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- Stephanus Johannes Paulus Krüger, the president of the 19th century Transvaal Republic in what is now South Africa, was born on October 10, 1825 into a family of Prussian descent at Bulhoek in the Steynsburg district of what is now South Africa, at his grandfather's farm. Krüger, who was affectionately called "Oom Paul" (Afrikaans for "Uncle Paul") by his people, was fated to become a prominent leader of the Boer resistance that eventually was defeated by the might of the British military during the second Boer War. As a symbol of resistance to the British Empire, he was the subject of an autobiographical film released by Nazi Germany in 1941.
They young Paul Krüger grew up on the farm Vaalbank, where his formal education was extremely limited. His real education was had as a frontiersman on the veld, a lifestyle that seasoned him for the hard road of rebellion that lay in his future. What is now South Africa was founded as the Cape Colony by the Dutch East India Company in 1652, with the founding of Cape Town. The British occupied the Cape Colony in 1795 and assumed official control of it in 1806, when The Netherlands lost sovereignty during the Napoleonic Wars.
Cape Colony became the Cape Province. In 1836, Paul Krüger's father, Casper,became part of the "Great Trek" of Boers that had began two years earlier as they sought to flee British laws. The Boers, who spoke a dialect of Dutch known as "Afrikaans", were resistant to the British Empire's Anglicisation policies, as well as its laws on slavery (the UK had abolished slavery in the early 19th century). They also were disgusted by what they saw as the indifference of British authorities to the border wars they waged with indigenous peoples on the eastern frontier of the Province.
In the 1830s and 1840s, approximately 12,000 Boers moved eastward into the interior to settle in the future Natal, Orange Free State and Transvaal Provinces to escape British authority. Krüger's father Casper later decided to settle in the district now known as Rustenburg. A veteran of the Great Trek, Paul had fought in three battles by the time he was 13. When he was 16 years old, Krüger choose a farm for himself at the foot of the Magaliesberg, where he settled in 1841. The following year he married Maria du Plessis, and the young couple accompanied his father to live in the Eastern Transvaal for a while. After the family had returned to Rustenburg, Krüger's wife and infant son died, likely from malaria (some sources say she died in childbirth). Krüger then married his dead wife's niece, Gezina du Plessis, who was his constant and devoted companion until her death in 1901. Altogether, Gezina Krüger gave birth to nine sons and seven daughters, though some perished in infancy as was common before antiseptic midwifery in the 20th Century.
In time, Paul Krüger emerged as a leader due to this prowess on the battlefield. Starting as a field cornet in the commandos, he eventually became Commandant-General of the South African Republic. He also distinguished himself as a diplomat and politician, being appointed member of a commission of the Volksraad, the republican parliament that drew up a constitution. In 1873, Krüger resigned as Commandant-General, retiring to his farm, Boekenhoutfontein. However, in 1874 he was elected to the Executive Council and shortly after that became Vice-President of the Transvaal. Following the annexation of the Transvaal by Britain in 1877, Krüger became the leader of the resistance movement. That same year, he visited the UK for the first time as leader of a deputation. In 1878, he was part of a second deputation.
The First Boer War (the "War of Independence" to Afrikaaners) started in 1880. Paul Krüger was elected President of the Transvaal on December 30, 1880. After defeating the British forces at the decisive battle at Majuba in 1881, Krüger was instrumental in negotiating the restoration of Transvaal's independence under official British overlordship (meaning the UK would provide for the Republic's defense and foreign policy). However, at the London conference of 1884, Kruger succeeded in regaining the independence of the Republic. Unfortunately for the Afrikaaners in the Transvaal, gold was discovered in the Witwatersrand and a destabilizing Gold Rush was on, bringing in large numbers of foreigners (called "Uitlanders" or "Ourlanders" in Afrikaans. The Gold Rush eventually set in motion the dynamics that led to the fall of the Republic as the British Imperialists (whose subjects made up most of the Uitlanders) began to covet the Transvaal anew. Denial of rights to the Uitlanders by the Republic gave the British Empire an excuse to act.
During the New Year's weekend of December 29, 1895 to January 2, 1896), Leander Starr Jameson, the British Administrator of Southern Rhodesia, launched a raid on the Republic of the Transvaal with his Rhodesian and Bechuanaland policemen. The raid was launched with the authority of the premier of the Capetown Province, Cecil Rhodes, and with the covert approval of Her Majesty Queen Victoria's government. Jameson intended his raid to trigger an uprising by British expatriate workers in the Republic, but it failed. Relations between Britain and The Transvaal Republic deteriorated further.
The United Kingdom became upset when rumors circulated after the failed raid that the German Kaiser had offered protection to the Boer republics of Transvaal and the Orange Free State, something which would have upset the balance of power in Africa and in Europe. In 1898, Om Krüger -- who had met with the Kaiser and his Chancellor Otto von Bismark during a European trip -- was elected President for the fourth (and last) time. The British responded by gathering troops on the borders of the Boer republics. Fearing imminent annexation, the Boers launched a preemptive strike against the nearby British colonies on the day after Krüger's 74th birthday, a strike which ignited the second Boer War.
The last session of the Transvaal legislature, the Volksraad, began on May 7, 1900, as a British Army commanded by Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts (Lord Roberts), bore down on Pretoria, the capital. President Krüger left Pretoria on the 29th of May and was able to remain in the country until October, when he left South Africa on the Dutch warship De Gelderland, which had been sent by Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands to evacuate him. As his wife Gezina was too ill to travel, she remained behind, dying in their homeland on July 20, 1901.
In exile, Krüger first lived in Marseille, France, then in The Netherlands, and then finally in Clarens, Switzerland, where he died on 14 July 1904. His body was returned to South African and on December 16, 1904, he was buried in the Church Street cemetery in Pretoria.
Krüger became the subject of one of 'Joseph Goebbels'' lavish propaganda films, 1941's "Ohm Kruger". The wily old rebel was played by Oscar winning German actor Emil Jannings, who as "Uncle Kruger", was looking back on his life and struggles against the British Empire, which Nazi Germany was then struggling against. (Ironically, Hitler himself was an admirer of the British Empire, in theory.) Jannings appearance in the film, which distorted many facts to make the British seem far more villainous than they had behaved during the real second Boer War, was used against him after the war, as proof of his pro-Nazi leanings. Jennigs had to undergo de-Nazification, and never made another feature film after 1945. - Pieter Cronje was born on 4 October 1836 in Colesberg, Cape Colony [now South Africa]. He was married to Hester Cronje. He died on 4 February 1911 in Potchefstroom, Transvaal, South Africa.
- Stephanus Maré was born in 1882 in Transvaal, South Africa. He was an actor, known for De Voortrekkers (1916). He died on 17 October 1918 in Pretoria, South Africa.
- Olive Schreiner was born on 24 March 1855 in Wittebergen, Basutoland [now South Africa]. She was a writer, known for The Hunter (1973), The Story of an African Farm (1980) and The Story of an African Farm (2004). She was married to Samuel Cronwright. She died on 11 December 1920 in Wynberg, South Africa.
- Tubby Phillips was born in 1884 in Bloomfontein, South Africa. He was an actor, known for The School for Scandal (1923), Shooting Stars (1928) and The Bells of St. Mary's (1928). He died on 26 April 1930 in St Pancras, London, England, UK.
- Mrs. H.R. Hancock was born on 7 November 1850 in South Africa. She was an actress, known for Mr. Fix-It (1918). She died on 3 May 1930 in Australia.
