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- Aldrich Bowker was born on 1 January 1875 in Ashby, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter (1939), Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) and Susan and God (1940). He died on 21 March 1947 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Mary St. John was born on 1 January 1875 in California, USA. She was an actress, known for Anything Once (1917). She died on 16 March 1946 in San Francisco, California, USA.
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Bert Feldman was born on 3 January 1875 in Hull, Humberside, England, UK. He died on 25 March 1945 in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK.- Writer
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Anni Swan was born on 4 January 1875 in Helsinki, Finland. She was a writer, known for Olli's Apprenticeship (1920), Tottisalmen perillinen (1940) and Pikku Suorasuu (1962). She was married to Otto Manninen. She died on 24 March 1958 in Helsinki, Finland.- Georges Mauloy was born on 4 January 1875 in Soissons, Aisne, France. He was an actor, known for Les Misérables (1934), La maison du mystère (1933) and Tovaritch (1935). He died on 8 March 1942 in Paris, France.
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In the US from the age of 10, he first worked as a journalist-illustrator for the New York World. Interviewing Thomas A. Edison, he so impressed the inventor with his drawings that Edison suggested he allow some of them to be photographed by the Kinetograph camera. The result was a short film, Edison Drawn by 'World' Artist (1896). Fascinated by the new medium, Blackton bought a Kinetoscope from Edison, went into partnership with a friend, Albert E. Smith, and exhibited films with it. In 1897 they added a third partner, William T. Rock, and the young partners converted the projector into a motion-picture camera and established the Vitagraph Company. They started film production in an open-air studio on the roof of the Morse Building at 140 Nassau Street, New York City. Their first film, The Burglar on the Roof (1898), was about 50 feet long, with Blackton playing the leading role. In 1898, during the Spanish-American War, they produced Tearing Down the Spanish Flag (1898), probably the world's first propaganda film. Smith operated the camera and Blackton was again the actor, tearing down the Spanish flag and raising the Stars and Stripes to the top of a flagpole. Blackton and his partners continued filming fake and real news events, ranging from Spanish-American War footage to coverage of local fires and crimes in New York City. They constantly expanded their activities and soon moved into the world's first glass-enclosed studios, in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Blackton directed most of the production of this early period, including such story films as A Gentleman of France (1905) and Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1905), two milestones in the development of the American feature film. Blackton pioneered the single-frame (one turn, one picture) technique in cinema animation, turning out a number of animated cartoons between 1906 and 1910, including the immensely successful Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906), The Haunted Hotel (1907), and The Magic Fountain Pen (1909). He also introduced (in 1908, before Griffith) the close shot, a camera position between the close-up and the medium shot. Like Griffith, he emphasized film editing, setting his films apart from most of the products of this very early period. His film editing was especially noteworthy in his 'Scenes Of True Life' series, a realistic group of films he directed beginning in 1908. Next to Griffith, Blackton was probably the most innovative and creative force in the development of the motion picture art, not only as the director of hundreds of films but also as organizer, producer, actor, and animator. He pioneered the production of two- and three-reel comedies and starred in one such series as a character called Happy Hooligan. Beginning in 1908, he also pioneered the American production of distinguished stage adaptations, including many Shakespeare plays and historical re-creations. When the output at Vitagraph became too heavy for one man to handle, he initiated the system (later to be adopted by Ince) of overseeing the work of several underling directors as production supervisor. In 1917 he left active work with Vitagraph and began independent productions. During WWI, he directed and produced a series of patriotic propaganda films, the most famous of which, and which he also wrote, was The Battle Cry of Peace (1915), based on a hypothetical attack on New York City by a foreign invader. Blackton later went to England, where he directed a number of costume pageants, two of them experiments in color. When Vitagraph was absorbed by Warner Bros. in 1926, Blackton retired. He lost his entire fortune in the 1929 crash and was forced to seek work on a government project in California. Later he was hired as director of production at the Anglo-American Film Company, where he worked until his death. Between 1900 and 1915, Blackton was president of the Vitaphone Company, a manufacturer of record players. In 1915 he organized and became president of the Motion Picture Board of Trade, later known as the Association of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America. He was also publisher and editor of Motion Picture Magazine, one of America's first film-fan publications.- Actress
Mrs. Treboal was born on 7 January 1875 in France. She was an actress. She was married to Jean Marie Trebaol. She died on 27 March 1955 in Malibu, California, USA.- Lewis Schooler was born on 8 January 1875. He was an actor, known for Deceit (1923) and The Brute (1920). He was married to Mamie Tyre. He died on 17 May 1940 in New York City, New York, USA.
