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- Jean Stuart was born Margaret Elizabeth Leisenring on July 13, 1906 in Placerville, Californa. Her father, Dr. Luther Leisenring, was a prominent surgeon. She attended the University of California at Berkeley where she became a popular student. She was a member of the French club and the Little Theater company. During the Spring of 1926 The Campus Flirt starring Bebe Daniels was filmed at the college. Jean was chosen to be an extra in several scenes. Soon after she was offered a contract at Universal studios. Although her parents urged her to stay in school she decided to drop out and accept the offer. The beautiful brunette was described by producers as "the perfect college student type". She was cast in the film comedy series The Collegians directed by Wesley Ruggles. On November 23, 1926 she went horse riding with some friends when her horse's leg slipped on some wet pavement and she fell off. Tragically she died later that day from a cerebral hemorrhage. Jean was only twenty years old. She was buried at Greenwood Memorial Park in San Diego, California.
- Howard Enstedt was born on 7 May 1906 in Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Perils of the Wild (1925), The Radio Detective (1926) and Bare Fists (1919). He died on 13 December 1928.
- Bill Spence was born on 9 June 1906 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He died on 30 May 1929 in Speedway, Indiana, USA.
- Erwin Splettstößer was born on 4 October 1906 in Wysoki Stoczek, Bialystok, Poland. He was an actor, known for Abschied (1930) and People on Sunday (1930). He died on 2 February 1932 in Berlin, Germany.
- Earl McCarthy was born on 1 January 1906 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for The Villain (1927), Moonshine and Noses (1927) and Fearless Harry (1926). He died on 21 May 1933 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Ernie Triplett was born on 25 September 1906 in Paris, Illinois, USA. He died on 5 March 1934 in El Centro, California, USA.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Thelma Todd was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, an industrial city near the New Hampshire state line. She was a lovely child with good academic tendencies, so much so that she decided early on to become a schoolteacher. After high school she went on to college but at her mother's insistence entered several beauty contests (apparently her mother wanted her to be more than just a "schoolmarm"). Thelma was so successful in these endeavors that she entered on the state level and won the title of "Miss Massachusetts" in 1925 and went on to the "Miss America" pageant; though she didn't win, the pageant let her be seen by talent scouts looking for fresh new faces to showcase in films. She began to appear in one- and two-reel shorts, mostly comedy, which showcased her keen comic timing and aptitude for physical comedy--unusual in such a beautiful woman.
She had been making shorts for Hal Roach when she was signed to Paramount Pictures. Her first role--at age 21--was as Lorraine Lane in 1927's Fascinating Youth (1926), a romantic comedy that was Paramount's showcase vehicle for its new stars. Thelma received minor billing in another film that year, God Gave Me Twenty Cents (1926). The next year she starred with Gary Cooper and William Powell in the western Nevada (1927). That year also saw her in three more films, with The Gay Defender (1927) being the most notable. It starred Richard Dix as a man falsely accused of murder.
