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Richard Basehart Actor, La Strada Richard Basehart came to Hollywood in 1947, after beginning an acting career on Broadway. He made his mark in the gritty film-noir classic He Walked by Night, among others, and proved his versatility in several international productions, most notably in Federico Fellini's poignant masterpiece La Strada. | |
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Red Skelton Actor, Three Little Words The son of a former circus clown turned grocer and a cleaning woman, Red Skelton was introduced to show business at the age of seven by Ed Wynn, at a vaudeville show in Vincennes. At age 10, he left home to travel with a medicine show through the Midwest, and joined the vaudeville circuit at age 15... | |
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Akim Tamiroff Actor, Touch of Evil Though born in Russia and having a Russian-sounding name, Akim Tamiroff is actually of Armenian descent. At 19 he decided to pursue acting as a career and was chosen from among 500 applicants to the Moscow Art Theater School. There he studied under the great Konstantin Stanislavski, and launched a stage career... | |
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James Griffith Actor, The Killing Ideal for playing swarthy villains, James Griffith's tall, dark and gaunt features and shady countenance invaded hundreds of film and TV dramas (and a few comedies) throughout his career on-camera. Highlighted by his arched brows, hooded eyes and prominent proboscis, heavy character work would be his largest source of income for nearly four decades... | |
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Dick Durock Actor, Stand by Me Big, brawny, and imposing actor and stuntman Dick Durock was born on January 18, 1937 in South Bend, Indiana. The fourth of five children; he grew up in South Bend, Indiana and New Jersey. After serving a stint in the Marine Corps and briefly working as a computer programmer, Durock went to Hollywood to eke out a career in show business... | |
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Iris Adrian Actress, The Odd Couple Sugar, Pepper, Pearl, Sunny, Goldie, Bubbles, all those are nicknames borne by petite actress Iris Adrian in several of the 160 movies she made. With such names, don't expect to see her playing Joan of Ark or Electra but it remains that all these pet names reflect her winning femininity, its sweetness... | |
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Grady Sutton Actor, Anchors Aweigh Grady Sutton was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He arrived in California in 1924. He got his first break in Hollywood from director William A. Seiter who used him as an extra in The Mad Whirl starring May McAvoy. Grady remained a Hollywood staple for the next 55 years. He specialized in playing naive... | |
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Feodor Chaliapin Jr. Actor, The Name of the Rose Feodor Fedorovich Chaliapin Jr. was born October 6, 1905, in Moscow, Russia. He was the youngest of six children. His father was the world-famous Russian Opera basso Feodor Chaliapin Sr.. His mother, Iola Tornagi, was a prima-ballerina who quit the stage after her marriage and became a caring mother of six children... | |
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Paula Yates Self, Sex with Paula | |
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Eleanor Mondale Actress, Drop Dead Fred | |
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Brian Hall Actor, The Long Good Friday Actor Brian Hall was best known for his role as Terry the cook in the BBC comedy series Fawlty Towers. He began acting while still in his teens in amateur shows where his burly frame made him ideal casting for villains and heavies. After leaving school he worked as a taxi driver before he was spotted by theatrical agent Richard Ireson who persuaded him that his talent lay in theatre... | |
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Berkeley Harris Actor, Guiding Light | |
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Christian Nyby Director, The Thing from Another World Christian Nyby, the television and movie director who achieved acclaim as a film editor before moving into the director's chair, was born on September 1, 1913, in Los Angeles, California. He made his reputation as a cutter during the 1940s, when he worked with the great helmer Howard Hawks, winning... | |
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Patricia Kennedy Self, Episode #2.1 | |
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Luana Strode Actress, Once Upon a Time in the West | |
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Jonathan Moore Actor, Amadeus | |
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Frankie Vaughan Self, Episode #2.6 He was a British pop singing star with Top 10, hits including "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" and "Green Door". He studied at Leeds College of Art, but switched to show business after his audition succeeded and led to week's work in music hall. He went on to stardom as "Mr. Moonlight" in English variety-show world... | |
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Sadao Yamanaka Writer, Priest of Darkness | |
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George Sawaya Actor, Batman | |
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Patricia Phoenix Actress, The L-Shaped Room Bold, brassy and larger than life, Pat Phoenix was television's favourite scarlet woman. For nearly 25 years, she dominated the soap opera Coronation Street in the role of Elsie Tanner and sent shivers down the spines of Britain's menfolk twice a week. With her low cut cleavage, she was known as "the... | |
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Riccardo Cucciolla Actor, Sacco & Vanzetti | |
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Dem Radulescu Actor, Comedie fantastica | |
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Dieter Schidor Actor, Cross of Iron | |
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Francis Compton Actor, Witness for the Prosecution | |
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Rose Parenti Actress, Sister Act | |
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Humberto Solás Director, Barrio Cuba One of the great filmmakers of revolutionary Cuba, Humberto Solás entered the film industry as a teenager, and made his first short at 18. After taking a film course at Centro Sperimentale de Cinema in Rome, he made a big impression with his 1966 medium-lenght fiction "Manuela", the first of many films dedicated to the Cuban woman... | |
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Pierre Segui Actor, The Deer Hunter | |
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Walter Marsh Actor, Unforgiven | |
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Jerry Sherman Actor, The Heartbreak Kid | |
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Vladimir Basov Actor, Operation Y & Other Shurik's Adventures Vladimir Basov was a notable Soviet actor and director best known for the leading role as Bruno in Shchit i mech, which he also directed, and his numerous supporting roles, such as Floor Polisher in Walking the Streets of Moscow (aka.. Walking the Streets of Moscow (1963), among other works. He was born Vladimir Pavlovich Basov on September 17... | |
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Barbara Drew Actress, Some Like It Hot | |
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Willis Goldbeck Writer, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance A former journalist, Willis Goldbeck entered films as a screenwriter in the early 1920s. He wrote most of the "Dr. Kildare" series for MGM, starting with the first one, Young Dr. Kildare, and directed several of them. Although he directed several more films after that--including one of Burt Lancaster's more enjoyable early swashbucklers... | |
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Erich Hallhuber Actor, Amen. | |
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Claudia Morgan Actress, The Edge of Night For many years, Claudia Morgan was a popular actress on radio. She starred as "Nora Charles" on The Adventures Of The Thin Man on radio, which costarred Les Tremayne, David Gothard and Les Damon at various times as "Detective Nick Charles". Morgan was also regularly featured on such radio shows as Against The Storm... | |
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Spiro Agnew Self, America Revisited | |
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Kazuyuki Sogabe Actor, Bubblegum Crisis | |
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Harnam Singh Rawail Director, Mere Mehboob | |
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Jay Stewart Self, Jeopardy! | |
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June Horne Actress, A Very Young Lady | |
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Asko Sahlman Actor, Man Seeking Man | |
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József Petrik Actor, Thorn Castle | |
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Paul Wellman Writer, The Comancheros Paul I. Wellman was born in Enid Oklahoma, just a few short years after that area, known as "The Cherokee Strip" was opened to white settlers. Shortly after his birth he travelled to Portugese West Africa, where his father was a missionary. Wellman attended school in Utah, where his interest in the Native American culture was sparked... | |
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Joyce Selznick Casting Director, King Kong | |
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Joan Gardner Actress, The Scarlet Pimpernel | |
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Bert Kalmar Soundtrack, The Green Mile | |
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Friedrich Schütter Actor, Molls Reisen | |
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Philo Hauser Actor, Exodus | |
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Christiane Schröder Actress, Tag für Tag | |
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Robert Graves Self, Garage Grievance | |
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Jean Ray Writer, The Legend of Doom House | |
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