Film Tv Birthdays Date 1909 | History by KabAstro

Jan 1 Dana Andrews, American actor (Battle of the Bulge, Laura), born in Covington County, Mississippi (d. 1992)

Victor Borge (1909-2000)

Jan 3 Danish-American comedian and pianist, born in Copenhagen, Denmark

Jan 8 Willy Millowitsch, German actor (National Lampoon's European Vacation), born in Cologne, Germany (d. 1999)
Jan 11 Marguerite Kelsey, English model for artists (Haunting), born in London, England (d. 1995)
Jan 12 Mauritz Hugo, Swedish actor (Atomic Blonde, Death Valley Gunfighter), born in Ostergotland, Sweden (d. 1974)
Jan 14 Joseph Losey, American theatre and film director (The Damned: The Servant; Accident; The Go-Between), born in La Crosse, Wisconsin (d. 1984)
Jan 17 Karen Jønsson (née Pedersen), Danish jazz singer, pianist, songwriter, composer, and actress, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1942)
Jan 22 Ann Sothern [Harriette Arlene Lake], American actress (Lady in a Cage), born in Valley City, North Dakota (d. 2001)
Jan 24 Ann Todd, English stage and screen actress (The Seventh Veil; The Paradine Case; The Passionate Friends), born in Hartford, England (d. 1993)
Jan 29 Alan Marshal, Australian actor (White Cliffs of Dover, Lydia), born in Sydney, New South Wales (d. 1961)
Feb 2 Frank Albertson, American actor (Psycho, It's a Wonderful Life, Alice Adams), born in Fergus Falls, Minnesota (d. 1964)
Feb 3 Andre Cayatte, French filmmaker, born in Carcassonne (d. 1989)
Feb 4 Robert Coote, British actor (The Ghost and Mrs. Muir; Scaramouche), born in London, England (d. 1982)
Feb 9 Carmen Miranda, Portuguese vocalist and actress (Copacabana; Date With Judy), born in Marco de Canavezes, Portugal (d. 1955)
Feb 9 Heather Angel, British-American actress (Night in Montmartre; The Informer; The Last of the Mohicans; Lifeboat), born in Headington, Oxford, England (d. 1986)
Feb 11 Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter and film director (Sleuth), born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (d. 1993)
Feb 16 Hugh Beaumont, American actor (The Mole People, Leave it to Beaver), born in Lawrence, Kansas (d. 1982)
Feb 16 Jeffrey Lynn [Ragnar Godfrey Lind], American actor (Four Daughters; The Roaring Twenties; BUtterfield 8), born in Auburn, Massachusetts (d. 1995)
Feb 23 Anthony Ross [Rosenthal], American stage (Bus Stop), and screen character actor (The Telltale Clue), born in New York City (d. 1955)
Feb 24 Jean Marin, French broadcaster (one of the voices of free France WWII), born in Douarnenez, France (d. 1995)
Feb 24 Riccardo Freda, Italian film director and screenwriter (Theodora, Slave Empress), born in Alexandria, Egypt (d. 1999)
Feb 28 Olan Soule, American character radio and screen actor (The First Nighter Program; Captain Midnight; Dragnet; Arnie), born in La Harpe, Illinois (d. 1994)
Mar 1 Lois Moran, American actress (Waterfront), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1990)
Mar 19 Louis Hayward, British-American actor (Lone Wolf, Survivors), born in Johannesburg, South Africa (d. 1985)
Mar 24 Thomas "Tommy" Trinder, British radio comedian and actor (Save a Little Sunshine, Phoenix), born in Streatham, London, England (d. 1989)
Mar 26 Chips Rafferty [John William Pilbean Goffage], Australian actor (Wake in Fright, Desert Rats), born in Broken Hill, New South Wales (d. 1971)
Apr 1 Abner Biberman, American director and actor (His Girl Friday, The Leopard Man), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (d. 1977)
Apr 5 Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer (James Bond films), sometimes known as "Cubby", born in New York City (d. 1996)
Apr 7 Robert Raglan, British character actor (Dad's Army - " Colonel Pritchard"), born in Reigate, Surrey, England (d. 1985)
Apr 8 John Fante, Italian-American author and screenwriter (Wait Until Spring, Bandini, Ask the Dust, Full of Life), born in Denver, Colorado (d. 1983)
Apr 9 Robert Helpmann, Australian actor, choreographer and dancer (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Don Quixote), born in Mount Gambier, South Australia (d. 1986)
Apr 13 Jan Veldkamp, Dutch geophysicist and director (KNMI) (d. 1994)
Apr 20 Guido Alberti, Italian film actor (Marco the Magnificent), born in Benevento, Italy (d. 1996)
Apr 22 Hymie Shertzer, American jazz and session saxophonist (Benny Goodman; NBC's Tonight Show), born in New York City (d. 1977)
Apr 22 Ralph Byrd, American actor (Dick Tracy TV Show, SOS Coast Guard), born in Dayton, Ohio (d. 1952)
Apr 24 Irven Spence, American animator, born in Lincoln, Nebraska (d. 1995)
Apr 29 Tom Ewell [Sam Yewell Tompkins], American actor (Tom Ewell Show, The Seven Year Itch), born in Owensboro, Kentucky (d. 1994)
May 4 Howard Da Silva [Silverblatt], American actor (1776, The Lost Weekend, The Blue Dahlia), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1986)
May 9 Don Messer, Canadian folk fiddler, and television host (Jubilee, 1959-73), born in Tweedside, New Brunswick (d. 1973)
May 15 James Mason, British actor (Lolita, North by Northwest, Bloodline, Boys From Brazil), born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire (d. 1984)
May 16 Margaret Sullavan, American actress (Three Comrades, The Shop Around the Corner), born in Norfolk, Virginia (d. 1960)
May 17 Magda Schneider, German actress (Eva, Going Gay, Be Mine Tonight), born in Bavaria, German (d. 1996)

