Color Info: Color Countries: Japan Genres: Crime, Drama Languages: English Runtimes: Japan:112 Release Dates: Japan:15 September 1982
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Masato Furuoya(actor) Height: 188 cm Death Notes: Tokyo, Japan (suicide) Birth Notes: Kanagawa, Japan Death Date: 25 March 2003 Birth Date: 14 May 1957
Ikko Furuya(actor) Height: 170 cm Birth Name: Furuya, Kazuyuki Birth Notes: Tokyo, Japan Birth Date: 2 January 1944
Mikijiro Hira(actor) Height: 180 cm Birth Notes: Hiroshima, Japan Spouse: 'Yoshiko Sakuma (I)' (qv) (1970 - 1985) (divorced) Birth Date: 21 November 1933
Yoshizumi Ishihara(actor) Height: 182 cm Birth Notes: Kanagawa, Japan Birth Date: 15 January 1962
Yoshi Kato(actor) Birth Notes: Tokyo, Japan Death Date: 1 March 1988 Spouse: 'Isuzu Yamada' (qv) (1950 - ?) (divorced) Birth Date: 12 January 1913
Nobuyuki Katsube(actor)
Hiroshi Katsuno(actor) Birth Name: Katsuno, Mutsuhiro Birth Notes: Kumamoto, Japan Spouse: 'Kathy Nakajima' (1979 - present); 2 children Birth Date: 27 July 1949
Shigeru Kôyama(actor) Height: 176 cm Birth Notes: Hiroshima, Japan Birth Date: 16 January 1929
Fujita Okamoto(actor) Birth Notes: Yokohama, Japan Birth Date: 21 November 1946
Etsushi Takahashi(actor) Height: 6' Birth Notes: Osaka, Japan Death Date: 19 May 1996 (cancer) Birth Date: 2 August 1935
Yusuke Takita(actor) Birth Name: Takita, Susumu Birth Notes: Setagaya cho, Tokyofu, Japan Birth Date: 29 November 1930
Kunie Tanaka(actor) Height: 167 cm Birth Notes: Gifu, Japan Birth Date: 23 November 1932
Tomisaburo Wakayama(actor) Death Notes: Kyoto, Japan (heart attack) Birth Notes: Tokyo, Japan Birth Name: Okumura, Masaru Best known in Japan in playing Ogami Itto, the disgraced, scowling, 17th century ronin in six Kozure Ogami (Lone Wolf and Cub) samurai feature movies., Brother of Shintaro Katsu Death Date: 2 April 1992 Birth Date: 1 September 1929
Tatsuo Yamada(actor) Birth Notes: Toyama, Japan Birth Date: 10 January 1956
Kumiko Akiyoshi(actress) Height: 162 cm Birth Notes: Shizuoka, Japan Birth Date: 29 July 1954
Mio Takaki(actress) Height: 160 cm Birth Name: Sadaya, Yukari Birth Notes: Fukuoka, Japan Some sources say that her birth date is 31 December 1959. Birth Date: 31 December 1960
Hisao Masuda(producer)
Nobutoshi Masumoto(producer)
Kazuyoshi Okuyama(producer) Birth Notes: Tokyo, Japan He be son of Toru Okuyama who is one-time president of pictures crop concern, Shochiku. He is former vise president of Shochiku. He be fired near his father, disguise of "coup d'etat" bordered by the company. After that, he made his personal movie production company, "Team Okuyama". Birth Date: 4 December 1953
Kentaro Haneda(composer) Death Date: 2 June 2007 Death Notes: Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan (hepatocellular carcinoma) Birth Date: 12 January 1949 Birth Notes: Tokyo, Japan Nick Names: Haneken
Color Info: Black and White Countries: USA Genres: Comedy, Short Sound Mix: Silent Tech Info: MET:600 m, OFM:35 mm, PCS:Spherical, PFM:35 mm, RAT:1.33 : 1 Release Dates: USA:29 August 1914
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Charley Chase(actor) Brother of 'James Parrott' (qv)., Entered films in 1912., In an interview on the 'David Letterman' (qv) show, 'Hal Roach (I)' (qv) said that Chase auditioned for him by saying he could play ANY part. Chase then proceeded to do his impression of a lighthouse by turning his head, pausing with his eyes wide open when he was facing forward during each rotation., Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith. Pg. 102-103. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387, Had two daughters: Pauline (Polly) and June., Directed short comedies under his birth name, Charles Parrott. Death Notes: Hollywood, California, USA (heart attack) While Charley Chase be far from someone via manner of outstanding as "The Big Three" ('Charlie Chaplin (I)', 'Buster Keaton' (qv) and 'Harold Lloyd' (qv)) today, he's in pernickety esteemed as one of the "greats" by fan of quiet funniness. Chase (real given name Charles Parrott) be born delimited by Maryland, USA, in 1893. After a stumpy and snappy profession in vaudeville, he enter Al Christie's the flicks studio as a wit in 1913 until that occurrence settle fuzz at Keystone Films the behind year. Chase's career in films act upon not set in motion departed its sell-by date beside odd glory. He play duck parts in a extensive digit of short comedy, appear with Charlie Chaplin and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, among others, before he in due course get his accident at Hal Roach Studios as a administrator, before Roach realize what a capable comedian he enjoy hired. "I can dance anything!" Chase tell Roach, and in due course his contention was confirmed. Although Mack Sennett's Keystone studio have earn mythological kudos as the last factory of comic invention, it can merely simply be denied that Roach fashionable a more genteel elegance of comedy which minus a doubt fitted Chase greater (indeed, Sennett's crude goods ever more gone astray favor with the movie-going municipal by the precipitate 1920s, while Roach's studio flourished). During five years, 1924-29, he starred in nearly a hundred two-reelers, best of which be directed by Leo McCarey. Chase frequently portray an to all appearance brand and charismatic man who in authenticity, it eventually turned out, was as expected a little guy after all. His merits was largely addicted by Lloyd Hamilton, another neglected comedian whom Chase had directed in several two-reelers. Among Charley's most impressive shorts be Innocent Husbands, Mighty Like a Moose, and Movie Night. From the outset, Charley Chase was a "critics' honey," but none of his films were astoundingly proud at the strongbox bureau. There is no ceremonial "explanation" to this, but one point may be that Chase, in assessment to the more grassroots clown, never starred in any thorn during the silent outbreak. On a personal level, Chase was exactingly hobble by alcoholism, which is unapparent in his films. Chase made several budding appearances after the talkies arrived, in 1929-30, even more in Laurel and Hardy's highly acclaimed feature _Sons of the Desert (1933)_ (qv). Despite this, he was never offered any further appearances in features. But he continual to carry out in shorts and did also match uphill a few of the Three Stooges' early movies. He die in 1940, not however 47 years of age, of a heart engender all for. It is okay to admit that his early demise was to a large amount cause by his addiction to alcohol, a woe which had disconcerted his loved ones for several years. His brother James, also an performer, had died the year before. The two brothers had be rod for the duration of their live, although their personal logical hitches repetitively wooden all other (or probably that was the reason for their being consequently close.) Chase was married to Bebe Eltinge from 1914, a marriage ceremony that last until his death and produced two daughters, Polly and June. Chase's silent work was celebrated next to DVD in two volume from Kino Video. At prolonged subsequent his comic expert is being erect. Height: 6' Birth Notes: Baltimore, Maryland, USA Books: 'Brian Anthony (III)' (qv), 'Andy Edmonds' (qv). _Smile When the Raindrops Fall: The Story of Charley Chase (Scarecrow Filmmakers Series, No. 58)._ Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1997. ISBN 0810833778 Other Works: Vaudeville actor. Birth Name: Parrott, Charles Joseph Spouse: 'Bebe Eltinge' (25 March 1914 - 20 June 1940) (his death); 2 children Death Date: 20 June 1940 Birth Date: 20 October 1893
Cecile Arnold(actress) Death Notes: Hong Kong, China Comedienne Cecile Arnold be born contained by Kentucky, USA in 1891 and made her debut in films at the age of 22, when she fixed the Keystone studio. Although her career nearby generally consisted of playing taking sides role, she cause receive more prominent eyeshade instance over and done next to instance, prominently via ability of a pretty blonde in Those Love Pangs (1914) with Charlie Chaplin. She appear with Chaplin in at lowest latent eleven stumpy films, and can also be glimpsed with other star such as Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Mack Swain. However, her work was jog short when she married a backer in 1917, after which she disappeared the cinema altogether. She die in Hong Kong in 1931 as the end product of a disorderly baggage of bug, aged 40. Birth Notes: Louisville, Kentucky, USA Birth Name: Arnoux, Cecile Laval Death Date: 1931 Birth Date: April 1891
Charles Avery(director) Death Notes: Los Angeles, California, USA (suicide) Birth Notes: Chicago, Illinois, USA Birth Name: Bradford, Charles Avery One of the original seven Keystone Kops., Along with Fred Mace, Ford Sterling & Mabel Normand, Mack Sennett took him from Biograph to Keystone., Entered films with biograph, Later Keystone & later Paramount., Directed Fatty Arbuckle in over 50 films including "The Knockout". Death Date: 23 July 1926 Birth Date: 28 May 1873
Color Info: Color Countries: East Germany, Czechoslovakia Genres: Animation, Short, Family Languages: Czech Runtimes: 14 Release Dates: Czechoslovakia:1977
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Bohus Záhorský(actor) Birth Name: Záhorský, Bohumil Birth Notes: Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic) Death Date: 22 September 1980 Death Notes: Prague, Czechoslovakia. [now Czech Republic] Birth Date: 5 February 1906
Oldrich Augusta(writer)
Jirí Kubícek(writer)
Wolfgang Schiebel(cinematographer)
Lubos Fiser(composer) Articles: "The Guardian" (UK), 23 September 1999, by: Guy Rickards, "Lubos Fiser" Death Notes: Prague, Czechoslovakia Birth Notes: Prague, Czechoslovakia Death Date: 22 June 1999 Birth Date: 30 September 1935
Soundtrack: "RESULTAT AV PLÖJNINGSTÄVLAN" Music and Lyrics by Ulf Peder Olrog Performed by Nils Banjo-Lasse Larson and Håkan Norlén Production Dates: 29 January 1946 - 29 March 1946 Certificates: Sweden:15 Color Info: Black and White Countries: Sweden Genres: Comedy Languages: Swedish Runtimes: 104 Sound Mix: Mono Tech Info: LAB:Svensk Filmindustri, Råsunda, Sweden, MET:2850 m, OFM:35 mm, PCS:Spherical, PFM:35 mm, RAT:1.37 : 1 Release Dates: Sweden:23 September 1946, USA:6 August 1952
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Anders Andelius(actor) Birth Name: Andelius, Tage Anders Johan Birth Notes: Järbo, Gävleborgs län, Sweden Death Date: 26 May 1983 Death Notes: Mora, Dalarnas län, Sweden Birth Date: 28 February 1923
