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Francesca Bertini
Francesca Bertini (1892 - 1985)
Actress. Born Elena Seracini Vitiello. Described as one of the first divas of cinema. She made her film debut in 1907 with “La Dea del Mare”. With the movies “Lucrezia Borgia,” “Giulietta e Romeo,” and “L’arrivista,” Her popularity obtained gigantic dimensions as they are hardly imaginable today. In 1921 she married the Swiss banker Paul […]
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Francisco Alvarez
Francisco Alvarez (1892 - 1960)
Famed stage and cinema actor. He participated in 52 movies.
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Francois Talma
Francois Talma (1763 - 1826)
Actor. Born in Paris, France, he started performing when he was young in amateur theatricals and made his professional stage debut at the Comédie-Française in 1787. He became one of the early advocates of historical costuming performing in period clothes while in character. His reforms in acting styles, stage costuming and scenery made him a […]
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Frank Keenan
Frank Keenan (1858 - 1929)
Actor. Born in Dubuque, Iowa, he was a stage and screen actor in the silent film era. In the early 1900s, he was a celebrated Shakespearean actor and was a noted Broadway matinee idol. He was among the first stage performers to enter into Hollywood films and appeared in over 40 features. His credits include […]
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Frank Glifford Tallman III
Frank Glifford Tallman III (1919 - 1978)
Actor, Stuntman. Some of his films include “Catch-22,” “The Great Waldopepper,” “The Carpetbaggers,” and “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.” Died in a plane crash.
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Frankie Bailey
Frankie Bailey (1859 - 1953)
Actress. A screen, stage and burlesque figure, she appeared in the films “The Crown Of Lies” (1926), “Thank You” (1925), “Flower Of Light” (1925), and “The Famous Mrs Fair” (1923). She was known as “The Girl With The Million Dollar Legs”.
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Franklin Pangborn
Franklin Pangborn (1889 - 1958)
He was a character actor in such movies as “My Man Godfrey.” In his early years, worked in short subjects for Mack Sennett and Hal Roach. Later he worked for Universal Pictures, Columbia Pictures, and Pathe, always in support of the leading players. His entire career consisted of playing secondary but memorable roles as a […]
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Fred Mace
Fred Mace (1878 - 1917)
Motion picture actor of the early silent era. He was quite popular as one of Mack Sennett’s ‘Keystone Kops.’
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Fred Sadoff
Fred Sadoff (1926 - 1994)
Actor. Born in New York City, he is best known for his role as Linarcos in “The Poseidon Adventure” (1972). He also appeared in “The Quiet American” (1958) and “Papillon” (1973), and was a prolific television performer, with guest roles in such shows as “The Streets of San Francisco”, “Baretta”, “Kojak”, “Suspense”, “The Saint”, and […]
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Frieda Inescort
Frieda Inescort (1901 - 1976)
Actress. The daughter of actress Elaine Inescort and a British journalist, Inescort made her first Broadway appearance in the 1922 production “The Truth About Blayds.” After a successful career on stage, Inescort arrived in Hollywood in 1935, from 1935 to 1960, she was ‘Miss Bingley’ in “Pride and Prejudice.” Two of her better roles were […]
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Fritzi Burr
Fritzi Burr (1924 - 2003)
Actress. Appeared in motion pictures and on television. She appeared in the motion pictures, “3 Ninjas” (1992), “Like normal People” (1979), “Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night” (1977), “Cover Girls” (1977), “The New Original Wonder Woman” (1975), “Chinatown” (1974), “Frasier, The Sensuous Lion” (1973), and “How Do I Love Thee?” (1970). Among her many television […]
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Gaige Truman
Gaige Truman (1906 - 2002)
Actor. He made appearances on television’s “Hallmark Hall of Fame” and movies, as well as in movies, such as his role as ‘Sam Pincus’ in “Grace Quigley”(1984). He also appeared on the Braodway stage, some of his original appearances were in “A Wonderful Night” (1929), “You Never Know” (1938), “Kismet” (1955), “Saratoga” (1960), and “Gigi” […]
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Garry Walberg
Garry Walberg (1921 - 2012)
Actor. Best remembered for playing ‘Lieutenant Frank Monahan’ during the entire run of the TV series “Quincy, M.E.” (1976 to 1983). The Buffalo, New York native launched what was to become an extensive body of television credits beginning with an episode from the series “Mister Peepers” (1952). He experienced his first recurring part as Police […]
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Geoffrey Nares
Geoffrey Nares (1917 - 1942)
British stage actor. He was the son of actor Owen Ramsay Nares and his wife, actress Marie Pollini Nares. Educated at Westminster School, he inherited his father’s theatrical talents. His stage breakthrough was as the stable boy in the 1934’s “The Winning Post” with Sir Laurence Olivier. In 1935, he played ‘Kim Oldham’ in “Grief Goes […]
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George Nash
George Nash (1865 - 1944)
Actor. Appearing during the 1900s-30s, his film roles include ‘Jules’ in “Under the Red Robe” (1923), ‘Charles Wolfe’ in “The Great Gatsby (1926) and ‘Kansas’ in “The Fugitive (1933). On Broadway, he appeared inthe original productions of “Tom Moore”(1901) and “The Ninety and Nine”(1902).
