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Vintage postcard.
German actor Raimund Harmstorf (1939-1998) became famous as the protagonist of the German TV mini series Der Seewolf/The Sea-Wolf (1971), based on Jack London's classic novel. Later on, he starred successfully in another German TV series Michael Strogoff: Der Kurier des Zaren/Michel Strogoff (1975), based on Jules Verne's adventure novel. Harmstorf was unforgettable as the handsome hero with a secret mission in an old Russia threatened by Kozaks and frozen rivers, wearing woolly hats and serious faces. Both series were sold to many countries. Harmstorf was also a star of the Eurowestern and his life ended as a tragedy. We will soon make another post on his interesting career and life.
Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb. For more postcards of classic TV shows, check out our set Vintage TV Heroes.
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I used to be...
...an athlete
...a wrestler
...a football player
...a track runner
...a thespian
...french student
...a newspaper delivery boy
...team captain
In the process of moving, I found a bin with all of my old trophies with some pictures and yearbooks from the high school days. I'm torn between throwing them all away as they are dusty and over twenty years old. Someone suggested that I take pictures of all the memorabilia and throw it away... but it is hard to do when sitting in front of all the stuff, FEELING the strong memories of way back then.
There are still things I plan to be in the future. I wonder how I will feel when I look back at the memories of today.
Aspiring actor and model. I've been stepping out of my comfort zone and doing more photo shoots lately. Watch out for Matthew, I believe he has it in him to do well in the business. Learn more about him here
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Comiccon Brussels 2026 - Spring - Q & A Misha Collins
Misha Collins
aka Castiel
We are beyond proud to announce an incredible guest for our event. The one and only Misha Collins is coming to the heart of Europe to meet all of his fans.
Worldwide, he is best known as the angel Castiel in the legendary series Supernatural. First introduced as the angel who raised Dean Winchester from perdition, Castiel quickly evolved from a powerful soldier of Heaven into one of the show's three central heroes. With his iconic trench coat, dry humor, unwavering loyalty, and deep belief in free will, he became an essential part of the Winchester family and one of the most beloved characters in the entire Supernatural universe.
Across fifteen seasons filled with demons, apocalypses, angels, and impossible choices, Castiel's journey was one of sacrifice, friendship, and humanity. Fans around the world connected deeply with his story, and that bond continues to live on far beyond the final episode.
The connection between Misha and the Supernatural family is truly something special. His warmth, authenticity, and appreciation for the fandom make every appearance unforgettable, and the love he receives is always returned wholeheartedly.
Comic Con Brussels will mark Misha Collins' very first time attending the event, and he is incredibly excited to finally meet his European fans. He cannot wait to share stories from the set, relive legendary moments, and experience the energy of the fandom in person.
Get ready for an unforgettable encounter that is nothing short of heavenly!
( COMIC CON BRUSSELS IS YOUR CELEBRATION OF GEEK CULTURE IN THE HEART OF EUROPE!
You will find us at the beautiful Tour & Taxis site near the Brussels North train station. At Comic Con Brussels you will find Dealers, Artists, Actors, ... It's a Con that brings together all the things you love:
COMICS, COSPLAY, GAMING, FILMS, MANGA, COLLECTIBLES, ANIME, TV SERIES, CLOTHING, TOYS, GADGETS AND LOTS MORE!!! )
Spanish postcard by Archivo Bermejo, no. 5495. Photo: Warner Bros. Publicity still for Lafayette Escadrille (William A Wellman, 1958).
With his blond, tanned, surfer-boy good looks, Tab Hunter (1931) was one of Hollywood’s hottest teen idols of the 1950s era. The American actor, singer, and author portrayed boy-next-door marines, cowboys and swoon-bait sweethearts, and had a huge hit with the song Young Love (1957). When his career faded during the 1960s, he starred in Italy in Spaghetti Westerns. In the 1980s Hunter returned in the camp classics Polyester (1981) and Lust in the Dust (1985).