As the 1920s closed, Thelma began to get parts in more and more films. In 1928 and 1929 alone she was featured in 20 pictures, and not just comedies--she also did dramas and gothic horror films. Unlike many silent-era stars whose voices didn't fit their image or screen persona, Thelma's did. She had a bright, breezy, clear voice with a pleasant trace of a somewhat-aristocratic but unsnobbish New England accent and easily made the transition to sound films. In 1930 she added 14 more pictures to her resume, with Dollar Dizzy (1930) and Follow Thru (1930) being the most notable. The latter was a musical with Thelma playing a rival to Nancy Carroll for the affections of Buddy Rogers. It was a box-office hit, as was the stage production on which it was based. The following year Thelma appeared in 14 more films, among them Let's Do Things (1931), Speak Easily (1932), The Old Bull (1932), and On the Loose (1931). Her most successful film that year, however, was the Marx Brothers farce Monkey Business (1931). While critics gave the film mixed reviews, the public loved it. In 1932 Thelma appeared in another Marx Brothers film directed by Norman Z. McLeod, Horse Feathers (1932). She also starred in This Is the Night (1932), a profitable film which featured Cary Grant in his first major role. In 1934 Thelma made 16 features, but her career would soon soon come to a grinding halt. In 1935 she appeared in such films as Twin Triplets (1935) and The Misses Stooge (1935), showcasing her considerable comic talents. She also proved to be a savvy businesswoman with the opening of "Thelma Todd's Sidewalk Café", a nightclub/restaurant that catered to show-business people. Unfortunately, it also attracted some shady underworld types as well, and there were rumors that they were trying to take over her club and use it as a gambling establishment to fleece the wealthy Hollywood crowd. According to these tales, Thelma and her boyfriend, director Roland West, wouldn't sell their establishment once they found out what the gangsters had in mind, which incurred the enmity of the wrong people with whom to have differences of opinion. Whether or not the stories were true, on December 16, 1935, 29-year-old Thelma was found dead in her car in her garage in Los Angeles. Her death was ruled suicide-by-carbon-monoxide-poisoning. At the time, as today, many felt that her death was actually a murder connected to the goings-on at her club, a theory that was lent credence by the fact that no one who knew her had ever seen her depressed or morose enough to worry about her committing suicide. Another factor that aroused suspicion was that her death was given a cursory investigation by the--at the time--notoriously corrupt Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office and the case was quickly and unceremoniously closed. Her death has remained controversial to this day.
Three films she made before her death weren't released until the following year: Hot Money (1936), An All American Toothache (1936), and The Bohemian Girl (1936). The latter saw her quite substantial role cut down so much that she was barely glimpsed in the picture. Thelma had made an amazing 115 films in such a short career, and her beauty and talent would no doubt have taken her right to the top if not for her untimely demise.- Songwriter ("Heart of Stone"), composer, conductor, pianist, arranger and author. After college, he led his own orchestra, and also conducted orchestras in silent-film theatres. Later he played piano in jazz bands, also on recordings. He also arranged for the orchesras of Benny Goodman, Cab Calloway, and Duke Ellington. Joining ASCAP in 1934, his chief musical collaborators included Fats Waller, 'Irving Mills", 'Clarence Williams', and others. His other popular-song compositions include "I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby", "Dixie Lee", "Delta Bound", "Armful o' Sweetness", "Let's Have a Jubilee", "Shout, Sister, Shout", "Long About Midnight", "Draggin' My Poor Heart Around", "Our Love Was Meant to Be", "When Hannah Plays Piano", "A Song", "Devil in the Moon", and "He Wouldn't Stop Doin' It".
- Leila Page was born on 23 July 1906 in Hull, Humberside, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Tilly of Bloomsbury (1931), The King's Cup (1933) and Black Coffee (1931). She died on 20 February 1936 in Marylebone, London, England, UK.
- Robert E. Howard created Conan the Barbarian in a series of short stories and novels in the 1930's. Born in Peaster, Texas, he was raised in Cross Plains. His fiction was carried in pulp magazines of the time such as Weird Tales, and H.P. Lovecraft was a friend and admirer of his. He committed suicide after holding vigil by his mother's deathbed in 1936.
- Helmuth Kionka was a German actor, writer and political activist, executed by the Nazi Regime in 1936. Born on November 10, 1906, in Breslau, Schlesien, he initially worked as a writer and journalist, before training as an actor in Berlin in the mid-1920s. His stage career began in 1926, and took off when he played the lead role in 'The Legacy of Quirlitz' and he went on to work at the Staatstheater, das Deutsche Künstlertheater, das Theater am Kurfürstendamm and die Saltenburg-Bühnen. He worked with such top directors as Max Reinhardt and Gustaf Grundgens. He also began to work in films in 1932/33 but, with the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933, Kionka's acting career was effectively ended. He made only three films. He became involved in the Resistance and worked as a courier between Germany and foreign-based opposition groups. In April 1934 he went to Vienna, and then Zurich, finally settling in Paris, where he continued to work with anti-fascist groups. In the spring of 1936 he was lured back to Berlin with a fake offer of a role at the newly founded Dietrich-Eckart Buehne. Upon his arrival in Germany he was immediately arrested and accused of treason. He was sentenced to death in May 1936. About seven weeks before his 30th Birthday, on September 28 1936, Kionka was executed in Berlin.
