pepin is a Quebec politician and a member of the National Assembly of Quebec, Canada. She represents the La Pinière electoral district (the city of Brossard) and is a member from the Quebec Liberal Party. She was born in Morocco and is the first female Muslim member of the National Assembly. After doing studies in political sciences at Mohammed V University in Rabat and earning a bachelor's degree in commerce at Lycée Al Khansa in Casablanca, … - Madeleine Lebeau
Madeleine LeBeau was born Marie Therese Ernestine in Bourg-la-Reine, France, on February 22, 1921, she married actor Marcel Dalio as a 17 year old in 1938 (it was his second marriage). They met while doing a play together. The following year, she appeared in her first movie, the French drama, "Jeunes filles en détresse" (Girls in Distress). In June of 1940, LeBeau and Dalio left Paris ahead of the invading German army and reached Lisbon. - Curt Bois
Curt Bois was a German actor. Bois was born in Berlin. He began acting in 1907, becoming one of the film world's first child actors, with a role in the silent movie "Bauernhaus und Grafenschloß". Bois' acting career spanned eighty years, a longer period than can be claimed by any actor. His final performance was in "Der Himmel über Berlin" (in English: Wings of Desire), in 1987. Bois showed himself to be very adaptable, performing in theatre, cabaret, … - Fernando Vicente
Fernando Vicente Fibla is a tennis player from Spain, who turned professional in 1996. The righthander won four singles (1999, Merano, 2000, Casablanca, 2001, Bogotá and 2006, Bermuda) and one doubles title (2004, Casablanca) so far. He reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on June 12, 2000, when he became the number 29 of the world. He is currently the number 126 in the ATP Rankings, on May 7 2007. - Leonid Kinskey
Leonid Kinskey (April 18, 1903 - September 8, 1998) was a Russian-born movie and television actor who enjoyed a long career. Kinskey was born in in St. Petersburg, Russia. He fled the Russian Revolution and acted on stage in Europe and South America before arriving in New York City in 1921. He joined the road production of Al Jolson's musical "Wonder Bar", before making his first film appearance, in the 1932 "Trouble in Paradise". - Arthur Edeson
Arthur Edeson was a film cinematographer. The New York City-born Edeson began as a lensman in films in 1914 in the early days of film and worked until 1949. In the early thirties, perhaps his most memorable creative partnership was formed with director James Whale, for whom he photographed three of his famed quartet of horror films ("Frankenstein" (1931), "The Old Dark House" (1932), "The Invisible Man" (1933), … - Herman Hupfeld
Herman Hupfeld (February 1, 1894-June 8, 1951) was an American songwriter. His most notable composition was "As Time Goes By" (from the film "Casablanca"). Other songs by him include "Sing Something Simple", "Let's Put Out The Lights (And Go To Sleep)", "When Yuba Plays The Rhumba On The Tuba", "Are You Making Any Money?", "Savage Serenade", "Down the Old Back Road", "A Hut in Hoboken", "Night Owl", "Honey Ma Love", "Baby's Blue","Untitled" and "The Calinda". - Sofia Essaïdi
Sofia Essaïdi is a Franco-Moroccan singer. She was born in Casablanca, Morocco. - Guy Forget
Guy Forget (born January 4, 1965 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a former French professional tennis player. During his career, he helped France win the Davis Cup in both 1991 and 1996. Since retiring as a player, he has served as France's Davis Cup team captain. - Marcel Cerdan
Marcel Cerdan (July 22, 1916 - October 27, 1949) was born in the French colony of Algeria. He was a French world boxing champion who was considered by many boxing experts and fans to be France's and Europe's greatest boxer, and by many more fans to be one of the best to come from Africa. He had a life that was marked by his sporting achievements, social lifestyle and, ultimately, tragedy. Marcel Cerdan was born in Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria (then legally part of France). - Helmut Dantine
Helmut Dantine (October 7, 1917 - May 2, 1982) was a film actor remembered for playing many Nazis in thriller films of the 1940s. The Vienna, Austria-born actor appeared uncredited in "Casablanca" early in his career (he played the careless newlywed who gambles away his visa money). The dark and handsome supporting player and occasional lead fled Austria in the late 1930s, and ended up in California. He began his U.S. acting career at the Pasadena Playhouse, … - Laila Marrakchi
Laila Marrakchi (born in 1978, in Casablanca) is Moroccan film maker, she's most famous for the controversial film Marock. - Nawal el Moutawakel
Nawal El Moutawakel (born on April 15, 1962 in Casablanca) is a Moroccan hurdler, who won the inaugural women's 400 m hurdles event at the 1984 Summer Olympics, thereby becoming the first Muslim and African female Olympic champion. Although she had been a quite accomplished runner, the victory of El Moutawakel, who studied at Iowa State University at the time, was a surprise. - Aziz Bouderbala
Abdelaziz El Idrissi Bouderbala (born December 26 1960 in Casablanca) is a former Moroccan footballer. Aziz Bouderbala started his professional career at Wydad Casablanca, before moving to FC Sion, Switzerland and French Olympique Lyon later. Currently the former player works as a technical director at his first club Wydad Casablanca. In 1986 Aziz Bouderbala was runner-up for an African Footballer of the Year award. Bouderbala was known for his pace and dribbling skills. - Mohammed ben Abdallah
Sidi Mohammed III Ben Abdellah al-Qatib was Sultan of Morocco from 1757 to 1790 under the Alaouite dynasty and originating from the Moasmouda tribe. He was the governor of Marrakech around 1750 and was the son of Sultan Abdallah IV who reigned 1745-1757. He was also sultan briefly during 1748. A more open-minded ruler than many of his forebears, he signed numerous peace treaties with the European powers, and curtailed the power of the Barbary corsairs. - Julien Boutter
Julien Boutter (born on April 7, 1974 in Boulay, France) is a professional male tennis player from France. In his career he has won 1 singles title (2003 Casablanca) and reached the final in Milan (2001) but lost to Swiss Roger Federer.
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