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- Composer
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Rikard Nordraak was born on 12 June 1842 in Christiania, Norway. He was a composer, known for The Moon Is Down (1943), Rikard Nordraak (1945) and Mot nya tider (1939). He died on 20 March 1866 in Berlin, Germany.- Zsigmond Kemény was born on 12 June 1814 in Alvinc, Hungary [now Vintul de Jos, Romania]. He was a writer, known for Özvegy és leánya (1983). He died on 22 December 1875 in Pusztakamarás, Hungary [now Camarasu, Romania].
- Johanna Spyri was born on 12 June 1827 in Hirzel, Switzerland. She was a writer, known for Heidi (1937), S'Waisechind vo Engelberg (1956) and Bonjour jeunesse (1957). She was married to Johann Bernhard Spyri. She died on 7 July 1901 in Zurich, Switzerland.
- Richard Henry Savage was born on 12 June, 1846, at Utica, New York, the son of Richard (1817-1903) and Jane Moorhead Savage (née Ewart). His father was a lawyer who became famous as one of the discoverers of the Comstock Lode in Nevada. During the Civil War he served in the Lincoln administration as Internal Revenue Collector and Federal Assessor. Savage's father is also remembered as one of the founders of the Californian Republican Party.
As a young boy growing up in San Francisco, Savage was among the first students there to be able to attend public school. At the age of twenty-two he graduated toward the top of his class at West Point Military Academy and soon saw service in the American West on the staffs of former Civil War generals, Henry Halleck (1815-1872), Edward Ord (1818-1883), George Thomas (1816-1870) and John Schofield (1831-1906). Between 1871 and 1872 he served as a Major in the Egyptian Army as Military Secretary to former American General Charles Pomeroy Stone (1824 -1887), who at that time was Chief of Staff and General aide-de-camp to Isma'il Pasha (1830-1895), Khedive of Egypt and Sudan. Later Savage served as American Vice-Counsel in Marseilles and Rome and was appointed to a commission investigating a border dispute between the United States and Mexico. After his retirement from government service in 1884, Savage traveled extensively carrying out geographical studies in Japan, China, Korea, Russia, Turkey, the Mid East, and Honduras. Some have suggested that the 1930s and 1940s pulp hero, Doc Savage, was at least in part based on the eventful life of Richard Henry Savage.
In civilian life Savage was a lawyer, but eventually writing became his chief occupation. Of the over 40 books he wrote, "My Official Wife", Delilah of Harlem", "The Mask of Venus", "Our Mysterious Passenger and Other Stories" and "In the Shadow of the Pyramids", a biography of Isma'il Pasha were among his most popular. Savage published some thirty volumes of prose and poetry along with several more volumes of essays and speeches culled from his many speaking engagements.
On 2 January, 1873, Savage married Mme. Anna Josephine Schible (1843-1910), a recently widowed German aristocrat. The wedding took place at the German Embassy in Washington, D.C., where Baron Schlozer, the German Ambassador, was the witness of honor for the bride. Their only child, a daughter, later married Anatol de Carriere, the Russian Imperial Councilor of State.
Savage volunteered during the American war with Spain and served with distinction in Cuba as senior Captain of the 27th U.S. Volunteer Infantry. After the war he was appointed Brigadier General and Chief Engineer of Spanish War Veterans.
Richard Henry Savage died on 11 October, 1903, eight days after a horse and wagon ran over him at the corner of 6th Avenue and 42nd Street in New York City. Ironically his 86 year old father passed away in San Francisco on the same day his son was fatally struck down. - Jakub Arbes was born on 12 June 1840 in Prague, Bohemia, Austrian Empire. He was a writer, known for Sivooký démon (1919), Ukrizovaná (1921) and Stedrý den bratrí Mánesu (1981). He died on 8 April 1914 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary.
- Pol Plancon was born on 12 June 1854 in Fumay, Ardennes, France. He was an actor, known for Lucia di Lammermoor (1911). He died on 12 August 1914 in Paris, France.
