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- Cinematographer
A.G. Heimerl was born on 4 August 1874 in Bavaria, Germany. A.G. was a cinematographer, known for The Bowery Bishop (1924), The Eagle's Feather (1923) and A Gypsy's Love (1912). A.G. died on 6 August 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- A.S.W. Rosenbach was born on 22 July 1876 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He died on 1 July 1952 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Actor
- Director
Aage Foss was born on 18 May 1885 in Aarhus, Denmark. He was an actor and director, known for Naar bønder elsker (1942), 7-9-13 (1934) and Krudt med knald (1931). He died on 8 February 1952.- Aage Staubo was born on 21 January 1886 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was an actor, known for Diskret Ophold (1946), Kampen mod uretten (1949) and Those Damned Kids (1947). He died on 13 August 1952 in Denmark.
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Aaro Hellaakoski was born on 22 June 1893 in Oulu, Finland. He is known for LOVE. (2014) and Kuusi runoilijaa (1948). He died on 23 November 1952 in Helsinki, Finland.- Aaron E. Bishop was born on 1 February 1884 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Aaron E. was a writer, known for The Galloping Romeo (1913), The Somnambulists (1913) and How Times Do Change (1916). Aaron E. was married to Eloisa. Aaron E. died on 11 April 1952 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
- Aaron Edwards was born on 26 January 1888 in New York, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Are We Civilized? (1934), The Ace of Spades (1925) and The Haunted Valley (1923). He died on 1 January 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Adabelle Driver was born on 6 December 1875 in Settle, North Yorkshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Twisted Rails (1934), The Dream Melody (1929) and The Fighting Terror (1929). She was married to Major William Driver. She died on 23 October 1952 in South San Gabriel, California, USA.
- Adam Dobosz was born on 3 August 1885 in Zyraków, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Zyraków, Podkarpackie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Szyb L-23 (1932), Ksiazatko (1937) and Szczesliwa trzynastka (1938). He was married to Waleria Dobosz-Markowska. He died on 20 November 1952 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Adam Mikolajewski was born on 24 December 1899 in Radomsko, Poland, Russian Empire [now Radomsko, Lódzkie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Adventure in Marienstadt (1954), Skarb (1949) and Jasne Lany (1947). He died on 27 December 1952 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Adelaide Coutinho was born on 25 January 1860 in Lisbon, Portugal. She was an actress, known for Pega na Chaleira (1909), Um Cavalheiro Deveras Obsequioso (1909) and Lucrecia Borgia (1910). She died on 25 September 1952 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
- Adolf Busch was born on 8 August 1891 in Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was married to Hedwig Vischer and Frieda Grüters. He died on 9 June 1952 in Guilford, Vermont, USA.
- Adolphe Hebert was born on 26 March 1909 in Canada. He was an actor, known for Ice Antics (1939). He died on 22 February 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actress
Adèle Söderholm was born on 19 March 1887 in Örgryte, Sweden. She was an actress. She died on 21 June 1952 in Stockholm, Sweden.- Agnes Clementsson was born on 14 October 1868 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. She was an actress, known for Luffar-Petter (1922) and Hin och smålänningen (1927). She died on 14 February 1952 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.
- Actor
Al Kunde was born on 19 November 1887 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor. He was married to Anne Kunde. He died on 10 August 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Director
- Writer
- Editor
Alan James was born on 23 March 1890 in Port Townsend, Washington, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Flying Lariats (1931), When a Man Sees Red (1934) and The Mystery Box (1925). He was married to Marguerite 'Myme' Foss. He died on 30 December 1952 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Alan Williamson was born on 3 February 1886 in Kent, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Teasing Grandpa (1901), Those Troublesome Boys (1904) and Two Naughty Boys Sprinkling the Spoons (1898). He died on 3 May 1952 in Sydney, Australia.
