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- Otto Lilienthal was born on 23 May 1848 in Anklam, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. He was married to Agnes Fischer. He died on 10 August 1896 in Berlin, Germany.
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Maria Konopnicka was born on 23 May 1842 in Suwalki, Poland, Russian Empire [now Suwalki, Podlaskie, Poland]. She was a writer, known for Television Theater (1953), Teatr Polskiego Radia (2004) and Panna z mokra glowa (1995). She was married to Jaroslaw Konopnicki. She died on 8 October 1910 in Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine].- Thora Meincke was born on 23 May 1877 in Odense, Denmark. She was an actress, known for Den hvide Slavehandels sidste Offer (1911), Himlens Straf (1910) and Temptations of a Great City (1911). She was married to Henrik Caspar Meincke and Albrecht Schmidt. She died on 26 December 1911.
- Félicien Trewey was born on 23 May 1848 in Angoulême, Charente, France. He was an actor, known for La transformation d'un chapeau (1897), Danseuses des rues (1896) and Écriture à l'envers (1896). He died on 2 December 1920 in Asnières-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France.
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
P. Thad. Volkman was born on 23 May 1882 in New York, USA. P. Thad. was an assistant director, known for A Successful Adventure (1918), The Stolen Triumph (1916) and The Turmoil (1916). P. Thad. was married to Mae De Metz. P. Thad. died on 24 December 1922.- Director
- Actor
- Writer
Hardee Kirkland was born on 23 May 1868 in Savannah, Georgia, USA. He was a director and actor, known for While Paris Sleeps (1923), Les Misérables (1917) and Friends in San Rosario (1912). He died on 18 February 1929 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Dion Boucicault Jr. was born on 23 May 1859 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Masks and Faces (1917). He was married to Irene Vanbrugh. He died on 25 June 1929 in Hurley, Buckinghamshire, England, UK.
- Janie Marèse was born on 23 May 1908 in Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, France. She was an actress, known for La Chienne (1931), Amours viennoises (1931) and Mam'zelle Nitouche (1931). She died on 14 August 1931 in Sainte-Maxime, Var, France.
- Charles Abbe born in Connecticut, USA in 1860, became a highly regarded
stage performer on the Broadway comedy and drama theatre's from 1895,
often appeared as socialite fathers, first starred in a couple of
well-known drama films at the Famous Players Film Company and the World
Film Company in 1915, later became a well-known supporting player at
the Paramount Film Company through the 1920s until his last film 'The
Bishop's Candlesticks in 1929. - Jean Jarvis was born on 23 May 1903 in Denver, Colorado, USA. She was an actress, known for Casey of the Coast Guard (1926), The Little Giant (1926) and Fear-Bound (1925). She died on 16 March 1933 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Lost her father in the age of four, and her family moved to Kristiania,
now Oslo. On stage from 1908, she became an actress at Det Norske
Teatret from the start in 1913, a leading actress there for many years.
At her best in comedy, often with a grotesque way of acting, which made
her very popular among the audience. From 1929 until her untimely death
of a lung disease in 1934, she was engaged at Det Nye Teater, also in
Oslo.
Mother of actress Turid Haaland, (1908-1979) and sister of stage
actress Mary Carenius Magnussen (1886-1969). - Actor
- Soundtrack
Dranem was born on 23 May 1869 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Monsieur Sans-Gêne (1935), Le malade imaginaire (1934) and J'ai l'noir ou Le suicide de Dranem (1929). He was married to Suzette O'Nil, Ana Ruiz y Miyares and Lucie Ysembert. He died on 13 October 1935 in Paris, France.- Delaunay was born on 23 May 1854 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Marion de Lorme (1918), En détresse (1917) and Le diamant noir (1913). He died on 15 May 1937 in Saint-Raphaël, Var, France.
