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- Agnes Emerson was born on 15 April 1897 in Denver, Colorado, USA. She was an actress, known for Wanted at Headquarters (1920) and John Needham's Double (1916). She died on 15 April 1925 in San Luis Obispo, California, USA.
- Thomas Keogh was born in 1873 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was an actor, known for Love and Trout (1916). He died on 3 June 1925 in Colon, Michigan, USA.
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Roy Greiner was born on 26 July 1894 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for Hoof Marks (1927). He died on 23 October 1929 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Jean Jarvis was born on 23 May 1903 in Denver, Colorado, USA. She was an actress, known for Casey of the Coast Guard (1926), The Little Giant (1926) and Fear-Bound (1925). She died on 16 March 1933 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Camera and Electrical Department
Dick Wade was born on 28 January 1904 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He died on 6 August 1933 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Writer
- Director
Sewell Collins was born on 1 September 1876 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was a writer and director, known for Bracelets (1931), The Devil's Maze (1929) and The Night Porter (1930). He was married to Margaret Moffatt. He died on 15 February 1934 in London, England, UK.- Actor
- Director
- Soundtrack
Robin Williamson was born on 30 June 1889 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Feud Woman (1925), Prince of the Plains (1927) and A Wanderer of the West (1927). He died on 21 February 1935 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Len D. Hollister was born in 1884 in Denver, Colorado, USA. Len D. was a writer, known for Gold Dust Gertie (1931). Len D. was married to Leona Stephens. Len D. died on 4 December 1936 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Emmett J. Flynn was born on 9 November 1892 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was a director and writer, known for The Palace of Pleasure (1926), Shame (1921) and The Lincoln Highwayman (1919). He was married to Margaret Shelby, Nita Flynn and Genevieve Flynn. He died on 4 June 1937 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Robert A. Donaldson was born on 27 October 1895 in Denver, Colorado, USA. Robert A. was a writer, known for A Barber Cure (1913) and Shorty Makes a Bet (1914). Robert A. died on 11 October 1937 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Writer
- Director
- Production Manager
Howard Higgin was born on 15 February 1891 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was a writer and director, known for Marriage on Approval (1933), The Painted Desert (1931) and Hell's House (1932). He died on 16 December 1938 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actress
- Additional Crew
Esther Campbell was born on 16 September 1911 in Denver, Colorado, USA. She was an actress. She died on 6 July 1939 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actress
- Additional Crew
Jean Joyce was born Eleanor Jean Shookey. Her father walked out and her mother, Florence Shookey, worked as a secretary in an oil company. Jean and her mother later moved to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She attended Roosevelt Junior high where she played in the school band. At the age of seventeen she joined the Adkar Associated Players theater troupe in Tulsa. In 1934 she moved to Hollywood and got a job dancing in a nightclub. The beautiful brunette made her film debut in the musical College Rhythm. Jean landed bit parts in numerous movies including Rhumba, The Girl Friend, and The Great Ziegfeld. Then she was chosen to be a dancer in the musical Swing Time starring Ginger Rogers. During filming choreographer Hermes Pan held a contest and she was named the "champion chorus girl of the 1936."
When she wasn't working she enjoyed swimming and sleeping late. Her first marriage, to her high school sweetheart, had ended in divorce. She married director Abby Berlin in 1938. Jean was signed by Republic Pictures and appeared in the Westerns Outlaws Of Sonora and Riders Of The Frontier. On November 5, 1939 she got into a fight with her husband. She was so angry that she decided to commit suicide by swallowing arsenic laced ant paste. Tragically she died the next day, November 6, at the young age of twenty-three. Jean was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. Her final film, Overland Mail,was released ten days after her death.- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Douglas Fairbanks was born Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman in Denver, Colorado, to Ella Adelaide (nee Marsh) and Hezekiah Charles Ullman, an attorney and native of Pennsylvania, who was a captain for the Union forces during the Civil War. Fairbanks' paternal grandparents were German Jewish immigrants, while his mother, a Southerner with roots in Louisiana and Georgia, was of British Isles descent. From the age of five he was raised by his mother due to her husband's abandonment. She changed her sons' surnames to Fairbanks (her former husband's surname) and covered up their paternal Jewish ancestry.
He began amateur theater at age 12 and continued while attending the Colorado School of Mines. In 1900 they moved to New York. He attended Harvard, traveled to Europe, worked on a cattle freighter, in a hardware store and as a clerk on Wall Street. He made his Broadway debut in 1902 and five years later left theater to marry an industrialist's daughter.
