Born on this day – Lois Weber:

Lois Weber

Director

Writer

Actress

June 13, 1879 – November 13, 1939

Credits:

White Heat (1934); The Angel of Broadway (1927); Topsy and Eva (1927); Sensation Seekers (1927); The Marriage Clause (1926); A Chapter in Her Life (1923); What Do Men Want? (1921); The Blot (1921); Too Wise Wives (1921); What's Worth While? (1921); Mum's the Word (1920); Life's Mirror (1920); To Please One Woman (1920); Forbidden (1919); Home (1919); Mary Regan (1919); A Midnight Romance (1919); When a Girl Loves (1919); Borrowed Clothes (1918); For Husbands Only (1918); The Doctor and the Woman (1918); The Price of a Good Time (1917); The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1917); Even As You and I (1917); The Boyhood He Forgot (1917); The Mysterious Mrs. Musslewhite (1917); Alone in the World (1917); The Gilded Life (1916); The Rock of Riches (1916); The People vs. John Doe (1916); The Celebrated Stielow Case (1916); Wanted: A Home (1916); Idle Wives (1916); Under the Spell (1916); Saving the Family Name (1916); Shoes (1916); The Eye of God (1916); Where Are My Children? (1916); John Needham's Double (1916); The Dance of Love (1916); There Is No Place Like Home (1916); The Flirt (1916); Hop - The Devil's Brew (1916); The Dumb Girl of Portici (1916); Discontent (1916); The Children Shall Pay (1916); Idle Wives (1916); Jewel (1915); A Cigarette - That's All (1915); Scandal (1915); Betty in Search of a Thrill (1915); Captain Courtesy (1915); Sunshine Molly (1915); Hypocrites (1915); It's No Laughing Matter (1915); Helping Mother (1914); The Traitor (1914); Daisies (1914); Behind the Veil (1914); Plain Mary (1914); Lost by a Hair (1914); The Pursuit of Hate (1914); Closed Gates (1914); The Stone in the Road (1914); Avenged (1914); The Triumph of Mind (1914); The Career of Waterloo Peterson (1914); An Episode (1914); On Suspicion (1914); The Man Who Slept (1914); The Baby's Doll (1914); In the Days of His Youth (1914); The Spider and Her Web (1914); A Modern Fairy Tale (1914); The Weaker Sister (1914); The Merchant of Venice (1914); Woman's Burden (1914); An Old Locket (1914); The Coward Hater (1914); The Leper's Coat (1914); A Fool and His Money (1914); False Colors (1914); The Female of the Species (1914); The Wife's Deceit (1913); The Jew's Christmas (1913); The Mask (1913); James Lee's Wife (1913); The Blood Brotherhood (1913); The Haunted Bride (1913); Two Thieves and a Cross (1913); The Clue (1913); The Thumb Print (1913); Memories (1913); Shadows of Life (1913); His Brand (1913); Never Again (1913); The Light Woman (1913); Just in Time (1913); Civilized and Savage (1913); The Fallen Angel (1913); How Men Propose (1913); Through Strife (1913); Suspense (1913); The Pretender (1913); The King Can Do No Wrong (1913); The Trifler (1913); The Cap of Destiny (1913); The Poverty of Riches (1913); The Rosary (1913); The Dragon's Breath (1913); A Book of Verses (1913); Until Death (1913); Bobby's Baby (1913); The Peacemaker (1913); An Empty Box (1913); Troubled Waters (1913); In the Blood (1913); Two Thieves (1913); His Sister (1913); Leaves in the Storm (1912); Faraway Fields (1912); A Japanese Idyll (1912); An Old Fashioned Girl (1912); The Greater Christian (1912); The Troubadour's Triumph (1912); The Lash of Fate (1912); The Greater Love (1912); The Power of Thought (1912); The Price of Peace (1912); Eyes That See Not (1912); The Final Pardon (1912); The Bargain (1912); Fine Feathers (1912); Angels Unaware (1912); The Martyr (1911); The Price (1911); A Breach of Faith (1911); Fate (1911); On the Brink (1911); The Twins (1911); From Death to Life (1911); The Realization (1911); The Heiress (1911); A Heroine of '76 (1911).

Born on this day – Freeman Wills Crofts:

Freeman Wills Crofts

Writer

June 1, 1879 – April 11, 1957

Credits:

A Losing Game (1941); A Scream in Soho (1940); A Surprise for Christmas and Other Seasonal Mysteries (2020); Antidote to Venom (1938); Antidote to Venom (1938); Anything to Declare? (1957); Bats in the Belfry (1937); Blood on the Tracks (2018); Blood on the Tracks (2018); Bodies from the Library (1953); Calamity in Kent (1950); Capital Crimes: London Mysteries (2015); Castle Skull (1931); Checkmate to Murder (1944); Continental Crimes (2017); Crime at Guildford (1935); Crimson Snow (2016); Crossed Skis (1952); Dark Journey / French Strikes Oil (1951); Death Has Deep Roots (1951); Death in Fancy Dress (1933); Death in the Tunnel / Dark in the Tunnel (1936); Death Makes a Prophet (1947); Death of a Busybody (1942); Death of a Train (1946); Death of an Airman (1934); Death on the Cherwell (1935); Death on the Riviera (1952); Death on the Way (1932); Deep Waters: Murder on the Waves (2019); Double Death (1985); Due to a Death (1963); Enemy Unseen (1945); Excellent Intentions (1938); Family Matters (1933); Fatal Venture (1939); Fear Comes to Chalfont (1942); Fell Murder (1944); Fifty Famous Detectives of Fiction (1948); Fire in the Thatch (1946); Foreign Bodies (2017); Found Floating (1937); Golden Age of Detection Puzzle Book (2018); Golden Ashes (1940); Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror (1931); Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries (2021); Inspector French and Sir John Magill’s Last Journey (1930); Inspector French and the Cheyne Mystery (1926); Inspector French and the Sea Mystery (1928); Inspector French and the Starvel Hollow Tragedy (1927); Inspector French’s Greatest Case (1924); It Walks by Night (1930); James Tarrant, Adventurer (1941); Man Overboard (1936); Many a Slip (1955); Miraculous Mysteries (2017); Murder at the Manor (2016); Murder by Matchlight (1945); Murder in the Mill-Race (1952); Murder in the Museum (1938); Murder of a Lady (1931); Murder On The Railways (2003); Murder Underground (1934); Murderers Make Mistakes (1947); Murder's a Swine: A Second World War Mystery (1943); Mystery in the Channel (1931); Mystery in the Channel (1931); Mystery in White (1937); Mystery of the Sleeping Car Express (1956); Mystery on Southampton Water (1934); Nine Detective Stories (1964); Portrait of a Murderer (1933); Resorting to Murder (2015); Scarweather (1934); Serpents in Eden (2016); Settling Scores: Sporting Mysteries (2020); Seven Dead (1939); Silence for the Murderer (1949); Silent Nights (2015); Six Against the Yard (1937); Smallbone Deceased (1950); Somebody at the Door (1943); Sudden Death (1932); Surfeit of Suspects (1964); The 12.30 from Croydon (1934); The 12.30 from Croydon (1934); The Affair at Little Wokeham (1943); The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939); The Belting Inheritance (1965); The Body in the Dumb River (1961); The Box Office Murders (1929); The Cask (1920); The Cheltenham Square Murder (1937); The Chianti Flask (1934); The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories (2018); The Christmas Egg (1958); The Colour Of Murder (1957); The Cornish Coast Murder (1935); The Corpse in the Waxworks / The Waxworks Murder (1932); The Danger Within / Death in Captivity (1952); The Dead Shall be Raised & Murder of a Quack (1942); The Division Bell Mystery (1932); The End of Andrew Harrison (1938); The End of the Web (1976); The Female Detective (1864); The Groote Park Murder (1923); The Hog's Back Mystery (1933); The Hog's Back Mystery (1933); The Incredible Crime (1931); The Lake District Murder (1935); The Last Best Friend (1967); The Long Arm of the Law (2017); The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction (2004); The Loss of the Jane Vosper (1936); The Lost Gallows (1931); The Measure of Malice (2019); The Notting Hill Mystery (1862); The Pit-Prop Syndicate (1922); The Pocket Detective 2: 100+ More Puzzles, Brainteasers and Conundrums (2019); The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929); The Ponson Case (1921); The Port of London Murders (1938); The Progress of a Crime (1960); The Realm of the Impossible (2017); The Santa Klaus Murder (1936); The Scoop and Behind the Screen (1983); The Secret of High Eldersham / The Mystery of High Eldersham (1930); The Spoilt Kill (1961); The Spy Paramount (1934); The Sussex Downs Murder (1936); The Traitor (1936); The Z Murders (1931); Thirteen Guests (1938); Trouble on the Thames (1945); Two-Way Murder (2021); Verdict of Twelve (1940).

