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- George Elwell was born on 21 April 1893 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for The Raiders (1916). He died on 3 November 1916 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Frank O'Neil was born on 5 September 1893 in New York, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for A Florida Enchantment (1914), A Close Call (1914) and Our Wives (1913). He died on 8 December 1917 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Music Department
- Composer
Lili Boulanger was a French composer and the younger sister of the noted composer and composition teacher Nadia Boulanger.
A Parisian-born child prodigy, Boulanger's talent was apparent at the age of two, when Gabriel Fauré, a friend of the family and later one of Boulanger's teachers, discovered she had perfect pitch. Her parents, both of whom were musicians, encouraged their daughter's musical education. Her father was 77 years old when Lili was born and she became very attached to him. Her mother, Raissa Myshetskaya (Mischetzky), was a Russian princess who married her Paris Conservatoire teacher, Ernest Boulanger. Her grandfather Frédéric Boulanger had been a noted cellist and her grandmother Juliette a singer. Boulanger accompanied her ten-year-old sister Nadia to classes at the Paris Conservatoire before she was five, shortly thereafter sitting in on classes on music theoryand studying organ with Louis Vierne. She also sang and played piano, violin, cello and harp.
In 1912 Boulanger competed in the Prix de Rome but during her performance she collapsed from illness. She returned in 1913 at the age of 19 to win the composition prize for her Faust et Hélène, becoming the first woman composer to win the prize. Nadia had given up entering after four unsuccessful attempts and had focused her efforts upon her sister Lili, first a student of Nadia and then of Paul Vidal, Georges Caussade and Gabriel Fauré-the last of whom was greatly impressed by the young woman's talents and frequently brought songs for her to read. Lili was greatly affected by the 1900 death of her father; many of her works touch on themes of grief and loss. Her work was noted for its colorful harmony and instrumentation and skillful text setting. Aspects of Fauré and Claude Debussy can be seen in her compositions, and Arthur Honegger was influenced by her innovative work.- Ruth Darling was born on 12 February 1893 in California, USA. She was an actress, known for Manhattan Madness (1916), Fifty-Fifty (1916) and The Hidden Woman (1922). She was married to Chester M. Franklin. She died on 11 September 1918 in San Francisco, California, USA.
- Writer
- Soundtrack
British poet Wilfred Owen was born in 1893 in Oswestry, Shropshire, England. He attended London University, but moved to France in 1913 to escape the harsh English winters, which were bad for his health. He secured a job in Bordeaux as a tutor for a wealthy family and wrote a poetry book, "Minor Poems", which he never published.
When World War I broke out he returned to England and enlisted in the army, being assigned to a unit called the Artists Rifles. However, his poor health resulted in his being invalided out in 1917. He spent four months in a military hospital in Scotland, where he met Siegfried Sassoon. Sassoon took the young Owen under his wing, and after reading some of his poems encouraged Owen to continue with his writing. His health began to improve, so he began to study and lecture in Edinburgh, took part in concerts there and edited the hospital's in-house magazine. He eventually got a job as a major-domo in a hotel where many officers from his old unit were staying. When his health had recovered sufficiently he tried to find a post in England, but the army sent him back to France as a commander of front-line troops. He saw combat and was awarded the Military Cross for "gallantry under fire" in October of 1918. However, the next month while leading his men in an attack across the Sabre River in France, he was shot and killed.- Vera Kholodnaya was born on 5 August 1893 in Poltava, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]. She was an actress, known for Her Sister's Rival (1916), Stolichnyi iad (1917) and Deti veka (1915). She was married to Vladimir Kholodny. She died on 17 February 1919 in Odessa, Ukraine.
- Árpád Heltai was born on 6 June 1893 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was an actor, known for Az ösember (1918). He died on 11 May 1919.
- Suzanne Grandais was born on 14 June 1893 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Graziella, the Gypsy (1912), L'essor (1921) and Suzanne (1916). She died on 28 August 1920 in Vaudoy-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne, France.
- Actor
- Art Department
- Cinematographer
Today screen actor Robert (Bobby) Harron is one of Hollywood's forgotten souls, although he was a huge celebrity in his time and graced some of the silent screen's most enduring masterpieces. A talented, charismatic star in his heyday, Bobby had everything going for him but died far too young to make the longstanding impression he certainly deserved.
