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People: Famous People born in 1893

People in chronological context: 1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1893rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 893rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 93rd year of the 19th century, and the 4th year of the 1890s decade. As of the start of 1893, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. ()

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Lillian Gish(† 99)

Actress | Springfield, Ohio (US)

Lillian Diana Gish (October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993) was an American actress. Her film-acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912, in silent film shorts, to 1987. Gish was called the "First Lady of American Cinema", and is credited with pioneering fundamental film performance techniques. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Gish as the 17th greatest female movie star of Classic Hollywood cinema. Having acted on stage with her sister as a child, Gish was a prominent film star from 1912 into the 1920s, being particularly associated with the films of director D. W. Griffith. This included her leading role in the highest-grossing film of the silent era, Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915). Her other major films and performances from the silent era are: Intolerance (1916), Broken Blossoms (1919), Way Down East (1920), Orphans of the Storm (1921), La Bohème (1926), and The Wind (1928). At the dawn of the sound era, she returned to the stage and appeared in film occasionally, including well-known leading roles in the Western Duel in the Sun (1946) and the thriller The Night of the Hunter (1955). She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Duel in the Sun. Gish also had major supporting roles in Portrait of Jennie (1948), A Wedding (1978), and Sweet Liberty (1986). She also did considerable television work from the early 1950s into the 1980s, and retired after playing opposite Bette Davis in the 1987 film The Whales of August. During her later years, Gish became a dedicated advocate for the appreciation and preservation of silent film. Despite being better known for her film work, she was also accomplished on stage, and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1972. In 1971, she was awarded an Academy Honorary Award for her career achievements. She was awarded a Kennedy Center Honor for her contribution to American culture through performing arts in 1982.

Known for: The Night of the Hunter, The White Sister, The Whales of August, Duel in the Sun
* 10/14/1893

John Brahm(† 89)

Crew | Hamburg (DE)

John Brahm (August 17, 1893 – October 12, 1982) was a German film and television director. His films include The Undying Monster (1942), The Lodger (1944), Hangover Square (1945), The Locket (1946), The Brasher Doubloon (1947), and the 3D horror film, The Mad Magician (1954).

Known for: The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima, Singapore, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits
* 08/17/1893

Jimmy Durante(† 86)

Actor | New York City, New York (US)

Comedian, composer, actor, singer and songwriter ("Inka Dinka Doo") Jimmy Durante was educated in New York public schools. He began his career as a Coney Island pianist, and organized a five-piece band in 1916. He opened the Club Durant with Eddie Jackson and Lou Clayton, with whom he later formed a comedy trio for vaudeville and on television. He appeared in the Broadway musicals "Show Girl", "The New Yorkers", "Strike Me Pink", "Jumbo", "Red Hot and Blue", and "Stars in Your Eyes". By 1936, he had appeared at the Palladium in London. Later he had his own radio and television shows, and was a featured headliner in night clubs. Biographer Gene Fowler wrote his biography, "Schnozzola". Joining ASCAP in 1941, he collaborated musically with Jackie Barnett and Ben Ryan, and his other popular song compositions include "I'm Jimmy That Well-Dressed Man", "I Know Darn Well I Can Do Without Broadway", "I Ups to Him and He Ups to Me", "Daddy Your Mamma Is Lonesome For You", "Umbriago", "Any State In the Forty-Eight", "Chidabee Chidabee Chidabee", and "I'm Jimmy's Girl".

Known for: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Cuban Love Song, Billy Rose's Jumbo, The Great Rupert
* 02/10/1893

Charles Stevens(† 71)

Actor | Solomonsville, Arizona (US)

Charles Stevens (May 26, 1893 – August 22, 1964) was an American actor. He appeared in nearly 200 films between 1915 and 1961. A close friend of actor Douglas Fairbanks, Stevens appeared in nearly all of Fairbanks' films.

Known for: The Three Musketeers, The Americano, Ebb Tide, Across the Pacific
* 05/26/1893

Isobel Elsom(† 87)

Actress | Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England (GB)

Isobel Elsom (March 16, 1893 — January 12, 1981) was an English screen, stage, and television actress.

Known for: My Fair Lady, Between Two Worlds, Monsieur Verdoux, Ladies in Retirement
* 03/16/1893

Lester Dorr(† 87)

Actor | Boston, Massachusetts (US)

Harry Lester Dorr (May 8, 1893 – August 25, 1980) was an American actor who between 1917 and 1975 appeared in well over 500 productions on stage, in feature films and shorts, and in televised plays and weekly series. Even a sampling from his extensive filmography attests to his versatility as a supporting actor and his reliability as a bit player. His roles are at times credited, but more often they are uncredited, consisting of peripheral characters who have limited dialogue or appear briefly in a wide range of occupations such as newspaper reporters, hotel clerks and bellhops, taxi drivers, salesmen, police officers, military personnel, waiters, and bartenders.

