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- Actor
'Lefty' Weisman was born in 1895 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor. He died on 4 November 1949 in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA.- Editor
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
A. Carle Palm was born on 13 June 1883 in California, USA. A. Carle was an editor and writer, known for The Drums of Jeopardy (1923), The Monster (1925) and Omar the Tentmaker (1922). A. Carle died on 15 December 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- A.E. Bundy was born on 2 February 1880 in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK. A.E. was a producer and writer, known for The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands (1927), Cross Roads (1930) and Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight (1926). A.E. died on 13 June 1949 in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, UK.
- Additional Crew
A.J. Cantu was born on 24 November 1896 in Monterey, California, USA. A.J. died on 27 August 1949 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.- Aage Schmidt was born on 13 September 1885 in Denmark. He was an actor, known for Greven af Luxemburg (1910), Blind Justice (1916) and Genboerne (1939). He died on 11 September 1949 in Denmark.
- Abraham J. Cantu was born on 24 November 1896 in Monterey, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Politiquerías (1931). He died on 27 August 1949 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
- Writer
- Editor
Adolf Lantz was born on 30 November 1882 in Vienna, Austria. He was a writer and editor, known for Love Only Me (1935), Das Fürstenkind (1927) and The Devious Path (1928). He died on 19 August 1949 in London, England.- Adolf Manz was born on 10 October 1885 in Meilen, Switzerland. He was an actor, known for Die mißbrauchten Liebesbriefe (1940), Menschen, die vorüberziehen (1942) and Der letzte Postillon vom St. Gotthard (1941). He was married to Ellen Widmann. He died on 23 April 1949 in Zurich, Switzerland.
- Adrienne Kroell was born on 13 December 1892 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for The Royal Box (1914), Subterfuge (1912) and The Pink Opera Cloak (1913). She died on 2 October 1949 in Evanston, Illinois, USA.
- Agnes Steele was born on 22 August 1881 in Melbourne, Australia. She was an actress, known for My Old Dutch (1926), Roaring Ranch (1930) and You're Darn Tootin' (1928). She died on 3 March 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Aino Aalto was born on 25 January 1894 in Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire. She was married to Alvar Aalto. She died on 13 January 1949 in Helsinki, Finland.
- Actor
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Al Shean was born on 12 May 1868 in Dornum, Province of Hanover, Kingdom of Prussia [now Lower Saxony, Germany]. He was an actor and writer, known for The Blue Bird (1940), Ziegfeld Girl (1941) and Live, Love and Learn (1937). He was married to Johanna Davidson. He died on 12 August 1949 in New York City, New York, USA.- Aladár Sarkadi was born on 26 March 1874 in Budapest, Hungary. He was an actor, known for A Papagály (1913), Drótostót (1918) and Die Csardasfürstin (1927). He was married to Werber Olga. He died on 15 December 1949 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Actor
- Composer
- Soundtrack
"Boogie-woogie" pianist Albert Ammons was born in 1907 in Chicago, IL. He grew up listening to the blues and "barrelhouse" piano players that inhabited the city's famed jazz scene. He drove a taxi while trying to break into the music business, and one day he ran into fellow driver (and jazz pianist) Meade 'Lux' Lewis. The two hit it off and became close friends, even sharing an apartment for a period. A resident of that apartment building was yet another jazz pianist, Pinetop Smith. The three became close and often played together.
Ammons hit his stride in the Chicago blues scene in the early 1930s and cut his first album in 1936 with his group The Rhythm Kings. He went to New York and played in The Cafe Society, a nightclub that featured "boogie-woogie" musicians, and at one point played in Harry James' and Benny Goodman's bands. He joined Lionel Hampton's band in 1949, but his health--which hadn't been good--began to deteriorate rapidly. He died in Chicago on Dec. 5, 1949.- Actor
- Production Manager
Albert Broquin was born on 20 July 1881 in Paris, France. He was an actor and production manager, known for Les Misérables (1934), The Threepenny Opera (1931) and Allo Berlin? Ici Paris! (1932). He died on 5 January 1949 in Paris, France.- Actor
- Director
Albert Heine was born on 16 November 1867 in Brunswick, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Die Brandstifter Europas (1926), Don Juan (1922) and Der hinkende Teufel (1922). He died on 13 April 1949 in Westerland, Sylt, Germany.- Albert Høeberg was born on 26 April 1879 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was an actor, known for Billet mrk. (1946). He died on 21 July 1949.
- Producer
- Director
- Cinematographer
Aleksandr O. Drankov was born on 30 January 1886 in the Russian Empire. He was a producer and director, known for Bolshoy chelovek (1908), Svadba Krechinskogo (1908) and V Lapah Zheltago Dyavola (1916). He died on 3 January 1949 in San Francisco, California, USA.- Aleksandr Popov was born on 19 January 1863 in village Nizhnekurmoyarskaya, First Don Okrug, Don Voisko Oblast, Russian Empire [now Tsimlyansky District, Rostov Oblast, Russia]. He was a writer, known for Schastlivogo plavaniya (1949), Vesyolaya voina (1931) and Devchonka, s kotoroy ya druzhil (1962). He died on 19 January 1949 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Aleksandr Serafimovich was born on 7 January 1863 in Nizhne Kurmoyarskaya, oblast Voyska Donskogo, Russian Empire. He was a writer, known for Podpolye (1918), Zheleznyy potok (1967) and Zateryannye v peskakh (1984). He died on 19 January 1949 in Moscow, USSR.
