Claude Chabrol (1930 - 2010)

Claude Henri Jean Chabrol (French: [klod ʃabʁɔl]; 24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director and a member of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues and contemporaries Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Éric Rohmer and […]

Claude Chauveau-Lagarde (1756 - 1841)

Lawyer. He was the lawyer of Queen Marie Antoinette and Charlotte Corday.

Claude Dampier (1970 - 1955)

Claude Dampier (1879-1955) was an English film actor and popular character comedian in the early 20th century. Claude Dampier was born in Clapham, South London as Claud Conolly Cowan. He played largely comic roles, first appearing in music hall acts and then moving to both film and radio comedies. Dampier usually appeared as a dim-witted ‘silly ass’ […]

Claude Dampier (1970 - 1955)

British actor and comedian. Starred in “Let’s Have Murder”(1950) and “Meet Mr.Malcolm”(1954). (bio by: Kieran Smith) Cause of death: Pneumonia

Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)

Claude Debussy’s private life was often turbulent. At the age of 18 he began an eight-year affair with Marie-Blanche Vasnier, the wife of Parisian civil servant Henri Vasnier. The relationship eventually faltered following his winning of the Prix de Rome in 1884 and obligatory residence in Rome. On his permanent return to Paris and his parents’ […]

Claude Duval (1970 - 1670)

Outlaw. A famed Highwayman, he was born in Normandy, France, and came to England under the service of the Duke of Richmond, soon becoming a highway thief. He is as notorious for his daring robberies as he is for his gallantry. He is said to have held up a coach in which a lady and […]

Claude Earl “Chuck” Rayner (1920 - 2002)

Hall of Fame Professional Hockey Player. A native of Sutherland, Saskatchewan, he played as a goalie for the New York Americans from 1940 to 1941, and the New York Rangers from 1945 to 1955.  He was the recipient of the Hart Memorial Trophy in 1950, and was the Second All-Star Team Goalie in 1949, 1950, […]

Claude Fayette Bragdon (1866 - 1946)

Architect, stage designer, and author.  Bragdon was born in Oberlin, Ohio.  He was raised in Watertown, Oswego, Dansville and Rochester, New York, where his father worked as a newspaper editor.  Bragdon’s principal work was in the Rochester area.  He was well regarded for his ink rendering talent and his study of geometric ornament.  He was […]

Claude Gernade Bowers (1879 - 1958)

Author / Politician / Diplomat. US Ambassador to Spain 1933 – 1939. US Ambassador to Chile 1939 – 1953.  Family links:  Parents:  Lewis Bowers (1847 – 1891)  Juliet Bowers (1855 – 1917)  Spouse:  Sybil W. McCaslin Bowers (1884 – 1964)*  Sibling:  Gertrude Bowers (1874 – 1878)*  Claude Gernade Bowers (1879 – 1958) *Calculated relationship

Claude Jade (1948 - 2006)

While performing as Frida in Pirandello’s Henri IV, in a production by Sacha Pitoëff at the Théâtre Moderne, Claude Jade was discovered by New Wave film director François Truffaut. He was “completely taken by her beauty, her manners, her kindness, and her joie de vivre”, and cast her in the role of Christine Darbon in […]

Claude Monet (1840 - 1926)

Claude Monet was born on 14 November 1840 on the 5th floor of 45 rue Laffitte, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. He was the second son of Claude Adolphe Monet and Louise Justine Aubrée Monet, both of them second-generation Parisians. On 20 May 1841, he was baptized in the local parish church, Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, as Oscar-Claude, but his parents called him […]

Claudette Colbert (1903 - 1996)

Actress who starred in more than 60 films. Claudette Colbert died in Speightstown, Barbados, on July 30, 1996. (This was her vacation home.) Her permanent address was Manhattan. She was born on September 13, 1903, in France. Her real name was “Lily Claudette Chauchoin.  While still a child her parents moved the family to New […]

Claudette Nevins (1937 - 2020)

Claudette Nevins Nevins is a daughter of merchant Joseph Weintraub and tailor Anna Lander. Nevins is a 1959 graduate of New York University. Nevins began acting on the theatrical stage off-Broadway in 1959 in the play Major Barbara in Washington, D.C.. She made her Broadway debut with George C. Scott in The Wall, the play […]

Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson (1912 - 2007)

Claudia Alta Taylor was born in Karnack, Texas, a town in Harrison County, near the state’s border with Louisiana. Her birthplace was “The Brick House,” an antebellum plantation mansion on the outskirts of town, which her father had purchased shortly before her birth. Nearly all of her maternal and paternal forebears had arrived in the […]

Claudia Alexander (1959 - 2015)

Claudia Alexander was born in Canada but raised in Santa Clara, California by her mother, Gaynelle, and father, Harold. She had two siblings: Suzanne and David. Claudia Alexander wanted to be a journalist but her parents—who were paying for her education—wanted her to become an engineer. After a summer job at the Ames Research Center, […]

Claudia Barrett (1929 - 2021)

Claudia Barrett, 91, local poet, watercolor artist, and former actor, died of natural causes at her home in Palm Desert on April 30, 2021. She was born Imagene Williams on Nov 3, 1929 in West Los Angeles to Arvilla Benton and Iman Williams, who ran a lunch counter near the Sepulveda VA, where the gassed […]

Claudia Bryar (1918 - 2011)

Actress. She shall be remembered for her countless television roles and as Mrs. Emma Spool from Richard Franklin’s 1983 “Psycho II”. Born Hortense Rizler, she was the child of a Congressman and Federal Judge and was to break into show business when she moved to Southern California in the early 1950s. After refining her art […]

Claudia Dell (1909 - 1977)

Actress. Born in San Antonio, Texas to Oliver W. Smith. She attends school in San Antonio and Mexico City. Claudia’s aunt Mary Dell was an actress in vaudeville. Her first experience as an entertainer was playing her violin for soldiers at Kelly Field during World War I. Claudia finished her education and returned to New […]

Claudia Jennings (1949 - 1979)

Actress, Model. She was the Playmate for the Month of November 1969, and Playmate of the Year for 1970. She appeared in the films, “Fast Company” (1979), “Deathsport” (1978), “Sisters Of Death” (1978), “The Great Texas Dynamite Chase” (1977), “‘Gator Bait” (1974), “The Man Who Fell To Earth” (1976), “Truck Stop Women” (1974), “The Single […]

Claudia McNeil (1917 - 1993)

Actress. She first worked as a singer for the Katharine Dunham dance company, then toured as a single all over the world and performed on the New York stage in the early 1950s. She made her screen debut in “The Last Angry Man” (1959), followed by “A Raisin in the Sun” (1961) and “Roll of […]

Claudius Crozet (1789 - 1864)

Educator, Civil Engineer, Born in Villefranche, France, he was educated at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. In the Napoleonic Wars, he served as a Captain in the artillery, and was a prisoner in Russia for two years following the Moscow campaign. He traveled to the United States in 1816, and, with recommendation from the Marquis […]

Claus Spreckels (1828 - 1908)

Sugar magnate.  Family links:  Spouse:  Anna Christina Mangels Spreckels (1830 – 1910)*  Children:  John Diedrich Spreckels (1853 – 1926)*  Adolph Bernard Spreckels (1857 – 1924)*  Claus Augustus Spreckels (1858 – 1946)*  Emma C Spreckels Ferris Hutton (1870 – 1924)*  Rudolph Spreckels (1872 – 1958)* *Calculated relationship

Clay Drewry Blair, Jr (1925 - 1998)

Author,  Journalist.  Considered an outstanding authority on submarine warfare,  which he called “silent service”.  Clay Drewry Blair, Jr. was born in Lexington,  Virginia.  During World War II he served as a Quarter Master second class aboard the submarine USS Guardfish on two war patrols. After the war ended he attended Tulane and Colombia Universities. In […]

Clay L. Shaw (1913 - 1974)

New Orleans businessman, a co-founder of the N.O. Trade Mart, who was accused by District Attorney Jim Garrison of being one of the masterminds of the JFK assassination.  After a trial, Shaw was acquitted of conspiracy-related charges in March 1969.  His trial was featured prominently in Oliver Stone’s “JFK,” in which Shaw was portrayed by […]

Clayton “Peg Leg” Bates (1907 - 1998)

Tap Dancer and Pioneer in Black Entertainment Field/Hotel Owner. Peg Leg Bates was a world famous tap dancer best known for his 20 appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show,the last being in the early 1960’s,delighting an audience of millions. Bates lost his left leg in a Cotton Gin accident at age 12. He subsequently taught […]

Clayton Fountain (1955 - 2004)

Clayton Fountain (September 12, 1955 – July 12, 2004) was a former federal prisoner, member of the Aryan Brotherhood, and convicted murderer. Clayton Anthony Fountain was born on September 12, 1955, at the U.S. Army Hospital in Fort Benning, Georgia. Clayton was the oldest of six children, having one brother and four sisters, and was […]

Clayton Moore (1914 - 1999)

Clayton Moore Clayton Moore grew up in Chicago, Illinois and although his father wanted him to become a doctor, he had visions of something a little more glamorous. Naturally athletic, he practiced gymnastics during family summer vacations in Canada, eventually joining the trapeze act The Flying Behrs at 19. During the 1934 Chicago World’s Fair, […]

Cleavon Little (1939 - 1992)

Little was born in Chickasha, Oklahoma. He was the brother of singer DeEtta Little, best known for her performance of “Gonna Fly Now”, the main theme to Rocky. He was raised in California, graduating in 1957 from Kearny High School and initially attended San Diego City College, and then at San Diego State University, where […]

Clem Bevans (1879 - 1963)

Motion picture actor. Bevans always played cantankerous but lovable old geezers. He began in Vaudeville and Burlesque but made the transition to motion pictures very easily. (bio by: Mr. Ed)  Family links:  Spouse:  Lillian Luppee Bevans* *Calculated relationshipCause of death: Natural causes

Clemens Gretter (1904 - 1988)

Acclaimed Artist, Illustrator. He started as a “ghost illustrator” for Robert Ripley of “Ripley’s Believe it or Not” fame. He also did illustrations for a number of clients including Sears and Robuck, Otis Elevator, and illustrated a number of the “Hardy Boys” book covers. He eventually created his own column “In This World” and was […]