Mimi Rogers Weddell (1915 - 2009)

Actress,  Model. She was remarkable for not having started her full-time career until after age 65. Weddell was the wife of a recording executive and art gallery salesman who spent most of her life concentrating on family obligations.  During the 1940s she had been an assistant to the “New York Times” fashion editor, and over […]

Mina Bern (1911 - 2010)

Actress, Singer. Though she appeared on Broadway and in a number of Hollywood films, she shall be best remembered as a star of the Yiddish theater scene of New York. Born Mina Bernholtz in what is now Poland, she was introduced to the stage early on with the traveling group Ararat. Fleeing the Nazi invasion […]

Mina Cunard (1894 - 1978)

American motion picture actress in the silent era (1910s and 20s). She returned to movies for a short time in the 1950s. Married to actor Harry Seymour. (bio by: A.J. Marik)

Minas Hatzisavvas (1948 - 2015)

Greek Actor. Hatzisavvas was an actor who achieved fame in the theater, on the big screen, and on television. He initially trained at the Rene Simon drama school in France and then studied at the National Theatre of Greece drama school in Athens. Hatzisavvas started in the theater in 1965 at the Ancient Theatre of […]

Mindy McCready (1975 - 2013)

Mindy McCready Born Malinda Gayle McCready in Fort Myers, Florida, McCready began singing in her local Pentecostal church at age three, and graduated from high school at the age of 16 with the intention of beginning her music career early.  When she was 18, she moved to Nashville, where she was signed by BNA Records. […]

Minerva Pious (1903 - 1979)

Actress. Best remembered for her role as ‘Mrs Nussbaum’ on the Fred Allen radio show of the 1940s. Pious also starred in the films, “Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams” (1973), “Love In The Afternoon” (1957), “Joe MacBeth” (1955), “Love In The Afternoon” (1945), and provided her voice for “Pinocchio In Outer Space” (1964). In 1948 she […]

Minerva Urecal (1894 - 1966)

Actress. Born Minerva Holzer in Eureka, California, she was a radio and stage performer making her film debut in “Her Bodyguard” (1933). A veteran of over 250 films, her credits include “It Happened in New York” (1935), “Son of the Pioneer” (1942), “Block Busters” (1944), “Apache Rose” (1947), “The Raging Tide” (1951), “Miracle in the […]

Minnie (1970 - 1998)

Animal Astronaut. Minnie was the only female chimp trained for the Mercury Project in the early 1960s, but she never flew.  After her role in the Mercury program ended, Minnie became part of an Air Force chimp breeding program, producing nine offspring and helping raise the offspring of several other members of the chimp colony. […]

Minnie Dupree (1873 - 1947)

Actress. A 14-year-old when she made her professional debut with a theatrical touring company in San Francisco in 1887, Dupree went on to impress New York critics with an outstanding performance in William Gillette’s “Held by the Enemy” the following year. Described as a “handsome blonde, and the possessor of a magnificent head of curly […]

Minnie Evans (1892 - 1987)

Visionary Folk Artist. Recognized as one of the most important visionary folk artists of the 20th century, her work is highly collected by many museums and collectors all across the world. She began to draw and paint at the age of 43, creating her first pieces of artwork on a scrap of paper bag. Five […]

Minnie Gentry (1915 - 1993)

Actress.  She worked primarily on the Broadway stage,  in such plays as “Lysistrata”,  “Medea”, and “All God’s Chillun Got Wings”.  Gentry also appeared in several films, including “Come Back Charleston Blue” (1972), “Black Caesar” (1973), “Claudine” (1974), “Greased Lightning” (1977), “America” (1986), “Def By Temptation”(1990) and “Bad Lieutenant”(1992). She was the grandmother of actor Terrance […]

Minnie Maddern Fiske (1865 - 1932)

American actress, leading advocate of realistic acting on the late 19th-early 20th-century American stage, particularly in plays by Henrik Ibsen. Cause of death: Heart Failure

Minnie Marx (1865 - 1929)

Minnie Marx (9 November 1865 or 1864 – 13 September 1929) was the mother and manager of the Marx Brothers, wife of Sam Marx, and the sister of vaudeville star Al Shean. Marx was born Miene Schönberg in Dornum, Germany. Her parents Fanny née Salomons (1829–1898) and Levy “Lafe” Schönberg (1823–1919) were members of the local […]

Minnie Pearl (1912 - 1996)

Sarah Colley was born in Centerville, in Hickman County, Tennessee, about 50 miles (80 km) southwest of Nashville. She was the youngest of the five daughters of a prosperous lumberman in Centerville. She graduated from Ward-Belmont College (now Belmont University), at the time Nashville’s most prestigious school for young ladies, where her major was theater studies and dance was a particular interest. After graduation […]

Minnie Wideman (1889 - 1971)

Stage and motion picture actress. (bio by: A.J. Marik)

Minta Dufree (1889 - 1975)

