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- Elisha Otis was born on 3 August 1811 in Halifax, Vermont, U.S.A. He died on 8 April 1861 in Yonkers, New York, USA.
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Francisco Asenjo Barbieri was born on 3 August 1823 in Madrid, Spain. He was a composer, known for El Barberillo de Lavapiés (1996) and Antología de la zarzuela (1971). He died on 17 February 1894 in Madrid, Spain.- H.C. Bunner was born on 3 August 1855 in Oswego, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Windows (1955), A Sisterly Scheme (1919) and Your Show Time (1949). He was married to Alice Learned. He died on 11 May 1896 in Nutley, New Jersey, USA.
- Additional Crew
R.G. Legge was born on 3 August 1864 in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, UK. R.G. is known for Sweet Nell of Old Drury (1900). R.G. was married to Margaret Emily Agnes Evans. R.G. died on 10 December 1905 in London, England, UK.- Robert Semple was born on 3 August 1881 in Magherafelt, County Derry, Northern Ireland, UK. He was married to Aimee Semple McPherson. He died on 19 August 1910 in Hong Kong.
- Music Department
- Writer
- Composer
Ivan Zajc was born on 3 August 1832 in Fiume, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire. Ivan was a writer and composer, known for Amelia (1999), Nikola Subic Zrinjski (2019) and Nikola Subic Zrinjski (1997). Ivan was married to Natalija Jesenko . Ivan died on 16 December 1914 in Zagreb, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, Austro-Hungarian Empire.- Rupert Brooke was born on 3 August 1887 in Rugby, Warwickshire, England, UK. Rupert was a writer, known for The Burying Party (2018). Rupert died on 23 April 1915 in Aegean Sea, near Skyros, Greece.
- C.S. McConnell was born on 3 August 1868 in Liverpool, England, UK. He was an actor, known for East Lynne (1913). He died on 2 February 1916 in Burnley, Lancashire, England, UK.
- George Boillot was born on 3 August 1884 in Valentigney, France. He died on 20 May 1916 in Bar-le-Duc, Lorraine.
- Géza Gárdonyi was born on 3 August 1863 in Agárd, Hungary. He was a writer, known for Göre Gábor bíró úr pesti kalandozásai (1914), Aggyisten Biri! (1927) and Göre Gábor bíró uram legújabb eresztése (1922). He was married to Mária Molnár Csányi. He died on 30 October 1922 in Eger, Hungary.
- Francis Byrne was born on 3 August 1876 in Newport, Rhode Island, USA. He was an actor, known for The Conspiracy (1914), Rose-France (1919) and Blind Man's Luck (1917). He died on 6 February 1923 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Born in San Francisco's Castro District, Allen Holubar was the first of five children of Constantin Josef Holubar and Margaret Allen C. Holubar, who immigrated from Bohemia in 1875 and married Margaret, a Scots woman, in San Francisco (Allen was born at 44 Caselli Ave. in a house that still stands). Despite parental pressures to be a machinist, Allen worked his way up from sweeping floors to acting, starting at the Alcazar & Alhambra Theatres in San Francisco. He was evidently a prominent dramatic actor, known widely across the US from 1908-1912. However, in the words of a San Francisco newspaper at the time, "He forsook legitimate drama for the moving picture screen" in 1913. After starring in several landmark films, he began directing and was one of Carl Laemmle's first directors at Universal Pictures. Later, after having differences with Laemmle, he founded his own production company, Allen Holubar Pictures, in 1917.
As an up-and-coming producer, he was famous for being the first to coordinate a movie shoot (Hurricane's Gal (1922)) using radio. In the words of a local paper, "Mr. Holubar has successfully performed the unprecedented task of using the wireless waves to direct the movements of an airship, a destroyer and a schooner, maneuvering all of these within his camera's range as he supervised these activities from a hydroplane far above."
He died of postoperative complications from gallstone surgery at the height of his career in 1923. His wife, the former actress Dorothy Phillips, did not act again until the mid-'60s, when she played an old woman in Cat Ballou (1965), starring Lee Marvin and Jane Fonda.- Writer
- Director
- Producer
Michel Verne was born on 3 August 1861 in Paris, France. He was a writer and director, known for La Destinée de Jean Morénas (1916), Les Indes noires (1917) and In Search of the Castaways (1914). He was married to Jeanne Raboul and Clémence-Thérese Taton. He died on 5 March 1925 in Toulon, Var, France.- Jerry Sinclair was born on 3 August 1850 in the USA. He was an actor, known for Back Pay (1922), So's Your Old Man (1926) and The Bond Boy (1922). He died on 15 September 1926 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
- Xena Longenová was born on 3 August 1891 in Strakonice, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Prach a broky (1926). She was married to Emil Artur Longen. She died on 23 May 1928 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Vukosava Jurkovic was born on 3 August 1870. She was an actress, known for Karadjordje (1911) and Ulrih Celjski i Vladislav Hunjadi (1911). She died on 3 August 1929 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia.
- John Hamilton-Gordon was born on 3 August 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He was married to Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon. He died on 7 March 1934 in Tarland, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK.
- Cinematographer
- Director
- Producer
Born in France to British parents, William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson stayed in that country until age 19, when he, his mother and sisters (their father had died sometime before) returned to Great Britain. Once there, Dickson--in an early indication of his lifelong fascination with science and mechanics--began a correspondence with Thomas A. Edison in the US, asking for employment, but was turned down. Eventually Dickson's family moved to the US, and several years afterward Dickson actually did land a job with Edison, and soon proved to be a trusted and valuable associate. He worked closely with Edison on the development of both the phonograph and, closer to Dickson's heart, the motion picture (it was Dickson who eventually decided that motion picture film should be 35mm wide; he also developed the emulsion process used in the film).
In 1889, while Edison was on a trip to Europe, Dickson set up a building in which to conduct his "photographic experiments", the forerunner of the first motion picture studio. In 1890 he and his chief mechanical assistant, Eugène Lauste, showed the results of their experiments, produced on a cylindrical system called the Kinetoscope: a short film called Monkeyshines, No. 1 (1890), featuring one of his assistants. Improvements on this system continued, and in 1891 patents were filed on an improved camera called the Kinetograph. Edison's plans to exhibit the new system at the Chicago World Exposition necessitated not only the production of many new machines but also films that could be shown on them, and the result was the building of a film studio at Edison's laboratory in West Orange, NJ, which was nicknamed "The Black Maria" because it was constructed of wood covered with tar-paper, resembling the police wagons of that era which were known by that nickname.
However, even with Dickson's perfecting of a new version of the Kinetograph camera, not enough films were completed to be shown at Edison's planned exhibition. Dickson, however, did manage to persuade many stage and vaudeville stars to appear in films shot at the West Orange studio, and in the following years the studio was a beehive of activity, with some of the biggest names of the era making short films there. However, friction between Dickson and an executive appointed to oversee Edison's businesses soon broke into open conflict, resulting in Dickson's angrily leaving Edison's employ in 1895. He then joined forces with two businessmen in the development of a way to exhibit films differently than Edison's peepshow-style Kinetoscope. The system eventually developed into what was called the Mutoscope, and the camera that was developed to take pictures for the Mutoscope was called the Biograph. This in turn developed into a filming and projection system that retained the Biograph name.
In 1896 Dickson and three partners began the American Mutoscope and Biograph Co. (often referred to as just "Biograph", and generally considered to be the first major American motion picture studio) to produce and distribute films. Dickson produced and directed many of Biograph's early films, but by the turn of the century he had taken over management of the company's European branch, headquartered in England. He died there in 1935.- Costume Designer
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
Dryden, one of the finest commercial artists of his generation, was also known as one of the foremost poster artists in Germany. Dryden served as an officer in the Imperial Flying Corps during WWI and began his career as a menswear designer, moving to New York in 1933 and onto Hollywood in 1934. Bronislau Kaper and his wife discovered the lifeless body of Dryden, sitting in a chair holding a telephone receiver, Dryden was dead from a heart attack brought on my Grave's Disease.- Marguerite Nichols was born on 3 August 1892 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Dust (1916), The Torch Bearer (1916) and Youth's Endearing Charm (1916). She was married to Hal Roach. She died on 17 March 1941 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Aribert Mog was born on 3 August 1904 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for Der Etappenhase (1937), Fährmann Maria (1936) and Der Sprung ins Nichts (1932). He died on 2 October 1941 in near Nova Trojanova, Soviet Union [now Russia].
- Actor
- Writer
Dudley Hendricks was born on 3 August 1870 in LaGrange, Kentucky, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Stage Struck (1914), The Scrappin' Kid (1926) and Grinning Guns (1927). He died on 3 February 1942 in Pasadena, California, USA.- Hans Joby was born on 3 August 1884 in Kronstadt (Brasso), Austria-Hungary [now Brasov, Romania]. He was an actor, known for It Could Happen to You (1937), Special Agent K-7 (1936) and Thunder Afloat (1939). He died on 1 May 1943 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Composer
Alfréd Grósz was born on 3 August 1880 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was a composer, known for Miss Iza (1933). He died on 3 April 1944 in Budapest, Hungary.- Regina Jonas was born on 3 August 1902 in Berlin. He died on 14 October 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.
- Frank Weed was born on 3 August 1869 in Hudson, Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor, known for The Coming of Columbus (1912), Fighting Fate (1921) and The Midnight Bell (1913). He died on 22 October 1944 in South Haven, Michigan, USA.
- The two greatest American war correspondents of World War II were Edward R. Murrow on radio and Ernie Pyle in print. Murrow is more famous today because he survived the war to do some of the best television journalism in the early days of that medium. However, during the war, Pyle was more popular, especially among the GIs at the front. He made a point of staying with the GIs, sharing their food, their fears and homesickness, and getting to know them better than any other correspondent. A great restlessness drove Pyle. A few months before graduating, he dropped out of Indiana University's journalism school to work at a small-town newspaper. In 1932, after nine years as an editor, he quit to become a roving correspondent in Depression-era America. As he later did with the GIs, he lived among the downtrodden and the survivors of the Depression and told America about them. His simple, vivid writing made readers believe they personally knew the people he wrote about. When the war broke out, he went to London and wrote from the locals' homes and the bomb shelters during the Blitz. From there he went to North Africa where he began his close association with the GIs. Through his writing, people on the home front felt a little closer to their sons and fathers and brothers across the ocean, and grew to know their lives in the foxholes. From North Africa he went with the GIs to Sicily, Italy and France. His writing won him several journalism awards, including the 1944 Pulitzer Prize. A few months after D-Day, fatigue caught up with him. He apologetically returned to America to rest, but not for long. Restlessnes and a sense of duty drove him to return to the front lines, this time with the Marines in the Pacific Theater. He joined the Marines at Iwo Jima and followed them to Okinawa. Hearing about a new tank destroyer being used by the Army's 77th division, on Ie Shima Pile decided to get a look. He went ashore on April 17, 1945. On the morning of the 18th Pile hitched a ride with Lieutenant Colonel Joseph B. Coolidge (commanding officer of the 305th Infantry Regiment, 77th Infantry Division), and three other men who were looking for a new location for his regimental headquarters. At about ten o'clock, traveling along a road that had previously thought to have been cleared, a Nambu machine gunner opened up on their jeep. All of the men leaped out of the jeep into a ditch along the road. After a moment Pyle raised his head seeing Coolidge he smiled and said "Are you all right?" At that instant the machine gunner opened up again striking Pyle in the left temple instantly killing him. He was buried with his helmet on in a long row of graves among other soldiers with an infantry private on one side and a combat engineer on the other. At the ten-minute service, the Navy, Marine Corps, and Army were all represented. Pyle was later reburied at the Army cemetery on Okinawa, then moved to the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific located in Honolulu. When Okinawa was returned to Japanese control after the war, the Ernie Pyle monument was one of only three American memorials allowed to remain in place. Pyle was among the few American civilians killed during the war to be awarded the Purple Heart.
- Actor
- Director
- Producer
Olaf Fjord was born on 3 August 1897 in Graz, Austria. He was an actor and director, known for Pan (1937), Ludwig II. (1922) and 1914, die letzten Tage vor dem Weltbrand (1931). He died on 19 April 1945 in Vienna, Austria.- Actress
- Additional Crew
Born in Fort Worth, TX, in 1907, Adrienne Ames hit Hollywood in the late 1920s. Although her career only lasted about ten years, she crammed a lot of living into it--high-profile marriages (and divorces) and her reputation as a clothes horse and glamour queen par excellence far outshone her reputation as an actress.
In 1933 she married Bruce Cabot after leaving her second husband, a rich New York City stockbroker, but she and Cabot only lasted four years. In her divorce she told the court that the main reason she left him was that he was a violent, uncontrollable drunk. In 1938 the pair appeared before a US Tax Appeals Board to explain why she wrote off more than $9000 in wardrobe and jewelry on her 1934 tax form, which she claimed was necessary for "professional reasons" (as was her maid). She claimed that her "daily expenses" included flowers, massages, taxis and beauty work.
Her career lasted from 1929-40, during which she appeared in about 30 films, mostly "B" pictures. The best-known of her movies would probably be You're Telling Me! (1934) with W.C. Fields. After her film career ended she worked as a radio commentator.
She died in New York City in 1947 after a long illness.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Celedonio Flores was born on 3 August 1896 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was an actor, known for L'escot (1987), El portero (2000) and Café de los maestros (2008). He died on 28 July 1947 in Argentina.- Stanley Baldwin was born on 3 August 1867 in Bewdley, Worcestershire, England, UK. He died on 14 December 1947 in Astley Hall, Worcestershire, England, UK.
- Maud Cunard was born on 3 August 1872 in San Francisco, California, USA. She was married to Bache Cunard. She died on 10 July 1948 in Mayfair, London, England, UK.
- Leonor Pérez Gavilán de Samaniego was born on 3 August 1872 in Mexico. She was an actress, known for Sevilla de mis amores (1930). She died on 25 February 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Described by the grandson of Lew Fields (Weber & Fields) as "one of the most amusing men on vaudeville stage", Billy B. Van was an experienced and long traveled actor, comedian, dancer, and singer/songwriter both on the vaudeville and legitimate stages, who, for over thirty years, both alone, and appearing with the Beaumont Sisters (Rose and Nellie - he was married to Nellie) and as Van & Corbett (former heavyweight champion James J. Corbett) was very well known to theater audiences. After retiring from the stage in the 1920s, he was the President of the New York City based Pine Tree Products Company - manufacturers of soap and other cleaning products, and was later elected Mayor of the town of Newport, New Hampshire.
- Voya George was born on 3 August 1895 in Belgrade, Serbia. He was an actor, known for The Legion of the Condemned (1928) and The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (1928). He died on 8 May 1951 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Arthur Sinclair was born on 3 August 1885 in Dublin, Ireland. He was an actor, known for King Solomon's Mines (1937), Sing As We Go! (1934) and Charing Cross Road (1936). He was married to Maire O'Neill. He died on 14 December 1951 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.
