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Biography of Vera Vergani (excerpt)
Vera Vergani, born February 19, 1895 in Milan, died September 22, 1989 in Procida, Naples, Campania, was an Italien actress. Trivia: Great-grand mother of Inti Carboni and Jana Carboni. Mother of producer Leo Pescarolo and assistant director Vera Pescarolo, grandmother of costume designer Elisabetta Montaldo, sister of writer Orio Vergani, aunt of journalist Guido Vergani, mother-in-law of director Giuliano Montaldo. ![]()
Biography of Frédéric Lefèvre (excerpt)
Frédéric Lefèvre, born on May 7, 1889 in Izé (birth time source: Lescaut), died in 1949 in Paris, was a French novelist, writer, and critic. Publications (extract) La jeune poésie française, Rouart et Cie, Fribourg-Paris, 1917. La poésie dans nos poètes ![]()
Biography of Felix Timmermans (excerpt)
Leopold Maximiliaan Felix Timmermans (5 July 1886 – 24 January 1947) is the most translated author of Flanders. Timmermans was born in the Belgian city of Lier, as the thirteenth of fourteen children in the family. He died in Lier, aged 60.
Biography of Leslie Stannard Hunter (excerpt)
Leslie Stannard, born May 2, 1890 in Glasgow, was a Scottish author, ecclesiastic and minister of the Church of England.
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Biography of Judith Anderson (excerpt)
Dame Judith Anderson, (10 February 1897 – 3 January 1992) was an Australian Tony award- and Emmy-winning actress of stage and screen, who was also nominated for a Grammy and an Oscar. She is generally regarded by theatre critics as the greatest classical actress produced by Australia.
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Biography of Adriano Olivetti (excerpt)
Adriano Olivetti (b. 11 April 1901, Ivrea - d. 27 February 1960, on a train from Milan to Lausanne) was an Italian entrepreneur, the son of the founder of Olivetti, Camillo Olivetti. Adriano Olivetti was known worldwide during his lifetime as the Italian manufacturer of Olivetti typewriters, calculators, and computers.
Biography of Ruth Hale Oliver (excerpt)
Ruth Hale Oliver, born April 16, 1910 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, died October 3, 1988, was an American teacher, author and astrologer.
Biography of Jean Verdier (excerpt)
Jean Gaston Verdier, born August 6, 1886 in Tourcoing, died on November 23, 1975, was a French engineer, author and astrologer.
Biography of Georges Jean Darrieus (excerpt)
Georges Jean Marie Darrieus (24 September 1888 - 15 July 1979) was a French aeronautical engineer in the 20th century. He is perhaps most famous for his invention of the Darrieus rotor, a wind turbine capable of operating from any direction and under adverse weather conditions, and the vertical-axis giromill.
Biography of Carlos Lacerda (excerpt)
Carlos Frederico Werneck de Lacerda (April 30, 1914 – May 21, 1977) was a Brazilian journalist, author, and politician. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Lacerda was the son of a family of politicians from Vassouras, Rio de Janeiro State. When he was a law student, Lacerda became sympathetic to Communist ideas, but by the 1940s he had transformed into a staunch anti-communist. ![]()
Biography of Frankie Howerd (excerpt)
Frankie Howerd OBE (born Francis Alick Howard, 6 March 1917 – 18 April 1992), was a distinctive English comedian and comic actor whose career spanned six decades. Howerd was born the son of a soldier, Francis A. W. Howard in York, England, in 1917 (not 1922 as he later claimed).
Biography of Bill Manhoff (excerpt)
Bill Manhoff or Wilton Manhoff, born June 25, 1919 in Newark, New Jersey, died June 19, 1974 in Los Angeles, was an American screenwriter, author and producer. Filmography (extract) "Sanford and Son" (1 episode, 1974) - Hello Cousin Emma... Goodbye Cousin Emma (1974) TV episode (writer)
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Biography of Bert Haanstra (excerpt)
Bert Haanstra (31 May 1916 – 23 October 1997) was a Dutch film and documentary director and Academy Award winner. Haanstra was born in the town of Holten and became a professional filmmaker in 1947. He won international acclaim with his short documentary Spiegel van Holland / Mirror of Holland, for which he received the Grand Prix du court métrage at the Cannes-festival of 1951. ![]()
Biography of Steve Passeur (excerpt)
Etienne Morin, best known as Steve Passeur, born September 24, 1899 in Sedan, was a French author and screenwriter. Filmography (extract) "Au théâtre ce soir" (1 episode, 1975) - La moitié du plaisir (1975) TV episode (earlier screenplay "Le jeu de la vérité")
Biography of Bill Hardie (excerpt)
Bill Hardie, born August 21, 1916 in Aberdeen, is a Scottish fiddler and teacher.
