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Charles Laughton was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, to Eliza (Conlon) and Robert Laughton, hotel keepers of Irish and English descent, respectively. He was educated at Stonyhurst (a highly esteemed Jesuit college in England) and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (received gold medal). His first appearance on stage was in 1926. Laughton formed own film company, Mayflower Pictures Corp., with Erich Pommer, in 1937. He became an American citizen 1950. A consummate artist, Laughton achieved great success on stage and film, with many staged readings (particularly of George Bernard Shaw) to his credit. Laughton died in Hollywood, California, aged 63.- Producer
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- Director
Film producer Edward Nassour co-owned Nassour Studios with his brother William Nassour. In the 1930s Edward produced a stop-motion animation short, shot in Technicolor, entitled "Knight Time", that told the story of a knight's squire named Yebo who ends up fighting a fire-breathing dragon. Nassour's pet project was an all-animated feature entitled "Ring Around Saturn", whose story was based on a project once owned by famed documentary filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty, and later by Orson Welles, who used it as a segment in his aborted RKO documentary It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles (1993). Welles sold the property to Nassour, who transformed it into a feature-length film using replacement puppet animation. The project was never finished while Nassour was alive. After his death his brother William released it in a re-edited version called Emilio and His Magical Bull (1975).
After The Brave One (1956) won the Oscar for Best Motion Picture Story, Nassour sued its producers, the King Brothers, for plagiarism on the grounds that "The Brave One"s story -- written by blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo under the pseudonym "Robert Rich," shared many aspects with the story of "Ring Around Saturn." The King Brothers eventually settled the dispute by paying a $750,000 out-of-court settlement.- Actor
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Frank Milano was born on 2 May 1918. He was an actor, known for King Leonardo and His Short Subjects (1960), X Minus One (1955) and Mister Peepers (1952). He died on 15 December 1962 in Hudson, New York, USA.- Émile Rémongin was born on 27 February 1876 in Nantes, France. He was an actor, known for La vie chantée (1951), A Cage of Nightingales (1945) and Mr. Orchid (1946). He died on 15 December 1962 in Draveil, France.