Film Tv Birthdays Date 1901 | History by KabAstro

Clark Gable (1901-1960)

Feb 1 American actor (Gone With The Wind; It Happened One Night) known as 'The King of Hollywood', born in Cadiz, Ohio

Feb 2 Connie Gilchrist, American actress (Cry Havoc, Letter to 3 Wives), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1985)
Feb 6 Ben Lyon, American actor (Hell's Angels, I Cover the Waterfront, Night Nurse), born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 1979)
Feb 9 Brian Donlevy, American actor (Barbary Coast, Glass Key, Wake Island), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1972)
Feb 9 James Murray, American actor (The Crowd, The Shakedown), born in New York City (d. 1936)
Feb 10 Stella Adler, American actress (Love on Toast; My Girl Tisa), and teacher (Stella Adler Studio of Acting), born in New York City (d. 1992)
Feb 16 Chester Morris, American actor (Diagnosis: Unknown), born in New York City (d. 1970)
Feb 18 Reginald Sheffield, British actor (Suspicion, Of Human Bondage, Second Chance), born in London, England (d. 1957)
Feb 22 Mildred Davis, American silent screen actress (Grandma's Boy; Haunted Spooks; I Do!), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1969)
Feb 22 Stefan Lorant, Hungarian-American writer, photojournalist, filmmaker, born in Budapest (d. 1997)
Feb 25 Zeppo Marx [Herbert Manfred Marx], American comedian and actor (Marx Brothers), born in New York City (d. 1979)
Mar 6 Mark Donskoy, Soviet-Ukrainian film director (Rainbow, A Mother's Heart) and screenwriter, born in Odessa, Ukraine, Russian Empire (d. 1981)
Mar 13 Paul Fix, American actor (Rifleman), born in Dobbs Ferry, New York (d. 1983)
Mar 16 Edward Pawley, American actor (Angels with Dirty Faces), born in Kansas City, Missouri (d. 1988)
Mar 21 Carmelita Geraghty, American actress (My Best Girl, Texas Ranger), born in Rushville, Indiana (d. 1966)
Mar 25 Ed Begley, American actor (12 Angry Men, The Unsinkable Molly Brown), born in Hartford, Connecticut (d. 1970)

Carl Barks (1901-2000)

Mar 27 American cartoonist (creator of Scrooge McDuck), born in Merrill, Oregon

Apr 5 Melvyn Douglas [Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg], American actor (Hud, Being There, Ghost Story), born in Macon, Georgia (d. 1981)
Apr 9 Paul Willis, American actor (The Little Lumberjack, Little Kaintuck), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1960)
Apr 9 Sharon Lynn [D'Auvergne Sharon Lindsay], American silent and sound screen actress (Way Out West; The Big Broadcast), born in Weatherford, Texas (d. 1963)
Apr 21 Julián Bautista, Spanish orchestral and film score composer, and conductor, born in Madrid, Spain (d. 1961)
Apr 28 Corry [Cornelia Diderika] Vonk, Dutch actress (Bleeke Bet), born in Amsterdam (d. 1988)
May 1 Heinz Roemheld, American film composer (Yankee Doodle Dandy; Ruby Gentry), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (d. 1985)
May 3 Gino Cervi, Italian actor (Les Miserables, Naked Maja), born in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1974)

Gary Cooper (1901-1961)

May 7 American actor (Sgt York, High Noon), born in Helena, Montana

May 9 John Forest "Fuzzy" Knight, American actor (Oklahoma Annie, Cowby & the Lady), born in Fairmont, West Virginia (d. 1976)
May 12 Hyam Greenbaum, British violinist, composer and conductor of the 1st TV orchestra (BBC), born in England (d. 1942)
May 20 Otto Waldis, Austrian actor (Port of Hell, Unknown World), born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1974)
May 30 Cornelia Otis Skinner, American actress and writer (When Our Hearts Were Young & Gay), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1979)
May 31 Alfredo Antonini, Italian-American Emmy Award-winning conductor (CBS Symphony; Columbia Pan-American Orchestra), and composer (The Great City), born in Alessandria, Kingdom of Ital (d. 1983)