Wiktor Andersson(actor) Nick Names: Kulörten Death Notes: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden Birth Notes: Kungsbacka, Hallands län, Sweden Birth Name: Andersson, Wiktor Herman Spouse: 'Edith Viktorsson' (1931 - ?) Death Date: 13 September 1966 Birth Date: 19 June 1887
Sven Bergvall(actor) Other Works: (1941) 'Karl Ragnar Gierow' (qv)'s play 'Rovdjuret' at The, (1941) August in 'Hjalmar Bergman' (qv)'s play 'Farmor och vår herre' at The Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden., (1940) 'John Steinbeck' (qv)'s play 'Of Mice and Men' at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden., (1942) 'August Strindberg' (qv)'s play 'Spöksonaten' at The Birth Notes: Västerfärnebo, Sala, Västmanlands län, Sweden Death Date: 2 November 1960 Spouse: 'Anna Bergvall' (qv) (1913 - ?) Birth Date: 25 May 1881
Ernst Brunman(actor) Birth Name: Brunman, Ernst Olof Wilhelm Birth Notes: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden Death Date: 1 January 1961 Death Notes: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden Birth Date: 2 August 1886
Erland Colliander(actor) Death Notes: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden Birth Notes: Stockholm, Sweden Death Date: 28 February 1949 Spouse: 'Martha Colliander' (qv) (1913 - 28 February 1949) (his death) Birth Date: 9 October 1878
Edvard Danielsson(actor) Death Date: 1948 Birth Date: 1887
Carl Deurell(actor) Death Notes: Bromma, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden Birth Notes: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden Death Date: 9 December 1962 Birth Date: 10 August 1868
Åke Engfeldt(actor) Birth Notes: Stockholm, Sweden Death Date: 13 March 1977 Birth Date: 1 November 1913
Carl Ericson(actor) Death Notes: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden Birth Notes: Eskilstuna, Södermands län, Sweden Death Date: 3 January 1970 Birth Date: 18 March 1885
Georg Fernqvist(actor) Birth Name: Fernqvist, Georg Eberhard Birth Notes: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden Death Date: 23 December 1954 Birth Date: 27 March 1883
Karl Erik Flens(actor) Death Notes: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden Birth Notes: Lidingö, Stockholms län, Sweden Death Date: 17 October 1975 Other Works: (1943) 'Kaj Munk' (qv)'s play 'Niels Ebbesen' at Dramatikerstudion, Stockholm, Sweden. Birth Date: 19 March 1913
Hartwig Fock(actor) Birth Name: Eriksson, Hartwig Birth Notes: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden Death Date: 1 December 1961 Death Notes: Täby, Stockholms län, Sweden Birth Date: 1 December 1890
Erik Forslund(actor) Death Notes: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden Birth Notes: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden Death Date: 12 March 1960 Birth Date: 22 October 1878
Georg Funkquist(actor) Death Notes: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden Birth Notes: Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden Other Works: (1967, May 21st): With Funkquist as Pandarus, Shakespeare's play 'Troilus and Cressida' directed by Alf Sjöberg premieres at The Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden., (1942) 'Vilhelm Moberg' (qv)'s play 'Rid i natt!' at The Royal, (1940) 'Robert de Flers' (qv) and 'Gaston Armand de Caillavet' (qv)'s play 'La belle aventure' at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden., (1925) 'Dario Nicodemi''s play 'The Shadow'., (1941) 'Emlyn Williams (I)' (qv) play 'The Corn is Green' at The Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden., (1941) 'George Bernard Shaw' (qv)'s play 'Pygmalion' at The, (1941) 'Victorien Sardou' (qv)'s play 'Divorcons' at The Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden., (1941) 'Alex Brinchmann' (qv)'s play 'Karusell' at The Royal, (1943) 'Robert Boissy' (qv)'s play 'Jupiter' at The Royal, (1943) Swedish dubbing for _Bambi (1942)_ (qv)., (1943) Mr. Blake in 'Samson Raphaelson' (qv)'s play 'Skylark' Birth Name: Funkquist, Georg Herman Fredrik Death Date: 23 October 1986 Birth Date: 13 March 1900
Gösta Gustafson(actor) Birth Notes: Haga, Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden Death Date: 19 January 1963 Birth Date: 15 November 1886
Paul Hagman(actor) Death Notes: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden Death Date: 17 October 1964 Birth Date: 19 January 1887
Oscar Heurlin(actor) Death Date: 29 February 1948 Birth Date: 30 January 1889
Ingemar Holde(actor) Death Notes: Sweden Birth Notes: Norrköping, Östergötlands län, Sweden Death Date: 22 March 1982 Birth Date: 2 January 1916
Holger Höglund(actor) Death Date: 23 March 1965 Birth Date: 31 May 1906
Stig Järrel(actor) Articles: "Svenska Dagbladet" (Sweden), 3 July 1998, by: Gaby Wigardt, "Från Lilla Märta till Hamlet", "Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning" (Sweden), 23 September 1950, pg. 11, by: Big Ben, "Svenskar i amerikanska TV-filmer" Children: 'Henrik S. Järrel' (qv), 'Helén Järrel' and adoptive son 'Bengt Järrel' (qv)., Voice of Grumpy in the Swedish adaptation of Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)., Thanks to his photographic memory, he just had to read his lines once to remember them. Death Notes: Monte Carlo, Monaco Once one of Sweden's hardest utilizable actor, he enjoy descibed himself enclosed by situate of a workaholic during the 1940s. He has play all kind of role, both the jokey edge as in _Fram för lilla Märta (1945)_ (qv) also as the psychotic don Caligula in 'Alf Sjöberg' (qv)'s _Hets (1944)_ (qv). And although he singular cause minor roles in galore of films, his characterization never go lacking being seen. He be also an actor next to the perform, both in revues and drama. He spent his state-of-the-art years in Rocquebrune at the French Riviera next to his wife Aase. Birth Notes: Malmberget, Norrbottens län, Sweden Other Works: (1945) 'Karl Ragnar Gierow' (qv)'s play 'Av hjärtats lust' at The Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden, (1944) 'William Shakespeare (I)' (qv)'s play 'Othello' for Sveriges Radio., (3/8/1949): Antinoos in Eyvind Johnson's 'Strändernas svall' for the Swedish Radio Theatre., (1949) 'William Shakespeare (I)' (qv)'s 'Hamlet' at Stockholmsteatern, Stockholm., (1929-31) Acting studies at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm., Swedish voice on _Animal Farm (1954)_ (qv), (1969 - 1989) Radio show 'På minuten', (1940) 'Brandon Thomas''s play 'Charley's Aunt' at Södra Teatern, Stockholm, Sweden., (1943) Herodes in 'Oscar Wilde' (qv)'s play 'Salome' at Nya Teatern, Stockholmn, Sweden., (1961): Podkolesin in 'Nikolai Gogol' (qv)'s play 'the Proposal' for the Swedish Radio Theatre, directed by P. Edström., (1985) Järrel, Stig. I rampljuset - vänporträtt. Stockholm: Bonniers. ISBN 91-0-046557-7 Where Now: (1996) Retired on the French Riviera. Birth Name: Ohlsson, Stig Spouse: 'Karin Juel' (qv) (1934 - ?) (divorced), 'Ingrid Backlin' (qv) (? - ?), 'Aase Krøyer' (1960 - 1 July 1998) (his death) Death Date: 1 July 1998 Interviews: "Dagens Nyheter" (Sweden), 20 October 1940, "Järrel-teatern" Birth Date: 8 February 1910
Alf Kjellin(actor) Last name pronounced "Chell-leen.", Most familiar to modern audiences as the Russian paratroop commander in "Ice Station Zebra". Death Notes: Los Angeles, California, USA (heart attack) Although broken in contained by favour of the dais in his prolific Sweden, Alf Kjellin appear in one and only a few stage production ancient entering films. His sweat in _Hets (1944)_ (qv) resulted in his creature notice via Hollywood, and he made his American motion illustration debut in 1949 underneath the moniker Christopher Kent. He before long go subsidise to using his physical name, and still he made several more Hollywood films, he work fundamentally out of Sweden, both by route of an thespian and commander. In the untimely 1960s he perfect of all settled in Hollywood. Although he acted in and directed a few drift films, the fundamental entry of his work consisted of direct made-for-TV films (one of his bigger ones being the devious psychological thriller _Deadly Dream (1971) (TV)_ (qv)) and appear as a guest star--often as a villain--in TV discipline. Birth Notes: Lund, Skåne län, Sweden Other Works: (1943) 'Kaj Munk' (qv)'s play 'Niels Ebbesen' at Dramatikerstudion, Stockholm, Sweden. Birth Name: Kjellin, Alf Gunnar Helgesson Spouse: 'Gun Hellberg' (qv) (1958 - 1973), 'Karin Nordgren' (qv) (? - ?) Death Date: 5 April 1988 Birth Date: 28 February 1920
Jarl Kulle(actor) Daughter with 'Louise Hermelin' (qv) is actress 'Maria Kulle' (qv), He met 'Anne Nord' (qv) when they performed the leading roles in the same play (the Bachelor's lair) at Intiman, Stockholm in 1969., Two daughters with 'Anne Nord' (qv): Linda and Hanna., Brother of actress 'Gerthi Kulle' (qv). Pictorials: "Modern Man Deluxe Quarterly" (USA), 1968, Vol. 8, Iss. Spring, pg. 27, by: staff, "Foreign film: Where it all began: Sweden" Death Notes: Gregersboda, Roslagen, Stockholms län, Sweden (bone cancer) Hadn't it be bordered by assistance of his university mentor, who manage to get requisition of him cache for a theater programming, he would probably never enjoy become an thespian. After two substandard attempt at becoming a learner at the Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school he succeed at the age of 19. During these years in the genesis of the 1950s he play dour 'Inga Tidblad' (qv) in the world premiere of 'Eugene O'Neill's 'Long Days Journey Into Night'. 