FOUND A GRAVE

John Blair Jr. (1731 - 1800)

Born in Williamsburg, Virginia, Blair was a member of a prominent Virginia family. His father served on the Virginia Council and was for a time acting Royal governor. His granduncle, James Blair, was founder and first president of the College of William & Mary. Blair attended William & Mary, receiving an A.B. in 1754. In […]

Betsy Blair (1923 - 2009)

Actress. She won a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award, and received an Oscar nomination, for the 1955 film “Marty”. Born Elizabeth Winifred Boger, she was raised in northern New Jersey and had decided on a show business career by age eight. At 12, she was a professional model; graduating from high […]

Janet Blair (1921 - 2007)

Actress. She was a singer in Hal Kemp’s Band when she signed with Columbia Studios in 1941. She made her film debut in “Three Girls on the Town” and held lead roles in “Broadway” (1944), “The Fabulous Dorseys,” “The Fuller Brush Man”(1946) and “The Black Arrow”(1948). After Columbia dropped her contract, she turned to acting […]

George Orwell (1903 - 1950)

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), who used the pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and commitment to democratic socialism. Commonly ranked as one of the most influential English writers of […]

William Blake (1757 - 1827)

William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English painter, poet and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic poetry has been said to form “what is in proportion to its […]

Madge Blake (1899 - 1969)

Character Actress. Her career started when she was fifty and was the epitome of what the perfect mother, sister or aunt should be both in physical appearance and demeanor. She was short, plump, matronly with a warm smile and a sweet voice. She was born in Kinsley, Kansas the daughter of a Methodist circuit rider. […]

Amanda Blake (1929 - 1989)

Amanda Blake Actress. She was born in Buffalo, New York as Beverly Louise Neill an only Child. She arrived in Claremont, California during a move with her family. While working as a telephone operator she began doing bit parts for MGM which landed her a contract. After a few menial movie appearances, she landed the […]

Pamela Blake (1915 - 2009)

Actress. She appeared in more than fifty B-movies from the mid-1930’s until the 1950’s and had roles opposite such leading men as John Wayne in “Wyoming Outlaw” (1939) and Alan Ladd in “This Gun for Hire” (1942). Born Adele Pearce in Oakland, she studied acting after a first place finish in a beauty contest and […]

Olive Blakeney (1894 - 1959)

American motion picture and television actress of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. Interred along with her husband, actor Bernard Nedell.

Alfred Blalock (1899 - 1964)

Born in Culloden, Georgia, Blalock entered Georgia Military Academy, a preparatory school for the University of Georgia, at the age of 14. Blalock attended Georgia as an undergraduate and was a member of the Delta Chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity. After graduating with an A.B. in 1918 at the age of 19, Blalock entered […]

Lotte Lenya (1898 - 1981)

In 1922 Lenya was seen by her future husband, German composer Kurt Weill, during an audition for his first stage score Zaubernacht but because of his position behind the piano, she did not see him. She was cast but owing to her loyalty to her voice coach she declined the role. She accepted the part […]

Anita Blanch (1910 - 1983)

Actress. She was born in Valencia (Comunidad Valenciana, Spain) and died in México D.F. (México). She and her sister founded a stage company, touring for Argentina, Venezuela and finally Mexico, where they stablished. She also appeared in cinema and television. She is best remembered in works such as El Conde de Montecristo (1942), La Virgen […]

Mari Blanchard (1927 - 1970)

Actress. A beautiful blue-eyed brunet (later a blonde), she is remembered for her B movie roles as alluring harem girls and saloon dancers in American films of the 1950s and early 1960s. The daughter of an oil executive and a psychotherapist, she suffered from severe polio from the age of nine, which denied her a […]

Mari Blanchard (1927 - 1970)

Mari Blanchard was born on April 13, 1927 in Long Beach, California. A polio victim at age 9, Blanchard’s health eventually improved enough that she ran away from home and joined a circus in her teens. She then attended the University of Southern California, getting her degree. In the late 1940s, Blanchard became a successful print […]

Clara Blandick (1881 - 1962)

Actress. She is best remembered for her role of Auntie Em in the 1939 film classic, “The Wizard of Oz.” Born Clara Dickey, she was the daughter of Isaac B. and Hattie Mudgett Dickey. Her father was Captain of a small American merchant ship, the “Willard Mudgett,” and she was born aboard her father’s ship […]

Sally Blane (1910 - 1997)

Actress. Born in Salida, Colorado, she was the sister of actresses Polly Ann Young, Loretta Young and half-sister to Georgiana Young. She began her career at age 7, making her debut in “Sirens of the Sea” (1917). A veteran of over a 100 films, her credits included “Once a Sinner” (1930), ” Arabian Nights” (1931), […]

