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Richard Barthelmess was born into a theatrical family in which his mother was an actress. While attending Trinity College in Connecticut, he began appearing in stage productions. While on vacation in 1916, a friend of his mother, actress Alla Nazimova, offered him a part in War Brides (1916), and Richard never returned to college. He appeared in a number of films before signing a contract with D.W. Griffith in 1919. Griffith put Richard into Broken Blossoms (1919) with Lillian Gish which made him a star. He had an uncanny ability to become the characters he played. The next year, he was again teamed with Lillian in Way Down East (1920). This film would become the standard for many movies in the future. Best remembered is the river scene in which Richard jumps over the ice floes in search of Lillian as she heads towards the falls. He formed Inspiration Pictures to make Tol'able David (1921) and gave one of his best performances as a lad who saves the U.S. mail from the outlaws. He remained popular throughout the twenties and became one of the biggest stars at First National Pictures. He received Academy Award nominations for The Patent Leather Kid (1927) and The Noose (1928). Sound was not a medium that would embrace Richard. He did make a number of talkies in the first few years of sound, but his acting technique was not well suited for sound and the parts began to get smaller. With his career over by the mid-30s, but he came back with a fine performance in Howard Hawks's Only Angels Have Wings (1939). Richard joined the Navy Reserve in 1942, and when the war ended he retired to Long Island and lived off his real estate investments.- Edith Bouvier Beale was born on 5 October 1895 in Nutley, New Jersey, USA. She was married to Phelan Beale. She died on 5 February 1977 in Southampton, New York, USA.
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Anthony Harvey was born on 3 June 1930 in London, England, UK. He was an editor and director, known for The Lion in Winter (1968), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) and Dutchman (1966). He died on 23 November 2017 in Southampton, New York, USA.- Actor
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Robert Parrish was an Academy Award-winning film editor who also directed and acted in movies. As a child he appeared in films during the early 1930s, such as City Lights (1931) by Charles Chaplin and Lewis Milestone's All Quiet on the Western Front (1930). As an editor he won an Academy Award for Body and Soul (1947), the 1947 Robert Rossen film that starred John Garfield as a money-grubbing, two-timing boxer on the make. Parrish also worked on All the King's Men (1949), an account of the rise and fall of a Louisiana politician that won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Parrish then moved on to direct films during the 1950s and 1960s. Among his best received works was the brooding western Saddle the Wind (1958).- Born in Birmingham on the 27th of September, 1946, but raised in Cardiff, Wales, Robin began exhibiting his natural ability to act both on screen and on stage from a young age. Some of his early years saw him take the stage of Cardiff High School, following onto the County College, in amateur productions such as 'Romeo and Juliet' and other plays within both dramatic societies. After completing his education at college, Robin moved onto Central School of Speech and Drama, London, completing a degree in acting, after which being hand picked for television by Granada's production team in a screening at the university. His natural ability to achieve comedy through the simplest of means made him a star in the 'Doctors' series featured on Granada during the 1970s. After completing several series of the 'Doctors', he continued onto several other pursuits in stage acting, which he loved dearly, as well as movies (most of which were produced and aired for television). He was tipped to star in two major roles for the BBC, but died before flying abroad to film for the parts.
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H.C. Potter was born on 13 November 1904 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), Hellzapoppin' (1941) and The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939). He was married to Lucilla Annie Wylie. He died on 31 August 1977 in Southampton, New York, USA.- Writer
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James Jones was born on 6 November 1921 in Robinson, Illinois, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for The Thin Red Line (1998), From Here to Eternity (1953) and The Longest Day (1962). He was married to Gloria Jones. He died on 9 May 1977 in Southampton, New York, USA.- Writer
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N.J. Crisp was born on 11 December 1923 in Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Brothers (1972), R3 (1964) and With Love in Mind (1970). He was married to Marguerite Lowe. He died on 14 June 2005 in Southampton, England, UK.- Writer
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Master of comedy novelist Pelham (Plum) Grenville Wodehouse was born on October 15, 1881, in Guilford, Surrey, England. He died in hospital in Southampton, New York, on Valentine's day (February 14) 1975, from a heart attack after a long illness at age 93. In that time he managed to write close to 200 novels, short stories, plays, song lyrics and so on.
At the time of his birth, Plum's mother was visiting her sister in England, but after only a few weeks she and young Plum returned to Hong Kong, where his father was a magistrate. At an early age he was sent to school in Britain--Dulwich College in London.
At age 14, he moved with his parents in to what they would call "the old house." After completing school, he spent two years as a banker at the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, but he soon switched jobs to the old Globe newspaper as a sports reporter and columnist on "By the way..." About that time he started to write his own little stories. At first he wrote school novels about life in the famous universities in England (for example, "The White Feather") and mainly for a boys magazine called "The Captain", but soon he developed a talent for comic dialogue and started to put his talents to that instead.
Success was just around the corner, and by 1910 he had established himself in such a way that he could spend time between residences in the US and France. It was also at about this time he acquired his obsession with golf, a sport around which many of his short stories circle--even though his handicap never came down below 18. In a few years he was reaching millions of readers in dozens of countries.
Plum met Ethel, an American widow who became the woman of his life, in 1913 and they married in 1914. World War II caught Plum in his newly-purchased home in Le Touquet in France, having tea with his wife and some friends. He was captured by German forces and put in a prison camp. He was treated well and got the means to keep writing his books. Joseph Goebbels, it was revealed later, understood what a big fish they had caught and lured Plum into giving some brief, humorous appearances on German radio. Being the political fool he was, Plum fell into the trap. The broadcasts, which were supposed to be heard in the US only, were redirected to Britain, in a cunning scheme to annoy British authorities. As word of the broadcasts spread, back in Britain Plum's readers and publisher went berserk. They wanted him charged with treason. However, it was obvious he had been tricked and as the war ended, he returned to America, where he became a citizen in 1955.
Hollywood claimed Wodehouse, but it soon became apparent that all they wanted was his name on the posters and ads. Still, his popularity increased to such a degree that in 1975, a few weeks before his death, he was forgiven his wartime mistakes by the British establishment and was knighted by Her Majesty the Queen. At the time of his knighthood he was in poor health and couldn't attend the ceremony. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, a devout Wodehouse fan, offered to go to the US to personally present the knighthood.
In his final years, Plum was in and out of the hospital with pneumonia, heart problems and lung failures. Seeking comfort, as always, in his typewriter, Sir Plum kept writing until the end. His last work is the unfinished "Sunset at Blandings", of which nine chapters were written before he died in 1975.
Lady Ethel lived until 1984. They had no mutual children, only from Ethel's daughter from her previous marriage, Leonora, who Plum adopted and who died during surgery in 1942, devastating Plum to his core.- Rik Colitti was born on 1 February 1934 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Crocodile Dundee (1986), Barfly (1987) and Fort Apache the Bronx (1981). He died on 30 January 2010 in Southampton, New York, USA.
- John Allen also was part of Ozzy Osbourne's Diary of a Madman and Speak of the Devil tour in the USA and UK. He was featured in the gate-fold of Speak/Talk of the Devil with Ozzy. Onstage, he was nicknamed Ronnie (inside joke) and provided comic relief (and towels) and was hanged during the song "Goodbye to Romance".
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Shamim Ara is a renowned film actress, film producer and film director of Pakistan. She was born in British India at Aligarh in 1938. Her father's name was Syed Ali Ahmad and her maternal grandmother's name was Iqbal Begum who played a very active role in developing Shamim Ara's film career in Pakistan after Shamim Ara's mother's death at an early age. The family encouraged her to become a professional dancer in her childhood. Then her family visited Karachi, Pakistan in 1956 and Shamim Ara ran into a famous Pakistani film director Najam Naqvi there who was looking for new talent for his upcoming new movie Kunwari Bewa (1956) in Karachi. She was cast for the movie and her film acting career was launched. She acted in over 80 Pakistani films including super-hits like Saheli (1960),Qaidi (1962), Naila (1965) and Anarkali (1958). In 1976,she decided to become a film director herself and turned out many super-hit films like Playboy (1978), Miss Istanbul (1996) and Munda Bigra Jaye (1995) among many others. After Shamim Ara's husband Sardar Rind died in a fatal car accident on Karachi-Hyderabad Highway, she married film director Fareed Ahmed but this marriage only lasted for a very short time and the couple separated for unknown reasons and got divorced.Then Shamim Ara married A.Majeed from Agfa Color Film Company and had a son with him named Salman Iqbal. As of 2016, she is still married to Dabeer-ul-Hasan who is a film story writer and an associate film producer. Shamim Ara had a brain hemorrhage in Lahore, Pakistan in October 2010. She was then taken to London for treatment by her family. In London, after a brain surgery, she went into a coma and stayed in that coma until her death on 5 August 2016. Her son Salman Iqbal looked after her while she was being treated in the hospital. Looking at her entire film career, she did more than 80 films. There is no denying that she was an extremely active, talented and a successful film personality of Pakistan.- Music Department
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Richard Adler was born on 3 August 1921 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for Goodfellas (1990), The Family (2013) and Snatch (2000). He was married to Susan A. Ivory, Ritchey Banker, Sally Ann Howes, Marion Hart Rogier and Mary St. George. He died on 21 June 2012 in Southampton, New York, USA.- Desmond Bagley was born on 29 October 1923 in Kendal, Westmorland, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Vivero Letter (1999), The MacKintosh Man (1973) and The Enemy (2001). He was married to Joan Margaret Brown. He died on 12 April 1983 in Southampton, England, UK.
