Sierra 1950 premiere
by nightopeningfan | created - 28 Jan 2020 | updated - 28 Jan 2020 | PublicFriday May 12th, Orpheum Theatre 1192 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94102
1. Audie Murphy
Actor | To Hell and Back
Audie Murphy became a national hero during World War II as the most decorated combat soldier of the war. Among his 33 awards was the Medal of Honor, the highest award for bravery that a soldier can receive. In addition, he was also decorated for bravery by the governments of France and Belgium, and...
2. Scott Brady
Actor | Gremlins
He had the manly good looks and rugged appeal to make it to top stardom in Hollywood and succeeded quite well as a sturdy leading man of standard action on film and TV. Born in Brooklyn on September 13, 1924, Irish-American Scott Brady was christened Gerard Kenneth Tierney (called Jerry) by parents...
3. Lois Andrews
Actress | Dixie Dugan
Lois Andrews was born on March 24, 1924 in Huntington Park, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Dixie Dugan (1943), The Desert Hawk (1950) and Meet Me After the Show (1951). She was married to Leonard Klecker, Steve Brodie, David Street and George Jessel. She died on April 5, 1968 in ...
4. Tony Curtis
Actor | Some Like It Hot
Tony Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz, the eldest of three children of Helen (Klein) and Emanuel Schwartz, Jewish immigrants from Hungary. Curtis himself admits that while he had almost no formal education, he was a student of the "school of hard knocks" and learned from a young age that the only ...
5. Peggie Castle
Actress | I, the Jury
Tall, sultry, green-eyed blonde Peggie Castle was actually spotted by a talent scout while she was lunching in a Beverly Hills restaurant. In her films she was usually somebody's "woman" rather than a girlfriend, and her career was confined to mostly "B"-grade action pictures, dramas or westerns: ...
6. Tom Spinoza
Actor | Lung joi tin aai
Tom Spinoza is known for Dragon Fight (1989) and Raul Zaragosa (1981).
7. Wanda Hendrix
Actress | Song of Surrender
Born Dixie Wanda Hendrix in Jacksonville, Florida to a logging camp boss (Max Sylvester Hendrix) and his wife (Mary Bailley), wholesome, green-eyed, dark-haired Wanda Hendrix was involved in her hometown's little theater group when she was "discovered" by a passing talent agent and signed up by ...
8. Burl Ives
Actor | The Big Country
Burl Ives was one of six children born to a farming family in Hunt City, Jasper, Illinois, the son of Cordellia "Dellie" (White) and Levi Franklin Ives. He first sang in public for a soldiers' reunion when he was age 4. In high school, he learned the banjo and played fullback, intending to become a...
9. Dean Jagger
Actor | White Christmas
Dean Jagger was born in Lima, Ohio, on November 7, 1903. He dropped out of high school twice before finally graduating from Wabash College. Working first as a school teacher, he soon became interested in acting and enrolled at Chicago's "Lyceum Art Conservatory". Mr. Jagger made his first movie and...
10. Richard Rober
Actor | The File on Thelma Jordon
Richard Rober was born on May 14, 1910 in Rochester, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The File on Thelma Jordon (1949), Kid Monk Baroni (1952) and Port of New York (1949). He was married to Mary Hay Barthelmess. He died on May 26, 1952 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
11. Houseley Stevenson
Actor | Dark Passage
British-born American character actor. He labored in a San Francisco glass factory until his thirties, then embarked on an acting career. He became a respected teacher, director, and performer at famed Pasadena Community Playhouse in California. He appeared in numerous films in the Thirties and ...
12. Elliott Reid
Actor | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Elliott Reid was born on January 16, 1920 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), Inherit the Wind (1960) and Vicki (1953). He died on June 21, 2013 in Studio City, Los Angeles, California, USA.
13. Griff Barnett
Actor | Pinky
Griff Barnett was born on November 12, 1884 in Blue Ridge, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Pinky (1949), For the Love of Mary (1948) and Apartment for Peggy (1948). He died on January 12, 1958 in El Monte, California, USA.
14. Elisabeth Risdon
Actress | Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Elisabeth Risdon was born on April 26, 1888 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940), High Sierra (1940) and Mexican Spitfire (1939). She was married to Brandon Evans and George Loane Tucker. She died on December 20, 1958 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
15. Roy Roberts
Actor | Chinatown
Veteran character player Roy Roberts proudly claimed over 900 performances in a 40-year career. He might not have been known necessarily by name, but the face was distinct and obviously familiar. The prototype of the steely executive, the no-nonsense mayor, the assured banker, the stentorian leader...