Mel Blanc (1908 - 1989)

Mel Blanc Mel Blanc, the voice of Porky Pig, Bugs Bunny, Barney Rubble, Daffy Duck and countless other animated vertebrates, died Monday afternoon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He was 81 and had been hospitalized since May 19 suffering from heart disease and related medical problems, said hospital spokesman Ron Wise. With Blanc when he died […]

Gus Hardin (1970 - 1996)

Gus Hardin One of the more interesting singers of the 1980s was a female singer who went by the name Gus Hardin. While never a big star, she had one of the more distinctive female voices and enjoyed at least a modicum of recording success. Her voice was hard to describe, although some listeners said […]

Samuel Blatchford (1820 - 1893)

Blatchford was born in Auburn, New York, where his father was a well known attorney and friend of Daniel Webster. He was educated at Columbia College, graduating when he was 17 years old. In 1840, he served as the private secretary to Governor William H. Seward.  Blatchford read law while working for the governor and […]

Otto Blathy (1860 - 1939)

He attended schools in Tata and Vienna where he obtained diploma of machinery in 1882. Between 1881-1883 he worked at the machinery workshop of the Hungarian Railways (MAV). Attracted by the successes of Károly Zipernowsky, he joined his team on 1 July 1883. He admitted he has learnt nothing about electrotechnics in university, so he […]

Monica Bleibtreu (1944 - 2009)

Actress. She was well known throughout western Europe and the German speaking countries as a performer of the stage, motion pictures and television. She was a graduate of Vienna’s prestigious Max Reinhardt acting school, and performed in theater houses throughout Germany before turning her attention to television and motion pictures. In 1975 she earned a […]

Louis Bleriot (1872 - 1936)

Born at No.17 rue de l’Arbre à Poires (now rue Sadi-Carnot) in Cambrai, Louis was the first of five children born to Clémence and Charles Blériot. At the age of 10, Blériot was sent as a boarder to the Institut Notre Dame in Cambrai, where he frequently won class prizes, including one for drawing. When […]

Billy Bletcher (1894 - 1979)

Billy Bletcher appeared on-screen in films and later television from the 1910s to the 1970s, including appearances in several Our Gang and The Three Stooges comedies. He was most famous as a voice actor. His voice was a deep and strong-sounding baritone. Bletcher provided the voices of various characters for Walt Disney Pictures (Black Pete, Short Ghost […]

John Blewett III (1973 - 2007)

Blewett started racing go karts at the age of 10. In 1996, at age 22, he won the coveted NASCAR’s Northeast Regional Championship, falling only a few points shy of the National Title. During his career he recorded 96 wins between 1993 and 2007, including track championships at Flemington Speedway, Wall Township Speedway, New Egypt, […]

John Beal (1970 - 1997)

Beal was born James Alexander Bliedung in Joplin, Missouri. He originally went to New York to study art but a chance to understudy in a play made him change his mind. He began acting in the 1930s, opposite Katharine Hepburn (in the 1934 RKO film The Little Minister),[1] among others; one of his notable screen […]

Beatrice Blinn (1901 - 1979)

Actress. She appeared in “Don’t Gamble With Love”(1936). “Mr Deeds Goes To Town”(1936), “Golden Boy”(1939), “Cafe Hostess”(1940), “Convicted Woman”(1940) and “Stop! Look! and Laugh!”(1960).

Lucille Bliss (1916 - 2012)

Voice Actress. Born Lucille Theresa Bliss in New York City, she became known for her voice. She became a recognized television pioneer when she was tapped to voice the character of Crusader Rabbit in the first made for television cartoon series. The initial episodes aired in 1949 and ran through 1951. She debuted in feature […]

Marcel Dassault (1892 - 1986)

Marcel Dassault was born was Marcel Bloch on January 22, 1892 in Paris. Both his parents were Jewish.  He was educated at the Lycée Condorcet in Paris. He graduated from the Breguet School and Supaéro.  Dassault invented a type of aircraft propeller used by the French army during World War I and founded the Société […]

Lynda Lyon Block (1948 - 2002)

Lynda Cheryle Lyon was born February 8, 1948, in Orlando, Florida, to Francis (Frank) Stephen Lyon and Berylene Elisabeth Owen. Lynda, and her sister Denyce (born 1952), lost their father when she was 10, when he died of heart failure. Lynda and her mother were never close, and Block claimed that her mother was both […]

Joan Blondell (1906 - 1979)

Joan Blondell Actress. In a fifty year career, Joan Blondell juggled a duel career while acting, dancing and singing in some 80 films, she had a very successful stage career with many appearance on Broadway. Her early acting demeanor was brassy, wisecracking and happy go lucky, but after leaving Warner Brothers, becoming an independent actress, […]