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People: Famous People born in 1891

People in chronological context: 1891 (MDCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1891st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 891st year of the 2nd millennium, the 91st year of the 19th century, and the 2nd year of the 1890s decade. As of the start of 1891, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. ()

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Irving Pichel(† 63)

Actor | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (US)

Irving Pichel (June 24, 1891 – July 13, 1954) was an American actor and film director, who won acclaim both as an actor and director in his Hollywood career.

* 06/24/1891

Walter Bacon(† 82)

Actor

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* 1891

Charles Bickford(† 76)

Actor | Cambridge, Massachusetts (US)

Charles Ambrose Bickford (January 1, 1891 – November 9, 1967) was an American actor known for supporting roles. He was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Song of Bernadette (1943), The Farmer's Daughter (1947) and Johnny Belinda (1948). His other roles include Whirlpool (1950), A Star Is Born (1954) and The Big Country (1958).

* 01/01/1891

Frank Fay(† 69)

Actor | San Francisco, California (US)

Frank Fay (November 17, 1891 – September 25, 1961) was an American film and stage actor, emcee, comedian, best-known as an actor for having played "Elwood P. Dowd" in the play Harvey by the American playwright Mary Coyle Chase on Broadway.

* 11/17/1891

Everett Glass(† 74)

Actor | Bangor (US)

Everett Glass (July 23, 1891 – March 22, 1966) was an American character actor who appeared in more than eighty films and television shows from the 1940s through the 1960s, including Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and episodes of Adventures of Superman, Lassie, and Perry Mason. He began as a stage actor and had a long career as a theatre director and playwright before coming to Hollywood in his 50s.

* 07/23/1891

Stanley Andrews(† 77)

Actor | Chicago, Illinois (US)

Stanley Andrews was an American actor perhaps best known as the voice of Daddy Warbucks on the radio program Little Orphan Annie and later as "The Old Ranger", the first host of the syndicated western anthology television series, Death Valley Days.

* 08/28/1891

William H. O'Brien(† 89)

Actor | Peak Hill, New South Wales (AU)

Australian born William H. O'Brien began his screen acting career in Australia in 1918, then resumed in Hollywood in 1921. He continued acting in films and television series to 1971.

* 07/19/1891

Jean De Briac(† 79)

Actor | Paris (FR)

Jean De Briac (born Jean-Frederic Weitler, 15 August 1891 – 18 October 1970) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1920 and 1962. He was born in France and died in Los Angeles, California. He immigrated to the United States in 1915.

* 08/15/1891

John Grant(† 63)

Crew | Tarentum (US)

John Grant (December 27, 1891 – November 19, 1955) was a comedy writer best known for his association with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Costello called him their "chief idea man". Grant contributed to Abbott and Costello's radio, film and live television scripts, as well as the films of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis and Ma and Pa Kettle.

* 12/27/1891

Poodles Hanneford(† 76)

Actor

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* 05/14/1891

Franco Coop(† 70)

Actor | Naples (IT)

Franco Coop (27 September 1891 – 27 March 1962), was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 65 films between 1931 and 1960. He was born in Naples, Italy and died in Rome, Italy.

* 09/27/1891

Fay Bainter(† 76)

Actress | Los Angeles, California (US)

Fay Okell Bainter (December 7, 1893 – April 16, 1968) was an American film and stage actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Jezebel (1938) and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

* 12/07/1891
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Alma Platt(† 85)

Actress | Chicago, Illinois (US)

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* 06/26/1891

James Knight(† 57)

Actor

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* 1891

Marjorie Gateson(† 86)

Actress | Brooklyn (US)

Marjorie Gateson (January 17, 1891 - April 17, 1977) was an American actress.

* 01/17/1891

Ronald Colman(† 67)

Actor | Richmond, Surrey, England (GB)

British leading man of primarily American films, one of the great stars of the Golden Age. Raised in Ealing, the son of a successful silk merchant, he attended boarding school in Sussex, where he first discovered amateur theatre. He intended to attend Cambridge and become an engineer, but his father's death cost him the financial support necessary. He joined the London Scottish Regionals and at the outbreak of World War I was sent to France. Seriously wounded at the battle of Messines--he was gassed--he was invalided out of service scarcely two months after shipping out for France. Upon his recovery he tried to enter the consular service, but a chance encounter got him a small role in a London play. He dropped other plans and concentrated on the theatre, and was rewarded with a succession of increasingly prominent parts. He made extra money appearing in a few minor films, and in 1920 set out for New York in hopes of finding greater fortune there than in war-depressed England. After two years of impoverishment he was cast in aBroadwayhit, "La Tendresse". DirectorHenry Kingspotted him in the show and cast him asLillian Gish's leading man inThe White Sister(1923). His success in the film led to a contract withSamuel Goldwyn, and his career as a Hollywood leading man was underway. He became a vastly popular star of silent films, in romances as well as adventure films. The coming of sound made his extraordinarily beautiful speaking voice even more important to the film industry. He played sophisticated, thoughtful characters of integrity with enormous aplomb, and swashbuckled expertly when called to do so in films likeThe Prisoner of Zenda(1937). A decade later he received an AcademyAwardfor his splendid portrayal of a tormented actor inA Double Life(1947). Much of his later career was devoted to "The Halls of Ivy", a radio show that later was transferred to television"The Halls of Ivy"(1954). He continued to work until nearly the end of his life, which came in 1958 after a brief lung illness. He was survived by his second wife, actressBenita Hume, and their daughterJuliet Benita Colman.