He returned when his father-in-law went broke the next year. In 1915, he went to Hollywood and worked under a reluctant D.W. Griffith. The following year he formed his own production company. During a Liberty Bond tour with Charles Chaplin he fell in love with Mary Pickford with whom he, Chaplin and Griffith had formed United Artists in 1919. He made very successful early social comedies, then highly popular swashbucklers during the 'twenties. The owners of Hollywood's Pickfair Mansion separated in 1933 and divorced in 1936. In March 1936, he married and retired from acting.- Writer
- Actress
Dorothy Mackaye was born on 8 May 1899 in Denver, Colorado, USA. She was a writer and actress, known for Ladies They Talk About (1933) and Lady Gangster (1942). She was married to Paul Kelly and Ray Raymond. She died on 5 January 1940 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Sylvia Ashton was born on 26 January 1880 in Denver, Colorado, USA. She was an actress, known for The Fourteenth Man (1920), The Love Special (1921) and Greed (1924). She died on 17 November 1940 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Franklin Underwood was born in October 1878 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was an actor, known for News Parade (1928). He was married to Frances Slosson. He died on 22 December 1940 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Actress
- Director
- Writer
Ruth Stonehouse started her show-business career early: she was a dancer in shows in Douglas, Arizona, at the age of eight. She grew up to be more than just an entertainer, however; she was an astute businesswoman and, with Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson and George K. Spoor, started Essanay Studios, for which she made more than 100 films. She signed with Universal in 1916, and not only starred in films but also wrote and directed many of her own, quite an accomplishment in those days. She began working for other studios in 1919, and alternated between making films for majors like Universal and Paramount and minors like Arrow, FBO and Associated Producers. She retired with the coming of sound.- Lillian Buckingham was born on 27 July 1874 in Denver, Colorado, USA. She was an actress, known for The Diamond from the Sky (1915) and Drawing the Line (1915). She was married to George Alexander Dickson. She died on 28 December 1941 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Walter Rogers was born on 6 April 1906 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was an actor, known for All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and Seven Faces (1929). He was married to Viola Alice Naething. He died on 11 November 1943 in Orange County, California, USA.
- Editor
- Animation Department
Robert Bischoff was born on 28 January 1899 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was an editor, known for The Mark of Zorro (1940), Rackety Rax (1932) and Her Husband Lies (1937). He died on 12 May 1945 in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.- Actor
- Art Department
Harry Bayfield was born on 29 November 1889 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was an actor, known for Roughest Africa (1923), Save the Ship (1923) and Scorching Sands (1923). He died on 16 February 1946 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Additional Crew
Antoinette Perry was born on 27 June 1888 in Denver, Colorado, USA. Antoinette is known for Strictly Dishonorable (1951) and Strictly Dishonorable (1931). Antoinette was married to Frank Wheatcroft Frueauff. Antoinette died on 28 June 1946 in New York City, New York, USA.- Annette Perry was born on 27 June 1888 in Denver, Colorado, USA. She was an actress, known for After Marriage (1925) and Yankee Madness (1924). She died on 28 June 1946 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Albert Van Antwerp was born on 1 January 1897 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was an actor, known for The Chechahcos (1923), Just a Wife (1920) and Jack London (1943). He died on 30 October 1946 in Mendocino County, California, USA.
- Arthur Loft was born on 25 May 1897 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was an actor, known for The Woman in the Window (1944), Charlie Chan in the Secret Service (1944) and Should a Girl Marry? (1939). He was married to Daisy Loft. He died on 1 January 1947 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actor
- Stunts
- Soundtrack
Jack 'Tiny' Lipson was born on 17 January 1901 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was an actor, known for Flash Gordon (1936), Flying Fists (1937) and Beginner's Luck (1935). He died on 28 November 1947 in Madera County, California, USA.- Rod Bacon was born on 6 June 1914 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was an actor, known for The Masked Marvel (1943), Public Enemies (1941) and The Gay Vagabond (1941). He was married to Annette Louise Devorak. He died on 28 February 1948 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
- Lincoln Stedman was born on 18 May 1901 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was an actor, known for Anne of Green Gables (1919), On Probation (1924) and Green Grass Widows (1928). He was married to Carol Rohe Stedman. He died on 22 March 1948 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Gertrude Kellar was born on 22 February 1881 in Denver, Colorado, USA. She was an actress, known for The Unafraid (1915), Young Romance (1915) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1916). She was married to ? Bagley. She died on 12 July 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Morgan Jones was born in 1879 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for What Becomes of the Children? (1918), The Country Girl (1915) and Silas Marner (1916). He died on 21 September 1951 in New York City, New York, USA.
