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- William Quantrill was born on 31 July 1837 in Canal Dover, Ohio, USA. He died on 6 June 1865 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
- Paul Hanson was born in 1894 in Dover, Kent, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Lost Patrol (1934) and Rose of Tralee (1937). He died on 4 October 1940 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Mabel Rushton was born in Dover, Kent, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Madcap of the Veld (1921), Gloria (1916) and De Voortrekkers (1916). She was married to J. Langley Levy. She died on 23 March 1942 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
- Guy Mohler was born on 21 January 1889 in Dover, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Katzenjammer Kids (1912), They Plan a Trip to Germany (1912) and School Days (1912). He died on 24 February 1946 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- Nettie Grossman was born on 2 August 1898 in Dover, Kent, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Glorious Adventure (1922) and The Gay Deceivers (1916). She died on 19 September 1962 in Wembley, London, England, UK.
- Wally Hammond was born on 19 June 1903 in Buckland, Dover, Kent, England, UK. He died on 1 July 1965 in Kloof, Natal, South Africa.
- Additional Crew
- Actor
Eduardo Tirella was born on 8 June 1924 in Dover, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for The Sandpiper (1965) and Don't Make Waves (1967). He died on 7 October 1966 in Newport, Rhode Island, USA.- Camera and Electrical Department
- Cinematographer
Leon Hollis Caverly is believed to be the first cinematographer sent overseas to film combat in France, Belgium and Germany during World War I.
Caverly was born in Dover, New Hampshire, to John W. and Elnora Mary Caverly. His father was a paper hanger. Young Caverly worked as a cameraman for motion pictures and later a newsreel photographer for Gaumont Film Company and Mutual Weekly.
In Hollywood he was a cameraman for Fox Film Corporation and Universal Studios. At Universal he assisted cinematographer Andre Barlatier in filming "Neptune's Daughter" (1914). At Mutual Weekly, he covered news events in South America.
On May 9, 1909, he married Mary E. Shaw in Boston, Massachusetts, at the People's Temple Methodist Episcopal Church. They had a daughter, but Mary died in 1918 during the flu pandemic while Caverly was overseas in France.
Short and stout - he only stood 5 feet, 4.5 inches tall - Caverly appeared to be an unlikely candidate for combat duty. Yet he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps on April 30, 1917. By the end of 1917, he was given the designation of "official photographer" for the AEF and left New York for France on June 14, 1918, to become the first cinematographer for the American Expeditionary Forces. He was attached to the Fifth Division of the Marines as a quartermaster sergeant. His early work in the trenches resulted in the documentary "America's Answer to the Huns." It is unknown whether a print survives. During this period, his personal assistant was killed and he witnessed other cameramen sustain serious wounds photographing the war.
Toward the end of the war he was promoted to second lieutenant. He continued working in Europe following the Armistice, shooting film of Russian POW camps and rioting in Berlin. During this period he was attached to the AEF headquarters in Paris with the Second Division. He left Europe in September 1919 with the Marines to shoot documentary films in Cuba and Haiti. He also served a stint with the Marine Corps' Recruiting Publicity Bureau in New York City.
In 1920 he was discharged from the Marine Corps and became a still photographer for E.M. Newman, who produced "Newman Traveltalks" and resulted in such books as "Seeing Paris" in 1931. The book contained more than 300 of Caverly's photographs.
On Sept. 20, 1925, he married Grace V. Kopp and nine years later the couple had one daughter, Lynn Gail Caverly. Following the stock market crash of 1929, Caverly suffered severe financial losses and took a job in New York City as a photostat operator for a printing company. He remained on the job until his retirement in 1956.
He died on Dec. 12, 1966, in Flushing, Queens, New York, and buried at the Long Island National Cemetery.- Janet Morrison was born on 24 October 1905 in Dover, Kent, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Man Who Came to Dinner (1947), My Brother Jonathan (1948) and Give Me the Stars (1945). She was married to Donald Henderson. She died on 4 January 1972 in Whitstable, Kent, England, UK.
