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- Daniel M. Ransdell was born on 15 June 1842. He died on 28 November 1912.
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- Composer
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Edvard Hagerup Grieg (Greig) was born on on June 15, 1843, in Bergen, Norway. His father, named Alexander Greig (originally McGregor), was English consul of Scottish origin. His mother, named Gesine Hagerup, was an educated pianist. Grieg grew up among three sisters and an elder brother. He began piano studies with his mother at the age of six. His mother's brother-in-law, a famous violinist Ole Bull, recommended Grieg to study at the Leipzig Conservatory. From 1858-1862 he studied music in Leipzig under the tutelage of Ignaz Moscheles and graduated with honors. From 1863-1866 Grieg lived in Copenhagen, where he continued his music studies with 'Niels W. Gade'. He made progress towards Scandinavian folk music while being an apprentice of Rikard Nordraak. Soon Grieg emancipated himself from the German romantic tradition and grew towards the development of his original style. Grieg's harmonies became unorthodox, rich, and challenging for a public conditioned to classic compositions of Mozart and Haydn. During the winter of 1865-1866 he was in Rome, where he performed his music and earned a European reputation.
His love of the Norwegian folk culture and traditional melodies became evident in his compositions written after 1866, the year Grieg returned to Norway. He settled in Christiania (Oslo) and established himself as a music teacher and concert performer. At the same time Grieg became the founder of a concert society "Eutherpe" with a choir and a symphony orchestra. His collection of "Lyrical Pieces" for piano made him a fine reputation among musicians. Grieg was called the "Chopin of the North" by Hans Bulow. In 1867 Grieg married his cousin Nina Hagerup, and their only child died being only one year old. His famous Piano Concerto in A minor was completed in 1868 and performed in Copenhagen. With a letter of recommendation from Franz Liszt, Grieg received a state stipend for his studies in Italy and spent a winter of 1869-1870 in Rome. There Grieg performed his music and had meetings with Franz Liszt and other European musicians. His collaboration with Norwegian writer Bjornson also began in Rome. During the 1870's Grieg and Bjornson made several dramatic compositions together. In 1876 Grieg was asked by Henrik Ibsen to write the incidental music to "Peer Gynt", a play about the Norwegian folk hero. Later Grieg made two "Peer Gynt" Suites for concert performances, which scored international success.
In 1872 Grieg was made a member of the Royal Music Society in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1874 Grieg was awarded the state annual grant of 1600 kronen from the Norwegian Storthing. He quit teaching and returned to his hometown of Bergen. There he chose a natural environment for his work. Grieg composed much of his music among the picturesque landscape of forest, mountains, and sea at the Hardanger fjord. There he had a cottage with a Steinway baby grand piano. Grieg's admiration with serenity and beauty of the Norwegian landscapes was the essential part of his music. Grieg wrote music of a distinguished lyrical quality and emotional depth, which he expressed through refined melody lines and sophisticated harmonic changes. His symphonic "Norwegian dances" and "Norwegian peasant dances" allude to Scandinavian folk melodies. The "Peer Gynt" suites and such pieces as "Solvejg's Song" and "Ein Schwan" are characterized with power for creating pictures in the listener's mind, which made them suitable for many film scores.
From 1878-1880 Grieg and his wife Nina, a professional singer, went on a two-year journey. Grieg performed in many cities of Europe. He was giving performances of his Piano Concerto in London during the 1880s and 1890s. Grieg died on September 4, 1907, in Bergen, Norway, and was laid to rest in a mountain cave at his countryside estate in Troldhaugen, Norway. His wife Nina lived to the age of 90 and made Grieg's villa in Troldhaugen into a museum. A concert hall was built nearby to house the annual festivals of Grieg's music.- Henryk Grubinski was born on 15 June 1846 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Kobieta (1917) and Sad bozy (1911). He died on 14 March 1918 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Sol Smith Russell was the son of a Missouri preacher and the nephew of renowned actor, Sol Smith (1801-1869). Shortly before the outbreak of the American Civil War his family moved to Cairo, Illinois, where at the age of 14 Russell found work at a local theater as a bit actor, singer and drummer. Russell had been a drummer boy for a Cairo juvenile military organization and for a brief time served as a drummer boy for the 10 Illinois Infantry. Before he had turned eighteen, Russell joined a traveling theater group that would ultimately lead him to the theaters of New York. In 1874 he began a working relationship with the great Broadway producer Augustin Daly. Russell eventually formed his own acting company and became successful performing such plays as: "Edgewood Folks", "Felix McCusick", "A Poor Relation" and "Peaceful Valley".