Bobby was born one of nine children in New York City to an impoverished Irish-American family. In order to put food on the table, Bobby started out quite young looking for work. At age 13 he found a job working for the American Biograph Studio on East 14th Street as a messenger boy and was given a couple of film bits for added measure. Within the next year director D.W. Griffith had joined the company and the sensitive, highly photogenic Bobby caught the legendary director's eye almost immediately.
Bobby subsequently had leading roles in many of Griffith's classic silents, usually playing characters that were much younger and much more naive than in real life. He appeared opposite other legendary female stars who also played "young-ish" roles, notably Mae Marsh and Lillian Gish. Bobby made indelible impressions in The Birth of a Nation (1915), Intolerance (1916), An Old Fashioned Young Man (1917), Hearts of the World (1918), A Romance of Happy Valley (1919) and True Heart Susie (1919).
Bobby had become such a sensation that in 1920 he entertained thoughts about leaving the Griffith fold and forming his own company. A fatal, self-inflicted bullet wound to the left lung in September of 1920 ended those dreams before they ever got off the ground. Although it was listed as an "accidental" death, Hollywood rumor has it that a despondent Bobby killed himself in a New York hotel room on the eve of the premiere of Griffith's new film Way Down East (1920). It seems Bobby was devastated after being passed over by Griffith for the lead role in favor of the director's new protégé, Richard Barthelmess. Whatever the truth may be, Bobby's death remains a tragic mystery. Ironically, Bobby had two lesser known sibling actors who also died quite young. Tessie Harron (1896-1918) died at age 22 of Spanish influenza, and John Harron (1904-1939), nicknamed Johnnie, collapsed and died of spinal meningitis at age 35. Both appeared unbilled in Hearts of the World (1918) with Bobby.- Alexander of Greece was born on 1 August 1893 in Tatoi Palace, Athens, Greece. He died on 25 October 1920 in Athens, Greece.
- Stanislaw Ratowski was born on 13 November 1893. He was an actor, known for Wróg tanga (1914) and Skandal w eleganckim swiecie (1915). He died on 8 March 1921 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Manuel Varé 'Varelito' was born on 29 September 1893 in Sevilla, Andalucía, Spain. He died on 13 May 1921 in Sevilla, Andalucía, Spain.
- Sid Hatfield grew up in poverty in Blackberry, Kentucky, one of Jacob and Rebecca Hatfield's 9 surviving (of 12) children. A miner in his teens, he then became a blacksmith. He was nicknamed 'Smilin' Sid' because of his distinctive grin, showing gold-capped teeth. Despite his boyish appearance - he was small and slight, but wiry - he had a tough reputation. However, in 1919, when the mining community of Matewan came under threat from the Baldwin-Felts Agency, the mayor, Cabell Cornelis Testerman, appointed him police chief.
Hatfield was an effective lawman, keeping order in the mining town and standing up to the coal companies and the Baldwin-Felts agents as the miners fought for their right to organise. The Baldwin-Felts Agency offered him substantial bribes if he would permit them to station machine-guns in the town. He refused. On 19 May 1920, he and Testerman resisted the Baldwin-Felts agents' forcible evictions of unionised miners. In the gun battle, known as the battle of Matewan or the Matewan Massacre, 7 of the 13 Baldwin-Felts men were killed, included Albert and Lee Felts, brothers of the agency's head. Two miners were killed, and Mayor Testerman was mortally wounded, apparently by Albert Felts. Several more men, on both sides, were wounded.
Sid Hatfield married Testerman's widow, Jessie, only a couple of weeks after her first husband's death. Tom Felts (and, later, the agency spy Charles Everett Lively) claimed that this proved that he, not Albert Felts, had shot her husband in order to marry her. However, they had been friends for a long time: according to Jessie, the Mayor had asked Sid to look after her and their young son if anything were to befall him, given the dangers they knew they faced. The trial over the Matewan gunfight took place in spring 1921, with the acquittal of Hatfield and the miners.