- Georges Demenÿ was inventor, chronophotgrapher, filmmaker and gymnast born at Douai, France. After studying at Douai and Lille, he reached Paris and enrolled in the physiology course of Étienne-Jules Marey, quickly becoming one of the scientist's closest associates. Together they established a programme of research which was to lead to the creation of the 'Station Physiologique', which opened in 1882 in the Bois de Boulogne. Demenÿ was Marey's assistant there, and the two researchers produced a considerable body of work, photographing human and animal movement using sequential photography (chronophotography). The 'film' career of Marey and Demenÿ really began in 1888 when Marey's camera recorded on a sensitive strip several series of images. From 1890 they were using celluloid film. On 3 March 1892, Demenÿ filed a patent for the Phonoscope, an apparatus for glass discs with a series of chronophotographic images on their circumference which could be projected using a powerful Molteni lantern. After the Phonoscope was successfully presented at the Exposition Internationale de Photographie de Paris (1892), Demenÿ dreamed of commercialising chronophotography, and pushed Marey to order the manufacture of six cameras intended for sale. Relations between them soured when Demenÿ formed, in December 1892, the Société de Phonoscope. Marey refused to co-operate in this enterprise, so Demenÿ devised his own camera, inventing the 'beater' mechanism - used in many later projectors - to move the film. In 1894 Demenÿ was dismissed from the Station Physiologique. He installed himself at Levallois-Perret, rue Chaptal, and made about a hundred very diverse Phonoscope scenes. On 22 August 1895 Demenÿ and sleeping partner Léon Gaumont signed their first contract, and in November the Phonoscope (renamed Bioscope) was offered for sale. Early in 1896, the Biographe camera using 60 mm unperforated film was also on offer. Projection by means of Phonoscope/Bioscope discs offered a very brief entertainment. The Biographe camera was already archaic in 1896, in contrast to those of Lumière or de Bedts, and Demenÿ's machines were a financial failure. However, Gaumont exploited Demenÿ's principle of the beater movement with great success, and Demenÿ entrused to him the financial battle of cinematography, returning to his first passion, gymnastics.
- Kate Lester was born on 12 June 1857 in Souldham Trope, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923), The Gay Lord Quex (1919) and His Royal Highness (1918). She died on 12 October 1924 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Roi Cooper Megrue was born on 12 June 1882 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Seven Chances (1925), It Pays to Advertise (1931) and The Bachelor (1999). He died on 27 February 1927 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Klaus Berntsen was born on 12 June 1844 in Eskildstrup, Ringe, Denmark. He died on 27 March 1927 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Writer
- Producer
- Additional Crew
James Oliver Curwood was born on 12 June 1878 in Owosso, Michigan, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Code of the Mounted (1935), Back to God's Country (1919) and Valley of Terror (1937). He was married to Ethel Greenwood and Cora Leon Johnson. He died on 13 August 1927 in Owosso, Michigan, USA.- William Bechtel was born on 12 June 1867 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Three Musketeers: Part 1 (1911), The Lurking Peril (1919) and It Is Never Too Late to Mend (1913). He was married to Mrs. William Bechtel. He died on 27 October 1930 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Director
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Ferris Hartman was born on 12 June 1862 in Crawfordsville, Indiana, USA. He was a director and writer, known for A Phantom Husband (1917), A Laundry Clean-Up (1917) and The Stone Age (1917). He was married to Josephine Davies. He died on 1 September 1931 in San Francisco, California, USA.- Actor
- Director
Jack Lloyd was born on 12 June 1885 in Manchester, England, UK. He was an actor and director, known for Listen Lena (1927), Casey Jones, Jr. (1923) and Fully Equipped (1927). He was married to Irene Hope Facey. He died on 20 May 1933 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Bill Denver was born on 12 June 1901 in Ravenswood, West Virginia, USA. He died on 28 May 1933 in Speedway, Indiana, USA.
