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Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born on 13 August 1899 in the flat above his parents' leased greengrocer's shop at 517 High Road in Leytonstone, which was then part of Essex (now on the outskirts of East London). He was the son of greengrocer and poulterer, William Edgar Hitchcock (1862–1914) and Emma Jane (née Whelan; 1863–1942).
Dwight Iliff Frye (born Fry; February 22, 1899 – November 7, 1943) was an American character actor of stage and screen. He is best known for his portrayals of neurotic, murderous villains in several classic Universal horror films, such as Renfield in Dracula (1931) and Fritz in Frankenstein (1931).
1899–2000: 101: American singer and songwriter [66] Gloria Dea: 1922–2023: 100: American actress, dancer and magician [67] Margia Dean: 1922–2023: 101: American beauty queen and stage and screen actress [68] Olivia de Havilland: 1916–2020: 104: British-born American film actress [69] Suzy Delair: 1917–2020: 102: French actress, dancer ...
Macready was born in Providence, Rhode Island [4] on August 29, 1899. He claimed to be a descendent of the 19th-century English actor William Charles Macready, whose example he cited as the chief inspiration for his own pursuit of acting. [5] He graduated from the local Classical High School [1] and, in 1917, from Brown University. [6]
January 7 William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.; Dickson and William Heise film their colleague, Fred Ott sneezing with the Kinetograph at Edison's Black Maria studio.
His movie career began when he re-created the role two years later in the film adaptation of the stage production. That screen performance was followed by his appearance in John Ford 's Arrowsmith (1931), which began a more than 35-year membership in the director's "stock company" , with supporting roles in The Searchers (1956), Two Rode ...
Gale Sondergaard (born Edith Holm Sondergaard; February 15, 1899 – August 14, 1985) was an American actress. Sondergaard began her acting career in theater and progressed to films in 1936. She was the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her film debut in Anthony Adverse (1936).
Gloria Josephine Mae Swanson [1] (March 27, 1899 – April 4, 1983) was an American actress. She first achieved fame acting in dozens of silent films in the 1920s and was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, most famously for her 1950 turn in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, which also earned her a Golden Globe Award.