Writing and reviews – all about what this Leo Loves
Writing and reviews – all about what this Leo Loves
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Born: 9th May 1936 Died: 7th February 2019 (aged 82) Albert Finney Jnr (officially) was born in Salford, Lancashire, to Albert and Alice Finney. He was awarded a scholarship to RADA from which he qualified with a RADA Diploma at the age of 20. After RADA he joined the …
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Born: 25th December 1899 Died: 14th January 1957 (age 57) Humphrey DeForest Bogart was born on Christmas Day 1899 to Belmont Bogart and Maud Humphrey. Paternally he was descended from the first female European Christian child born in New Netherland (now New York and New Jersey) and maternally he …
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Born: 18th January 1904 Died: 29th November 1986 Born Archibald Leach in Bristol, England, to a tailor’s presser and a seamstress Grant had a somewhat tumultuous early life. His mother taught his song and dance from an early age but as a woman who suffered from depression to struggled …
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Born: 6th July 1927 Died: 3rd October 2004 This would be ‘Scream Queen’ was born Jeanette Helen Morrison, a single child raised by parents Helen and Frederick Morrison in Stockton, California. She studied hard and graduated at the age of 15. It was while she was studying music and …
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Born: 18th August 1952 Died: 14th September 2009 (aged 57) Powerhouse of talent, Patrick Wayne Swayze was born to a choreographer and engineer in Houston, Texas, yet his paternal heritage dates back to an Englishman, John Swasey, from Dorset who migrated to New England in the 1600s and it …
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Born: 3rd November 1921 Died: 30th August 2003 (aged 81) Charles Dennis Buchinsky was one of fifteen children born to Mary and Walter Buchinsky, both of Lithuanian descent. Walter was a coal miner and after he graduated high school (the first in his family to do so) he also …
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Born: 20th September 1914 Died: 12th July 1982 (aged 67) As you will know my main modus operandi for these things is to look at an actors top five worldwide box office films and then talk about my favourite film of theirs. Unfortunately, as I have found out, that’s …
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Born: 8th January 1924 Died: 11th June 2015 (age 91) As you will know my main modus operandi for these things is to look at an actors top five worldwide box office films and then talk about my favourite film of theirs. Unfortunately, as I have found out, that’s …
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Born: 20th June 1931 Died: 1st May 2021 Olympia Dukakis born to Greek immigrants in Lowell, Massachusetts, came late to the big screen spending her early years at school excelling in sports (she was the New England Fencing champion three times) and later studying Physical Therapy at Boston, which …
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Born: 23rd September 1920 Died: 6th April 2014 (age 93) Child star Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule Jnr) was born into an acting family, his mother was a former chorus girl and burlesque performer while his father was a vaudevillian. He moved to Hollywood with his mother at the …