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Biography of Ivo Garrani (excerpt)
Ivo Garrani (6 February 1924 – 25 March 2015) was an Italian actor and voice actor. In films since 1952, Garrani is possibly best known for his role as Prince Vajda in Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960). Born in Introdacqua, Garrani was a student at the Faculty of Engineering in Rome when started his theatrical career, at first as amateur, then entering the stage company of Carlo Tamberlani in 1943.
Biography of Riet van Grunsven (excerpt)
Maria Catharina van Grunsven (1918–2004), also known as Riet van Grunsven or Riet van de Haterd-van Grunsven, was an armed member of the Dutch Resistance during World War II. One of 21 people who became “line crossers,” special agents who helped to maintain a secret connection between occupied and liberated Netherlands across the waterways of the Biesbosch and the Merwede, she operated as a courier for part of the larger Biesbosch resistance group, and the Albrecht intelligence group.
Biography of Mariya Smirnova (excerpt)
Mariya Vasilyevna Smirnova (Russian: Мария Васильевна Смирнова; 31 March 1920 – 10 July 2002) was a squadron commander in the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment (nicknamed the "Night Witches") of the Soviet Air Forces during the Second World War.
Biography of Maria Tallchief (excerpt)
Elizabeth Marie Tallchief (Osage family name: Ki He Kah Stah Tsa; January 24, 1925 – April 11, 2013) was an American ballerina. She was considered America's first major prima ballerina. She was the first Native American (Osage Nation) to hold the rank, and is said to have revolutionized ballet.
Biography of Albert Bouvet (excerpt)
Albert Bouvet (28 February 1930 – 20 May 2017) was a French professional cyclist. He won Paris–Tours in 1956 and remained the last Frenchman to win until Jacky Durand won in 1998. His name is also associated with Paris–Roubaix, as an organiser and discoverer of new sections of pavé.
Biography of Madeleine Pauliac (excerpt)
Madeleine Jeanne Marie Pauliac (17 September 1912 – 13 February 1946) was a French doctor and a member of the French Resistance. Her experience in post-World War II Poland formed the basis for the movie Les Innocentes. Life Pauliac was born in Villeneuve-sur-Lot.
Biography of Jeanne Brousse (excerpt)
Jeanne Brousse (née Maurier; 12 April 1921 – 19 October 2017), known as Jeannette, was born in Saint-Pierre-de-Curtille in the Savoie region of France. She was a member of the French Resistance during WWII and she is a member of the Righteous Among The Nations.
Biography of Marianne Cohn (excerpt)
Marianne Cohn was a German-born French Resistance fighter. She was born on 17 September 1922 in Mannheim and died on 8 July 1944 in Haute-Savoie. In 1942 Marianne began to smuggle Jewish children out of France. Threatened with deportation, she was incarcerated at Nice and released three months later.
Biography of Georgine Darcy (excerpt)
Georgine Darcy (January 14, 1931 – July 18, 2004) was an American dancer and actress best known for her role as "Miss Torso" in the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock film Rear Window. She also had a regular role in the 1960–1961 sitcom Harrigan and Son.
Biography of François Gros (excerpt)
François Gros (born 24 April 1925 in Paris) is a French biologist and one of the pioneers of cellular biochemistry in France. His scientific career concerned genes and their role in regulating cellular functions. Honorary professor at the Collège de France, member of the Institute of France, he was also director of the Pasteur Institute (1976-1982) and advisor to Prime Ministers Pierre Mauroy and Laurent Fabius (1981-1985).
Biography of Frederick Stafford (excerpt)
Frederick Stafford (11 March 1928 – 28 July 1979) was a Czechoslovak-born actor. Born Friedrich Strobel von Stein, he spoke fluent Czech, German, English, French and Italian, and was a leading man in European spy-movies. Film career In 1964 French director André Hunebelle discovered Stafford on holiday at a hotel in Bangkok and asked him "How would you like to make movies with me.
Biography of Pierre Barbizet (excerpt)
Pierre Barbizet born in Arica (Chile) on September 20, 1922 and died on January 19, 1990 in Marseille is a French pianist and musical teacher. He is notably known for having been the partner of the violinist Christian Ferras and for having directed from 1963 until his death the conservatory of Marseille which has since bears his name.
Biography of Julie Gibson (excerpt)
Julie Gibson (born Gladys Camille Soray; September 6, 1913 – October 2, 2019 (age 106)) was an American singer; radio, television, and film actress; and vocal artist and coach, who had a career in movies during the 1940s. Gibson, who retired from the industry in 1984, was known for her work opposite The Three Stooges.
