All Entries Tagged With: "Otto Preminger"
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 [...]
Maggie McNamara
Date of Birth: 18 June 1929 Birth Name: Marguerite McNamara Mini Biography: Maggie McNamara — with her brown hair in a ponytail — arrives in Rome in Three Coins in the Fountain (1954) expecting great things to happen. Petite and slender, she looks almost like a schoolgirl in her prim blue suit. She is bright [...]
Darren McGavin
Date of Birth: 7 May 1922 Birth Name: William Lyle Richardson Height: 5′ 10″ (1.78 m) Mini Biography: A remarkably seasoned actor of stage, screen and television, Darren McGavin has notched in excess of 200 performances; however, he is most fondly remembered by cult TV fans as heroic newspaper reporter Carl Kolchak in the classic [...]
Johanna Matz
Date of Birth: 5 October 1932 Birth Name: Johanna Maria Emilie Dorothea Matz Nickname: Hannerl Mini Biography: Actress Johanna Matz was born in Vienna 1932. She took ballet training at the Vienna Academy. At the age of sixteen she had stage training under Helen Thimig and Alfred Neugebauer. After early success in cinema she returned [...]
Gypsy Rose Lee
Date of Birth: 9 February 1911 Birth Name: Rose Louise Hovick Height: 5′ 8″ (1.73 m) Mini Biography: Born Rose Louise Hovick in Seattle, Washington, in 1911, but called Louise from early childhood, Gypsy Rose Lee was the daughter of a mild-mannered businessman and a restless, fiery young woman named Rose, who was determined to [...]
Boris Kaufman
Date of Birth: 24 August 1897 Mini Biography: Boris Kaufman, the Oscar-winning cinematographer who shot Jean Vigo’s oeuvre and helped introduce a neo-realistic style into American films, was born on August 24, 1897 in Bialystok, Poland, then part of the Russian Empire. The youngest son of librarians, the Soviet directors Denis Kaufman (a.k.a. Dziga Vertov, [...]
David Hemmings
Date of Birth: 18 November 1941 Birth Name: David Leslie Edward Hemmings Height: 5′ 8″ (1.73 m) Mini Biography: David Hemmings, one of the great English cinema icons of the 1960s, was born in Guildford, Surrey, on November 18, 1941, to a cookie merchant and his wife. He was educated at Glyn College, Epsom, but [...]
Jill Haworth
Date of Birth: 15 August 1945 Birth Name: Valeria Jill Haworth Height: 5′ 2″ (1.57 m) Mini Biography: A slim, stunning and stylish-looking woman, British actress Jill Haworth was a free-spirited product of the 60s. Discovered and signed to a contract by the ever-formidable Otto Preminger, she made a notable impression in her very first [...]