Garry Walberg (1921 - 2012)

Actor. Best remembered for playing ‘Lieutenant Frank Monahan’ during the entire run of the TV series “Quincy, M.E.” (1976 to 1983). The Buffalo, New York native launched what was to become an extensive body of television credits beginning with an episode from the series “Mister Peepers” (1952). He experienced his first recurring part as Police […]

Geoffrey Nares (1917 - 1942)

British stage actor. He was the son of actor Owen Ramsay Nares and his wife, actress Marie Pollini Nares. Educated at Westminster School, he inherited his father’s theatrical talents. His stage breakthrough was as the stable boy in the 1934’s “The Winning Post” with Sir Laurence Olivier. In 1935, he played ‘Kim Oldham’ in “Grief Goes […]

George Nash (1865 - 1944)

Actor. Appearing during the 1900s-30s, his film roles include ‘Jules’ in “Under the Red Robe” (1923), ‘Charles Wolfe’ in “The Great Gatsby (1926) and ‘Kansas’ in “The Fugitive (1933). On Broadway, he appeared inthe original productions of “Tom Moore”(1901) and “The Ninety and Nine”(1902).

George Raft (1895 - 1980)

Popular actor from the 1920s to 1980. He was known as one of Hollywoods sharpest dressed actors. Before acting, he started off as a prizefighter, then moved on to dancing both on Broadway and in Prohibition-era nightclubs. In movies he immediately slid into gangster portrayals. On top of being type cast as a Hollywood gangster, […]

George Arliss (1868 - 1946)

Actor. Appearing on stage and in motion pictures, he is best known for his portrayal of famous historical personalities. He began his acting career in 1887 but did not gain his popularity until around 1900-1901 when he appeared with British actress, Mrs Patrick Campbell in London during the stage season. In 1902 he appeared on […]

Georgi Zhzhyonov (1915 - 2005)

Actor. An enormously popular character star of late Soviet era stage and screen. Western critics called him “The Russian Bogart” for his tough-guy demeanor. In an outlandish twist of fate, he spent 17 years in prison and exile on false charges of being a spy, only to later win fame and official honor for playing […]

Georgia Bitner (1926 - 2012)

Film and Television Actress. She was an African American film and television actress whose career expanded over a period of seven decades. Born Georgia Rose Bitner, in honor of the state in which she was born, “Georgia”. During her younger years she adored such actors as Hattie McDanial and Josephine Baker so much until her […]

Georgiana Barrymore (1854 - 1893)

Actress. She debutted in “The Ladies’ Battle” at the Arch Street Theatre in Philadelphia in 1872. She subsequently appeared in “As You Like It,” “Frou-Frou,” “The School for Scandal,” “The Senator”. She married actor Maurice Barrymore (Blythe) in 1876, and was the mother of stage and film stars Lionel, Ethel, and John Barrymore. She died […]

Gerald Anthony (1951 - 2004)

Actor. A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Anthony is best remembered for his television roles in soap operas inlcuding, ‘Marco Dane’ from 1977 to 1986, 1989 to 1990, and ‘Dr. Mario Corelli’ in 1978, on “One Life To Live,” ‘Rick Madison’ from 1991 to 1992, on “Another World,” and again as ‘Marco Dane’ from 1992 tom […]

Gerald Allen Wear (1968 - 2010)

Geraldine Farrar (1882 - 1967)

Opera Singer, Actress. She was a lyric soprano who sang leading roles in the principal theatres of Europe and America for around 20 years. Taking to music early she began lessons at five and started giving public recitals at 14; after early vocal education in Boston, New York, and Paris, she was trained in Berlin […]

Geraldine Page (1924 - 1987)

Actress. Born in Kirksville, Missouri, the daughter of a physician, she became an actress at the age of 17, winning critical reviews for her performance in 1952 of the off-Broadway production of Tennessee Williams play “Summer and Smoke.” She was quickly invited to Hollywood, and her first movie role was opposite John Wayne in “Hondo” […]

German Valdes (1915 - 1973)

Mexican Actor, Singer and Comedian. Born Germán Genaro Cipriano Gomez Valdés Castillo famous for the stage name Tin-Tan. He promoted the use of the language of the Mexican American pachucos famous in Mexico. it was a mixture of Spanish and English, Known today as Spanglish. He starred as “Pachucos” in many of his movies, some […]

Gertrude Olmstead (1897 - 1975)

Actress. She appeared in roughly 56 feature films during the 1920s. Raised in Chicago, she went to Hollywood at a young age, and found work in the low budget westerns that were popular at the time. She made her silver screen debut with the 1920 “Tipped Off”, which starred Hoot Gibson, though her first “credited” […]

