Tag: Batman
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STAFFORD REPP
April 26, 1918 Stafford Alois Repp was born and raised in San Francisco, California. He is best known for his role as Police Chief O’Hara on ABC’s “Batman” television series. Soon after the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, he served a stint in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II where he…
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BOB HASTINGS
April 18, 1925 Robert Francis Hastings was born in Brooklyn, New York. He started out as a boy singer on “National Barn Dance”, “Doug Gray’s Singing Gang” and “Coast to Coast on a Bus”. He also portrayed Jerry on the radio program “The Sea Hound.” Hastings served during World War II in the United States Army Air…
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EDDIE QUILLAN
March 31, 1907 Eddie Quillan was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, into a family of vaudeville performers. He made his stage debut at the age of seven alongside his parents and siblings in their act titled ‘The Rising Generation’. Mack Sennett Studios signed Quillan to a contract in 1922. He made his screen debut for Sennett…
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EDWARD EVERETT HORTON
March 18, 1886 Edward Everett Horton was born in Brooklyn, New York. He began his stage career in 1906, singing and dancing and playing small parts in vaudeville and in Broadway productions. In 1919, he moved to Los Angeles, California, where he began acting in Hollywood films. During his long career, he was in five Oscar Best…
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REMO PISANI
February 17, 1919 Remo Pisani was born on February 17, 1919 in Trenton, New Jersey. Coincidentally, infant Lucille Ball spent some time in the city of Trenton (NJ’s capitol) a few years earlier. He made his screen debut on November 27, 1950, on the television anthology series “Lights Out”. In January 1966, Pisani made an appearance…
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IDA LUPINO
February 4, 1914 Ida Lupino was born in Herne Hill, London, to actress Connie O’Shea and music hall comedian Stanley Lupino, a member of the theatrical Lupino family, which included Lupino Lane, a song-and-dance man. Her father, a top name in musical comedy in the UK and a member of a centuries-old theatrical dynasty, encouraged her…
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VICTOR BUONO
February 3, 1938 Victor Charles Buono was born in San Diego, California. His grandmother was a vaudeville performer who taught him songs and recitations to perform for visitors. He was best known for playing the villain King Tut on the TV series “Batman” and Edwin Flagg in the film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), which earned him Oscar…
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VAN JOHNSON
August 26, 1916 Van Johnson was born Charles Van Dell Johnson in Newport, Rhode Island. Johnson performed while in high school. He moved to New York City after graduation in 1935 and joined the off-Broadway review Entre Nous. His acting career began in earnest in the Broadway revue New Faces of 1936. In 1939, George Abbott…
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RUDY VALLEE
July 28, 1901 Rudy Vallée was born Hubert Prior Vallée in Vermont and raised in Maine. He started his career as a saxophone player and singer and became a popular bandleader, hosting a hit radio program in the 1930s. His first film was 1929’s The Vagabond Lover. He also wrote a popular song of the same…