Recent Posts Tagged With 'Film'

• Sir Ian McKellen

  Posted on Sunday May 24th, 2009 at 18:01 in Film, hollywood, television, theatre, actors, broadway, activists, tony award winners

  Sir Ian McKellen born 25 May 1939Sir Ian McKellen is probably the current holder of the unofficial title of the UK's best-loved actor.Gifted and charismatic, he is able to tackle a wide range of roles from Shakespearean gravitas to modern theatre to ...

• Sir John Gielgud

  Posted on Monday April 13th, 2009 at 18:01 in Film, theatre, actors, tony award winners, emmy award winners, grammy award winners, academy award oscar winners

  Sir John Gielgud born 14 April 1904 (d. 2000)Undoubtedly one of the greatest British actors of the 20th century, John Gielgud was born in London into a family with a theatrical tradition, and was acting by his teens. He joined the Old Vic theatre com...

• Graham Chapman

  Posted on Wednesday January 7th, 2009 at 18:01 in Film, actors, comedians, alcoholics, death from cancer

  Graham Chapman born 8 January 1941 (d. 1989)Graham Chapman was an English comedian and writer. He was one of the six Monty Python members and lead actor in their two narrative films, playing King Arthur in Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Brian in...

• Richard Cromwell

  Posted on Wednesday January 7th, 2009 at 18:01 in Film, hollywood, actors, death from cancer

  Richard Cromwell born 8 January 1910 (d. 1960)Richard Cromwell was an American actor, born LeRoy Melvin Radabaugh. His family and friends called him Roy, though he was also professionally known and signed autographs as Dick Cromwell.Cromwell was best...

• Kerwin Mathews

  Posted on Wednesday January 7th, 2009 at 18:01 in Film, hollywood, actors

  Kerwin Mathews born 8 January 1926 (d. 2007)Kerwin Mathews was a virile, dashing actor who will be remembered for his portrayals of such fantasy heroes as Gulliver and Jack the Giant Killer, and in particular for his performance in The Seventh Voyage...

• Wilson Cruz

  Posted on Friday December 26th, 2008 at 18:01 in Film, television, actors, broadway, musical theatre, activists

  Wilson Cruz born 27 December 1973Brooklyn-born Wilson Cruz is an openly gay Puerto Rican-American actor. Cruz has in both his acting roles and community work served as a model and mentor to gay youth, especially gay youth of colour.Best known for his...

• Quentin Crisp

  Posted on Wednesday December 24th, 2008 at 18:01 in Film, television, theatre, writers, models, leftfield avant-garde, hustlers prostitutes

  Quentin Crisp born 25 December 1908 (d. 1999)Quentin Crisp was an English writer, artist's model, actor and raconteur known for his memorable and insightful witticisms. He became a gay icon in the 1970s after publication of his memoir The Naked Civil...

• Ronald Allen

  Posted on Monday December 15th, 2008 at 18:01 in Film, television, actors, death from cancer

  Ronald Allen born 16 December 1934 (d. 1991)Ronald Allen was an English actor.He studied at Leighton Park School in Reading and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, worked in repertory theatre, had a season at the Old Vic, L...

• Sir Noel Coward

  Posted on Monday December 15th, 2008 at 18:01 in Film, theatre, writers, songwriters, actors, singers, cabaret, playwrights

  Noel Coward born 16 December 1899 (d. 1973)Sir Noel Peirce Coward was an English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music.Born in Teddington, Middlesex to a middle-class family, he began performing in the West End at an early age.A student at...

• Christopher Biggins

  Posted on Monday December 15th, 2008 at 18:01 in Film, television, reality tv, actors, pantomime

  Christopher Biggins born 16 December 1948Christopher Biggins is an English television and pantomime actor and the fifth male winner of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! 2007.Biggins is most famous for being a comedy actor, appearing as the regul...

• Frank Vosper

  Posted on Sunday December 14th, 2008 at 18:01 in Film, theatre, actors, playwrights, death by accident, death by suicide

  Frank Vosper born 15 December 1899 (d. 1937)Frank Vosper was a British actor and playwright.Frank Vosper was bitten by the acting bug as a boy and at the age of 17 he attended the F R Benson and afterwards the Ben Greet Players instead of a college....

• David Lewis

  Posted on Saturday December 13th, 2008 at 18:01 in Film, film producers, hollywood

  David Lewis born 14 December 1903 (d. 1987)David Lewis, born David Levy, was a story editor then Hollywood film producer who produced such films as Dark Victory (1939), Arch of Triumph (1948), and Raintree County (1957). Before becoming a producer in...

• Hurd Hatfield

  Posted on Saturday December 6th, 2008 at 18:01 in Film, television, actors

  Hurd Hatfield born 7 December 1917 (d. 1998)Hurd Hatfield was an American actor.Born William Rukard Hurd Hatfield in New York, New York, Hatfield was educated at Columbia University before travelling to London, England where he studied drama and bega...

• Larry Kert

  Posted on Thursday December 4th, 2008 at 18:01 in Film, actors, broadway, musical theatre, death from hiv aids

  Larry Kert born 5 December 1930 (d. 1991)Born in Los Angeles, California, as Frederick Lawrence Kert, as a child, he appeared in the film Time Out for Lessons (1939) and was a stunt double for Roddy McDowell in Lassie Come Home (1943). As part of a g...

• Dan Butler

  Posted on Monday December 1st, 2008 at 18:01 in Film, television, actors

  Dan Butler born 2 December 1952Daniel E. Butler born in Fort Wayne, Indiana is a successful TV and film actor who is best known for his role as Bulldog Briscoe on the long-running TV series Frasier.Openly gay, he wrote an off-Broadway play about his ...

