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Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood

Index Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood

Motion pictures have been a part of the culture of Canada since the industry began. [1]

94 relations: Academy Award for Best Actress, Academy Awards, Al Christie, Alcoholism, Alexis Smith, Allan Dwan, Athole Shearer, Barbara Kent, Beatrice Lillie, Ben Blue, Berton Churchill, Biograph Company, Bob Nolan, California, Canuck, Charles Arling, Charles Christie, Charles Foster (writer), Christie Film Company, Coquette (film), Culture of Canada, David Manners, Deanna Durbin, Del Lord, Dell Henderson, Douglas Shearer, Douglass Dumbrille, Earl W. Bascom, East Coast of the United States, Edward Earle, Fay Wray, Fifi D'Orsay, Film, Film studio, Florence La Badie, Florence Lawrence, France, Gene Lockhart, Glenn Ford, Harry Hayden, Henry MacRae, Hollywood, Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Howard Hawks, Huntley Gordon, Jack Carson, Jack L. Warner, Jack Pickford, Jay Silverheels, John Harvey Gahan, ..., Joseph De Grasse, Joseph Wiseman, Lorne Greene, Lottie Pickford, Louis B. Mayer, Mack Sennett, Marie Dressler, Marie Prevost, Marjorie White, Mary Pickford, May Irwin, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Min and Bill, Movie star, Nanook of the North, Ned Sparks, Nell Shipman, Nestor Film Company, New Brunswick, Norma Shearer, Polyneuropathy, Raymond Burr, Raymond Massey, Richard Travers, Rockliffe Fellowes, Roy Rogers, Royal Air Force, Ruby Keeler, Saint John, New Brunswick, Sam De Grasse, Sidney Olcott, Sons of the Pioneers, The Divorcee, Tonto, United Artists, Victor Jory, Walter Huston, Walter Pidgeon, Warner Bros., Wilfred Lucas, William Bertram (actor), William Quinn (actor), World War II, Yvonne De Carlo. Expand index (44 more) »

Academy Award for Best Actress

The Academy Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Al Christie

Alfred Ernest Christie (October 23, 1881 - April 14, 1951) was a Canadian-born film director, producer and screenwriter.

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Alcoholism

Alcoholism, also known as alcohol use disorder (AUD), is a broad term for any drinking of alcohol that results in mental or physical health problems.

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Alexis Smith

Margaret Alexis Smith (June 8, 1921 – June 9, 1993) was a Canadian-born stage, film, and television actress and singer.

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Allan Dwan

Allan Dwan (3 April 1885 – 28 December 1981) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.

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Athole Shearer

Athole Shearer (November 20, 1900 – March 17, 1985) was a Canadian-American actress most noted as the sister of motion picture star Norma Shearer and film sound engineer Douglas Shearer.

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Barbara Kent

Barbara Kent (née Cloutman) (December 16, 1907 – October 13, 2011) was a Canadian-born, North American-based film actress, prominent from the silent film era to the early talkies of the 1920s and 1930s, and a former (1925) Miss Hollywood.

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Beatrice Lillie

Beatrice Gladys Lillie (29 May 1894 – 20 January 1989), known as Bea Lillie, was a Canadian-born British actress, singer and comedic performer.

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Ben Blue

Ben Blue (September 12, 1901 – March 7, 1975), was a Canadian-American actor and comedian.

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Berton Churchill

Berton Churchill (December 9, 1876 – October 10, 1940) was a Canadian stage and film actor.

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Biograph Company

The Biograph Company, also known as the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, was a motion picture company founded in 1895 and active until 1916.

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Bob Nolan

Bob Nolan (born Robert Clarence Nobles, April 13, 1908 – June 16, 1980) was a Canadian-born American singer, songwriter, and actor.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Canuck

"Canuck" is a slang term for a Canadian.

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Charles Arling

Charles Arling (22 August 1880 – 21 April 1922) was a Canadian actor of the silent era.

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Charles Christie

Charles H. V. Christie (April 13, 1880 – October 1, 1955) was a motion picture studio owner.

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Charles Foster (writer)

Charles Basil Foster (17 January 1923 – 23 April 2017) was an English-born Canadian publicist, newspaper editor, author and songwriter.

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Christie Film Company

Christie Film Company was an American pioneer motion picture company founded in Hollywood, California by Al Christie and Charles Christie, two brothers from London, Ontario, Canada.

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Coquette (film)

Coquette is a 1929 American Pre-Code drama film, starring Mary Pickford.

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Culture of Canada

The culture of Canada embodies the artistic, culinary, literary, humour, musical, political and social elements that are representative of Canada and Canadians.

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David Manners

David Joseph Manners (born Rauff de Ryther Duan Acklom, April 30, 1900 – December 23, 1998) was a Canadian-American actor who played John Harker in Todd Browning's 1931 horror classic Dracula, which starred Bela Lugosi in the title role.

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Deanna Durbin

Edna Mae Durbin (December 4, 1921 – April 17, 2013), known professionally as Deanna Durbin, was a Canadian-born actress and singer, later settled in France, who appeared in musical films in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Del Lord

Delmar "Del" Lord (October 7, 1894March 23, 1970) was a Canadian film director and actor best known as a director of Three Stooges films.

