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Warren Oates Actor, In the Heat of the Night Warren Oates was an American character actor of the 1960s and 1970s and early 1980s whose distinctive style and intensity brought him to offbeat leading roles. Oates was born in Depoy, a very small Kentucky town. He was the son of Sarah Alice (Mercer) and Bayless Earle Oates, a general store owner... | |
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Conrad Veidt Actor, Casablanca Conrad Veidt attended the Sophiengymnasium (secondary school) in the Schoeneberg district of Berlin, and graduated without a diploma in 1912, last in his class of 13. Conrad liked animals, theater, cinema, fast cars, pastries, thunderstorms, gardening, swimming and golfing. He disliked heights, flying... | |
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Mary Ure Actress, Where Eagles Dare An enchantingly beautiful, luminous blonde, Mary Ure was born in Glasgow in 1933. Her first film was Zoltan Korda's Storm Over the Nile, a misfiring remake of The Four Feathers. Next was Windom's Way - a tale of rubber plantation strikes and marital strife, but more significant events had been occurring off-screen... | |
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Jean Sincere Actress, The Incredibles | |
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Robert Rietty Actor, The Omen Born of Italian heritage Lucio Rietti was "discovered" at the tender age of 8 by his father Vittorio (Victor Rietti veteran actor of the stage and screen) who had noticed the boy had completely memorized a copy of a script he had given Lucio having wanted help from his son while rehearsing his lines for a play... | |
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Kevin Jarre Writer, The Mummy | |
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Graham Greene Writer, The Third Man Graham Greene was one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century and his influence on the cinema and theatre was enormous. He wrote five plays and almost all of his novels, including "Brighton Rock", "The Ministry of Fear" and "The End of the Affair", have been brought to the screen. A superb storyteller, he also wrote the screenplays for such classics as The Fallen Idol and The Third Man... | |
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Johannes Brahms Soundtrack, The Truman Show German Romantic composer Johannes Brahms was born in Hamburg in 1833 and died in Vienna, Austria in 1897. A perfectionist, he often compared himself unfavorably to composers such as Beethoven and ended up destroying many compositions without their ever being heard. While basically conservative, he showed musical growth throughout his four symphonies and occasionally borrowed wilder folk themes... | |
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Roy Huggins Writer, The Fugitive | |
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Writer, The Remains of the Day | |
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Ned Sparks Actor, 42nd Street Cigar-chewing character comedian, often given to sarcasm, in Hollywood films from the early 20's to late 40's. | |
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Herk Harvey Director, Carnival of Souls Colorado-born Herk Harvey majored in theater at Kansas University, directing and acting in stage productions and later returning to the school in a teaching capacity. He broke into the film business as an actor in some of the movies being made by Centron Corporation of Lawrence, Kansas, an educational and industrial film production company for which he subsequently went to work as a director... | |
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Charles Lang Cinematographer, Some Like It Hot One of the outstanding cinematographers of Hollywood's Golden Age, Lang spent most of his career at Paramount (1929-1952), where he contributed to the studio's well-earned reputation for visual style. Lang was educated at Lincoln High School in L.A., then proceeded to the University of Southern California to study law... | |
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Howard R. Cohen Writer, Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer | |
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Russel Crouse Writer, The Sound of Music Playwright and producer who teamed with Howard Lindsay to create widely popular musicals and plays. | |
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Ray Enright Director, 'Gung Ho!': The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders Ray Enright, born in Anderson, Indiana, came to Los Angeles with his family at the age of five. He attended Los Angeles High School and in 1913 started motion picture work as an assistant cutter at the Mack Sennett studio. He served in World War I as a member of the Signal Corps. After the war he returned to Hollywood and joined Thomas H. Ince as a cutter... | |
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Pinky Lee Actor, Lady of Burlesque | |
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Kurt Weill Soundtrack, The World's End | |
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Wilson Mizner Writer, One Way Passage | |
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Heinz Drache Actor, Der Zinker This actor's chief claim to fame lies in being the most in-vogue screen cop of post-war German cinema. He first established his reputation in the role of the charismatic Inspector Yates in Francis Durbridge's miniseries Das Halstuch, which hit an impressive eighty percent in TV ratings. He continued in the same vein (same part... | |
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Norman Wooland Actor, The Guns of Navarone A classical stage actor who enjoyed modest film stardom in the late 1940s and 1950s, the good-looking, somewhat unassuming British actor Norman Wooland also worked extensively on radio and television in a career that spanned six decades. Born to British parents in Dusseldorf, Germany on March 16, 1910... | |
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Joseph Bernard Actor, Judgment at Nuremberg | |
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Lionel Bart Soundtrack, From Russia with Love The son of a Jewish Tailor in London's working class East End young Lionel had no formal musical education and never learned musical notation but his music teacher at school declared him to be a genius. He gained a scholarship to St Martin's School of Art at age 16 and started work as a set painter in the theatre... | |
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Gordon Parks Jr. Director, Super Fly | |
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Eugenie Leontovich Actress, Homicidal | |
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Phyllis Fine Actress, Pop Goes the Easel | |
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Victor Millan Actor, Scarface | |
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Sarah Vaughan Soundtrack, The Adjustment Bureau Sarah Vaughan was born March 27, 1924 in Newark, NJ, and died April 3, 1990, in Los Angeles of lung cancer. Her parents were Asbury, a carpenter, and Ada, a laundress. She began studying music when she was seven, taking eight years of piano lessons and two years of organ. As a child she sang in the choir at the Mt... | |
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Vivian Nathan Actress, Klute | |
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John Call Actor, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians | |
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Robert Dalban Actor, Diabolique | |
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Donna Lee Actress, The Body Snatcher A child musical prodigy, Donna Lee O'Leary, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John O'Leary of 605 West Mercury Street in Butte, Montana, was the subject of considerable favorable comment In southern California's musical circles. At age five, she had signed a five-picture contract with Republic Studios. Later she appeared on several radio programs including "A Date With Judy". | |
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Chief Jay Strongbow Self, Micki + Maude "Chief" Jay Strongbow was arguably the most famous, beloved Native American wrestler of all time, and a consistent box office draw. As both a main event and mid-card performer, Strongbow was one of the most reliable, professional wrestlers of his, or any, day. A man who truly loved the wrestling business... | |
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Anne Grey Actress, Number 17 | |
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Gracita Morales Actress, Crónica de nueve meses | |
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Rex Evans Actor, The Philadelphia Story | |
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Stapleton Kent Actor, Limelight | |
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Bill Mullikin Actor, Hell Is for Heroes | |
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Katharine Balfour Actress, Love Story | |
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Hans Moebus Actor, Psycho | |
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Mariví Bilbao Actress, One Too Many | |
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Terence McKenna Self, The Alchemical Dream: Rebirth of the Great Work | |
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Karl Tunberg Writer, Ben-Hur | |
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Ray Noble Soundtrack, Spider-Man 2 | |
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Clair Huffaker Writer, The War Wagon | |
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Rolf Olsen Actor, Das kann doch unsren Willi nicht erschüttern | |
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Molly McGowan Actress, The Bashful Elephant | |
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Burt Topper Producer, The Hard Ride | |
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H. Gordon Boos Second Unit Director or Assistant Director, Platoon | |
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Mathias Gnädinger Actor, Downfall | |
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