* 02/09/1891

J. Benton Cheney(133)

Crew

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* 1891

Gene Lockhart(† 65)

Actor | London, Ontario (CA)

Edwin Eugene Lockhart (July 18, 1891 – March 31, 1957) was a Canadian-American character actor, playwright, singer and lyricist. He appeared in over 300 films, and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Regis in Algiers (1938), the American remake of Pepe le Moko.

* 07/18/1891

Béla Mihályffi(† 57)

Actor | Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]

Béla Mihályffi (January 14, 1891 – April 4, 1948) was a Hungarian stage and film actor. A character actor, he played supporting roles in more than sixty films during the 1930s and 1940s.

* 01/11/1891

John Dilson(† 53)

Actor | Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York (US)

John Dilson (February 18, 1891 – June 1, 1944) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 250 films between 1934 and 1944.

* 02/18/1891

Buck Jones(† 50)

Actor | Vincennes (US)

Buck Jones was an American actor, known for his work in many popular Western movies. In his early film appearances, he was credited as Charles Jones.

* 12/12/1891

Frank R. Strayer(† 72)

Crew | Altoona (US)

Frank Raymond Strayer (September 21, 1891 – February 3, 1964) was an actor, film writer, director and producer. He was active from the mid-1920s until the early 1950s. He directed a series of 14 Blondie! (1938) movies as well.

* 09/20/1891

June Weaver(† 86)

Actor

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* 1891

Pär Lagerkvist(† 83)

Crew | Växjö (SE)

Pär Fabian Lagerkvist was a Swedish author who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951.

* 05/23/1891

Belle Bennett(† 41)

Actress | Milaca, Minnesota (US)

Belle Bennett (born Ara Belle Bennett; April 22, 1891 – November 4, 1932) was a stage and screen actress who started her career as a child as a circus performer. She later performed in theater and films.

* 04/22/1891

Harry Seymour(† 76)

Actor

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* 06/22/1891

George Marshall(† 83)

Crew | Chicago, Illinois (US)

George E. Marshall (December 29, 1891 – February 17, 1975) was an American actor, screenwriter, producer, film and television director, active through the first six decades of film history. Relatively few of Marshall's films are well-known today, with Destry Rides Again (1939), The Ghost Breakers (1940), The Blue Dahlia (1946), The Sheepman (1958), and How the West Was Won (1962) being the biggest exceptions. John Houseman called him "one of the old maestros of Hollywood ... he had never become one of the giants but he held a solid and honorable position in the industry." In the 1930s, he established a reputation for comedy, directing Laurel and Hardy in three classic films, and also working on a variety of comedies for Fox, though many of his films at Fox were destroyed in a vault fire in 1937. Later in his career he was particularly sought after for comedies. He did around half a dozen films each with Bob Hope and Jerry Lewis, and also worked with W. C. Fields, Jackie Gleason, and Will Rogers.

* 12/29/1891

Isabel Jeans(† 93)

Actress | London, England (GB)

Isabel Jeans (16 September 1891 – 4 September 1985) was an English stage and film actress known for her roles in several Alfred Hitchcock films and her portrayal of Aunt Alicia in the 1958 musical film Gigi.

* 09/16/1891

Victor Varconi(† 85)

Actor | Kisvárda, Austria-Hungary

Victor Varconi (born Mihály Várkonyi; March 31, 1891 – June 6, 1976) was a Hungarian actor who initially found success in his native country, as well as in Germany and Austria, in silent films, before relocating to the United States, where he continued to appear in films throughout the sound era. He also appeared in British and Italian films.

* 03/31/1891

Raymond Bernard(† 86)

Crew | Paris (FR)

Raymond Bernard (10 October 1891 – 12 December 1977) was a French film director and screenwriter whose career spanned more than forty years. He is best remembered for several large-scale historical productions, including the silent films Le Miracle des loups (The Miracle of the Wolves) and Le Joueur d'échecs (The Chess Player) and in the 1930s Les Croix de bois (Wooden Crosses) and a highly regarded adaptation of Les Misérables.

* 10/10/1891
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