John Connell (1923 - 2015)

American Actor. Born John P. Connell, he was an actor who was best known for playing Dr. David Malone on the daytime television soap opera “Young Dr. Malone”. During the Second World War, he received five Battle Stars and a Purple Heart for service as a radio operator and waist gunner aboard a B-24 with […]

Merrill L. Connally (1921 - 2001)

Actor. A native of Floresville, Texas, he appeared as the Team Leader in director Stephen Spielberg’s 1977 film “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”  His other work included appearing in the 1971 television documentary series “V.I.P.-Schaukel” and the films “The Sugarland Express” (1974), “The Girls In The Office” (1979), “Alamo: The Price Of Freedom” (1988, […]

Jackie Condon (1918 - 1977)

Actor. Born John Michael Condon, he was a child performer who appeared in over 80 films. He is best known as being “Jackie” a cast member on the “Our Gang” comedy shorts series of the silent film era. Some of his noted “Our Gang” features included “Fire Fighters” (1922), “Dogs of War” (1923), “Circus Fever” […]

Henry Condell (1568 - 1627)

Elizabethan actor. Henry Condell was a fellow actor and friend of William Shakespeare, who in 1623 together with John Heminge published the world famous First Folio, seven years after William’s death. It was the first time that all of Shakespeare’s works were accurately published. Earlier cheap Quarto prints had been made of some plays, which […]

John Compton (1923 - 2015)

Actor. Born John Compton Tolley in Tennessee, his father was a liquor manufacturer, John moved to New York City, where he launched his professional acting debut on Broadway, with a starring role in the production of “The Ryan Girl” (1945). He broke into motion pictures during the 1940s and had minor roles in the films […]

John Comer (1924 - 1984)

Actor, Comedian. He is remembered for his comedic roles in the British television sitcoms “I Didn’t Know You Cared” (1975 to 1979, as ‘Les’), “Last of the Summer Wine’ (1973 to 1983 as ‘Sid’), and “All Our Saturdays” (February to March 1973, as ‘Wilf’). Born one of five children, he received his education at the […]

Frederick Combs (1935 - 1992)

Actor. Born in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Frederick Combs trained at the Barter Theater in Abingdon, Virginia and made his acting debut on Broadway in the play “A Taste of Honey” in 1961. He was a member of the Broadway cast on a national tour of the 1968, production of “The Boys in the Band” and […]

Samuel Colt (1909 - 1986)

Actor. He was the son of actress Ethel Barrymore and the great-grandson (and namesake) of Samuel Colt, inventor of the Colt revolver. He appeared in four films, “The Mating Season” (1951), “A Star is Born” (1954),  “Three Brave Men” (1956),  and “Johnny Trouble” (1957). (bio by: Bobb Edwards)  Family links:  Parents:  Russell Griswold Colt (1882 […]

Ronald Charles Colman (1891 - 1958)

Ronald Charles Colman (1891-1958), actor, was born in Richmond, Surrey, on 9th February, 1891, the second son and fourth child in the family of two sons and three daughters of Charles Colman, a silk merchant, and his wife, Marjory Read Fraser. He was educated at a boarding-school in Littlehampton, Sussex, but had to leave abruptly […]

John K. “Uh Huh” Collum (1926 - 1962)

Child actor. He is best remembered as “Uh huh” in the Our Gang comedies of the early 1930s. (bio by: Jared Walker)  Inscription:S2  USNRWorld War II

Russell Collins (1897 - 1965)

Actor. He first appeared on stage in 1922. He had roles in a few early Group Theatre productions with Success Story being his Broadway debut. Probably his most noted Broadway role was as the star of the 1935 musical play Johnny Johnson. He enjoyed a long career on Broadway, in films and television. By the […]

Monte Collins (1898 - 1952)

Comedian. A comic actor and screenwriter, he appeared in several Columbia comedy shorts, including his own series with actor Tom Kennedy. (bio by: T W Zimmerman)

Edward Bernard “Eddie” Collins (1883 - 1940)

Actor, Comedian. A native of Atlantic City, New Jersey, Collins is probably best remembered as the model and voice of Dopey in the 1937 Walt Disney animated film classic, “Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs”.  A former star of vaudeville, he also appeared in dozens of other films,  including “Diamond Jim” (1935), “In Old Chicago” […]

William Collier (1864 - 1944)

Actor. Born William Morenus in New York City, he began his career at age 11 working with Eddie Foy in vaudeville shows, which lead to performances on Broadway. Recruited by the Triangle Film organization in Hollywood, he made his big screen debut in “Never Again” (1915), followed by “Better Late Than Never” (1916). A veteran […]

Bonar Colleano (1924 - 1958)

Actor. Born Bonar Sullivan in New York City, New York, his stage work included ‘Stanley Kowalski’ in “A Streetcar Named Desire” with Vivien Leigh. He landed his first important role in the 1944’s drama “Johnny in the Clouds.” Later he appeared in other highly regarded films such as “A Matter of Life and Death,” starring […]