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Cinematographer
Nelson Laraby was born on 23 May 1887 in Point Sable, Michigan, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for Frozen River (1929), Oh! What a Nurse! (1926) and The Lady Who Dared (1930). He died on 7 November 1937 in Burbank, California, USA.- Warren Cook was born on 23 May 1878 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Seven Keys to Baldpate (1917), The Streets of Illusion (1917) and A Doll's House (1918). He died on 2 May 1939 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Douglas Fairbanks was born Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman in Denver, Colorado, to Ella Adelaide (nee Marsh) and Hezekiah Charles Ullman, an attorney and native of Pennsylvania, who was a captain for the Union forces during the Civil War. Fairbanks' paternal grandparents were German Jewish immigrants, while his mother, a Southerner with roots in Louisiana and Georgia, was of British Isles descent. From the age of five he was raised by his mother due to her husband's abandonment. She changed her sons' surnames to Fairbanks (her former husband's surname) and covered up their paternal Jewish ancestry.
He began amateur theater at age 12 and continued while attending the Colorado School of Mines. In 1900 they moved to New York. He attended Harvard, traveled to Europe, worked on a cattle freighter, in a hardware store and as a clerk on Wall Street. He made his Broadway
debut in 1902 and five years later left theater to marry an industrialist's daughter.
He returned when his father-in-law went broke the next year. In 1915, he went to Hollywood and worked under a reluctant D.W. Griffith. The following year he formed his own production company. During a Liberty Bond tour with Charles Chaplin he fell in love with Mary Pickford with whom he, Chaplin and Griffith had formed United Artists in 1919. He made very successful early social comedies, then highly popular swashbucklers during the 'twenties. The owners of Hollywood's Pickfair Mansion separated in 1933 and divorced in 1936. In March 1936, he married and retired from acting.- Carlton Griffin was born on 23 May 1893 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Great Jewel Robbery (1925), The Painted Flapper (1924) and Girl Shy (1924). He was married to Verna Irene Bell and Pauline Saxon. He died on 24 July 1940 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Felix Powell was born on 23 May 1878 in St. Asaph, Flintshire, Wales, UK. He is known for Chalet Girl (2011), Darling Lili (1970) and Sapphire & Steel (1979). He died on 10 February 1942 in Peacehaven, East Sussex, England, UK.- J. Storer Clouston was born on 23 May 1870 in Cumbria, England, UK. J. Storer was a writer, known for The Mystery of No. 47 (1917), U-Boat 29 (1939) and The Lunatic at Large (1921). J. Storer died on 23 June 1944 in Orphir, Orkney, Scotland, UK.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Lucha Reyes was born on 23 May 1906 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. She was an actress, known for ¡Ay Jalisco... no te rajes! (1941), Wild Flower (1943) and Song of the Soul (1938). She was married to Félix Martín Cervantes, Antonio Vega Medina and Gabriel Navarro. She died on 25 June 1944 in Mexico City, Mexico.- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Joe Ryan was born on 23 May 1887 in Crook County, Wyoming, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Passing of Black Eagle (1920), Smashing Barriers (1923) and Man of Might (1919). He was married to Helene Marjorie Ingersoll. He died on 23 December 1944 in Riverside, California, USA.- Actor
- Writer
- Additional Crew
George Rosener was born on 23 May 1879 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Sh! The Octopus (1937), The Secret of Treasure Island (1938) and I'll Sell My Life (1941). He was married to Adele R. Oswald (remarried), Adele R. Oswald and May Hillman. He died on 29 March 1945 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
- Writer
William R. Dunn was born on 23 May 1888 in Astoria, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Beyond the Law (1918), The Caballero's Way (1914) and The Secret Kingdom (1917). He died on 24 March 1946 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Art Department
Edward Benshoff was born on 23 May 1897 in Pennsylvania, USA. Edward died on 9 April 1946 in Alameda, California, USA.- Dallas Welford was born on 23 May 1872 in Liverpool, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Wedding Bells (1921), Count Macaroni (1915) and His Life for His Emperor (1913). He died on 28 September 1946 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
- Hans Frank was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, on May 23, 1900. At age 17
he joined the German army and fought in World War I. After the war he
got involved in the "freikorps" movement, extreme right-wing
paramilitary units that engaged in intimidation, extortion, street
brawls and political murders (many of these groups were later absorbed
into the SS when the Nazis came to power).
