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Phyllis Love (I)
![]() | Birth : 21 December 1925, Des Moines, Iowa, USA | ||||||
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Phyllis Anne Love was born in Des Moines, Iowa on December 21, 1925. She attended Roosevelt High School in Des Moines along with her close friend, Cloris Leachman. After performing in various local and regional drama productions, Love enrolled in the Actors Studio in New York in 1948.
Rock Hudson
![]() | Birth : 17 November 1925, Winnetka, Illinois, USA Death : 2 October 1985, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (AIDS) Birth Name: Roy Harold Scherer Jr. Nickname: Roy Height: 196 | ||||||
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He was the son of an auto mechanic and a telephone operator who divorced when he was eight years old. He failed to obtain parts in school plays because he couldn't remember lines. After high school he was a postal employee and during WW II served as a Navy airplane mechanic. After the war he was a truck driver. His size and good looks got him into movies.
Richard Burton (I)
![]() | Birth : 10 November 1925, Pontrhydyfen, Wales, UK Death : 5 August 1984, Céligny, Geneva, Switzerland (cerebral haemorrhage) Birth Name: Richard Walter Jenkins Nickname: Rich Height: 178 | ||||||
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Probably more frequently remembered for his turbulent personal life and multiple marriages, however Richard Burton was truly one of the great UK actors of the post WW2 period. The young Richard Jenkins was the son of a Welsh coal miner, and he received a scholarship to Oxford University to study acting and made his first stage appearance in the early 1940s.
Elaine Stritch
![]() | Birth : 2 February 1925, Detroit, Michigan, USA | ||||||
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A brash, incorrigible scene-stealer now entering her sixth decade in a career that has had many highs and lows, veteran Elaine Stritch certainly lives up to the Stephen Sondheim song "I'm Still Here".
Irena Kolesar
![]() | Birth : 22 November 1925, Slavonski Brod, Croatia Death : 3 September 2002, Zagreb, Croatia | ||||||
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Tyler MacDuff
![]() | Birth : 12 September 1925, Hollywood, California, USA Death : 23 December 2007, Pasadena, California, USA (heart failure) Birth Name: Tyler Glenn Duff Jr. | ||||||
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Gore Vidal
![]() | Birth : 3 October 1925, West Point, New York, USA Birth Name: Eugene Luther Gore Vidal Height: 182 | ||||||
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Gore Vidal was born in late 1925 to Gene Vidal, an aeronautics instructor at West Point, and his wife Nina. The Vidals endured a rocky marriage, and eventually divorced ten years after Gore's birth. Young Gore spent much of his childhood with his blind grandfather, Senator T.P.
Aleksandr Khmelik
![]() | Birth : 7 September 1925, Alupka, Crimea province, Soviet Union [now Russia] Birth Name: Aleksandr Grigoryevich Khmelik | ||||||
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Kurt Schiegl
![]() | Birth : 24 January 1925, Vienna, Austria Height: 188 | ||||||
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Bill Daley (II)
![]() | Birth : 10 June 1925 Death : 2 December 2001, Northridge, California, USA | ||||||
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Roy Bjørnstad
![]() | Birth : 29 September 1925, Norway Death : 25 November 2005, Oslo, Norway (cancer) Birth Name: Roy Charles Bjørnstad | ||||||
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Peter Sellers
![]() | Birth : 8 September 1925, Southsea, Hampshire, England, UK Death : 24 July 1980, London, England, UK (heart attack) Birth Name: Richard Henry Sellers Height: 173 | ||||||
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Often credited as the greatest comedian of all time, Peter Sellers was born to a well-off English acting family in 1925. His mother and father worked in an acting company run by his grandmother. As a child, Sellers was spoiled, as his parents' first child had died at birth.
Djordje Jelisic
![]() | Birth : 6 November 1925, Sabac, Serbia, Yugoslavia Height: 180 | ||||||
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Mirjam Himberg
![]() | Birth : 12 November 1925, Helsinki, Finland Death : 5 November 1999, Helsinki, Finland | ||||||
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Franco Castellano (I)
![]() | Birth : 20 June 1925, Rome, Italy Death : 28 December 1999, Rome, Italy (lung cancer) | ||||||
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Sammy Davis Jr.
![]() | Birth : 8 December 1925, Harlem, New York, USA Death : 16 May 1990, Beverly Hills, California, USA (complications from throat cancer) Nickname: Smoky Height: 160 | ||||||
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Sammy Davis Jr. was often billed as the "greatest living entertainer in the world".
Michael Tolan (I)
![]() | Birth : 27 November 1925, Detroit, Michigan, USA Birth Name: Seymour Tuchow | ||||||
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Stage-trained actor Michael Tolan was born Seymour Tuchow on November 27, 1927, in Detroit, Michigan.
Robert Patten
![]() | Birth : 11 October 1925, Tacoma, Washington, USA Death : 29 December 2001, Malibu, California, USA (cancer) Height: 174 | ||||||
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Rod Steiger
![]() | Birth : 14 April 1925, Westhampton, New York, USA Death : 9 July 2002, Los Angeles, California, USA (pneumonia and kidney failure) Birth Name: Rodney Stephen Steiger Height: 178 | ||||||
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Rod Steiger received his first film roles in the early 1950s. His first major one was in Teresa (1951), but his first lead role was in the TV version of Marty (1953) (TV). The movie version, however, had Ernest Borgnine in the lead and won him an Academy Award.
Jozsef Bozik
![]() | Birth : 28 November 1925, Kispest, Hungary Death : 31 May 1978, Budapest, Hungary | ||||||
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