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- After he wrote the play, "The Gentleman Master", (1672), it was panned by critics, so in the prologue to his most famous play, "The Country Wife", (1676), he offered the actors, mistresses and matrons to the critics in case this was equally badly received. His last play was, "The Plain Dealer", (1676).
He was buried, possibly in Covent Garden, London on January 8 1716. He was a member of King Charles II's court and married in ill health, less than a month before his death. - Music Department
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B.S. Ingemann was born on 28 March 1789 in Torkildstrup, Falster, Denmark. B.S. was a writer, known for The Hunt (2012), Valdemar Sejr (1910) and Her Little Majesty (1939). B.S. died on 24 February 1862 in Sorø, Denmark.- Jacob Gallinger was born on 28 March 1837 in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. He died on 17 August 1918 in Franklin, New Hampshire, USA.
- H. Kyrle Bellew was born on 28 March 1850 in Prescot, Lancashire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1905), The Great Sword Combat on the Stairs (1902) and A Gentleman of France (1905). He was married to Eugènie Marie Séraphie Le Grand. He died on 2 November 1911 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
- Carolina Invernizio was born on 28 March 1851 in Voghera, Lombardy, Italy. She was a writer, known for Il nano rosso (1917), Satanella (1919) and Piccoli martiri (1917). She died on 27 November 1916 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
- Julia Jackson was born on 28 March 1853 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for The Blood of His Fathers (1917), High Tide (1918) and A Wife on Trial (1917). She died on 19 February 1938 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Jacob Breda Bull was born on 28 March 1853 in Rendalen, Hedmark, Norway. He was a writer, known for The Bride of Glomdal (1926), Jørund Smed (1948) and Vesleblakken (1994). He was married to Anna Maria Augusta Berglöf and Gunvor Sofie Rytterager. He died on 7 January 1930 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Samuel J. Seymour was born on 28 March 1860 in Easton, Maryland, USA. He died on 12 April 1956 in Arlington, Virginia, USA.
- Izsó Gyöngyi was born on 28 March 1860 in Miskolc, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was an actor, known for Az ezüst kecske (1916). He died on 5 December 1923 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Aristide Briand was born on 28 March 1862 in Nantes, France. He died on 7 March 1932 in Paris, France.
- A great classical and modern drama stage Performer from 1890, best remembered for playing the role of 'Don Quixote' on stage and screen, first appearing on film in 'The Girl Who Didn't Care' for the Barker Film Company in 1916 from then on often seen in supporting roles and few starring roles through the 1920s and many talkies in the 1930s until his last role in a short crime drama 'The Great Conway' in 1940.
- Hans Stock was born on 28 March 1867 in Dresden, Germany. He was an actor, known for Stuart Webbs: Die Toten erwachen (1915), Der Mann, der nicht nein sagen kann (1938) and Die Ehre des Hauses (1914). He died in 1947 in Germany.
- Writer
Maksim Gorky is a pseudonym of Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov, who was born into a poor Russian family in Nizhnii Novgorod on Volga river. Gorky lost his father at an early age, he was beaten by his stepfather and became an orphan at age 9, when his mother died. He was brought up by his grandmother, who helped his development as a storyteller.
He was blessed with a brilliant memory, but failed to enter a University of Kazan. At age 19 he survived a suicide attempt, because the bullet missed his heart. After that Gorky traveled on foot for 5 years all over Central Russia, worked as a sailor on a Volga steamboat, then a salesperson, a railway worker, a salt miller, and a lawyer's clerk. At that time he was arrested for his public criticism of the Tsar and social injustices in Russia. He started writing for newspapers and published his first 'Sketches and Stories' in 1890s. Later he wrote an autobiographic book "My Universities" based on impressions from his travels and jobs. Gorky wrote with sympathy about the simple folks, the outcasts, the gypsies, the hobos and dreamers in the context of social decay in the Russian Empire. He became friends with Anton Chekhov and Lev Tolstoy. His play 'The Lower Depths' (1892) was praised by Chekhov and was successfully played in Europe and the United States. His political activism resulted in cancellation of his membership in the Russian Academy. Anton Chekhov and Vladimir Korolenko left the Academy in protest and solidarity with Gorky. He went to live in Europe and America in 1906-13. In America he started his classic novel, 'The Mother', about a Russian Christian woman and her imprisoned son, who both joined revolutionaries under the illusion that revolution follows Christ's messages.
