Judith Riedel Rawlins (1936 - 1974)

Actress. Born Judith Ellen Riedel, in Wisconsin, she began her career performing several roles with the Walt Disney Players Group. In the 1950s and 60s, she appeared on the television shows “The Rebel”, “Bat Masterson”, “Wanted Dead or Alive”, “Surfside 6” and “77 Sunset Strip”. She was also the wife of movie editor David Rawlins […]

Françoise Marie-Antoinette Saucerotte Raucourt (1756 - 1815)

Actress. Françoise Raucourt was a favourite of Marie Antoinette and later Napoleon I who appointed her director of imperial theatres in Italy. During the Directory Raucourt was named director of the Théâtre Louvois. She was famous for her tragedy roles and played to full houses, though at times controversy about her private life eclipsed her […]

Marlene Rasnick (1944 - 2001)

Stage and motion picture actress of the 1960s through the 1990s. She co-founded the Public Works Improvisational Theatre in 1973. (bio by: A.J. Marik) Cause of death: Ovarian Cancer

Virginia Rappe (1895 - 1921)

Actress. Subject of Hollywood scandal. Born in New York in 1895 to a part-time chorus girl Mabel Rapp and an unknown father. It’s not clear as to when she added the “e” to her last name but it was under that name she became a successful commerical model in Chicago department stores. At the time […]

Jane Randolph (1915 - 2009)

Actress. A veteran of around twenty Hollywood films during the 1940s, she was best known for playing Alice Moore in Jacques Tourneur’s 1942 classic “Cat People”. Born Jane Roemer, she was raised in Kokomo, Indiana, and in 1939 moved to Hollywood to study acting. Briefly under contract to Warner Brothers, she made her 1941 silver […]

Amanda Randolph (1896 - 1967)

Actress. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, she began her career in black musical revues in the 1920s. In 1949, she become a comedy favorite on television appearing on “Amanda” the first network-televised series to feature an African-American performer in a regular role. She became a regular on the top early black TV shows “Amos ‘n’ Andy” […]

Lois Ramsey (1922 - 2016)

Actress. Born Lois June Dickson, she was a prominent actress who was known for her performances as eccentric old ladies on various television series. Her first acting role was in the television series “Consider Your Verdict” which aired from 1962 to 1963. She would go on to have a long career in television with such […]

Anne Ramsey (1929 - 1988)

Actress. Born Anne Mobley in Omaha, Nebraska, she performed in several Broadway productions in the 1950s and married actor Logan Ramsey in 1954. She began a career in Hollywood in the 1970s, appearing in films to include “The Sporting Club” (1971), “Rhinoceros” (1974), “Goin’ South” (1978), “Getting Physical” (1984) and “Scrooged” (1988). She is most […]

Zinaida Raikh (1894 - 1939)

Actress. She was married to the poet Sergei Essenin from 1917 to 1921. Known more for her great beauty and fiery temperament than for her acting ability, she nevertheless became a star at the theatre of Vsevolod Meyerhold, whom she married in 1924. In 1939, Josef Stalin had Meyerhold arrested on trumped-up charges of anti-Soviet […]

Frances Raeburn (1924 - 1976)

Actress. Born Mildred Frances Anne Hedrick in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, she made her film debut in “Joe Smith, American” (1942). Nick named ‘Bubba’, her other credits included “Seven Sweethearts” (1942), “Calling Dr. Gillespie” (1942), “The Canterville Ghoust” (1944) and “Swing Out, Sister” (1945). She died of a heart attack in Los Angeles County, California. (bio […]

Gilda Radner (1946 - 1989)

Actress, Comedienne. She gained wide fame in the mid-1970s as an original cast member of television’s hit comedy series, “Saturday Night Live” (SNL).  Born Gilda Susan Radner in Detroit, Michigan, to Henrietta Dworkin Radner, a legal secretary, and Herman Radner, a businessman who operated Detroit’s Seville Hotel, where many nightclub performers and actors stayed when […]

Camila Quiroga (1891 - 1948)

Famed stage and cinema actress. She made several tours for Europe and America divulgating the works of the Argentine authors. She also was a pioneer of the Argentine cinema (5 movies.) (bio by: 380W)  Family links:  Children:  Nélida Quiroga (1909 – 1982)* *Calculated relationship

Rita Quigley (1923 - 2008)

Actress. She appeared in more than a dozen films during the 1940s. After making her big screen debut at the age of seventeen in the 1940 picture “Susan and God”, she would have memorable roles in the pictures “Five Little Peppers in Trouble” (1940), “The Howards of Virginia” (1940), “Jennie” (1940), “Ride, Kelly, Ride” (1941), […]

Menchu Quesada (1918 - 2005)

Actress. She participated in 15 movies, but she is specially remembered for her role of ‘Lucía Campanelli’ in the successful television comedy “Los Campanelli” (1969 to 1974.) and for her secondary roles in many soap operas. Between 1954 and 1960 she lived and worked in Spain, achieving good critics. (bio by: 380W)

Isa Quensel (1905 - 1981)

Swedish Actress and Opera singer. She was recognized as a great personality and became one of the most respected actresses in Swedish film history. She made her dubute 1929 in the play ”Rose-Marie” at Vasateatern in Stockholm. She then commenced a career containing over 50 films, leading roles in many operas, TV-series, radio shows etc. […]