- Michael Vallon was born on 21 July 1897 in Dover, Minnesota, USA. He was an actor, known for Adventures of Superman (1952), Tarnished (1950) and The Dawn Express (1942). He died on 13 November 1973 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Rollo Dix was born on 21 July 1897 in Dover, Minnesota, USA. He was an actor, known for The Hawk (1935). He died on 13 November 1973 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Jacque MacKinnon was born on 10 November 1938 in Dover, New Jersey, USA. He died on 6 March 1975 in San Diego, California, USA.
- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Frank Smith was born on 2 February 1906 in Dover, Ohio, USA. He was a composer, known for Bellbird (1967), Hunter (1967) and Savage Shadows (1969). He died on 8 May 1976 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.- Erik Chitty was born on 8 July 1907 in Dover, Kent, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Doctor Zhivago (1965), Please Sir! (1971) and A Bridge Too Far (1977). He was married to Hester Bevan (actress). He died on 22 July 1977 in London, England, UK.
- Mark Fleming was born in 1930 in Dover, Kent, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Night of Bloody Horror (1969). He died on 19 March 1979 in London, England, UK.
- Director
- Actor
- Writer
An American minor leading man of early Depression-era talkies who played earnest, boyish leads, Ohio-born Elliott Nugent would earn more distinction as a writer, producer and director of stage and film after all was said and done. The son of playwright/producer/actor J.C. Nugent, Elliott was born in 1896 and came from pure show business stock, joining his family's vaudeville act, which included both parents and sister Ruth, while still young.
After graduating from Ohio State University Nugent traveled to New York and made his Broadway bow in the George S. Kaufman/Marc Connelly play "Dulcy", in which he enjoyed a personal success. Throughout the 1920s he remained a viable presence on stage, co-authoring and co-starring in nearly ten plays often in tandem with his father.
Nugent eventually took his youthful good looks to Hollywood in 1929 and played young protagonists in both light-hearted and dramatic film features. His first starring role was in Wise Girls (1929), which was based on his own 1922 Broadway play "Kempy." The film also co-starred Elliott's wife Norma Lee (1899-1980) and featured his father. Other celluloid leads would include the musical So This Is College (1929) and the Marion Davies comedy Not So Dumb (1930). He went on to provide second leads alongside Lon Chaney and Lila Lee in the crime drama The Unholy Three (1930); The Sins of the Children (1930) starring Robert Montgomery; Leila Hyams (which was co-written by Elliott and J.C. Nugent), and the opulent Greta Garbo/Lewis Stone drama Romance (1930).
Weary of acting in front of the camera, Elliott formulated a second career as a movie director. His work would include those for such top comedians as Bob Hope, Harold Lloyd and Danny Kaye in their lightweight vehicles. Among the many Broadway projects he and father J.C. corroborated or appeared together in were "Kempy" (which also featured sister vaudevillian Ruth) (1922), "The Poor Nut" (1925), "Take My Advice" (1927, a remake of "Kempy" (1927), "Fast Service" (1931), "All in Favor" (1942) and "A Place of Our Own" (1945).
Nugent's behind-the-scenes career was severely hampered by severe chronic alcohol and psychological problems, prompting his retirement in 1957. He subsequently penned an autobiography entitled "Events Leading Up to the Comedy" in 1965. Long out of the limelight, he died in New York City at age 83 in August of 1980. Wife Norma, whom he married back in 1921, died later that December.- Sherman Adams was born on 8 January 1899 in East Dover, Vermont, USA. He was married to Rachel Leona White. He died on 27 October 1986 in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.
- John Tyler Brister, a filmmaker whose animated movies won awards at the Cannes Film Festival, died on June 1989. He was 38 years old and died of complications of AIDS, his family said.
