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Blanchette Brunoy (1918 - 2005)

French Actress. She appeared in nearly 100 films during a career that spanned almost 70 years, from 1930 to 1998. Among her credits are the title role in “Claudine à L’école,” “Judas Was a Woman,” “Shop Girls of Paris,” “Bernadette of Lourdes,” “Anatomy of a Marriage,” “The Holy Terror” and “L’ Enfer.” Her final film […]

Mona Bruns (1899 - 2000)

Actress. Remembered mainly for her numerous television roles on classic series, such as “Bonanza,” “Green Acres,” and “Little House on the Prairie.” She was married to actor Frank M. Thomas, and was the mother of actor Frankie Thomas.

Alicia Bruzzo (1955 - 2007)

Actress. Considered one of Argentina’s most popular and significant performers. After gaining initial fame in the television series “El Rafa” in the early 1970s, she made her film debut in “Me Enamoré sin Darme Cuenta” (1972). She also starred in “Pasajeros de una Pesadilla” (1984), “Una Sombra Ya Pronto Serás” (1994), and “El Che” (1997). […]

Nana Bryant (1888 - 1955)

Actress in 108 films including: “Meet Nero Wolfe,” “Pennies From Heaven,” “Out West With the Hardys,” “Calling Dr. Gillespie,” “The Song of Bernadette,” “Ladies of the Chorus,” “The Du Pont Story” and “The Outcast.” Bryant also played the role of ‘Mrs Nestor’ on the television series “Our Miss Brooks.”

Boudleaux Bryant (1920 - 1970)

Boudleaux Bryant Boudleaux was born in Shellman, Georgia and trained as a classical violinist. He performed with the Atlanta Philharmonic Orchestra during its 1937-38 season, but had more interest in country fiddling and joined Hank Penny and his Radio Cowboys, an Atlanta-based western music band. In 1945 he met Scaduto, whom he called Felice, while […]

Gregory Bryant-Bey (1955 - 2008)

Gregory Bryant-Bey Bryant-Bey was sent by his mother to New York City to live with a woman who “adopted” him. The woman allegedly beat him regularly, and forced him to care for her daughter. When Bryant-Bey was 13, his mother brought him back to Toledo, then left him in the care of her ex-husband. Bryant-Bey […]

Claudia Bryar (1918 - 2011)

Actress. She shall be remembered for her countless television roles and as Mrs Emma Spool from Richard Franklin’s 1983 “Psycho II”. Born Hortense Rizler, she was the child of a Congressman and Federal Judge and was to break into show business when she moved to Southern California in the early 1950s. After refining her art […]

Winifred Bryson (1892 - 1987)

Actress. A talented stage and film performer, Bryson is best remembered for her role as Fleur de Lys in the 1923 film, “The Hunchback Of notre Dame.” Born in Columbus, Ohio, Bryson headed to Los Angeles in 1915. Her first professional acting appearance was in the play “Regeneration”, opposite Bert Lytell. Known for her sultry, […]

Louis Buchalter (1897 - 1944)

Organized Crime Figure. He was a Jewish Mob boss who operated in the New York City, New York Garment District in the 1930s and 1940s, and was a close associate of mafia boss Lucky Luciano. He was part of the Murder Incorporated a group of professional killers who worked solely for the National Crime Syndicate […]

James Buchanan (1791 - 1868)

James Buchanan Buchanan was born in a log cabin in Cove Gap, Pennsylvania (now Buchanan’s Birthplace State Park), in Franklin County, on April 23, 1791, to James Buchanan, Sr. (1761–1821), a businessman, merchant, and farmer, and Elizabeth Speer, an educated woman (1767–1833). His parents were both of Ulster Scots descent, the father having emigrated from Donegal, Ireland in 1783. Buchanan had six sisters and four […]

Horst Buchholz (1933 - 2003)

Horst Buchholz was born in Berlin, the son of Maria Hasenkamp. He never knew his biological father, but took the surname of his stepfather Hugo Buchholz, a shoemaker, whom his mother married in 1938. His half-sister Heidi, born in 1941, gave him the nickname “Hotte”, which he kept for the rest of his life. During […]

Patricia Buckley (1926 - 2007)

Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, to a wealthy family, Patricia Taylor had tutors and attended Crofton House School. She was one of the three children of Austin Cotterell Taylor, a self-made industrialist, rich from lumber and mining. Her mother, Kathleen Elliott, daughter of the chief of police of Winnipeg, was a great beauty. Pat went […]

Jeff Buckley (1966 - 1997)

Jeff Buckley Musician. Born in Anaheim, California, he was a singer, songwriter, guitarist, whom emerged in New York City’s avant-garde club scene in the 1990’s. Signed to Columbia Records, he released his first album “At Sin-é” (1993) followed by his full-band album, “Grace” (1994). With the success of the albums, he went on an extensive […]

Robert Anthony Buell (1940 - 2002)

Robert Anthony Buell Executed this morning by lethal injection for the July 1982 abduction and slaying of 11-year-old Krista Lea Harrison of Marshallville. Buell, a former loan specialist with the city of Akron’s Planning Department, was pronounced dead at 10:30 a.m. inside the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near Lucasville. Buell, 62, gave a one-minute statement […]

Soledad Miranda (1943 - 1970)

Soledad Miranda was born Soledad Rendón Bueno on 9 July 1943 in Seville, Spain. Soledad (whose name translates as solitude or loneliness) was the niece of the famous Spanish singer-actress-flamenco dancer Paquita Rico. Soledad was the first child of parents who had little money and, eventually, six children. It was necessary to contribute to the […]