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Biography of Emmanuel de Martonne (excerpt)
Emmanuel de Martonne, born in Chabris (Indre), April 1st, 1873 and died in Sceaux July 24, 1955, was a French geographer and author. Works (extract) Recherches sur l'évolution morphologique des Alpes de Transylvanie (Karpates meridionales), Paris, Delagrave, 1906. Traité de géographie physique : Climat, Hydrographie, Relief du sol, Biogéographie, Paris, Armand Colin, 1909 (réédité). ![]()
Biography of Julien Carette (excerpt)
Julien Carette (23 December 1897 (birth time source: Michaël Mandl, birth certificate) – 20 July 1966) was a French film actor. He appeared in 127 films between 1931 and 1964. Selected filmography * Si Paris nous était conté (1956) ![]()
Biography of Louis Aubert (excerpt)
Louis François Marie Aubert (born Paramé (Ille-et-Vilaine), 19 February 1877, - died Paris, 9 January 1968) was a French composer. Louis Aubert was a child prodigy. His parents, recognizing their son's musical talent, sent him to Paris to receive an education at an early age. ![]()
Biography of Joaquín Turina (excerpt)
Joaquín Turina (9 December 1882 (birth time source: Barbault, birth certificate) – 14 January 1949) was a Spanish composer of classical music. Biography Turina was born in Seville but his origins were in northern Italy (between Verona, Brescia and Mantova). He studied in Seville as well as in Madrid. ![]()
Biography of Marcel Achard (excerpt)
Marcel Achard (July 5, 1899 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - September 4, 1974) was a French playwright, screenwriter and author. He was born Marcel-Auguste Ferréol in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, a Rhône département town and adopted his nom de plume at the start of his writing career immediately following World War I. ![]()
Biography of Raissa Maritain (excerpt)
Raïssa Oumansoff Maritain (1883 (source not archived) - 1960) was a Russian-Ukrainian poet and philosopher. She emigrated to France and studied at Sorbona, where she met the young Jacques Maritain, also a philosopher, who she married in 1904. She was raised Jewish but converted to Roman Catholicism with her husband in 1906. ![]()
Biography of Finn Malmgren (excerpt)
Finn Adolf Erik Johan Malmgren (January 9, 1895 in Falun (birth time source: Jacques de Lescaut) - June 1928) was a Swedish meteorologist and Arctic explorer. Malmgren studied in Göteborg, Sundsvall and Stockholm. In 1912 he started to study at the Uppsala University where he received a bachelor's degree in 1916. ![]()
Biography of Paul Vanden Boeynants (excerpt)
Paul Emile François Henri Vanden Boeynants (22 May 1919 – 9 January 2001) was a Belgian politician. He served as the 41st Prime Minister of Belgium for two brief periods (1966–68 and 1978–79). Vanden Boeynants (called "VDB" by journalists) was born in Forest / Vorst, a municipality in the Brussels-Capital Region. ![]()
Biography of Alain Savary (excerpt)
Alain Savary (April 25, 1918 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - February 2, 1988) was a French Socialist politician, deputy during the Fourth and Fifth Republic, chairman of the Socialist Party (PS) and who held ministerial functions in the 1950s and in 1981, when he was nominated by President François Mitterrand as Minister of National Education. ![]()
Biography of John Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford (excerpt)
John Ian Robert Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford (24 May 1917–25 October 2002) was a British peer and writer, the son of Hastings Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford. Known in his youth as Ian, the Duke, later known by his courtesy title of Lord Howland, married three times, firstly to Clare Gwendolyn (Bridgman) Hollway, on 6 April 1939.
Biography of Alain Laubreaux (excerpt)
Alin Laubreaux or Alain Laubreaux, born October 9,1899 in Nouméa, Nouvelle-Calédonie, died July 15, 1968 in Madrid, Spain, was a French journalist and author. Bibliography Histoires canaques, éd. Fayard, coll. « Œuvres libres », Paris, 1926. Yan-le-métis, éd. Albin Michel, Paris, 1928, .
