Sunday, December 8, 2024

Born on this day – Wallace Worsley:

Wallace Worsley (left), with cameraman, Robert Newhard (right),
filming The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923).



Wallace Worsley


Director

Actor

December 8, 1878 – March 26, 1944


Credits:

The Power of Silence (1928); Shadow of the Law (1926); The Man Who Fights Alone (1924); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923); Is Divorce a Failure? (1923); Nobody's Money (1923); A Blind Bargain (1922); Enter Madame (1922); Rags to Riches (1922); When Husbands Deceive (1922); Grand Larceny (1922); Voices of the City (1921); The Beautiful Liar (1921); The Ace of Hearts (1921); Don't Neglect Your Wife (1921); The Highest Bidder (1921); The Penalty (1920); The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1920); The Street Called Straight (1920); A Woman of Pleasure (1919); Playthings of Passion (1919); Diane of the Green Van (1919); Adele (1919); The Goddess of Lost Lake (1918); A Law Unto Herself (1918); Wedlock (1918); Social Ambition (1918); Honor's Cross (1918); An Alien Enemy (1918); The Turn of a Card (1918); Madam Who? (1918); Alimony (1917); A Man's Man (1917); Borrowed Plumage (1917).



Born on this day – Ursula Grabley:



Ursula Grabley


Actress

December 8, 1908 – April 3, 1977

Credits:

...und das ist die Hauptsache!? (1931); 1A in Upper Bavaria (1937); A Soldier's Love Is True Indeed (1932); Abu Kasems Pantoffeln (1957); Adieu, Prinzessin (1961); Affäre Dreyfus (1959); Annette in Paradise (1934); At the Strassburg (1934); Bashful Felix (1934); Damen und Husaren (1965); Das Konzert (1931); Das Ministerium ist beleidigt (1954); Das Missverständnis (1960); Das Tankmädel (1933); Defraudanten (1954); Der arme Millionär (1939); Der blaue Diamant (1935); Der bunte Traum (1952); Der Fächer (1956); Der Kommissar (1969–1972); Der Läufer von Marathon (1933); Der Schrecken vom Heidekrug (1934); Der schwarze Husar (1932); Der Storch streikt (1931); Der unmögliche Herr Pitt (1938); Derrick (1977); Die Galerie der großen Detektive (1955); Die Insel der Krebse (1975); Die Kronzeugin (1937); Die Lümmel von der ersten Bank - 1. Trimester: Zur Hölle mit den Paukern (1968); Die Nacht vor der Premiere (1959); Die Panne (1961); Die Sache mit dem Hermelin (1939); Die Sache mit Kasanzew (1957); Drei Frauen im Haus (1968); Dreizehn unter einem Hut (1950); Ein Fall für Titus Bunge (1967); Ein Fingerhut voll Mut (1960); Ein Leutnant für Emmeline (1964); Ein Mädel vom Ballett (1937); Eine geschiedene Frau (1974); Export in Blond (1950); For Once I'd Like to Have No Troubles (1932); Frei nach Mark Twain (1971); Frühlingsstimmen (1933); Geständnis unter vier Augen (1954); Grossalarm (1938); Großer Ring mit Außenschleife (1966); Hals- und Beinbruch (1969); Hamburg Transit (1972); Hexenschuß (1960); Himmel, Amor und Zwirn (1960); Hot Blood (1936); Hurrah! I'm a Papa (1939); Ich bin gleich wieder da (1939); Im Bann des Eulenspiegels (1932); Ist mein Mann nicht fabelhaft? (1933); Kampf um Blond (1933); Katharina Knie (1929); Lärm um Weidemann (1935); Life Goes On (1945); Mach' mich glücklich (1935); Mamitschka (1955); Man nennt es Liebe (1953); Miss Molly Mill (1970); Mittagspause (1961); Modell Lu, der Lebensweg eines Hutes (1939); Motiv Liebe (1972); Nie hab ich nie gesagt (1962); Ohne dich wird es Nacht (1956); Peter im Schnee (1937); Ride to Freedom (1937); Romance in Budapest (1933); Rosalinde (1957); Sanatorium total verrückt (1954); Sie schreiben mit (1962–1963); Solistin Anna Alt (1945); Stahlnetz (1959); Tatort (1975); The Call of the Jungle (1936); The Old Fox (1977); The Tannhof Women (1934); The Yellow House on Pinnasberg (1970); Tote zahlen keine Steuern (1963); Under the Bridges (1946); Vatertag (1955); Vorsicht, Falle! - Nepper, Schlepper, Bauernfänger (1976); Zu Befehl, Frau Feldwebel (1956); Zum goldenen Anker (1932); Zwielicht (1940); Zwischen den Zügen (1961).


