Luise Ullrich (1910 - 1985)

Austrian Film and Stage Actress, Singer, Writer. She made more than 50 film and television appearances during her long career. She was famous for singing the song “Waiting.” Her films include Nora (1944), Nachtwache (1949) and Ein Student ging vorbei (1960). (bio by: Rudi Polt)

Marian Sorenson Uhlman (1922 - 2003)

Actress. Known as “The Polka Dot Girl” of World War II pinups, using the name of Chili Williams, later appearing as a Goldwyn Girl. A graduate of the Marshall High School, she was discovered by a modelling agent in 1943 at Fire Island in New York. The modelling agent’s photographer took her picture while she […]

Gisela Uhlen (1919 - 2007)

Actress. Original name Gisela Friedlinde Schreck. Her career spanned more than seven decades and nearly 100 roles, starting with UFA Film in the late 1930s, and she made numerous TV appearances in recent years. She was not related to “Nosferatu” actor Max Schreck but to avoid confussion adopted the moniker Uhlen soon after she started […]

Margaret Tyzack (1931 - 2011)

Award Winning Actress. Noted throughout her career for portraying ladies older than herself, she was a respected star of British stage, screen, and television for more than 50 years. Raised in West Ham, she studied at a private girls’ school and at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts prior to her 1951 professional debut as […]

Billie Nelson Tyrrell (1970 - 1970)

American Actress, Memorabilia Collector. Born Billie Nelson on the east coast, the aspiring actress arrived in Hollywood during the early  1940s, where she met and married actor David Tyrrell. The couple became close friends with Hollywood luminaries of the era ranging from Margaret O’Brien to Jackie Coogan. In the 1940s, she starred in off-Broadway plays, […]

Judy Tyler (1932 - 1957)

Actress. Killed with second husband, Greg Lafayett, in an auto accident in Billy the Kid, Wyoming, three days after shooting was finished on ‘Jailhouse Rock’ with Elvis Presley. They had been married in May of the same year. First husband was Colin Romoff, from 1950-1956. Also appeared in ‘Bop Girl Goes Calypso’ and was Princess […]

Ginny Tyler (1925 - 2012)

Actress. A popular Mouseketeer from the 1960s, she shall be remembered for providing the voices of numerous Disney cartoon characters. Born Merrie Virginia Erlandson, she was raised in Seattle from infancy and early-on evidenced a talent for story telling and animal mimicry. As a young girl she became a fixture on the local kids’ radio […]

Beverly Jean Tyler (1927 - 2005)

Actress. She was born in Scranton (Pennsylvania) and died in Reno (Nevada). She was a contract player with MGM and appeared in a number of films during the 1940s and 50s. She also worked on TV during the 1950s. She is best remembered for her film opposite Tom Drake and Peter Lawford “The Green Years” […]

Helen Twelvetrees (1908 - 1958)

Actress. Born in New York, she attended a fine arts school as a teen, and inspired by her love for moving film took her talents to Hollywood, landing numerous roles in silent films. She later went on to act with such stars as Clark Gable and John Barrymore. Some of her more popular films include […]

Lurene Tuttle (1907 - 1986)

Actress. She is best remembered for variety of roles on the stage, in vaudeville, radio, television and movies. Born in Pleasant Lake, Indiana, she was raised on a ranch in Arizona. She studied acting in Phoenix and was known to steal the scene in her early roles. She began in the vaudeville company, Murphy’s Comedians,” […]

Florence Turner (1885 - 1946)

Actress. She was one of the cinema’s first matinee idols. In the years before World War I, when films were considered disreputable and actors appeared in them anonymously, Turner was known to millions as “The Vitagraph Girl”, after the studio where she worked.  Public demand forced Vitagraph to reveal her name.  She was also one […]

Barbara Turner (1936 - 2016)

Actress, Screenwriter. Born Gloria Rose Turner, to Jewish parents who both immigrated from Europe. She studied at the University of Texas for one year, prior to returning to New York, where she took acting classes at the Dramatic Workshop, where she met actor Vic Morrow. After her and Morrow married they moved to Hollywood and […]

Rosa Turich (1903 - 1998)

Actress, Comedian. Born in Tucson, Arizona, with her husband Felipe F. Turich, they were the comic Spanish language act “Felipin Y Rosita” in the 1940s. As a performer, she appeared in films to include “Prairie “Pioneers” (1941), “Bowery Buckaroos” (1947), “The Kid from Texas” (1950), “Tripoli” (1951), “Havana Rose” (1951) and “Gun Fury” (1953). Her […]

Marin Turcott (1890 - 1971)

Actress.  Family links:  Children:  Mattie J. Mizell (1848 – 1926)* *Calculated relationship

Keiko Tsushima (1926 - 2012)

Japanese Actress. A respected star of the Japanese cinema, she is remembered for a long career during which she transitioned from daughter to mother to grandmother roles. Born Mori Naoko, she initially intended to be a dancer and indeed was teaching dance at the Shochika Oofuna movie studio when she was spotted and given her […]

Lyudmila Vasilyevna Tselikovskaya (1919 - 1992)

