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Tatsuo Matsumura
![]() | Birth : 18 December 1914, Kanagawa, Japan Death : 18 June 2005, Tokyo, Japan (heart failure) Height: 170 | ||||||
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Fraser McMinn
![]() | Birth : 28 June 1914, Maine, USA Death : 17 September 2000, Los Angeles, California, USA | ||||||
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Stane Sever
![]() | Birth : 21 November 1914, Ljubljana, Slovenia Death : 18 December 1970, Ribnica na Pohorju, Slovenia, Yugoslavia (now Slovenia) | ||||||
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Harriet Medin
![]() | Birth : 14 March 1914, Somerville, Massachusetts, USA Death : 20 May 2005, (natural causes) | ||||||
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Josef Hlinomaz
![]() | Birth : 9 October 1914, Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic] Death : 8 August 1978, Split, Yugoslavia [now Croatia] (heart attack) | ||||||
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Howard Dimsdale
![]() | Birth : 21 April 1914 Death : 27 August 1991, Los Angeles, California, USA | ||||||
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Danny Thomas (I)
![]() | Birth : 6 January 1914, Deerfield, Michigan, USA Death : 6 February 1991, Los Angeles, California, USA (heart attack) Birth Name: Amos Muzyad Jahoob | ||||||
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Known primarily as a TV actor, he starred as a nightclub singer on the popular "Make Room for Daddy" (1953).
David Wayne (I)
![]() | Birth : 30 January 1914, Traverse City, Michigan, USA Death : 9 February 1995, Santa Monica, California, USA (lung cancer) Birth Name: Wayne James McMeekan Height: 170 | ||||||
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His father was an insurance executive; his mother died when he was four. He attended Western Michigan University then worked as a statistician in Cleveland where he joined a Shakespeare repertory company. Two years later he had a minor role in "The American Way" in New York. He was rejected by the army in World War II but volunteered as an ambulance driver in North Africa.
Kari Diesen
![]() | Birth : 24 June 1914, Oslo, Norway Death : 18 March 1987, Oslo, Norway | ||||||
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Much loved Norwegian revue actress,many supporting roles in film-comedies.Best known for her outspoken monologues,but also for her sincerity and warm-hearted performances. Born into a family of actors as daughter of Signe Heide Steen and Harald Steen, she had her first film-part at the early age of 6, on the stage from 1930.
Richard Basehart
![]() | Birth : 31 August 1914, Zanesville, Ohio, USA Death : 17 September 1984, Los Angeles, California, USA (multiple strokes) Birth Name: John Richard Basehart Height: 175 | ||||||
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Richard Basehart came to Hollywood in 1947, after beginning an acting career on Broadway.
Trude Haefelin
![]() | Birth : 1 July 1914, Passau, Germany | ||||||
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Frank Silvera
![]() | Birth : 24 July 1914, Kingston, Jamaica, British West Indies Death : 11 June 1970, Pasadena, California, USA (accidental electrocution) | ||||||
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He was a highly successful black actor/director in the 1950s and 1960s who - because of his light-skinned appearance - transcended race and ethnicity in his performances. In motion pictures, Frank Silvera was cast as black, Latino, Polynesian and "white"/racially indeterminate (due to black + white film stock's lack of discernment when rendering light-skinned African-Americans).
Charles McGraw
![]() | Birth : 10 May 1914, Des Moines, Iowa, USA Death : 30 July 1980, Studio City, California, USA (after falling through a glass shower door) Birth Name: Charles Butters Nickname: Charlie Height: 178 | ||||||
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Gravel voiced, stoney faced & grizzled looking actor Charles McGraw notched up dozens of TV and film appearances often portraying law enforcement figures or military officers, plus the odd shifty gangster. Noted appearances include as dogged cop Det. Sgt. Walter Brown protecting a mob witness in the 1952 noir classic The Narrow Margin (1952) , as resolute Lt.
Woody Chambliss
![]() | Birth : 14 October 1914, Texas, USA Death : 8 January 1981, Ojai, California, USA (cancer) Birth Name: Woodrow Lewis Chambliss | ||||||
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Aloysio De Oliveira
![]() | Birth : 30 December 1914, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Death : 20 February 1995, Los Angeles, California, USA | ||||||
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Hervê Cordovil
![]() | Birth : 3 February 1914, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil Death : 16 July 1979, São Paulo, SP, Brazil | ||||||
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Hélio Barroso
![]() | Birth : 1914 Death : 1998 Birth Name: Hélio Beviláqua Barroso Neto | ||||||
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Vicki Cummings
![]() | Birth : 15 February 1914, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA Death : 30 November 1969, New York, New York, USA (natural causes) | ||||||
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Skedge Miller
![]() | Birth : 18 May 1914, Greenville, Ohio, USA Death : 10 September 2007, New York, New York, USA (complications from Alzheimer's disease) Birth Name: Oscar Miller | ||
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Harry Townes
![]() | Birth : 18 September 1914, Huntsville, Alabama, USA Death : 23 May 2001, Huntsville, Alabama, USA | ||||||
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Harry Townes was born and died in Huntsville, Alabama, where he served as an ordained Episcopal priest. Aside from Huntsville and the priesthood, he had a distinguished, prolific, and quite long career as a character actor in movies and on television. He attended the University of Alabama in the 1930s, but moved to New York, before finishing, in order to study acting.

