People: Famous People born in 1883

People in chronological context: 1883 (MDCCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1883rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 883rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 83rd year of the 19th century, and the 4th year of the 1880s decade. As of the start of 1883, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. ()

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Estelle Winwood(† 101)

Actress | Lee, Kent, England (GB)

Estelle Winwood (born Estelle Ruth Goodwin, 24 January 1883 – 20 June 1984) was an English stage and film actress who moved to the United States in mid-career and became celebrated for her wit and longevity.

Known for: The Producers, Murder by Death, Quality Street, Darby O'Gill and the Little People

* 01/24/1883

Ludwig Stössel(† 89)

Actor | Lockenhaus (AT)

Ludwig Stössel (12 February 1883 – 29 January 1973) was an actor born in Lockenhaus, now Austria, then Hungary. He was one of many Jewish actors and actresses who were forced to flee Germany when the Nazis came to power in 1933.

Known for: The Pride of the Yankees, From the Earth to the Moon, Call Me Madam, Temptation

* 02/12/1883

Mary Forbes(† 91)

Actress | Hornsey, Middlesex [now in Haringey, London], England (GB)

Mary Forbes (born Ethel Louise Young; 1 January 1883 – 22 July 1974) was a British-American film actress, based in the United States in her latter years, where she died. She appeared in more than 130 films from 1919 to 1958. Forbes was born in Hornsey, England. She made her first public appearance on the concert platform giving recitals. Her acting debut was in 1908 on the London stage at Aldwych Theatre. Her American stage debut came in Romance at Maxine Elliott's Theatre in 1913. She took over management of the Ambassadors Theatre in 1913 and had several years experience on stage in Britain and America before her appearances in Hollywood films. Two of her three children by her first marriage in the first quarter of 1904 to Ernest J. Taylor, Ralph and Dorothy Brenda, known as Brenda, were also actors. The middle child of the three, Phyllis Mary Taylor, was not in the acting business. Her second husband was British actor Charles Quartermaine, who married in 1925; the union ended in divorce. She married her third husband, Wesley Wall, an American businessman, in 1935; the couple remained married until her death in 1974. She became a naturalized United States citizen in 1943, with one of her character references being Lucile Webster Gleason, actress and wife of actor James Gleason.

Known for: You Can't Take It with You, The Awful Truth, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Nothing But the Truth

* 01/01/1883

Forrest Taylor(† 81)

Actor | Bloomington, Illinois (US)

Edwin Forrest Taylor (December 29, 1883 – February 19, 1965) was an American character actor whose artistic career spanned six different decades, from silents through talkies to the advent of color films.

Known for: The Green Archer, Federal Operator 99, Manhunt of Mystery Island

* 12/29/1883

Douglas Fairbanks(† 56)

Actor | Denver, Colorado (US)

Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. (May 23, 1883 – December 12, 1939) was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer. He was best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films such as The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro. An astute businessman, Fairbanks was a founding member of United Artists. Fairbanks was also a founding member of The Motion Picture Academy and hosted the first Oscars Ceremony in 1929. With his marriage to Mary Pickford in 1920, the couple became Hollywood royalty with Fairbanks constantly referred to as "The King of Hollywood", a nickname later passed on to actor Clark Gable.

Known for: The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, The Mark of Zorro, The Iron Mask

* 05/23/1883

Walter Huston(† 67)

Actor | Toronto, Ontario (CA)

Walter Thomas Huston ( HEW-stən; April 5, 1883 – April 7, 1950) was a Canadian actor and singer. Huston won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, directed by his son John Huston. He is the patriarch of the four generations of the Huston acting family, including his son John, grandchildren Anjelica Huston and Danny Huston, as well as great-grandchild Jack Huston. The family has produced three generations of Academy Award winners: Walter, his son John, and granddaughter Anjelica.

