Archive for the 'Child actor' Category

DARLENE GILLESPIE IS 74 TODAY

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Darlene Faye Gillespie is a former child actress, most
remembered as a singer and dancer on the original
The Mickey Mouse Club
television series on ABC from
1955 to 1958.

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JOHN SCHNEIDER IS 55 TODAY

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John Richard Schneider was born in Mount Kisco, New York.

Country musician and actor John Schneider appeared as Bo Duke on the
CBS television show, The Dukes of Hazzard (1979 – 1985). He began
acting at age 8, starring in various plays in New York and entertaining
peers by putting on magic shows.

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VETERAN ACTRESS IS 86 TODAY

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Jane Powell (born Suzanne Lorraine Burce in Portland, Oregon)

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Singer, dancer, and actress Jane Powell is still active in television
and theater.

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KURT RUSSELL IS 64 TODAY

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Kurt Vogel Russell was born in Springfield, Massachusetts

Russell has starred in the 1981 action film Escape from New York
and its 1996 sequel Escape from L.A., the horror film The Thing
(1982), Big Trouble in Little China (1986). He was nominated for
an Emmy Award for the television film Elvis (1979). In 1994, Kurt
Russell had a starring role in the military science fiction film
Stargate.

He began his film career at age eleven in an unaccredited role
in Elvis Presley‘s 1963 musical “It Happened at the World’s Fair”.

Kurt Russell performing "Blue Moon of Kentucky" as Elvis Presley in John Carpenter’s 1979 television biographical film, Elvis. Voiced by Ronnie
McDowell. It originally aired on ABC.

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MICKY DOLENZ IS 70 TODAY

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Young Micky Dolenz in Circus Boy on NBC/ABC from 1956
to 1958.

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George Michael "Micky" Dolenz, Jr. was born in Los
Angeles, California

Dolenz was in college when he was hired as the drummer and
lead singer for the 1960s rock band The Monkees.

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