One of his first films, ''Spanish Peanuts,'' is a stop-action animated film in which a chorus line of peanuts dances across a stage to a Latin rhythm. A winner of the Silver Cup Award at the Cannes International Film Festival, it has been shown on the NBC-TV program ''Saturday Night Live'' and HBO.
His ''Mandarin Oranges'' was distributed by the National Endowment for the Arts Short Film Showcase program. It won an award at the International Tournee of Animation and received a silver medallion at the Chicago Film Festival and a gold medallion at the Miami Film Festival.
His latest work, ''Punch Film,'' won first prize at the Houston Film Festival.
A native of Dover, Ohio, Mr. Brister graduated with honors from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1973. He was an artist-in-residence at numerous schools and taught filmmaking and animation techniques. - Art Director
- Production Designer
- Art Department
Carl Anderson was born in 1903 in Dover, New Jersey - coincidentally, in the same year and in the same town where the pioneering film The Great Train Robbery (1903), generally considered to be the first "narrative" film in cinema history, was shot. His family eventually moved to Los Angeles, where he attended high school, and after graduation went to work for an interior design business. In the early 1930s he was hired as a draftsman at MGM Studios, but by 1936 he was working at Columbia Pictures, where he spent the next quarter-century. It didn't take long before Anderson worked his way up to art director, and after gaining experience in short subjects, he began work on feature films in the early 1940s. He worked on such films as Miss Sadie Thompson (1953), Hatari! (1962) and Chisum (1970), and was twice nominated for an Academy Award in Art Direction, once for The Last Angry Man (1959) and again for Lady Sings the Blues (1972). Starting in the 1970s he worked mainly in television, and mostly on made-for-TV movies. He retired from features in 1981, and died in 1989.- Heather Stigliano was born on 2 July 1972 in Dover, New Jersey, USA. She died on 4 November 1991 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA.
- Daphne Maddox was born on 4 April 1913 in Dover, Kent, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Broken Horseshoe (1952), Murder at 3am (1953) and Jim the Penman (1947). She was married to Peter Walter and Frank Barnes. She died on 18 October 1992 in Hildenborough, Kent, England, UK.
- Frances Woodward was born on 10 March 1908 in Dover, New Hampshire, USA. She was an actress, known for Riders of the Deadline (1943). She was married to Adrian Droeshout. She died on 10 February 1996 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Elise Makdessi was born on 11 May 1965 in Dover, New Hampshire, USA. She was married to Eddie Makdessi. She died on 14 May 1996 in Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA.
- Michael Balfour possessed a chubby, lived-in face which seemed to convey a perpetual state of bewilderment. The ubiquitous character actor tended to pop up in just about every second 50's or 60's British B-movie or television episode, which usually found him typecast as obtuse cabbies, wisecracking sidekicks or dumb thugs. When his screen career began to slow down in the late 70's, he went on tour with European circuses as a clown.
Balfour started his acting career on the repertory stage in 1936. Sometime in the mid-40's he decided to pass himself off as a former Detroit-born child actor in order to join the cast of a London production of "Born Yesterday". From then on, the American accent and leather bomber jacket became part of his screen personae. Indeed, he was so convincing, that some reference sources still cite him to this day as being American (he was actually born in Kent). In addition to being a performer, Balfour was also an accomplished painter and sculptor. - Producer
Mary Holland was born on 19 June 1935 in Dover, Kent, England, UK. She was a producer, known for Creggan (1980), On the Record (1988) and Weekend World (1972). She was married to Ronald Trevor Higgins. She died on 7 June 2004 in Dublin, Ireland.- Bessie was born in 1999 in Dover, Delaware, USA. She was an actress, known for Secondary High (2002), Glenville: Hell's Homecoming (2005) and Glenville (1999). She died on 1 July 2005 in Claymont, Delaware, USA.
- Madeline Drymon was born on 7 June 1946 in Dover, New Jersey, USA. Madeline died on 29 June 2007 in Hackensack, New Jersey, USA.
