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- Mihály Vörösmarty was born on 1 December 1780 in Pusztanyék, Hungary [now Kápolnásnyék, Hungary]. He was a writer, known for Szép Ilonka (1921), Musical TV Theater (1970) and The Old Gypsy (2018). He was married to Laura Csajághy. He died on 19 November 1855 in Pest, Hungary [now part of Budapest, Hungary].
- Friedrich Burgmüller was born on 1 December 1806 in Regensburg, Germany. Friedrich died on 13 February 1874 in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
- Agathe Backer-Grøndahl was born on 1 December 1847 in Holmestrand, Vestfold, Norway. She was married to Olaus Andreas Grøndahl. She died on 4 June 1907 in Christiania, Norway [now Oslo, Norway].
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Ernest Reyer was born on 1 December 1823 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He is known for La joie de vivre (1952). He died on 15 January 1909 in Le Lavandou, Var, France.- Actor
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John M. East born John Marlborough East in London in 1860. John began on comedy and drama theatre from the 1880's. Popular gentleman character and support actor, appeared in more than 30 British silent drama and adventure movies, making his film debut as Tom Cribb in Harold M. Shaw's 'The House of Temperley' starring Ben Webster for the London Film Co in 1913. Perhaps his best known roles was as Little John in 'In the Days of Robin Hood' starring H. Agar Lyons in the title role made at the Natural Colour Kinematograph studios in 1913 and as Old Kipps in 'Kipps' starring George K. Arthur at the Stoll Film Co in 1921. He made his final movie as the Shepherd in 'Owd Bob' directed by Henry Edwards for Atlantic Union Film Co in 1924 John died that same year in London age 64. In the mid 1910's he became so well-known in the movies he received over 3000 votes in Picturegoer magazine's 1916 contest to establish the 'Greatest British Film Player. John was also a screenwriter and one of the co-founders of the Neptune Film Company in Borehamwood which is today the site of Elstree studios.- Queen Alexandra was born Princess Alexandra Caroline Mary Charlotte Louisa Julia on December 1, 1844. She was the granddaughter of the king of Denmark. She lived an uneventful childhood in the palaces of Denmark with her sister, Marie, who became the mother of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. When Alex, as she was called, turned 16 she was considered a great beauty, and won the hand of the heir to the throne of England. She and Prince Albert Edward, or "Bertie", were married on March 10, 1863. They had six children including the future King George V. The first 40 years of marriage were very turbulent for Alexandra. As well as the six children, she had to contend with a brother-in-law (the husband of Bertie's sister Helena) whose family wanted a stake in the Schleswig-Holstein lands that had belonged to the kings of Denmark for generations. Finally in 1901 her mother-in-law, Queen Victoria, died, making her husband King Edward VII and she, in turn, Queen Consort. During her time as Queen she did many things to make England better, including the establishment of The Red Cross.
In 1910, however, something happened to change everything. Her husband of almost 50 years died. On his death bed she did a very magnanimous thing: she allowed his mistress, Alice Keppel, to say goodbye to him. After his death she lived at the house in which she had lived during her marriage. Unfortunately, she also lived with the increasing deafness that plagued her life as well as that of her son Albert Victor, who would have become king if he had not died. Alexandra died in 1925 of a heart attack and is buried at Windsor near her husband and mother and father-in-law. - Reinhardt Schwimmer was born on 1 December 1899 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He died on 14 February 1929 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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American songwriter who composed hundreds of songs, many of them now standards. The daughter of a journalist, Whitson was born in Hickman County, Tennessee, where she collaborated with her sister Alice on lyrics. She also wrote poetry and was widely published as a poet and fiction writer. In 1909, she had a hit with her song "Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland," repopularized years later in the film In the Good Old Summertime (1949). Her most enduring song came in 1910: "Let Me Call You Sweetheart." She died at 51 in Nashville and was buried there.- Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance was born Sylvester Clark Long in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He was the son of Joseph S. Long.
Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance's career started when he was employed by a wild west show, whose owner mistook him for native American. It being the 1920's, he knew that the racial prejudices of the time would keep him from advancing his career if he ever did correct anyone as to what his background was.
Long Lance took the opportunity to emerge himself in the culture of his co-workers and even was so skilled as to become fluent in Cherokee.
He went on to star in "The Silent Enemy" a film that exposed how hunger was silently killing Native Americans across the reservations at the time.
When it became common knowledge that Long Lance was part African American, he lost his career and many friends. This drove him to battle alcoholism and eventually lend to his death.
On March 20th, 1932 he committed suicide. - Actor
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Al Wilson was born on 1 December 1895 in Harrisburg, Kentucky, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Flyin' Thru (1925), The Cloud Rider (1925) and Won in the Clouds (1928). He was married to Ruth Mitchell. He died on 5 September 1932 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.- Barney Hellum was born on 1 December 1895 in Stavanger, Norway. He was an actor, known for Horsefeathers (1928), The Beef-Steaks (1928) and Money Balks (1928). He died on 22 December 1935 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Miguel Fleta was born on 1 December 1897 in Albalate de Cinca, Huesca, Aragón, Spain. He was an actor, known for Miguelón, o el último contrabandista (1934), Gigantes y cabezudos (1926) and eXtrañas heterodoXias (2021). He died on 28 May 1938 in A Coruña, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain.- Agustín Magaldi was born on 1 December 1898 in Santa Fé, Argentina. He was an actor, known for Monte Criollo (1935). He died on 8 September 1938.
- Luther Standing Bear, born Plenty Kill, was a Oglala Lakota Native American writer and actor, and on of the first students of the controversial Carlisle Indian Industrial School, in Pennsylvania. He began his entertainment career as an interpreter, dancer, and horseback rider with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, which traveled the country at the turn of the century. From 1910 to the 1930s he starred in several western films. He is the author of My People the Sioux (1928), Land of the Spotted Eagle (1933), and Stories of the Sioux (1934).
- Ernst Toller was a German Jewish playwright, the son of wealthy parents in the Polish-speaking area of Prussia, and was considered one of the most promising of the German Expressionist dramatic movement. After enlisting in the German army in 1914, the horrors of trench warfare (including a personal spell in hospital) encouraged him to reconsider his political stance. Toller became involved in a general strike in Munich in 1918 before being elected President of the Central Revolutionary Committee of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic of March 1919.
After being deposed by the Freikorps, Toller headed the Red Army which was defeated by reactionary troops. He escaped death but was sentenced to five years in prison, when he wrote his best play, "Die Masse-Mensch". However, Toller's politics made him unpopular with the Right, and his Expressionistic writing and pacifism did not endear to the hard Left.
Demonised by the Nazis, Toller left Germany soon after the ascension of Hitler and moved to London, where his autobiography, "I Was a German", was published. Toller later moved to New York and committed suicide in 1939. Pastor Hall (1940), was the only one of his plays to be filmed. - Costume Designer
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Ali Hubert was born on 1 December 1878 in Vienna, Austria. Ali was a costume designer, known for The Sea Hawk (1940), The Merry Widow (1934) and Sumurun (1920). Ali died on 1 June 1940 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Costume Designer
Alexander Hubert was born on 1 December 1878. He was a costume designer, known for Carmen (1918). He died on 14 June 1940 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.- George Stevens was born on 1 December 1859 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Come Out of the Kitchen (1919), My Lady's Slipper (1916) and A Million Bid (1914). He was married to Katherine L.. He died on 20 August 1940 in New York City, New York, USA.
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John Binns was born on 1 December 1858 in England, UK. He was an actor. He was married to Edith Ann Rhodes. He died on 29 August 1940 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Ella Daincourt was born on 1 December 1876 in Brighton, Sussex, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Shooting Stars (1928), She Was Only a Village Maiden (1933) and Cyrano de Bergerac (1938). She died on 24 September 1940 in Kensington, London, England, UK.
- Writer Helen Simpson was born Helen De Guerry Simpson in Sydney, Australia, in 1897. Her father was a solicitor and her mother the daughter of a member of the French nobility. When she was a child her parents separated; her mother moved to London, England, and her father sent her to a Catholic convent boarding school. In 1914 she traveled to England to join her mother and attended Oxford in 1915. In 1918 she joined the Womens Royal Naval Service, posted to the decoding section of the Admiralty, and returned to Oxford the next year. She studied music, intending to become a composer, but became interested in the theatre; she wrote several plays and founded the Oxford Women's Dramatic Society. She ran afoul of the college authorities, however, who had strict regulations about male and female students acting together, and left Oxford in 1921 without finishing her degree.
In 1921 she returned to Sydney to attend her brother's wedding. There she published "Philosophies in Little", a collection of verse she had written. Two years later she wrote a play, "A Man of His TIme", based on the life of famed Italian artist Benvenuto Cellini, which was published in a "Sydney Daily Telegraph" literary contest, and was performed in Sydney the next year. She returned to Oxford in 1924. She bet someone that she could write a novel in five weeks and, as it turned out, she did--"Acquittal", a detective thriller published in London in 1925. It was a hit, and she turned out several more novels and plays in quick succession.
In 1927 she returned to Australia, and there married Denis Browne, a pediatric surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children. They had a daughter, Clemence (named after her close friend, writer Clemence Dane). She was a prolific writer, turning out a slew of detective novels over the next few years (three of them in collaboration with Dane). She also wrote novels about the history of Australia and a biography of King Henry VIII.
