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- Alexander of Greece was born on 1 August 1893 in Tatoi Palace, Athens, Greece. He died on 25 October 1920 in Athens, Greece.
- King Constantine was born on 2 August 1868 in Athens, Kingdom of Greece. He was married to Sophia of Prussia. He died on 11 January 1923 in Palermo, Sicily, Kingdom of Italy.
- Writer
- Producer
H.C. Witwer was born on 11 March 1890 in Athens, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Cain and Mabel (1936), Her Father Said No (1927) and Bruisers and Losers (1926). He was married to Sadie S.. He died on 9 August 1929 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark was born on 22 January 1872 in Athens, Greece. He was married to Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia. He died on 8 February 1938 in Athens, Greece.
- Barrington Carter was best known as a stage actor of long standing; with his wife, he worked minstrel shows and medicine shows through vaudeville and the Broadway stage; in New York City, where he settled after the turn of the century, he was known as an actor, director, producer and booking agent.
- Spiridon Louis was born on 12 January 1873 in Marousi, Athens, Greece. He died on 26 March 1940 in Greece.
- Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark was born on 2 February 1882 in Athens, Greece. He was married to Princess Alice of Battenberg. He died on 3 December 1944 in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
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Eleni was a Greek actress. A unique woman, a complex and charismatic personality, full of sensitivities and tenderness but also brave, determined, strong and risky. She had a legion of followers but also an army of enemies. Many attempts to upstage her were often made over the years by people who had the power and/or connections in the theatrical business; she was often the subject of bitter jealousy from her fellow actors and actresses; her rivalry with the Oscar-winning Katina Paxinou was well-known back in the days. During the Axis occupation of Greece in World War II the rumor that she was having an affair with collaborationist Prime Minister Ioannis Rallis resulted to a new kind of hatred. The truth is that Eleni Papadaki had saved many people from the Germans during the War. The Greek Actor's Association finally expelled her from its ranks. A few months after the liberation of Athens she was arrested by members of the Greek partisan army and was executed without a trial as a war criminal. Shortly after her murder was admitted to be "a big mistake" and "an idiocy" even by the leaders of the Greek partisans.- King Georgios II was born on 19 July 1890 in Athens, Greece. He was married to Elisabeth of Romania. He died on 1 April 1947 in Athens, Greece.
- Alberto Savinio was born on 25 August 1891 in Athens, Greece. He was a writer, known for La nostra anima (1987). He was married to Maria Morino. He died on 5 May 1952 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Marika Kotopouli was born on 3 May 1887 in Athens, Greece. She was an actress, known for The Wrong Road (1933). She was married to Giorgos Helmis. She died on 11 September 1954 in Athens, Greece.
- H.H. Van Loan was born in 1888 in Athens, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for The Silent Hero (1927), Danger Patrol (1928) and I'd Give My Life (1936). He was married to Marjorie O'Gorman. He died on 7 September 1958 in West Springfield, Massachusetts, USA.
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- Director
M. Karagatsis was born on 23 June 1908 in Athens, Greece. M. was a writer and director, known for The Raid of the Aegean (1946), Yungermann and To 10 (2007). M. died on 14 September 1960 in Athens, Greece.- Dimitri Mitropoulos was born on 1 March 1896 in Athens, Greece. He died on 2 November 1960 in Milan, Italy.
- Actress
Born with the given name "Mary Ellen", Farnum adopted the nicknames "Pat" or "Patsy" as a child. She moved from her native Ohio to California with her parents while in her late teens. A pretty blonde with a talent for dancing, it was not long before she was embarking on a show business career. Making her first known screen appearance in "The Kid From Spain" (1932), she would go on to dance in the chorus lines of "42nd Street" (1933) and "Footlight Parade" (1933). Like many other aspiring actresses/dancers of that era, she never received screen credit and it is probable that she was a background performer in other musicals of the era. Farnum wed actor Edward V. Brown (1904-1977) in the spring of 1933. For reasons unknown, the couple wed a second time in late 1934, though the union ultimately ended in divorce. Farnum then wed a man named Elliot Bennett (1905-1977), with whom she would remain for the rest of her life. Always close to her parents, she and Bennett remained in California until her father and mother both died in 1961. The Bennetts then settled in Las Vegas. Sadly, whatever plans they had for their new life in Nevada were cut short when Farnum died suddenly from a heart attack in March of 1963. She was just 50 years old.- King Paul of Greece was born on 14 December 1901 in Athens, Greece. He was married to Queen Frederica of Greece. He died on 6 March 1964 in Athens, Greece.
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Fred Bain was born on 6 June 1895 in Athens, Georgia, USA. He was an editor and director, known for Ahora seremos felices (1938), Devil on Deck (1932) and The Oil Raider (1934). He died on 26 June 1965 in near Del Mar, California, USA.- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Apollon Gavriilidis was born in 1912 in Athens, Greece. He was an actor and writer, known for Koritsia tis Athinas (1961), Three Girls from America (1964) and The Happy Beginning (1954). He died on 28 October 1966 in Athens, Greece.- Princess Marina was born on 30 November 1906 in Athens, Greece. She was married to Duke of Kent. She died on 27 August 1968 in London, England, UK.
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Short, chubby-framed, twinkle-eyed, ever-huggable Charles Winninger was a veteran vaudevillian by the time he arrived in talking films. Born in a trunk to Austrian immigrant show biz folk in Athens, Wisconsin, on May 26, 1884, he was the son of Rosalia (Grassler) and Franz Winninge, a violinist. He was initially christened Karl Winninger. He left school while quite young (age 8) to join and tour with his parent's vaudeville family act which was called Winninger Family Concert Co. Upon his parents' retirement, he and his five brothers went off to play in various stock and repertory companies. On film Charlie found an "in" with silent comedy shorts between 1915-1916 but never truly settled into the movie business until the advent of sound.
In the meantime Broadway made great use of his musical comedy talents, marking his debut with "The Yankee Girl" in 1910 which also featured actress (and later stage star) Blanche Ring. He married Blanche in 1912 and the couple went on to star together quite frequently in vaudeville and on Broadway, including the musical "When Claudia Smiles" (1914) in which Blanche played the title role. Throughout the 1920s there were plenty of roles for Charlie on the Great White Way including a stint with the Ziegfeld Follies (1920), several Winter Garden productions, and in such musical comedy showcases as "The Broadway Whirl" (1921) (with Blanche), "The Good Old Days" (1923), "No, No, Nanette" (1925) and "Yes, Yes, Yvette" (1927). His most significant contribution was originating the role of beloved Cap'n Andy in "Showboat" (1927). Playing the Kern/Hammerstein musical for two years straight, he eagerly returned to the role on Broadway in 1932.
With the success of "Show Boat," Hollywood started taking more of an interest in the grey-haired song-and-dance man for character roles. Such early talking movies included the slapstick comedy Soup to Nuts (1930) with Ted Healy and The Three Stooges. Though Charlie was known for adding his immeasurable touch to the comedy genre (Flying High (1931) and Woman Chases Man (1937)), he was also a warm-hearted presence in heavier pictures as well, including the melodramas Bad Sister (1931) with Bette Davis and The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) with Helen Hayes, and rugged adventures Gun Smoke (1931) and White Fang (1936). Although he did not play his famous stage role in the 1929 version, Charlie was thankfully able to preserve his beloved Cap'n Andy to film in the superb Irene Dunne/Allan Jones remake of Show Boat (1936). He became so associated with the riverboat captain that he was asked to create several variations of the character on radio.
Charlie was relied upon for his benign, errant dads, old-theater entertainers, lovable drunks and other rather wanderlust types in film, characters that usually represented old-fashioned common sense or mores. He was quite entertaining in such classics as Nothing Sacred (1937), Three Smart Girls (1936) and Destry Rides Again (1939). In the 1940s he brightened up a number of MGM comedies and musicals including Babes in Arms (1939), Little Nellie Kelly (1940), Ziegfeld Girl (1941), When Ladies Meet (1941), Broadway Rhythm (1944), and Living in a Big Way (1947). One of his last important roles was playing Will Rogers' Judge Priest role in director John Ford's film The Sun Shines Bright (1953), is only leading film role. He and wife Blanche never appeared together in a film although Blanche did play herself in the film If I Had My Way (1940), a film that featured Charlie. His Broadway swan song was in "Music in the Air" in 1951 and his final film occurred about a decade later with Raymie (1960). He also played Santa Claus in the hour-long entertainment The Miracle of the White Reindeer (1960) that same year.