Tab Hunter was born Arthur Andrew Kelm in New York City, in 1931. He is the son of Gertrude (Gelien) and Charles Kelm. Hunter's father was an abusive man and within a few years of his birth, his parents divorced and his mother moved with her two sons to California. Tab’s older brother Walter John Gelien (1930) would die in Vietnam in 1965 leaving seven children. As a teenager, Hunter was a figure skater, competing in both singles and pairs. He joined the U.S. Coast Guard at the age of 15, lying about his age to enlist. While in the Coast Guard, he gained the nickname ‘Hollywood’ for his penchant for watching movies rather than going to bars while on liberty. He was eventually discharged when the age deception was revealed. Returning home, his life-long passion for horseback riding led to a job with a riding academy. He was given the stage name Tab Hunter by his first agent, Henry Willson. With no previous experience Tab made his first, albeit minor, film debut in the racially trenchant drama The Lawless (Joseph Losey, 1950) starring Gail Russell. His fetching handsomeness and trim, athletic physique landed him a role in the British production Saturday Island (Stuart Heisler, 1952) opposite Linda Darnell. His shirt remained off for a good portion of the film, which certainly did not go unnoticed. He was signed by Warner Bros. The Hollywood studio system artificially groomed him and nicknamed him ‘The Sigh Guy’. His co-starring role as young Marine Danny in the World War II drama Battle Cry (Raoul Walsh, 1955), made him one of Hollywood's top young romantic leads. In the film based on the Leon Uris novel, Hunter has an affair with an older woman (Dorothy Malone), but ends up marrying the girl next door (Mona Freeman). In September 1955, the tabloid magazine Confidential reported Hunter's 1950 arrest f following an L.A. raid on a ‘pajama party’ in Walnut Park. Tab was eventually fined $50 for a reduced ‘disorderly conduct’ charge after originally being charged with ‘idle, lewd or dissolute conduct.’ The article, and a second one focusing on Rory Calhoun's prison record, were the result of a deal Henry Willson had brokered with Confidential in exchange for not revealing his client Rock Hudson's sexual orientation. Surprisingly this had no negative effect on Hunter's career. His hit films of these years include The Burning Hills (Stuart Heisler, 1955) with Natalie Wood, The Girl He Left Behind (David Butler, 1956), and Gunman’s Walk (Phil Karlson, 1957) with Van Heflin. Hunter, James Dean, and Natalie Wood were the last of the actors placed under exclusive studio contract to Warner Bros. In 1957, Hunter had a hit record with the song Young Love, which was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for six weeks and became one of the larger hits of the Rock n' Roll era. Another hit record was Ninety-Nine Ways, which peaked at #11. His success prompted Jack L. Warner to enforce the actor's contract with the Warner Bros. studio by banning Dot Records, the label for which Hunter had recorded the single (and which was owned by rival Paramount Pictures), from releasing a follow-up album he had recorded for them. He established Warner Bros. Records specifically for Hunter. In 1958, Hunter starred in the musical film Damn Yankees (George Abbott, Stanley Donen, 1958), in which he played Joe Hardy of Washington DC's American League baseball club. Another success was That Kind of Woman (Sidney Lumet, 1959) with Sophia Loren. Hunter was Warner Bros.' top money-grossing star from 1955 through 1959.
Tab Hunter's failure to win the role of Tony in the film adaptation of West Side Story (Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise, 1961) prompted him to agree to star in a weekly television sitcom. In 1960, prior to the program's debut, he was arrested by the police for allegedly beating his dog Fritz. His 11-day trial started in mid-October, a month after The Tab Hunter Show debuted on on NBC. The neighbour who initiated the charges had done so for spite when Hunter declined her repeated invitations to dinner, and he was acquitted by the jury. The Tab Hunter Show had moderate ratings and was cancelled after one season. Following the film comedy The Pleasure of His Company (George Seaton, 1961) opposite Debbie Reynolds, the quality of his films fell off drastically during the 1960s. In Italy he made the fantasy L'arciere delle mille e una note/ The Golden Arrow (Antonio Margheriti, 1962) with Rossana Podestà. In Great Britain he starred in The City Under the Sea (Jacques Tourneur, 1965) with Vincent Price. For a short time in the late 1960s, after several seasons of starring in summer stock and dinner theatre in shows such as Bye Bye Birdie, The Tender Trap and Under the Yum Yum Tree. Hunter settled in the south of France, and acted in Spaghetti Westerns like El dedo del destino/ The Cups of San Sebastian (Richard Rush, 1967) and La vendetta è il mio perdono/Shotgun (Roberto Mauri, 1968). During the 1970 he worked mainly for TV but also starred in the horror film Sweet Kill (Curtis Hanson, 1972) and appeared in the Western