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Biography of Simon Carmiggelt (excerpt)
Simon Carmiggelt (October 7, 1913 – November 30, 1987) was a Dutch writer who became a well known public figure in the Netherlands because of his daily newspaper columns and his television appearances. Simon Johannes Carmiggelt was born on 7 October 1913 in S'gravenhage, the second son of Herman Carmiggelt and Jeanne Bik. ![]()
Biography of Charles Weidman (excerpt)
Charles Edward Weidman, Jr. (July 22, 1901 in Lincoln, Nebraska – July 15, 1975) was a modern dancer, choreographer and teacher. He studied and performed with Denishawn before leaving to form the Humphrey-Weidman school and company with Doris Humphrey and Pauline Lawrence. ![]()
Biography of Joyce Grenfell (excerpt)
Joyce Irene Grenfell, OBE (née Phipps; 10 February 1910 – 30 November 1979) was an English film and television actress, comedienne and singer-songwriter. Early life Born in London, she was the daughter of architect Paul Phipps (the grandson of Charles Paul Phipps and a second cousin of Ruth Draper) and an eccentric American mother, Nora Langhorne, the daughter of Chiswell Langhorne, an American railroad millionaire. ![]()
Biography of Fernand Braudel (excerpt)
Fernand Braudel (August 24, 1902 (birth time source: birth certificate, magazine L'Astrologue n° 69 in 1985) – November 27, 1985) was the foremost French historian of the postwar era and a leader of the Annales School. His scholarship focused on three great projects, each representing several decades of intense study: "The Mediterranean" (1923–49, then 1949–66), "Civilization and Capitalism" (1955–79), and the unfinished "Identity of France" (1970–85). ![]()
Biography of Jacques Baumel (excerpt)
Jacques Baumel, born March 6, 1918 in Marseille, died February 17, 2006 in Rueil-Malmaison, was a French politician and a famous member of French Resistance. Awards Officier de la Légion d'honneur Compagnon de la Libération Croix de guerre 1939-1945 Médaille de la Résistance ![]()
Biography of Jean Rigaud (excerpt)
Jean Rigaud is a well-listed French painter. He was born on June 15, 1912 in Bordeaux, France to the well-known painter, Pierre Gaston Rigaud (1874-1949). The Rigauds moved to the village of Guyenne in 1914, shortly after World War I began. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Roger Caussimon (excerpt)
Jean-Roger Caussimon (24 July 1918 in Paris 14e (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 19 October 1985 in Paris) was a French film actor, comedian, singer, and composer. He appeared in 90 films between 1945 and 1985. Filmography (extract) * 1945 : François Villon de André Zwobada: Le grand écolier ![]()
Biography of Ivar Kreuger (excerpt)
Ivar Kreuger (Kalmar, Sweden, March 2, 1880 – March 12, 1932) was a Swedish civil engineer, financier, entrepreneur and industrialist. Between the two world wars, he was one of the most powerful businessmen of Europe. Negotiating match monopolies with European and Central and South American governments, he finally controlled two thirds of the worldwide match production, and became known as the "Match King".
Biography of Germaine Sablon (excerpt)
Germaine Sablon (July 19, 1899 - April 17, 1985) was a French singer and film actress. She starred in some 15 films between 1920 and 1956. Her brother Jean Sablon was a popular singer and actor. Selected songs * Vous ne savez pas (duo avec Jean Sablon)
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Biography of Oskar Schlemmer (excerpt)
Oskar Schlemmer (September 4, 1888 – April 13, 1943) was a German painter, sculptor and designer associated with the Bauhaus school. In 1923 he was hired as Master of Form at the Bauhaus theatre workshop, after working some time at the workshop of sculpture.
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Biography of Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie (excerpt)
Emmanuel d'Astier de La Vigerie, born on January 6, 1900, in Paris, where he died on June 12, 1969, was a French writer, journalist, military officer, and politician, as well as a Companion of the Liberation. A major figure in the French Resistance during World War II, he founded the Libération-Sud movement and the newspaper Libération in 1941.