- Aleksei Feona was born on 30 March 1879 in the Russian Empire. He was an actor, known for Poet i tsar (1927) and Kastus Kalinovskiy (1928). He died on 20 September 1949 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia].
- Alex Melesh was born on 21 October 1890 in Kiev, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for The Big Broadcast (1932), The Adventurer (1927) and The 3 Wise Guys (1936). He was married to Marie Melesh. He died on 5 March 1949 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Art Department
- Costume Designer
Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Grigorovich (Alexandra Exter) was born on January 6, 1882, in Belostok, Russian Empire (now Poland). Her father, named Aleksandr Grigorovich, was a wealthy businessman. She married a successful Kiev lawyer, named Nicolas Evgenievich Ekster, who was her cousin. Alekandra Ekster was an attractive, elegant, cosmopolitan lady, and soon became the toast of the town. Her painting studio in the attic at 27 Funduklievskaya Street was a rallying stage for Kiev's intellectual elite. There she was visited by poets and writers Anna Akhmatova, Ossip Mandelstam, Ilja Ehrenburg, director Aleksandr Tairov, the dancers Bronislava Njinska, and 'Elsa Kruger', and many artists.
Exter studied art at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Montparnasse, Paris, during the 1907 and 1908. Then she returned to Kiev and participated in exhibitions with David Burlyuk. During the following years Exter lived between Kiev, Odessa, Milan, and Paris and was exhibiting her works in Salon des Independants in Paris, and in International Futurist Exhibitions in Milan and Rome. At that time she established a circle of famous friends such as 'Andre Gide', Guillaume Apollinaire, Fernand Leger, Marc Chagall, Kazimir Malevich, Pablo Picasso, and Georges Braque. She was influenced by Cubism and was a personal friend of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, who introduced her to Gertrude Stein. By the 1917 her manner of painting had evolved to the point where any recognizable objects were gone. Exter's works became studies in blocks of bright colors. In 1918 she produced street decorations in abstract style in Kiev and Odessa. From 1918-1920 she founded and led a teaching and production workshop in Kiev. There her students were Grigoriy Kozintsev, Sergei Yutkevich, and Aleksei Kapler among others. In 1921 Exter moved to Moscow. There she collaborated with Alexander Rodchenko, Lyubov Popova, and other Russian avant-garde artists. From 1921-1924 she was teaching art in Moscow, at the Higher Artistic-Technical Workshop (VKHUTEMAS). At that time Exter achieved success as a stage designer, most recognized for her work for the Moscow Chamber Theatre of Aleksandr Tairov.
In 1924 Alexandra Exter and her husband emigrated to France and settled in Paris. She taught at the Academie der Moderne in Paris and later was a professor at Academie d'Art Contemporain under 'Fernand Leger'. She also worked as a book illustrator for the publishing company Flammarion. During her life Exter produced a large number of paintings, graphic works, street designs, and theatrical costumes and decorations, and worked in a variety of styles from Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism and Constructivism.
Alexandra Exter died on March 17, 1949, in Fontanay-aux-Roses, near Paris, France.- Alfred Block was born on 31 August 1897 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for It's a Great Life (1929), Way Out West (1930) and Roar of the Press (1941). He died on 16 January 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Stocky, bald and rather cold-eyed English character actor, who made a career of playing choleric, hectoring or exasperated authority figures. A former brewery worker, he first appeared in amateur dramatics and over the years built up a reputation as an incisive theatrical performer, both in stage farces and in dramatic roles. Drayton made his professional acting debut at the New Theatre in Cardiff in 1908, moving on to the London stage the following year. He was on Broadway in 1925, then returned to England to play Captain Hook in "Peter Pan" at the Adelphi. While his film career remained generally subordinated to the theatre, he nonetheless had several noteworthy roles in British films, often in comic roles, while accompanied by his one-time stage partner Robertson Hare. Drayton was particularly memorable as Dickensian arch villain Wackford Squeers -- complete with eye patch -- in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947).
- Alfréd Drasche Lázár was born on 15 June 1875 in Dorog, Austrian empire [now Hungary]. He was a writer, known for Tüzpróba (1918). He died on 28 August 1949 in Meyerhofen, Austria.
- Alice Lloyd was born on 20 October 1873 in Shoreditch, London, England, UK. She was married to Tom McNaughton. She died on 17 November 1949 in Banstead, Surrey, England, UK.
