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- Diminutive Scots character actor of quirky personality and gift of gab. As a drama student at St. Andrews, he first performed in productions staged by the university's dramatic society. He served with the Royal Scots during World War I, then forged a career playing comic roles on the Shakespearean stage, where he was often billed as 'D.Hay Petrie'. With the Old Vic from 1920, he was much acclaimed for his performances as Sly in "The Taming of the Shrew" and as Puck in "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The screen saw him as eccentric personae, well-cast in period drama and in Dickensian parts (such as the malevolent debt-collector Quilp, in The Old Curiosity Shop (1934) and as the corn-chandler Uncle Pumblechook in Great Expectations (1946)). An inveterate scene-stealer, Petrie was able to slip with consummate ease from genre to genre and from comical to villainous.
He is perhaps best remembered as The MacLaggan in The Ghost Goes West (1935) and as the evil Dr. Fosco in Crimes at the Dark House (1940). To his ever-lasting regret, he missed out on the two parts he most coveted: that of Sancho Panza in Feodor Chaliapin Sr.'s film version of Don Quixote (1933) and as Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939). Petrie died suddenly, just two weeks after his 53rd birthday, from undisclosed causes. - Producer
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Pat Powers was born on October 8, 1869 in Waterford, Ireland as Patrick A. Powers. He is known for his work on The Galloping Cowboy (1926), For the Good of All (1912) and A Frozen Ape (1910). He worked on Steamboat Willie (1928), starring Mickey Mouse as the lead role. He died on July 30, 1948 in New York City, New York, USA.- Grover Burgess was born on 8 July 1892 in Gore Falls, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for The Naked City (1948) and Seeds of Freedom (1943). He died on 30 July 1948 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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Paul Cosgrove was born on 28 September 1897 in Kansas, USA. He was an art director, known for Robin Hood, Jr. (1923), The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924) and With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo (1926). He died on 30 July 1948 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- József Miskey was born on 30 August 1882 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was an actor, known for Lelki klinika (1941), Ne kérdezd ki voltam (1941) and Beáta és az ördög (1941). He died on 30 July 1948 in Budapest, Hungary.