Hatfield was filmed, playing himself, in 'Smilin' Sid' (1920), a short film re-enactment of the battle made by and for the United Mine Workers of America, and became a local celebrity: the miners' hero. But he knew himself to be a marked man. As the struggle continued, the new local authorities in Matewan were less supportive of the union. Martial law was declared in the summer of 1921. Hatfield lost his post as Chief of Police in Matewan, but was elected Constable for Magnolia District.
He was unarmed and accompanied by Jessie when he arrived in Welch on 1 August 1921 for trial for his alleged involvement in other mining-related disturbances. His friend and deputy Edward Chambers, and his wife, Sallie, were with them, too, as Ed was also charged. As they began to climb the steps to the courthouse, the two young men were gunned down by Baldwin-Felts agents, including Charlie Lively. Sid Hatfield died almost instantly from three or four chest wounds; Lively finished off Chambers with a shot in the head, despite his wife's protestations. Although the killers were charged, none was ever convicted of the murders.
For the second time in 14 months, Jessie was a widow. Sid Hatfield and Ed Chambers were buried as heroes. Outrage at their murder fuelled the miners' uprising, culminating in the battle of Blair Mountain. - Florence Deshon born to Samuel and Florence C. Danks of Austrian and English descent. She began as a stage actress and appeared opposite Mary Boland in 'My Lady's Dress and in the comedy 'Seven Chances' prior to making her screen debut in 1915's 'The Beloved Vagabond' directed by Edward Jose for Pathe, Florence starred in 24 silent melodrama and crime movies but perhaps her best known was 'The Desired Woman' directed by Paul Scardon and co-starring Harry T. Morey for the Vitagraph Film Company in 1918 and her final film as Sally McTurk in John Francis Dillon's 'The Roof Tree' with William Russell for the Fox Film Co in 1921. She moved to Greenwich Village, New York in hope to resume her film career but on the 4th February she was found unconscious on the third floor of her apartment building, a window was open in her bedroom but illuminating gas flowed from a opened jet, a newspaperwoman, Minnie Morris, found Deshon, an Ambulance took her to Hospital, but attempts to revive her were unsuccessful, she died the following afternoon, adding that the only mystery was why 'with the apartment especially wired for electricity, Miss Deshon should have used the single gas jet in the room and forgotten to turn it off, some say she had no reason to kill herself and that her death was accidental, the New York Medical Examiner concluded her death was accidental but rumors persisted that she might have committed suicide because of grief.
- Cinematographer
Charles Richardson was born on 1 January 1893. He was a cinematographer, known for Thundering Dawn (1923), The Spider and the Rose (1923) and Cordelia the Magnificent (1923). He died on 20 December 1923 in Palm Springs, California, USA.- Alma Belwin was born on 19 August 1893 in San Francisco, California, USA. She was an actress, known for The Ivory Snuff Box (1915). She died on 8 May 1924 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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- Director
- Writer
Tom Forman was born on 22 February 1893 in Mitchell County, Texas, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Broken Wing (1923), The Fighting American (1924) and To Have and to Hold (1916). He was married to Mary Mersch. He died on 7 November 1926 in Venice, California, USA.- George Eshenfelder was born on 2 November 1893 in New London, Connecticut, USA. George was a writer, known for Fantomas (1920). George died on 24 May 1927 in Queens, New York City, New York, USA.
- Zella Caull was born on 8 February 1893 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for The Doctor and the Woman (1918) and A Corner in Cotton (1916). She died on 28 October 1927 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- Claude France was born on 9 March 1893 in Emden, Germany. She was an actress, known for Le père Goriot (1921), Le bossu (1925) and Le berceau de dieu (1926). She died on 3 January 1928 in Paris, France.
