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William Lawes was born in April 1602 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK. He died on 24 September 1645 in Chester, Cheshire, England, UK.- Samuel Pepys was born on 23 February 1633 in Salisbury Court, London, England [now UK]. He was a writer, known for The Diary of Samuel Pepys (1958), The Sunday Programme (1994) and L'honorable Mr. Pepys (1957). He was married to Elisabeth de St Michel. He died on 26 May 1703 in Clapham [now London], England [now UK].
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George J. Webb was born on 24 June 1803 in Rushmore Lodge nearby Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK. George J. died on 7 October 1887 in Orange, New Jersey, USA.- Director
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Herbert G. Ponting was born on 21 March 1870 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK. He was a director and cinematographer, known for The Great White Silence (1922), 90° South and The Undying Story of Captain Scott and Animal Life in the Antarctic (1914). He died on 7 February 1935 in Marylebone, London, England, UK.- Mrs. Grace Eline was born in December 1874 in Salisbury, Connecticut, USA. She was an actress, known for A 29-Cent Robbery (1910) and Nicholas Nickleby (1912). She died on 24 July 1935 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Willard Dashiell was born in November 1866 in Salisbury, Maryland, USA. He was an actor, known for The Cheat (1931), The Face in the Dark (1918) and The Floor Below (1918). He was married to Mabel Griffith. He died on 19 April 1943 in Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA.
- Jack Carr was born on 8 September 1895 in Salisbury, North Carolina, USA. He was an actor, known for Safari (1940) and Four Shall Die (1940). He was married to Marie Brown. He died on 16 April 1951 in New Rochelle, New York, USA.
- Rathmell Wilson was born on 1 October 1883 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK. Rathmell was a writer, known for Eve's Daughter (1916). Rathmell died on 24 August 1955 in Brighton, Sussex, England, UK.
- Allan Bourne was born on 10 June 1907 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Pilgrim's Progress (1939), Magyar Melody (1939) and Lady Audley's Secret (1949). He was married to Stella Gibbons. He died on 22 July 1959 in Highgate, London, England, UK.
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Skinnay Ennis joined Hal Kemp's band as a drummer while both attended the University of North Carolina. They stayed together after college when Kemp formed his own professional band. Ennis soon started singing as well as drumming, and by the mid-30s, his spotlight singing solos made him Kemp's biggest star.
Ennis formed his own orchestra in 1938 which soon became a regular personality on Bob Hope's radio show. This gave him enough fame so that his band was in demand in the summer off seasons.
After WWII he returned to Hope's program, where he remained until 1948. He next had a similar spot on the Bud Abbott and Lou Costello radio show. Ennis finally worked with various bands until his death.- Writer
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John Whiting was born on 15 November 1917 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for The Devils (1971), PT Raiders (1955) and The Good Companions (1957). He was married to Asthore Mawson. He died on 16 June 1963 in London, England, UK.- A.G. Street was born on 7 April 1892 in Ditchampton Farm, Wilton, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Strawberry Roan (1944), A House on a Hill (1947) and The Great Harvest (1942). He died on 21 July 1966 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK.
- Richmond Landon was born on 20 November 1898 in Salisbury, Connecticut, USA. He was married to Alice Lord. He died on 13 June 1971 in Lynbrook, Long Island, New York, USA.
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Sidney Blackmer, the Tony-award winning actor who played Teddy Roosevelt in seven movies, is best remembered by today's movie audiences for his turn as the warlock/coven-leader Roman Castevet in Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby (1968).
Born and raised in Salisbury, North Carolina, where he made his debut on July 13, 1895, he had planned as a young man to study law at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. However, playing football and engaging in amateur theatricals proved more important to him than his aspirations to be an attorney, and while in his teens, he went to New York City to try to make it as an actor. He appeared uncredited in movies turned out by various film studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey, which in the first half of the decade of the 1910s, was the Hollywood of America. He reportedly appeared in a bit part in the popular movie serial "The Perils of Pauline" (1914).
Blackmer made his Broadway debut on February 13, 1917, in "The Morris Dance," Harley Granville-Barker's adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel "The Wrong Box." He was not to appear again on the Broadway stage for almost exactly three years, due to the outbreak of his World War I, which saw Blackmer join the military as an officer. After the war, he returned to the theater, making his second Broadway appearance in "Trimmed in Scarlet" on February 2, 1920. He appeared in 15 other productions on the Great White Way from 1920 to 1928. His appearance in 'Clare Kummer''s comedy "The Mountain Man" in 1921 made him a star.
