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- Wladislaus Dyniewicz was born on 13 June 1843 in Chwalkowo, Poland. He was married to Alebertina Dyniewicz. He died on 9 February 1928 in Cook County, Illinois, USA.
- Director
- Actor
- Animation Department
Lancelot Speed was born on 13 June 1860 in Barnes, London, England, UK. He was a director and actor, known for She (1917), Over the Edge of the World (1921) and Bully Boy (1914). He died on 31 December 1931 in Deal, Kent, England, UK.- Hjalmar Nortamo was born on 13 June 1860 in Rauma, Finland. He was a writer, known for Eulalia-täti (1940). He was married to Lydia Wilhelmina Palmroth. He died on 30 November 1931.
- Juan A. Caicedo was born on 13 June 1861 in Popayau, Cauca, Colombia. He died in May 1920 in Barcelona, Spain.
- Costume Designer
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon, famous as "Lucile", was a top fashion designer with a clientele of royalties, socialites and entertainment celebrities. Her firm, "Lucile, Ltd," flourished from the turn of the century into the early 1920s. Lady Duff Gordon is best remembered for her work in the performing arts. She costumed the operetta "The Merry Widow" on the London stage (1907), the "Ziegfeld Follies" revues (1915-1921) on Broadway, and such early silent films as "The Perils of Pauline" (1914) and "Way Down East" (1920). As a designer, she is credited with staging the first runway shows, promoting romantic lingerie and introducing the slit skirt. A sister of novelist/ screenwriter Elinor Glyn, Lady Duff Gordon was a survivor of the "Titanic" disaster (1912).- Writer
- Additional Crew
- Soundtrack
William Butler Yeats was born on 13 June 1865 in Sandymount, County Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]. He was a writer, known for Valentines. A Bouquet of Letters and Poetry of Lovers (1994), Dancing at Lughnasa (1998) and Echoes. He was married to Georgiana Hyde-Lees. He died on 28 January 1939 in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France.- Director
- Writer
Thomas N. Heffron was born on 13 June 1872 in Virginia City, Nevada, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Gretna Green (1915), The Scales of Justice (1914) and A Man's Fight (1919). He was married to Mrs. Thomas N. Heffron. He died on 24 May 1951 in San Francisco, California, USA.- Slight, birdlike Jean Adair came to the screen after playing a succession of crotchety or maternal roles on the stage. She was born Violet McNaughton in Ontario, Canada, and absolved her acting studies in Chicago. After extensive touring with local stock companies and a few seasons on the vaudeville Orpheum Circuit performing in one-act plays, she landed a starring role on Broadway in the 1922 comedy hit "It's a Boy!". From then on, she was never out of work.
The screen, alas, saw very little of Jean Adair. She danced a waltz with Gene Kelly in a minor musical, Living in a Big Way (1947). Otherwise, we remember her from her one indelible performance, a role she created for the original stage version of the long-running black farce and subsequent film version, Arsenic and Old Lace (1944): as Martha Brewster, one of two goofy spinster aunts (the other was Josephine Hull), who dispatch lonely old geezers by poisoning their elderberry wine. - Lee Willard was born on 13 June 1873 in Peoria, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Flame Fighter (1925), Sophie's Fatal Wedding (1914) and The Calling of Jim Barton (1914). He died on 9 December 1940 in San Francisco, California, USA.
- Actress
- Art Department
- Production Manager
Karin Swanström was born on 13 June 1873 in Norrköping, Östergötlands län, Sweden. She was an actress and production manager, known for June Night (1940), Kalle Utter (1925) and Flickan i frack (1926). She was married to Stellan Claësson. She died on 5 July 1942 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Wharton James was born on 13 June 1873 in Kentucky, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Call from the Wild (1921), Pollyanna (1920) and Almost Married (1919). He died on 18 November 1943 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Jean Adair was born on 13 June 1873 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. She was an actress, known for In the Name of the Law (1922). She died on 11 May 1953 in New York, New York, USA.