- Ramsey Wallace was born on 12 June 1883 in Anderson, South Carolina, USA. He was an actor, known for The Extra Girl (1923), A Voice in the Dark (1921) and The Drivin' Fool (1923). He was married to Esther Donders Wallace. He died on 26 August 1933 in Manhattan, New York, USA.
- Wilhelm Meyer-Förster was born on 12 June 1862 in Hanover, Kingdom of Hanover [now Lower Saxony, Germany]. He was a writer, known for The Student Prince (1954), Old Heidelberg (1915) and Alt Heidelberg (1923). He was married to Elsbeth. He died on 17 March 1934 in Heringsdorf, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
- Frank Losee was born on 12 June 1856 in Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Old Homestead (1915), Seven Keys to Baldpate (1917) and Sinners (1920). He was married to Marion Elmore. He died on 14 November 1937 in Yonkers, New York, USA.
- Ivo Badalic was born on 12 June 1890 in Agram, Croatia, Austria-Hungary [now Zagreb, Croatia]. He was an actor, known for A napraforgós hölgy (1918), Matija Gubec (1919) and Brisem i sudim (1919). He died on 20 November 1937 in Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia [now Croatia].
- Edward Verrall Lucas was born on 12 June 1868. Edward Verrall was a writer, known for The Face on the Wall (2018) and Das Gesicht auf der Wand (1983). Edward Verrall died on 26 June 1938.
- Will "Kid" Herman came out of Kansas City as a dancer and piano player; around the time of America's entry into World War I, he moved west to Los Angeles and soon became involved in the motion picture world; for a number of years he appeared in numerous bit parts in major motion pictures; as well as securing bit parts and small speaking roles for blacks; he also was a noted still photographer and cinematographer. He supplemented his work in movies by shooting "thousands of feet of film around local happenings and the like," and then traveling the country exhibiting the finished newsreels, short subjects and features in movie theaters, community halls, churches and schools, while attempting to raise funding for his next project. After years of ill health, Herman was found dead after a fall from the fourth floor of the Los Angeles General Hospital; he had recently discovered that the "arthritis" he had been suffering from was actually bone cancer.
- Mrs. William Bechtel was born on 12 June 1861 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Birth of the Star Spangled Banner (1914), Abe Gets Even with Father (1911) and The Purple Lady (1916). She was married to William Bechtel. She died on 21 October 1938 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Roger Graham was born on 12 June 1885 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He is known for The Suicide Squad (2021), We Own the Night (2007) and Raging Bull (1980). He died on 25 October 1938 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.- Production Manager
- Location Management
- Producer
Eugen Kürschner was born on 12 June 1890 in Budapest. He was a production manager and producer, known for Prinz Louis Ferdinand (1927), Boykott (1930) and Fruchtbarkeit (1930). He died on 2 March 1939 in Italy.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Jennie Robins was born on 12 June 1893 in Kensington, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for One Precious Year (1933). She died on 4 September 1939 in Hendon, London, England, UK.- Leonora Ainsworth was born on 12 June 1871 in Michigan, USA. She was a writer, known for The Madcap (1916), The Masked Substitute (1915) and The Devil and Idle Hands (1915). She was married to William C. Dowlan and Walter Irving Towne. She died on 8 September 1939 in California, USA.
- Writer
- Director
Mikhail Koltsov was born on 12 June 1898 in Kiev, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]. He was a writer and director, known for Life Is Beautiful (1930), Loshadi v okeane (1989) and Punainen Suomi (1918). He was married to Maria Osten, Elizabeth Ratmanova and Vera Yureneva. He died on 2 February 1940 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Oliver Lodge was born on 12 June 1851 in Penkhull, Staffordshire, England, UK. He died on 22 August 1940 in Wiltshire, England, UK.