May 18 English tennis player (first to win "Career Grand Slam"; 8 x Grand Slam singles, 6 x Grand Slam doubles titles; Davis Cup 1933, 34, 35, 36) and broadcaster (BBC, ITV), born in Stockport, England

May 25 Marie Menken, American experimental filmmaker and socialite, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1970)
May 26 Richard Maibaum, American screenwriter (Goldfinger), born in New York City (d. 1991)

Jessica Tandy (1909-1994)

Jun 7 British actress (Birds, Cocoon, Batteries Not Included), born in London, England

Jun 8 Mary van de Berg, Flemish actress (Moutarde van Sonaansee), born in Zuid-Holland, Netherlands (d. 2003)
Jun 14 Burl Ives, American folk singer ("A Little Bitty Tear"; "Silver And Gold"), actor (Cat On A Hot Tin Roof), and snowman (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer), born in Hunt City, Illinois (d. 1995)
Jun 17 Ralph E. Winters, Canadian film editor, born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 2004)

Errol Flynn (1909-1959)

Jun 20 Australian actor (Captain Blood, Robin Hood), born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Jun 20 Joan Harrison, English screenwriter and producer who often worked with Alfred Hitchcock (Rebecca, They Won't Believe Me), born in Guildford, England (d. 1994)
Jun 25 Daniel Fuchs, American screenwriter (Summer in Williamsburg), born in Lower East Side, Manhattan (d. 1993)
Jul 7 Eddie Mayehoff, American actor (Hour Glass, That's My Boy, How to Murder Your Wife), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1992)
Jul 12 "Curly" Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (The Three Stooges), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1993)
Jul 12 Joey Faye, American comedian (Joey Faye's Follies), born in New York City (d. 1997)
Jul 18 Harriet (Hilliard) Nelson [Peggy Lou Snyder], American singer and actress (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet; Follow the Fleet), born in Des Moines, Iowa (d. 1994)
Jul 18 Lupe Vélez [María Guadalupe Villalobos Vélez], Mexican-American actress (Joe Palooka), born in San Luis Potosí, Mexico (d. 1944)
Jul 26 Vivian Vance [Jones], American stage and screen actress (I Love Lucy - "Ethel Mertz"; The Lucy Show - "Viv"), born in Cherryvale, Kansas (d. 1979)
Aug 10 Brian Easdale, British orchestral and film composer (The Red Shoes; Gone To Earth), born in Manchester, England (d. 1995)
Aug 11 Gaston Litaize, French organist (St François-Xavier, Paris, 1946-91), composer, broadcaster, and pedagogue, born in Ménil-sur-Belvitte, Vosges, France (d. 1991)
Aug 13 Dave Willock, American actor (Queen of Outer Space), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1990)
Aug 13 John Beal [James Andrew Bliedung], American actor (10 Who Dare, I Am the Law, Les Misérables), born in Joplin, Missouri (d. 1997)
Aug 18 Miliza Korjus, Polish actress (Great Waltz), born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1980)
Aug 20 André Morell [Cecil André Mesritz], British actor (Ben-Hur, The Message, Hound of the Baskervilles), born in London, England (d. 1978)
Aug 22 Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (Casablanca), born in New York City (d. 2000)
Aug 25 Michael Rennie, British actor (The Day the Earth Stood Still), born in Idle, West Yorkshire, England (d. 1971)
Aug 25 Ruby Keeler, Canadian-American actress, singer, and dancer (Dames; 42nd Street), born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (d. 1993)
Aug 26 Jim Davis, American actor (Dallas), born in Edgerton, Missouri (d. 1981)
Sep 6 John Ridgely, American actor (Northern Pursuit, They Died with Their Boots On, Air Force), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1968)