- Vitas Gerulaitis was born on 26 July 1954 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Nobody's Perfect (1989), The Break (1995) and The Daryl Somers Show (1982). He died on 18 September 1994 in Southampton, New York, USA.
- Bruno Elrington was born on 13 December 1929 in Barnsley, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The New Avengers (1976), The Touchables (1968) and Boxer (1965). He was married to Gwen. He died on 19 July 1993 in Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK.
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David Lindup was born on 10 May 1928 in East Preston, Sussex, England, UK. He was a composer, known for Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982), The Full Monty (1997) and Lord of the Flies (1990). He was married to Nadia Cattouse. He died on 7 January 1992 in Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK.- Writer
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Betty Paraskevas was born on 8 April 1929 in New Jersey, USA. She was a writer and producer, known for Maggie and the Ferocious Beast (1998), A Night at the Movies: The Cheap Show (2007) and Marvin the Tap-Dancing Horse (2000). She died on 7 April 2010 in Southampton, New York, USA.- Writer
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Elmer Rice was born on 28 September 1892 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and director, known for Holiday Inn (1942), Journey to Jerusalem (1941) and On Trial (1928). He was married to Barbara Talbot (Ambrose) Marshall, Betty Field and Hazel Levy. He died on 8 May 1967 in Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK.- Ila Mecséry was born on 16 May 1915 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]. She was an actress, known for Zou Zou (1934), Cagliostro - Liebe und Leben eines großen Abenteurers (1929) and Das weisse Paradies (1929). She was married to Henri Garat. She died in October 2010 in Southampton, New York, USA.
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Kay Summersby was born on 23 November 1908 in County Cork, Ireland. She was a writer, known for Ike: The War Years (1979) and The World at War (1973). She was married to Reginald Heber Towler Morgan and Gordon Thomas Summersby. She died on 20 January 1975 in Southampton, Long Island, New York, USA.- Composer
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Albert Elms was born on 28 February 1920 in Milton, Kent, England, UK. He was a composer, known for Man in a Suitcase (1967), The Prisoner (1967) and Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons (1960). He died on 16 October 2009 in Southampton, England, UK.- Millvina Dean was born on 12 February 1912 in London, England, UK. She died on 31 May 2009 in Ashurst, Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK.
- Vivian Gaye was born on 13 December 1907 in Highgate, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Frog (1937) and Gone to the Dogs (1928). She was married to Ernst Lubitsch. She died on 18 July 2010 in Southampton, New York, USA.
- British aircraft designer RJ Mitchell was born Reginald Joseph Mitchell in Stoke-on-Trent, England, in 1895. His father was a school headmaster and owned a printing business. RJ, as he came to be known, got interested in aviation while attending high school, and began making and flying his own model airplanes. It wasn't long before he developed a reputation among his fellow students for being "mad" about aircraft. When he turned 16 he entered an apprenticeship with a firm that designed locomotives. He started at the workshop where the engines were built and eventually worked his way up to the drawing office, meanwhile taking evening classes in drawing, mechanics and higher mathematics.
