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Albert Hague
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am

Albert Hague (born October 13, 1920 - died November 12, 2001) was a German-born songwriter and composer.

Hague was born as Albert Marcuse to a Jewish family in Berlin, Germany. His father was a psychiatrist and a musical prodigy and his mother a chess champion. His family considered their Jewish heritage a liability and raised him as a Lutheran.

Hague came to America in 1939 on scholarship to the University of Cincinnati. After graduating in 1942, he served in the United States Air Force during World War II.

Alex Winter
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am

Alexander Ross Winter (born July 17, 1965) is an English/American actor, director, and film writer, known for his role as "Bill S. Preston" in the 1988 film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and its sequels and spin-offs 

Winter was born in London, England. His mother, Gregg (née Mayer), was a New York-born American who was a former Martha Graham dancer and founded a modern-dance company in London in the mid-1960s. His father, Ross Albert Winter, was Australian and danced with Winter's mother's troupe. The two divorced in 1973. Winter trained as a dancer as a child. When he was five, his family relocated to Missouri, where his father ran the Mid-American Dance Company, while his mother taught dance at Washington University. Winter is Jewish. He is married to Sonia Y. Dawson and has a son named LeRoy

Albie Selznick
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Albie Selznick is an American film and television actor. His major role so far is that of Ben Rubenstein on the sitcom Suddenly Susan.
Allan Arbus
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am

Allan Arbus (born February 15, 1918) is an American actor notable for his role as psychiatrist Dr. Sidney Freedman on the television series M*A*S*H.

Arbus was born in New York City of Jewish background. His first wife was photographer Diane Arbus (née Nemerov), whom he married in 1941. At one time before he became an actor, he was so taken by Benny Goodman's recordings that he took up playing the clarinet.

Allan Corduner
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am

Allan Corduner (born 1951) is a Russian-born British actor of German and Russo-Finnish origin. He has worked for television as well as in movies.

Corduner is Jewish; his mother was from Germany and his father's family from Russia and Finland.

Allen Garfield
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am

Allen Garfield, born and sometimes credited as Allen Goorwitz (born November 22, 1939), is an American film and television actor.

Garfield was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Alice (née Lavroff) and Philip Goorwitz.[1][2] A graduate of Weequahic High School, he was a sports reporter and Golden Gloves boxer before becoming an actor. He studied acting at The Actors Studio in New York City, studying with both Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan, and worked in stage before film. Garfield is a quirky and prolific actor who has appeared in over 100 films and television shows. He is known for playing nervous villains, corrupt businessmen and politicians. In addition he has appeared in two art films by German director Wim Wenders, Der Stand der Dinge and Bis ans Ende der Welt.

Andre Gregory
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am

Andre Gregory (born May 11, 1934) is an American director and actor.

He has had occasional film roles as a character actor, including John the Baptist in The Last Temptation of Christ and Reverend Spellgood in The Mosquito Coast. But his best-known film appearance was as the title character in My Dinner with Andre, directed by Louis Malle, in which he and Wallace Shawn, playing characters based on themselves, discussed Gregory's spiritual sojourn in Europe and his doubts about the future of theatre and of Western civilization in general. Gregory also appeared as himself in Malle's film Vanya on 42nd Street, which documented his Uncle Vanya production. He also performed in the movie Demolition Man with Sylvester Stallone, as well as with Goldie Hawn in Protocol.

Andrew Sachs
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am

Andrew Sachs (born Andreas Siegfried Sachs, 7 April 1930) is a German-British actor.

Sachs was born in Berlin, Germany. His family moved to England when he was eight years old to escape the Nazi persecution of Jews.

Andrew Shue
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Andrew Shue (born February 20, 1967 in Wilmington, Delaware U.S.) is an American actor, best known for his role as Billy on the television series Melrose Place (1992–1998). Shue is the brother of the American actress, Elisabeth Shue. He is currently on the Board of Directors for Do Something (which he co-founded) and is the co-founder of cafemom.com.
Andy Kaufman
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am

Andrew Geoffrey Kaufman (January 17, 1949 – May 16, 1984) was an American entertainer, actor and performance artist. Many people referred to him as a comedian and Kaufman did not self-identify as one. He disdained telling jokes and engaging in comedy as it was traditionally understood; instead, he saw himself as a practitioner of anti-humor or absurdist performance art, and referred to himself as a "song and dance man".

