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- Luis Politti was born on 8 April 1933 in Mendoza, Argentina. He was an actor, known for Estudio 1 (1965), Solamente ella (1975) and The Truce (1974). He died on 14 July 1980 in Madrid, Spain.
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Alvin Greenman was an American actor, dialogue coach and script supervisor whose career in the movie and television business spanned over 50 years.
Born in 1930 in New York City, his last television appearance was in 2001 where he appeared in "Backstory," a documentary series, as himself. He is the only actor to appear in both Miracle on 34th Street (1947) and the remake, Miracle on 34th Street (1994). In the former, he appeared in the uncredited role of the young janitor of Macy's whereas in the latter, he played the doorman. Both characters are named Alfred.
While most of his work involved script supervision and dialogue coaching, Greenman continued to take on minor television and film roles throughout his career. As as dialogue coach and script supervisor, he worked on such films as The Longest Yard, the Karate Kid and Uncommon Valor as well as successful television series and miniseries including Doogie Howser, Hill Street Blues, and Roots.
However, by far, as an actor Greeman is best known for his good-natured portrayal of Alfred in Miracle on 34th Street (1994). Although a minor character, it was a memorable one with memorable lines such as: "There is a lot of bad ism's floating around this world and one of the worst is commercialism. Make a buck, make a buck. Even in Brooklyn it's the same -- don't care what Christmas stands for, just make a buck, make a buck."- Actor
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Antonio Prieto was a Chilean crooner who enjoyed great success as a recording artist in Latin America in the 1950s and 1960s. His popularity won over film producers and he was cast in several musical comedies mainly playing himself as in "Vacaciones en Acapulco" (1961). He was also featured singing the main theme in films such "Acapulqueña" (1959) and "La novia" (1962). However he did play the leading male role in "La pérgola de las flores" (1965) filmed in Chile. He was also seen quite often singing his greatest hits on television variety shows.- Carlos López Moctezuma was born on 19 November 1909 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was an actor, known for El rebozo de Soledad (1952), Canaima (1945) and Hidden River (1948). He died on 14 July 1980 in Aguascalientes, Mexico.
- Born to play Tennessee Williams, her harsh beauty, caustic humor and throaty tones were unmistakable and reminiscent of a bygone era that once idolized Tallulah Bankhead and Marlene Dietrich. Her old-fashioned stylings were perhaps too theatrical or indulgent to make a noticeable dent on film or TV (such was the case of Bankhead) but perhaps Hollywood was the one who lost out on what could have been a wonderfully flamboyant character actress. In any event, actress Carrie Nye belonged to the stage and in return it embraced her for four decades.
The smoky seductress was born in Mississippi with the highly untheatrical name of Carolyn Nye McGeoy on October 14, 1936 (some sources indicate 1937), the daughter of a banker and a housewife. She began her adult studies at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, but wound up at the Yale School of Drama, where she met the equally droll but less acerbic wit Dick Cavett. The couple married in 1964. It was one of those unique, complimentary pairings, like Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft, that withstood the test of time. Cavett was not a comedian then but was actively pursuing a legit acting career. Dick and Carrie subsequently went on to perform together in such plays as "Charley's Aunt," "Auntie Mame," "The Brothers Karamazov," "The Skin of Our Teeth" and "Present Laughter" before he altered the course of his career.
Acting professionally from the age of 14, Carrie played all the cherished Southern belle roles (Maggie in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1958), Cherie in "Bus Stop" (1958) and Blanche (at age 23!) in "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1959)) before making her Broadway debut in "A Second String" (based on a novel by Colette) at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in 1960. From there she sank her teeth into the classics. Notable roles included her title character in "Ondine," Celia in "As You Like It," Lady Macduff (and later Lady Macbeth) in "Macbeth," Cressida in "Troilus and Cressida," Regan in "King Lear," Cleopatra in "Antony and Cleopatra" and Cassandra in "The Trojan Women." On the lighter side, she replaced Betsy von Furstenberg in the popular lightweight comedy "Mary, Mary" and played Cecily Cardew in "The Importance of Being Earnest." In addition, she received a Tony nomination for her work in the musical "Half a Sixpence" in 1965.
She didn't make her film debut until age 30 in The Group (1966), then went on to make only a handful more -- The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979), Creepshow (1982), Too Scared to Scream (1984) and Hello Again (1987). She fared somewhat better in TV-movies, stealing the thunder from under the Richard Burton/Elizabeth Taylor pairing in Divorce His - Divorce Hers (1973), and earning an Emmy nomination for her divine imitation of Bankhead in The Scarlett O'Hara War (1980), which only she could have done true justice.
