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- Therese de Lisieux is one of the most beloved saints of all time. Born Therese Martin in Alencon, France, she expressed a desire very early in her life to become a nun of the Carmelite order. She sought permis- sion from the pope to enter the local monastery at an earlier age than usual. Eventually, she entered the Carmelite monastery in Lisieux, France at the age of fifteen, one year earlier than normal. Once there, she realized that she had found her perfect vocation. She never re- gretted it. As a nun, Therese articulated what she called "the little way." The little way was characterized by simple devotion and reliance upon Jesus Christ to resolve the daily crises and sorrows of life. Her little way generated intense and sublime joy for Therese. There were no fireworks in her spiritual life. She had no visions, no miraculous healings, no stigmata, nothing that is commonly associated with sainthood. She is admired for the consistency of her devotion and her extraordinary holiness. When she became ill with tuberculosis and died at the very young age of twenty-four, it didn't take long for her to become a saint. She had already written an autobiography which was published the year after her death. She was so beloved in her native France and throughout Europe that both sides in the first world war claimed her as their patron saint. This was even before she had officially become a saint. In 1925, just twenty-eight years after her death, she was canonized a saint. Her letters, which fill two huge volumes, are still in print. In 1997, she was declared "Doctor of the Church" by Pope John Paul II, only the third woman to be so honored. In 1999-2000, the reliquary containing her bones made a world tour and drew record crowds. She is renowned and loved the world over.
- Mili Balakirew was born on 2 January 1837 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He died on 29 May 1910 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia].
- Josef Kainz was born on 2 January 1858 in Wieselburg, Austria-Hungary [now Mosonmagyaróvár, Hungary]. He was married to Margarete Nansen and Sarah Hutzler. He died on 20 September 1910 in Vienna, Austria.
- Joseph Allen was born on 2 January 1840 in Bristol, England, UK. He died on 12 January 1917 in Newton, Massachusetts, USA.
- Mendele Mocher Sforim was born on 2 January 1839 in Kopyl, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kapyl, Minsk Voblast, Belarus]. He was a writer, known for The Light Ahead (1939) and King of Beggars (2007). He died on 8 December 1917 in Odessa, Ukraine.
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Tex Rickard was born on 2 January 1870 in Sherman, Texas, USA. He was a producer, known for The Joe Gans-Battling Nelson Fight (1906), The Official Motion Pictures of the Heavyweight Boxing Contest Between Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey (1927) and The Great White Way (1924). He was married to Maxine Hodges. He died on 6 July 1929 in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.- Karel Driml was born on 2 January 1891 in Chocen, Cechy, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was a writer, known for Pramen lásky (1929), Stín ve svetle (1929) and V blouznení (1928). He died on 20 October 1929 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Nikolai Aleksandrov was born on 2 January 1871 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for Pobeda zhenshchiny (1927), Khromoy barin (1929) and Ne nado krovi (1917). He died on 3 November 1930 in Moscow, Russia, USSR [now Russia].
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Lillian Leitzel was born on 2 January 1891 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany. She is known for Trapeze Work with Miss Leitzel (1916). She was married to Alfredo Codona and Clyde Ingalls. She died on 15 February 1931 in Copenhagen, Denmark.- Actor
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Lupu Pick was born on 2 January 1886 in Iasi, Iasi, Romania. He was an actor and director, known for The Armored Vault (1926), Die tolle Heirat von Laló (1918) and Die Liebe des Van Royk (1918). He was married to Edith Posca. He died on 7 March 1931 in Berlin, Germany.- Jane Blyler was born on 2 January 1897 in Kentucky, USA. She was an actress, known for Pipe the Whiskers (1918), Hit Him Again (1918) and Follow the Crowd (1918). She was married to James Blyler. She died on 28 August 1931 in Berkeley, California, USA.
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O.A. Patterson was born on 2 January 1865. O.A. died on 12 November 1933.- George Tawde was born on 2 January 1883 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for Fancy Dress (1919) and The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol (1920). He died on 3 July 1934 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
- John Cossar was born on 2 January 1858 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for My Lady of Whims (1925), Fools for Luck (1917) and Two-Bit Seats (1917). He was married to Fanny Cossar. He died on 28 April 1935 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Frederick Opper was born on 2 January 1857 in Madison, Ohio, USA. He was a writer, known for Happy Hooligan April-Fooled (1901), Happy Hooligan Surprised (1901) and Happy Hooligan Has Troubles with the Cook (1901). He died on 28 August 1937 in New Rochelle, New York, USA.