- The Honorable Elsie Mackay was born August 21, 1893 in Simla-Calcutta, West Bengal, India, to James Lyle Mackay, 1st Earl of Inchcape of Strathnaver, a British colonial administrator in India who became chairman of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company and Jean Paterson Shanks. Her brother, Kenneth Mackay was the 2nd Lord Inchcape. Her sister Effie Mackay, married Sir Eugen Millington-Drake, who was the British Minister to Uraguay during the 1939 Battle of the River Plate (view the 1956 film). Elsie was reportedly disinherited by her family after eloping with actor Dennis Wyndham to be married on 23 May 1917. She appeared as silent film actress Poppy Wyndham from 1919 through 1920. In a historical photo from Grand Central Palace Bldg in New York, it states that as Poppy Wyndham she was the first woman jockey in England, and in her short career on the turf she piloted no less than a dozen winners under the barriers. In the few events from which her sex did not bar her, her colors - yellow and blue - were always present, and always were heavily backed. After the marriage to Wyndham was annulled in 1922 she returned to her family and developed a career as an interior decorator, creating lavish interiors, state rooms and public spaces for her father's shipping line, the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O). In 1923 she launched the RMS Maloja, and went on to design much of the interiors for the four P&O "R" class ships of 1925: SS Rawalpindi, SS Ranchi, SS Ranpura and SS Rajputana, plus the RMS Viceroy of India in 1927. In early March 1928 the Daily Express discovered that Captain Hinchliffe and Mackay were preparing for a transatlantic attempt by carrying out test flights at RAF Cranwell and were staying at the George Hotel in Leadenham near Grantham. The story was silenced by Mackay's threatened legal action as she intended to depart in secret while her father was in Egypt, having promised her family she would not make the attempt. At 8:35 am on 13 March 1928 Endeavour took off from RAF Cranwell, Lincolnshire, with minimal fuss as Hinchliffe had told only two friends he was going and Elsie registered under the pseudonym of 'Gordon Sinclair'. Approximately five hours later, at 1.30 pm the chief lighthouse keeper at Mizen Head on the south west coast of Cork, Ireland saw the monoplane over the village of Crookhaven. A French steamer later reported seeing them still on course, but nothing else is known. A crowd of 5,000 is reputed to have waited for them at Mitchel Field, Long Island. In December 1928, eight months later, a single piece of identifiable undercarriage (a wheel with a serial number on it) washed ashore in north west Ireland. Her body was never recovered and there is a memorial stained glass window, as well as an inscription underneath the bell at Glenapp Church on the family estate marking her death as 13th March 1928.
- Frankie Yale was born on 22 January 1893 in Longobardi, Cosenza, Italy. He died on 1 July 1928 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA.
- Actor
- Director
Sidney Smith was born on 28 February 1893 in Faribault, Minnesota, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Ne'er Do Well (1915), The Ne'er-Do-Well (1923) and A Safe Risk (1916). He was married to Ruth Beckman. He died on 4 July 1928 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Fred Comer was born on 19 February 1893 in Topeka, Kansas, USA. He died on 12 October 1928 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA.
- Norman Batten was born on 30 April 1893 in East Orange, New Jersey, USA. He died on 12 November 1928 in Atlantic Ocean.
- Al Weinshank was born on 23 December 1893 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He died on 14 February 1929 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- Gastone Brilli-Peri was born on 24 March 1893 in Montevarchi, Tuscany, Italy. He died on 22 March 1930 in Tripoli, Libya.
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- Actor
- Director
Vladimir Mayakovsky was the leading Russian Futurist poet of the 20th century who created an entirely new form of Russian poetry loosely resembling such modern day rappers as Eminem and Snoop Dogg.
He was born Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky on July 19, 1893, in the town of Bagdadi, Kutaisi province in the Transcaucasian kingdom of Georgia, then part of Russian Empire (now Georgia). He was the last of three children in a Russian-Ukrainian family. His father, Vladimir Mayakovsky, was a Russian Cossack who worked for Imperial Ministry as a forest ranger. His mother, Alexandra Alekseevna, was Ukrainian. Young Mayakovsky grew up in a bilingual environment, his mother spoke Georgian while he learned Russian, and spent his childhood and boyhood attending a grammar school in Kutaisi, Georgia. In 1906, when Mayakovsky was 13, his father died of blood poisoning caused by a finger cut. Young Mayakovsky moved to Moscow with his mother and two sisters.
