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- Writer
- Actor
Harry Edwards was born on 11 October 1887 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He was a director and writer, known for His First Flame (1927), His Tale Is Told (1944) and Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926). He was married to Evelyn Brent, Gladys Brockwell and Louise Glaum. He died on 26 May 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Writer
- Director
- Music Department
Hugo Butler, the screenwriter, was born on May 4, 1914 in Calgary, Alberta, the son of a silent movie actor and screenwriter. Butler worked as a journalist and playwright before moving to Hollywood in 1937, where he established himself as a screenwriter. In 1940, he married actress and screenwriter Jean Rouverol. The next year, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Edison, the Man (1940) along with future Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer boss Dore Schary. (Schary, a well-known liberal, was one of the few top movie industry executives who objected to the imposition of the blacklist at the 1947 Waldorf Conference, which he attended as R.K.O.'s executive vice president in charge of production). His career was temporarily interrupted by military service in World War II, then permanently disrupted when he was blacklisted as a subversive after the war.
Butler and his wife moved to Mexico with Hollywood 10 member (and fellow blacklistee) Dalton Trumbo, with whom Butler pseudonymously collaborated on the screenplay for He Ran All the Way (1951), a film noir that was John Garfield' s last film. (Garfield died of a heart attack soon after being grilled by the House Un-American Activities Committee.)
In Mexico, Butler wrote for the directors Luis Buñuel and Carlos Velo. Butler and his wife did not return to the United States on a permanent basis until the 1960s.
Hugo Butler suffered from arteriosclerotic brain disease. He died from a heart attack on January 7, 1968 in Hollywood, California at the age of 53. The last film for which he was credited, Robert Aldrich's potboiler The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968) was released later that year.
In 1997, the Board of Directors of the Writers Guild of America voted to posthumously give him official credit for scripts he had written.- Barbara Bricker was born on 24 May 1938 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She was an actress, known for Ivy League Killers (1959), Night of Evil (1962) and Cannonball (1958). She was married to Jack Narz and William Campbell. She died on 2 July 1968 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Helen Splane was born on 25 April 1912 in Calgary, Canada. She was an actress, known for Tripping Through the Tropics (1934). She was married to Edward Furber and Charles Moore. She died on 18 August 1972 in Riverside, California, USA.
- Phyllis Crane was born on 7 August 1914 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She was an actress, known for Three Little Pigskins (1934), So This Is College (1929) and The Forward Pass (1929). She died on 12 October 1982 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Actor
- Stunts
- Soundtrack
The well-worn phrase "Tall in the saddle" is certainly one easy way of describing (and perhaps pigeon-holing) leathery, wiry-framed 1940s and early 1950s western film star Rod Cameron, although he proved quite capable in crime stories, horrors and even swing-era musicals.
The 6'4" Canadian-born actor was born Nathan Roderick Cox on December 7, 1910, and raised in Alberta. Once his aspirations of becoming a Royal Canadian Mountie passed, he decided to seek fame and fortune as an actor in New York and initially grabbed some work as a laborer on the Holland Tunnel project in Manhattan. When no progress was made acting-wise, he moved to California where he made his "debut" in an unbilled bit in one of Bette Davis' scenes in The Old Maid (1939). Upon release, however, he discovered his bit in the scene had been deleted.
Cameron found a slight "in" (as in "stand-in") with Paramount Pictures for such stars as Fred MacMurray while managing to find himself sparingly used in other Paramount films. To supplement his income he also played leading man in the studio's screen tests for starlet wanna-bes and his athleticism paid off playing stunt double for such established cowboy icons as Buck Jones. Cameron toiled as a bit player for quite some time and appeared insignificantly in such classics as Christmas in July (1940) and North West Mounted Police (1940) (where he fulfilled his early wish by playing a Mountie!). Occasionally he would find a noticeable secondary role, in such lesser films as The Monster and the Girl (1941), The Forest Rangers (1942) and as Jesse James in The Remarkable Andrew (1942).
Cameron's banner year was 1943, when he finally broke out of the minor leagues and into the major ranks. His breakout screen role was as clench-jawed Agent Rex Bennett, out to bring down the foreign enemy and save the world, in the Republic serial cliffhangers G-Men vs. The Black Dragon (1943) and Secret Service in Darkest Africa (1943). From there he was signed by Universal to appear in a flurry of low-budget westerns with Fuzzy Knight as his comic sidekick. Aside from the rough-hewn heroics he was paid to display, he would occasionally show a softer side for the ladies, such as with fellow Canadian Yvonne De Carlo in Salome, Where She Danced (1945), Frontier Gal (1945) and River Lady (1948). Seldom would he venture outside the action genre, however, one of the few times being his role as a symphony conductor in Swing Out, Sister (1945). For the most part he remained rooted in westerns and the only variance within that realm was the occasional black-hatted bad guy.
Among Cameron's many dusty showcases (more often than not made at Republic or Universal), Brimstone (1949), Stampede (1949), Dakota Lil (1950) and San Antone (1953) are worth a good look. Cameron never found his Stagecoach (1939) or Shane (1953), a vehicle that might have held him even "taller" in the saddle, but between 1953 and 1955 he was still ranked "top 5" box-office.
