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Billy Wilder (22 June 1906 – 27 March 2002) was an Austrian-born director, screenwriter and producer who is regarded as one of the most excellent filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. Today he is best known for his comedies, although he also directed dramas and film noirs. Wilder is one of only five people who have won Academy Awards as producer, director, and writer for the same film (The Apartment).Wilder's career began in Germany, where he worked as a writer for comedy films from 1930. After the Nazis seized power in 1933, he emigrated to the United States, where he continued to write screenplays, including Ernst Lubitsch's Ninotchka (1939) and Howard Hawks' Ball of Fire (1941). From the early 1940s, Wilder was allowed to film his own screenplays and thus made a name for himself as a director. Initially, his greatest successes included predominantly dramatic film noirs such as Double Indemnity (1944), The Lost Weekend (1945), Sunset Boulevard (1950) and Ace in the Hole (1951). It was only then that he increasingly turned to comedy, including Stalag 17 (1953), Sabrina (1954) and The Seven Year Itch (1955), although he made a small detour to courtroom drama with Witness for the Prosecution (1957). With Some Like It Hot (1959) and The Apartment (1960) he made his most famous and probably most successful comedy films, the latter even receiving five Oscars. In One, Two, Three (1961), Wilder dealt with the conditions of the time in his former adopted country, Germany, and made the successful romantic comedy Irma la Douce (1963). In the two decades that followed, Wilder made seven more films, which were less well received by critics and audiences, although the German-French drama Fedora (1978) is viewed somewhat more favorably today by predominantly pretentious film experts. Some time later, Wilder was under discussion as director for Schindler's List, which he had wanted as the end of his long career, but ultimately had to turn it down due to his advanced age.
Louise Brooks (* 14. November 1906 in Cherryvale, Kansas; † 8. August 1985 in Rochester, New York; voller Name: Mary Louise Brooks) war eine US-amerikanische Filmschauspielerin. Bekannt wurde sie vor allem als Schauspielerin in Stummfilmen, in denen sie visuell auch durch ihren Bubikopf auffiel.
John Marcellus Huston (* 5. August 1906 in Nevada, Vernon County, Missouri; † 28. August 1987 in Middletown, Rhode Island) war ein US-amerikanischer Filmregisseur, Drehbuchautor und Schauspieler, der seit 1964 die irische Staatsangehörigkeit besaß. Huston, der in seiner fast sechzigjährigen Laufbahn an einigen der größten amerikanischen Filmklassiker mitgearbeitet hat, wurde zu einem stilbildenden Filmemacher des amerikanischen Kinos. Zu seinen bekanntesten Regiearbeiten gehören die Humphrey-Bogart-Filme Die Spur des Falken, Der Schatz der Sierra Madre und African Queen. Er gilt vielen als exemplarischer Regisseur des Film noir; nach Ansicht von James Agee gab es "seit D. W. Griffith kaum einen US-Regisseur, der so viel zur Erfindung und Erneuerung des Kinos beigetragen hat wie John Huston".
Eddie Albert (eigentlich Edward Albert Heimberger; * 22. April 1906 in Rock Island, Illinois; † 24. Mai 2005 in Pacific Palisades, Kalifornien) war ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler.
Lon Chaney junior (* 10. Februar 1906 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; † 13. Juli 1973 in San Clemente, Kalifornien; eigentlich Creighton Tull Chaney) war ein US-amerikanischer Theater-, Film- und Fernsehschauspieler. Der Sohn von Stummfilmstar Lon Chaney senior wurde vorwiegend durch seine Auftritte in den Universal-Horrorfilmen (vor allem durch die Darstellung eines Werwolfs in dem Film Der Wolfsmensch) bekannt.
Mary Astor (* 3. Mai 1906 als Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke in Quincy, Illinois; † 25. September 1987 in Woodland Hills, Kalifornien) war eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin und Schriftstellerin. Für ihren Auftritt in Vertauschtes Glück erhielt sie 1942 den Oscar als beste Nebendarstellerin. Zu ihren bekanntesten Filmen gehört der Film-noir-Klassiker Die Spur des Falken (1941).
Joan Blondell (* 30. August 1906 in New York City; † 25. Dezember 1979 in Santa Monica) war eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin.
John Carradine (* 5. Februar 1906 in Greenwich Village, New York City; † 27. November 1988 in Mailand, Italien; eigentlich Richmond Reed Carradine) war ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler. Mit seiner 50-jährigen Hollywoodkarriere zählt er zu den Schauspielern mit den meisten im Abspann erwähnten Filmauftritten, wobei er meist Nebenrollen an den Seiten der großen Stars spielte. Viele Male arbeitete er mit den Regisseuren John Ford und Cecil B. DeMille zusammen. John Carradine war der Vater der Schauspieler David, Keith und Robert Carradine.
George Henry Sanders (3 July 1906 – 25 April 1972) was a British film and television actor, singer-songwriter, music composer, and author. His career as an actor spanned over forty years. His heavy upper-class English accent and smooth bass voice often led him to be cast as sophisticated but villainous characters. He is perhaps best known as Jack Favell in Rebecca (1940), Scott ffolliott in Foreign Correspondent (1940, a rare heroic part), The Saran of Gaza in Samson and Delilah (1949), the most popular film of the year, Addison DeWitt in All About Eve (1950, for which he won an Oscar), Sir Brian De Bois-Guilbert in Ivanhoe (1952), King Richard the Lionheart in King Richard and the Crusaders (1954), Mr. Freeze in a two-parter episode of Batman (1966), the voice of the malevolent man-hating tiger Shere Khan in Disney's The Jungle Book (1967), the suave crimefighter The Falcon during the 1940s (a role eventually bequeathed to his elder brother, Tom Conway), and Simon Templar, The Saint, in five films made in the 1930s and 1940s.
Joan Hickson OBE (* 5. August 1906 in Kingsthorpe, Northampton, England; † 17. Oktober 1998 in Wivenhoe, Colchester, England) war eine britische Schauspielerin.
William Bendix (* 14. Januar 1906 in New York City; † 14. Dezember 1964 in Los Angeles, Kalifornien) war ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler.
Beatrice "Bea" Benaderet was an American actress born in New York City and raised in San Francisco, California. She appeared in a wide variety of television work, which included a starring role in the 1960s television series Petticoat Junction and Green Acres as Shady Rest Hotel owner Kate Bradley, supporting roles as Blanche Morton in The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show and as the voice of Betty Rubble during the first four seasons of The Flintstones, and in The Beverly Hillbillies as Pearl Bodine. She did a great deal of voice work in Warner Bros. animated cartoons of the 1940s/50s.
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Hermione Youlanda Ruby Clinton-Baddeley (13 November 1906 - 19 August 1986) was an English character actress of theatre, film and television.She is the sister of Angela Baddeley, best known for playing Mrs Hudson in the television series 'Upstairs Downstairs'.She died in California following a series of strokes on 19th August 1986.
Jon Lormer (May 7, 1906 – March 19, 1986) was an American actor, known for his guest and supporting roles in television series, such as the 1960s' Star Trek, The Twilight Zone, Perry Mason, Peyton Place, and in Creepshow as Nathan Grantham.
Joe Sawyer (* 29. August 1906 in Guelph, Ontario; † 21. April 1982 in Ashland, Oregon; eigentlich Joseph Sauers) war ein kanadischer Filmschauspieler mit deutschen Wurzeln.
Brigitte Helm (* 17. März 1908 in Schöneberg; † 11. Juni 1996 in Ascona; eigentlich Brigitte Gisela Eva Schittenhelm) war eine deutsche Filmschauspielerin. Bekannt ist sie vor allem durch ihre Hauptrolle in dem deutschen Stummfilm Metropolis von 1927, der gleichzeitig ihr Filmdebüt war.
Otto Ludwig Preminger (5 December 1905 – 23 April 1986) was an Austro–Hungarian-American theatre and film director.After moving from the theatre to Hollywood, he directed over 35 feature films in a five-decade career. He rose to prominence for stylish film noir mysteries such as Laura (1944) and Fallen Angel (1945). In the 1950s and 1960s, he directed a number of high-profile adaptations of popular novels and stage works. Several of these pushed the boundaries of censorship by dealing with topics which were then taboo in Hollywood, such as drug addiction (The Man with the Golden Arm, 1955), rape (Anatomy of a Murder, 1959), and homosexuality (Advise & Consent, 1962). He was twice nominated for the Best Director Academy Award. He also had a few acting roles.
Roy Roberts (* 19. März 1906 in Dade City, Florida als Roy Barnes Jones; † 28. Mai 1975 in Los Angeles, Kalifornien) war ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler.
Ned Glass (* 1. April 1906 in Polen; † 15. Juni 1984 in Encino, Kalifornien) war ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler.
Clancy Cooper (July 23, 1906 – June 14, 1975) was an American actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1938 and 1962. He also guest-starred on numerous TV series, such as The Rifleman, Lawman, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Maverick, Gunsmoke, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents; he also appeared on Sanford and Son as Kelly, an elderly friend of Fred Sanford, in the episode "The Copper Caper", the fourth episode in the first season of the series. He appeared as the Sheriff in The Lone Ranger (TV series) 1949 episode (1/15) "Old Joe's Sister". Cooper's Broadway credits as an actor included Eight O'Clock Tuesday (1941), Horse Fever (1940), Night Music (1940), The Man Who Killed Lincoln (1940), Summer Night (1939), Stop Press (1939), The Fabulous Invalid (1938), and Casey Jones (1938). He also directed plays.
Alan Norton Fletcher Webb (2 July 1906 – 22 June 1982) was an English actor. He was principally known as a stage performer, but made several film and television appearances. He seldom played leading roles, but was frequently cast in important character parts. He created roles in plays by A. A. Milne, Noël Coward, T. S. Eliot and other contemporary playwrights.
American character actor whose career lasted nearly half a century. James Wilson Flavin Jr. was the son of a hotel waiter of Canadian-English extraction and a mother, Katherine, whose father was an Irish immigrant. (Thus Flavin, well-known in Hollywood as an "Irish" type, was only one-quarter Irish.) Flavin was born and raised in Portland, Maine (a fact that may have enrichened his later working relationship with director John Ford, also a Portland native). He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, but (contrary to some sources) did not graduate. Instead he dropped out and returned to Portland where he drove a taxi. Then as now, summer stock companies flocked to Maine each year, and in 1929 he was asked to fill in for an actor. He did well with the part and the company manager offered him $150 per week to go with the troupe back to New York. Flavin accepted and by the spring of 1930 was living in a rooming house at 108 W. 87th Street in Manhattan. Flavin didn't manage to crack Broadway at this time (his Broadway debut would not occur for another thirty-nine years, in the 1971 revival of "The Front Page," in which Flavin played Murphy and briefly took over the lead role of Walter Burns from star Robert Ryan). He worked his way across the country in stock productions and tours, arriving in Los Angeles around 1932. He quickly made the transition to movies, landing the lead in his very first film, a Universal serial, The Airmail Mystery (1932). He also landed his leading lady, marrying the serial's female star Lucile Browne that same year. However, the serial marked virtually the last time that Flavin would play the lead in a film. Thereafter, he was restricted almost exclusively to supporting characters, many of them without so much as a name. He specialized in uniformed cops and hard-bitten detectives, but played chauffeurs, cabbies, and even a 16th-century palace guard with aplomb. Flavin appeared in nearly four hundred films between 1932 and 1971, and in almost a hundred television episodes before his final appearance, as President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident (1976). Flavin died of a heart ailment at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on April 23, 1976. His widow Lucile died seventeen days later. They were survived by their son, William James Flavin, subsequently a professor at the United States Army War College. James and Lucile Brown Flavin were buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.
Howard Alexander Petrie (* 22. November 1906 in Beverly, Massachusetts; † 24. März 1968 in Keene, New Hampshire) war ein amerikanischer Radiosprecher sowie Film- und Fernsehschauspieler.
Leslie Dwyer was an English film and tv actor, best known to modern audiences for his role as Mr Partridge, the miserable Punch and Judy man with a dislike of children in television's Hi-de-Hi.
Esmond Penington Knight (* 4. Mai 1906 in East Sheen, Surrey, England; † 23. Februar 1987 in London) war ein britischer Theater- und Filmschauspieler.
Delos Russell Thorson (October 14, 1906 – July 6, 1982) was an American actor, perhaps best known for his co-starring role as Det. Lt. Otto Lindstrom in ABC's 1959-1962 hit crime drama, The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor.
Shirō Toyoda was a Japanese film director and screenwriter who directed over 60 films in his 50 years spanning career.
Joseph Samachson (1906-1980) was an American scientist and author, primarily of science fiction and comic books. As a writer, Samachson translated a number of scientific papers, and in addition to his scientific work, earned a well-deserved reputation as an author, writing books for young people such as Mel Oliver and Space Rover on Mars, which was also published in a Dutch translation.Joe Samachson started working for DC Comics in 1942 on the title Action Comics and soon he moved on to titles like Detective Comics, Batman, Adventure Comics and more. He wrote scripts for comics and characters notably including Batman, Sandman, Aquaman, Green Arrow, Airwave, Shining Knight, Starman, Robotman, Vigilante and Zatara. He is often cited as the creator of the character Martian Manhunter along with artist Joe Certa, and the character Tomahawk along with artist Edmund Good.
John James MacDonald (May 19, 1906 – February 1, 1991) was a Scottish-American Foley artist, voice actor, musician and conductor. He was the original head of the Disney sound effects department, and was also the 2nd official voice of Mickey Mouse from 1947 to 1976 and again in 1978 and 1987 after Walt Disney stopped playing the character and before Wayne Allwine became the third voice of Mickey in 1977.
Vinton Hayworth (* 4. Juni 1906 in Washington, D.C.; † 21. Mai 1970 in Van Nuys, Kalifornien) war ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler.
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