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Biography of Johnny Dundee (excerpt)
Johnny Dundee (November 22, 1893 – April 22, 1965) was a featherweight and junior lightweight boxer who fought from 1910 until 1932. Dundee was born Giuseppe Curreri in Sciacca, Sicily, but was raised in the United States. Known as the Scotch Wop, Dundee faced all of the great fighters in the featherweight, lightweight and junior-lightweight divisions of his era. ![]()
Biography of Arthur Godfrey (excerpt)
Arthur Morton Leo Godfrey (August 31, 1903 – March 16, 1983) was an American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer who was sometimes introduced by his nickname, The Old Redhead. No television personality of the 1950s enjoyed more clout or fame than Godfrey until an on-camera incident undermined his folksy image and triggered a gradual decline; the then-ubiquitous Godfrey helmed two CBS-TV weekly series and a daily 90-minute television mid-morning show through most of the decade but by the early 1960s found himself reduced to hosting an occasional TV special. ![]()
Biography of Adolf Reichwein (excerpt)
Adolf Reichwein (born 3 October 1898 in Bad Ems; died 20 October 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee, executed) was a German educator, economist, and cultural policymaker for the SPD. He was also a resistance fighter in Nazi Germany. After taking part in the First World War, in which he was seriously wounded in the lung, Reichwein studied at the universities in Frankfurt am Main und Marburg, under Hugo Sinzheimer and Franz Oppenheimer, among others.
Biography of Jacques Varennes (excerpt)
Jacques Varennes, born November 8, 1894 in Mantes-la-Jolie, died September 6, 1958 in Paris, was a French actor. Filmography (selection) # Quai des illusions (1959) ... aka "La legge mi incolpa" - Italy # "En votre âme et conscience" (1 episode, 1957) - Le docteur X (1957) TV episode
Biography of Mona Paulee (excerpt)
Mona Paulee, born October 4, 1912 in Edmonton, was a Canadian soprano opera singer. ![]()
Biography of Lawrence Tierney (excerpt)
Lawrence Tierney (March 15, 1919 – February 26, 2002) was an American actor, known for his many screen portrayals of mobsters and hardened criminals, which mirrored his own frequent brushes with the law. Commenting on the DVD release of a Tierney film in 2005, a New York Times critic observed: "The hulking Tierney was not so much an actor as a frightening force of nature." ![]()
Biography of Franz Werfel (excerpt)
Franz Werfel (September 10, 1890 – August 26, 1945) was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet. Born in Prague (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), Werfel was the first of three children of a wealthy manufacturer of gloves and leather goods. His mother, Albine Kussi, was the daughter of a mill owner. ![]()
Biography of Paul Guth (excerpt)
Paul Guth (March 5, 1910 — 1997) was a French humorist, journalist and writer, and the President of the Académie des provinces françaises. Novelist, essayist, columnist, memoirist, historian, pamphleteer, he distinguished himself in every genre by his combination of sensitivity and savagery. ![]()
Biography of Jacques-Henri Lartigue (excerpt)
Jacques Henri Lartigue (June 13, 1894 - September 12, 1986) was a French photographer and painter. Born in Courbevoie (a city outside of Paris) to a wealthy family, he is most famous for his stunning photos of automobile races, planes and fashionable Parisian women from the turn of the century. ![]()
Biography of Jacques Dumesnil (excerpt)
Jacques Dumesnil, born Marie Émile Eugène André Joly November 9, 1903 in Paris, and died May 8, 1998 in Bron, Rhône, was a French actor. Filmography (selection) * 1931 : Mon ami l'assassin de Solange Bussi * 1932 : Danton de André Roubaud : Fabre d'Églantine ![]()
Biography of Savielly Tartakower (excerpt)
Ksawery Tartakower (Russian Савелий Григорьевич Тартаковер, generally known as Saviely or Savielly Tartakower in English, less often Xavier Tartacover or Xavier Tartakover; 1887-1956) was a leading Polish and French chess Grandmaster. He was the king of chess journalism in the 1920s and 30s.
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Biography of Gaston Defferre (excerpt)
Gaston Defferre (September 14, 1910 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - May 7, 1986, Marseille) was a French socialist politician. Lawyer and member of the Socialist party SFIO (French Section of the Workers' International), he was a member of the Brutus Network, a Resistance Socialist group during World War II.
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Biography of Michel de Ghelderode (excerpt)
Michel de Ghelderode (born as Adhémar-Adolphe-Louis Martens, 3 April 1898, Ixelles – 1962, Brussels) was an avant-garde Belgian dramatist, writing in French. Career A prolific writer, he wrote more than sixty plays, a hundred stories, a number of articles on art and folklore and more than 20,000 letters. |
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