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Douglas Fairbanks Douglas Fairbanks. For his son, see Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Douglas Fairbanks (born Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman; May 23, 1883 – December 12, 1939) was an American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer. He was best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films such as The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro but spent the early part of his career making comedies.
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Now Flick's stuck forever! Classic flagpole-licking scene from A Christmas Story gets its own bronze statue Actor Scott Schwartz, better known to fans of the film as poor Flick who got his tongue stuck on a freezing metal flagpole outside the fictional Warren G. Harding Elementary School, was on hand to pose with his 14-year-old self cast in bronze. Scroll down for videos
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Russell Johnson, the Professor on âGilliganâs Island,â Dies at 89 Russell Johnson, an actor who made a living by often playing villains in westerns until he was cast as the Professor, the brains of a bunch of sweetly clueless, self-involved, hopelessly naïve island castaways, on the hit sitcom “Gilligan’s Island,” died on Thursday at his home in Bainbridge Island, Wash. He was 89.
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Obituary: Erik Carlsson 1929-2015 Share this article on Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Google+ Email. Sir Stirling Moss once described his brother-in-law and friend Erik Carlsson as: The best non-mechanical thing to come out of Trollhattan. Trollhattan is, of course, famous for two things. But those two things merged when Carlsson became universally known as Mr Saab, after competing across the world so successful in the ubiquitous 96.
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- Kirk Douglas at 100: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know. Kirk Douglas is one of Hollywood's best actors, with a body of work stretching from the 1940s to the 2000s. Here's a look at five unique facts about the star.
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- Robert Downey Jr. (left) and Benedict Cumberbatch. It’s no mystery that we are currently enjoying a surfeit of Sherlocks. Both Robert Downey Jr. and Benedict Cumberbatch are portraying that most famous of detectives, Sherlock Holmes, with wit and panache, the first on movie screens and the latter in a TV series.
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Biography Yul Brynner (I) (1920–1985) Exotic leading man of American films, famed as much for his completely bald head as for his performances, Yul Brynner masked much of his life in mystery and outright lies designed to tease people he considered gullible. It was not until the publication of the books Yul: The Man Who Would Be King and Empire and Odyssey by his son, Yul Rock ...
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Jay Silverheels Jay Silverheels was a Mohawk Canadian actor and athlete. He was well known for his role as Tonto, the faithful Indian companion of the Lone Ranger in the long-running American western television series, The Lone Ranger.
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Michael Douglas For the talk show host, see Mike Douglas. For other people named Michael Douglas, see Michael Douglas (disambiguation). Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer. Douglas's career includes a diverse range of films in independent and blockbuster genres, for which he has received a number of accolades, both competitive and honorary.
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Billionaire Banker David Rockefeller Dies At The Age Of 101 Who Is David Rockefeller? David was the youngest of six children to John D. Rockefeller Jr. and the grandson of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller. He graduated from Harvard University in 1936 and then went on to study at the University of Chicago in 1940, where he received a Doctorate in Economics.
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Musher Details Biography. Dallas Seavey, 28, current Iditarod champion, was born in Virginia and his family moved to Seward when he was five. He is a third generation musher who grew up helping his dad, Mitch, the 2004/2013 Iditarod champion, train his racing teams. He ran the Jr. Iditarod four times and in 2005, Dallas became the youngest musher in history to run the Iditarod.
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Douglas Fairbanks: extraordinary life of Hollywood founding father A new biography, doggedly researched and sharply written by Tracey Goessel, The First King of Hollywood: The Life of Douglas Fairbanks gives us a chance to consider the star in a new light, not least because it persistently interrogates much of his own myth-making.
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- North to Alaska (1960) An Alaskan prospector (John Wayne) escorts a girl from Seattle to a northern boom town. Comedy ensues when the girl falls for her escort and not the lovestruck partner for who she was intended.
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Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum Matthew Henson. On April 6, 1909, Matthew Henson stood atop the world with Robert Peary as co-discoverer of the North Pole. When Henson descended from the frigid north his reception was distinctly cool, even in contrast to Peary's less than wholesale embrace by the American public.
