Oni Faida Lampley (1959 - 2008)

Playwright Actress. She was born Vera Lampley in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Her plays were produced in New York and regionally. Her first play, Mixed Babies (1990), won a Helen Hayes award for Outstanding New Play for its Washington Stage Guild production in Washington D.C. It was produced in New York City by Manhattan Class Company. […]

Karen Lamm (1952 - 2001)

Model-Actress. During the 1970s and early 1980s, she appeared in over 150 films, including major motion pictures and made-for-television movies. She was also a very popular model in both print and commercial work. Some of the television series programs in which she frequently appeared were Columbo, The Dukes of Hazzard, Kojak, Harry-O, Starsky and Hutch, […]

Libertad Lamarque (1908 - 2000)

Renowned Argentinian tango singer and actress. She is best remembered for her films “Madreselva” (1938), “En el Viejo Buenos Aires” (1941), “La Infame” (1953) and “La Cigüeña Dijo Sí” (1960). Later in her career, she appeared in the TV series “Carita de Angel” (2000). (bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)

Veronica Lake (1922 - 1973)

Veronica Lake Actress. Known for her peek-a-boo hairstyle, she is probably best remembered for her role in “Sullivan’s Travels” (1942) and for her femme fatale roles in film noirs with Alan Ladd, during the 1940s. Her career spanned five decades, from films, to stage, and television beginning in 1939 until 1970. Born Constance Frances Marie […]

Patricia Van Cleve Lake (1923 - 1993)

Actress, Scandal Figure. In the 1920s, there was speculation that Lake was the child of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst and actress Marion Davies, who carried on a public affair despite Hearst being married to another woman. Many reference books state that Lake’s parents were Marion Davies’ sister Rosemary and her first husband, George Van […]

Betty Lago (1955 - 2015)

Brazilian Actress. Lago, born Elizabeth Lago Netto, was an actress known for numerous roles on television and film. She started her career as a model, but turned to acting, first on film and then television.  Lago’s first role was in “Dona Flor e seus dois maridos” (1976), but it was later cut out by the […]

Bernadette Lafont (1938 - 2013)

Actress. She will be best remembered as muse of the acclaimed French film director François Truffaut with whom made her debut as an actress in the short film “Les Mistons” (1957). Bernadette soon became a symbol actress of the Nouvelle Vague, playing roles in some of the masterpieces of French cinema including notably “Le beau […]

Dominique Laffin (1952 - 1985)

French Actress. She appeared in the films, “Passage Secret” (1985), “Akropolis Now” (1983), “Room Service” (1982), “Vive La Mariee” (1982), “His Master’s Eye” (1982), “Nocturnal Uproar” (1979), “Seeking Asylum” (1979), “The Crying Woman” (1978), “The Little Wheedlers” (1978), “A Night All Cats Are Crazy” (1977), and “The Sweet Sickness” (1977).  (bio by: K)

María Fernanda Ladrón de Guevara (1897 - 1974)

Stage and Screen Actress. She was born and died in Madrid. She debuted on stage at the age of 17 in stage company of María Guerrero on the play “La Malquerida” of Jacinto Benavente, becoming a Lady of Spanish Stage. In 1922, she married to valencian actor Rafael Rivelles and formed their own stage company, […]

Sue Carol Ladd (1907 - 1982)

Actress. Wife of actor Alan Ladd.  She was 20 years old when she entered film work. Her first role was a bit part in “Soft Cushions” in 1927. Directors liked the way she took instruction and gave her a more substantial part later that year in “Slaves of Beauty.”   While she didn’t land the […]

Berta Labarga (1948 - 2003)

Spanish-born actress. She appeared in the film “Imagenes Del Deporte N’63” (1973). (bio by: K)

Violet La Plante (1908 - 1984)

Actress. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, she was the sister of actress Laura La Plante and was known as Violet Avon during Hollywood’s silent film era. In 1923, she became a starlet member of the “WAMPAS Baby Star” troupe, making her screen debut in “Battling Buddy” (1924). For the next four years she appeared in […]

Laura La Plante (1904 - 1996)

Laura La Plante Beautiful silent film actress Laura La Plante was born Laura La Plant in St. Louis, Missouri on November 1st, 1904. Her family moved to Los Angeles when she was a child and she was educated in the public schools there. At age 15 she broke into films, after being noticed for her […]

Rosemary La Planche (1923 - 1979)

Actress. She was crowned Miss America in 1941 and Miss California in 1940 and 1941. La Planche appeared in films including, “Golden Hands Of Kunigal” (1966), “Federal Agents vs. Underworld Inc.” (1949), “Betty Co-Ed” (1946), “Girl Rush” (1944), “Gildersleeve On Broadway” (1943), “Prairie Chickens” (1943), “Fall In” (1942), “Irene” (1940), “Mad About Music” (1938), and […]

Natalya Kustinskaya (1938 - 2012)

Actress. A pretty blonde, she will probably be best remembered as a sex kitten from several Soviet comedies of the 1960s. The child of a show business family, she was raised within the theatrical milieu, studied piano at the Gnessin Music School, and trained at the State Institute of Cinematography prior to her silver screen […]