- Classically-trained actor, former chemist, whose formative years on the stage were spent in Bern (Switzerland) and, from 1909, the Deutsches Theater Berlin under Max Reinhardt's direction. Specialised in Shakespearean roles ('Richard III', 'Hamlet') and was a famous interpreter of the plays of Henrik Ibsen. He delivered his screen debut in a silent version of 'Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde' (Der Andere (1913)). Bassermann remained active in motion pictures throughout the 1920's, also frequently appearing on stage in Austria and Switzerland. His wife, Elsa Bassermann, nee Schiff, was Jewish, and the discrimination shown towards her in his native country so outraged him that he emigrated with her to the United States in 1939.
At the age of 72, he carved out another career in Hollywood as a celebrated character actor. It took him some time to come to terms with the English language, but he was soon cast in a small part in Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940), as Dr.Robert Koch. He also played a sympathetic chemistry professor in Knute Rockne All American (1940). That same year, he appeared as Van Meer in Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent (1940) and was promptly nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor. His distinguished-looking countenance and serious demeanour lent itself to being assigned a variety of consular or professorial roles: he was excellent as Consul Magnus Barring in A Woman's Face (1941) with Joan Crawford; Professor Jean Perote in Madame Curie (1943); and a dying German music teacher in Rhapsody in Blue (1945).
At the age of 83, he made a triumphant return to the German/Austrian stage in Ibsen plays. Albert Bassermann died of a heart attack en route from New York to Zurich on May 15 1952. - Alberto Savinio was born on 25 August 1891 in Athens, Greece. He was a writer, known for La nostra anima (1987). He was married to Maria Morino. He died on 5 May 1952 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Music Department
Alberto Williams was born on 23 November 1862 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is known for Sinfonía de juventud (1955). He died on 17 June 1952 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.- Alec Worcester was born on 26 April 1887 in Brockley, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Justice (1914), King Robert of Sicily (1912) and The Cloister and the Hearth (1913). He was married to Dorothea Madge Mears, Kitty Reidy (actress), Muriel May Bennett and Violet Hopson. He died on 9 June 1952 in St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, UK.
- Sound Department
Aleksander Swidwinski is known for Spy (1933) and Wyrok zycia (1933). Aleksander died on 16 July 1952 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Alexander Fischer-Marich was an actor, known for Anni (1948), Blumen aus Nizza (1936) and Hoheit tanzt Walzer (1935). He died on 12 March 1952 in Vienna, Austria.
- Actress
- Writer
Alexandra Kollontai was born on 31 March 1872 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire. She was an actress and writer, known for Red Love (1982) and Revolutionens kvinnor (2006). She was married to Pavel Dybenko and Vladimir Ludvigovich Kollontai. She died on 9 March 1952 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.- Alfons Mühlhofer was born on 27 September 1907 in Dresden, Germany. He was an actor, known for Story of a Young Couple (1952) and Saure Wochen - frohe Feste (1950). He died on 1 October 1952 in Dresden, German Democratic Republic.
- Alfred Burns died on 25 April 1952 in Walton, Liverpool, England, UK.
- Alfred Huttig was born on 15 January 1882 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was an actor, known for Der Prozeß (1948) and Maria Theresia (1951). He died on 28 May 1952 in Vienna, Austria.
- Alfred Neumann was born on 15 October 1895 in Lautenburg, Germany. He was a writer, known for None Shall Escape (1944), Conflict (1945) and The Patriot (1928). He was married to Katharina Schatzberger. He died on 3 October 1952 in Lugano, Switzerland.
- Alice Austen was born on 17 March 1866 in Staten Island, New York City, New York, USA. She died on 9 June 1952 in Staten Island, New York City, New York, USA.