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Sydney Baynes was born on 2 January 1879 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England, UK. He was a composer, known for Elstree Calling (1930), I Spy (1934) and The Outcast (1934). He died on 9 March 1938 in England, UK.- Ernst Barlach was born on 2 January 1870 in Wedel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He was a writer, known for Barlach-Kantate - Es geht ein kräftiges Atmen (1995), Die echten Sedemunds (1965) and Der blaue boll (1988). He died on 24 October 1938 in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
- Florence Lawrence was the first film player whose name was used to promote her films and the studio (Independent Moving Pictures Company [IMP]) for which she worked. Before her, actors and actresses worked anonymously, partly out of fear that stage managers would refuse to hire them if they were found to be working in films and partly because movie executives didn't want to put much money into the production of these short, practically disposable films, and didn't want their players to become well known and start demanding higher salaries. Lawrence was on the stage from age three, appearing in musicals and plays, whistling and playing the violin. At 20 she was cast in the Edison production of Daniel Boone (1907), and that led to work at Vitagraph Studios. From there she was hired by Biograph, where she refined and perfected her craft under the direction of D.W. Griffith. In 1909 she left Biograph to seek more recognizable employment at another film company. As a result she was blacklisted by the Motion Picture Trust, headed by Thomas A. Edison, to which most motion-picture producers belonged and which held the patents on most film production equipment and would not allow any companies that did not belong to the Trust to use them. Carl Laemmle started IMP in late 1909, and refused to join the Motion Picture Trust. The Trust took action--both legal and otherwise--to discourage Laemmle from producing films on his own. Lawrence and her husband, director Harry Solter, signed on as IMP's first featured players. In 1910 Laemmle, partly out of anger over the Trust's actions--such as hiring thugs to attack his film crews and wreck his equipment--decided to advertise the fact that he had Miss Lawrence. She made the first personal appearance of a film star in St. Louis, MO, that March, and the resulting publicity made her famous (and also increased the grosses on her--and Laemmle's--films). Other film companies soon followed suit, and the names of film actors and actresses began to appear in all segments of the media. Lawrence worked for IMP for a year, then spent another year at Lubin before she began her own production company, Victor, where she worked on and off until 1914. After a stage accident in which she injured her back, she retired from films, only to be lured back in 1916 for her first feature, Elusive Isabel (1916). It was unsuccessful. She tried a comeback again in 1921; that, too, was unsuccessful. She settled into bit parts and character roles through the 1920s and 1930s. She committed suicide in 1938 after years of unhappiness and illness. She was found in her apartment on Dec. 27, 1938 and died soon afterward in hospital.
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Paulette Darty was born on 2 January 1871 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for A Very Long Engagement (2004), Je te confie ma femme (1933) and American Love (1931). She died on 9 December 1939 in Paris, France.- Actor
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William Humphrey was born William Jonathan Humphrey on January 2nd, 1875 in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, USA. He entered films in 1909 as an actor, in 1910 as a director, and in 1917 as a screenwriter. He directed films and wrote screenplays until 1922. As an actor, he appeared in 124 films from 1909 until 1937. He died of coronary thrombosis on October 4th, 1942.- Writer
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Bayard Veiller was born on 2 January 1869 in Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Sherlock Brown (1922), The Trial of Mary Dugan (1929) and There Are No Villains (1921). He was married to Margaret Wycherly. He died on 16 January 1943 in New York City, New York, USA.- Charles Vane was born on 2 January 1860 in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Comin' Thro' the Rye (1916), Whosoever Shall Offend (1919) and The Secret Seven (1914). He died on 14 April 1943 in Polzeath, Cornwall, England, UK.
- Mark Arnshtein was born on 2 January 1878 in Warsaw, Poland. He was a writer, known for Overture to Glory (1940). He died on 4 May 1943 in Warsaw Ghetto, Treblinka, Poland.
