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- Isabelle Eberhardt was born on 17 February 1877 in Geneva, Switzerland. She was a writer, known for Eden miseria (1988). She was married to Slimane Ehnni. She died on 21 October 1904 in Äin-Sefra, Algeria.
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Oskar 'O.A.' Andersson was born on 11 January 1877 in Kungsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden. Oskar 'O.A.' is known for Den gamla goda tiden (1955). Oskar 'O.A.' died on 28 November 1906 in Ekerö, Stockholms län, Sweden.- Thora Meincke was born on 23 May 1877 in Odense, Denmark. She was an actress, known for Den hvide Slavehandels sidste Offer (1911), Himlens Straf (1910) and Temptations of a Great City (1911). She was married to Henrik Caspar Meincke and Albrecht Schmidt. She died on 26 December 1911.
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Hughie Cannon was born on 9 April 1877 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He is known for The Conversation (1974), Miss Congeniality (2000) and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008). He was married to Emma Dorson. He died on 17 June 1912 in Toledo, Ohio, USA.- Harry Steinfeldt was born on 29 September 1877 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He died on 17 August 1914 in Bellevue, Kentucky, USA.
- Alfred G. Vanderbilt was born on 20 October 1877 in New York City, New York, USA. He was married to Margaret Emerson Smith Hollins McKim and Elsie French. He died on 7 May 1915.
- Lion Solser was born in Rotterdam as the son of Johannes Solser and the stage actress Engelina Florina Hartlooper on February 6, 1877. He had brothers and sisters (Louis, Michiel, Jeanette Johanna and Engelina Adriana). He married Adrienne Willemsens (Schaerbeek, Belgium, March 25, 1872 - Amsterdam, March 5, 1962), was a comedian and committed suicide in Rotterdam at the age of 38 on August 3, 1915. Lion was buried in Diemen.
Lion Solser came from a lineage of part variety performers and part stage actors. His mother was also an actress, but went across the country with his father to earn more money singing verse. Solser attended drama school from 1889 to 1892. His brother Michiel died at a young age and Lion took his place in the operetta, and he worked with Piet Hesse from 1896 until his death. He formed an ensemble with Hesse, which also included Adrienne Willemsens, his wife. Lion Solser was a director and comedian, often taking on female roles. For years he played the lead role in "Do you know about Schellevis-Mie?" and with Hesse as the cross-dressing duo Wip and Snip, probably the source of inspiration for the later duo Snip and Snap by Willy Walden and Piet Muijselaar. He also performs with Hesse in the silent film "Solser en Hesse" by director M H Laddé from 1900, a film that has unfortunately been lost and in the first Dutch film, "the deranged hengelaar". Abraham's sister was the variety artist and humorist Adrienne Solser.
When Lion died, Het Nieuws van de dag voor Nederlandsch-Indies read:
"Lion Solser" Our collaborator Vosmaer writes to us on 5 August: For a very large number of Indies people it will probably not be necessary to describe the person of the best transvesti, and one of the best duetists and genre comedians our country has known, who has a nervous disorder of took us away: Lion Solser. Most of my readers, I think, must have heard and seen at least once in their lives that little, elegant couple singer, so classy in the black skirt, and yet who in an instant transformed himself into the most slender Jordanian shark bay or maddened peasant girl. And in doing so have admired his expressive, expressive, powerful and the largest halls filling voice and crisp diction into the smallest corners.
Lion was a brother of Michel Solser, creator of the, so to speak, immortal figure of 'Flipje' from Reyding's 'Revue Artistique'. And he resembled that brother in many ways, who was again the son of an excellent comedian. That may not mean much to non-Amsterdammers, but those few lines say it all for us.
Lion Solser turned 38 years old. He began very early in the career that had been prescribed for him, if only out of respect for his ancestors. At the age of about 19 - - I could say it exactly if I went to ask his long-term friend and associate Hesse, who lives in the same house as me, but I dare not disturb him on this funeral day, because he is miserable, devastated -he set foot on the variety stage as a chansonnier, humorist, character comedian.
But only for a short time did he act alone. He was very fortunate to meet Piet Hesse, a few years older than him, who was also an excellent and cultured couple singer, and from that moment on their fortunes-if one can speak of that in our country with its narrow borders-was made. For Lion Solser could be an excellent humorist - he knew absolutely nothing about saving money, managing money, and in this precisely Piet Hesse was a matador, a genius - a born businessman.
