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- Actor
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Al Bain was born on 5 October 1907 in Vilna, Russia. He was an actor, known for Hollywood Stadium Mystery (1938) and Butch Minds the Baby (1942). He died on 7 April 1993 in DeLand, Florida, USA.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Maurice Cass was born on October 12, 1884, in Vilnius, Lithuania (then Vilno, Russian Empire). He emigrated to the USA, and in his pursuit of an acting career, he began as announcer and comedian in New York. Cass had a pleasant face, a small body and a big voice.
With his nearsightedness and his inevitable pince-nez adding weight to his intelligent face, Cass was destined to play professors, doctors, writers, and managers with his special brand of genial, slightly absent-minded officiousness. He started playing bit parts, often uncredited, and made a career as a character actor in more than 120 film and television productions. His best known work was Professor Newton, a supporting role in a series of space adventure movies made for TV and shown over the period from 1954 to 1956. Cass's snow-white haired Professor Newton could always be counted on to provide the scientific explanation for all the fantastic events that unfolded before the viewer. Professor Newton had his own observatory (which was filmed at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles) and although elderly, he would often accompany the astronauts on their adventurous space flights.
Maurice Cass's character, Professor Newton, was replaced by Professor Mayberry upon Cass's death of a heart attack, at the age of 69, on June 8, 1954, in Hollywood, California.- Writer
- Actor
- Director
Romain Gary was born on 8 May 1914 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was a writer and actor, known for The Longest Day (1962), Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! (1971) and Birds in Peru (1968). He was married to Jean Seberg and Lesley Blanch. He died on 2 December 1980 in Paris, France.- Actor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Soundtrack
Shimen Ruskin was born on 25 February 1907 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Fiddler on the Roof (1971), The Producers (1967) and Love and Death (1975). He was married to Kate Urkowitz and Rae Spiegel. He died on 23 April 1976 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
- Stunts
Carl Sklover was born on 1 September 1904 in Vilna, Russia. He was an actor, known for Meet Danny Wilson (1952), Playgirl (1954) and Dragnet (1951). He died on 24 April 1999 in Palm Springs, California, USA.- Director
- Writer
- Cinematographer
Although his name nowadays means very little except to animation buffs (and even they have to be pretty well informed), Wladyslaw Starewicz ranks alongside Walt Disney, as one of the great animation pioneers, and his career started nearly a decade before Disney's. He became an animator by accident - fascinated by insects, he bought a camera and attempted to film them, but they kept dying under the hot lights. Stop-motion animation provided an instant (if slow) solution, and Starewicz discovered that he had a natural talent for it. He subsequently made dozens of short films, mostly featuring his trademark stop-motion puppets, but also live action films (some blending live action and animation), moving to France after the Russian Revolution to continue his career. His longest and most ambitious film was the feature-length 'Tale of the Fox', which took ten years to plan and eighteen months to shoot. Starewicz' films were virtually one-man shows (writer/director/cameraman/designer/animator), though other important contributions (in front of and behind the camera) were made by his daughters.- Shmuel Rodensky was born on 10 December 1904 in Smorgon, Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire [now Smarhon, Grodno Oblast, Belarus]. He was an actor, known for The Odessa File (1974), Tuvia Vesheva Benotav (1968) and Moses the Lawgiver (1974). He was married to Nyura Shein. He died on 18 July 1989 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Joseph Buloff was born on 20 January 1899 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was an actor, known for Silk Stockings (1957), Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) and The Loves of Carmen (1948). He was married to Luba Kadison. He died on 27 February 1985 in New York City, New York, USA.- Actor
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Jascha Heifetz came to the USA in 1917, became a citizen in 1925, and joined ASCAP in 1937. He was educated at the Royal School of Music in Vilna (which he entered at five and from which he graduated at nine), the St. Petersburg Conservatory (with Leopold Auer, earning an Honorary Music Degree), the New York College of Music, and Northwestern University. His first professional appearance was at age five, during which he gave his first concert, then at St. Petersburg, in 1911, in Berlin in 1912, and at Carnegie Hall in 1917. Eventually he concertized throughout the world, and made many recordings, becoming also a Commander in the French Legion of Honor. He also composed several popular songs, among them "When You Make Love to Me" and "So Much in Love".- Dagmar Godowsky was born on 24 November 1897 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. She was an actress, known for The Story Without a Name (1924), In Borrowed Plumes (1926) and Virtuous Liars (1924). She was married to Frank Mayo. She died on 13 February 1975 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Abram Room was born on 28 June 1894 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was a director and writer, known for Nashestvie (1945), Sud chesti (1949) and Belated Flowers (1970). He died on 26 July 1976 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Saul Martell was born on 22 September 1901 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was an actor, known for The Man Called X (1956), Celebrity Playhouse (1955) and The Ford Television Theatre (1952). He died on 1 July 1973 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Clara Rockmore studied violin in Leningrad with Leopold Auer, and both emigrated in the mid 20s to the USA. Her violin career was stopped due to muscular problems, but due to the fact that she knew Leon Theremin, who had recently developed his Theremin, she soon became a virtuoso on this new electronic instrument, performing with the first orchestras of the USA.- Writer
- Director
- Producer
Born in Russia in 1869, Ivan Abramson emigrated to the US while in his 20s. He went to work for Jewish newspapers. He became interested in the film business and in 1914 founded Ivan Film Productions. He produced several successful films, and even went into business with William Randolph Hearst to form the Graphic Film Corp.