- William A. Carroll was born on 9 January 1875 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Blue Bonnet (1919), Bill Henry (1919) and Danger Within (1918). He died on 26 January 1928 in Glendale, California, USA.
- Mrs. Wong Wing was born on 10 January 1875 in San Francisco, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Dangerous Paradise (1930), Where East Is East (1929) and Mr. Wu (1927). She died on 12 March 1942 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Ferenc Martos was born on 10 January 1875 in Arad, Hungary. He was a writer, known for Leányvásár (1941), Zenélö malom (1943) and Gábor diák (1956). He died on 24 November 1938 in Budapest, Hungary.- Actor
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Lew Lake was born on 10 January 1875 in Bethnal Green, London, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for The Bloomsbury Burglars (1912), The Great Game (1930) and Splinters (1929). He died on 5 November 1939 in Islington Green, London, England, UK.- Terezie Brzková was born on 11 January 1875 in Kolín, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Babichka (1940), Barbora Hlavsová (1943) and Sny na nedeli (1959). She was married to Václav Zejfert and Josef Brzek. She died on 19 November 1966 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
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Reinhold Glière is Russian and Soviet composer, conductor, teacher, music and social activist. People's Artist of the USSR.
Glière got his initial musical education at home (violin lessons from A. Weinberg, C. Voute). In 1894 he graduated from the Kiev Musical College and entered the Moscow Conservatory in the class of violin. In 1900 he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory (he went through a course of polyphony with Sergey Taneyev, harmony with A. Arenskiy and G. Konus, class composition Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov), in 1906-1908 he took conducting lessons from O. Fried in Germany. In the years 1902-1903 he gave private lessons to Nikolai Myaskovsky and Sergei Prokofiev. From 1908 he performed as a conductor with the performance of mainly his own works.
As the composer Glière was formed largely due to communication with Aleksandr Glazunov, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. In 1913-1920 - Professor of the Kiev Conservatory, in 1914-1920, the director of the Conservatory, as well as the head of the opera, orchestral, chamber and instrumental classes. In the late 1930s, as well as in 1947 and 1950, he embarked on several touring tours around the USSR, giving author concerts.- Philipp Weichand was born on 11 January 1875 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. He was an actor, known for Prince Seppl (1932), Der Schimmelkrieg in der Holledau (1937) and Fürst Seppl (1915). He died on 16 May 1941 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
- Mien Braakensiek was born on 11 January 1875 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. She was an actress, known for Helleveeg (1920). She was married to Alex Faassen Sr. and E. A. J. Barge. She died on 7 June 1944 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.
- Marika Stiernstedt was born on 12 January 1875 in Sweden. She was a writer, known for The Governor's Daughters (1915), Man glömmer ingenting (1942) and Banketten (1948). She died on 25 October 1954 in Sweden.
- William 'Shorty' Blanche was born on 13 January 1875 in Tennessee, USA. He was an actor. He died on 2 August 1931 in New York, USA.
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Albert Schweitzer was born on January 14, 1875, in Kaysersberg, near Strasbourg, Elsass-Lothringen, Germany (now in Alsace, France). His father and both grandfathers were pastors and organists. His family had been devoted to education, religion and music for generations.
Schweitzer took music lessons from his grandfather, a church organist. He spoke German and French in his bilingual Alsace family, and later added English to his studies. From 1893-1899 he studied philosophy and theology at the University of Strasbourg, University of Berlin and the Sorbonne. In 1899 he completed a doctorate dissertation on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. From 1905-1912 he studied medicine in Strasbourg and Paris, and received his MD degree in tropical medicine and surgery in 1912.