"Eighteen years ago, I saw them both perform for the first time during a Groningen fair. They were a "number" of a specialty program, but what a! Usually they first sang a genre couplet, Hesse as an old gentleman, Solser as an old lady, and as a bis number one or two couplets 'with their own head', in the skirt. Even then it was striking how spry, 'mundane' and elegant those two duets presented themselves in the skirts, how funny their old man and wife couples were - and how the two were literally perfect for each other.
Hesse soon realized that his couplets were going in. Solser made many of them himself. And so they started to print and sell those things to amateurs, who wanted to recite them in a "closed circle", but also to professional comedians. But Piet Hesse conceived bigger plans. After some years of singing together at all the fairs in the country, and here in the capital with Frits van Haarlem or in "Flora" (I believe also with Mulder in the Kalverstraat, now long gone), the two partners formed a small troupe that would perform specific Amsterdam happy games, true genre pieces. But before that, Solser would first win laurels with his one-act play "Half an hour at the office of the Moderne Tooneel", in which, following Henri de Vries, he was the first Dutchman to "introduce" the genre here. alone performed six different roles in a truly exquisite manner. With this, Solser and Hesse - and with the greatest success - traveled all over our country about 1910.
That same year they formed their troop. And with that little group they performed Amsterdam sketches, mostly written by Tony Schmitz on the instructions of Lion Solser, in a way that I do not hesitate to call unsurpassable of its kind. One would perhaps not call their actors "first-class powers" everywhere. But preceded by Solser they all, down to the very least, managed to fit themselves so perfectly into the typical Amsterdam milieu that Schmitz portrayed us, that the spectators in many a scene had to admit that reality could not be more real.
Successively, from 1911 onwards, Solser and Hesse regaled us with: "Have you seen the child yet?" (Grandthéatre), "Are you also coming to the Wedding of Mietje T' (ditto), "The legacy of uncle Janus" (Hollandsche Schouwburg), "Have you heard of Schellevis Mie ?" (Panoptic).
With all those Amsterdam Sketches, in which Solser invariably played a female role, usually a splendor of a Jordanian, the partners have earned a lot of money, and no one begrudges them that, because they worked very hard to get the interplay as Solser did. especially absolutely wanted.
In this respect -and also as a 'piece' -- 'Mietje's wedding' suited me best personally. The 'pertij', the wedding guests, the furniture in the Jordanian house, the puppet show, where more benevolent amateurs than talented amateurs among the guests played their lectures - everything was so beautiful, 'real', so cut and copied from life, and so lifelike portrayed by all the actors, even if they had the smallest part to play, as I have seen it, frankly speaking, but very seldom on other, even the best, scenes.
And of the preparation of these performances the greatest credit goes to Lion Solser, who, in addition to being an excellent transvestite, was a sensitive and strict director, who personally took care of the smallest, apparently insignificant details.
Or that astonishing need for labor that being overwhelmingly busy has wrecked him?
Lately the already hot-blooded Solser has been very "troublesome." His friends had to keep a close eye on him after he once, for some futile reason, suddenly, in the middle of his part, began to lash out at the audience, something a man like Solser would never have done under normal circumstances. That was during a performance by Schellevis Mie, now about six months ago. Then things quickly, anxiously, quickly diminished with him. He started to rant for no reason, became quarrelsome, which also did not fit with his nature, took a month off to 'rest completely', seemed completely healed, suddenly collapsed again, until his inexorable nervous illness struck him down with one last blow.
Today Lion Solser is buried, under an interest that is hard to imagine. He leaves behind a wife and daughter - and an audience that will remember his idiosyncratic art for a long time to come. - Additional Crew
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George Helgesen Fitch was an American humorist who is best remembered for his book "At Good Old Siwash" (1911), a collection of eleven stories that first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. Drawn from his student days at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, Fitch told of the exploits of the big Swede, Ole Skjarsen and the Eta Bita Pie fraternity.
Fitch helped pay for his college education, starting at the age of nine, from the money he saved while working at the same printing plant that employed his father. Fitch was the oldest of two boys and a daughter born to Elmer and Rachel Fitch. His father had also at one time been a school teacher and later became a publisher.
After college Fitch worked on several newspapers in Illinois and Iowa. In 1912 he was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives.
Fitch was also remembered for a story he wrote about one of his hobbies "My Demon Motor Boat" (1912).
George Helgesen Fitch died at a hospital in Berkeley, California from complications after a failed appendectomy. He and his wife had been visiting his sister, who was a student at the University of California. Besides his wife, Fitch left behind two young daughters. His remains were laid to rest at a cemetery in Peoria, Illinois.- István Haáz was born on 11 July 1877 in Budapest, Hungary. István was a writer, known for Der Schusterprinz (1914). István died on 17 April 1916 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Johannes Kilian was born on 8 October 1877 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was an actor, known for Den kvindelige Spion fra Balkan (1912), Fodsporet (1912) and Manden fra Mørket (1913). He died on 16 August 1916.
