All Entries Tagged With: "Alfred Drake"
Howard Keel
Date of Birth: 13 April 1919 Birth Name: Harry Clifford Keel Height: 6′ 3″ (1.91 m) Mini Biography: He was the John Wayne, Errol Flynn and Clark Gable of movie musicals. With his barrel-chested swagger and cocky, confident air, not to mention his lusty handsomeness and obvious athleticism, 6’3″ brawny baritone Howard Keel had MGM’s [...]
John Craig
Date of Birth: 5 March 1928 Birth Name: Joseph Cline Jr. Height: 6′ 4″ (1.93 m) Mini Biography: A familiar face, if not a familiar name, actor John Craig worked on stage, television and occasionally on screen from the late 1940s on. A tall, handsome, robust performer, he was born Joseph Cline, Jr. in 1928. [...]
Lana Cantrell
Date of Birth: 7 August 1943 Mini Biography: Impassioned Australian singer Lana Cantrell, who found international success in the 1960s and 1970s, did not do things the easy way. A self-taught singer with no formal training, the tall, trim, shaggy-haired beauty entered the music industry and, for the duration of her career, remained true to [...]
William Eythe
Date of Birth: 7 April 1918 Birth Name: John Joseph Eythe Mini Biography: He had the requisite charm and dark, thick-browed good-looks of a Tyrone Power that often spelled “film stardom” but it was not to be in the case of actor William Eythe. Spotted for Hollywood while performing on Broadway, he made nary a [...]
Hal England
Date of Birth: 2 October 1932 Birth Name: Harold F. England Mini Biography: Leading man of the American stage who played occasional character roles in film and television. England was a native of King’s Mountain, North Carolina and a graduate of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He made his Broadway debut in 1958, [...]