From the age of 9 Schweitzer started regular performances of organ music in his father's church and continued his organ recitals until the age of 89. In 1905 he wrote a biography of Johann Sebastian Bach, in French, then he rewrote and updated the Bach book--in German--in 1908, the version considered definitive. Schweitzer also published a book on organ building and playing in 1906. He was involved in the restoration of many valuable historic organs worldwide, including construction of the organ at his hospital in Lambarene, where he played music for his patients. He was described as the doctor who returns health to ill people and music to old organs. Albert Schweitzer made notable organ recordings of Bach's music in the 1940s and 1950s. Schweitzer based his interpretation on his profound knowledge of personality, education, religious and social life of Bach.
In 1905 he began his medical studies at the University of Strasbourg, because he decided to go to Africa as a medical doctor rather than a pastor. His medical knowledge was in urgent need during an epidemic of sleeping sickness there. In 1913 he obtained his MD degree, but was turned down by the Paris Missionary Society because his very liberal views of Christ's teachings did not conform to the Society's orthodox beliefs. Schweitzer and his wife went to Lambarene, French Equatorial Africa (now Gabon), and started a hospital in a tent, gradually adding rooms for special cases of sleeping sickness, leprosy, paediatrics and surgery. After his release from French internment Schweitzer practiced medicine in Strasbourg from 1918-1923. In 1924 he returned to his hospital in Lambarene, which was to be restored after years of decay during his absence. There his medical practice included paediatrics, infectious diseases and epidemiology, as well as surgery and traumatology. His versatility in medicine helped to save many thousands of lives. Schweitzer donated his royalties from public performances and book publications to the hospital, which expanded to 500 beds by the 1950s. "Everyone must have his 'Lambarene'", said Schweitzer.
Schweitzer gained great reputation for writing "The Quest of the Historical Jesus" (1906). He was acclaimed for his two concise books on in 1905-1908. In 1917 Schweitzer and his wife were arrested by the French administration in Africa for being Germans, and sent to a French internment camp at the St. Remy mental institution. There Schweitzer was kept at the same room where Vincent Van Gogh lived before his suicide. The Schweitzers were prisoners of war until the end of the First World War in 1918. After his release Schweitzer gave a major speech about his "Reverence for Life" (1920). He spent six years in Europe and published "The Decay and the Restoration of Civilization" (1923) and "Civilization and Ethics" (1923), which he drafted during his captivity in St. Remy.
Schweitzer saved lives by his medical work, by writing and teaching and by advocating for peace and nuclear control. He admittedly followed the similar line as that of the Russian humanitarian and writer Lev Tolstoy. As the founder of a free public hospital, a writer and humanitarian, Schweitzer became the leading proponent of accessible medicine for all. He was also involved in the foundation of the Goethe Institute. From 1952 until his death Schweitzer worked against nuclear weapons together with Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell. On December 10, 1953, Schweitzer was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He donated his prize money to build a leprosy clinic in Lambarene. In 1957 Schweitzer co-founded The Committee for a sane Nuclear Policy.
As it was told, many girls adored Schweitzer, but Helene Bresslau offered him thoughtful partnership and practicality instead of flattery. Schweitzer and Helen began their relationship in 1898, as students. In many hundreds of their letters they only once used the word "love". Schweitzer called his medical work "the religion of love, actually put into practice." The disapproval, conservatism and shallowness of many Christian friends and even his own father did not stop him from his career change to medicine in 1905. Only Helene Bresslau understood him. In 1912 Schweitzer married her before they went to Equatorial Africa. It was a passionate, profound joining of souls. She trained as a nurse and became his assistant in medical work, in writing and in international public service. Their daughter, Rhena, was born in 1919, she later became the lab analyst at her father's hospital in Africa. His cousin Anne-Marie Schweitzer was the mother of Jean-Paul Sartre, who called Schweitzer 'Uncle Al'.