- Christine Sheddy was born on 22 December 1980 in Dover, Delaware, USA. She died on 13 November 2007 in Pocomoke City, Maryland, USA.
- Writer
- Producer
- Director
Henry Geddes was born on 7 April 1912 in Dover, England, UK. He was a writer and producer, known for The Last Rhino (1961), Ali and the Camel (1960) and Eagle Rock (1964). He was married to Florence Lipscomb (nee Taub) and Patricia Latham. He died on 28 November 2007.- James Barber was born on 23 March 1923 in Dover, Kent, England, UK. He died on 29 November 2007 in Duncan, British Columbia, Canada.
- Glenn Reeves was born on 5 July 1917 in Dover, Ohio, USA. He died on 17 November 2008 in Houston, Texas, USA.
- June Ellis was born in 1926 in Dover, Kent, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Theatre Night (1985), Ooh La La! (1968) and Quatermass and the Pit (1967). She was married to Alan Bromly. She died on 26 June 2011 in London, England, UK.
- Vincent Langdon Sr. was born on 9 August 1939 in Dover, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor and editor, known for The Vinnie Langdon Show (2004) and Magic Sunglasses (2005). He died on 29 June 2011 in Vacaville, California, USA.
- Reg Turnill was born on 12 May 1915 in Dover, Kent, England, UK. He was married to Margaret Hennings. He died on 12 February 2013 in Ashford, Kent, England, UK.
- Visual Effects
- Additional Crew
Known for his kindness, generosity, wisdom, dry wit and passion for his work, Derek touched hundreds of peoples lives. Derek grew up in Rochester and Dover NH where he was involved in Youth hockey for several years. His love of hockey also extended to the UNH Wildcats and Boston Bruins. He had a great passion for skiing that he carried through life. He was an accomplished hiker having achieved the New England Highest Hundred Hikes by age 12 and Vermont's Long Trail at 14.
Derek received his B.S. degree in Computer Animation at Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida in 2010. Shortly after graduating, he began his career in animation at ReelFX in Dallas, Texas, and more recently as Pipeline Technical Director by Nickelodeon Animation Studios in Burbank, California.- Additional Crew
Tom Buckholtz was born on 8 July 1947 in Dover, New Jersey, USA. Tom is known for Always for Pleasure (1978). Tom died on 2 November 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.- Philip Wyborn-Brown was born in 1952 in Dover, Kent, England, UK. He died on 13 March 2015 in Dover, Kent, England, UK.
- Producer
- Writer
Treena Kerr was born on 18 May 1934 in Dover, Kent, England, UK. She was a producer and writer, known for The Galloping Gourmet (1968). She was married to Graham Kerr. She died on 17 September 2015 in Mount Vernon, Washington, USA.- Donald Lynden-Bell was born on 5 April 1935 in Dover, Kent, England, UK. He was married to Ruth Truscott. He died on 6 February 2018 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.
- Sound Department
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Cinematographer
Randy Palmer Jr. was born on 23 August 1984 in Dover, New Jersey, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for Curvy Girls (2011), Dead Rising 3: Fear (2014) and Ballhawks (2010). He was married to Nikki. He died on 9 December 2018 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Writer
- Additional Crew
Andrea Newman was born on 9 February 1938 in Dover, Kent, England, UK. She was a writer, known for Night Gallery (1969), The Frighteners (1972) and Three Into Two Won't Go (1969). She died on 9 November 2019 in the UK.- Jeff Shiffrin was born on 8 March 1954 in Dover, New Jersey, USA. He died on 2 February 2020 in Edwards, Colorado, USA.
- Vic Gilliam was born on 21 July 1953 in Dover, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Nowhere Man (1995), Leverage (2008) and Follow the Prophet (2009). He died on 17 June 2020.
