Kasey Rogers (1925 - 2006)

Actress. A voluptuous character player, she was billed as Laura Elliott during her movie career in the early 1950s. Rogers is best known for her role in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Strangers on a Train” (1951), as Miriam, Farley Granger’s estranged and vindictive wife. In the film’s famous murder scene she is strangled by psychotic Robert Walker, […]

Henri De Braekeleer (1840 - 1888)

Artist.

Madeleine Robinson (1916 - 2004)

Actress. She is best remembered for her films “Une Si Jolie Petit Plage” (1949), “L’Invité du Mardi” (1950), “Dieu a Besoin des Hommes” (1950), “Le Garçon Sauvage” (1951), “Les Possédées” (1956), “Le Procés” (1962), “Une Histoire Simple” (1978), “Siete Días de Enero” (1979), “Camille Claudel” (1988) and “L’Ours en Peluche” (1994). In 2001 she was […]

Juan De Avalos (1911 - 2006)

Sculptor. Well known internationally for his monumental sculptures, like the Evangelists figures at El Valle de los Caídos (Fallen´s Valley), Los Amantes de Teruel, the statue of Carrero Blanco and the statue of Bernardo de Gálvez at Washington D.C. among many others. (bio by: 380W)

Corinne Day (1962 - 2010)

Photographer. Known for her fashion work, she founded a genre called variously “grunge”, “heroin chic”, or “dirty realism”, and was instrumental in launching the career of Kate Moss. Raised in Ickenham, she quit school at 16 and worked in a bank before becoming a model. While enjoying some success in Australia, Japan, and America, she […]

Kathleen Eileen Hooker Robinson (1922 - 1958)

Actress.  Born Eileen Hooker, she won the first Miss Nampa beauty pageant in 1938 and the 1938 Miss Idaho contest (part of a national Miss USA competition), and was runner-up to Miss Idaho the following year in 1939. In the middle 1940s, she was signed to a dancing contract by Darryl F. Zanuck, then vice […]

Alfred Dawson (1843 - 1931)

Landscape Painter and Etcher. He studied art under his father, a marine and landscape painter, before establishing himself as a successful etcher and landscape painter in Chertsey, Surrey. He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy, London, between 1860 and 1889, showing works including “A Page from Gray’s Elegy” and “Leaving the Plough”. He also showed […]

George Dawe (1781 - 1829)

Painter. He is particularly well known for his more than 300 portraits of Russian offices who took part in the War against Napoleon. These portraits constitute the collection displayed in the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace (The Hermitage) in St. Petersburg, Russia. He was born in the family of artists with his father being […]

Thelma Ritter (1902 - 1969)

Acclaimed Actress. She appeared in “All about Eve,” “Rear Window” and “The Mating Season,” among many other films. (bio by: A.J. Marik)

Guy Dawber (1970 - 1938)

Leading British architect in the 20th century. Mainly famed for his work on the restoration and conservation of some of Britains finest country homes, he also built several buildings of note including the main gate and reptile house at London Zoo and several homes in the Cotswolds. (bio by: Kieran Smith)

Marc Frasier Davis (1913 - 2000)

Marc Davis was one of Walt Disney’s trusted “Nine Old Men” animators/advisors. He began working at the Disney Studios in 1935 until his retirement in 1978. He remained with Disney as an advisor up until his death. He worked on nearly every Disney animated feature film. He was famous for animating memorable female characters and […]

Victoria Risk (1915 - 1992)

Stage, motion picture, and television actress. She appeared in the 1950s era TV series “Dragnet.” The 1970s series “Apple’s Way” and the 1973 motion picture “A Reflection of Fear” are also among her credits. (bio by: A.J. Marik)  Family links:  Parents:  Wolf A. Risk (1885 – 1948)  Mareena Risk (1894 – 1930)  Sibling:  Victoria Risk […]

Alexander Jackson Davis (1803 - 1892)

Architect. Recognized as the premier architect of mid-19th Century America, Davis was instrumental in popularizing the Greek Revival style which characterized the nation’s public buildings and private houses from the Federal Period to the outbreak of the Civil War. His many works include the old New York Customs House, the state capitols of Illinois, Ohio, […]

Gabriel Davioud (1823 - 1881)

Architect. He designed the old Palais de Trocadero in Paris (torn down and replaced in 1937). Worked under Baron Georges Eugène Haussmann. Some of his works that still exist today in Paris include: Fontaine aux Lions (12e, Quartier de Picpus), Sphinx sculpture(1er, Place du Châtelet), Théâtre de la Ville exterior (4e, Châtelet-Les-Halles), Théâtre de Châtelet […]

Pierre-Jean David d’Angers (1788 - 1856)

Sculptor. Born in Angers, France, he was a French sculptor and medalists. As one of the most versatile artist of his era, he was judged by many contemporary critics to be the greatest sculptor of the 19th Century. He began modeling figures during his three-year sojourn in Italy, after winning the coveted Prix de Rome […]

Jacques Louis David (1748 - 1825)

Artist. An influential painter in the French Neoclassical style, he is considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. Born into a wealthy family, around the age of nine his father was killed in a duel and his mother left him in the care of his affluent uncles. He received his education at the […]

Homer Calvin Davenport (1867 - 1912)

Son of Oregon Pioneers.  Political cartoonist for the San Francisco Examiner in 1892 – 85 and New York Journal starting in 1895.  Author of “The Country Boy” and “My Quest of the Arabian Horse”.  First horse breeder to bring Arabian horses to the United States.  William Randolph Hearst had his body shipped back to Silverton […]

Estelle Lebost Reiner (1914 - 2008)

Actress, Singer. The wife of comedian Carl Reiner and the mother of motion picture director Rob Reiner, she was raised in the Bronx, New York City, New York, where she studied art after graduating from high school and met her future husband while designing sets in the Catskills. The family lived in New Rochelle, New […]

Honoré Daumier (1808 - 1879)

Artist.  He spent most of his career creating lithographs for French newspapers,  in which he bitterly satirized the faults of the bourgeoisie,  the corruption of the law,  and the injustices of his age.  His late-period prints bear an astonishing resemblance to today’s political cartoons.  As a painter Daumier pioneered in unblemished portrayals of working-class life, […]

Margaret L. Reid (1903 - 1965)

Actress. She appeared in The Sentimental Bloke (1919), Sleepy Lagoon (1943) and It Happened One Night (1934). She was previously married to screenwriter David Hertz.

Felix Octavius Carr Darley (1821 - 1888)

Artist. Born in Philadelphia, he began drawing in his youth. He moved to New York in 1848 and in 1850 he was invited to illustrate Washington Irving’s works ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’ and ‘Rip Van Winkle’. He continued to illustrate works by Washington Irving but added James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Longfellow, James Whitcomb […]

Henry Darger (1892 - 1973)

Folk Artist. Henry Darger was a Chicago artist best known for the illustrations to his 15,000-page novel, “The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion.” Raised in a brutal orphanage, he spent most of his adult […]

Thora Dardel (1899 - 1995)

Artist. Born Thora Klinckowstrom in Sweden, she moved to Paris in 1919, where she met fellow Swedish painter Nils Dardel. They married in 1921. She was the model for the heroine Svea in Raymond Radiguet’s famous novel “The Devil In The Flesh” (1923), about a married woman who seduces a teenage boy.  Dardel denied having […]

Mabel Lillian Rea (1932 - 1968)

Actress. Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, she began her career as a Rockette dancer and made her film debut in “Bundle of Joy” (1956) followed by “The Unholy Wife” (1957). Her other credits included “Pal Joey” (1957), “The Joker Is Wild” (1957), “Sad Sack” (1957), “The Devil’s Hairpin” (1957), “Submarine Seahawk” (1958) and “The Girl […]

Nils Dardel (1888 - 1943)

Painter. Full name Nils Elias Christoffer von Dardel. A leading Post-Impressionist, his original style was inspired by folk art, the pure colors of the Fauves, and by Japanese woodcuts.  Born in Bettna,  Sweden,  he studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Art and settled in Paris in 1910.  He was married to painter Thora Dardel […]

George Dance (1741 - 1825)

British architect who was responsible for extensive urban redevelopment in London and was a founding member of the Royal Academy of Arts.  The youngest son of George Dance the Elder, who was clerk of works to the City of London from 1735 to 1768, the younger Dance received his formal training in the office of […]

George Dalziel (1815 - 1902)

Engraver. Son of Alexander Dalziel (1781–1832) and his wife, Elizabeth Hills. Sibling to seven brothers and four sisters. George was a draughtsman and wood-engraver, the founder and leader of the London firm, he was born in December 1815, at Wooler, Northumberland, and was educated at Newcastle upon Tyne. He went to London early in 1835 […]

Marcia Ralston (1906 - 1988)

Actress. She is best remembered in “The Singing Marine”(1937), “Ever Since Eve”(1937), “Men Are Such Fools”(1938) and “Crime Takes a Holiday”(1938). She died of subarachnoid haemorrhage.  (bio by: MC)

Jules Dalou (1838 - 1902)

Sculptor. Born in Paris to a working-class family of Huguenot background, he was raised in an atmosphere of being separate from religion and Republican socialism. He was the pupil of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, who sponsored him for the Petite École (future École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs), where he sympathized with Alphonse Legros and Fantin-Latour. In […]

Nicholas Peter Dallis (1911 - 1991)

Cartoonist. He was a psychiatrist in Scottsdale, Arizona, when he came up with several ideas for comic strips. He later quit his practice to focus on writing the strips. He created the strips, “Judge Parker,” “Rex Morgan, M.D.,” and “Apartment 3-G,” which appeared in more than 400 newspapers worldwide.