Frank joined the Nazi party and took part in the abortive "Beer Hall
Putsch" of 1923, when Adolf Hitler and a
small band of Nazi followers attempted, unsuccessfully, to overthrow
the Bavarian government. Frank later became a lawyer and a legal
advisor to both Hitler and the Nazi party. In 1930 he was elected to
the German parliament (Reichstag). Upon Hitler's ascension to German
Chancellor in 1933, Frank was appointed as Justice Minister in Bavaria.
In 1934, when Hitler moved against Ernst Röhm
and the "brownshirts" of the SA, whom he feared were planning to seize
power from him, Frank apparently objected to the summary executions of
many of the SA's leaders, but his objections were ignored and the
executions were carried out. As a result, Frank lost much of what
influence he had in the party organization.
When World War II broke out Frank was appointed Governor General of
Poland, and under his administration the infamous death camps were
utilized as part of the Nazis' "Final Solution" program of
exterminating European Jews, which resulted in the death of millions of
Jews, Gypsies and other "undesirables". Also under his administration,
the SS and Gestapo were known to have committed horrific atrocities
against Polish civilians whom they suspected of being involved with the
Polish resistance, including mass rapes, liquidation of entire
villages, massacres of women and children and wholesale deportations to
concentration camps (at his trial after the war Frank denied any and
all knowledge of those incidents and placed the blame on
Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS).
Frank was captured by Allied forces in May of 1945 and placed on trial
with other high Nazi officials at the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal,
charged with, among other things, crimes against humanity. He was found
guilty and sentenced to death. Before the sentence was carried out he
converted to Roman Catholicism, and finally admitted his involvement in
the carrying out of the Holocaust, among other things, and asked to be
forgiven. He was hanged on October 1, 1946. - Seabiscuit was born on 23 May 1933 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA. He died on 17 May 1947 in Willits, California, USA.
- A.C. Fotheringham-Lysons was born on 23 May 1867 in Skene, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for The Elusive Pimpernel (1919), The Scourge (1922) and The Amateur Gentleman (1920). He died on 8 October 1947 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Producer
- Production Manager
Ben Silvey was born on 23 May 1894 in New York, USA. He was an assistant director and producer, known for Within These Walls (1945), Clive of India (1935) and The Song of the Flame (1930). He was married to Vivien ?. He died on 7 February 1948 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Malcolm 'Bud' McTaggart was born on 23 May 1910 in Covington, Nebraska, USA. He was an actor, known for Last Frontier Uprising (1947), Heldorado (1946) and No Greater Sin (1941). He was married to Elrene Catherine Stein and Pamela Blake. He died on 29 May 1949 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actor
Jack Worth was born on 23 May 1911 in Iowa, USA. He was an actor. He died on 19 August 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
- Soundtrack
George Jackley was born on 23 May 1884 in New York, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Bindle's Garden Party (2017), Variety (1936) and Cabaret (1936). He was married to Annie Scorer. He died on 26 January 1950 in Horsell, Surrey, England, UK.- Sofía Haller was born on 23 May 1882 in Cuautla, Morelos, Mexico. She was an actress, known for La guerra de los pasteles (1944), Irma la mala (1936) and Two Monks (1934). She was married to Alfredo Varela padre and Fernando Méndez Velázquez. She died on 23 June 1950 in Mexico D.F., Mexico.