He was a pioneer in the new medium of radio, on which he sang during the 1920s. (Blackmer later participated in the first experimental dramas on Allen B. DuMont's television network.) But it was the movies that increasingly attracted Blackmer's professional attention, in which he typically was cast as a smooth villain from High Society, although he did also play sympathetic roles.
Although Blackmer is now credited with appearing (un-billed) in "The Perils of Pauline," he didn't make a credited appearance on the silver screen until the dawn of the sound era. With the coming of sound, Hollywood needed actors and actresses who could talk and talk well, so it raided the Broadway stage. Blackmer was one of the Broadway stars who headed West, appearing in his first talkie, "The Love Racket" (1929), in 1929. He starred in other early sound films, including "Kismet" (1930/I), which is considered a lost film. He was memorable as Big Boy in support of Edward G. Robinson in the gangster classic Little Caesar (1931)
Blackmer returned to Broadway in 1931 with the comedy "The Social Register" and appeared again in the comedy "Stop-Over" in 1938. In Hollywood, he had a supporting role in the Robert Donat version of "The Count of Monte Cristo" (1934). Also that year, he appeared in 'William A. Wellman''s "The President Vanishes" (1934), co-starring 'Edward Arnold' and 'Osgood Perkins', the father of 'Anthony Perkins'.
Sidney Blackmer has the distinction of starring in the only movie ever "written" by a president of the United States, "The President's Mystery" (1936), based on a story by "co-authored" by 'Franklin D. Roosevelt'. F.D.R. was an avid murder mystery reader, and at a meeting of whodunit authors at the White House during his first administration, he suggested an idea for a mystery novel to the writers: A millionaire disappears and starts a new life under a new identity, taking his wealth with him. Mystery writers, including S.S. Van Dine, cobbled together a patch-work book of uneven quality based on the premise, with F.D.R. listed as co-author. "The President's Mystery" became a best-seller due to F.D.R.'s enormous personal popularity. In the movie version, written by future Hollywood Ten member 'Lester Cole' and novelist 'Nathanel West', Blackmer played millionaire industrialist Sartos, who engineers his own disappearance while holding on to his fortune. Sartos blackmails a corrupt investment bank run by two con men, which he takes over. He then invests his money with the firm, and robs himself under cover of the crooked brokerage. Disappearing after "losing" his fortune, people believe Sartos has committed suicide. Just when it seems that he has accomplished his goal and has escaped into his new life with his loot, something goes awry.
Nineteen-thirty seven was a busy year for Blackmer, who appeared in 12 films, including "Heidi" (1937), his second flick with superstar moppet Shirley Temple (the had earlier co-starred in "The Little Colonel" (1935)). He played General Phillip Sheridan in the epic pot-boiler "In Old Chicago" (1937), starring 'Tyrone Power, Jr.'. The movie featured an Oscar-winning performance by 'Alice Brady' as Molly O'Brady, she of the cow with the combustible personality whose bovine hissy fit causes a conflagration that wipes out the City of Broad Shoulders. Then, it was time to indulge in the dubious enterprise of supporting two Caucasian actors in Oriental drag, the Swede 'Warner Oland' in "Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo" (1937) and the German 'Peter Lorre' in "Thank You, Mr. Moto." (1937). He also appeared again with Edward G. Robinson in "The Last Gangster" (1937).
In the late '30s, Blackmer began making a side-line out of portraying F.D.R.'s cousin 'Theodore Roosevelt', appearing as the wild 'n' woolly bully Bull Moose himself in "This Is My Affair" (1937), "The Monroe Doctrine" (1939), and the Academy Award-winning two-reel short "Teddy the Rough Rider" (1940). He followed these up, reprising T.R., in the patriotic short "March On, America!" (1942), in the John Wayne western "In Old Oklahoma" (1943), in Bill Wellman's "Buffalo Bill" (1944), and in the nostalgic "My Girl Tisa" (1948). Blackmer appeared in three Broadway productions in the mid-1940s, but it wasn't until the dawn of the new decade of the '50s that he scored his greatest success on Broadway, playing the dipsomaniac Doc in 'William Inge''s "Come Back, Little Sheba" opposite Shirley Booth, who scored a Best Actress (Dramatic) Tony Award in 1950 as his wife. Though Blackmer won the Best Actor (Dramatic) Tony Award for "Sheba," he was not able to repeat his triumph on film and possibly join Booth into the Oscar-winner's circle as 'Burt Lancaster' coveted the role. Blackmer also lost out on another plum film assignment when it came time to cast the film version of Sweet Bird of Youth (1962). 'Ed Begley, Sr.' won an Oscar for his portrayal of Boss Finley in 'Richard Brooks''s film of the 'Tennessee Williams' play, a role that Blackmer had originated on Broadway under the stalwart direction of infamous Hollywood Un-American Activities Committee snitch 'Elia Kazan'. Blackmer last appeared on Broadway in "A Case of Libel" in the 1963-64 season.