In the 1950s Cameron found time to settle into a couple of syndicated TV series. Both City Detective (1953) and State Trooper (1956) lasted a couple of seasons. He also guested on the more popular western series, such as Bonanza (1959), Laramie (1959) and The Virginian (1962). When his movie career began to fade in the early 1960s, he went to Spain for a few spaghetti westerns and appeared in a couple of low-budget westerns such as Requiem for a Gunfighter (1965) and The Bounty Killer (1965), which was noticed more for reuniting sagebrush stars from yesteryear than for its high quality. He also played an aging rodeo star who dies early in the story in the biopic Evel Knievel (1971).
The only serious tabloid scandal he ever found himself in was when he divorced wife Angela Alves-Lico (1950-1960) and then immediately married his ex-wife's mother, Dorothy, who was a few years older than him. An extended battle with cancer finally claimed the 73-year-old actor in 1983 at a Gainesville, Georgia, hospital.- Florence McHugh was born on 14 October 1901 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She was an actress, known for Romany Love (1931). She died on 20 February 1984 in Camden, London, England, UK.
- Reg Dagg was born on 29 August 1906 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Reg was a writer, known for Pacific 13 (1956) and Hidden Pages (1954). Reg was married to Julia Anne Campbell. Reg died on 30 November 1984 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- Art Department
- Producer
Martin Winning was born on 26 August 1924 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He was a producer, known for Storm (1985). He was married to Fay Winning. He died on 1 November 1990 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.- Soundtrack
Dean Hart was born on 3 January 1954 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He died on 21 November 1990 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.- Keltie Byrne was born on 6 December 1970 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Keltie died on 20 February 1991 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
- Susan Wright was born on 22 October 1947 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She was an actress, known for I'll Never Get to Heaven (1992), The Boys from Syracuse (1986) and The Twilight Zone (1985). She died on 29 December 1991 in Stratford, Ontario, Canada.
- Brian Pockar was born on 27 October 1959 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He was an actor, known for Romeo and Juliet on Ice (1983) and On Thin Ice: The Tai Babilonia Story (1990). He died on 28 April 1992 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
- Les Rubie was born on 19 July 1916 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He was an actor, known for Black Christmas (1974), Spasms (1983) and The Wayne & Shuster Superspecial (1976). He died on 27 March 1994 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Actor
Billy Coull was born on 14 December 1921 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He was an actor. He died on 26 December 1994 in Riverside, California, USA.- Writer
- Actor
Earle Birney was born in Calgary, Alberta, in 1904, and was educated at the University of British Columbia, University of Toronto, Berkeley and University of London.
At the age of twelve he became the editor of a realistic underground newspaper. When a teacher saw a copy of the paper, she deemed it as pornographic; Birney says "the communication intended was successful, but the only reward we got then was the cat-of-nine-tails".
He later worked as a creative writing teacher at several universities, most notably University of British Columbia (where he founded Canada's first creative writing department) and the University of Toronto.
His most famous works include David and other poems, and Now is Time, both of which won him the Governor general's Literary Award in 1942 and 1945 respectively. He died in 1995.- Matthew Annis was born in 1983 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He died on 13 July 1996 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
- Mervin Good Eagle was born on 16 April 1977 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He was an actor, known for North of 60 (1992). He died on 23 October 1996 in Sandy Bay, Saskatchewan, Canada.
- Ron worked in broadcasting in Alberta and Nova Scotia over a 30-year span as on-air personality in radio and was one of the first TV weathermen in the early 1950's. Ron directed stage productions in community theater in Sydney Nova Scotia in the 1960's. Ron was marketing director for Theatre Calgary in the latter 1970's.
- Clyde Gilmour was born on 8 June 1912 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He was an actor, known for Window on Canada (1953), The Jackie Rae Show (1955) and Folio (1955). He was married to Barbara Donald. He died on 7 November 1997 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Production Manager
- Producer
- Actor
Les Kimber was born on 1 January 1932 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He was a production manager and producer, known for Superman (1978), Superman III (1983) and Days of Heaven (1978). He was married to Jan. He died on 20 November 1998 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.- Owen Hart was one of twelve children from a legendary Canadian wrestling family. His brother Bret is also one of the most well known wrestlers of all time. Owen was one of the best wrestlers in the business and his major accomplishments include being the 1994 King of the Ring, former Intercontinental Champion(2), former European Champion, and co-holder of the Tag Team Championship (4). Sadly, Hart plunged to his death on May 23, 1999 during a PPV when he was performing a spectacular entrance. Hart was only 34 and is survived by his wife Martha, his son Oje and his daughter Athena.
- Make-Up Department
- Actor
- Producer
Ron Kinney was born on 10 March 1928 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He was an actor and producer, known for The Cremators (1972), Octaman (1971) and Wild Riders (1971). He died on 9 June 1999 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Dennis Sweeting was born on 23 November 1915 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He was an actor, known for Les fils de la liberté (1981), Seaway (1965) and Quentin Durgens, M.P. (1966). He died on 28 May 2000 in Lindsay, Ontario, Canada.
