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- David Gluck was born on 22 January 1950 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was an actor, known for Pink Flamingos (1972). He died on 2 June 2020 in Pikesville, Maryland, USA.
- Sammy Ross was born on 11 January 1923 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was an actor, known for The War Lord (1965), Trading Mom (1994) and Willa: An American Snow White (1998). He died on 11 December 2010 in Pikesville, Maryland, USA.
- Baltimore native William J. Ferguson was primarily a stage actor, making less than twenty films. But he does hold an interesting place in American history. Born twenty years before the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Ferguson worked as a printer's devil at the Baltimore Clipper newspaper at the outbreak of the Civil War. After leaving the paper, he took a job as a call boy at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. On the night of April 14, 1865, "Our American Cousin" was being presented at the theatre, with President Lincoln in attendance. When an actor failed to report for the performance, Ferguson was pressed into service to do a short scene. He witnessed John Wilkes Booth shoot the President, and later wrote a short book entitled "I Saw Booth Shoot Lincoln." Ferguson always claimed that Booth never uttered the phrase "sic semper tyrannis." However, Ferguson's account did have slight variations over the years, so one should take his stories with a grain of salt. Shortly before retirement, he went to Los Angeles to appear in the 1922 film The Yosemite Trail (1922). He suffered a hip injury which eventually forced him into retirement in 1924. In 1930, he moved to Pikesville, Maryland, to live with his nephew. He was working on his memoirs, entitled "Sixty Years on the New York Stage," when he died on May 3, 1930. At his passing, he was the last surviving cast member of the company who had witnessed Lincoln's assassination.
- Leo Bretholz was a Holocaust survivor who, in 1942, escaped from a train heading for Auschwitz. He escaped seven more times during the Holocaust before finally joining the Jewish Resistance Group Compagnons De France, known as "La Sixieme." He was assigned to Limoges, a city in south-central France where he remained until he departed on a ship for New York on January 19, 1947. Together with his aunt and uncle he moved to Baltimore, Maryland. Later he co-wrote an autobiography, "Leap into Darkness," with Michael Olesker. He also appeared in the documentary film, "See You Again Soon."
- Jacob Beser was born on 15 March 1921 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He died on 16 June 1992 in Pikesville, Maryland, USA.
- Royal Parker was born on 8 April 1929 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was married to Phyllis Gordon. He died on 8 January 2016 in Pikesville, Maryland, USA.