In his private life, Blackmer served as the national vice president of the Muscular Dystrophy Association. He was honored with a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1625 Vine Street, and was the recipient of the North Carolina Award, the state of North Carolina's highest civilian award, in 1972.
Blackmer was married to Lenore Ulric from 1928 until 1939, when they were divorced. He married his second wife Suzanne Kaaren in 1943. They had two sons, Jonathan and Brewster Blackmer.
Sidney Blackmer died of cancer on October 6, 1973 at the age of 78 in New York City. He was interred in Chestnut Hill Cemetery in his home town of Salisbury, NC.- Actor
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J.G. Patterson Jr. was born on 11 January 1930 in Salisbury, North Carolina, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for The Body Shop (1972), The Electric Chair (1976) and She-Devils on Wheels (1968). He was married to Juanita Shaw. He died on 30 June 1975 in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.- Ronald Duncan was born on 6 August 1914 in Salisbury, Rhodesia [now Harare, Zimbabwe]. He was a writer, known for The Saint (1962), The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968) and Armchair Theatre (1956). He was married to Rose Marie Hansome. He died on 3 June 1982 in Barnstaple, Devon, England, UK.
- Cyril Luckham was born on 25 July 1907 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for A Man for All Seasons (1966), The Guardians (1971) and The Barchester Chronicles (1982). He was married to Violet Lamb. He died on 8 February 1989 in London, England, UK.
- Darryl Wells was born on 28 December 1942 in Salisbury, Maryland, USA. He was an actor, known for Mark of the Witch (1970), A World Apart (1970) and The Nurses (1965). He died on 27 February 1990 in Salisbury, Maryland, USA.
- Roy Welensky was born on 20 January 1907 in Salisbury, South Rhodesia. He died on 5 December 1991 in Blandford Forum, Dorset, England, UK.
- Ronald Fletcher was born on 10 July 1910 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for The Gnomes of Dulwich (1969), My Pal Bob (1957) and Twice a Fortnight (1967). He died on 6 February 1996 in Roehampton, London, England, UK.
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Patrick Matthews was born on 7 July 1914 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK. Patrick was a writer and cinematographer, known for Teddy Edward (1973). Patrick was married to Mollie Matthews. Patrick died on 25 September 1996 in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK.- Ralph Roberts was born on 16 August 1916 in Salisbury, North Carolina, USA. He was an actor, known for Killer's Kiss (1955), The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962) and Bells Are Ringing (1960). He died on 30 April 1999 in Salisbury, North Carolina, USA.
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Claude Johnson was born on 24 November 1933 in Salisbury, North Carolina, USA. He died on 31 October 2002 in New York, New York, USA.- Frank Perdue was born on 9 May 1920 in Salisbury, Maryland, USA. He was married to Mitzi Perdue, Kathleen M. Markey and Madeline Godfrey. He died on 31 March 2005 in Salisbury, Maryland, USA.
