Michael Anthony Baulch (1957 - 1973)

Murder victim. He was only 16 years old when he was abducted and killed by serial killer Dean Corll. His older brother, Billy, had been killed by Corll a year earlier. Michael’s body was found in Corll’s boat shed, along with 16 others. Two books have been written about the case: “The Man With The […]

Michael Balcon (1896 - 1977)

Born in Birmingham, Michael Balcon was the youngest son and fourth of five children of Louis Balcon (c. 1858–1946) and his wife, Laura (née Greenberg; c. 1863–1934), Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe who had met in Britain. Growing up in a respectable but impoverished setting, in 1907 Balcon won a scholarship to Birmingham’s George Dixon […]

Michael Barrington (1925 - 1988)

British Actor. He was born and died in London, England. Film and television credits include “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” “Edward the King,” “Porridge,” “The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer,” “Her Majesty’s Pleasure,” “The Victorians,” “The New Avengers,” “Doctor Who,” “Raffles,” “Z Cars,” “Dixon of Dock Green,” and “Coronation Street.” (bio by: Genet) Cause […]

Michael Bartlett (1901 - 1978)

Actor, Singer. Born Edwin Alonzo Bartlett, in 1924 graduated from Princeton University in New Jersey, where he starred in Triangle Club musicals. He traveled to Italy to study opera and made his professional debut under the name Edoardo Bartelli. He returned to the United States and made his American debut singing the leading role in […]

Michael Bates (1920 - 1978)

The son of Harry Stuart Bates, CSI (1893–1985, son of Albert Bates, of Congleton, Cheshire), an Anglo-Indian civil servant, by his wife Sarah Clarke (1896-1982, daughter of William Hammond Walker of Congleton, Cheshire), Bates was educated at Uppingham School and St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. In 1954, he married Margaret M. J. Chisholm. They had three […]

Michael Beer (1800 - 1833)

Michael Beer was born to a wealthy Jewish family. His elder brother was the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer; another brother was the astronomer Wilhelm Beer. In the period 1817–1823 he frequently travelled with family members in Italy, where his brother Meyerbeer was studying. In 1819 Beer was a founder member of the movement Verein für Cultur und Wissenschaft […]

Michael Bennett (1943 - 1987)

Michael Bennett was born Michael Bennett DiFiglia in Buffalo, New York, the son of Helen (née Ternoff), a secretary, and Salvatore Joseph DiFiglia, a factory worker. His father was Roman Catholic and Italian American and his mother was Jewish. He studied dance and choreography in his teens and staged a number of shows in his […]

Michael Blake (1945 - 2015)

Author, Motion Picture Screenwriter. He will be remembered for penning the bestselling novel “Dances with Wolves” (1988). The work was made into a motion picture adaptation in 1990, which starred and was directed by Kevin Costner. Blake earned both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for his writing of the script. Born Michael […]

Michael Blodgett (1939 - 2007)

Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Michael Blodgett attended the University of Minnesota before moving to Los Angeles to act. Once in Los Angeles, he earned a degree in political science from Cal State Los Angeles and attended Loyola Law School for one year before turning his attention to acting. In the summer of 1967, Blodgett served […]

Michael Bond (1926 - 2017)

Michael Bond began writing in 1945 while stationed with the army in Cairo, and sold his first short story to the magazine London Opinion. He was paid seven guineas, and thought he “wouldn’t mind being a writer”. In 1958, after producing several plays and short stories and while working as a BBC television cameraman (where […]

Michael Brennan (1912 - 1982)

British Actor. He was married to actress, Mary Hignett. His film and television credits include “Nicholas Nickleby,” “Nothing But the Night,” “Ivanhoe,”Thunderball,” “The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders,” “Tom Jones,” “The 39 Steps,” “A Tale of Two Cities,” and “Tom Brown’s Schooldays. On television, he made guest appearances on “All Creatures Great and Small” and […]

Michael Bruce Ross (1959 - 2005)

Ross was born in Putnam, Connecticut on July 26, 1959 to Patricia Hilda Laine and Dan Graeme Ross. The oldest of four children, having two younger sisters and a younger brother, he grew up on a chicken farm in Brooklyn, Connecticut. Ross’s home life was extremely dysfunctional; his mother, who had abandoned the family at […]

Michael Callen (1955 - 1993)

Composer,singer,writer and AIDS activist. Played a major role in shaping the United States response to the AIDS epidemic.  Callen was an AIDS activist before there was an AIDS movement, involved in virtually all of the positive responses to the epidemic, including the self-empowerment of People with AIDS; the invention of safer sex; the community-based research […]

Michael Chekhov (1891 - 1955)

Russian-born stage and screen actor of the 1910s, 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s. Played the role of ‘Dr. Alex Brulov’ in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1945 film “Spellbound.” (bio by: A.J. Marik)  Family links:  Spouse:  Xenia Karlovna Ziller Chekhov (1897 – 1970)* *Calculated relationship

Michael Clarke Duncan (1957 - 2012)

