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1. Marie Dressler Marie Dressler Actress, Dinner at Eight Once you saw her, you would not forget her. Despite her age and weight, she became one of the top box office draws of the sound era. She was 14 when she joined a theater group and she went on to work on stage and in light opera. By 1892, she was on Broadway and she later became a star comedienne on the vaudeville circuit...
2. Gustav Holst Gustav Holst Soundtrack, Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
3. Jean Vigo Jean Vigo Writer, L'Atalante Jean Vigo had bad health since he was a child. Son of anarchist militant Miguel Almareyda, he also never really recovered from his father's mysterious death in jail when he was 12. Abandoned by his mother, he passed from boarding school to boarding school. Aged 23, through meetings with people involved in the movies...
4. Russ Columbo Russ Columbo Soundtrack, Raging Bull
5. Prince Randian Prince Randian Actor, Freaks
6. Edward Elgar Edward Elgar Soundtrack, Forrest Gump Edward Elgar was born on June 2, 1857, in Broadheath, near Worcester, where his father named William Elgar, was a music shop owner and a piano technician. Elgar was the fourth of six children. He was self-taught in all musical instruments, that were at his disposal in his father's shop, and he studied all the sheet music available in the shop...
7. John Dillinger John Dillinger Self, Dillinger: Public Enemy No. 1 One of the most famous bank robbers in history, he was born John Herbert Dillinger on June 22, 1903, to a grocery store owner named John Wilson Dillinger and his wife Mollie (the family also included an older sister, Audrey). By all accounts the Dillingers were a normal "all-American" family, but the...
8. Lilyan Tashman Lilyan Tashman Actress, Manhandled Lilyan Tashman was born on October 23, 1896, in Brooklyn, New York. After toying with some stage work, she made her film debut with Experience. That was her only film of that year, and the next year she also made only one film, Head Over Heels (this was at a time when some studios and their performers were turning out a film per week)...
9. Winsor McCay Winsor McCay Writer, Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics Like many pioneers, the work of 'Winsor McCay' has been largely superseded by successors such as Walt Disney and Max Fleischer but he more than earns a place in film history for being the American cinema's first great cartoon animator. He started out as a newspaper cartoonist, achieving a national reputation for his strips 'Little Nemo in Slumberland' and 'Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend'...
10. Alec B. Francis Alec B. Francis Actor, Beyond the Rocks
11. Dorothy Dell Dorothy Dell Actress, Little Miss Marker Dorothy Dell was born to Elbert and Lillan Goff in Hattiesburg, Mississippi on January 30, 1915. She won the most beautiful baby in Hattiesburg beauty contest when she was thirteen months old. She lived in New Orleans from the age of ten. She attended the Sophie Wright High School for girls. Winning the Miss New Orleans title...
12. Lowell Sherman Lowell Sherman Actor, Bachelor Apartment Lowell Sherman was one of the early cinema's first major stars who successfully made the transition from actor to director. Born in either 1885 or 1888, his parents were John Wm. Sherman, a theatrical producer (1855-1924), and Julia Gray Sherman, an actress and daughter of actress Kate Gray. In 1905...
13. Baby Face Nelson Baby Face Nelson Uncategorised Lester M. Gilis, aka "Baby Face Nelson," began his crime career at an early age in a street gang in the Chicago slums. He was given the nickname "Baby Face" by his gang members because he looked much younger than he actually was (14). His specialty was car theft, bootlegging and armed robbery. He spent several years in prison on auto theft and bank robbery charges...
14. Eugenie Besserer Eugenie Besserer Actress, The Jazz Singer Eugenie Besserer was born in Watertown, New York on Christmas Day of 1868. She was largely a silent film actress who made her debut in 1910's silent version of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. She was 42 at the time. For the most part Eugenie was a character actress, much in demand for filling in roles. Because of her willingness to take just about any role...
15. Lew Cody Lew Cody Actor, Don't Change Your Husband
16. Bonnie Parker Bonnie Parker Uncategorised
17. Clyde Barrow Clyde Barrow Uncategorised
18. Karl Dane Karl Dane Actor, The Big Parade Born Rasmus Karl Therkelsen Gottlieb in Copenhagen, Denmark, on October 12, 1886 the future Karl Dane had a rough childhood. His father was an alcoholic and spendthrift. At a young age his parents divorced. To escape his unhappy home he took a great interest in the arts, particularly puppeteering (something popular in Denmark at the time). Dane apprenticed as a machinist during his teenage years...
