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- Hans Sachs was born on 5 November 1494 in Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire [now Bavaria, Germany]. Hans was a writer, known for Aufruhr im Schlaraffenland (1957) and Katzen können kratzen (1989). Hans died on 19 January 1576 in Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire [now Bavaria, Germany].
- Martins Pena was born on 5 November 1815 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was a writer, known for O Grande Desbum... (1978), O Noviço (1975) and O Namorador (1978). He died on 7 December 1848 in Lisbon, Portugal.
- Anna Edwards was born in India in 1834, the daughter of a cabinetmaker who died three months before her birth. Her mother then remarried to officer in the Engineers who sent Anna and her sister, Eliza, to a school in England. The girls returned to India as teenagers and Anna escaped her stepfather's plans to marry her to a man twice her age by accompanying Rev.Percy Badger on a tour of the Middle East. She married a clerk, Thomas Leon Owens, and they had two children, a daughter Avis and a son, Louis. Her husband had trouble keeping a job, and moved his family a great deal; for some unknown reason, he also changed his name to Thomas Leonowens. After her husband died of apoplexy in Penang, Malaya, Anna moved to Singapore, where she received an invitation to teach English to the children of the Siamese King. She later embellished her memoirs of this time (changing her place of birth to Wales, and taking three years off her age; making her husband a major in the British army instead of a lowly clerk; and adding the tale of a concubine's brutal death, which never happened) which became famous. Anna herself retired to Canada, where she became a suffragist before her death. Her sister, Eliza, was the grandmother of the famous actor Boris Karloff.
- Rui Barbosa was born on 5 November 1849 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. He was an actor, known for Parafernália o Dia de Caça (1970). He died on 1 March 1923 in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Famous American poet and author. She wrote numerous poems starting when she was 7 years old. She would go on to write poems such as The Price He Paid, Inherited Passions, The Beautiful Lie and The Belle of the Season amoung other. In her later years she went to the battle fields in France during World War 1 to lecture to the soldiers, and assist with the Red Cross. While in France Ella became ill and was taken back to the United States where she died of Cancer at her Short Beach estate. She was cremated and sealed in a vault with her husbands ashes on the property.
- Francis Worcester Doughty was born on 5 November 1850 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. Francis Worcester was a writer, known for Zudora (1914), Stanley's Search for the Hidden City (1915) and Hook and Hand (1914). Francis Worcester died on 30 October 1917 in Cresskill, New Jersey, USA.
- Stella Brereton was born on 5 November 1853 in Islington, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Garryowen (1920) and Boys of the Old Brigade (1916). She died in 1940 in Willesden, London, England, UK.
- Eugene V. Debs was born on 5 November 1855 in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA. He was married to Kate Metzel. He died on 20 October 1926 in Elmhurst, Illinois, USA.
- Soundtrack
Joseph Tabrar was born on 5 November 1857. Joseph died on 22 August 1931.- Princess Hilda of Nassau was born on 5 November 1864 in Wiesbaden, Duchy of Nassau, German Confederation [now Hesse, Germany]. She was married to Grand Duke of Baden Frederick II. She died on 8 February 1952 in Badenweiler, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Edwin Denison was born on 5 November 1864 in Williamstown, Vermont, USA. He was an actor, known for The Seven Swans (1917), The Town That Forgot God (1922) and The Black Circle (1919). He was married to Gertrude Marsh. He died on 26 January 1928 in White Plains, New York, USA.
- Actor
- Director
He was one of the great actors of the era depicting characters. From 1901 to 1939 he was a teacher at the School for Dramatic Arts, a pedagogue with great ability. He wrote theatre plays (Leszámolás, Arad, 1917) and opera librettos (Vezeklõk, Bp., 1894). He filmed in the period of the silent picture. His name is associated with one of the most important pieces of the twenties, A megbûvöltek (1921), which he adapted from the story of Dostoievski. His work was characterised by a high artistic standard, a strength to create atmosphere and to carefully select the players.- Nicholas Longworth was born on 5 November 1869 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was married to Alice Roosevelt Longworth. He died on 9 April 1931 in Aiken, South Carolina, USA.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Jessie Ralph was a sailor's daughter, who first came to the stage at the age of 16, performing with a stock company in either Boston, Massachusetts, or Providence, Rhode Island (accounts differ). The year was 1880, and it took Jessie another 26 years to make her debut on the Great White Way in "The Kreutzer Sonata". Already a seasoned actress, she enjoying third billing. Her screen career started with one and two reelers as early as 1915, but her proper entry into Hollywood did not come about until 1933.