- Wharton Jones was born on 13 June 1873 in Kentucky, USA. He was an actor, known for The Unborn (1916), $5, 000 Reward (1918) and When a Girl Loves (1919). He died on 18 November 1943 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Leopoldo Lugones was born on 13 June 1874 in Río Seco, Córdoba, Argentina. He was a writer, known for La guerra gaucha, The Gaucho War (1942) and Los especiales de Doria (1996). He was married to Juana Agudelo. He died on 18 February 1938 in Tigre, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Joana Pereira was born on 13 June 1874 in Madras, India. She was an actress, known for Seeing Is Believing (1934), Strange Experiment (1937) and Venetian Nights (1931). She died on 29 April 1952 in West Wickham, Kent, England, UK.
- Peggy Blackwood was born on 13 June 1874 in Clay County, Dakota Territory. She was an actress, known for Are All Men Alike? (1920), A Motion to Adjourn (1921) and Smiling All the Way (1920). She died on 27 February 1956 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actor
- Writer
Henry Seemann was born on 13 June 1875 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was an actor and writer, known for Den lille Danserinde (1918), Paa de vilde Vover (1915) and Manden med de ni Fingre III (1916). He was married to Agnes Nørlund Seemann. He died on 10 June 1948.- Music Department
- Composer
Max d'Ollone was born on 13 June 1875 in Besançon, Doubs, France. Max was a composer, known for The Erl King (1931) and Der Erlkönig (1931). Max died on 15 May 1959 in Paris, France.- Ma Ferguson was born on 13 June 1875 in Bell County, Texas, USA. She was married to James 'Pa' Ferguson. She died on 25 June 1961.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Irene Franklin was born on 13 June 1876 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Blazing Barriers (1937), Registered Nurse (1934) and Down to Their Last Yacht (1934). She was married to Jerry Overton Jarnigan and Burton Green. She died on 16 June 1941 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.- Art Director
- Art Department
- Writer
W.L. Heywood was born on 13 June 1876 in England. He was an art director and writer, known for The Son of the Wolf (1922), The Monster (1925) and The Leopard Woman (1920). He died on 24 April 1955 in Orange, California, USA.- Erik Scavenius was born on 13 June 1877 in Klintholm, Møn, Denmark. He was married to Alice Ninon Duvantier and Emma Eliza Hansen. He died on 29 November 1962 in Gentofte, Denmark.
- Ingolf Schanche was born on 13 June 1877 in Bergen, Norway. He was an actor, known for Sufragetten (1915), Menneskeskæbner (1915) and Proletargeniet (1914). He died on 15 April 1954.
- Elena Granovskaya was born on 13 June 1877 in Tver, Tver Governorate, Russian Empire [now Tver Oblast, Russia]. She was an actress, known for Granitsa (1935), Devochka i krokodil (1957) and Vragi (1953). She died on 15 June 1968 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia].
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Bert Dorris was born on 13 June 1878 in Pennsylvania, USA. He was an assistant director, known for La vie de Bohème (1916), The Invisible Bond (1919) and Driftwood (1916). He died on 5 November 1952 in North Hollywood, California, USA.- Ollie Burgoyne was born on 13 June 1878 in Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Laughter (1930) and The Timid Ghost (1937). She died on 2 April 1974 in Oxnard, California, USA.
- Director
- Writer
- Actress
Lois Weber, who had been a street-corner evangelist before entering motion pictures in 1905, became the first American woman movie director of note, and a major one at that. Herbert Blaché, the husband of Frenchwoman Alice Guy, the first woman to direct a motion picture (and arguably, the first director of either gender to helm a fictional narrative film), cast her in the lead of "Hypocrites" (1908). Weber first got behind the camera on A Heroine of '76 (1911), a silent that was co-directed by pioneering American director Edwin S. Porter and actor Phillips Smalley, who played George Washington. She also starred in the picture.
In 1914, a year in which she helmed 27 movies, Weber co-directed William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (1914) with Smalley, who also played Shylock, making her the first woman to direct a feature-length film in the US. (Jeanie Macpherson, who would play a major role in cinema as Cecil B. DeMille's favorite screenwriter, also acted in the film).