- Grace Goodall was born on 12 June 1889 in San Francisco, California, USA. She was an actress, known for California Straight Ahead! (1937), Moonlight and Honeysuckle (1921) and Defying Destiny (1923). She died on 27 September 1940 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Maverick Terrell was born on 12 June 1875 in Indiana, USA. He was a writer, known for The Vagabond (1916), The Floorwalker (1916) and The Fireman (1916). He died on 16 August 1943 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Estery Ericsson was born on 12 June 1887 in Madesjö, Sweden. She was an actress, known for Då länkarna smiddes (1939) and Gustaf Wasa del I (1928). She died on 1 November 1943 in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Sid Walker was born on 12 June 1908 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Flippen's Frolics (1936). He died on 21 April 1944 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Percy Parsons was born on 12 June 1872 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was an actor, known for The Good Companions (1933), Criminal at Large (1932) and A Blonde Dream (1932). He was married to Natalie Lynn. He died on 3 October 1944 in St. Stephen's Hospital, Chelsea, London, England, UK.
- Cinematographer
- Executive
Fred Held was born on 12 June 1867 in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. Fred was a cinematographer and executive, known for The Glory of Yolanda (1917), The Girl in His House (1918) and An American Live Wire (1918). Fred died on 5 January 1945 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.- Tibor Berky was born on 12 June 1928 in Budapest, Hungary. He was an actor, known for Álomsárkány (1939) and Tomi (1936). He died on 15 January 1945 in Felixdorf, Austria.
- Enid was born in Monkseaton, Whitley Bay, Northumberland on the 12th June 1904 and educated as a boarder at Polam Hall School in Darlington between 1912 and 19. Success in a beauty contest while at school led her to study for the theatre. She made her theatrical debut in the chorus of 'A - Z' at the Prince of Wales theatre in London in 1922. Her film debut came in 1937 in 'Feather Your Nest'. She was also seen in 'Underneath the Arches' and 'The Wicked Lady'. She died on February 13th 1946 after falling at her home.
- Stuart Robson was born on 12 June 1892 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Harvest Moon (1920) and Should a Wife Work? (1922). He was married to Kathleen Jean Moore (actress) and Yvette Ledoux. He died on 21 August 1946 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Carlo Veneziani was born on 12 June 1882 in Leporano, Puglia, Italy. He was a writer, known for Validità giorni dieci (1940), The Ancestor (1936) and La mia vita sei tu (1934). He died on 17 January 1950 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.
- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Songwriter ("Mama Inez"), composer and author, educated at the Cons. Nacional de Musica in Havana. In 1920, he conducted a theatrical group and toured Mexico and Central America, then founded his own troupe to perform his own compositions. At the Seville Expos, he was awarded the Gold Medal for folklore compositions, and then he went on to score films in France, Mexico and Cuba. His stage scores include "La Virgen Morena", "Nina Rita", and "La Camagueyana". Joining ASCAP in 1937, his chief musical collaborators included Al Stillman, Bickley Reichner, Marion Sunshine, Nat Burton, and Walter Kent. His other popular-song compositions include "Habanera", "Lamento Esclavo", "Facundo", "Rica Pulpa", "Spic and Spanish", "True and Sincere Love", "I'll Always Remember", "Cuba de mi Vida", "The Lady Likes to Love", "Congo Conga", and "Viena la Conga".- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Director
Stanley Logan was born on 12 June 1885 in Earlsfield, London, England, UK. He was an actor and director, known for Captain Blood (1935), International Lady (1941) and Sword in the Desert (1949). He was married to Alice E. Hirst and Odette Myrtil. He died on 30 January 1953 in New York City, New York, USA.- Actor
- Stunts
- Additional Crew
George Plues was born on 12 June 1895 in Salem, Washington County, Indiana. He was an actor, known for The Call of the Heart (1928), Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground (1943) and Ragtime Cowboy Joe (1940). He was married to Lillian Grotewold. He died on 16 August 1953 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
Joe Bacon was born on 12 June 1890 in Houma, Louisiana, USA. He was an actor. He died on 2 November 1953 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Born in Canada, Sam De Grasse entered films in 1912 and specialized in playing thoroughly disreputable, nasty, slimy bad guys. Douglas Fairbanks was so impressed with De Grasse's villainy that he used the actor in several of his more memorable productions. He wasn't the only member of the De Grasse family in films, though. His brother Joseph De Grasse was an actor and director, and his nephew Robert De Grasse was a cinematographer.