- Alice Fleming was born on 9 August 1882 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Silas Marner (1922), Great Stagecoach Robbery (1945) and Sheriff of Las Vegas (1944). She was married to William Day. She died on 6 December 1952 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
In her younger days, auburn-haired Alison Skipworth had been a celebrated patrician beauty. She was the favorite model of English artist Frank Markham Skipworth (1854-1929) who would later become her husband. A physician's daughter, Alison did not make her professional acting debut until the age of thirty-one, having been privately tutored by academics from Oxford University. Her eventual move to stage acting was ostensibly to supplement her husband's meagre income. Alison's first performance was in "A Gaiety Girl" at London's Daly Theatre (in 1894), but, before long, she forsook England for Broadway and subsequently joined Daniel Frohman's company at the Lyceum in New York. She toured in Shakespearean roles and eventually became prolific on the 'Great White Way' in comedy plays. Unfortunately for her, many of these turned out to be conspicuous flops. After a string of failures (twenty-one, she claimed, between 1925 and 1930 alone!), Alison jumped at the opportunity to impose herself on the screen. Now stately and plump, 'Skippy' went on to carve herself a niche in Hollywood as imperious or seedy grand dames, dowagers and matrons, characters she often imbued with her own adroit sense of humour. She is most fondly remembered as a formidable foil (and, indeed, the only one to stand up to) W.C. Fields in If I Had a Million (1932), Tillie and Gus (1933), Alice in Wonderland (1933) and Six of a Kind (1934). Other memorable turns included her Mrs. Mabel Jellyman, hired to tutor a shady speakeasy proprietor (played by George Raft) in manners in Night After Night (1932), culminating in a confrontation with Mae West (both on and off the set); and Madame Barabas in Satan Met a Lady (1936), loosely based on Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon", in which Alison played the female equivalent of the role later made famous by Sydney Greenstreet in the classic 1941 Warner Brothers version. Alison retired from acting in 1942 after her Broadway swansong in "Lily of the Valley" and passed away ten years later at the venerable age of 88.- Actor
- Writer
Alois Havrilla was born on 7 June 1891 in Presov (Eperjes), Hungary, Austria-Hungary [now Presov, Slovakia]. He was an actor and writer, known for Sweet Surrender (1935), Raising Canines (1938) and Thought for Food (1933). He was married to Marion Munson. He died on 7 December 1952 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Alphonse Gibory was born on 2 February 1873 in Paris, France. He was a cinematographer, known for La réponse du destin (1926), Whirlpool of Fate (1925) and Le père Goriot (1921). He died on 19 May 1952 in Paris, France.- Alvar Älmeberg was born in 1916 in Gotlands län, Sweden. He died on 13 June 1952 in Baltic Sea.
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Andrew Buchanan was born on 9 October 1897 in Putney, London, England, UK. He was a director and writer, known for Hullo, Fame! (1940), All Living Things (1939) and The Fine Feathers (1941). He died on 14 May 1952 in Putney, London, England, UK.- André Cheron was born on 24 August 1880 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Seine-et-Oise [now Yvelines], France. He was an actor, known for One Hour with You (1932), The Fighting Demon (1925) and L'homme des Folies Bergère (1935). He died on 26 January 1952 in San Francisco, California, USA.
- André Lefaur is undeniably part of the pantheon of French actors. One of those "eccentrics of the French Cinema" as Raymond Chirat and Olivier Barrot quite rightly dubbed them. One of these wonderful personalities of the stage and screen who alongside Michel Simon, Louis Jouvet, Saturnin Fabre, Raimu and several others have such a strong personality, such a personal style that they are absolutely inimitable. Just like the actors mentioned above, André Lefaur was first and foremost André Lefaur. Which does not mean that he did not make the character he played believable. Quite the contrary. But like Simon, Brasseur or Raimu, he made them bigger than life and- accordingly - unforgettable. It is to be noted that on the big screen was most of the time a nobleman (at lest twenty times: six times a marquis, four times a baron) and/or a figure of authority (four times a general, but also a colonel, a judge or a president). However, instead of causing the viewer to admire these figures of the elite, Lefaur invariably deflated the ego of those pompous empty windbags. Yes, André Lefaur was nearly always cast as a v.i.p. but this person was invariably starchy, tyrannical ('La Fleur d'Oranger'), weak, pretentious, ridiculous ('La Dixième Symphonie') or cuckolded ('L'Habit Vert'). On the other hand, he never made puppets of his characters. There was always humanity within them and the viewer tended to end up feeling sorry for them rather than despise them. Marc Allégret allowed Lefaur to display all his humanity in his final role, that of a loving father in 'Les Petites du Quai aux Fleurs'), which was a nice farewell present to a man who will always be remembered for his ability to deliver witty lines by Louis Verneuil, Mirande, Deval, Flers and Caillavet like nobody else.
