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'Blue' Gene Tyranny was born on 1 January 1945 in San Antonio, Texas, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Deathsport (1978), By a Thread (1990) and Love Letters (1983). He died on 12 December 2020 in Long Island City, Queens, New York City, New York, USA.- Actor
- Additional Crew
'Killer' Joe Piro was born on 2 March 1921 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Dance Hall Racket (1953), Mad Monster Party? (1967) and The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1956). He died on 5 February 1989 in New York City, New York, USA.- 'Slick' Chester was born on 26 February 1900 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Murder in Harlem (1935), Temptation (1935) and Harlem After Midnight (1934). He died in January 1978 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
'Whispering' Jack Smith was born on 30 May 1896 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Happy Days (1929), Cheer Up and Smile (1930) and Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017). He died on 13 May 1950 in New York City, New York, USA.- A$AP Yams was born on 13 November 1988 in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He died on 18 January 2015 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA.
- Art Director
A. Béla Viragh-Flower was born in 1886. A. Béla was an art director, known for Empty Arms (1920), Heedless Moths (1921) and Idle Hands (1921). A. Béla died on 5 February 1922 in New York City, New York, USA.- A. Philip Randolph was born on 15 April 1889 in Crescent City, Florida, USA. He was married to Lucille Green. He died on 16 May 1979 in New York City, New York, USA.
- A.A. Brill was born on 30 November 1872 in Kanczuga in Austro-Hungary (today in Poland). He died on 2 March 1948 in New York City, New York, USA.
- A.A. Kline was born on 16 August 1888 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a writer, known for Rich People (1929), What a Man (1930) and The Racketeer (1929). He died in July 1972 in New York City, New York, USA.
- A.C. Fotheringham-Lysons was born on 23 May 1867 in Skene, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for The Elusive Pimpernel (1919), The Scourge (1922) and The Amateur Gentleman (1920). He died on 8 October 1947 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- Music Department
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Songwriter ("Runnin' Wild"), composer, conductor and pianist, educated in high school in Atlantic City, New Jersey. In 1913 he came to New York where he was a pianist in dance orchestras. During World War I he served in the Allied Expeditionary Force, and by 1923 he was leading his own orchestra, eventually touring Europe in 1929 and 1930. Later he was half of a two-piano team in night clubs. Joining ASCAP in 1937, his other popular-song compositions include "Rocky Road", "How Can You Tell", "You Bet" and "I Got the Fever".- Additional Crew
- Writer
- Producer
A.H. Woods was born on 3 January 1870 in Ujpest, Hungary. He was a writer and producer, known for Kick In (1917), Lonely Wives (1931) and Big Jim Garrity (1916). He was married to Louise Beaton. He died on 24 April 1951 in New York City, New York, USA.- Additional Crew
A graduate of Boston College (Class of 1968), Massachussettes native A.J. Antoon attended the prestigious Yale School of Drama before dropping out to pursue a professional theatrical career as a director. He directed his first production, Story Theatre at New York's 151-seat St. Clement's Church in 1971. Later that year he was introduced to the founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival, Joseph Papp, who would be influential in his later success on Broadway. Antoon would enjoy a 20-year career there, directing the Broadway debuts of notables such as Meryl Streep and Mandy Patinkin in the 1975 revival of Trelawny of the 'Wells'. During his directorial career, he'd win both the 1973 Tony Award and the 1972 NY Drama Critic's Circle Award (That Championship Season) and be nominated for a Tony that same year for an Americanized Broadway revival of the Much Ado About Nothing, an Obie Award (1979's The Art of Dining written by Tina Howe) and be nominated for the 1984 Drama Desk Award for The Rink, starring Liza Minnelli. His alma mater, Boston College awarded him an honorary doctorate. An innovative director, Antoon often shook off traditional settings, such as re-setting The Taming of the Shrew in the Wild West. His final productions were produced New York Shakespeare Festival in New York's Central Park in 1990 and 1991. Antoon died of AIDS-related lymphoma on January 22, 1992 at age 47. When he died, he had several projects in the works, including his screenplay of "Snow White." He was survived by a brother, Michael J. Antoon, and two sisters, Jessica M. Leavitt and Marsha A. Roy, all of Methuen, along with his partner, Peter Perez.- A.J. Herbert was born on 4 August 1885 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He was an actor, known for Romeo and Juliet (1916), Lights Out (1946) and The Silent Witness (1917). He died on 6 May 1963 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- Additional Crew
A.J. Liebling was born on 18 October 1904 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He is known for High Time (1950). He was married to Jean Stafford, Lucille Hille Spectorsky and Anne Beatrice McGinn. He died on 28 December 1963 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.- Actor
- Composer
A.J. Scratch was an actor and composer, known for Wild Style (1982), Kurtis Blow: If I Ruled the World (1985) and And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop (2004). He died on 9 September 2015 in Bronx, New York City, New York, USA.- Additional Crew
A.P. Waxman was born on 25 December 1892 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He died on 21 July 1962 in New York City, New York, USA.- A.R. Gurney was born on 1 November 1930 in Buffalo, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for 3 by Cheever (1979), Television Theater (1953) and TV teatar (1956). He was married to Mary Forman Goodyear. He died on 13 June 2017 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- AJ Brim was an actor, known for Drizzy B x AJ Brim: A.M.S. (2022). He died on 31 May 2023 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA.