In an 1894 interview, Russell revealed that his grandfather had been a drummer boy at the Battle of Bunker Hill and that another relative had served as a drummer boy aboard the frigate USS Constitution.
In 1876 Russell married Alice Adams (1856-1923), the daughter of author William Taylor Adams (1822-1897), who as Oliver Optic, became a successful writer of juvenile fiction.
On the morning of 26 February, 1891, one of the two office buildings he owned in Minneapolis burned to the ground. Upon receiving the news he refused to let it affect his comedic performance in that night's showing of "A Poor Relation". Sol Smith Russell was not only one of the greatest comic actors of his day, he was also one of the shrewdest. With an estate worth between two and three million dollars he had managed to become at the relatively young age of 54, one of the wealthiest entertainers in American. This success came despite the fact that, even though he was very popular throughout America, he never achieved a major success on the New York stage.
Sol Smith Russell died on 28 April, 1902 while staying at the Richmond Hotel in Washington, D.C. In December of the previous year he was forced to retire from the stage after being diagnosed with the disease Locomotor ataxia. His first symptoms appeared in 1899 when he broke down during a performance in Chicago and was unable to go on. Russell was survived by his wife Alice, daughter Alice and son, Robert. Both Russell and his wife are interned at the Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C. After his death, the city of Brunswick, Missouri renamed a city auditorium, the Russell Opera House (later the Russell Theater), in his honor. - Helen Prothero-Lewis was born on 15 June 1853 in Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK. She was a writer, known for As God Made Her (1920), The Silver Bridge (1920) and Love and a Whirlwind (1922). She died on 7 August 1946 in Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK.
- George Backus was born on 15 June 1857 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for The Third Degree (1919), The Gamblers (1919) and National Red Cross Pageant (1917). He was married to Louise Salather. He died on 22 May 1939 in Merrick, Long Island, New York, USA.
- Emil Stammer was born on 15 June 1858 in Potsdam, Germany. He was an actor, known for Das Skelett des Herrn Markutius (1920), Das Mädel von Pontecuculi (1924) and Du Mädel vom Rhein (1922). He died on 30 December 1926 in Berlin, Germany.
- Producer
- Cinematographer
Ödön Uher was born on 15 June 1859 in Nagyszeben, Hungary, Austria-Hungary. Ödön was a producer and cinematographer, known for Dr. Lauffen (1918), Becstelen becsület (1919) and Növérek (1912). Ödön died on 19 September 1931 in Budapest, Hungary.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink was born on 15 June 1861 in Lieben/Liben, Bohemia, Austrian Empire [now Prague, Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Here's to Romance (1935), Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink (1927) and Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco (1915). She was married to William Rapp Jr., Paul Schumann and Ernest Heink. She died on 17 November 1936 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Henry Vogel was born on 15 June 1863 in Mindszent, Hungary. He was an actor, known for The Spanish Dancer (1923). He died on 17 June 1925 in New York City, New York, USA.
- W.W.E. Gladden was a minister in the Baptist Church, as well as having served as Chaplain, with the rank of Captain, U.S. Army for the 24th United States Infantry Regiment from 1906 until retired in 1917. Born in South Carolina, he moved to Kansas as a young boy and worked in a flour mill before receiving the call to preach. He serviced the St. John's Baptist Church in Colorado Springs until he joined the Army in 1906. Captain Gladden served the 24th Infantry in the Philippines until 1915, when the 24th was deployed to Mexico as part of the American Expeditionary Force under General John J. Pershing in the attempt to capture Pancho Villa. Injuries sustained during this time led to Rev. Gladden's retirement in 1917. He lived in Los Angeles.
- Burr Caruth was born on 15 June 1865 in Carbondale, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Harvester (1936), The Devil Diamond (1937) and Tough to Handle (1937). He died on 2 June 1953 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
- Harry Keenan was born on 15 June 1867 in Richmond, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for The Strength of Donald McKenzie (1916), The Torch Bearer (1916) and The Waifs (1916). He died on 18 April 1944 in Santa Ana, California, USA.
- Brooke Warren was born on 15 June 1867 in Malmsbury, Victoria, Australia. Brooke was a writer, known for The Face at the Window (1932), The Face at the Window (1919) and The Face at the Window (1920). Brooke died on 5 August 1950 in Denville Hall, Northwood, London, England, UK.
- Konstantin Balmont was born on 15 June 1867 in Shuya, Vladimir Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ivanovo Oblast, Russia]. He was a writer, known for Constancy of Death (2017). He died on 23 September 1942 in Paris, France.
- Actress
- Writer
Elna From was born on 15 June 1869. She was an actress and writer, known for Elskovsbarnet (1914), Dødsklippen (1913) and Den forelskede Gullaschbaron (1917). She died on 5 July 1943.- William Norris was born on 15 June 1870 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922), The Go-Getter (1923) and My Man (1924). He was married to Mabel Mordaunt. He died on 20 March 1929 in West Bronxville, New York, USA.
- Fred Kitchen, the great and golden hearted artist was the creator of the sentence "Meredith, we have arrived!" - the last sentence in his famous comedy sketch "Moses and Son", which he went on tour with for many years.
He was one of Fred Karno's - The King of Vaudeville - leading comedians. And he could hang out with that he was the man who introduced the big, turned outward shoes, which later became Chaplin's- when he was asked why he never was on tour in USA, he said it was
He helped Chaplin get going when he took his first steps in his career. Kitchen, who was a master comedian himself, taught Chaplin the basis of comic stage art. As seven years old boy he got seven pence a week - in 1918 he got 450 pounds a week with Folies Bergère in Paris. He made the public laugh and cry, that was almost unique at that time. Perhaps that was the main reason for his big popularity.
Oposite to most successful vaudeville comedians at that time, he never really went in to the motion picture business. He appeared in one film in 1914 - a one-reeler called 'Freddie's Nightmare', very hard to find today. In the 30s and 40s he appeared as an extra in some few B-films.
Unlike most vaudeville comedians from the very early 1900s - most of them stopped acting at least in the early 1920s - he kept his popularity until he felt he was too old to continue, in 1945, aged 73. He died six years later. His son, Fred Kitchen Jr., continued in his father's footsteps. - Stanislawa Slubicka was born on 15 June 1874 in Pietno, Prussia, Germany [now Pietno, Wielkopolskie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Tredowata (1926), Zazdrosc (1922) and Zew morza (1927). She died on 8 May 1944 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Alfréd Drasche Lázár was born on 15 June 1875 in Dorog, Austrian empire [now Hungary]. He was a writer, known for Tüzpróba (1918). He died on 28 August 1949 in Meyerhofen, Austria.
- Actress
- Writer
Jean Hathaway was born on 15 June 1876 in Hungary. She was an actress and writer, known for The Master Key (1914), The Adventures of Peg o' the Ring (1916) and The Enchanted Barn (1919). She was married to Rhody Hathaway. She died on 23 August 1938 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Fernand Frey was born on 15 June 1877 in Asnières, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He was an actor, known for Ronny (1931), Caprice de princesse (1933) and La garnison amoureuse (1934). He died on 19 March 1959 in Escaudoeuvres, France.
- Actress
Grace Green was born on 15 June 1878 in California, USA. She was an actress. She died on 7 January 1941 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Eduard Verkade was born on 15 June 1878 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. He was an actor, known for De duivel in Amsterdam (1919), De zwarte tulp (1921) and Veertig jaren (1938). He was married to E.F. Verkade-Cartier van Dissel. He died on 11 February 1961 in Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands.
- Actress
Corinne Ross was born on 15 June 1879 in Illinois, USA. She was an actress. She died on 22 June 1965 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
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Josef Novák was born on 15 June 1879 in Prague, Cechy, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Horské volání S.O.S. (1929), Workers, Let's Go (1934) and Jindra, hrabenka Ostrovínová (1934). He died on 24 November 1942 in Mladá Vozice, Protektorát Cechy a Morava [now Czech Republic].- Mahlon Hamilton was born on 15 June 1880 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was an actor, known for Half a Chance (1920), Daddy-Long-Legs (1919) and The Single Standard (1929). He was married to Alita Bratton Farnum and Sara L. Leary. He died on 20 June 1960 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Gertrude Maitland was born on 15 June 1880 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She was an actress, known for On Record (1917). She was married to Jefferson Hall (actor, 1875-1945). She died on 28 December 1938 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Mary Blair Rice (Blair Niles) was born on 15 June, 1880 at The Oaks, her parent's tobacco plantation that lay along the muddy banks of the Staunton River in Coles Ferry, Virginia. She was the daughter of Henry Crenshaw and Marie Gordon Peyor Rice. Both her parents came from families with long ties to Virginia. As a child she would spend hours alone in the family library reading about the outside world or quizzing the mostly black servant staff about life beyond the plantation's tobacco fields.