Known for: Riders of the Purple Sage, The Secret Code, Flying Disc Man from Mars, South of Panama
* 05/08/1893

Barry Jones(† 88)

Actor | Guernsey, Channel Islands (GB)

Barry Cuthbert Jones (6 March 1893 – 1 May 1981) was an actor seen in British and American films, on American television and on the stage.

Known for: Brigadoon, Prince Valiant, Demetrius and the Gladiators, Alexander the Great
* 03/06/1893

Mae West(† 87)

Actress | Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York City, New York (US)

Mary Jane "Mae" West (August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980) was an American actress, singer, comedian, screenwriter, and playwright whose career spanned over seven decades. Considered a sex symbol, she was known for her breezy sexual independence and her lighthearted bawdy double entendres, often delivered in a husky contralto voice. She was active in vaudeville and on stage in New York City before moving to Los Angeles to begin a career in the film industry. West was one of the most controversial movie stars of her day; she encountered problems especially with censorship. She once quipped, "I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it." She bucked the studio system by making comedy out of conventional beliefs, and the Depression-era audience admired her for it. When her film career ended, she wrote books and plays, continued to perform in Las Vegas and London and on radio and television, and recorded rock and roll albums. In 1999, the American Film Institute posthumously voted her the 15th-greatest female screen legend of classic American cinema.

Known for: She Done Him Wrong, I'm No Angel, Goin' to Town, My Little Chickadee
* 08/17/1893

Evelyn Varden(† 65)

Actress | Adair (US)

Evelyn Varden (born Mae Evelyn Hall; June 12, 1893 – July 11, 1958) was an American character actress.

Known for: The Night of the Hunter, The Bad Seed, Pinky, Ten Thousand Bedrooms
* 06/12/1893

Fay Roope(† 67)

Actor | Allston (US)

Fay Roope (born Winfield Harding Roope; October 20, 1893 – September 13, 1961) was a Harvard graduate and a character actor who appeared in American theater in New York City from the 1920s through 1950, and in American film and television from 1949 through 1961.

Known for: Viva Zapata!, The Atomic Kid, All Ashore, The Twilight Zone
* 10/20/1893

Edward G. Robinson(† 79)

Actor | Bucharest (RO)

Edward G. Robinson (born Emanuel Goldenberg; December 12, 1893 – January 26, 1973) was an American actor of stage and screen, who was popular during Hollywood's Golden Age. He appeared in 30 Broadway plays, and more than 100 films, during a 50-year career, and is best remembered for his tough-guy roles as gangsters in such films as Little Caesar and Key Largo. During his career, Robinson received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his performance in House of Strangers. During the 1930s and 1940s, he was an outspoken public critic of fascism and Nazism, which were growing in strength in Europe in the years which led up to World War II. His activism included contributing over $250,000 to more than 850 organizations that were involved in war relief, along with contributions to cultural, educational, and religious groups. During the 1950s, he was called to testify in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee during the Red Scare, but he was cleared of any deliberate Communist involvement when he claimed that he was "duped" by several people whom he named (including screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, according to the official Congressional record, "Communist infiltration of the Hollywood motion-picture industry". As a result of being investigated, he found himself on Hollywood's graylist, people who were on the Hollywood blacklist maintained by the major studios, but could find work at minor film studios on what was called Poverty Row. Robinson's roles included an insurance investigator in the film noir Double Indemnity, Dathan (the adversary of Moses) in The Ten Commandments, and his final performance in the science-fiction story Soylent Green. Robinson received an Academy Honorary Award for his work in the film industry, which was awarded two months after he died in 1973. He is ranked number 24 in the American Film Institute's list of the 25 greatest male stars of Classic American cinema. Multiple film critics and media outlets have cited him as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.