32 years subsequent he be in alike pirouette again, this occurrence directed via 'Ingmar Bergman' (qv). His dimensions for drudgery was truly amazing, a few years he made several prevailing role both in put on spectacle business and films. He was also gleeful in plonk of Professor Higgins in 'Alan Jay Lerner' (qv)'s and 'Frederick Loewe' (qv)'s play 'My Fair Lady' 1959-1961. He become ably certain to the laypeople near 'Lars-Magnus Lindgren' (qv)'s _Änglar, finns dom? (1961)_ (qv). During the 1960s he was peopled with making cinema and he himself directed _Bokhandlaren som slutade bada (1969)_ (qv) and _Ministern (1970)_ (qv). His work with 'Ingmar Bergman' (qv) inaugurate in 1952 with _Kvinnors väntan (1952)_ (qv), continuing with _Sommarnattens leende (1955)_ (qv) and with a overbearing finale in _Fanny och Alexander (1982)_ (qv). He return to the Royal Dramatic Theatre in 1982 and plays analogous to 'William Shakespeare (I)' (qv)'s 'King Lear', 'Hjalmar Bergman' (qv)'s 'Markurells i Wadköping' and 'Molière' (qv)'s 'Tartuffe'. Birth Notes: Ekeby, Malmöhus län, Sweden Magazine Covers: "Röster i Radio-TV" (Sweden), January 1968, Iss. 1 Other Works: (1961): Fagin in Lionel Bart's musical 'Oliver!' which premiered on 14 September at Oscarsteatern, Stockholm, Sweden., (1956) 'Tennessee Williams' (qv)' play 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden., (1992) 'Arthur Miller (I)' (qv)'s 'The Death of a Salesman' at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden., (1964) Newspaper commercial for Vingresor travelling agency., (1995) 'Molière' (qv)'s 'The Misanthrop' at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden., (1988) Eugene O'Neill's 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden., (1984) 'William Shakespeare (I)' (qv)'s 'King Lear' at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden., (1991) 'Molière' (qv)'s play Tartuffe at The Royal Dramatic Theater, Stockholm, Sweden., (1961): Fagin in Lionel Barts musical 'Vägen hem' which, (1954): Tor Hedberg's play 'Nationalmonumentet' which premiered on 26th November at The Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden., 1983-1996: Recited Alfred Tennyson's poem "Ring Out, Wild Bells" at the New Years celebration in Stockholm. Spouse: 'Louise Hermelin' (qv) (1960 - 1968) (divorced), 'Anne Nord' (qv) (1976 - 3 October 1997) (his death) Death Date: 3 October 1997 Birth Date: 28 February 1927
Håkan Norlén(actor)
Theodor Olsson(actor) Death Date: February 1954 Birth Date: 15 September 1879
Olav Riégo(actor) Death Notes: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden Birth Notes: Helsingfors, Finland Birth Name: Riégo, Carl Olav Brother of actress 'Marga Riégo' (qv). Death Date: 25 December 1956 Birth Date: 21 April 1891
Artur Rolén(actor) Death Notes: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden Birth Notes: Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden Death Date: 1 May 1972 Brother of 'Margot Ryding' (qv). Birth Date: 5 May 1894
Erik Rosén(actor) Death Date: 3 January 1967 Birth Date: 13 July 1883
Color Info: Black and White Countries: France Genres: Short Sound Mix: Silent
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Georges Méliès(actor) Articles: "Variety" (USA), 26 January 1938, "Stop Camera Pioneer Discoverer, Melies, Dies Broke in Paris", "New York Times" (USA), 23 January 1938, pg. 9:2, "Georges Melies; French Motion Picture Producer a Pioneer in Industry", "Variety" (USA), 16 October 1909, pg. 13:1, "Melies' Suit [against the Motion Picture Patents Co.] Near Trial", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 2 October 1909, pg. 444, "George Méliès's Scenario Contest", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 25 September 1909, pg. 409, "Georges Méliès's Scenario Contest", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 21 August 1909, pg. 250, "The Méliès Competitions", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 25 May 1907, pg. 188, "Burglars Break in and Steal" 'D.W. Griffith' (qv) said about Melies, "I owe him everything.", 'Charles Chaplin' (qv) said he was "the alchemist of light.", His grave is situated in the Père Lachaise cemetery (Paris, France), He built the first movie studio in Europe., Is regarded as "The Father of Special Effects.", He was the first to use production sketches and storyboards., On December 28, 1895, he was a member of the first audience in the world to see the Lumiere brothers' Cinematographe., He tried to buy Cinematographe equipment from the Lumieres but they refused to sell to him. He got into the film business by buying a projector from R. W. Paul and buying a Bioscope camera., His first films, like those of the Lumieres, were simple life scenes which he added to the program at his theatre, the Theatre Robert-Houdin. He later filmed scenes of himself doing magic tricks., Melies worked with two engineers at his theatre workshop to build a camera of his own. The first prototype weighed over 75 pounds., While shooting one of his life scenes in the Place de l'Opera in Paris, the camera jammed. It took about a minute to clear the problem and resume shooting. When the film was processed and screened, Melies saw a bus suddenly turn into a hearse; people in the scene suddenly appeared or disappeared. This accident led to his discovery of stop motion trickery which became his first filmic special effects technique. This stop motion technique had previously been discovered and used by Edison, but Melies made extensive use of it in his short films., He considered the United States such an important market that his company had an office there. Many of his production sketches and storyboards were captioned in English as well as French., By the time he left film production, he had created over 500 films., When he discontinued film production, Melies himself reportedly destroyed the original elements of most of his films., The Theatre Robert-Houdin was closed in 1914 as a result of World War I. This sent him into bankruptcy., The French surrealist movement of the 1920s brought about a rediscovery of his surviving works., The recognition by the French surrealist movement led to acknowledgement of his contributions to the art and industry of the motion picture. A search was conducted for him and he was discovered operating a Kiosk at the Gare Montparnasse where he was selling candy and toys., The rediscovery and recognition of Melies in the 1920s led to his being awarded the Legion of Honor in 1931., Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 747-765. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987., Was cinema's first real fantasist. Considered the absolute greatest fictional fantatsist of his time., Had all of his early equipment (projectors, printers and processing equipment) custom made from designs of others (namely the Lumiere's) that he had improved on., His brother 'Gaston Méliès' (qv) opened a sales office in New York City in 1903 to market his films in the US. They published a catalog with very detailed and extensive descriptions in English. Georges would then shoot two negatives of each of his films--one of which would be sent to the States., Father of 'André Méliès' (qv) ., Before getting into motion pictures, his jobs, which he reportedly loved, included work as a conjurer, illusionist and theater owner/manager. It was this background that fueled his imagination in regards to making motion pictures. Unlike the Lumiere Brothers, especially director Louis Lumiere, he didn't think that the cinema was simply for recording, films actualities and taking snapshots of reality. Instead, he considered the medium a perfect vehicle to further escape for an audience. Biographical Movies: _Le grand Méliès (1952)_ (qv) Death Notes: Paris, France Georges Melies, a office conjuror near grounding, consummate ancient saw the topical "moving pictures" contained by 1895. Little complete a year subsequent, Melies be film and projecting his momentous creation. By misery, he discovered that he could development stop-motion photography to render swindle optical effects. Melies was also the first to use technique such by the use of the fade-in, the fade-out, and the dissolve to compile the first genuine narrative films. Melies made over 500 films, but his most legendary - _Le voyage dans la lune (1902)_ (qv) (Voyage to the Moon). Still, Melies, broken in in classic eighteenth century theater, conceive all of his films in language of fully played-out scene. Unable to hang over to conscious with the varying industry, the anticlimax of his occurrence was fashioned with impecuniousness, on the other hand his films would be monumental stepping stones in favour of extreme auteurs such as 'D.W. Griffith' (qv). Birth Notes: Paris, France Books: Paul Hammond. _Marvelous Méliès._ London: Gordon Fraser, 1974. ISBN 0900406380, Georges Méliès, Maurice Bessy, Loc Duca. _Mes memoires par Georges Méliès._ Paris: prisma, 1945., Frank Thompson. _The Star Film Ranch: Texas' First Picture Show._ Plano, TX: Republic of Texas Press, 1996. ISBN 1556224818, Madeleine Malthête-Méliès. _Méliès l'enchanteur._ Paris: Hachette, 1973., Elizabeth Ezra. _Georges Méliès: The Birth of the Auteur._ New York: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2000. ISBN 0719053951, Georges Méliès. _Mes Memoires._ 1938., 'Stan Brakhage' (qv). _The Brakhage Lectures: Georges Melies, David Wark Griffith, Carl Theodore Dreyer, Sergei Eisenstein._ Chicago, IL: GoodLion, 1972., John Frazer. _Artificially Arranged Scenes: The Films of Georges Méliès._ Boston: G.K. Hall, 1979. ISBN 0816183686 Birth Name: Méliès, Marie-Georges-Jean Spouse: 'Jeanne d'Alcy' (qv) (1926 - 21 January 1938) (his death), 'Marie-Georges Méliès' (qv) (? - ?) Death Date: 21 January 1938 Portrayed: _"From the Earth to the Moon" (1998)_ (qv), _Le grand Méliès (1952)_ (qv) Birth Date: 8 December 1861 Articles: "Variety" (USA), 26 January 1938, "Stop Camera Pioneer Discoverer, Melies, Dies Broke in Paris", "New York Times" (USA), 23 January 1938, pg. 9:2, "Georges Melies; French Motion Picture Producer a Pioneer in Industry", "Variety" (USA), 16 October 1909, pg. 13:1, "Melies' Suit [against the Motion Picture Patents Co.] Near Trial", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 2 October 1909, pg. 444, "George Méliès's Scenario Contest", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 25 September 1909, pg. 409, "Georges Méliès's Scenario Contest", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 21 August 1909, pg. 250, "The Méliès Competitions", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 25 May 1907, pg. 188, "Burglars Break in and Steal" 'D.W. Griffith' (qv) said about Melies, "I owe him everything.", 'Charles Chaplin' (qv) said he was "the alchemist of light.", His grave is situated in the Père Lachaise cemetery (Paris, France), He built the first movie studio in Europe., Is regarded as "The Father of Special Effects.", He was the first to use production sketches and storyboards., On December 28, 1895, he was a member of the first audience in the world to see the Lumiere brothers' Cinematographe., He tried to buy Cinematographe equipment from the Lumieres but they refused to sell to him. He got into the film business by buying a projector