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People: Famous People born in 1919

People in chronological context: 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1919th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 919th year of the 2nd millennium, the 19th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1919, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. ()

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Dal McKennon(† 89)

Actor | La Grande, Oregon (US)

Dallas Raymond McKennon (July 19, 1919 – July 14, 2009), sometimes credited as Dal McKennon, was an American film, television and voice actor, who had a career lasting over 50 years.

* 07/19/1919

John Sylvester White(† 68)

Actor | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (US)

John Sylvester White was born on October 31, 1919 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Welcome Back, Kotter (1975), Hustling (1975) and The Law (1974). He was married to Joan Alexander. He died on September 11, 1988 in Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

* 10/31/1919

Strother Martin(† 61)

Actor | Kokomo, Indiana (US)

Strother Douglas Martin Jr. (March 26, 1919 – August 1, 1980) was an American character actor who often appeared in support of John Wayne and Paul Newman and in Western films directed by John Ford and Sam Peckinpah. Among Martin's memorable performances is his portrayal of the warden or "captain" of a state prison camp in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke, in which he utters the line, "What we've got here is failure to communicate." The line is number 11 on the American Film Institute list of 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes.

* 03/26/1919

Alan Young(† 96)

Actor | North Shields, Tyne-and-Wear, England (GB)

Alan Young (born Angus Young; November 19, 1919 – May 19, 2016) was a British-born actor, whom TV Guide called "the Charlie Chaplin of television". Young portrayed Wilbur Post in the television comedy Mister Ed (1961–1966) and voiced Disney's Scrooge McDuck for over 40 years, beginning in the 1974 Disneyland Records album An Adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol, Performed by The Walt Disney Players. He again voiced Scrooge in the Academy Award-nominated short film Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983) and continued in the role in various other films, television series and video games up until his death. During the 1940s and 1950s, Young starred in his own variety-comedy sketch shows The Alan Young Show on radio and television, the latter gaining him two Emmy Awards in 1951. He also appeared in a number of feature films, starting from 1946, including the 1960 film The Time Machine and from the 1980s gaining a new generation of viewers appearing in numerous Walt Disney Productions films as both an actor and voice actor.

* 11/19/1919

Jack Palance(† 87)

Actor | Lattimer Mines, Pennsylvania (US)

Jack Palance ( PAL-əns; born Volodymyr Palahniuk (Ukrainian: Володимир Палагню́к); February 18, 1919 – November 10, 2006) was an American actor known for playing tough guys and villains. He was nominated for three Academy Awards, all for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, for his roles in Sudden Fear (1952) and Shane (1953), and winning almost 40 years later for City Slickers (1991). Born in Lattimer Mines, Pennsylvania, the son of Ukrainian immigrants, Palance served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. He briefly attended Stanford University before pursuing a career in the theatre. He made his film acting debut in Panic in the Streets (1950). Following his roles in Sudden Fear and Shane, he starred as Count Dracula in the 1974 television film Bram Stoker's Dracula, and played crime lord Yves Perret in Tango & Cash (1989). He was also the host of the ABC television series Ripley's Believe It or Not! (1982–1986).

* 02/18/1919

David Kossoff(† 85)

Actor | Hackney, London

David Kossoff (24 November 1919 – 23 March 2005) was a British actor. In 1954 he won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles for his appearance as Geza Szobek in The Young Lovers. He played Alf Larkin in TV sitcom The Larkins and Professor Kokintz in The Mouse that Roared (1959) and its sequel The Mouse on the Moon (1963). Because of the drug use of his son Paul, a blues rock musician, who subsequently died, he became an anti-drug campaigner. In 1971 he was also actively involved in the Nationwide Festival of Light, an organisation protesting against the commercial exploitation of sex and violence, and advocating the teachings of Christ as the key to re-establishing moral stability in Britain.