- Aaron Braunstein was born on 22 December 1948 in New York, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Born to Win (1971) and Tropical Heat (1991). He was married to Yvette Lyonne and Nicole Trau. He died on 10 October 2014 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Aaron Hoffman was born on 31 October 1880 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was a writer, known for Give and Take (1928), The Gilded Youth (1917) and Beloved Rogues (1917). He was married to Minnie ?. He died on 27 May 1924 in New York City, New York, USA.- Aaron Stern was born on 26 March 1925 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was married to Betty Lee Baum. He died on 13 April 2021 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- Aaron Swartz was born on 8 November 1986 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He died on 11 January 2013 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA.
- Actress
- Music Department
- Composer
Abbey Lincoln was born on 6 August 1930 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress and composer, known for Nothing But a Man (1964), For Love of Ivy (1968) and Drugstore Cowboy (1989). She was married to Max Roach. She died on 14 August 2010 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.- Abbey Mitchell was born on 25 September 1884. She was an actress, known for Lime Kiln Club Field Day (1913), Junction 88 (1947) and A Night in Dixie (1925). She was married to Will Marion Cook. She died on 16 March 1960 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Abbot Lutz was born on 14 August 1917 in New York City, New York, USA. He died in December 1985 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Abby Lewis was born on 14 November 1910 in Mesilla Park, New Mexico, USA. She was an actress, known for Mathnet (1987), Monsters (1988) and Square One Television (1987). She was married to John Seymour. She died on 27 November 1997 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Abdulaziz Al-Omari was born on 28 May 1979 in Saudi Arabia. He died on 11 September 2001 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Producer
- Writer
- Music Department
Songwriter, composer, writer, panelist, director, singer and pianist, educated at City College of New York and New York University. He began his writing career as a script writer for "Duffy's Taven" on radio, and later, the Rudy Vallee program. He sang in his own radio shows , in night clubs, and on television. He wrote the Broadway librettos for "Guys and Dolls" and received a Tony award and a New York Drama Critics award in 1951), and also directed "Happy Hunting", "Silk Stockings", "First Impressions", "Can-Can", "Say, Darling", and "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" (earning a Pulizer Prize and a Tony and New York Drama Critics awards). He directed "Two on the Aisle", "Reclining Figure", "The Golden Fleecing", and "What Makes Sammy Run?". He was also the playwright and director of "Cactus Flower". Joining ASCAP in 1952, he composed the popular songs "The Girl With the Three Blue Eyes" and "Leave Us Face It, We're in Love", and authored "The Abe Burrows Song Book".- Composer
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- Actor
Composer, conductor and pianist, educated at the Third Street Settlement, the Manhattan School of Music, and Juilliard (on scholarship); a student of Frederic Jacobi, Rubin Goldmark, and Albert Stoessel. He was a member of the Metropolitan Opera's Children's Chorus between 1916 and 1920 and sang in the John Barrymore production "Richard III". He toured the world as accompanist to cantor Joseph Rosenblatt, and composed operettas for the Yiddish Theater. He also composed the Broadway stage score for "Great To Be Alive" and worked in radio as music director for WMGM in New York and program host over WEVD in New York between 1951 and 1963. He also was the music director for the Advertisers Broadcasting Company. Joining ASCAP in 1958, his chief musical collaborators included Walter Bullock, Molly Picon, Jacob Jacobs, and Samuel Rosenbaum.- Abe Hirschfeld was born in Poland but moved to the British Mandate of Palestine in the 1930s; he later claimed that most of his family died during the Holocaust. He moved to the United States with his family in the 1950s and made his first fortune on open-air parking garages. Part of his fortune was used for his purchase of the Hudson Theater in 1956.