For more than 20 years, plump, down-to-earth Jessie made her reputation as a character actress on Broadway playing an assortment of nurses, maids and aunts. She was used in musicals by George M. Cohan and acted in Shakespearean roles, from "Twelfth Night" to "Romeo and Juliet". She was nurse to Jane Cowl's Juliet in the 1923 play which ran for an unprecedented 174 performances and co-starred Eva Le Gallienne and Katharine Cornell (amazing, when considering that the star was already 39 years old!). Like other successful actresses of the stage, Jessie was brought to Hollywood to reprise a Broadway hit role, in this case her Aunt Minnie in Child of Manhattan (1933).
After half a lifetime in the theatre, Jessie's sojourn in Hollywood was relatively brief but marked by a series of memorable performances. She was the definitive incarnation of the endearing nurse Peggotty in David Copperfield (1935) and played Greta Garbo's loyal maid Nanine in Camille (1936). She was the matriarch of the Whiteoaks of Jalna (1935), an adaptable society matron in San Francisco (1936) and harridan of a mother-in-law to W.C. Fields, Hermisillo Brunch, in The Bank Dick (1940). Whether in comedy or drama, as a Chinese aunt in both stage and screen versions of The Good Earth (1937), or a kindly sorceress in The Blue Bird (1940), Jessie gave consistently good value for money. The New York Times review of October 12, 1935, wrote of her performance in I Live My Life (1935): "Jessie Ralph as the tyrannical head of the family, proves again that she is the best of the screen grandmothers".
Jessie retired from acting in 1941 after having a leg amputated and died three years later.- Josef Oliak was born on 5 November 1870 in Prague, Cechy, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Batalion (1927), Dívka v modrém (1940) and Jindra, hrabenka Ostrovínová (1934). He died on 3 November 1953 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Oskar Krabbe was born on 5 November 1871 in Hämeenlinna, Finland. He was an actor, known for Verettömät (1913), Nuori luotsi (1913) and Kesä (1915). He died on 11 December 1951.
- Norbert Falk was born on 5 November 1872 in Weißkirchen, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Hranice na Morave, Czech Republic]. He was a writer, known for Rosita (1923), Passion (1919) and The White Slave (1927). He died on 16 September 1932 in Berlin, Germany.
- Director
- Writer
Ulysses Davis was born on 5 November 1872 in South Amboy, New Jersey, USA. He was a director and writer, known for The White Scar (1915), Tainted Money (1915) and The Soul's Cycle (1916). He died on 1 October 1924 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.- Frédéric Boutet was born on 5 November 1874 in Bourges, Cher, France. He was a writer, known for Le mystère Imberger (1935), Le passager (1928) and Sextette (1948). He died on 3 February 1941 in Arcachon, Gironde, France.
- Composer
- Music Department
- Actor
Guy Jones was born on 5 November 1874 in Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]. He was a composer and actor, known for Mutiny on the Elsinore (1937), Kathleen (1937) and Love's Old Sweet Song (1933). He died on 8 February 1959 in Surbiton, Surrey, England, UK.- Henry Hall was born on 5 November 1876 in Washington Township, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Hot Curves (1930), The Ape Man (1943) and Feet First (1930). He was married to Emma S.. He died on 11 December 1954 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Born, Maida Vale, Middlesex, London, England, 5 November 1878, sixth child and fifth daughter of Conrad Tulloch and Kate Tulloch (née Rose). When a child spoken-word performer with her sisters in musical ensemble "The Misses Tulloch", performing from early 1890s in London and on UK tours. Became stage actor, 1897, understudying Sydney Fairbrother as "Micah Dow" in J.M. Barrie's "The Little Minister" in London, 1898 and played the character on UK provincial tour, 1898. Adopted stage name "Dora Senior", 1899, first when acted with Herbert Beerbohm Tree in 1899 "King John" London stage production and in King John (1899) film. Last acting role as "Dora Senior" "Bertha" in Gerhart Hauptmann 's "The Weavers", London, May 1901. Married Clement Salaman in July 1901 and retired from professional performing. Five children. Moved with family to Somerset, England, 1909x1910. 1919, moved to Treborough Lodge, Treborough, Somerset. Known as "Dora (Clement) Salaman". Involved in Amateur Theatre, locally (Somerset), regionally (West England) and nationally (England) as actor, writer, producer and adjudicator, particularly from beginning of 1930s until her death. Published playwright, 1930 onwards. Lecturer on Drama, English Literature, Housecraft and other subjects. Also occupied in county (Somerset) affairs (Parish and District Councils, Magistracy, Women's Institute, etc.). Widowed, 10 August 1935. Member of several local wartime organisations, 1939-1945. Died 30 December 1945, Treborough Lodge. Buried, St Peter's Church, Treborough, 3 January 1946.
- Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev was born on 5 November 1878 in Dobroslavovka, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Sumy Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a writer, known for Der Fall des Staatsanwalts M... (1928) and Ssanin (1924). He died on 3 March 1927 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Additional Crew
First President of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association of America, Will H. Hays had a distinguished career as a politician before that, most notably as Chairman of the Republican National Committee (1918-21) and as U.S. Postmaster General under Warren Harding (1921-22). As Postmaster General, he was an outspoken opponant of sending obscene materials through the mails. Thus, when Hollywood's producers and studio heads decided to form their own watchdog organization after several major scandals during the early 1920's (Arbuckle, Wallace Reed), they felt that Hays was the perfect man for the job. Beginning in 1922, and for more than two decades thereafter, it was a job that Hays took very seriously, and it reached its apex with the adoption of the so-called, highly restrictive Hays Code in 1934. By the late 1940's, however, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that films were protected under the First Amendment, and Hays felt his power starting to slip. As American films went in new and different directions, the various restrictions in the Hays Code began to erode under Hays and his immediate successors, Joseph Breen, Eric Johnson, and Jack Valenti, the latter of whom essentially scrapped the Hays Code in 1967 in favor of the present-day rating system. For good or ill, Will Hays was a force to be reckoned with in the history of American films, and his influence is still being felt, and debated, today.- Costume Designer
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
Sophie Wachner was born on 5 November 1879. She was a costume designer, known for Men on Call (1930), Women Everywhere (1930) and He Who Gets Slapped (1924). She was married to Harold W. Powers. She died on 13 September 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Director and producer of many German as well as a few American, British and French films, Richard Oswald started making films in 1914 and shortly formed his own production company. After making many successful films and discovering several important performers, he fled his homeland after the Nazi takeover and eventually settled in the US. He was the father of Gerd Oswald, a well-regarded director of "B" pictures and television shows.- John Turnbull was born on 5 November 1880 in Dunbar, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950), Lord Edgware Dies (1934) and Murder at the Baskervilles (1937). He was married to Eve Marchew and Beatrice Alice Scott (actress). He died on 22 February 1956 in Marylebone, London, England, UK.
- Born in Pascani, Moldova he got a rural education, and at age of 17 published his first sketch in a weekly paper in Bucharest. At age of 20 decide to quit Law studies and to live from writing. Between 1910 and 1919 is the director of National Theater from Iasi and in 1921 become a full member of Romanian Academy. Is extremely productive in historical novels in the period between the World Wars. After the WWII and the occupation of Romania by the Russian Red Army, begins to get political positions in the new communist regime, the highest position being the Parliament speaker. Dies at age of 81 in Bucharest and is buried next to greatest Romanian poet Mihail Eminescu and play-writer Ion Luca Caragiale.
- Lucille Newmark was born on 5 November 1880 in New York, USA. She was a writer, known for The Cardboard Lover (1928), Let Us Be Gay (1930) and Tea for Three (1927). She died on 6 March 1965 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Samuel A. Derieux was born on 5 November 1881 in Richmond, Virginia, USA. He was a writer, known for A Boy and His Dog (1946). He died on 27 February 1922 in New York, New York, USA.
- Actor
Con Brierley was born on 5 November 1881 in Chester, Cheshire, England, UK. He was an actor. He died in 1945 in Surrey, England, UK.- Richard Mensík was born on 5 November 1882 in Staré Mésto u Uherského Hradisté, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Nocní des (1914). He died on 6 April 1930 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Folkert Kramer was born on 5 November 1883. He was an actor, known for Bet zit in de penarie (1927), Klokslag twaalf (1936) and Bet naar de Olympiade (1928). He died on 8 February 1960.
