Clyde Beatty (1903 - 1965)

Wild animal trainer, circus performer.  He left all Ringing interests at the end of the 1934 season, and joined out with owner-partners Jess Adkins and Zack Terrell with the new Cole Bros. Circus that winter, and opened with them for the season of 1935.  They added his name to the title for public appeal, and […]

Clyde Dixon Connell (1901 - 1998)

Sculptress, primitive artist and civil rights advocate. Featured in People magazine and on PBS and was the subject of at least two books. Her works were featured in the show “Different Drummers” at the Hirschhorn Museum of Art at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., and in the “The Dream of Egypt” at the Centro […]

Clyde Geronimi (1901 - 1989)

Clito Enrico “Clyde” Geronimi (June 12, 1901 – April 24, 1989), known as Gerry, was an Italian-American animation director. He is best known for his work at Walt Disney Productions. Clyde Geronimi was born in Chiavenna, Italy, immigrating to the United States as a young child. Geronimi’s earliest work in the animation field was for the […]

Clyde Moody (1915 - 1989)

Clyde Moody CLYDE LEONARD MOODY, known widely in the bluegrass music world as the “Hillbilly Waltz King”, was born 19 Sep 1915 in Haywood County, NC, and died 07 Apr 1989 in Ashland, Cheatham, TN. His musical career began in the 1930’s and spanned over 50 years. He wrote music and lyrics and performed with […]

Clyde Robert Bulla (1914 - 2007)

Clyde Robert Bulla (born January 9, 1914, near King City, Missouri, United States, d. May 23, 2007, Warrensburg, Missouri) was the author of over fifty books for children. His first book, The Donkey Cart, was published in 1946.  He captivated readers for over six decades with his stories of historical figures and contemporary tales for children […]

Clyde Tolson (1900 - 1975)

Clyde Tolson was born in Laredo, Missouri. He graduated from Laredo High School in 1915 and attended Cedar Rapids Business College from which he graduated in 1918. From 1919 to 1928, he was confidential secretary for three Secretaries of War: Newton D. Baker, John W. Weeks, and Dwight F. Davis. Tolson completed a Bachelor of […]

Coit Albertson (1880 - 1953)

Actor. He starred in the theater prior to making his motion picture debut in 1915, most notably in the play “Stubborn Cinderella”. He appeared in “The $1,000,000 Reward”(1920), “Face to Face”(1922), “Scandal Street”(1925) as ‘Frank Arnold’ in “The Jazz Girl” (1926) and “The Return of Boston Blackie”(1927). (bio by: MC)

COL Charles Lacy Veach (1944 - 1995)

American Astronaut. Although born in Chicago, he considered Honolulu, Hawaii, to be his hometown. He was commissioned in the United States Air Force upon graduation from the Air Force Academy, 1966. Over the next 14 years, he served as a USAF fighter pilot on assignments in the United States, Europe, and the Far East, including […]

Col Christopher Columbus “C.C.” Slaughter, Sr (1837 - 1919)

Western Businessman. He was a ranching pioneer, banker and philanthropist, noted as the “Cattle King of Texas”. As a boy he worked cattle with his father and at age twelve helped drive the family’s ninety-two-head herd to a ranch on the Trinity River in Freestone County, Texas, where the family moved in 1852. At age […]

Col Evett Dumas Nix (1861 - 1946)

US Marshal. The son of a Confederate army officer,  he moved to Guthrie, Oklahoma in 1889.  He ran a grocery store before he was appointed the first United States marshal over the lawless Oklahoma Territory by President Grover Cleveland. Nix hired the famous Three Guardsmen (Bill Tilghman, Heck Thomas, and Chris Madsen) and supervised over […]

Col James Beauregard “Jim” Beam (1864 - 1947)

Business Magnate, Folk Hero. James Beam turned the family bourbon business into an american industry. Under Jim, the business thrived despite prohibition. Jim left the distilling business to grow citrus in Florida, among other things. When prohibition ended in 1934 Jim was ready to fire up the still. He built and moved to a new […]

Col John Salmon “Rip” Ford (1815 - 1897)

Civil War Confederate Army Officer. Born in South Carolina to William and Harriet Ford. He grew up on a plantation in Lincoln County, Tennessee. John was a good student and by the age of 16 was qualified to teach, but instead he went on to study medicine in Shelbyville, Tennessee, this is where he would […]

Col Leland James Holland (1927 - 1990)

United States Army Colonel. One of the 52 Americans held hostage by Iran from 1979 to 1981. (bio by: Erik Lander)

Cole Younger (1844 - 1916)

Thomas Coleman “Cole” Younger, was born on January 15, 1844 on the Younger family farm. He was a son of Henry Washington Younger, a prosperous farmer from Greenwood, Missouri and Bersheba Leighton Fristoe, daughter of a prominent Jackson County farmer. Cole was the seventh of fourteen children. During the American Civil War, savage guerrilla warfare wracked […]

Coleen Gray (1922 - 2015)

Coleen Gray was born Doris Bernice Jensen on October 23, 1922 in Staplehurst, Nebraska, the daughter of a farmer. After graduating from high school, she studied drama at Hamline University, and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts. She travelled to California, and worked as a waitress in a restaurant in La Jolla. After […]

