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- Allan Kardec was born on 3 October 1804 in Lyon, France. Allan was a writer, known for O Espiritismo, de Kardec aos Dias de Hoje (1995). Allan was married to Amélie Gabrielle Boudet. Allan died on 31 March 1869 in Villa Ségur, Bordeaux, France.
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Vilém Blodek was born on 3 October 1834 in Prague, Bohemia, Austrian Empire. He is known for Blues pro EFB (1980) and Criminal Lovers (1999). He was married to Marie Doudlebská. He died on 1 May 1874 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary.- Music Department
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Lina Sandell was born on 3 October 1832 in Småland, Sweden. Lina is known for A Man Called Ove (2015), One Summer of Happiness (1951) and Prison (1949). Lina died on 27 July 1903 in Stockholm, Sweden.- Alain-Fournier was born on 3 October 1886 in La Chapelle-d'Angillon, Cher, France. He was a writer, known for The Wanderer (1967), Kouzelné dobrodruzství (1983) and Le grand Meaulnes (2006). He died on 22 September 1914 in Les Éparges, Meuse, France.
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- Writer
Eleonora Duse was born on 3 October 1858 in Vigevano, Lombardy, Italy. She was an actress and writer, known for Cenere (1917). She was married to Tebaldo Marchetti. She died on 21 April 1924 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.- Alphonse Winckler was born on 3 October 1839 in Champagnole, France. He died on 21 April 1925 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
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Sergei Esenin was born on 3 October 1895 in Konstantinovo, Ryazan Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ryazan Oblast, Russia]. He was a writer, known for Poj pesnyu, poet (1973), The Hollow (2007) and Mongol Shuudan: Moskva (1996). He was married to Sophia Tolstaya, Isadora Duncan, Zinaida Reich and Anna Izryadnova. He died on 28 December 1925 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia].- Maurice Desvallières was born on 3 October 1857 in Paris, France. He was a writer, known for La casta Susana (1944), Die keusche Susanne (1926) and La casta Susana (1963). He died on 23 March 1926 in Paris, France.
- László Betegh was born on 3 October 1876 in Cluj, Romania. He was an actor, known for Mesék az írógépröl (1916). He died on 5 October 1926 in Cluj, Romania.
- Dorothy Smoller was born Dorothy Schmoeller on October 3, 1898 in Memphis, Tennessee. Dorothy was the youngest of four daughters. After her father was institutionalized for a mental illness her mother moved the family to St. Louis, Missouri. Later they moved to Long Beach, California. When she was a teenager Dorothy started dancing professionally in San Francisco. At the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition she caused a sensation with a performance of the Bacchanale. Then she spent two years touring South America with Anna Pavlova. She made her Broadway debut in the 1918 musical Head Over Heels. In 1919 she appeared in film Out Of The Fog and was on the cover of Vogue magazine. Dorothy danced in on Broadway in numerous shows including The Checkerboard, What's In A Name, and Up In The Clouds. Sadly she was diagnosed with a severe case of pulmonary Tuberculosis in 1923.
She had to put her career on hold for two years while she recuperated in at Cragmoor Sanitarium in Colorado Springs. While there she developed a close relationship with financier Benjamin Strong. Dorothy went to New York City in 1926 to make a screen test for Famous Players. They did not offer her a contract. Soon after she landed a small role in the Broadway musical Howdy King. During rehearsals he suffered a hemorrhage and was forced to quit the show. She quickly fell into a deep depression. Tragically on December 9, 1926 she committed suicide by drinking three ounces of shoe polish. Dorothy was only twenty-eight years old. In her hotel room she left a note for her mother and one for her dear friend Benjamin Strong. She wrote that her illness was "a chain of torture that pains all the time." Dorothy was cremated and her ashes were given to her mother. They were later interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. - Karin Larsson was a Swedish artist in crafts, clothes and furnishings. She showed an early artistic aptitude and entered the Art Academy in Stockholm in 1877, where she studied until 1882. After the Art Academy, she went to the Scandinavian artists' colony in the small village of Grez outside Paris. There she met her future husband, Carl Larsson. Karin Larsson's creative energy and personal sense of style was a very important component of Carl's artistry. The bold decor, the modern textiles, the rustic furniture - she designed most of it herself. Despite eight children, she continued working in parallel with her artistry.