- Simone Grant was born on 12 March 1961 in Salisbury, North Carolina, USA. She was an actress, known for Buttobi CPU (1997), Record of Lodoss War: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight (1998) and Record of the Lodoss War (1990). She was married to Mike Timoney. She died on 2 November 2005 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Clean cut and smoothly handsome as a youth, Mike Evans got on board the Norman Lear TV train in the early 1970s and took a straight ride to sitcom stardom in both a landmark comedy series and its black-oriented spin-off. Born Michael Jonas Evans in Salisbury, North Carolina, on November 3, 1949, his dentist father and school instructor mother moved the family to Los Angeles when Mike was quite young. Graduating from Los Angeles High School, he attended Los Angeles City College before his abrupt TV success. Landing the role of black next-door neighbor Lionel Jefferson in Lear's iconic sitcom All in the Family (1971) was a lucky fluke -- something every fledgling actor should get to experience. In fact, Mike was still attending acting school when he was cast in the 1971 show at age 21. The series altered the course of TV comedy while tackling many then-taboo subjects, including racial prejudice. Due to the quality of the cast and writing, the series managed to thoroughly engage and entertain an audience despite being fronted by a blue-collar bigot in the form of Archie Bunker (played by the great Carroll O'Connor). As the calm, intelligent, level-headed Lionel, son of hothead George (Sherman Hemsley) and his beleaguered wife, Louise Jefferson (Isabel Sanford), Lionel's liberal-minded stance was more akin to Archie's live-in younger generation. As friend to Archie's daughter, Gloria, and her husband, Mike, Lionel had to somehow tolerate his grouchy neighbor's exasperating politically incorrect banter but made up for it with clever, carefully worded digs at the often-clueless Archie. During the run of the show, Mike also boosted his visibility with the TV movies Killer by Night (1972), Call Her Mom (1972), and Voyage of the Yes (1973), costarring Desi Arnaz Jr., not to mention the Disney family comedy feature Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972), starring Kurt Russell. The hit series spun the Jefferson clan into its own "moving-on-up" sitcom The Jeffersons (1975) four years later. The "moving on up" was from Queens to a "deluxe apartment" in Manhattan, where the burgeoning, financially successful George now held court as head intolerant. Mike's character eventually met and fell for Jenny, the beautiful product of an interracial marriage. This became a major source of combustible comedy material that initially fed the new sitcom. In the meantime, Mike and writing partner Eric Monte also cocreated and were writing for another Lear sitcom, Good Times (1974), which was a spin-off of Lear's comedy hit Maude (1972), which in turn was a spin-off of sitcom daddy All in the Family (1971). The major responsibilities and hardships of writing for "Good Times", which became one of the first TV sitcoms to feature a primarily African American cast in quite some time, took its toll, and Mike began making fewer appearances as Lionel. In fact, he left the role completely in the fall of 1975 after only eight months to focus on his writing and was replaced by actor Damon Evans (no relation to Mike), who inhabited the part for four seasons. Mike eventually reclaimed the part in 1979 after the cancellation of "Good Times". His character of Lionel, however, had dwindled so significantly in importance that he left the show again in 1981, this time for good. The family show ended its long run in 1985 after a decade. Mike took on a low profile after his 1970s successes and was not seen onscreen again. By this time he had delved into Southern California real estate. He died of throat cancer in 2006 at age 57 at his mother's home in Twentynine Palms, California.- Rayner Jesson was born on 15 November 1954 in Salisbury, England, UK. He died on 5 October 2007 in London, England, UK.
- Tom Murphy was born on 15 January 1968 in Salisbury, Rhodesia [now Harare, Zimbabwe]. He was an actor, known for Adam & Paul (2004), Pure Mule (2005) and Michael Collins (1996). He died on 6 October 2007 in Dublin, Ireland.
- George Pelling was born on 25 October 1914 in Salisbury, South Rhodesia. He was an actor, known for One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), The Outer Limits (1963) and Brainstorm (1965). He died on 2 December 2008 in Laguna Woods, California, USA.
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Dave Dee was born on 17 December 1943 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Every Home Should Have One (1970), Rentadick (1972) and Thank Your Lucky Stars (1961). He was married to Joanne. He died on 9 January 2009 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England, UK.- Married the actor Andrew Ray in 1959, after meeting him in the West End play "Flowering Cherry". Susan moved back to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) with their two children after the couple separated, but they never divorced and remained on excellent terms. Susan retired from acting, though did return to the stage occasionally in Zimbabwe.