Abramson's films were more on the "risque" side--for the times--with titles like A Child for Sale (1920), The Sex Lure (1916) and Enlighten Thy Daughter (1917). He made his last film, Meddling Women (1924), in 1924. He died in New York City in 1934.- Alexander Schneider was born on 21 October 1908 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was married to Geraldine Page and Gerda Benfey. He died on 2 February 1993 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- Producer
- Writer
Zvi Kolitz was born on 11 December 1912 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was a producer and writer, known for Hill 24 Doesn't Answer (1955) and The First Circle (1973). He was married to Mathilde. He died on 29 September 2002 in New York City, New York, USA.- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Mark Magidson was born on 10 July 1901 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was a cinematographer, known for Povest o nastoyashchem cheloveke (1948), Zagovor obrechyonnykh (1950) and Salamander (1928). He died on 14 June 1954 in Moscow Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Production Designer
- Art Director
- Director
Moisei Levin was born on 28 February 1895 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was a production designer and art director, known for Amangeldy (1939), Puteshestvie v Arzrum (1937) and Rajchan (1940). He died on 19 August 1946 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia].- Alexander Asro was born on 10 February 1888 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was an actor, known for Room Service (1938) and Bashful Ballerina (1937). He was married to Sonia Asro. He died in January 1963 in Flushing, Queens, New York City, New York, USA.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Avrom Morewski was born on 18 March 1886 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was an actor, known for The Dybbuk (1937), Al khet (1936) and Der Turm des Schweigens (1925). He died on 3 October 1964 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Between 1887 and 1914, more than 2 million Jews, most of them desperately poor, emigrated to the United States and Canada from what later became the Soviet Bloc. Preceding them slightly was Abraham Cahan, who arrived in New York in 1882. (A convinced Socialist, he was forced to immigrate in order to avoid the roundup of dissidents that followed the assassination of Tsar Alexander II of Russia.) He settled on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and concerned himself with the welfare of the growing Jewish population. Cahan was the founding editor of The Jewish Daily Forward, a Yiddish-language newspaper that first appeared in 1897. (Now known simply as The Forward, it is still published each week, though with primarily English copy.) He was also a writer of fiction, and that is what brought him his widest audience: his stories and novels won the praise of the leading literary critics of the day.
- Irving Cohen was born on 2 January 1904 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was an actor, known for Pabst Blue Ribbon Bouts (1948). He died on 25 June 1991 in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.
- Waclaw Zastrzezynski was born on 22 March 1900 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was an actor, known for Ashes and Diamonds (1958) and Poscig (1954). He died on 22 November 1959 in Katowice, Slaskie, Poland.
- Horace Goldin was born on 17 December 1873 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was married to Helen Levy (dancer). He died on 22 August 1939 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Leopold Godowsky was born on 13 February 1870 in Zasliai, Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire [now Lithuania]. He is known for Kate & Leopold (2001), American Playhouse (1980) and Asana Travelogue (2012). He was married to Frieda Saxe. He died on 21 November 1938 in New York City, New York, USA.- Director
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Antoni Bohdziewicz was born on 10 September 1906 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was a director and writer, known for Kalosze szczescia (1958), Zemsta (1957) and Za wami pójda inni... (1949). He died on 20 October 1970 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Joseph Rumshinsky was born on 9 April 1881 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was a composer, known for Two Sisters (1938), Shir Hashirim (1935) and Dummy (2002). He died on 6 February 1956.- Czeslaw Wollejko was born on 17 March 1916 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was an actor, known for Young Chopin (1952), Lalka (1978) and Gniazdo (1974). He died on 7 February 1987 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Dmitri Lukas was born on 16 June 1911 in Sventsyany, Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire. He was a composer, known for Poseyali devushki lyon (1956), Schastye nado berech (1958) and Strogaya zhenshchina (1959). He died on 13 October 1979.
- Rose Caylor was newspaper reporter, author, screenwriter and playwright. She was born in Vilna, Russia (now Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1898, the daughter of Morris and Elizabeth Libman. Her father came to America in 1906 where he found work in Chicago as a department store salesman. Rose, her mother and two sisters joined him there the following year. Rose's older sister was the author and Jewish historian Anita Libman Lebeson (abt. 1897-1987) and her younger sister, Minna Libman Emch (abt 1904-1958), was a noted Chicago psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
Rose graduated second in her class at the University of Chicago and went on to work as a journalist for the Chicago Daily News. While at the Daily News she met and fell in love with writer Ben Hecht and moved to New York City with him in 1924. The next year they married after his divorce from writer Mary Armstrong was finalized. Over their almost forty year marriage Rose collaborated on a number of projects with her husband and helped as his assistant.
