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William Randolph Hearst
Date of Birth: 29 April 1863 Nickname: W.R. The Chief Height: 6′ 3″ (1.91 m) Mini Biography: William Randolph Hearst was the greatest newspaper baron in the history of the United States and is the person whom Citizen Kane (1941), widely regarded as the greatest film ever made, is primarily based on. While there are [...]
John Haase
Date of Birth: 21 August 1923 Mini Biography: German-born John Haase moved to San Francisco, with his family, in 1936 during Adolf Hitler’s rise to power. He practiced dentistry for 40 years and would often write out plot lines for his stories in between appointments. Haase wrote 11 books, the last published in 1983. “Me [...]
Hermann Göring
Date of Birth: 12 January 1893 Birth Name: Hermann Wilhelm Göring Nickname: Der Dicke (The fat one) Height: 5′ 10″ (1.78 m) Mini Biography: Hermann Göring was born on January 12, 1893, in Rosenheim, Bavaria, the son of a prominent judge. He entered the German Royal Military Academy at Gross Lichterfeide outside Berlin in his [...]
Nicolai Gedda
Date of Birth: 11 July 1925 Birth Name: Nicolai Ustinov Mini Biography: Nicolai Harry Gustav Gedda (Nikolaj Ustinov) was born on July 11, 1925, in Stockholm, Sweden. He was adopted by his Russian-Swedish aunt, named Olga Gedda, and her Russian husband, named Mikhail Ustinov; who came to Sweden after the Russian Civil War and sang [...]
Michael Constantine
Date of Birth: 22 May 1927 Birth Name: Constantine Joanides Mini Biography: Award-winning Greek-American actor Michael Constantine (born 22 May 1927) is best known for his portrayal of the Windex bottle-toting family patriarch Gus Portokalos in the sleeper hit My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002). Before his appearance in that movie and the subsequent TV [...]
Anton Diffring
Date of Birth: 20 October 1918 Birth Name: Alfred Pollack Mini Biography: Anton Diffring was a character actor who worked continuously in motion pictures due to his aristocratic, German face and cool, clipped diction, making him ideal for typecasting in British and later American motion pictures as Nazis and other vile, despicable characters. What was [...]
Sepp Dietrich
Date of Birth: 28 May 1892 Birth Name: Joseph Dietrich Mini Biography: Born in 1892 in Bavaria, Joseph “Sepp” Dietrich came of age during Imperial Germany’s height of power in the early 20th century. After leaving primary school, he became an apprentice butcher. In 1911 he joined a Bavarian artillery regiment, but left the army [...]
Jules Dassin
Date of Birth: 18 December 1911 Birth Name: Julius Dassin Mini Biography: Jules Dassin was an Academy Award-nominated director, screenwriter and actor best known for his films Du rififi chez les hommes (1955), Pote tin Kyriaki (1960), and Topkapi (1964).He was born Julius Samuel Dassin on 18 December 1911, in Middletown, Connecticut, USA. He was [...]