Actor
by spmms | created - 18 Nov 2020 | updated - 29 Nov 2020 | Public
1. Sylvie
Actress | La vieille dame indigne
Sylvie was born on January 3, 1883 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for La vieille dame indigne (1965), The Adultress (1953) and Roger la Honte (1922). She died on January 5, 1970 in Compiègne, Oise, France.
2. Pâquerette
Actress | The Garden of Allah
Pâquerette was born on March 27, 1876 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for The Garden of Allah (1927), The Crucible (1957) and L'assommoir (1921). She died on May 6, 1965 in Paris, France.
3. Pierre Fresnay
Actor | La grande illusion
Pierre Fresnay was born on April 4, 1897 in Paris, France. He was an actor and writer, known for The Grand Illusion (1937), The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (1942) and Monsieur Vincent (1947). He was married to Berthe Bovy and Rachel Bérendt. He died on January 9, 1975 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, ...
4. Moira Shearer
Actress | The Red Shoes
Moira was born the daughter of Harold Charles King, a civil engineer, in Dunfermline, Scotland. She was educated at Dunfermline High School, Ndola in Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia) and Bearsden Academy, Scotland. She received her professional training at the Mayfair School and The Nicholas ...
5. Ludmilla Tchérina
Actress | The Red Shoes
Best remembered on film for her dance and art films, petite (5'3"), porcelain-skinned, raven-haired Ludmilla Tchérina, a grande dame of the international dance world as both dancer and choreographer, was born in Paris. The daughter of exiled Georgian Prince Avenir Tchemerzine (a general) and ...
6. Robert Helpmann
Actor | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Robert Murray Helpmann was born in Mount Gambier, Australia, as the eldest of three children born to stock and station agent James Murray Helpman and Mary Gardiner.
After the family moved to Adelaide in 1914, Helpmann was educated at Prince Alfred's College, but he soon left school at the age of 14 ...
7. Léonide Massine
Actor | The Red Shoes
Leonide Massine, dancer and choreographer was born in Moscow in 1895 the son of a soprano & a musician from the Bolshoi Theatre chorus. He studied acting & dance from the age of 8 at Moscow's Imperial Theatre School. He was 19 when he was spotted by Diaghilev and recruited as the principal dancer ...
8. Simone Simon
Actress | Cat People
Diminutive, fiery-tempered Simone Simon was born in France, but spent much of her early childhood in Madagascar, where her father managed a graphite mine. Her schooling was somewhat unsettled, her family moving from city to city (Berlin, Budapest, Turin) before finally establishing themselves in ...
9. Greta Garbo
Actress | Ninotchka
Greta Garbo was born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson on September 18, 1905, in Stockholm, Sweden, to Anna Lovisa (Johansdotter), who worked at a jam factory, and Karl Alfred Gustafsson, a laborer. She was fourteen when her father died, which left the family destitute. Greta was forced to leave school and ...
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