Born on this day – Kathlyn Williams:

Kathlyn Williams

Actress

Director

Writer

May 31, 1879 – September 23, 1960

Credits:

1861 (1911); A Colonel in Chains (1914); A Girl Named Mary (1919); A Little Child Shall Lead Them (1913); A Man, a Girl, and a Lion (1917); A Man's Home (1921); A Private Scandal (1921); A Romance of the Western Hills (1910); A Single Man (1929); A Sultana of the Desert (1915); A Virginia Courtship (1921); A Welded Friendship (1913); A Wise Old Elephant (1913); A Woman Laughs (1914); An Unexpected Fortune (1912); As the Fates Decree (1912); Back to the Primitive (1911); Big Timber (1917); Blasted Hopes (1910); Blood Money (1933); Broadway Gold (1923); Busy Day at the Selig General Office (1911); Captain Kate (1911); Caryl of the Mountains (1914); Chip of the Flying U (1914); Clarence (1922); Daddy Long Legs (1931); Dad's Girls (1911); Dora Thorne (1910); Driftwood (1912); Ebb Tide (1915); Everything for Sale (1921); Forbidden Fruit (1921); Getting Married (1911); Gold Is Not All (1910); Harbor Island (1912); Hearts and Masks (1914); Her Husband's Women (1929); Her Kingdom of Dreams (1919); Her Only Son (1913); Her Purchase Price (1919); Her Sacrifice (1914); Honeymoon Flats (1928); How They Stopped the Run on the Bank (1911); Hush (1921); I Hear Her Calling Me (from the Heart of Africa) (1917); In Old California When the Gringos Came (1911); In the African Jungle (1917); In the Midst of the Jungle (1913); In Tune with the Wild (1914); Into the Primitive (1916); Jealous George (1911); Jim and Joe (1911); Just a Wife (1920); Lieutenant Jones (1913); Life on the Border (1911); Lines of White on a Sullen Sea (1909); Locked Doors (1925); Lost in the Jungle (1911); Lost in Transit (1917); Man and His Other Self (1913); Maud Muller (1911); Mazeppa, or the Wild Horse of Tartary (1910); Morals (1921); Mrs. Hilton's Jewels (1913); Number 13, Westbound (1916); On Thanksgiving Day (1908); On the Trail of the Germs (1912); Our Dancing Daughters (1928); Out of the Wreck (1917); Paid Back (1911); Pioneer Days (1917); Quest of His Youth (1920); Redeeming Love (1916); Rendezvous at Midnight (1935); Road to Paradise (1930); Sally in Our Alley (1927); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 17 (1923); Single Wives (1924); Sons of the North Woods (1912); Souls for Sale (1923); Sweet Alyssum (1915); Sweet Lady Peggy (1916); Taming Wild Animals (1910); Ten Nights in a Bar Room (1911); The Adopted Son (1912); The Adventures of Kathlyn (1913); The Artist and the Brute (1913); The Best People (1925); The Better Wife (1919); The Black Orchid (1916); The Brand of Cain (1916); The Brotherhood of Man (1912); The Burglar Who Robbed Death (1913); The Carpet from Bagdad (1915); The Child of the Sea (1913); The City That Never Sleeps (1924); The Coming of Columbus (1912); The Coquette's Awakening (1915); The Cost of Hatred (1917); The Court of Death (1914); The Cruel Crown (1914); The Curse of the Redman (1911); The Devil, the Servant and the Man (1912 / 1916); The Enemy Sex (1924); The Fire Chief's Daughter (1910); The Flight of the Crow (1913); The Forged Parchment (1914); The Garden of Brides (1914); The Girl and the Judge (1913); The Girl at the Cupola (1912); The Girl with the Lantern (1912); The Governor's Daughter (1913); The Highway of Hope (1917); The Horseshoe (1912); The House of His Master (1912); The House That Shadows Built (1931); The Inner Mind (1911); The King's Will (1914); The Lady or the Tigers (1914); The Last Dance (1912); The Leopard's Foundling (1914); The Lipton Cup: Introducing Sir Thomas Lipton (1913); The Losing Fight (1914); The Love of Penelope (1913); The Man from the East (1911); The Mansion of Misery (1913); The Merry Wives of Windsor (1910); The Ne'er Do Well (1915); The Painted Flapper (1924); The Prince Chap (1920); The Prosecuting Attorney (1912); The Queen of Hearts (1910); The Return (1916); The Rosary (1915); The Rose of Old St. Augustine (1911); The Royal Slave (1914); The Single Standard (1929); The Spanish Dancer (1923); The Speck on the Wall (1914); The Spellbound Multitude (1914); The Spoilers (1914); The Stolen Melody (1913); The Story of the Blood Red Rose (1914); The Strange Case of Talmai Lind (1915); The Stronger Mind (1912); The Survival of the Fittest (1911); The Temple of the Lion (1914); The Temptation of Adam (1916); The Thing We Love (1918); The Tide of Destiny (1913); The Tragedy That Lived (1914); The Tree and the Chaff (1913); The Tree of Knowledge (1920); The Turning Point (1912); The Two Ordeals (1914); The Two Orphans (1911); The U.P. Trail (1920); The Unwelcome Throne (1913); The Valiants of Virginia (1916); The Vision of the Shepherd (1915); The Wanderer (1925); The Warrior Maid (1914); The Wheels of Justice (1911); The Whispering Chorus (1918); The Witch of the Everglades (1911); The Woman of It (1914); The World's Applause (1923); The Young Mrs. Eames (1913); heir Stepmother (1913); Thor, Lord of the Jungles (1913); Thou Shalt Not (1910); Thou Shalt Not Covet (1916); Three Bags of Silver (1914); Till Death Us Do Part (1914); Trimmed in Scarlet (1923); Two Men and a Woman (1913); Two Too Many (1913); Unholy Love (1932); Wanderer of the Wasteland (1924); We Americans (1928); We Can't Have Everything (1918); Wedding Rings (1929); When a Girl Loves (1924); When Memory Calls (1912); When the Heart Rules (1912); With Love's Eyes (1913); Woman: Past and Present (1913).

Born on this day – Thomas Meighan:

Thomas Meighan

Actor

April 9, 1879 – July 8, 1936

Credits:

Peck's Bad Boy (1934); Madison Square Garden (1932); Cheaters at Play (1932); Skyline (1931); Young Sinners (1931); The Argyle Case (1929); The Mating Call (1928); The Racket (1928); The City Gone Wild (1927); We're All Gamblers (1927); Blind Alleys (1927); The Canadian (1926); Tin Gods (1926); Fascinating Youth (1926); The New Klondike (1926); Irish Luck (1925); The Man Who Found Himself (1925); Old Home Week (1925); Coming Through (1925); Tongues of Flame (1924); The Alaskan (1924); The Confidence Man (1924); Pied Piper Malone (1924); Woman-Proof (1923); Hollywood (1923); Homeward Bound (1923); The Ne'er-Do-Well (1923); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 13 (1922); A Trip to Paramountown (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 1 (1922); Gloria Swanson and Thomas Meighan / Short (1922); Back Home and Broke (1922); The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (1922); Manslaughter (1922); If You Believe It, It's So (1922); Our Leading Citizen (1922); The Bachelor Daddy (1922); A Prince There Was (1921); Cappy Ricks (1921); The Conquest of Canaan (1921); White and Unmarried (1921); The City of Silent Men (1921); The Easy Road (1921); Frontier of the Stars (1921); Quest of His Youth (1920); Civilian Clothes (1920); The Prince Chap (1920); Why Change Your Wife? (1920); Peg o' My Heart (1919); Male and Female (1919); The Thunderbolt (1919); The Miracle Man (1919); The Probation Wife (1919); The Heart of Wetona (1919); Norma Talmadge and Thomas Meighan in a Liberty Loan Appeal / Short (1918); The Forbidden City (1918); Out of a Clear Sky (1918); Heart of the Wilds (1918); In Pursuit of Polly (1918); Missing (1918); M'Liss (1918); Eve's Daughter (1918); Madame Jealousy (1918); The Land of Promise (1917); Arms and the Girl (1917); The Mysterious Miss Terry (1917); Her Better Self (1917); The Silent Partner (1917); Sleeping Fires (1917); Sapho (1917); The Slave Market (1917); The Heir to the Hoorah (1916); The Storm (1916); Common Ground (1916); The Dupe (1916); The Clown (1916); The Sowers (1916); The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1916); Pudd'nhead Wilson (1916); The Immigrant (1915); Armstrong's Wife (1915); The Secret Sin (1915); Blackbirds (1915); Out of the Darkness (1915); The Fighting Hope (1915); Kindling (1915); Danny Donovan, the Gentleman Cracksman (1914).

