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Claire James (1920 - 1986)

Actress. In the 1930s, her mother moved the family to California to get her daughter into motion features. There Claire James became a beauty queen being named “Miss Los Angeles” in 1938 and placed third in the “Queen of Queens” of Southern California that same year. In August 1938, she was crowned “Miss California” and […]

Clara Blore (1890 - 1973)

American actress appearing in films of the 1930s, and 40s. Married to character actor Eric Blore.

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 […]

Clara Bow (1905 - 1965)

Actress. Known as the ‘It Girl,’ she is considered America’s first “Sex Symbol”. Born to poverty in Brooklyn, New York, she won a photo beauty contest that launched her film career in 1922. She was “discovered” while working at a Coney Island Hot Dog stand run by Nathan Handwerker, who would later find fame in […]

Clara Calamai (1909 - 1998)

Actress. “Black star” of Italian movies. She reached the greatest fame thanks to a scandal, while in ‘La cena delle beffe’ of Blasetti, she showed her breast. The top of her ‘dark lady fame’ came in 1942, when she played in Luchino Visconti’s ‘Ossessione’ from Caine’s the Postman Always Rings Twice, here in neorealist version. […]

Clare Eames (1896 - 1930)

Actress. Fondly remembered as ‘Princess Dominica’ in “The Swan” and as ‘Queen Elizabeth’ in “Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall,” starring Mary Pickford. She was Sidney Coe Howard’s wife, actress Jennifer Howard’smother and actor Tony Goldwyn’s grandmother.

Clarice Blackburn (1921 - 1995)

Actress. She played various roles on the daytime television series “Dark Shadows.”

Claude Jade (1948 - 2006)

Actress. Born Claude Marcelle Jorre in Dijon, France, she appeared mainly in international movies and television since the 1960s. She is best known for her co-starring roles in director Francois Truffaut’s films “Stolen Kisses” (1968), “Bed and Board” (1970), and “Love on the Run” (1979). She also had a memorable role in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Topaz” […]

Claude Rains (1889 - 1967)

Actor. Born William Claude Rains in London, England, the son of British stage actor Frederick Rains, he made his stage debut at the age of eleven, and learned the technical end of the business working first as a page, then working up to stage manager. He came to the USA in 1913 but returned to […]

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 […]

Cliff Nazarro (1904 - 1961)

Actor. A comedian specializing in “double-talk”, he appeared in supporting roles in B films, sometimes as a western sidekick. Nazarro played the comic strip character Barney Google in “Hillbilly Blitzkreig” (1942), and was the voice of “Egghead” in several Warner Bros. cartoons of the late 1930s. His other credits include “The Singing Buckaroo” (1937), “Thoroughbreds […]

Conrad Bain (1923 - 2013)

Actor. Bain, a Canadian-born actor who served in the Canadian Army during World War II, will best be remembered for his roles as as Phillip Drummond in the sitcoms ‘Diff’rent Strokes’ and as Dr. Arthur Harmon on ‘Maude’. He started as an actor in the 1956 stage revival of ‘The Iceman Cometh’. His other Broadway […]

Constance Talmadge (1899 - 1973)

Actress. Born Constance Alice Talmadge in Brooklyn, New York. The younger sister of norma Talmadge, and older sister of Natalie Talmadge. The sisters were abandoned by their alcoholic father when they were young children. Their mother, Peg, scraped by doing laundry, giving art classes, and selling cosmetics. Peg saw her opportunity one day when norma […]

Corey Rand (1946 - 2002)

Actor. Born Corey David Rand, his career began in 1974, appearing on the TV series “Hawaii Five-O”. His other television credits included “Cannon”, “The Fall Guy”, “Santa Barbara”, “CBS Storybreak”, “Knight Rider” and the TV movie “Sinatra” (1992). For feature films, he had roles in “Straight Time” (1978), “Cloak & Dragger” (1984), “The Coach Trip” […]

Danny Kamekona (1935 - 1996)

Actor. Best remembered for his roles as ‘Che Fong’ from 1968 to 1969, and ‘Nick noble’ from 1974 to 1975, on the television series, “Hawaii Five-O.” Kamekona was born in november 1935 of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Irish, and of Hawaiian descent. He appeared in several motion pictures including, “Robot Wars” (1993), “Miss America: Behind The […]

David Landau (1879 - 1935)

Actor. Born David Magee in Philadelphia, he had a long but unremarkable stage career until 1930, when he played a murderous cuckold in the road show production of Elmer Rice’s “Street Scene”. He powerfully recreated the role in director King Vidor’s 1931 film adaptation. Armed with a menacing look and a cavernous bass speaking voice, […]

David Opatoshu (1918 - 1996)

American motion picture and television actor of the 1930s through 1980s. Father of screenwriter Danny Opatoshu.