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Nora Bayes was born on 3 October 1880 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was married to Benjamin L Friedland, Arthur Gordini, Harry Clark, Jack Norworth and Otto Anselm Gressing. She died on 19 March 1928 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.- Hermann Leffler was born on 3 October 1864 in Quedlinburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Golden Butterfly (1926), Praschnas Geheimnis (1922) and Die Kleine aus Amerika (1925). He died on 21 November 1929.
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- Director
Julia Crawford Ivers was born on 3 October 1867 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was a writer and producer, known for A Son of Erin (1916), The White Flower (1923) and The Majesty of the Law (1915). She died on 8 May 1930 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Herbert Ross was born on 3 October 1865 in Calcutta, India. He was an actor, known for The Skin Game (1931), The Gables Mystery (1931) and Keepers of Youth (1931). He was married to Gertrude Charlotte Kendall. He died on 18 July 1934 in London, England, UK.
- Magda Berczelly was born on 3 October 1902 in Vác, Hungary. She was an actress, known for A Két és fél jómadár (1923) and Pax vobiscum (1920). She died on 24 August 1934 in Újpest, Hungary.
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Charles Furthman was born on 3 October 1884 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a writer and production manager, known for Forgive and Forget (1923), Hard Rock Harrigan (1935) and The City Gone Wild (1927). He died on 7 November 1936 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Alex Scott-Gatty was born on 3 October 1876 in Ecclesfield, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Hamlet (1913) and Symphony in Two Flats (1930). He was married to Elayne Veronica Dewey and Lina Hart-Dyke. He died on 6 November 1937 in London, England, UK.
- Carl von Ossietzky attended middle school in Hamburg. In 1904 he stopped his school education before reaching secondary school. From 1907 to 1914 he worked as an assistant clerk at the Hamburg district court. In 1908 he became a member of the Democratic Association and the German Peace Society. From 1911 he worked as a freelancer for the magazine "The Free People". Two years later he married the Englishwoman Maud Lichfield-Wood. A daughter was born from this union. As early as 1914, Carl von Ossietzky had to pay for his journalistic love of truth. A contribution from that year brought him a lawsuit for insulting military justice, which was accompanied by a fine of 200 Reichsmarks.
Ossietzky did his military service between 1916 and 1918. He was an infantryman on the Western Front. His experiences at the Battle of Verdun were so powerful that he subsequently wrote against the romanticized arrogance and progression of the First World War. During the November Revolution in 1918 he worked for the Hamburg Workers' and Soldiers' Council. In the same year, Carl von Ossietzky left Hamburg and moved to Berlin. There he became general secretary of the German Peace Society. During this time his work entitled "The Approach of the New Reformation" was also published. It represents Ossietzky's only independent work. In it he advocated for a civil and democratic state consciousness in order to strengthen the Weimar Republic.
From 1920 onwards, Carl von Ossietzky worked for the social democratic "Volks-Zeitung". In the same year he founded the peace movement "No More War!" He also met the writer Kurt Tucholsky. From 1922 to 1924, Ossietzky was the editor in charge of the "Volks-Zeitung". After he founded the Republican Party with others, he became an editorial staff member of the left-liberal newspaper "Das Diary" and "Montag-Morgen". In 1927, von Ossietzky became editor-in-chief of the magazine "Die Weltbühne" and thus a colleague of Kurt Tucholsky. Through this medium he became one of the most important journalists in the Weimar Republic. His articles against rearmament resulted in several accusations.