Ray Bolger (1904 - 1987)

Ray Bolger Ray Bolger, the loose-limbed song-and-dance man who became known to millions as the Scarecrow in ”The Wizard of Oz,” died yesterday of cancer in Los Angeles. He had his 83d birthday last Saturday and lived in Beverly Hills. Among his many roles on stage, screen and television in a career than spanned six […]

James Garner (1928 - 2014)

James Garner Garner, who had a long and storied career that spanned almost 60 years, first found success playing Bret Maverick in the ABC western ‘Maverick’ from 1957 to 1960. Born James Scott Bumgarner, he moved to Los Angeles as a teenager with his family, and joined the Merchant Marines, later joining the National Guard. […]

Ted Bundy (1946 - 1989)

Bundy was born Theodore Robert Cowell at the Elizabeth Lund Home For Unwed Mothers (now the Lund Family Center) in Burlington, Vermont on November 24, 1946 to Eleanor Louise Cowell (known for most of her life as Louise). His father’s identity has never been determined with certainty. His birth certificate assigns paternity to a salesman […]

Edward Bunker (1933 - 2005)

Bunker was born “on New Year’s Eve, 1933” into a troubled family in Los Angeles. His mother, Sarah (née Johnston), was a chorus girl from Vancouver, and his father, Edward N. Bunker, a stage hand. His parents lived in a constant state of alcohol-fueled argument. His first clear memories were of his parents screaming at […]

Bobby Buntrock (1952 - 1974)

Bobby Buntrock was born in Denver, Colorado, to Robert and Maxine Buntrock. He had a younger sister, Stella. When he was three, the family moved to Whittier, California, where neighbors urged Buntrock’s parents to get their son into acting. After submitting Buntrock’s picture to various agents, he was signed by Marcella Bell. Shortly after signing […]

Chris Burden (1946 - 2015)

Burden, the son of an engineer and a biologist, was born in Boston in 1946 and grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, France and Italy. He studied for his B.A. in visual arts, physics and architecture at Pomona College and received his MFA at the University of California, Irvine – where his teachers included Robert Irwin […]

Warren Earl Burger (1907 - 1995)

Burger was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1907, and one of seven children. His parents, Katharine (née Schnittger) and Charles Joseph Burger, a traveling salesman and railroad cargo inspector, were of Swiss German descent. His grandfather, Joseph Burger, had emigrated from Switzerland and joined the Union Army when he was 14. Joseph Burger fought […]

Dorothy Burgess (1907 - 1961)

Actress. After learning her art on the stage, she appeared in several dozen Hollywood features during the 1930s. Raised initially in Los Angeles where her father was in the transportation business, she studied painting and sculpture in New York, then got her theatrical start as a bit-player and dancer in productions that featured her maternal […]

Helen Burgess (1916 - 1937)

American stage and screen actress. She was discovered by Cecil B. DeMille, and made her screen debut as Buffalo Bill Cody’s wife in “The Plainsman” (1936). While filming “Night of Mystery” (1937), she caught a cold which developed into pneumonia. She was only 20 years old when she died.

Vivienne Burgess (1914 - 1999)

Actres. She was born in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England and died in Richmond upon Thames, Surrey, England. Her motion pictyre and television credits include “Oliver Twist,” “Love On a Branch Line,” “Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The ABC Murders,” “Boon,” “Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense,” “Cover Her Face,” “Angels,” “Juliet Bravo,” “Hazell,” “Rooms,” and “Crossroads.” She was […]

Kathleen Burke (1913 - 1980)

Actress. She worked as a radio actress and fashion model before winning the Paramount Studios’ nationwide contest to find the “Panther Woman” for their H.G. Wells’ screen adaptation. Burke was picked from the eventual four finalists which had also included Verna Hillie and Lona Andre. In 1936 her contract with Paramount was terminated. She married […]

James Burke (1931 - 1996)

Organized Crime Figure. Known as “Jimmy the Gent”, he was immortalized in the Martin Scorcese gangster film “Goodfellas”. He was one of New York City’s most successful and revered organized criminals who went down in the annals of crime as the architect of the notorious 1978 Lufthansa heist, which looted New York’s JFK airport of […]

Billie Burke (1884 - 1970)

American Stage and Motion Picture Actress. She is best remembered in the role of Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, from the 1939 movie “The Wizard of Oz”, and in the role of the scatterbrained Clara Topper, wife of stuffy banker Cosmo Topper, in the “Topper” series of films (1937-1941). She was married to […]

Paul Burke (1926 - 2009)

Burke was born in New Orleans, the son of Santa Maria (Palermo) and Martin Joseph “Marty” Burke, a boxer who fought Gene Tunney and later owned a restaurant and a nightclub known as “Marty Burke’s” in the New Orleans French Quarter. He was of Irish and Italian descent. After training at the Pasadena Playhouse, Burke’s film […]

Robert Easton (1930 - 2011)

Beginning in 1945, he was heard on radio’s Quiz Kids. He portrayed Magnus Proudfoot on radio’s Gunsmoke and also appeared in other radio programs, including Fibber McGee and Molly, The Fred Allen Show, The Halls of Ivy, Our Miss Brooks, Suspense, William Shakespeare—A Portrait in Sound and The Zero Hour. On film, one of his earliest […]