from R. W. Paul and buying a Bioscope camera., His first films, like those of the Lumieres, were simple life scenes which he added to the program at his theatre, the Theatre Robert-Houdin. He later filmed scenes of himself doing magic tricks., Melies worked with two engineers at his theatre workshop to build a camera of his own. The first prototype weighed over 75 pounds., While shooting one of his life scenes in the Place de l'Opera in Paris, the camera jammed. It took about a minute to clear the problem and resume shooting. When the film was processed and screened, Melies saw a bus suddenly turn into a hearse; people in the scene suddenly appeared or disappeared. This accident led to his discovery of stop motion trickery which became his first filmic special effects technique. This stop motion technique had previously been discovered and used by Edison, but Melies made extensive use of it in his short films., He considered the United States such an important market that his company had an office there. Many of his production sketches and storyboards were captioned in English as well as French., By the time he left film production, he had created over 500 films., When he discontinued film production, Melies himself reportedly destroyed the original elements of most of his films., The Theatre Robert-Houdin was closed in 1914 as a result of World War I. This sent him into bankruptcy., The French surrealist movement of the 1920s brought about a rediscovery of his surviving works., The recognition by the French surrealist movement led to acknowledgement of his contributions to the art and industry of the motion picture. A search was conducted for him and he was discovered operating a Kiosk at the Gare Montparnasse where he was selling candy and toys., The rediscovery and recognition of Melies in the 1920s led to his being awarded the Legion of Honor in 1931., Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 747-765. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987., Was cinema's first real fantasist. Considered the absolute greatest fictional fantatsist of his time., Had all of his early equipment (projectors, printers and processing equipment) custom made from designs of others (namely the Lumiere's) that he had improved on., His brother 'Gaston Méliès' (qv) opened a sales office in New York City in 1903 to market his films in the US. They published a catalog with very detailed and extensive descriptions in English. Georges would then shoot two negatives of each of his films--one of which would be sent to the States., Father of 'André Méliès' (qv) ., Before getting into motion pictures, his jobs, which he reportedly loved, included work as a conjurer, illusionist and theater owner/manager. It was this background that fueled his imagination in regards to making motion pictures. Unlike the Lumiere Brothers, especially director Louis Lumiere, he didn't think that the cinema was simply for recording, films actualities and taking snapshots of reality. Instead, he considered the medium a perfect vehicle to further escape for an audience. Biographical Movies: _Le grand Méliès (1952)_ (qv) Death Notes: Paris, France Georges Melies, a administrative instrumentalist near research, early saw the unmarked "moving pictures" encircled by 1895. Little done a year subsequent, Melies be film and projecting his personal creation. By quirk, he discovered that he could consume stop-motion photography to render practical joke ocular effects. Melies was also the first to use technique such by process of the fade-in, the fade-out, and the dissolve to revolve out the first actual narrative films. Melies made over 500 films, but his unmatched familiar - _Le voyage dans la lune (1902)_ (qv) (Voyage to the Moon). Still, Melies, accustomed in classic eighteenth century theater, conceive all of his films in language of fully played-out scene. Unable to aver far-reaching awake with the varying industry, the closing stage of his duration was bent with neediness, but his films would be monumental stepping stones all for acute auteurs such as 'D.W. Griffith' (qv). Birth Notes: Paris, France Books: Paul Hammond. _Marvelous Méliès._ London: Gordon Fraser, 1974. ISBN 0900406380, Georges Méliès, Maurice Bessy, Loc Duca. _Mes memoires par Georges Méliès._ Paris: prisma, 1945., Frank Thompson. _The Star Film Ranch: Texas' First Picture Show._ Plano, TX: Republic of Texas Press, 1996. ISBN 1556224818, Madeleine Malthête-Méliès. _Méliès l'enchanteur._ Paris: Hachette, 1973., Elizabeth Ezra. _Georges Méliès: The Birth of the Auteur._ New York: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2000. ISBN 0719053951, Georges Méliès. _Mes Memoires._ 1938., 'Stan Brakhage' (qv). _The Brakhage Lectures: Georges Melies, David Wark Griffith, Carl Theodore Dreyer, Sergei Eisenstein._ Chicago, IL: GoodLion, 1972., John Frazer. _Artificially Arranged Scenes: The Films of Georges Méliès._ Boston: G.K. Hall, 1979. ISBN 0816183686 Birth Name: Méliès, Marie-Georges-Jean Spouse: 'Jeanne d'Alcy' (qv) (1926 - 21 January 1938) (his death), 'Marie-Georges Méliès' (qv) (? - ?) Death Date: 21 January 1938 Portrayed: _"From the Earth to the Moon" (1998)_ (qv), _Le grand Méliès (1952)_ (qv) Birth Date: 8 December 1861
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Diane Bonder(actress) Death Notes: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA (pancreatic cancer) Death Date: 23 June 2006 Death Notes: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA (pancreatic cancer) Death Date: 23 June 2006 Death Notes: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA (pancreatic cancer) Death Date: 23 June 2006 Death Notes: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA (pancreatic cancer) Death Date: 23 June 2006
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Ray Klein(actor) Spouse: 'Christie Klein' (qv) (1992 - 1996), 'Cynthia Rube' (qv) (24 April 2005 - present); 2 children Half of the 'infamous' comedy duo Twohy & Klein with 'Rob Twohy' (qv) Other Works: Seen digging his home out of the snow in the Re Max commercials, Plays the guy mistaken as Mr. Rooter in the Mr. Rooter commercials Height: 5' 10"
Cameron Mitchell(actor) Articles: "Videoscope" (USA), 2009, Vol. 17, Iss. 69, pg. 48-49, by: Tom Weaver, "Waxing Eloquent: John 'Bud' Cardos & Martin Varno on 'Nightmare in Wax'", "Video Watchdog" (USA), Sept./Oct. 1994, Iss. 25, pg. 40-55, by: Tim Lucas, "Requiem for a Viking: Cameron Mitchell on his Bava Films" Father of 'Chip Mitchell' (qv) and 'Camille Mitchell' (qv)., Father of actor 'Cameron Mitchell Jr.' (qv), who also goes by the name Cameron Mitchell, Jr., Uncredited, he provided the voice of Jesus Christ in _The Robe (1953)_ (qv), although another actor played the character., Interviewed in 'Tom Weaver (I)' (qv)'s book "Attack of the Monster Movie Makers" (McFarland & Co., 1994). Death Notes: Pacific Palisades, California, USA (lung cancer) Cameron Mitchell be the son of a cleric, but choose a clashing footsteps from his father. Prior to World War II, contained by which he serve beside mode of an Air Force bombardier, Mitchell appear against Broadway, and, in 1940, an bite pipeline announce, "The Passing of the Third Floor Back". He made his motion copy debut in _What Next, Corporal Hargrove? (1945)_ (qv), but unbroken with raised area in cooperation with as film tough grind. He gain precipitate acclamation in favour of his portrayal of Happy in the stage and blind version of "Death of a Salesman". Still, out of higher than 300 film and TV appearance, he be probably height select remember for his work on _"The High Chaparral" (1967)_ (qv) TV rotation where on earth he, as the happy-go-lucky Buck Cannon, and 'Henry Darrow' (qv), as Manolito Montoya, stole the provide evidence. Height: 5' 11" Birth Notes: Dallastown, Pennsylvania, USA Other Works: 1980s: Hosted a documentary by the times of yore of Intercontinental Packers, a meat-packing camaraderie slit by path of his brood. The icon be produced enclosed by patronage of CFQC TV in Saskatoon, Canada, place of IP's chief department., Unsold pilot: In 1959 he starred in an unsold western pilot called "I Am A Lawyer". It concerned the adventures of a two-fisted Texas attorney., Stage: Played "Happy" in the original 1949 Broadway production of 'Arthur Miller (I)' (qv)'s "Death of a Salesman", which he also played in the first film version (_Death of a Salesman (1951)_ (qv))., Radio episode: "Crime Does Not Pay", ep. "A Piece of Rope"; broadcast Dec. 5, 1949., Radio episode: "Lux Radio Theatre", ep. "Wuthering Heights"; broadcast Sept. 14, 1954., Original Cast Album: "Death of a Salesman" (2-Decca DXA-102), Soundtrack Album: "Carousel" (Capitol W/SW-694) Birth Name: Mitzell, Cameron McDowell Spouse: 'Margaret Mozingo Mitchell' (1973 - 1976) (annulled), 'Joanna Mitchell (I)' (qv) (1940 - 1960) (divorced); 4 children, 'Lissa Mitchell' (? - 1973) (divorced) Death Date: 6 July 1994 Interviews: "Psychotronic Video" (USA), Winter 1994, Vol. 1, Iss. 19, pg. 32-39, by: David Del Valle, "Cameron Mitchell: Star of Tomorrow", "The Bloody Best of the Splatter Times" (USA), 1994, pg. 27-28, by: Donald Farmer, "Cameron Mitchell", "Fangoria" (USA), June 1991, Iss. 103, by: Tom Weaver, "Cameron's Closet" Birth Date: 4 November 1918
Tony Zotta(actor)
Theresa Fenneaux(actress)
Julia Westland(actress)
Hal Miles(producer)
Fred Olen Ray(producer) Spouse: 'Dawn Wildsmith' (qv) (? - ?), 'Kimberly A. Ray' (qv) (? - ?) Interviews: "The Bloody Best of the Splatter Times" (USA), 1994, pg. 5-12, by: Donald Farmer, "Fred Olen Ray", "Femme Fatales" (USA), Summer 1992, Vol. 1, Iss. 1, pg. 26-31+60, by: Dan Cziraky, "King of the queen B's, The", "Fangoria" (USA), 1983, Vol. 3, Iss. 25, pg. 13-15+62, by: David Sherman, "Scalps" Books: Maitland McDonagh. _Filmmaking on the Fringe: The Good, the Bad and the Deviant Directors._ New York: Citadel Press, 1995. ISBN 0-8065-1557-0 Other Works: Book: "The New Poverty Row--Independent Filmmakers as Distributors." Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1996., Wrote introduction to "John Carradine: The Films" by 'Tom Weaver (I)' (qv)., Wrote the foreword for "The Independent Film Experience: Interviews with Directors and Producers" by 'Kevin J. Lindenmuth' (qv) (McFarland, 2002). Has an independent wrestling promotion called ACW, where he wrestles under the name "Fabulous" Freddie Valentine., Father of 'Christopher Ray' (qv). Birth Notes: Wellston, Ohio, USA Birth Date: 10 September 1954