In the spirit of her evangelism, she began directing, writing and then producing films of social import, dealing with such themes as abortion, alcoholism, birth control, drug addiction and prostitution. By 1916 she had established herself as the top director at Universal Film Manufacturing (now Universal Studios), the top studio in America at the time, making her the highest-paid director in the world. The following year she formed Lois Weber Productions.
She directed over 100 films, but her production company went bankrupt in the 1920s as her career faltered. She did not make the transition to sound, although she did make one talkie, White Heat (1934), in 1934.- Ferenc Domokos was born on 13 June 1879 in Budapest, Hungary. He is known for A kancsuka hazájában (1918) and A vasgyáros (1917).
- Marie De Becker was born on 13 June 1880 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Mrs. Miniver (1942) and Random Harvest (1942). She died on 23 March 1946 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Actor
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
The prolific songwriter and bandleader Vincent Rose was born in the Sicilian town of Palermo in June 1880. He emigrated to the United States in 1897 at the age of seventeen, but returned to Italy to complete his musical studies (piano and violin). Once again back in the U.S., Rose was initially employed as a musical director working for a chain of Chicago hotels. He formed his own orchestra in Southern California sometime between 1904 and 1906 (accounts vary), establishing a residency at the fashionable Cafe Montmartre on Hollywood Boulevard (the band became henceforth known as the Montmartre Orchestra). Patrons included the wealthy and the famous. Actors Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle (on drums) and Tom Mix (on trumpet) occasionally gigged with the band and Harry Owens, future leader of the 'Royal Hawaiians', played trumpet and co-wrote the song "Linger Awhile" with Rose. The resulting hit broadened the band's appeal and opened doors for engagements at the Ritz-Carlton in New York and the College Inn in Chicago. Prominent members of the long-lived Montmartre Orchestra included Smith Ballew, Irving Kaufman and Chick Bullock.
Rose wrote many more successful tunes, often in collaboration with top songsmiths like Buddy G. DeSylva. Some of these were showcased on Broadway, notably in revues staged by the impresario Earl Carroll. Rose's most famous contributions as co-writer include "Whispering", "Avalon" and "Blueberry Hill", the latter a hit ballad for Glenn Miller in 1940, and, in 1956, an R&B mega hit for Fats Domino.
Rose quit the band scene in the mid-1930's to pursue other musical interests. He died in New York in May 1944 at the age of 63.- Actor
- Director
Glen White was born on 13 June 1880 in the USA. He is known for Camille (1917), Graft (1915) and The Darling of Paris (1917).- Sándor Horti was born on 13 June 1881 in Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary [now Oradea, Romania]. He was an actor, known for Böském (1914) and Hivatalnok urak (1919). He died on 26 November 1942 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Marta Májová was born on 13 June 1881 in Prague, Cechy, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Josef Kajetán Tyl (1926), Na vysoké stráni (1921) and Dve matky (1921). She died on 4 December 1970 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Riek Berkhout was born on 13 June 1881 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. She was an actress, known for Malle gevallen (1934). She was married to Kluizenaar. She died on 6 September 1968 in Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands.
- Roy Aitken was born on 13 June 1882 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA. He died on 28 October 1976 in Pewaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- Merta Sterling was born on 13 June 1883 in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, USA. She was an actress, known for Paid to Love (1927), Star Dust Trail (1924) and Women First (1924). She died on 14 March 1944 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Julius E. Herrmann was born on 13 June 1883 in Dresden, Saxony, Germany. He was an actor, known for Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922), The Armored Vault (1926) and Ein Burschenlied aus Heidelberg (1930). He died in 1977.
- Julius E. Hermann was born on 13 June 1883 in Dresden, Saxony, Germany. He was an actor, known for Palace Scandal (1948), Kora Terry (1940) and Um eine Nasenlänge (1931). He died in 1977.
