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- Garry Marsh was the younger brother of Digby George Gerahty who as Robert Standish wrote the novel Elephant Walk adapted to film starring Elizabeth Taylor. Gerahty is the correct spelling of the family name according to a nephew of Garry and Digby. Digby was the prolific writer of some 80 novels, using pen names, Robert Standish, Stephen Lister, George Digby, and George Echlin.
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His mother claimed he was adopted, perhaps because her husband had been away touring for several years before Sidney's birth and was dead before the great event took place. Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore and John Barrymore, his niece and nephews, insisted he looked too much like "Mummum" to have been anybody else's child. But the mystery continues--there's a rumor he was born at sea (!) and even his date of birth is in doubt. The young Barrymores were largely raised by Sidney's mother (their maternal grandmother), and Uncle Googan, as they called Sidney, was often about the place during their childhood. The date of his first marriage is also unknown, but sometime before 1892 he wed Gladys Rankin, also from a famous acting clan. They were billed as Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew, played vaudeville and toured in marital comedies. If the material turned out to be bad, Mrs. Drew would rewrite it or come up with a better script. Later they joined Vitagraph where he worked as an actor and director. After his wife's death in 1914, he married Lucille McVey, the second Mrs. Sidney Drew, a vivacious 24-year-old writer he had met on the Vitagraph lot where they both worked. His son, S. Rankin Drew, also acted in films and was thought a promising director, but he enlisted in the army in World War I and was killed when his plane was shot down over France. Sidney never got over his only child's death, and died a year later.- Director
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Oceano Henry Oscar Martinek was born into a circus family on 24 May 1876, on a ship travelling to Sweden. He performed in the circus from an early age, with his brother Leonard, and later on, with his wife, Ivy. All three were in a troupe of acrobatic dancers who went to the USA in 1903 to perform at the prestigious Barnum and Bailey's circus. Shortly after this, he and his wife, Ivy Martinek, moved away from circus performing into silent movies, working initially in France for Pathe Freres. They were both eventually tempted across the Channel to work for British and Colonial, who wanted to break into the exciting world of silent movies, with a touch of French elan. Thus from around 1909 H O Martinek, as he seemed to be known, both starred in and directed many early silent adventure, crime, drama and comedy films, often appearing with his wife, Ivy Martinek, His first film was a smash-hit 'Her Lover's Honour'. He is perhaps best remembered for directing many of the very popular 'Three-Fingered Kate' adventure series, starring his wife Ivy, between 1909-12. His last starring role and screen appearance was in "The Deadly Model' for the Big Ben Film Company in 1915. He died of tuberculosis in 1935, age 58.- Actor
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Giorgio Gomelsky was born on 28 February 1934 in at sea between Odessa, Ukraine and Genoea, Italy. He was an actor and composer, known for The Collector (1967), Downtown 81 (2000) and Johnny Hallyday: Noir c'est noir (1966). He was married to ???. He died on 13 January 2016 in New York City, New York, USA.