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Julie Keels was born in Salisbury, North Carolina in 1982. She graduated from North Rowan High School in 2000 with a desire to get into the film industry. Julie attended the UNC School of Arts for a short time, but realized that it was for her. She then attended Randolph Community College for an associates in photography. After that, she worked various photos shoots throughout the region. Her most famous work of art includes Monster vs Cops. In 2010, she enrolled at Catawba College to get a bachelors degree to further her career. Then in March of 2011, a terrible event occurred. She was in a major accident which left her in critical condition. After 3 days in the ICU, she passed away. Julie will always be remembered as a model, artist, and a student.- Charles Dorning was born on 22 July 1915 in Salisbury, Rhodesia. Charles was a producer, known for Turning On (1969). Charles was married to Nina Cooke. Charles died on 28 February 2012 in Frankston, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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Timothy John Byford was born on 24 July 1941 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK. He was a director and writer, known for I Want to Be a Showjumper (1969), Neven (1974) and Nedjeljni zabavnik (1982). He was married to Mila and Jenny. He died on 5 May 2014 in Belgrade, Serbia.- Camera and Electrical Department
Ben Martin was born on 16 September 1930 in Salisbury, North Carolina, USA. He is known for Leatherheads (2008), Mr. Destiny (1990) and Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints (2000). He was married to Kathryn Leigh Scott. He died on 10 February 2017 in Salisbury, North Carolina, USA.- Music Department
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Jeffrey Tate was born on 28 April 1943 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006) and Der Ring des Nibelungen (1980). He died on 2 June 2017 in Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy.- Writer
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John Batt was born on 1 May 1929 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Main Chance (1969), Justice (1971) and Trial (1971). He died on 26 August 2017 in Surrey, England, UK.- David Watkin was born on 7 April 1941 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK. He died on 30 August 2018 in the UK.
- Tim Meats was born in 1947 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for State of Emergency (1975), Kinsey (1991) and Miracles Take Longer (1983). He died on 7 May 2019 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK.
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Martin Loveday was born in 1958 in Salisbury, Rhodesia. He is known for Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004), The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) and Tron: Legacy (2010). He died on 7 April 2020 in London, England, UK.- Leslie Hamilton Gearren was born on 26 September 1956 in Salisbury, Maryland, USA. She was an actress, known for Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). She died on 22 August 2020 in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, USA.
- Paul Sarbanes was born on 3 February 1933 in Salisbury, Maryland, USA. He was married to Christine Dunbar. He died on 6 December 2020 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
- Catherine Belsey was born on 13 December 1940 in Salisbury, England, UK. She was married to Andrew Belsey. She died on 14 February 2021 in Cambridge, England, UK.
- Theona Bryant was born Theona Irene Pearce in Salisbury, Maryland, and spent her high school years in Greensboro, North Carolina. In 1952, after a brief marriage which produced a daughter, she moved to Raleigh and began working as a receptionist for Governor William B. Umstead. While there, she had many people tell her she should try to get work on television. This furthered her already present ambition to be a model, so Bryant took a bus to New York and was able to begin a modeling career. After personally meeting with John Robert Powers, he began booking her through his modeling agency, which led to her first television work on the Jackie Gleason Show as a Portrette and Away We Go Girl. After this, she notified her grandmother in East Norwalk, Connecticut, and was able to move in with her to have a home base while she built her career. In 1954, Bryant was hired by Twentieth Century Fox to tour the country in a mobile unit to promote the Cinemascope film The Egyptian (1954). Bryant was dressed in a jeweled costume and appeared with a cheetah named Flo while clips from the film were projected inside the unit. In 1956, she had moved to Los Angeles and appeared as a Carson Cutie on The Johnny Carson Show. That same year, she was signed to a short-term contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. She found herself romantically pursued by the likes of Rod Taylor and Robert Evans, among others. After several television roles and minor film appearances, she returned to Raleigh for a surgical procedure, planning to return to Hollywood afterwards. Instead, she never returned, leaving show business and marrying for a second time in 1967. She remained there until her death in February 2021, age 89. She asked that any memorial contributions be made to the Screen Actors Guild in Los Angeles.
- Ray Teret was born on 24 October 1941 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Mersey Pirate (1979), The Detectives (2015) and Fun Factory (1980). He died on 5 May 2021 in Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK.
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Tom Garrett was born on 26 October 1996 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom. He was a writer and director, known for The Great Everything & the Nothing (2016), Rubbish (2018) and Plaguepits: The Torture Dead (2024). He died on 4 August 2021 in Bristol, England.- Tyler Groton was born on 22 February 1986 in Salisbury, Maryland, USA. He was an actor, known for Off Her (2007). He died on 6 October 2021 in Randallstown, Maryland, USA.
- Hattie Ladbury was born in 1974 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Mrs. Brown (1997), A Street Cat Named Bob (2016) and The Magic Flute (2006). She was married to Oliver Fenwick. She died on 22 January 2022 in London, England, UK.
- Julian Robertson was born on 25 June 1932 in Salisbury, North Carolina, USA. He was married to Josephine Tucker. He died on 23 August 2022 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- Cynthia Burbage was born on 7 March 1965 in Salisbury, Maryland, USA. She was an actress, known for Shadow Fury (2001). She died on 14 January 2023 in Salisbury, Maryland, USA.