Actors (73)

Anne Shelton (1923-1994)

Anne Shelton (born Patricia Jacqueline Sibley, 10 November 1923 – 31 July 1994) was a popular English vocalist, who is remembered for providing inspirational songs for soldiers both on radio broad...

Barbara Stanwyck's (1907-1990)

Barbara Stanwyck (; born Ruby Catherine Stevens; July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American actress and dancer.

Bela Lugosi (1882-1956)

Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó (Hungarian: [ˈblɒʃkoː ˈbeːlɒ ˈfɛrɛnt͡s ˈdɛʒøː]; October 20, 1882 – August 16, 1956), better known by the stage name Bela Lugosi ( lə-GOH-see; Hungarian: [ˈluɡoʃi]), was a H...

Betty Garrett (1919-2011)

Betty Garrett (May 23, 1919 – February 12, 2011) was an American actress, comedian, singer and dancer.

Brian Ahern (1902-1986)

Brian Aherne (1902-1986) was an English actor of stage and screen. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Juarez (1939) and appeared opposite Katharine Cornell in The Barretts of Wimpole Street.

Buster Shaver (1915-1982)

George F. Brasno (December 23, 1915 – August 15, 1982) was an American actor who appeared in a few films through the 1930s and 1940s.

Catherine Cornell (1893-1974)

Katharine Cornell (1893-1974) was one of the most celebrated American stage actresses from the 1920s to the 1950s, known as "The First Lady of the Theatre."

Cesar Romero (1907-1994)

César Julio Romero Jr. (February 15, 1907 – January 1, 1994) was an American actor.

Dane Clark (1912-1998)

Dane Clark (born Bernhardt Zanvilevitz; February 26, 1912 – September 11, 1998) was an American character actor who was known for playing, as he labeled himself, "Joe Average.".

Danny Kaye (1911-1987)

Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky; Yiddish: דוד־דניאל קאַמינסקי; January 18, 1911 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, comedian, singer, and dancer.

David Niven (1910-1983)

James David Graham Niven (; 1 March 1910 – 29 July 1983) was an English actor, soldier, raconteur, memoirist and novelist.

Denise Darcel (1924-2011)

Denise Darcel (née Billecard, 8 September 1924 – 23 December 2011) was a French-American vaudevillian, actress and singer, who from 1948 and 1963, appeared in films in Hollywood, and briefly on the...

Diana Churchill (1909-1963)

Diana Spencer Churchill (11 July 1909 – 20 October 1963) was the eldest daughter of British statesman Winston Churchill and Clementine Churchill.

Donald Crisp (1882-1974)

Donald William Crisp (27 July 1882 – 25 May 1974) was an English film actor as well as an early producer, director and screenwriter. His career lasted from the early silent film era into the 1960s.

Donald O'Connor (1925-2003)

Donald David Dixon Ronald O'Connor (August 28, 1925 – September 27, 2003) was an American dancer, singer and actor.

Edgar Bergen (1903-1978)

Edgar John Bergen (né Berggren; February 16, 1903 – September 30, 1978) was an American ventriloquist, comedian, actor, vaudevillian and radio performer.

Edward G. Robinson (1893-1973)

Edward Goldenberg Robinson (born Emanuel Goldenberg; December 12, 1893 – January 26, 1973) was an American actor who was popular during Hollywood's Golden Age.

Ellen Drew (1914-2003)

Ellen Drew (born Esther Loretta Ray; November 23, 1914 – December 3, 2003) was an American film actress.

Errol Flynn (1909-1959)

Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn (20 June 1909 – 14 October 1959) was an Australian and American actor who achieved worldwide fame during the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Esther Williams (1921-2013)

Esther Jane Williams (August 8, 1921 – June 6, 2013) was an American competitive swimmer and actress. She set regional and national records in her late teens on the Los Angeles Athletic Club swim team.

Ethel Waters (1896-1977)

Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an American singer and actress. Waters frequently performed jazz, swing, and pop music on the Broadway stage and in concerts.

Francis L. Sullivan (1903-1956)

Francis Loftus Sullivan (6 January 1903 – 19 November 1956) was an English film and stage actor.

Frank Sinatra (1915-1998)

Francis Albert Sinatra (; December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor.

Fred Allen (1894-1956)

John Florence Sullivan (May 31, 1894 – March 17, 1956), known professionally as Fred Allen, was an American comedian.

Gene Kelly (1912-1996)

Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer.

Geraldine Brooks (1925-1977)

Geraldine Brooks (1925-1977) was an American actress known for films including Possessed (1947) and Cry Wolf (1947). She was married to author Budd Schulberg.

Geraldine Fitzgerald (1913-2005)

Geraldine Mary Wilma Fitzgerald (November 24, 1913 – July 17, 2005) was an Irish actress.

Gloria Swanson (1899-1983)

Gloria Mae Josephine Swanson (March 27, 1899 – April 4, 1983) was an American actress.

Harold Russell (1914-2002)

Harold John Avery Russell (January 14, 1914 – January 29, 2002) was an American World War II veteran and actor.

Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957)

Humphrey DeForest Bogart ( BOH-gart; December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957), nicknamed Bogie, was an American actor. His performances in classic Hollywood cinema made him an American cultural icon.

Irene Hervey (1909-1998)

Irene Hervey (born Beulah Irene Herwick; July 11, 1909 – December 20, 1998) was an American film, stage, and television actress who appeared in over fifty films and numerous television series spann...

Jack Mercer (1910-1984)

Winfield Bennett Mercer (January 31, 1910 – December 7, 1984), known professionally as Jack Mercer, was an American voice actor.

Jane Ryman (1906-2002)

Garnett Lucille Ryman Carroll, stage name Jane Starr (born Garnett Lucille Ryman; June 10, 1906 – October 23, 2002) was an American Broadway actress and the first female studio executive in Hollywood.

Jane Wyman (1917-2007)

Jane Wyman ( WY-mən; born Sarah Jane Mayfield; January 5, 1917 – September 10, 2007) was an American actress.

Joseph Cotton (1905-1994)

Joseph Cotten (1905-1994) was an American actor known for Citizen Kane, The Third Man, and Shadow of a Doubt.

Julie Harris (1925-2013)

Julia Ann Harris (December 2, 1925 – August 24, 2013) was an American actress.

Kevin McCarthy (1914-2010)

Kevin McCarthy (1914-2010) was an American actor best known for Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). Brother of author Mary McCarthy.

Larry Parks (1914-1975)

Samuel Lawrence Klusman Parks (December 13, 1914 – April 13, 1975) was an American stage and film actor.

Leslie Howard (1893-1943)

Leslie Howard Steiner (3 April 1893 – 1 June 1943) was an English actor, director, producer and writer.

Lillian Gish (1893-1993)

Lillian Diana Gish (October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993) was an American actress best known for her work in movies of the silent era.

Lois Andrews (1924-1968)

Lois Andrews (born Lorraine Gourley; March 24, 1924 – April 5, 1968) was an American actress who played in films during the 1940s and early 1950s. She is perhaps best known for her first role in 19...

Michael Kidd (1915-2007)

Michael Kidd (born Milton Greenwald; August 12, 1915 – December 23, 2007) was an American film and stage choreographer, dancer and actor, whose career spanned five decades, and who staged some of t...

Michael O'Shea (1906-1973)

Edward Francis Michael Patrick Joseph O'Shea (March 17, 1906 – December 4, 1973) was an American actor, comedian, musician and band leader who appeared on the stage, in feature films and on televis...

Michael Wilding (1912-1979)

Michael Charles Gauntlet Wilding (23 July 1912 – 8 July 1979) was an English stage, television, and film actor.

Michelle Morgan (1920-2016)

Michèle Morgan (1920-2016) was a French actress who won the first Best Actress award at Cannes for La Symphonie Pastorale (1946).

Miss Ball

Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a baize-covered billiard table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions.

Nancy Shelton

The Shelton Brothers Gang was an early Prohibition-era bootlegging gang based in southern Illinois. They were the main rivals of the famous bootlegger Charles Birger and his gang.

Noel Coward (1899-1973)

Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 1899 – 26 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time called "a sense of personal...

Orson Welles (1915-1985)

George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor and filmmaker.

Patricia Morrison (1915-2018)

Patricia Morison (1915-2018) was an American actress and singer who originated the role of Lilli Vanessi in Kiss Me, Kate (1948).

Paul Muni (1895-1967)

Paul Muni (born Frederich Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund; September 22, 1895 – August 25, 1967) was an American stage and film actor from Chicago.

