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Eddy Chandler
![]() | Birth : 12 March 1894, Wilton Junction, Iowa, USA Death : 23 March 1948, Los Angeles, California, USA Height: 183 | ||||||
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Character actor who made his film debut on the East Coast in October 1911. After serving in WWI, Chandler continued with his film and stage career becoming one of the most prolific (if more often than not uncredited) bit actors in the industry.
Bert Moorhouse
![]() | Birth : 20 November 1894, Illinois, USA Death : 26 January 1954, Hollywood, California, USA (suicide) Birth Name: Herbert Green Moorhouse | ||||||
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John Vosper
![]() | Birth : 3 July 1894, Chicago, Illinois, USA Death : 6 April 1954, Hollywood, California, USA (heart attack) | ||||||
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Burl R. Tuttle
![]() | Birth : 26 June 1894, Illinois, USA Death : 4 September 1960, Los Angeles, California, USA | ||||||
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Harold Macmillan
![]() | Birth : 10 February 1894, London, England, UK Death : 29 December 1986, Birch Grove, Sussex, England, UK Birth Name: Maurice Harold Macmillan Nickname: Supermac Height: 183 | ||||||
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Harold MacMillan was born in London in 1894, the grandson of publisher Daniel MacMillan. Educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, he joined the Grenadier Guards in 1914. Serving on the Western front, he was present at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. In 1924 he stood as Conservative candidate for Stockton-on-Tees, Co. Durham, and won. Although he lost his seat in 1929, he returned in 1931.
Bedrich Veverka
![]() | Birth : 8 October 1894, Prague, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic) Death : 20 March 1960, Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) | ||||||
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Jack Natteford
![]() | Birth : 27 November 1894, Wahoo, Nebraska, USA Death : 7 January 1970, Los Angeles County, California, USA Birth Name: John Francis Natteford | ||||||
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Clyde Bruckman
![]() | Birth : 20 September 1894, San Bernardino, California, USA Death : 4 January 1955, Hollywood, California, USA (suicide) | ||||||
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Had been out of work and was pretty much broke when he killed himself. He borrowed Buster Keaton's gun and after eating a meal that he could not pay for, shot himself. There are two stories; One says it was in the restroom of the cafe on Santa Monica Blvd, and the other story states he did it in the phone booth.
Philip Strange
![]() | Birth : 16 November 1894 Death : January 1981 | ||||||
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Zygmunt Chmielewski
![]() | Birth : 16 May 1894, Odessa, Russia Death : 26 May 1978, Warsaw, Poland | ||||||
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Philip D. Hurn
![]() | Birth : 4 May 1894 Death : June 1974, New York, New York, USA Birth Name: Philip Dutton Hurn | ||||||
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Estelle Taylor
![]() | Birth : 20 May 1894, Wilmington, Delaware, USA Death : 15 April 1958, Los Angeles, California, USA (cancer) Birth Name: Estelle Boylan | ||||||
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A former typist, Taylor married a banker at age 14 and after leaving him, moved to New York to study dramatic acting. She also modeled for artists and appeared in the chorus of a couple of Broadway shows. In the early 1920s she came to Hollywood and was noted as one of the film colony's most beautiful women.
Kenyon Nicholson
![]() | Birth : 21 May 1894, Crawfordsville, Indiana, USA Death : December 1986, Trenton, New Jersey, USA Height: 179 | ||||||
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Son of Thomas B. and Anne Nicholson. Attended Wabash College, Columbia University and Cambridge (England) University. Prior to his career as a screen writer, he worked as a teacher, newspaper reporter and theatrical press agent.
Joseph Jackson (I)
![]() | Birth : 8 June 1894, Winchester, Kentucky, USA Death : 26 May 1932, Laguna Beach, California, USA Height: 180 | ||||||
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Roy D'Arcy
![]() | Birth : 10 February 1894, San Francisco, California, USA Death : 15 November 1969, Redlands, California, USA Birth Name: Roy Francis Giusti Height: 180 | ||||||
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Ernst Ziegler
![]() | Birth : 16 April 1894, Welierbach, Germany Death : 11 April 1974, Berlin, Germany (emphysema) Birth Name: Ernest Aldoff Height: 180 | ||||||
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Antonio Riquelme
![]() | Birth : 9 November 1894, Madrid, Spain Death : 20 March 1968, Madrid, Spain Birth Name: Antonio Riquelme Salvador | ||||||
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Joe Stöckel
![]() | Birth : 27 September 1894, Munich, Germany Death : 14 June 1959, Munich, Germany (circulatory disease) Birth Name: Josef Stöckel | ||||||
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Mae Marsh
![]() | Birth : 9 November 1894, Madrid, New Mexico Territory , USA Death : 13 February 1968, Hermosa Beach, California, USA (heart attack) Birth Name: Mary Wayne Marsh Height: 160 | ||||||
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Mae Marsh's father was an auditor for the railroad who died when she was four. Her family moved to San Francisco, where her stepfather was killed in the 1906 earthquake. Her great-aunt then took Mae and her sister to Los Angeles. With her show business background, Mae's aunt took them to the various movie studios for work as extras.
Nikita Khrushchev
![]() | Birth : 17 April 1894, Kalinovka, Kursk province, Russian Empire [now Russia] Death : 11 September 1971, Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia) Birth Name: Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchyov Height: 160 | ||||||
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Nikita Khruschev was born on April 17, 1894, into a family of peasants in the village of Kalinovka, Kursk region, Russian Empire. He was raised among agricultural and mining workers. He studied for only two years at grammar school as a child. After the Russian Revolution he joined the Red Army, then joined the Communist party in 1918 and made a career as a politician.