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George Raft
George Raft (1895 - 1980)
Popular actor from the 1920s to 1980. He was known as one of Hollywoods sharpest dressed actors. Before acting, he started off as a prizefighter, then moved on to dancing both on Broadway and in Prohibition-era nightclubs. In movies he immediately slid into gangster portrayals. On top of being type cast as a Hollywood gangster, […]
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George Arliss
George Arliss (1868 - 1946)
Actor. Appearing on stage and in motion pictures, he is best known for his portrayal of famous historical personalities. He began his acting career in 1887 but did not gain his popularity until around 1900-1901 when he appeared with British actress, Mrs Patrick Campbell in London during the stage season. In 1902 he appeared on […]
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Georgi Zhzhyonov
Georgi Zhzhyonov (1915 - 2005)
Actor. An enormously popular character star of late Soviet era stage and screen. Western critics called him “The Russian Bogart” for his tough-guy demeanor. In an outlandish twist of fate, he spent 17 years in prison and exile on false charges of being a spy, only to later win fame and official honor for playing […]
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Georgia Bitner
Georgia Bitner (1926 - 2012)
Film and Television Actress. She was an African American film and television actress whose career expanded over a period of seven decades. Born Georgia Rose Bitner, in honor of the state in which she was born, “Georgia”. During her younger years she adored such actors as Hattie McDanial and Josephine Baker so much until her […]
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Georgiana Barrymore
Georgiana Barrymore (1854 - 1893)
Actress. She debutted in “The Ladies’ Battle” at the Arch Street Theatre in Philadelphia in 1872. She subsequently appeared in “As You Like It,” “Frou-Frou,” “The School for Scandal,” “The Senator”. She married actor Maurice Barrymore (Blythe) in 1876, and was the mother of stage and film stars Lionel, Ethel, and John Barrymore. She died […]
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Gerald Anthony
Gerald Anthony (1951 - 2004)
Actor. A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Anthony is best remembered for his television roles in soap operas inlcuding, ‘Marco Dane’ from 1977 to 1986, 1989 to 1990, and ‘Dr. Mario Corelli’ in 1978, on “One Life To Live,” ‘Rick Madison’ from 1991 to 1992, on “Another World,” and again as ‘Marco Dane’ from 1992 tom […]
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Gerald Allen Wear
Gerald Allen Wear (1968 - 2010)
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Geraldine Farrar
Geraldine Farrar (1882 - 1967)
Opera Singer, Actress. She was a lyric soprano who sang leading roles in the principal theatres of Europe and America for around 20 years. Taking to music early she began lessons at five and started giving public recitals at 14; after early vocal education in Boston, New York, and Paris, she was trained in Berlin […]
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Geraldine Page
Geraldine Page (1924 - 1987)
Actress. Born in Kirksville, Missouri, the daughter of a physician, she became an actress at the age of 17, winning critical reviews for her performance in 1952 of the off-Broadway production of Tennessee Williams play “Summer and Smoke.” She was quickly invited to Hollywood, and her first movie role was opposite John Wayne in “Hondo” […]
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German Valdes
German Valdes (1915 - 1973)
Mexican Actor, Singer and Comedian. Born Germán Genaro Cipriano Gomez Valdés Castillo famous for the stage name Tin-Tan. He promoted the use of the language of the Mexican American pachucos famous in Mexico. it was a mixture of Spanish and English, Known today as Spanglish. He starred as “Pachucos” in many of his movies, some […]
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Gertrude Olmstead
Gertrude Olmstead (1897 - 1975)
Actress. She appeared in roughly 56 feature films during the 1920s. Raised in Chicago, she went to Hollywood at a young age, and found work in the low budget westerns that were popular at the time. She made her silver screen debut with the 1920 “Tipped Off”, which starred Hoot Gibson, though her first “credited” […]
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Gia Scala
Gia Scala (1934 - 1972)
Actress. She is best remembered for her role of Anna, in “The Guns of Navarone” (1961). Born Glovanna Sgoglio Scala in Liverpool, England, to a Sicilian father, Pietro Scoglio, and an Irish mother, Eileen Sullivan, the family moved back to Sicily when she was three months old. Her father was a businessman, and she grew […]
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Gilda Radner
Gilda Radner (1946 - 1989)
Actress, Comedienne. She gained wide fame in the mid-1970s as an original cast member of television’s hit comedy series, “Saturday Night Live” (SNL). Born Gilda Susan Radner in Detroit, Michigan, to Henrietta Dworkin Radner, a legal secretary, and Herman Radner, a businessman who operated Detroit’s Seville Hotel, where many nightclub performers and actors stayed when […]
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Gisele MacKenzie
Gisele MacKenzie (1927 - 2003)
Actress/Singer. Known as “Canada’s First Lady of Song,” she began her music career at a young age learning to play the violin and piano, later appearing at the Royal Conservatory in Toronto, Ontario. In 1951 she had her own show, “Meet Gisele” on the Canadian Broadcastion Corporation before she moved to Los Angeles, California. She […]
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Gladys Brockwell
Gladys Brockwell (1893 - 1929)
Actress. Born Gladys Lindeman, Brockwell made dozens of films in the late 1910s and by the late 1920s, she had become one of Hollywood’s most respected character women. Brockwell played ‘Nancy Sykes’ in “Oliver Twist” (1922) with John Gilbert and Jackie Coogan, and Janet Gaynor’s evil sister in “Seventh Heaven” (1927). She also had supporting […]