* 11/24/1919

Robin Bailey(† 79)

Actor | Hucknall, Nottinghamshire (GB)

William Henry Mettam "Robin" Bailey (5 October 1919 – 14 January 1999) was an English actor. He was born in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire. Often cast in upper class and tradition-bound roles such as Mr Justice Graves in Thames Television's Rumpole of the Bailey, Bailey is also known for his portrayal of Uncle Mort in I Didn't Know You Cared, the BBC's adaptation of Peter Tinniswood's stories about an extended Yorkshire family. The television series ran from 1975 to 1979. Bailey also collaborated with Tinniswood on the television and radio series Tales from a Long Room, playing the Brigadier, an eccentric cricket-lover with a fund of extraordinary tales about the game and its players.

* 10/05/1919

Gene Barry(† 90)

Actor | New York City, New York (US)

Gene Barry (born Eugene Klass, June 24, 1919 – December 9, 2009) was an American stage, screen, and television actor and singer. Barry is best remembered for his leading roles in the films The Atomic City (1952) and The War of The Worlds (1953) and for his portrayal of the title characters in the TV series Bat Masterson and Burke's Law, among many roles.

* 06/14/1919

Kathleen Freeman(† 82)

Actress | Chicago, Illinois (US)

Kathleen Freeman (February 17, 1919 – August 23, 2001) was an American film, television, voice actress, and stage actress. In a career that spanned more than fifty years, she portrayed acerbic maids, secretaries, teachers, busybodies, nurses, and battle-axe neighbors and relatives, almost invariably to comic effect.

* 02/17/1919

Robert Stack(† 84)

Actor | Los Angeles, California (US)

Robert Langford Modini Stack was a multilingual American actor and television host. In addition to acting in more than 40 films, he also appeared on the television series The Untouchables and later served as the host of Unsolved Mysteries.Born in Los Angeles, California, Stack spent his early childhood growing up in Europe. Becoming fluent in French and Italian at an early age, and he did not learn English until returning to Los Angeles. Stack achieved minor fame in sporting, winning multiple championships including setting two world records and winning multiple honors in skeet shootingStack studied drama at Bridgewater State College, earning his first hollywood role at the age of 20 and continuing to star in numerous roles throughout the early 1940s.After serving in the military, Stack returned to Hollywood to star in numerous films including stand out roles in The High and the Mighty (opposite John Wayne) and Written on the Wind (1957), for which he was awarded an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.Stack later moved on to televised dramatic series, depicting the crime-fighting Eliot Ness in The Untouchables (1959–1963), which earned him a best actor Emmy Award in 1960. Stack also starred in multiple drama series, before returning to film, this time in comedies to satirize his famed stoic and humorless demeanor.He began hosting Unsolved Mysteries in 1987, and served as the show's host throughout it's entire original run from 1987 to 2002.

* 01/13/1919

Dan O'Herlihy(† 85)

Actor | Wexford (IE)

Daniel Peter O'Herlihy (May 1, 1919 – February 17, 2005) was an Irish film actor, known for such roles as Brigadier General Warren A. "Blackie" Black in Fail Safe, Marshal Ney in Waterloo, Conal Cochran in Halloween III: Season of the Witch, "The Old Man" in RoboCop, and Andrew Packard in Twin Peaks. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1954 film Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.

* 05/01/1919

Gisela Uhlen(† 87)

Actress | Leipzig (DE)

Gisela Uhlen (16 May 1919 – 16 January 2007) was a German film actress and occasional screen writer.

* 05/16/1919
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Eileen Heckart(† 82)

Actress | Columbus, Ohio (US)
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Anna Eileen Heckart (née Herbert; March 29, 1919 – December 31, 2001) was an American stage and screen actress whose career spanned nearly 60 years.

* 03/29/1919

Jocelyn Brando(† 86)

Actress | San Francisco, California (US)

Jocelyn Brando (November 18, 1919 – November 27, 2005) was an American actress and writer. She is best known for her role as Katie Bannion in the film noir The Big Heat (1953).

* 11/18/1919

Frank Campanella(† 87)

Actor | New York City, New York (US)

Frank Campanella (March 12, 1919 – December 30, 2006) was an American actor. He appeared in numerous television series, as well as a few films and Broadway productions.

