Cyd Charisse (1922 - 2008)

Charisse was born as Tula Ellice Finklea in Amarillo, Texas, the daughter of Lela (née Norwood) and Ernest Enos Finklea, Sr., who was a jeweler. Her nickname “Sid” was taken from her younger brother, Thomas Jarrell Finklea (June 25, 1923), who tried to say “Sis”. (It was later given the more intriguing and exotic spelling […]

Cynthia Lynn (1936 - 2014)

Cynthia Lynn (born Zinta Valda Ziemelis; April 2, 1936 – March 10, 2014) was a Latvian-born American actress. Cynthia Lynn was born in Latvia as Zinta Valda Ziemelis. She and her mother fled in 1944, eventually arriving in the United States in 1950. Cynthia Lynn is best known as “Fraulein Helga” in Hogan’s Heroes during the first […]

Cyril Collard (1957 - 1993)

Actor, Motion Picture Director. He directed “Grand Huit” (1982), “Alger le Blanche” (1986) and “Les Nuits Fauves” (1992), where he appeared also as actor. He died shortly after from AIDS. (bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)

Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)

Author, Journalist. A schoolmate of George Orwell at St Cyprian’s and Eto, he remained a life-long friend of the author. He wrote ‘The Rock Pool’, ‘Enemies of Promise’, ‘Unquiet Grave’ and ‘The Modern Movement – 100 Key Books’. He also founded and edited ‘Horizon’ literary magazine. He was a prolific book reviewer and also reported […]

Cyril Cusack (1910 - 1993)

Cusack was born in Durban, Natal, South Africa. His mother, Alice Violet (née Cole), was an English Cockney actress and chorus girl, and his father, James Walter Cusack, was an Irish mounted policeman in Natal Province, South Africa. His parents separated when he was young and his mother took him to England, and then to […]

Cyril Delevanti (1889 - 1975)

Actor. British-born film and television figure. He had a long career with character roles spanning the 1930s to the 1970s. (bio by: A.J. Marik)

Cyril Edwin Mitchinson “C.E.M.” Joad (1891 - 1953)

Author. He was a philosopher. author, teacher and one of the best-known British radio personalities of the 1940’s. He was born in Durham and was educated at Blundell’s School in Tiverton, Devonshire, and at Balliol College, Oxford. At University, he developed the pacifist and socialist views which led him to become a conscientious objector in […]

Cyril Lord (1911 - 1984)

Cyril Lord (12 July 1911 – 29 May 1984) was a British entrepreneur known principally for the manufacture of carpets during the 1960s. Born in Droylsden in Lancashire, Lord spent his early years living in a community of textile mill-workers. Lord was married three times. In 1936 he married Bessie Greenwood, and they had one son […]

Cyril Lord (1911 - 1984)

Powerful British textile magnate of the 20th Century. (bio by: Kieran Smith)

Cyril Lord (1911 - 1984)

Powerful British textile magnate of the 20th Century. (bio by: Kieran Smith)

Cyril Ritchard (1898 - 1977)

Cyril Ritchard was born Cyril Joseph Trimnell-Ritchard in Surry Hills, Sydney, New South Wales, to Sydney-born parents, Herbert Trimnell-Ritchard, a Protestant grocer, and his wife Marguerite, a devout Roman Catholic who ensured her son was raised as a Roman Catholic. Educated by the Jesuits at St Aloysius’ College, Cyril was a lifelong devout Catholic who […]

Cyrinda Foxe (1952 - 2002)

Foxe was born Katheleen Victoria Hetzekian in Santa Monica, California, to an Armenian family. She grew up as an army brat in an abusive household. After graduating high school, she lived in Texas briefly before settling in New York City, where she got a job working as an assistant to Greta Garbo. She later changed […]

Cyrinda Foxe-Tyler (1952 - 2002)

Ex-wife of Steven Tyler (of Aerosmith). Known as the inspiration for David Bowie’s 1973 song, “The Jean Genie.” She married New York Dolls singer David Johansen in 1977, then left him after a year to marry Tyler. She is the mother of Tyler’s daughter Mia, a fashion model. She wrote a memoir of her relationship […]

Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis (1850 - 1933)

Newspaper Publisher. He founded in 1883 the magazine that became “The Ladies Home Journal”. He owned several daily newspapers in his lifetime, included in the New York Post and the Philadelphia Inquirer, and founded the Curtis Publishing Company.  Family links:  Parents:  Cyrus Libby Curtis (1822 – 1885)  Spouses:  Louisa Knapp Curtis (1851 – 1910)  Kate […]

Cyrus Wells “Doc” Shores (1844 - 1934)

‘Doc’ Shores was a famous and well-respected lawman of the early days on Colorado’s Western Slope. He served as the sheriff of Gunnison County when it was still “wild” and was noted as the lawman who captured Alferd Packer, the infamous “Colorado Cannibal.” Shores also served as a deputy U.S. marshal, a railroad detective and […]

Cyrus West Field (1819 - 1892)

Businessman. He was a entrepreneur, most noted as a pioneer in the telegraph industry. In the early 1850s, he was successful in the paper mill business when became interested in the telegraph field. With his civil engineer brother Matthew and Frederick Newton Gisborne, they worked on the project of for a telegraph across to Newfoundland […]