- 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." - Antonio Corrado was born on 21 August 1906. He was an actor, known for Sombras porteñas (1936) and Canillita (1936). He died on 22 February 1937.
- Actress
- Stunts
- Additional Crew
Marcella Arnold was born on 26 September 1906 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Trial Marriage (1928), Unguarded Girls (1929) and A Midsummer Night's Steam (1927). She died on 3 March 1937 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Earl 'Snake Hips' Tucker was born on 14 August 1906 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was an actor, known for Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life (1935), Crazy House (1930) and The March of Time (1930). He died on 14 May 1937 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Highly popular German star Renate Muller was the toast of late 20s Berlin along with the legendary Marlene Dietrich. Unlike Dietrich, however, she suffered at the hands of the Nazis and died under mysterious circumstances.
Renate was born in Munich on April 26, 1906, the daughter of a newspaper editor-in-chief and a painter. As a child she lived a privileged, well-to-do life in pre-Nazi Germany. An early interest in acting and poetry led her to the Harzer Bergtheater under the tutelage of Georg Wilhelm Pabst, one of her professors at school. By the late 20s she had established herself as one of Berlin's most active and versatile stage players.
Actor/director Reinhold Schünzel hired Renate for her first movie and used her again many times in some of her (and his) best films. As her American counterparts at the time were Claudette Colbert and Nancy Carroll, Renate too became a shining star of light, sexy comedies. Pert, stylish and wholesomely pretty, she had just enough of an edge to make her impish sexuality all the more interesting.
The highlights of her rather brief career were The Office Girl (1931) (1931), which made her a star, and Victor and Victoria (1933) (1933), the widely popular romantic story of a woman who disguises herself as a man. In the mid-30s, however, the entertainment industry was becoming acutely affected by the rise of Hitler. While the outraged Dietrich turned her back on her country and became a U.S. citizen, Renate stayed true and remained in her homeland despite her intense dislike of the bleak political situation. She became less cooperative, however, over the years, especially when they began putting her in propaganda films, such as Togger (1937).
Renate died tragically at age 31 on October 1, 1937, having checked into a Berlin hospital for knee surgery (some sources say drug addiction). She apparently fell or was pushed out of a third-story window and died instantly. Some sources say it was suicide due to her desperate unhappiness over the rise of Nazi Germany and her artistic entrapment. Others insist it was a murder covered up by the fascist regime. Those who favor this story claim that her death was the result of her lack of cooperation, her clandestine involvement with a Jewish man, and the regime's fear that she was going to turn traitor and leave Germany. In any event, her death was deeply felt and she was mourned by her many fans who weren't even allowed to attend her funeral.- Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse Georg Donatus was born on 8 November 1906 in Darmstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse, German Empire [now Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany]. He was married to Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark. He died on 16 November 1937 in Ostend, Flanders, Belgium.
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Writer
Vladimir Nilsen was born on 3 March 1906 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a cinematographer and writer, known for Volga - Volga (1938), The Circus (1936) and Moscow Laughs (1934). He died on 20 January 1938 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Actress
- Soundtrack
Lyda's father was German clown Roberti, her mother a Polish trick rider. As a child performer, she toured Europe and Asia with the Circus in which she was born, leaving it (and her reportedly abusive father) in Shanghai, China. In this truly international city, Lyda became a child cafe entertainer and learned the fractured English that became her trademark. Around 1927, she emigrated to California, finding work in vaudeville, where she was "discovered" in 1930 by Broadway producer Lou Holtz and became an overnight star in his 1931 show 'You Said It'. Lyda's unforgettable stage and screen character was a sexy blonde whose charming accent and uninhibited man-chasing were played for hilarious laughs. From 1932-35 she made 8 comedy and musical films mainly at Paramount, with Fields, Cantor, and other great comedians; her unique singing style was also popular on the radio and records. Her health declining from premature heart disease, she briefly replaced the late Thelma Todd in Hal Roach comedy shorts with Patsy Kelly and appeared in 3 features for MGM and Columbia, then retired from film work a few months before her fatal heart attack at age 31.- Thelma Hill was born Thelma Floy Hillerman in Emporia, Kansas. Her family moved to Los Angeles, California during her early teen years. Living just blocks from the Mack Sennett studio, Thelma became one of the star struck, wide eyed girls who hung out near the studio peering through the gates. It took her five years, but eventually, using her womanly wiles, she weaseled her way through the gates and quickly caught the eye of Sennett himself and F. Richard "Dick" Jones, a producer and director who would work with Thelma in over a dozen films.
