All Entries Tagged With: "Burt Lancaster"
Raf Vallone
Date of Birth: 17 February 1916 Birth Name: Raffaele Vallone Mini Biography: Raf Vallone was an internationally acclaimed Italian movie star known for his rugged good looks. The athletic Vallone, a former soccer player who often was compared to Burt Lancaster, was born Raffaele Vallone in 1916 in Tropea in Cambria, Italy, the son of [...]
Philip Ober
Date of Birth: 23 March 1902 Birth Name: Philip Nott Ober Mini Biography: Philip Ober’s bald head, stern bearing and booming voice made him a natural for the roles of business executives, high-ranking military officers and other authority figures he played so well. A Princeton University graduate, Ober spent years as an advertising executive for [...]
Dina Merrill
Date of Birth: 29 October 1923 Birth Name: Nedenia Marjorie Hutton Nickname: Deenie Mini Biography: It would have been pretty darn difficult for actress Dina Merrill to have ever pulled off playing a commoner on stage, film or TV. She just had too much class. The epitome of poise and glamor, the New York-born socialite [...]
Joaquín Martínez
Date of Birth: 5 November 1932 Mini Biography: Joaquin Martinez considers himself the luckiest man alive. A painfully shy medical student at Mexico City’s University, he was forced by a teacher to join the school’s drama group to get rid of his “inadequacy”. There he not only discovered a new world but was rewarded with [...]
Delbert Mann
Date of Birth: 30 January 1920 Birth Name: Delbert Martin Mann Jr. Mini Biography: Delbert Mann, the Oscar-winning film director, was born Delbert Martin Mann, Jr. in Lawrence, Kansas, in 1920. His father moved the family to Nashville, Tennesse after taking a teaching position at Scarritt College. The young Mann graduated from Vanderbilt University, where [...]
Alexander Mackendrick
Date of Birth: 8 September 1912 Nickname: Sandy Mini Biography: One of the most distinguished (if frequently overlooked) directors ever to emerge from the British film industry, Alexander Mackendrick was in fact born in the US (to Scottish parents), but grew up in his native Scotland, where he studied at the Glasgow School of Art. [...]
Joan Lorring
Date of Birth: 17 April 1926 Birth Name: Mary Magdalena Ellis Nickname: Dellie Ellis Mini Biography: Joan Lorring was born Mary Magdalene Ellis in Hong Kong on April 17, 1926. She was forced to leave her native country after the outbreak of WWII and, along with her family, arrived in America as a teenager in [...]
Katy Jurado
Date of Birth: 16 January 1924 Birth Name: Maria Cristina Estella Marcella Jurado de Garcia Mini Biography: Katy Jurado was born Maria Christina Jurado Garcia into a wealthy family on January 16, 1924, in Guadalajara, Mexico. Her early years were spent amid luxury until her family’s lands were confiscated by the federal government for redistribution [...]