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Dell Henderson

George Delbert "Dell" Henderson (July 5, 1877 – December 2, 1956) was a Canadian-American actor, director, and writer.

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Douglas Shearer

Douglas G. Shearer (November 17, 1899 – January 5, 1971) was a Canadian American pioneering sound designer and recording director who played a key role in the advancement of sound technology for motion pictures.

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Douglass Dumbrille

Douglass Rupert Dumbrille (October 13, 1889 – April 2, 1974) was a Canadian actor and one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood.

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Earl W. Bascom

Earl Wesley Bascom (June 19, 1906 – August 28, 1995) was an American painter, printmaker, rodeo performer and sculptor, raised in Canada, who portrayed his own experiences cowboying and rodeoing across the American and Canadian West.

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East Coast of the United States

The East Coast of the United States is the coastline along which the Eastern United States meets the North Atlantic Ocean.

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Edward Earle

Edward Earle (16 July 1882 – 15 December 1972) was a Canadian-American stage, film and television actor.

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Fay Wray

Vina Fay Wray (September 15, 1907 – August 8, 2004) was a Canadian-American actress most noted for starring as Ann Darrow in the 1933 film King Kong.

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Fifi D'Orsay

Fifi D'Orsay (April 16, 1904 – December 2, 1983) was a Canadian-born actress.

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Film

A film, also called a movie, motion picture, moving pícture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images.

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Film studio

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Florence La Badie

Florence La Badie (April 27, 1888 – October 13, 1917) was an American actress in the early days of the silent film era.

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Florence Lawrence

Florence Lawrence (January 2, 1886 – December 28, 1938) was a Canadian-American stage performer and film actress.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Gene Lockhart

Edwin Eugene Lockhart (July 18, 1891 – March 31, 1957) was a Canadian-American character actor, singer, and playwright.

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Glenn Ford

Gwyllyn Samuel Newton "Glenn" Ford (May 1, 1916 – August 30, 2006) was a Canadian-born actor who held dual Canadian and American citizenship.

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Harry Hayden

Harry Hayden (8 November 1882 – 24 July 1955) was a Canadian film character actor who appeared in more than 250 films between 1936 and 1954.

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Henry MacRae

Henry Alexander MacRae (August 29, 1876 – October 2, 1944) was a Canadian film director, producer, and screenwriter during the silent era, working on many film serials for Universal Studios.

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Hollywood

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Hollywood Forever Cemetery is one of the oldest cemeteries in Los Angeles, California in the United States.

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Howard Hawks

Howard Winchester Hawks (May 30, 1896December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era.

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Huntley Gordon

Huntley Ashworth Gordon (October 8, 1879 – December 7, 1956) was a Canadian actor who began his career in the Silent Film era.

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Jack Carson

John Elmer "Jack" Carson (October 27, 1910 – January 2, 1963) was a Canadian-born, American-based film actor, with a film career spanning the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.

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Jack L. Warner

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Jack Pickford

Jack Pickford (born John Charles Smith; August 18, 1896 – January 3, 1933) was a Canadian-born American actor, film director and producer.

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Jay Silverheels

Jay Silverheels (born Harold Preston Smith, May 26, 1912 – March 5, 1980) was a Mohawk Canadian actor and He was well known for his role as Tonto, the faithful Indian companion of the Lone Ranger in the long-running American western television series ''The Lone Ranger''.

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John Harvey Gahan

John Harvey “Oscar” Gahan (born John Harvey Gerald Gahan; August 20, 1888 – March 24, 1958) As Canada's child prodigy violinist.

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Joseph De Grasse

Joseph Louis De Grasse (May 4, 1873 – May 25, 1940) was a Canadian film director.

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Joseph Wiseman

Joseph Wiseman (May 15, 1918 – October 19, 2009) was a Canadian theatre and film actor, best known for starring as the villain Julius No in the first James Bond film, Dr. No, his role as Manny Weisbord on the TV series Crime Story, and his career on Broadway.

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Lorne Greene

Lorne Hyman Greene, (born Lyon Himan Green; February 12, 1915 – September 11, 1987) was a Canadian actor, radio personality, and singer.

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Lottie Pickford

Lottie Pickford (born Charlotte Smith, June 9, 1893 – December 9, 1936) was a Canadian-born silent film actress and socialite.

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Louis B. Mayer

Louis Burt Mayer (born Lazar Meir; July 12, 1884 – October 29, 1957; Лазарь Меир) was an American film producer and co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios (MGM) in 1924.

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Mack Sennett

Mack Sennett (born Michael Sinnott; January 17, 1880 – November 5, 1960) was a Canadian-born American film director and producer, known as the King of Comedy.

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Marie Dressler

Marie Dressler (born Leila Marie Koerber, November 9, 1868 – July 28, 1934) was a Canadian-American stage and screen actress, comedian, and early silent film and Depression-era film star.

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Marie Prevost

Marie Prevost (born Marie Bickford Dunn, November 8, 1896 – January 21, 1937) was a Canadian-born film actress.

