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- Queen Anne was born on 6 February 1665 in London, England. She was married to Prince George of Denmark. She died on 1 August 1714 in London, England.
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Josef Kajetán Tyl was born on 6 February 1808 in Kutná Hora, Bohemia, Austrian Empire [now Czech Republic]. He was a writer, known for Fidlovacka (1930), Palicova dcera (1923) and Prazský flamendr (1926). He was married to Magdalena Forchheimová. He died on 11 July 1856 in Pilsen, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic].- John B. Gordon was born on 6 February 1832. He died on 9 January 1904 in Miami, Florida, USA.
- Jeb Stuart was born on 6 February 1833 in Patrick County, Virginia, U SA. He died on 12 May 1864 in Richmond, Virginia, USA.
- Henry Irving was born on 6 February 1838 in Keinton-Mandeville, Somerset, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Bells (1913). He was married to Florence O'Callaghan. He died on 13 October 1905 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK.
- McKee Rankin was born on 6 February 1844 in Sandwich, Ontario, Canada. McKee was a writer, known for The Runaway Wife (1915) and The Danites (1912). McKee was married to Kitty Blanchard (actress). McKee died on 17 March 1914 in San Francisco, California, USA.
- Isidor Straus was born on 6 February 1845 in Otterberg, Palatinate, Kingdom of Bavaria [now Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany]. He was married to Rosalie Ida Straus. He died on 15 April 1912 in North Atlantic Ocean.
- Ernst Eckstein was born on 6 February 1845 in Gießen, Germany. He was a writer, known for Themis (1920) and Der Besuch im Karzer (1961). He was married to Elisabeth Bolle. He died on 18 November 1900 in Dresden, Germany.
- Paulus was born on 6 February 1845 in Bayonne, France. He died on 1 June 1908 in Saint Mande, France.
- Rosalie Ida Straus was born on 6 February 1849 in Worms, Grand Duchy of Hesse [now Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany]. She was married to Isidor Straus. She died on 15 April 1912 in North Atlantic Ocean.
- Elias Disney was born on 6 February 1859 in Bluevale, Ontario, Canada. He was married to Flora Disney. He died on 13 September 1941 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Writer
- Director
Robert Misch was born on 6 February 1860 in Zarczyn, Bromberg, Posen, Germany. He was a writer and director, known for Das Geheimnis der Wera Baranska (1919), Wenn Du eine Tante hast (1925) and Die tugendhafte Tänzerin (1922). He was married to Margarete Kastner. He died on 27 November 1929 in Berlin, Germany.- William 'Cap' Anderson Hatfield was born on 6 February 1864 in Mingo County, West Virginia, USA. He was married to Elizabeth Smith. He died on 21 August 1930 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
- George Jay Gould was born on 6 February 1864 in New York City, New York, USA. He died in 1923.
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Duc de Montpensier was born on 6 February 1869 in Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Jaripeo y fiestas en Jalapa (1910). He was married to Maria Dorothea of Austria. He died on 28 March 1926 in Palermo, Sicily, Kingdom of Italy.- Hildegard Harring was born on 6 February 1871. She is known for Johan (1921) and När millionerna rullar... (1924).
- Bertie Wright was born on 6 February 1871 in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for A Little Bit of Fluff (1919), General John Regan (1921) and Young Lochinvar (1923). He died on 7 March 1960 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- Gustaf Aronsson was born on 6 February 1872 in Kisa, Östergötlands län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for Närkingarna (1923), Gustaf Wasa del I (1928) and A.-B. gifta bort baron Olson (1928). He died in 1930.
- S.H. Herkomer was born on 6 February 1875 in Busley, Hertfordshire, England, UK. S.H. was a writer, known for The Temptation of Carlton Earle (1923), The Shuttle of Life (1920) and Burnt In (1920). S.H. died in 1939 in Hampshire, England, UK.
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- Director
- Writer
Charlie Joy was born on 6 February 1876 in Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Whispering Palms (1923), When Dr. Quackell Did Hide (1920) and Adam and Eve (1921). He died on 7 August 1947 in Virginia, USA.- Wilhelm August Schmidtbonn was born on 6 February 1876 in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was a writer, known for Souls on the Road (1921) and The Wanderer (1925). He was married to Liese Treuer. He died on 3 July 1952 in Bad Godesberg, Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- Henry Blogg was born on 6 February 1876 in Cromer, Norfolk, England, UK. He was married to Annie Elizabeth Brackenbury. He died on 13 June 1954 in Cromer, Norfolk, England, UK.