Born on this day – Edward Dillon:

Edward Dillon

Actor

Director

Writer

January 1, 1879 – July 11, 1933

As actor:

Sherlock Holmes (1932); The Golden West (1932); Young Ironsides (1932); Week Ends Only (1932); While Paris Sleeps (1932); The Trial of Vivienne Ware (1932); The Nickel Nurser (1932); Love Pains (1932); Sob Sister (1931); Catch-As Catch-Can (1931); Let's Do Things (1931); The Iron Man (1931); Thundering Tenors (1931); Reducing (1931); Looser Than Loose (1930); Fifty Million Husbands (1930); Caught Short (1930); Whispering Whoopee (1930); Hot for Paris (1929); The Locked Door (1929); The Broadway Melody (1929); Lilac Time (1928); The Skyrocket (1926); America (1924); The Lady Drummer (1916); A Calico Vampire (1916); Intolerance (1916); The French Milliner (1916); Laundry Liz (1916); Bedelia's Bluff (1916); Mr. Goode, Samaritan (1916); The Two O'Clock Train (1916); Don Quixote (1915); Shocking Stockings (1915); Only a Messenger Boy (1915); Faithful to the Finish (1915); The Fatal Finger Prints (1915); The Deacon's Whiskers (1915); A Chase by Moonlight (1915); Beppo, the Barber (1915); Where Breezes Blow (1915); Brave and Bold (1915); Ethel's Romance (1915); Ethel's Disguise (1915); Ethel's Doggone Luck (1915); A Costly Exchange (1915); Ethel Gets Consent (1915); Bill Turns Valet (1915); A Flurry in Art (1915); A Flyer in Spring Water (1915); His Lesson (1915); The Record Breaker (1914); Bill and Ethel at the Ball (1914); The Housebreakers (1914); Mr. Hadley's Uncle (1914); Ethel Has a Steady (1914); Casey's Vendetta (1914); Bill Joins the W.W.W.'s (1914); Dizzy Joe's Career (1914); The Million Dollar Bride (1914); Bill Manages a Prizefighter (1914); Foiled Again (1914); Bill Organizes a Union (1914); A Physical Culture Romance (1914); Bill Saves the Day (1914); The Mix-Up at Murphy's (1914); Ethel's Teacher (1914); Search, the Scientific Detective (1914); Leave It to Smiley (1914); The White Slave Catchers (1914); Fatty and the Heiress (1914); The Deceiver (1914); Hubby to the Rescue (1914); Nell's Eugenic Wedding (1914); Home, Sweet Home (1914); The Right Dope (1914); When a Woman Guides (1914); The Fatal Dress Suit (1914); The Doctor's Trust (1914); Judith of Bethulia (1914); An Interrupted Séance (1914); A Desperate Hero (1914); The Faddists (1914); Buy Wool (1914); The Mystery of the Milk (1914); The Suicide Pact (1913); Oh, Sammy! (1913); The Troublesome Mole (1913); Mixed Nuts (1913); An Evening with Wilder Spender (1913); Aunts, Too Many! (1913); The Lady in Black (1913); Among Club Fellows (1913); Edwin's Badge of Honor (1913); The Work Habit (1913); The Suffragette Minstrels (1913); An Indian's Loyalty (1913); Cupid and the Cook (1913); Mr. Spriggs Buys a Dog (1913); While the Count Goes Bathing (1913); Pa Says (1913); The Sweat-Box (1913); A Sea Dog's Love (1913); The Noisy Suitors (1913); An Old Maid's Deception (1913); Faust and the Lily (1913); Master Jefferson Green (1913); A Compromising Complication (1913); The Mothering Heart (1913); The Rise and Fall of McDoo (1913); Almost a Wild Man (1913); Jenks Becomes a Desperate Character (1913); Red Hicks Defies the World (1913); Just Kids (1913); The Trimmers Trimmed (1913); Cinderella and the Boob (1913); A Rainy Day (1913); A Horse on Bill (1913); He Had a Guess Coming (1913); The Little Tease (1913); A Lesson to Mashers (1913); Their One Good Suit (1913); Edwin Masquerades (1913); The Old Gray Mare (1913); All Hail to the King (1913); The Power of the Camera (1913); A Delivery Package (1913); Tightwad's Predicament (1913); The Spring of Life (1913); Broken Ways (1913); A Queer Elopement (1913); Look Not Upon the Wine (1913); Love in an Apartment Hotel (1913); An Up-to-Date Lochinvar (1913); There Were Hoboes Three (1913); Oh, What a Boob! (1913); What Is the Use of Repining? (1913); Kissing Kate (1913); The Bite of a Snake (1913); Bill Bogg's Windfall (1912); The Massacre (1912); She Is a Pippin (1912); Jinx's Birthday Party (1912); After the Honeymoon (1912); An Absent-Minded Burglar (1912); The Informer (1912); Their Idols (1912); Hoist on His Own Petard (1912); His Auto's Maiden Trip (1912); The Club-Man and the Crook (1912); A Real Estate Deal (1912); At the Basket Picnic (1912); A Limited Divorce (1912); A Ten-Karat Hero (1912); Love's Messenger (1912); Stern Papa (1912); Blind Love (1912); Getting Rid of Trouble (1912); Through Dumb Luck (1912); Mr. Grouch at the Seashore (1912); The Baron (1912); An Interrupted Elopement (1912); The Baron (1912); The Would-Be Shriner (1912); Willie Becomes an Artist (1912); The Speed Demon (1912); One Round O'Brien (1912); The Baron (1912); The Spirit Awakened (1912); The Baron (1912); Algy the Watchman (1912); A Close Call (1912); The Baron (1912); When the Fire-Bells Rang (1912); The Leading Man (1912); The Baron (1912); Won by a Fish (1912); Their First Kidnapping Case (1912); Help! Help! (1912); Those Hicksville Boys (1912); Oh, Those Eyes (1912); A Voice from the Deep (1912); The Baron (1912); The Root of Evil (1912); A String of Pearls (1912); Priscilla's Capture (1912); A Blot on the 'Scutcheon (1912); With a Kodak (1912); For His Son (1912); The Old Bookkeeper (1912); Did Mother Get Her Wish? (1912); The Engagement Ring (1912); The Baby and the Stork (1912); The Voice of the Child (1911); Caught with the Goods (1911); Taking His Medicine (1911); The Failure (1911); Why He Gave Up (1911); Sunshine Through the Dark (1911); Her Mother Interferes (1911); The Adventures of Dollie (1908); The Miser's Heart (1911); Their First Divorce Case (1911); The Long Road (1911); Through His Wife's Picture (1911); Josh's Suicide (1911); The Making of a Man (1911); Too Many Burglars (1911); When Wifey Holds the Purse Strings (1911); A Convenient Burglar (1911); The Baron: The Villain Foiled (1911); The Diving Girl (1911); An Interrupted Game (1911); The Adventures of Billy (1911); Bobby, the Coward (1911); The Jealous Husband (1911); Fighting Blood (1911); The Delayed Proposal (1911); Bearded Youth (1911); Enoch Arden: Part II (1911); Enoch Arden: Part I (1911); Their Fates 'Sealed' (1911); Dave's Love Affair (1911); Curiosity (1911); Dutch Gold Mine (1911); The Crooked Road (1911); The Manicure Lady (1911); Misplaced Jealousy (1911); The Two Sides (1911); A Knight of the Road (1911); Madame Rex (1911); The Chief's Daughter (1911); Priscilla and the Umbrella (1911); The Spanish Gypsy (1911); Cured (1911); Priscilla's April Fool Joke (1911); The Lonedale Operator (1911); A Decree of Destiny (1911); Fisher Folks (1911); What Shall We Do with Our Old? (1911); Priscilla's Engagement Ring (1911); Three Sisters (1911); The Poor Sick Men (1911); Fate's Turning (1911); The Midnight Marauder (1911); The Italian Barber (1911); When a Man Loves (1911); After the Ball (1910); White Roses (1910); The Lesson (1910); His Sister-in-Law (1910); Turning the Tables (1910); Happy Jack, a Hero (1910); Effecting a Cure (1910); A Plain Song (1910); Sunshine Sue (1910); Simple Charity (1910); The Fugitive (1910); Waiter No. 5 (1910); Two Little Waifs (1910); The Message of the Violin (1910); The Banker's Daughters (1910); The Masher (1910); A Lucky Toothache (1910); That Chink at Golden Gulch (1910); A Gold Necklace (1910); Examination Day at School (1910); Rose o' Salem Town (1910); The Oath and the Man (1910); A Summer Tragedy (1910); In Life's Cycle (1910); A Mohawk's Way (1910); Little Angels of Luck (1910); Muggsy Becomes a Hero (1910); The Affair of an Egg (1910); The Modern Prodigal (1910); Wilful Peggy (1910); The Sorrows of the Unfaithful (1910); The Usurer (1910); A Salutary Lesson (1910); Her Father's Pride (1910); An Arcadian Maid (1910); The Call to Arms (1910); As the Bells Rang Out! (1910); A Flash of Light (1910); A Child's Faith (1910); A Midnight Cupid (1910); Muggsy's First Sweetheart (1910); A Child's Impulse (1910); The Marked Time-Table (1910); The Face at the Window (1910); In the Border States (1910); A Victim of Jealousy (1910); The Purgation (1910); The Impalement (1910); A Change of Heart (1909); The Little Teacher (1909); One Busy Hour (1909); The Suicide Club (1909); The Salvation Army Lass (1909); The Brahma Diamond (1909); The Welcome Burglar (1909); The Reckoning (1908); The Feud and the Turkey (1908); After Many Years (1908); Where the Breakers Roar (1908); Monday Morning in a Coney Island Police Court (1908); Deceived Slumming Party (1908); The Tavern Keeper's Daughter (1908); The Black Viper (1908); The Fight for Freedom (1908); The Stage Rustler (1908); The Kentuckian (1908); At the Crossroads of Life (1908); At the French Ball (1908); Over the Hill to the Poorhouse (1908); The Outlaw (1908); The Man in the Box (1908); The Invisible Fluid (1908); Mixed Babies (1908); Ostler Joe (1908); The Romance of an Egg (1908); Thompson's Night Out (1908); His Day of Rest (1908); The Sculptor's Nightmare (1908); Hulda's Lovers (1908); Old Isaacs, the Pawnbroker (1908); At the Crossroads of Life  (1908); The Boy Detective, or the Abductors Foiled (1908); The Princess in the Vase (1908); Bobby's Kodak (1908); Classmates (1908); Lonesome Junction (1908); Falsely Accused! (1908); The Village Cutup (1906); The Nihilist (1905).