After the Russian revolution in 1917, Gorky criticized Lenin and communists for their "bloody experiments on the Russian people". He wrote, 'Lenin and Trotsky are corrupted with the dirty poison of power. They are disrespectful of human rights, freedom of speech and all other civil liberties". Soon Gorky received a handwritten warning letter from Lenin. Later his friend Nikolai Gumilev, ex-husband of Anna Akhmatova was executed by communists. In 1921 Gorky emigrated to Europe and settled in Capri. He became careful in his critique of communism. In 1932 after a series of brief visits, he returned to Soviet Russia. He was placed in a rich Moscow mansion of the former railroad tycoon Ryabushinsky. His return from the fascist Italy was a victory for Soviet propaganda. He was made the Chairman of the Soviet Writer's Union, and a figurehead of "socialist realism" . After the murder of Kirov in 1934 Gorky was under a house arrest. His son died in 1935. The following year Gorki Gorky died suddenly at the Lenin's dacha in Moscow.- Norman Hapgood was born on 28 March 1868 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was married to Elizabeth Kempley Reynolds and Emilie Bigelow. He died on 29 April 1937 in New York, New York, USA.
- Ida Fane was born on 28 March 1869 in St George Hanover Square, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Laundry Girl (1919), The Old Arm Chair (1920) and The Romany (1923). She died in 1944 in Woolwich, London, England, UK.
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Willem Mengelberg was born on 28 March 1871 in Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands. He was a composer, known for Dood water (1934) and Drawers (2015). He was married to Petronella Mathilde Augusta Wübbe. He died on 21 March 1951 in Chur, Switzerland.- Anne Douglas Sedgwick was born on 28 March 1873 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA. Anne Douglas was a writer, known for The Little French Girl (1925) and The Impossible Woman (1919). Anne Douglas died on 19 July 1935 in Hampstead, London, England, UK.
- Karl Kraus was born on 28 March 1874 in Gitschin/Jicìn, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Jicín, Czech Republic]. He was a writer, known for Walpurgis (2008), Ihre Durchlaucht (1960) and Die letzten Tage der Menschheit (1965). He died on 12 June 1936 in Vienna, Austria.
- Frank Petley was born on 28 March 1874 in Charlton, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Flying from Justice (1913), East Lynne (1913) and Nature's Gentleman (1918). He was married to Gertrude Price. He died on 12 January 1945 in Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK.
- Robert Frost was born on 28 March 1874 in San Francisco, California, USA. Robert was a writer, known for The Afterglow: A Tribute to Robert Frost (1989) and Nothing Gold Can Stay (2019). Robert died on 29 January 1963 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- Actor
- Writer
Clifton Boyne born in 1874, well-known English drama and comedy stage performer from the 1890's including Porter Emerson Brown's play 'The Bad Man' with Matheson Lang in 1923. often appeared well-dress in few crime thrillers and melodrama film roles, first played the role of 'Brunton' in a mystery 'The Musgrave Ritual' directed by George Ridgwell and starring Eille Norwood as Sherlock Holmes at the Stoll Film Company in 1922, also with the British Gaumont Film Company in the mid 1920's, he's was also a well-known playwright with such plays as 'Women and Diamonds' which also played on stage and screen. later he was last seen in character roles in few talkies until 'Hard Steel' in 1942. Died in 1945 age 71.- Actress
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Although she could on a rare occasion display a bit of kindness, or at least some kind of grouchy benevolence, Helen Westley had few peers on stage or film when it came to outright unpleasantness. A stern, indomitable presence, her characters offered unsolicited advice to anyone and everyone within arm's reach. They could literally freeze a person in his or her own tracks with a mere hawk-like glare or arm-folding stance. They could be overbearing, greedy, spiteful, contentious, meddlesome, controlling, narrow-minded, viper-tongued, or all of the above. In essence, she was often major pain in the posterior to the film's star. It usually took a young, brave, gentle soul along the lines of a Shirley Temple or Anne Shirley to find a way to thaw out the icy cold heart that barely beat within.
The Brooklyn-born Helen was born on March 28, 1875 and studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She began on the stage at age 18 in a one-act comedy skit entitled "The Captain of the Nonesuch." Reaching stardom just before the dawn of the twentieth century, she co-founded both the Greenwich Square Players and the Washington Square Players, the latter growing into the Theatre Guild of which she became one of six managing directors. A steadfast player under the Broadway lights, she appeared in such classics as Chekhov's "The Seagull" (as Madame Arkadina) (1916), "Heartbreak House" (1920), "Liliom" (1921), "Peer Gynt" (1923), "The Adding Machine" (1923), "The Guardsman" (1924), "Caesar and Cleopatra" (1925), "The Doctor's Dilemma" (1927), "Strange Interlude" (1928), "Faust" (1928), "The Apple Cart" (1930), "Green Grow the Lilacs" (1931) and "They Shall Not Die" (1934), to name just a few.