- John Webb Dillion was born on 6 February 1877 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Robin Hood (1913), The Darling of Paris (1917) and Romeo and Juliet (1916). He was married to Catherine V. Earl (stage/film actress). He died on 20 December 1949 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Lion Solser was born in Rotterdam as the son of Johannes Solser and the stage actress Engelina Florina Hartlooper on February 6, 1877. He had brothers and sisters (Louis, Michiel, Jeanette Johanna and Engelina Adriana). He married Adrienne Willemsens (Schaerbeek, Belgium, March 25, 1872 - Amsterdam, March 5, 1962), was a comedian and committed suicide in Rotterdam at the age of 38 on August 3, 1915. Lion was buried in Diemen.
Lion Solser came from a lineage of part variety performers and part stage actors. His mother was also an actress, but went across the country with his father to earn more money singing verse. Solser attended drama school from 1889 to 1892. His brother Michiel died at a young age and Lion took his place in the operetta, and he worked with Piet Hesse from 1896 until his death. He formed an ensemble with Hesse, which also included Adrienne Willemsens, his wife. Lion Solser was a director and comedian, often taking on female roles. For years he played the lead role in "Do you know about Schellevis-Mie?" and with Hesse as the cross-dressing duo Wip and Snip, probably the source of inspiration for the later duo Snip and Snap by Willy Walden and Piet Muijselaar. He also performs with Hesse in the silent film "Solser en Hesse" by director M H Laddé from 1900, a film that has unfortunately been lost and in the first Dutch film, "the deranged hengelaar". Abraham's sister was the variety artist and humorist Adrienne Solser.
When Lion died, Het Nieuws van de dag voor Nederlandsch-Indies read:
"Lion Solser" Our collaborator Vosmaer writes to us on 5 August: For a very large number of Indies people it will probably not be necessary to describe the person of the best transvesti, and one of the best duetists and genre comedians our country has known, who has a nervous disorder of took us away: Lion Solser. Most of my readers, I think, must have heard and seen at least once in their lives that little, elegant couple singer, so classy in the black skirt, and yet who in an instant transformed himself into the most slender Jordanian shark bay or maddened peasant girl. And in doing so have admired his expressive, expressive, powerful and the largest halls filling voice and crisp diction into the smallest corners.
Lion was a brother of Michel Solser, creator of the, so to speak, immortal figure of 'Flipje' from Reyding's 'Revue Artistique'. And he resembled that brother in many ways, who was again the son of an excellent comedian. That may not mean much to non-Amsterdammers, but those few lines say it all for us.
Lion Solser turned 38 years old. He began very early in the career that had been prescribed for him, if only out of respect for his ancestors. At the age of about 19 - - I could say it exactly if I went to ask his long-term friend and associate Hesse, who lives in the same house as me, but I dare not disturb him on this funeral day, because he is miserable, devastated -he set foot on the variety stage as a chansonnier, humorist, character comedian.
But only for a short time did he act alone. He was very fortunate to meet Piet Hesse, a few years older than him, who was also an excellent and cultured couple singer, and from that moment on their fortunes-if one can speak of that in our country with its narrow borders-was made. For Lion Solser could be an excellent humorist - he knew absolutely nothing about saving money, managing money, and in this precisely Piet Hesse was a matador, a genius - a born businessman.
"Eighteen years ago, I saw them both perform for the first time during a Groningen fair. They were a "number" of a specialty program, but what a! Usually they first sang a genre couplet, Hesse as an old gentleman, Solser as an old lady, and as a bis number one or two couplets 'with their own head', in the skirt. Even then it was striking how spry, 'mundane' and elegant those two duets presented themselves in the skirts, how funny their old man and wife couples were - and how the two were literally perfect for each other.
Hesse soon realized that his couplets were going in. Solser made many of them himself. And so they started to print and sell those things to amateurs, who wanted to recite them in a "closed circle", but also to professional comedians. But Piet Hesse conceived bigger plans. After some years of singing together at all the fairs in the country, and here in the capital with Frits van Haarlem or in "Flora" (I believe also with Mulder in the Kalverstraat, now long gone), the two partners formed a small troupe that would perform specific Amsterdam happy games, true genre pieces. But before that, Solser would first win laurels with his one-act play "Half an hour at the office of the Moderne Tooneel", in which, following Henri de Vries, he was the first Dutchman to "introduce" the genre here. alone performed six different roles in a truly exquisite manner. With this, Solser and Hesse - and with the greatest success - traveled all over our country about 1910.
That same year they formed their troop. And with that little group they performed Amsterdam sketches, mostly written by Tony Schmitz on the instructions of Lion Solser, in a way that I do not hesitate to call unsurpassable of its kind. One would perhaps not call their actors "first-class powers" everywhere. But preceded by Solser they all, down to the very least, managed to fit themselves so perfectly into the typical Amsterdam milieu that Schmitz portrayed us, that the spectators in many a scene had to admit that reality could not be more real.
Successively, from 1911 onwards, Solser and Hesse regaled us with: "Have you seen the child yet?" (Grandthéatre), "Are you also coming to the Wedding of Mietje T' (ditto), "The legacy of uncle Janus" (Hollandsche Schouwburg), "Have you heard of Schellevis Mie ?" (Panoptic).