Thelma did bit parts and extra work throughout her school years, working weekends and during vacations. Because of her youth, beauty, and spunk, she quickly became "everybody's protégé."
When Mack Sennett revived his famous "Bathing Girls," Thelma the first to don the suit, as most of her parts up till then had been in bathing suits. In her first movie, "Picking Peaches," she had dived off a pier.
Because of her "mah jongg" bathing suit, she became quickly known as the "Mah Jongg Bathing Girl," although she'd already carried around a nickname since her first days on the set: "Pee-Wee," the little black-eyed youngster who grew up on the old lot.
As she matured she was hired to double for Mabel Normand, who, because of a roaring cocaine habit often showed up late for work or not at all. It was about this time that Thelma became a flapper; a style of women who were known for their androgynous bodies, flimsy and revealing clothing, and the traditional male behaviors smoking, heavy drinking, and casual sex. It was the drinking that eventually led to Thelma's downfall. Near the end of her first year in film, 1924, her big break came when she got the lead opposite Ralph Graves in the two reel comedy "Love's Sweet Piffle" directed by Edgar Kennedy.
Thelma was the first Sennett bathing beauty, and one of the few, to make it into feature films. She starred opposite Ben Turpin in "The Prodigal Bridegroom," and got one of the two female leads in the hilarious Laurel & Hardy "Two Tars" in 1928.
When Hollywood brought Jimmy Murphy's comic strip "Toots and Casper" to life on the big screen, Thelma got top billing opposite Bud Duncan as Casper, with Cullen Johnson as Buttercup and George Gray as Casper's boss. The series ran from 1927 through 1929.
One biographer wrote that she starred opposite a solo Stan Laurel (in "Pie-Eyed") but calling 24 seconds on the screen as a starring role seems a stretch.
Everyone in Hollywood knew Thelma was a real trooper with a knack for comedy. She willingly dropped her good looks to don thick black-rimmed glasses and a wild hairdo and work on two reel comedies rather than full length dramatic films. No part was too small for her. Later, during talkies, she played a bit part of a patient in the waiting room in W. C. Fields' "The Dentist." Today, all copies have been so cut up and repaired that her short scene has been lost.
She left Mack Sennett for a short stint with the Film Booking Offices of America (FBO) (also known as FBO Pictures Corporation) in 1927, and afterwards was signed by MGM to play a role in "The Fair Coed." It was about this time that she got engaged to St. Elmo Boyce, her director on the "Toots and Casper" shorts and a former Sennett cinematographer. Boyce and Hill both had drinking problems, Boyce having DUI arrests on his record. The relationship and Boyce's career began to fizzle and Boyce committed suicide in 1930 by poisoning. He'd just finished work on Columbia Pictures' most expensive film to date, "Dirigible."
Thelma Hill did not make the transition to talkies well. Her drinking and depression were starting to take their toll. She began working free lance for a variety of studios. She had made over 20 films in 1929, but with the advent of talkies and the end of frenetic slapstick comedy, she would work on just seven films over the next five years.
Her first sound film was "The Golfers" with the Sennett studios. Her next role was in a musical called "Two Plus Fours" featuring Bing Crosby as one of the Rhythm Boys. She took a small role in Frank Capra's drama, "The Miracle Woman," starring Barbara Stanwyck, a few more small, uncredited parts, one short educational film starring a very, very young Shirley Temple, and ended her career in 1934 at "The Lot of Fun," Hal Roach Studios, in the movie "Mixed Nuts." Her role was small, but unforgettable as she becomes the target of a professor of entomology's Arabian Sand Fleas.
She married John Sinclair (I), W. C. Fields' stunt double and gag writer, and settled into the role of housewife less than ten minutes away from the original Mack Sennett studios.