By age 60, she had discovered and settled into filming, and for the next (almost) decade, spread misery in movie after movie. Her dour dowagers, no-nonsense matrons and acidulous relatives took the form of Granny Mingott in The Age of Innocence (1934); the designer title character in Roberta (1935); the manipulative and malicious mother of Joel McCrea in Splendor (1935); the harridan-like Parthy Hawkes in the Irene Dunne/Allan Jones version of Show Boat (1936); and the cackling, pipe-smoking grandmaw in Banjo on My Knee (1936). Her finger-wagging authority figures showed up to intimidate Anne Shirley in Anne of Green Gables (1934) and courageous little Shirley Temple who somehow managed to reveal her human side in four films: Dimples (1936), Stowaway (1936), Heidi (1937), and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938). Helen remained a vital character presence on the large screen up until her death at age 67 in 1942. She married John Westley in 1900 but they parted ways 12 years later. She had one daughter.- Märtha Lindlöf was born on 28 March 1875 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. She was an actress, known for Mordbrännerskan (1926), Mästerkatten i stövlar (1918) and Häxnatten (1937). She was married to John Lindlöf. She died on 19 January 1938 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.
- Grayce Hampton was born on 28 March 1876 in Devon, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Bat Whispers (1930), Broadminded (1931) and The Shanghai Gesture (1941). She died on 20 December 1963 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Herbert Lehman was born on 28 March 1878 in New York City, New York, USA. He was married to Edith Louise Altschul. He died on 5 December 1963 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Josip Halla was born on 28 March 1879 in Osijek, Croatia. He was a cinematographer, known for Strast za pustolovinom (1922), Dvije sirotice (1919) and Matija Gubec (1919). He died on 9 May 1960 in Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia.- Mona K. Harrison was born on 28 March 1879 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. She was an actress, known for Derelicts (1917), Light (1915) and Esther Redeemed (1915). She was married to Edward Fitzgerald (1876-1951). She died on 2 January 1957 in the UK.
- George Merriman was born on 28 March 1879 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was an actor, known for Robbery Under Arms (1907). He died in May 1934 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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- Director
It was Lionel Barrymore who gave Louis Wolheim (Cornell '07) his start as an actor. Wolheim had had his face more or less smashed in and his nose nicely fractured while playing on a scrub Cornell football team. Later as a Cornell Instructor he found life none too easy. He had worked off and on as an extra in the Wharton studio but never received much attention. Barrymore had only to look at him once to realize that Wolhelm's face was his fortune. Through Barrymore, Wolheim gained an entree into New York theatrical life. On the legitimate stage he made a great success in "Welcome Wing" and "The Hairy Ape," climaxing these plays by his triumph in "What Price Glory". ~ Cornell Daily Sun, Issue 70, 5 January 1932, Page 2- Aurore Palmgren was born on 28 March 1880 in Stockholm, Sweden. She was an actress, known for Her Little Majesty (1939), Striden går vidare (1941) and Mans kvinna (1945). She died on 28 June 1961 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.
- Arthur Argent was born on 28 March 1880 in Hackney, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for We Dine at Seven (1931). He was married to Ethel Hook. He died on 15 January 1960 in Bristol, England, UK.
- Art Department
C.F. Wilhelm was born on 28 March 1881. He is known for 1925 Studio Tour (1925). He died on 3 March 1955 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Gerald McCarthy was born on 28 March 1882 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for De zwarte tulp (1921), Married Life (1921) and The Old Country (1921). He died on 16 March 1961 in Surrey, England, UK.
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Sam A. Perry, born Samuel A. Perlstein in Odessa, Russia in 1884. His education included: University of Odessa,and Royal Academy of Musical and Theatrical Arts, Vienna. He was a concert pianist who toured throughout Europe. Sam spent 12 years as general musical director and recording manager for Conorized Music Co. of New York. He authored over 500 diversified compositions - symphonic poems, classic and popular songs. He created several instructional manuals for harmonica which where used in schools throughout the United States. Sam entered the motion picture industry through David H. Broekman of Universal Pictures in1929. He was chief assistant to Broekman and a staff composer at Universal in 1930-31. He composed complete scores for "The Jade Box" (1930), "Tarzan the Tiger" (1929), and "Lightning Express" (1930). Sam composed incidental music for the 1929 part-talkie reissue of: "The Phantom of the Opera" , "All Quiet on the Western Front" (1930) foreign version, and "Hell's Heroes" (1930) among others. He was married to Louise Perry and they had one child, Robert born 1921, died 1991. Sam died in Hollywood, California on November 1, 1936. He is survived by three granddaughters and six great-grandchildren.- Josip Maricic was born on 28 March 1884 in Sarengrad, Croatia, Austria-Hungary [now Croatia]. He was an actor, known for Dvorovi u samoci (1925) and The Flag (1949). He died on 1 July 1959 in Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia [now Croatia].