As director:

Kentucky (1926); Flame of the Argentine (1926); The Dice Woman (1926); The Danger Girl (1926); The Drums of Jeopardy (1923); Broadway Gold (1923); Women Men Marry (1922); The Beauty Shop (1922); A Heart to Let (1921); Sheltered Daughters (1921); The Education of Elizabeth (1921); The Frisky Mrs. Johnson (1920); Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1920); The Amateur Wife (1920); The Winning Stroke (1919); Putting One Over (1919); Help! Help! Police! (1919); Never Say Quit (1919); Luck and Pluck (1919); The Embarrassment of Riches (1918); Our Little Wife (1918); The Antics of Ann (1917); Might and the Man (1917); A Daughter of the Poor (1917); Rough Knight (1916); Glass Slide (1916); The Lady Drummer (1916); The French Milliner (1916); Skirts (1916); Laundry Liz (1916); Bedelia's Bluff (1916); Mr. Goode, Samaritan (1916); The Two O'Clock Train (1916); Sunshine Dad (1916); The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary (1916); Don Quixote (1915); The Jinx on Jenks (1915); Over and Back (1915); Shocking Stockings (1915); Faithful to the Finish (1915); The Fatal Finger Prints (1915); Father Love (1915); The Deacon's Whiskers (1915); Safety First (1915); A Chase by Moonlight (1915); Beppo, the Barber (1915); Where Breezes Blow (1915); Brave and Bold (1915); Ethel's New Dress (1915); By Fair Means or Foul (1915); Mixed Values (1915); Ethel's Doggone Luck (1915); Caught by the Handle (1915); Bill Gives a Smoker (1915); A Costly Exchange (1915); Ethel Gets Consent (1915); Music Hath Charms (1915); Bill Turns Valet (1915); Cupid and the Pest (1915); A Flurry in Art (1915); A Flyer in Spring Water (1915); Love and Business (1915); Ethel Gets the Evidence (1915); The Record Breaker (1914); Bill and Ethel at the Ball (1914); The Housebreakers (1914); Mr. Hadley's Uncle (1914); A Corner in Hats (1914); Ethel Has a Steady (1914); Out Again, in Again (1914); Ethel's Roof Party (1914); Casey's Vendetta (1914); Bill Joins the W.W.W.'s (1914); Dizzy Joe's Career (1914); Bill Spoils a Vacation (1914); The Million Dollar Bride (1914); Bill Manages a Prizefighter (1914); Foiled Again (1914); The Fire Chief's Bride (1914); Bill Goes in Business for Himself (1914); The Mascot (1914); Bill Organizes a Union (1914); A Physical Culture Romance (1914); Bill Saves the Day (1914); The Mix-Up at Murphy's (1914); Ethel's Teacher (1914); Bill Takes a Lady Out to Lunch... Never Again (1914); Search, the Scientific Detective (1914); Leave It to Smiley (1914); How Bill Squared It with His Boss (1914); It Was Some Party (1914); Wrong All Around (1914); Bill's Job (1914); The White Slave Catchers (1914); The Deceiver (1914); Hubby to the Rescue (1914); A Jonah (1914); The Last Drink of Whiskey (1914); An Exciting Courtship (1914); The Alarm (1914); Nell's Eugenic Wedding (1914); The Man in the Couch (1914); The Scene of His Crime (1914); Maniacs Three (1914); Izzy and the Bandit (1914); Nearly a Burglar's Bride (1914); The Right Dope (1914); The Fatal Dress Suit (1914); Skelley's Birthday (1914); After Her Dough (1914); Because of a Hat (1914); An Interrupted Séance (1914); Skelley and the Turkey (1914); Skelley Buys a Hotel (1914); Skelley's Skeleton (1914); Oh, Sammy! (1913); A Foul and Fearful Plot (1913); The Troublesome Mole (1913); How the Day Was Saved (1913); Binks' Vacation (1913); The Somnambulists (1913); A Circumstantial Hero (1913); He's a Lawyer (1913); A Cure for Suffragettes (1913); Mrs. Casey's Gorilla (1913); Mixed Nuts (1913); In the Hands of the Black Hands (1913); Boarders and Bombs (1913); A Barber Cure (1913); An Evening with Wilder Spender (1913); The Winning Punch (1913); A Fallen Hero (1913); McGann and His Octette (1913); Aunts, Too Many! (1913); Never Known to Smile (1913); Scenting a Terrible Crime (1913); Dyed But Not Dead (1913); With the Aid of Phrenology (1913); A Saturday Holiday (1913); The End of the World (1913); His Hoodoo (1913).

As writer:

Don Key (Son of Burro) (1926); Wandering Papas (1926); Faithful to the Finish (1915); Safety First (1915); A First Class Cook (1914); Skelley's Birthday (1914); Skelley Buys a Hotel (1914); Mixed Nuts (1913); Come Seben, Leben (1913); Cupid and the Cook (1913); The Divorcee (1912); The Leading Man (1912); The Romance of an Egg (1908); Lonesome Junction (1908).

Born on this day – Sydney Greenstreet:

Sydney Greenstreet

Actor

December 27, 1879 – January 18, 1954

Credits:

Malaya (1949); It's a Great Feeling (1949); Flamingo Road (1949); The Velvet Touch (1948); The Woman in White (1948); Ruthless (1948); The Hucksters (1947); That Way with Women (1947); The Verdict (1946); Devotion (1946); Three Strangers (1946); Christmas in Connecticut (1945); Pillow to Post (1945); Conflict (1945); Hollywood Canteen (1944); The Conspirators (1944); The Mask of Dimitrios (1944); Between Two Worlds (1944); Passage to Marseille (1944); Background to Danger (1943); Casablanca (1942); Across the Pacific (1942); They Died with Their Boots On (1941); The Maltese Falcon (1941).

