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- Thomas Jefferson was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was previously the second vice president of the United States under John Adams and the first United States secretary of state under George Washington. The principal author of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson was a proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights, motivating American colonists to break from the Kingdom of Great Britain and form a new nation. He produced formative documents and decisions at state, national, and international levels.
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Thomas Lawrence was born on 13 April 1769 in Bristol, England, UK. Thomas is known for The Queen's Palaces (2011). Thomas died on 7 January 1830 in London, England, UK.- Composer
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Felicien Alpar David was born on 13 April 1810 in Cadenet, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. Felicien was a composer, known for She, or Nobody (1932) and Un pique-nique chez Osiris (2001). Felicien died on 29 August 1876 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France.- David Christie Murray was not only a successful journalist, author and playwright, he was also considered by many as one of the greatest lecturers of his day. The son of a printer, Murray began his writing career at the Wednesbury Advertiser and later the Birmingham Morning News. After relocating to London in 1873 he wrote for the Daily News, the World and the London Times. The latter as a special correspondent covering the Russo-Turkish War.
While Murray was struggling to become established in London, John Lovell, of the Press Association, took pity on the cash strapped youth and invented some work for him. Lovell later sent him two guineas in a pill box with the instructions "Take immediately". Murray had not eaten in several days and had been sleeping at night on park benches.
On returning to England after covering the Russo-Turkish War, Murray was asked to report directly to Prime Minister Gladstone on what he had seen. Murray attended the meeting still wearing his bearskin lined camel hair campaign overcoat. As Gladstone was helping him on with his overcoat after the meeting had concluded, he asked Murray where he had obtained such an interesting garment. After informing the P.M. that the coat came from Bulgaria, Gladstone replied that, while he had heard of Bulgarian atrocities, this was the first one that he had ever observed.
In 1889 Murray embarked on an extensive and ultimately well received lecture tour of Australia. While returning home early the next year he went missing. Some papers theorized that had stopped off in Mexico and had been murdered or maybe gone mad. Five months later Murray cabled friends in Canada to inform them that he had been working in Samoa as a guest of writer Robert Louis Stevenson. This was not the first time (nor the last) that a false report of his demise had appeared in the British press. Some years earlier newspapers had mistakenly reported that he died while covering the Russo-Turkish War. Years later they would falsely report that he had been murdered in San Francisco.
Murray began a successful two year lecture tour of North America in 1894. The tour was billed as "Memory's Lucky Bag" (The Reminiscences of a Novelist) and "Leaves from the Notebook of a Novelist".
In the late 1890s Murray wrote a series of articles for the Daily News and the London Morning on the "Dreyfus Affair" in France. His investigative reporting may have played a hand in Capt. Albert Dreyfus' release from Devil's Island.
Murray proposed in 1898 that the Anglo-American League look into erecting a statue of George Washington on British soil as a "national recognition of the justice of the cause in which he fought and a final signal of our amity with the American people".
Of the many works he published during his Life's Atonement" (1879), "Joseph's Coat" (1881), "Val Strange" (1882), "By the Gate of the Sea" (1883), "Aunt Rachel "(1886), "The Weaker Vessel"(1888) and "Dangerous Catspaw" (1889) were among his most successful. He was a performer in at least two of his plays, "Ned's Chum" (1891) and "The Chartist" (1892 or 1893). Murray's books and plays were popular on both sides of the Atlantic. As early as 1885 his stories were being serialized in American newspapers. His last work "Theories of the Soul" was published after his death.
Murray's daughter, Dora Christie Murray, said in a 1929 interview that years earlier her father had given her adopted brother a fatal overdose of a prescribed opiate. She explained that after her brother became seriously ill and the family was told that there was no hope of recovery, her father decided to put an end to his suffering as his condition grew more and more painful. The subject had come up during a debate in the British press over mercy killing. - William Henry Drummond was born on 13 April 1854 in Mohill, Ireland. He was a writer, known for The Wreck of the Julie Plante (1985). He was married to May Isobel Harvey. He died on 6 April 1907 in Cobalt, Ontario, Canada.
- Fredrik Lindholm was born on 13 April 1861 in Stockholm, Sweden. He was a writer, known for Miljonär för en dag (1926) and A Sailor on Horseback (1940). He died on 4 April 1938 in Skåne, Sweden.
