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- Montreal-born Huntley Gordon was educated in both Canada and England, and upon completing his education took a job with the Bank of Montreal, later starting his own stock trading firm. However, he had had a taste of "the stage" in amateur productions, and soon gave up the business life for that of an actor, moving to New York and eventually managing to get small parts in Broadway productions. As luck would have it, one day he ran into a friend who was on his way to the Lambs Club to offer an actor who was living there a part in a film being shot by Vitagraph in New York City. Gordon said that he would take the part, and he was soon in front of the cameras. Director Ralph Ince took Gordon under his wing and secured him a contract with Vitagraph. Gordon became a reliable leading man and character actor in silents and, unlike many of his contemporaries, easily made the transition into sound films. He made his last film in 1941. He died of a heart attack at his home in Van Nuys, CA, in 1956.
- Resat Nuri Güntekin was born on 25 November 1889 in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]. Resat Nuri was a writer, known for Çalikusu (1966), Bir Dag Masali (1967) and Dudaktan kalbe (1951). Resat Nuri died on 7 December 1956 in London, England, UK.
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Composer, songwriter, author, arranger and conductor Arthur Lange was educated in private music study and later became an arranger for Broadway musicals and dance orchestras. In 1929, he became the head of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer music department, and assumed similar duties at other film studios. Between 1947 and 1956 he conducted the Santa Monica Civic Symphony, which he had organized. He joined ASCAP in 1924. Mr. Lange had two boys by his first wife, from whom he separated in the late 1920s and finally divorced in 1931. He then married Marjorie Joesting, a runner-up for Miss America of 1926. Art and Margie had met during the 1927 run of the Broadway musical "Honeymoon Lane". They had no children. In addition to his skills as a composer and arranger, Lange was the musical director for Cameo Records, which were sold by R.H. Macy & Co. and other distributors.- Henry Fillmore was born on 3 December 1881 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was married to Mabel May Jones. He died on 7 December 1956 in Miami, Florida, USA.
- Václav Zatíranda was born on 7 January 1876. He was an actor, known for Plameny zivota (1921), Za svobodu národa (1920) and Nocní des (1914). He died on 7 December 1956.