Albert Camus
Born: 7 November 1913
Birthplace: Mondovi, Algiers
Death: 4 January 1960 (automobile crash)
Best Known As: Nobel-winning author of The Stranger
Albert Camus was one of the most highly-regarded French writers while he was alive, and today his books continue to be bestsellers in France and staples of university courses in Western literature and philosophy. Camus grew up poor in Algeria, where he studied philosophy and got involved in the theater and in journalism. In 1938 he moved to France (his father was French, his mother was Spanish) and kept writing essays and plays, earning a reputation among literary and philosophical circles. He was a member of the French Resistance during World War II and co-edited the left-wing journal Combat until 1948. In 1957 he became the youngest-ever recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, based on essays such as "Le Mythe de Sisyphe" ("The Myth of Sisyphus," 1942) and novels including L'etranger (The Stranger or The Outsider, 1941), La Peste (The Plague, 1946) and L'Homme Revolte (The Rebel, 1951). Camus wrote about alienation and moral responsibility and is often compared to his one-time colleague, Jean-Paul Sartre (in the late 1940s their relationship ended over Sartre's defense of communism under Stalin). Camus described himself as pessimistic about the human condition, yet he ardently sought a positive solution to the "absurdist" position that life is meaningless. While en route to Paris on January 4, 1960, he and his publisher, Michel Gallimard, were killed in an automobile accident.
In 1995 his daughter, Catherine Camus, published his final (and unfinished) manuscript, The First Man.
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Alan Ladd
Born: 3 September 1913
Birthplace: Hot Springs, Arkansas
Death: 29 January 1964
Best Known As: Star of the 1953 western Shane
Alan Ladd was in several B-grade movies early on in his career, then hit it big as the cold-blooded killer, Raven, in 1941's This Gun For Hire. During the 1940s Ladd, who was short, blonde and blue-eyed, played mostly tough guys in movies such as The Glass Key and The Blue Dahlia. Although his star-power waned after World War II, his most famous performance came as the title character in 1953's Shane. In 1962 Ladd attempted suicide, and in 1964 he died from an apparent overdose of alcohol and sedatives.
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JOHN ANTHONY QUAYLE (b. Sept. 7, 1913, Ainsdale, Lancashire, Eng.--d. Oct 20, 1989, London)
Anthony Quayle was a versatile, round-faced stage actor who became an unexpected film star in the 1950s, appearing in a wide range of roles, excelling at authority figures, with a hint of a weakness in their nature.
After Rugby and RADA, he appeared regularly at the Old Vic from 1932, and, after war service with the Royal Artillery, successfully managed the Shakespeare Theatre Company at Stratford (1948-56).
Although he made his film debut in 1935, and played Marcellus in Olivier's Hamlet (1948), his film career only took off after leaving Stratford, when Associated British starred him in five films, including Woman in a Dressing Gown (d. J. Lee Thompson, 1957), as, untypically, the dull working-class husband, tempted by pretty young work colleague, and Ice Cold in Alex (d. J. Lee Thompson, 1958), as an ambiguous (German spy or hero?) Afrikaner (for which he received a British Academy Award nomination).
From 1960 until the 1980s, he combined theatre with TV and supporting character roles in British and international films such as Lawrence of Arabia (d. David Lean, 1962) and Anne of the Thousand Days (d. Charles Jarrott, 1970), as Cardinal Wolsey (for which he was Oscar-nominated).
He was awarded a CBE in 1952 and knighted in 1985. He married (1934-41) stage actress Hermione Hannen (b.London, 1913), who appeared in one film, and (1947-89, his death) Dorothy Hyson. He was the father of actress Jenny Quayle.
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