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People: Famous People born in 1877

People in chronological context: 1877 (MDCCCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1877th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 877th year of the 2nd millennium, the 77th year of the 19th century, and the 8th year of the 1870s decade. As of the start of 1877, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. ()

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Edmund Gwenn(† 81)

Actor | Wandsworth, London, England (GB)

Edmund Gwenn (born Edmund John Kellaway; 26 September 1877 – 6 September 1959) was an English actor. On film, he is best remembered for his role as Kris Kringle in the Christmas film Miracle on 34th Street (1947), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the corresponding Golden Globe Award. He received a second Golden Globe and another Academy Award nomination for the comedy film Mister 880 (1950). He is also remembered for his appearances in four films directed by Alfred Hitchcock. As a stage actor in the West End and on Broadway, he was associated with a wide range of works by modern playwrights, including Bernard Shaw, John Galsworthy and J. B. Priestley. After the Second World War, he lived in the United States, where he had a successful career in Hollywood and Broadway.

Known for: Miracle on 34th Street, The Trouble with Harry, Pride and Prejudice, Them!
* 09/26/1877

Charles Coburn(† 84)

Actor | Savannah, Georgia (US)

Charles Douville Coburn (June 19, 1877 – August 30, 1961) was an American actor and theatrical producer. He was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award ("Oscar") three times – for The Devil and Miss Jones (1941), The More the Merrier (1943), and The Green Years (1946) – winning for his performance in The More the Merrier. He was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California) in 1960 for his contribution to the film industry.

Known for: The More the Merrier, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Lady Eve, Monkey Business
* 06/19/1877

Sam Harris(† 92)

Actor | Sydney (AU)

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Known for: The Charge of the Light Brigade, Safari, I Cover the War!
* 01/11/1877

Gibson Gowland(† 74)

Actor | Spennymoor, Durham, England (GB)

Gibson Gowland (4 January 1872 or 1877 – 9 September 1951) was an English film actor.

Known for: Greed, Blind Husbands, The Phantom of the Opera, The Red Lily
* 01/04/1877

Jack Henderson(† 79)

Actor | Syracuse, New York (US)

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Known for: The Ridin' Fool, The Power God, The Foolish Virgin
* 05/14/1877

Nigel De Brulier(† 70)

Actor | Frenchay, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England (GB)

English born Nigel De Brulier (born Francis George Packer) was an actor of the American screen, who began his career during the silent cinema era.

Known for: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, Adventures of Captain Marvel, The Three Musketeers, The Hound of the Baskervilles
* 07/08/1877

Halliwell Hobbes(† 84)

Actor | Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England (GB)

Herbert Halliwell Hobbes (16 November 1877 – 20 February 1962) was an English actor.

Known for: You Can't Take It with You, The Undying Monster, To Be or Not to Be, Gaslight
* 11/16/1877

Claire McDowell(† 88)

Actress | New York City, New York (US)

Claire McDowell (née MacDowell; November 2, 1877 – October 23, 1966) was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 350 films between 1908 and 1945.

Known for: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, The Big Parade, The Mark of Zorro, Prisoners of Love
* 11/02/1877

Norman MacOwan(† 84)

Actor | St. Andrews, Scotland (GB)

Norman MacOwan was a British actor and writer. He started his career in the theater in 1903, and both wrote and performed a number of plays in the 1920s and 1930s. Plays Norman MacOwan wrote included: The Blue Lagoon (1921), The Infinite Shoeblack (1930), and Glorious Morning (1938). MacOwan appeared in a number of movies including: BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950), Tread Softly Stranger (1958), Kidnapped (1960), and The City of the Dead (1960). He was married to Violet [Ellen] Stephenson (actress). He died on December 31, 1961 in Hastings, East Sussex, England.

Known for: Kidnapped, The City of the Dead, Action of the Tiger, Sunday Night Theatre
* 1877

O. P. Heggie(† 58)

Actor | Angaston, South Australia (AU)

Oliver Peters Heggie, known as O. P. Heggie, was an Australian-born stage and screen actor, in the United States from 1901.

Known for: The Bride of Frankenstein, The Count of Monte Cristo, Smilin' Through, Midnight
* 09/17/1877

Josephine Hull(† 80)

Actress | Newtonville, Massachusetts (US)

Marie Josephine Hull (née Sherwood; January 3, 1877 – March 12, 1957) was an American stage and film actress who also was a director of plays. She had a successful 50-year career on stage while taking some of her better known roles to film. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the movie Harvey (1950), a role she originally played on the Broadway stage. She was sometimes credited as Josephine Sherwood.

