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Hermann Picha(† 71)

Actor | Berlin (DE)

Hermann Picha (20 March 1865 – 7 June 1936) was a German stage and film actor. Picha was extremely prolific, appearing in over 300 short and feature films during the silent and early sound eras. Picha played a mixture of lead and supporting roles during his career. He played the title role in the 1920 film Wibbel the Tailor, directed by Manfred Noa. He appeared in Fritz Lang's Destiny.

* 03/20/1865

King George V of the United Kingdom(† 70)

Actor | Marlborough House, London (GB)

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* 06/03/1865

Charles Ogle(† 75)

Actor | Steubenville, Ohio (US)

Charles Ogle was an American stage and silent screen actor. In 1910 he appeared as the Frankenstein monster in the first-ever film adaptation of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein.

* 06/05/1865

Edward McWade(† 78)

Actor | Washington, D.C. (US)

Edward McWade was an American writer and stage and screen actor. He appeared in more than 132 films from 1919 to 1944, mostly in secondary roles. He also wrote 15 stage plays and silent film scenarios.

* 01/14/1865

May Whitty(† 82)

Actress | Liverpool, Merseyside, England (GB)

Dame Mary Louise Webster, (née Whitty; 19 June 1865 – 29 May 1948), known professionally as May Whitty and later, for her charity work, Dame May Whitty, was an English stage and film actress. She was one of the first two women entertainers to become a Dame. The British actors' union Equity was established in her home in 1930. Her film roles included Alfred Hitchcock's thriller The Lady Vanishes (1938) in which she played Miss Froy, a British spy posing as a governess who disappears on a train. After a successful career both on the West End stage and in British films, she moved over to Hollywood films at the age of 72.

* 06/19/1865

Barry O'Neil(† 52)

Crew | New York City, New York (US)

Barry O'Neil (1865 – 1918) was a film director and writer. His real name was Thomas J. McCarthy. He directed several Thanhouser films including the production company's first two-reeler, Romeo and Juliet. He went on to work for Lubin and then World Film Corporation. He was born in New York City. O'Neil married actress Nellie Walters. In 1913 O'Neil was elected to The Lambs as a non-resident member. He died of apoplexy. In 1910 and 1911 he filmed adaptations of a couple William Shakespeare plays. In 1915 he filmed a version of McTeague in Death Valley released as Life's Whirlpool. William E. Hamilton was an assistant director to O'Neil.

* 09/24/1865

George C. Pearce(† 75)

Actor | New York City, New York (US)

George C. Pearce (June 26, 1865 – August 13, 1940) was an American stage and film actor, primarily of the silent era. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1914 and 1939. He was born in New York, New York, and died in Los Angeles, California. He was also known as George C. Pierce. Pearce also acted on stage, including portraying a doctor in White Cargo in Los Angeles in 1927. On Broadway, he acted in The Rainbow (1912), Billy (1909), The Mimic World (1908), D'Arcy of the Guards (1901), Manon Lescaut (1901), Brother Officers (1900), and Lord and Lady Algy (1899). Pearce was a member of the Players Club in New York City. Pearce died on August 12, 1940, at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles following a two-week illness, aged 75.

* 06/26/1865

C.M. Hallard(† 76)

Actor | Edinburgh (GB)

Charles Maitland Hallard (26 October 1865 – 21 April 1942) was a Scottish actor. In 1895 he appeared in the popular drama Trilby with Herbert Beerbohm Tree at the Haymarket Theatre.

* 10/26/1865

J. Fisher White(† 80)

Actor

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* 1865

Fred Walton(† 71)

Actor | Brighton, East Sussex, England (GB)

Fred Walton (July 26, 1865 – December 28, 1936) was an English stage actor who immigrated to the United States in the early part of the 20th century and became a character actor and director in American silent and early sound films.

* 07/26/1865

Harry Lonsdale(† 58)

Actor

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* 1865

Yvette Guilbert(† 79)

Actress | Paris (FR)

Yvette Guilbert (French pronunciation: [ivɛt gilbɛʁ]; born Emma Laure Esther Guilbert, 20 January 1865 – 3 February 1944) was a French cabaret singer and actress of the Belle Époque.

* 01/20/1865
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Harold Entwistle(† 79)

Actor

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* 1865

Arthur Mackley(† 61)

Actor | Portsmouth (GB)

Arthur Mackley (3 July 1865 – 21 December 1926) was an English actor and director of the silent era. He appeared in more than 150 films between 1910 and 1925. He frequently took the part of a sheriff in Westerns, earning the nickname "Sheriff" Mackley. He also directed 64 films between 1911 and 1915, at least 26 for Reliance-Mutual release. He was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, and died in Los Angeles, California, United States.

 
* 07/03/1865

Jehanne d'Alcy(† 91)

Actress | Vaujours, Seine-Saint-Denis (FR)

A performer at the Théâtre Robert-Houdin from 1888, when it was re-opened by Georges Méliès, Jehanne d'Alcy (also known as Fanny Manieux) later became Méliès's mistress and appeared in a number of his films, including the first of his risqué productions Après le bal - le tub (1897). Méliès's first wife Eugenie died in May 1913, and in 1925 he married d'Alcy. Her concession of a toy stall at the Gare Montparnasse, Paris, manned by Georges, provided their only income for several years. In 1932 they moved into an apartment at a home for cinema veterans. After Méliès's death, d'Alcy appeared in the poignant framing sequences of Georges Franju's short dramatisation of his life, Le Grand Méliès (1952), with Méliès's son André playing his father. Jehanne d'Alcy died on 14 October 1956 at Versailles, aged ninety-two.