The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (John Huston, 1972). His career was revived in the 1980s, when he spoofed his old clean-cut image by appearing opposite Divine in the camp classics Polyester (John Waters, 1981) and Lust in the Dust (Paul Bartel, 1985), which Hunter also co-produced. He then played Mr. Stewart, the substitute teacher in Grease 2 (Patricia Birch, 1982), who sang Reproduction. Hunter had a major role in the horror film Cameron's Closet (Armand Mastroianni, 1988). He also wrote, co-produced and starred in Dark Horse (David Hemmings, 1992). Hunter's autobiography, Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star (2006), co-written with Eddie Muller, became a New York Times best-seller as did the paperback edition in 2007. The book is still currently in publication and was nominated for several writing awards. In the book, he acknowledged that he is gay, confirming rumours that had circulated since the height of his fame. According to William L. Hamilton of The New York Times, detailed reports about Hunter's alleged romances with close friends Debbie Reynolds and Natalie Wood, were strictly the fodder of studio publicity departments. Hunter had a long-term relationship with actor Anthony Perkins and shorter flings with dancer Rudolf Nureyev and champion figure skater Ronnie Robertson, before settling down with his partner of over 30 years, Allan Glaser. In 2015 Hunter's partner Allan Glaser produced the documentary Tab Hunter Confidential (Jeffrey Schwarz, 2015), based on Hunter’s autobiography, which re-entered the New York Times Best Seller list during the release of the documentary.
Sources: Gary Brumburgh (IMDb), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
Actor Richard Roy Sutton, of Kingston Ontario. These Headshot and profile photos were shot on the beautiful grounds of the old Psychiatric Hospital, on the Lake Ontario Waterfront.
German autograph card.
German actor Hardy Krüger Jr. (1968) has proved to be more than the son of. He appeared in several international films and starred in popular TV series. Beside his acting career, he is a passionate ambassador for charity.
Hardy Krüger Jr. was born in 1968, Lugano, Switzerland. He is the son of the German actor-writer Hardy Krüger and the Italian painter Francesca Marazzi. His half-sister is actress Christiane Krüger. Shortly after his birth, his father took his wife and son to live on a farm in Tanzania. It had served as the set for the film Hatari! (Howard Hawks, 1962), in which Krüger senior had co-starred with John Wayne. Krüger junior attended an international school in Germany and then trained and worked as a bartender and cook. In 1989 he took acting classes at the Lee Strasberg School of Acting in Los Angeles and acted in American television shows. After graduating in 1991 he began his career in Germany with a part in the TV series Nicht von schlechten Eltern/Not bad (1992-1996). He had his breakthrough with the lead role in the TV series Gegen den Wind/Against the Wind (1994-1997). In the cinema, Krüger appeared in several international productions such as the French films Le Cocu magnifique/The Magnificent Cuckold (Pierre Boutron, 1999) and Astérix & Obélix contre César/Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar (Claude Zidi, 1999), starring Christian Clavier and Gérard Dépardieu. In the latter Krüger played the bard Tragicomix.
Hardy Krüger Jr. starred opposite Haral Leipnitz in the German Science Fiction film Vortex (Michael Pohl, 2001) and played Jonathan Harker in the Italian TV mini-series Dracula (Roger Young, 2001), starring Patrick Bergin. He appeared opposite Sophie Marceau and Vincent Perez in the French comedy Je reste!/3 Is a Crowd (Diane Kurys, 2003). Krüger then starred opposite Sebastian Koch in Stauffenberg/Operation Valkyrie (Jo Baier, 2004), about Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and the 20 July 1944 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. The German-Austrian TV film was awarded the Deutscher Fernsehpreis (German Television Award) for Best Film. In 2004 und 2006, he won two prestigious German theater awards for his outstanding performances in the plays Butterflies are free and Visiting Mr. Green. In 2006 he first appeared as the replacement for Christian Wolff in the popular German TV series Forsthaus Falkenau (2006-2012), in which he played the lead role of the forester Stefan Leitner. He is a UNICEF ambassador against child prostitution. He served as the patron of the charity TukTuk-Tour, a goodwill tour from Asia to Europe, and is involved in a variety of other charity projects. His first marriage to Petra Zinata in 1991 produced two sons, Daniel Leon (1994) and Noah Ben (1999), and ended in divorce in 2004. In 2009 he remarried to Austrian communications-trainer and painter Katrin Fehringer, with whom he has a daughter, Layla-Katharina (2012) and adopted Vinas (2007), a girl from Thailand. In 2011 they lost their 8-months-old son Paul Luca. The couple divorced in 2015. Recently Krüger starred in the TV crime series Notruf Hafenkante/Hamburg Dockland (2015-2016).