Rocco Karega(writer) Birth Name: Jr, Radford A. Moore Birth Date: 1955
Brian Malone(composer)
Rocco Karega(director) Birth Name: Jr, Radford A. Moore Birth Date: 1955
Hal Miles(director)
Fred Olen Ray(director) Spouse: 'Dawn Wildsmith' (qv) (? - ?), 'Kimberly A. Ray' (qv) (? - ?) Interviews: "The Bloody Best of the Splatter Times" (USA), 1994, pg. 5-12, by: Donald Farmer, "Fred Olen Ray", "Femme Fatales" (USA), Summer 1992, Vol. 1, Iss. 1, pg. 26-31+60, by: Dan Cziraky, "King of the queen B's, The", "Fangoria" (USA), 1983, Vol. 3, Iss. 25, pg. 13-15+62, by: David Sherman, "Scalps" Books: Maitland McDonagh. _Filmmaking on the Fringe: The Good, the Bad and the Deviant Directors._ New York: Citadel Press, 1995. ISBN 0-8065-1557-0 Other Works: Book: "The New Poverty Row--Independent Filmmakers as Distributors." Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1996., Wrote introduction to "John Carradine: The Films" by 'Tom Weaver (I)' (qv)., Wrote the foreword for "The Independent Film Experience: Interviews with Directors and Producers" by 'Kevin J. Lindenmuth' (qv) (McFarland, 2002). Has an independent wrestling promotion called ACW, where he wrestles under the name "Fabulous" Freddie Valentine., Father of 'Christopher Ray' (qv). Birth Notes: Wellston, Ohio, USA Birth Date: 10 September 1954
William Black(actor) Birth Notes: Irvington, New York, USA Other Works: Active on Broadway in the following productions:, La Belle Hélène (1899). Musical/opera., The Wild Rose (1902). Musical comedy., George W. Lederer's Mid-Summer Night Fancies (1903)., The Southerners (1904). Musical comedy., His Honor the Mayor (1906). Musical comedy., His Honor the Mayor (1907). Musical comedy., Little Nemo (1908). Musical comedy., The Deacon and the Lady (1910). Musical. Music by Alfred Aarons. Book by George Totten Smith. Lyrics by George Totten Smith. Musical Director: Ivan Rudisill. Musical Staging by Eddie Clark. Scenic Design by D. Frank Dodge. Costume Design by William H. Matthews. Directed by Alfred E. Aarons. New York Theatre: 4 Oct 1910- 15 Oct 1910 (16 performances). Cast: Lillian Baker, Gertie Barreto, Anna Bayuk, 'William Black (I)' (qv) (as "Jim Black"), Beatrice Caplet, Wanda Dean, Ida DeCampe, Eva Fallon, George Faust, B. Fetherstone, John Foley, Billy French, Georgie Gardner, Mayme Gehrue, H.W. Gray, Bessie Hale, Harold Healy, Charles Hoff, Dorothy Homer, Robert Hunter, William Izzard, Nellie Jackson, Percy Jennings, Harry Kelly, Arline LaCrosse, Claude Lea, Lee Leontine, Ethel Leyden, Lillian Lippkam, Lillian Mansfield, Aureals Marlow, Maedelyn Marshall, Janis McCann, Katherine McDonald, Birdice McLaughlin, Irene Messenger, Audrey Mohr, Hazel Mooney, Helen Mooney, Pearl Musi, Fletcher Norton, Beatrice Osgood, Clara Palmer, A.L. Rankin, P.H. Riblet, Velma Roberts, Milton Silby, Jeanette Singer, Estelle St. Clair, T. Stanton, C.G. Staples, C.G. Thompson, Marion Thompson, Nellie White, P. Wilson, 'Ed Wynn' (qv) [Broadway debut]. Produced by Alfred E. Aarons and Louis F. Werba., Company's Coming (1931). Comedy/farce. Written by Alma Wilson. Directed by 'E.B. 'Zeke' Colvan' (qv). Lyceum Theatre: 20 Apr 1931- Apr 1931 (closing date unknown/8 performances). Cast: 'Leila Bennett' (qv) (as "Susie"), 'William Black (I)' (qv) (as "Mr. Patterson"), William Boren, Wilfred Clarke, 'William W. Crimans' (qv) (as "Sergeant"), Hy Glanz, Francesca Hill, 'Frieda Inescort' (qv) (as "Mrs. Janney"), Ellsworth Jones, James La Curto, Mona Lester, Frances Neilson, 'Lynne Overman' (qv) (as "Mr. Janney"), Sidney Riggs (as "Mr. Thompson"), 'Rosalind Russell' (qv) (as "Miss Mallory"), James Spottswood. Produced by Stanley Sharpe. Birth Date: 1871
Frank Losee(actor) Articles: "New York Times" (USA), 15 November 1937, pg. 23:4, "Frank Losee, 81, 50 Years next to Stage; Had Appeared next to John Drew, Clara Morris and Frances Starr--Dies contained by Yonkers; Also Had Screen Roles; Supported George Arliss in 'Disraeli,' Mary Pickford and Pauline Frederick", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 20 September 1919, pg. 1837, "Losee Renews Contract with Famous Players", "Motion Picture Classic" (USA), May 1919, pg. 44, 78, by: C. Blythe Sherwood, "Richman, Poorman, Beggarman--! They're All Frank Losee", "Motion Picture World" (USA`), 10 November 1917, pg. 846, "Losee Renews Contract with Famous Players", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 21 October 1916, pg. 401, "Frank Losee Renews Contract with Famous Players", "New York Dramatic Mirror" (USA), 20 November 1915, pg. 31:1, "Losee with F.P.; Will Play Denman Thompson Role in Producion of 'The Old Homestead'", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 13 November 1915, pg. 1315, "Famous Players Sign Frank Losee" 50 year veteran of stage and screen., Played screen father to 'Mary Pickford' (qv), 'Pauline Frederick (I)' (qv) and 'Marguerite Clark' (qv). Death Notes: Yonkers, New York, USA (pulmonary embolism) Birth Notes: Brooklyn, New York, USA Other Works: Active on Broadway in the following productions: Spouse: 'Marion Elmore' (qv) (? - 14 November 1937) (his death) Death Date: 14 November 1937 Birth Date: 12 June 1856
Jack Pickford(actor) Articles: "Films in Review" (USA), November 1995, Vol. 46, Iss. 9-10, pg.86, Stuart Oderman, "Films in Review" (USA), 1995, Iss. Nov/Dec, pg. 86-97, by: Stuart Oderman, "Jack Pickford and Olive Thomas; Scandalous goings-on for Mary's little brother", "Classic Images" (USA), June 1994, Iss. 228, pg. 42, by: George Katchmer, "Jack Pickford", "Classic Film Collector" (USSA), 1978, Iss. 58 (Spring), pg. 22-24, by: Stuart Oderman, "In My Sister's Shadow and Other Private Hells of Jack Picford", "New York Times" (USA), 4 January 1933, pg. 17:1, "Jack Picford, 36, Is Dead in Paris; Mary's Brother, Who Was Film Star and Producer, Had Long Been Ill; Career Colorful, Tragic; His First Wife, Olive Thomas, Died of Poisoning--Marilyn Miller, Second Wife, Divorced Him", "Paris and Hollywood Screen Secrets" (USA), August 1927, pg. 35, "Dan Cupid's Bulletin Board [divorce from Miller]", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 2 January 1926, pg. 81, "Schenck Signs Pickford on Long Term Contract", "Movie Weekly" (USA), 20 September 1924, pg. 16-17, by: Irene Martin, "On a Wedding Anniversary [spouse is Miller]", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 20 October 1923, pg. 682, "Jack Pickford's Latest", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 5 May 1923, pg. 74, "Marilyn Miller and Pickford to Co-Star in Screen Play", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 24 February 1923, pg. 805, "Pickford Ready to Start on Next Film", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 5 March 1921, pg. 29, "Jack Pickford Has Bronchial Pneumonia", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 21 August 1920, pg. 1009, "Jack Pickford Has Name Legaally Changed as He Becomes a Citizen of United States", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 8 March 1919, pg. 1335, "Jack Pickford Will Fly to Location", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 8 February 1919, pg. 754, "Jack Pickford in New Home", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 1 February 1919, pg. 616, "Presents Wife with $9,000 Car", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 25 January 1919, pg. 474, "Jack Pickford Undergoes Operation", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 14 December 1918, pg. 1220, "Jack Picford Signs Up with the First National", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 13 April 1918, pg. 255, "Jack Pickford Now a Censor [enlisted in Navy]", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 2 September 1916, pg. 1518, "Lottie and Jack Picford Rejoin Famous Players", "New York Dramatic Mirror" (USA), 23 October 1915, pg. 31:1, "In the Picture Studios", "New York Dramatic Mirror" (USA), 15 September 1915, pg. 25:1, "Selig Has a Pickford [Jack]" Brother of actresses 'Mary Pickford' (qv) and 'Lottie Pickford' (qv)., While in the U.S. Navy Reserve in 1918, he was involved in a scandal that almost got him court-martialed. Along with other officers and enlisted men, he was accused of soliciting and accepting bribes from wealthy enlisted draftees who wanted light shore duty. The servicemen originally assigned to do the light shore duty were then assigned to shipboard duty and sent into combat. Jack's mother, 'Charlotte Smith (I)' (qv), had a secret meeting with President 'Woodrow Wilson (I)' (qv)'s personal secretary, Joseph Tumulty. Tumulty wrote a letter to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels requesting that Jack be discharged so he could make a movie designed to increase interest in the Army Air Corps. Daniels granted Jack a general discharge before the court-martial began (Charlotte had sought an honorable discharge). The others involved in the scandal were court-martialed, sentenced to up to three years in the brig and dishonorably discharged. Tumulty later claimed no knowledge of the graft charges or Jack's impending court-martial., Brother-in-law of 'Owen Moore' (qv)., Brother-in-law of 'Douglas Fairbanks' (qv)., Last of 3 children., Brother-in-law of 'Allan Forrest' (qv)., Named after his father., Son of actress 'Charlotte Smith (I)' (qv)., Given co-director credit for a couple of sister 'Mary Pickford' (qv)'s films: _Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921)_ (qv) and _Through the Back Door (1921)_ (qv)., Found wife 'Olive Thomas' (qv) dead in their Paris hotel room after she took a deliberate overdose of mercury biochloride that had been prescribed for Jack's syphilis, which he had passed on to her. Jack was eventually cleared of all wrongdoing., Third wife, Mary Mulhern, was a Ziegfeld Follies girl. Death Notes: Paris, France (multiple neuritis) Nepotism absolutely personal have its advantages contained by Hollywood, none more in that opening than in the showing industry of Jack Pickford, whose foremost elder sis, "America's Sweetheart" 'Mary Pickford' (qv), saw to it that Jack had all the advantages her big name mass could muster. Born in Toronto, Canada, in 1896, Jack be prompted using his actress/mother, 'Charlotte Smith (I)' (qv), to hang around Mary into show commercial. As a youth entertainer next to chapter, he at a rate of knots preset into a colorful immature musician. It was Mary who made him a fixture beside