- According to most sources British author Cynthia Stockley was born in London around 1863 with the birth name Lilian Julian Webb. She could have been the oldest daughter of Frederick I. and Mary A. Webb. Their daughter is the only Lilian (or Lillian) Webb found in the 1871 English Census who was born in London around 1863. At that time of the 1871 census Frederick Webb was a schoolmaster in the village of Charles in the county of Devon. By the 1891 census his daughter Lilian was working as a teacher at a boarding school in London. This may or may not be the correct family connection. Also most of the news accounts at the time of her death believed that Stockley had been born in South Africa.
In 1896 Cynthia Stockley relocated to the then British colony of Rhodesia. There she married Rhodesian police officer Phillip George Watts Stockley and later Colonel H. E. Pelham-Browne, one of the earliest European settlers of Rhodesia.
Sometime around the turn of the twentieth century Stockley returned to England and began working as a newspaper writer. Her first book, "Virginia of Rhodesians" (1904), was a collection of short stories that achieved international success. Later "Poppy, The Story of a South African Girl" (1910), received a great deal of attention for its frankness about marriage, morality, sex and depression. A list of some of her later books include: "The Claw: Stories of South Africa" (1911), "The Dream Ship" (1913), "Wild Honey: Stories of South Africa"" (1914), "Blue Aloes: Stories of South Africa" (1918), "Pink Gods and Blue Demons" (1920), "The Sins of Rosanne" (1920), "Ponjola" (1923), "Dalla The Lion-Cub: Stories of South Africa." (1924), "The Garden of Peril: A Story of the African Veld" (1924), "Perilous Woman: A Story of the African Veld" (1924), "Three Farms: A Story of South Africa" (1925), "The Dice of God: Stories of South Africa" (1926), "Leopard in the Bush: A Sequel to "Dalla the Lion-Cub" (1926), "Tagati (Magic)" (1930), "Kraal Baby: A Novel" (1934) and "Perilous Stuff: Three Short Novels" (1936).
Cynthia Stockley ended her life on 15 January, 1936 by inhaling coal gas in her London home. Her fading popularity and reduced financial circumstances may have played a factor in her death. Some believe that had her stories not revolved so much around colonial life in Africa that she might be better remembered today. - John Buckler, aged 30, and his father, a well known British actor 'Hugh Buckler', aged 55, were drowned together on the night of Oct. 30, 1936 when their car skidded off the road during a rainstorm and overturned in the waters of Malibu Lake in California. The two men were trapped inside the car and were undiscovered until the following morning when residents saw the wheels of the car above the water's surface.
The younger Buckler, whose promising film career had just begun only two years before his untimely death, had been a member of the cast of the prestigious film, David Copperfield (1935) and had last appeared in Tarzan Escapes (1936) as a greedy explorer in the third in the series made by MGM detailing the adventures of Edgar Rice Burroughs iconic character, played by 'Johnny Weissmuller'. John Buckler first gained critics and audience attention when he appeared on Broadway in some of the most famous plays of the 1920s, including "The Green Hat," "The Letter," and "The Barretts of Wimpole Street." - Writer
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Gustav Preller was born on 4 October 1875 in Pretoria, South Africa. Gustav was a writer, known for De Voortrekkers (1916). Gustav died on 6 October 1943 in Pretoria, South Africa.- Roger Bushell was born on 30 November 1910 in Springs, Transvaal, South Africa. He died on 29 March 1944 in Mannheim, Germany.
- Cadle served as a Methodist minister at one time. In 1925, Cadle and cameraman Paul Hoefler went on expedition to the Kalahari to study customs of traditional people and get photos of what was considered the "lowest race of people on earth."
- Pearl Argyle was born on 7 November 1910 in Johannesburg, South Africa. She was an actress, known for Chu Chin Chow (1934), Things to Come (1936) and Adventure Ltd. (1935). She was married to Curtis Bernhardt. She died on 29 January 1947 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Jan Smuts was born on 24 May 1870 in Malmesbury, Cape Colony [now South Africa]. He died on 11 September 1950 in Doornkloof, South Africa.