Kaufman was born in New York City on January 17, 1949 into a Jewish family, the first son of Stanley and Janice (Bernstein) Kaufman. He grew up in Great Neck, Long Island, New York, and began performing at the age of 9. He attended the now defunct two-year Grahm Junior College in Boston, graduating in 1971. After leaving college he began performing stand-up comedy at various small clubs along the East coast.

Anson Williams
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Anson Williams (b. September 25, 1949) is an actor and director. Born as Anson William Heimlick - his father Haskell legally changed the original spelling of the family name from "Heimlich" - he is best known for his role as gullible but well intentioned singer Warren "Potsie" Weber on the long-running hit television series Happy Days. His character was one of the few to remain through the entire run of the series, although his appearances became less frequent in later seasons.
Anthony Newley
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Anthony George Newley (born on September 24, 1931 in the London Borough of Hackney; died on April 14, 1999) was an English actor, singer and songwriter.
Arnold Moss
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am

Arnold Moss (born January 28, 1909 in Brooklyn, New York; died December 15, 1989 in New York City) was an American character actor often playing sly or sinister foreigners. He is the father of songwriter Jeff Moss.

 

Anton Diffring
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Anton Diffring (born October 20, 1918 in Koblenz; died May 20, 1989 in France) was a German actor who made a film career in Britain after 1950. He was best known in the English-speaking world for his portrayal of German officers, and mainly similarly sinister roles, in films such as Where Eagles Dare (1968) and The Heroes of Telemark (1965). He appeared in the Doctor Who story "Silver Nemesis". He also starred in the film Operation Daybreak as the SS officer Reinhard Heydrich. He starred in the horror films The Man Who Could Cheat Death and Circus of Horrors. He also worked in quite a number of international films, such as Fahrenheit 451 directed by François Truffaut.
Antony Sher
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am

Sir Antony Sher KBE (born 14 June 1949) is a British actor, novelist and painter.

Sher has a South African background, being born into a Lithuanian-Jewish family in Cape Town, South Africa and grew up in the suburb of Sea Point (his cousin is Ronald Harwood), but he has worked mainly in the United Kingdom and is now a British citizen.

Armin Shimerman
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am

Armin Shimerman (born November 5, 1949) is an American actor who was born and raised in Lakewood, New Jersey. He is married to actress Kitty Swink.
 
When he was 16 his family moved to Los Angeles, where his mother enrolled him in a drama group in an effort to expand his social circle. He later graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles, then was selected to apprentice at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego. He pursued a dramatic career in theater, eventually moving to New York. He later returned to Los Angeles where he landed roles in two CBS series, launching a career in television acting.

Art Metrano
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Art Metrano (born September 22, 1936 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor of Greek-Jewish ancestry, best known for his role as Capt. Mauser in Police Academy 2 and Police Academy 3. He left the series due to a serious fall at home on September 17, 1989, that seriously injured his spinal cord and left him disabled.
Arye Gross
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Arye Gross (b. March 17, 1960 in Los Angeles, California, U.S.) is an American character actor who has starred in many films and on television; he has played a lot of nerds in films. His best-known film role is in the 1985 comedy film Just One of the Guys as a nerd named Willie. He also starred in the 1987 movie House II: The Second Story, the 1993 comedy movie Hexed, the 2000 action film Gone in Sixty Seconds and the 2002 science fiction film Minority Report.
Assi Dayan
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Asaf (Assi) Dayan, born November 23rd, 1945 in Nahalal, is a son of the former Israeli general and politician Moshe Dayan. He is a film actor and also produces and directs movies.
Barry Dennen
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am

Barry Dennen (born February 22, 1938 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor, singer, and writer.

In New York City from 1960 to 1963, he had a relationship with Barbra Streisand, including living together for a year, during which time he helped her develop the nightclub act that began her successful career as a singer and actress.



 
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