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Composer, songwriter ("For Me and My Gal"), author and producer. He wrote the Broadway stage scores for "The Never Homes", "The Hen Pecks", "Hokey-Pokey", "Hanky-Panky", "Roly-Poly", "All Aboard", "The Pleasure Seekers", and "Hitchy-Koo" (he also was a co-producer), between 1917 and 1918, and also "George White's Scandals of 1922". He produced the Broadway musicals "As You Were", "The French Doll", "Little Miss Bluebeard", "Paris", "Fifty Million Frenchmen", and "The New Yorkers". He was a charter member of ASCAP in 1914, and was a director until 1917. His chief musical collaborators included Silvio Hein, A. Baldwin Sloane, Raymond Hubbell, George Meyer, Pete Wendling, Jean Schwartz, George Gershwin and Edgar Leslie. His other popular-song compositions include "Who'll Buy My Violets?", "Argentina", "Let's Be Lonesome Together", "So This Is Love", "Don't Go In the Lion's Cage Tonight", "If You Could Care", "Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula", "The Life of a Rose", "Meet Me in the Shadows", "The Land of Going to Be", and "Boom".- Carlton Wright Miles was born on 12 June, 1884 in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, the son of George C. and Harriet R. Miles. His father, who was born in Vermont around 1850, worked for a number of years as a druggist in Fergus Falls.
Miles was a graduate of the University of Minnesota and later worked as a drama critic for the Minneapolis Journal. Early in his career he studied theater in Europe and had contributed articles to London newspapers. In 1913 he wrote his first play, "Mose", a humorous take on college life and had collaborated with John Colton on the play "The Flitting Lady".
For the last eighteen years of her life Miles was active in productions put on by the Lakewood Summer Theatre in Skowhegan, Maine. During this time he also worked as a theatrical press agent for Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. At the time of his death he was preparing to travel to Boston in advance of their play "Quadrille".
Carlton Miles is probably best remembered as one of the four playwrights of "Nine Pine Street", a play about Lizzy Borden that was produced in 1933 starring Lillian Gish. He was also known for the plays "Portrait of Gilbert", "The Eldest" with Eugenia Courtwright and "Lady Gangster with Dorothy Mackaye. Miles had also authored the book "History of the Iron Range of Minnesota".
Carlton Wright Miles died of a heart attack on 18 September, 1954 at his residence at the Dauphin Hotel located on Broadway and Sixty-seventh street in New York. - Isabel Bonner was born on 12 June 1907 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for Suspense (1949), The Shrike (1955) and The Philco Television Playhouse (1948). She died on 1 July 1955 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Betty van Es was born on 12 June 1900 in Brussels, Belgium. She was an actress, known for Bet trekt de 100.000 (1926) and Les anges sont parmi nous (1949). She died on 23 July 1955 in Bosvoorde, Belgium.
- William Woodward was born on 12 June 1920 in New York City, New York, USA. He was married to Ann Woodward. He died on 31 October 1955 in Oyster Bay, New York, USA.
- James Adamson was born on 12 June 1896 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Jungle Siren (1942), Dark Manhattan (1937) and Sophie Lang Goes West (1937). He died on 29 January 1956 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actor
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
George M. Williamson was born on 12 June 1885 in Liverpool, England, UK. He was an actor and cinematographer, known for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916), The Submarine Eye (1917) and How Life Begins (1916). He was married to Ruth. He died on 23 May 1956 in Denver, Colorado, USA.