- Walter Armitage was born in 1907 in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was an actor, known for Great Expectations (1934), Bombay Mail (1934) and Where Sinners Meet (1934). He died on 22 February 1953 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Cleland Finn was born in 1914 in South Africa. He was a producer and writer, known for Play the Game (1947), Death of Uncle George (1951) and Dark Summer (1951). He died on 18 August 1953 in Marylebone, London, England, UK.- Dorothy Bernard was born on 25 June 1890 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. She was an actress, known for The Rainbow (1917), The Little Gypsy (1915) and The Wild Goose (1921). She was married to A.H. Van Buren. She died on 15 December 1955 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Oliver Wakefield, "The Voice of Inexperience, " has been described as an English comedian with an American sense of humor. A master of droll, unfinished sentences and pithy remarks, Oliver Wakefield has a brilliant faculty for biting sarcasm and sage observations of human foibles. While seeming to spout nonsense, he nevertheless leaves the audience with an overall impression that, like "The Melancholy Dane", he has "method in his madness." This specialist in making nonsense sound philosophical - and vice versa - was born to be a comedian. Who else in the world can stand before an audience and announce, truthfully, that he was born in Zululand, South Africa? Only another Zululander, and at last count there weren't very many Zulu comedians making the rounds in show business. Following his unusual beginning, Oliver remained on the Dark Continent long enough to get a formal education, then journeyed to England and an acting job with a Shakespearean repertory company. From there he went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts for further study. While studying he developed a new style of humor and very quickly established himself in nightclubs and music hall circles as a very clever and versatile comedian. He has the distinction of being the first Resident Comedian on the B.B.C., and was also a pioneer in British T.V. He starred and played feature roles for Warner Brothers and Gainsborough Pictures opposite such top-flight British performers as Gracie Fields, Anne Crawford, Glynis Johns and Patricia Roc, and appeared regularly at the Savoy, The Berkeley, The Ritz, Cafe de Paris, and other clubs. He was booked to open at the Rainbow Room in New York three weeks after the out break of the war, but chose to remain in England and joined the R.A.F. After the war, Oliver Wakefield returned to show business, playing for a full year in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia. This was followed by a 52 week radio series for the Australian Broadcasting Commission. Returning to the United States in 1952 he was immediately booked into the Blue Angel in New York, where he re-established himself in the American scene as a definite British asset. He delighted audiences at Blue Angel, Number One Fifth Avenue, Ruban Bleu, and Bon Soir and has made successful appearances on the All Star Revue, Kate Smith, Steve Allen and many other guest appearances. His Last Broadway appearance was in the Bette Davis Revue, "TWO'S COMPANY" at the Alvin Theatre in New York. It is difficult to describe Oliver Wakefield's act. It has often been said that his grasp of current affairs is only exceeded by his inability to express them. He makes a very good-looking appearance, wearing a distinguished handlebar moustache; he impresses one as a typical English gentlemen --, which he is: He writes his own material. With extreme nonchalance he tells us that "Britain has built herself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty, " and makes one share his confidence that "They will get an American loan even if they have to borrow the money." In Canada apart from appearing frequently for CBS on the Frigidair T.V. Show he played a record breaking fourteen weeks at Montreal's smart "Ruby Foos" and also had his own T.V. Panel Show "Make a Match." With his additional Motion Picture and Dramatic background we close this biography with a quote from Variety "Wakefield seems strong for any medium."
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Born in South Africa, Henry Cornelius traveled to Europe, where he worked as an actor and director in stage productions in Germany, France and England. In 1933, with the Nazi takeover of Germany, Cornelius left Germany for France, and studied at the Sorbonne. He hooked up with director René Clair and went to England with Clair for The Ghost Goes West (1935) as an assistant editor. He worked his way up the ranks to editor and returned to South Africa, writing documentaries and producing and directing films there. After the end of World War II he went back to England, working as an associate producer and writer. He made his directorial debut with Passport to Pimlico (1949), a well-received comedy from Ealing about a neighborhood in London that, after the war, discovers that it is really not a part of England, and declares its independence. He was also responsible for the delightful Genevieve (1953), a charming comedy about an auto club's annual race between Brighton and London.