During his formative years Mayakovsky absorbed multi-cultural influences from Transcaucasia and Russia. From 1906 - 1908 he studied at Moscow Gymnasium, then dropped out and was involved in revolutionary movement with then underground Communist Party of Russia. Because of his association with communists, he was arrested three times, violated the prison rules, and spent over six months in Butyrskaya prison in Moscow. There he wrote his first poems while in a solitary cell in 1909. After his prison term, Mayakovsky refused to join the Communist Party, and for that Vladimir Lenin warranted his communist comrades that they should not trust Mayakovsky and should watch his activities and publications. During the 1910s Mayakovsky emerged as independent thinker and writer. He studied at Stroganov School of Art, then at Moscow Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. There he met Futurist artist David Burlyuk, and the two collaborated on several art shows and books.
In 1912, Mayakovsky moved to St. Petersburg, the capital famous for its wealth, cultural diversity, and cosmopolitan lifestyle. There he met Maxim Gorky who was instrumental with his initial steps and introductions. Mayakovsky wrote and directed his first play, a tragedy titled 'Vladimir Mayakovsky', that premiered at a St. Petersburg theatre in 1913. At that time, on a dacha in the Levashovo suburb of St. Petersburg, Mayakovsky met Lilya Brik, the woman who changed his life forever. She became his Muse, lover, and most trusted companion, while her husband, Osip Brik eventually became the publisher of Mayakovsky's most important works. In St. Petersburg Mayakovsky published his passionate poems: 'Cloud in the Trousers' (1915) and 'The Backbone Flute' (1916) alluding to his sexuality and the emerging menage à trois relationship with the Briks.
In the popular literary club "Brodyachaya Sobaka" (aka.. Wandering Dog) Mayakovsky met the aspiring poet Anna Akhmatova, her husband Nikolai Gumilev, and other important figures of the flourishing St. Petersburg cultural scene. Korney Ivanovich Chukovskiy, one of the leading writers in St. Petersburg, proclaimed Mayakovsky a genius, and promoted his poetry. However, during the 1914 - 1918, the disastrous First World War, two Russian revolutions, and the following Russian Civil War brought immense destruction, poverty, and instability. Mayakovsky was drafted and served in Petrograd Military Automobile School from 1915 to August 1917. After the Revolution of 1917, he remained in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) and was editor of Futurist paper as well as art magazines "Iskusstvo" and other projects.
In 1918 Mayakovsky made his film debut appearing in three silent films made at Neptun studio in St. Petersburg. He appeared as actor co-starring opposite Lilya Brik in Zakovannaya filmoi (1918), which he also wrote, and in Nye dlya deneg radivshisya (1918); both films were directed by Nikandr Turkin. Mayakovsky also co-starred in The Young Lady and the Hooligan (1918), which he also co-directed. At that time his stage-play 'Mystery-Bouffe' (1918) premiered at a St. Petersburg's theatre.
In mid-1919 he moved from St. Petersburg back to Moscow and shared a small room in a communal flat with his friend and lover Lilya Brik. For a while he worked as designer and poet for propaganda publications at ROSTA, the Russian Telegraph Agency. His circle in Moscow included such cultural figures as Osip Brik and Lilya Brik, as well as their friends: artists and filmmakers such as Sergei Eisenstein, and Alexander Rodchenko, writers Boris Pasternak and Viktor Shklovskiy among others. Mayakovsky and Brik published the avant-garde and leftist magazine 'LEF' together with Lev Kuleshov, Dziga Vertov and Sergei Yutkevich, where they opposed the mainstream official Soviet culture. Mayakovsky went to extremes, he called to trash all history and traditional culture, such as the 19th century writers Alexander Pushkin and Lev Tolstoy, as well as classical art. He also opposed the dull official "proletariat" propaganda and conformist Soviet mass-culture. His satirical plays 'Klop' (aka.. Bedbug) and 'Banya' (aka.. Bath) were staged by director Vsevolod Meyerhold, but soon were banned. Mayakovsky actively contributed to the emerging Russian-Soviet film industry as a writer, actor, and film director. He also co-wrote scenario for Lilya Brik's film Yevrei na zemle (1927).
During the 1920s, Mayakovsky traveled extensively in Europe and America, and amassed a significant cosmopolitan experience. In Paris he visited the studios of Pablo Picasso and Fernand Léger. In America Mayakovsky fathered a daughter, Patricia Tompson, form his relationship with Russian-American émigré Elli Jones (Elisaveta Petrovna). In Europe he had a relationship with another Russian emigrant actress. At that time he learned that most Russian writers and poets, such as Anastasiya Tsvetaeva, can not make money in the West. Back in Russia, he was so successful that he bought himself a new Renault car and hired a private chauffeur, comrade Gamazin, who was also a secret informant for Soviet Security agency.