Minta Dufree met Roscoe Arbuckle when he was attempting to get started in theater, and the two married in August 1908. Durfee entered show business in local companies as a chorus girl at the age of seventeen. She was the first leading lady of Charlie Chaplin. Durfee and Arbuckle separated in 1921, just prior to […]

Minta Durfee (1889 - 1975)

She met Roscoe Arbuckle when he was attempting to get started in theater, and the two married in August 1908. Durfee entered show business in local companies as a chorus girl at the age of seventeen. She was the first leading lady of Charlie Chaplin. Minta Durfee and Arbuckle separated in 1921, just prior to a […]

Minta Durfee (1889 - 1975)

American stage and motion picture actress with many credits spanning the 1910s thru 1970s. Married to comic legend Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle. (bio by: A.J. Marik)  Family links:  Parents:  Charles Warren Durfee (1852 – 1916)  Flora Adkins Durfee (1857 – 1947)  Spouse:  Roscoe Arbuckle (1887 – 1933)*  Siblings:  Charles Durfee*  DeLois Durfee (1880 – 1946)*  Minta […]

Mircea Anca (1960 - 2015)

Romanian Actor. Anca was a prominent actor in both the theater and film. He graduated from the Institute of Theatre and Cinema IL Caragiale, Bucharest and went directly on to the theater stage.  Anca was well loved for his accomplishments as an actor on the stage.   He also acted in films such as “The […]

Mireille Balin (1909 - 1968)

Actress. She is best remembered for playing ‘Gaby Gould’ in “Pépé le Moko.” Other credits include: “Threats,” “The Siege of the Alcazar” and “Immediate Call.” (bio by: MC)

Mireille Darc (1938 - 2017)

Mireille Darc (French: [miʁɛj daʁk]; 15 May 1938 – 28 August 2017) was a French model and actress. She was Alain Delon’s longtime co-star and companion. She appeared as a lead character in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1967 film Week End. Darc is a Chevalier of the Légion d’honneur and Commandeur of the Ordre national du Mérite. Born Mireille […]

Míriam Colón (1936 - 2017)

Míriam Colón was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico. She was a young girl in the 1940s when her recently divorced mother moved the family to a public housing project called Residencial Las Casas in San Juan. She attended the Román Baldorioty de Castro High School in Old San Juan, where she actively participated in the […]

Miriam Cooper (1891 - 1976)

Actress. Though she made her screen apprenticeship under D.W. Griffith’s direction, along with Mary Pickford, Mae Marsh, Blanche Sweet, Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Miriam Cooper never attained their prominence, even though she was cast in two silent classic movies, “The Birth of a Nation” and “Intolerance.” Married to director Raoul Walsh (1916-1926). (bio by: Hugo […]

Miriam Hopkins (1902 - 1972)

Miriam Hopkins was born in Savannah, Georgia, and raised in Bainbridge, near the Alabama border. In 1909 she briefly lived in Mexico. After her parents separated, she moved as a teen with her mother to Syracuse, New York, to be near her uncle, Thomas Cramer Hopkins, head of the Geology Department at Syracuse University. She attended […]

Miriam Seegar (1907 - 2011)

Actress. One of the last performers to have appeared in silent films as an adult, she starred in a number of British and Hollywood features of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Raised in the midwest, she joined an itinerant theatrical troupe as a teenager and eventually ended up in London where she appeared in […]

Mirjana Puhar (1995 - 2015)

Mirjana Puhar Puhar was born in Sremska Mitrovica – a city of less than 40,000 people in the Vojvodina province of Serbia – and she spent the first few years of her life with parents who lived in constant fear, as the Kosovo War raged around them. After the conflict ended, her family fled Serbia […]

Miroslava Stern (1926 - 1955)

Actress. She was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic). In the late 1930s, she moved with her parents to Mexico where she began her career. During a time, she worked in Hollywood, appearing in “Adventures of Casanova” (1945), “The Brave Bulls” (1951) and “Strangers on Horseback.” She is fondly remembered for her last film, “Ensayo […]

Miruts Yifter (1944 - 2016)

Born in Adigrat, in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia, Miruts Yifter spent early parts of his youth working in different factories and as a carriage driver. His talent as a long-distance runner was noticed when he joined the Ethiopian Air Force. Miruts Yifter was called to the Ethiopian national team for the 1968 Summer Olympics in […]

Mischa Auer (1905 - 1967)

Actor. Best known for his roles in “My Man Godfrey,” “Brewster’s Millions,” “Destry Rides Again,” and “You Can’t Take It with You.” (bio by: Ron Moody)  Family links:  Spouse:  Norma Marie Tillman Auer (1905 – 1942)* *Calculated relationship

Mischa Spoliansky (1898 - 1985)

Mischa Spoliansky was born into a Jewish, musical family in Białystok, then part of the Belostok Oblast of the Russian Empire. His father was an opera singer and his sister would later become a pianist and his brother a cellist. After the birth of Mischa the family moved to Warsaw, and later Kalisz. After the […]