- Tully Marshall intended to pursue a legal career, until he tried a dramatic course at Santa Clara University. He started stage work in San Francisco in 1883 and moved to New York in 1887, where he played in various roles on Broadway and on the road. After a few small parts in films he was given the role of the High Priest of Babylon in the D.W. Griffith classic, Intolerance (1916). One of his finest roles in silents was that of an old frontiersman in another classic, The Covered Wagon (1923).
When sound arrived Marshall was very much in demand and worked for nearly every major studio. His last film was Behind Prison Walls (1943). He died on March 10, 1943, after a 60-year career in entertainment. - Antal Nyáray was born on 13 April 1868 in Nagyenyed, Hungary [now Aiud, Romania]. He was an actor, known for Az utolsó bohém (1913), Az aranyásó (1914) and Mágia (1917). He was married to Anna Bíró. He died on 27 February 1920 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Emil Kolár was born on 13 April 1869 in Prague, Cechy, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Ucitel orientálních jazyku (1918). He died on 14 March 1934 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Ernst Decsey was born on 13 April 1870 in Hamburg, Germany. He was a writer, known for Kaiserliebchen (1931) and The King Steps Out (1936). He died on 12 March 1941 in Vienna, Austria.
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Ivane Perestiani was born on 13 April 1870 in Taganrog, Don Voisko Oblast, Russian Empire [now Rostov Oblast, Russia]. He was a director and actor, known for Sami sitsotskhle (1924), Savur-Mogila (1926) and Suramis tsikhe (1922). He died on 14 May 1959 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Ferdinand Gregori was born on 13 April 1870 in Leipzig, Germany. He was an actor, known for Die Frau im Käfig (1919), Herzog Ferrantes Ende (1922) and Torgus (1921). He died on 12 December 1928 in Berlin, Germany.
- Ellaline Terriss was a leading musical comedy star in the late Victorian Era, throughout the Edwardian Era, and into the Modern Era. She was the daughter of one famous actor, William Terriss (born William Lewin, in 1847; murdered by a disgruntled actor, in 1897), and the wife of an even more famous and accomplished one, Sir Seymour Hicks, whom she was married to, from 1893 until his death in 1949.
She was born Ellaline Lewin on April 13, 1871, in Stanley, the capital of the British colony of the Falkland Islands, when her father, then called William Lewin, was a sheep farmer. Lewin was an adventurous sort of chap, and had been a sailor and tea farmer, as well as an actor, before raising sheep in the South Atlantic. Eventually, he decided to give acting another chance, and returned to England with his family. He became a great success under the stage name "William Terriss." He was a swashbuckling type, nicknamed "Breezy Billy". He was murdered in 1897 as he was arriving to give a performance at the theater when his daughter was becoming a major star.
Ellaline made her debut in 1888 and was soon a critical and popular ingenue. She became a musical-comedy star in London in the 1890s, co-starring with Hicks in such productions as "The Shop Girl" (1894), "The Circus Girl" (1896) and "A Runaway Girl" (1898). In 1900 they appeared in the French farce "My Daughter-in-Law," on Broadway, Ellaline's only appearance on the Great White Way (Hicks had earlier appeared on Broadway in "The Shop Girl").
Hicks became an actor-impresario and, after the turn of the 20th century, began writing musical comedies and light comedies, in which he and his wife appeared. These efforts met with great success. With the earnings from his successful career, he built the Aldwych Theatre, in 1905, and the Seymour Hicks Theatre, in 1906 (the Hicks was renamed the Globe Theatre, in 1909, and eventually the Gielgud Theatre, in 1994).
The couple toured South Africa in 1911, and she retired from the stage in 1917. She did make a return to tread the boards in one play in the 1925-26 season, "The Man in Dress Clothes," which co-starred not only her husband but their daughter Betty Hicks, who was making her stage debut.
Ellaline first appeared in the movies in 1907, in two films made by director Arthur Gilbert, My Indian Anna (1907) and Glow Little Glow Worm, Glow (1907). In 1913, she appeared in three films with her husband, in which he reprized two of his greatest stage roles, Ebenezer Scrooge in Old Scrooge (1913) and the title role in David Garrick (1908). She appeared in a baker's dozen more films from 1914 to 1939, acting with both her husband and other luminaries such as Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson and George Arliss.