* 03/12/1919

Donald Pleasence(† 75)

Actor | Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England (GB)

Donald Henry Pleasence (5 October 1919 – 2 February 1995) was an English actor. He began his career on stage in the West End before having a screen career, which included starring in a 1954 BBC adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, before playing numerous supporting and character roles in films including RAF Flight Lieutenant Colin Blythe in The Great Escape (1963), the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice (1967), SEN 5241 in THX 1138 (1971), and the deranged Clarence "Doc" Tydon in Wake in Fright (1971). Pleasence starred as psychiatrist Dr. Samuel Loomis in Halloween (1978) and four of its sequels, a role for which he was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Actor. The series' popularity and critical success led to a resurgent career for Pleasence, who appeared in numerous American and European-produced horror and thriller films. He collaborated with Halloween director John Carpenter twice more, as the President of the United States in Escape from New York (1981) and as the Priest in Prince of Darkness (1987).

* 10/05/1919

José María Caffarel(† 79)

Actor | Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalunya (ES)

José María Caffarel Fábregas (10 November 1919 – 6 November 1999) was a Spanish film actor. He appeared in more than 170 films between 1957 and 1998. He was born in Barcelona and died in Madrid, Spain.

* 11/10/1919

Charles Knapp(† 76)

Actor | San Diego, California (US)

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* 1919

Ivor Barry(† 87)

Actor | Merthyr Tydfil (GB)

Ivor Barry (12 April 1919 – 12 December 2006) was a Welsh film and television actor. Born in South Wales, Barry served with the British Royal Artillery during World War II and completed his university studies prior to beginning his acting career. After bit parts in England, he moved to Canada in the early 1950s where he also wrote and adapted scripts for radio as well acting in television. He eventually moved to Hollywood in the 1960s, and made many television and film appearances over the next 25 years. He played the part of Wyatt (Ilan Mitchell-Smith) and Chet (Bill Paxton) Donnelly's grandfather in the 1985 film Weird Science. Barry's television appearances included Bonanza, Daniel Boone, Bewitched, Hawaii Five-O, Mission: Impossible, The Six Million Dollar Man, Fantasy Island, Punky Brewster, and Highway to Heaven. He died of heart failure in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, on 12 December 2006, aged 87.

* 04/12/1919

Hermine Braunsteiner(† 79)

Actress | Vienna (AT)

Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan was an Austrian female camp guard at Ravensbrück and Majdanek concentration camps, and the first Nazi war criminal to be extradited from the United States.

 
* 07/16/1919

Shirley Mitchell(† 94)

Actress | Toledo, Ohio (US)

Shirley J. Mitchell (November 4, 1919 – November 11, 2013) was an American radio, film, and television actress.

* 11/04/1919

Maxwell Reed(† 55)

Actor | Larne (GB)

Maxwell Reed (2 April 1919 – 31 October 1974) was a Northern Irish actor who became a matinee idol in British films during the 1940s and 1950s.

* 04/02/1919

Howard Morris(† 85)

Actor | The Bronx, New York City, New York (US)

Howard Morris (September 4, 1919 – May 21, 2005) was an American comic actor and director who was best known for his role as Ernest T. Bass on The Andy Griffith Show.

* 09/04/1919

Charles S. Dubin(† 92)

Crew | New York City / NYC (US)

Charles S. Dubin was born on February 1, 1919 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Kojak (1973), Square One Television (1987) and M*A*S*H (1972). He was previously married to Daphne Elliott and Mary Lou Chayes. He died on September 5, 2011 in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, USA.