- Eric Waite was born on 18 March 1915 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He was an actor, known for BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950), Ice Capades Revue (1942) and Zero Girl (1938). He was married to Patricia. He died on 13 October 2000 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
- Additional Crew
David Pridie was born on 7 July 1971 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. David is known for Unreal Tournament (1999), The New Tetris (1999) and Army Men: Air Attack (1999). David died on 12 January 2001 in California, USA.- Rhonda Sing was born on 21 February 1961 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She was an actress, known for WWE Raw (1993), WWF Superstars (1986) and Stampede Wrestling (1957). She died on 27 July 2001 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
- Stanley Brown was born on 18 August 1914 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He was an actor, known for Atlantic City (1944), The Man with Nine Lives (1940) and The Face Behind the Mask (1941). He was married to Lorraine McCall and Ruth F. Brown. He died on 29 September 2001 in West Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Diane de Nancrede Marra was born on 15 January 1934 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She was married to Ronald Marra. She died on 27 December 2002 in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Peter Similuk was born on 23 January 1916 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He was an actor, known for The Hideous Sun Demon (1958), Mystery Submarine (1950) and Front Page Detective (1951). He died on 14 January 2003 in Palm Desert, California, USA.
- Mike Lozanski was born on 13 November 1968 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He was an actor, known for Eastern Championship Wrestling (1993). He died on 18 December 2003 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- Bruce Boa was born on 10 July 1930 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He was an actor, known for Full Metal Jacket (1987), Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Octopussy (1983). He was married to Cherry. He died on 17 April 2004 in Surrey, England, UK.
- Robert Manitopyes was born on 29 November 1970 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He was an actor, known for The Core (2003), Are We There Yet? (2005) and Days of Our Lives (1965). He died on 16 January 2005 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
- Editor
- Editorial Department
Christopher Hodgson was born in 1967 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Christopher was an editor, known for Rat Race (2001), Cold Blooded (2000) and The Suburbanators (1995). Christopher died on 25 June 2005 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.- Bill Firehawk was born on 13 January 1966 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He was an actor, known for Eastern Championship Wrestling (1993), The Black Ninja (2003) and NWA Cyberspace: SuperBrawl Saturday III (2005). He was married to Daisy Firehawk. He died on 17 July 2006 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
- Camera and Electrical Department
Frank Merrells was born on 29 July 1933 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is known for Days of Heaven (1978), Dead Bang (1989) and The Reflecting Skin (1990). He was married to Gay. He died on 18 September 2006 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.- Actor
- Stunts
Roy Jenson was born on 9 February 1927 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He was an actor, known for Chinatown (1974), Soylent Green (1973) and Every Which Way But Loose (1978). He was married to Marina Petrova and Barbara Ann Dionysius. He died on 24 April 2007 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Shayne Bower was born on 18 April 1965 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He was an actor, known for Stampede Wrestling (1957) and Clash of the Champions XIX (1992). He died on 24 June 2007 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
- Gerry Tobin was born in 1972 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He died on 12 August 2007 in Warwickshire, England, UK.
- Jennifer Alexander was born on 15 August 1972 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She was an actress, known for Great Performances: Dance in America (1976). She was married to Julio Bragado-Young and Andrew Robertson. She died on 2 December 2007 in East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA.
- Lois McLean was born on 8 November 1924 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She was an actress, known for Let's Stay Home (1956), ITV Television Playhouse (1955) and London Playhouse (1955). She died on 2 September 2008 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- Additional Crew
- Writer
- Producer
Alice McGrath was born on 5 April 1917 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She was a writer and producer, known for Zoot Suit (1981), Criminals (1997) and Self Defense... for Cowards (1962). She was married to Bruce Tegner, Thomas McGrath and Max Schechter. She died on 27 November 2009 in Ventura, California, USA.- Additional Crew
- Special Effects
Nancy Carrow was born on 23 September 1961 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She is known for The Edge (1997), Wrongfully Accused (1998) and Blade: Trinity (2004). She died on 6 December 2009 in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.- Joe English was born in 1923 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He was married to Claire. He died on 13 January 2010 in Nanton, Alberta, Canada.
- Art Department
Brian Cameron was born on 24 August 1952 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Brian is known for Ararat (2002) and Snow Day (2000). Brian died on 1 February 2010 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.- Lance Mueller was born on 1 December 1951 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Lance was a producer, known for In the Dog House (2007). Lance died on 19 March 2010 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Rod Padmos was born on 4 November 1949 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He was an actor, known for Heartland (2007), Stone Coats (1996) and The Keeper (1976). He died on 13 June 2010 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.- Brian MacWilliam was born on 8 August 1950 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He was an actor, known for Hobo with a Shotgun (2011) and Haven (2010). He died on 27 July 2011 in Lake Echo, Nova Scotia, Canada.
- Michael Herringer was born on 2 November 1957 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Michael was a producer, known for The Travel Guys (2004) and The Express (2009). Michael was married to Myrna. Michael died on 19 March 2012 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- Peter Lougheed was born on 26 July 1928 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He was married to Jeanne Lougheed. He died on 13 September 2012 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.