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- Johann Andreas Schachtner was born on 9 March 1731 in Dingolfing, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire [now Bavaria, Germany]. Johann Andreas was a writer, known for Zaida (1965) and Mozart: Zaide (2008). Johann Andreas died on 20 July 1795 in Salzburg, Archbishopric of Salzburg, Holy Roman Empire [now Salzburg, Austria].
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Taras Shevchenko was born on 9 March 1814 in Moryntsi, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a writer, known for Toloka (2020), Nazar Stodolya (1955) and Nazar Stodolya (1937). He died on 10 March 1861 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia].- Leland Stanford was born on 9 March 1824 in Colonie, New York, USA. He was a producer, known for Sallie Gardner at a Gallop (1878) and Skeleton of Horse (1881). He died on 21 June 1893 in Palo Alto, California, USA.
- Emil Rosenow was born on 9 March 1871 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was a writer, known for Kater Lampe (1936), Kater Lampe (1961) and Kater Lampe (1967). He was married to Maria Anna Ludwig. He died on 7 February 1904 in Schöneberg, Berlin, Germany.
- Károly Lovik was born on 9 March 1874 in Budapest, Hungary. He was a writer, known for A leányvári boszorkány (1938) and Feje fölött holló (1974). He died on 19 April 1915 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Terry McGovern was born on 9 March 1880 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Reproduction of the McGovern and Dixon Fight (1900), Actors' Fund Field Day (1910) and The Gans-McGovern Fight (1901). He died on 22 February 1918 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
- Maren Pedersen was born on 9 March 1842 in Gærum, Sejlstrup, Denmark. She was an actress, known for Häxan (1922) and A Sacrilege of Witches. She was married to Carl Frederik Pedersen. She died on 22 December 1920 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- Kurt Küchler was born on 9 March 1883 in Essen, Germany. He was a writer, known for Steuermann Holk (1920). He died on 1 May 1925 in Nienstedten, Hamburg, Germany.
- Claude France was born on 9 March 1893 in Emden, Germany. She was an actress, known for Le père Goriot (1921), Le bossu (1925) and Le berceau de dieu (1926). She died on 3 January 1928 in Paris, France.
- Actor
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American stage actor, musical comedy star, and vaudevillian who was a legendary figure of his time and who fathered a family of performers who went on to notable careers in motion pictures. Born Edward Fitzgerald at 23 8th Avenue in New York City, March 9, 1856, to an Irish-immigrant tailor, Richard Fitzgerald, and his wife Mary, Eddie moved to Chicago with his family after his father's death in an insane asylum from syphilis in 1862. His mother reportedly cared for Mary Todd Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln's widow, during Mrs. Lincoln's mental illness. At the age of 8, Eddie began entertaining on the street for tips, doing acrobatic dances. He changed his name to Foy when he was 15, and he and partner Jack Finnigan went on the road, dancing for meals in bars. They got work as supernumeraries in dramatic productions and Foy claimed to have worked in such a capacity with the leading actor of his day, Edwin Booth. With another partner, Jim Thompson, Foy traveled for three years in a saloon/theatre circuit through the West, including an extended stay in Dodge City, Kansas, where he met Doc Holliday, 'William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson', and Wyatt Earp. Also on the circuit was a girl singer act, the Howland Sisters. Eddie fell for one of them, Rose Howland, and they married in 1879. In 1882, the four (Thompson had married another singer) returned East, joining the Carncross Minstrels in Philadelphia. Shortly thereafter, however, Rose Foy and her newborn died in childbirth. By 1887, Foy was back in the West, touring with David Henderson's troupe across the country. He met Lola Sefton in San Francisco and they were a couple for the next decade until her death. (Many sources described them as husband and wife, though no record of a marriage has been found.) After Sefton's death, Foy started his own company and two years later married one of his dancers, Madeline Morando. She gave him eleven children, the seven surviving ones becoming world-famous in their father's act as The Seven Little Foys. In 1903, while playing the Iroquois Theatre, Foy heroically attempted to calm the crowd after fire broke out. Six hundred people died. Foy escaped by crawling through a sewer. Three years after bringing his children into the act, Foy and his family appeared in a film for Mack Sennett, one of only a handful the senior Foy would do. However, his children, in particular Bryan Foy and Eddie Foy Jr., would enjoy substantial careers in the movies. Eddie Sr. continued to headline in vaudeville and musical theatre until his death from a heart attack in 1928 while performing in vaudeville in Kansas City, Missouri.- Known as "The Tramp Author", Kennedy wrote around twenty books as he traveled the world by ship or by foot. A native of Manchester, England, Kennedy was working in cotton mills there by the age of six. While still a youth, Kennedy served aboard merchant vessels that plied the North Atlantic before he came to America. He travels there took him throughout the American Southwest where he became involved in the Indian Wars and later north, to participate in the Alaskan Gold Rush. Kennedy also toured by foot much of Spain with only a revolver and his British passport for protection.