In 1917, after finishing his apprenticeship, he applied to be assistant to Hubert Scott-Pain, the owner and chief designer of Supermarine Aviation Works in Southampton, and was accepted. In less than a year he was promoted to assistant to the works manager. In 1918 he married Florence Dayson, the headmistress of a childrens school. They had one son.
In 1919 the 24-year-old Mitchell was made chief designer, and the next year chief engineer. For almost 20 years Mitchell was to design and develop more than 20 aircraft for the company. Supermarine, established in 1912, had specialized in manufacturing seaplanes--or, as they were called back then, "flying boats"--and Mitchell improved on the company's already solid reputation in that field. He designed an armed flying boat called the Southampton--based on an earlier craft he had designed called the Swan--and the British military establishment was so impressed with Mitchell's design and concept of the plane that it ordered six of them before the first one had even been built. When the craft made its debut in March 1925, it lived up to everyone's expectations. The RAF equipped six of its squadrons with the Southampton and it remained in service for more than ten years, making Britain a pioneer in marine aviation and, incidentally, turning Supermarine into an extremely profitable concern.
Branching out into high-speed aircraft design, Mitchell developed the Sea Lion, a small biplane flying boat that won the 1922 Schneider Trophy race with an average speed of more than 145 mph. He entered the race the next year, but was tremendously impressed with another entry, the American Curtiss seaplane, which won the race. Mitchell began developing a series of "float" planes, and eventually came out with a series of four streamlined craft. One of them, the S5, won the Schneider trophy in 1927; its successor, the S6, took it in 1929 and the final one, the legendary S6B, won the race in 1931, with an average speed of 340 mph (it eventually set a world speed record of 407.5 mph). In 1932 Mitchell was awarded the CBE for his contribution to high-speed flight.
The quality and innovations of Mitchell's craft made him the top aircraft designer in Britain, and Supermarine signed him to an unheard-of ten-year contract in 1923. In 1927 he was made technical director for the company. He was so valuable to the firm that when Vickers took over Supermarine in 1928, one of the non-negotiable terms of its purchase was that Mitchell would be bound to the new company, without having the option to leave on his own, until 1933.
Mitchell's best-known aircraft, however, was the legendary Spitfire--the name was coined by the company, not Mitchell, and he hated it--fighter, which he began developing in 1934 and completed in 1936 and which is now considered a masterpiece that combined speed, maneuverability, agility and streamlined design; it has been termed by many experts "the plane that won the war for Britain". Unfortunately, however, Mitchell never saw the plane fly in combat--he died of cancer in Southampton, England, on June 11, 1937. - Art Department
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Larry Rivers was born on 17 August 1923 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Something's Gotta Give (2003), Rich Kids (1979) and Lovesick (1983). He was married to Clarice Price and Augusta Berger. He died on 14 August 2002 in Southampton, New York, USA.- Music Department
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Eric Spear was born on 18 April 1908 in Croydon, Surrey, England, UK. He was a composer and actor, known for Bronson (2008), Playgirl After Dark (1960) and Coronation Street (1960). He died on 3 November 1966 in Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK.- Al Millen was born on 5 June 1913 in Camberwell, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Saloon Bar (1940), It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) and There Ain't No Justice (1939). He died in 1982 in Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK.
- Robbin Bain was born on 10 August 1936 in Flushing, Queens, New York City, New York, USA. She was married to Alexander Gaudieri, Arno Schefler and Edward V. Mele. She died on 21 October 2023 in Southampton, Long Island, New York, USA.
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Heinz Burt was born on 24 July 1942 in Germany. He was an actor, known for Inherent Vice (2014), Kings of the Road (1976) and Non-Fiction (2018). He died on 7 April 2000 in Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK.- Consuelo Vanderbilt was born on 2 March 1877 in New York City, New York, USA. She was married to Jacques Balsan and Charles Spencer-Churchill. She died on 6 December 1964 in Southampton, Long Island, New York, USA.