- Petar Kocic was born on 29 June 1877 in Stricici near Banja Luka, Ottoman Empire [now Bosnia and Hercegovina]. He was a writer and actor, known for Jazavac Pred Sudom: With the Badger on Trial (2020), Mecava (1974) and Jauci sa Zmijanja (1974). He died on 28 August 1916 in Belgrade, Serbia.
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Constantin Radovici was born on 15 January 1877 in Tecuci, Romania. He was a director and actor, known for Spionul (1914), Urgia cereasca (1913) and Detectivul (1913). He died on 14 October 1916 in Bucharest, Romania.- Frank Gotch was born on 27 April 1877 in Humboldt, Iowa, USA. He was married to Gladys Oestrich. He died on 16 December 1917 in Humboldt, Iowa, USA.
- Shunyô Yanagawa was born on 5 March 1877 in Tokyo, Japan. Shunyô was a writer, known for Matsukaze Murasame (1936), Nasanu naka Oguchi, Tadashi (1921) and No Blood Relation (1932). Shunyô was married to Satsuko. Shunyô died on 9 January 1918 in Japan.
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During World War I director of a popular cabaret and revue theatre. As the theatre belonged to the circle of different film companies, occasionally Mérei also joined in the film production. Altogether he directed 4 films. His first film was made in 1915 at the film company of Sándor Klein, Hungária, based on the "Jiddish ballad" published by Judit Simon, József Kiss in 1875 and a very sensational piece for decades. Later he was the director of some acknowledged Corvin productions.- William Hope Hodgson was born on 15 November 1877 in the UK. William Hope was a writer, known for Matango (1963), Suspicion (1957) and The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971). William Hope died on 19 April 1918 in Ypres, Flanders, Belgium.
- Claude Garry was born on 4 August 1877 in Asnières-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He was an actor, known for Don Quichotte (1913), The Death of Don Juan (1911) and Le tragique amour de Mona Lisa (1912). He died on 1 August 1918 in Paris, France.
- Burrell Barbaretto was born on 15 January 1877. He was married to Bessie Skeer. He died on 31 October 1918 in Indiana, USA.
- Endre Ady was born on 22 November 1877 in Érmindszent, Austria-Hungary [now Ady Endre, Romania]. He was a writer, known for A bor lelke (1999), Esti Tánc (2017) and Aranyoskáim (1996). He was married to Berta Boncza. He died on 27 January 1919 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Rohan Clensy was born on 17 January 1877 in Liverpool, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Devil's Profession (1915) and The Chance of a Lifetime (1916). He died on 24 February 1919 in Calais, Pas-de-Calais, France.
- Alajos Mészáros was born on 14 July 1877 in Budapest, Hungary. He was an actor, known for Liliomfi (1915), A becsapott újságíró (1915) and A Nagymama (1916). He was married to Berky, Kató. He died on 17 October 1920 in Budapest, Hungary.
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Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych was born on 13 December 1877 in Monastyrok, Podolia, Russian Empire [now Monastyrok, Vinnytsia Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine]. Mykola Dmytrovych was a composer, known for Die Hard 2 (1990), The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) and C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005). Mykola Dmytrovych died on 23 January 1921 in Markivka, Podolian Governorate, Ukrainian SSR [now Markivka, Haisin Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine].- Hermann Boßdorf was born on 29 October 1877 in Wiesenburg, Brandenburg, Germany. He was a writer, known for Vier Frauen um Kray (1973) and Der rote Unterrock (1992). He was married to Bertha Dannies. He died on 24 September 1921 in Hamburg, Germany.
- Goro Kino was born on 2 June 1877 in Japan. He was an actor, known for The Haunted Pajamas (1917), The First Born (1921) and The Purple Cipher (1920). He died on 4 February 1922 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- John Fleming Wilson was born on 22 February 1877 in Erie, Pennsylvania, USA. John Fleming was a writer, known for The Master Key (1914), The Bonded Woman (1922) and Uncharted Seas (1921). John Fleming died on 5 March 1922 in Venice, California, USA.
- Ellen Rindom was born on 25 December 1877 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was an actress, known for Mellem pligt og kærlighed (1910). She was married to Svend Rindom. She died on 9 May 1922 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Lajos Magyary was born on 18 May 1877 in Kiskunfélegyház, Hungary. He was an actor, known for Hivatalnok urak (1919). He died on 25 May 1922 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Ludwig Hartau was born on 19 February 1877 in Trachenberg, Silesia, Germany. He was an actor, known for Deception (1920), Marie Antoinette - Das Leben einer Königin (1922) and Johann Baptiste Lingg (1920). He died on 24 November 1922 in Berlin, Germany.