Schweitzer was a multifaceted person, a true Renessance man. He was a doctor, a pastor, a teacher, a writer, a musician, a father and husband, an international lecturer and the leading proponent of peace, all at the same time. He admired all people as brothers and sisters. His openness and helpfulness to strangers was disarming and ennobling. He was learning from simple people through his entire life, being himself patient, modest and humble. "Why are you traveling in the 4th class?" some official asked him - "Because there is no 5th class", answered Schweitzer.
His humor was legendary. His look resembled that of his friend Albert Einstein. Once on a train he was asked by two schoolgirls, "Dr. Einstein, will you give us your autograph?" He did not want to disappoint them, so he signed their autograph book: "Albert Einstein, by his friend Albert Schweitzer."
He died on September 4, 1965, in the hospital, which he founded in 1913, and was laid to rest in the ground of his hospital in Lambarene, Gabon.- He was the son of a lawyer. Thurlow studied law in Washington D.C. and changed careers to become an actor. He had a successful touring company before heading to New York and Broadway. He appeared on Broadway with such actors as Florence Roberts, Percy Haswell, Mary Shaw, Lionel Barrymore, Milton Sills, Lionel Atwill and Charles Richman. In films from 1914 to 1920. After making his last silent film in 1920, he appeared primarily on the stage including some Broadway up to 1940.
- Mariya Domashyova was born on 14 January 1875. She was an actress, known for Baltic Deputy (1937), 11 Iulya (1938) and Chetvyortyy periskop (1939). She died on 8 May 1952 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia].
- Claude King was born on 15 January 1875 in Hackney, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Behind the Mask (1932), London After Midnight (1927) and Bella Donna (1923). He was married to Evelyn Hall and Evelyn Walsh Hall. He died on 18 September 1941 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Maria Forescu was born on January 15, 1875 in Czernowitz, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary [now Chernivtsi, Ukraine]. She was an actress, known for Peer Gynt (1919), Peer Gynt - 2. Teil: Peer Gynts Wanderjahre und Tod (1919) and He or I (1930). She was married to Harry Piel. She died on October 28, 1947 in Berlin, Germany.
- Florencio Sánchez was born on 17 January 1875 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He was a writer, known for Pasión imposible (1943), Barranca abajo (1937) and La tigra (1954). He was married to Catalina Raventos. He died on 7 November 1910 in Milan, Italy.
- Pedro Mata was born on 17 January 1875 in Madrid, Spain. He was a writer, known for El tonto de Lagartera (1927), Un grito en la noche (1950) and El hombre que se reía del amor (1933). He died on 27 December 1946 in Madrid, Spain.
- Svend Aggerholm was born on 19 January 1875 in Denmark. He was an actor, known for The Princess's Dilemma (1913), Unjustly Accused (1913) and Addys Ægteskab (1916). He died on 12 February 1940 in Denmark.
- Arthur Wontner (1875-1960), the critics' choice. "No better "Sherlock Holmes" than Arthur Wontner is likely to be seen and heard in pictures, in our time... The keen, worn, kindly face and quiet prescient smile are out of the very pages of the book", Vincent Starrett's 'The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes'.
Arthur Wontner made his first stage appearance in 1897 and his first film 18 years later. Best-known today for his characterization of "Sherlock Holmes" in five films produced between 1931 and 1938, some Holmes aficionados prefer Wontner's studious interpretation to the more aggressive, energetic portrayals of Basil Rathbone. Ironically, Wontner landed the role on the strength of his performance in the 1930 stage production, Sexton Blake, based on a pulp-fiction character who'd been created as a Sherlock Holmes imitation. In later years, he played several small but memorable character roles, such as the elderly automobile fancier in Genevieve (1953).
Wontner was fifty-six when he made his first Sherlock Holmes film, "Sherlock Holmes' Fatal Hour" (actually called Sherlock Holmes' Fatal Hour (1931) in England). The story was based on "The Final Problem", but with some liberal rearranging. Norman McKinnel played "Moriarty" in this movie but would be replaced by Lyn Harding ("Dr. Grimesby Roylott" in Doyle's play, "The Speckled Band") for the others in the series. "The Missing Rembrandt" (based on "Charles Augustus Milverton") and "The Sign of Four" would be the next two films with Wonter.