Known for: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Dodsworth, All That Money Can Buy, And Then There Were None

* 04/05/1883

Max Linder(† 41)

Actor | Cavernes, Saint-Loubès, Gironde (FR)

Although all too frequently neglected by fans of silent comedy,Max Linderis in many ways as important a figure asCharles Chaplin,Buster Keaton, orHarold Lloyd,not least because he predated (and influenced) them all by several years, and was largely responsible for the creation of the classic style of silent slapstick comedy.He started out as an actor in the French theatre, but after making his screendebutin 1905 he quickly became an enormously famous and successful film comedian on both sides of the Atlantic, thanks to his character "Max", a top-hatted dandy. By 1912, he was the highest-paid film star in the world, with an unprecedented salary of one million francs. He began to direct films in 1911 and showed equal facility behind the camera, but his career suffered an almost terminal blow when he was called up to fight in World War I. He was gassed, and the illness that resulted would blight his career.Although offered a contract in America, recurring ill-health meant that his US films had little of the sparkle of his early French work, and a brief attempt to revive his career by making films for the recently-formed United Artists (one of whose founders, of course, was Chaplin) in the early 1920s came to little, although these later films are now regarded as classics.He returned to France and killed himself in asuicidepact with his wife in 1925.

Known for: Seven Years Bad Luck, The Three Must-Get-Theres, Be My Wife, Le Petit Café

* 12/16/1883

Ford Sterling(† 55)

Actor | La Crosse, Wisconsin (US)

Ford Sterling (born George Stitch; November 3, 1883 – October 13, 1939) was an American comedian and actor best known for his work with Keystone Studios. One of the 'Big 4', he was the original chief of the Keystone Cops.

Known for: The Trouble With Wives, He Who Gets Slapped, Yankee Doodle in Berlin, Stage Struck

* 11/03/1883

Leonard Mudie(† 82)

Actor | Cheetham Hill, Manchester, Lancashire, England (GB)

Leonard Mudie (born Leonard Mudie Cheetham; April 11, 1883 – April 14, 1965) was an English character actor whose career lasted for nearly fifty years. After a successful start as a stage actor in England, he appeared regularly in the US, and made his home there from 1932. He appeared in character roles on Broadway and in Hollywood films.

Known for: The Mummy, Captain Blood, Clive of India, Limelight

* 04/11/1883

Joseph Crehan(† 82)

Actor | Baltimore, Maryland (US)

Joseph A. Creaghan (July 15, 1883 – April 15, 1966) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 300 films between 1916 and 1965, and notably played Ulysses S. Grant nine times between 1939 and 1958, most memorably in Union Pacific and They Died with Their Boots On.

Known for: Black Magic, Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome, Kid Galahad, The Case Of The Stuttering Bishop

* 07/15/1883

Pierre Palau(† 83)

Actor | Paris (FR)

Pierre Palau (13 August 1883 – 3 December 1966), often known simply as Palau, was a French actor. Palau was born Pierre Palau del Vitri in Paris and died at age 83 in Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France.

Known for: Children of Paradise, Angel and Sinner, Triplepatte, The Man from Nowhere

* 08/13/1883

Arthur Devère(† 78)

Actor | Brussels (BE)

Arthur Devère (24 June 1883 – 23 September 1961) was a Belgian film actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1913 and 1956.

Known for: The Mystery of the Yellow Room, Take Care of Amelie, It Happened at the Inn, Bifur 3

* 06/04/1883

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Eddie Collins(† 57)

Actor | Atlantic City, New Jersey (US)

He began working in vaudeville in 1935 and was discovered in burlesque.He appeared in dozens of films.Eddie Collins played Dopey in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Dopey is the only dwarf who does not have a beard. He is clumsy and mute, with Happy explaining that he has simply "never tried" to speak. In the movie's trailer, Walt Disney describes Dopey as "nice, but sort of silly".In the Disney film also he provided the sneezing of the chipmunk and the squirrel. -wikiepedia.

Known for: The Blue Bird, Charlie Chan in Honolulu, Quick Millions, Young Mr. Lincoln

* 01/30/1883

Francis X. Bushman(† 83)

Actor | Baltimore, Maryland (US)

Francis Xavier Bushman (January 10, 1883 – August 23, 1966) was an American film actor and director. His career as a matinee idol started in 1911 in the silent film His Friend's Wife. He gained a large female following and was one of the biggest stars of the 1910s and early 1920s. Bushman, like many of his contemporaries, broke into the moving picture business via the stage. He rose to fame at Essanay Studios in Chicago, where he was first noticed for his muscular, sculpted frame. He appeared in nearly 200 feature film roles—more than 175 films before 1920, and 27 in his screen debut year of 1911 alone. He also worked for the Vitagraph studio before signing with Metro in 1915.

