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30 People Born In 1879


William Fox

(Producer)

Wilhelm Fried
Born on Jan 01, 1879 in Tolcsva, Austria-Hungary (now Hungary)
Died on May 08, 1952 in New York City, NY
Fan Favorite Films: 7th Heaven, Street Angel, Sunrise, Common Clay and Fig Leaves

Ernest Thesiger

(Actor)

Ernest Frederic Graham Thesiger
Born on Jan 15, 1879 in London, England
Died on Jan 14, 1961 in London, England
Fan Favorite Films: The Adventures of Quentin Durward, The Robe, Sons and Lovers, Henry V and The Winslow Boy

Rupert Julian

(Actor)

Thomas Percival Hayes
Born on Jan 25, 1879 in Whangaroa, New Zealand
Died on Dec 27, 1943 in Hollywood, CA
Fan Favorite Films: The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin, A Small Town Girl, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, The Pretty Sister of Jose and Walking Back

Edward Rigby

(Actor)

Edward Coke
Born on Feb 05, 1879 in Ashford, England
Died on Apr 05, 1951 in Richmond, England
Fan Favorite Films: A Yank at Oxford, The Girl Was Young, The Mudlark, A Canterbury Tale and Kipps

Walter Long

(Actor)

Walter Huntley Long
Born on Mar 05, 1879 in Nashua, NH
Died on Jul 04, 1952 in Los Angeles, CA
Fan Favorite Films: The Thin Man, Naughty Marietta, Union Pacific, Annie Oakley and The Whole Town's Talking

David Landau

(Actor)

David Magee
Born on Mar 09, 1879 in Philadelphia, PA
Died on Sep 20, 1935 in Hollywood, CA
Fan Favorite Films: Taxi!, Street Scene, Horse Feathers, She Done Him Wrong and Gabriel Over the White House

Leon M. Lion

(Actor)

Leon M. Lion
Born on Mar 12, 1879 in London, England
Died on Mar 28, 1947 in Brighton, England
Fan Favorite Films: Number Seventeen, The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss, The Amazing Adventure, Crackerjack

Eric Campbell

(Actor)

Alfred Eric Campbell
Born on Apr 26, 1879 in Dunoon, Scotland
Died on Dec 20, 1917 in Los Angeles, CA
Fan Favorite Films: Behind the Screen, Easy Street, The Adventurer, The Count and The Cure

Alla Nazimova

(Actress)

Mariam Leventon
Born on May 22, 1879 in Yalta, Taurida Governorate
Died on Jul 13, 1945 in Los Angeles, CA
Fan Favorite Films: In Our Time, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Escape, Since You Went Away and Blood and S

Lucile Watson

(Actress)

Lucile Watson
Born on May 27, 1879 in Québec, Canada
Died on Jun 24, 1962 in New York City, NY
Fan Favorite Films: The Garden of Allah, That Wonderful Urge, My Reputation, Footsteps in the Dark and Song of the South

George Lessey

(Actor)

George Lessey
Born on Jun 08, 1879 in Amherst, MA
Died on Jun 03, 1947 in Westbrook, CT
Fan Favorite Films: The Pride of the Yankees, It Started with Eve, Strike Up the Band, Cover Girl and The Gay Sisters

Dudley Digges

(Actor)

Dudley Digges
Born on Jun 09, 1879 in Dublin, Ireland
Died on Oct 24, 1947 in New York City, NY
Fan Favorite Films: The General Died at Dawn, China Seas, The Emperor Jones, Mutiny on the Bounty and Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

Lois Weber

(Director)

Florence Pietz
Born on Jun 13, 1879 in Allegheny, PA
Died on Nov 13, 1939 in Hollywood, CA
Fan Favorite Films: A Chapter in Her Life, Where Are My Children?, The Blot,

DeWitt Jennings

(Actor)

DeWitt Clarke Jennings
Born on Jun 21, 1879 in Cameron, MO
Died on Mar 01, 1937 in Hollywood, CA
Fan Favorite Films: Outside the Law, Mutiny on the Bounty, Two Arabian Knights, Exit Smiling and The Secret Six

Walter Hampden

(Actor)

Walter Hampden Dougherty
Born on Jun 30, 1879 in Brooklyn, NY
Died on Jun 11, 1955 in Los Angeles, CA
Fan Favorite Films: The Prodigal, All About Eve, Reap the Wild Wind, 5 Fingers and Northwest Mounted Police

Charles de Rochefort

(Actor)

Charles d' Authier de Rochefort
Born on Jul 07, 1879 in Port-Vendres, France
Died on Feb 02, 1952 in Paris, France
Fan Favorite Films: The Ten Commandments, Law of the Lawless, The Mask of Horror, The Spanish Jade and Max and His Mother-in-Law

Ethel Barrymore

(Actress)

Ethel Mae Blythe
Born on Aug 15, 1879 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died on Jun 18, 1959 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
Fan Favorite Films: That Midnight Kiss, Pinky, Young at Heart, The Spiral Staircase and Deadline - U.S.A.