Elia Kazan (1909-2003)

Sep 7 Greek-American Tony and Academy Award-winning stage and screen director (A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront; East of Eden), born in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (now Istanbul, Turkey)

Sep 9 Jane Baxter [Fedora Kathleen Alice Forde], German actress (We Live Again), born in Bremen, Germany (d. 1996)
Sep 11 Anne Seymour, American actress (Gemini Affair; Empire; Tim Conway Show), born in New York City (d. 1988)
Sep 13 Herbert Berghof, Austrian actor (Belarus File, Harry and Tonto, Target), born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1990)
Sep 13 Leith Stevens, American pianist, composer and conductor of scores for radio (Suspense), film (The Wild Ones; War of the Worlds), and television (Climax!), born in Mount Moriah, Missouri (d. 1970)
Sep 15 Phil Arnold, American actor (Errand Boy, Stud Lonigan, Damn Yankees), born in Hackensack, New Jersey (d. 1968)
Sep 22 Allan "Rocky" Lane, American western cowboy actor (voice of Mr Ed, Red Ryder), born in Mishawaka, Indiana (d. 1973)
Sep 22 Harry Ray, American film make-up artist, costume designer and actor (Avanti!), born in West Virginia (d. 1974)
Sep 26 Leonard Sachs, British actor (The Good Old Days; John Wesley), born in Roodepoort, Transvaal Colony (now South Africa) (d. 1990)
Sep 28 Wiesje Bouwmeester, Dutch actress (Doodzonde), born in Watergraafsmeer, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (d. 1979)
Sep 29 Sashadhar Mukherjee, Indian film producer (Jagrit), born in Jhansi, India (d. 1990)
Oct 1 Everett Sloane, American actor (Patsy, Citizen Kane, Enforcer), born in New York City (d. 1965)
Oct 10 Florida Friebus, American actress (The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis ' Mrs. Gillis"; The Bob Newhart Show - "Mrs. Bakerman"), born in Auburndale, Massachusetts (d. 1988)
Oct 10 Robert F. Boyle, American production designer and art director, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2010)
Oct 14 Dorothy Kingsley, American screenwriter (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers), born in New York City (d. 1997)
Oct 15 Robert Trout, American newscaster (ABC), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 2000)
Oct 19 Robert Beatty, Canadian actor (2001: A Space Odyssey, Where Eagles Dare), born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (d. 1992)
Oct 25 Whitner "Whit" Bissell, American actor (Time Machine, Soylent Green, The Magnificent Seven), born in New York City (d. 1996)
Oct 29 Douglass Montgomery, American actor (Forbidden, Harmony Lane), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1966)
Nov 9 Robert Douglas, English actor (Adv of Don Juan), born in Fenny Stratford, Buckinghamshire (d. 1999)
Nov 11 Robert Ryan, American actor (Billy Budd, The Dirty Dozen, The Longest Day), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1973)
Nov 13 Gunnar Bjornstrand, Swedish actor (Shame, Dreams), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1986)
Nov 17 Gerald Savory, British actor playwright and TV producer (Heart of the Matter), born in London, England (d. 1996)
Nov 26 Frances Dee, American actress (Of Human Bondage), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2004)
Dec 4 Jimmy Jewel [James Jewel Marsh], British comedic actor (The Avengers, Thicker Than Water), born in Sheffield, England (d. 1995)
Dec 6 Alan McGilvray, Australian cricketer (20 games for NSW mid 1930's) and commentator (ABC), born in Paddington, Sydney, Australia (d. 1996)

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (1909-2000)

Dec 9 American actor (Prisoner of Zenda; Gunga Din), and decorated US naval officer (WWII Beach Jumpers), born in New York City

Dec 12 Karen Morley, American actress (Scarface), born in Ottumwa, Iowa (d. 2003)
Dec 18 Mona Barrie [Smith], British-American actress (Dawn on Great Divide), born in London, England (d. 1964)
Dec 22 Alan Carney [David Boughal], American actor (Zombies on Broadway, Take it from Me), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1973)
Dec 22 Patricia Hayes, British actress (A Fish Called Wanda), born in Wandsworth, London, England (d. 1998)
Dec 23 Maurice Denham, British actor (Mr Love, Damn the Defiant), born in Beckenham, England (d. 2002)
Dec 28 Billy Williams, American singer (Your Show of Shows), born in Waco, Texas (d. 1984)