Known for: Harvey, Arsenic and Old Lace, After Tomorrow, Ford Theatre
* 01/03/1877

Bodil Rosing(† 64)

Actress | Copenhagen (DK)

Bodil Rosing was born on December 27, 1877 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was an actress, known for Sunrise (1927), You Can't Take It with You (1938) and Why Be Good? (1929). She was previously married to Einer Jansen. She died on December 31, 1941 in Hollywood, California, USA.

Known for: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, You Can't Take It with You, Why Be Good?, Downstairs
* 12/27/1877
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Helen Ware(† 61)

Actress | San Francisco, California (US)

Helen Ware (née Remer; October 15, 1877 – January 25, 1939) was an American stage and film actress.

Known for: The Virginian, Flaming Gold, The Garden of Allah, The Keyhole
* 10/15/1877

J. Searle Dawley(† 71)

Crew | Del Norte, Colorado (US)

James Searle Dawley (October 4, 1877 – March 30, 1949) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, stage actor, and playwright. Between 1907 and the mid-1920s, while working for Edison, Rex Motion Picture Company, Famous Players, Fox, and other studios, he directed more than 300 short films and 56 features, which include many of the early releases of stars such as Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Pearl White, Marguerite Clark, Harold Lloyd, and John Barrymore. He also wrote scenarios for many of his productions, including one for his 1910 horror film Frankenstein, the earliest known screen adaptation of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel. While film direction and screenwriting comprised the bulk of Dawley's career, he also had earlier working experience in theater, performing on stage for more than a decade and managing every aspect of stagecraft. Dawley wrote at least 18 plays as well for repertory companies and for several Broadway productions.

Known for: Rich Man, Poor Man, The Phantom Honeymoon
* 05/13/1877

François Lallement(† 76)

Actor | France (FR)

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Known for: Le Grand Méliès
* 02/04/1877

Taylor N. Duncan(† 80)

Actor

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Known for: Terror Island, Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages, The Strings of Steel, Ranson's Folly
* 07/04/1877

Ladislaus Vajda(† 55)

Crew | Eger, Heves megye, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]

Ladislaus Vajda (born Lipót Weisz; 18 August 1877 – 10 March 1933) was a Hungarian screenwriter. He wrote for 40 films in Hungary, Austria and Germany between 1916 and 1932. He was born in Eger, Northern Hungary and died in Berlin, Germany. He was the father of Hungarian film director Ladislao Vajda.

Known for: White Hell of Pitz Palu, Pandora's Box, The Last Dawn
* 08/18/1877

Vladimir Gardin(† 88)

Actor | Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Vladimir Rostislavovich Gardin (Russian: Влади́мир Ростисла́вович Га́рдин) (born Vladimir Rostislavovich Blagonravov (Благонра́вов); 18 January [O.S. 6 January] 1877 – 28 May 1965) was a pioneering Russian film director and actor who strove to raise the artistic level of Russian cinema. He first gained renown as a stage actor in the adaptations of Russian classics by Vera Komissarzhevskaya and other directors. In 1913, he turned to cinema and started producing screen versions of great Russian fiction: Anna Karenina (1914), The Kreutzer Sonata (1914), Home of the Gentry (1914), War and Peace (1915, co-directed with Yakov Protazanov), and On the Eve (1915). After the Russian Revolution of 1917, he organized and presided over the first film school in the world, now known as VGIK. With the advent of sound pictures, he stopped directing and returned to acting. His roles won him a high critical acclaim and the title of People's Artist of the USSR (1947). Gardin published two volumes of memoirs in 1949 and 1952. Another book, The Artist's Life and Labor, followed in 1960.

Known for: War and Peace, Petersburg Slums, Kastus Kalinovskiy
* 01/18/1877

George Melford(† 84)

Crew | Rochester, New York (US)

George H. Melford was an American stage and film actor, director, producer, and screenwriter.

Known for: Love In The Desert, Jungle Menace, East of Borneo
* 02/17/1877

Robert Homans(† 69)

Actor | Malden, Massachusetts (US)

Robert Edward Homans (November 8, 1877 – July 28, 1947) was an American actor who entered films in 1923 after a lengthy stage career.

