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- Actor
- Soundtrack
As a young man Robert Allen, born Irvine E. Theodore Baehr, learned about horses: he played polo, hunted fox, and rode in the cavalry of of New York Military School, graduating there in 1924. After graduating Dartmouth College in 1929 with a degree in English he worked for a bank which failed in the Depression. Then he flew as a commercial pilot, but that company also folded. His next stop was Hollywood where he quickly landed acting jobs. While he often was cast in the studio's more adult-targeted productions such as The Awful Truth (1937), studio boss Harry Cohn was seeking a suitable replacement for the troublesome (yet wildly popular) Ken Maynard in their more modestly budgeted western unit. Allen's place in film history came in the a half dozen "Bob Allen, Ranger" movies produced in 1936 and 1937. Allen became good friends with his frequent co-star (and sometime movie bad guy), Hal Taliaferro and enjoyed a good working relationship with co-star Tim McCoy. He couldn't sing or play guitar, so when Columbia decided to challenge Gene Autry they went with a new cowboy star, Roy Rogers, and Allen's western career was over. He appeared more than 40 movies and made numerous TV appearances, but he turned primarily to Broadway and Off Broadway for the rest of his acting life. He filled major parts in "Show Boat" and "Kiss Them for Me" and played the nasty Mr. Babcock in "Auntie Mame," playing the part with both Rosalind Russell and Greer Garson. In 1964 he became a real estate broker. He died at age 92 in 1998, survived by daughter Katherine Meyer and son Dr. Theodore Baehr.- Doris Thalmer was born on 20 July 1907 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She was an actress, known for Acht Mädels im Boot (1932), Hedda Gabler (1980) and Geheimakten Solvay (1953). She died on 9 October 1998 in Bad Saarow, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Composer
- Music Department
Ryszard Lindenberg was born on 10 December 1921. Ryszard was a composer, known for Kruk (1976), Shtern oyfn dakh (1979) and Jak cudne sa wspomnienia (1977). Ryszard died on 9 October 1998.- Con Meyer was born on 5 October 1948 in Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands. He was an actor, known for Dagboek van een herdershond (1978), Soldier of Orange (1977) and Naked Over the Fence (1973). He died on 9 October 1998 in The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
- Helmut Blume was born on 12 April 1914 in Berlin, Germany. He died on 9 October 1998 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
- St. John Terrell was born on 12 December 1916 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a writer, known for The Doctor's Strategy (1915) and Robert Montgomery Presents (1950). He died on 9 October 1998 in Ewing Township, New Jersey, USA.
- Born on the Oglala Sioux reservation, the daughter of an Egyptian-born medical doctor and a Baltimore native of German ancestry, Gulnar Khieralla finished high school in Chicago at the age of fifteen and would subsequently earn a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, specializing in Islamic art. In a teaching career of over thirty years, culminating as head of the art department at Florida State University, she wrote a number of books and papers and also served as president of the Southeastern College Art Conference in 1958. She was married to Gerry Bosch, a noted artist.