By the late-1920s Mayakovsky emerged as a popular and influential figure in Soviet culture and politics; he was a poet, an artist, an actor, a writer, director and public speaker. His highly electrifying public performances often irritated the Soviet officials. Mayakovsky applied his untamed genius in almost every aspect of cultural and political life, and eventually became a much higher and bigger figure than the Soviet officialdom could tolerate. His non-conformist and non-Marxist position became a problem. For that reason he was under constant surveillance by the Soviet authorities.
Intellectuals regarded Mayakovsky for breaking all rules and traditions in literature, art and public life, and for exploding with his bold and highly original style of poetry. He was known for his passionate and intense public performances. He was also known for his hectic relationships with women. His personal life remained unstable for many years, as he was torn between several women in his life. On April 14, 1930, Mayakovsky was found dead, and his death was accompanied by a letter with a rather sarcastic message. The Soviet officials announced that Mayakovsky shot himself directly in his heart, because of his breakup with actress Veronika Polonskaya. Ten days after Mayakovsky's death the criminal investigator of the Mayakovsky's case was also shot dead.
Mayakovsky was buried in Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow. Lilya Brik and her husband Osip Brik inherited the writer's archive. In 1935, five years after the death of Mayakovsky, Lily Brik wrote a letter to Joseph Stalin expressing her idea to publish the collected works of Mayakovsky. Stalin approved the Brik's idea, and ordered that Soviet publishers print collections of "revolutionary" poetry by Mayakovsky. Upon Stalin's instruction, Mayakovsky's "revolutionary" poetry was included in the Soviet school curriculum and reissued in massive printings.
Vladimir Mayakovsky was depicted in the film Mayakovsky itskeboda ase... (1958) by director Konstantine Pipinashvili, based on the autobiographical book "Ya -sam" (aka.. I-myself).- Maria Orska was born on 16 March 1893 in Nikolayev, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Mykolaiv, Ukraine]. She was an actress, known for Dämon und Mensch (1915), Die letzte Stunde (1921) and Die Bestie im Menschen (1921). She died on 16 May 1930 in Vienna, Austria.
- Samuel S. Grossman was born on 23 June 1893 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA. Samuel S. was married to Ethel Hurwitz and Ethel Hurwitch. Samuel S. died on 5 August 1930 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- Janet Crothers was born on 16 August 1893 in Utah, USA. She was a writer, known for The Thrill Hunter (1926) and The Fate of a Flirt (1925). She was married to Charles A. Kaichen. She died on 2 September 1930 in California, USA.
- Clarke Silvernail was born on 31 January 1893 in Huron, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a writer, known for Hell Harbor (1930), Behind That Curtain (1929) and The Eyes of the World (1930). He died on 22 September 1930 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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- Art Director
- Writer
Manfred Noa was born on 22 March 1893 in Berlin, Germany. He was a director and art director, known for Helen of Troy (1924), Berlin W. (1920) and Der heilige Hass, 1. Teil (1921). He died on 5 December 1930 in Berlin, Germany.- Jean Börlin was born on 13 March 1893 in Stockholm, Sweden. He was an actor, known for Le voyage imaginaire (1926) and Entr'acte (1924). He died on 6 December 1930 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Director
- Additional Crew
- Production Manager
One of the moving forces of early American silent comedy, F. Richard Jones made dozens of hilarious two-reel comedies for Mack Sennett in the mid-teens and early 1920s, featuring such stars as Louise Fazenda, Slim Summerville, Edgar Kennedy and Ben Turpin. He then graduated to feature films, first with Sennett and then with other producers and studios. Not just a comedy director, Jones proved he could adeptly handle romance stories and adventure epics with equal ease. His last film, the action/mystery picture Bulldog Drummond (1929), was also his only sound film, but it stands as a superior example of the genre.- Otto Matieson was born on 27 March 1893 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was an actor, known for The Maltese Falcon (1931), Behind Closed Doors (1929) and Scaramouche (1923). He was married to Isabel La Mal. He died on 19 February 1932 in Safford, Arizona, USA.