Whether fueled by her depression or her husband's hanging around with W. C. Fields, famous for his drinking, Thelma drank away her health and youth and died before her thirty-second birthday in 1938.
Biographers mistakenly attribute her cause of death to acute alcohol poisoning (erroneously reported as a "stomach ailment" in her obituary), but records show she had spent the last month of her life at the Edward Merrill Sanitarium (mistakenly listed in Culver City; actually in Venice, CA). She had been diagnosed with chronic alcoholism in 1932 and with pellagra (a B-vitamin deficiency, specifically niacin, often found in alcoholics) in 1937. The effects of malnutrition caused by alcoholism affect all organs in the body, and her official cause of death following an autopsy was cerebral hemorrhage.
Her body was cremated and the ashes were interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park. - Nicuzza was born on 5 April 1906 in Messina, Sicily, Italy. She was an actress, known for Who Is Happier Than I? (1938). She died on 17 June 1938 in Naples, Campania, Italy.
- Grigori Belykh was born on 19 August 1906 in Navesnoye, Livensky, Oryol Oblast, Russia. He was a writer, known for The Republic of ShKID (1966). He died on 14 August 1938 in Leningrad, Soviet Union.
- Bill Cummings was born on 11 November 1906 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He died on 8 February 1939 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Kaarlo Angerkoski was born on 8 April 1906 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for Ja alla oli tulinen järvi (1937), VMV 6 (1936) and Rykmentin murheenkryyni (1938). He was married to Siiri Angerkoski. He died on 1 October 1939 in Kotka, Finland.- E. Isaacson Hallows was born on 10 September 1906 in Peckham, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Inquest (1939). He died on 30 October 1940 in Otterburn, Northumberland, England, UK.
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Alejandro García Caturla was born on 7 March 1906 in Remedios, Cuba. Alejandro was a composer, known for The Lost City (2005) and La luna en el jardín (2012). Alejandro died on 12 November 1940 in Remedios, Cuba.- Actor
Seal Harris was born on 20 January 1906 in Union Springs, Alabama, USA. He was an actor. He died on 27 November 1940 in Bullock County, Alabama, USA.- Guernsey Morrow was born on 12 May 1906 in Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for The Duke Is Tops (1938), Am I Guilty? (1940) and Take My Life (1942). He died on 4 July 1941 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Animation Department
Frank Oreb was born on 23 September 1906 in California, USA. He is known for How to Fish (1942). He died on 4 August 1941 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Abe Reles was born on 10 May 1906 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He died on 12 November 1941 in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Jaroslav Jezek was born on 25 September 1906 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Prague, Czech Republic]. He was a composer, known for Workers, Let's Go (1934), Powder and Petrol (1932) and U nás v Kocourkove (1934). He died on 1 January 1942 in New York City, New York, USA.- Actress
Georgia Lerch was born on 14 August 1906 in New York, USA. She was an actress. She died on 20 January 1942 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Curtis Nero was born on 3 April 1906 in Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for West of Zanzibar (1928) and Kongo (1932). He died on 28 January 1942 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Daniil Kharms was born on 12 January 1906 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a writer, known for Clownery (1989), Charms Zwischenfälle (1996) and Five No Budget Films (2010). He was married to Marina Malitsch. He died on 2 February 1942 in Leningrad, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia].- Actor
- Stunts
James Fawcett was born on 15 October 1906 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Living on Love (1937). He was married to Helen Thurston. He died on 9 June 1942 in San Fernando Valley, California, USA.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Jeanette Loff was born Janette Lov in Orofino, Idaho, on October 9, 1906. Her father Maurice was a successful violinist from Denmark who moved their family to Canada when Jeanette was a child. She loved to sing and she studied music at the Ellison-White Conservatory in Portland, Oregon. At age sixteen she had a starring role in the operetta Treasure Hunters. In Portland, Loff played the organ at local theaters. She made her acting debut in the 1927 film Uncle Tom's Cabin. Cecil B. Demille offered her a contract and she quickly became one of Hollywood busiest starlets. In 1928 she appeared in Annapolis, Love Over Night, and Hold 'Em Yale. After her parents divorced Jeanette's mother Inga and sisters Irene and Myrtle came to live with her in California. Jeanette married a salesman named Harry Rosenbloom but they divorced in 1929. She also had a love affairs with producer Paul Bern, song writer Walter O'Keefe, and actor Gilbert Roland. Jeanette got the chance to show off her soprano voice in films like King Of Jazz and Party Girl. By 1931 she was tired of playing ingénues and decided to take a break from making movies. She moved to New York city and starred in several Broadway shows. Jeanette tried to make a comeback with the 1934 drama St. Louis Woman but it was not a hit. After a few more small roles her career stalled. Her final film was the comedy Million Dollar Baby. She retired from acting and married producer and liquor salesman Bert E. Friedlob. Sadly she did not get to enjoy her new life for very long. On August 5, 1942 Jeanette died after ingesting ammonia. She was only thirty-five years old. Although many believe she committed suicide her death may have been accidental. Her family does not believe she took her own life. Jeanette is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.- Rudolf Hasse was born on 30 May 1906 in Mittweida, Germany. He died on 12 August 1942 in Makiivka, Ukraine.