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Marjorie White

Marjorie White (July 22, 1904 – August 21, 1935) was a Canadian-born actress of stage and film.

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Mary Pickford

Gladys Louise Smith (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979), known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian-born film actress and producer.

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May Irwin

May Irwin (June 27, 1862 – October 22, 1938) was a Canadian actress, singer and star of vaudeville.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM or hyphenated as M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.

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Min and Bill

Min and Bill is a 1930 American Pre-Code comedy-drama film starring Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery and based on Lorna Moon's novel Dark Star, adapted by Frances Marion and Marion Jackson.

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Movie star

A movie star (also known as a film star and cinema star) is an actor who is famous for their starring, or leading, roles in motion pictures.

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Nanook of the North

Nanook of the North (also known as Nanook of the North: A Story Of Life and Love In the Actual Arctic) is a 1922 American silent documentary film by Robert J. Flaherty, with elements of docudrama, at a time when the concept of separating films into documentary and drama did not yet exist.

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Ned Sparks

Ned Sparks (born Edward Arthur Sparkman, November 19, 1883 – April 3, 1957) was a Canadian-born character actor of the American stage and screen.

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Nell Shipman

Nell Shipman (born Helen Foster-Balham; October 25, 1892 – January 23, 1970) was a Canadian actress, author and screenwriter, producer, director, and animal trainer. She was a Canadian pioneer in early Hollywood. She is best known for her work in James Oliver Curwood stories and for portraying strong, adventurous women. In 1919, she and her producer husband, Ernest Shipman, made the most successful silent film in Canadian history, Back to God's Country in which she did one of the first on-screen nude scenes.

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Nestor Film Company

The Nestor Film Company, originally known as the Nestor Motion Picture Company, is a defunct American motion picture production company.

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New Brunswick

New Brunswick (Nouveau-Brunswick; Canadian French pronunciation) is one of three Maritime provinces on the east coast of Canada.

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Norma Shearer

Edith Norma Shearer (August 11, 1902 – June 12, 1983) was a Canadian-American actress and Hollywood star from 1925 through 1942.

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Polyneuropathy

Polyneuropathy (poly- + neuro- + -pathy) is damage or disease affecting peripheral nerves (peripheral neuropathy) in roughly the same areas on both sides of the body, featuring weakness, numbness, and burning pain.

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Raymond Burr

Raymond William Stacy Burr (May 21, 1917September 12, 1993) was a Canadian-American actor, primarily known for his title roles in the television dramas Perry Mason and Ironside.

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Raymond Massey

Raymond Hart Massey (August 30, 1896 – July 29, 1983) was a Canadian-American actor, known for his commanding, stage-trained voice.

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Richard Travers

Richard Travers (15 April 1885 – 20 April 1935) was a Canadian film actor of the silent era.

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Rockliffe Fellowes

Rockliffe Fellowes (March 17, 1883 – January 28, 1950) was a Canadian actor born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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Roy Rogers

Roy Rogers (born Leonard Franklin Slye, November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998) was an American singer and actor.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force.

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Ruby Keeler

Ethel Ruby Keeler (August 25, 1909 – February 28, 1993) billed professionally as Ruby Keeler, was a Canadian-born American actress, dancer and singer most famous for her on-screen pairing with Dick Powell in a string of successful early musicals at Warner Brothers, particularly 42nd Street (1933).

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Saint John, New Brunswick

Saint John is the port city of the Bay of Fundy in the Canadian province of New Brunswick.

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Sam De Grasse

Samuel Alfred De Grasse (June 12, 1875 – November 29, 1953) was a Canadian actor.

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Sidney Olcott

Sidney Olcott (September 20, 1872 – December 16, 1949) was a Canadian-born film producer, director, actor and screenwriter.

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Sons of the Pioneers

The Sons of the Pioneers are one of the United States' earliest Western singing groups.

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The Divorcee

The Divorcee is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film written by Nick Grindé, John Meehan, and Zelda Sears, based on the novel Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott.

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Tonto

Tonto is a fictional character, the either Potawatomi or Comanche companion of the Lone Ranger, a popular American Western character created by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker.

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United Artists

United Artists (UA) is an American film and television entertainment studio.

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Victor Jory

Victor Jory (November 23, 1902February 12, 1982) was a Canadian-born American actor of stage, film, and television.

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Walter Huston

Walter Thomas Huston (ancestry.com né Houghston; April 5, 1883 – April 7, 1950) was a Canadian actor and singer.

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Walter Pidgeon

Walter Davis Pidgeon (September 23, 1897 – September 25, 1984) was a Canadian-American actor.

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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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Wilfred Lucas

Wilfred Lucas (January 30, 1871 – December 13, 1940) was a Canadian-born American stage actor who found success in film as an actor, director, and screenwriter.

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William Bertram (actor)

William Bertram (January 19, 1880 – May 1, 1933) was a Canadian actor and film director of the silent-film era.

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William Quinn (actor)

William Quinn (13 December 1884 – November 1965) was a Canadian actor of the silent era.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yvonne De Carlo

Yvonne De Carlo (born Margaret Yvonne Middleton; September 1, 1922 – January 8, 2007) was a Canadian-American actress, dancer, and singer.

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