- He weighed only four pounds at birth and was so tiny that doctors feared he wouldn't live. But immediately, he began to grow at an incredible rate and by age ten was over six feet tall. He was discovered by Hollywood as a teenager and offered a job acting in comedies. He made over fifty of them, until one day on the set when he fell from a scaffolding. When he woke up, he found he was losing his peripheral vision, due to a newly-discovered pituitary gland tumour. Doctors attempted to shrink the tumor with X-rays which miraculously both restored his sight and stopped his incredible growth. He enrolled in college, during which he went to see the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus where he saw Jack (Jim) Tarver, billed as 'the tallest man in the world'. He joined the circus and traveled with them for fourteen years. Upon retiring from the circus, Jack became a successful traveling salesman and was intensely creative. He painted, sculpted, was a prize-winning photographer.
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Aubrey Stauffer was born on 14 June 1876 in Denver, Colorado, USA. Aubrey was a writer, known for First Love (1921), The Sleep Walker (1922) and Call of the Circus (1930). Aubrey died on 19 August 1952 in Orange County, California, USA.- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Merrill McCormick was born on 5 February 1892 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was an actor and director, known for A Son of the Desert (1928), The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935) and The Last Chance (1926). He died on 19 August 1953 in San Gabriel, California, USA.- Mildred Delfino was born on 10 January 1890 in Denver, Colorado, USA. She was an actress, known for Framing Framers (1917) and Without Honor (1918). She died on 1 January 1955 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
- Director
- Producer
- Writer
Robert F. McGowan started life in Denver, CO, intent on becoming the next Thomas A. Edison, but when inventing failed to bring fortune and/or fame, he became a fireman. He worked for the Denver Fire Department until he suffered a serious on-the-job injury at age 30 that nearly cost him a leg. During the first decade of the century in Denver, he had watched nickelodeons and saw the first tentative feature productions, and became fascinated with movies. Now unable to return to work but armed with a small disability pension and the audacity to think he could one-up anything he'd ever paid a nickel to see, he decided to try his hand in Hollywood, arriving there in 1913.
Unfortunately for him, he lacked nearly all of the principal ingredients necessary for overnight success: experience and/or connections. He eventually found employment as a lowly assistant to a property man and worked on his comedy scenarios after hours, finally selling a few treatments to Universal. Scenarios logically led to directing and McGowan struck up a lifelong friendship with director-producer (and, later, actor) Charley Chase (nee Parrott), who became instrumental in his career. Chase and McGowan had collaborated on a single kid-based comedy short, and in 1922 Chase suggested to producer/studio owner Hal Roach that McGowan would be perfect to helm the "Our Gang" series Roach had in the works. Roach was embroiled in a professional love-hate relationship with rising comedy superstar Harold Lloyd--a long (they'd first met in 1913), ultimately wildly successful association then nearing its end--and McGowan's entry into the studio proved fortuitous for both men. "Our Gang" filled the fame and huge income voids Roach's boutique studio stood to lose with the departure of Lloyd. Together Roach and McGowan laid the series groundwork that struck an immediate nerve with a worldwide audience. In McGowan Roach found the friend/employee relationship he sought at his studio, and he was probably the closest friend Roach ever had. With the increasing demands of running a successful independent studio making Roach''s directing the series an impossibility, McGowan was the ideal choice to take the reins of the studio's key asset.
He became nearly as synonymous with "Our Gang" as Hal Roach. The pair developed a unique energy, consistently producing what are arguably some of the best comedy shorts of the 1920s and early '30s. "Uncle Bob" possessed a unique warmth and an uncanny ability to relate to the fluid cast of kids, many of whom hadn't yet learned to read--a factor that would become far more problematic after the advent of sound. He was the series' principal director until Wild Poses (1933), when the duties were turned over to the capable, if more stagy and leaden, direction of Gus Meins (a tragic Hollywood figure).
By 1933 McGowan was worn out from a decade of the pressures of dealing with stage parents and the ceaseless grind of trying to outdo himself. He returned to direct one more stellar "Our Gang" two-reeler, Divot Diggers (1936), before taking a working retirement, pulling some lighter assignments (mostly at Paramount and Monogram, returning to Roach briefly in 1946) at age 51.