Sources: Hardykruegerjr.de, Wikipedia (German and English) and IMDb.
German postcard by Verlag Herm. Leiser, Berlin Wilm., no. 1860. Photo: Zander & Labisch. Theodor Loos in the play 'König Salomon' (King Solomon).
Theodor Loos (1883-1954) was a German stage and screen actor between the 1910s and the 1950s. He became famous for his parts in Fritz Lang’s German films.
Theodor August Konrad Loos was born in 1883 in Zwingenberg, Germany, as the son of a watchmaker and instrument manufacturer. After leaving school prematurely, he worked at an export firm for musical instruments in Leipzig and afterwards for his uncle, an art dealer in Berlin, before deciding to become an actor. From 1913 on Loos played in theaters in Leipzig, Danzig and Frankfurt am Main, before performing in Berlin. In 1913 he also played his first film part and in 1915 his first leading role in the mystery drama Der geheimnisvolle Wanderer by William Wauer. Loos played in films by renowned directors such as Richard Oswald, Stellan Rye, Robert Wiene, Otto Rippert, and Robert Reinert. Memorable silent cinema titles are Die Rache des Homunculus (Otto Rippert, 1916) with Olaf Fönss, Christa Hartungen (Rudolf Biebrach, 1917) with Henny Porten, Es werde Licht! II (Richard Oswald, 1917-18) with Eva Speyer, Die singende Hand (Arthur Wellin, 1918) again with Speyer, Getrennte Welten (Arthur Wellin, 1918), Die Buße des Richard Solm (Arthur Wellin, 1918) with Else Kühne and Lia Borré, Nach dem Gesetz (Willy Grunwald, 1919) with Asta Nielsen, Der Reigen (Tichard Oswald, 1919) again with Nielsen, Othello (Dimitri Buchowetzki, 1921-22) with Emil Jannings, Hanneles Himmelfahrt (Urban Gad, 1922). Loos played the title role in the humoristic period piece Friedrich Schiller (Curt Goetz, 1922-23) on the adolescent years of the German playwright, shot on location in Stuttgart. The film, the debut of the film director Goetz, was previously considered lost but rediscovered in recent years and fully restored.
Loos’ finest hour, however, came when Fritz Lang had him perform the cowardly king Gunther in his two-part sequel Die Nibelungen (Fritz Lang, 1924). In the first part, Siegfrieds Tod, Gunther convinces Siegfried (Paul Richter) to conquer Brunhild (Hanna Ralph) for him, but when Brunhild discovers the fraud she urges Gunther to kill Siegfried, which he does with the help of Hagen von Tronje (Hans Adalbert Schlettow). In part two, Kriemhilds Rache, Siegfried’s wife Kriemhild (Margarethe Schön), brother of Gunther, takes revenge on the murderers of Siegfried, including her own brother. A few years after, Lang asked Loos back for the part of the secretary Joseph/Josaphat in his science-fiction film Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1925-1926). Other late silent films with Loos were a.o. Das Lebenslied (Arthur Bergen, 1927) with Erna Morena, Luther (Hans Kyser, 1927) starring Eugen Klöpfer, Bigamie (Jaap Speyer, 1927) with Maria Jacobini, Anastasia, die falsche Zarentochter (Arthur Bergen, 1928) with Elizza La Porta and Camilla von Hollay, Ludwig der Zweite, König von Bayern (William Dieterle, 1929-30; Loos played Dr. Von Gudden), and Die stärkere Macht (Gennaro Righelli 1929) with Renée Heribel, Fritz Kortner and Alma Taylor.