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Derek Roy was born on 25 August 1922 in London, England, UK. He was an actor and producer, known for Cinderella (1947), Aladdin (1960) and Come Dance with Me (1950). He was married to Rona Ricardo. He died on 15 March 1981 in Southampton, England, UK.- Additional Crew
David H. Koch was born on 3 May 1940 in Wichita, Kansas, USA. He is known for Nova (1974), Citizen Koch (2013) and The Billionaires' Tea Party (2011). He was married to Julia Margaret Flesher. He died on 23 August 2019 in Southampton, New York, USA.- Producer
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Bill Duncalf was born on 7 August 1912 in Redland, Bristol, England, UK. Bill was a producer and director, known for They Made History (1959), Suspense (1962) and Gardeners' World (1968). Bill was married to Margaret Lang. Bill died on 26 June 1993 in Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK.- Arthur Rostron was born on 14 May 1869 in Astley Bridge, Lancashire, England, UK. He was married to Ethel Minnie. He died on 4 November 1940 in Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK.
- John Stonehouse was born on 28 July 1925 in Southampton, England, UK. He was married to Sheila Buckley Stonehouse and Barbara Smith Stonehouse. He died on 14 April 1988 in Southampton, England, UK.
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Laurence Schwab was born on 17 December 1892 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Take a Chance (1933), Follow Thru (1930) and New Moon (1940). He was married to Mildred. He died on 29 May 1951 in Southampton, Long Island, New York, USA.- Killian Venman was born on 28 February 1995 in Northampton, Massachusetts, USA. Killian was a composer, known for Five Elizabeths (2020). Killian died on 12 May 2023 in Southampton, Massachusetts, USA.
- Keith Greene died on 15 August 2012 in Southampton, New York, USA.
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Gail Sheehy was born on 27 November 1936 in Mamaroneck, New York, USA. She was a writer, known for Hustling (1975), Myth & Mogul: John DeLorean (2021) and Radical Wolfe (2023). She was married to Clay Felker and Albert Francis Sheehy. She died on 24 August 2020 in Southampton, New York, USA.- Angier Biddle Duke was born on 30 November 1915 in New York City, New York, USA. He was married to Robin Chandler Duke, Maria-Luisa de Aranal, Priscilla St. George and Margaret Screven White. He died on 30 April 1995 in Southampton, Long Island, New York, USA.
- Trevor Mitchell was born in August 1934 in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, UK. He died on 5 June 2020 in Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK.
- Richard Gambino was born on 5 May 1939 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Vendetta (1999). He was married to Gail Cherne and Barbara Barnett. He died on 12 January 2024 in Southampton, New York, USA.
- Tom King was born on 9 March 1964 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA. He died on 13 April 2003 in Southampton, New York, USA.
- Keith Officer was born on 2 October 1889 in Toorak, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He died on 21 June 1969 in Southampton, England, UK.
- Thomas Phipps was born on 20 November 1913 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Lights Out (1946), Suspense (1949) and Chesterfield Presents (1952). He was married to Mary Chesebro, Donrue Leighton and Betty Brooks. He died on 20 February 2003 in Southampton, New York, USA.
- Jennifer Houser was born on 16 July 1952 in South Bend, Indiana, USA. She was an actress, known for Bright Lights, Big City (1988). She died on 14 January 2019 in Southampton, New York, USA.
- Thierry Despont was born on 19 April 1948 in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France. He was married to Barbara von Bismarck and Ann Robinson. He died on 13 August 2023 in Southampton, Long Island, New York, USA.
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Ronnie worked as a rostrum and aerial image cameraman from about 1939 until 1988 in London. He spent almost the whole of his career with Studio Film Labs before setting up his own special optical effects company, Aerial Image Opticals, in 1983. He was one of the most respected optical effect technicians in the UK, working on hundreds of films and thousands of TV commercials through his career. Notably he did the rostrum camera work for the first ever advert shown on UK commercial television, the Gibbs SR toothpaste set in the block of ice. He carried out the principal optical effects work on the famous Dam Busters (1955) film which was nominated for the Visual and Special Effects Academy Awards Oscar in 1956. Ronnie was a particularly inventive optical technician, often using unconventional means to produce desired effects. He was instrumental in developing the aerial image camera to shoot the title sequence for the film Summer Holiday (1963). He worked with his son (Nick Wass) for the final few years (1983-88) in the industry. This period proved to be his most creative, particularly in co-operation with Charlie Jenkins, animator and producer.- Additional Crew
Doug Gregory was born on 13 January 1923 in Southhampton, Hampshire, England, UK. He is known for Flyboys (2006). He was married to Liz. He died on 12 April 2015 in Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK.