All Entries Tagged With: "Tyrone Power"
Maureen O'Hara
Date of Birth: 17 August 1920 Birth Name: Maureen FitzSimons Height: 5′ 8″ (1.73 m) Mini Biography: In America, the early performing arts accomplishments of young Maureen FitzSimons (who we know as Maureen O’Hara) would definitely have put her in the child prodigy category. However, for a child of Irish heritage surrounded by gifted parents [...]
Una O'Connor
Date of Birth: 23 October 1880 Birth Name: Agnes Teresa McGlade Height: 5′ 2″ (1.57 m) Mini Biography: Delightful character actress who held her own against such acting heavyweights as Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff, Tyrone Power, Barbara Stanwyck, and Sydney Greenstreet. Often cast by studio heads as comic relief thanks to her thick Irish accent [...]
Marilyn Knowlden
Date of Birth: 12 May 1926 Mini Biography: In 1931, a one-day effort by Marilyn Knowlden’s attorney father led to an interview, a next-day screen test and a large part for four-year-old Marilyn in one of the early “talkies”, Women Love Once (1931). A ten-year movie career followed, where she played the daughter of such [...]
Charles Howerton
Date of Birth: 24 June 1938 Mini Biography: Charles Howerton was born in Cuero, Texas, in 1938, and was the youngest passenger, at age six weeks, to fly on American Airlines to Pensacola, Florida, where his father, a naval aviator, was stationed. In October 1941 he and his mother left Pearl Harbor for Corpus Christi [...]
Jack Hawkins
Date of Birth: 14 September 1910 Birth Name: John Edward Hawkins Height: 5′ 11″ (1.80 m) Mini Biography: In England at Christmas special plays are produced for children. Jack Hawkins made his London theatrical debut at age 12, playing the elf king in “Where The Rainbow Ends”. At 17, he got the lead role of [...]
Laurence Harvey
Date of Birth: 1 October 1928 Birth Name: Zvi Mosheh Skikne Height: 6′ 1″ (1.85 m) Mini Biography: Laurence Harvey, the British movie star who helped usher in the 1960s with his indelible portrait of a ruthless social climber and became one of the decade’s cultural icons for his appearances in socially themed motion pictures, [...]
William Goetz
Date of Birth: 24 March 1903 Mini Biography: William Goetz, a producer and studio boss who revolutionized the industry with the development of the profit participation deal, was born on March 24, 1903, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to ship’s purser Theodore Goetz and his wife Fanny. William was the youngest in a brood of eight children [...]
Laird Cregar
Date of Birth: 28 July 1916 Birth Name: Samuel Laird Cregar Height: 6′ 3″ (1.91 m) Mini Biography: Seemingly suave, cultivated actor by nature, definitely huge in both talent and girth, and capable of playing much older than he was, Hollywood tragically lost Laird Cregar of early 40s films before it could fully comprehend on [...]