Important events

This month Hollywood lost two of his great stars: Robin Williams, and Lauren Bacall.



Robin McLaurin Williams was born on July 21, 1951 in Chicago, Illinois, a great-great-grandson of Mississippi Governor and Senator Anselm J. McLaurin. His mother, Laurie McLaurin (Janin), was a former model from Mississippi, and his father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams, was a Ford Motor Company executive from Indiana. Williams had English, German, French, Welsh, Irish, and Scottish ancestry.
Died on: 11 August 2014, with 63 years old

IMDB page : http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000245/

Lauren Bacall was born Betty Joan Perske on September 16, 1924, in New York City. She is the daughter of Natalie Weinstein-Bacal, a Romanian Jewish immigrant, and William Perske, who was born in New Jersey, to Polish Jewish parents. Her family was middle-class, with her father working as a salesman and her mother as a secretary. They divorced when she was five. When she was a school girl, Lauren originally wanted to be a dancer, but later, she became enthralled with acting, so she switched gears to head into that field. She had studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York after high school, which enabled her to get her feet wet in some off-Broadway productions.
Died on: 13 August 2014, with 89 years old

IMDB page:  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000002/?ref_=nmbio_bio_nm




Rod Taylor dies at 84

Born 11 January 1930, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Rodney Sturt Taylor came to Hollywood in the 1950s, and built himself up from a supporting actor into taking the lead in several well-remembered movies. He appeared in over 50 films, including leading roles in The Time Machine, Seven Seas to Calais, The Birds, Sunday in New York, Young Cassidy, Dark of the Sun, The Liquidator, and The Train Robbers.
Died on: 7 January 2015, Los Angeles, California, USA (heart attack).

IMDB Page: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001792/bio