But for Carrie it was always the theater, particularly regional theater, that took precedence. With a nonconcentric and powerful grandeur, she took on a number of lofty roles over the years, including Eleanor of Aquitaine in "The Lion in Winter," Regina in "The Little Foxes," the title role in "Hedda Gabler" and an encore performance of Blanche DuBois in 1973, this time at age 47. She earned a Drama Desk nomination for "The Man Who Came to Dinner" in 1980 and played alongside Cavett again in a 1985 production of "Nude with Violin." Throughout it all, Carrie was an established presence at the Williamstown Festival, appearing from the late '50s on. Such summer productions there included "Design for Living" (1977) and "Clothes for a Summer Hotel (1989),; she took her final curtain there in the role of Zelda Fitzgerald. She ended her theatrical reign on a bright note in a musical production of "Mame" (1992).
Carrie pretty much left acting by the mid 1990s. In 2003, however, she took on a villainess role written especially for her on Guiding Light (1952). In 1997, the couple's Long Island home (called Tick Hall) went down in flames. They painstakingly rebuilt an exact replica of the beloved 1883 cottage, which was chronicled in the documentary "From the Ashes: The Life and Times of Tick Hall (2003)".
A heavy smoker, Carrie died of lung cancer at age 69 in her Manhattan home. The couple had no children. - Cosmo Sardo was born on 7 March 1909 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Mission: Impossible (1966), Amazon Quest (1949) and Same Time, Next Year (1978). He died on 14 July 1989 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
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Dal McKennon was born on 19 July 1919 in La Grande, Oregon, USA. He was an actor, known for Lady and the Tramp (1955), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) and Gumby: The Movie (1995). He was married to Betty Warner. He died on 14 July 2009 in Raymond, Washington, USA.- David Zablidowsky was born on 29 June 1979 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He died on 14 July 2017 in Micanopy, Florida, USA.
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Dennis Burkley was born on 10 September 1945 in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Hollywood Homicide (2003), Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992) and Tin Cup (1996). He was married to Laura Burkley. He died on 14 July 2013 in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
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Fair-haired, youthfully handsome Swedish-American actor Eric Linden, who enjoyed pre-Code, Depression-era Hollywood stardom in boyish leads, was discovered for films by director Wesley Ruggles when Ruggles cast the New York-based actor in a lead role in the film Are These Our Children (1931).
Born in New York City, his Swedish father, Philip Linden, was an actor with Stockholm's Royal Theatre who migrated to America, then later abandoned his wife and five children when Eric was still young. His mother made ends meet by working at a church parish. He attended the Paul Hoffman Jr. School where he made appearances in the school's plays. A one-time usher at the Riverside, Riviera and Roxy Theatres in New York, he took English and literature classes at Columbia University at one point.
Eric was invited into the Theatre Guild membership and appeared in such productions as "Marco's Millions" and "Strange Interlude". He also began appearing on Broadway and performed in repertory around the East coast. Earning a RKO Hollywood contract at the onset of talking films, he made an auspicious debut as the self-important, trouble-making Eddie Brand in Are These Our Children (1931). From there he appeared opposite Hollywood's finest leading ladies in quality fare: Helen Twelvetrees in Young Bride (1932), Joan Blondell in Big City Blues (1932), and Loretta Young in Life Begins (1932), to name a few.
Initially promoted by RKO as "The Boy Sensation of the Theatre Guild," he later was pegged as Hollywood's tragic boy actor on the screen. Other fine roles came with The Crowd Roars (1932) as James Cagney's hero-worshiping brother, a collegiate lead in The Age of Consent (1932), the callow son of Lionel Barrymore in Sweepings (1933), the young male lead in The Past of Mary Holmes (1933), the dominated son of Laura Hope Crews in The Silver Cord (1933) and then performed one of his last good film roles in Ah Wilderness! (1935) opposite Barrymore again, Wallace Beery and Mickey Rooney. One of his biggest disappointments at the time was losing the part of Laurie in the classic Alcott tearjerker Little Women (1933).
Good parts declined into the late 1930s and, following diminishing work in such films as Robin Hood of El Dorado (1936), The Good Old Soak (1937), Here's Flash Casey (1938) (title role), Everything's on Ice (1939) and, his last, Criminals Within (1941), Eric left films for good. During this time, he also had a very small role as a Civil War amputee in Gone with the Wind (1939).
