Karl Freund (1890 - 1969)

Karl Freund was born to Jewish parents in Dvůr Králové (Königinhof), Bohemia. His career began in 1905 when, at age 15, he was hired as an assistant projectionist for a film company in Berlin, where his family had moved in 1901. Freund worked as a cinematographer on over 100 films, including the German Expressionist films The […]

Karl Hackett (1893 - 1948)

Actor. Born Carl Ellsworth Germain in Carthage, Missouri, he was a supporting actor in over a 160 films, typecast most as a villain or as a cowboy. He arrived in Hollywood circa 1935 and was signed to Republic Pictures, for whom he made the majority of his movies for from 1936 to 1947. Among his […]

Karl Joseph Schulte (1871 - 1941)

Karl Joseph Schulte (14 September 1871 – 11 March 1941), was a German Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Cologne from 1920 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1921. Karl Joseph Schulte was born in Haus Valbert (part of Lennestadt), to Oswald and Antonetta (née Schlünder) Schulte. […]

Karl Malden (1912 - 2009)

Karl Malden, the eldest of three sons, was born Mladen Sekulovich in Chicago, Illinois on March 22, 1912, he was born on his mother’s 20th birthday and was raised in Gary, Indiana. His Bosnian Serb father, Petar Sekulović (1886–1975), worked in the steel mills and as a milkman, and his mother, Minnie (née Sebera) Sekulovich […]

Karl-Friedrich Höcker (1911 - 2000)

The youngest of six children, Karl-Friedrich Höcker was born in the village of Engershausen (now part of Preußisch Oldendorf), Germany. His father was a construction worker, who was later killed in action during World War I. Following an apprenticeship as bank teller he worked at a bank in Lübbecke before being made redundant. After having been […]

Karl-Gerhart “Gert” Fröbe (1913 - 1988)

Actor. Born Karl Gerhart Fröbe in Saxony, Germany, he was most noted for his role as Auric Goldfinger in the James Bond movie “Goldfinger” (1964) and received the German honorary Deutscher Filmpreis Award for his performance. He gained fame in one of the first German movies made after World War II, in role as Otto […]

Karla Alvarez (1972 - 2013)

Actress. A gorgeous brunette, she was a type-cast villainess of the Mexican small screen for 20 years. Raised in her country’s capital city, she took to show business early, studied at the National School of Dance, and made her 1992 television debut as Rosario in “Maria Mercedes”. Over the next two decades she was a […]

Karla Faye Tucker (1959 - 1998)

Karla Tucker was born and raised in Houston, Texas, the youngest of three sisters. Her father Larry was a longshoreman. The marriage of her parents was very troubled, and Tucker started smoking cigarettes with her sisters when she was eight years old. At the age of 10, her parents divorced, and during the divorce proceedings, […]

Karla Schramm (1891 - 1980)

Actress. Born in Los Angeles, California, she was child prodigy pianist whom had traveled the world when she performed in the D.W. Griffith film “Broken Blossoms” (1919), followed by “Her Majesty, the American” (1919) . She was most noted for the role of being the screen’s second ‘Jane’ in the films, “Son Of Tarzan” (1920) […]

Karle Wilson Baker (1878 - 1960)

Poet. The 3rd person to be named a fellow to the Texas Institute of Letters. She was the daughter of Kate Florence Montgomery Wilson and William Thomas Murphey Wilson. She attended the Little Rock Academy, and Ouachita Baptist College. When she was nineteen, she enrolled at the University of Chicago where she studied under poet […]

Karlheinz Böhm (1928 - 2014)

Austrian Actor. He starred in 45 movies but is mostly known for playing emperor Franz Joseph in the ‘Sissi’ movies alongside Romy Schneider. (bio by: Lutetia)  Family links:  Parents:  Karl Böhm (1894 – 1981)  Thea Linhard Böhm (1903 – 1981)

Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928 - 2007)

Karlheinz Stockhausen (German pronunciation: [kaʁlˈhaɪnts ˈʃtɔkhaʊzn̩]; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important (Barrett 1988, 45; Harvey 1975b, 705; Hopkins 1972, 33; Klein 1968, 117) but also controversial (Power 1990, 30) composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. A critic […]

Karpa Catalá Lucas (1926 - 2000)

Renowned Comic Book Artist. He developed his career in Valencia (Spain) and become one of the most important representatives of the Valencian School. He is remembered for his characters Jaimito, Cangurito, Simbad, and Perico Fantasías. He also designed the toy “Juegos Reunidos Geyper.” (bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)

Karyn “Cookie” Kupcinet (1941 - 1963)

Actress. She was murdered the week after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and many Kennedy Conspiracy theorists believe that she had been killed to silence her. Her murder has never been solved. Born in Chicago, Illinois, she was the daughter of Chicago “Sun Times” columnist Irv Kupcinet.  She began her acting career playing summer […]

Karyn Kupcinet (1941 - 1963)

Karyn Kupcinet was born Roberta Lynn Kupcinet in Chicago, Illinois to Irv Kupcinet, a sportswriter for the Chicago Daily Times, and his wife, Esther “Essee” Solomon Kupcinet. She acquired the nickname “Cookie” during her childhood. She made her acting debut at age 13 in the Chicago production of Anniversary Waltz and went on to attend […]

