August 15
JEAN DE BRIAC (1891-1970)
French character actor who worked a lot in Hollywood: Journal of a Crime, Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo, Chasing Danger, Espionage Agent, City in Darkness, The Shanghai Gesture, To Have and Have Not, Scotland Yard Investigator, Gilda, The Return of Monte Cristo, The Unfaithful, Saigon, Half Past Midnight, To the Victor
LEON THEREMIN (1896-1993)
The name is self-explanatory!
STEVE CARRUTHERS (1900-1983)
Extremely prolific American bit player: Alice Adams, Dodsworth, Charlie Chan at the Opera, Jezebel, Too Hot to Handle, The Mystery of Mr. Wong, Another Thin Man, City for Conquest, Keeper of the Flame, The Conspirators, Hangover Square, They Won’t Believe Me, Song of the Thin Man, Who Killed Doc Robbin?, Stage Struck, Hollow Triumph, Flamingo Road, The Fountainhead, House of Strangers, Trapped, Tension, East Side West Side, Young Man with a Horn, Born to be Bad, Woman on the Run, The Enforcer, A Place in the Sun, My Forbidden Past, The House on Telegraph Hill, The Prwler, The People Against O’Hara, Come Fill the Cup, Double Dynamite, the las Vegas Story, Meet Danny Wilson, Big Jim McLain, Affair in Trinidad, No Escape, City of Bad Men, Playgirl, Them!, Black Widow, The Big Combo, Cell 2455 Death Row, Hell’s Island, Chicago Syndicate, Love Me or Leave Me, Trial, Please Murder Me!, The Harder They Fall, Giant, Death of a Scoundrel, Nightfall, She Devil, Sweet Smell of Success, Witness for the Prosecution, Maracaibo, The Gun Runners, Imitation of Life, North by Northwest, The Big Operator, Seven Thieves, I Passed for White, The Apartment, Judgment at Nuremberg, The Outsider, The Killers, Brainstorm, The Chase, Our Man Flint, Harper, plus TV (whew!)
ELLSWORTH HOAGLAND (1903-1972)
Film editor: Tip-Off Girls, Night in New Orleans, Night Plane from Chungking, The Great Gatsby, Union Station, plus TV
FRANKIE VAN (1904-1978)
American bit player who appears to have specialized in boxing pix (sometimes as a “technical advisor”): Ex-Champ, Kid Nightingale, Golden Gloves, Duke of Chicago, Illegal Entry, Ringside, Backfire, Iron Man, Flesh and Fury, Kid Monk Baroni, Sally and Saint Anne (played a fight referee), The Ring, Francis in the Navy (played a fight referee), The Square Jungle, World in My Corner, plus TV (playing referees into the 70s!)
DON McCRACKEN (1907-1982)
American bit player: Decoy, Dangerous Money, Singapore, Hazard, Kiss the Blood Off My Hands, City Across the River
MIGUEL MORAYTA (1907-2013)
Mexican director: Yo foi una usurpadora, La mujer del otro, Hipocrita, La venenosa (1949, remade in 1958), Un grito en la noche, Vagabunda, Amor perdido, Camino del infierno, Salon de baile, Delirio tropical
ROBERT PETERSON (1909-1979)
Art director at Columbia Pictures: One Dangerous Night, Night Editor, The Devil’s Mask, The Phantom Thief, Strange Journey, Dangerous Millions, Backlash, Jewels of Brandenbeurg, The Lone Wolf in London, Devil Ship, Knock on Any Door, The Walking Hills, Tokyo Joe, In a Lonely Place, Sirocco, Scandal Sheet, The Juggler, The Big Heat, Human Desire, Cell 2455 Death Row, 5 Against the House, Count Three and Pray, The Shadow on the Window, The Garment Jungle, Underworld USA, Experiment in Terror
ANTHONY “FAT TONY” SALERNO (1911-1992)
Crime Boss...
WENDY HILLER (1912-2003)
Esteemed British actress: Pygmalion, Major Barbara, I Know Where I’m Going!, Outcast of the Islands
TULIO DEMICHELI (1914-1992)
Argentine director/producer/writer: La gata, La secta del trébol, Apenas un delincuente, Con el sudor de tu frente, Unextraño en la escalera, Locura pasional, La adultera, La dulce enemiga, Una golfa
FRANÇOIS DARBON (1915-1998)
French actor: Gas-Oil, Je revienendrai Kandara, Les sorcieres de Salem, En legitime défense, Le gorille vous salue bien, Rapt ai deuxième bureau, Des femmes disparaissent, Horace 62, Les bonnes causes, Requiem pour un caid
SIGNE HASSO (1915-2002)
Swedish actress with a significant career in Hollywood: House of Silence (1938, Sweden), Dangerous Partners, The House on 92nd Street, Johnny Angel, Strange Triangle, A Double Life, To the Ends of the Earth, Outside the Wall, Crisis, plus TV
RING LARDNER JR. (1915-2000)
Novelist/screenwriter: Laura, Cloak and Dagger, The Brasher Doubloon, Forbidden Street, The Big Night
KINKO “LUCKY” SIMUNOVICH (1919-1995)
Wrestling champ in Hawaii turned “actor”: Big Jim McLain, Rikidozan otoko no tamashi (1956, Japanese wrestler film)
WERNER ABROLAT (1924-1997)
German actor: Love ’47, The Trap Snaps Shut at Midnight
SHIRLEY O’HARA (1924-2002)
American bit player: The Ghost Ship, The Falcon Out West, The Chase, Crime Wave, The 3rd Voice, Black Gravel, plus TV
MIKE CONNORS (1925-2017)
Sudden Fear, The 49th Man, Live Fast Die Young, plus TV (Mannix)
GEORGANN JOHNSON (1926-2018)
Short Cut to Hell, Midnight Cowboy, plus TV
FLORENCE LUCHAIRE (1926-1982)
French actress: Au royaume des cieux
NICHOLAS ROEG (1928-2018)
British director/cinematographer: Calling Bulldog Drummond, Evidence for Hire, The Slasher, The Man Inside, A Woman Possessed, Room 43, The Great Van Robbery, Band of Thieves, Dr. Cripped, Code 7, Victim 5, Fahrenheit 451, Performance, Don’t Loon Now, The Man Who Fell to Earth
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