- Grace Marvin was born on 5 November 1883 in Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for Second Hand Rose (1922), The Gray Dawn (1922) and Eternal Love (1917). She died on 10 July 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Producer
- Additional Crew
American producer of 1930s and 1940s Westerns whose chief claim to fame is introduction of the character Hopalong Cassidy to the screen. Sherman was originally an exhibitor. In 1914, he distributed the film The Birth of a Nation (1915) in the western United States and parlayed the connections he made into a position as a studio producer. In 1935, he formed Harry Sherman Productions to produce films based on Clarence Mulford's Hopalong Cassidy character. He made over fifty of the sixty six Cassidy films, as well as dozens of other pictures, most of them Westerns as well. Like John Ford, Sherman had his own stock company of players, many of whom graduated to real stardom from their beginnings with Pop Sherman. Among them: George 'Gabby' Hayes, Victor Jory, Lee J. Cobb, Richard Dix, George Reeves, Robert Mitchum, and Albert Dekker. Sherman managed to produce his high quality films on a reasonable budget, then released them through prestigious companies such as United Artists and Paramount Pictures. After leaving the Cassidy films (which were taken over and henceforth produced by star William Boyd), Sherman produced a couple of larger budgeted Westerns before his death following surgery in 1952. His daughters Lynn Sherman and Teddi Sherman were actors in his films, and Teddi Sherman went on to a respected career as a screenwriter, mainly of Westerns.- British poet and dramatist James Elroy Flecker was born Herman Elroy Flecker in London, England, in 1884. His father, Rev. W.H. Flecker, was appointed headmaster of the Dean Close School in Cheltenham, England. The family lived on campus, and young Herman spent most of his youth there. He came to writing poetry at an early age (13), and at age 16 he was sent to Uppingham and from there to Trinity College, Oxford (where he changed his first name from Herman to James), which he attended from 1902 to 1906.
At Oxford he achieved average grades, but that was due mainly to his obsession with French poetry, to which he devoted much of the time he should have spent studying the school's classical curriculum. It was also at Oxford that, despite the strict evangelical Protestant upbringing by his father, he rejected Christianity and became an agnostic.
Upon graduation from Oxford he secured a job teaching at a private school in Hempstead at the end of 1906. He had decided that he wanted to become an interpreter in the consular service, so he set about learning as many languages as he could. He already spoke French and German, and to those he added Italian, Spanish and modern Greek. In 1908 he passed the consular service examination, and then began a two-year course in modern languages at Cambridge.
In June of 1910 he was posted by the consular service to Constantinople, Turkey, but shortly afterwards he was discovered to have tuberculosis and was returned to England to recover at a sanitarium in the Cotswolds, where he stayed for three months. He had already published two books of verse, "The Bridge of Fire" and "Thirty-Six Poems", and it was at the sanitarium that he wrote the play "Don Juan". When he left the sanitarium he traveled to London and Paris, then back to Constantinople and from there to Beirut, Lebanon, where he was vice-consul and where he married a Greek woman, Helle Skiadaressi. In May of 1913 he began to have major health problems--tuberculosis again--and was taken to a sanitarium in Switzerland. He spent the last few years of his life in a variety of sanitariums in that country. It was during that period that he re-converted to Christianity.
James Elroy Flecker died in Davos, Switzerland, on January 3, 1915. - Ingeborg Staunsbo was born on 5 November 1884 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was an actress, known for I sidste Sekund (1913). She died on 11 March 1964 in Denmark.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Will Durant was the left-wing philosopher-historian who labored on his epic, multi-volume "The Story of Civilization" by himself, and then with his wife Ariel, for half a century. The son of French Canadian immigrants from Quebec, Durant first planned to study for the priesthood, but an interest in socialism and biology thwarted those plans. He became a teacher and a writer. "The Story of Civilization" evolved out of a series of pamphlets he wrote for the education of workers.