Known for: Double Indemnity, Key Largo, The Stranger, Scarlet Street
* 12/12/1893

Conrad Veidt(† 50)

Actor | Potsdam, Brandenburg (DE)

Hans Walter Conrad Veidt (22 January 1893 – 3 April 1943) was a German actor best remembered for his roles in films such as Different from the Others (1919), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), and The Man Who Laughs (1928). After a successful career in German silent film, where he was one of the best-paid stars of Ufa, he was forced to leave Germany in 1933 with his new Jewish wife after the Nazis came to power. They settled in Britain, where he participated in a number of films, including The Thief of Bagdad (1940), before emigrating to the United States around 1941, which lead to him having a supporting role in Casablanca (1942).From 1916 until his death, Veidt appeared in more than 100 films. One of his earliest performances was as the murderous somnambulist Cesare in director Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), a classic of German Expressionist cinema, with Werner Krauss and Lil Dagover. His starring role in The Man Who Laughs (1928), as a disfigured circus performer whose face is cut into a permanent grin, provided the (visual) inspiration for the Batman villain the Joker, created in 1940 by Bill Finger. Veidt also starred in other silent horror films such as The Hands of Orlac (1924), another film directed by Robert Wiene, The Student of Prague (1926) and Waxworks (1924) where he played Ivan the Terrible.Veidt also appeared in Magnus Hirschfeld's film Anders als die Andern (Different from the Others, 1919), one of the first films to sympathetically portray homosexuality, although the characters in it do not end up happily. He had a leading role in Germany's first talking picture, Das Land ohne Frauen (Land Without Women, 1929).He moved to Hollywood in the late 1920s and made a few films, but the advent of talking pictures and his difficulty with speaking English led him to return to Germany. During this period he lent his expertise to tutoring aspiring performers, one of whom was the later American character actress Lisa Golm.

Known for: Casablanca, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Contraband, The Man Who Laughs
* 01/22/1893
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Philo McCullough(† 87)

Actor | San Bernardino, California (US)

Philo McCullough (born Philo M. McCollough) was an American actor, active in films from 1914 to 1969.

Known for: The Girl Who Wouldn't Quit, The Gay Lord Quex, Trilby
* 06/16/1893

Harold Lloyd(† 77)

Actor | Burchard, Nebraska (US)
turns 131 today

Harold Lloyd has been called the cinema’s “first man in space.” He was a product of the film industry. His comedy wasn’t imported from Vaudeville or the British Music Hall like his contemporaries, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. Harold learned to use the camera the way other comics used a bowler hat or a funny walk. In 1917 he shed the comedic clown personas prevalent in comedy for hundreds of years and pioneered romantic comedy by the ordinary guy up on the screen –- a guy with faults, and fears, “the boy next door.” With his young man in horned-rimmed glasses, he created classic films.

Known for: Safety Last!, The Freshman, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock, Speedy
* 04/20/1893

Nora Gordon(† 76)

Actress | West Hartlepool, County Durham, England (GB)

Nora Gordon (29 November 1893 – 11 May 1970) was a British film and television actress. She was married to Leonard Sharp. Her daughter was the actress Dorothy Gordon. She also appeared in a number of British Ministry of Information films, notably during World War II. Gordon was born in West Hartlepool on 29 November 1893. She died in London on 11 May 1970 at the age of 76.

Known for: Mark Saber, Sunday Night Theatre
* 11/29/1893

Cedric Hardwicke(† 71)

Actor | Lye, Worcestershire, England (GB)

Sir Cedric Webster Hardwicke (19 February 1893 – 6 August 1964) was an English stage and film actor whose career spanned nearly 50 years. His theatre work included notable performances in productions of the plays of Shakespeare and Shaw, and his film work included leading roles in several adapted literary classics.

Known for: The Ten Commandments, The War of the Worlds, Around the World in Eighty Days, Rope
* 02/19/1893

William Moulton Marston(† 53)

Crew | Saugus (US)

William Moulton Marston (May 9, 1893 – May 2, 1947), also known by the pen name Charles Moulton, was an American psychologist who, with his wife Elizabeth Holloway, invented an early prototype of the polygraph. He was also known as a self-help author and comic book writer who created the character Wonder Woman. Two women, his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston, and their polyamorous life partner, Olive Byrne, greatly influenced Wonder Woman's creation. He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2006.

Known for: Wonder Woman, Zack Snyder's Justice League, The Flash, Justice League, Justice League
* 05/09/1893

Earle Hodgins(† 70)

Actor | Salt Lake City, Utah (US)

Earle Hodgins (October 6, 1893 – April 14, 1964) was an American actor.

Known for: Oregon Trail, The Sagebrush Family Trails West, Heroes of the Alamo, Bad Man from Red Butte
* 10/06/1893

Howard Hoffman(† 75)

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Known for: House on Haunted Hill, Macabre, The Book of Acts Series, The Wild Wild West
* 11/04/1893

Tito Vuolo(† 69)

Actor | Italy / Italia (IT)

Tito Vuolo (22 March 1893 – 14 September 1962) was an Italian-born American actor, best known for his supporting work playing often stereotypical Italian characters. Prior to his film career, he toured the United States as a stage actor. His wife was Grazia "Grace" Vuolo. Vuolo was born in Gragnano, Campania, Italy, and died in Los Angeles, California.

