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Jerry Reed Soundtrack, Smokey and the Bandit Tall, blond haired country & western singer / songwriter from Atlanta Georgia, who usually appears in films portraying good humored Southern type characters. Reed was already writing and singing music in high school, and was signed by Capitol Records to a three-year contract in 1955. However, in 1958... | |
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Murray Hamilton Actor, Jaws Murray Hamilton was one of those character actors whose face would be familiar to most movie buffs at an instant, yet his name may not. That's a shame, because Hamilton was one of the most versatile and prolific of performers who was never anything less than completely convincing in any role he took on... | |
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James Dunn Actor, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Versatile actor of stage, screen and television, James Howard Dunn was the only child of a prominent New York stockbroker and homemaker. He grew up and attended public schools in New Rochelle, New York. Dunn's interest in pursuing a career in acting became apparent when he started playing hooky from high school... | |
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Michael Pate Actor, Hondo The future movie bad man was born in Drummoyne, a suburb of Sydney, Australia, and got his career start as an interviewer on the government's radio station. Pate also worked on the Australian stage and in Down Under movies before relocating to th e U.S. in the early 1950s to appear in Universal's "Thunder on the Hill... | |
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Don LaFontaine Actor, Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story | |
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Rand Brooks Actor, Gone with the Wind In 1966, Rand Brooks started Professional Ambulance Service in Glendale, California, with two used ambulances and a credit card. By 1977 his company had become the largest private ambulance 9-1-1 paramedic provider in Los Angeles County. During his ownership the company received dozens of awards and commendations and was widely recognized as one of the finest ambulance services in the country... | |
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Ethel Waters Actress, Cabin in the Sky The child of a teenage rape victim, Ethel Waters grew up in the slums of Philadelphia and neighboring cities, seldom living anywhere for more than a few weeks at a time. "No one raised me, " she recollected, "I just ran wild." She excelled not only at looking after herself, but also at singing and dancing; she began performing at church functions... | |
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Cammie King Conlon Actress, Gone with the Wind | |
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Ann Harding Actress, The Animal Kingdom Ann, born Dorothy Gatley, spent most of her childhood as an "army brat" constantly moving around before the family finally settled in New York. Ann first appeared on the stage while she spent a year attending Bryn Mawr College. She became a clerk and freelance script reader with a film company before she made her stage debut in Greenwich Village... | |
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Hal David Soundtrack, Forrest Gump Songwriter ("Magic Moments", "Baby Elephant Walk", "What the World Needs Now is Love") and author, educated at New York University. Joining ASCAP in 1943, he collaborated musically with Burt Bacharach, Sherman Edwards, Lee Pockriss, [error], Redd Evans, Don Rodney, John Barry and Henry Mancini... | |
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Roy Goldman Actor, To Be or Not to Be | |
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Jack Smight Director, Midway Emmy Award-winning director Jack Smight was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on March 9, 1925, the offspring of Irish immigrants. After graduating from the unfortunately named Cretin High School, where he was a classmate of Peter Graves, he served in the US Army Air Force during World War Two, where he flew combat missions in the Pacific Theater... | |
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Harry Cording Actor, The Adventures of Robin Hood Burly bit part actor often seen in the Sherlock Holmes movies of the '40's as a menacing chauffer, sailor or Cockney. His speaking parts were always well done and added considerably to the B grade movies of the period . | |
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Philip Loeb Actor, A Double Life Mr. Loeb returned to Broadway following his unjust firing from "The Goldbergs". He starred in the Broadway production of "Time Out for Ginger" and was appearing in the play's touring company at the time of his suicide in the Hotel Taft in New York on September 1, 1955. Had he lived a few days longer he would have learned that the FBI had decided to fully clear his name... | |
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Albert Speer Self, Der Architekt | |
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Esmeralda Ruspoli Actress, Romeo and Juliet | |
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Patrick Durkin Actor, Raiders of the Lost Ark | |
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Bart Giamatti Uncategorised | |
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Howland Chamberlain Actor, Kramer vs. Kramer | |