- Waley HBAM was born on 2 January 1995 in Dover, Delaware, USA. He was an actor, known for Waley HBAM: So Delaware (2020), HBAM Waley feat. HBAM La: Money Block (2020) and HBAM Waley: Dreams 2 Reality (2020). He died on 27 August 2020 in Ellendale, Delaware, USA.
- Brandon Sklenar was born and raised in northern New Jersey. His father a carpenter and his mother a hair dresser. With an intense passion for both film and music, at a young age he decided to pursue a career as an actor and filmmaker.
In 2018 Brandon worked with revered international filmmaker Amir Naderi (99 Homes), on his next directorial effort, Magic Lantern. He filmed a supporting role in the highly acclaimed Dick Cheney biopic VICE, with Academy Award Winners Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Sam Rockwell and writer/director Adam McKay. Brandon also starred opposite Matt Smith (The Crown) as real life artist Edward Mapplethorpe, in the film Mapplethorpe, about the life and death of controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, which premiered in competition at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival.
In 2019 Brandon filmed Lead roles in three feature films. He starred as Texas moonshiner, Deke Jones in the dark comedy, Jonesin'. He starred opposite Rosie Day (Outlander) as a concert violinist in Jaclyn Bethany's relationship drama, Indigo Valley. He played West Virginia oil man, Junior Lawford, in the western, London Calling, opposite Nick Braun (Succession) and Ron Perlman. As well as a supporting role portraying real life Torpedo Bomber and World War 2 hero, George Gay, in Roland Emmerich's upcoming World War 2 epic Midway. - Teri Polo was born in Dover, Delaware, to Jane (Gentry) and Vincent Polo, a stereo systems designer. Her ancestry includes Italian (from her paternal grandfather), German, and English. She has two brothers, Mike and Steve. Polo studied ballet for twelve years and was a dancer for the Delaware Regional Ballet at age 15. She dropped out of high school at 16 because she won a local modeling contest for a blue jeans advert in Seventeen magazine. Polo tried her hand at modeling, and was signed to Elite petite division.
- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Doug grew up in Detroit and Minneapolis and eventually moved to New York City and briefly attended the Juilliard School. After studying with Sanford Meisner for two years and working at a plethora of oddball jobs (including dressing as a giant Citibank card to hand out flyers in Times Square), he worked in regional and Off-Broadway theater before landing his first feature supporting role in Fresh Horses (1988).- Actress
- Additional Crew
Sonita Henry was born in Dover, Kent, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Black Cake (2023), The Chelsea Detective (2022) and Silo (2023).- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Shane was born on the south coast of England, although his family line is also Scottish and American. He attended the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts in London and received the Cameron Mackintosh Scholarship Award.
Shane's extensive screen credits include the regular role of Cpl. Eugene "Doc" Roe in Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg's commercially and critically acclaimed Band Of Brothers. He played Osman in The Day Of The Triffids alongside Dougray Scott, Vanessa Redgrave and Joely Richardson; and Craig Hanson, a season regular alongside Philip Winchester, Sullivan Stapleton and Charles Dance in Strike Back: Vengeance.
Shane also played the character of Andy Stafford alongside Gabriel Byrne and Michael Gambon in Quirke for the BBC; and as Captain Thomas Preston, in the History Channel's Sons Of Liberty, starring Ben Barnes, Henry Thomas, Rafe Spall and Dean Norris.
Shane's film credits include the award winning independent, Bomber; Devil's Playground; Walking With The Enemy alongside Ben Kingsley; and Hunter Killer with Gerard Butler, Linda Cardellini and Gary Oldman.- Music Artist
- Actress
- Composer
Joscelyn Eve Stoker (born 11 April 1987), better known by her stage name Joss Stone, is an English singer, songwriter and actress. She rose to fame in late 2003 with her multi-platinum debut album, The Soul Sessions, which made the 2004 Mercury Prize shortlist. Her second album, the similarly multi-platinum Mind Body & Soul (2004), topped the UK Albums Chart for one week and spawned the top ten hit "You Had Me", Stone's most successful single on the UK Singles Chart to date.
