Charles Boyer was a French-American actor who appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976. After receiving an education in drama,Boyer started on the stage,but he found his success in American films during the 1930s. His memorable performances were among the era's most highly praised,in romantic dramas such as The Garden of Allah (1936),Algiers (1938),and Love Affair (1939),as well as the mystery-thriller Gaslight (1944). He received four Oscar nominations for Best Actor. He also appeared as himself on the CBS sitcom I Love Lucy.
William Broderick Crawford was an American stage,film,radio,and television actor,often cast in tough-guy roles and best known for his Oscar- and Golden Globe-winning portrayal of Willie Stark in All the King's Men (1949) and for his starring role as Dan Mathews in the television series Highway Patrol (1955–1959).
Sir Cedric Webster Hardwicke was an English stage and film actor whose career spanned nearly 50 years. His theatre work included notable performances in productions of the plays of Shakespeare and Shaw,and his film work included leading roles in several adapted literary classics.
Sydney Hughes Greenstreet was a British-American actor. While he did not begin his career in films until the age of 61,he had a run of significant motion pictures in a Hollywood career lasting through the 1940s. He is best remembered for his Warner Bros. films with Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre,including The Maltese Falcon (1941),Casablanca (1942),and Passage to Marseille (1944). He portrayed Nero Wolfe on radio during 1950 and 1951. He became a United States citizen in 1925.
George Raft was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s. A stylish leading man in dozens of movies,Raft is remembered for his gangster roles in Quick Millions (1931) with Spencer Tracy,Scarface (1932) with Paul Muni,Each Dawn I Die (1939) with James Cagney,Invisible Stripes (1939) with Humphrey Bogart,Billy Wilder's comedy Some Like It Hot (1959) with Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon,and as a dancer in Bolero (1934) with Carole Lombard and a truck driver in They Drive by Night (1940) with Ann Sheridan,Ida Lupino and Bogart.
Waldo Brian Donlevy was an American actor,noted for playing dangerous tough guys from the 1930s to the 1960s. He usually appeared in supporting roles. Among his best-known films are Beau Geste (1939),The Great McGinty (1940) and Wake Island (1942). For his role as the sadistic Sergeant Markoff in Beau Geste,he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Thayer David was an American film,stage,and television actor. He was best known for his work on the ABC serial Dark Shadows (1966–1971),and as the fight promoter Miles Jergens in the film Rocky (1976). He also appeared as Count Saknussemm in the film Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) and as Dragon in The Eiger Sanction (1975). His raspy distinctive voice narrated many voice-overs in commercials and instructional films.
Edwin Eugene Lockhart was a Canadian-American character actor,playwright,singer and lyricist. He became an American citizen in 1939.
William Joseph Patrick O'Brien was an American film actor with more than 100 screen credits. Of Irish descent,he often played Irish and Irish-American characters and was referred to as "Hollywood's Irishman in Residence" in the press. One of the best-known screen actors of the 1930s and 1940s,he played priests,cops,military figures,pilots,and reporters. He is especially well-remembered for his roles in Knute Rockne,All American (1940),Angels with Dirty Faces (1938),and Some Like It Hot (1959). He was frequently paired onscreen with Hollywood star James Cagney. O'Brien also appeared on stage and television.
Edward Small was a film producer from the late 1920s through 1970,who was enormously prolific over a 50-year career. He is best known for the movies The Count of Monte Cristo (1934),The Man in the Iron Mask (1939),The Corsican Brothers (1941),Brewster's Millions (1945),Raw Deal (1948),Black Magic (1949),Witness for the Prosecution (1957) and Solomon and Sheba (1959).
John Qualen was an American character actor of Norwegian heritage who specialized in Scandinavian roles.
Robert Coote was an English actor. He played aristocrats or British military types in many films,and created the role of Colonel Hugh Pickering in the long-running original Broadway production of My Fair Lady.
Charles Henry Pywell Daniell was an English actor who had a long career in the United States on stage and in cinema. He came to prominence for his portrayal of villainous roles in films such as Camille (1936),The Great Dictator (1940),The Philadelphia Story (1940) and The Sea Hawk (1940). Daniell was given few opportunities to play sympathetic or 'good guy' roles;an exception was his excellent portrayal of Franz Liszt in the biographical film of Robert and Clara Schumann,Song of Love (1947). His name is sometimes spelled "Daniel".
Thomas Donald Meek was a Scottish-American actor. He first performed publicly at the age of eight and began appearing on Broadway in 1903.
Edward Chapman was an English actor who starred in many films and television programmes,but is chiefly remembered as "Mr. William Grimsdale",the officious superior and comic foil to Norman Wisdom's character of Pitkin in many of his films from the late 1950s and 1960s.
Walter Connolly was an American character actor who appeared in almost 50 films between 1914 and 1939. His best known film is It Happened One Night (1934).
George E. Stone was a Polish-born American character actor in films,radio,and television.
Ian Marcus Wolfe was an American character actor with around 400 film and television credits. Until 1934,he worked in the theatre. That year,he appeared in his first film role and later television,as a character actor. His career lasted seven decades and included many films and TV series;his last screen credit was in 1990.
Meet Nero Wolfe is a 1936 mystery film based on the 1934 novel Fer-de-Lance,written by Rex Stout. Set in New York,the story introduced the detective genius Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin. The partnership endured through 33 novels and 39 short stories written by Stout,but continued in only one more film for Columbia Pictures. Wolfe's client is portrayed by Rita Hayworth,then billed as Rita Cansino,in an early performance.
Walter Kingsford was an English stage,film,and television actor.