19. Jenny Lee Snow Jenny Lee Snow Actress, Freaks
20. George W. Hill George W. Hill Director, The Big House Beginning his career at age 13 as a stagehand for D.W. Griffith, George W. Hill worked his way up through cinematography and screenwriting to finally begin directing films in the early 1920s. His later films took on a stark, brutally realistic atmosphere and were renowned for their effective use of shadows in the lighting as in The Big House...
21. Lou Tellegen Lou Tellegen Actor, 3 Bad Men Born in the Netherlands of Greek/Dutch descent, Lou Tellegen (born Isidor Van Dameler) was a marvelously handsome man whose life was temptestuous. Having something of a wandering pair of feet, he journeyed through Europe during his youth, doing odd jobs like prize fighting, driving a cab in Brussels...
22. Pretty Boy Floyd Pretty Boy Floyd Uncategorised One of seven children of dirt-poor Georgia farmers, Charles Arthur Floyd was born on February 3, 1904. His family moved to Oklahoma shortly after his birth, where they bought a small farm. Their luck was no better in Oklahoma than it was in Georgia, and drought, plagues of insects and devastating dust storms combined to keep them just barely out of the poorhouse...
23. Emile Chautard Emile Chautard Director, The Blind Sculptor French director and actor of American and French films. He began his career as a stage actor at the Odeon in Paris, then at the Eclair, where he became artistic director and chief director of the theatre school in 1910. Five years later he traveled to America and began a successful career as a film director for a variety of American film companies...
24. Ernst Röhm Ernst Röhm Self, Victory of the Faith Born in Munich in 1887, Ernst Röhm joined the German army as a teenager and served in World War I. He became acquainted with Adolf Hitler in 1919. Hitler shrewdly took note of Röhm's intensely militaristic nature, his experience in the war and the fact that he was the leader of an extreme right-wing paramilitary organization called the Frontbann--one of many such units...
25. John Francis Dillon John Francis Dillon Director, Sally John started his career with Keystone in 1913 under the name `John Dillon,' working with Kalem, Farnum, Nestor, Universal, Keystone and Lubin Pictures. The latter part of his career was spent playing bit parts and second leads in B pictures.
26. Paul von Hindenburg Paul von Hindenburg Self, Hindenburg Coming from an aristocratic Prussian family, Paul von Hindenburg joined the Prussian army as a young man, retiring as a general in 1913 at age 66. Recalled to duty during World War I, he was placed in command of the German forces at the battle of Tannenberg in 1914 against the Russians which, due to...
27. Willard Mack Willard Mack Writer, The Dove
28. Cicely Oates Cicely Oates Actress, The Man Who Knew Too Much
29. Weston Doty Weston Doty Actor, Peter Pan
30. Gerald du Maurier Gerald du Maurier Actor, Lord Camber's Ladies Sir Gerald Du Maurier was one of the top thespians on the English stage in the first third of the 20th Century, and his distinguished career as an actor-manager led to his being knighted by King George V in 1922. Born in Hampstead, London on March 26, 1873, he was the son anglo-French writer and cartoonist 'George du Maurier'...
31. Winston Doty Winston Doty Actor, Peter Pan
32. Wilhelm Diegelmann Wilhelm Diegelmann Actor, The Blue Angel
33. Edith Yorke Edith Yorke Actress, City Girl
34. Gertrude Howard Gertrude Howard Actress, I'm No Angel
35. Frederick Delius Frederick Delius Soundtrack, Crush
36. James Durkin James Durkin Actor, The Chasm
37. Harry A. Pollard Harry A. Pollard Director, The Sacrifice
38. Hal G. Evarts Hal G. Evarts Writer, The Big Trail
39. Sydney Deane Sydney Deane Actor, Melting Millions
40. Louis F. Gottschalk Louis F. Gottschalk Composer, Orphans of the Storm
41. Dick Sutherland Dick Sutherland Actor, Grandma's Boy
42. Charles Giblyn Charles Giblyn Director, By the Sun's Rays
43. Nigel Playfair Nigel Playfair Actor, Little Stranger When one thinks of the great English actors who have been knighted, one thinks of Sir Henry Irving, the greatest actor of the middle-to-late Victorian period who became the first thespian to have a sovereign's sword patted on both shoulders in 1895, or the likes of Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, the greatest Hamlet of his generation...
44. Albert Roccardi Albert Roccardi Actor, The Gold That Glittered
45. Earl Simmons Earl Simmons Actor, Brave Heart's Hidden Love
46. William Herford William Herford Actor, The Man from Hell's River
47. Frank Beal Frank Beal Director, The Inside of the White Slave Traffic
48. John J. McGraw John J. McGraw Self, Breaking Into the Big League
49. Maria Sklodowska-Curie Maria Sklodowska-Curie Uncategorised
50. John Joy Bell John Joy Bell Writer, Beyond London Lights
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