His contributions were critical of party political events and the weakening of the constitution. In 1931, an article in the "Weltbühne" in which he reported on the secret rearmament of the Reichswehr earned him a spectacular court sentence of 18 months in prison for high treason. He owed his early release in December 1932 to a Christmas amnesty. When the National Socialists took power in Germany in 1933, Ossietzky decided to stay. He was arrested by the Gestapo at the Reichstag fire on February 28th of the same year. In March 1933 the "Weltbühne" was banned. Ossietzky went to the Sonnenburg concentration camp near Küstrin in April 1933. The following year he was transferred to the Papenburg concentration camp in Emsland.
In 1935 Carl von Ossietzky was honored with the Nobel Peace Prize. Hitler forbade him to accept the Nobel Prize; This was associated with a ban on leaving the country. The award was presented to him in absentia. The award, however, brought the Nazi regime under pressure in the world public. The following year he became seriously ill with tuberculosis. The publicist was transferred to the police state hospital in Berlin.
Carl von Ossietzky died on May 4, 1938 in the Nordend Hospital in Berlin as a result of tuberculosis and torture by the Gestapo. - Actor
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Warner Oland was born Johan Verner Olund in the small village of Nyby in Bjurholm parish in the county of Vasterbotten, Sweden, on October 3, 1879. Bjurholm is situated about 60 kilometers outside the town of Umea. His family emigrated to the US on October 15, 1892. His father Jonas was a shopkeeper and his mother was Maria Johanna (nee Forsberg).
After finishing grade school and working on Broadway during his 20s, Oland settled in California in the early 1910s, where he worked odd jobs. The movie industry was in its beginning stages in Hollywood, and Johan Olund--changing his name to the more Americanized "Warner Oland"--worked as a stage actor for a while before getting small parts in films in the 1910s and 1920s. As Hollywood made the transition from silent to sound pictures in the late 1920s (Oland co-starred in Warner Brothers' groundbreaking part-talkie The Jazz Singer (1927)), he began landing more prominent roles.
His greatest success came in 1931 when he was cast in the role of Charlie Chan, a Honolulu-based Chinese-American police detective in Charlie Chan Carries On (1931), based on the popular detective mystery series by Earl Derr Biggers [1884-1933] which was produced by Fox Films. His performance as the seemingly mild-mannered but razor-sharp Asian detective won him critical acclaim, which resulted in his playing Chan again in the sequel, The Black Camel (1931).
The success of the Chan character turned into a cash cow for Fox Studios and Oland became a valuable property. It seems incredible today, but in Fox's pre-Shirley Temple period, Oland was considered the only guaranteed profit maker on the lot. He became wealthy and bred miniature schnauzers. Although seemingly happy, Oland became increasingly dependent upon alcohol and exhibited bizarre delusional behavior after periods of drinking.
Oland appeared in a total of 16 Charlie Chan feature films from 1931 to 1937. The Chan films were budgeted approaching 1930s A-picture levels (approximately $275,000) and were usually shot within tight 30-day schedules, three films per year (sadly, a number of these have apparently been lost). The series was pretty much the only guaranteed profit-maker the ailing studio could bank on during the days leading to its takeover by ex-Warner's production chief Darryl F. Zanuck in 1935, that resulted in its transformation from Fox Films into Twentieth Century-Fox.
From 1931 to 1935 Oland did other films besides the Chan series, but he was increasingly relegated to roles that didn't vary much beyond mysterious Asians, and in mid-1935 he became so identified as Charlie Chan that he was assigned to the series exclusively. His last eight films were all Chan entries, usually co-starring Keye Luke, who played Chan's Number One Son. While considered somewhat stereotypical today, these films were met with wide critical acclaim and all were hugely profitable. The best of the series is generally considered to be Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936), featuring lavish set design and a particularly effective menacing villain in Boris Karloff.
