Tag: The Ann Sothern Show
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GORDON JONES
April 5, 1911 Gordon Wynnivo Jones was born on April 5, 1911 in Alden, Iowa. He was best known for playing Lou Costello’s TV nemesis Mike the Cop and appearing as The Green Hornet in the first of two movie serials based on the radio program. He made his screen debut as an uncredited extra in…
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JACK CHEFE
April 1, 1894 Jack Chefé was born on April 1, 1894 in Kiev, Russian Empire. His screen acting career spanned thirty five years and nearly 400 credits, most uncredited background performances,165 as waiters! His film debut was in a 1928 silent film by Frank Capra titled That Certain Thing. He was briefly glimpsed as a…
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ANN SOTHERN
January 22, 1911 Ann Sothern was born Harriette Arlene Lake in Valley City, North Dakota, but was raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. When her parents divorced in 1927, Sothern moved with her father to Seattle, where she attended the University of Washington, dropping out after one year. While visiting her mother in California, she won a role in…
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HELEN KLEEB
January 6, 1907 Helen Kleeb was born in South Bend, Washington. She began acting on stage and on radio in Portland, Oregon, in the late 1920s. She is best remembered as Miss Mamie Baldwin (one of the moonshiner Baldwin Sisters) on “The Waltons” (1972-81) as well as in four Waltons specials. Her screen debut was also…
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JESSLYN FAX
January 4, 1893 Jesslyn Fax was born in Toronto, Canada, on January 4, 1893. Her father, Jimmy Fax, was a noted Canadian actor and comedian. She began working with her father when she was 16, then left his troupe to work in vaudeville and traveling stock companies. She moved to Hollywood in 1949. She is…
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JOHN HART
December 13, 1917 John Lewis Hart (sometimes credited as John Hilton) was born in Los Angeles. He grew up in San Marino and graduated from South Pasadena High School. His mother was a drama critic for the Pasadena Star-News and he later trained at the Pasadena Playhouse where he was discovered by a Paramount talent…
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GEORGE O’HANLON
November 23, 1912 George Samuel O’Hanlon was best known for his role as Joe McDoakes in the Warner Brothers live-action Joe McDoakes short subjects (1942-1956) and as the voice of George Jetson in Hanna-Barbera’s 1962 prime-time animated television series “The Jetsons” and its 1985 revival. He started working at 16 with his own stage show, but was fired…
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PAUL DUBOV
October 10, 1918 Paul Dubov was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1918. He became a busy character actor appearing on radio, television, and films. His first film was Little Tough Guy (1938), one of the Dead End Kids movies. From 1942, he was a Universal contract player and was often found in the films of Samuel…
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LAWRENCE DOBKIN
September 16, 1919 Lawrence ‘Larry’ Dobkin was born in New York City and went on to become a successful character actor and director with a career spanning seven decades. Dobkin was a popular performer during the Golden Age of Radio. His voice was used to narrate the classic western “Broken Arrow” (1950). He was one…
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PHIL ARNOLD
September 15, 1909 Philip Arnold was a prolific character actor born on September 15, 1909 in Hackensack, New Jersey. He appeared in approximately 200 films and television shows between 1938 and 1968 – in bit parts most of the time. Perhaps most famously, Arnold was a regular in the “Three Stooges” movies doing six films…