Seymour Hicks was knighted in 1934, which made Ellaline "Lady Hicks." He died on April 6, 1949, in Hampshire, England. She followed him on June 16, 1971, at the age of 100. - Otto Treßler was born on 13 April 1871 in Stuttgart, Germany. He was an actor, known for Sissi (1955), Mädchenjahre einer Königin (1936) and The Story of Vickie (1954). He was married to Hilde Wagener, Eleonore Keil von Bündten, Sophie von Dierkes and Hilde Toscani. He died on 27 April 1965 in Vienna, Austria.
- Walter Soderling was born on 13 April 1872 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor, known for The French Key (1946), Death of a Champion (1939) and The Luckiest Girl in the World (1936). He died on 10 April 1948 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Caitlyn DeAmbra was born on a small island off the coast of Portugal. Her father (John Dockham, married to Barbara) was in the US Air Force for 20 years. Her family traveled often, never staying in one place until her father retired in 1985.. Caitlyn lived in places like Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Southern California, Wyoming, just outside Washington D.C., and Zaragoza, Spain where she began acting at the age of 10. When her father retired they moved to Rockford, Michigan where Caitlyn graduated from Rockford High School, continuing to act. She then attended Grand Valley State University where she studied Acting and worked in the Costume Department. One Thursday and Friday the temperature fell to a skin-freezing 77 degrees below 0 (with the windchill). On Monday she applied to the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Arizona State University. When she was accepted to both, she chose ASU because she could drive there.
Having acted in Elementary, High School and College as well as Community Theater, she began her professional career in "Power, Privilege & Justice" (2002) {The Heiress and the Hitman} (TV) as 'Deborah Nolan-Luster'.- Writer
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Roda-Roda was born on 13 April 1872 in Drnowitz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Drnovice, Czech Republic]. He was a writer and actor, known for Liebeskommando (1931), Die Liebe vom Zigeuner stammt... (1920) and Der Feldherrnhügel (1953). He was married to Elsbeth Anna Freifrau von Zeppelin. He died on 20 August 1945 in New York City, New York, USA.- Emmy Schønfeld was born on 13 April 1873 in Denmark. She was an actress, known for Häxan (1922), Smil og Taare (1923) and Stamherren (1925). She died on 27 May 1956 in Denmark.
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Arthur Hurley was born on 13 April 1873 in Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Die Königsloge (1929), Apartment Hunting (1929) and Two of a Kind (1930). He died on 2 November 1941 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Director
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László Beöthy was born on 13 April 1873 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was a director and actor, known for Sárga liliom (1914). He died on 7 May 1931 in Budapest, Hungary.- Soundtrack
Theodore Morse was born on 13 April 1873 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He was married to Dolly Morse. He died on 25 May 1924 in New York City, New York, USA.- John W. Davis was born on 13 April 1873 in Clarksburg, West Virginia, USA. He was married to Ellen Graham Bassel and Julia Terrill McDonald. He died on 24 March 1955 in Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
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Georges Bernier was born on 13 April 1875 in Fourmies, Nord, France. He is known for Chalumeau barman (1923), Chalumeau cherche un emploi (1922) and Chalumeau poète et garçon d'hôtel (1922).- Writer
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George Arthurs was born on 13 April 1875 in Manchester, England, UK. George was a writer, known for Velvet Goldmine (1998), The Yellow Mask (1930) and Their Night Out (1933). George died on 14 March 1944 in Harrow, London, England, UK.- Harold Deacon was born on 13 April 1876 in Paddington, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Likeness of the Night (1921), The Woman with the Fan (1921) and Where the Rainbow Ends (1921). He died on 31 May 1954 in Chelsea, London, England, UK.
- Christian Lautenschlager was born on 13 April 1877 in Magstadt, Germany. He died on 3 January 1954 in Untertürkheim, Germany.