Cornelius only directed two more films before his death, at age 44, in London in 1958.- Actor
Bruce Moir was born on 17 August 1902 in Pinetown, Natal, South Africa. He was an actor. He died on 15 November 1958 in Hampton, Middlesex, England, UK.- Actor
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John Tore was born in 1924 in South Africa. He was an actor, known for Flannelfoot (1953). He was married to Olga Lowe. He died on 30 July 1959 in Kensington, London, England, UK.- Afrique was born on 2 February 1907 in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was an actor, known for Discoveries (1939), Grand Finale (1936) and Cabaret (1936). He died on 16 December 1961 in London, England, UK.
- Kenneth Hunter was born on 19 February 1882 in Capetown, South Africa. He was an actor, known for The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Ambition (1916) and Another Dawn (1937). He died on 21 December 1961 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Eileen Molyneux was born on 26 August 1893 in Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa. She was an actress, known for The Key of the World (1918), Adam As a Special Constable (1918) and Eve in the Country (1918). She died on 13 April 1962 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Jack Carson was born on 5 April 1894 in Cape Town, South Africa. He was an actor. He was married to Barbara Olive Moulton. He died on 9 July 1962 in Kensington, London, England, UK.- Music Department
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Solomon Linda was born in 1909 in South Africa. He is known for Bandits (2001), Dead Calm (1989) and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994). He died on 8 October 1962.- Actor
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Henry Francis Maltby was a South African-born playwright, theatre actor and director. A former bank clerk, he performed on stage from as early as 1899, later treading the boards of London's West End after military service in World War I. In addition to writing or adapting works for musical theatre, he also authored some 50 plays (primarily light comedies and satires), some of which were later filmed: Profit and the Loss (1917), The Rotters (1921), Just My Luck (1933), among others). Maltby wrote a number of film scripts by the early 20's, but did not act on screen until about 1934, by which time he became a prolific purveyor of comedic impersonations of pompous or apoplectic barristers, judges or military figures. His round-faced, chinless, beady-eyed countenance adapted itself with equal ease to doleful, mean or comedic personae. For that reason, he was consistently employed in diverse films ranging from Alfred Hitchcock thrillers to Will Hay farces. Maltby continued to write film scripts and radio plays well into the 1940's. His autobiography, "Ring Up the Curtain", appeared in 1950.- Campbell Cotts was born on 21 April 1902 in Fondebosch, South Africa. He was an actor, known for Last Holiday (1950), Brass Monkey (1948) and The Good Companions (1957). He died on 19 February 1964 in London, England, UK.
- Bruce Meredith Smith was born on 18 October 1908 in King William's Town, Eastern Cape, South Africa. He was an actor, known for Trek to Mashomba (1951), Dark Venture (1956) and Cry, the Beloved Country (1951). He died on 13 April 1964 in Transvaal, South Africa.
- Moira Mannion was born on 7 April 1918 in South Africa. She was an actress, known for Dixon of Dock Green (1955), A Christmas Night with the Stars (1958) and BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950). She died on 15 August 1964 in Chelsea, London, England, UK.
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Max Nesbitt was born on 18 October 1903 in Cape Town, South Africa. He was an actor and writer, known for Old Soldiers Never Die (1931), Screen Vaudeville Number One (1934) and Harry and Max Nesbitt (1927). He died on 11 April 1966.- Actress
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Jeanne De Casalis was born on 22 May 1897 in Basutoland, South Africa. She was an actress and writer, known for Bombsight Stolen (1941), Radio Parade (1933) and Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt (1940). She was married to Cowan Douglas Stephenson and Colin Clive. She died on 19 August 1966 in London, England, UK.- Madge Saunders was born on 25 August 1894 in Johannesburg, South Africa. She was an actress, known for Tons of Money (1930) and The Divine Gift (1918). She was married to Michael Hogan (actor) and Leslie Henson. She died on 5 March 1967 in Boscombe, England, UK.
