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Charles Bronson Actor, Once Upon a Time in the West The archetypal screen tough guy with weatherbeaten features--one film critic described his rugged looks as "a Clark Gable who had been left out in the sun too long"--Charles Bronson was born Charles Buchinski, one of 14 children of struggling Lithuanian immigrant parents in Pennsylvania (his father was a coal miner)... | |
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Glenn Ford Actor, Superman Legendary actor Glenn Ford was discovered in 1939 by Tom Moore, a talent scout for 20th Century Fox and then subsequently signed a contract with Columbia Pictures the same year. Ford's contract with Columbia marked a significant departure in that studio's successful business model. Its boss, Harry Cohn... | |
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Richard Jordan Actor, The Hunt for Red October Harvard-educated stage and screen actor Richard Jordan was born into a socially prominent family on July 19, 1937 in New York City, the grandson of Learned Hand, the greatest American jurist never to have served on the U.S. Supreme Court. Newbold Morris, his stepfather, was a member of the New York City Council during Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's administration... | |
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Jean Seberg Actress, Breathless One month before her 18th birthday, this blonde actress landed the title role in Otto Preminger's Saint Joan after a much-publicized contest involving some 18,000 hopefuls. The failure of that film and the only moderate success of her next, Bonjour tristesse, combined to stall Seberg's career, until her role in Jean-Luc Godard's landmark feature... | |
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Vera-Ellen Soundtrack, White Christmas One of the most vivacious and vibrant musical film talents to glide through Hollywood's "Golden Age" in the 40s and 50s was Vera-Ellen Westmeyer Rohe, better known to her fans simply by her hyphenated first name. Whether performing solo or dueting with the best male partners of her generation, including Fred Astaire... | |
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William Talman Actor, The Hitch-Hiker William Talman is best known for his role as Hamilton Burger, the district attorney who perpetually lost to Perry Mason in the long-running series Perry Mason. Talman was an accomplished screenwriter and stage and screen actor, and appeared in numerous roles on television as a character actor from the mid-'50s until his death from lung cancer in August of 1968... | |
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Charles Coburn Actor, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes A cigar-smoking, monocled, swag-bellied character actor known for his Old South manners and charm. In 1918 he and his first wife formed the Coburn Players and appeared on Broadway in many plays. With her death in 1937, he accepted a Hollywood contract and began making films at the age of sixty. | |
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Lindsay Anderson Director, If.... | |
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J. Lee Thompson Director, The Guns of Navarone | |
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Julie Bishop Actress, Sands of Iwo Jima Colorado-born leading lady Julie Bishop, who also acted under her birth name of Jacqueline Wells and the stage name Diane Duval, started off as a silent movie child actress, working with such legends as Clara Bow and Mary Pickford. The daughter of a wealthy banker and oilman, she was raised in Texas and... | |
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Joe De Santis Actor, The Professionals | |
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Del Moore Actor, The Nutty Professor | |
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Alain Corneau Writer, All the Mornings of the World | |
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Wesley Lau Actor, I Want to Live! | |
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Joseph H. Lewis Director, Gun Crazy The term 'style over content' fits the director Joseph H. Lewis like a glove. Able to elevate basically mundane and mediocre low-budget material to sublime cinematic art, has gained him a substantial cult following among movie buffs. The Bonnie & Clyde look-alike Gun Crazy, shot within 30 days on a budget of $400,000... | |
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David Haskell Actor, Body Double | |
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Hideo Gosha Director, Onimasa | |
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Paul Bryar Actor, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | |
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José Luis de Vilallonga Actor, Breakfast at Tiffany's | |
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Alan Wheatley Actor, Brighton Rock Sharp-featured, incisive Surrey-born actor, whose trademark was a memorably mellifluous voice, which he used to great effect for impersonating a gallery of suave, urbane - often rather likeable - villains, rogues and assorted shady characters. Alan reinvented himself as an actor after abandoning his first profession as industrial psychologist... | |
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Christine Pascal Actress, 'Round Midnight | |
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Bob Sherman Actor, Hellboy | |
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Rita Webb Actress, To Sir, with Love | |
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Carlos Larrañaga Actor, Strange Voyage | |
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Craig Kingsbury Actor, Jaws | |
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E.J. Mannix Self, The Candid Camera Story (Very Candid) of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 1937 Convention New Jersey-born Eddie Mannix was a long-time studio executive at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Known as "The Fixer", he had a reputation as someone who could take care of any problems caused by recalcitrant or wayward studio employees and major stars that might embarrass the company. Mannix had a rather unsavory past... | |
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Peggy Lloyd Self, Who Is Norman Lloyd? | |
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Alfredo B. Crevenna Director, Una mujer en la calle | |
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Victoria Longley Actress, Celia | |
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Vasa Pantelic Actor, Sunovrat | |
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Toshiya Fujita Director, Lady Snowblood | |
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Lyn Osborn Actor, Invasion of the Saucer Men | |
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Naguib Mahfouz Writer, Midaq Alley | |
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Emil Newman Music Department, The Best Years of Our Lives | |
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Abraham Zapruder Director, Zapruder Film of Kennedy Assassination | |
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Roef Ragas Actor, Breaking the Waves Studied Dutch Modern Literature, Philosophy and Dramaturgy at the Amsterdam University [1990]. That same year he started to study at the Amsterdam Dramaschool, and finished it in 1994. From then on he has been working in both the theatre and film & television. After three years playing in one of Holland's most famous police-series "Grijpstra & de Gier"... | |
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Clyde Ware Writer, The Spy with My Face | |
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Richard 'Cactus' Pryor Actor, The Green Berets | |
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Cordell Hickman Actor, The Biscuit Eater | |
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Milos Zutic Actor, The Battle of Kosovo | |
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Tom Howard Visual Effects, 2001: A Space Odyssey Oscar winning Special Effects expert Thomas William Howard was born in England in 1910 and was to become one of the most influential and pioneering men in movie making, taking the development of special visual effects to a new level through the golden age of the 40's 50's and 60's. Tom began his career... | |
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Walter 'Killer' Kowalski Self, The Wrestling Queen | |
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Chris Lighty Producer, Get Rich or Die Tryin' | |
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Eugene Loring Miscellaneous Crew, Funny Face | |
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Blas Jaramillo Actor, Satanás | |
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Axel Stordahl Music Department, Anchors Aweigh | |
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Selma Vaz Dias Actress, The Lady Vanishes | |
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Frunze Dovlatyan Director, A Lonely Nut-Tree One of the leading Armenian directors, Frunze Dovlatyan has started as actor in Armenian provincial theatres since 1941 and then Sundukyan Drama Theatre of Yerevan where he was awarded Stalin Premium (major award of that time) for the role of Hrair in the play "These Stars are Ours." After graduating the Directing Department of VGIK (master class of Sergei Gerasimov ... | |
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Robert Reinert Writer, Nerves Born near Vienna in 1872, Reinert's early life is shrouded in mystery. He apparently became a successful novelist, publishing "Der Weg zur Sonne" (1906) and "Krieg" (1907). After 1900 he moved to Munich, where he joined Frank Wedekind's cabaret, "Die Elf Scharfrichter". His first film script was for director William Wauer at Projektions-Union A.G.... | |
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Adele Sandrock Actress, Kirschen in Nachbars Garten | |
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