Oland's physical and mental problems slowly began to catch up to him, and in 1937 he was said to have suffered a nervous breakdown apparently due to some kind of mental dementia. The Fox executives, knowing that Oland was one of its biggest money earners, kept his alcoholism and mental problems hidden from the public. In November 1937, Edith, his wife of 30 years, filed for divorce. In January 1938 "Charlie Chan at (the) Ringside" began production at Fox's Western Avenue lot under the direction of James Tinling with an increasingly erratic Oland. After a few days shooting inside Studio 6, Oland walked out and never returned. He was heard complaining the studio was possessed by voodoo and feared contracting pneumonia. Over the next month there were numerous negotiations between Oland and SAG (Oland had been an early member) and production was briefly resumed, then suspended after Oland again failed to report to work. He was hospitalized and released, then decided to return to his mother's home in Sweden. Oland's film career, unbeknown to him, was over. In the interim, producer Sol M. Wurtzel, desperate to salvage the property, ordered the Chan picture reworked as Mr. Moto's Gamble (1938), with minor supporting cast changes. Successful negotiations were made with the Biggers' estate and the film was quickly shot with Peter Lorre and released April 7, 1938. The film itself remains an anachronism in the Moto series, as it contains much Chan-like dialog, tacked on Moto-esque action scenes and a guest-starring role by Keye Luke. Regardless, it was also a hit.
During his visit to Sweden, Oland negotiated a reconciliation with Edith but contracted bronchial pneumonia and died there on August 6, 1938, at age 57. Ironically, Fox contract (and Chan series) director John G. Blystone died the same day.
Numerous actors were tested to fill Oland's shoes as Charlie Chan, among them Cy Kendall, Walter Connolly, J. Edward Bromberg, Noah Beery Jr., Michael Visaroff and Leo Carillo (Kendall and Connelly had played Chan on radio). The series continued at Fox for another 11 entries with Sidney Toler, who was signed by Zanuck in mid-October 1938. Toler injected more humor into the character as scripts became somewhat more pedestrian. By 1942 Fox considered the series exhausted and it would ultimately be sold to low-budget studio Monogram Pictures and continue on even after Toler's death in 1947 with Roland Winters in the role through six dismal films into 1949.
In a postscript, Fox director Norman Foster paid a subtle tribute to Oland in the next Moto film, Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1938). During that movie's production in August 1938, cast and crew learned of Oland's passing in his native Sweden. Over the title Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938), on the bill of the Sultana Theatre of Variety, they placed the banner "Last Day."- Thomas Wolfe was born on 3 October 1900 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He was a writer, known for Camera Three (1955), Of Time and the River (1953) and Herrenhaus (1966). He died on 15 September 1938 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
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- Producer
Alexander MacDonald was born on 3 October 1877 in Stirling, Scotland, UK. He was a director and writer, known for The Kingdom of Twilight (1929) and The Unsleeping Eye (1928). He died on 22 March 1939 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Actor
Frank B. Good was born on 3 October 1884 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. He was a cinematographer and actor, known for The Wizard (1927), Smiles Are Trumps (1922) and Get Your Man (1921). He was married to Dolores Gannon. He died on 1 June 1939 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Earl Dwire was born on 3 October 1883 in Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Randy Rides Alone (1934), Radio Patrol (1937) and The Lawless Frontier (1934). He was married to Elizabeth Alice Maddeaux and Ruth Lechler, nee Castle. He died on 16 January 1940 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Joe De Stefani was born on 3 October 1879 in Venice, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Man They Could Not Hang (1939), Twelve Crowded Hours (1939) and Sky Bandits (1940). He was married to Helen De Stefani. He died on 26 October 1940 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Lu Miller was born on 3 October 1901 in Richmond, Virginia, USA. She was an actress, known for Hunted Men (1938). She was married to William Ruhl. She died on 2 May 1941 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Max Malini was born on 3 October 1875 in Ostrov, Czech Republic. He died on 3 October 1942 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
- Actor
- Writer
Krzewinski studied philosophy at the Jagiellonski University in Kraków. In 1905, he went to Brazil as a circus performer and teacher. Back in Warsaw, he joined other theater actors in creating a cinematography company; they completed several short films as early as 1911. He was the author of librettos for operettas, popular songs, screenplays and several novels. He fought in both World Wars and died in Warsaw in March 1943, under the German occupation.- Producer
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- Director
Robert Paul was an English scientific instrument maker, pioneer of film, and foremost pioneer of the British film industry in its formative years. He was born in Liverpool Road, Highbury, North London and was educated at the City & Guilds Technical College, Finsbury. He began his career working in the electrical instrument shop of Elliott Brothers, where he obtained a practical knowledge of instrument making. In 1891, he established the Robert W. Paul Instrument Company, and established a workshop at 44 Hatton Garden, London, which later became his office. His involvement with cinematography came about by chance. In 1894, he was approached by two Greek businessmen, Georgiades and Tragides, who wanted him to make copies of an Edison Kinetoscope that they had purchased. He initially refused until learning that Thomas A. Edison had not patented the invention in Britain. Having agreed to manufacture the machines for his clients, he decided to make others for himself. The only films available were controlled by the Edison company and so in order for Paul's Kinetoscope business to succeed, it was essential that he make his own films. As Edison had patented his camera, Paul resolved to solve this bottleneck by creating his own camera. Via a mutual friend, Henry Short, Paul was introduced to Birt Acres, a photographic expert, and with his assistance designed and manufactured a cinematograph camera, now known as the Paul-Acres Camera. It was the first camera made in England, capable of shooting film in Edison's 35mm format. By 29 March 1895, the first successful English film had been shot - Clovelly Cottage, Barnet (1895), and Acres went on to shoot more films. Paul obtained a concession to operate a kinetoscope parlour at the Earls Court Exhibition Centre, and the success of this venture inspired him to attempt surpassing Edison by projecting moving images onto a screen. While Paul and Birt Acres shared innovator status for creating Britain's first 35mm camera, they quickly dissolved the partnership to operate as competitors in the film camera and projector markets. Paul presented his Theatrograph on 20 February 1896 at Finsbury Park College. This was the first commercially produced 35 mm film projector to be produced in Great Britain. He also pioneered a system of projecting motion pictures onto a screen using a double Maltese cross system (modern-type sprockets that prevented wear on the film). The projection of films in London by Paul, Acres and the Lumieres happened around the same time. After some demonstrations before scientific groups, he was asked to supply a projector and staff to the Alhambra Music Hall in Leicester Square, and he presented his first theatrical programme on 25 March 1896. The use of his Theatrograph in music halls across England helped popularize cinema among the British population. To support the many showmen interested in making films of local interest, Paul established a separate manufacturing department focused on cameras, projectors, and cinema equipment with a dedicated office and showroom. Continuing his innovations with portable cameras, he built the 'Cinematograph Camera No. 1' in April 1896, the first camera to feature reverse-cranking. This mechanism allowed for the same film footage to be exposed several times. Paul was one of the first English producers to realise the possibilities of cinema as a means of presenting short comic and dramatic stories and to this end he built the first studio in England in 1989, with an adjacent laboratory capable of processing up to 8,000 feet of film per day. By the turn of the century his film projectors were being exported to the Continent, as well as to Australia and other British Dependencies. He entirely dominated the home market and earned the title 'Father of the British Film Industry'. Paul continued to make his own films that pioneered techniques such as close-up framing and cut transitions, selling them either directly or through newer new distribution companies. While Paul exited the film industry by early 1910, his importance was recognized among contemporaries through the moniker 'Daddy Paul'.- Actor
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Wade Boteler was born on 3 October 1888 in Santa Ana, California, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Green Hornet (1940), The Mandarin Mystery (1936) and The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (1940). He was married to Ellen Evelyn James. He died on 7 May 1943 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.- George Webb was born on 3 October 1887 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Black Beauty (1921), John Petticoats (1919) and The Lucky Devil (1925). He was married to Lee Kinney, Esther Ralston and Julia Frances Leahy. He died on 24 May 1943 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Robert Sauer was born on 3 October 1872 in Rammenau, Saxony, Germany. He was an assistant director, known for Klasskamrater (1952), Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012) and Community Sing: Series 2, No. 1 (1937). He died on 5 January 1944 in Provo, Utah, USA.- Actor
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Tall, heavy-set character actor Alan Dinehart dropped out of school to join a repertory company. He had extensive stage experience (including some 27 appearances on Broadway) and, by the time he was signed by Fox in 1931, he had worked not only as an actor but as a stage manager and writer. On screen he appeared for the most part in "B" pictures, notable exceptions being the MGM musical blockbuster Born to Dance (1936) and the 20th Century-Fox classic family drama Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938). Dinehart specialized in portraying blustering or shifty businessmen, crooked politicians or racketeers. While he is usually described as a supporting player, he actually started out in the early 1930s playing leading roles opposite some of the major female stars of the period.