After he tired of traveling, Kennedy became an opera singer and actor. Later he would write columns for several newspapers that were occasionally critical of the United States. During the early years of the First World War he felt the United States should have taken a harder stand against Germany. Kennedy also wrote critical articles about the plight of the working poor in America and England.
Kennedy's better known works would include, "Darab's Wine Cup and Other Tales" (1899), "A Man Adrift" (1900, "The Hunger Line" (1908) and) "A Tramp's Philosophy" (1908).
Kennedy died around the age of seventy on 6 December, 1930, in a London sanitarium after a friend found him ill, without food and ambivalent to life or death. He had at one time lived in a fourteen room house in a well-to-do neighborhood in Brighton. Kennedy often gave as his favorite recreation as "Doing nothing". - Actress
Mrs. Pierce was born on 9 March 1891 in Minnesota, USA. She was an actress. She was married to Claude G. Pierce and Alexander John Christlieb. She died on 12 June 1931 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Tom Shelford was born on 9 March 1879 in Clapham, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Adventures of Dick Turpin: 200 Guineas Reward, Wanted Dead or Alive (1912). He died on 19 June 1931 in Hornsey, London, England, UK.
- Lajos Palágyi was born on 9 March 1876 in Baán, Austria-Hungary. He was an actor, known for Csak növel ne! (1924) and A Magyar Nemzeti Színház múltja, jelene és jövöje (1928). He died on 4 January 1932 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Benjamin B. Hampton was born on 9 March 1875 in Macomb, Illinois, USA. He was a producer and director, known for Golden Dreams (1922), The Mysterious Rider (1921) and Heart's Haven (1922). He was married to Claire Adams and Maria Somers Bartleson. He died on 31 January 1932 in New York City, New York, USA.- Charlie Chaplin - Film Industry Pioneer and Deaf Influenced? Deaf Friend and Prominent Artist Granville Redmond played a vital role in influencing Chaplin's performances
Mention the name Charlie Chaplin and all but the youngest of us will instantly conjure up this wonderful comic film character who, through silent movies, brought meaning and entertainment to the masses. Put the name Granville Redmond into the mix and few people will have knowledge about the enormously influential role this artist/actor had on Chaplin's performances.
With his mother committed to a mental asylum when he was 14, Chaplin began looking for opportunities at music halls, finding work as a stage actor and comedian. Aged just 19, he began work for the the prestigious Fred Karno company, a contract that took him to America and to the fame and stardom that followed.
Admired by Chaplin for his natural expressiveness, he and Granville became life-long friends and whilst he continued painting, Granville began teaching Chaplin sign language, finger-spelling, pantomime routines and the communication techniques that Chaplin went on to use so successfully in his films. Such was his respect for Granville that Chaplin went on to use him in several of his films as well as sponsoring him in other silent acting roles. - Very busy Hollywood character actor who didn't hit his stride on screen until he was in his 50s but who nonetheless appeared in 33 films between 1931 and 1934. The Philadelphia-born actor, veteran of a dozen Broadway plays, specialized in playing corrupt authority figures, and was perhaps best known for his deep, sonorous speaking voice.
- Frank Carrington was born on 9 March 1858. He was an actor, known for The $5, 000, 000 Counterfeiting Plot (1914). He died on 5 March 1936 in Cornwall, New York, USA.
- Francisco Matarazzo was born on 9 March 1854 in Caltelabate, Italy. He was a producer, known for Um Crime no Parque Paulista (1921). He died on 10 February 1937 in São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
"The Los Angeles Times" front page stated: 'Hollywood Film Cameraman Found Slain in Automobile.' Gray had been shot in his car in front of the Hollywood post office on Wilcox Avenue. It is not known who shot or why they killed Gray. He was a hardworking man with a wife and two sons. In his hand was a letter from Pennsylvania with the heading "Dear Daddy," it is not known who wrote the letter and his family was at a loss to explain what it meant. The body had been slumped over in the car from eight to fifteen hours before anyone noticed anything out of the ordinary. Suicide was ruled out as there was no weapon to be found and robbery was also ruled out as a motive, as Gray's paycheck and some loose change was found in his clothing.- Actor
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Herschel Evans was born on 9 March 1909 in Denton, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Policy Man (1938) and Harry Parry and His Radio Rhythm Club Septet (1943). He died on 9 February 1939 in New York City, New York, USA.- Konstantin Davidovski was born on 9 March 1882. He was an actor, known for Krasnye dyavolyata (1923), Vosstaniye rybakov (1934) and Solistka Ego Velichestva (1927). He died on 1 March 1939.
- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Bobby Vernon was born in the U.S. in 1897, was trained in Vaudeville and became a talented comic in the silent era. He began working in 1913, appearing in Lon Chaney's Almost an Actress (1913) and later worked for Mack Sennett, who teamed him up with young Gloria Swanson in 9 comedies between 1916 and 1917, most memorably in Teddy at the Throttle (1917), which also co-starred Wallace Beery, Gloria Swanson's husband, off-screen.
When the sound era arrived, he starred in three more films and retired to be a writer and comedy supervisor at Paramount for W.C. Fields and Bing Crosby.- Walter Miller was born on 9 March 1892 in Dayton, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for King of the Wild (1931), Queen of the Northwoods (1929) and The Green Archer (1925). He was married to Lillian Louise Coffin and Eileen Schofield. He died on 30 March 1940 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Writer
- Director
- Actor
Leslie T. Peacocke was born on 9 March 1869 in Bangalore, Kingdom of Mysore, British India. He was a writer and director, known for Injustice (1919), Neptune's Bride (1920) and Reformation (1920). He was married to Beatrice Ann Caroline Isabella Clifford Lloyd. He died on 5 March 1941 in New York City, New York, USA.- Paul Dullac was born on 9 March 1882 in Bègles, Gironde, France. He was an actor, known for Marius (1931), The Baker's Wife (1938) and César (1936). He was married to Odette Dullac. He died on 17 August 1941 in Vichy, Allier, France.
- August Ballin was born on 9 March 1887 in Frederiksberg, Denmark. He was an actor, known for Under Vampyrens Kløer (1914), Den moderne Messalina (1914) and En Dæmon fra Skovene (1915). He died on 17 March 1942.
- Allan Sears was born on 9 March 1887 in San Antonio, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Heart o' the Hills (1919), Martyrs of the Alamo (1915) and Intolerance (1916). He died on 18 August 1942 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Frederick Culley was born on 9 March 1879 in Plymouth, Devon, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Four Feathers (1939), The Conquest of the Air (1931) and The Suicide Club (1914). He died on 3 November 1942 in London, England, UK.
- Carlo Tresca was born on 9 March 1879 in Sulmona, Abruzzo, Italy. He died on 11 January 1943 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- Writer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Julius Brammer was born on 9 March 1877 in Sehraditz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Sehradice, Czech Republic]. He was a writer, known for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Suicide Squad (2021) and Sweet and Lowdown (1999). He died on 18 April 1943 in Juan-les-Pins, Alpes-Maritimes, France.- Willy Kierulff was born on 9 March 1900 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Willy was a composer, known for Der var engang en Vicevært (1937) and En fuldendt gentleman (1937). Willy died on 4 June 1944.