Biography of François Augiéras (excerpt)
François Augiéras is a French writer, born in Rochester (New York State) on July 18, 1925 and died in Périgueux on December 13, 1971.
Biography of Galina Ustvolskaya (excerpt)
Galina Ivanovna Ustvolskaya, 17 June 1919 – 22 December 2006), was a Russian composer of classical music. Ustvolskaya was a pupil of Shostakovich from 1939 to 1941 and from 1947 to 1948, but her works from the 1950s onwards retain little influence of his style.
Biography of Zuleykha Seyidmammadova (excerpt)
Zuleykha Seyidmammadova (22 March 1919 – 1994) was one of the first Azerbaijan female pilots and the first Azerbaijani woman to fly in combat. Seyidmammadova was born in Baku on 22 March 1919. She gained her pilot's license in 1935 at a flying club in her hometown and later at the aviation academy in Zhukovsky near Moscow.
Biography of Sherry Britton (excerpt)
Edith Zack (July 28, 1918 – April 1, 2008), better known by the stage name Sherry Britton, was an American burlesque performer of the 1930s and early 1940s. The 5-foot-3-inch (1.60 m) Britton had an 18-inch (46 cm) waist, and was once said to have a "figure to die for.
Biography of Renzo Montagnani (excerpt)
Renzo Montagnani (September 11, 1930 – May 22, 1997) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Montagnani was born in Alessandria, Piedmont, and debuted as theatre actor thanks to the help of Erminio Macario. His first cinema success was his dramatic role in Metello (1970), but he later switched to the commedia all'italiana with his roles in the last two chapters of the Amici miei series (1982 and 1985).
Biography of Dagmar Lahlum (excerpt)
Dagmar Mohne Hansen Lahlum (10 March 1923, Norway – 28 December 1999) was a member of the Norwegian resistance in Oslo during World War II and was later recruited (unofficially) to work for MI5. In April 1943, when British double agent Eddie Chapman was drinking with German officers in The Ritz bar at Skillebekk, which was also popular with members of the Norwegian national socialist party, his eye fell on the attractive Dagmar, who – complete with a décolletage and high heels – was smoking Craven A's with an ivory mouthpiece.
Biography of Élisabeth Boselli (excerpt)
Élisabeth Thérèse Marie Juliette Boselli (11 March 1914 – 25 November 2005), was a French military and civilian pilot. She was the first female fighter pilot to serve in the French Air Force, and held eight world records for distance, altitude and speed.
Biography of Michel Laclotte (excerpt)
Michel Laclotte (France, 27 October 1929 – 10 August 2021) was a French art historian and museum director, specialising in 14th and 15th century French painting. Career His first role was as "inspecteur des musées" of the province, then as a professor at the École du Louvre and as head conservator of the paintings department of the Louvre from 1966.
Biography of Denise Bloch (excerpt)
Denise Madeleine Bloch (21 January 1916 – 5 February 1945) was an agent working with the clandestine British Special Operations Executive (SOE) organization in the Second World War. Captured by the Germans, she was executed at Ravensbrück concentration camp. On 2 March 1944, with fellow SOE agent Robert Benoist, she was dropped back into central France.
Biography of Zivia Lubetkin (excerpt)
Zivia Lubetkin (Polish: Cywia Lubetkin, nom de guerre: Celina; 9 November 1914–11 July 1978) was one of the leaders of the Jewish underground in Nazi-occupied Warsaw and the only woman on the High Command of the resistance group Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ŻOB).
Biography of Roger Guérin (excerpt)
Roger Guérin (9 January 1926, Saarbrücken – 6 February 2010, Nîmes) was a French jazz trumpeter and singer. Initially a violinist, Guérin studied trumpet and cornet at the Paris Conservatory and won a first prize there as a teenager. He began working professionally in 1947, playing with Aimé Barelli, Django Reinhardt, Don Byas, Hubert Fol, James Moody, Benny Golson, Bernard Peiffer, Fats Sadi, Lucky Thompson, Kenny Clarke, Blossom Dearie, Martial Solal, Michel Legrand and André Hodeir.
Biography of Jean-Paul de Dadelsen (excerpt)
Jean-Paul de Dadelsen, (20 August 1913 in Strasbourg – 23 June 1957 in Zurich) was a French schoolmaster, officer, journalist, broadcaster and poet. He was an early supporter of a European Common Market and adviser to Jean Monnet. Publications Jonas, Gallimard, 1962. Goethe en Alsace with commentary by Denis de Rougemont, François Mauriac and Baptiste-Marrey.
Biography of Olga Sanfirova (excerpt)
Olga Aleksandrovna Sanfirova (2 May (O.S. 19 April) 1917 – 13 December 1944) was a captain and squadron commander in the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment during World War II. She was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 23 February 1945, making her the first Tatar woman awarded the title.
Biography of Henri Delauze (excerpt)
Henri Germain Delauze, born September 17, 1929 in Cairanne (Vaucluse), died February 14, 2012 in Marseilles, was a French engineer, diver and entrepreneur, founder of the COMEX company. COMEX (or Compagnie Maritime d'Expertises) is a company specializing in engineering and deep diving operations, created in November 1961 by Henri Germain Delauze and ran by him until his death in 2012.
Biography of Pierre Chateau-Jobert (excerpt)
Pierre Yvon Alexandre Jean Chateau-Jobert (alias Conan) is a senior officer of the French army, fighter of the Second World War (and as such, companion of the Liberation) and the wars of Indochina and Algeria, born in Morlaix on February 3, 1912, and died in Caumont-l'Éventé in Calvados on December 29, 2005 at the age of 93.
Biography of Mimi Perrin (excerpt)
Mimi Perrin, born Jeannine Quintard on February 2, 1926 in Saint-Maurice and died on November 16, 2010 in Paris 10th district, is a French pianist, singer and translator. After her musical career, she became one of the translators from English most in demand by the publishing world.
Biography of Bill Austin (excerpt)
William Lee Austin (October 18, 1928 – May 22, 2013) was an American football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL). He played as a lineman for the New York Giants for seven seasons, was the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers for three seasons, (1966–1968) and one for the Washington Redskins in 1970.
Biography of Isabella Abbott (excerpt)
Isabella Aiona Abbott (June 20, 1919 – October 28, 2010) was an educator, phycologist, and ethnobotanist from Hawaii. The first native Hawaiian woman to receive a PhD in science, she became a leading expert on Pacific marine algae. She authored eight books and over 150 publications.
Biography of Dora Schaul (excerpt)
Dora Schaul (born Dora Davidsohn, 21 September 1913 – 8 August 1999) was a German woman noted particularly for her undercover work at official offices in German-occupied France during World War II. She passed on significant information to the French Resistance.
Biography of Hugh Cruttwell (excerpt)
Hugh Cruttwell (31 October 1918 – 24 August 2002) was an influential English teacher of drama and principal of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Hugh Percival Cruttwell was born in Singapore, but lived in England from the age of eight. He was educated at King's School, Bruton, in Somerset, and studied history at Hertford College, Oxford.
Biography of Jean Amila (excerpt)
Jean Amila (Paris, 24 November 1910 – 6 March 1995) was a French author and screenwriter who also wrote under the names John Amila, Jean Mekert, or Jean Meckert. He also published other popular novels under the pseudonyms of Édouard, Edmond or Guy Duret, Albert Duvivier, Mariodile and Marcel Pivert.
Biography of Marija Bursać (excerpt)
Marija Bursać (Serbian Cyrillic: Марија Бурсаћ; 2 August 1920 – 23 September 1943) was a member of the Yugoslav Partisans during World War II in Yugoslavia and the first woman proclaimed a People's Hero of Yugoslavia. Bursać was born to a Bosnian Serb farming family in the village of Kamenica, near Drvar.
Biography of Yvette Lévy (excerpt)
Yvette Henriette Lévy (née Dreyfuss; born 21 June 1926 in Paris) is a French educator and survivor of the Holocaust. In July 1944, she was arrested by the Gestapo and was eventually sent to Auschwitz concentration camp. She survived and now educates youths about her experiences.
Biography of Anna Lisitsyna (excerpt)
Anna Mikhaylovna Lisitsyna (14 February 1922 – 3 August 1942) was a Soviet partisan who was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 25 September 1943 for her resistance activities. On 15 June 1942 Lisitsyna, fellow partisan Mariya Melentyeva, and six other partisans were sent by the Red Army behind enemy lines in Leningrad for a one-month reconnaissance-in-force mission, where the two were assigned to establish an underground Komsomol Committee and construct safehouses for other partisans in Sheltozero in addition to gathering information on enemy forces, fortresses, and firing points.
