F. J. McCormick was an Irish actor who became known for his work at Dublin's Abbey Theatre. He acquired the stage name F.J. McCormick to disguise his identity from his current and future employers, and to avoid parental disapproval. He joined the Abbey at age 19, and acted in some 500 productions there. He is especially remembered for his work in the plays of Seán O'Casey.
Nick Carter is a fictional character who began as a dime novel private detective in 1886 and has appeared in a variety of formats over more than a century. The character was first conceived by Ormond G. Smith and created by John R. Coryell. Carter headlined his own magazine for years, and was then part of a long-running series of novels from 1964 to 1990. Films were created based on Carter in France, Czechoslovakia and Hollywood. Nick Carter has also appeared in many comic books and in radio programs.
Robert William Armstrong was an American film and television actor remembered for his role as Carl Denham in the 1933 version of King Kong by RKO Pictures. He delivered the film's famous final line: "It wasn't the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast."
Frederick van Rensselaer Dey was an American dime novelist and pulp fiction writer.
Luis Philip Senarens was an American dime novel writer specializing in science fiction, once called "the American Jules Verne".
James Edmund Garretson was a professor at the Dental College of Philadelphia, a clinic for oral surgery. With his work A treatise on the diseases and surgery of the mouth, jaws and associate parts, first published in 1869, he helped to establish oral and maxillofacial surgery as a specialty in the United States. He is known as the father of oral surgery.
Joseph A. Creaghan was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 300 films between 1916 and 1965, and notably played Ulysses S. Grant nine times between 1939 and 1958, most memorably in Union Pacific and They Died with Their Boots On.
Sylvanus Cobb Jr. was an American writer of popular fiction during the mid-19th century. His work was published in the New York Ledger, The Flag of Our Union, The Weekly Novelette, Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, and elsewhere.
John Leslie Palmer was an English author. Under his own name, he wrote extensively about early English actors and about British literary figures. He also wrote fiction under the collaborative pseudonyms Francis Beeding, Christopher Haddon, David Pilgrim and John Somers.
William Philip Gislingham was a British music hall musician and acrobat and, using the name W. P. Kellino, film director. He founded Twickenham Studios. He was the father of the cinematographer Roy Kellino.
Diamond Dick is a fictional character created by William B. Schwartz. He first appeared in "Dashing Diamond Dick; or, The Sarpint of Siskiyou County", serialized novel in Street and Smith's story paper New York Weekly in 1878, and began as a regular series in Nugget Library, with No. 16, December 12, 1889. According to J. Randolph Cox, "the character was undoubtedly inspired by the life and career of herbal-medicine promoter and showman George B. McClellan, who went by the nickname Diamond Dick and who was the hero of a dime novel by Buckskin Sam Hall" (1882).
John Russell Coryell was a prolific dime novel author. He wrote under the Nicholas Carter and Bertha M. Clay house pseudonyms, and, like many of his fellow dime novelists under many other pseudonyms, including Tyman Currio, Lillian R. Drayton, Julia Edwards, Geraldine Fleming, Margaret Grant, Barbara Howard, Harry Dubois Milman, Milton Quarterly, and Lucy May Russell.
Victor Francis Calverton was the pseudonym of George Goetz (1900–1940), an unaffiliated American left-radical writer and literary critic.
Rupert Seeley Gleadow was a British lawyer and author, who wrote on legal matters under the name of Justin Case. He also wrote extensively on astrology.
Charles Stanley Strong was a writer, adventurer and explorer.
Mildred Masterson McNeilly was an American author best known for her novel Each Bright River.
Major Chetwynd John Drake "Jock" Haswell, who also wrote as George Foster, was a British military and intelligence author and former British intelligence officer. He was "Author for Service Intelligence" 1966–1984.
Godfrey Edward Charles Webb was a British author, and member of the Souls. He wrote under the names Norman England, and Charles Godfrey.
David George Vogenitz was an American poet and author. He also wrote under the name David George.
Leon Merian was an American jazz trumpeter and teacher. Dizzy Gillespie described his playing as "One of the most beautiful sounds you'll ever hear." Merian was also a French teacher and public school administrator.
