David K. Frasier

The former medical student turned film director was best known for his classic 1971 movie, Mon Oncle Antoine , a cinema verite exposition of...

Forced into bankruptcy by a $50,000 gem heist on October 8, 1928, the theatrical jeweler had recently been subpoenaed by the District Attorn...

Frachet, 33, had acted in small roles in a few films ( La Cible , 1997; Le Demenagement , 1997; Vidangel , 1998) and in several television ...

Driven from his native Afghanistan in 1979 by the Soviet invasion, Wassel came to America, learned to speak six languages, worked his way...

During the years 1910-1912 Rovig sang with the New York Metropolitan Opera Company under the stage name "Horatia Powell."  Relocat...

Employed at Desilu Studios as a film editor on the ABC television doctor drama, Ben Casey , Sampson, 50, was at the center of a troubled hom...

A veteran actor equally at home in films ( F.I.S.T. , 1978; The Onion Field, 1979; Blood Beach , 1981; Firefox , 1982) and television movie...

Brigitte Bardot Born in Antwerp, Belgium, on March 14, 1922, the producer-director who launched the meteoric career of Brigitte Bardot s...

In a combination of personal persistence and police ineptitude, the 27-year-old Walt Disney Studios artist was able to finally end his life ...

The Nashville, Tennessee-born actress appeared in several Broadway plays before accepting a role in a ten week roadshow production of Naught...

Jimmy? The 30-year-old vaudeville dancer married Henri Journee, a foreign middleweight boxer, over the strong objections of her wealthy ...

The son of a Brooklyn, New York, stage manager, McCutcheon acted in some theatrical productions and also directed two films for Biograph i...

Betty Montague Gottlieb, a divorcee employed as a photo retoucher in Hollywood's Austin Studio and a sometime film extra, maintained a t...

Wyatt (legal name Nandray Ann Walicki) was the popular co-host of KMOX radio's "Total Information A.M.," the top-rated morni...

South Africa's most famous opera star, Van der Walt (born July 28, 1958 in Cape Town) studied voice at the University of Stellenbosch ma...

Ross (born in San Francisco, California, on June 13, 1902) directed several pictures for Universal Studios in the 1920s ( Ridin' Wild , ...

Daughter of internationally renowned Baton Rouge blues man Raful Neal, "Jazzy Jackie" was born on July 7, 1967, the eighth of ...

Following the advice of his doctor, the Pittsburgh native relocated to San Diego in a bid to find relief from an acute sinus condition.  A d...

On the afternoon of January 19, 2004, a scantily clad barefoot woman with duct tape hanging from her wrists and ankles pounded on the door o...

One of South Africa's leading jazz musicians, Baloi was born in Maputo in the war-torn country of Mozambique in 1964.  Learning to play ...