Known for: Sabrina, The Phantom Planet, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

* 01/10/1883

Elsa Maxwell(† 80)

Actress | Keokuk, Iowa (US)

Elsa Maxwell (May 24, 1883 – November 1, 1963) was an American gossip columnist and author, songwriter, screenwriter, radio personality and professional hostess renowned for her parties for royalty and high society figures of her day. Maxwell is credited with the introduction of the scavenger hunt and treasure hunt for use as party games in the modern era. Her radio program, Elsa Maxwell's Party Line, began in 1942; she also wrote a syndicated gossip column. She appeared as herself in the films Stage Door Canteen (1943) and Rhapsody in Blue (1945), as well as co-starring in the film Hotel for Women (1939), for which she wrote the screenplay and a song.

Known for: Hotel for Women, Stage Door Canteen, Public Deb No. 1, Our Betters

* 05/24/1883

Virginia Brissac(† 96)

Actress | San Jose, California (US)

Virginia Brissac (June 11, 1883 – July 26, 1979) was a popular American stage actress who headlined theatre companies from Vancouver to San Diego during the heyday of West Coast Stock in the early 1900s. An ingénue and leading lady known for her natural style and charm on stage, Brissac played with equal success in both comedies and dramas and went on to have a long second career as a character actress in film and television. In addition to playing mothers, grandmothers, and confidants to film stars such as Bette Davis (in The Little Foxes and Dark Victory), Tyrone Power (in Captain from Castile), and John Wayne (in Operation Pacific), Brissac was cast as farm women and rancher's wives (Jesse James, The Daltons Ride Again, State Fair), aristocrats and society women (The Phantom of the Rue Morgue, Old Los Angeles, Executive Suite), and various nurses, seamstresses, and landladies. She is probably best remembered for her role as the grandmother of Jim Stark, the troubled teenager played by James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause.

Known for: Rebel Without a Cause, Dark Victory, The Scarlet Clue, Executive Suite

* 06/11/1883

Edna May Oliver(† 59)

Actress | Malden, Massachusetts (US)

Edna May Oliver (November 9, 1883 – November 9, 1942) was an American stage and film actress. During the 1930s, she was one of the best-known character actresses in American films, often playing tart-tongued spinsters.She was born Edna May Nutter in Malden, Massachusetts. The daughter of Ida May and Charles Edward Nutter, Edna was a descendant of the 6th American president John Quincy Adams. Miss Oliver took an early interest in the stage, and she would quit school at the age of 14 to pursue her ambitions in the theater.Despite abandoning traditional schooling, Edna continued to study the performing arts, including speech and piano. One of her first jobs was as pianist with an all female orchestra which toured America around the turn of the century. By 1917 she had achieved success on Broadway in the hit play "Oh, Boy". By 1923 she had appeared in her first film. Edna May Oliver seems to have been born to play the classics of American and British literature. Some of her most memorable film roles were in adaptations of works of Charles Dickens. Although some have described her as plain or "horse faced", Edna May Oliver's comedic talents lent a beautiful droll warmth to her characters. She was usually called upon to play less glamorous roles such as a spinsters, but she played them with such soul, wit, and depth that to this day she remains one of the best loved of Hollywood's character actresses. A fine example of her comedic talent can be found in Laugh and Get Rich (1931). Here we find her playing a role almost autobiographical in nature, that of a proud woman with Boston roots who has married "down". As the plot unwinds, she is invited to a society gala despite her modest circumstances. At the gala she becomes tipsy. With a frolicsome air Edna May seems to use the role to gently mock her real self. Her slightly drunk character seizes upon a bit of flattery, and alluding to her old New England family, proudly proclaims to each who will listen, "I am a Cranston. That explains everything!". In real life, Edna May Oliver was a Nutter, and perhaps that explains everything.Edna May Oliver married stock broker David Pratt in 1928, but the marriage ended in divorce five years later. In 1939 she received an Oscar nomination for her supporting role as Widow McKlennar in the picture Drums Along the Mohawk (1939). That was to be one of her last films. Miss Oliver was struck ill in August of 1942. Although she seemed to recover briefly, she was re-admitted to Los Angeles's Cedars of Lebanon hospital in October Her dear friend actress Virginia Hammond flew out from New York to stay by her bedside. Edna May Oliver died on her 59th birthday, 9th November 1942. Virginia Hammond was with her and said, "She died without ever being aware of the gravity of her condition. She just went peacefully asleep.".