Biography of Suzanne Martel (excerpt)
Suzanne Chouinard Martel (October 8, 1924 – July 29, 2012) was a French Canadian journalist, novelist and children's writer. Suzanne Chouinard was the daughter of Francis Xavier Chouinard, clerk of Quebec City between 1927 and 1961 and Lady Couillard, who resided at rue de Bernières in Quebec City until 1963.
Biography of Joan McCracken (excerpt)
Joan Hume McCracken (December 31, 1917 – November 1, 1961) was an American dancer, actress, and comedian who became famous for her role as Sylvie ("The Girl Who Falls Down") in the original 1943 production of Oklahoma! She also was noted for her performances in the Broadway shows Bloomer Girl (1944), Billion Dollar Baby (1945) and Dance Me a Song (1950), and the films Hollywood Canteen (1945) and Good News (1947).
Biography of Rossana Beccari (excerpt)
Rossana Beccari (Rome, February 18, 1926 - Rome, December 10, 1979) was an Italian singer. In 1950 her song Come with me was included in the soundtrack of Luciano Emmer's film Domenica d'agosto . Also in 1950 she participated in various RAI radio broadcasts, accompanied by the orchestra of maestro Francesco Donadio with the singers Antonio Basurto, Gianna Redi, Enzo Poli.
Biography of John Karlen (excerpt)
John Karlen (born John Adam Karlewicz; May 28, 1933 – January 22, 2020) was an American character actor who played multiple roles on the ABC serial Dark Shadows on and off from 1967 to 1971. In 1971, Karlen starred as the male lead in Daughters of Darkness.
Biography of Serge Ravanel (excerpt)
Serge Ravanel, born Serge Asher on May 12, 1920 in Paris where he died on April 27, 2009, was a French resistance fighter. Awards Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor Companion of the Liberation, by decree of January 18, 1946 Croix de guerre 1939-1945 with palm
Biography of Hubert Germain (excerpt)
Hubert Germain, born August 6, 1920 in Paris (birth certificate n° 1312, Didier Geslain) and died October 12, 2021 in the same city, is a French resistance fighter and politician. Engaged in the Free French Forces during World War II, he then pursued a political career, during which he was mayor of Saint-Chéron in Essonne and deputy for the fourteenth district of Paris (13th arrondissement).
Biography of Antonio Basurto (excerpt)
Antonio Basurto (Lecce, August 28, 1917 - Rome, December 20, 2007) was an Italian singer.
Biography of Pauline Dubuisson (excerpt)
Pauline Dubuisson, born March 11, 1927 in Malo-les-Bains (Nord) and died September 22, 1963 in Essaouira (Morocco), is known to have been at the center of a news item from the 1950s. Tried in 1953 in Paris for the murder of her ex-boyfriend Félix Bailly, she inspired the main character of Henri-Georges Clouzot's film, La Vérité (1960).
Biography of Giorgio Bracardi (excerpt)
Giorgio Bracardi (born 3 May 1933) is an Italian actor, composer and stand-up comedian. Born in Rome, the older brother of the actor, pianist and composer Franco, for many years Bracardi worked around the world as a piano player (accompanying, among others, Maurice Chevalier and José Feliciano) and performing as an entertainer.
Biography of Galina Petrova (excerpt)
Galina Petrova (Russian: Галина Петрова; 9 September 1920 – 4 December 1943) was a medic and Chief Petty Officer in the 386th Independent Naval Infantry Battalion of the Black Sea Fleet during the Second World War. She died during a bombing attack on 4 December 1943 less than a month after she was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin on 17 November 1943 for her bravery in the Kerch-Eltigen operation.
Biography of Gilbert Bauvin (excerpt)
Gilbert Bauvin (born 4 August 1927 in Lunéville, Meurthe-et-Moselle) is a former professional French road bicycle racer. He was a professional from 1950 to 1960. The highlights of his career include winning the Paris–Camembert in 1954 and Tour de Romandie in 1958 and winning four stages in the Tour de France as well as wearing the yellow jersey for a total of four days.
Biography of Marc Dudicourt (excerpt)
Marc Dudicourt (6 March 1932 – 1 May 2021) was a French actor. Son of an industrial designer, he came to live in Paris with his family when he was eleven years old. Passionate about Walt Disney and the cartoon, he decided to become a designer and was hired by Jean Image in his drawing workshop.
Biography of Irina Sebrova (excerpt)
Irina Fyodorovna Sebrova (Russian: Ирина Фёдоровна Себрова; 25 December 1914 – 5 April 2000) was a flight commander in the all-female Night Witches during the Second World War. She was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 23 February 1945 for her first 825 bombing missions. |
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