Duncan was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in a single-parent household with his sister, Judy, and mother, Jean Duncan (a house cleaner), after his father left. He always wanted to act, but had to drop out of the Communications program at Alcorn State University to support his family when his mother became ill. Duncan’s large frame—6 feet […]

Michael Conrad (1925 - 1983)

Michael Conrad (October 16, 1925 – November 22, 1983) was an American actor, primarily on television. Michael Conrad had a long acting career in television from the 1950s to the 1980s. In 1962 he appeared in the television series Car 54, Where Are You? in an uncredited part as a construction worker. In 1963 he played […]

Michael Coppola (2024 - 1966)

Organized Crime Figure. Known as “Trigger Mike,” he was a Made-Member in the Costello/Genovese Organized Crime Family, and ran a large gambling operation in Harlem. He was also major drug trafficker and was considered one of the most vicious enforcers in American Mafia history. In 1931, he took control of the artichoke rackets in New […]

Michael Craze (1942 - 1998)

Michael Craze was born in Newquay, Cornwall. He got into acting by chance as, at the age of twelve, he discovered through Boy Scout Gang Shows that he had a perfect boy soprano voice. This led him to win parts in The King and I and Plain and Fancy, both at Drury Lane, and Damn […]

Michael Curtiz (1886 - 1962)

Michael Curtiz was born Manó Kaminer to a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary (then Austria-Hungary). In 1905 he Hungaricised his name to Mihály Kertész. He claimed to have been born December 24, 1886. Both the date and the year are open to debate: he was fond of telling tall tales about his early life, including […]

Michael Denison (1915 - 1998)

After graduating, Michael Denison attended the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, where he met Dulcie Gray, a fellow student, who later became his wife in 1939 and his acting partner. They appeared in more than 100 West End productions, together in some 28 plays in London and countless tours of Britain and elsewhere. They […]

Michael Dorris (1945 - 1997)

Michael Dorris was born in Louisville, Kentucky to Jim and Mary Besy (Burkhardt) Dorris. His father died before Dorris was born (reportedly by suicide during WWII), and Dorris was raised as an only child by his mother, who became a secretary for the Democratic Party. It has been reported that two maternal relatives also help […]

Michael Duncan (1957 - 2012)

Michael Duncan took security jobs while in Los Angeles while trying to get some acting work in commercials. During this time, he worked as a bodyguard for celebrities like Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Jamie Foxx, LL Cool J, and The Notorious B.I.G., all the while doing bit parts in television and films. When rapper Notorious […]

Michael Dunn (1934 - 1973)

Actor, singer, piano prodigy, and had a genius IQ of 178. He was born Gary Neil Miller in Oklahoma and only grew to 3 feet 10 inches but it was obvious from an early age that he was special. At the age of 3, he walked up to his mother, Jewell, and said, “Momma, I […]

Michael Elphick (1946 - 2002)

Elphick grew up in Chichester, Sussex, where his family had a butcher’s shop. He was educated at Lancastrian Secondary Modern Boys School in Chichester, where he took part in several school productions including Noah and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He initially considered joining the Merchant Navy and helped out in his local boatyard during school […]

Michael Evans (1920 - 2007)

Actor. Born in Sittingbourne, Kent, England, he was a performer of stage, television and films in a career that spanned over five decades. He is best known to television audiences as “The Colonel”, Douglas Austin on the soap opera “The Young and the Restless”. His other television credits include, “Kraft Television Theatre”, “Dr. Kildare”, “The […]

Michael Faraday (1791 - 1867)

Michael Faraday FRS (/ˈfæ.rəˌdeɪ/; 22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis. Although Faraday received little formal education, he was one of the most influential scientists in history. It was by […]

Michael Foster (1836 - 1907)

Michael Foster was born in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, in March 1836, the son of Michael Foster, FRCS. He was educated at Huntingdon Grammar school and University College School, London. After graduating in medicine in 1859, he began to practise in his native town, but in 1867 he returned to London as teacher of practical physiology at […]

Michael Galeota (2016 - 2016)

Michael Galeota Michael Galeota, the star of the Disney Channel original series “The Jersey,” was found dead on Sunday at his home in Glendale, California, TheWrap has confirmed. He was 31. Galeota was a child star who appeared in a number of TV and film projects during his career. His biggest role, however, was the […]

Michael George Ansara (1922 - 2013)

Actor. He is best remembered as playing Cochise on the television series “Broken Arrow” and Klingon commander ‘Kang’ on three separate “Star Trek” television series. Born to American parents in a small Syrian village, he came to the US when he was two years old, residing first in Lowell, Massachusetts before the family moved to […]

Michael Gilden (1962 - 2006)

Dwarf Actor. A native of Los Angeles, California, Gilden is probably best known for his role as ‘Phillip Morris Page’ in Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 film, “Pulp Fiction”, and that of ‘Marty Pearson’ on the television series, “NCIS (Naval Criminal Investiagtive Service)” in 2006. Gilden also appeared in the films, “Star Wars: Episode VI-Return Of the […]