In the year 2000, Hirschfeld was sentenced to three years in prison for attempting to arrange the murder of one of his business partners, who died before he had the chance to execute the murder. He served two years in prison, during which time he developed a new diet and a plan to build a new World Trade Center. He died in 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital from heart failure and cancer. - Writer
- Soundtrack
Abe Tuvim was born on 10 May 1895 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Refugiados en Madrid (1938), The Gay Desperado (1936) and The Gay Ranchero (1948). He died on 15 January 1958 in New York City, New York, USA.- Music Department
- Composer
- Actor
Composer, songwriter ("There Are Such Things", "My Mother's Eyes"), pianist and author, educated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, giving up dentistry to join a NY music publisher in 1920. He accompanied Nora Bayes, and came to Hollywood in 1929 to write songs for sound films. In 1955 he managed a show sponsored by ASCAP (which he had joined in 1929) and the USO, touring Germany for the Armed Forces. He wrote the Broadway stage score for "Lady Do". His chief musical collaborators were L. Wolfe Gilbert, Stanley Adams, Cliff Friend, Sam Lewis, and Mabel Wayne. His other popular-song compositions include: "June Night"; "Gee, But You're Swell"; "I Miss My Swiss"; "Don't Wait 'Til the Night Before Christmas"; "Lucky Lindy"; "It's the Girl"; "Am I To Blame?'; "Mama Loves Papa"; "Blue Hoosier Blues"; "Garden in Granada"; "When the One You Love, Loves You"; "Don't Wake Me Up, Let Me Dream"; "The Night When Love Was Born"; "Chapel of the Roses"; "Harriet"; and "I'm Sitting Pretty".- Actor
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Editor and theatrical trade reporter ('Variety'), songwriter, composer, editor, author and producer. He organized theatrical news coverage of European and South American capitols, and edited Variey since 1933. He co-authored and produced the Philco-Variety Hall of Fame. Joining ASCAP in 1952, his chief musical collaborators were Jesse Greer, Pat Ballard, Fletcher Henderson and Al Stillman. His popular-song compositions include "Variety Stomp", "Variey Is the Spice of Life", "Who's Who Are You?", "Encore", "Humming Waters" and "Blue Baby".- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Abner Silver was born on 28 December 1899 in New York City, New York, USA. He is known for Barton Fink (1991), Edward Scissorhands (1990) and Troopers Three (1930). He died on 24 November 1966 in New York City, New York, USA.- Abraham Beame was born on 20 March 1906 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Stowaway (1981), New York, New York (1967) and Trump: What's the Deal? (1991). He was married to Mary Ingerman. He died on 10 February 2001 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Between 1887 and 1914, more than 2 million Jews, most of them desperately poor, emigrated to the United States and Canada from what later became the Soviet Bloc. Preceding them slightly was Abraham Cahan, who arrived in New York in 1882. (A convinced Socialist, he was forced to immigrate in order to avoid the roundup of dissidents that followed the assassination of Tsar Alexander II of Russia.) He settled on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and concerned himself with the welfare of the growing Jewish population. Cahan was the founding editor of The Jewish Daily Forward, a Yiddish-language newspaper that first appeared in 1897. (Now known simply as The Forward, it is still published each week, though with primarily English copy.) He was also a writer of fiction, and that is what brought him his widest audience: his stories and novels won the praise of the leading literary critics of the day.
- Abraham E. Ribicoff was born on 9 April 1910 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor, known for The Alcoa Hour (1955), Government Story (1969) and What's My Line? (1950). He died on 22 February 1998 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA.
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Abraham Goldfaden was born on 24 July 1840 in Starokonstantinov, Volhynian Governorate, Russian Empire [now Starokostiantyniv, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a writer, known for Di farshtoysene tokhter (1915), Two Kuni Lemel (1966) and Shulamith (1931). He died on 9 January 1908 in New York City, New York, USA.- Additional Crew
Abraham L. Erlanger was born on 4 May 1859 in Buffalo, New York, USA. He is known for Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925). He was married to Louise Balfe, Charlotte Fiscal and Adelaide Louise. He died on 7 March 1930 in New York City, New York, USA.- Abraham Teitelbaum was born in 1889. He was an actor, known for Two Sisters (1938) and The Wandering Jew (1933). He died on 16 October 1947 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Music Department
Composer, author, pianist, teacher and radio executive, educated at the Ethical Culture School and Columbia University, and scholarships to Juilliard and the Curtis Institute. He studied music with Hutcheson, Godowsky, Hofmann, and Goldmark. He was a concert pianist from 1927 to 1947, appearing in recitals and as a soloist with orchestras in the USA and Europe, and making records. He was a music consultant for the University of Pennsylvania in 1934 and 1935, lectured at universities, and had his own radio series between 1932-1939. He was on the faculties on the Curtis Institute (1926-1935) and the Berkshire Music Center (1940-41). He was the music director at WQXR (NY) between 1943 and 1965.- Alexander Nicholayevitch Romanoff (Achmed Abdullah) was the author of numerous adventure and mystery stories, usually set in strange and exotic locations.
