This is the grave of John Cassavetes. Born in 1929 in New York, Cassavetes grew up in a Greek family. In fact, they moved back to Greece shortly after his birth and didn't return to the U.S. until 1936, at which time John did not...
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CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJG JPEG v62), quality = 95 I have to admit that I am not into what I call "that British shit," by which I mean TV.
This is the grave of Spencer Tracy. Born in 1900 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Tracy grew up fairly well off there. His mom came from money and his dad had a.
Brahim Haggiag (center, with arm outstretched) as revolutionary leader Ali La Pointe in a scene from Gillo Pontecorvo's THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (1965). Photo courtesy of British Film Institute/Rialto Pictures. A commenter mentioned this the other. A while back The New Republic put together a...
This is the grave of James Wong Howe. Born in Taishan, Canton Province, China in 1899, Wong Tung Jim grew up mostly in the United States. Shortly after his birth,.
This is the grave of Dom DeLuise. Born in 1933 in New York City, Dominick DeLuise grew up in an Italian-American household, which you all already knew, I mean his.
This is the grave of Burt Reynolds. Born in 1936 in Lansing, Michigan, Reynolds grew up all over the place because his father was in the Army. Eventually, his father left the military and became a police chief in Florida, which where Reynolds went to...
This is the grave of Walter Matthau. Born in 1920, Walter Matthow (don't know why you'd change your name a bit from that), grew up in the Jewish immigrant community.
This is the grave of Bruno Frank. Born in 1887 in Stuttgart, Germany, Frank grew up there in a prominent family. Both his father and grandfather were bankers, but this.
This is the grave of Billy Wilder. Born in 1906 in what is today Sucha, Poland, close to the modern border with Slovakia, Samuel Wilder grew up in a Jewish family that was upwardly mobile. His parents ran a series of train station cafes. Then...
This is the grave of Mary Howard. Born in Independence, Kansas in 1913, Howard grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was interested in dance as a little girl, which of.
This is the grave of Cecil B. DeMille. Born in Ashfield, Massachusetts in 1881, at his parents' vacation home, DeMille grew up in New York City. His parents were well-off.