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Cedric Hardwicke – or, to be more correct, Sir Cedric Webster Hardwicke – was born in the English town of Lye on the 19th […]
Born Leonidas Frank Chaney on the 1st of April 1883, Lon Chaney is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors of the silent […]
Rondo Hatton was born on the 22nd of April, 1894 in Hagerstown, Maryland. Suffering from acromegaly, a disorder of the pituitary gland, Hatton never […]
French poet, novelist and dramatist Victor Marie Hugo was born on the 26th of February, 1802. One of France’s greatest and best known writers, […]
English stage and film actor and director Charles Laughton was born on the 1st of July, 1899 in Scarborough, in Yorkshire’s North Riding, England. […]
The American actor Norman Kerry, whose career spanned over twenty-five years in movies, was born Arnold Kaiser in Rochester, New York, on the 16th […]
