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Tom Brower

Birth : 20 February 1878, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Death : 19 July 1937
Filmography:

Hook and Ladder No. 9Chief Finnerby (as Thomas Brower)
Two Lips and Juleps; or, Southern Love and Northern Exposure
Before DawnDetective Schultz (uncredited)

Antonio Borjas

Birth : 19 November 1964, Ft. Rucker, Alabama, USA
Nickname: Tony
Filmography:

"Gordo y la flaca, El"
"Gordo y la flaca, El"
"Gordo y la flaca, El"

Henry B. Walthall

Birth : 16 March 1878, Shelby City, Alabama, USA
Death : 17 June 1936, Monrovia, California, USA (influenza & nervous condition)
Birth Name: Henry Brazeale Walthall
Height: 170
Filmography:

Rescued from an Eagle's NestWoodsman (as H. B. Walthall)
The Better WayOliver Sylvester
The Broken LocketMexican Man

George Lindsey

Birth : 17 December 1935, Jasper, Alabama, USA
Nickname: Goober
Height: 183
Filmography:

The New Misadventures of Ichabod CraneWolf (voice)
"Disneyland"Hermie Chadron (2 episodes, 1964)
"Gunsmoke"Billy Yager / ... (6 episodes, 1963-1972)

George Lindsey graduated from the University of North Alabama in Florence, Alabama. He has been promoting the George Lindsey Film Festival there since 1998.

Jim Nabors

Birth : 12 June 1930, Sylacauga, Alabama, USA
Birth Name: James Thurston Nabors
Height: 183
Filmography:

Burt Reynolds' Late ShowHimself
...And Debbie Makes SixHimself
All-Star Party for Carol BurnettHimself

The ever-genial Jim Nabors was born in 1930 in Alabama and graduated from the University of Alabama. A typing clerk at the UN in his salad days, he eventually moved to Los Angeles and became a film cutter for NBC. He was discovered doing a cabaret act at "The Horn," a then-popular Santa Monica nightclub.

Wayne Rogers (I)

Birth : 7 April 1933, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Height: 191
Filmography:

"A Conversation with Dinah"Himself (1989)
"Password"Himself
"Search for Tomorrow"Slim Davis (unknown episodes, 1959)

Tough around the edges and with a handsome durability, Alabama-born Wayne Rogers had graduated from Princeton with a history degree in 1954 and joined the Navy before giving acting a thought. During his military service, however, he became associated with theater by happenstance and decided to give it a try after his discharge.

Harry Townes

Birth : 18 September 1914, Huntsville, Alabama, USA
Death : 23 May 2001, Huntsville, Alabama, USA
Filmography:

"Colonel Humphrey Flack"
"Kraft Television Theatre"Bill / ... (14 episodes, 1949-1958)
"The Philco Television Playhouse"(2 episodes, 1952-1954)

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.

Paul Birch

Birth : 13 January 1912, Atmore, Alabama, USA
Death : 24 May 1969, St. George, Grenada
Birth Name: Paul Smith
Filmography:

"Cannonball"Mike Malone
"Cannonball"Mike Malone
"Cannonball"Mike Malone

Paul Birch, born Paul Smith in Atmore, Alabama, died on Saturday, May 24, 1969, in St. George, Grenada. Paul was a veteran of 39 movies, 50 stage dramas and an untold number of television shows including the "Hallmark Hall of Fame" (1951).

Oliver McGowan

Birth : 22 August 1907, Kipling, Alabama, USA
Death : 23 August 1971, Hollywood, California, USA
Filmography:

"Letter to Loretta"Dr. Jordan / ... (5 episodes, 1957-1958)
"Cheyenne"Jed Belden / ... (2 episodes, 1960-1962)
"Playhouse 90"General Ledlie (2 episodes, 1959)

Charlie Louvin

Birth : 7 July 1927, Rainesville, Alabama, USA
Birth Name: Charlie Elzer Loudermilk
Filmography:

The Gold Guitar
"Grand Ole Opry"Himself (unknown episodes)

Louise Fletcher

Birth : 22 July 1934, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Height: 177
Filmography:

The 80th Annual Academy AwardsHerself (archive footage)
A Dennis the Menace ChristmasMrs. Martha Wilson
"Perry Mason"Gladys Doyle / ... (2 episodes, 1960)

Born in Birmingham, Alabama, to Episcopal minister Robert Fletcher and his wife Estelle, both of whom were deaf, Louise Fletcher was introduced to performing at a young age by the aunt who taught her to speak. After graduating from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, she took a trip out west with her roommates, finding herself in Los Angeles without enough money to return home.

Polly Holliday

Birth : 2 July 1937, Jasper, Alabama, USA
Birth Name: Polly Dean Holliday
Height: 173
Filmography:

"NBC Special Treat"Mrs. Cronkite (1 episode, 1976)
"Search for Tomorrow"Prison Inmate Leader (unknown episodes, 1974)
Pittsville - Ein Safe voll BlutMiss Pearson

The normally erudite, soft-spoken and well-mannered Alabama-born actress Polly Holliday had accumulated quite an extensive theater background by the time she hit it big on 70s TV as the brash, uninhibited, gum-cracking waitress Florence Jean Castleberry (better known as "Flo") on the popular sitcom "Alice" (1976).

Don Blackman (I)

Birth : 12 May 1912, Alabama, USA
Death : 11 September 1977, San Fernando, California, USA
Filmography:

Two Tickets to BroadwayPorter with Nancy's Bag (uncredited)
Affair in TrinidadThe Bobby (uncredited)
Bomba and the Jungle GirlUmgala, Baru's henchman

Lucky Millinder

Birth : 8 August 1900, Anniston, Alabama, USA
Death : 28 September 1966, New York, New York, USA
Birth Name: Lucius Venable Millinder
Filmography:

Paradise in HarlemHimself (bandleader)
Boarding House BluesHimself (bandleader)
Scandals of 1933Himself (bandleader)

James Anderson (I)

Birth : 13 July 1921, Wetumpka, Alabama, USA
Death : 14 September 1969, Billings, Montana, USA (heart attack)
Filmography:

Sergeant YorkEb (uncredited)
"Fireside Theatre"(3 episodes, 1950-1951)
The Great SinnerNervous young gambler (uncredited)

A familiar face to movie audiences in the 1950s, James Anderson's rugged and somewhat sinister good looks made him a natural for westerns, and he appeared in many of them over the years, often as a gunman or hired killer but occasionally as a storekeeper or grizzled frontier scout.

Lou Walker

Birth : 20 February 1928, Bessemer, Alabama, USA
Death : 2 August 2004, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (car accident)
Filmography:

Roll of Thunder, Hear My CryMr. Avery
Tennessee StallionJackson
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-WaySam

Davis Roberts

Birth : 7 March 1917, Mobile, Alabama, USA
Death : 18 July 1993, Chicago, Illinois, USA (emphysema)
Filmography:

Eagle SquadronGerman Squad Leader (uncredited)
The Long NightFreddie (as Robert A. Davis)
The Great Dan PatchSmiler (uncredited)

Hank Patterson

Birth : 9 October 1888, Springville, Alabama, USA
Death : 23 August 1975, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (bronchial pneumonia)
Birth Name: Elmer Calvin Patterson
Filmography:

"Gang Busters"Wass
The Arizona KidTownsman (uncredited)
Three Faces WestPool Player (uncredited)

Hank Patterson was born in Springville, Alabama to Green and Mary Newton Patterson. Hank's great-grandfather, James Pearson, was an original settler of St. Clair county, AL as was his mother's great-grandfather, Thomas Newton.

Joyzelle Joyner

Birth : 27 August 1905, Alabama, USA
Death : 30 November 1980, California, USA
Birth Name: Joyzelle Joyner
Height: 165
Filmography:

Dance Madness
The Sea BeastDancer in prologue
Out of the PastSaida

Beth Grant

Birth : 18 September 1949, Gadsden, Alabama, USA
Filmography:

Henry Poole Is HereJosie
Winged CreaturesCarla's Mom
Polly and MarieBell

Raised in the South, Beth Grant moved frequently as a child and enjoys claiming several towns and cities in Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina as home. She was a Page in the North Carolina Senate, attended the North Carolina Governor's School for Gifted and Talented students, and received a governor's appointment at the age of nineteen.



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