Born on this day – William Duncan:

William Duncan

Actor

Director

December 16, 1879 – February 8, 1961

Credits:

A Canine Matchmaker; or, Leave It to a Dog (1913); A Child of the North (1915); A Citizen in the Making (1912); A Cowboy's Best Girl (1912); A Cowboy's Mother (1912); A Cripple Creek Cinderella (1916); A Fight for Millions (1918); A Friend in Need (1914); A Matrimonial Deluge (1913); A Mix-Up on the Plains (1914); A Modern Ananias (1912); A Motorcycle Adventure (1912); A New York Cowboy (1911); A Romance of the Forest Reserve (1914); A Romance of the Rio Grande (1911); A Rough Ride with Nitroglycerine (1912); A Scandal in Hickville (1915); A Tennessee Love Story (1911); A Wartime Romance (1912); Aladdin from Broadway (1917); An Apache's Gratitude (1913); An Embarrassed Bridegroom (1913); An Equine Hero (1912); An Innocent Delilah (1914); An Unexpected Fortune (1912); Ann, the Blacksmith (1914); Anne of the Mines (1914); Bar 20 Justice (1938); Between Love and the Law (1912); Bill Peter's Kid (1916); Bill's Birthday Present (1913); Billy Smoke (1917); Buck's Romance (1912); Bud's Heiress (1913); Buster's Little Game (1913); By Unseen Hand (1914); Cal Marvin's Wife (1915); Circumstantial Evidence (1912); Cupid in the Cow Camp (1913); Dead Shot Baker (1917); Detective and Matchmaker (1914); Dishwash Dick's Counterfeit (1913); Driftwood (1912); Everything Against Him (1914); Exposed by the Dictograph (1912); Fighting Fate (1921); Forlorn River (1937); God's Country and the Woman (1916); Good Resolutions (1914); Hello, 'Frisco (1924); He's a Bear (1915); His Chance to Make Good (1912); His Father's Deputy (1913); His Golden Grain (1915); Hopalong Rides Again (1937); How Betty Made Good (1913); How It Happened (1913); Howlin' Jones (1913); Hypnotized (1912); In Little Italy (1912); Jim's Vindication (1912); Juggling with Fate (1913); Kidding the Boss (1914); Law of the Pampas (1939); Love and Law (1915); Made a Coward (1913); Man of Might (1919); Mareea, the Foster Mother (1914); Marian, the Holy Terror (1914); Marrying Gretchen (1914); Money Magic (1917); Monte Cristo (1912); Mother Love vs Gold (1913); Nevada (1935); No Defense (1921); No Defense (1921); Physical Culture on the Quarter Circle V Bar (1913); Playing It Wild (1923); Pure Gold (1914); Queen of the Mob (1940); Religion and Gun Practice (1913); Risen from the Ashes (1914); Sallie's Sure Shot (1913); Saved from the Vigilantes (1913); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 6 (1920); Sisters (1914); Smashing Barriers (1919 / 1923); So-Jun-Wah and the Tribal Law (1912); Steelheart (1921); Taming a Tenderfoot (1913); Texas Rangers Ride Again (1940); That Mail Order Suit (1913); The Bank's Messenger (1913); The Boob (1912); The Brand Blotter (1912); The Brotherhood of Man (1912); The Bully of Bingo Gulch (1911); The Capture of Bad Brown (1913); The Cattle Rustlers (1912); The Cattle Thief's Escape (1913); The Chalice of Courage (1915); The Child of the Prairies (1913); The Choice (1914); The Cost of High Living (1916); The Cowboy Editor (1913); The Dawn of the New Day (1914); The Decision (1918); The Deputy's Sweetheart (1913); The Double Cross (1912); The Dynamiters (1912); The Ebony Casket (1915); The Escape of Jim Dolan (1913); The Farmer's Daughter (1940); The Fast Express (1924); The Fighting Guide (1922); The Fighting Instinct (1912); The Fighting Trail (1917); The Frontiersmen (1938); The Galloping Romeo (1913); The Game of Life (1915); The Girl He Left Behind (1912); The Good Indian (1913); The Gray Wolves (1911); The Gunfighter's Son (1913); The Horseshoe (1912); The Jealousy of Miguel and Isabella (1913); The Last Man (1916); The Law and the Outlaw (1913); The Law of the North (1912); The Level (1914); The Life Timer (1913); The Little Sister (1914); The Man from the Desert (1915); The Marshal's Capture (1913); The Mystery of Lake Lethe (1917); The Navajo Ring (1915); The New Editor (1911); The Only Chance (1913); The Opium Smugglers (1912); The Other Woman (1912); The Peculiar Nature of the White Man's Burden (1912); The Polo Substitute (1912); The Quarrel (1915); The Range Law (1913); The Ranger and His Horse (1912); The Red Stephano (1915); The Rejected Lover's Luck (1913); The Renegade's Vengeance (1914); The Repentance of Dr. Blinn (1915); The Rustler's Reformation (1913); The Scapegoat (1912); The Schoolmarm's Shooting Match (1913); The Señorita's Repentance (1913); The Servant Question Out West (1914); The Sheriff and the Rustler (1913); The Sheriff of Yavapai County (1913); The Shotgun Man and the Stage Driver (1913); The Silent Avenger (1920); The Silent Vow (1922); The Silver Grindstone (1913); The Steel Trail (1923); The Stolen Moccasins (1913); The Suffragette (1913); The Taming of Texas Pete (1913); The Telltale Knife (1911); The Tenderfoot (1917); The Vagabonds (1912); The Wanderers (1916); The Warrant (1911); The Wayfarer (1912); The Wheels of Justice (1911); The Whiskey Runners (1912); The Widow of Rickie O'Neal (1912); Three on the Trail (1936); Thrills of Yesterday (1931); Through the Wall (1916); Thunder Trail (1937); Told in Colorado (1911); Two Lives (1911); Two Men and a Girl (1912); Two Sacks of Potatoes (1913); Vengeance - and the Woman (1917); Ward's Claim (1914); Western Hearts (1911); When Danger Smiles (1922); When the Gods Forgive (1914); When the Heart Calls (1912); Where Men Are Men (1921); Why Jim Reformed (1912); Why the Sheriff Is a Bachelor (1911); Wolves of the North (1924).

Born on this day – Laura Hope Crews:

Laura Hope Crews

Actress

December 12, 1879 – November 13, 1942

Credits:

New York Town (1941); One Foot in Heaven (1941); The Flame of New Orleans (1941); Lady with Red Hair (1940); I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now (1940); Girl from Avenue A (1940); The Blue Bird (1940); Gone with the Wind (1939); Remember? (1939); Reno (1939); The Rains Came (1939); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939); The Star Maker (1939); Idiot's Delight (1939); Thanks for the Memory (1938); The Sisters (1938); Doctor Rhythm (1938); Angel (1937); Confession (1937); The Road Back (1937); Camille (1936); Her Master's Voice (1936); The Melody Lingers On (1935); Escapade (1935); Behold My Wife! (1934); Lightning Strikes Twice (1934); The Age of Innocence (1934); If I Were Free (1933); Ever in My Heart (1933); Rafter Romance (1933); Blind Adventure (1933); I Loved You Wednesday (1933); The Silver Cord (1933); Out All Night (1933); New Morals for Old (1932); Charming Sinners (1929); Blackbirds (1915); The Fighting Hope (1915).