However, Dinehart's characters were rarely sympathetic. In Street of Women (1932) he essayed an architect who, bored with his society wife, indiscreetly keeps a mistress (Kay Francis) on the side. In Supernatural (1933) he was true to form as the phony spiritualist fleecing a wealthy socialite, played by Carole Lombard; and in Jimmy the Gent (1934) he was an urbane con artist in competition with James Cagney. On rarer occasions Alan found gainful employment as more benevolent characters, point in case his theatrical impressario Theodore von Eltz in Dance, Girl, Dance (1933). All of these performances attracted good reviews from Mordaunt Hall of the New York Times, ranging from "excellent" to "bearing up valiantly".
In unlikely contrast to his self-styled image of "Hollywood's most versatile villain", Dinehart had strong comedic inclinations, co-authoring several comedy plays towards the later stages of his career. The last and most successful of these, "Separate Rooms" (1940-1941), with Dinehart top-billed alongside Glenda Farrell and Lyle Talbot, became one of the longest-running non-musical plays on Broadway at the time, finally closing after 613 performances. Alan's son, Mason Alan Dinehart, followed in his father's footsteps and also became an actor, featured in several westerns and on television from the late 1940's.- Alexander G. Kenedi was born on 3 October 1898 in Budapest, Hungary. Alexander G. was a writer, known for A Likely Story (1947) and Marry the Boss's Daughter (1941). Alexander G. was married to Irma Kenedi. Alexander G. died on 10 August 1945 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Charles MacDona was born on 3 October 1860 in Dublin, Ireland. He was an actor, known for Once Upon a Time (1918) and Daddy (1917). He was married to Mrs. Charles MacDona. He died on 15 November 1946 in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK.
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- Producer
Born out of wedlock in Manhattan, Kansas, but grew up in Denver. A close friend of fellow New York sportswriter--and former western gunfighter--William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson, who knew the Runyan family in Denver. In the late teens and early 1920s both Ed Sullivan and Walter Winchell worked as Runyon's leg men. Buried in New York's Woodlawn Cemetery.- Actor
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William P. Carleton was born on 3 October 1872 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Return of Jimmy Valentine (1936), Behind Masks (1921) and Morals (1921). He was married to Toby Claude. He died on 6 April 1947 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Sebastian Smith from Southwell, Nottinghamshire, became a well-known star of many comedy and drama shows all over Britain in the late Victorian years before meeting pioneering film-maker Cecil Hepworth. Hepworth cast the handsome tall dark Smith in many of his films, often as a smart gentleman hero, in such titles as 'Rescued by Rover'. In his later years, Smith became quite fat and bald, allowing him to take on comedy roles in films such as 'Oh Mr. Porter' with Will Hay. He died in 1948 at the age of 78.
- Socorro Astol was born on 3 October 1885 in Valparaiso, Chile. She was an actress, known for Aguiluchos mexicanos (1924), Alma de sacrificio (1917) and En defensa propia (1917). She died on 28 January 1948 in Mexico, D.F., Mexico.
