All Entries Tagged With: "Burt Lancaster"
Lisa Gerritsen
Date of Birth: 21 December 1957 Birth Name: Lisa Orszag Mini Biography: Lisa Gerritsen’s acting career spanned the years of 1968 to around 1977. She was introduced to acting in a local summer parks department production when she was eight. Soon afterward, she began pursuing a professional career. Encouraged by her mother and grandfather, veteran [...]
Ken Gampu
Date of Birth: 28 August 1929 Mini Biography: Ken Gampu was one of the first black South Africans to be featured in Hollywood films, working alongside such stars as Edward G. Robinson and Burt Lancaster. A former schoolteacher, law clerk and interpreter, he spoke seven native dialects in addition to English and Afrikaans. Discovered by [...]
Nick Cravat
Date of Birth: 11 January 1912 Birth Name: Nick Cuccia Height: 5′ 4″ (1.63 m) Mini Biography: Long-time circus acrobatic partner of Burt Lancaster (performing as “Lang & Cravat”) may have been short on stature, but he was big on athletic prowess and highly enjoyable to watch on-screen. According to reports, Cravat was as strong [...]
Wendell Corey
Date of Birth: 20 March 1914 Mini Biography: Wendell Corey was a hard-working American character actor who appeared in numerous movies and television productions in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s. Born on March 20, 1914 in Dracut, Massachusetts, in the northeastern part of the Commonwealth near the New Hampshire border, Corey was the son of [...]
Jeff Corey
Date of Birth: 10 August 1914 Height: 6′ 0½” (1.84 m) Mini Biography: Jeff Corey, the film and television character actor famed for being one of the top acting teachers in America, was born on August 10, 1914, in Brooklyn, New York. He was an indifferent student, but after taking a drama class in high [...]
Yvonne De Carlo
Date of Birth: 1 September 1922 Birth Name: Margaret Yvonne Middleton Nickname: Peggy Height: 5′ 4″ (1.63 m) Mini Biography: Yvonne De Carlo was born Peggy Yvonne Middleton on September 1, 1922, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (while some sources have her first name as Margaret, most agree it is Peggy). She was three when [...]
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 [...]
Denise Darcel
Date of Birth: 8 September 1925 Birth Name: Denise Billecard Height: 5′ 4″ (1.63 m) Mini Biography: Hollywood has always welcomed with open arms exotic, sexy imports to its gallery of glamour girls and serious actresses; look at how Greta Garbo, Ingrid Bergman, Marlene Dietrich and Sophia Loren have been embraced. Buxom and alluring French [...]