Karyn “Cookie” Kupcinet (1941 - 1963)

Actress. She was murdered the week after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and many Kennedy Conspiracy theorists believe that she had been killed to silence her. Her murder has never been solved. Born in Chicago, Illinois, she was the daughter of Chicago “Sun Times” columnist Irv Kupcinet.  She began her acting career playing summer […]

Suzanne Krull (1966 - 2013)

Actress. A noted character performer, she later became a respected screenwriter. Raised in New York City, she started writing while still a small child, attended Brooklyn’s South Shore High School, and after moving to Southern California graduated from Agoura High School. Suzanne returned to the Big Apple to study for two years at the American […]

Alma Kruger (1970 - 1960)

Actress. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she began her career performing on Broadway in 1907 and made her screen debut in “These Three” (1936). A veteran of more then forty films during the 1930s and 1940s, her credits included “Craig’s Wife” (1936), “The Great Waltz” (1938), “His Girl Friday” (1940), “Saboteur” (1942), “Babes on Swing Street” […]

Hildegard Krekel (1952 - 2013)

Actress. Her most famous role was that of the daughter Rita in the 1970s German TV series “Ein Herz und eine Seele” (“One Heart and One Soul”), the German version of the BBC series “Till Death Do Us Part”, which was also re-made in the United States as “All in the Family”. She began her […]

Erle Jolson Krasna (1922 - 2004)

Former Actress. Widow of singer Al Jolson and later of screenwriter and producer Norman Krasna. She appeared in several minor film roles before marrying Al Jolson in 1945.  (bio by: Laurie)  Family links:  Parents:  Edwin Forrest Galbraith (1879 – 1968)  Erle Chenault Galbraith (1878 – 1957)  Spouses:  Al Jolson (1886 – 1950)*  Norman Krasna (1909 […]

Gabriela Kownacka (1952 - 2010)

Actress. She was a leading star of Polish film, stage, and television for around 35 years. A 1975 graduate of Warsaw’s National Theatre School, she made the first of her roughly 40 silver screen appearances as Sophie in 1972’s “Wesele” (“Wedding”). Gabriela was to see her ‘big break’ in 1977 when she won the Zbigniew […]

Mia Kovacs (1959 - 1982)

Daughter of legendary comic Ernie Kovacs and actress Edie Adams. She was just beginning a career as an actress when she was killed in an automobile accident on Mulhullond Drive in Los Angeles. Losing control over her car, she ran off the road and the car rolled, ejecting her through the sunroof and killing her […]

Nina Koshetz (1891 - 1965)

Opera Singer. Born in Kiev, both of her parents had been stars of the Imperial Opera in Moscow. In 1915, Koshetz met Sergei Rachmaninov and they appeared together in successful recitals. Until 1917, she appeared as soprano, in operas such as “The Queen of Spades,” “The Tsar’s Bride” and “Tosca.” Later, she moved to the […]

Iris Dobson Korn (1907 - 1982)

Actress. As a performer, she was best known for her television performance in the role of the wife of Reverend Alden on the series “Little House on the Prairie”. Her other TV credits included “Emergency”, “Cannon”, “The Waltons”, “Barnaby Jones”, “Charlie’s Angels”, “The Incredible Hulk” and “Taxi”. For feature films, she appeared in “White Lighting” […]

Véra Korène (1901 - 1996)

Actress. Born Rébecca Véra Korestzky in Russia. She played the leading roles in “Savage Brigade,” “Seven Men, One Woman,” “Double Crime in the Maginot Line” and “The Volga Boatman.” (bio by: MC)

Leopoldine Konstantin (1886 - 1965)

Actress. She was born in Brünn, Moravia, now Czech Republic. She developed her career on stage and screen from the silent movies to “talkies.” During Second World War, she was forced to exile, first to London, where she lost her son during a bombardment and later exiled to Hollywood.  She is fondly remembered as Claude […]

Vera Feodorovna Komissarzhevskaya (1864 - 1910)

Actress. Though her career started late and was brief, she is remembered as her country’s premier theatrical personality at the dawn of the 20th Century. The child of an opera singer father and a mother descended from a distinguished military family, she was raised in wealth and privilege, took to the stage early, at 19 […]

Dora Komar (1914 - 2006)

Austrian actress, dancer and singer. She performed on stage in opera and theater, and made five films during the early 1940s. She married and moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1946, ending her film career. (bio by: Rudi Polt)

Padmini Kolhapure (1932 - 2006)

Actress, Dancer. Born in Poojappura in Thiruvanthapuram, India, she acted and danced in over 250 films within a forty year career. She made here debut in the 1949, Hindi film ‘Kalpana’. As the primary star of the Malayalam and Tamil cinema, she also was in the Bollywood films, “Payal” [1957], Babubhai Mistry’s “Mahabharat” [1965], Raj […]

Michi Kobi (1924 - 2016)

Actress. She is remembered for playing ‘Nurse Nakamura’ in the original Broadway production of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” (1963 to 1964). Born Machiko Okamoto, she was forced along with her family to relocate to a Japanese prison camp in Utah during World War II. During her time while incarcerated, she participated in plays […]