- Bobby R. Naidoo was born in 1927 in South Africa. He was an actor, known for Danger Man (1960), Nine Hours to Rama (1963) and Man of the World (1962). He died on 6 July 1967 in London, England, UK.
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Basil Rathbone was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1892, but three years later his family was forced to flee the country because his father was accused by the Boers of being a British spy at a time when Dutch-British conflicts were leading to the Boer War. The Rathbones escaped to England, where Basil and his two younger siblings, Beatrice and John, were raised. Their mother, Anna Barbara (George), was a violinist, who was born in Grahamstown, South Africa, of British parents, and their father, Edgar Philip Rathbone, was a mining engineer born in Liverpool. From 1906 to 1910 Rathbone attended Repton School, where he was more interested in sports--especially fencing, at which he excelled--than studies, but where he also discovered his interest in the theater. After graduation he planned to pursue acting as a profession, but his father disapproved and suggested that his son try working in business for a year, hoping he would forget about acting. Rathbone accepted his father's suggestion and worked as a clerk for an insurance company--for exactly one year. Then he contacted his cousin Frank Benson, an actor managing a Shakespearean troupe in Stratford-on-Avon.
Rathbone was hired as an actor on the condition that he work his way through the ranks, which he did quite rapidly. Starting in bit parts in 1911, he was playing juvenile leads within two years. In 1915 his career was interrupted by the First World War. During his military service, as a second lieutenant in the Liverpool Scottish 2nd Battalion, he worked in intelligence and received the Military Cross for bravery. In 1919, released from military service, he returned to Stratford-on-Avon and continued with Shakespeare but after a year moved onto the London stage. The year after that he made his first appearance on Broadway and his film debut in the silent Innocent (1921).
For the remainder of the decade Rathbone alternated between the London and New York stages and occasional appearances in films. In 1929 he co-wrote and starred as the title character in a short-running Broadway play called "Judas". Soon afterwards he abandoned his first love, the theater, for a film career. During the 1920s his roles had evolved from the romantic lead to the suave lady-killer to the sinister villain (usually wielding a sword), and Hollywood put him to good use during the 1930s in numerous costume romps, including Captain Blood (1935), David Copperfield (1935), A Tale of Two Cities (1935), Anna Karenina (1935), The Last Days of Pompeii (1935), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Tower of London (1939), The Mark of Zorro (1940) and others. Rathbone earned two Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor as Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (1936) and as King Louis XI in If I Were King (1938).
However, it was in 1939 that Rathbone played his best-known and most popular character, Sherlock Holmes, with Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson, first in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) and then in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939), which were followed by 12 more films and numerous radio broadcasts over the next seven years.
Feeling that his identification with the character was killing his film career, Rathbone went back to New York and the stage in 1946. The next year he won a Tony Award for his portrayal of Dr. Sloper in the Broadway play "The Heiress," but afterwards found little rewarding stage work. Nevertheless, during the last two decades of his life, Rathbone was a very busy actor, appearing on numerous television shows, primarily drama, variety and game shows; in occasional films, such as Casanova's Big Night (1954), The Court Jester (1955), Tales of Terror (1962) and The Comedy of Terrors (1963); and in his own one-man show, "An Evening with Basil Rathbone", with which he toured the U.S.- Make-Up Department
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Carlie Taylor was born on 16 September 1897 in Pretoria, South Africa. He was an actor, known for Seven Guns to Mesa (1958), The Rogues (1964) and Daddy-O (1958). He died on 19 September 1967 in Sunland, California, USA.- Art Director
G.F. Stegmann was born on 18 October 1908 in Pretoria, South Africa. G.F. was an art director, known for Dangerous Ground (1934), The Mayor's Nest (1932) and General John Regan (1934). G.F. was married to Cynthia Johnson. G.F. died on 4 October 1967 in Pretoria, South Africa.- Actor
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Gert van den Bergh was born on 16 October 1920 in Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. He was an actor and writer, known for Zulu (1964), The Naked Prey (1965) and Stropers van die Laeveld (1962). He died on 16 February 1968 in Cape Town, South Africa.- Dorothea Rodwell was born on 7 January 1918 in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa. She was an actress, known for Little Ladyship (1939). She died on 20 May 1968 in Chelsea, London, England, UK.