In the 1930s she gave a series of lectures and broadcasts on literary history. She toured the US in 1938, but by that time her eyesight was failing and she cut back on her writing. She turned to politics and in 1938 was the Liberal candidate for Parliament for the Isle of Wight.
She died in Overbury, near Evesham, Worcestershire, In October of 1940, from injuries she received in an air raid. She was survived by her husband and daughter. - Writer
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Emma-Lindsay Squier was born on 1 December 1892 in Marion, Indiana, USA. She was a writer and actress, known for Dancing Pirate (1936), The Angry God (1948) and The Magical World of Disney (1954). She died on 16 September 1941 in Saranac Lake, New York, USA.- Writer
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Victor Margueritte was born on 1 December 1866 in Blida, Algeria. He was a writer and actor, known for L'imprévu (1917), La garçonne (1936) and La garçonne (1957). He died on 23 March 1942 in Monestier, France.- Actress
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Viran Rydkvist was born on 1 December 1879 in Stockholm, Sweden. She was an actress, known for En trallande jänta (1942), Tänk, om jag gifter mig med prästen (1941) and Skeppsbrutne Max (1936). She died on 10 July 1942 in Stockholm, Sweden.- Orrin Johnson was born on 1 December 1865 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was an actor, known for Satan Sanderson (1915), The Three Musketeers (1916) and The Penitentes (1915). He was married to Isabel B. Smith and Katherine Grey. He died on 24 November 1943 in Neenah, Wisconsin, USA.
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T. Hayes Hunter was born on 1 December 1884 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. T. Hayes was a director and writer, known for The Ghoul (1933), The Light in the Clearing (1921) and Damaged Hearts (1924). T. Hayes was married to Millicent Evans. T. Hayes died on 14 April 1944 in London, England, UK.- Benjamin Crémieux was born on 1 December 1888 in Narbonne, Aude, France. He was a writer, known for Henri IV (1961) and La vie que je t'ai donnée (1961). He was married to Marianne Françoise Regazzacci-Stephanopoli. He died on 14 April 1944 in Buchenwald, Weimar, Thuringia, Germany.
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Adolf Abter was born on 1 December 1887 in Hanover, Germany. Adolf was a director and producer, known for Die Nacht und der Leichnam (1920), Zwei schwarze Laternen (1921) and Der goldene Skorpion (1921). Adolf died on 5 July 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.- Jean Coquelin was born on 1 December 1865 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Café de Paris (1938), L'abbé Constantin (1925) and La chanson du souvenir (1937). He was married to 'Blanche Miroir' and Louise Didès. He died on 1 October 1944 in Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames, Seine-et-Marne, France.
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Etta McDaniel was born on 1 December 1890 in Wichita, Kansas, USA. She was an actress, known for The Great Man's Lady (1941), What a Man! (1944) and The Pittsburgh Kid (1941). She died on 13 January 1946 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Camera and Electrical Department
Mack Elliott was born on 1 December 1903 in Michigan, USA. He died on 16 January 1946 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Ignacy Moscicki was born on 1 December 1867 in Mierzanowo, Mazowieckie, Poland. He died on 2 October 1946 in Versoix, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Frederick (or Frederic) Chapin had two careers: he was the composer who wrote the score for L. Frank Baum's 1905 stage musical "The Woggle-Bug" and a number of other shows in that era, including "The Storks" (1902), "Pussy in a Corner" (1904), "The Forbidden Land" (1904), "The American Girl" (1906) and "The Maid and the Millionaire" (1907). For the last of these, Chapin wrote the book and lyrics as well as the music--an expansion from music to words that would mark his later career as Hollywood screenwriter, although he returned to composing music in 1938 for the nudist romance Unashamed: A Romance (1938). In 1938, he took up stand-in work using the name Fred Fuller (cf. New York Post, Feb 8, 1938).- Harry Lewis was born on 1 December 1885 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for God Gave Me Twenty Cents (1926). He died on 18 November 1950 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- He started his career in the theater in 1909 and won right away, despite his young age, a leading position in the Society of Flavio Andò, which included players of the caliber of Evelina Paoli and Antonio Gandusio in 1911 he is in the company with Ruggero Ruggeri. In 1912 he became part of one of the companies represented in Italy and abroad the most popular works of the playwright Sem Benelli of Prato (as "La cena delle beffe" and "L'amore dei tre re"), starring opposite "Gualtiero Tumiati" and Arnaldo Ninchi, until 1932 when he was hired by EIAR.
- Robert Kegerreis was born on 1 December 1876 in Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for The Law of the North (1917), The Ballet Girl (1916) and The Last Sentence (1917). He died on 8 November 1951 in Richland, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, USA.