John Van Druten (1901-1957)

Jun 1 English playwright (I Remember Mama, I am a Camera), born in London

Jun 3 Maurice Evans, British actor (Planet of the Apes, Bewitched), born in Dorchester, Dorset, England (d. 1989)
Jun 9 Marion Gering, Russian actress (Sarumba, Rumba, Ready for Love, 24 Hours), born in Rostov-on-Don, Russia (d. 1977)
Jun 15 Peter Shankland, English filmmaker and historian (d. 1995)
Jun 16 Arthur Pierson, Norwegian-American actor and director (Hat Check Girl), born in Oslo, Norway (d. 1975)
Jun 18 Llewellyn Rees, British theatre actor (A Fish Called Wanda, Invisible Creature), born in Charmouth, Dorset, England (d. 1994)
Jun 22 Jack Whiting, American actor and singer (Marge & Gower Champion Show), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1961)
Jun 22 Naunton Wayne, Welsh actor (Quartet, Hidden Room, Double Confession), born in Llanwonno, Glamorganshire, Wales (d. 1970)
Jun 23 Paul Verhoeven, German actor and director (Das kleine Hofkonzert), born in Unna, Germany (d. 1975)
Jun 29 Frieda Inescort, Scottish-American stage and screen actress (Hay Fever; Pride and Prejudice (1940)), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1976)
Jul 1 Irna Phillips, American scriptwriter who created 6 soap operas (Guiding Light), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1973)
Jul 7 Gustav Knuth, German actor (Sissi, Freddy Unter Fremden), born in Brunswick, Germany (d. 1987)
Jul 7 Vittorio De Sica, Italian actor and director (Bicycle Thieves, Sciuscià), born in Sora, Lazio (d. 1974)
Jul 9 Jester Hairston, American actor (That's My Mama, Amen), born in Belews Creek, North Carolina (d. 2000)
Jul 13 Eric Portman, English actor (Naked Edge, Canterbury Tale), born in Yorkshire England (d. 1969)
Jul 14 George Tobias, American actor (Bewitched), born in New York City (d. 1980)
Jul 21 Allyn Joslyn, American actor (They Won't Forget; Cafe Society), born in Milford, Pennsylvania (d. 1981)
Jul 23 Hank Worden, American actor (The Searcher, Red River), born in Rolfe, Iowa (d. 1992)
Jul 25 Lila Lee, American actress (Midnight Girl, Blood & Sand), born in Union Hill, New Jersey (d. 1973)
Jul 26 John Bleifer, Polish actor (Highway to Heaven), born in Zawiercie, Poland (d. 1992)
Aug 5 Claude Autant-Lara, French film director (Four Bags Full, Rouge et noir), born in Luzarches, Val-d'Oise, France (d. 2000)
Aug 9 Charles Farrell, American actor (7th Heaven, My Little Margie), born in Onset Bay, Massachusetts (d. 1990)
Aug 17 Henri Tomasi, French classical and film music composer (Requiem for Peace; The Silence of the Sea), born in Marseille, France (d. 1971)
Aug 25 Kjeld Abell, Danish playwright and director (Tivoli), born in Ribe, Denmark (d. 1961)
Aug 27 Al Ritz [Albert Joachim], American vaudevillian (The Ritz Brothers), dancer and actor (The Gorilla;, Hi'ya, Chum; Straight, Place and Show), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1965)
Aug 27 Roger Pryor, American actor (Lady by Choice, Belle of the Nineties, Identity Unknown), born in New York City (d. 1974)
Sep 5 Florence Eldridge [McKechnie], American Broadway stage and screen actress (Long Day's Journey Into Night; The Swan; Inherit The Wind), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1988)
Sep 12 Ben Blue, Canadian actor and comedian (Accidental Family, Frank Sinatra Show), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 1975)
Sep 18 Harold Clurman, American theatrical producer and director (Deadline at Dawn), born in New York City (d. 1980)
Sep 19 Joe Pasternak, Hungarian-American film producer (Anchors Aweigh, Date With Judy), born in Szilágysomlyó, Austria-Hungary (d. 1991)
Sep 25 Robert Bresson, French film director (A Man Escaped, Balthazar, at Random), born in Puy-de-Dôme, France (d. 1999)
Sep 26 Donald Cook, American actor (Too Young To Go Steady), born in Portland, Oregon (d. 1961)
Sep 26 George Raft, American actor (Each Dawn I Die, Scarface, Some Like It Hot), born in New York City (d. 1980)