With all those Amsterdam Sketches, in which Solser invariably played a female role, usually a splendor of a Jordanian, the partners have earned a lot of money, and no one begrudges them that, because they worked very hard to get the interplay as Solser did. especially absolutely wanted.
In this respect -and also as a 'piece' -- 'Mietje's wedding' suited me best personally. The 'pertij', the wedding guests, the furniture in the Jordanian house, the puppet show, where more benevolent amateurs than talented amateurs among the guests played their lectures - everything was so beautiful, 'real', so cut and copied from life, and so lifelike portrayed by all the actors, even if they had the smallest part to play, as I have seen it, frankly speaking, but very seldom on other, even the best, scenes.
And of the preparation of these performances the greatest credit goes to Lion Solser, who, in addition to being an excellent transvestite, was a sensitive and strict director, who personally took care of the smallest, apparently insignificant details.
Or that astonishing need for labor that being overwhelmingly busy has wrecked him?
Lately the already hot-blooded Solser has been very "troublesome." His friends had to keep a close eye on him after he once, for some futile reason, suddenly, in the middle of his part, began to lash out at the audience, something a man like Solser would never have done under normal circumstances. That was during a performance by Schellevis Mie, now about six months ago. Then things quickly, anxiously, quickly diminished with him. He started to rant for no reason, became quarrelsome, which also did not fit with his nature, took a month off to 'rest completely', seemed completely healed, suddenly collapsed again, until his inexorable nervous illness struck him down with one last blow.
Today Lion Solser is buried, under an interest that is hard to imagine. He leaves behind a wife and daughter - and an audience that will remember his idiosyncratic art for a long time to come. - Samuel Van Ronkel was born on 6 February 1877 in Arkansas, USA. Samuel was a producer, known for Uncle Bim's Gifts (1923), All Wet (1927) and Aggravatin' Mama (1923). Samuel died on 29 November 1951 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.
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Francisque Poulbot was born on 6 February 1879 in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France. He was a writer and director, known for Montmartre's Kids (1916), The Kiddies in the Ruins (1918) and Dorville chauffeur (1930). He died on 16 September 1946 in Montmartre, Paris XVIII, Paris, France.- Actor
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Ernesto Vilches was born on 6 February 1879 in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. He was an actor and writer, known for El ciento trece (1935), Wu Li Chang (1930) and El comediante (1931). He died on 8 December 1954 in Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain.- Fred Hueston was born on 6 February 1879 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Man from Headquarters (1928), Cold Feet (1922) and Roll Along (1923). He died on 25 February 1961 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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J.L. Frothingham was born on 6 February 1880 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. J.L. was a producer, known for The Breaking Point (1921), Shattered Idols (1922) and The Ten Dollar Raise (1921). J.L. was married to Marcia Manon and Ethel Waterbury. J.L. died on 31 October 1925 in San Diego, California, USA.- Actress
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Dot Farley was born on 6 February 1881 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for The Red Kimono (1926), So Big (1924) and The Little Irish Girl (1926). She died on 2 May 1971 in South Pasadena, California, USA.- Elvira Betrone was born on 6 February 1881 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She was an actress, known for We the Living (1942), Doctor, Beware (1941) and The Naked and the Wicked (1951). She was married to Annibale Betrone. She died on 11 August 1961 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.
- Franja Sotosek was born on 6 February 1881 in Agram, Austria-Hungary. He was an actor, known for Dvije sirotice (1919), Matija Gubec (1919) and Dvorovi u samoci (1925). He died on 10 February 1945 in Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia [now Croatia].
- Walter Jakobsson was born on 6 February 1882 in Helsinki, Finland. He was married to Ludowika Jakobsson. He died on 10 June 1957 in Zürich, Switzerland.
- Bennett Kilpack was born on 6 February 1883 in Long Melford, Babergh District, Suffolk, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Way Back Home (1931). He was married to Dorothy Young Schisler and Mabel Alice Cromer. He died on 17 August 1962 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
- Arthur Stenning was born on 6 February 1883 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for From Nine to Nine (1936), The Web (1950) and Joan of Arc (1952). He died on 24 December 1972 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
- Jerzy Leszczynski was born on 6 February 1884 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Pan Tadeusz (1928), Spy (1933) and Melodie duszy (1918). He was married to Anna Belina and Leokadia Pancewicz-Leszczynska. He died on 9 July 1959 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Stjepan Bojnicic was born on 6 February 1884 in Agram, Croatia, Austria-Hungary [now Zagreb, Croatia]. He was an actor, known for Gricka vjestica (1920), Brcko u Zagrebu (1917) and Jeftina kosta (1917). He died on 27 February 1927 in Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia [now Croatia].