McGowan came from a close-knit family. He idolized his older brother, who essentially raised him and helped him through his recovery. His brother named his son after Bob (Robert A. McGowan), who followed him to Hollywood in the early 1920s. His nephew adopted the professional name of "Anthony Mack" and acted as a substitute director for his uncle during the '20s and early 30s, and held less obvious positions on the Roach lot during the interim. Unfortunately for the Our Gang series, Anthony Mack was a vastly less talented director who managed to become an even worse screenwriter (reverting to his given name after Bob retired) when the series was sold to MGM in 1937. It was Bob's nephew who was largely responsible (to be fair, some of the blame belongs to his co-writer Hal Law) for the increasingly deplorable MGM "Our Gang" shorts, at least as far as the scripts were concerned. Ironically, both uncle and nephew died within months of each other in 1955.- Writer
- Director
- Actor
Robert A. McGowan married Madeliene Rosselle, daughter of Joanne Del Mar, choreographer. He had two daughters, Maryanne (Mickie) and Madeliene. He had a prolific but stormy career, and was basically blacklisted, not by actual guilt, but by association with other blacklisted writers. His personal memorabilia was destroyed, and one daughter, Mickie, now searches for relatives.- Freeman Wood was born on 1 July 1896 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was an actor, known for Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman (1925), Only the Brave (1930) and The Legion of the Condemned (1928). He died on 15 February 1956 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Adora Andrews was born on 19 March 1872 in Denver, Colorado, USA. She was an actress, known for The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair (1939). She died on 18 September 1956 in Rye, New York, USA.
- Maxine Brown was born on 12 April 1897 in Denver, Colorado, USA. She was an actress, known for Captain Swift (1914), The City of Illusion (1916) and Through Turbulent Waters (1915). She was married to George H. Maines and Clarence Willard. She died on 27 December 1956 in Alameda, California, USA.
- Keith Andrews was born on 15 June 1920 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He died on 15 May 1957 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Jerome Storm was born on 11 November 1890 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Some Pun'kins (1925), Goodbye Girls (1923) and Her Social Value (1921). He was married to Mildred Richter. He died on 10 July 1958 in Desert Hot Springs, California, USA.- Actor
- Stunts
Bruce Cameron was born on 28 September 1909 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was an actor, known for Boston Blackie (1951) and The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950). He died on 10 April 1959 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Olin Howland had a career in movies which stretched from the 20s, up through the time he passed away, in the late 50s. After a few attempts at films in the silent era, Olin began to appear regularly in the sound pictures of the 1930s. His roles were usually in mysteries and dramas, and he became a western character actor in the 'horse operas' put out by Republic in the 1940s. One of his most memorable roles was also one of his last; he appeared in First Stop (1955), as the owner of a broken down motel in the middle of nowhere, which the Ricardo's and Mertz's are forced to stay at for the night (and which the can't leave because the car's steering wheel was mysteriously *stolen*.- Director
- Actor
- Producer
Lester Vail was born on 29 June 1899 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was a director and actor, known for Dance, Fools, Dance (1931), It's a Wise Child (1931) and Beau Ideal (1931). He was married to Elizabeth (Bruce) Pratt. He died on 28 November 1959 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Writer
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Gene Fowler was born on 8 March 1890 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937), Union Depot (1932) and Some Like It Hot (1939). He was married to Agnes Fowler. He died on 2 July 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Mann Page was born on 29 May 1888 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was a writer, known for Lonesome (1928), Rent Free (1922) and How Could You, Caroline? (1918). He was married to Izola Forrester. He died on 15 March 1961 in Keene, New Hampshire, USA.
- Camera and Electrical Department
Fred Terzo was born on 14 May 1901 in Denver, Colorado, USA. Fred died on 25 December 1961 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Writer
- Script and Continuity Department
- Editorial Department
Bernard McConville was born on 16 October 1887 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was a writer, known for Death in the Air (1936), Cannonball Express (1932) and Devil on Deck (1932). He was married to Louise Owen. He died on 27 December 1961 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.- Actor
- Director
- Production Manager
Val Paul was born on 10 April 1886 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Suspense (1913), Yellowstone (1936) and Hearts Up (1921). He was married to May Foster. He died on 23 March 1962 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.