Known for: Penguin Pool Murder, David Copperfield, Drums Along the Mohawk, My Dear Miss Aldrich

* 11/09/1883

Hale Hamilton(† 59)

Actor | Fort Madison, Iowa (US)

Hale Rice Hamilton (February 28, 1880 – May 19, 1942) was an American actor.

Known for: His Children's Children, The Girl from Missouri, The Great Lover, The Great Gatsby

* 02/28/1883

Florenz Ames(† 77)

Actor | Rochester / The Flour City (US)

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Known for: The Adventures of Ellery Queen, Blondie, Four Star Playhouse

* 09/06/1883

Florence Wix(† 73)

Actress | Hertfordshire (GB)

Florence Wix (16 May 1883 – 23 November 1956) was an English-born American character actress who worked from the 1920s in silent films through sound films of the 1950s.

Known for: Secrets, The Buccaneer, Three Cheers for Love, Laugh Your Blues Away

* 05/16/1883

Robert Emmett Keane(† 98)

Actor | New York City, New York (US)

Robert Emmett Keane (March 4, 1883 – July 2, 1981) was an American actor of both the stage and screen.

Known for: There's a Girl in My Heart, The Border Legion, The Atomic Kid, Casanova Brown

* 03/04/1883

Lili Bech(† 55)

Actress | Copenhagen (DK)

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* 12/29/1883

Maude Fealy(† 88)

Actress | Memphis, Tennessee (US)

Maude Fealy (born Maude Mary Hawk; March 4, 1883 – November 9, 1971) was an American stage and silent film actress whose career survived into the sound era.

Known for: The Ten Commandments, David Copperfield, The Buccaneer, The Immortal Flame

* 03/04/1883

Stanley Fields(† 57)

Actor | Allegheny, Pennsylvania (US)

Stanley Fields (born Walter L. Agnew; May 20, 1883 – April 23, 1941) was an American actor.

Known for: Little Caesar, Algiers, Hell's Kitchen, Island of Lost Souls

* 05/20/1883

Greta Meyer(† 82)

Actress | Dessau (DE)

Greta Meyer (7 August 1883 – 8 October 1965) was a German actress in motion pictures beginning in the silent film era.

Known for: Mister Dynamite, The Nuisance, The Great Waltz

* 08/07/1883

Rockliffe Fellowes(† 66)

Actor | Ottawa, Ontario (CA)

Rockliffe St Patrick Fellowes (17 March 1884 – 28 January 1950), was a Canadian actor born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He starred in films such as Regeneration and Monkey Business.

Known for: Monkey Business, The Understanding Heart, The Crystal Cup, The Third Degree

* 03/17/1883

Jules Berry(† 68)

Actor | Poitiers (FR)

Jules Berry (born Marie Louis Jules Paufichet; 9 February 1883 – 23 April 1951) was a French actor.

Known for: The Devil's Envoys, Adventure in Paris, Le Jour Se Lève

* 02/09/1883

Hjalmar Bergman(† 47)

Crew | Örebro (SE)

Hjalmar Fredrik Elgérus Bergman (19 September 1883 in Örebro, Sweden – 1 January 1931 in Berlin, Germany) was a Swedish writer and playwright.

Known for: The Hell Ship, His Lord's Will, The Girl in Tails

* 09/19/1883

Sam Wood(† 66)

Crew | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (US)

Samuel Grosvenor Wood (July 10, 1883 – September 22, 1949) was an American film director and producer who is best known for having directed such Hollywood hits as A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, The Pride of the Yankees, and For Whom the Bell Tolls and for his uncredited work directing parts of Gone with the Wind. He was also involved in a few acting and writing projects. As a youth, Wood developed an enthusiasm for physical fitness that persisted into his senior years and influenced his interest in making sports-themed films. Wood advanced from making largely competent yet routine pictures in the 1920s and 1930s to directing several highly regarded works during the 1940s at the peak of his abilities, among them Kings Row (1942) and Ivy (1947). Wood's quick, efficient and professional execution of his film assignments endeared him to studio executives, and though not a "brilliant" director, Wood's legacy represents "a long and respectable film career."

Known for: A Night at the Opera, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Ivy, Kitty Foyle

* 07/10/1883

Ralph Morgan(† 72)