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- Ryan Knight was born on 18 June 1986 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA. He died on 27 November 2014 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA.
- Ernie Capponi had always loved the film and radio arts, and saw many of his Kenosha, Wisconsin contemporaries go on to acting fame. In the 1950s and 1960s, Ernie founded the Midwest Classic Radio Actors in Kenosha, which performed original works over area stations including WGN, Chicago. By the 1980s, Ernie had begun to build a modest acting career in films shot in the Chicago-Milwaukee corridor, usually portraying a street-wise detective or gangster in small roles, including his part as an Al Capone mobster in the well-remembered "Untouchables" round-table scene with Robert De Niro. Ernie found himself in growing demand for such parts, and he was proud to have completed his first lead role as a tough Chicago detective in an urban crime drama with the working title "The Mangler" (no connection to the later Stephen King-based film of the same name). He never saw the final results, because a neglected respiratory infection led to his sudden death by pneumonia at 69.
- Dion Terres died on 10 August 1993 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA.
- Dancer/performer William Henry Callahan was born on August 23, 1926, in New York City, the son of a real estate man. He started in show business at the age of 13 when, after taking dancing lessons, gained a bit part in a small musical stage comedy. A few years later in 1943, he took his first Broadway bow in Cole Porter's "Something For The Boys" starring Ethel Merman. The following year Bill was featured in "Mexican Hayride" starring Bobby Clark and June Havoc.
Bill was spotted by a Fox talent agent in 1946 while appearing on Broadway as a specialty dancer in multiple roles in the musical "Call Me Mister" with Betty Garrett. Brought West as a possible dancing Fox version of Van Johnson, he returned to Broadway to appear opposite Mary Martin in the classic "Annie Get Your Gun" when no film offers opened up. He returned and was billed eighth in his first (and only) movie Chicken Every Sunday (1949) in which he had a non-singing role. The film starred Dan Dailey and the studio deemed Dailey's talents as a leading man/hoofer as having more potential and being more profitable than Bill's. Fox quickly lost interest in the dancer.
Bill returned to New York and Broadway where he appeared in such musicals as "As the Girls Go" (again with Bobby Clark), "On Your Toes" and "Top Banana" (as a replacement in the Phil Silvers starrer). He also put together a nightclub act and began appeared regularly on such variety shows as "The Jack Carter Show," "The Steve Allen Show," "The Kate Smith Hour," "Cavalcade of Stars," "Arthur Murray Party" "The Paul Whiteman Revue," "The Ken Murray Show," "This Is Show Business" and "Guest House" In 1953 he was cast in the Broadway musical "Two's Company" starring a singing Bette Davis. Callahan's dancing career ended with this production.
Married in 1952 to Eleanor Rao, an heiress, Callahan finally left show business and joined his millionaire father-in-law's company, Arc Construction, where he rose to the top corporate positions of executive vice president and treasurer in a company that employed over 600 people. He and his wife had two New York estates, one in Scarsdale and one in New Rochelle, and had three children. Callahan, however, got into hot water over time, overspending on "gifts" both for himself and his steady stream of mistresses using company money. Discovered to have embezzled millions of dollars from the company, Bill disappeared and relocated in secret to the West Indies with one of his mistresses, Wendy McDade (21 years his junior), before he could be brought to trial. Hiding out, and without divorcing wife Eleanor, William Callahan "married" McDade on January 9, 1981.
He and McDade, for reasons unknown, secretly returned to the United States, specifically Chicago, in early March of 1981. Someone found out because on March 18, both were found shot to death execution style near Lake Michigan in Kenosha Wisconsin. The double murder remains unsolved. - Curt Meyer was an actor, known for Deadgar's Dark Coffin Classics (2009). He was married to Jenny Lambert. He died on 19 December 2021 in Kenosha Wisconsin, USA.
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Nan Pollard was born on 10 March 1925 in Burlington, Iowa, USA. Nan is known for The Paint Job (1992). Nan died on 16 April 2012 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA.- Actor
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John Grzegorczyk was born on 11 August 1966 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor, known for The Paint Job (1992), October Moon 2: November Son (2008) and October Moon (2005). He died on 16 March 2007 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA.- Florence Parry Heide was born on 27 February 1919 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Florence was a writer, known for The Shrinking of Treehorn (2024) and Sound of Sunshine - Sound of Rain (1983). Florence was married to Donald C. Heide. Florence died on 24 October 2011 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA.
- GBG Kevo was an actor, known for GBG Kevo: Message to Keshawn (2020) and GBG Kevo: Homage (2021). He died on 18 April 2021 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA.
- A frequent stage performer and musician in the Milwaukee-Chicago area, and fluent in Italian, her last stage appearance was in 1963 as Mary in an Italian-language version of the Passion Play in her adopted city of Kenosha, Wisconsin, where she arrived in 1917. In 1923 she was a runner-up in the Miss Kenosha contest. Throughout the 1930s she appeared on stage with her husband Silvio in musical ensembles (as a pianist and accordionist) and in several stock productions including "Moon Over Mulberry Street".
- Helga Warnecke was born on 20 April 1926 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. She was an actress, known for Tonelli (1943), Chemie und Liebe (1948) and Der tolle Bomberg (1957). She died on 12 January 2008 in Kenosha, Illinois, USA.
- John Baltes was born on 7 February 1933 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor, known for Wisconsin Death Trip (1999). He died on 18 August 2020 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA.
- Silvio Rugani was born on 20 July 1893 in Lucca, Tuscany, Italy. He died on 31 August 1975 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA.
- Anne Andrea was a trained vocalist who sang at numerous teas and weddings and enjoyed the opportunity to perform at the Allerton Hotel on Michigan Avenue in Chicago. She started her career as a kindergarten teacher at Bonnie Hame Elementary School in Kenosha, after which she took time off to raise her family. In 1971 she assisted in establishing the new library at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in Kenosha, after which she joined her husband Al in Andrea's, the family business in Kenosha, where she took the lead as buyer and creative visual merchandiser.
- Anthony Huber was born on 21 August 1994 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA. He died on 26 August 2020 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA.