Carlos Thompson
Carlos Thompson. Wikipedia. Carlos Thompson was born in Buenos Aires the Argentine to Swiss-German parents in 1923. He began his career in 1954 in Hollywood films
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Jean-Paul Belmondo. TCM Overview ‘New blood, new looks, new vitality, new fluidum, new eroticism, new normality for that malady-ridden strain of to-day’s neurotic actor
Lily Damita
Lily Damita was born in 1904 in Blaye, France. She appeared in some German silent films in the 1920’s, some of them directed by her then husband Michael Curtiz.&n
Simone Silva
Simone Silva was born in Cairo, Egypt to French parents in 1928. She came to Britain in the late 1940’s and virually all of her acting career was in British films
Doris Speed
Doris Speed will forever be remebered for her role as the snobby Annie Walker the first landlady of “The Rovers Return” in “Coronation Street”.
Beryl Reid
Beryl Reid was born in 1919 in Hereford, the daughter of Scottish parents. Her first major successful was as the schoolgirl Monica in the BBC radio series “Educating A
Hildegard Knef
Hildegard Knef was born in 1925 in Ulm in Germany. She began studying actiong in 1940 and made some films before the fall of the Third Reich. Her first inte
Elke Sommer
Elke Sommer was born in 1940 in Berlin. She came to film prominence in the early 1960’s and starred opposite the leading men of the time including Paul Newman in “T
Howard Keel
“Hollywood, or at least MGM, rather underestimated Howard Keel. He was launched as a star in “Anne Get Your Gun” but then shuffled off sometimes into secon
James MacArthur
James MacArthur was born in 1937 in Los Angeles. He is the adopted son of the great stage actress Helen Hayes and her husband playwright Charles MacArthur.