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The First King of Hollywood: The Life of Douglas Fairbanks Community Reviews. In fact, I stole this quote directly from Tracey Goessel's new, and dare I say, landmark biography of Fairbanks entitled The First King of Hollywood The Life of Douglas Fairbanks published this month by Chicago Review Press.
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- Cast Kirk Douglas Einar, Producer Tony Curtis Eric Ernest Borgnine King Ragnar Janet Leigh Princess Morgana James Donald Lord Egbert Alexander Knox Father Godwin Frank Thring King Aella Maxine Audley Enid Eileen Way Kitala Edric Connor Sandpiper Dandy Nichols Bridget Almut Berg Pigtails Per Buchhij Bjorn Orson Welles Narrator (uncredited) Crew Richard Fleischer
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Ralph Macchio Ralph George Macchio, Jr. (/ˈmɑːtʃi.oʊ/, Italian pronunciation: [ˈmakkjo]; born November 4, 1961) is an American actor, best known for his roles as Daniel LaRusso in The Karate Kid series, Eugene Martone in Crossroads, Bill Gambini in My Cousin Vinny, and Johnny Cade in The Outsiders.
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Ron Reaganâs memoir prompts disbelief, rage There isn’t a single image visible of Dutch, the Gipper, the Great Communicator. Ronald Reagan’s youngest son — he’s not a “junior” because his middle name, Prescott, is different from his dad’s, Wilson — isn’t a gatherer of relics. The son, now 52, can’t muster enthusiasm for present-day Reagan worship, either.
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- With the assassination of President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, not quite 43, became the youngest President in the Nation's history.
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Richard Armitage Talks Dwarf Humor, Script Changes During Production, Parallels Between Thorin and Frodoâs Journeys, and More on the Set of THE HOBBIT As Thorin Oakenshield, the leader of the company of dwarves that accompany Bilbo on his journey, Richard Armitage has a huge part in Peter Jackson ‘s The Hobbit.
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Biography Yul Brynner (I) (1920–1985) Actor | Director | Soundtrack. Exotic leading man of American films, famed as much for his completely bald head as for his performances, Yul Brynner masked much of his life in mystery and outright lies designed to tease people he considered gullible.
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The First King of Hollywood: The Life of Douglas Fairbanks The First King of Hollywood: The Life of Douglas Fairbanks. Silent film superstar Douglas Fairbanks was an absolute charmer. Irrepressibly vivacious, he spent his life leaping over and into things, from his early Broadway successes to his marriage to the great screen actress Mary Pickford to the way he made Hollywood his very own town.
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David Rockefeller David Rockefeller (born June 12, 1915) is an American banker who served as chairman and chief executive of Chase Manhattan Corporation. He is the oldest living member of the Rockefeller family and family patriarch since July 2004.Rockefeller is also the only surviving child of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and the only surviving grandchild of John D. Rockefeller and Laura Spelman Rockefeller.e is the oldest living member of the Rockefeller family and family patriarch since July 2004. Rockefeller is also the only surviving child of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and the only surviving grandchild of John D. Rockefeller and Laura Spelman Rockefeller.
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Will Magnificent Seven Be the Blockbuster the Box Office Needs? Storks deliver babies...or at least they used to. Now they deliver packages for global internet giant Cornerstore.com. Junior, the company's top delivery stork, is about to be promoted when he accidentally activates the Baby Making Machine, producing an adorable and wholly unauthorized baby girl.
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Alaska  ( 1996) Directed by Fraser C. Heston. With Thora Birch, Vincent Kartheiser, Dirk Benedict, Charlton Heston. While searching for their missing father in the mountains of Alaska, two siblings come across a baby polar bear on the run from a pair of poachers. Director: Fraser C. Heston
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Sutton Cafe Sutton is an old-fashioned New York Greek diner. An authentic one, not an ironic one. A dependable faded neighborhood place. The food is solid for its kind, the service efficient and pleasantly brash.