- Rocco Galdieri was born on 18 October 1877 in Naples, Campania, Italy. Rocco was a writer, known for Aniello a fede (1923) and Fatalità (1947). Rocco died on 16 February 1923 in Naples, Campania, Italy.
- Milan Ogrizovic was born on 11 February 1877 in Senj, Croatia. Milan was a writer, known for Dvorovi u samoci (1925). Milan died on 25 August 1923 in Zagreb, Croatia.
- Adolf Rangstedt was born on 12 July 1877 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for Gustaf III och Bellman (1908). He died on 4 June 1924.
- George Majeroni was born on 11 January 1877 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He was an actor, known for Bella Donna (1915), The Sign of the Cross (1914) and Beating the Odds (1919). He died on 5 August 1924 in Saranac Lake, New York, USA.
- Frank Chance was born on 9 September 1877 in Fresno, California, USA. He was married to Edythe L. Chance. He died on 15 September 1924 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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George Field was born on 18 March 1877 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Blood and Sand (1922), Young Wild West's Mexican Mix-Up (1912) and Young Wild West Cornered by Apaches (1912). He was married to Winifred Greenwood. He died on 9 March 1925 in California, USA.- Kay Van der Aa Kühle was born on 25 June 1877. Kay was a director, known for Guldhornene (1914), Søstrene Morelli (1917) and Panopta I (1918). Kay died on 18 April 1925.
- Sidney Mather was born on 25 April 1877 in Brixham, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Miss Nobody (1917) and Yorktown (1924). He was married to Emily Gertrude Lenore Chippendale Lockwood. He died on 18 April 1925 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Fred R. Stanton was born on 28 August 1877 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for The Son of the Wolf (1922), The Great Secret (1917) and Jenny Be Good (1920). He died on 27 May 1925 in Hollywood, California, USA.
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Karl Abraham was born on 3 May 1877 in Bremen, Germany. He was an actor and writer, known for Secrets of a Soul (1926) and Sheena Ko: Wrap Me Up (2019). He died on 25 October 1925 in Berlin, Germany.- Director
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Harold M. Shaw was born on 3 November 1877 in Brownsville, Tennessee, USA. He was a director and actor, known for The Rose of Rhodesia (1918), Thoroughbreds All (1919) and The Incomparable Mistress Bellairs (1914). He was married to Edna Flugrath. He died on 30 January 1926 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Echlin Gayer was born on 11 September 1877 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Her Love Story (1924), The Mad Dancer (1925) and Sandy Burke of the U-Bar-U (1919). He was married to Margaret Dubois, Kathleen Clifford (first) and Madeline Elizabeth (third). He died on 15 February 1926 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Alice Bradley was born on 28 January 1877 in New York, New York, USA. She was a writer, known for The Governor's Lady (1915), The Governor's Lady (1923) and Irish?. She died on 13 May 1926 in New York, New York, USA.- Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, nicknamed "Iron Felix", was a Bolshevik revolutionary and official, born into Polish nobility. From 1917 until his death in 1926, Dzerzhinsky led the first two Soviet state-security organizations, the Cheka and the OGPU, establishing a secret police for the post-revolutionary Soviet regime. He was one of the architects of the Red Terror and disquisition.
- Montague Rutherford was born on 25 April 1877 in Paddington, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Hamlet (1913). He died on 28 January 1927 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
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Antonio F. Ocañas was born on 5 May 1877 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was a cinematographer, known for Las fiestas del centenario (1921). He was married to Josefina Medina Hernández. He died on 24 June 1927 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico.- Emmy Raabe-Burg was born on 2 June 1877 in Przemysl, Galicia, Austria-Hungary. She was an actress, known for The Missing Woman (1913). She was married to Eugen Burg. She died on 6 July 1927 in Berlin, Germany.
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Isadora Duncan was an American dancer and innovative educator known for interdisciplinary and cross-cultural projects, and a hectic marriage to the famous Russian poet Sergei Esenin.
She was born Isador 'Dora' Angela Duncan on May 26, 1877, in San Francisco, California. Her father, Joseph Duncan, was a cultured man, a poet and an art connoisseur, who worked for the Bank of California. Her mother, an amateur pianist, after divorcing her father, lived a high-principled Victorian lady's life with four children an very little money. Young Isadora was raised in Oakland, California. She was obsessed with dancing from an early age. Although she was not exposed to rigorous classical ballet practice, she achieved recognition in San-Francisco. There, she started teaching a dance class for children when she was just 14 years old.