- Actress
Alice Lyndon was born on 12 November 1873 in Kansas, USA. She was an actress. She died on 9 July 1949 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Alida Rouffe was born on 20 March 1874 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. She was an actress, known for The Baker's Wife (1938), Marius (1931) and César (1936). She was married to Joseph Merle and Jules Fermont. She died on 21 November 1949 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.
- Allan Prior was born on 16 September 1897 in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia. He was an actor, known for Bride of the Regiment (1930). He died on 24 June 1949 in Vaucluse, Sydney, Australia.
- Alma Aiken was born on 13 September 1864 in New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Test of Honor (1919) and The Master Mind (1920). She was married to Paul/ George William Matthews. She died on 10 September 1949 in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
- Amalie Konsa was born on 10 March 1873. She was an actress, known for The Young Eagles (1927). She died on 19 July 1949.
- Production Designer
- Art Director
Anatoli Arapov was born on 3 December 1876 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]. Anatoli was a production designer and art director, known for Without Dowry (1937), Kastus Kalinovskiy (1928) and Holiday of St. Jorgen (1930). Anatoli died on 21 December 1949.- Anatoli Nelidov was born on 3 May 1879 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for Asya (1928), Vragi (1924) and Severnaya lyubov (1928). He died on 6 October 1949 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia].
- André Reuze was born on 14 October 1885 in Saint-Servan, Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, France. He was a writer, known for Moon Over Morocco (1931), Les cinq gentlemen maudits (1920) and Die fünf verfluchten Gentlemen (1932). He died on 10 February 1949 in Paris, France.
- Angela Hitler was born on 28 July 1883 in Braunau am Inn, Austria. She was married to Martin Hammitzsch and Leo Raubal. She died on 30 October 1949 in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- Anna Steese Richardson was born on 5 April 1865 in Massillon, Ohio, USA. She was a writer, known for Hell's End (1918), Father Is a Prince (1940) and Matinee Theatre (1955). She died on 10 May 1949.
- Anna-Lisa Lindzén was born on 12 October 1888. She was an actress, known for Alexander den Store (1917) and Den förgyllda lergöken (1924). She died on 3 June 1949.
- Antal Iványi was born on 17 March 1873 in Kaschau, Austrian Empire [now Kosice, Slovakia]. He was an actor, known for A Marhakereskedö (1913). He died on 2 March 1949 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Anton Pointner was born on 8 December 1894 in Salzburg, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was an actor, known for Maria Stuart, Teil 1 und 2 (1927), Das Mädchen mit dem guten Ruf (1938) and Lady Hamilton (1921). He died on 8 September 1949 in Hintersee bei Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany.
- Arnold Vierling was born on 24 May 1919 in Seymour, Jackson County, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for We're Off to See the Munchkins (1993). He died on 11 June 1949 in Madison, Jefferson County, Indiana, USA.
- Writer
- Actor
Arthur Applin was born on 3 March 1873 in Torquay, Devon, England, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for Madame Pinkette & Co (1917), The Lure of London (1914) and London Love (1926). He was married to Edyth Olive. He died on 10 September 1949 in Marylebone, London, England, UK.- Actor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Arthur Barking was born on 18 November 1891 in Oslo, Norway. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Det æ'kke te å tru (1942), Simen Mustrøens besynderlige opplevelser (1926) and Syv dager for Elisabeth (1927). He died on 6 May 1949.- Additional Crew
- Director
- Writer
Arthur Berthelet was born on 12 October 1879 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He was a director and writer, known for The Misleading Lady (1916), Vultures of Society (1916) and Pants (1917). He died on 16 September 1949 in Vista, California, USA.- Actor
- Writer
Arthur Chesney was born on 21 November 1881 in Wandsworth, London, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Fanny Hawthorne (1927), Sorrell and Son (1933) and Colonel Blood (1934). He was married to Estelle Winwood. He died on 27 August 1949 in London, England, UK.- Writer
- Music Department
- Composer
Arthur Rebner was born on 30 July 1890 in Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]. He was a writer and composer, known for Schuberts Frühlingstraum (1931), 8 Girls in a Boat (1934) and Acht Mädels im Boot (1932). He died on 8 December 1949 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Arundel Nixon was born in 1907 in England, UK. He was an actor, known for That Certain Something (1941). He died on 4 April 1949 in Brisbane, Australia.
- Art Director
- Art Department
Arvo Kotilainen was born on 3 May 1897 in Helsinki, Finland. He was an art director, known for Kuollut mies rakastuu (1942), Keinumorsian (1943) and Tositarkoituksella (1943). He died on 23 January 1949 in Helsinki, Finland.- Director
- Writer
- Animation Department
Ashley Miller was born on 11 August 1867 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Ashley was a director and writer, known for The Moral Code (1917), Infidelity (1917) and The Quest of Life (1916). Ashley was married to Ethel Browning. Ashley died on 19 November 1949 in New York City, New York, USA.- Ashton Jarry was born in 1875 in Islington, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Uncivilized (1937). He died on 19 September 1949 in Rose Bay, New South Wales, Australia.