TV roles dominated much of his work in the 50s. On the one-season The Charles Farrell Show (1956) he played the star's dear old dad. Divorced from wife Blanche in 1951, Charlie subsequently married stage actress-turned-novelist and screenwriter Gertrude Walker whom he originally met on Broadway when he returned to "Show Boat" in 1932 (Gertrude played the role of Lottie). Retired for many years, Charlie died in 1969 following an extended illness at the age of 84.- Actor
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Vasilis Avlonitis was born in 1904 in Athens, Greece. He was an actor, known for Itan oloi tous... koroida! (1964), O Pseftothodoros (1963) and Diplopennies (1966). He died on 10 March 1970 in Athens, Greece.- Additional Crew
Nico Charisse was born on 1 March 1906 in Athens, Greece. He is known for The Sultan's Daughter (1943). He was married to Zita Torres and Cyd Charisse. He died on 14 April 1970 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.- Music Department
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- Composer
Composer, author, conductor and arranger, educated at the Knox Institute, Atlanta University, Allen University, USC, the Hahn School of Music, the University of Pennsylvania and the New York Institute of Musical Art. He also studied with Percy Goetschius and was awarded an Honorary Music Degree from the Philadelphia Musical Academy. In 1925, he formed the Hall Johnson Choir, appearing in concerts, films, theater, radio, television and recordings. He arranged and directed the music for the Broadway production of "Green Pastures" (in which his choir appeared), and wrote the Broadway stage score for "Run, Little Chillun". In 1936, he organized the Festival Negro Chorus of Los Angeles, and appeared in the International Festival of Fine Arts in Berlin. In 1951, he toured Germany and Vienna through the auspices of the US State Department, and won the New York City Citation in 1962. He was also a member of the New York City Citizens Advisory Commission for Cultural Affairs.- Vaso Metaxa was born in 1917 in Athens, Greece. She was an actress, known for Love Stories (1959), Horis taftotita (1963) and Egataleipsi (1965). She died on 20 May 1970 in Athens, Greece.
- Vasiliki Maliaros was born on 16 October 1883 in Athens, Greece. She was an actress, known for The Exorcist (1973). She died on 9 February 1973 in The Bronx, New York, USA.
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Actor, screenwriter and director Crane Wilbur was born Erwin Crane Wilbur on November 17, 1886, in Athens, NY. The nephew of the great stage actor Tyrone Power Sr., Wilbur first took to the boards as an actor, making his Broadway debut billed as Erwin Crane Wilbur on June 3, 1903, in a trilogy of William Butler Yeats plays, "A Pot of Broth" / "Kathleen ni Houlihan" / "The Land of Heart's Desire", put on by the Irish Literary Society at the Carnegie Lyceum.
He began appearing in films in 1910, but he made his name as a cinema actor as the male lead in The Perils of Pauline (1914), the enormously popular serial starring Pearl White. A star during the 1910s, Wilbur's career as a movie actor began petering out after he appeared as the eponymous hero of Breezy Jim (1919). As the Roaring Twenties made their debut, Wilbur went back to the stage. Between 1920-34 he had seven plays presented on Broadway: "The Ouija Board" (1920); "The Monster" (1922; revived 1933); "Easy Terms" (1925); "The Song Wtiter" (1928); "Border-Land" (1932); "Halfway to Hell" (1933); and "Are You Decent" (1934). He also staged "Halfway to Hell" and directed Donald Kirkley and Howard Burman's "Happily Ever After" in 1945. Crane also performed in "The Ouija Board", "Easy Terms" and nine other Broadway shows from 1927-32, including "A Farewell to Arms" (1930) and "Mourning Becomes Electra" (1932).
Wilbur had directed several silent pictures, but he made his sound debut as a director with the controversial The Unborn (1935), touted as "The Most Daring, Sensational Drama Ever Filmed!" The movie is an expose of the "science" of eugenics, tied to a story about the attempted forced sterilization of a married couple by the Welfare Bureau. "Tomorrow's Children" exposed the fact that many people were sterilized against their will and even without recourse to due process of law. The movie was banned in New York state on the grounds that it was "immoral", that it would "tend to corrupt morals" and that it was an incitement to crime. The ban was challenged but was upheld in the courts and on appeal as it was found to disseminate information about birth control, which was illegal at the time.
After this controversy Wilbur went on to a long and productive career, particularly in the mystery-thriller genre, as both a director and a screenwriter. He had a hand in the production of such genre classics as House of Wax (1953), The Bat (1959) (which he also directed) and Mysterious Island (1961).
Wilbur died on October 18, 1973, in Toluca Lake, CA, of complications following a stroke.- Actor
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Nicola Moscona was born on 23 September 1907 in Athens, Greece. He was an actor, known for Otello (1948), The Prodigal Son (1963) and The Great Caruso (1951). He died on 17 September 1975 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.- Petros Lohaitis was born in 1933 in Athens, Greece. He was an actor, known for I Agapi Mas (1968), The Brightest Star (1967) and Dictator Aliki (1972). He died on 29 May 1976.