Born on this day – Lee J. Cobb:


Lee J. Cobb


Actor

December 8, 1911 – February 11, 1976


Credits:

12 Angry Men (1957); Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937); Alle origini della mafia (1976); American Masters (1989–2003); Anna and the King of Siam (1946); Annie, the Women in the Life of a Man (1970); Arthur Miller on Home Ground (1979); Bad Men of the West (1974); Blood, Sweat and Fear (1975); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963); Boomerang! (1947); Buckskin Frontier (1943); But Not for Me (1959); Call Northside 777 (1948); Captain from Castile (1947); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2007); Come Blow Your Horn (1963); Compression (2024); Coogan's Bluff (1968); Danger on the Air (1938); Day of Triumph (1954); Death of a Salesman (1966); Double Indemnity (1973); Dr. Max (1974); Exodus (1960); Flight Characteristics of the P-51 Airplane (1944); Frontier Justice (1958); General Electric Theater (1960–1962); Golden Boy (1939); Goodyear Playhouse (1956); Gorilla at Large (1954); Green Mansions (1959); Gunsmoke (1974); Heat of Anger (1972); Henry Fonda: The Man and His Movies (1982); Hopalong Cassidy: Public Hero #1 (2001); How the West Was Won (1962); In Like Flint (1967); Incendiary Attack for Japanese Cities (1945); Inside the Jury Room (2008); Johnny O'Clock (1947); La legge violenta della squadra anticrimine (1976); La polizia sta a guardare (1973); Last Moments (1974); Lawman (1971); Lights Out (1951); Lux Video Theatre (1955); Macho Callahan (1970); Mackenna's Gold (1969); Mafia (1968); Man of the West (1958); Mark il poliziotto spara per primo (1975); McCloud (1973); Medic (1955); Men of Boys Town (1941); Miami Exposé (1956); Movie Night Extravaganza (2022); Naked City (1961); Nick the Sting (1976); North of the Rio Grande (1937); On the Waterfront (1954); Our Man Flint (1966); Paris Calling (1941); Party Girl (1958); Playhouse 90 (1957–1959); Producers' Showcase (1955); Role Model: Gene Wilder (2008); Rustlers' Valley (1937); Sirocco (1951); Somerset Maugham TV Theatre (1951); Startime (1960); Strictly Courtroom (2008); Studio One (1957); Suddenly an Eagle (1976); Tales of Tomorrow (1951); That Lucky Touch (1975); The 12th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1960); The 27th Annual Academy Awards (1955); The 31st Annual Academy Awards (1959); The 50th Annual Tony Awards (1996); The Alcoa Hour (1956); The Brazen Bell (1962); The Brothers Karamazov (1958); The Bull of the West (1972); The Dark Past (1948); The Dean Martin Show (1970); The Devil's Children (1962); The DuPont Show of the Month (1959–1960); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1961); The Exorcist (1973); The Family Secret (1951); The Fighter (1952); The Final Hour (1965); The Ford Television Theatre (1954); The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962); The Garment Jungle (1957); The Great Ice Rip-Off (1974); The Left Hand of God (1955); The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970); The Linkletter Show (1967); The Luck of the Irish (1948); The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956); The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950); The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973); The Merv Griffin Show (1973); The Miracle of the Bells (1948); The Moon Is Down (1943); The Phantom Creeps (1939 / 1949); The Racers (1955); The Road to Denver (1955); The Song of Bernadette (1943); The Tall Texan (1953); The Three Faces of Eve (1957); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1964); The Trap (1959); The Vanishing Shadow (1934); The Virginian (1962–1966); The Young Lawyers (1970–1971); They Came to Rob Las Vegas (1968); Thieves' Highway (1949); This Thing Called Love (1940); To Confuse the Angel (1970); Tonight We Raid Calais (1943); Trapped Beneath the Sea (1974); Ultimatum (1973); Vincent Van Gogh: A Self-Portrait (1961); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1959); Winged Victory (1944); Yankee Pasha (1954); Zane Grey Theatre (1956–1958).

 


Born on this day – Maximilian Schell:


Maximilian Schell


Actor

Writer

Director

Producer

December 8, 1930 – February 1, 2014


Credits:
Les brigands (2015); Flores negras (2009); The Brothers Bloom (2008); Die Rosenkönigin (2007); Terra X - Rätsel alter Weltkulturen (2007); Einstein - Superstar der Wissenschaft (2007); Der Fürst und das Mädchen (2003–2007); The Shell Seekers (2006); House of the Sleeping Beauties (2006); Die Alpenklinik (2006); Die Liebe eines Priesters (2005); The Return of the Dancing Master (2004); Coast to Coast (2003); Alles Glück dieser Erde (2003); Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch (2002); Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften (2002); Meine Schwester Maria (2002); Festival in Cannes (2001); The Song of the Lark (2001); Fisimatenten (2000); I Love You, Baby (2000); Joan of Arc (1999); Wer liebt, dem wachsen Flügel... (1999); Deep Impact (1998); Vampires (1998); Left Luggage (1998); The Song of the Lark (1997); The Eighteenth Angel (1997); Telling Lies in America (1997); Biography (1997); Through Roses (1997); The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years (1996); Little Odessa (1994); Abraham (1993); Candles in the Dark (1993); Justiz (1993); A Far Off Place (1993); Stalin (1992); Miss Rose White (1992); Labyrinth (1991); Young Catherine (1991); Wiseguy (1990); The Freshman (1990); The Rose Garden (1989); An American Place (1988); Laughter in the Dark (1986); Peter the Great (1986); The Assisi Underground (1985); Morgen in Alabama (1984); Marlene (1984); Les îles (1983); The Phantom of the Opera (1983); The Chosen (1981); Arch of Triumph (1980); The Diary of Anne Frank (1980); The Black Hole (1979); Together? (1979); Tales from the Vienna Woods (1979); Avalanche Express (1979); Players (1979); Julia (1977); A Bridge Too Far (1977); Cross of Iron (1977); St. Ives (1976); The Day That Shook the World (1975); End of the Game (1975); The Man in the Glass Booth (1975); The Odessa File (1974); The Pedestrian (1973); Pope Joan (1972); Paulina 1880 (1972); Trotta (1971); First Love (1970); Simón Bolívar (1969); Krakatoa: East of Java (1968); Heidi (1968); The Castle (1968); Counterpoint (1967); Beyond the Mountains (1967); The Deadly Affair (1967); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1967); Die venezianischen Zwillinge (1966); Return from the Ashes (1965); Der seidene Schuh (1965); Letters of Mozart - Briefe Mozarts (1964); Topkapi (1964); The Condemned of Altona (1962); The Reluctant Saint (1962); Five Finger Exercise (1962); Judgment at Nuremberg (1961); Hamlet (1960); Family Classics: The Three Musketeers (1960); Goodyear Theatre (1960); Alcoa Theatre (1960); Sunday Showcase (1960); Buick-Electra Playhouse (1960); The Fifth Column (1960); Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste (1959); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1959); The Eighty Yard Run (1959); Die sechste Frau (1959); Die Bernauerin (1958); Kinder der Berge (1958); The Young Lions (1958); Die Letzten werden die Ersten sein (1957); Taxichauffeur Bänz (1957); Ein Herz kehrt heim (1956); Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz (1956); The Girl from Flanders (1956); Reifende Jugend (1955); The Plot to Assassinate Hitler (1955); Sons, Mothers and a General (1955).

Born on this day – Valora Noland:


Valora Noland


Actress

December 8, 1941 – March 27, 2022


Credits:
Beach Party (1963); Burke's Law (1963–1965); Dr. Kildare (1963); Laramie (1962); Mannix (1967); Muscle Beach Party (1964); Sex and the College Girl (1964); Star Trek (1968); Summer Children (1965); The Donna Reed Show (1963–1965); The DuPont Show of the Week (1963); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1966); The Passionate Strangers (1966); The Rifleman (1961); The Virginian (1967); The War Wagon (1967); Up Your Teddy Bear (1970); Wagon Train (1964).


Born on this day – Sólveig Anspach:

Sólveig Anspach


Director

Writer

December 8, 1960 – August 7, 2015




On this day in music history - Symphony No. 7, by Ludwig van Beethoven (1813)


Symphony No. 7


by Ludwig van Beethoven,

was first performed in Vienna on December 8, 1813.

Symphony in four movements.

Opus 92, in A Major.

Composed: 1811–1812.