On 6 August, 1902 Blair married William Beebe, a well known naturalist and explorer, who at the time was head curator of the New York Zoological Gardens in Bronx Park. Over the next decade the couple would travel the world exploring some its more remote regions. During these forays she worked as his assistant and would later help him write several books about their travels.
In 1913 she married architect Robert Niles after divorcing Beebe earlier in the year. William shared Blair's passion to explore faraway and exotic lands and would accompany her on many expeditions throughout South and Central America where he would gain some notoriety for his photography.
It was while in French Guiana that Blair gathered material that became the genesis for her 1927 book "Condemned to Devil's Island" and the film Condemned! (1929) . She is thought to have been the first woman to do research on the infamous French penal colony which she called the dry guillotine.
Besides her travels, Blair Niles also wrote about Maximilian and Carlota "Passengers to Mexico" (1943), "George Washington "Martha's Husband" (1951) and a volume in the "Rivers of America" series entitled "James: From Iron Gate to Sea" (1945). The city of Lima, Peru gave her a gold medal for her 1937 travel book, "Peruvian Pageant" and in 1944 she was awarded a gold medal from the Society of Women Geographers.
Blair Niles died from a cerebral hemorrhage on 13 April, 1959, in New York City. She was survived by her husband and two brothers. - Actor
- Writer
- Director
John Gottowt was born on 15 June 1881 in Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]. He was an actor and writer, known for Nosferatu (1922), Das schwarze Los (1913) and The Student of Prague (1913). He died on 27 August 1942 in Wieliczka, Malopolskie, Poland.- Masuo Inoue was born on 15 June 1881 in Iyo, Japan. He was an actor, known for A Page of Madness (1926). He died on 7 February 1950 in Yugawara, Kanagawa, Japan.
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- Director
Masao Inoue was born on 15 June 1881 in Ehime, Japan. He was an actor and director, known for Dokuso (1917), Taii no musume (1917) and Tojo no himitsu (1915). He died on 7 February 1960.- Actor
- Director
Guy Coombs was born on 15 June 1882 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Swamp Fox (1914), Wolfe; or, the Conquest of Quebec (1914) and Bab's Diary (1917). He was married to Anna Q. Nilsson. He died on 29 December 1947 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Ion Antonescu was born in Pitesti, Romania, on June 15, 1882, to a middle-class family. He was sent to French military academies for his education, and upon returning home enlisted in the Romanian army, being commissioned as a lieutenant in 1907. He made a name for himself in that year when his unit was sent to Galati to put down a peasant revolt. His superior officers were impressed by the swiftness with which he helped to suppress the rebels and the ruthless manner in which he did it. They sent him to the Romanian military academy, from which he graduated in 1911. Two years later he led his unit in the Second Balkan War against Bulgaria, and his performance resulted in his being awarded Romania's highest military honors. When World War I broke out the next year, Romania declared war on Germany and Austria-Hungary, and Antonescu was appointed Chief of Staff of the army. As the war progressed, he was appointed Chief of Operations of the army general staff. After the Axis Powers were defeated, Romania was rewarded for its participation by being given territory from the defeated Austro-Hungarian Empire that resulted in the country more than doubling in size. It also resulted in many foreign and ethnic nationalities being absorbed into the country, especially Jews, leading to an increase in Romanian nationalism and a major increase in anti-Semitism. Antonescu was appointed military attaché in Paris and then in London. Meanwhile, economic and political conditions in Romania gave rise to an ultranationalist, violently anti-Semitic paramilitary organization called the Iron Guard, which engaged in pitched street battles with its opponents and embarked on a spree of political assassinations. The Iron Guard was supported and financed in large part by Nazi Germany, and its leader, Corneliu Codreanu, was elected to Parliament.
In 1934 Antonescu was appointed Chief of the General Staff. By 1937 the Iron Guard organization had 66 seats in Parliament and a national membership of 34,000 (it did have opposition in the country, mainly among Communists, who fought bitter battles in both Parliament and on the streets against the organization. Among the Communist street fighters was future dictator Nicolae Ceausescu). The Iron Guard had become so powerful that King Carol II was eventually forced to cede power to a group of far-right-wing, anti-Semitic nationalists allied with the organization who immediately passed laws barring Jews from government employment and forbidding them from buying property. Antonescu was appointed Minister of Defense in that government. However, in 1938 the government, alarmed at the growing power of the Iron Guard, arrested its leader, Codreanu, and other officials of the organization. On April 19 during what was characterized as an "attempted escape", Codreanu and 13 Iron Guard leaders were shot and killed by police.