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Giorgos Tzavellaswas a Greek film director, screenwriter, and playwright. His filmmaking was particularly influential, with critic Georges Sadoul considering him "one of the three major postwar Greek directors" (along with Michael Cacoyannis and Nikos Koundouros). Tzavellas wrote at least 26 plays, in addition to writing the scripts for all of his films. Among his notable films are Marinos Kontaras (1948), the drama O methystakas (1950), and Antigone (1961), a cinematic adaptation of the Sophocles tragedy. His adaptation of Antigone reimagined it in the language of realist cinema, omitting stylized elements of Greek stageplay such as the chorus, and attempting to convey the same information via setting and dialogue. In 1964 he was a member of the jury at the 14th Berlin International Film Festival. His masterpiece, however, is the 1955 film The Counterfeit Coin (1955), a film in four parts, linking the stories of several people through their transactions of a single counterfeit gold coin.- Claire Merritt Hodgson was born on 11 September 1897 in near Athens, Georgia, USA. She was an actress, known for Fancy Curves (1932), The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1956) and Go to Bat for the Babe (1951). She was married to Babe Ruth and Frank Bishop Hodgson. She died on 25 October 1976 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Kostas Mousouris was born in 1903 in Athens, Greece. He was an actor, known for Astero (1929), Agnoula (1939) and Love and Waves (1928). He was married to Aliki Theodorides. He died on 7 December 1976 in Athens, Greece.
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Vasiliadou was born in 1897, in Athens, Greece. Her real name was Georgia Athanasiou. She was obliged to leave school early and work as a shop girl, in order to help her family. She made her stage debut in 1918, but began her studies at the Gennadeios Phonetic School in 1923 and appeared in some operas. She then worked with the major theater companies of the period (Kyveli , Marika Kotopouli, Dimitris Myrat), playing a wide range of parts. In the mid-1930s she decided to retire, but Alekos Sakellarios offered her a small part in the 1939 musical comedy "Koritsia tis pantreias"; that was the genesis of a second career for the middle-aged actress, who went on to star in many comedies and revues and created personal stage groups until the late 1960s. She also made a tentative movie debut in 1930, but became one of the all-time greats of the Greek cinema during the 1950s, when she starred in extremely popular comedies like I oraia ton Athinon (1954), in which Nikos Tsiforos played with her unconventional external appearance, and The Auntie from Chicago (1957), in which director-writer Alekos Sakellarios cast her as a wealthy Greek-American who returns to Greece after thirty years and brings a fresh lifestyle to the family of her conservative brother. She died in 1980, but is always fondly remembered by Greek audiences.- Princess Helen (Elena) of Greece and Denmark was born in Athens, Greece, on May 2, 1896. She was the third child of King Constantine I of Greece and Queen Sophie Dorothea Ulrica of Prussia. Her brothers George (King George of Greece, Alexander and Paul each eventually became King of Greece, and she had two sisters, Irene and Katherine.
In 1921 she married Crown Prince Carol (later King Carol II) of Romania (they would divorce in 1928). Their son, Michael, became King of Romania (King Michael), but with the Communist takeover of that country in 1947 he abdicated and left. Helen died in Lausanne, Switzreland, where they had lived since exile, on November 28, 1982, at age 86. For her efforts while Queen Mother of Romania in trying to rescue Romanian Jews from the Nazis during World War II, she was awarded the title of "Righteous Among the Nations" by the government of Israel. - Composer
- Music Department
Giorgos Kazasoglou was born on 1 December 1908 in Athens, Greece. Giorgos was a composer, known for The She-Wolf (1951), Away from the World (1958) and Yperohi optasia (1962). Giorgos died on 2 June 1984 in Athens, Greece.- Actor
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Petros Kyriakos was born in 1893 in Athens, Greece. He was an actor, known for Apaches of Athens (1930), The Tower of Knights (1952) and How Married People Live (1959). He died on 11 June 1984 in Athens, Greece.- Hronis Exarhakos was born in 1933 in Athens, Greece. He was an actor, known for A Greek Woman in the Harem (1971), A Bachelor's Pad for Ten (1981) and To koroidaki tis prigipessas (1972). He died on 27 September 1984 in Athens, Greece.
- Sheila Andrews was born on 10 April 1953 in Athens, Alabama, USA. She died on 26 December 1984 in Akron, Ohio, USA.