Actress. A performer of both the stage and screen, she was considered Russia’s leading sex symbol of the 1940s. Tselikovskaya studied piano at the Gnesin School of Music before switching her interests to the field of acting. From 1937 to 1941 she attended the Shehiukin Theatrical School in Moscow, graduating three weeks prior to the […]

Mabel Trunnelle (1879 - 1981)

Actress. She began her career as a model for “Photoplay” magazine and was stage performer before entering films in the silent era. From 1909 to 1923, she was a very prominent star with Edison Films, Majestic Company and Vitagraph Pictures. With her husband actor Herbert Prior, she appeared in nearly 200 films to include “Nursing […]

Elinor Troy (1916 - 1949)

Actress. Born in Washington D.C., she was a dancer before making her film debut in “Meet The Boyfriend” (1937). Her other film credits included “The Fleet’s In” (1942), “Lady Of Burlesque” (1943), “Atlantic City” (1944), “Lost in a Harem” (1944), “See My Lawyer” (1945) and “Anchors Aweigh” (1945). She died in Hollywood, California. (bio by: […]

Marie Trintignant (1962 - 2003)

Actress. She was born in Paris, France, on January 21, 1962, to French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant and his wife, French film director Nadine Trintignant. Between 1967 and 2003, she appeared in over 57 films, several television series, and several specials. In 1967 she made her debut, opposite her father in the film, “My Love, My […]

Margaret Trigg (1964 - 2003)

Actress. Born in Bastrop, Texas, she began her career as a stand-up comedy act at a variety of venues in New York City. She made her feature film debut in “R.O.T.O.R.” (1989) and also appeared in “Dream House” (1997). For television, she was a regular on the series “Homicide: Life on the Street” and “Aliens […]

Kay Tremblay (1914 - 2005)

Canadian Actress. She was born in Glasgow, Scotland and died in Stratford, Ontario. She developed her long career throughout the United Kingdom, Europe and North America. Her first professional appearance was with the George Balanchine Ballet in London, England. After World War II, she came to Montreal and she continued her acting career with the […]

Beverly Pearl Crane Trees (1917 - 2006)

Actress. Beverly and twin sister Bettymae were born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on April 11, 1917. They are best known for speaking the opening titles for Hal Roach comedies like Our Gang. Beverly died in 2006. (bio by: Marisa Shute)  Family links:  Parents:  Melvin Walker Crane (1877 – 1950)  Spouse:  Earl Cash Trees (1913 […]

Mary Treen (1907 - 1989)

Actress in Film and Televison. Probably best remembered as Cousin Tilly in the Frank Capra Classic “Its A Wonderful Life.” On Televison she played Hilda the Nurse on “The Joey Bishop Show.” She had several guest starring roles, including playing ‘Rose,’ the Taylor’s former maid on the pilot episode of “The Andy Griffith Show,” and […]

June Travis (1914 - 2008)

Actress. She appeared in over 30 films from the mid to late 1930s. Born June Grabiner in Chicago, she was the daughter of baseball executive Harry Grabiner. Her credits include “Ceiling Zero” (1936), “Jailbreak” (1936), “The Big Game” (1936), “Love Is on the Air” (1937) and “The Kid Comes Back” (1938). Among her leading men […]

Thuy Trang (1973 - 2001)

Actress. Born in Saigon, South Vietnam the daughter of a soldier in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). During the fall of Saigon to the Communist North Vietnamese Army he escaped South Vietnam and was given political asylum by the United States. Thuy, her mother, two brothers and sister were left behind. In […]

Mary Ellen Trainor (1952 - 2015)

American Actress. Trainor will best be remembered for her role as an LAPD psychiatrist in the ‘Lethal Weapon’ franchise. She studied broadcast journalism at San Diego State, and was discovered by a radio station manager and asked to be an on-air personality for local television station KSDO. She soon landed a position at KCBS as […]

Noel Toy (1918 - 2003)

Actress and Dancer. She gained infamy for her fan dances often called the “Chinese Sally Rand” that was featured in “Forbidden City” a popular asian nightclub in San Francisco. Like the Cotton Club of Harlem which featured America’s finest African American entertainers, Forbidden City gained an international reputation with its unique showcase of Chinese American […]

Rosella Towne (1918 - 2014)

American Actress. Towne was known for her appearances opposite Ronald Reagan in films such as ‘Sergeant Murphy’ (1938), ‘Cowboy from Brooklyn’ (1938), ‘Secret Service of the Air’ (1939) and ‘Code of the Secret Service’ (1939). Brought to Hollywood at age 19, she made a screen test for Warner Bros and signed a contract with the […]

Lupita Tovar (1910 - 1970)

Actress. She is best remebered for her starring role in the 1931 spanish language version of “Dracula”. She was married to director Paul Kohner for many years. She is the mother of actress Susan Kohner, and Pancho Kohner, and grandmother of director Chris Weitz and actor Paul Weitz. She retired from acting in 1945. (bio […]

Audrey Totter (1917 - 2013)

Actress. Comfortable in both leading and secondary roles, she was often cast as hardened females or as she once stated “bad girls”. Her association with the entertainment industry began when she became a member of a theater group following her high school years. This experience led to an abundance of parts on radio in soap […]