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American actor Lee Marvin was born Lamont Waltman Marvin Jr. in New York City. After leaving school aged 18, Marvin enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve in August 1942. He served with the 4th Marine Division in the Pacific Theater during World War II and after being wounded in action and spending a year being treated in naval hospitals, he received a medical discharge. Marvin's military decorations include the Purple Heart Medal, the Presidential Unit Citation, the American Campaign Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, the World War II Victory Medal and the Combat Action Ribbon. Returning to the United States it was while working as a plumbers apprentice, repairing a toilet at a local community theater, that he was asked to stand in for an actor who had fallen ill during rehearsals. He immediately caught the acting bug, moving to Greenwich Village to study at the American Theater Wing and began making appearances in stage productions and TV shows. His film debut came in 'You're in the Navy Now' (1951) but it was his portrayal of villains in 'The Big Heat' (1953) and 'The Wild One' (1953) that brought him to the attention of the public and critical acclaim. Now firmly established as a screen bad guy, he began shifting towards leading man roles and landed the lead role in the popular TV series 'M Squad' (1957-1960). Returning to feature films, Marvin had prominent roles in 'The Comancheros' (1961), 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' (1962), 'Donovan's Reef' (1963) and 'The Killers' (1964) but it was his dual comic role in the offbeat western 'Cat Ballou' (1965) that made him a star and won him the Academy Award for Best Actor. He was now a much sought-after actor and starred in a number of movies as a new kind of leading man including 'The Professionals' (1966), 'The Dirty Dozen' (1967), 'Point Blank' (1967), 'Hell in the Pacific' (1968), 'Monte Walsh' (1970), 'Prime Cut' (1972), 'Emperor of the North' (1973) and 'The Spikes Gang' (1974).Later film credits include 'Shout at the Devil' (1976), 'Avalanche Express' (1979), 'The Big Red One' (1980), 'Death Hunt' (1981) and 'Gorky Park' (1983). His final film role was alongside Chuck Norris in 'The Delta Force' (1986). Lee Marvin died of a heart attack in August 1987. He was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery. Marvin paved the way for leading men that didn't fit the traditional mould. An iconic American tough guy and one of the 20th Century's greatest Hollywood stars.- Actress
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Minnesota-born Noel Neill's ambition was to be a journalist like her father, the editor of a Minneapolis newspaper. However, she was hired by Bing Crosby to sing at the Turf Club at the race track in Del Mar, California (Crosby was one of the owners). Shortly thereafter, in 1941, she was signed to a contract by Paramount Pictures. She got early experience in television by hosting and performing on several experimental programs broadcast locally in Los Angeles in the late 1940s, and it was around that time that she began appearing in serials, first at Columbia and then for Republic. While she is best known for playing Lois Lane in the TV series Adventures of Superman (1952) beginning in the second season in 1953, she actually first played Lois in the 1948 serial Superman (1948). She replaced Phyllis Coates in the part when the series went on hiatus and Coates accepted a leading part in another TV series before the hiatus ended. When the series ended in 1957, Neill retired from the industry.- Actress
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A dark, exotic beauty, Katherine DeMille was a fascinating screen presence in the 1930s and 1940s. She was born in Canada to a Scottish schoolteacher, Edward Gabriel Lester, and his Italian-Swiss wife, Cecile Bianca Bertha (Colani) Lester. Her father was killed in France during World War I, and her mother, who was terminally ill, traveled to California to find Katherine's paternal grandparents and leave her with them. Mrs. Lester died before she could contact her in-laws and Katherine was placed in a Los Angeles orphanage. Constance Adams, the wife of Hollywood's top filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille, was a director of the orphanage. The DeMilles were moved by Katherine's misfortune and decided to adopt her. She became a member of a family that also included the DeMilles' only natural child, Cecilia de Mille; another adopted child, John de Mille; and Richard de Mille, who was actually DeMille's nephew.
Katherine was educated at the Hollywood School for Girls and the Santa Barbara School for Girls. She loved acting in school plays and eventually found work as a movie extra, using the stage name Kay Marsh. DeMille, aware of his daughter's dream of becoming a star, hired her as a script supervisor for his film Four Frightened People (1934) and permitted her to visit the sets of his films and watch his editing process. She secretly auditioned for the role of Pancho Villa's wife, Rosita Morales, in the MGM production Viva Villa! (1934), starring Wallace Beery in the title role. She won the role and impressed the critics with her performance and beauty. Her portrayal of a Mexican maid in The Trumpet Blows (1934) earned her a contract with Paramount Pictures, and she was cast as the villain in Mae West's Belle of the Nineties (1934). Her ability to succeed in films on her own helped her gain her father's admiration as well as a featured role in his next epic, The Crusades (1935). She played Alice, Princess of France, and competed with Loretta Young's Berengaria for the love (and title as consort) of Richard the Lionheart (Henry Wilcoxon). The critics appreciated Katherine's talent and appearance in the lavish DeMille production. Her career was ascending.
After her excellent work in the prestigious DeMille picture, Katherine was finally elevated to leading lady status. Paramount starred her in Drift Fence (1936) and Sky Parade (1936). She was also loaned out to MGM for an uncredited appearance as Romeo's first love, Rosaline, in Romeo and Juliet (1936). 20th Century-Fox cast her in a supporting role in the Barbara Stanwyck-Joel McCrea starrer Banjo on My Knee (1936) and gave her second billing in Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937). Katherine fell in love with Mexican actor Anthony Quinn and married him in 1937. She was billed third in The Californian (1937) and appeared in Love Under Fire (1937), a Spanish Civil War drama. At Columbia Pictures, she was billed second in the Jack Holt vehicle Under Suspicion (1937). This was followed by a small role in another Spanish Civil War drama, Blockade (1938), and a leading lady role in another Jack Holt vehicle, Trapped in the Sky (1939). Unfortunately, the big studios failed to showcase her talent in notable productions. Her next roles were featured in B movies: In Old Caliente (1939), Isle of Destiny (1940), Ellery Queen, Master Detective (1940), and Dark Streets of Cairo (1940). She returned to Paramount for a role in the Technicolor film Aloma of the South Seas (1941).
The Quinns had five children. She abandoned her film career after the tragic death of their firstborn, Christopher, in 1941. She made a comeback with a leading role in Black Gold (1947), co-starring her husband, and a supporting role as a Native American woman in her father's Unconquered (1947). She also starred in the film noir The Judge (1949). The Quinns divorced in 1965, and Katherine later moved to Tucson, Arizona, where she died of Alzheimer's disease in 1995.- Actor
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Carl Steven was born on 7 November 1974 in Glendale, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989), Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) and Crossings (1986). He was married to Dawn Krakoff. He died on 31 July 2011 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.- Irish McCalla was born on 25 December 1928 in Pawnee City, Nebraska, USA. She was an actress, known for She Demons (1958), Sheena: Queen of the Jungle (1955) and The Beat Generation (1959). She was married to Patrick Horgan and Patrick H. McIntyre. She died on 1 February 2002 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
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Linda McCartney was born on 24 September 1941 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress and composer, known for Live and Let Die (1973), Super 8 (2011) and Grosse Pointe Blank (1997). She was married to Paul McCartney and Joseph Melville See Jr.. She died on 17 April 1998 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.- Marla English was born Marlene Gaile English in San Diego, Califonia, on January 4, 1935. She was the daughter of Bertha Lenore and Arthur H. English, and Marla was the nickname given to her by friends of the family who took care of her when her mother fell ill in 1939. She began modeling at the age of 12, and became a member of San Diego's Globe Theatre while a sophomore in high school, and played roles in their productions of "Mad Woman of Chaillot" and "Cricket on the Hearth" while continuing her modeling career. Paramount Pictures signed her to a contract in the fall of 1952, and she had parts in five Paramount films.
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Rex Allen started out as a singer in vaudeville, and sang on numerous radio shows before hooking up with a traveling rodeo show. He signed with Republic Pictures and became a popular singing cowboy, and was often paired with sidekick Slim Pickens. He starred in his own western TV series, Frontier Doctor (1956) and in the 1960s was the narrator on many nature documentaries for Walt Disney.- Actor
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Don Pardo was born on 22 February 1918 in Westfield, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Radio Days (1987), Stay Tuned (1992) and 'Weird Al' Yankovic: The Ultimate Video Collection (2003). He was married to Catherine Anne (Kay) Lyons. He died on 18 August 2014 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.- Robert Dryer was born on 9 October 1951 in the USA. He was an actor, known for Savage Streets (1984), Cyborg 2: Glass Shadow (1993) and The Rousters (1983). He died on 27 January 2021 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
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Michael Blake was born on 5 July 1945 in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, USA. He was a writer and director, known for Dances with Wolves (1990), Winnetou and The One. He was married to Marianne Mortensen. He died on 2 May 2015 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.- Actor
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Robert Dix was born on 8 May 1935 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Forbidden Planet (1956), Five Bloody Graves (1969) and Young Jesse James (1960). He was married to Lynette Avery Allen, Jeanette P Dunn, Darlene Lucht, Anna Mae Slaughter and Janet Lake. He died on 6 August 2018 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.- Director
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Self-described schlockmeister Larry Buchanan was born Marcus Larry Seale, Jr. on January 31, 1923. Orphaned at an early age, he was sent to a Baptist orphanage. After graduating from high school in Dallas, the 18-year-old turned down a scholarship to study the ministry at Baylor University to accept an apprenticeship in the props department with 20th Century-Fox Studios. Fox eventually signed Marcus Seale to an acting contract, renaming him Larry Buchanan, the name he would keep for his entire professional life.
Buchanan studied filmmaking in the Army Signal Corps, which made him want to become a director. Back at Fox he played bit parts, most notably in the Gregory Peck western The Gunfighter (1950). However, his creative interests lay elsewhere. In the early 1950s he satisfied his desire to become a director by helming religious documentaries for evangelist Oral Roberts. He also gained experience as an assistant director on The Marrying Kind (1952), directed by the legendary George Cukor.
Buchanan left behind acting for production, taking a job as a writer on The Gabby Hayes Show (1950). In 1951 he directed his first film, )The Cowboy (1951)_, which was nominated for a Peabody Award. Buchanan would never again taste critical praise, as he segued into directing low-budget exploitation fare intended for the grindhouse circuit, the drive-in or straight-to-television. In the late 1950s and 1960s he directed movies for drive-in exploitation specialist American-International Pictures, churning out such celluloid travesties as Attack of the Eye Creatures (1967), In the Year 2889 (1969) and Creature of Destruction (1968). With some of the lowest-rated films to chart on the Internet Movie Database, Buchanan gave legendary Z-movie "shlockmeister" Edward D. Wood Jr. a run for the roses for the title of "Worst Director Ever." In her NY Times obituary of Buchanan, Margalit Fox wrote: "One quality united Mr. Buchanan's diverse output: It was not so much that his films were bad; they were deeply, dazzlingly, unrepentantly bad. His work called to mind a famous line from H.L. Mencken who, describing President Warren G. Harding's prose, said, 'It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it'."
Buchanan directed a series of low-budget films in the early 1960s addressing such topical and taboo issues as sex (Under Age (1964)) and racial relations/miscegenation (Free, White and 21 (1963), High Yellow (1965)), themes that were perennial grindhouse circuit favorites. He also solidified his reputation as a hack with a spate of ultra-low-budgeted remakes of AIP science-fiction potboilers, including Zontar: The Thing from Venus (1967) and Mars Needs Women (1968), a film whose succinct title, at least, is a classic of sorts.
The year after president John F. Kennedy was cut down by sniper bullets in his hometown of Dallas, Buchanan exploited the event by writing and directing a fictionalized account of the "judicial reckoning" of J.F.K.'s alleged assassin, The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1964). He had been in Dallas to shoot a striptease-film at The Carousel, Oswald-killer 'Jack Ruby''s Dallas strip joint, which was eventually released as Naughty Dallas (1964). The Oswald picture was the first of what would become a lucrative vein for Buchanan: biopics and docudramas that limned the lives of everyone from Janis Joplin to Jesus, with Pretty Boy Floyd, Jean Harlow, 'Jimi Hendrix', Howard Hughes and Jim Morrison thrown in for good measure.
In the late 1960s Buchanan relocated to Texas to continue his film career, helping to boost the Lone Star State's film industry. His movies were made with budgets under $100,000 (a figure that approximates about 1/30th of Marlon Brando's daily wage on Superman (1978) and 1/20th of Robert Redford's daily haul on A Bridge Too Far (1977), to provide contrast with contemporaneous Hollywood budgets). Due to their low costs and the well-developed drive-in and grind-house circuits of the 1950s through the 1970s, almost all of Buchanan's movies finished financially in the black. His production overhead was minimal, as he typically was a picture's director, producer, screenwriter and editor.
In 1996 he published his memoirs, "It Came from Hunger: Tales of a Cinema Schlockmeister." In his memoir, Buchanan called his style of independent cinema "guerilla filmmaking." Classifying Buchanan as a genius of his genre, Rob Craig said on Horror-Wood.com: "Buchanan wrote or adapted prime pieces of pulp genre fiction on assignment, filmed them as best he could given his resources, and offered the results to the world with no apologies, nor any revisionist strings attached."
Buchanan was completing the editing of his last movie at his home in Phoenix, Arizona when he died on December 2, 2004, two months shy of his 82nd birthday. He considered "The Copper Scroll of Mary Magdalene," a story based on a Gnostic interpretation of Christ, to be his finest film. The man who had turned down the chance to become a minister had been working on the film since 1972. Returning to his roots, the film had became the goal of his career, and was an expression of his artistic as well as religious passion.
Buchanan was survived by wife of 52 years, Jane, by his sons Randy, Barry, and Jeff, and by his daughter Dee.- Music Artist
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Lil Peep was born on 1 November 1996 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a music artist and actor, known for The F**k-It List (2020), Lil Peep Feat. Clams Casino: 4 Gold Chains (2018) and Lil Peep: Drugz (2020). He died on 15 November 2017 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.- Don Starr was born on 20 September 1917 in Riverside, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Bird (1988), V: The Final Battle (1984) and Dallas (1978). He was married to Beverly Allen Kunst and Mary Alyce Harnish. He died on 11 July 1995 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
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Louis Eppolito was born on 22 July 1948 in Brooklyn, New York, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Lost Highway (1997), Goodfellas (1990) and Predator 2 (1990). He was married to Frances Ann . He died on 3 November 2019 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.- Actress
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Mitzi Mayfair was during the 30s and 40s a tap-dancer on Broadway. Her shows included "The Show Is On", and "Take a Chance". After Eleanor Powell's breakdown in January 1936, she replaced Miss Powell in "At Home Abroad". Mitzi Mayfair's film work was small, only co-starring in Four Jills in a Jeep (1944) and a few Vitaphone Shorts.- Eunice Murray was born on 3 March 1902 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was married to John Murray and Franklin Blackmer. She died on 5 March 1994 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
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Michael Bennett was born on 8 April 1943 in Buffalo, New York, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for A Chorus Line (1985), A Chorus Line and A Chorus Line (2016). He was married to Donna McKechnie. He died on 2 July 1987 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.- Cinematographer
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Donald E. Thorin was born on 12 October 1934 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. He was a cinematographer and assistant director, known for Thief (1981), Tango & Cash (1989) and Lock Up (1989). He died on 9 February 2016 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.- Attended University of Cincinnati, Hanover College, Indiana, but didn't obtain a degree. Worked in an office 1924-36, when he left to become writer, proofreader for the "Milwaukee Journal". Also started writing at this time, selling the first of over 300 short stories. Active in both science-fiction and mystery fields, his first SF short appeared in 1941. Won the "Edgar" award for Best First Mystery for "The Fabulous Clipjoint" (1947) from the Mystery Writers Of America. His SF was noted for its humor and wit, and a slickness not common in the '40s & '50s. A chronic respiratory condition forced him from the Midwest to Taos, New Mexico, and then to Tucson, Arizona. Also lived in Los Angeles, submitting scripts to Alfred Hitchcock's television shows.
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Born Fincastle, Virginia, USA Birth Name Jack Norwood Young Gender Male Biography:
Jack N. Young was born September 25, 1926 in Fincastle, VA. He ran away from home when he was 14 and eventually ended up in the US Navy during WW11.
After the war he decided he wanted to work in movies so he moved to Los Angeles, CA. He became a stuntman and his career lasted 15 years. However, after bring hurt badly on THE ALAMO, he was searching for a way to get out of the stunt business.
In 1962-3 he landed at Old Tucson Studio's in Tucson, AZ. After a 3 year stint on the street running the street shows he started up the ladder performing Public Relations, Marketing, etc. After 12 years he decided to venture out on his own and this time work behind the camera in many capacities such as, Extra Handling, Location Management, Production Management, Assistant Director, etc.
At the age of 79, prostate cancer retired him and he presently still lives in Tucson.- William Meigs was born on 13 September 1918 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Rifleman (1958), The Navy vs. the Night Monsters (1966) and The Glory Guys (1965). He died on 14 April 2004 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
- Nick and his twin brother Paul were born and raised in Cleveland, the sons of Italian immigrants. Both served in the Marines. Nick became a firearms expert and instructor and after the Marines, Nick dabbled in several things, like uranium mining, Golden Glove boxing, hairdressing, drafting and aerospace engineering. Both brothers had brief acting careers as well. After this, Nick joined Rocketdyne Corporation as a draftsman, where he worked on components of the Apollo missions, and was soon promoted to engineer. He then joined Hughes Aircraft, where he worked on several ballistics projects, including the AIM-54 Phoenix and the AIM-120 AMRAAM missiles. An avid golfer and longtime dog lover, he retired from Hughes, spending most of his time with his many children and grandchildren. He died from leukemia in 2018, age 88.
- Tiny Wells was born on 11 October 1944 in the USA. He was an actor, known for Otherworld (1985), White Line Fever (1975) and Used Cars (1980). He was married to Mary Lou Wells. He died on 4 December 1990 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
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Holly Hire was born on 9 August 1943 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was a casting director, known for Tombstone (1993), Legend (1995) and TV Operas (1993). She was married to Don Collier and David Robert Whittlesey. She died on 4 March 2012 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.- Art Department
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Philip J. Felix was born on 2 June 1962 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. He was an art director, known for The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), Spiral Zone (1987) and Tiny Toon Adventures (1990). He died on 23 December 2023 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.- Jay Watson was born on 12 June 1925 in Texas, USA. He died on 19 April 2001 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
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Fred Kelly was born on 29 June 1916 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a director and actor, known for The Steve Allen Show (1950), The Steve Allen Show (1952) and The Swift Show (1948). He was married to Dorothy "Dottie" Greenwalt. He died on 15 March 2000 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.- Paul Van Houten was born on 11 October 1918 in Dumont, iowa, USA. He was married to Kay Joann Schindewolf and Jane Louise Edwards. He died on 27 April 2012 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
- Jim Ameche was born on 6 August 1915 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor, known for The Story of Mankind (1957), Screen Snapshots Series 26, No. 6: Behind the Mike (1947) and The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers (1962). He died on 4 February 1983 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
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Wendelle Stevens was born on 18 January 1923 in Minnesota, USA. He was a writer, known for Where Are All the UFO's? (1996), Contact (1987) and UFO's Are Real (1979). He died on 7 September 2010 in Tucson, Arizona, USA(undisclosed).- Born to an English mother and Greek father, he grew up with his mother, grandmother and great-grandmother on Chicago's south side. In 1968 he married and began his acting career in Chicago. He relocated his wife and three children to Los Angeles and found work primarily as a day player, stuntman and under five (meaning a part with under five lines to speak). His most prominent role was as a drill instructor in the Clint Eastwood star vehicle "The Enforcer". With some work under his belt, he took his career ambitions overseas. Using a letter of introduction from a prominent actor he flew to Italy where he performed as both actor and stuntman in a number of television productions. After voice over work in Europe, he flew back to the US to live with his two children in Los Angeles and continue to pursue his career stateside. He was diagnosed with cancer in the early 1990's. He successfully won his first onslaught with the disease, but the cancer returned in the late 90's. He informed his family that he was going to refuse chemotherapy the second time around. He was found dead in his Tuscon, Arizona apartment April 24th. Upon his death, his remains were sent back to his home town of Chicago where he is interred at St. Michael the Archangel cemetery. Mr. Marshall's stage name is based upon the initials of his three daughters, Gina, Linda, and Marie.