Kasey Rogers (1925 - 2006)

Actress. A voluptuous character player, she was billed as Laura Elliott during her movie career in the early 1950s. Rogers is best known for her role in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Strangers on a Train” (1951), as Miriam, Farley Granger’s estranged and vindictive wife. In the film’s famous murder scene she is strangled by psychotic Robert Walker, […]

Kasey Rogers (1925 - 2006)

Actress. A voluptuous character player, she was billed as Laura Elliott during her movie career in the early 1950s. Rogers is best known for her role in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Strangers on a Train” (1951), as Miriam, Farley Granger’s estranged and vindictive wife. In the film’s famous murder scene she is strangled by psychotic Robert Walker, […]

Kasia Orzazewski (1888 - 1956)

American film actress of the 1940s and 50s. Died of rheumatic heart disease in 1956. Her grave does not have a marker. (bio by: A.J. Marik)  Family links:  Spouse:  George Orzazewski (1892 – 1946)* *Calculated relationship

Katalin Karády (1910 - 1990)

Katalin Karády was born as Katalin Kanczler, on 8 December 1910 in Budapest. She spent her childhood in Kőbánya district with seven siblings in great poverty. Her parents were Rozália Lőrinc and Ferenc Kanczler, a shoemaker, who Katalin remembered as an aggressive person. Helped by a charity organization, she spent five years in Switzerland and […]

Kate “Ma” Barker (1873 - 1935)

Criminal. Known as “Ma,” she and her sons, Herman, Lloyd, Arthur and Fred, teamed up with Alvin Karpis (whom Fred had met in the penitentiary) and several other criminals to lead a life of crime. Born in Ash Grove, Missouri, her given name was Arizona Clark, but her close friends knew her as “Arrie” or […]

Kate Chopin (1850 - 1904)

Kate Chopin was born Katherine O’Flaherty in St. Louis, Missouri. Her father, Thomas O’Flaherty, was a successful businessman who had emigrated from Galway, Ireland. Her mother, Eliza Faris, was a well-connected member of the French community in St. Louis and herself the daughter of Athénaïse Charleville, who was of French Canadian descent. Some of Chopin’s […]

Kate Coscarelli (1927 - 1999)

Novelist and motion picture production designer. (bio by: A.J. Marik)

Kate Eliza Claxton (1970 - 1924)

Actress. Born Kate Cone, she was a popular theatre figure in the 1870s, and became know for her performance as “Louise” in the play “The Two Orphans”. She was on stage in that role on the night of December 5, 1876 at the Brooklyn Theatre when fire broke out, which eventually caused the death of […]

Kate Greenaway (1846 - 1901)

Illustrator of child and adult books. The daughter of John Greenaway, a draftsman and wood engraver, Kate Greenaway grew up in various residences, including a farmhouse in Nottinghamshire, and studied art in various places, including London. She began to exhibit drawings in 1868, and her first published illustrations appeared in such magazines as Little Folks. […]

Kate Millett (1934 - 2017)

Katherine Murray Millett (September 14, 1934 – September 6, 2017) was an American feminist writer, educator, artist, and activist. She attended Oxford University and was the first American woman to be awarded a degree with first-class honors after studying at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. She has been described as “a seminal influence on second-wave feminism”, […]

Kate O’Mara (1939 - 2014)

O’Mara was born Frances Meredith Carroll to John F. Carroll, an RAF flying instructor, and actress Hazel Bainbridge (born 1909/1910 – died 7 January 1998). Her younger sister is actress Belinda Carroll. After boarding school she attended art school before becoming a full-time actress.  O’Mara married Jeremy Young in 1961, but the couple divorced in […]

Kate Reid (1930 - 1993)

Daphne Kate Reid was born in London, England, the daughter of Canadian parents, Helen Isabel (née Moore) and Walter Clarke Reid, who was a former Bengal Lancer in the Indian army and a retired colonel. Reid attended Havergal College locally and university in London, and then studied acting at a performance art school in Canada. She […]

Kate Warne (1970 - 1868)

Private Detective. Born in New York City, almost nothing is known of her prior to 1856 when, as a young widow, she answered an employment advertisement placed by Alan Pinkerton. She was one of four new agents the Pinkerton Detective Agency hired that year and proved to be a natural, taking to undercover work easily. […]

Kate Warne (1970 - 1868)

Private Detective. Born in New York City, almost nothing is known of her prior to 1856 when, as a young widow, she answered an employment advertisement placed by Alan Pinkerton. She was one of four new agents the Pinkerton Detective Agency hired that year and proved to be a natural, taking to undercover work easily. […]

Katharina De Bruyn (1940 - 1993)

Bavarian Actress. Popular in movies and television, she appeared in “Meister Eder und sein Pumuckl” (1980). She had many supporting roles on television such as “Der Kommissar,” “Derrick,” and “Der Alte.” (bio by: Markus Brunner) Cause of death: Breast cancer