Theodor Loos’ first sound film was Die grosse Sehnsucht (Stefan Szekely 1930), in which he played the lead as a film director who turns an extra (Camilla Horn) into a star. Other early sound films with Loos were Ariane (Paul Czinner 1931) with Elisabeth Bergner, Die andere Seite (Heinz Paul 1931) with Conrad Veidt, Trenck (Ernst Neubach, Heinz Paul 1932) with Hans Stüwe and Dorothea Wieck, and Acht Mädels im Boot (Erich Waschneck 1932) with Karin Hardt. Returning to Fritz Lang, Loos was police commissioner Groeber in Lang’s masterpiece M (1931) and Dr. Kramm in Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1933). The last-mentioned film was forbidden by the nazi’s because of its hidden criticism of Hitler and the Nazi regime, so it premiered in Budapest. In the 1930s Loos played not only countless film parts but also classic theater: Shakespeare, Schiller, Hauptmann, Ibsen, Strindberg, among which over 400 times in Peer Gynt. Under the Nazi regime, he was appointed "Staatsschauspieler" [state actor], performing in a.o. Thea von Harbou’s directorial debut Elisabeth und der Narr (1934) with Hertha Thiele and Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Der Student von Prag (Artur Robison 1935; Loos was the devilish Dr. Carpis), Schlussakkord (Douglas Sirk 1936) with Maria von Tasnady and Peter Bosse, Schatten über St. Pauli (Fritz Kirchhoff 1938) with Harald Paulsen, Veit Harlan’s films Der Herrscher (1936-37) with Emil Jannings, and Jud Süß (1940) with Ferdinand Marian, and Hans Steinhoff’s films Der alte und der junge König (1934-35) with Jannings, Robert Koch (1939) with again Jannings, Rembrandt (1942; Loos played Jan Six) and Gabriel Dambrone (1943). Other titles from the war era were Herbert Maisch’s Andreas Schlüter (1941-42), in which Loos played prince-elector Frederick III, opposite Heinrich George in the title role, and Titanic (Werner Klingler, Herbert Selpin 1943) which starred Sybille Schmitz and Hans Nielsen, and in which Loos played a German scientist. During the war, Loos was head of Künstlerischen Wortsendungen [artistic verbal emissions] at the German Radio. He was also in high places in artistic and cultural boards. Loos didn’t have to serve in the war because of his parts in (propaganda-) films but his two sons did and they both died in the war. At the end of the war, Loos fled via Prague to Salzburg but was rehabilitated by the French military government in 1947. He then performed again on stage in Tübingen and Stuttgart, and also became a radio announcer. In 1954 Loos played his last film part as a minister in Rosen aus dem Süden (Franz Antel), starring Maria Holst, and in the same year, he was awarded the Grossverdienstkreuz of the Bundesrepublik. Theodor Loos died 27.06.1954 in Stuttgart. All in all, Loos played in over 170 films.
Sources: www.filmportal.de, German and English Wikipedia.
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Roman copy of Greek original from post 4th century BC. Made c100AD, Rome, Quirinal Hill. It shows an actor wearing the woollen costume of Silenus from an Attic satyr play of the classical period. Antikensammlung, Berlin.
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German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 3668/2, 1928-1929. Photo: United Artists. Ronald Colman and Lily Damita in The Rescue (Herbert Brenon, 1929).
English gentleman-actor Ronald Colman (1891-1958) was a top box office draw in Hollywood films throughout the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. ‘The Man with the velvet voice’ was nominated for four Academy Awards. In 1948 he finally won the Oscar for his splendid portrayal of a tormented actor in A Double Life (1947).
Ronald Charles Colman was born in 1891 in Richmond, England. He was the fifth of six children of silk importer Charles Colman and his wife Marjory Read Fraser. Ronald was educated at a boarding school in Littlehampton, where he discovered he enjoyed acting. When Ronald was 16 his father died of pneumonia, putting an end to the boy's plans to attend Cambridge and become an engineer. He went to work as a shipping clerk at the British Steamship Company. He also became a well-known amateur actor and was a member of the West Middlesex Dramatic Society (1908-1909). In 1909, he joined the London Scottish Regiment, a territorial army force, and he was sent to France at the outbreak of World War I. Colman took part in the First Battle of Ypres and was severely wounded at the battle at Messines in Belgium. The shrapnel wounds he took to his legs invalided him out of active service. In May 1915, decorated, discharged and depressed, he returned home with a limp that he would attempt to hide throughout the rest of his acting career. He tried to enter the consular service, but a chance encounter got him a small role in the London play The Maharanee of Arakan (1916). He dropped other plans and concentrated on the theatre. Producers soon noted the young actor with his striking good looks, rich voice and rare dignity, and Colman was rewarded with a succession of increasingly prominent parts. He worked with stage greats Gladys Cooper and Gerald du Maurier. He made extra money appearing in films like the two-reel silent comedy The Live Wire (Cecil Hepworth, 1917). The set was an old house with a negligible budget, and Colman doubled as the leading character and prop man. The film was never released though. Other silent British films were The Snow of the Desert (Walter West, 1919) with Violet Hopson and Stewart Rome, and The Black Spider (William Humphrey, 1920) with Mary Clare. The negatives of all of Colman's early British films have probably been destroyed during the 1941 London Blitz. After a brief courtship, he married actress Thelma Raye in 1919. The marriage was in trouble almost from the beginning. The two separated in 1923 but were not divorced until 1934.
