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Mervyn Johns
![]() | Birth : 18 February 1899, Pembroke, Wales, UK Death : 6 September 1992, Norwood, England, UK | ||||||
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Brick Sullivan
![]() | Birth : 28 July 1899, South Dakota, USA Death : 4 September 1959, Los Angeles, California, USA | ||||||
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Eddie Phillips (I)
![]() | Birth : 14 August 1899, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Death : 22 February 1965, North Hollywood, California, USA (hit by car) Birth Name: Edward Nelson Phillips Height: 183 | ||||||
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Ira Webb
![]() | Birth : 12 May 1899 Death : 9 December 1971 | ||||||
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Ian Keith (I)
![]() | Birth : 27 February 1899, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Death : 26 March 1960, New York, New York, USA (heart attack) Birth Name: Keith Ross Height: 188 | ||||||
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Ian Keith became a well regarded fixture on the Broadway stage during the 1920s, but from 1924 through the remainder of the decade he expanded his acting into a string of silent movies as well. To begin the next decade, he appeared in the cast of Abraham Lincoln (1930), one of the later movies of D.W.
Virginia Sale
![]() | Birth : 20 May 1899, Urbana, Illinois, USA Death : 23 August 1992, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (heart failure) Height: 165 | ||||||
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Antoni Marczynski
![]() | Birth : 1 June 1899, Posen, Prussia, Germany [now Poznan, Poland] Death : 17 November 1968, New York, New York, USA | ||||||
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Madeline Hurlock
![]() | Birth : 12 December 1899, Federalsburg, Maryland, USA Death : 4 April 1989, New York, New York, USA | ||||||
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May McAvoy
![]() | Birth : 8 September 1899, New York, New York, USA Death : 26 April 1984, Los Angeles, California, USA (heart attack) Height: 150 | ||||||
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Silent screen star May McAvoy was born in an upper scale area of New York City. Her well-to-do family owned and operated a large livery stable situated where the Waldorf-Astoria now stands. She initially wanted to be a teacher but became intrigued with show business after watching a friend rehearse a show at a nearby vaudeville theater.
Robert Agnew (I)
![]() | Birth : 4 June 1899, Dayton, Kentucky, USA Death : 8 November 1983, Palm Springs, California, USA (kidney failure) Height: 174 | ||||||
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Eino Kaipainen
![]() | Birth : 2 December 1899, Jäppilä, Finland Death : 31 January 1995, Helsinki, Finland | ||||||
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Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
![]() | Birth : 26 April 1899, Decatur, Texas, USA Death : 6 June 1962, Burbank, California, USA (uremic poisoning) Birth Name: Guinn Terrell Williams Jr. Height: 188 | ||||||
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The son of a rancher-turned-politician, Guinn Williams was given the nickname "Big Boy" (and he was, too - 6' 2" of mostly solid muscle from years of working on ranches and playing semi-pro and pro baseball) by Will Rogers, with whom he made one of his first films, in 1919.
Charles Sullivan (I)
![]() | Birth : 24 April 1899, Louisiana, USA Death : 25 June 1972, Los Angeles, California, USA | ||||||
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Benny Rubin
![]() | Birth : 2 February 1899, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Death : 15 July 1986, Los Angeles, California, USA (heart attack) Height: 171 | ||||||
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Norman Taurog
![]() | Birth : 23 February 1899, Chicago, Illinois, USA Death : 7 April 1981, Rancho Mirage, California, USA Birth Name: Norman Rae Taurog | ||||||
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Dorothy Cumming (I)
![]() | Birth : 12 April 1899, Burrows, Australia Death : 10 December 1983, New York, New York, USA (pneumonia) Height: 170 | ||||||
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Pierre Ferval
![]() | Birth : 18 May 1899, Asnières-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France Death : 1 July 1983, Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France Birth Name: Pierre Henri Gabriel Fabrègues | ||||||
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Leslie Goodwins
![]() | Birth : 17 September 1899, London, England, UK Death : 8 January 1969, Hollywood, California, USA (pneumonia, Hong Kong Flu) | ||||||
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Norbert Schiller
![]() | Birth : 24 November 1899, Vienna, Austria-Hungary, now Austria Death : 8 January 1988, Santa Barbara, California, USA | ||||||
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Neil Hamilton (I)
![]() | Birth : 9 September 1899, Lynn, Massachusetts, USA Death : 24 September 1984, Escondido, California, USA (complications from asthma) Birth Name: James Neil Hamilton Height: 180 | ||||||
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Neil Hamilton's show business career began when he secured a job as a shirt model in magazine ads. He became interested in acting and joined several stock companies. He got his first film role in 1918, but received his big break from D.W. Griffith in The White Rose (1923).