Known for: The Grapes of Wrath, Night Monster, Yes, My Darling Daughter
* 11/08/1877

Jules Cowles(† 65)

Actor | Farmington, Connecticut (US)

Jules Cowles (October 18, 1877 – May 22, 1943) was an American film actor. He was also billed as J. D. Cowles and Julius D. Cowles.

Known for: The Scarlet Letter, The Ne'er-Do-Well, The Scarlet Letter, One Hysterical Night
* 10/18/1877

Norman Trevor(† 52)

Actor | Kolkata (IN)

Norman Gilbert Pritchard (23 June 1875 – 30 October 1929), also known by his stage name Norman Trevor, was a British-Indian athlete and actor who became the first Asian-born athlete to win an Olympic medal when he won two silver medals in athletics at the 1900 Paris Olympics representing India. He won India's first medal at the Olympics in the 200 metres and the 200 metres hurdles.

Known for: The Wizard, Beau Geste, Sorrell and Son
* 06/23/1877

John Larkin(† 58)

Actor | Norfolk, Virginia (US)

John Larkin was born in 1879 in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. He was a Negro actor, known for Hearts Divided (1936), The Wet Parade (1932) and Sporting Blood (1931). He died on March 18, 1936 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Known for: The Wet Parade, Sporting Blood, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, The Prodigal
* 11/25/1877

Morris Harvey(† 66)

Actor | Marylebone, London, England (GB)

Morris Harvey (25 September 1877 – 24 August 1944) was a British actor and writer. A renowned character actor, he also wrote for the stage, including material for Broadway revues, in which he also appeared. He was the stepfather of film director Anthony Harvey.

Known for: Squibs, Scrooge
* 09/25/1877

Barlowe Borland(† 71)

Actor | Greenock (GB)

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Known for: The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Little Minister, A Tale of Two Cities, Easy Living
* 08/06/1877

Eagle Eye(† 50)

Actor | Globe (US)

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Known for: Serenade, Wolves of the North
* 1877

Heinz Salfner(† 67)

Actor | München (DE)

Heinz Salfner (31 December 1877 – 13 October 1945) was a German stage and film actor. Salfner appeared in more than sixty films during his career. He played the lead in the 1932 crime film A Shot at Dawn.

Known for: Peer Gynt - 1. Teil: Peer Gynts Jugend, Lady Windermeres Fächer, Donogoo Tonka, Peer Gynt - 2. Teil: Peer Gynts Wanderjahre und Tod
* 12/31/1877

Lawrence Grossmith(† 66)

Actor | London (GB)

Lawrence Randall Grossmith (29 March 1877 – 21 February 1944 (aged 66)) was an English actor, the son of the Gilbert and Sullivan performer George Grossmith and the brother of the actor-manager George Grossmith Jr. After establishing his career in Edwardian musical comedy in London from the first years of the 20th century until the First World War (except for a brief period in the U.S.), Grossmith left England on an extensive tour of the U.S. and Australia, playing in both musicals and non-musical plays. He continued his stage career in England and America from 1924. From 1933 until his death in 1944, he acted in films as well as on stage.

Known for: Gaslight, The Brass Bottle, Silver Blaze, Cash
* 03/29/1877

Chief John Big Tree(† 90)

Actor | Buffalo, New York (US)

Chief John Big Tree was born on June 2, 1877 in Buffalo, New York, as Isaac Johnny John. He was an actor, known for She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) and Devil's Doorway (1950). He died on July 6, 1967 in Onondaga Indian Reservation, New York.One of three men who posed for artist James Fraser for the profile which became the famous "Indian head nickel" or "buffalo nickel" minted 1913-1938. The other two were Chief Two Moons (of the Cheyenne) and Chief Iron Tail (of the Lakota Sioux). The image was reused for a special commemorative $50 gold piece in 2006--the USA's first 24k (pure gold) coin.Big Tree was a member of the Seneca Nation.

Known for: She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Ranson's Folly, The Desert's Toll
* 06/02/1877

René Navarre(† 90)

Actor | Limoges (FR)

René Navarre (8 July 1877 – 8 February 1968) was a French actor of the silent era. He appeared in 109 films between 1910 and 1946, and was often credited simply as Navarre. His most famous role was probably the master criminal Fantômas.

Known for: Fantômas, Le Mort qui tue, Tue-la-mort
* 07/08/1877
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