When World War II broke out, Romania tried to remain neutral, but after its Prime Minister was assassinated by members of the Iron Guard, the government was forced to make a deal with German leader Adolf Hitler, which resulted in the loss of much of the territory Romania won after World War I. This caused a fierce backlash against King Carol, and in the face of riots, strikes and a rebellion launched by the Iron Guard, he suspended the constitution and appointed Antonescu as Prime Minister. Antonescu immediately demanded that King Carol abdicate, which he did. Then Antonescu, with support from Nazi Germany, the Iron Guard and a group of senior Romanian army officers, named himself as head of the government and Iron Guard leader Horia Sima as deputy prime minister. On October 7, 1940, Antonescu declared that Romania was entering World War II on the side of Nazi Germany. He allowed German forces to occupy the country and passed strict anti-Semitic laws. Under Antonescu's leadership Romania supplied Nazi Germany with food, fuel (from its huge Ploesti oil fields and refineries) and more than a million troops. He also unleashed the Iron Guard to "pacify" the country, resulting in the assassination of many supporters and associates of the former King Carol and the carrying out of mass killings and massacres of Jews. However, the Iron Guard's brutal tactics and the scale of their killings were too much even for the Nazis, and before long German troops began rounding up and disarming Iron Guard fighters. In 1941 the remaining Iron Guard forces staged a rebellion against Antonescu, and in a rampage that lasted several days murdered hundreds of Jews. The rebellion was finally put down by Romanian and German troops and the Guard was disbanded. At that time Antonescu adopted the title of "Marshal of Romania" and assumed dictatorial powers. In that capacity he introduced even more stringent anti-Semitic measures.
When Hitler invaded Russia in June of 1941, Antonescu committed almost one million Romanian soldiers to the invading army. As a reward, Hitler gave back Romania much of the territory it had lost at the beginning of the war. However, many of these territories had large Jewish populations, and Antonescu began to set up detention camps and ghettos to hold the 40,000 Jews he ordered expelled from the towns and cities in the "new" territories. On June 25 German and Romanian troops massacred at least 1000 Jews in the city of Iasi, and within the next several days a series of killings and massacres resulted in the deaths of an estimated 10,000 more Jews. Antonescu had instructed his soldiers to be "merciless" in their expulsion of Jews from the territories, saying, "I am not disturbed if the world should consider us barbarians. You can use machine-guns if it is necessary . . . I assume all the responsibility and claim that the law [preventing such massacres] does not exist."
Approximately 300,000 Jews were ultimately removed from the provinces of Bukovina and Bessarabia, and more than 150,000 of that number were killed outright by German and Romanian troops and Ukrainian and Romanian civilians and paramilitaries. Antonescu ordered the survivors removed to an area of the Ukraine known as the "Transnistria". Of that number, only about 50,000 would survive until the end of the war.
On 22 October partisans bombed Romanian army headquarters in Odessa. In retaliation, Antonescu ordered that for every Romanian or German officer who died, 200 civilians were to be executed. For every Romanian or German enlisted man killed, 100 civilians would be shot. On October 23 the city was burned by Romanian and German forces and approximately 25,000 of the city's Jews were murdered. It's estimated that of Romanian's pre-war Jewish population of more than 750,000, about 425,000 died in concentration camps or were killed by German and Romanian forces.
Meanwhile, the war on the Eastern front was not going well for the Germans and their Romanian allies. Germany had suffered a staggering defeat at Stalingrad when its forces surrendered, and of the almost one million Romanian soldiers involved in the Russian campaign, 400,000 or more were killed. By the end of 1943 the Russians had recaptured much of the Ukraine and moved on Germany and Romania. In August of 1944 their forces entered Romania, and on August 23 the figurehead King Michael, supported by army officers and civilian paramilitaries, seized control of the government and arrested Antonescu. A few days later the Red Army entered Bucharest and Romania signed a peace treaty with the Soviet Union. Antonescu was handed over to Soviet forces and taken to the Soviet Union for "interrogation", then returned to Romania to be tried as a war criminal, the trial occurring in May of 1946. On the 17th of that month he was found guilty of treason and war crimes and sentenced to death, and on June 1, 1946, he was executed by a firing squad at a military prison outside Bucharest. - Abe Lefton was born on 15 June 1882 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Melody Trail (1935), The Old Corral (1936) and Columbia World of Sports: Rodeo Daredevils (1956). He was married to Naomi Grice. He died on 24 February 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Edward L. Moriarty was born on 15 June 1882 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Edward L. is known for The Fall Guy (1921).