- Joseph Jiquel-Lanoë spent several years in Tahiti where he doubtlessly met Gauguin during his first stay in the late 1890's. He spent the last years of his life from 1940 to his death in 1948 in Papeete. Except for three paintings, one of them ("Trois Tahitiennes près d'un étang en forêt") revealing a strong influence of Gauguin, all traces of his work are gone.
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Paul Pinna was born on 3 October 1884 in Revel, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire [now Tallinn, Estonia]. He was an actor, known for Dawn of War (2020), Dollarid (1929) and Elu tsitadellis (1947). He died on 29 March 1949 in Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia].- Charles Brown Middleton was born 7th October 1879. His father was a military man with a strong sense of discipline which conflicted with Charles' own outlook on how to live his life so when 12 he ran away to join a circus and looked after the elephants before moving into performing in dramatic vignettes between traditional acts. At 18 he'd formed his own stock company which toured the South performing Shakespeare and self penned melodramas. He worked his way onto the Vaudeville circuit earning a reputation as a good actor which is how he met Stan Laurel. He appeared in some silent films in the 20's but his career took off with sound as stage actors were in demand due to their experience of vocal performance. He had a very distinctive voice which marked him out from the competition.He appeared with 3 great film comedy teams - Laurel and Hardy, The Marx Brothers and the Three Stooges. He was often cast as a 'Heavy' and appeared in a lot of serials - Di ck Tracy, Batman, and Black Raven but is probably best remembered as Ming the Merciless in 3 Flash Gordon serials of the 30's. He was never under contract which allowed him to choose his own roles but a succession of unwise career choices led to less work in his later years so for every good role there were some bad ones. In his final years he took to the stage touring theatres showing clips from his films and talking about his work. On 19th April 1949 he was admitted to hospital and had an operation for gangrene on his right foot and died on the 22nd with cause of death being given as arteriosclerotic heart disease which he'd been suffering from for 20 years.
- Carl Jönsson was born on 3 October 1870 in Hamburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Trouble Backstairs (1935), Zwei Krawatten (1930) and Lady Windermeres Fächer (1935). He died on 5 May 1949 in Wembley, England, UK.
- George Moran was born on 3 October 1881 in Elwood, Kansas, USA. He was an actor, known for My Little Chickadee (1940), Why Bring That Up? (1929) and Anybody's War (1930). He was married to Claire White. He died on 1 August 1949 in Oakland, California, USA.
- Géza Raskó was born on 3 October 1870 in Pest, Hungary [now in Budapest, Hungary]. He was an actor, known for A tizennegyedik (1920). He died on 18 February 1950 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
- Anna Mae Walthall was born on 3 October 1894 in Alabama, USA. She was an actress, known for Bare Fists (1919), As Man Desires (1925) and At the Stroke of the Angelus (1915). She was married to ? Eldridge. She died on 17 April 1950 in Van Nuys, California, USA.
- Ivan Shmelyov was born on 3 October 1873 in Moscow, Russian Empire. He was a writer, known for Man from the Restaurant (1927), The 2007 Academy Award Nominated Short Films: Animation (2008) and My Love (2006). He died on 24 June 1950 in Bussy-en-Othe, Yonne, France.
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Luis Peredo was born on 3 October 1891 in Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico. He was a director and writer, known for Clemencia (1921), Santa (1918) and Caridad (1918). He was married to Luz María García. He died on 31 October 1950 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico.- Production Manager
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- Director
John M. Voshell was born on 3 October 1883 in Smyrna, Delaware, USA. He was a production manager and director, known for Enemies of Children (1923), The Man Who Laughs (1928) and Whispering Devils (1920). He was married to Lois. He died on 22 May 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Director
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- Writer
Gustaf Bergman was born on 3 October 1880 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. He was a director and actor, known for Generalen (1931), En kvinnas morgondag (1931) and Kärlek måste vi ha (1931). He was married to Thorborg, Kerstin. He died on 5 June 1952 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.