She began her professional career in Chicago in 1896, under producer and playwright Augustin Daly. He cast Duncan as Titania in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', and she traveled with his company to Europe. Back in the USA, Duncan performed solo dances at the homes of wealthy patrons. She called her program The Dance and Philosophy and performed it to the waltzes of Johann Strauss. In 1899, she left America with her mother and siblings to settle in London. There she met Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the idol of the London stage, who introduced Duncan to London society.
From 1899-1907, Duncan lived in London, Paris and Berlin. She began using the music of Frédéric Chopin and Ludwig van Beethoven for her dance. In 1903 she moved to Berlin. There Duncan was introduced to the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. She formulated her own philosophy of The Dance of the Future modeled after the ancient Greeks: natural and free. Duncan called for abolition of ballet. She accused ballet of "deforming the beautiful woman's body" and depriving it of human naturalness. "The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not religious is not art, it is mere merchandise" - stated Duncan. Her school of dance in a suburb of Berlin was the start of her famous dance group, later known as the Isadorables.
Duncan made several tours of Russia and met with directors Konstantin Stanislavski and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko at the Moscow Art Theatre. In St. Petersburg, she also attracted the attention of Anna Pavlova and Tamara Karsavina among other leading ballerinas of the Mariinsky Ballet. Having established good connections with Russian intellectuals, she Returning to the US, her performances were poorly received by critics, who bashed Duncan for her "physical interpretation" of music on stage. She left America in 1909, after less than a year, and never lived there again, returning only for tours.
From 1909 to 1913, Duncan lived in Palais Biron in Paris, where her neighbors were artist Henri Matisse, writer Jean Cocteau, and sculptor Auguste Rodin. Eventually she established three schools in France, Germany, and Russia, and gained tremendous popularity across Europe. Her personal life was marked with as much freedom as was her dancing. Duncan had a child by designer Gordon Craig, and another child by Paris Singer, the heir to the sewing machine fortune. Her both children drowned in an accident on the Seine River in 1913. By that time, she was an acclaimed performer in Europe. She danced to the Ninth Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven. Her face was carved in the bas-relief by sculptor Antoine Bourdelle in the Theatre des Champs-Elysees, and was painted in the murals by artist Maurice Denis.
After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Duncan moved to Moscow. There she married the popular poet Sergei Esenin who was 17 years her younger. This was her one and only official marriage. She took Esenin on tour to the US in 1922-1923. At that time her appearances were marked by baring her breasts on stage and shouting, "This is red! So am I!" The following year, Esenin left Duncan and returned to Moscow, where he suffered a mental breakdown and sought psychiatric help. Meanwhile, her apprentice, Irma Duncan, remained in the Soviet Union and ran the Duncan Dancing School there. At that time, Duncan evolved as a follower of Friedrich Nietzsche and remained anti-religious for the rest of her life.
Duncan's ex-husband Esenin was found dead in a hotel in St. Petersburg, on December 28, 1925. His mysterious death was never completely explained. Isadora Duncan died on September 14, 1927, in Nice, France. She was killed by her long neck scarf caught in the wheel of an open automobile in which she was a passenger. She was pulled from the car and dragged before the driver could stop. Duncan was cremated and her ashes were laid in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France.
Her highly popular Russian school was closed in 1939, under the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin, and many of her Russian partners were repressed and exiled.
Isadora Duncan was portrayed by Vanessa Redgrave in the 1968 film Isadora (1968).- Art Director
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Charles O. Seessel was born on 27 August 1877 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. Charles O. was an art director and set decorator, known for Luck (1923), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) and The Seventh Day (1922). Charles O. died on 31 October 1927 in New York City, New York, USA.- Nils Aréhn was born on 30 December 1877 in Sundsvall, Västernorrlands län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for The Phantom Carriage (1921), Damen med kameliorna (1925) and Thomas Graals myndling (1923). He died on 1 April 1928 in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Erwin Kopp was born on 3 July 1877 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Wildcat (1921), Tischlein deck dich, Eselein streck dich, Knüppel aus dem Sack (1921) and Die Radio Heirat (1924). He died on 24 April 1928.
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Thomas A. Brierley was born on 22 March 1877 in London, Ontario, Canada. He was an art director, known for John Petticoats (1919), Square Deal Sanderson (1919) and Riddle Gawne (1918). He died on 23 July 1928 in Hollywood, California, USA.