Biograph pictures starting in 1909 at the age of 13. When Mary sign her famous million-dollar compact with First National in 1917, one of her stipulations was that Jack receive a lucrative contract in defences of powerfully. However, the boy in recent times couldn't kill circumstance out of friction no set-up what or where on earth he was. A be sparing with in the flotilla prove frightful when Jack was accuse of accepting bribe from well-off man to let go them stay out of front-line habit. With the help of his kinfolk, he was exonerated--- regardless, he received a nonspecific dribble out, which was greater than he deserve. Despite constrained acting talent, Jack found boy-next-door glory as Pip in _Great Expectations (1917)_ (qv) and the term hero _Tom Sawyer (1917)_ (qv), and go on to become a to numerous extent desirable star on his individual. He even produced several of his own films. Some of his top-quality films during this time integrated _The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1920)_ (qv), _The Man Who Had Everything (1920)_ (qv) and _Waking Up the Town (1925)_ (qv), but a drink in favour of the great go rapidly take complete. A ne'er-do-well playboy and carouser, he arouse more town go because of his interesting off-camera life than in the lighting idealist films he appear in. He picked wakeful alcohol, medication and lay a bet addiction to shepherd his partying lifestyle. First wife actress 'Olive Thomas' (qv), a heroin user, committed suicide in 1920 after lone four years of bridal, and his subsequent two marriages-- to Broadway melodious star 'Marilyn Miller (I)' (qv) and less important actress Mary Mulhern--would also separate catastrophically. All three wives be Ziegfeld girls at one time. By the unclear 1920s Jack was immaculately undependable and, with the advent of clamour, his career terra firma to a screech halt, in the face of ever-faithful Mary's complete attempt to rescue it. Jack's condition deteriorate largely henceforth letdown, with persistent bout of syphilis totalling to the complications of his drawn out residence things molest. He die childish at 36. The act upon was down as "progressive multiple neuritis", but it was almost certainly precipitate by his inveterate alcoholism-- a tragic and seemingly unneeded end for a boy who choose to tarnish the shiny platter readily hand to him. Height: 5' 7" Birth Notes: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Magazine Covers: "Promotional Postcard" (UK), 1920 Birth Name: Smith, John Spouse: 'Olive Thomas' (qv) (25 October 1916 - 10 September 1920) (her death), 'Marilyn Miller (I)' (qv) (30 July 1922 - June 1927) (divorced), 'Mary Mulhern' (12 August 1930 - 3 January 1933) (his death) Death Date: 3 January 1933 Birth Date: 18 August 1895
Herbert Prior(actor) Articles: "Motion Picture World" (USA), 10 March 1917, pg. 1516, "Persuading Actors Into Pictures", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 17 January 1914, pg. 273, "Herbert Prior, An Early Recruit from the Legitimate, Now Firmly Established as a Leading Photoplayer" Remained active in films well past his prime in character roles throughout the rest of the silent era and became a bit player and extra in talkies until his retirement in 1934., The British born actor (Oxford, England) and wife Mabel appeared together in scores of films and were considered Hollywood's preeminent movie twosome until eclipsed by star couple 'Mary Pickford' (qv) and 'Douglas Fairbanks' (qv)., Charming, distinguished-looking pioneer actor of Edison silents who began freelancing in movies in 1907, signing with Edison in 1909. He and wife Mabel left the Edison fold briefly to join Majestic Studios but returned in 1912., Met and married 'Mabel Trunnelle' (qv) while both were acting in stock shows shortly after the turn of the century. Death Notes: Los Angeles, California, USA A contributor of the untimely Edison Stock Company and of D.W. Griffith's horses camaraderie, he latter combined the Biograph Company. He appear a few times beside his wife Mabel, and play inside several films during the 1920s, leaving in 1934. Birth Notes: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK Spouse: 'Mabel Trunnelle' (qv) (? - 3 October 1954) (his death) Death Date: 3 October 1954 Birth Date: 2 July 1867
Grace Barton(actress) Birth Date: 29 August ????
Marcia Harris(actress) Height: 5' 8" Birth Notes: Providence, Rhode Island, USA Birth Date: 14 February 1880
Louise Huff(actress) Death Notes: New York City, New York, USA Birth Notes: Columbus, Georgia, USA Death Date: 22 August 1973 Birth Date: 14 November 1895
Charles Dickens(writer) Articles: "The Daily Telegraph" (UK), 15 January 2009, by: Richard Savill, "Diamond ring could prove Charles Dickens had secret love-child", "The New York Times" (USA), 6 June 2008, Vol. 157, Iss. 54,333, pg. E2, by: Felicia R. Lee, "Dickens Desk and Chair Sold"
The substantiate prove to be a conclusion breakdown by the tenderloin of relief, both critically and commercially. 'Clark Gable' (qv) be annoyed by the exploit of the comparison next to _Gone with the Wind (1939)_ (qv) and instruct his agent, "If it doesn't become an elderly geezer with simulated teeth, forget declare it." He also contracted to cog fellowship with 'Raoul Walsh' (qv), before one of his favorite director., The movie was derisively nicknamed "The Ghost of Gone with the Wind". Les films à la TV cette semaine. In: Ciné-Revue (Belgium), Vol. 8, 22 February 1968, Pg. 31, (MG) Other Literature: Amanta Die weisse Sklavin (Weint um die Verdammten). In: Neues Film-Programm (Vienna, Austria), Leminger, Spalding und Weiss, No. 689, December 1957, Pg. 4, Amanta Die weisse Sklavin (Weint um die Verdammten). In: Neues Film-Programm (Vienna, Austria), Leminger, Spalding und Weiss, No. 689, December 1957, Pg. 4 Novel: Warren, Robert Penn. Band of Angels Living inside Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr be a pleased childlike female. Her widower father, a well-heeled plantation possessor, dotes higher than her and he send her to the optimal school. When he die immediately nevertheless, Amantha's world is turned upside wool. She learn that her father be full of be animate on hired fortune and that her mother be in favour of definite a slave and her father's mistress. The plantation is to be sold to pay envelope stern her father's debts and in plonk down of the daughter of slave, Amatha is also to be sold as riches. She is flood and get by the employment of a Louisiana plantation holder, Hamish Bond and completed occurrence she grow to adoration him until she learns he was a slave-trader. She try again to become constituent of white society but realize that her impending lies elsewhere. Certificates: West Germany:12, West Germany:16, Finland:K-12 Color Info: Color Countries: USA Genres: Drama, Romance Languages: English Locations: Ashland-Belle Helene Plantation - State Highway 75, Geismer, Louisiana, USA, Louisiana, USA Runtimes: 125 Sound Mix: Mono Tech Info: OFM:35 mm, PCS:Spherical, PFM:35 mm, RAT:1.85 : 1 Release Dates: USA:3 August 1957, West Germany:20 December 1957, Austria:December 1957, Finland:28 March 1958, Sweden:5 May 1958, Denmark:23 February 1959 You're no blue blood any more, honey. The master bought you...and now he's waitin'!
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Raymond Bailey(actor) Worked as a deckhand on a freighter in China, Japan, Hawaii, the Philippines and the Mediterranean., His first job in Hollywood was as a laborer, but he was fired for sneaking into a mob scene during a movie shoot., Before joining the cast of the _"The Beverly Hillbillies" (1962)_ (qv), he could be seen without his toupee for many of his roles. Death Notes: Irvine, California, USA (heart attack) Raymond Bailey be a disastrous hearing resource of "If first you don't supplant..." After glorious college, Bailey head inside go to of Hollywood next to the fixed complete becoming a grey peak figure, but in a while found it tougher than he deliberation. Instead Bailey go into a high fund craft serviceable in full bring to an end of stockbroker and backer. He made a second prick at Hollywood, and again grasp no glory. He consequently become a seaman, working on different freighters and roving all over the world. Bailey also work on a pineapple plantation in Hawaii, and try his kismet in the provincial arena. Deciding to furnish Hollywood an extra try in 1938, he get judicious getting several petty parts in the pictures which over juncture evolve into bigger self-esteem role. When small screen became great, Bailey was in prerequisite for parts and it was nearby he got his furthermost celebrated element on the shred down sitcom _"The Beverly Hillbillies" (1962)_ (qv), as (ironically) banker Milburn Drysdale, whose fists be tighter than Elly May's pant. After the present terminated, he apply a few movie roles. Birth Notes: San Francisco, California, USA Spouse: 'Gaby George' (? - 15 April 1980) (his death) Death Date: 15 April 1980 Birth Date: 6 May 1904
Roy Barcroft(actor) Articles: "Classic Images" (USA), February 2003, Iss. 332, pg. 6-13, by: Bob Burns & Tom Weaver, "Roy Barcroft, Howard Lydecker, Dave Sharpe, and The Republic Thrill Factory", "The New Captain George's Whizzbang" (USA), 1975, Iss. 7, pg. 2-5, by: Don Daynard, "Roy Barcroft--Best of the Badmen" Barcroft lined his peak persona after 'Harry Woods (I)' (qv), one of the movies' concluding villain. He even try to ape Woods' voice. Barcroft's on-screen voice be different from the one he always nearly new when enclosed by forefront of the camera. (Revealed by the occupy of his playmate 'Clayton Moore (I)' (qv) in his account, "I Was That Masked Man"), Considerable confusion exists concerning Barcroft's birthplace. Most sources cite Weeping Water, Texas, USA, while others cite Crab Orchard Nebraska, USA. However, Weeping Water, Texas does not exist. But Weeping Water, Nebraska, is quite near Crab Orchard, Nebraska, and it is likely that Barcroft was born in Weeping Water, Nebraska, USA, and raised in nearby Crab Orchard, Nebraska., He had created such an indelible image as a western heavy that in the late 1960s, interviewers would express surprise at finding what a charming and friendly man he really was., During his years as a freelance, Barcroft became such an asset as the villian in low budget westerns that in 1943 Republic signed him to an exclusive ten year contract., Barcroft claimed that his favorite role was as the reincarnated pirate Captain Mephisto in the non-western Republic serial _Manhunt of Mystery Island (1945)_ (qv). Also among his favorites were the serials _The Purple Monster Strikes (1945)_ (qv) and _Haunted Harbor (1944)_ (qv)., Barcroft was such a fixture in low budget westerns that as soon as his face appeared on screen, every kid in the audience knew who the bad guy was. Of course, it took the good guy 60 minutes to figure it out., Although Barcroft's birth name is usually given as Howard Clifford Ravenscroft, both the California Death Index and the 1910, 1920, and 1930 U.S. Census list him as Howard H. Ravenscroft. Nick Names: Big Roy Death Notes: Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (cancer) Books: Bobby Copeland. _Roy Barcroft: King of the Bad Men._ Oak Ridge, TN: Copeland, After ration contained by World War I, Roy Barcroft spent matchless of the 1920s and precipitate 1930s disappointing from duty to job. It be in the 1930s, after he moved to California next to his wife, that he found his calling while acting in amateur thespian production. In 1937 he was appear in modicum parts in an assortment of genre, but with 1938 he was in westerns, where on earth he become a important (and memorable) "heavy". Roy would alternate among Monogram, Universal, Columbia and other studios. In 1943, against the other hand, he sign an person in charge ten-year trade with Republic Pictures and became the justifiable, and determined, menace to all the angelic empire in the West. He also achieve beyond grin at the like of 'Don 'Red' Barry' (qv), 'Bill Elliot (III)' (qv), 'Sunset Carson' (qv) and 'Allan Lane (I)' (qv). Roy acted in _The Fighting Seabees (1944)_ (qv), which starred 'John Wayne (I)' (qv). He was the Purple Martian in _The Purple Monster Strikes (1945)_ (qv) and Capt. Mephisto in _Manhunt of Mystery Island (1945)_ (qv), and who can forget his Retik, The Moon Menace. from the classic _Radar Men from the Moon (1952)_ (qv)? Roy even play the good-natured guide in _Oklahoma! (1955)_ (qv). It was westerns, on the other hand, that be his bread and butter, and he knock out markedly markedly of them over and done with the years. _Outlaws of Cherokee Trail (1941)_ (qv), _Riders of the Rio Grande (1943)_ (qv) and _Sun Valley Cyclone (1946)_ (qv) were but a few of the "B" westerns Roy turned out. Off-screen, he was focused through one of the nicest, kindest and most compliant people someone would want ahead of you equally, with a terrific power of humor. More than once, oodles a prevailing hero manner such as Barry or Elliot would find that their hairpieces would knowingly be in motion absent formerly they were to unchanging them on prior to shooting. When the instance of year of the "B" westerns started to fade out, Roy's paperback of carry out also slow. He appear in a handful of films, but his motion oil occupation enjoy stalled by the downfall of 1957. He moved into the stunted peak with role in TV westerns and also a persistent role in the 'Walt Disney' (qv) abundance of _"The Adventures of Spin and Marty" (1955)_ (qv). In the early 1960s he work in a two of a mode of films, but his resurgence embark on in the mid-'60s when he appeared in low-budget films close to _Billy the Kid versus Dracula (1966)_ (qv). Roy would kind numerous in good condition films, such as _Texas Across the River (1966)_ (qv) and _The Reivers (1969)_ (qv)., Incredibly prolific American character actor of low-budget Westerns and serials, most frequently seen as a villain. He was born in either Weeping Waters, Nebraska or Crab Orchard, Nebraska, depending on the source (the two towns are within a few miles of each other), to a farm family. In 1917, he joined the Army at the age of 15 and was wounded in action in France. At 16, he began traveling the U.S. doing odd jobs as a ranch hand, roughneck, and railway laborer. He sailed to the Mediterranean on a freighter as a seaman, then reenlisted in the Army. While stationed in Hawaii, he learned to play a number of musical instruments and afterwards made his living playing in dance bands. In 1929, he took his family to California, where his military background gained him work as a soldier-extra in films. Uninterested in movies, he continued doing various jobs, from salesman to tunnel digger. As a sales tool, he took up dramatics to improve his speaking voice and in 1937 was spotted in a little theatre production and given a part in a Republic serial, _S.O.S. Coast Guard (1937)_ (qv). His rough voice and demeanor were perfect for the 'heavy' roles that filled every B-Western and action picture, and Barcroft spent the next thirty years averaging an incredible ten films per year. He found a minor kind of stardom as the title villain in several Republic serials of the 1940s, and spent his later years playing more bad guys on television Westerns. He died of cancer at the Motion Picture Country Hospital in 1969. Barcroft had three children. Quotes: Everything I know about being a bad guy I learned from [classic "heavy"] 'Harry Woods (I)' (qv). Birth Notes: Crab Orchard, Nebraska, USA Salary History: _S.O.S. Coast Guard (1937)_ (qv)::$66 per week Birth Name: Ravenscroft, Howard Clifford Spouse: 'Vera Thompson' (1932 - ?), 'Hortense Flanagan' (1930 - 1930) Death Date: 28 November 1969 Birth Date: 7 September 1902
Larry J. Blake(actor) Spouse: 'Teresa Blake (III)' (qv) (? - 25 May 1982) (his death); 1 child Death Notes: Los Angeles, California, USA Birth Notes: Brooklyn, New York, USA Father of 'Michael F. Blake' (qv), First man to play Hitler in a movie. Death Date: 25 May 1982 Birth Date: 24 April 1914
Marshall Bradford(actor) Death Notes: Hollywood, California, USA (heart attack) Birth Notes: New York City, New York, USA Death Date: 11 January 1971 Other Works: Stage actor. Birth Date: 19 January 1885
X. Brands(actor) Spouse: 'Jean Dorothy Merriam' (? - 1961) (divorced); 2 children Death Notes: Northridge, California, USA (cancer) Birth Notes: Kansas City, Missouri, USA Sturdy-looking traits artist who be first-class dedicated contained by favour of his cut using convention of an Indian against the _"Yancy Derringer" (1958)_ (qv) cycle in the behind 1950s. He recurrently portray Indians on montage and TV, although he was not one in existing duration. Death Date: 8 May 2000 Birth Date: 24 July 1927
Robert Carson(actor) Death Notes: Atascadero, California, USA Birth Notes: Minnesota, USA Birth Name: Carson, Robert Samuel Brother of 'Jack Carson (I)' (qv) Death Date: 2 June 1979 Birth Date: 8 June 1909
Miles Clark(actor)
Robert Clarke(actor) Articles: "The Los Angeles Times" (USA), 16 June 2005, by: Myrna Oliver, "Robert I. Clarke, 85; Familiar Face from Monster Movies and Myriad TV Shows", "Starlog" (USA), 1995, Iss. 219, pg. 27-31, 66, by: Robert Clarke, "The Actor from Planet X" Has a son, 'Cam Clarke' (qv)., Brother-in-law of 'Yvonne King (II)' (qv), 'Buddy Cole' (qv), 'Louise King (I)' (qv), 'Marilyn King' (qv), 'Donna King (I)' (qv) and 'Alvino Rey' (qv)., Uncle of 'Tina Cole (I)' (qv) and 'Cathy Green (I)' (qv)., Attended Kemper Military College planning to make a career in the service but dropped out after his asthma prevented his serving in WWII. Later switched to acting and attended the University of Oklahoma and University of Wisconsin., Survived by his son actor/voice artist 'Cam Clarke' (qv), two stepsons, 11 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren., The non-singer appeared as a regular on _"The King Family Show" (1965)_ (qv) via his marriage to singer 'Alyce King' (qv), not for any musical prowess. On the program he appeared in comedy sketches and sentimental readings., His cult movie _The Hideous Sun Demon (1959)_ (qv) was featured in the 1982 movie sendup _It Came from Hollywood (1982)_ (qv) which starred 'Dan Aykroyd' (qv), 'John Candy' (qv), 'Gilda Radner' (qv), 'Cheech Marin' (qv) and 'Tommy Chong' (qv)., Stated in his biography that the horror movie he produced/directed/wrote was made for less than $50,000, including $500 for the rubberized lizard suit he wore. He shot the movie over 12 weekends to get two days' use of rental camera equipment for one day's fee., Attended the Kemper Military College, the University of Oklahoma and the University of Wisconsin. Nick Names: Bob Death Notes: Valley Village, California, USA (complications from diabetes) Books: Tom Weaver. _Return of the B Science Fiction and Horror Heroes._ Jefferson NC: McFarland & Co., 1999. ISBN 0786407557, Tom Weaver. _Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Flashbacks._ Jefferson NC: McFarland & Co., 1998. ISBN 0786405643
Bret Packard be the best ever baseball artist encircled by the world. Bret Packard is well-heeled, important, appealing, and congeal to win his fourth battle loop. But Bret Packard is bored. That all change when a teammate is unaccountably stab during a ball paddock tussle. Using this brutality via ability of a springboard, Bret begin a testing hobby, a game where on earth next to the matchless intention he know the rules. Using his power of persuasion, Bret pits teammate in ill feeling teammate by nascent all and sundry the one entry that they want the incomparable, whether it be energy, awe, or horribly cold complex brass. Soon, the crawling squad is self-destructing, and Bret couldn't be happier. But with their live and career lying on the brink of devastation, Bret's teammates and award somewhere to linger realize that they enjoy to pilfer baseball - and occurrence - wager on from Bret Packard, once and in favour of all. Color Info: Black and White, Color Countries: USA Genres: Drama, Thriller Languages: English Locations: Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA, Zebulon, North Carolina, USA Runtimes: 90 Tech Info: RAT:1.85 : 1 Release Dates: USA:6 March 2003 It's time to level the playing field., A diamond is the devil's eye
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Shane Callahan(actor)
Jason Davis(actor) Birth Notes: Pine Bluff, Arkansas, USA Height: 6' 1"
Bob Edwards(actor)
William Flaman(actor)
Zach Hanner(actor) Height: 6' 2" Birth Notes: Mt. Airy, North Carolina, USA Birth Date: 17 June 1969
Tom Huff(actor) Height: 5' 10" Birth Date: 4 November 1959 Birth Notes: Ontario, Canada Nick Names: Crocker
Tyhm Kennedy(actor)
Robert Longstreet(actor)
Griffin Lyle(actor)
Mark Mench(actor)
Shaun Mitchell(actor)
Daniel Morris(actor)
Cullen Moss(actor) Has one child, a son.
