Paul-Emile Deiber (1925 - 2011)

Actor, Operatic Director. He followed a distinguished career on the stage of Paris’ Comedie-Francaise with an equally noted one leading operatic productions on both sides of the Atlantic. Born in the Alsatian village of La Broque, he studied both voice and violin at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Paris, served with the French […]

Carter DeHaven (1886 - 1977)

Actor. Born Francis O’Callaghan in Chicago, Illinois, he began his career in Vaudeville and made his first screen appearance in “The College Orphan” (1915). A popular figure during the silent film era, his many credits include “The losing Winner” (1917), “A Sure Cure” (1919), “Spirits” (1920), “Twin Husbands” (1922) and “A Ring for Dad” (1923). […]

Calvert Grant “Larry Bud Melman” DeForest (1921 - 2007)

Actor.  Fondly remembered for his dozens of appearances on NBC’s “Late Night with David Letterman” and CBS’s “The Late Show with David Letterman” shows from 1982 through 2002. He was a clerk at a drug rehabilitation facility when he appeared in a New York University student’s film, leading to his “discovery” by the staff of […]

John Davidson (1886 - 1968)

Actor. Most remembered opposite Francis X. Bushman in “A Million A Minute,” (1916) he appeared in some 150 movies. (bio by: MC)

Loni Nest (1915 - 1990)

Actress. A child star, she is remembered for her numerous appearances in German silent films of the 1920s. Born Eleonore Nest, she was raised in Berlin and got her start in show business when her image on a Sunday School poster for her father’s church was spotted by a movie executive. Loni made her silver […]

Evelyn Nesbit (1884 - 1967)

Actress, Artist’s model and Dancer. She was known as “the Girl in the Red Velvet Swing.”  Her husband, Harry Kendall Thaw, killed her lover, noted New York Architect Stanford White, and the story was made into a movie, “The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing” (1955), with actress Joan Collins playing her role.  Her life […]

Christine Nelson (1926 - 1988)

Actress. Born in New York, she made her film debut in “Varietease” (1954). She also appeared in “The Helen Morgan Story” (1957), “Send Me No Flowers” (1964) and “Two Minute Warning” (1976). For television she was a regular on many programs to include “77 Sunset Strip”, “Surfside Six”, “The Joey Bishop Show”, “The Farmer’s Daughter” […]

Perlita Neilson (1933 - 2014)

Actress. A longtime star of the British stage, she is probably best remembered for her 1957 performances as the title heroine of “The Diary of Anne Frank”. Born Margaret Phillipa Snowden, she was raised in Argentina due to her father’s business and gained early stage experience in productions put-on by the British community. Returning to […]

Adelaide “Miss Neilson” Neilson (1848 - 1880)

Actress. Lilian Adelaide Neilson was a 19th century English actress largely remembered for her Shakesperean roles. She was said by many of her contemporaries to be ‘the Juliet of her day’. Born Elizabeth Ann Brown at 35 St. Peters Square, Leeds to an unmarried former actress, Elizabeth Anne grew up in relative poverty, initially in […]

Pola Negri (1899 - 1987)

Actress. She was born into a comfortable lifestyle until her father was arrested by the Russians and sent to a Siberian prison camp. She moved to Warsaw, Poland in 1902 and spent her formative years in poverty. As a teenager, she auditioned for the St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet and was accepted. She showed great promise […]

Dorothea Neff (1903 - 1986)

Actress. Born in Munich Germany, her early performances were on the German stage as a young heroine and lover, later became a character actress. Performed with the Deutschen Volkstheater (German National Theater) in Vienna (made honorary member in 1978), and from 1973 to 1976 performed at the Burgtheater (among other roles, as Elizabeth in “Maria […]

Guusje Nederhorst (1969 - 2004)

Dutch Actress. Guusje played Roos Alberts-de Jager in the Dutch TV series “GTST” and Angela Bolhuys in “Onderweg,” she also appeared as herself in the movie “All Stars” which dealt with an amateur soccer team. Gussje was a popular sex-symbol among fans, and was voted as one of the sexiest women in many dutch magazines. […]

Patricia Louise Neal (1926 - 2010)

Actress. The sultry voiced beauty won an Academy Award for playing Alma Brown in the film “Hud” (1963). Off-screen, she will be best remembered for her personal triumph and recovery over a series of strokes than nearly took her life in 1965. Born Patricia Louise Neal, her father was a coal company manager her mother […]

Anna Neagle (1904 - 1986)

Actress. She was a theatrical and cinematic institution in England, and one of the most popular screen actresses of the mid-20th century. She is perhaps best remembered for her role as Queen Victoria in the films “Victoria the Great” (1937) and “Sixty Glorious Years” (1938). She was also a great success in “Spring in Park […]

Grete Natzler (1906 - 1999)

Austrian-born stage and motion picture actress of the 1920s and 30s. She played the featured role of ‘Anna Albert’ in the 1938 Laurel & Hardy film “Swiss Miss” (credited as Della Lind). Married to composer Franz Steininger. (bio by: A.J. Marik)

Vivian Nathan (1916 - 2015)