* 03/20/1865

Rudolph Lothar(† 78)

Crew | Budapest / Buda Pest (HU)

Rudolf Lothar German pronunciation: [r'uːdolf l'oːtar] (born Rudolf Lothar Spitzer; 25 February 1865 – 2 October 1943) was an Austrian playwright, librettist, critic and essayist. He was born and died in Budapest.

* 02/23/1865

Erich Ludendorff(† 72)

Actor | Kruszewnia

Erich Ludendorff, né le9avril1865à Kruszewnia près dePosenenPrusse(aujourd'hui Poznań, enPologne) et mort le20décembre1937àTutzingenBavière, est unmilitaireethomme politiqueallemand. Il est général en chef des arméesallemandes(laDeutsches Heer) pendant laPremière Guerre mondiale, de 1916 à 1918. Il soutient activement le mouvementnational-socialistedans ses débuts (années 1920), avant de s'opposer àAdolf Hitler, et de se détourner de la politique pour créer, avecsa femme, un mouvementnéopaïen.

 
* 04/09/1865

Frank Dayton(† 59)

Actor

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* 1865

Templar Saxe(† 69)

Actor | Redhill, Surrey, England (GB)

Templar Saxe (born Templer William Edward Edevein; August 22, 1865 – April 17, 1935) was a British-born stage actor, opera singer and silent film actor. In films, he usually was a character actor as his singing voice could not be used in silent films. He was born in Redhill, Surrey, England and died in Cincinnati, Ohio.

* 08/22/1865

Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil(† 80)

Crew | Istanbul (TR)

Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil (also spelled Halit and Uşakizâde) (Turkish pronunciation: [haːˈlit ziˈjaː uˌʃaklɯˈɟil]; 1866 – 27 March 1945) was a Turkish author, poet, and playwright. A part of the Edebiyat-ı Cedide ("New Literature") movement of the late Ottoman Empire, he was the founder of and contributor to many literary movements and institutions, including his flagship Servet-i Fünun ("The Wealth of Knowledge") journal. He was a strong critic of the Sultan Abdul Hamid II, which led to the censorship of much of his work by the Ottoman government. His many novels, plays, short stories, and essays include his 1899 romance novel Aşk-ı Memnu ("Forbidden Love"), which has been adapted into an internationally successful television series of the same name.

* 02/12/1865

Eric Mayne(† 81)

Actor | Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]

Eric Mayne (April 28, 1865 – February 10, 1947) was an American actor. Mayne was born in Dublin and was a star on stage in London in the early 20th century, at the London Lyceum and at Drury Lane. In 1908 and 1910 he played Prince Hildred in The Prince and the Beggar Maid at the Lyceum Theatre in London. He appeared in the films The New York Peacock, Wife Number Two, Her Hour, Help! Help! Police!, Marooned Hearts, The Conquering Power, Turn to the Right, The Prisoner of Zenda, Pawned, Dr. Jack, My American Wife, The Christian, Suzanna, Prodigal Daughters, Human Wreckage, Her Reputation, Cameo Kirby, The Drums of Jeopardy, Black Oxen, The Yankee Consul, Gerald Cranston's Lady, Her Night of Romance, The Scarlet Honeymoon, Cyclone Cavalier, East Lynne, Hearts and Spangles, Folly of Youth, Money to Burn, Married Alive, The Canyon of Adventure, Rackety Rax, Night of Terror, The Drunkard and Ticket to Paradise, among others. Mayne died in his sleep in Hollywood, California, on February 10, 1947.

* 04/28/1865

Rudolf Lettinger(† 71)

Actor | Hamburg (DE)

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* 10/26/1865

Burr Caruth(† 87)

Actor

Burr Caruth was born on June 15, 1865 in Carbondale, Illinois, as Samuel Burr Caruth. He was an actor, known for New Frontier (1939), Under Western Stars (1938) and Ghost-Town Gold (1936). He died on June 2, 1953 in Los Angeles County, California.

* 06/15/1865

Francis Powers(† 74)

Actor

Francis Powers (June 4, 1865 Virginia – May 10, 1940 Santa Monica, California) was a silent film actor, screenwriter, and director from the United States.

* 06/04/1865

William Blaisdell(† 66)

Actor | California (US)

William Blaisdell (April, 1865–January 1, 1931) was an American actor of both stage and screen. Among his roles on stage was the Marquis de Pontsablé in the comic opera Madame Favart. He also starred in several comedic short films with Harold Lloyd in 1918. Blaisdell died in 1931. His widow, fellow actor Clara Lavine, died at age 75 on December 29, 1948.

* 01/01/1865

Herbert Ross(† 69)

Actor

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* 1865

Eoin Colfer(158)

Crew | Wexford (IE)

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* 05/14/1865

Douglas Munro(† 59)

Actor | London, England (GB)

Douglas Munro (1866 in London – 27 January 1924 in Birmingham, Warwickshire) was an English actor.

Known for: Tons of Money
* 01/01/1865

Abel Tarride(† 85)

Actor | Niort (FR)

Abel Tarride (1865–1951) was a French actor. He was the father of the actor Jacques Tarride and the director Jean Tarride. He played the role of Jules Maigret in the 1932 film The Yellow Dog, directed by his son.

* 04/18/1865

Emmett King(† 87)

Actor | Griffin, Georgia (US)

Emmett Carleton King (May 31, 1865 – April 21, 1953) was an American actor of the stage and screen.

* 05/31/1865
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