Linden fared better under the theatre lights in later years with prime roles as Joe Bonaparte in "Golden Boy" and in "Another Language," "The Philadelphia Story" (with Diana Barrymore), "Mr. and Mrs. North" and "My Sister Eileen". Following a stint with the Armed Forces during WWII, he again returned to the stage but his career was in serious decline. Eric married late in life in 1955, age 46; he and wife Jo, an artist, settled in Laguna Beach, California and had three children: Karen, David and Andrea. They divorced in 1977. In later years, he worked for the County of Orange in California. He died on July 14, 1994, at age 84.- Actress
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Jacqueline (Jackie) Saunders was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on October 6, 1892. She was a young 22 years old when she first appeared in the silent movie, THE WILL O' THE WISP. She stayed fairly busy throughout her career. She was an actress who wasn't as noticed as some others. She was pretty, but not beautiful. She was talented, but nothing that was overwhelming. After THE PEOPLE VS. NANCY PRESTON in 1925, Jackie left films for good. She died in Palm Springs, California on July 14, 1954. She was 62 years old.- Jorge Luz was born on 8 May 1922 in Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was an actor, known for Locuras, tiros y mambos (1951), Los celos de Cándida (1940) and Delito de corrupción (1991). He died on 14 July 2012 in Balvanera, Buenos Aires City, Argentina.
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Karl Shiels was born on 1 January 1972 in Dublin, Ireland. He was an actor and producer, known for Batman Begins (2005), Haywire (2011) and Into the Badlands (2015). He died on 14 July 2019 in Dublin, Ireland.- Leopoldo Verona was born on 24 September 1931 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was an actor, known for The Jewish Gauchos (1975), On the Beach by the Sea (1971) and Necesito una madre (1966). He was married to Dora Prince. He died on 14 July 2014 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Lisa Gaye was born on 6 March 1935 in Denver, Colorado, USA. She was an actress, known for Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957), Hawaiian Eye (1959) and How to Marry a Millionaire (1957). She was married to Bently Clyde Ware. She died on 14 July 2016 in Houston, Texas, USA.- Actor
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Mahi Beamer was born on 5 December 1928 in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, USA. He was an actor, known for The White Lotus (2021). He died on 14 July 2017 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.- Mario Fromenteze was born on 20 July 1944 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was an actor, known for La búsqueda (1985), Las Muñecas Que Hacen ¡PUM! (1979) and Gatica, the Monkey (1993). He died on 14 July 2016 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Meredith Lynn MacRae was born on May 30, 1944, in Houston, Texas. She was born on a military base where her father was stationed.
Meredith was bitten by the show business bug at an early age. Her father, Gordon MacRae was a singer and movie idol of the 1950s (Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! (1955) and Carousel (1956)), and her mother, Sheila MacRae, is an actress/comedienne and author, who is probably best known as Alice Kramden (1966-1970), during the 2nd incarnation of Jackie Gleason's The Jackie Gleason Show (1966) (aka "The Honeymooners").
At the age of eight, Meredith started her own acting career and appeared in the film By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953), which starred her father.
She attended UCLA and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. In 1964, she married Richard Berger, former president of MGM. They divorced four years later.
Meredith went on to starring roles in two of television's heyday family sitcoms: Petticoat Junction (1963) and My Three Sons (1960). She also guest starred in many other television shows including: Fantasy Island (1977), Magnum, P.I. (1980), The Rockford Files (1974), and Webster (1983) (the highest rated episode ever). She also appeared in several movies and had a brief singing career.
In 1969, Meredith married actor Greg Mullavey (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1976) and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1973). They had one daughter, Allison, born in 1974. Greg and Meredith divorced in 1992 but remained friends.
In 1995, Meredith married Philip Neal, Chairman and CEO of Avery-Dennison.
In 1999, she was diagnosed with cancer. In 2000, due to complications from multiple surgeries and allergic reactions to medications (which caused her brain to swell), Meredith Lynn MacRae departed this life.- Pernell Whitaker was born on 2 January 1964 in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. He was married to Rovanda Anthony. He died on 14 July 2019 in Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA.
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Petr Weigl was born on 16 March 1939 in Brno, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia [now Czech Republic]. He was a director and writer, known for Lady Macbeth von Mzensk (1992), Rusalka (1977) and Let's Make an Opera (1996). He died on 14 July 2018 in the Czech Republic.- Actor
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Actor, composer, songwriter, guitarist and author. He moved from Broadway acting (1928-1932) into films, touring America with his wife and daughter, and did some recordings. He was the executive producer at the El Camino Playhouse in California. Joining ASCAP in 1953, his chief musical collaborator was Perry Botkin. His popular-song compositions include "Good Ship Lalapaloo" and "Two Shillelagh O'Sullivan".- Scott Doebler was born on 26 April 1960 in Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Ordinary People (1980) and The Tragedy of King Lear (1982). He died on 14 July 2013 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
- Vilma Ferrán was born on 30 October 1940 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was an actress, known for Montecristo (2006), Resistiré (2003) and Televisión por la identidad (2007). She died on 15 July 2014 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Walter Balzarini was born on 29 August 1936 in Ceres, Santa Fe, Argentina. He was an actor, known for Héroes y demonios (1999), Accomplices (1998) and After the Condor (1990). He died on 14 July 2011 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.