Cyril Collard (1957 - 1993)

Actor, Motion Picture Director. He directed “Grand Huit” (1982), “Alger le Blanche” (1986) and “Les Nuits Fauves” (1992), where he appeared also as actor. He died shortly after from AIDS. (bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)

Tracy Lamar Coley (1964 - 2002)

Actor. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, he was most noted for his role as the blues singer on the TV series “Martin” from 1992 to 1995. His other television credits included “In the House”, “The Wayans Bros.” and “The Jamie Foxx Show.” For feature films, he appeared in “Blood and Concrete” (1991), “Notes in a Minor […]

Thomas Luther Coley (1913 - 1989)

Actor, Playwright. Graduate of Washington and Lee University. He appeared in 15 Broadway plays, including “The Taming of the Shrew,” “Our Town” and “Harvey.” He toured in “Janus” with Arlene Francis and in “Teahouse of the August Moon” with Larry Parks. Co-creator (with his partner William G. Roehrick) of “The Happiest Years: A Comedy in […]

John Colenback (1935 - 2015)

John Colenback (October 8, 1935 – May 12, 2015) was an American actor. He was best known for portraying Dan Stewart on As the World Turns. Colenback was born October 5, 1935, in Toledo, Ohio, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Colenback. His father, an executive vice president with Toledo Scale Company, died when he […]

Gary Coleman (1968 - 2010)

Actor.  As a child he appeared in episodes of “The Jeffersons” and “Good Times” before attaining celebrity status as a star of the NBC situation comedy “Diff’rent Strokes”, where his character’s usual retort to his brother (played by Todd Bridges) “What’choo talkin’ ’bout, Willis?” became a national catchphrase.  Coleman earned as much as $100,000 per […]

Charles Pearce Coleman (1885 - 1951)

Actor in 223 films including: “The Girl From Missouri” (1934), “The Gay Divorcee” (1934), “One Hundred Men and A Girl” (1937), “Raffles” (1940), “Mexican Spitfire” (1940), “Girl Crazy” (1943), “Jane Eyre” (1944), “Diamond Horseshoe” (1945), and “Ma and Pa Kettle Go To Town” (1950). (bio by: TLS)

Charles Colean (1907 - 1971)

American motion picture actor of the 1940s and 50s. Appeared with Humphrey Bogart in the movie “Knock on Any Door” in 1949. (bio by: A.J. Marik)

Joe Cole (1961 - 1991)

Joe Cole Actor. He is best remembered for his role of Tex Watson in the movie “The Book of Manson” (1989).  The son of movie actor Dennis Cole and Sally Bergeron Cole, Joe Cole was a minor actor just beginning his career, and had first appeared in the movie “Weatherman ’69” (1989).  He continued to […]

Nicholas Colasanto (1924 - 1985)

Actor, Director. Although best known for his role as ‘Coach Ernie Pantusso’ on “Cheers,” Colasanto actually had more credits for directing television shows such as “Bonanza,” “Starsky and Hutch,” “Hawaii Five-O,” and “Columbo.” He also appeared in movies such as “Raging Bull” and Alfred Hitchcock’s “Family Plot,” and made guest appearances on many other TV […]

J.J. Cohn (1895 - 1996)

Motion Picture Producer, Executive. Born Joseph Judson Cohn in New York City, he entered films in 1915 as a stenographer at Fox and advanced to production supervisor at Goldwyn Pictures. His greatest challenge was salvaging the troubled production of “Ben-Hur”, begun at Goldwyn in 1923 and inherited by the newly-formed MGM the following year. At […]

Frank Coghlan, Jr (1916 - 2009)

Actor. He appeared in more than one hundred motion pictures beginning as a child during the silent film era. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, he moved with his parents to California at the age of four and was brought to the attention of Cecil B. De Mille who put him under contract. He made his […]

Tris Coffin (1909 - 1990)

Tris Coffin was born in the gold and silver mining community of Mammoth in Juab County in central Utah and reared in the state capital of Salt Lake City. He began acting while he was in high school and thereafter joined traveling stock companies. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in speech from the […]

Jack Coffer (1938 - 1967)

Iron Eyes Cody (1904 - 1999)

Actor. Born Espera Oscar DeCorti in Kaplan, Louisiana, the second child of Italian immigrants Antonio DeCorti and Francesca Salpietra. DeCorti Senior abandoned the family in 1909, and ten years later his three sons followed him to Texas where they adopted his altered surname of Corti. In 1924, the brothers moved to Hollywood, and changed their […]

Bill Cody (1891 - 1948)

Actor. He was a B western cowboy star of silents and early talkies. Cody’s diminutive stature gave him a likable, underdog quality, and he was pitted against much bigger bad guys in such oaters as “Cold Nerve” (1925), “King of the Saddle” (1926),  “Born to Battle” (1927),  “Slim Fingers” (1929),  “The Montana Kid” (1931),  “Frontier […]