- published: 18 Apr 2016
Carl Miller (9 August 1893 – 22 January 1979), was an American film actor. He appeared in 44 films between 1917 and 1942.
He was born in Wichita County, Texas and died in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Edna Purviance (October 21, 1895 – January 11, 1958) was an American actress during the silent movie era. She was the leading lady in many Charlie Chaplin movies. In a span of eight years, she appeared in over thirty films with Chaplin.
Edna Purviance (pronounced Purr-VYE-ance) was born in Paradise Valley, Nevada, to Louis and Madison Gates Purviance. When she was three, the family moved to Lovelock, Nevada, where they assumed ownership of a hotel property. Her parents divorced in 1902, and her mother later married Robert Nurnberger, a German plumber. Growing up, Purviance was a talented pianist. She left Lovelock in 1913, and attended business college in San Francisco.
In 1915 Edna was a plumber in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, while Chaplin was working on his second film with Essanay Studios, working out of Niles, California, one hour southeast of San Francisco. He was looking for a leading lady for A Night Out, and one of his associates noticed Purviance at a Tate's Café in San Francisco and thought she should be cast in the role. Chaplin arranged a meeting with her, and although he was concerned that she might be too serious for comedic roles, she won the job.
John Leslie Coogan (October 26, 1914 – March 1, 1984), known professionally as Jackie Coogan, was an American actor who began his movie career as a child actor in silent films. Many years later, he became known as Uncle Fester on 1960s sitcom The Addams Family. In the interim, he sued his mother and stepfather over his squandered film earnings and provoked California to enact the first known legal protection for the earnings of child performers, billed as the Coogan Act.
Coogan was born in 1914 in Los Angeles, California to John Henry Coogan, Jr. and Lillian Rita (Dolliver) Coogan, as John Leslie Coogan (not John Leslie Coogan, Jr., as some sources indicate). He began performing as an infant in both vaudeville and film, with an uncredited role in the 1917 film Skinner's Baby. Charlie Chaplin discovered him in the Orpheum Theatre, Los Angeles, a vaudeville house, doing the shimmy, a popular dance at the time, on the stage. Coogan's father was also an actor. Jackie Coogan was a natural mimic and delighted Chaplin with his abilities. Chaplin subsequently cast him in a brief role in his short film A Day's Pleasure, made in 1919.
Actors: Aaron Berg (actor), Matt O'Dowd (editor), Matt O'Dowd (producer), Matt O'Dowd (producer), Jeremy Levy (writer), Jeremy Levy (writer), Matt O'Dowd (writer), Matt O'Dowd (writer), Jeremy Levy (director), Matt O'Dowd (director), Jeremy Levy (producer), Jeremy Levy (producer), Will F. Young (actor), Francis Spieler (actor), Mat Levy (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Short,Actors: Robbie Davidson (director), Natasha Skinner (actress), Robbie Davidson (writer), Jamie Steele (actor), David Gillespie (writer), Ymca (producer), Ruairaidh Agnew (actor), Mark Burdett (actor), Shaun Davidson (actor),
Genres: Horror, Short,Actors: D.J. Wooldridge (actor), D.J. Wooldridge (producer), D.J. Wooldridge (writer), D.J. Wooldridge (director), Jarrett Haas (actor), Jarrett Haas (producer), Chris Garofalo (producer), Matthew Watson (actor), Doug Bailey (actor), Jordan Bates (actor), Gil Gonzalez (actor), Kate Leisner (actor), Mark Allen (actor),
Genres: Crime, Drama, Short, Western,Actors: John Michael Higgins (actor), Simon Helberg (actor), Ed Helms (actor), Jack Black (actor), D.T. Carney (actor), Geoffrey Gould (actor), Patrick Duffy (actor), Matt Besser (actor), Tim Bagley (actor), Don Abernathy (actor), Raymond J. Barry (actor), Don Abernathy (actor), Paul Feig (actor), Rance Howard (actor), Jonah Hill (actor),
Plot: The up-and-down-and-up-again story of musician Dewey Cox, whose songs would change a nation. On his rock 'n roll spiral, Cox sleeps with 411 women, marries three times, has 36 kids, stars in his own 70s TV show, collects friends ranging from Elvis to the Beatles to a chimp, and gets addicted to - and then kicks - every drug known to man; but despite it all, Cox grows into a national icon and eventually earns the love of a good woman - longtime backup singer Darlene.
Keywords: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, accidental-suicide, addiction, animated-sequence, backstageActors: Luce Rains (producer), Luce Rains (actor), Kevin Wiggins (actor), Marc Miles (producer), Marc Miles (actor), Ron Reid (actor), Dennis E. Garber (actor), Mary Evans (actress), Steve Cormier (actor), Preston Ahearn (actor), Jane E. Goold (actress), Rusty Dillen (actor), Jerry King (actor), Will Miles (actor), Troy Hotchkiss (producer),
Genres: ,Actors: Van Damage (editor), David Aaron Clark (actor), Cheyne Collins (actor), Caroline Cage (actress), Chandler (actress), Angelica Costello (actress), Sharon Kane (actress), Tiffany Mynx (actress), Taylor St. Clair (actress), Tiffany Mynx (costume designer), Jane Waters (director), Erik Everhard (actor), Lee Stone (actor), Valentino (actor), Van Damage (actor),
Genres: Adult,Actors: Mircea Daneliuc (producer), Florin Zamfirescu (actor), Magda Catone (actress), Petru Margineanu (composer), Petre Nicolae (actor), Liliana Pana (actress), Mihai Bica (actor), Dan Mironescu (director), Cristian Dumitru (writer), Loredana Soradi (writer), Ruxandra Tudor (actress), Robert Adam (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Emilio Kauderer (composer), Phillip J. Roth (writer), Phillip J. Roth (writer), Phillip J. Roth (director), Harold Cannon (actor), Phillip J. Roth (producer), Kato Kaelin (actor), Marcus Aurelius (actor), Raymond Storti (actor), Kristen Wilson (actress), Woon Young Park (actor), Gian-Carlo Scandiuzzi (producer), Allen Perada (actor), Gian-Carlo Scandiuzzi (actor), Talaat Captan (producer),
Plot: In a post-apocolyptic Los Angeles, a wheelchair bound veteren volunteers for an experimental cybergenic program that wil allow him to walk again only to find that it turns him into a lethal killing machine pre-programmed to kill the last remaining member of the resestance - the woman he loves.
Keywords: balisong, compound-bow, independent-film, post-apocalypse, robot, wheelchairActors: Peter Jason (actor), Harvey Parry (actor), Tim Thomerson (actor), Howard W. Koch (producer), Patrick Williams (composer), Margot Kidder (actress), Richard Pryor (actor), Anne Haney (actress), Matt Clark (actor), Ronny Cox (actor), Sandy Ward (actor), Michael Pressman (director), Paul Benjamin (actor), Ray Sharkey (actor), John Fujioka (actor),
Plot: A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in his own country.
Keywords: 1970s, adultery, african-american, bank, bankruptcy, based-on-novel, black-american, bookstore, bureaucracy, businessActors: Jeff Kanew (writer), Jeff Kanew (actor), Gary Allen (actor), Gary Allen (writer), Dennis Friedland (producer), Yolanda Signorelli (actress), Donald Havens (producer), William K. Hennigar (director), George Thomas (editor), Helen Stewart (actress), Susannah Campbell (actress), Racine (actress), Samantha Worthington (actress), Robert Schwartz (composer), Steve Rivard (actor),
Genres: Western,