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George J. Trinkaus was born on 13 April 1878 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA. George J. died on 19 May 1960 in Ridgewood, New Jersey, USA.- Actor
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Hugh E. Wright was born on 13 April 1879 in Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France. He was an actor and writer, known for The Silver King (1929), The Old Curiosity Shop (1921) and Carry On (1919). He died on 12 February 1940 in Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK.- Writer
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Hans Adler was born on 13 April 1880 in Vienna, Austria. He was a writer, known for That Night in Rio (1941), L'homme des Folies Bergère (1935) and Folies Bergère de Paris (1935). He was married to Ernestine Antonia Fortunata Meitner. He died on 11 November 1957 in Vienna, Austria.- Ellen Rassow was born on 13 April 1880. She was an actress, known for Elskovsbarnet (1914), Brændemærket (1913) and Eksplosionen (1914). She died on 21 February 1951.
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Charles H.V. Christie, the motion picture studio owner and real estate developer, was born on April 14, 1880 in London, Ontario, Canada. He emigrated to the United States with his younger brother Al to seek employment in the film industry. Al eventually became head of comedy production at Adolph Zukor's Universal Film Manufacturing Co. in January 1916, Al founded his own studio, The Christie Film Co., with his brother Charles. The brothers had a six month contract to produce comedies for Universal.
Specializing in comedy, the Christie brothers made both features and shorts at a production facility located at Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street that they rented from Quality Pictures Corp. Al handled the production end of the business, while Charles oversaw the administration of the company. In July 1912, the company went independent, selling their product to independent distributors. Al Christie's comedies proved so popular the Christie Brothers were able to soon acquire their own production facilities, and their continued success enabled them to double their production capacity and open a technologically advanced developing laboratory.
Christie Film made situational comedies rather than slapstick, and sometimes they were risqué, featuring provocatively dressed young women. Fatty Arbuckle and Harold Lloyd made their debuts with his studio, and the Christie brothers also recruited Canadian talent, including Marie Dressler and Marie Prevost, both of whom became lifelong friends of the brothers. Always innovative, The Christie Film Co. published a magazine, "Film Follies," that detailed up-coming releases and the current goings-on at the Christie Studio.
The Christie brothers were ahead of the times in the area of race-relations. Al had originally hired the African American Spencer Williams as a sound technician, but discovering his writing talent, he began using him as a screenwriter. Williams subsequently became a pioneer in "race films" and later achieved mainstream fame portraying Andy Brown in CBS' "Amos & Andy" television series. The Christie Film Co. entered the race film market in early 1929, producing the first talking pictures made for and featuring African Americans. Utilizing the talents of Harlem's Lafayette Players Stock Co., Christie Film also produced musical comedy shorts featuring all-black casts based on Octavus Ray Cohen's `Darktown Birmingham' stories that were published in the `Saturday Evening Post.' Paramount Pictures distributed the `Darktown Birmingham' shorts.
When fellow Canadian movie pioneer Mary Pickford helped create the Motion Picture Relief Fund in 1921 along with fellow United Artists owners Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, and D.W. Griffith, the Christie Film Co. supported the charity, which was dedicated to helping actors who had fallen on hard times. UA President Joseph M. Schenck was the first president of the Fund, with Pickford serving as vice president. The board of directors included many of the biggest names in Hollywood, including Charles Christie, who took a major role in administering the Fund whose mission statement was "We take care of our own." (Under future president Jean Hersholt, after whom the Humanitarian Oscar award is named, the Fund acquired a 48-acre plot in Woodland Hills, California on which, in 1942, the actors' retirement home now known as the Motion Picture & Television Country Home and Hospital was built.
The Great Depression hurt the film industry, and the Christie Film Co. and Christie Realty Corp. both went into receivership in January 1933. The studio was closed, and its assets were acquired by another movie company. Charles turned to the real estate business, and was soon joined by his brother Al.
Charles Christie died in Hollywood on October 1, 1955 and was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.- Actor
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Gus De Weil was born on 13 April 1880 in New York, USA. He was an actor and casting director, known for The Crimson Flash (1927), Mark of the Frog (1928) and On Guard (1927). He died on 12 June 1950 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.- Producer
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Jesus Hermenegildo Abitia was born on 13 April 1881 in Batuchic, Chihuahua, Mexico. He was a producer and director, known for Los enmascarados de Mazatlán (1920), El caporal (1921) and Tres eras de la agricultura (1928). He was married to María Elena Pedroso Navarro. He died on 8 December 1960 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico.- Actor
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Bertil Brusewitz was born on 13 April 1882 in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for Rännstensungar (1944), Ett konstnärsöde (1917) and Revelj (1917). He died on 11 March 1954 in Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden.- Leonard Shepherd was born on 13 April 1882 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for It Is for England! (1916), The Dreyfus Case (1931) and Lucky Jade (1937). He was married to Helena Head. He died on 17 April 1958 in Enfield, Middlesex, England, UK.