- Ernst Leudesdorff was born on 28 March 1885 in Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Germany. He was an actor, known for Under Sealed Orders (1938), Was tun, Sybille? (1938) and Dr. Crippen an Bord (1942). He was married to Philine Tormin. He died on 7 September 1954 in Hamburg, Germany.
- Composer
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Marc Delmas was born on 28 March 1885 in Saint-Quentin, France. He was a composer, known for La merveilleuse vie de Jeanne d'Arc (1929), Le petit chose (1923) and La princesse aux clowns (1925). He died on 30 November 1931 in Paris, France.- José Escanero was born on 28 March 1886 in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico. He was an actor, known for Gángsters contra charros (1948), Al son de la marimba (1941) and Los tres García (1947). He was married to Luz María García Luna. He died on 25 January 1955 in Mexico, D.F., Mexico.
- Producer
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- Actor
Arthur Mayer was born on 28 March 1886 in Demopoulos, Alabama, USA. He was a producer and actor, known for Paris mil neuf cent (1947), High Hell (1958) and Life Begins Tomorrow (1950). He died on 14 April 1981 in New York City, New York, USA.- First a cabaret artist in his native country (Holland), Frederick Vogeding made a few silent films in Germany first, then back in Holland before moving to the USA in 1920. In the States he made few films during the silent era but was active in the theater, including on Broadway. His real breakthrough in Hollywood was "Below the Sea" (1933), in which he impressed the viewers in the shoes of a somber U-boat captain. From then on, he got regular work, most of the time as a heavy and more precisely in the last part of his career, as a Gestapo agent or the Nazi spy in office. He died of a stroke aged only 55 and is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Los Angeles.
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Jean Guitton was born on 28 March 1887 in France. Jean was a writer, known for Forty Little Mothers (1940), Jim la houlette, roi des voleurs (1926) and Femme sans passé (1948). Jean died on 15 April 1973 in Juan-les-Pins, Alpes-Maritimes, France.- Beulah Dark Cloud was born on 28 March 1887 in New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Crimson Challenge (1922) and Desert Gold (1919). She died on 29 December 1945 in Thermolite, California, USA.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
American actor of small roles in Westerns, particularly those of John Ford. Although his screen credits and many records indicate a wide variety of names and spellings, Steele's own signatures on his military documents indicate that he was born William Anton Gittinger on March 28, 1888 (not 1889) in San Antonio, Texas. Little is known of his life prior to his arrival in Los Angeles around 1910. As the film industry in Hollywood was just blossoming, and as he apparently had great experience with horses, Steele easily obtained work in quickie Westerns. He fought in Europe in World War I, then returned to Hollywood. While he was extremely inconsistent in the names he used, he worked consistently in Westerns throughout the silent era and up until the 1950s. His final appearance was as the wounded posse member Nesby in Ford's The Searchers (1956), his tenth film for Ford. He died ten years later, not quite 78 years old. He was survived by his wife Josephine, an actress. He is buried under his birth name at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio, Texas.- Lady Tsen Mei was born on 28 March 1888 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for The Letter (1929), For the Freedom of the East (1918) and Lotus Blossom (1921). She died in July 1985 in Norfolk, Virginia, USA.
- Vincent Mangano was born on 28 March 1888 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. He died on 19 April 1951 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA.
- Václav Pata was born on 28 March 1888 in Brezové Hory, Cechy, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He is known for Polská krev (1934), Studentská máma (1935) and Svetlo jeho ocí (1936).
- Fernanda Negri Pouget was born on 28 March 1889 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She was an actress, known for The Last Days of Pompeii (1913), Hamlet (1908) and Ma non è una cosa seria (1921). She was married to Armand Pouget. She died on 17 February 1955 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Actress
- Additional Crew
Lola Braccini was born on 28 March 1889 in Pisa, Tuscany, Italy. She was an actress, known for The Leopard (1963), Seduced and Abandoned (1964) and Io t'ho incontrata a Napoli (1946). She died on 19 March 1969 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Actor
- Director
Edward Eyseneck was born on 28 March 1889 in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Lederstrumpf (1923), Leather Stocking: The Last of the Mohicans (1920) and Leather Stocking: The Deerslayer and Chingachgook (1920). He died in 1972 in Germany.- Art Director
- Production Designer
- Director
Robert A. Dietrich was born on 28 March 1889 in Berlin, Germany. He was an art director and production designer, known for Der schwarze Montag (1922), The Man in the Iron Mask (1923) and A Song, a Kiss, a Girl (1932). He died on 8 September 1947 in Berlin, Germany.