His father, Grand Duke Nicholas Romanoff, was a cousin of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his mother, Princess Nourmahal Durani, was the daughter of the Amir of Afghanistan. Alexander, along with his brother Yar and sister Gothia, were born at the Romanoff Palace in Yalta, the future site of the historic Second World War conference among Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin. After pressure from the Afghan and Russian royal houses forced their parents to divorce, Alexander--along with his sister--went to live with their uncle in Afghanistan; Yar, the oldest, stayed with his father in Russia. Alexander was adopted by his uncle, who changed his name to Achmed Abdullah Nadir Khan el-Durani el Iddrissyeh and raised him in the Muslim faith. Yar became an officer in the Russian army and was killed in 1914 at the Battle of Tannenberg. Gothia was said to have married an Indian rajah. In 1936, after years of being torn between the Russian Orthodox Church he was baptized in and the Muslim faith he was raised in, Abdullah became a Roman Catholic.
He went to schools in Afghanistan, India, France and finally England, where he attended Eton and Oxford. Upon graduation he became a British citizen and joined the British army, where he served with merit in China, Tibet, Russia, Eastern Europe, France, India and Africa. Because of his ability to blend in with different cultures, he was often called upon by British Intelligence to work as a spy. Not long after Abdullah retired from the British army with the rank of captain, he joined the Turkish army and fought with distinction in the First Balkan War (1912-1913). By the time Abdullah decided to pursue a writing career his life experiences had gained him a plethora of material to draw upon for decades to come.
Abdullah began writing in earnest after coming to the US sometime after 1914. Soon stories like "The Blue Eyed Manchu", "The Red Stain", "The Soul Catcher" and "Bucking the Tiger" were appearing in newspapers and magazines across the country. By the early 1920s he was writing for both the stage and the screen. In 1928 he published a collection of ballads and poems from Central Asia entitled "Lute and Scimitar". His autobiography, "The Cat Had Nine Lives" (1933), reads like one of his romantic adventure stories. In 1937 he wrote with John Kenney, a cookbook entitled, "For Men Only". Abdullah's first Broadway play, "The Honourable Mr. Wong" (1932), was adapted from his story "The Hatchetman" and was written with the help of David Belasco around the time he became a permanent resident of the US. Though many of his stories and plays were very popular with the public, he will probably always be best remembered for the classic films The Thief of Bagdad (1924) and The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935).
Abdullah must have cut quite an imposing figure when seen out in public, with his military posture, impeccable suit, hat tilted just so, gray spats and monocled eye. In 1945 he passed away on his birthday at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York after an illness of several months. He was survived by his third wife, Rosemary Dutton, whom he married in 1940, a year after his second wife of 20 years, literary agent Jean Wick, had passed away. His first wife, Irene Augusta Bainbridge, was still married to him when he filled out his Word War One draft registration card in 1918. - Ada Deaves was born on 30 November 1855 in Kentucky, USA. She was an actress, known for Mice and Men (1916). She was married to Thomas H. Gossman. She died on 16 September 1920 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Ada Louise Huxtable was born on 14 March 1921 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. She was married to L. Garth Huxtable. She died on 7 January 2013 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- Ada May was born on 8 March 1896 in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Monsieur Verdoux (1947), Dance, Girl, Dance (1933) and The Dancing Town (1928). She was married to Wilson Potter (big game hunter) and Mario Castegnaro. She died on 25 April 1978 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Adam Clayton Powell was born on 5 May 1865 in Franklin County, Virginia, USA. He was married to Mattie Fletcher Powell. He died on 12 June 1953 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Composer, pianist and arranger, educated at the Warsaw Conservatory and the Royal Prussian Academy in Berlin. He also studied music under Michalowski. He concerized throughout Europe, and founded the First Piano Quartet in the United States in 1941. Joining ASCAP in 1964, he composed the popular instrumental, "The Wrong Note Polka".
- Adam Kilgour was born on 1 May 1935. He was an actor, known for Quiz Show (1994). He died on 9 April 2001 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Adam Purple was born on 10 November 1930 in Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Dirt (1999), Witnesses NYC (2013) and Adam Purple and the Garden of Eden (2011). He died on 14 September 2015 in New York City, New York, USA.