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Kit Guard was born Christen Klitgaard May 5, 1894 in Hals, Denmark. His parents, Jens and Thyra Klitgaard, were farmers and he had four bothers. The family immigrated to Canada in 1901 and later moved to San Francisco, California. He became an American citizen and went to New York City where he worked as a blacksmith. During World War 1 he joined the Army and served overseas in a military police unit. After the war he moved to Hollywood and was signed by F.B.O. Pictures. He starred in more than one hundred silent shorts including The Telephone Girl series with Alberta Vaiughn and The Beauty Parlor series with Lorraine Eason. Kit often costarred with Al Cooke and they became a popular onscreen comedy team. On August 1, 1924 her married 24 year old Nell Griffith Sullivan. She filed for divorce in 1928 claiming he was a a violent alcoholic. By the 1930s Kit was appearing in low low budget B-movies. He had bit parts in several Three Stooges shorts and was in numerous Westerns including The Fighting Champ and El Diablo Rides with Bob Steele. Sadly his second wife passed away. Kit married his third wife, Hazel Bowers, and continued to act until the late 1950s. He had uncredited roles on the TV shows Gunsmoke and Have Gun Will Travel. Kit died from stomach cancer on July 18, 1961. He was buried at Valhalla Memorial Park in North Hollywood.- Director
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Director, actor and script-writer. He completed his education in his place of birth and Kolozsvár (now Cluj, Romania). He was a popular character actor of dramatic plays. From 1911 he was temporarily a cinema managing director in Debrecen, from 1913 he made movies. He wrote scripts and directed films since 1915. Director of Star, later leading director. In the twenties first he worked for Egyetértés company, later became free-lance (Deésy-film). For five years he shot in Vienna as Alfred Kempf Dezsi. His most famous work from this period is Sacco und Vanzetti (1927), which was banned in Hungary. He returned in 1931. He produced a thematic variety of Gorkij's Éjjeli menedékhely with the title Radmirov Katalin (1918). He was a significant, fertile artistic personality of the era of silent film. In the days of the sound picture he - among others - filmed an adaptation of Zsigmond Móricz's novel I Can't Live Without Music (1935), stressing mostly the elements of entertainment. After the liberation he stood in front of the camera again and his characteristic profile appeared in several episodic roles of Hungarian films. He also composed music. In 1909 in Nagyvárad (Oradea) his musical play based on the script of Gyula Juhász, Atalanta was presented. His diary was left behind in manuscript.- Margot Lander is generally considered by ballet aficionados as among the most important--if not THE most important--Danish ballerinas of the 20th century. A student at the Royal Danish Ballet School in 1917, after she graduated she came back to the school in 1928, became a principal in 1933 and in 1942 was awarded the position of prima ballerina. She was married to ballet director Harold Lander from 1932-1950. After the divorce she retired from the field, and died in 1961.