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Aleksandr Aleksandrov was born on 13 April 1883 in village Plakhino, Mikhaylov uyezd, Ryazan Governorate, Russian Empire [now Zakharovsky District, Ryazan Oblast, Russia]. He was a composer, known for The Saint (1997), The Hunt for Red October (1990) and Come and See (1985). He died on 8 July 1946 in Berlin, Germany.- Nikolai Brechling was born on 13 April 1883. He was an actor and writer, known for Vampyrdanserinden (1912), Troskabsprøven (1911) and The King's Power (1911). He died on 31 March 1935.
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Julio Raúl Alsina was born on 13 April 1883 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He was a director and producer, known for Avelino Viamonte (1909), La tragedia de los cuarenta años (1909) and Facundo Quiroga (1909). He died on 4 August 1944 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.- Winthrop Chamberlain was born on 13 April 1883 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He is known for Soldiers of Fortune (1914), Marrying Money (1915) and The Other Half of the Note (1914).
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Fred Morgan was born on 13 April 1884 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is known for Caught Short (1930). He died on 21 November 1965 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Ferdinand von Alten was born on 13 April 1885 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for Othello (1922), Danton (1921) and Deception (1920). He died on 17 March 1933 in Dessau, Anhalt [now Saxony-Anhalt], Germany.
- Pieter Gerbrandy was born on 13 April 1885 in Goënga, Friesland, Netherlands. He died on 7 September 1961 in The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
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Christian Rub was born on 13 April 1886 in Graz, Styria, Austria. He was an actor, known for You Can't Take It with You (1938), Peter Ibbetson (1935) and Girls' Dormitory (1936). He was married to Amy. He died on 14 April 1956 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.- Actor
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Willie Howard was born on 13 April 1886 in Neustadt, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Smart Way (1937), How to Go to a French Restaurant (1941) and Playboy Number One (1937). He was married to Emily Miles. He died on 14 January 1949 in Paramus, New Jersey, USA.- Thomas Carrigan was born on 13 April 1886 in Lapeer, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for Checkers (1919), Love's Flame (1920) and Crooked Alley (1923). He was married to Mabel Taliaferro. He died on 2 October 1941 in Lapeer, Michigan, USA.
- Colon Chase Gollings passed away on April 27, 1937 at the Los Angeles General Hospital and an autopsy determined the cause of death was "chronic diffuse pulmonary tuberculosis". He was a World War I vet and burial at Sawtelle National Cemetery. Military headstone application: Colin Chase Gollings was a Private, B Company, 157th Infantry. Enlisted May 4, 1918 and discharged August 1, 1918. He entered motion pictures in 1919 as an employee of the Thomas H. Ince Company. He was seldom credited and was usually a henchman in Poverty Row westerns. His real name was Colin Chase Gollings(as seen on his birth and death certificates and WW One service records.)
- Millie Schottland was born on 13 April 1886 in New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Hungry Hearts (1922). She died on 6 August 1975 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA.
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Jack Haskell was born on 13 April 1886 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and actor, known for One in a Million (1936), Poor Little Rich Girl (1936) and Evolution of the Dance (1930). He died in April 1963 in New York City, New York, USA.- Comedian Alf Scotty born Alfred Scott or Scotty in the mod 1880's in England. began working in pantomimes and music hall. Starred in at least 20 short comedy films in just one year starring opposite his wife Lily Ward, first in a series of short 'Alf' comedies under the direction of Cecil Birch. His debut movie was 'What the?' released in March 1915 followed by a series of Scottie comedies from May 1915 for the Bamforth Film Company in Yorkshire, England. What ever happened to Alf Scotty after his last film role in late 1915?.
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Tommy Clark was born on 13 April 1886 in Missouri, USA. He died on 14 June 1962 in Los Angeles, California, USA.