- Miriam Horwitz was born on 15 June 1882 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for The Life of Richard Wagner (1913), Leidvolle Liebe (1917) and Frau im besten Mannesalter (1959). She was married to Erich Ziegel. She died on 26 September 1967 in Lütjensee, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
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A former nickelodeon projectionist, Frank Lawrence was hired by Vitagraph as its first film cutter in 1903. He was eventually placed in charge of the company's editing department, and in 1917 joined Universal Pictures as head of that studio's editing department. He is best known for editing Hell's Angels (1930) with its complex aerial battle scenes, and it is said that he was the originator of the famous "Tarzan yell" by running the soundtrack backwards through a Moviola.- H. Sheridan Bickers was born on 15 June 1883 in County Galway, Ireland. H. Sheridan was a writer, known for Her Body in Bond (1918). H. Sheridan died on 2 August 1957 in San Mateo, California, USA.
- Charles Laite was born on 15 June 1883 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for An Affair of Three Nations (1915), The House of Fear (1915) and The Menace of the Mute (1915). He died on 17 February 1937 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
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Marie-Thérèse Pierat was born on 15 June 1883 in Paris, France. She was an actress and writer, known for Pour régner (1926). She was married to Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scevola (artist). She died on 29 May 1934 in Paris, France.- Actor
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Langdon first performed when he ran away from home at the age of 12-13 to join a travelling medicine show. In 1903 he scored a lasting success in vaudeville with an act called "Johnny's New Car" which he performed for twenty years. In 1923, he signed with Principal Pictures as a series star, but transferred to the Mack Sennett Studio when Mack Sennett bought the contract. Early in his film career, he had the good fortune to work regularly with the young Frank Capra. The two developed a unique character of an innocent man-child who found himself in dramatic and hazardous circumstances with only providence and good luck making him come out on top. This character clicked with the public and Langdon enjoyed a streak of artistic and commercial successes using it with Capra's direction. Unfortunately, he began to take the praise of his talent too seriously and broke with Capra so he could hog all the glory himself with his films. This proved to be a disastrous mistake as his first film "Three's a Crowd", a sickeningly sentimental film that plainly showed that he did not even approach the talent and skill of Capra which was needed to keep his character style viable. It has been also speculated the public was getting tired of Langdon's character, which contributed to Langdon's first solo film being an artistic and commercial failure. That film was the first in a series of bombs that ruined Langdon's career and relegated him to minor films from third string companies for the rest of his life.- Roland Dorgelès was born on 15 June 1885 in Amiens, France. He was a writer, known for Louise (1939), Wooden Crosses (1932) and L'apocalisse (1947). He was married to Madeleine Moisson and Hania Routchine. He died on 18 March 1973 in Paris, France.
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Ben Jacksen was born on 15 June 1885 in New York City, New York, USA. He is known for His Double Life (1933). He died on 25 December 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actress
- Producer
Lu Synd was born on 15 June 1886 in Konstanz, Baden [now Baden-Württemberg], Germany. She was an actress and producer, known for Sündenlust (1919), Des Nächsten Weib (1916) and Nächte des Grauens (1917). She was married to Aruth Wartan. She died on 5 May 1978 in Berlin, Germany.- Camera and Electrical Department
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William S. Johnson was born on 15 June 1886 in New Jersey, USA. William S. is known for Suds (1920), My Best Girl (1927) and Sparrows (1926). William S. died on 8 December 1956 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Writer
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- Cinematographer
Yrjö Kallinen was born on 15 June 1886 in Oulu, Finland. He was a writer and director, known for Helsinki punaiseksi (1934), Kesämökillä (1964) and Käsi kädessä (1954). He died on 1 January 1976 in Helsinki, Finland.- Tomaso Smith was born on 15 June 1886 in Bagni di Lucca, Tuscany, Italy. He was a writer, known for Song to the Wind (1939), Papà per una notte (1939) and La donna del peccato (1942). He died on 27 May 1966 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Johnnie Morris was born on 15 June 1887 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Li'l Abner (1940), Innocents of Paris (1929) and The Luckiest Girl in the World (1936). He died on 7 October 1969 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Hedwig Schmitz was born on 15 June 1887 in Jüterbog, Brandenburg, Germany. She was an actress, known for Des Lebens Überfluss (1950), Finale (1948) and Nachrichten aus der Provinz (1969). She died on 18 February 1976 in Hamburg, West Germany.