- Actress
- Composer
Sotiria Iatridou was born in 1901 in Athens, Greece. She was an actress and composer, known for The Voice of the Heart (1943), Away from the World (1958) and The Florist Girl of Athens (1945). She died on 4 April 1985.- Takis Miliadis was born on 26 October 1922 in Athens, Greece. He was an actor, known for Come Back, My Love (1957), Tsakitzis: Protector of the Poor (1960) and Great Love (1947). He was married to Betty Moshona and Sassa Kazeli. He died on 17 April 1985.
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- Music Department
- Writer
Giorgos Oikonomidis was born in 1916 in Athens, Greece. He was an actor and writer, known for The Happy Beginning (1954), Forget Poverty and Live It Up! (1964) and I oraia ton Athinon (1954). He died on 22 April 1985 in Athens, Greece.- Actor
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Labros Konstadaras (13 March 1913 - 28 June 1985) was one of the greatest actors of Greek theatre and cinema, excellent both in comedy and drama, with ancestry from Istanbul. He was the brother of actress Mitsi Konstadaras and father of former New Democracy MP Dimitris Konstadaras who gave him two grandchildren, Pavlina in 1974 and Labros in 1979. He was born in Kolonaki Athens and died at "Asklepieion" hospital of Voula Athens. Earlier (1978 and 1983) he had suffered two strokes.
In 1930 he joined, after his family's insistence and without his own will, the non-commissioned Navy School in Corfu, from where he eventually escaped by swimming. He was spared the Court-martial after his family's actions. In 1934 he went to Paris to study goldsmith, in order to take on the family jewelry shop in downtown Athens. He abandoned his studies and did various jobs, until he was discovered by the French Director Louis Zoybe when he played a bit part in a theatrical performance. He studied actor at the theatre "Atene" and in the summer of 1938, he returned to Greece, starting his career.
He served the Greek theatre for 40 years, acting in 191 plays and people still enjoy him through his films (more than 75, mostly comedies). He excelled in roles of the mature, rich and womanizer or "father" of several well-known stars of the era in movies such as "My Daughter, the Socialist", "Some Weary Lads", "A Matter of Earnestness", "Alice in the Navy".
He married in first wedlock actress Julie Georgopoulou in 1945 and in the second Filio Kekatou in 1971. He spent his last years in Varkiza Athens. He is buried in the first cemetery of Athens.- Phed Vosniacos was born on 24 July 1927 in Athens, Greece. Phed was a writer, known for ITV Television Playhouse (1955) and Encounter (1952). Phed was married to Marie Grebenc. Phed died on 26 July 1985 in Athens, Greece.
- Markos Kotsikos was born on 23 March 1902 in Athens, Greece. He was an actor, known for Gone in 60 Seconds (1974) and Deadline Auto Theft (1983). He was married to Catherine Camperos. He died on 25 September 1985 in Orange, California, USA.
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- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Ricky Wilson was born on 19 March 1953 in Athens, Georgia, USA. He was an actor, known for Mystery Men (1999), Paul (2011) and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003). He died on 12 October 1985 in New York City, New York, USA.- Director
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Adonis Kyrou was born on 18 October 1923 in Athens, Greece. He was a director and writer, known for To bloko (1965), Sial IV (1969) and Un honnête homme (1963). He died on 4 November 1985 in Paris, France.- Irene Genna was born on 4 January 1931 in Athens, Greece. She was an actress, known for Barber of Seville (1961), Sua altezza ha detto: no! (1953) and Storia di una minorenne (1956). She was married to Amedeo Nazzari. She died on 6 February 1986 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Lefteris Vournas was born in 1941 in Athens, Greece. He was an actor, known for To koroidaki tis prigipessas (1972), Oi erastes tou oneirou (1974) and I Ellinida kai o erotas (1962). He died on 1 July 1987 in Athens, Greece.
- Dimitri Malavetas was born in November 1939 in Athens, Greece. He was an actor, known for The Swamp (1973), When Women Love (1967) and The First Olympics: Athens 1896 (1984). He died on 1 April 1988 in Athens, Greece.
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Tasos Livaditis was born on 20 April 1922 in Athens, Greece. He was a writer, known for A Neighborhood Named 'The Dream' (1961), O Astrapogiannos (1970) and Thriamvos (1962). He died on 30 October 1988 in Athens, Greece.- Actress
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Aleka Stratigou was born in 1926 in Athens, Greece. She was an actress, known for Fortune Hunters (1964), To louna park (1974) and Tsakitzis: Protector of the Poor (1960). She was married to Tolis Voskopoulos and Andreas Barkoulis. She died on 1 January 1989 in Greece.