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Hessy Doris Lloyd was born on the 3rd of July, 1896 in Liverpool, England, and enjoyed a long and diverse movie and television career. […]
James “Shamus” Sullivan and Edith “Biddy” Lanchester defied social mores in their refusal to marry; their daughter Elsa would continue the family tradition of […]
Fritz Lang, the director of movies including Metropolis (1926) and M (1931), and widely regarded as the creator of the film noir genre, was […]
Author of The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux, was born on the 6th of May, 1868, in Paris. After a career […]
Horror stalwart Herbert Lom was born Herbert Karel Angelo Kuchačevič ze Schluderpacheru in Prague on the 11th of September, 1917 and would go on […]
American actor Michael Landon was born Eugene Maurice Orowitz on the 31st of October, 1936. Forced to abandon a budding athletic career following an […]
Austro-Hungarian actor Peter Lorre was born László Löwenstein of Jewish descent on the 26th of June, 1904 in the town of Rózsahegy, Hungary, now […]