Ed Sullivan (1901-1974)

Sep 28 American newspaper columnist, and television host (The Ed Sullivan Show), born in New York City

Sep 28 Lily Bouwmeester, Dutch actress and comedienne (Pygmalion), born in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (d. 1993)
Sep 28 William S. Paley, American broadcast pioneer (President and CEO of CBS, 1928-90), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1990)
Sep 30 Philip Dorn, Dutch actor (Enemy Agent, I Remember Mama), born in Scheveningen, Netherlands (d. 1975)
Oct 3 Jean Grémillon, French film director, born in Bayeux, France (d. 1959)
Oct 5 John Alton [Johann Jacob Altmann], American cinematographer, born in Sopron, Austria-Hungary (d. 1996)
Oct 7 Ralph Rainger [Reichenthal], American song and film composer (Thanks for the Memory; Love In Bloom), born in New York City (d. 1942)
Oct 13 Edward Chapman, British actor (Things to Come, Promoter, Rembrandt), born in Harrogate, Yorkshire (d. 1977)
Oct 18 Barbara Brown, American actress, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1975)
Oct 20 Hans-Otto Borgmann, German film score composer under the Third Reich, born in Linden, Germany (d. 1977)
Oct 24 Gilda Gray [Marianna Michalska], Polish-American stage and screen actress (Piccadilly), and dancer (The Shimmy), born in Krakau, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (d. 1959)
Oct 29 Daniele Amfitheatrof [Amfiteatrov], Russian-Italian pianist, conductor, and composer of concert and Hollywood film score music (American Panorama; The Naked Jungle), born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (d. 1983)
Nov 2 James Dunn, American vaudeville performer, stage and screen actor (Bad Girl; Bright Eyes; A Tree Grows in Brooklyn), born in New York City (d. 1967)
Nov 2 Paul Ford, American actor (Phil Silvers Show), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1976)
Nov 6 Juanita Hall (née Long), American Tony Award-winning stage and screen actress and singer (South Pacific; Flower Drum Song), born in Keyport, New Jersey (d. 1968)
Nov 11 Sam Spiegel, American film producer (On the Waterfront, The Bridge on the River Kwai), born in Jarosław, Austrian Poland (d. 1985)
Nov 14 (John) Morton Downey, American pop tenor, known as "The Irish Nightengale", songwriter, radio and television host, born in Wallingford, Connecticut (d. 1985)
Nov 17 Lee Strasberg, Austrian acting coach and actor (The Godfather: Part II, Somewhere in the Night), born in Budzanów, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (d. 1982)
Nov 22 Lee Patrick, American stage and screen actress (The Maltese Falcon; Topper (TVseries) - "Henrietta"), born in New York City (d. 1982)
Nov 27 Ted Husing, American sportscaster (Monday Night Fights CBS), born in New York City (d. 1962)
Nov 29 Mildred Harris, American actress (The Magic Cloak, No, No Nannette), born in Cheyenne, Wyoming (d. 1944)
Dec 5 Ray Whitley, American country and western singer-songwriter ("Back in the Saddle Again") and actor (Tim Holt films), born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 1979)

Walt Disney (1901-1966)

Dec 5 American animator (Mickey Mouse), producer and co-founder of Walt Disney Co., born in Chicago, Illinois

Dec 9 Carol Dempster, American actress, born in Duluth, Minnesota (d. 1991)
Dec 21 Robin Irvine, British actor (Easy Virtue, When Boys Leave Home), born in London, England (d. 1933)
Dec 27 Irene Handl, British actress (Riding High, Morgan), born in London, England (d. 1987)