* 02/01/1919

Radovan Lukavský(† 88)

Actor | Prague (XC)

Radovan Lukavský (1 November 1919 – 10 March 2008) was a Czech theatre and film actor. Lukavský was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1919. He graduated from high school in Český Brod, before continuing his education at the Charles University, where he studied French and English literature. However, at the onset of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, Lukavský was sent to a forced labor camp. He completed his studies at the Charles University only after being released from the camp. He also studied acting at Prague's conservatory. Lukavský got his first acting job in 1946 at the Vinohrady Theatre in Prague district of Vinohrady. He was reportedly usually cast as honest characters due to his appearance and voice. He was offered a position at the National Theatre in Prague in 1957. He continued to work as an actor at the National Theatre for over fifty years. His most famous roles at the theatre included that of Puck in William Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night's Dream and the Sergeant in Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage. Outside of the theatre and stage, Lukavský enjoyed a number of roles in Czech and Czechoslovakian television and film throughout his career. He may be best known for his role in the 1970s adaptation of Czech novelist Alois Jirásek's F.L. Věk, in which he played Václav Thám, a Czech national revival leader. In 1986 he appeared in a TV film adaptation of the Božena Benešová short story "Povídka s dobrým koncem" ("A Story with a Happy Ending"). Lukavský received a number of awards for his work during his career. He was given the lifetime achievement award at the 1995 Thalia Awards, which are the leading honors for the Czech Republic's theatre industry. Former Czech President Václav Havel also awarded Lukavský a medal for services to the theatre. Additionally, he was the author of several books on acting and the theatre. He taught for many years at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Lukavský returned to the theatre at age 88 when he performed in Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard at the Vinohrady Theatre. The Vinohrady Theatre is the same theatre where he earned his first acting role back in 1946 when he was a recent university graduate. Lukavský died in Prague on 10 March 2008 at the age of 88.

* 11/01/1919

Wong Ching-Ho(† 93)

Actor | Xiamen, Fujian Province (CN)

Ching Ho Wang was born on September 23, 1919 in Fujian, China. He is an actor, known for Corpse Mania (1981), The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978) and Vengeance! (1970) Died 2013.

 
* 09/23/1919

Noel Coleman(† 87)

Actor | Leicester, Leicestershire, England (GB)

Noel Coleman (26 November 1919 – 12 October 2007) was a RADA-trained English actor who appeared in many television roles. He appeared in the 1969 Doctor Who serial The War Games as General Smythe and he appeared in Red Dwarf as the Cat Priest in the episode "Waiting for God". Coleman played General Webb in the BBC's eight-episode series, "The Last of the Mohicans" in 1971. Other television appearances included: Emergency – Ward 10, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Z-Cars, The Invisible Man, Dixon of Dock Green, The Avengers, Play for Today, Doctor at Large, The Top Secret Life of Edgar Briggs, The Fenn Street Gang, Sykes, Yus, My Dear, Emmerdale, The Adventures of Black Beauty, Happy Ever After, The Duchess of Duke Street, Mind Your Language, Terry and June, The New Statesman, Chancer, Lovejoy and The Detectives. His film roles included appearances in You Can't Escape (1956), Our Miss Fred (1972), Burke & Hare (1971), Edge of Sanity (1989) and Under Suspicion (1991). Coleman's stage work included appearances in the West End and on Broadway. He was the narrator of Captain Pugwash.

* 11/26/1919

Amzie Strickland(† 87)

Actress | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (US)

Amzie Ellen Strickland (January 10, 1919 – July 5, 2006) was an American character actress who began in radio, made some 650 television appearances, had roles in two dozen films, appeared in numerous television movies, and also worked in TV commercials.

* 01/10/1919

Rafael Baledón(† 74)

Crew | Campeche, Campeche (MX)

Rafael Baledón (25 November 1919 in Campeche — 6 May 1994 in Mexico City, Mexico) was a Mexican actor, director, producer and writer.

* 11/25/1919

Slim Pickens(† 64)

Actor | Kingsburg, California (US)

Louis Burton Lindley Jr. (June 29, 1919 – December 8, 1983), better known by his stage name Slim Pickens, was an American actor and rodeo performer. Starting off in the rodeo, Pickens transitioned to acting, and appeared in dozens of movies and TV shows. For much of his career, Pickens played mainly cowboy roles. He is perhaps best remembered today for his comic roles in Dr. Strangelove, Blazing Saddles, 1941, and his villainous turn in One-Eyed Jacks with Marlon Brando.

* 06/29/1919
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