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One of the more prolific American directors, Ray Taylor was a Midwesterner who began his show-business career as an actor and stage manager in regional theater, a career that was interrupted by army service in World War I. After his discharge he ventured to Hollywood, where he got a job with Fox Films and worked as an assistant director, often with John Ford. In the 1920s Taylor traveled crosstown to Universal Pictures, where he got the opportunity to become a director, initially of one- and two-reelers. His proficiency in that niche impressed Universal execs enough to promote him to features and serials. When talkies made their debut, Taylor--unlike many of his silent-era colleagues--had no trouble adapting to the techniques of sound films, and in fact his career went on the fast track. Universal put him in the director's chair on many of its top western series and eventually placed him at the helm of one of its most popular and fondly remembered serials, "Flash Gordon." However, due to a worsening drinking problem his work by the late 1930s and early 1940s was often erratic. Director William Witney said he got his first co-directing credit--on the Republic serial The Painted Stallion (1937)--because Taylor had gotten so drunk by lunchtime one day about halfway through filming that he had to be taken home. Witney was called upon to replace him and finish the picture.
Taylor was teamed up with the equally prolific, but more reliable, Ford Beebe during his last years at Universal. When the serial genre began to die out Taylor went back to making westerns, and was eventually hired by Producers Releasing Corp. (PRC) to try to give a professional veneer to its low-grade western series starring erstwhile "cowboy" Lash La Rue. When the series and its star left low-rent PRC for Ron Ormond's even lower-rent Western Adventure Productions, Taylor went with them. However, the series' rock-bottom budgets, tenth-rate scripts and the stupefying ineptness of its star stymied whatever efforts Taylor made to breathe some life into them, and these entries can hardly be counted among his better efforts. Taylor retired from the business in 1949 and died in 1952.- Composer, songwriter ("My Pony Boy"), author, pianist and producer, a vaudeville accompanist first, and then a vaudeville producer. Joining ASCAP in 1943, his popular-song compositions include "My Pony Boy", "You Never Can Be Too Sure About the Girls", "In the Sweet Long Ago", "Roll 'Em Girls", and "You Can't Cry Over My Shoulder".
- Paul Holck-Hofmann was born on 1 December 1898 in Denmark. He was an actor and writer, known for Champagnegaloppen (1938), Man elsker kun en gang (1945) and Alle gaar rundt og forelsker sig (1941). He died on 5 March 1952 in Denmark.
- Freddie Forbes was born on 1 December 1893 in Islington, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Murder at the Cabaret (1936), Music Hall Parade (1939) and Old Mother Riley at Home (1945). He died on 15 May 1952 in Marylebone, London, England, UK.
- George Creel was born on 1 December 1876 in Lafayette County, Missouri, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Saved by the Juvenile Court (1913) and The Heart of a Cowboy (1909). He was married to Alice Rosseter and Blanche Bates. He died on 2 October 1953 in San Francisco, California, USA.
- César Vanoni was born on 1 December 1890 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He was an actor, known for Sombras de gloria (1930), Hollywood, ciudad de ensueño (1931) and Así es la vida (1930). He died on 4 October 1953 in Alameda, California, USA.
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Ansel Whitlow was born on 1 December 1907 in Indiana, USA. Ansel died on 6 December 1954 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Karl Schmid-Bloss was born on 1 December 1883 in Stuttgart, Germany. He was an actor, known for William Tell (1924). He died on 21 February 1956 in Zürich, Kanton Zürich, Switzerland.
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Bert Anderson was born on 1 December 1907 in Missouri, USA. He is known for Fireman Save My Child (1954), The Milkman (1950) and The Looters (1955). He died on 24 April 1957 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Actor
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Will King was born on 1 December 1886 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Weak But Willing (1929), Grass Skirts (1929) and The Fatal Forceps (1929). He was married to Claire Starr (actress). He died on 22 January 1958 in San Francisco, California, USA.- Endre Szemethy was born on 1 December 1903 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was an actor, known for Éjfélkor (1957), Szabóné (1949) and Goose Boy (1950). He died on 1 July 1958 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Wladimir A. Timm was born on 1 December 1885 in St Petersburg, Russia. He died on 28 August 1958 in Hendersonville, North Carolina, USA.
- Nell Ballantyne was born on 1 December 1898 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. She was an actress, known for Scotch on the Rocks (1953), The Shipbuilders (1943) and Mr. Emmanuel (1944). She died on 19 February 1959 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
- Alta Faulkner was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She lived in Los Angeles, California while pursuing an acting career in the late 1920s and 1930s. She married U.S. Army Corporal Robert L. Tucker on February 19, 1944, in St. Thomas Church in Hollywood. After Robert returned from Okinawa in 1945, their son Courtney was born and they moved to Santa Barbara, California. Alta died of cancer in 1959.