For the final two, he would be pitted against "Professor Moriarty". The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935) was from "The Valley of Fear", and last up was Murder at the Baskervilles (1937). Apparently, the studio had difficulty in making the short story fill out to a feature-length film, as both "Moriarty" and "Henry Baskerville" are added to the movie. Strangely enough, though made in 1937, it wasn't released in the U.S. until 1941, when Basil Rathbone had already made The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939). To cash in on the success of that film, Wontner's movie was retitled "Murder at the Baskervilles".
Two actors played "Watson": Ian Hunter in The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case (1932) and Ian Fleming, an Australian actor, who played "Watson" as "nice but dim". Of the five Holmes movies Wontner made, three were for Twickenham Studios, a low-budget production company. "Silver Blaze" and "The Sign of Four" were made by ARP. However, one of the films, Sherlock Holmes and the Missing Rembrandt (1932), is lost. Sherlock Holmes' Fatal Hour (1931) was unobtainable for decades, but it turned up on an American video dealer's list and was shown at the annual film evening in November 2000. It was very appropriate because it was first shown to the Society by Tony Howlett at the very first film evening in 1951, when Arthur Wontner, himself, was present.
The Society has the other three movies on film, "The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes", "Silver Blaze" and "The Sign of Four".
(This biography is used with the kind permission of The Sherlock Holmes Society of London.) - Director
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David Wark Griffith was born in rural Kentucky to Jacob "Roaring Jake" Griffith, a former Confederate Army colonel and Civil War veteran. Young Griffith grew up with his father's romantic war stories and melodramatic nineteenth-century literature that were to eventually shape his movies. In 1897 Griffith set out to pursue a career both acting and writing for the theater, but for the most part was unsuccessful. Reluctantly, he agreed to act in the new motion picture medium for Edwin S. Porter at the Edison Company. Griffith was eventually offered a job at the financially struggling American Mutoscope & Biograph Co., where he directed over four hundred and fifty short films, experimenting with the story-telling techniques he would later perfect in his epic The Birth of a Nation (1915).
Griffith and his personal cinematographer G.W. Bitzer collaborated to create and perfect such cinematic devices as the flashback, the iris shot, the mask and cross-cutting. In the years following "Birth", Griffith never again saw the same monumental success as his signature film and, in 1931, his increasing failures forced his retirement. Though hailed for his vision in narrative film-making, he was similarly criticized for his blatant racism. Griffith died in Los Angeles in 1948, one of the most dichotomous figures in film history.- Mrs. Harry Houdini was born on 22 January 1875 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Religious Racketeers (1938). She was married to Harry Houdini. She died on 11 February 1943 in Needles, California, USA.
- Thomas W. Ross was born on 22 January 1875 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Checkers (1913), Fine Feathers (1921) and Seventeen (1940). He died on 14 November 1959 in Torrington, Connecticut, USA.
- Sofya Khalyutina was born on 22 January 1875 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]. She was an actress, known for Andrey Toboltsev (1915), Bez viny vinovatye (1945) and Bolshaya zemlya (1944). She died on 10 March 1960 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Samuel Ellison was born on 23 January 1875 in Kirksville, Missouri, USA. He was a writer, known for Flames of Wrath (1923). He was married to Margaret "Pet" Wilson. He died on 7 August 1949 in Kirksville, Missouri, USA.
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Frank England was born on 23 January 1875 in Pennsylvania, USA. He is known for The Three Musketeers (1921). He died on 3 March 1954 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Music Department
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Arthur Wood was born on 24 January 1875 in Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, England, UK. He is known for Dead Alive (1992), Chicken Run (2000) and The Cobblers of Umbridge (1973). He died on 18 January 1953 in London, England, UK.- Actor
Ed Hunt was born on 24 January 1875 in England.- May Milloy was born on 25 January 1875 in Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]. She was an actress, known for The Man from Blankley's (1930), Dad's Day (1929) and Hurdy Gurdy (1929). She was married to Ford West. She died on 18 November 1967 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.
