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Volume 2011 : Issue 83
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
5-26 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
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Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 15:59:54 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 5-26 births/deaths
May 26th births
05-26-1884 - Charles Winninger - Athens, WI - d. 1-19-1969
actor: Captain Henry "Show Boat"; Uncle Charlie "Uncle Charlie's Tent
Show"
05-26-1886 - Al Jolson - Srednick, Lithuania, Russia - d. 10-23-1950
singer: (The Jazz Singer) "Shell Chateau"; "Kraft Music Hall"
05-26-1887 - Paul Lukas - Budapest, Austria-Hungary - d. 8-15-1971
actor: Albert Einstein "Quick and the Dead"
05-26-1893 - Edward MacHugh - Dundee, Scotland - d. 2-3-1957
singer: "Gospel Singer"
05-26-1893 - Eugene Goosens - London, England - d. 6-13-1962
conductor: New York Philharmonic
05-26-1895 - Norma Talmadge - Jersey City, NJ - d. 12-24-1957
actor: "Thirty Minutes in Hollywood"
05-26-1903 - Austin Armer - d. 2-11-1984
flutist: KTAB Oakland, California
05-26-1904 - George Formby - Lancashire, England - d. 3-6-1961
singer, actor: "Manitoba Flood Relief Show"
05-26-1905 - Fred MacKaye - Hackettstown, NJ - d. 9-10-1980
actor, director: Monk Rice "Point Sublime"; "Lux Radio Theatre";
"Romance"
05-26-1905 - Margaret Fuller - Butler, PA - d. 1-6-1952
actor: "Attorney At Law"; "Today's Children"
05-26-1907 - John Wayne - Winterset, IA - d. 6-11-1979
actor: Dan O'Brien "Three Sheets to the Wind"
05-26-1908 - Robert Morley - Semley, England - d. 6-3-1992
actor: "[removed] Steel Hour"
05-26-1908 - Vera Van - Marion, OH - d. 4-16-1992
singer: "The George Jessel Show"; "The Vicks Open House"
05-26-1909 - Richard Maibaum - NYC - d. 1-4-1991
screen writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-26-1910 - Larry Rhine - San Francisco, CA - d. 10-27-2000
writer: "Duffy's Tavern"
05-26-1911 - Ben Alexander - Goldfield, NV - d. 7-5-1969
actor: Frank Smith "Dragnet"; Bashful Ben "Great Gildersleeve"
05-26-1912 - Barbara Lee - Denver, CO - d. 11-11-1986
actor: "Big Sister"; "Valiant Lady"; "Our Gal Sunday"
05-26-1913 - Peter Chushing - Kenley, England - d. 8-11-1994
actor: "Aliens in the Mind"
05-26-1914 - Ziggy Elman - Philadelphia, PA - d. 6-25-1968
trumpet: "Benny Goodman Orchestra", "The Tommy Dorsey Show"
05-26-1915 - Martin Stone - d. 6-7-1998
producer: "Howdy Doody"; "Author Meets the Critic"
05-26-1915 - Ray Austin - NYC - d. 6-24-1998
composer/arranger for many big bands
05-26-1915 - Sam Edwards - Macon, GA - d. 7-28-2004
actor: Tracy Baker "One Man's Family"; Dexter Franklin "Meet Corliss
Archer"
05-26-1915 - Vernon Alley - d. 10-3-2004
musician, disk jockey: San Francisco area
05-26-1918 - John Dall - NYC - d. 1-15-1971
actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "Voice of the Army"
05-26-1920 - Peggy Lee - Jamestown, ND - d. 1-21-2002
singer: "Jimmy Durante Show"; "Chesterfield Supper Club"; "Peggy Lee
Show"
05-26-1922 - Andrew (Fraser) Downie - Edingurgh, Scotland - d. 4-15-2009
actor: voice overs
05-26-1922 - William Froug - Brooklyn, NY
script writer: Jeff Regan
05-26-1923 - James Arness - Minneapolis, MN
announcer for station WLOL Minneapolis, Minnesota
05-26-1923 - Roy Dotrice - Island of Guernsey, Channel Islands
actor: Sir Gregory Pitkin "Men from the Ministry"
05-26-1924 - Leonard Maguire - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 9-12-1997
actor: "Navigator in the 7th Circle"; "Evening of Scottish Horrors"
05-26-1928 - Eugene Dinovi - Brooklyn, NY
composer, pianist: "Morningside"
05-26-1931 - Chet Norris - Brooklyn, NY
actor: "Tomorrow Calling"; "Cisco Kid"; "ABC Radio Workshop"
May 26th deaths
01-15-1913 - Frank Derrick - Maywood, IL - d. 5-26-1999
member of staff orchestra WBBM Chicago, Illinois
02-01-1916 - Helen Walpole - Birmingham, AL - d. 5-26-1992
actor: Sylvia Bardine "Just Plain Bill"; Frances "Lorenzo Jones"
02-28-1914 - Jim Boles - Lubbock, TX - d. 5-26-1977
actor: Doc Long "I Love A Mystery"; Fulmer Green "King's Row"
03-15-1904 - George Brent - Dublin, Ireland - d. 5-26-1979
actor, moderator: "Doctor Fights"; "Leave It to the Girls"; "Lux Radio
Theatre"
04-22-1906 - Eddie Albert - Rock Island, IL - d. 5-26-2005
actor: Walter Mitty "Secret Life of Walter Mitty"; "Eddie Albert Show"
05-31-1901 - Joe Kelly - Crawfordsville, IN - d. 5-26-1959
emcee, quizmaster: "National Barn Dance"; "Quiz Kids"
06-13-1912 - Sam Taylor - Chicago, IL - d. 5-26-2000
writer: "Tales ofWillie Piper"
07-08-1885 - John Brinkley - Jackson County, NC - d. 5-26-1942
the "goat gland doctor"
07-09-1919 - Earl Hagen - Chicago, IL - d. 5-26-2008
conductor: "Music With Wings"; Wrote TV Theme for "Andy Griffith Show"
07-17-1912 - Art Linkletter - Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada - d.
5-26-2010
emcee: "People Are Funny"; "House Party"
07-24-1915 - Lloyd Marx - d. 5-26-1988
composer, conductor: "Capitol Family Hour"; "Original Amateur Hour"
08-15-1888 - Albert Spalding - Chicago, IL - d. 5-26-1952
violinist: "Forecast"; "Pause That Refreshes . . . On the Air"
09-01-1925 - Colin Free - Sydney, Australia - d. 5-26-1996
writer: "Brain Drain"
09-08-1897 - Jimmie Rodgers - Meridian, MS - d. 5-26-1933
singer: "The Singing Brakeman"
Ron
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