16. Gregg Martell
Actor | The Three Stooges Meet Hercules
Gregg Martell was a veteran from World War II. After a long career as a character actor in films and television, he later became a health food wholesaler and real estate broker. He was preceded in death by his wife and business partner - Vivian. He was admired for his bravely fought fight against "...
17. Sara Allgood
Actress | How Green Was My Valley
Dublin-born Sara Allgood started her acting career in her native country with the famed Abbey Theatre. From there she traveled to the English stage, where she played for many years before making her film debut in 1918. Her warm, open Irish face meant that she spent a lot of time playing Irish ...
18. Erskine Sanford
Actor | Citizen Kane
Erskine Sanford was born on November 19, 1885 in Trinidad, Colorado, USA. He was an actor, known for Citizen Kane (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) and The Lady from Shanghai (1947). He died on July 7, 1969 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
19. John Doucette
Actor | True Grit
Stocky, balding American character actor with a rich, deep voice, equally adept at Western bad guys and Shakespeare. He began his career in films in minor roles, primarily as gangland henchmen, and progressed to become widely familiar as a figure in a variety of dramas and occasional comedies. ...
20. James Arness
Actor | Gunsmoke
American leading man famed as the star of one of the longest-running shows in U.S. television history, Gunsmoke (1955). Born of Norwegian heritage (the family name, Aurness, had formerly been Aursness) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Rolf and Ruth Duesler Aurness. His father was a traveling salesman ...
21. Ted Jordan
Actor | Walking Tall
Ted Jordan was born on May 23, 1924 in Circleville, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Walking Tall (1973), The Magical World of Disney (1954) and The High Chaparral (1967). He was married to Lili St. Cyr and Lynette Bernay. He died on March 30, 2005 in Palm Desert, California, USA.
22. I. Stanford Jolley
Actor | The Crimson Ghost
Perennial film western heavy I. Stanford Jolley could be spotted anywhere and everywhere in dusty "B" fare from 1935 on. Often mustachioed, this freelancing, wideset-eyed, black-hatted villain, who showed up in Hollywood following vaudeville and Broadway experience, could be counted on to give the ...
23. Jack Ingram
Actor | Who's Guilty?
Jack Ingram was born on November 15, 1902 in Frankfort, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Who's Guilty? (1945), Federal Operator 99 (1945) and Superman (1948). He was married to Eloise Fullerton. He died on February 20, 1969 in Canoga Park, California, USA.
24. Alfred E. Green
Director | The Jolson Story
One of the more prolific American directors, Alfred E. Green entered films in 1912 as an actor for the Selig Polyscope Co. He became an assistant to director Colin Campbell and started directing two-reelers, turning to features in 1917. His career lasted into the mid-1950s but his output was mostly...
25. Michael Kraike
Producer | The Deputy
Michael Kraike was born on April 23, 1908 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for The Deputy (1959), The Ford Television Theatre (1952) and The Fighting Guardsman (1945). He was married to Jane Goldstein. He died on September 19, 2006 in Santa Rosa, California, USA.
26. Milton Gunzburg
Writer | The Devil Commands
Milton Gunzburg was born on February 8, 1910 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was a writer and director, known for The Devil Commands (1941), Natural Vision 3-Dimension (1952) and Tennessee Johnson (1942). He died on April 6, 1991 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
27. Edna Anhalt
Writer | Panic in the Streets
Edna Anhalt was an American screenwriter, often working as part of a writing team with her husband Edward Anhalt (1914-2000). Her writing credits span the years 1947 to 1957.
Anhalt's claim to fame is winning the Academy Award for Best Story for the film "Panic in the Streets" (1950) concerning an ...
28. Walter Scharf
Music_department | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Emmy- and Golden Globe-winner and ten-time Oscar-nominee Walter Scharf was born and raised in New York City, the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants. He started playing music at an early age, helping his uncle play the piano in theaters for silent films. His mother Bessie Zwerling was a well-known ...
29. Russell Metty
Cinematographer | Spartacus
Cinematographer Russell Metty, a superb craftsman who worked with such top directors as John Huston, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg and Orson Welles, was born in Los Angeles on September 20, 1906. Entering the movie industry as a lab assistant, he apprenticed as an assistant cameraman and ...
30. Ted J. Kent
Editor | My Man Godfrey
Ted J. Kent was born on October 6, 1901 in Illinois, USA. He was an editor, known for My Man Godfrey (1936), Bride of Frankenstein (1935) and Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954). He died on June 17, 1986 in Orange County, California, USA.
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