LLOYD NOLAN (1902-1985)
King of Gamblers, Tip-Off Girls, Hunted Men, King of Alcatraz, The Man Who Wouldn’t Talk, The House Across the Bay, Gangs of Chicago, Pier 13, Michael Shayne: Private Detective, Sleepers West, Dressed to Kill, Blues in the Night, Blue White and Perfect, The Man Who Wouldn’t Die, Just Off Broadway, Time to Kill, Circumstantial Evidence, The House on 92nd Street, Somewhere in the Night, Lady in the Lake, The Street With No Name, Martin Kane (TV), Portrait in Black, The Girl Hunters
WILLIAM C. THOMAS (1903-1984)
Producer/Director (d): King of Alcatraz, Illegal Traffic Sudden Money, No Hands on the Clock, One Body Too Many, Double Exposure, Midnight Manhunt (d), They Made Me A Killer (d), Hot Cargo, Big Town (d), Fear in the Night, I Cover Big Town (d), Danger Street, Big Town After Dark (d), Caged Fury, Big Town Scandal (d), Dynamite, Manhandled, Special Agent (d), Captain China, The Lawless, Hell’s Island, The Big Caper
GEORGES RIGUAD (1905-1984)
French actor who also worked in USA, Argentina and Spain: Fantomas, Quatorze Juillet, Divine, La peur, Nuits de feu, Sarati le terrible, Sans lendemain, Ultimo refugio, Paris Underground, I Walk Alone, La Tampa, El extraño caso de la mujer asesinada, Native Song, Deshonra, Caidos en el infierno, Enigma de mujer, Riff-Raff Girls, No dispares contra mi, Constance aux enfers
LANCE COMFORT (1908-1966)
British director: Squadron Leader X, Escaoe to Danger, Hotel Reserve, Bedelia, Temptation Harbour, Daughter of Darkness, Silent Dust, The Girl on the Pier, Game of Danger, Eight O’Clock Walk, The Man in the Road, Menace in the Night, At the Stroke of Nine, The Great Armored Car Swindle, Rag Doll, Pit of Darkness, Touch of Death, Murder Can Be Deadly, The Break, Tomorrow at Ten, Blind Corner
PHILIPPE AGOSTINI (1910-2001)
French cinematographer: Le jour se leve, Les anges du peché, Douce, Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne, Portes de la nuit, Pattes blanches, L’inconnue de Montreal, La nuit est mon royaume, Gibier de potence, Leur dernier nuit, Rififi, Paris Palace Hotel
HENRY KULKY (1911-1965)
Yet another professional wrestler turned actor: Call Northside 777, To the Ends of the Earth, South Sea Sinner, A Lion is in the Streets, The Human Jungle, The Steel cage, New York Confidential, Finger Man, Illegal, Compulsion, All Fall Down
PAUL DUPUIS (1913-1976)
French actor who also worked in Quebec & the UK: La forteresse, Bad Sister, Sleeping Car to Trieste, L’inconnue de Montreal, Les pepées font la loi
MARIANNE HARDY (1915-2013)
French actress: Entre onze heures et minuit
JEAN PARKER (1915-2005)
Flight at Midnight, No Hands on the Clock, I Live on Danger, Detective Kitty O’Day, One Body Too Many, Dead Man’s Eyes, Adventures of Kitty O’Day, Black Tuesday
CARL MOHNER (1921-2005)
Austrian actor/director (d): Rififi, It Takes a Thief, Der Morder mit dem Seidenschal (d)
ARLENE DAHL (1925-2021)
Reign of Terror, Scene of the Crime, Inside Straight, No Questions Asked, Slightly Scarlet, Wicked as They Come, She Played With Fire
VIOLA ESSEN (1925-1970)
Ballerina/actress: Specter of the Rose (1947)
KEIKO KISHI (1932- )
Japanese actress, married to French director Yves Ciampi: The Thick-Walled Room, I Will Buy You, A Dangerous Gero, Ten Dark Women, The Inheritance, Rififi in Tokyo, The Yakuza
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