Born on this day – Vachel Lindsay:

Vachel Lindsay

Writer

November 10, 1879 – December 5, 1931

Credits:

Poems:

A Curse for Kings; A Dirge for a Righteous Kitten; A Net to Snare the Moonlight; A Prayer To All The Dead Among Mine Own People; A Rhyme About an Electrical Advertising Sign; A Sense of Humor; Above the Battle's Front; Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight; Aladdin and the Jinn; Alone in the Wind, on the Prairie; An Apology for the Bottle Volcanic; An Argument; An Indian Summer Day on the Prairie; At Mass; Beyond the Moon; Blanche Sweet; Buddha; By the Spring, at Sunset; Caught in a Net; Concerning Emperors; Darling Daughter of Babylon; Drying Their Wings; Eden in Winter; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Epilogue; Epitaphs For Two Players; Euclid; Factory Windows Are Always Broken; Foreign Missions in Battle Array; Galahad, Knight Who Perished; General William Booth Enters into Heaven; Genesis; Ghosts in Love; Heart of God; Here's to the Mice!; Honor Among Scamps; How a Little Girl Danced; How a Little Girl Sang; How I Walked Alone in the Jungles of Heaven; How Samson Bore Away the Gates of GazaI Heard Immanuel Singing; I Went Down into the Desert; In Memory of a Child; In Praise of Songs that Die; Incense; King Arthur's Men Have Come Again; Lincoln; Look You, I'll Go Pray; Love and Law; Mae Marsh, Motion Picture Actress; Mark Twain and Joan of Arc; Michaelangelo; My Lady in Her White Silk Shawl; Niagara; On Reading Omar Khayyam; On the Building of Springfield; On the Garden Wall; On the Road to Nowhere; Our Guardian Angels and Their Children; Our Mother Pocahontas; Popcorn, Glass Balls, and Cranberries; Prologue to Rhymes to be Traded for Bread; Queen Mab in the Village; Rhymes for Gloriana; Shakespeare; Springfield Magical; St. Francis of Assisi; Star of My Heart; Sunshine; Sweet Briars of the Stairways; Sweethearts of the Year; The Alchemist's Petition; The Amaranth; The Angel and the Clown; The Bankrupt Peace-Maker; The Beggar's Valentine; The Black Hawk War of the Artists; The Booker Washington Trilogy; The Broncho That Would Not Be Broken; The Chinese Nightingale; The City That Will Not Repent; The Congo; The Cornfields; The Dandelion; The Drunkard's Funeral; The Drunkards in the Street; The Eagle That Is Forgotten; The Empty Boats; The Encyclopaedia; The Fairy Bridal-Hymn; The Firemen's Ball; The Flower of Mending; The Flower-Fed Buffaloes; The Gamblers; The Ghosts of the Buffaloes; The Haughty Snail-King; The Hearth Eternal; The Hope of the Resurrection; The Illinois Village; The Jingo and the Minstrel; The King of Yellow Butterflies; The Knight in Disguise; The Leaden-Eyed; The Light o' the Moon; The Lion; The Little Turtle; The Master of the Dance; The Merciful Hand; The Moon is a Painter; The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky; The Mysterious Cat; The North Star Whispers to the Blacksmith's Son; The Perfect Marriage; The Potatoes' Dance; The Prairie Battlements; The Proud Farmer; The Queen of Bubbles; The Raft; The Rose of Midnight; The Santa-Fe Trail (A Humoresque); The Scissors-Grinder; The Song of the Garden-Toad; The Sorceress!; The Soul of the City Receives the Gift of the Holy Spirit; The Spice-Tree; The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly; The Strength of the Lonely; The Sun Says His Prayers; The Tale Of The Tiger-Tree; The Trap; The Traveller-Heart; The Tree of Laughing Bells; The Unpardonable Sin; The Wedding of the Rose and the Lotos; The Wizard in the Street; This Section is a Christmas Tree; This, My Song, Is Made For Kerensky; TitianTo Buddha; To Gloriana; To Jane Addams at the Hague; To Lady Jane; To Mary Pickford; To Reformers in Despair; To the United States Senate; Two Old Crows; Upon Returning to the Country Road; We Meet at the Judgment and I Fear It Not; What Semiramis Said; What the Coal-Heaver Said; What the Ghost of the Gambler Said; What the Gray-Winged Fairy Said; What the Miner in the Desert Said; What the Moon Saw; What the Rattlesnake Said; What the Sexton Said; When Bryan Speaks; When Gassy Thompson Struck It Rich; Where Is David, the Next King of Israel?; Where Is the Real Non-Resistant; Who Knows?; Why I Voted the Socialist Ticket; With a Bouquet of Twelve Roses; Written for a Musician; Yankee Doodle; Yet Gentle Will the Griffin Be.

Movie and television:

Dead Poets Society (poem The Congo quoted) (1989); The Fantasmagori (2017).

Born on this day – King Baggot:

King Baggot

Actor

Director

Writer

November 7, 1879 – July 11, 1948

Credits:

Good News (1947); Merton of the Movies (1947); My Brother Talks to Horses (1947); The Secret Heart (1946); Holiday in Mexico (1946); Courage of Lassie (1946); The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946); Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945); Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945); Phantoms, Inc. (1945); Dangerous Partners (1945); The Clock (1945); An American Romance (1944); Barbary Coast Gent (1944); Girl Crazy (1943); Swing Fever (1943); Three Hearts for Julia (1943); A Stranger in Town (1943); Air Raid Wardens (1943); Assignment in Brittany (1943); A Yank at Eton (1942); Tish (1942); Her Cardboard Lover (1942); Jackass Mail (1942); Sunday Punch (1942); Rio Rita (1942); Fingers at the Window (1942); We Were Dancing (1942); The Vanishing Virginian (1942); Honky Tonk (1941); The Big Store (1941); The People vs. Dr. Kildare (1941); Ziegfeld Girl (1941); The Penalty (1941); Rage in Heaven (1941); Come Live with Me (1941); The Philadelphia Story (1940); Gallant Sons (1940); Bitter Sweet (1940); Hullabaloo (1940); The Ghost Comes Home (1940); I Take This Woman (1940); Drunk Driving (1939); Dancing Co-Ed (1939); Miracles for Sale (1939); They All Come Out (1939); Stronger Than Desire (1939); 6,000 Enemies (1939); Tell No Tales (1939); Money to Loan (1939); The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939); Burn 'Em Up O'Connor (1939); Sweethearts (1938); Opening Day (1938); Stablemates (1938); Too Hot to Handle (1938); Boys Town (1938); The Crowd Roars (1938); Think It Over (1938); Marie Antoinette (1938); The Toy Wife (1938); A Criminal Is Born (1938); Snow Gets in Your Eyes (1938); That Mothers Might Live (1938); Arsène Lupin Returns (1938); Love Is a Headache (1938); Man-Proof (1938); A Night at the Movies (1937); Give Till It Hurts (1937); Big City (1937); Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937); The Emperor's Candlesticks (1937); A Day at the Races (1937); It May Happen to You (1937); Parnell (1937); A Family Affair (1937); Man of the People (1937); Torture Money (1937); Mad Holiday (1936); Sworn Enemy (1936); Violets in Spring (1936); The Devil-Doll (1936); San Francisco (1936); We Went to College (1936); Speed (1936); Next Time We Love (1936); The Adventures of Frank Merriwell (1936); A Night at the Opera (1935); 3 Kids and a Queen (1935); She Gets Her Man (1935); Chinatown Squad (1935); The Call of the Savage (1935); Mississippi (1935); It Happened in New York (1935); I've Been Around (1935); Night Life of the Gods (1935); Sweepstake Annie (1935); A Notorious Gentleman (1935); Father Brown, Detective (1934); Cheating Cheaters (1934); Tailspin Tommy (1934); Romance in the Rain (1934); The Red Rider (1934); The Love Captive (1934); The Black Cat (1934); Beloved (1934); Only Yesterday (1933); I Loved a Woman (1933); Skyway (1933); The Death Kiss (1932); Afraid to Talk (1932); The Big Flash (1932); Hello Trouble (1932); What Price Hollywood? (1932); Police Court (1932); Sporting Chance (1931); Girl of the Rio (1932); Scareheads (1931); Graft (1931); Sweepstakes (1931); Bad Sister (1931); Once a Gentleman (1930); Czar of Broadway (1930); Romance of a Rogue (1928); The House of Scandal (1928); Down the Stretch (1927); The Notorious Lady (1927); Perch of the Devil (1927); Life in Hollywood No. 4 (1927); Lovey Mary (1926); Tumbleweeds (1925); The Home Maker (1925); Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman (1925); The Tornado (1924); The Gaiety Girl (1924); The Whispered Name (1924); The Thrill Chaser (1923); The Darling of New York (1923); Crossed Wires (1923); The Town Scandal (1923); Gossip (1923); The Love Letter (1923); A Dangerous Game (1922); The Lavender Bath Lady (1922); The Kentucky Derby (1922); Human Hearts (1922); Kissed (1922); Snowy Baker (1921); The Shadow of Lightning Ridge (1921); The Butterfly Girl (1921); The Girl in the Taxi (1921); Nobody's Fool (1921); Moonlight Follies (1921); Luring Lips (1921); Cheated Love (1921); The Forbidden Thing (1920); The Dwelling Place of Light (1920); Life's Twist (1920); The Cheater (1920); The Thirtieth Piece of Silver (1920); The Hawk's Trail (1919); The Man Who Stayed at Home (1919); Mission of the War Chest (1918); Building for Democracy (1918); Kildare of Storm (1918); The Eagle's Eye (1918); I'll Fix It (1918); Undoing Evil (1917); The Boonton Affair (1917); Are You an Elk? (1916); The Lie Sublime (1916); The Chance Market (1916); The Silent Stranger (1916); The Captain of the Typhoon (1916); His Own Story (1916); The Man Across the Street (1916); The Man from Nowhere (1916); Jim Slocum No. 46393 (1916); Half a Rogue (1916); Won with a Make-Up (1916); The Haunted Bell (1916); Patterson of the News (1916); The Hoax House (1916); The Soul Man (1916); The Law of Life (1916); Almost a Papa (1915); Man or Money? (1915); The Reward (1915); An All Around Mistake (1915); His Home Coming (1915); The Suburban (1915); Crime's Triangle (1915); The Only Child (1915); The New Jitney in Town (1915); His New Automobile (1915); The Marble Heart (1915); Mismated (1915); The Riddle of the Silk Stockings (1915); A Strange Disappearance (1915); A Life in the Balance (1915); Fifty-Fifty (1915); The Corsican Brothers (1915); Tony (1915); At the Banquet Table (1915); The Streets of Make Believe (1915); The City of Terrible Night (1915); One Night (1915); The Five Pound Note (1915); Pressing His Suit (1915); An Oriental Romance (1915); The Story the Silk Hats Told (1915); The Millionaire Engineer (1915); Three Times and Out (1915); The Old Guard (1914); The Mill Stream (1914); Human Hearts (1914); The Treasure Train (1914); The Turn of the Tide (1914); Shadows (1914); The Man Who Was Misunderstood (1914); The Silent Valley (1914); Jim Webb, Senator (1914); One Best Bet (1914); Across the Atlantic (1914); A Mexican Warrior (1914); Notoriety (1914); The Baited Trap (1914); The Blood Test (1914); King the Detective in the Marine Mystery (1914); The Flaming Diagram (1914); The Touch of a Child (1914); The Box Couch (1914); King the Detective in Formula 879 (1914); Absinthe (1914); The Militant (1914); King the Detective in the Jarvis Case (1913); The Actor's Christmas (1913); Mr. and Mrs. Innocence Abroad (1913); The Return of Tony (1913); Love vs. Law (1913); The Child Stealers of Paris (1913); The Anarchist (1913); Ivanhoe (1913); The Stranger (1913); The Old Melody (1913); The Comedian's Mask (1913); The Heart That Sees (1913); The Rise of Officer 174 (1913); The Leader of His Flock (1913); The Wanderer (1913); To Reno and Back (1913); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913); King Danforth Retires (1913); Dr. Bunion (1913); Gold Is Not All (1913); She Slept Through It All (1913); The Bearer of Burdens (1913); The Wizard of the Jungle (1913); The World Weary Man (1912); Through Shadowed Vales (1912); Mamma's Boy (1912); Officer One Seven Four (1912); A Strange Case (1912); John Sterling, Alderman (1912); King the Detective and the Smugglers (1912); The Bridal Room (1912); The Parson and the Moonshiner (1912); The Millionaire Cop (1912); Human Hearts (1912); A Happy Family (1912); The Castaway (1912); In Old Tennessee (1912); Blood Is Thicker Than Water (1912); Winning the Latonia Derby (1912); Caught in a Flash (1912); A Child's Influence (1912); His Other Self (1912); The Schemers (1912); Let No Man Put Asunder (1912); The Breakdown (1912); Up Against It (1912); The Peril (1912); A Cave Man Wooing (1912); Lady Audley's Secret (1912); The Loan Shark (1912); Tempted But True (1912); The Romance of an Old Maid (1912); The Man from the West (1912); Shamus O'Brien (1912); Far from the Beaten Track (1912); The Immigrant's Violin (1912); The Lie (1912); A Modern Highwayman (1912); The Tables Turned (1912); Through the Flames (1912); O'Brien's Busy Day (1912); The Power of Conscience (1912); The Kid and the Sleuth (1912); After Many Years (1912); The Dawn of Conscience (1912); The Winning Miss (1912); The Trinity (1912); A Lesson to Husbands (1911); A Pair of Gloves (1911); The Girl and the Half-Back (1911); Tony and the Stork (1911); Over the Hills (1911); Executive Clemency (1911); The Wife's Awakening (1911); Waiting at the Church (1911); King, the Detective (1911); The Better Way (1911); Through the Air (1911); The Rose's Story (1911); By Registered Mail (1911); The Brothers (1911); The Haunted House (1911); The Battle of the Wills (1911); Dorothy's Family (1911); The Call of the Song (1911); Science (1911); At a Quarter of Two (1911); For the Queen's Honor (1911); In the Sultan's Garden (1911); The Piece of String (1911); Back to the Soil (1911); The Minor Chord (1911); The Master and the Man (1911); The Fair Dentist (1911); The Temptress (1911); Second Sight (1911); The Scarlet Letter (1911); Where There's Life, There's Hope (1911); The Lover's Signal (1911); Sweet Memories (1911); The Penniless Prince (1911); The Secret of the Palm (1911); Tracked (1911); Pictureland (1911); The Mirror (1911); At the Duke's Command (1911); An Imaginary Elopement (1911); Phone 1707 Chester (1911); Unreasonable Jealousy (1910); The Aspirations of Gerald and Percy (1910); The Double (1910); The Count of Montebello (1910); All the World's a Stage (1910); Pressed Roses (1910); Debt (1910); The Widow (1910); The Taming of Jane (1910); Among the Roses (1910); Once Upon a Time (1910); The Irony of Fate (1910); Bear Ye One Another's Burdens (1910); Old Heads and Young Hearts (1910); The Call of the Circus (1910); A Game for Two (1910); A Self-Made Hero (1910); A Discontented Woman (1910); A Reno Romance (1910); The Eternal Triangle (1910); Fruit and Flowers (1910); The Doctor's Perfidy (1910); Two Men (1910); The New Shawl (1910); The Maelstrom (1910); The Rosary (1910); His Second Wife (1910); The Miser's Daughter (1910); Transfusion (1910); The Stage Note (1910); His Sick Friend (1910); The Time-Lock Safe (1910); The Broken Oath (1910); Mother Love (1910); The Governor's Pardon (1910); Jane and the Stranger (1910); The Blind Man's Tact (1910); Justice in the Far North (1910); The Coquette's Suitors (1910); Never Again (1910); The Tide of Fortune (1910); The Right of Love (1910); The Winning Punch (1910); The Awakening of Bess (1909); Love's Stratagem (1909).

Born on this day – Will Rogers:

Will Rogers

Vaudevillian

Actor

November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935

Credits:

Stand Up and Cheer! (1934); In Old Kentucky (1935); Steamboat Round the Bend (1935); Doubting Thomas (1935); Life Begins at 40 (1935); The County Chairman (1935); Judge Priest (1934); Handy Andy (1934); David Harum (1934); Mr. Skitch (1933); Doctor Bull (1933); State Fair (1933); Too Busy to Work (1932); Down to Earth (1932); Business and Pleasure (1932); Ambassador Bill (1931); Young as You Feel (1931); A Connecticut Yankee (1931); Lightnin' (1930); So This Is London (1930); They Had to See Paris (1929); Happy Days (1929); A Texas Steer (1927); Tiptoes (1927); Roaming the Emerald Isle with Will Rogers (1927); With Will Rogers in Dublin (1927); Gee Whiz, Genevieve (1924); A Truthful Liar (1924); Our Congressman (1924); Jubilo, Jr. (1924); Don't Park There (1924); Going to Congress (1924); High Brow Stuff (1924); The Cake Eater (1924); The Cowboy Sheik (1924); Two Wagons: Both Covered (1924); Uncensored Movies (1923); Hustlin' Hank (1923); Jus' Passin' Through (1923); Hollywood (1923); Fruits of Faith (1922); The Headless Horseman (1922); The Ropin' Fool (1922); One Glorious Day (1922); A Poor Relation (1921); Doubling for Romeo (1921); An Unwilling Hero (1921); Boys Will Be Boys (1921); Guile of Women (1920); Honest Hutch (1920); Cupid the Cowpuncher (1920); Jes' Call Me Jim (1920); The Strange Boarder (1920); Water, Water, Everywhere (1920); Jubilo (1919); Almost a Husband (1919); Laughing Bill Hyde (1918); Roaring Camp (1916).