• Charles Hawtrey

  Posted on Saturday November 29th, 2008 at 18:01 in Radio, Film, theatre, actors, comedians, carry on

  Charles Hawtrey born 30 November 1914 (d. 1988)George Frederick Joffre Hartree, better known as Charles Hawtrey, was an English comedy actor. He took his stage name from a celebrated theatrical knight who died in 1923, Sir Charles Hawtrey. It has mis...

• Virgil Thomson

  Posted on Monday November 24th, 2008 at 18:01 in Film, classical music, composers, pulitzer prize winners

  Virgil Thomson born 25 November 1896 (d. 1989)Virgil Thomson was an American composer from Kansas City, Missouri who was instrumental in the development of the 'American Sound' in classical music, so often associated with the patriotic compositions o...

• Anton Walbrook

  Posted on Tuesday November 18th, 2008 at 18:01 in Film, actors

  Anton Walbrook born 19 November 1896 (d. 1967)Anton Walbrook was an Austrian actor who settled in the United Kingdom.He was born Adolf Wohlbrück in Vienna, Austria, descended from ten generations of actors. His father broke with tradition and was a ...

• Rock Hudson

  Posted on Sunday November 16th, 2008 at 18:01 in Film, hollywood, television, actors, death from hiv aids

  Rock Hudson born 17 November 1925 (d. 1985)Rock Hudson was a popular American film and television actor, noted for his stunning looks and most remembered as a romantic leading man during the 1950s and 1960s. Hudson was voted Star of the Year, Favorit...

• Aaron Copland

  Posted on Thursday November 13th, 2008 at 18:01 in Film, classical music, composers, pulitzer prize winners, grammy award winners, academy award oscar winners

  Aaron Copland born 14 November 1900 (d. 1990)Aaron Copland was an American composer of concert and film music, as well as an accomplished pianist. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as 'the dean of...

• Jack Smith

  Posted on Thursday November 13th, 2008 at 18:01 in Film, death from hiv aids, leftfield avant-garde, warhol's factory, performance artists

  Jack Smith born 14 November 1932 (d. 1989)Jack Smith was an American film-maker, actor, and pioneer of underground cinema. He is generally acclaimed as a founding father of American Performance Art, and has been critically recognised as a master phot...

• Russell Tovey

  Posted on Thursday November 13th, 2008 at 18:01 in Film, television, theatre, actors, broadway

  Russell Tovey born 14 November 1981Russell Tovey is an English actor from Essex.Tovey began his career as a child actor.In 2004 he played the role of Rudge in Alan Bennett's play The History Boys.He played in the original West End stage production as...

• Roland Emmerich

  Posted on Sunday November 9th, 2008 at 18:01 in Film, film producers, germans, film directors, screenwriters

  Roland Emmerich born 10 November 1955Roland Emmerich is a German film director, screenwriter, and producer.Emmerich was born in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He attended the University of Television and Film Munich from 1977 to 1981 and his...

• Brad Davis

  Posted on Wednesday November 5th, 2008 at 18:01 in Film, drugs, theatre, actors, alcoholics, bisexuals, death from hiv aids, death by suicide

  Brad Davis born 6 November 1949 (d. 1991)Robert Creel Davis, better known as Brad Davis, was an American actor. He was perhaps best known for his role in the 1978 film, Midnight Express.Davis was born in Tallahassee, Florida to Eugene Davis, a dentis...

• Luchino Visconti

  Posted on Saturday November 1st, 2008 at 19:01 in Film, italians, theatre directors, film directors, opera directors

  Luchino Visconti born 2 November 1906 (d. 1976)Luchino Visconti, Duke of Modrone was an Italian theatre and cinema director and writer.Born into a noble and wealthy family (one of the richest of northern Italy) in Milan. His father was the Duke of Mo...

• Max Adrian

  Posted on Friday October 31st, 2008 at 19:01 in Film, television, theatre, actors

  Max Adrian born 1 November 1903 (d.1973)Max Adrian was an acclaimed actor, born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. He was born simply Max Bor, and is sometimes credited as Max Cavendish.Firstly a stage actor, he began his career as a...

• Divine

  Posted on Saturday October 18th, 2008 at 18:01 in Film, transgender, actors, singers, drag, popular music

  Divine born 19 October 1945 (d. 1988)Harris Glenn Milstead was best known for his drag persona, Divine.Born in Towson, Maryland, at the age of 12 the family moved to Lutherville, a suburb of Baltimore. John Waters was a childhood friend who lived six...

• Udo Kier

  Posted on Monday October 13th, 2008 at 18:01 in Film, actors, germans

  Udo Kier born 14 October 1944Udo Kier - born Udo Kierspe in Cologne, Germany - is a German actor.He began his acting career as a protégé of film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who was also his lover. He has starred in many vampire movies, such ...

• Gary Beach

  Posted on Thursday October 9th, 2008 at 18:01 in Film, television, actors, broadway, musical theatre, tony award winners

  Gary Beach born 10 October 1947Gary Beach is a Tony Award-winning American actor, primarily in Broadway musical theatre.His television credits include Recording the Producers (a documentary for PBS), Queer as Folk, Murder, She Wrote, Cheers and Saved...

• David Bedella

  Posted on Wednesday September 24th, 2008 at 18:01 in Film, television, actors, musical theatre

  David Bedella born 25 September 1962David Bedella is an American TV and stage actor born in Chicago.Bedella is perhaps most noted for his role in Jerry Springer - The Opera, where he played both the Warm Up Man (in the First Act) and Satan in the Sec...