- South African writer Sarah Gertrude Millin was born Sarah Gertrude Liebson in Kimberley, Cape Province, South Africa, in 1889. She grew up near the diamond fields in Kimberley and the "river diggings" in Barkley West, where the white, "colored"--half black/half white--and black communities provided much of the background for her future novels.
Her 1924 novel "God's Stepchildren" dealt with the lives and struggles of four generations of a colored family in South Africa, a subject that was quite taboo at the time. Her next novel, "Mary Glenn" (1925), was about the plight of a mother whose child had disappeared. It became one of the most popular English-language novels in South Africa and cemented her reputation as a writer of note. In addition to her novels, she also wrote biographies (of Cecil Rhodes and South African military hero Jan Smuts), books on South African history, collections of essays and two autobiographies.
She died in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1968. - Actor
Colin Hunter was born on 20 July 1892 in Cape Town, South Africa. He was an actor. He died on 14 July 1968 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
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Harry Nesbitt was born on 18 December 1905 in Cape Town, South Africa. He was an actor and writer, known for Old Soldiers Never Die (1931), Screen Vaudeville Number One (1934) and Harry and Max Nesbitt (1927). He died on 21 October 1968.- Additional Crew
Ted Behr was born on 25 August 1889 in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is known for To Tell the Truth (1956). He died on 12 November 1969 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Additional Crew
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Tommy Linden was born on 23 November 1920 in South Africa. He was an actor, known for The Red Shoes (1948), We Joined the Navy (1962) and BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950). He died on 19 November 1969 in Spain.- Marda Vanne was born on 27 September 1896 in Johannesburg, South Africa. She was an actress, known for Vanity Fair (1956), BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950) and BBC Play of the Month (1965). She died on 27 April 1970 in London, England, UK.
- Don McCorkindale was born on 16 August 1904 in Pretoria, South Africa. He was an actor, known for We're Going to Be Rich (1938) and Excuse My Glove (1936). He died on 11 August 1970 in South Africa.
- Lillian Board was born on 13 December 1948 in Durban, Natal, South Africa. She died on 26 December 1970 in Munich, West Germany.
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Frank Staff was born on 15 June 1918 in Kimberley, South Africa. He was an actor and director, known for The Dancing Years (1950), Cross Gartered (1937) and The Beggar's Opera (1953). He died on 10 May 1971 in Bloemfontein, South Africa.- Arthur Swemmer was born on 8 August 1912 in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was an actor, known for The Second Sin (1966), Oupa for Sale (1968) and Stop Exchange (1970). He was married to Cora Swemmer. He died on 28 June 1971 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Composer, author and conductor, educated in England. He became a US citizen in 1948 and was appointed director of musical presentations at New York's Capitol Theatre. He was also the associate director of the Salzburg Festival in 1927, and directed the official Austrian program at the Chicago Centennial in 1934. Between 1937 and 1941, he was under contract to Hollywood film studios. Joining ASCAP in 1948, his popular-song compositions include "Viennese Memories", "Rosalinda, Love of Mine", "Oh Jiminy, Oh Jiminy", "Laughing Song", "Csardas", and Melodrama".- Spokes Mashiyane was born on 20 January 1933 in Vlakfontein, South Africa. He died on 9 February 1972 in Soweto, South Africa.