Both the album and single received one nomination at the 2005 Grammy Awards, while Stone herself was nominated for Best New Artist, and in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2004, was ranked fifth as a predicted breakthrough act of 2004. She became the youngest British female singer to top the UK Albums Chart. Stone's third album, Introducing Joss Stone, released in March 2007, achieved gold record status by the RIAA and yielded the second-ever highest debut for a British female solo artist on the Billboard 200, and became Stone's first top five album in the US. She released her fourth album, Colour Me Free!, on 20 October 2009, which reached the top 10 on Billboard. Stone released her fifth album, LP1, on 22 July 2011, which reached the top 10 on Billboard. Throughout her career, Stone has sold 14 million records worldwide, establishing herself as one of the best-selling soul artists of the 2000s, and the best-selling British artists of her time. Her first three albums have sold over 2,722,000 copies in the US, while her first two albums have sold over 2 million copies in the UK. Stone has earned numerous accolades, including two Brit Awards and one Grammy Award out of five nominations.
She made her film acting debut in 2006 with the fantasy adventure film Eragon, and made her television debut portraying Anne of Cleves in the Showtime series The Tudors in 2009. Stone was the youngest woman on the 2006 Sunday Times Rich List-an annual list of the UK's wealthiest people. In 2012, her net worth was estimated to be 10 million, making her the fifth richest British musician under 30. The Soul Sessions Vol. 2 (2012) is her fourth consecutive album to reach the top 10 on the Billboard 200.
Joscelyn Eve Stone was born on 11 April 1987 at Buckland Hospital in Dover, Kent and spent her teenage years in Ashill, a small pastoral village near Cullompton in Devon. She is the third of four children born to Wendy (Skillin) and Richard Stoker. Her father owns a fruit and nut import-export business; her mother worked as Stone's manager until October 2004. Stone made her first public appearance at the Uffculme Comprehensive School-which she attended-in Uffculme, Devon, with a cover version of Jackie Wilson's 1957 song "Reet Petite". Stone has dyslexia and left school at age sixteen with only three GCSE qualifications. "It wasn't that I was stupid. I'm just a little bit dyslexic and I wasn't very academic. I'm more artistic", she says. Stone grew up listening to a wide variety of music including 1960s and 1970s American R&B and soul music performed by such artists as Dusty Springfield and Aretha Franklin. As a result, she developed a soulful style of singing like her idols. "My first CD that I owned was Aretha Franklin: Greatest Hits. And I saw the advert on TV and it was just like little clips of her songs. I had no idea who she was-I was only like 10 so. I said, 'Oh yeah, that looks really good', so I wrote it down and I said to my mum, 'Can I have that for Christmas?' So she told my friend Dennis, who always gets me good music anyway, and he got that for me. So that was one of my first albums that I loved."
She would later tell MTV News: "I kind of clicked into soul music more than anything else because of the vocals. You've got to have good vocals to sing soul music and I always liked it ever since I was little." Stone possesses the vocal range of a mezzo-soprano and contralto. She's famous for performing barefoot and has been described as "the white Aretha Franklin" since her debut in music industry. However, Stone was the subject of some contention in the United States, where her audience expected soul artists to have been born in poverty and have had a rough and painful life in order to sing soul music due to its emotional nature. People also expected someone with a voice like hers to be black. In 2004, Stone began dating Beau Dozier, with whom she co-wrote the song "Spoiled". Dozier is the son of Motown producer Lamont Dozier, who is best known as part of Holland-Dozier-Holland. The couple ended their relationship in November 2005.
In a 2016 interview, Stone revealed that she was in a relationship with music promoter SiChai for three years. Stone is a lifelong vegetarian, and has taken part in various campaigns for animal rights group PETA, Stone also owns a number of rescue dogs.