- Ivan Novoseltsev was born on 7 March 1906 in Andronovo, Smolensk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for The Great Consoler (1933), Seven Brave Men (1936) and The Thirteen (1937). He died on 18 October 1942 in Przhevalsk, Issyk Kul Oblast, Kirghiz SSR, USSR [now Karakol, Issyk Kul Region, Kyrgyzstan].
- Writer
- Composer
Wladyslaw Bugayski-Prus was born on 11 January 1906 in Liszki, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Liszki, Malopolskie, Poland]. Wladyslaw was a writer and composer, known for Zamarle echo (1934). Wladyslaw died on 20 February 1943 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.- Jaroslav Sadílek was born on 25 February 1906 in Brno-Královo Pole, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Christian (1939), The World Is Ours (1937) and Stestí pro dva (1940). He died on 16 March 1943 in Berlin-Plötzensee, Germany.
- Kenan Hulusi Koray was born on 9 June 1906 in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]. He was a writer, known for Sazlik (1975) and Miras Keçe (1988). He died on 23 May 1943 in Adapazari, Turkey.
- Walter Rogers was born on 6 April 1906 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was an actor, known for All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and Seven Faces (1929). He was married to Viola Alice Naething. He died on 11 November 1943 in Orange County, California, USA.
- Writer
- Music Department
- Actor
Emanuel Schlechter was born on 26 March 1906 in Lwów, Lwowskie, Poland [now Lviv, Ukraine]. He was a writer and actor, known for The Pianist (2002), Pietro wyzej (1937) and Jadzia (1936). He died on 11 November 1943 in Lwów, Lwowskie, Poland [now Lviv, Ukraine].- Mendy Weiss was born on 11 May 1906 in New York City, New York, USA. He died on 4 March 1944 in Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.
- Camera and Electrical Department
Edward Collins was born on 22 March 1906 in Fort Dodge, Iowa, USA. He died on 15 March 1944 in India.- Writer
- Producer
Darrell Ware was born on 29 July 1906 in Plainview, Minnesota, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Tall, Dark and Handsome (1941), Submarine Patrol (1938) and A Yank in the RAF (1941). He was married to Virginia Hickman. He died on 26 May 1944 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Lucha Reyes was born on 23 May 1906 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. She was an actress, known for ¡Ay Jalisco... no te rajes! (1941), Wild Flower (1943) and Song of the Soul (1938). She was married to Félix Martín Cervantes, Antonio Vega Medina and Gabriel Navarro. She died on 25 June 1944 in Mexico City, Mexico.- Mary Jane Sanderson was born on 31 January 1906 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for Enter Madame (1922), Blow Your Own Horn (1923) and Gentlemen of the West (1923). She died on 30 June 1944 in San Francisco, California, USA.
- Jerzy Kobusz was born on 19 July 1906 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Dziesieciu z Pawiaka (1931), Szlakiem hanby (1929) and Grzeszna milosc (1929). He died on 5 September 1944 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Joachim Meichßner was born on 4 April 1906 in Deutsch Eylau, Germany [now Ilawa, Poland]. He died on 29 September 1944 in Plötzensee, Berlin, Germany.