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Anthony Perkins was born April 4, 1932 in New York City, to Janet Esselstyn (Rane) and Osgood Perkins, an actor of both stage and film. His father died when he was five. Anthony's paternal great-grandfather was engraver Andrew Varick Stout Anthony. Perkins attended the Brooks School, the Browne & Nichols School, Columbia University and Rollins College. He made his screen debut in The Actress (1953), and was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar Friendly Persuasion (1956). Four years later, he appeared in what would be his most noted role, Norman Bates in Psycho (1960), memorializing him into film history forever.

Ed Peck was born on 26 March 1917 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Bullitt (1968), The Last Unicorn (1982) and Star Trek (1966). He was married to Phyllis Anne Houston. He died on 12 September 1992 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Stage actress Ruth Nelson's biggest claim to fame was as one of the founding members of the famed New York-based "Group Theatre" back in the 30s and was well-received playing the cabby's wife in Clifford Odets' short play "Waiting for Lefty" in 1935. This role would typify Ruth's career as the non-flashy, blue-collar or "working class" wife, loyal to the bone. She blended in so well with her rather submissive delivery that she went by totally unnoticed when she moved to film parts in the 40s. She gave a restrained realism in her roles in The North Star (1943), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), Humoresque (1946), The Sea of Grass (1947) and Mother Wore Tights (1947), among others. Her second husband was director John Cromwell, who became a victim the "Red Scare" in the early 50s after being labeled a Communist. Ruth could have had a major career upswing with her important casting in the play "Death of a Salesman" but she felt compelled to turn it down when the role would have taken her to New York and away from her husband in Los Angeles who needed her support. She herself would be forced out of films for the next 30 years. Most of her work from the 50s on was on stage, notably a 1966 production of "The Skin of Our Teeth". It was director Robert Altman who finally induced her to return to films in 1977, featuring her in 3 Women (1977) and A Wedding (1978). Her last important movie role was as Robert De Niro's mom in Awakenings (1990). Suffering from cancer, she died in 1992.

William A. Fraker Jr. was born on 14 July 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for SpaceCamp (1986), Murphy's Romance (1985) and Monte Walsh (1970). He died on 12 September 1992 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Karps Kletnieks was born on 4 October 1910. He was an actor, known for Verba seraya tsyetyot (1961), Pie bagatas kundzes (1969) and Kauguriesi (1941). He died on 12 September 1992.

Born in Denison, Iowa, of immigrant parents from Oldenburg, Germany, Hans Koenekamp began his film career with a job as a motion picture projectionist. He became a cinematographer in 1913 at Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios. He later worked at Fox Films and then joined Vitagraph in 1917, where he photographed all the Larry Semon comedies. When Warner Bros. purchased First National's studio in Burbank, California, he signed a contract and remained with the studio for the next 30 years. He specialized in directing and photographing second units and producing special effects shots for the studio.

Carl Mahon another excellent actor of Black Cinema...Carl Mahon was one of Oscar Micheaux's early leading men. He usually played the good guy turned bad by a loose woman or an educated Negro. He was always the aspiring, likable, do-gooder who could be depended on. Always a gentleman with the ladies, a romantic who understood his troubled women and would put his life on the line for them. Most men on screen were tough, macho men, Carl was one of the few men to be gentle on screen and express his feelings without manhandling. Carl Mahon was a natural on the screen with a ready smile and a willing heart. He never ceased to please on screen. His excellent diction and speaking voice was also a plus.

Carl was used in Micheaux's most important early films, "The Exile," "Veiled Aristocrats," "Ten Minutes to Live," and "The Girl From Chicago," which all are available. In these films Carl's character's were always involved in unfortunate incidents usually regarding someone else he intervene to help and his cool, calm, pleasant, intelligent demeanor always made a happy ending. Only in one movie did he do wrong but he only did wrong because wrong was done to him but Carl is one who movie audiences are willing to forgive. Carl really introduced a new way of acting and new image of a Black man on screen that Hollywood wouldn't dare develop.

Carl Mahon is another talent who fans of Black Cinema would like to know more about. However, his talents still live on for movie watchers to enjoy.

Mallikarjun Manasur was born on 31 December 1910 in Manasur, Bombay Presidency, British India. He was a composer, known for Subhadra (1941). He died on 12 September 1992 in Dharwad, Karnataka, India.