- Actor
- Writer
Lesser known than sister Dame Sybil Thorndike but just as versatile, Russell Thorndike was a British actor who later turned author and novelist. Of the two, Russell had natural talent but lacked the fire. His first love was for the pen and, following WWI, devoted himself more and more to writing. He was born Arthur Russell Thorndike on February 6, 1885, at Rochester, where his father had recently taken the position of canon at Rochester Cathedral. A student at St Georges School, Windsor Castle, he was a chorister of the Chapel Royal. At his suggestion, both Russell and Sybil (who once aspired to be a concert pianist) tried acting as a career in 1903. They became students at Ben Greets Academy and two years later fellow-members of his company on a North American tour, including New York. He remained in all three-and-a-half years with the company, once giving three performances as Hamlet in three different versions of the text on the same day. He also toured in South Africa and Asia.
At around this time he completed his first novel of romantic adventure on Romney marsh entitled "Dr Syn." In 1914 he entered military service. Brother Frank, who once performed on stage, was killed in action and Russell was severely wounded at Gallipoli and discharged. He rejoined Ben Greet's theatre company and his sister at the Old Vic in 1916 in which he played the classics -- King John, Richard II, and King Lear (Sybil portrayed The Fool) He also acted with Sybil and her husband, Lewis Casson, in their touring repertory of melodramas. In 1922 he earned applause for his performance in Henrik Ibsen's first professional production of "Peer Gynt" at the Old Vic.
As for film, Russell's appearances were infrequent. He did portray Macbeth (1922) in a silent version of the play opposite Sybil's Lady Macbeth and also played leads in silent versions of other classic plays including A Christmas Carol (1923) as Old Ebenezer, and The School for Scandal (1923) as Sir Peter Teazle. He ended his career in minor priest roles for Laurence Olivier in Hamlet (1948) and Richard III (1955). Although Russell continued on the stage for four more decades (including playing his own Dr Syn character and entertaining audiences as Smee in ten revivals of "Peter Pan"), he felt a deeper fulfillment for writing, which would include the later work "The House of Jeffreys." Thorndike married Rosemary Dowson, a daughter of the well-known actress Rosina Filippi, in 1918. He died on November 7 1972 at the age of 87.- Thomas Weguelin was born on 6 February 1885 in Chelsea, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick (1921), Squibs (1935) and Knowing Men (1930). He died on 16 June 1962 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, UK.
- Romuald Gierasienski was born on 6 February 1885 in Lublin, Poland, Russian Empire [now Lublin, Lubelskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Konsul Pomeranc (1920), Ada, Don't Do That! (1936) and Znachor (1937). He died on 21 June 1956 in Kazimierz Dolny, Lubelskie, Poland.
- Zoltán Hirsch was born on 6 February 1885 in Dombóvár, Hungary. He was an actor, known for Ágyú és harang (1915), Mackó úr kalandjai (1921) and Jobbra én, balra te (1918). He died in 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Anthony Keith was born on 6 February 1885 in Marylebone, London, England, UK. He was an actor and director, known for The Island of Wisdom (1920), The Beryl Coronet (1921) and As Ye Repent (1915). He was married to Ruth Maund, Victoria Fullam and Ethel Baines. He died on 29 July 1954 in Hillingdon, London, England, UK.- Writer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Louis Hennevé was born on 6 February 1885 in Paris, France. Louis was a writer, known for Occupe-toi d'Amélie (1932), Mon amant l'assassin (1932) and La grande farandole (1961). Louis died on 31 December 1972.- Joe Velich was born on 6 February 1885 in Czechoslovakia. He was an actor, known for Melody of My Heart (1936). He died in 1950 in Ealing, London, England, UK.
- Gunnar Widegren was born on 6 February 1886 in Stockholm, Sweden. He was a writer, known for The Family That Was a Carousel (1936), Raggen - det är jag det (1936) and Fröken blir piga (1936). He died on 29 September 1959 in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Clara Cottrell was born on 6 February 1886 in California. Clara died on 11 October 1972 in Banning, California, USA.- Clarice Mayne was born on 6 February 1886 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Educated Evans (1936) and Nursie! Nursie! (1916). She was married to Teddy Knox and James W. Tate. She died on 16 January 1966 in London, England, UK.
- Frank Nash was born on 6 February 1887 in Birdseye, Indiana, USA. He died on 17 June 1933 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
- Writer
- Cinematographer
Valentin Turkin was born on 6 February 1887 in Novocherkassk, Don Voisko Oblast, Russian Empire [now Rostov Oblast, Russia]. He was a writer and cinematographer, known for The Girl with the Hat Box (1927), Ne pojman - ne vor (1923) and Venetziansky chulok (1915). He died on 10 January 1958.- Josef Frings was born on 6 February 1887 in Neuss, Preußen, Deutsches Reich.