In 1920 Ronald Colman set out for New York in hopes of finding greater fortune there than in war-depressed England. His American film debut was in the tawdry melodrama Handcuffs or Kisses? (George Archainbaud, 1920). He toured with Robert Warwick in 'The Dauntless Three', and subsequently toured with Fay Bainter in 'East is West'. After two years of impoverishment, he was cast in the Broadway hit play 'La Tendresse' (1922). Director Henry King spotted him and cast him as Lillian Gish's leading man in The White Sister (Henry King, 1923), filmed in Italy. The romantic tear-jerker was wildly popular and Colman was quickly proclaimed a new film star. This success led to a contract with prominent independent film producer Samuel Goldwyn, and in the following ten years, he became a very popular silent film star in both romantic and adventure films. Among his most successful films for Goldwyn were The Dark Angel (George Fitzmaurice, 1925) with Hungarian actress Vilma Bánky, Stella Dallas (Henry King, 1926), the Oscar Wilde adaptation Lady Windermere's Fan (Ernst Lubitsch, 1925) and The Winning of Barbara Worth (Henry King, 1926) with Gary Cooper. Colman's dark hair and eyes and his athletic and riding ability led reviewers to describe him as a ‘Valentino type’. He was often cast in similar, exotic roles. The film that cemented this position as a top star was Beau Geste (Herbert Brenon, 1926), Paramount's biggest hit of 1926. It was the rousing tale of three brothers (Colman, Neil Hamilton and Ralph Forbes), who join the Foreign Legion to escape the law. Beau Geste was full of mystery, desert action, intrigue and above all, brotherly loyalty. Colman's gentlemanly courage and quiet strength were showcased to perfection in the role of the oldest brother, Beau. The film is still referred to as possibly the greatest Foreign Legion film ever produced. Towards the end of the silent era, Colman was teamed again with Vilma Bánky under Samuel Goldwyn. The two would make a total of five films together and their popularity rivalled that of Greta Garbo and John Gilbert.
Although Ronald Colman was a huge success in silent films, with the coming of sound, his extraordinarily beautiful speaking voice made him even more important to the film industry. His first major talkie success was in 1930 when he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for two roles - Condemned (Wesley Ruggles, 1929) with Lily Damita, and Bulldog Drummond (F. Richard Jones, 1929) with Joan Bennett. Thereafter he played a number of sophisticated, noble characters with enormous aplomb such as Clive of India (Richard Boleslawski, 1935) with Colin Clive, but he also swashbuckled expertly when called to do so in films like The Prisoner of Zenda (John Cromwell, 1937) with Madeleine Carroll. A falling out with Goldwyn in 1934 prompted Colman to avoid long-term contracts for the rest of his career. He became one of just a handful of top stars to successfully freelance, picking and choosing his assignments and studios. His notable films included the Charles Dickens adaptation A Tale of Two Cities (Jack Conway, 1935), the poetic classic Lost Horizon (Frank Capra, 1937), and If I Were King (Frank Lloyd, 1938) with Basil Rathbone as vagabond poet Francois Villon. During the war, he made two of his very best films - Talk of the Town (George Stevens, 1942) with Cary Grant and Jean Arthur, and the romantic tearjerker Random Harvest (Mervyn LeRoy, 1942), as an amnesiac victim, co-starring with the luminous Greer Garson. For his role in A Double Life (George Cukor, 1947), an actor playing Othello who comes to identify with the character, he won both the Golden Globe for Best Actor in 1947 and the Best Actor Oscar in 1948. Colman made many guest appearances on The Jack Benny Program on the radio, alongside his second wife, British stage and screen actress Benita Hume. Their comedy work as Benny's next-door neighbours led to their own radio comedy The Halls of Ivy from 1950 to 1952, and then on television from 1954 to 1955. Incidentally, he appeared in films, such as the romantic comedy Champagne for Caesar (Richard Whorf, 1950), and his final film The Story of Mankind (Irwin Allen, 1957) with Hedy Lamarr. Hal Erickson at AllMovie: "a laughably wretched extravaganza from which Colman managed to emerge with his dignity and reputation intact." Ronald Colman died in 1958, aged 67, from a lung infection in Santa Barbara, California. He was survived by Benita Hume, and their daughter Juliet Benita Colman (1944). In 1975, Juliet published the biography 'Ronald Colman: A Very Private Person'.