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Pamela Drake was born on 21 August 1923 in California, USA. She was an actress. She died on 5 January 1985 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.- Anthony Casso was born on 21 May 1942 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was married to Lillian Delduca. He died on 15 May 2020 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
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Marion Townsend married Harold Clinton Marlowe of Draper, Rockingham Co, NC in 1949, 3 years after he got a bag of popcorn released from a vending machine for her. He was a deputy sheriff in Los Angeles, where they lived as she tried to establish a movie career, prior to being 'discovered' by Arthur Godfrey. They remained married at least through Mother's Day, 1951, when they visited his parents for that occasion. Their picture appeared in the newspaper of the local mill (The Mill Whistle).- Additional Crew
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Cookie Knapp was born on 1 May 1943 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for Can't Buy Me Love (1987), Tombstone (1993) and World Gone Wild (1987). She was married to Douglas Knapp and Chris Joehnk. She died on 2 March 2013 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.- Gloria Marlen was a film actress back in the "Golden Days of Hollywood" (1944-49). Born in 1925, she and her brother were raised through the Great Depression in Miami, FL by their single mother. Gloria's career started early when she sang on the radio and danced and sang on the stage as a child, and she was a drum majorette in high school and in the Orange Bowl Parade. Her favorite memory from her Miami years was dancing three dances with Clark Gable (a member of the USAAF OCS Class 42-E in addition to being an actor) at a dinner dance honoring the military graduates that was hosted at her high school, Miami Edison.
After high school, Gloria and her mother moved to Pasadena, CA to be near relatives, and she attended classes at the Pasadena Playhouse. This led to performing in USO shows, which then led to her signing a contract with a movie agent and moving to Hollywood with her mother. She performed in 32 films with the big stars of the day. Most notably, she was one of famous Western star Lash LaRue's last leading ladies in Border Feud, and she starred in the title role of the exploitation film The Story of Bob and Sally with Ralph Hodges. Gloria met her husband, Army Air Corps pilot Lt. Malcolm White, at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills in 1945 when she was accepting the award for the favorite USO entertainer of the Officer's Club. Within three weeks of meeting, they eloped to Yuma, AZ, where Malcolm was being discharged from the service, and the couple moved to Hollywood, where they started their family in 1950. They moved to Northridge in 1952, and in '55 Malcolm's work transferred him to Louisiana.
Upon moving to Louisiana, Gloria retired permanently from her film acting career and used her many skills and talents to raise her family and support her community. After her husband's retirement, the two of them traveled extensively around the world-six continents and over two dozen countries. Soon after Malcolm passed away in 2004, Gloria moved to an independent living village and it was there she met her 2nd husband, Walter Pilcher, who was her dear companion until his death in 2012. Gloria passed away from a long illness at age 92 in Tucson, AZ, where she and Walter had moved in 2010 to be near her eldest daughter.
Gloria was loved by everyone who met her, and she maintained her beautiful smile and charming, dazzling "star quality" to the end of her life. - Edward Abbey was born on 29 January 1927 in Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a writer, known for The Monkey Wrench Gang, Lonely Are the Brave (1962) and Fire on the Mountain (1981). He died on 14 March 1989 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
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Richard Hoyt was born on 15 November 1929 in Corona, Queens, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Pushing Up Daisies (1973) and Burke's Law (1963). He died on 17 March 2005 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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Thomas J. Mack was an assistant director and producer, known for Deep Blue Sea (1999), Mercury Rising (1998) and The Fugitive (1993). He died on 18 March 2021 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.- Mercedes Delpino was born on 19 February 1898 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She was married to Bert Lahr. She died on 12 May 1965 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
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In 1993, Bill Bonanno joined Tucson-based Arneda Ltd. as vice president of creative affairs, procuring and developing literary and dramatic properties for television and theatrical movies. His first producing credit was as executive producer on the Showtime television miniseries Bonanno: A Godfather's Story (1999). He is the author of a personal memoir "Bound By Honor", and on January 6, 2005, his first attempt at a novel written with Joe Pistone, will be released by Warner Books.
Born in New York and raised in Tucson, Arizona, Bonanno now resides in Tucson with his wife Rosalie Bonanno.- Born in the film capital of the world near the end of World War I, he made his film debut under the name John Henry Jr. in a Valentine's Day film short. During the 1920s he was considered to be one of the most popular film stars of the decade, alongside Mickey Rooney, Peggy Montgomery, and the many "Our Gang" cast members. When the Depression came, however, Marion found himself getting fewer parts, and when he resumed his film career at the start of his adulthood he was often subjected to less-than-desirable roles, in some of which he would only have one sentence to speak. Despite his film setbacks in adulthood, he made a name for himself by performing in a handful of radio shows, even though he was almost always uncredited. He left acting in 1953 to focus on family and his church.
- Joseph Bonanno was born on 18 January 1905 in Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, Italy. He was a writer, known for Bonanno: A Godfather's Story (1999). He was married to Fay Labruzzo. He died on 11 May 2002 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
- Paul C. Thomas was born on 20 October 1930 in Wadsworth, Ohio. He was an actor, known for Petrocelli (1974) and Gunsmoke (1955). He died on 23 August 1994 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
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Composer, singer and actor. He came to the USA in 1933 and became a US citizen in 1939. Educated at the Vienna Conservatory (on scholarship) with Victor Fuchs, he debuted as a singer with the Czech State Opera. His American debut came in 1939 at the Hollywood Bowl, and he also sang on films and radio. Joining ASCAP in 1941, his popular-song compositions include "Lament", "Caucasian Song", "Safe by de Lawd", "Lullaby", and "Within My Dreams".- Graduated Arizona State College, 1940. Became an elementary school teacher, teaching in America, France, and perhaps most significantly, in internment camps for Japanse-Americans in WWII. Frequently used her teaching experience as a base for her fiction. First published story was "Come On, Wagon" in "The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction" in 1951. With "Ararat" (1951) she began her sequence of stories about "The People", her main achievement. The stories are about a the experiences of a group of aliens with advanced mental powers stranded on Earth. Outwardly human, they are morally superior, but must somehow come to terms with their identity, while fitting in to our society as painlessly (for us as well as for them) as possible. The parallels with her WWII experiences are unmistakable. Throughout her stories, (both "The People" sequence and others) is a warmth, gentleness and sense of the worth of human beings.
- Mildred Gordon was born on 24 July 1905 in Eureka, Kansas, USA. She was a writer, known for That Darn Cat! (1965), Men of Annapolis (1957) and Experiment in Terror (1962). She was married to Gordon Gordon. She died on 3 February 1979 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
- Jim McDivitt was born on 10 June 1929 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Brady Bunch (1969), Beyond Belief (1976) and Mysteries from Beyond Earth (1975). He was married to Judith Ann Odell and Patricia Ann Haas. He died on 13 October 2022 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.