Valérie Quennessen (1957 - 1989)

French Actress. She dedicated much of her childhood to pursuing her dream of becoming an acrobat. She quickly reached a level of competence and received an award for her expertise at the age of ten. By her teens, she had given up acrobatics and enrolled in acting classes, not because she particularly wanted to get […]

Constance Purdy (1884 - 1960)

American film actress of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. Appeared in ‘Spellbound’ (1945) and ‘A Tree Grows In Brooklyn’ (1945). (bio by: A.J. Marik)  Family links:  Spouse:  Wilbur Mack (1874 – 1964)* *Calculated relationship

Anna Przybylska (1978 - 2014)

Actress, Model. A pretty brunette, she is remembered for numerous film appearances as well as for a large number of print and television ads. Raised on the north central coast of Poland, she had early modeling ambitions but in 1997 got her initial assignment in the form of her silver screen debut in “The Dark […]

Louise Victoria Prussing (1895 - 1994)

Actress. Born in Chicago, Illinois, she was a successful Broadway performer when she entered films appearing in “Out Yonder” (1919). Her many other credits included “His Wife’s Money” (1920), “World’s Apart” (1921), “Virgin’s Sacrifice” (1922), “The Thoroughbred” (1928), “The Woman in White” (1929) and “Before Morning” (1933). She died in Los Angeles, California. (bio by: […]

Nelly Prono (1926 - 1997)

Actress. Born in Paraguay, she was a very versatile actress, performing stage, motion pictures and television. (bio by: 380W)

Yvonne Wignolle Printemps (1895 - 1977)

Singer, Actress. Born Ermont Yvonne Willigniolle Dupre, she earned the nickname “printemps” (“spring”) for her cheerful personality. She rose to fame while dancing in cabaret and performing on Broadway. Some of her motion pictures include “Le Voyage en Amérique” (1951; “Voyage to America”), “La Valse de Paris” (1949; “The Paris Waltz”); “Les Condamnés” (1948; “The […]

Aileen Pringle (1895 - 1989)

Actress. She starred in numerous Hollywood features of the 1920s and 1930s. Born Aileen Bisbee to a family of wealth and high position, she was educated in Europe and started her theatrical career shortly after her 1916 marriage to Charles McKenzie Pringle, child of rich British nobility. Billed as “Aileen Savage” in her first few […]

Lillian Hughes Prince (1970 - 1970)

Actress. She starred in many theatre productions in the Northeast and The North Carolina area before joining the Schubert Touring Company and performing in Howard Richardson’s “Dark of the Moon” in the 1940s. In her later years, she became well known for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth in Paul Green’s play “The Lost Colony.” She […]

Suzy Prim (1896 - 1991)

Actress. She was born in Paris and died in Boulogne-Billancourt (France). She is best remembered for films such as Le Crime du Grand-Père (1921), La Reine Lumière (1921), La Peur (1936), Mayerling (1936), Arsène Lupin Détective (1937), Les Anges Noirs (1937), Cas de Conscience (1939), L’Étrange Suzy (1941), Untel Père et Fils (1943), Triple Enquête […]

Maudie Merrie Prickett (1914 - 1976)

Actress. She appeared in the motion pictures “Call Her Mom” (1972), “Sweet Charity” (1969), “The Gnome-Mobile” (1967), “The Legend of Tom Dooley” (1959), “North By Northwest” (1959), “Lost In Alaska” (1952), “Harvey” (1950) and “Song of Idaho” (1948). She is best known for her roles in many television series, including, “Leave It To Beaver” (1957-1963), […]

Sari L. Price (1933 - 2003)

Actress. Price began her career by studying acting when she was 17 at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. She later met and became a friend of actress Shirley Jones. Price’s films include, “Lille Frk Norge” (2003), “Hold My Heart” (2002), “Orion’s Belt” (1985), “The People Vs. Jean Harris” (1981), “First, You Cry” (1978), and […]

Marie Prevost (1898 - 1937)

Actress. Born Mary Bickford Dunn in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, as a child she first moved to Denver, Colorado with her parents and then to Los Angeles, California. She worked as a stenographer, but after many comments about her good looks, she was hired by producer Mack Sennett, who gave her her stage name. She was […]

Marcia Anne Henderson Prestlien (1929 - 1987)

Actress.  Born in Andover, Massachusetts to John Day Henderson and Dorothy Crofts Henderson. She made her first public appearance at the age of 5 in an Easter service at the Congregational Church at Hampden, Connecticut. Acting was her passion while attending public schools. Marcia  began to act on a regular basis with local drama groups […]

Mercedes Prendes (1970 - 1981)

Noted Spanish Actress. She is one of the best Spanish Stage Actresses of the 40s. She triumphed in plays such as “Macbeth,” “Romeo y Julieta,” “Fuenteovejuna” and “La Dama Duende”. She also appeared in a few films but, leave the cinema after Spanish Civil War. Among others she appeared in “Estudiantes y Modistillas” (1927),”La Bien […]

Mari Carmen Prendes (1906 - 2002)

Spanish-born screen, stage and television actress, sister of actors Mercedes and Luis Prendes. She made her debut on stage at the age of 15 in the play “Los millones de Monty.” Before the start of Spanish Civil War she went to Buenos Aires(Argentina) and she not returned to Spain until 1945. On stage she played […]