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Franz Waxman was born Franz Wachsmann in the southern Polish city of Chorzów on the 24th of December, 1906. In 1930, he wrote the […]
Douglas Walton was born John Douglas Duder in Toronto, Canada on the 16th of October, 1910. Percy Bysshe Shelley (Douglas Walton) and Lord Byron […]
Agnes Teresa McGlade was born on the 23rd of October, 1880 in Belfast. She split her time between London and New York as her […]
James “Shamus” Sullivan and Edith “Biddy” Lanchester defied social mores in their refusal to marry; their daughter Elsa would continue the family tradition of […]
Edward Erskholme Clive was born on the 28th of August, 1879 in Blaenavon in Monmouthshire, Wales. He studied at St Bartholemew’s Hospital in London […]
Robert Segedy offers a retrospective on the English horror star’s greatest achievements. The man born William Henry Pratt on November 23, 1887 in Camberwell, […]
John P Fulton was born on the 4th of November, 1902 in Beatrice, Nebraska. Starting his cinematic life as an assistant cameraman, he secured […]