- Frank MacQuarrie was born on 27 January 1875 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Black Box (1915), The Voice on the Wire (1917) and A Stormy Knight (1917). He died on 25 December 1950 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Tamás Moly was born on 27 January 1875 in Budapest, Hungary. Tamás was a writer, known for Vörösbegy (1921) and Csak növel ne! (1924). Tamás died on 16 March 1957 in Budapest, Hungary.
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George Stanley was born on 29 January 1875 in San Francisco, California, USA. He is known for The Little Minister (1922), Fighting Fate (1921) and He Got Himself a Wife (1915).- Actress
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Cecil Spooner was born on 29 January 1875 in New York, USA. She was an actress and director, known for Nell of the Circus (1914), Hansel and Gretel (1909) and The Prince and the Pauper (1909). She was married to Charles E. Blaney. She died on 13 May 1953 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA.- Menyhért Gulyás was born on 29 January 1875 in Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary [now Romania]. He was an actor, known for Rozmaring (1938), Szenzáció (1936) and I Married for Love (1937). He died on 31 March 1959 in Budapest, Hungary.
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Horace B. Carpenter was born on 31 January 1875 in Sauk Rapids, Minnesota, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Maniac (1934), The Arizona Kid (1929) and Fangs of Fate (1925). He was married to Beatrice Allen and Ella N. Hilger. He died on 21 May 1945 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Georges Robert was born on 31 January 1875 in Courseulles-sur-Mer, Calvados, France. He died on 2 March 1965 in Paris, France.
- Lidiya Charskaya was born on 31 January 1875 in Tsarskoye Selo, St. Petersburg Governorate, Russian Empire [now Pushkin, St. Petersburg, Russia]. Lidiya was a writer, known for Mirazhi (1916). Lidiya died on 18 March 1937 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia].
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Eddie Polo was born on 1 February 1875 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. He was an actor and director, known for The Vanishing Dagger (1920), The New Adventures of Terence O'Rourke (1915) and The Lure of the Circus (1918). He was married to Pearl Grant and Alice Finch. He died on 14 June 1961 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Billy Sullivan was born on 1 February 1875 in Oakland, Wisconsin, USA. He died on 28 January 1965 in Newberg, Oregon, USA.
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L.C. MacBean was born on 1 February 1875 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He was a writer and director, known for Bladys of the Stewpony (1919), The Ways of the World (1915) and The Dawn of Truth (1920). He died in February 1929 in Tonbridge, Kent, England, UK.- Actress
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Billie Brockwell was born on 1 February 1875 in Georgia, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for Linda (1929), The Rattlesnake (1913) and A Law Unto Himself (1916). She died on 30 January 1949 in Westwood, California, USA.- Composer
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Violinist, composer and arranger, educated at the Vienna Conservatory (which he entered at age seven and won a Gold Medal at ten) with Auber and Hellmesberger, and at the Paris Conservatory with Massart and Delibes, where he graduated at age twelve with the Grand Prix. In 1888, at age thirteen, he made his American debut at Steinway Hall in New York, and the next year he toured with pianist Moriz Rosenthal. Returning to Europe, he studied medicine in Vienna and art in Rome and Paris. After serving in the Austrian army, he resumed his concert career in 1899, and made world tours. During World War I, he served as a captain in the Austrian army, and resumed again his concert appearances in 1914. He became a French citizen in 1938 (and was a commander in the French Legion of Honor), and came to the USA in 1943, making many records. Joining ASCAP in 1924, he also wrote several popular songs, including "Stars in My Eyes" and "The Second Violin".- Valerie Bergere was born on 2 February 1875 in Metz, Lorraine, Germany [now Metz, Moselle, France]. She was an actress, known for It's Love I'm After (1937), The Wild Girl (1917) and Absent Minded Abner (1932). She was married to Herbert Warren. She died on 16 September 1938 in Hollywood, California, USA.