- Max Davidson was born on 23 May 1875 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for A Daughter of the Poor (1917), Don Quixote (1915) and The Johnstown Flood (1926). He was married to Alice Marti. He died on 4 September 1950 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Vester Pegg was born on 23 May 1887 in Appleton City, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Bare Fists (1919), The Struggle (1921) and The Secret Man (1917). He was married to Nina L. ?. He died on 19 February 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Editor
- Actor
Fred Burnworth was born on 23 May 1895 in Ohio, USA. He was an editor and actor, known for The Silent Avenger (1927), Hay que casar al príncipe (1931) and Battling Bunyan (1924). He died on 12 April 1951 in Bellflower, California, USA.- Dániel Skultéty was born on 23 May 1897. He was an actor, known for Zenélö malom (1943), Magdolna (1942) and Pénz áll a házhoz (1939). He died on 27 April 1951 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Douglas Bronston was born on 23 May 1887 in Richmond, Kentucky, USA. He was a writer, known for Redheads Preferred (1926), The Thrill Hunter (1926) and Husband Hunters (1927). He died on 9 July 1951 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
- Fran Lipah was born on 23 May 1892 in Dobrunje pri Ljubljani, Slovenia. He was an actor, known for Kekec (1951) and Jugoslovanska knjigarna (1940). He died on 30 April 1952 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Zygmunt Noskowski was born on 23 May 1880. He was an actor, known for Tyrannenherrschaft (1916) and Panna z mokra glowa (1995). He died on 15 September 1952 in Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland.- Theodor Komisarjevsky was born on 23 May 1882 in Venice, Italy. He was a director, known for Vdova (1918) and Yellow Stockings (1928). He was married to Peggy Ashcroft, Elfriede de Jarosy and Ernestine Stodelle. He died on 17 April 1954 in Darien, Connecticut, USA.
- Erzsi Hont was born on 23 May 1901 in Szeged, Hungary. She was an actress, known for Erzsébet királyné (1940). She died on 25 April 1954 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Actor
- Cinematographer
- Art Director
Gleb Bushtuyev was born on 23 May 1903 in Pavlovsk, St. Petersburg Governorate, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was an actor and cinematographer, known for Fragment of an Empire (1929), Zhizn na polnyj hod (1930) and Nashi devushki (1930). He died on 7 September 1954 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia].- Art Director
- Additional Crew
- Art Department
John Hughes was born on 23 May 1882 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He was an art director, known for The Thing from Another World (1951), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) and Sergeant York (1941). He was married to Corinne Hughes. He died on 2 October 1954 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- John Traynor was born on 23 May 1875 in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England, UK. He was an actor, known for A Clown Must Laugh (1936) and Men of Tomorrow (1932). He died on 1 October 1955 in Cheltenham, England, UK.
- Gretchen Lederer was born on 23 May 1891 in Cologne, Germany. She was an actress, known for The Silent Lady (1917), The Grasp of Greed (1916) and Beauty in Chains (1918). She was married to Otto Lederer and Lewis Haney. She died on 20 December 1955 in Anaheim, California, USA.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Howard Gaye was born on 23 May 1878 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, UK. He was an actor and director, known for The Birth of a Nation (1915), Restitution (1918) and Intolerance (1916). He was married to Ida Montana Marguerite Stallman and Julia Henrietta Battrick Reunert. He died on 26 December 1955 in Willesden, London, England, UK.- Robert Hine was born on 23 May 1882 in Maryport, Cumbria, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The New Waiter (1930). He died on 15 February 1956 in Beckenham, Kent, England, UK.
- Actor
- Writer
- Music Department
Willy Prager was born on 23 May 1877 in Kattowitz, Upper Silesia, Germany. He was an actor and writer, known for Um eine Nasenlänge (1931), Die Nacht ohne Pause (1931) and Um eine Nasenlänge (1949). He died on 4 March 1956 in West Berlin, West Germany.- Tom Corless was born on 23 May 1879 in Kinvarra, County Galway, Ireland. He was an actor, known for The Blue Bird (1918) and Alice in Wonderland (1931). He died on 3 July 1956 in Hempstead, New York, USA.