- Lake Reynolds was born on 3 August 1888 in Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for The Whirlwind Rider (1934) and Henry's Week End on the Desert (1935). He was married to Blanche Elizabeth Cole. He died on 9 February 1952 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Adam Dobosz was born on 3 August 1885 in Zyraków, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Zyraków, Podkarpackie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Szyb L-23 (1932), Ksiazatko (1937) and Szczesliwa trzynastka (1938). He was married to Waleria Dobosz-Markowska. He died on 20 November 1952 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Holger Sjöberg was born on 3 August 1904. He was an actor, known for Muntra musikanter (1932), Sunny Sunberg (1941) and South of the Highway (1936). He was married to Ingrid Eklund. He died on 17 February 1953 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.- Harry Spingler was born on 3 August 1889 in Buffalo, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for From the Valley of the Missing (1915), Les Misérables (1917) and Samson (1915). He was married to Alma Bennett and Vera Michelena. He died on 22 April 1953 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Georges Pally was born on 3 August 1886 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Orage (1938), Le capitan (1946) and Copie conforme (1947). He died on 3 January 1954 in Saint-Sauveur-sur-École, Seine-et-Marne, France.
- Reece Gardner was born on 3 August 1893 in Union City, Tennessee, USA. He was an actor, known for The Broken Coin (1915), The Primeval Test (1913) and The Village Blacksmith (1916). He died on 27 August 1954 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Actor
Wynn Mace was born on 3 August 1890 in South Pasadena, California, USA. He was an assistant director and actor, known for King Cowboy (1928), Tumbling River (1927) and The Canyon of Light (1926). He died on 15 January 1955 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Louise Marquet was born on 3 August 1871 in Clichy, Seine [now Clichy-la-Garenne, Hauts-de-Seine], France. She was an actress, known for La fin du jour (1939), Une filleule d'Amérique (1920) and La faute des autres (1923). She died on 12 April 1956 in Paris VI, Paris, France.
- E.A. Krumschmidt was born on 3 August 1902 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for Notorious (1946), Suspense (1949) and Ponds Theater (1953). He was married to Lisa Osten. He died on 3 June 1956 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Producer
- Editor
Boris Vermont was born on 3 August 1903 in Russia. He was a producer and editor, known for Light in the Window (1952), Joy of Living (1952) and Alaska (1947). He was married to Mildred Barish. He died on 25 June 1956 in New York City, New York, USA.- Ludmila Innemannová was born on 3 August 1868 in Prague, Cechy, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Babicka (1922), Magdalena (1921) and Komediantka (1920). She was married to Rudolf Innemann. She died on 16 July 1956 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Gene Marsh was born on 3 August 1893 in San Diego, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Luke, the Candy Cut-Up (1916), Giving Them Fits (1915) and Lonesome Luke Lolls in Luxury (1916). She died on 23 February 1957 in Singapore.
- King Haakon VII was born on 3 August 1872 in Charlottenlund, Denmark. He was married to Dronning Maud. He died on 21 September 1957 in Oslo, Norway.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Director
Leslie Henson, comedian born in London in 1891. Famous for his bulging eyes, malleable face and raspy voice. He studied with 'the Cairns James School of Musical and Dramatic Art as a child, he was writing and producing theatrical pieces while still at school. Became popular in Music Hall from 1910, his first West End role in 1912 was 'Nicely, Thanks!' and became a over-night star, also in 'Tonight's the Night' which became a smash-hit in 1915 followed by starring in several hit West End musical comedies including 'Yes, Uncle! in 1917. Served in the Royal Flying Corps during World War I, after the war he returned to the West End playing in 'Kissing Time in 1919 and a series of musical comedies and farces throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Leslie starred in at least 15 movies, the first of which was 'The Lifeguardsman' for the British Actors Film Company in 1916, most notable was 'Alf's Button' co-starring Alma Taylor in 1920 and 'Tons of Money' in 1924, also starred in a number of talkies, best known 'A Warm Corner' in 1930 and It's a Boy' in 1934, last seen on T.V. in the late 1950s. Co-founder of ENSA. Died in London in 1957 age 66.