For "Rousseau and Revolution" (1967), the 10th volume of "The Story of Civilization," Will and Ariel Durant were awarded the Pulitzer Prize. They died within two weeks of each other in 1981.- Actor
- Director
Actor, author. He published several books, and his plays were also staged. He filmed in 1917 for the first time, as Viktor Kurd, the actor. He accepted roles in works of Frigyes Karinthy Frigyes and Pál Fejõs. A memorable role from his later period is the Director Wagner form Úri muri (1950). During the era of the silent film he also directed twice. He also engaged himself in pedagogy when teaching in the film school of Géza Boross - Zsigmond Somlár later that of Ödön Uher.- Additional Crew
Paul Huld was born on 5 November 1885 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is known for Alle gaar rundt og forelsker sig (1941), Man elsker kun en gang (1945) and En søndag på Amager (1941). He died on 16 April 1969.- Ralph Moody was born on November 5, 1886 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA as Ralph Roy Moody, the oldest son of Franklin Jerome Moody and Ida M. Hicklin. His introduction to show business was first as an actor on the stage in pre-radio days and then as a radio personality. His first acting role was in 1900 as the boy, Heinrich, in Rip Van Winkle. At the 1904 World's Fair he sang tenor in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He had a wide following as Uncle Abner on WIBW, CBS Radio, in the 1930's in Topeka, Kansas, USA. As Uncle Abner he was the town's barber, constable, postmaster, and chief source of information. Beginning in the mid-1940's he was a frequent radio cast member on The Roy Rogers Show. When Gunsmoke began its radio show run in 1952, Ralph Moody was one of the regular cast members. He began making film and television appearances at the age of 62. His first television roles were on three 1949-50 The Lone Ranger (1949) episodes, each time as an Indian chief with a different name. Frequently on TV westerns he had roles as an Indian, but was not type cast. His range of characters included a variety of roles with Jack Webb on Dragnet (1951). Many of his dozen appearances on The Rifleman (1958) were as Doc Burrage. He had six appearances on Bonanza (1959), most as an Indian, at the end of his 23 year acting career. He was married to Hazel B. McOwen. He died on September 16, 1971 in Burbank, California, USA.
- Actress
Else Berna was born on 5 November 1886 in Dresden, Germany. She was an actress, known for Satanas (1919), Der Galeerensträfling (1919) and Freie Liebe (1919). She died on 20 May 1935 in Berlin, Germany.- Conductor. He studied music in Wroclaw, Berlin and Stuttgart. From 1916 he was a soloist tutor at the Grand Theater in Warsaw, then music director and conductor at the Polish Theater. In 1920-21 he worked as a conductor at the Qui Pro Quo theater, 1921-23 at the New Theater in Kraków, in 1923-29 he was the music director and conductor at the Juliusz Slowacki's Therater in Kraków. After World War II, he was initially the music director of the State Dramatic Theaters in Kraków, and in 1952-54 at the Groteska Theater there. For many years he was also a professor of music schools in Kraków.
- Sandro Camasio was born on 5 November 1886 in Isola della Scala, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for T'ho ancor baciato, or muoio lieta! (1912), La zingara (1912) and Addio giovinezza! (1913). He died on 23 May 1913 in Turin, Italy.
- Ruth Goetz was born on 5 November 1886 in Oberglogau, Silesia, Germany. She was a writer, known for Die Herrin der Welt, 7. Teil - Die Wohltäterin der Menschheit (1920), Die Herrin der Welt 5. Teil - Ophir, die Stadt der Vergangenheit (1920) and Das Geheimnis der Cecilienhütte (1918). She died on 19 June 1965 in Barnet, London, England, UK.
- Producer
George Schaefer was born on 5 November 1888 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was a producer. He died on 8 August 1981.- Director
- Actor
- Production Designer
Tony Lekain was born on 5 November 1888 in Paris, France. He was a director and actor, known for Figaro (1929), No Trifling with Love (1924) and Fanatisme (1934). He died in 1966 in Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France.- Míla Holeková was born on 5 November 1888 in Jaromér, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Divoká Maryna (1919) and Sachta pohrbených ideí (1922). She died on 9 October 1942 in Prague, Protektorát Cechy a Morava [now Czech Republic].
- Clemence Randolph was born on 5 November 1888 in Tarrytown, New York, USA. She was a writer, known for Rain (1932), Armchair Theatre (1956) and Au théâtre ce soir (1966). She died on 18 June 1970 in Kingston, New York, USA.
- Charles Mintz was born on 5 November 1889 in York, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a producer, known for Holiday Land (1934), The Little Match Girl (1937) and The Elegy (1927). He was married to M.J. Winkler. He died on 30 December 1939 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.