- André Simone was born on 27 May 1895 in Jistebnice, Cechy, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He died on 3 December 1952 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Andrée Mégard was born on 23 April 1866 in Saint-Amour, Jura, France. She was an actress, known for The Tower of Nesle (1909), La Petite amie (1917) and En quatrième vitesse (1919). She was married to Firmin Gémier. She died on 22 November 1952 in Saint-Amour, Jura, France.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Anna Lindahl was born on 24 March 1904 in Stockholm, Sweden. She was an actress, known for A Ship to India (1947), Vingar kring fyren (1938) and Sunshine Follows Rain (1946). She died on 17 February 1952.- Writer
- Soundtrack
Anselmo C. Carreño was born in 1896 in Segovia, Castilla y León, Spain. He was a writer, known for Los claveles (1936), La del Soto del Parral (1929) and Los claveles (1960). He died on 16 May 1952 in Madrid, Spain.- Producer
- Additional Crew
Greek-born film producer Anthony J. Xydias got his start in the movie industry in 1909, when he opened up a theater in Dallas, TX. It was successful and it wasn't long before he had a string of theaters. In 1922 he decided to get into film production and started Sunset Productions, which specialized in low-budget westerns. His first "star" was cowboy actor Jack Hoxie. His films, while short-running and inexpensive, nonetheless proved successful, and Hoxie soon left for greener pastures--the much greener, and much bigger, ones at Universal Pictures.
Xydias elevated character player Kenneth MacDonald to replace Hoxie, but his pictures flopped and he was soon booted in favor of J.B. Warner, an actual cowboy from Nebraska. Warner made six pictures for Sunset before unfortunately dying from leukemia. Xydias apparently gave up on trying to groom a star for his westerns and decided to make a series of pictures about famous western figures from America's past: Buffalo Bill, George Custer, Daniel Boone, and others. While none would compete with the spectacles put out by Cecil B. DeMille, they were a notch or two above the flood of cheap, mostly inept westerns being churned out by many low-buck producers of that era.
Ill health forced Xydias' retirement in 1931, but he came back six years later with promises of producing a string of more "historical" westerns. Unfortunately, the only one he managed to turn out was Heroes of the Alamo (1937), a shoddy "epic" that turned off critics and audiences alike. He retired from the business after the failure of this film. In 1941 he was in the Philippines on a business trip when the country was invaded by Japanese forces. Xydias was captured and interned in a prison camp for the duration of the war.
He died in Los Angeles, CA, in 1952.- Antonia Plana was born in 1889 in Spain. She was an actress, known for The Crime of Bordadores Street (1946), La revoltosa (1950) and La corona negra (1951). She died on 29 March 1952 in Spain.
- Antonie Strassmann was born on 14 April 1901 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for Die Ehe (1929). She died on 9 January 1952 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Composer
- Music Department
Antonio María Valencia was born on 10 November 1902 in Cali, Colombia. He was a composer, known for Claroscuro (la tragedia de un gran músico) (2005) and In Search of Maria (1986). He died on 22 July 1952 in Cali, Colombia.- Writer
- Director
- Actor
Antonín Fencl was born on 28 December 1881 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was a writer and director, known for Prazstí Adamité (1917), Carodej (1918) and Macocha (1919). He died on 9 November 1952 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].- Arky Vaughan was born on 9 March 1912 in Clifty, Arkansas, USA. He was an actor, known for 1947 World Series (1947) and Pennant Chasers (1940). He died on 30 August 1952 in Eagleville, California, USA.
- Armin Petersen was born on 1 October 1880 in Hamburg, Germany. Armin was a writer, known for Falsche Scham - Vier Episoden aus dem Leben eines Arztes (1926), Op hoop van zegen (1924) and Das Geheimnis von Schloß Holloway (1919). Armin died on 21 June 1952 in Berlin, Germany.
- Writer
- Music Department
- Script and Continuity Department
Arnold Lipp was born on 15 January 1901 in Berlin. He was a writer, known for Pickup (1951), The Brighton Strangler (1945) and Time Out of Mind (1947). He died on 30 August 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA.