Michael Vincente Gazzo (1923 - 1995)

Actor and Playwright. Films include “The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight” (1971), “Black Sunday” (1977), “Cannonball Run II” (1984), “Cookie” (1989), and his best known role as Frankie Pentangeli in “The Godfather” trilogy of movies. (bio by: Ginny M) Cause of death: Stroke

Michael Wayne Richard (1959 - 2007)

Michael Wayne Richard (August 24, 1959 – September 25, 2007) was convicted of rape and murder whose execution gained notoriety due to controversies regarding procedural problems related to the timing of the execution. Richard admitted he was involved in the murder and offered to help find the murder weapon. Police found the weapon and testing […]

Michael Weiner (1961 - 2013)

Michael S. Weiner (December 21, 1961 – November 21, 2013) was an executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association. He assumed the role on June 22, 2009, replacing Donald Fehr, becoming only the fifth executive director of the union. Weiner joined the organization in September 1988 and had been general counsel since 2004. […]

Michael Wilding (1912 - 1979)

Born in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England, and educated at Christ’s Hospital, Michael Wilding was a successful commercial artist when he joined the art department of a London film studio in 1933. He soon embarked on an acting career. He appeared in numerous British films, often opposite Anna Neagle, but had a less productive career in Hollywood. His […]

Michael Zaslow (1944 - 1998)

Zaslow was born in Inglewood, California. He played Dick Hart on the CBS soap opera Search for Tomorrow and Dr. Peter Chernak on Love Is a Many Splendored Thing. He also played David Renaldi on ABC’s One Life to Live from 1983 to 1986, and in 1998. Zaslow was also a writer for the NBC […]

Michel Auclair (1922 - 1988)

Actor. Born as Vladimir Vujovic in Koblenz, Germany, he made his screen debut in Jean Cocteau’s classic “La Belle et la Bête” (“Beauty and the Beast”,  1946). He also worked in the United States, notably in “Funny Face” (1957),  with Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire. Auclair appeared in over 100 films, among them “Les Maudits” […]

Michel Constantin (1924 - 2003)

Michel Constantin (born Constantin Hokloff, July 13, 1924 – August 29, 2003) was a French film actor.. Born Constantin Hokloff in France, he began his acting career in the late 1950s.  He appeared in over 70 films,  including “Le Trou” (1960), “Maigret Voit Rouge” (1963), “Les Grandes Gueules” (1966), “The Southern Star” (1969), “Les Étrangers” […]

Michel Fokine (1880 - 1942)

Ballet Choreographer. Born of a prosperous middle-class family and entered the Imperial Ballet School at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1889, where he distinguished himself for the breadth of his interests and studies. Fokine was talented not only as a dancer but also as a student of music and painting. He had a fresh and inquiring […]

Michel Foucault (1926 - 1984)

Michel Foucault (French: [miʃɛl fuko]; born Paul-Michel Foucault, 15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984) was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, social theorist, and literary critic. His theories addressed the relationship between power and knowledge, and how they are used as a form of social control through societal institutions. Though often cited as a post-structuralist […]

Michel Galabru (1922 - 2016)

Actor. He was one of the most popular actors and comedians who appeared in film, television, and on the theatrical stage in France. After graduating from high school and college, he started in law for a year before the Second World War caused him to being sent first to Austria as a laborer and then […]

Michel Simon (1895 - 1975)

Michel Simon used to say about himself that he was born in 1895 and, “as misfortune never comes singly, cinema was born the same year”. Son of a Protestant sausage maker, Simon soon left his family and town to go to Paris, where he first lived at the Hotel Renaissance, Saint-Martin Street, then in Montmartre. He […]

Michelangelo Antonioni (1912 - 2007)

Antonioni was born into a prosperous family of landowners in Ferrara, Emilia Romagna, in northern Italy. He was the son of Elisabetta (née Roncagli) and Ismaele Antonioni. The director explained to Italian film critic Aldo Tassone:  My childhood was a happy one. My mother… was a warm and intelligent woman who had been a labourer […]

Michele Besso (1873 - 1955)

Michele Angelo Besso (Riesbach, 25 May 1873 – Geneva, 15 March 1955) was a Swiss/Italian engineer. Michele Besso was born in Riesbach of Italian Jewish (Sephardi) descent. He was a close friend of Albert Einstein during his years at the Federal Polytechnic Institute in Zurich, today the ETH Zurich, and then at the patent office […]

Michele Fawdon (1947 - 2011)

Actress. She shall be remembered for her long career on Australian television. Raised in the London suburbs she had stage ambitions from an early age and at 12 entered the Bush Davies Theatrical School in Sussex. Moving to Australia she made her silver screen bow in 1971’s “Stockade” and received her first major notice as […]

Michele Fawdon (1947 - 2011)

Actress. She shall be remembered for her long career on Australian television. Raised in the London suburbs she had stage ambitions from an early age and at 12 entered the Bush Davies Theatrical School in Sussex. Moving to Australia she made her silver screen bow in 1971’s “Stockade” and received her first major notice as […]

Michele Girardon (1938 - 1975)

Actress. Girardon was a native of Lyon, France. In June of 1961 she formed a twosome with Bob Newhart on the occasion of Pat Boone’s opening at the Cocoanut Grove. She appeared in many films and is probably best known for her appearance as “Brandy” in “Hatari” with John Wayne and Red Buttons. She tragically […]

Michele Merlo (1880 - 1924)

born January 4, 1880 in Sambuca Zabut, Sicily Mafia figure. Chicago labor leader whose death precipitated the city’s infamous 1920’s gangster war

Michele Morgan (1920 - 2016)

Michele Morgan left home at the age of 15 for Paris determined to become an actress. She took acting lessons from René Simon while serving as an extra in several films to pay for her drama classes. It was then that she took the stage name “Michèle Morgan”. She argued that she did not have […]

Michele Yvette “Missy” Avila (1968 - 1985)

Murder Victim. Michele Avila grew up in Arleta, Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley. She lived with her siblings and her mother Irene, her parents were divorced. Known as Missy to her friends she was a social butterfly, Pretty to her peers and like most teenagers stylish. Missy and Karen had grown apart since […]

Michelle Garvey (1967 - 1982)

Michelle Garvey went missing from New London, Connecticut, presumably after running away from home, on June 1, 1982, at the age of fourteen. She was believed to have intended to return to her birth state, New Jersey, or to North Carolina. She had a previous history of running away, according to the National Center for […]

Michelle Nicastro (1960 - 2010)

Nicastro was born in Washington D.C., the daughter of Carole Rose (née Guarino) and Norman Joseph Nicastro, who was an ophthalmologist. She provided the speaking and singing voice of Princess Odette in The Swan Princess and its sequels, The Swan Princess: Escape from Castle Mountain, and The Swan Princess III: The Mystery of the Enchanted Treasure, […]

Michelle Risi (1981 - 1997)

Actress. She appeared in the films, “Mr. Headmistress” (1998), “54” (1998), and “Nothing To Good For A Cowboy” (1998. She also appeared in the role of ‘Becca’ in the television series, “Goosebumps” in an episode called “Teacher’s Pet.” A native of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, she passed away from meningitis at the age of 16. (bio […]

Michelle Thomas (1968 - 1998)

Michelle Triola (1932 - 2009)

Michelle Triola was born in Los Angeles, California. She never had children. She lived with actor Dick Van Dyke from 1976 until her death. Triola majored in theater arts at UCLA. She was a lounge singer and dancer. She danced in the original 1958 Broadway production of Flower Drum Song, directed by Gene Kelly. Her film […]

Michelle Triola Marvin (1932 - 2009)

Actress,  Legal Folk Figure. She was the plantiff in a lawsuit that established the rights of unmarried partners, and put the word “Palimony” into the dictionary. Raised in Southern California, Michelle was a theater arts major at UCLA, and, during the 1950s, worked as a nightclub singer on Sunset Strip. In 1958, she was a […]

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 […]

Michiko Tanaka (1913 - 1988)

Actress, Singer and Music Professor. She came from a painter’s family in Tokyo and got her education in Hiroshima, Japan. Her uncle was the Japanese Ambassador to Austria, so in 1929 she moved to Vienna to study Violin, Music and Voice. There she married Julius Meinl and made her debut in 1930 in “Die Geisha” […]

Michisuke Ueno (1888 - 1962)

Educator. Ueno was a professor at Tokyo University who is best known for his efforts in directing The Ueno Group who main task was to establish a legal system for corporate accounting in post-war Japan. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Mick Mannock (1887 - 1918)

Edward Corringham “Mick” Mannock VC, DSO & Two Bars, MC & Bar (24 May 1887 – 26 July 1918) was a British flying ace in the Royal Flying Corps and in the Royal Air Force during the First World War. Mannock was a pioneer of fighter aircraft tactics in aerial warfare. At his death he […]

Mickey Carroll (1919 - 2009)

Actor. He was one of the Munchkins in the movie classic “The Wizard of Oz”. A versatile entertainer, he had multiple roles as a Munchkin. He was the town crier, he was a marching soldier and he was one of the fiddlers that escorted Dorothy down the yellow brick road. In addition, actress Clara Blandick […]