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Eulalio González Actor, El rey del tomate Renowned for portraying his witty, stereotypical norteño character named "Piporro" in the Pedro Infante film Little Love of My Life, Eulalio González quickly became one of the box-office stars of the 1960s and the best norteño comedian ever. Born and raised in northern Mexico, González was the son of customs agent Pablo González Barrera and Elvira Ramírez... | |
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Sara Macon Producer, The Runaway Barge | |
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Morris Carnovsky Actor, Cyrano de Bergerac Morris Carnovsky was one of the more prominent victims of the Hollywood blacklist, being named as a Communist party member by both Elia Kazan -- the most infamous of the informers who sang before the House Un-American Activities Committee in the era blacklistee Lillian Hellman called the "Scoundrel Time" -- and Sterling Hayden... | |
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Florence Lee Actress, City Lights | |
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Doris Kenyon Actress, Counsellor at Law The daughter of a poet, she made her stage and screen debuts in 1915. She was often cast as a pleasant heroine in many silent films. She co-starred with popular silent actors like Rudolph Valentino and future husband Milton Sills. Due to her stage experience she made a smooth transition to sound. She could still be seen on television in the mid sixties. | |
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François Mauriac Writer, Therese | |
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Frank Craven Actor, Our Town Frank Craven, the actor, director, playwright and producer who achieved theatrical immortality as The Stage Manager in the original 1938 Broadway 1production and 1940 movie version of Thornton Wilder's classic Our Town, was born into a theatrical family on August 24, 1875 in Boston, Massachusetts... | |
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Benay Venuta Actress, Annie Get Your Gun The exceedingly musical Benay Venuta was born on January 27, 1911, as Benvenuta Rose Crooke in San Francisco, California. Attending finishing school in Geneva, she subsequently dropped out and headed off to London. Her career in show business began as a teenage dancer in 1925. Returning to the States a few years later... | |
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Helen Haye Actress, The 39 Steps | |
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Cobina Wright Actress, Charlie Chan in Rio Cobina Wright came from a wealthy aristocratic family from New York City and started her show business career as a model, being in the top ten at John Robert Powers (the most sought after agency at that time). Bob Hope used her as the basis for character Cobina on his radio program in 1939. She was friends with Dolores and Bob and appeared on his program numerous times... | |
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Philip Friend Actor, In Which We Serve Leading man in UK and US films through the 40s and 50s. | |
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Osman F. Seden Director, Bekçiler krali | |
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Michael Romanoff Actor, Do Not Disturb Mike Romanoff, the former Harry F. Gerguson, was a successful "professional impostor." He accumulated an enormous fount of knowledge in his numerous travels and occupations around the world (and he attended, however briefly, several leading universities). When Hollywood filmmakers needed a technical adviser for a movie set in Europe... | |
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Kazimierz Deyna Actor, Victory | |
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Irene Winston Actress, Rear Window | |
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Lina Canalejas Actress, Cousin Angelica Born in a family of musicians, she studied ballet. Enter a company performs folk and various tours in Spain, beginning in the genre of the magazine. Draws the attention of actor Ismael Merlo and debuted as a theater actress in "Life on a pad" and in films with "That's Madrid.". Over the next 25 years stands out in the Spanish interpretive landscape. | |
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Harry McCoy Writer, Hot Paprika | |
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Kaye Elhardt Actress, Insulin | |
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Drew Pearson Self, The Drew Pearson Show Influential US newspaper columnist; co-founder in 1932 of the widely syndicated "Washington Merry-Go-Round." | |
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R.L. Burnside Soundtrack, Black Snake Moan | |
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Henry Vars Music Department, Seven Men from Now | |
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Denise Péronne Actress, Forbidden Games | |
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Jin-Young Jang Actress, Sorum | |
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Ladislas Fodor Writer, North to Alaska | |
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Brian Reilly Producer, The Santa Clause | |
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Aaron Rosenberg Producer, Winchester '73 | |
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Mary Yates Thanks, Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius | |
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Ilse Koch Uncategorised | |
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Marc Donahue Soundtrack, The Wild Geese | |
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Bruno Della Santina Actor, Pay or Die | |
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Melvin F. Allen Actor, The Pied Piper | |
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