- Art Director
- Director
- Production Designer
Leopold Blonder was born on 1 July 1893 in Vienna, Austria. He was an art director and director, known for The Rebel (1933), Storm Over Mont Blanc (1930) and Der Berg des Schicksals (1924). He died on 20 September 1932 in Innsbruck, Austria.- Frank Ware was born on 11 October 1893 in Somerville, Massachusetts, USA. He was an editor, known for 42nd Street (1933), Burning Daylight (1928) and The Hawk's Nest (1928). He was married to Jeanne Spencer. He died on 30 November 1932 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Music Department
- Composer
George Lipschultz was born on 12 December 1893 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a composer, known for Women Everywhere (1930), Hot Pepper (1933) and On the Level (1930). He was married to Joan Marie Schirmer. He died on 24 December 1932 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Walter Hiers was born on 18 July 1893 in Cordele, Georgia, USA. He was an actor, known for Seventeen (1916), The Conquest of Canaan (1916) and The Ghost Breaker (1922). He was married to Adah Lavinia McWilliams. He died on 27 February 1933 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Patrick Kearney was born on 9 October 1893 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. He was a writer, known for A Place in the Sun (1951), Fast Company (1929) and Darkened Rooms (1929). He was married to Elizabeth Russell (artist's model), Irene O'Brien (actress) and Anita Day Porterfield (actress). He died on 28 March 1933 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Boyce Combe was born on 25 August 1893 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He was an actor, known for Runaway Romany (1917), Reno (1923) and Daddies (1924). He died on 11 March 1934 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- Agnes Brand Leahy was born on 18 August 1893 in Portland, Oregon, USA. She was a writer, known for The Spoilers (1930), The Social Lion (1930) and Only the Brave (1930). She was married to Frederic Leahy. She died on 31 March 1934 in San Francisco, California, USA.
- Edgar Connor grew up dancing for pennies on the streets of Jacksonville, Florida, when, in 1906, J. Rosamond Johnson and Bob Cole, two black vaudevillians, recruited him to sing and dance in two of their vaudeville productions, "The Shoo-Fly Regiment" and "The Red Moon." From there, he became a fixture in vaudeville both in the States, and abroad, appearing in dance revues on cruise ships as well as in nightclubs and theaters in France, particularly Cannes. He also headed the road show "Shuffle Along No. 2" for a number of years before going into movies.
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Ferenc Vecsey was born on 23 March 1893 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. He was a composer, known for La chanson du souvenir (1937) and Das Hofkonzert (1936). He died on 6 April 1935 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Writer
Millard Webb was born on 6 December 1893 in Clay City, Kentucky, USA. He was a director and assistant director, known for Glorifying the American Girl (1929), My Wife and I (1925) and The Love Thrill (1927). He was married to Mary Eaton and Lydia Stocking. He died on 21 April 1935 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Angel Domingo Riverol (10/01/1893 - 06/26/1935) was an Argentine guitarist. His preferred instrument was the 9-string Spanish guitarra. He accompanied many famous artists of his time, including Juan Canaro, Ignacio Corsini, Ángel Greco, Ignacio Riverol, José María Aguilar, and Carlos Marcucci. In 1935, while on tour with Carlos Gardel, Alfredo Le Pera, and Guillermo Desiderio Barbieri, he and his band-mates boarded a plane. Soon after takeoff, it collided with another plane and exploded. Riverol was the only survivor, but died two days later as a result of his injuries.- Gilbert Wells was born on 13 June 1893 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Harry Lauder Singing Same as His Father Was Before Him (1914), At Your Service (1921) and Stars and Stripes (1921). He died on 12 July 1935 in the USA.
- Soundtrack
Huey Long was born on 30 August 1893 in Winnfield, Louisiana, USA. He was married to Rose McConnell. He died on 10 September 1935 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.- Ferdinand Hart was born on 28 October 1893 in Pisek, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Das Glück von Grinzing (1933), 1914, die letzten Tage vor dem Weltbrand (1931) and The Dreyfus Case (1930). He was married to Krieckler, Edith. He died on 12 January 1937 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].