- Mattie Witting was born on 9 March 1863 in Palla, Iowa, USA. She was an actress, known for Shoes (1916), The Double Room Mystery (1917) and Man and Beast (1917). She was married to A.E. Witting. She died on 30 January 1945 in San Diego, California, USA.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
William Calkins was born on 9 March 1881 in Port Hope, Michigan, USA. He was an actor. He was married to Lavinia Cufflin. He died on 18 February 1945 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Fédote Bourgasoff was born on 9 March 1890 in Lokhvitsa, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire [now Lokhvytsia, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine]. Fédote was a cinematographer, known for A Narrow Escape (1920), Le lion des Mogols (1924) and Paris' Girls (1929). Fédote died on 12 May 1945 in Paris, France.- Lillian Broderick was born on 9 March 1895 in New York, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Our Mutual Girl (1914), Our Mutual Girl, No. 27 (1914) and Our Mutual Girl, No. 20 (1914). She was married to Joe Schenck. She died on 28 March 1946 in Long Island City, New York, USA.
- Marquis de Dion was born on 9 March 1856 in Carquefou, Loire-Atlantique, France. He died on 19 August 1946 in Paris, France.
- Soundtrack
Composer, songwriter ("If I Had My Way", "Angel Eyes"), author and publisher, educated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania public schools. He formed Kendis and Paley, Kendis and Brockman, and Kendis Music Corporation. Joining ASCAP in 1914 as a charter member, his chief musical collaborators included James Brockman, Howard Johnson and Charles Bayha.- Georges Gorby was born on 9 March 1862 in Saujon, Charente-Inférieure [now Charente-Maritime], France. He was an actor, known for Madame et son filleul (1919), Les femmes collantes (1920) and Chouquette et son as (1920). He died on 2 August 1948 in Nesles-la-Vallée, Seine-et-Oise [now Val-d'Oise], France.
- Actor
- Art Department
- Soundtrack
Bob Murphy was born on 9 March 1889 in Webster, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Girl of the Golden West (1938), It Could Happen to You (1937) and In Old Chicago (1938). He died on 6 August 1948 in Santa Monica, California, USA.- Lilian Braithwaite was born on 9 March 1873 in Ramsgate, Kent, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Gay Lord Quex (1917), Because (1918) and The Woman Who Was Nothing (1917). She was married to Gerald Lawrence. She died on 17 September 1948 in London, England, UK.
- Actor
Max Tyron was born on 9 March 1858 in Germany. He was an actor. He died on 19 June 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Charles Gay was born on 9 March 1886 in France. He died on 23 February 1950 in Orange, California, USA.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Charles Gay was born on 9 March 1886 in France. He was an actor, known for Adventures of Tarzan (1921), The Winning of Jess (1915) and The Woman, the Lion and the Man (1915). He died on 23 February 1950 in Orange, California, USA.- Joe Bordeaux was born on 9 March 1886 in Pueblo, Colorado, USA. He was an actor, known for The Butcher Boy (1917), The Man Hunter (1930) and Golf Widows (1928). He was married to Madeline Searby. He died on 10 September 1950 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Lars Moen was born on 9 March 1901 in South Dakota, USA. He was an editor, known for La route est belle (1929), Wives Beware (1932) and The Bells (1931). He died on 7 January 1951 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
- Ernest Bevin was born on 9 March 1881 in Winsford, Somerset, England, UK. He died on 14 April 1951 in London, England, UK.
- Director
- Producer
Director S. Sylvan Simon worked as a drama coach, radio executive and stage director before joining Warner Brothers in 1935. He then moved to MGM as director and assistant director in 1937. His sudden death at the age of 41 shocked all who knew him and he was mourned throughout the film industry.- Józef Andrzejewski was born on 9 March 1884 in Posen, Prussia, Germany [now Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Young Chopin (1952). He died on 10 January 1952 in Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland.
- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Charles Tharnæs was born on 9 March 1900 in Denmark. He was an actor and writer, known for Oktoberroser (1946), To som elsker hinanden (1944) and Hvor er far? (1948). He died on 29 January 1952 in Denmark.