Samuel Goldwyn

(Producer)

Schmuel Gelbfisz
Born on Aug 17, 1879 in Warsaw, Poland
Died on Jan 31, 1974 in Los Angeles, CA
Fan Favorite Films: The Real Glory, Whoopee!, Wuthering Heights, Ball of Fire and The Best Years of Our Lives

Max Schreck

(Actor)

Maximilian Schreck
Born on Sep 06, 1879 in Berlin, Germany
Died on Feb 19, 1936 in Munich, Germany
Fan Favorite Films: Nosferatu, The Grand Duke's Finances, Wolga Wolga, Boo and Die Straße

Victor Sj?str?m

(Director)

Victor David Sj?str?m
Born on Sep 20, 1879 in Silbodal, Sweden
Died on Jan 03, 1960 in Stockholm, Sweden
Fan Favorite Films: The Tower of Lies, Confessions of a Queen, He Who Gets Slapped, The Divine Woman and The Scarlet Letter

Warner Oland

(Actor)

Johan Verner Ölund
Born on Oct 03, 1879 in Nyby, Sweden
Died on Aug 06, 1938 in Stockholm, Sweden
Fan Favorite Films: Charlie Chan at the Opera, The Jazz Singer, The Black Camel, Charlie Chan at the Race Track and Werewolf of Londo

Jane Darwell

(Actress)

Patti Mary Woodward
Born on Oct 15, 1879 in Palmyra, MO
Died on Aug 13, 1967 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles
Fan Favorite Films: Huckleberry Finn, My Darling Clementine, Gone with the Wind, Mary Poppins and The Grapes of Wrath

Clem Bevans

(Actor)

Clement Guy Blevins
Born on Oct 16, 1879 in Cozaddale, OH
Died on Aug 11, 1963 in Woodland Hills, CA
Fan Favorite Films: The Stranger Wore a Gun, Man in the Saddle, Yes, My Darling Daughter, Sergeant York and They Made Me a Criminal

Eily Malyon

(Actress)

Eily S. Lees-Craston
Born on Oct 30, 1879 in London, UK
Died on Sep 26, 1961 in South Pasadena, CA
Fan Favorite Films: Les Miserables, A Tale of Two Cities, Shadow of a Doubt, The Hound of the Baskervilles and Above Suspicio

Sara Allgood

(Actress)

Sara Allgood
Born on Oct 31, 1879 in Dublin, Ireland
Died on Sep 13, 1950 in Woodland Hills, CA
Fan Favorite Films: The Spiral Staircase, This Above All, The Lodger, The Keys of the Kingdom and Jane Eyre

Will Rogers

(Actor)

William Penn Adair Rogers
Born on Nov 04, 1879 in Oologah, OK
Died on Aug 15, 1935 in near Point Barrow, AK
Fan Favorite Films: Steamboat Round the Bend, Judge Priest, Business and Pleasure, A Connecticut Yankee and State Fair

King Baggot

(Actor)

King Baggot
Born on Nov 07, 1879 in St. Louis, MO
Died on Jul 11, 1948 in Los Angeles, CA
Fan Favorite Films: A Night at the Movies, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Bad Sister, Broadway Melody of 1938 and Honky Tonk

Lewis Stone

(Actor)

Lewis Shepard Stone
Born on Nov 15, 1879 in Worcester, MA
Died on Sep 12, 1953 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
Fan Favorite Films: Suzy, Bureau of Missing Persons, Scaramouche, China Seas and Treasure Isl

Sydney Greenstreet

(Actor)

Sydney Hughes Greenstreet
Born on Dec 27, 1879 in Sandwich, Kent
Died on Jan 18, 1954 in Hollywood, CA
Fan Favorite Films: Background to Danger, The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, Christmas in Connecticut and The Mask of Dimitrios

Mary Forbes

(Actress)

Mary Forbes
Born on Dec 30, 1879 in Hornsey, UK
Died on Jul 22, 1974 in Beaumont, CA
Fan Favorite Films: Captain Blood, Guest Wife, Wee Willie Winkie, Les Miserables and Vanity Fair

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