Deborah Raffin (1953 - 2012)

Actress, Entrepreneur. The daughter of 1940s model-turned actress Trudy Marshall, her father worked in the meat and restaurant industry. Raised within the shadows of Hollywood, she studied at Los Angeles Valley College and began her acting career following training at the National Theatre in England with a minor role in the TV-film “Of Men and […]

Denise Borino-Quinn (1964 - 2010)

Actress. She portrayed overweight mob wife Ginny Sacramone in the hit HBO series “The Sopranos” from 2001 until its conclusion in 2007. A graduate of West Essex High School, she was a legal assistant in New Brunswick, New Jersey, who accompanied a childhood friend to an open casting call for the successful Mafia-themed show; to […]

Diana Bellamy (1943 - 2001)

Actress. She was a character actress in theaters, television and on stage. She graduated with a master’s degree in Fine Arts from Southern Methodist University in 1970. Her acting career began in a puppet theater in Los Angeles. She was popular in regional theaters and she also appeared on television and in such movies as […]

Diane Brewster (1931 - 1991)

Actress. She began her career at a Kansas City TV station doing weather shows before moving to Los Angeles to except a part in a “Maverick” television episode. She is best noted for the role as schoolteacher ‘Miss Canfield’ on “Leave It To Beaver” series and also played Richard Kimball’s murdered wife in “The Fugitive” […]

Dick York (1928 - 1992)

Actor, most remembered for his role as Darrin Stephens, the often-frustrated husband of Elizabeth Montgomery, in the Television sitcom series, Bewitched. Born Richard Allen York in Fort Wayne, Indiana on 4 September 1928, he quickly found work in the entertainment industry. In 1943, at age 15, he became the star of the network radio program, “That […]

Dick Kallman (1934 - 1980)

Actor. Starred in motion pictures and on the stage from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Doe Avedon (1925 - 2011)

Actress, Model. She parlayed marriage to a photographer into a brief but spectacular career in the pages of fashion magazines as well as into time on stage and screen, and in the process inspired the 1957 “Funny Face”. Born Dorcas Marie Newell to an upper level servant family, she was orphaned at 12 and subsequently […]

Dominique Laffin (1952 - 1985)

French Actress. She appeared in the films, “Passage Secret” (1985), “Akropolis now” (1983), “Room Service” (1982), “Vive La Mariee” (1982), “His Master’s Eye” (1982), “nocturnal Uproar” (1979), “Seeking Asylum” (1979), “The Crying Woman” (1978), “The Little Wheedlers” (1978), “A Night All Cats Are Crazy” (1977), and “The Sweet Sickness” (1977). 

Don Alvarado (1904 - 1967)

Actor. He got his first break as an extra in “Mademoiselle Midnight” in 1924, after which his film roles grew in importance until he became established as a second-string “Latin lover” type in many late silents and early talkies such as “Loves of Carmen”, “Drums of Love”, “Battle of The Sexes” and “Breakfast at Sunrise”. […]

Don Ameche (1908 - 1993)

Actor, Singer. He was born Dominic Felix Amici in Kenosha, Wisconsin, to a father who was a saloon keeper. At eleven he was attending St. Birchman’s Boys Academy in Marion, Iowa, where the acting bug bit. While enrolled at Loras College in Dubuque he was deemed a promising actor. A stay in Chicago resulted in […]

Don Galloway (1937 - 2009)

Actor. He is best known for his role as Detective Sergeant Ed Brown on the television series “Ironside” (1967 to 1975). Born in Brooksville, Kentucky, he began his career during the early 1960s in the soap opera “The Secret Storm” and became a regular presence on the small screen into the 1990s. Among his other […]

Don Galloway (1937 - 2009)

Actor. He is best known for his role as Detective Sergeant Ed Brown on the television series “Ironside” (1967 to 1975). Born in Brooksville, Kentucky, he began his career during the early 1960s in the soap opera “The Secret Storm” and became a regular presence on the small screen into the 1990s. Among his other […]

Donald MacBride (1889 - 1957)

Actor. Best known for his character work in scores of 1930’s and 1940’s comedies and detective whodunits. He typically played hotel managers or police detectives of the slow burn variety. Born in Brookly, n MacBride started his career on the Vaudeville and Broadway stages as a teenage singer in shows like “George White`s Scandals”. Appearing […]