- Mr. James P. Spencer (Kimo or Jimmy) was a very vigorous contributor in the "Golden Age" of Hollywood. He was active in film production and in acting at MGM and other major studios. He had a wonderful film legacy. Mr. Spencer was a native Hawaiian, born 1893 in Honolulu. His English & Scot's father was credited with bringing in the first sewing machines by clipper ships. A young Jimmy Spencer grew up and knew well the Hawaiian Republic with it's Honolulu royal family. His childhood was a happy one. When Mr. Spencer reached early adulthood, he migrated to Los Angeles. There he joined the US Army to fight in WW1.His army unit was the field artillery of the 13th Division. His unit was constituted into the National Army as 39th Field Artillery. The battalion was organized at Camp Lewis, WA. His Army service was exemplary and he rose to the rank of corporal. He was given an honorable discharge. Upon returning home, he became even more active in the local Southern Californian Polynesian community and it's many cultural events. Southern California had become an important focal point for Polynesian peoples. Kimo Spencer was a native Polynesian singer, musician, and dancer. He spoke Hawaiian and several other Pacific island languages. He was very proud of his island native culture. By now after the first world war, many of his old Honolulu friends had also migrated to "The Mainland". Jimmy Spencer had many childhood friends now in the ranks of that day's popular Polynesian performers and athletes. One of his most famous pals was Duke Kahanamoku. 'The Duke", Hawaiian Olympic Gold Medal swimmer and famous surfer. One of their favorite past times was abalone diving off Palos Verde and off Catalina Island's reefs. Large groups of Polynesian friends would gather for beach parties consisting of entertaining each other with their songs and dances from their home island cultures. Around this time, Mr. Spencer started a family by marrying and had two wonderful daughters. In the late 1920's and the early 1930's, Hollywood began to produce a great many "South Sea Island" films. This genre of film was very popular with the Depression Age film-going public. Many great many new up-coming actors got their starts in these island films. Some of those actors were Clark Gable, Jon Hall, Mamo Clark, Ray Mala, Joan Crawford and Loretta Young. Mr. Spencer became a useful contributor due to his personal Polynesian knowledge and artistic contacts. Mr. Spencer worked initially in casting and set direction with these "South Seas" Polynesian films. His duties were casting Polynesian islanders for daily "bit" parts and to cast large amounts of background performers [extras]. Most of his early work was for the studio giant, Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Some of his more legendary MGM films were: "Rain"('31)- Walter Huston and a new Joan Crawford. "Bird of Paradise"('32)- Joel McCrea and a new Delores Del Rio. "The Hurricane"('37)- a new Dorothy Lamour. "Mutiny on the Bounty"('35)- Charles Laughton and a new Clark Gable. "Call of the Wild"('35)- a new Loretta Young and Clark Gable. With his large amount of film industry contacts, Mr. Spencer gradually moved on to become a busy film actor. He was sometimes credited as Jimmy Spencer or Jim Spencer on film call sheets. Due to his exotic looks, he was often cast as an pacific islander or some other "native" role. Later, his acting roles became more recognizable. He would work with some of Hollywood's largest film stars (Jimmy Cagney, George Raft, Joel McCrea, Lucille Ball, Charles Laughton, Greta Garbo) and classic film directors (Fritz Lang, C.B. De Mile). His many acting roles were: · Frozen Justice ('29) ·The Sea God ('30)deep sea diver. ·Pueblo Terror (Cosmos Pictures '31) "Pedro". ·The Jungle Princess (Paramount '36)East Indian big game native. Starring Lola Montez. · Ebb Tide (Paramount '37).cook.Starring Francis Farmer. · Hawk of the Wilderness (Republic Pictures serial '38).island native warrior. · Each Dawn I Die (Warner Bros '39).prison cell-mate. Starring Cagney and Raft. **BEST ** · Union Pacific (Paramount '39)Sioux warrior. Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea. Cecil B. De Mile director. · Western Union (20th Ctry Fox '41)Plains Indian warrior. Starring Randolph Scott. Fritz Lang director. · Girl, a Guy and a Gob (RKO '41) comedy.island native. Starring Lucille Ball, George Murphy. · Blossoms in the Dust (MGM '41)"Mr. Dirk". Starring Walter Pigeon, Greer Garson. · Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (MGM '41)young man. Starring Spencer Tracy. · Moonlight in Hawaii (Universal '41).Hawaiian "Chief Kikhanoui". · Unholy Partners (MGM '41)"Jimmy", drug store clerk. Starring Edward G. Robinson. · Two-Faced Women (MGM '41)."Carl". Starring Greta Garbo. · The Bugle Sounds (MGM '41).army recruit. Starring Wallace Beery. · The Tuttles of Tahiti (RKO '42)"Tupa". Starring Charles Laughton. · Pardon My Sarong (Universal '42)..comedy.island native. Starring Bud Abbot and Lou Costello. · Two Flags West (20th Ctry Fox '50)Plains Indian warrior. Starring Jeff Chandler. [Released after Spencer's accidental death.] Mr. Spencer was now in his mid-forties. He was getting more substantial acting roles. He was acting with larger film stars. The best example of his acting prowess was in Warner's "Each Dawn I Die", with James Cagney and George Raft. A comfortable film career could be seen for him. Tragically, this was not to be. Mr. Spencer was to accidentally die on a movie set. On 1943 at MGM film studios, a large lamp fell 40 feet and stuck Mr. Spencer. This accident killed him. He was only 50 years old. His funeral was held on 1943. His family had his remains cremated. He was given a veteran's plot at the Los Angeles National Cemetery. Mr. James P. Spencer's life was abundantly filled with family, music, good friends, dance, and a major pride in his Polynesian ancestry. He enthusiastically shared that with all. He found an inexhaustible way to take his many native talents and give them to many people. By his working in the films, he continues to share his work for others to enjoy after he has gone. He was an energetic, fun loving, and creative person. His vocation put him into the Golden Age of MGM. There he showed the best of his talented island culture and island home.
- Carl Heinrich Stulpnagel was born on 2 January 1886 in Berlin, Germany. He died on 30 August 1944 in Berlin, Germany.
- Durward Grinstead was born on 2 January 1894 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was a writer, known for Maid of Salem (1937). He was married to Gladys Safford Grinstead. He died on 3 October 1944 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Director. He read law in Budapest, then in 1913 he completed the course on acting of the National Association for Acting. In 1914 he published a volume of poetry entitled Kóborlások. In 1918 he founded the Madách Theatre, which he became the director of. Between 1920-27 he is the director of Star. At the end of the silent film era he returned to the stage and became the leading director of Belvárosi Színház (Theatre of the Inner City). After the sound picture was introduced his interest turned towards the cinema again. He was the Director of the film school of the National Association for Films and he himself lectured. His true genre is comedy. He called attention to himself back in the twenties with a burlesque made based on the script of Lajos Zilahy, Rongyosok. There are two memorable movie hits associated with his name: Meseautó (1934) and the Budai Cukrászda a (1935).Béla Gaál's extremely successful film, Meseautó (Car of Dreams, 1934) was the first example of Hungarian glamour comedy. The story of the big boss falling in love with his secretary became a model for Hungarian comedies, and was even successful abroad - an English language remake was shot entitled Car of My Dreams.- Tom Mitford was born on 2 January 1909 in Batsford, Gloucestershire, England, UK. He died on 30 March 1945 in Sagaing, Burma.
- D'Arcy Corrigan was born on 2 January 1870 in County Cork, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]. He was an actor, known for The Last Warning (1928), A Christmas Carol (1938) and Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1927). He died on 25 December 1945 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Mansaku Itami was born on 2 January 1900 in Matsuyama, Japan. He was a writer and director, known for Te o tsunagu kora (1948), Sengoku kitan: Kimagure kaja (1935) and Kentatsu's Vengeance (1932). He was married to Ikeuchi Kimi. He died on 21 September 1946 in Kyoto, Japan.- Harry Linkey was born on 2 January 1881 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Masked Rider (1916), When California Was Wild (1915) and A Second Beginning (1915). He died on 1 November 1947 in West Hollywood, California, USA.
- Placido Rizzotto was born on 2 January 1914 in Corleone, Sicily, Italy. He died on 10 March 1948 in Corleone, Sicily, Italy.
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Victor Travis was born on 2 January 1884 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He was an actor and writer, known for Fiddling Around (1938), Time Out for Trouble (1938) and Off Again, on Again (1945). He died on 26 May 1948 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA(undisclosed).- Folke Bernadotte was born on 2 January 1895 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. He was married to Estelle Bernadotte. He died on 17 September 1948 in Jerusalem, Israel.