Born on this day – Jane Darwell:

Jane Darwell

Actress

October 15, 1879 – August 13, 1967

Credits:

Mary Poppins (1964); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962); Burke's Law (1963); Follow the Sun (1961); Lassie (1954); Wagon Train (1957); The Real McCoys (1957); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958); New Comedy Showcase (1960); Hound-Dog Man (1959); Buckskin (1958); The Last Hurrah (1958); Matinee Theatre (1955); Maverick (1957); Studio One (1948); The Eighty Yard Run: Playhouse 90 (1956–1957); Circus Boy (1957); The Sheriff of Cochise (1956); Schlitz Playhouse (1951); Cavalcade of America (1952); Girls in Prison (1956); My Friend Flicka (1955); The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1954); Screen Directors Playhouse (1955); There's Always Tomorrow (1956); Studio 57 (1954); Climax! (1954); The Ford Television Theatre (1952); Willy (1954); A Life at Stake (1955); Hit the Deck (1955); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1953); The Loretta Young Show (1953); Fireside Theatre (1949); The Bigamist (1953); Affair with a Stranger (1953); It Happens Every Thursday (1953); The Sun Shines Bright (1953); Hollywood Opening Night (1952); We're Not Married! (1952); The Red Skelton Hour (1951); Personal Appearance Theater (1951); Journey Into Light (1951); Excuse My Dust (1951); The Lemon Drop Kid (1951); Father's Wild Game (1950); The Second Face (1950); Three Husbands (1950); Redwood Forest Trail (1950); Surrender (1950); Caged (1950); Wagon Master (1950); The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady (1950); Red Canyon (1949); 3 Godfathers (1948); Train to Alcatraz (1948); The Red Stallion (1947); Keeper of the Bees (1947); My Darling Clementine (1946); Three Wise Fools (1946); The Dark Horse (1946); Captain Tugboat Annie (1945); A Yank in London (1945); Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944); She's a Sweetheart (1944); Music in Manhattan (1944); The Impatient Years (1944); Reckless Age (1944); Tender Comrade (1943); Government Girl (1943); Family Feud (1943); Stage Door Canteen (1943); The Ox-Bow Incident (1943); Gildersleeve's Bad Day (1943); The Great Gildersleeve (1942); Highways by Night (1942); The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942); Men of Texas (1942); It Happened in Flatbush (1942); Small Town Deb (1942); On the Sunny Side (1942); Young America (1942); All Through the Night (1942); All That Money Can Buy (1941); Private Nurse (1941); Thieves Fall Out (1941); Chad Hanna (1940); Youth Will Be Served (1940); Brigham Young (1940); Untamed (1940); The Grapes of Wrath (1940); Miracle on Main Street (1939); Gone with the Wind (1939); 20,000 Men a Year (1939); The Rains Came (1939); Grand Jury Secrets (1939); Unexpected Father (1939); The Zero Hour (1939); Inside Story (1939); Jesse James (1939); Up the River (1938); Five of a Kind (1938); Time Out for Murder (1938); Little Miss Broadway (1938); Three Blind Mice (1938); Battle of Broadway (1938); The Jury's Secret (1938); Change of Heart (1938); Dangerously Yours (1937); Wife, Doctor and Nurse (1937); The Singing Marine (1937); Slave Ship (1937); Fifty Roads to Town (1937); The Great Hospital Mystery (1937); Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937); Love Is News (1937); Laughing at Trouble (1936); Ramona (1936); Craig's Wife (1936); Star for a Night (1936); White Fang (1936); Poor Little Rich Girl (1936); Private Number (1936); Little Miss Nobody (1936); Captain January (1936); The First Baby (1936); The Country Doctor (1936); Paddy O'Day (1936); We're Only Human (1935); Metropolitan (1935); Navy Wife (1935); Curly Top (1935); Wig-Wag (1935); Life Begins at 40 (1935); McFadden's Flats (1935); One More Spring (1935); Bright Eyes (1934); Gentlemen Are Born (1934); The White Parade (1934); The Firebird (1934); Tomorrow's Youth (1934); Happiness Ahead (1934); Wake Up and Dream (1934); Desirable (1934); One Night of Love (1934); Million Dollar Ransom (1934); Embarrassing Moments (1934); Blind Date (1934); Most Precious Thing in Life (1934); Let's Talk It Over (1934); Change of Heart (1934); The Scarlet Empress (1934); Finishing School (1934); Once to Every Woman (1934); Journal of a Crime (1934); David Harum (1934); Wonder Bar (1934); Heat Lightning (1934); Fashions of 1934 (1934); Cross Country Cruise (1934); King for a Night (1933); Roman Scandals (1933); Design for Living (1933); Only Yesterday (1933); Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men (1933); Ann Vickers (1933); One Sunday Afternoon (1933); He Couldn't Take It (1933); Before Dawn (1933); Bed of Roses (1933); Good Housewrecking (1933); Jennie Gerhardt (1933); Emergency Call (1933); The Girl in 419 (1933); Bondage (1933); Murders in the Zoo (1933); Child of Manhattan (1933); The Past of Mary Holmes (1933); Air Hostess (1933); Women Won't Tell (1932); Hot Saturday (1932); Washington Merry-Go-Round (1932); Back Street (1932); The Strange Case of Clara Deane (1932); Young America (1932); No One Man (1932); Ladies of the Big House (1931); Huckleberry Finn (1931); Fighting Caravans (1931); Tom Sawyer (1930); Little Church Around the Corner (1923); The Restless Sex (1920); The Reform Candidate (1915); The Rug Maker's Daughter (1915); After Five (1915); The Goose Girl (1915); Hypocrites (1915); Rose of the Rancho (1914); Ready Money (1914); The Man on the Box (1914); The Only Son (1914); The Master Mind (1914); Brewster's Millions (1914); The White Squaw (1913); War of the Cattle Range (1913); In the Coils of the Python (1913); When Sherman Marched to the Sea (1913); The Head Hunters (1913); At Shiloh (1913); The Capture of Aguinaldo (1913).

Born on this day – Max Schreck:

Max Schreck

Actor

September 6, 1879 – February 20, 1936

Most famous for playing the vampire Count Orlok in Nosferatu (1922).

Born on this day – Fritzi Scheff:

Fritzi Scheff

Actress

Singer

August 30, 1879 – April 8, 1954

Credits:

This Is Your Life (1954); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1953); Footlights and Kleiglights (1951); Musical Comedy Time (1951); The Robert Q. Lewis Show (1950); We, the People (1949); The Ed Sullivan Show (1949–1953); Naughty Martine (1947); Follies Girl (1943); Pretty Mrs. Smith (1915); Animated Weekly, No. 112 (1914).

Born on this day – Ethel Barrymore:

Ethel Barrymore

Actress

August 15, 1879 – June 18, 1959

Credits:

All Star Revue (1951–1952); An American Widow (1917); Animated Weekly, No. 26 (1912); Camille (1926); Cancer Fund Film Notables Attend Glittering Benefits (1951); Climax! (1954); Daphni: Virgin of the Golden Laurels (1951); Deadline - U.S.A. (1952); Ethel Barrymore Theater (1956); Family Theatre (1952); General Electric Theater (1955); Hollywood Opening Night (1952); It's a Big Country: An American Anthology (1951); Johnny Trouble (1957); Just for You (1952); Kind Lady (1951); Life's Whirlpool (1917); Main Street to Broadway (1953); Moonrise (1948); Moss Rose (1947); National Red Cross Pageant (1917); NBC Television Opera Theatre (1950); Night Song (1947); None But the Lonely Heart (1944); Omnibus (1953); Our Mrs. McChesney (1918); Person to Person (1955); Pinky (1949); Playhouse 90 (1956); Popular Players Off the Stage (1913); Portrait of Jennie (1948); Rasputin and the Empress (1932); Remember ... 1938 (1955); Show-Business at War (1943); Starland Review No. 13 (1922); Svengali and the Blonde (1955); That Midnight Kiss (1949); The Awakening of Helena Ritchie (1916); The Call of Her People (1917); The Divorcee (1919); The Eternal Mother (1917); The Farmer's Daughter (1947); The Final Judgment (1915); The Great Sinner (1949); The Greatest Power (1917); The Kiss of Hate (1916); The Lifted Veil (1917); The Nightingale (1914); The Paradine Case (1947); The Red Danube (1949); The Secret of Convict Lake (1951); The Spiral Staircase (1946); The Story of Three Loves (1953); The White Raven (1917); What's My Line? (1952); Young at Heart (1954).