Actress. Born Vivian Firko, (some sources state she was born in New York City and her year of birth is 1921), she chose to pursue a career as a performer and was the winner of the John Golden auditions for new talent. This led to her Broadway debut in the production “Montserrat” (1949) which she […]

Olga Nani (1976 - 2013)

Actress. She participated in several television series such as “Casi Angeles”, “Historias de sexo de gente común”, “Mil millones”, “Enamorarte” and “Resistiré” among others. She also worked as a screenwriter and producer of videos and short films, as well as a professor at the National College of Arts (IUNA). She died waiting  a donor for […]

Yuki Nambá (1923 - 2006)

Actress.  Real name Lidia Rosa Tempone. A native of Tres Arroyos, Argentina, she was one of her country’s top movie stars of the 1940s and 1950s. Her films include “Peluquería de Señoras” (1941), “La Piel de Zapa” (1943), “El Último Pallador” (1950), “Sucedió en Buenos Aires” (1954), “Mercado de Abasto” (1955) and “La Morocha” (1955). […]

Renate Müller (1906 - 1937)

Actress. She performed on screen at the beginning of the 1930s. She made her stage debut in 1925 at the Harzer Bergtheater in the play “Sommernachtstraum.” In cinema, she debuted in Reinhold Schünzel’s “Peter, der Matrose” (1929). Schünzel directed eigth of her movies. She is best remembered for films such as “Liebling der Götter” (1930), […]

Carmel Myers (1899 - 1980)

Actress.  One of the silent screen’s most bewitching vamps.  She was born in San Francisco,  the daughter of an Australian rabbi who later served as a technical advisor on D.W. Griffith’s epic “Intolerance” (1916).  Myers made her acting debut as a slave girl in that film and stayed on at Triangle Pictures as a Griffith […]

Roseanne Murray (1920 - 2015)

Actress. A pretty redhead, she is remembered for her film and radio performances from the 1940s. Raised in the Southern Tier of Upstate New York, she appeared in local theatrical productions from an early age, graduated from Binghamton Central High School in 1938, and in 1940 relocated to Southern California to pursue her show business […]

Kathleen Murray (1928 - 1969)

Actress. She was a New York city actress who had the leading role in the daily television drama “Kitty Foyle.” She appeared in more than 200 other television shows using her maiden name as her stage name. Also a theater performer, she sang and acted in the title role of the off-broadway production of “Leave […]

Barbara Murray (1929 - 2014)

Actress. A versatile performer, she is remembered for her long career on the British stage and screen. The child of a theatrical family, she was raised within the show business milieu, started dancing in her parents’ act around age six, and during World War II was hidden in Wales. After the War, she worked with […]

Mary Murphy (1931 - 2011)

Actress. Raised in Cleveland and later Los Angeles by her widowed mother, she attended University High School and caught the attention of a Hollywood talent which led to her being put under contract by Paramount Pictures. A string of several uncredited roles in the pictures “The Lemon Drop Kid” (1951), “My Favorite Spy” (1951) and […]

Anne Ward Murphy (1970 - 2003)

Actress. Born in Long Island, New York, she received a master’s degree in speech and education from Adelphi University, and later became a professor at Suffolk Community College, all while acting at the same time. She appeared in several stage plays including, “Snow White” “A Funny Thing Happened” “Can’t Take It With You” “A Chorus […]

Alma Muriel (1951 - 2014)

Actress. A typecast villainess of the Mexican big and small screens, she shall be remembered for her award-winning roles on multiple television soaps. Raised in her country’s capital, she had early show business ambitions, made her 1969 silver screen bow in “Lio de faldas”, and that same year was seen in the television series “Rosario”. […]

Lili Murati (1912 - 2003)

Actress. She was born in Szeged, Hungary. She began her career on stage in the 1920s, but soon she moved to the cinema, where debuted in 1935 with the film “A Csùnya Làny.” In her country, also she worked in “120-as Tempó” (1937), “Végre!” (1941), “Házasság” (1942) and “Kesó” (1943), among others. In 1948, she […]

Matilde Muñoz Sampedro (1899 - 1969)

Actress. Member of a long family of stage and screen actors. She was born and died in Madrid (Spain). She developed her career on Stage and Screen. On stage, she appeared in “La Novia de Reverte (1933), “Casi un Cuento de Hadas” (1953) or “El Patio” (1953). In 1918, she married to actor Rafael Bardem […]

Guadalupe Muñoz Sampedro (1895 - 1975)

Actress. She was born and died in Madrid (Spain). She was sister of actresses Matilde and Mercedes Muñoz Sampedro and the pianist Natividad. She began her career on stage in plays such as “Bendita Seas” (1926), “Madre, el Drama Padre” (1941), “Soledad y la Difunta” (1962) or “La Vidente” (1965), with stock companys of Lola […]

Ann Mui (1959 - 2000)

Chinese Actress. Mui appeared in the films, “Trouble Couple” (1987), “Jackie Chan’s Police Story” (1988), “The Iceman Cometh” (1989), “Burning Ambition” (1989), “Stage Door Johnny” (1990), “Chicken A La Queen” (1990), “Touch And Go” (1991), and her last film, “Farewell My Dearest” (1995). She was the sister of actress Anita Mui. Mui died on April […]