- Szeréna Sziklay was born on 2 January 1879 in Budapest, Hungary. She was an actress, known for Dunaparti randevú (1936), Lovagias ügy (1937) and Tomi (1936). She was married to Aurél Föld. She died on 26 March 1949 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Frederick Meads was born on 2 January 1886 in St. Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Fall of the House of Usher (1950). He died on 28 April 1950 in St. Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, UK.
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Oscar Micheaux, the first African-American to produce a feature-length film (The Homesteader (1919)) and a sound feature-length film (The Exile (1931)), is not only a major figure in American film for these milestones, but because his oeuvre is a window into the American history and psyche regarding race and its deleterious effects on individuals and society. He also is a pioneer of independent cinema. Though the end products of his labors often were technically crude due to budgetary constraints, Micheaux the filmmaker is a symbol of the artist triumphing against great odds to bring his vision to the public while serving in the socially important role of critical spirit. "One of the greatest tasks of my life has been to teach that the colored man can be anything," Micheaux said. He used the new medium of the motion picture to communicate his ideas in order to rebut racism and to raise the consciousness of African-Americans in an age of segregation and overt, legal racism. As a filmmaker, Micheaux was "50 years ahead of his time", according to Kansas Humanities Council Board member Martin Keenan, the chairman of the Oscar Micheaux Film Festivals in Great Bend, Kansas, in 2001 and 2003. Oscar Micheaux was born in 1884, in Metropolis, Illinois, one of 13 children of former slaves. When he was 17 years old he left home for Chicago, where he got a job as a Pullman porter, one of the best jobs an African-American could get in the days of Jim Crow laws that separated the races and were an official bulwark of racism. Inspired by the self-help, assimilationist teachings of Booker T. Washington and the "Go West" pioneer philosophy of Horace Greeley, Micheaux acquired two 160-acre tracts of land in Gregory County, South Dakota, in 1905, despite no previous experience in farming. His experiences as a homesteader were the basis for his first novel, "The Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer", which was published in 1913. He rewrote it into his most famous novel, "The Homesteader" (1917), which he self-published and distributed, selling it door-to-door to small businessmen and homesteaders in small towns, white people with whom he lived and did business with. "The Homesteader" not only elucidated Micheaux's understanding of societal cleavages but proselytized for assimilating black and white communities. He was firmly dedicated to the idea of art as a didactic medium. Micheaux lost his homestead in 1915 due to financial losses caused by a drought. He moved to Sioux City, Iowa, where he established the Western Book and Supply Co. He continued to write novels, selling them himself, door-to-door. Meanwhile, brothers George Johnson and Noble Johnson, African-American movie pioneers who ran the Lincoln Motion Picture Co. in Los Angeles, wanted to make "The Homesteader" into a film. They tried to buy the rights to the novel but would not meet Micheaux's demands that he direct it and that it be made with a large budget. After his demands were refused, Micheaux reorganized Western Book and Supply as the Micheaux Film and Book Co. in Chicago. He began to raise money for his own film version of "The Homesteader". Micheaux returned to the white businessmen and farmers around Sioux City, Iowa, where he still maintained an office, and sold them stock in his new company. In this way he was able to raise enough capital to begin filming his novel in Chicago, which was then a major film production center. The film came in at eight reels, making it the first feature-length film made by an African-American. "Race films"--as films made for black audiences were called until the advent of the modern civil rights movement in the 1950s--and even "mainstream" films had been mostly shorts up to that time. Even Charles Chaplin didn't make his first feature-length film until 1921, with The Kid (1921). The Homesteader (1919) premiered in Chicago on February 20, 1919. An ad for the movie placed in the "Chicago Defender", the premier newspaper for African-Americans, heralded the film as the "greatest of all Race productions" and claimed it was "destined to mark a new epoch in the achievements of the Darker Races . . . every Race man and woman should cast aside their skepticism regarding the Negro's ability as a motion picture star, and go and see, not only for the absorbing interest obtaining therein, but as an appreciation of those finer arts which no race can ignore and hope to obtain a higher plan of thought and action." His next film, Within Our Gates (1920), was his response to D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915), a film that had glorified the Ku Klux Klan and justified the violent oppression of African-Americans to prevent miscegenation. Though Griffith's flawed masterpiece was the most popular movie until the release of another Civil War potboiler called Gone with the Wind (1939) in 1939, it was loathed by African-Americans due to its crude and hateful racial stereotypes. "Within