Gia Scala (1934 - 1972)

Actress. She is best remembered for her role of Anna, in “The Guns of Navarone” (1961). Born Glovanna Sgoglio Scala in Liverpool, England, to a Sicilian father, Pietro Scoglio, and an Irish mother, Eileen Sullivan, the family moved back to Sicily when she was three months old. Her father was a businessman, and she grew […]

Gilda Radner (1946 - 1989)

Actress, Comedienne. She gained wide fame in the mid-1970s as an original cast member of television’s hit comedy series, “Saturday Night Live” (SNL). Born Gilda Susan Radner in Detroit, Michigan, to Henrietta Dworkin Radner, a legal secretary, and Herman Radner, a businessman who operated Detroit’s Seville Hotel, where many nightclub performers and actors stayed when […]

Gisele MacKenzie (1927 - 2003)

Actress/Singer. Known as “Canada’s First Lady of Song,” she began her music career at a young age learning to play the violin and piano, later appearing at the Royal Conservatory in Toronto, Ontario. In 1951 she had her own show, “Meet Gisele” on the Canadian Broadcastion Corporation before she moved to Los Angeles, California. She […]

Gladys Brockwell (1893 - 1929)

Actress. Born Gladys Lindeman, Brockwell made dozens of films in the late 1910s and by the late 1920s, she had become one of Hollywood’s most respected character women. Brockwell played ‘Nancy Sykes’ in “Oliver Twist” (1922) with John Gilbert and Jackie Coogan, and Janet Gaynor’s evil sister in “Seventh Heaven” (1927). She also had supporting […]

Glenn Anders (1889 - 1981)

Actor. He began his career in vaudeville on the Orpheum circuit. He made his Broadway debut in 1919 in “Just Around the Corner.” He had a long career on Broadway, and appeared in appeared in three Pulitzer Prize winning plays – “Hell Bent for Heaven” (1924), “They Knew What They Wanted” (1924) and “Strange Interlude” […]

Glenn Quinn (1970 - 2002)

Actor. Irish-born figure of films and television. He was featured in many films including “R.S.V.P.” (2002), “At Any Cost” (2000), “Some Girl” (1998), “Outlaws” (1997), “The Curse Of Monkey Island” (1997), “Campfire Tales” (1997), “Live Nude Girls” (1995), “Dr. Giggles” (1992), “Shout” (1991), “Silhouette” (1990) and “Call Me Anna” (1990). He also made several television […]

Grace Boyd (1913 - 2010)

Actress. Though she starred in several dozen Hollywood features of the 1930s and 1940s, she will perhaps be better remembered as the wife of actor William Boyd, the screen’s Hopalong Cassidy. Raised in New York, she trained as a classical pianist at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, but after winning a […]

Gretchen Gailing (1915 - 1961)

Actress. American stage and motion picture figure who appeared in Victor Fleming’s 1948 version of “Joan of Arc”.

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.

Gudrun Brost (1910 - 2014)

Swedish Actress. 

Gus Van (1887 - 1968)

Vaudvillian comedian and actor. With his partner, Joe Schenck, they made up the comedy duo, Van & Schenck. They were together for 18 years and appeared on Broadway and in the Ziegfeld Follies. Schenck died in 1930 and Van went onto appear in films. His roles include, “Atlantic City” (1944), “Rainbow’s End” (1938), “Gus Van’s […]

Gustl Waldau (1871 - 1958)

Actor. Real name Gustav Freiherr von Rummel. One of Germany’s leading stage performers. After military service and a stint as a journalist, he made his acting debut in 1897 at the Kölner Stadttheater, the beginning of a 60-year career. He also appeared in over 100 films, including “Little Dorrit” (1934), “Yvette” (1938), “Munchausen” (as Casanova, […]

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. […]

Guy Sanche (2024 - 1988)

Actor. He appeared in the film “Dust From Underground” (1968), and the television series, “Bobino” (1956). 

Hank Nasiff (1962 - 2001)

Radio Personality. He was a diminutive actor who became known as “The Angry Drunken Dwarf” on shock jock Howard Stern’s radio show. He began his career in the Boston dinner theater but after a pilgrimage to Stern’s New York studio he quickly became a part of Stern’s “Wack Pack” of oddball characters.

Hans Kaltenborn (1878 - 1965)

Journalist. He was a well-known radio news commentator who made a few cameo appearances in movies, usually as himself. He appeared in the films “The Day The Earth Stood Still” (1951), “The Babe Ruth Story” (1949), and “Mr Smith Goes To Washington” (1939). He also appeared as a panelist on the television series “Who Said […]