Coleman C. Francis (1919 - 1973)

American motion picture and television actor, director, writer, and producer of the 1940s, 50s, 60s, and 70s. (bio by: A.J. Marik) Cause of death: arteriosclerosis

Coleman Hawkins (1904 - 1969)

Coleman Hawkins was born in Saint Joseph, Missouri, in 1904. Although some sources say 1901, there is no evidence to prove an earlier date; instead, there is record of Hawkins’s parents’ first child, a girl, being born in 1901 and dying at the age of two, possibly the basis for the mistaken belief. He was […]

Colette (1873 - 1954)

Author.  She was one of the few 20th Century French novelists to identify with nature.  Her mother taught her to love every plant and animal,  and she expressed this feeling in her writing.  Colette’s style is earthy and sensual.  She was particularly sensitive portraying women in love or suffering from jealousy;  at other times she […]

Colette Marchand (1925 - 2015)

Colette Marchand Marchand was born in Paris, France, the daughter of Alice (née Lioret) and Roger Marchand. She began her career at the Paris Opera Ballet   She married Jacques Bazire, the musical director for the Roland Petit Ballet. She died on June 5, 2015, aged 90, and was survived by her sister, Yvonne (Marchand) Le […]

Colin Campbell (1883 - 1966)

Actor in 53 films including: “The Road to Singapore,” “Sylvia Scarlett,” “The Dark Angel,” “Waterloo Bridge,” “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” “The Two Mrs. Carrolls,” “Sabrina,” and “The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze.” (bio by: TLS)

Colin Clive (1900 - 1937)

Colin Clive was born in Saint-Malo, France, to an English colonel, Colin Philip Greig, and his wife, Caroline Margaret Lugard Clive. He attended Stonyhurst College and subsequently Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, where an injured knee disqualified him from military service and contributed to his becoming a stage actor. Clive created the role of Steve Baker, the […]

Colin Reith Coote (1893 - 1979)

Leading British author and journalist. Amongst his works are books on Sir Winston Churchill. (bio by: Kieran Smith)  Family links:  Spouse:  Amalie Coote (1909 – 1990)* *Calculated relationship

Colin Welland (1934 - 2015)

As an actor, Colin Welland appeared as PC David Graham in the BBC Television series Z-Cars from 1962 to 1978. He was a sympathetic schoolteacher in a BAFTA-winning performance in the film Kes (1969), and a detective in the Richard Burton film Villain (1971). He appeared as a villain in one 1975 episode of The […]

Colleen Dewhurst (1924 - 1991)

Dewhurst was born in Montreal, Quebec, the only child of Ferdinand Augustus “Fred” Dewhurst, owner of a chain of confectionery stores, and his wife, Frances Marie (née Woods) Dewhurst, a homemaker, whose father had been a “well-known athlete in Canada, where he had played football with the Ottawa Rough Riders”. The family naturalized as U.S. […]

Colleen Dewhurst (1924 - 1991)

Actress. During her 45-year career, she is remembered mostly for her theater roles and was once regarded as “the Queen of Off-Broadway.” Born Colleen Rose Dewhurst in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, she was an only child whose father owned a chain of confectionery stores. When she was around four years old, her family moved to Massachusetts, […]

Colleen Farrington (1936 - 2015)

American Model, Singer and Actress. Farrington was a fashion model in New York City before appearing in Playboy magazine as ‘Playmate of the Month’ for its October 1957 issue. In the  early 1960s, she appeared on Broadway in several plays and starred in “Kitty, I Hardly Knew You” and sang in several nightclubs. She eventually […]

Colleen Hutchins (1926 - 2010)

Colleen Hutchins (May 23, 1926 – March 24, 2010) was Miss America 1952.  She was crowned as Brigham Young University Homecoming Queen in 1947. In September 1951. The first Miss Utah to wear the crown, she took top honors for 1952. Raised in Salt Lake City, she attended Brigham Young University where she was the 1947 […]

Colleen Moore (1899 - 1988)

Through my series “Finding Them,” I embarked on an adventure to try to shed light on forgotten stars. Colleen Moore is among the stars I tried to put back into the limelight. Colleen Moore was born Kathleen Morrison on Aug. 19, 1899, in Port Huron, Mich. She was born with one brown eye and one […]

Collin Paxton (1935 - 2009)

She was born in Cincinnati and moved with her family to Highlands, North Carolina, as a baby. She made her professional debut in Chicago as part of the improvisational group, The Compass Players, which included Mike Nichols, Elaine May, and Shelley Berman. Playing opposite Richard Basehart, Kevin McCarthy and William Hansen, Wilcox won the Clarence […]

Collin Wilcox (1935 - 2009)

Actress. She appeared in some 80 television programs, motion pictures and theatre productions from the late 1950s until the early 2000s. Wilcox is best known for her role as Mayella Ewell in “To Kill a Mockingbird” (1962),  playing the alleged victim of a racially-charged 1930s rape case.  Raised in Highlands, North Carolina, her parents established […]