- Editor
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
A. Carle Palm was born on 13 June 1883 in California, USA. A. Carle was an editor and writer, known for The Drums of Jeopardy (1923), The Monster (1925) and Omar the Tentmaker (1922). A. Carle died on 15 December 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Lotte Klein was born on 13 June 1883 in Hamburg, Germany. She was an actress, known for Miracles Still Happen (1951), Das Fräulein und der Vagabund (1949) and Bühne frei für Marika (1958). She died on 24 July 1962 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany.
- Elza Batízfalvy was born on 13 June 1883 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. She is known for Gyermekszív (1920).
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Additional Crew
Antoni Wawrzyniak was born on 13 June 1883 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. He was a cinematographer, known for Sto metrów milosci (1932), Powstanie Warszawskie (2014) and Szyb L-23 (1932). He died on 6 September 1954 in Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland.- Actress
Nora Allene Simmons was born and grew up in Zebulon, Georgia. For a time, she was a grammar school teacher in Stone Mountain. She began her career as an entertainer with a traveling Chautauqua troupe and later served as official storyteller for the Joel Chandler Harris Memorial Association in Atlanta. After briefly appearing on Broadway, she spent two years with Jane Addams at Hull House in Chicago.
In the 1920s, she became a staff artist at KGO radio in San Francisco. Although producers reportedly told her at first that she would never make it in radio or films if she did not lose her natural Southern accent, this proved not to be the case. Although she was white (Caucasian), she originated the "Colored Supplement" of NBC's Morning Magazine and wrote the "Magnolia, Henry and Charlie" episodes which provided the comedy features of the Wednesday morning program. She also wrote the Monday night feature, "Plantation Echoes".
In 1930, she accepted an invitation to Honolulu to appear as a guest artist on a radio station there. Instead, she returned to Atlanta temporarily due to homesickness. She soon returned to Los Angeles and radio, and later had several minor roles in motion pictures during the 1930s and 1940s.
Branching out into television roles, she still appeared in a few movies, even traveling to Italy in 1962 to appear as Marcello Mastroianni's grandmother in director Federico Fellini's 8½ (1963). Never having married, she retired in the late 1960s and returned to Georgia, living on Social Security until her death in 1980, aged 96.- Actor
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
- Costume Designer
Bert Offord was born on 13 June 1884 in England, UK. He was an actor and costume designer, known for A Boy, a Girl and a Dog (1946), Science Fiction Theatre (1955) and Hi-Jacked (1950). He died on 3 May 1961 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Mrs. Herbert Brenon was born on 13 June 1884 in Wisconsin, USA. She was an actress, known for Ivanhoe (1913), Executive Clemency (1911) and The Fallin' Out (1911). She was married to Herbert Brenon. She died on 19 November 1955 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
- Camera and Electrical Department
I.L. Williams was born on 13 June 1884 in Texas, USA. I.L. is known for A Doll's House (1922). I.L. died on 25 November 1955 in San Francisco, California, USA.- Music Department
- Composer
- Director
Composer, author, pianist, teacher and conductor, educated in New York public schools. He studied with Tali Esen Morgan, and led his own orchestra, while also teaching piano in Asbury Park, New York. Joining ASCAP in 1928, his song compositions include "Triestesse", "Gigue", "Amour Discret", Valse Frivole", "Magic Love", "The Fearless Suitor", "Marching Song of the Foreign Legion", "Chanson Algerian", "The Moorings", and "Sarabande".- Actor
- Soundtrack
William H. Strauss was born on 13 June 1885 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Golden Boy (1939), The Roaring Road (1926) and Millionaires (1926). He was married to Elizabeth M. Babcock. He died on 5 August 1943 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Kurt Brenkendorf was born on 13 June 1886 in Danzig, West Prussia, Germany [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. He was an actor and writer, known for Die Jagd nach dem Tode (1920), Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 4. Teil: Die Goldmine von Sar-Khin (1921) and Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 3. Teil: Der Mann im Dunkel (1921). He died on 10 September 1944 in Berlin, Germany.
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Art Hickman was born on 13 June 1886 in Oakland, California, USA. He is known for Music and Lyrics (2007), Mother of Mine (2005) and NDR Jazz Workshops (1958). He died on 16 January 1930 in San Francisco, California, USA.