In 1930 she translated and adapted for Broadway Anton Chekhov's play "Uncle Vanya". Among her novels are "The Woman on the Balcony" (1927) and "The Journey" (1933).
Her only child Jenny Hecht was an actress who died of a drug overdose in 1971. Rose Caylor Hecht passed away in 1979. Her headstone at the Oak Him Cemetery in Nyack, New York bears the inscription "and rooks in families homeward go, and so do I." from the Thomas Hardy poem "Weathers". - Writer
- Additional Crew
Sergei Yermolinsky was born on 14 December 1900 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was a writer, known for Doroga (1955), Neulovimye mstiteli (1967) and Robinzon Kruzo (1947). He died on 18 February 1984 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Actress
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Nadia Reisenberg was born on 14 July 1904 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. She was an actress, known for The Visit (2015), Loki (2021) and Carnegie Hall (1947). She was married to Isaac Sherman. She died on 10 June 1983 in New York City, New York, USA.- Director
- Actor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Mikhail Doller was born in 1889 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was a director and actor, known for Minin i Pozharskiy (1939), General Suvorov (1941) and Salamander (1928). He died on 15 March 1952 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Seweryn Butrym was born on 23 December 1910 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was an actor, known for Sekret Enigmy (1979), Knights of the Teutonic Order (1960) and Uczta Baltazara (1954). He died on 21 December 1981 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Alter Kacyzne was born on 31 May 1885 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. Alter was a writer, known for On a heym (1939). Alter died on 7 July 1941 in Tarnopol, Tarnopolskie, Poland [now Ternopil, Ukraine].
- Editor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Director
Marc Sorkin was born on 14 March 1902 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was an editor and assistant director, known for Moral um Mitternacht (1930), The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929) and Pandora's Box (1929). He died in February 1986 in New York City, New York, USA.- Zmitrok Biadula was born on 23 April 1886 in Pasadziec, Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire [now Lahoysk Raion, Minsk Voblast, Belarus]. Zmitrok was a writer, known for Solovey (1937). Zmitrok died on 3 November 1941 in Near Uralsk, Kazakh SSR, USSR [now Oral, Kazakhstan].
- Wanda Stanislawska-Lothe was born on 22 June 1910 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. She was an actress, known for Granica (1978), Polowanie na muchy (1969) and Dzieciol (1971). She died on 6 November 1985 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Bronislawa Frejtazanka was born on 3 May 1915 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. She was an actress, known for Raj na ziemi (1970), Television Theater (1953) and Ballada Zolnierska (1970). She died on 8 September 1983 in Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland.
- Vasili Kachalov was born on 11 February 1875 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was an actor, known for The White Eagle (1928), Mastera stseny (1947) and Road to Life (1931). He died on 30 September 1948 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Leonidas Ossetynski was born on 22 October 1910 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was an actor, known for Mission: Impossible (1966), Night Gallery (1969) and The Man in the Glass Booth (1975). He died on 28 April 1989 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Producer
- Writer
Adrian Piotrovsky was born on 20 November 1898 in Vilna, Rusian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. Adrian was a producer and writer, known for Chyortovo koleso (1926), Three Women (1936) and City of Youth (1938). Adrian died on 21 November 1937 in Leningrad, USSR [now Saint Petersburg, Russia].- Iosif Kovner was born on 29 December 1895 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. Iosif was a composer, known for Fox the Builder (1950), Koshkin dom (1938) and The Tale About Priest and His Worker Balda (1940). Iosif died on 4 January 1959 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Artur Bartels was born on 13 October 1818 in Vilnius, Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania]. Artur was married to Kazimiera Wankowicz. Artur died on 23 December 1885 in Kraków, Galicia, Austro-Hungarian Empire [now Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland].
- Costume Designer
- Production Designer
Antoni Uniechowski was born on 23 February 1903 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. Antoni was a costume designer and production designer, known for Mansarda (1963), Television Theater (1953) and Dziadek do orzechów (1967). Antoni died on 28 May 1976 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Aldona Jasinska was born on 27 December 1896 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. She was an actress, known for Ty, co w Ostrej swiecisz Bramie (1937) and Kobiety nad przepascia (1938). She was married to Tadeusz Konczyc. She died on 3 November 1957 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Chaim Grade was born on 4 April 1910 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was a writer, known for The Quarrel (1991). He was married to Frumme-Liebe and Inna Hecker. He died on 26 April 1982 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Cinematographer
Naum Naumov-Strazh was born on 1 August 1898 in Vilna, Vilenskaya guberniya, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was a cinematographer, known for Woman's World (1932), Pesnya vesny (1929) and Chetyresta millionov (1929). He died on 16 October 1957 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Biruta Dokalskaya was born on 11 June 1916 in Vilna, Lithuania. She was an actress, known for Bryunetka za 30 kopeek (1991), Syn predsedatelya (1976) and Fruza (1982). She died on 21 April 1996.
- Maria Malanowicz-Niedzielska was born on 30 November 1899 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. She was an actress, known for Geniusz sceny (1938). She died on 8 October 1943 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.