These Gates" was made to rebut Griffith and show that the reality of racism in the US was that African-Americans were more likely to be lynched and exploited by whites than the reverse. The movie showed African-American and white communities that the racism of the dominant society could be challenged. Micheaux's place in history was assured as he injected an African-American perspective, via the powerful medium of the motion picture, into the American consciousness. Working out of Chicago, he subsequently made more than 30 films over the next three decades, including musicals, comedies, westerns, romances and gangster films. Some of the popular themes in his work were African-Americans passing for white, intermarriage and legal injustice. He used actors from New York's Lafayette Players and always cast his actors on the basis of type, with light-skinned African-American actors typically playing the leads and darker-skinned blacks the heavies. That trait was part of the consciousness of the African-American community (and mirrored the very racism that he inveigled against) that persists to this day, and Micheaux was severely chastised for it by later critics. However, no critic could deny the importance of Micheaux's movies, as they were a radical departure from Hollywood's racist portrayals of blacks as lazy dolts, Uncle Toms, Mammies and dangerous bucks. As the most successful and prolific of black filmmakers, Micheaux was vital to African-American and overall American consciousness by providing a diverse portfolio of non-stereotyped black characters, as well as images and stories of African-American life. He married Alice B. Russell in March 1926, and the two remained married until his death in March 1951. He was buried at Great Bend Cemetery, Great Bend, Kansas.- Costume and Wardrobe Department
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Harold Clandenning was born on 2 January 1914 in New York, USA. He was a costume designer, known for Drums of Tahiti (1953), Flame of Calcutta (1953) and Tarzan and the Huntress (1947). He died on 20 August 1953 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Director
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Dziga Vertov was born on 2 January 1896 in Bialystok, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire [now Podlaskie, Poland]. He was a director and writer, known for Man with a Movie Camera (1929), Three Songs About Lenin (1934) and The Sixth Part of the World (1926). He was married to Elizaveta Svilova. He died on 12 February 1954 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Jack Wise was born on 2 January 1888 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Smashing the Money Ring (1939), There He Goes (1928) and Comet Over Broadway (1938). He died on 7 March 1954 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- John Cumberland was born on 2 January 1878 in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada. He was an actor, known for A Gay Old Dog (1919), Baby Mine (1917) and The Stimulating Mrs. Barton (1920). He died on 2 July 1954 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Cornelius Peeples was born on 2 January 1920 in Oak Park, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Julius Caesar (1950). He died on 15 November 1954 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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George 'Beetlepuss' Lewis was born on 2 January 1901. He was an actor, known for Half Past Midnight (1948), International Burlesque (1950) and Midnight Frolics (1949). He died on 8 April 1955 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Eva Sawyer was born on 2 January 1882 in California, USA. She was an actress, known for Broncho Billy's Love Affair (1915), Snakeville's Most Popular Lady (1914) and Snakeville's Weak Women (1915). She was married to Warren Sawyer. She died on 27 May 1955 in Oakland, California, USA.
- Machaquito was born on 2 January 1880 in Córdoba, Córdoba, Andalucía, Spain. He died on 1 July 1955 in Córdoba, Córdoba, Andalucía, Spain.
- Suzette Tarri was born on 2 January 1881 in Shoreditch, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Somewhere in Civvies (1943), The Good Old Days (1953) and Variety (1936). She was married to Thomas MacDuff Copeland and David Edmund Jenkins. She died on 10 October 1955 in Southgate, London, England, UK.
- Barry Regan was born on 2 January 1904 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Heroes of the Hills (1938), Adventures of the Falcon (1954) and Cavalcade of America (1952). He died on 16 January 1956 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Tiny Ward was born on 2 January 1893 in Indian Point, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for West of Zanzibar (1928), The Big Killing (1928) and Below the Deadline (1929). He died on 12 September 1956 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- John Carr was born on 2 January 1904 in New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for Daniel Boone (1923), The Earth Woman (1926) and Polly of the Circus (1917). He died on 27 November 1956 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Lamis Bredis was born on 2 January 1912 in Riga, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire [now Latvia]. He was a director and writer, known for The Eagle and the Mole (1944), Sindbad the Sailor (1944) and One of Many (1943). He died on 14 January 1957 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].