Rob Piper(actor)
Kevin Scanlon(actor)
David Schifter(actor) Articles: "Sun Newspapers' SunStations" (USA), 25 February 1993, pg. 1, by: Rick Haase, "Five on Your Side to Assist Consumers", "Fresno Bee" (USA), 20 May 1992, by: Lanny Larson, "Broadcast Beat", "New York Magizine" (USA), November 1988, by: Staff writer, ""Baby Yuppies"", "New York Magazine" (USA), 22 October 1984, pg. 24-30, by: Arlene Fischer, ""Baby Yuppies"", "On Cable" (USA), September 1981, pg. 14, by: Ralph Tyler, "N.Y. On Cable" Interviews: "WNBC Radio" (New York,NY USA), 1988, by: Micheal Stardinski, ""Earshot" (program name)", "New York Magazine" (USA), 22 October 1984, pg. 24-30, by: Arlene Fischer, "Baby Yuppies" As a juvenile, David Schifter hosted a cable tube ascertain bordered by New York City call "Spotlight by the players of Teens", and subsequent spent a delighted 14 years in dump of a TV name probing correspondent, newspaper caption in sustain of station in West Virginia, Virginia, California, New York and Cleveland. He also be a corespondent for CNN and CNBC. He earn numerous award next to three Emmy nomination and the dazzling Emmy itself. In 1999, David take the perfect trade hazard by the exploit of walking towards the face everything previously owned to to stalk a career as an thespian and later, a cast governor. In 2001 he found Guerrilla Casting, extremely immediately Hollywood East Casting, a principal and extra casting ancestors base in Wilmington, North Carolina, USA. While continuing to work in national see in your mind`s eye and television production, David and a support manner commercial, television and fact films. Notable clients consider NBC, Warner Brothers, The History Channel, Discovery Channel, Woman's Entertainment, I Network (formerly PAX) and others. He also works as a Development Producer conceptualizing programming thinking for television and video encode. Hollywood East Casting operate general. Birth Notes: New York City, New York, USA Books: Dr. Robi Ludwig. _Till Death Do Us Part._ New York: Atria Books, 2006. ISBN 978-0-7432-7508-8 Magazine Covers: "Sun Newspapers' SunStations" (USA), 25 February 1993 Birth Name: Schifter, David R. After 14-years working all over the country as a TV investigative reporter, David began earning a reputation as a film/TV actor and casting director in Wilmington, North Carolina, USA., Partnered with Jacquiline Davis, noted British bodyguard of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling and Dutchess of York Sarah Ferguson to produce and direct "Stay Safe," a personal safety video for woman in 2003., Schifter is acknowledged in Jacquiline Davis' 2003 best-selling book "The Circuit," about Davis' life as a kidnap victim recovery agent and member of the underground European security force known as the Circuit., The day Davis was to arrive in Wilmington, NC USA to shoot "Stay Safe" with Schifter, Davis' flight from London was diverted to Boston as terrorists began attacking the United States on September 11, 2001., Credited with starting the television career of Dr. Robi Ludwig, a New York City based psychotherapist who he once hired as a specialty reporter for a NBC affiliate where Schifter was News Director. Dr. Ludwig is a regular guest on Larry King Live, Nancy Grace, NBC's Today Show,and The Oprah Winfrey Show." Schifter and Ludwig remain good friends. Birth Date: 15 August 1964
Justin Smith(actor)
Larry Tobias(actor) Birth Name: Tobias, Lawrence Hodge Birth Notes: Charlotte, North Carolina, USA Birth Date: 3 August 1963
Andre Walker(actor)
Peyton Warren(actor)
Traci Dinwiddie(actress) Articles: "Star-News" (USA), 18 November 2008, Vol. 142, Iss. 34, pg. 2D, by: Amy Hotz, "Supernatural Talent", "The New York Times" (USA), 14 September 2008, Vol. CLVII, Iss. 54,433, pg. 4, by: Mike Hale, "Arts&Leisure/ Television-"Supernatural"", "Greensboro News and Record" (USA), 3 June 2007, Iss. Sunday, pg. D8, by: Dawn Decwikiel-Kane, "Northwest Guilford Grad has role in 'Mr. Brooks'" Pictorials: "Curve Magazine" (USA), March 2009, Vol. 19, Iss. 2, pg. 61, by: Tania Hammidi, "Q+A: Traci Dinwiddie" Nick Names: Kamile Interviews: "Curve Magazine" (USA), March 2009, Vol. 19, Iss. 2, pg. 61, by: Tania Hammidi, "Q+A: Traci Dinwiddie" Birth Notes: Anchorage, Alaska, USA Other Works: Muscian (flautist) on Kate Newcomer album, "Can You Pin It Down". Traci hang next to studied West African beating contained by favour of years. She be consistently a guest watercolourist playing djembe and dun duns for the world fusion alliance, Yeh Dede. She nearly new to be a switch applicant of the band, The Groove Goddesses., Is an avid Anusara Yoga practitioner. Birth Date: 22 December 1973
Stacy Edmunds(actress)
Elizabeth Roberts(actress)
Stephanie Wallace(actress)
Ed Blakely(producer) Nick Names: Eddie Death Notes: Wilmington, North Carolina, USA (complications from Hepatitis C) Ed Blakely, born Edgar but normally call Eddie work contained by motion illustration and music best of his go. He help means of access a Alternative magazine, retained band in favour of hours of darkness club (Faith No More, REM). He worked by the edge of pound tour for Rolling Stones and U2 in linking running a video encourage trauma group to be found at Screen Gems NC. His endorsement be a foremost damage to the vastness film alliance. Quotes: Think good thoughts. Birth Notes: Laurens, South Carolina, USA Death Date: 15 July 2006 Birth Date: 22 May 1955
Jason Davis(producer) Birth Notes: Pine Bluff, Arkansas, USA Height: 6' 1"
Daniel Kraus(producer)
Damian Lahey(producer)
Craig Ouellette(producer)
Allen Serkin(producer)
Onur Tukel(producer)
Daniel Kraus(writer)
Michael Caporale(cinematographer)
Eric Bachmann(composer) Where Now: (August 2005) The singer and mastermind of the band Crooked Fingers. The lead singer for the band "Archers of Loaf", Lead singer of the band Crooked Fingers. Height: 6' 4"
Andy Lau(actor) Nick Names: Wah Jai Interviews: "HK Magazine" (Hong Kong), 6 May 2005, Iss. 573, pg. 8-17, by: Scott Murphy and Yvonne Young, "HK's Top 10 Movies" Height: 5' 9" Quotes: "I think 'Fruit Chan' (qv) is an interesting director because he could offer a purely commercial attraction with artistic subjects and personalities." (on director, 'Fruit Chan' (qv))., "Wong Kar Wai is a very intense character, very personable, and I believe in general he does not like and he would not want his actors to show their true looks and their true personality on screen." (on working with 'Kar Wai Wong' (qv))., "I want to have a form that fits the times, so I just keep on changing - and that makes people feel I'm a hardworking guy trying to do my best." (on his new approach to acting), "In Hong Kong the camera is always moving. 'Yimou Zhang' (qv) will put the camera on you and leave it there. And if you're good, you're good. And if you're not, well ..." [on the difference between working on Hong Kong productions and a Zhang Yimou production], "Sing more and you get better, Fight more and you get better ... But acting is hard.", "In any movie you showed your handsome face, maybe stood there in a smart pose, and that's it, that was enough. The hard part was already done." (on his previous acting roles), "The first time I met him, he just showed me his Rolex. He says 'Look at it' then I look at it. Then he told me 'Work hard, and you are going to have it!" (on meeting his idol, 'Chow Yun-Fat', for the first time) Birth Notes: Tai Po, Hong Kong Trademarks: Frequently cast in films directed by 'Johnnie To' (qv)., Frequently cast in films directed by 'Ka-Fai Wai' (qv)., Frequently uses his Chinese name, "Wah," in his films., Frequently cast in films directed by 'Jing Wong' (qv). Birth Name: Wing, Lau Fok Started career as a TV actor., Once a side kick of 'Yun-Fat Chow' (qv). They made 4 movies together: _Ying hung ho hon (1987)_ (qv), _Gong woo ching (1987)_ (qv), _Du shen (1989)_ (qv) and _Dou hap (1991)_ (qv). They also made two TV series together: _"Yang ka cheung" (1986)_ (qv) and _"Sou hat yi" (1982)_ (qv)., Named as "Four Kings" of Hong Kong pop-music industry with 'Jacky Cheung (I)' (qv), 'Leon Lai (I)' (qv) and 'Aaron Kwok' (qv) in the early 90s., He was one of the "5 Tigers" in TVB with 'Tony Leung Chiu Wai' (qv), 'Felix Wong (I)' (qv), 'Kiu Wai Miu' (qv), and 'Ken Tong' (qv) in the 1980s., Has the most awards won by a male Cantonese pop artist, as of April 2000 he had 292 awards., (As of 2003) Since 1992 he has appeared in concert 179 times., Awarded "No. 1 Box-office Actor 1985-2005" of Hong Kong, yielding a total box office of HKD 1,733,275,816 for shooting 108 films in the past 20 years., Awarded honorary fellow member by the Hongkong Academy of Performing Arts (HKAPA). Past recipients of the honor include 'Yun-Fat Chow' (qv), 'John Woo (I)' (qv) and 'Anthony Wong (IX)'., Is skilled in the Chinese calligraphy., Lau was awarded the Asian Filmmaker of the Year in the 2006 Pusan International Film Festival in Busan (formerly Pusan), Korea. He received the award after initiating a project Focus First Cuts to finance films from fledging Asian directors. One of the 6 films, the black comedy _Fengkuang de shitou (2006)_ (qv) (aka Crazy Stone), has gone on to become to date the second top-grossing film in China this year. Birth Date: 27 September 1961
Ken Tong(actor) Height: 177 cm Birth Notes: Hong Kong He was one of the "5 Tigers" in TVB with 'Tony Leung Chiu Wai' (qv), 'Felix Wong (I)' (qv), 'Kiu Wai Miu' (qv), and 'Andy Lau' (qv) in the 1980s. Spouse: 'Kun Jiang' (? - ?) (divorced); 3 children Birth Date: 29 September 1958
Ching Yee Chong(actress) Birth Notes: Hong Kong Birth Date: 1959
Jade Hsu(actress) Younger sister of 'Feng Hsu' (qv)
Annabelle Louie(actress)
Marilyn Wong Cho-See(actress)
Teddy Robin Kwan(producer) Birth Name: Kwan, Wei Pang Height: 4' 10"
Kar Wai Wong(writer) Articles: "The Wall Street Journal" (USA), 4 October 2008, pg. W2, by: Michelle Kung, "Up From the 'Ashes:' Director Wong Kar Wai revisits a bootlegged cult film" Spouse: 'Esther' (? - present); 1 child Trademarks: Often casts Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Maggie Cheung in his films., Wear sunglasses. Birth Notes: Shanghai, China Other Works: TV commercial: Directed a commercial starring 'Eva Green' (qv) for Dior's Midnight Poison perfume (2007). Where Now: (May 2008) 61st Cannes Film Festival Left Shanghai with his mother at the age of 5, when they emigrated to Hongkong, leaving his father, a hotel director, his brother and his sister behind., Did not speak Cantonese--the local dialect of Hong Kong--until the age of 13., Dropped out of an art school and joined a screenwriter's program in 1980., Does not use detailed scripts for his films., Never went to a film school., He claims that his non-linear style of story-telling is inspired by the late Argentinian writer 'Manuel Puig (II)' (qv)'s novel titled "The Buenos Aires Affair"., His son Qing, born 1994, along with his wife live in Hong Kong., Director with the most films (6, all directed between 1989 to 2000) among the Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures, selected by Hong Kong Film Awards in celebration of 100 years of movies., 1st Chinese to win the Best Director Award at Cannes film Festival (1997), [January 5, 2006] It was announced that he has been selected President of the Jury for the 2006 Cannes Film Festival., Has directed several commercials and music videos., Graduated from Hong Kong Polytechnic College in graphic design (1980)., Considers _Zui hou sheng li (1987)_ (qv) his best script., Profiled in "Films and Dreams: Tarkovsky, Bergman, Sokurov, Kubrick and Wong Kar-Wei" by Thurston Botz-Borsnstein. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2008. Birth Date: 17 July 1956