Sources: Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Jim Beaver (IMDb), Julie Stowe (The Ronald Colman Pages), Encyclopaedia Britannica, Wikipedia and IMDb.
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Today, French singer and actor Dick Rivers (1945-2019) passed away on 24 April 2019. With Eddy Mitchell and Johnny Hallyday, he was one of the three stars who introduced Rock and Roll in France in the early 1960s. In later life, he also appeared in some films. Dick Rivers was 74.
Dick Rivers was born Hervé Fornieri in in Villefranche-sur-Mer in southern France in 1945. He was fascinated by America, the juke box and Rock and Roll. He admired Elvis Presley, who highly influenced both his singing and his looks. In 1960, at the age of fifteen, Hervé founded with three friends, guitarists Jean-Claude and Gerard Roboly and bassist Gerard Jacquemus, the group Les Chats Sauvages (The Wild Cats). With his black hair slicked back, his never worn jeans and his cowboy boots he was the lead singer. His stage name came from the character (Deke Rivers) that Presley played in his second film, Loving You (Hal Kanter, 1957). In February 1961, the British music magazine, NME, reported that Rivers concert at the Palais des Sports de Paris, whilst headlining with Vince Taylor, had turned into a full-scale riot. Between May 1961 and June 1962, he recorded with Les Chats Sauvages more than a hundred songs, and they sold more than 2 million albums. Big hits were Ma petite amie est vache (My girlfriend is a cow), Twist à Saint-Tropez (Twist in Saint-Tropez) and Est-ce que tu le sais (Do you know). The band’s success extended to all French-speaking countries, Belgium, Switzerland and Quebec, where they attracted large crowds. But then, Rivers suddenly left Les Chats Sauvages.
In September 1962, Dick Rivers released his solo single Baby John which sold 200,000 copies. It was the start of a long and successful solo career, with more than thirty albums (three in English) and many singles. Among his hits were Tu n'es plus là (1963), the French version of Roy Orbison’s Blue Bayou, and Va t'en va t'en (1965), based on Go Now by the Moody Blues. In the 1970s, his music seemed outdated. For ten years, between 1982 and 1992, he hosted a program devoted to rock on Radio Monte Carlo. In 1994, a first collection of his old successes, Very-Dick was certified gold the following year. He started to record new music. In 1999, Dick made his first film La Candide Madame Duff/The Candid Lady Duff (Jean-Pierre Mocky, 1999) and gave about 60 concerts in France, Belgium and Switzerland. In 2003, Rivers played in the comedy Le Furet/The Ferret (Jean-Pierre Mocky, 2003) with Jacques Villeret and Michel Serrault. The following year he appeared on stage in the play Les Paravents (The Screens) by Jean Genet, at the Théâtre National de Chaillot. It was a success. Furthermore, he was the French voice of Shere Khan in Jungle Book 2 (Steve Trenbirth) and also gave his voice to Arthur et les Minimoys/Arthur and the Invisibles (Luc Besson, 2006). On television he appeared in Mon amour de fantôme/Phantom Love (Arnaud Sélignac, 2007). His latest album, called Mister D, was released in 2011 to celebrate his 50-year career. At the same time, a book with the same title was published containing his memoirs collected by Sam Bernett. He returned to the stage and in 2012, he was on tour in France. Dick Rivers passed away on 24 April 2019. He was married to Micheline Davis and had an adopted daughter, Natala, who lived for three years with the American director George Lucas.
Sources: RFI Musique (French), Dick Rivers.com (French), Wikipedia (French and English) and IMDb.