Known for: The Killing, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, The Bishop's Wife, 20 Million Miles to Earth
* 03/22/1893

Bernard McEveety(† 78)

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* 1893

Carl Benton Reid(† 79)

Actor | Lansing, Michigan (US)

Carl Benton Reid (August 14, 1893– March 16, 1973) was an American actor.

Known for: In a Lonely Place, The Little Foxes, Lorna Doone, Burke's Law
* 08/14/1893

Cecil Kellaway(† 79)

Actor | Cape Town (ZA)

Cecil Lauriston Kellaway (22 August 1890 – 28 February 1973) was a South African character actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor twice, for The Luck of the Irish (1948) and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967).

Known for: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Harvey, The Postman Always Rings Twice, I Married a Witch
* 08/22/1893

Sara Taft(† 80)

Actress | Los Angeles, California (US)

Sara Taft was born on July 5, 1893 in Los Angeles, California, USA as Sarah Eleanor Taft. She was an actress, known for Tower of London (1962), The Reivers (1969) and Ben Casey (1961). She was married to Frederick William Teschke and Milton Tompkins Somers. She died on September 24, 1973 in Los Angeles.

Known for: Tower of London, The Reivers, Ben Casey, The Twilight Zone
* 07/05/1893

Jesslyn Fax(† 82)

Actress | Toronto (CA)

Jesslyn Fax (January 4, 1893 – February 16, 1975) was an Canadian-American actress. She is known for playing the elderly Miss Hearing Aid in Rear Window (1954)

Known for: Rear Window, The Ghost & Mr. Chicken, Kiss Me Deadly, Perry Mason
* 01/02/1893

Jack Rice(† 75)

Actor | Michigan (US)

Jack Rice (born Earl Clifford Rice; May 14, 1893 – December 14, 1968) was an American actor best known for appearing as the scrounging, freeloading brother-in-law in Edgar Kennedy's series of short domestic comedy films at the RKO studio, and also as "Ollie" (a.k.a. "Oliver Merton" and "Oliver Shaw") in around a dozen of Columbia Pictures's series of the Blondie comic strip.

Known for: Blondie's Big Moment, Poisoned Ivory, Feather Your Nest, The Secret Code, The Ford Television Theatre
* 05/14/1893

Edgar Dearing(† 81)

Actor | Ceres, California (US)

Edgar Dearing (May 4, 1893 – August 17, 1974) was an American actor who became heavily type cast as a motorcycle cop in Hollywood films.

Known for: Abraham Lincoln, Lightning Strikes Twice, Raiders of Tomahawk Creek, Honolulu, The Twilight Zone
* 05/04/1893

Ed Cassidy(† 74)

Actor | Chicago, Illinois (US)

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Known for: Valley of Fear, Sun Valley Cyclone, Navajo Kid, Ambush Valley
* 03/21/1893

Emmett Vogan(† 76)

Actor | Lima, Ohio (US)

Charles Emmett Vogan (September 27, 1893 – October 6, 1969) was an American actor with almost 500 film appearances from 1934 to 1954, making him, along with Bess Flowers, one of the most prolific film actors of all time. In 1913, Vogan acted with the Allen and Kenna Musical Comedy Company. In 1917, he was the male lead in a touring company that presented The Four Husbands. He also was the male lead in the touring production of Too Much Mustard (1924). Vogan also acted with the Anderson Players, the Wilkes Players, and the O.D. Woodward group, in addition to having a headline vaudeville act.

Known for: Emergency Landing, Love Birds, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, The Crimson Ghost
* 09/27/1893

Howard Smith(† 74)

Actor | Attleboro, Massachusetts (US)

Howard Irving Smith (August 12, 1893 in – January 10, 1968) was an American character actor with a 50-year career in vaudeville, theater, radio, films and television. In 1938 he performed in Orson Welles's short-lived stage production and once-lost film, Too Much Johnson, and in the celebrated radio production, "The War of the Worlds". He portrayed Charley in the original Broadway production of Death of a Salesman and recreated the role in the 1951 film version. On television Smith portrayed the gruff Harvey Griffin in the situation comedy, Hazel.

Known for: Death of a Salesman, Kiss of Death, Don't Go Near the Water, Murder, Inc.
* 08/12/1893
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