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Tall (6'2"), burly, and reliable character actor Gene Roth was born Eugene Oliver Edgar Stutenroth on January 8, 1903 in Redfield, South Dakota. He was the youngest of three sons born to German father Eugene Stutenroth and Swedish mother Anna Christina Olsen. Roth and his two brothers were raised by their mother after their father abandoned them when Gene was only two years old. Gene graduated from West High School in Minneapolis in 1920. He began his acting career doing uncredited bit roles in silent pictures in the early 1920's. Moreover, Roth worked as a movie theater manager and built and installed pipe organs before his acting career took off in the 1940's following his arrival in Hollywood, California in 1943.
Often cast as threatening heavies (he's perhaps best known for his portrayals of bad guys in many 1940's comedy shorts he did with The Three Stooges), scruffy working class types, and rough-around-the-edges law officers (he played initially skeptical small town sheriffs in the 1950's creature feature classics Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959) and The Spider (1958)), Gene worked profusely in both films and television alike in a career that spanned a little over two decades. After retiring from acting in the early 1970's, Roth worked part time as a liquor counterman at a drug store and was an active participant in the nostalgia convention circuit. He was married four times and was the father of three children. Gene's life came to a tragic untimely end at age 73 when he was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver while crossing the street in Los Angeles, California on July 19, 1976.- Isla Bevan was born on 26 October 1908 in Peckham, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case (1932), The Face at the Window (1932) and The World, the Flesh, the Devil (1932). She died on 19 July 1976 in Saint Julian's, Malta.
- Guy Tylden Wright was born on 30 July 1899 in Dundee, Natal, South Africa. He was an actor, known for Forbidden Cargoes (1926). He died on 19 July 1976 in Lewes, East Sussex, England, UK.
- Niilo Nyyssölä was born on 23 December 1904. He died on 19 July 1976.