Peggy Cummings (1906-1981)

Lola Lane (born Dorothy Mullican; May 21, 1906 – June 22, 1981) was an American actress and one of the Lane Sisters with her sisters Leota, Rosemary, and Priscilla Lane.

Ray Bolger (1904-1987)

Raymond Wallace Bolger (; January 10, 1904 – January 15, 1987) was an American actor, dancer, singer, vaudevillian, and stage performer (particularly musical theater) who started his movie career i...

Ray Milan (1907-1986)

Ray Milland (1907-1986) was a Welsh-American actor who won the Academy Award for The Lost Weekend (1945).

Ray Millen (1907-1986)

Ray Milland (1907-1986) was a Welsh-American actor who won the Academy Award for The Lost Weekend (1945).

Robert Cummings (1910-1990)

Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings (June 9, 1910 – December 2, 1990) was an American film and television actor who appeared in roles in comedy films such as The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) an...

Russell Collins (1897-1965)

Russell Collins (born Russell Henry Collins; October 11, 1897 – November 14, 1965) was an American actor whose 43-year career included hundreds of performances on stage, in feature films, and on te...

Sarah Churchill (1914-1982)

Sarah Millicent Hermione Touchet-Jesson, Baroness Audley (née Spencer-Churchill; 7 October 1914 – 24 September 1982), was an English actress and dancer and a daughter of Winston Churchill.

Sophie Tucker (1886-1966)

Sophie Tucker (born Sofia Kalish; January 13, 1886 – February 9, 1966) was a Russian-American singer, comedian, actress, and radio personality.

Van Heflin (1908-1971)

Emmett Evan "Van" Heflin Jr. (December 13, 1908 – July 23, 1971) was an American theatre, radio, and film actor.

Will Mahoney (1894-1967)

William James Fitzpatrick Mahoney (February 5, 1894 – February 9, 1967) was an American vaudevillian performer, stage actor and theatre manager who later had a successful stage career in Australia.

Directors (11)

Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English filmmaker. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential figures in the history of cinema.

Gregory Ratoff

Gregory Ratoff (born Grigory Vasilyevich Ratner; Russian: Григорий Васильевич Ратнер; April 20, c. 1893 – December 14, 1960) was a Russian-American film director, actor and producer.

Herbert Wilcox (1890-1977)

Herbert Sydney Wilcox CBE (19 April 1890 – 15 May 1977) was a British film producer and director. He was one of the most successful British filmmakers from the 1920s to the 1950s.

John Huston (1906-1987)

John Marcellus Huston ( HEW-stən; August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor.

Josh Logan (1908-1988)

Joshua Logan (1908-1988) was an American director and playwright who won a Pulitzer Prize for co-writing South Pacific.

Margaret Webster (1905-1972)

Margaret Webster (March 15, 1905 – November 13, 1972) was an American-British theater actress, producer and director.

Mervyn Leroy (1900-1987)

Mervyn LeRoy (; October 15, 1900 – September 13, 1987) was an American film director and producer.

Rudolph Bing (1902-1997)

Sir Rudolf Bing, KBE (January 9, 1902 – September 2, 1997) was an Austrian-born British opera impresario who worked in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, including as General Manage...

William Dieterle (1893-1972)

William Dieterle (July 15, 1893 – December 9, 1972) was a German-born actor and film director who emigrated to the United States in 1930 to leave a worsening political situation.

Authors (18)

Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist.

Carson McCullers (1917-1967)

Carson McCullers (February 19, 1917 – September 29, 1967) was an American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet.

Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987)

Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17, 1903 – April 11, 1987) was an American novelist and short story writer.

Graham Greene (1904-1991)

Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with wides...

Harry Hervey (1900-1951)

Harry Hervey (November 5, 1900 – August 12, 1951) was one of the most highly sought screenplay writers of the first half of the 20th century, praised by critics of literature, stage and screen.

John Gay (1924-2017)

John Gay (1924-2017) was an American screenwriter known for Run Silent, Run Deep and Separate Tables.

Marcus Charles

Marcus Charles (born November 13, 1973) is an American restaurateur and entrepreneur in Seattle, Washington.

Marquis Child (1903-1990)

Marquis William Childs (March 17, 1903 – June 30, 1990) was a 20th-century American journalist, syndicated columnist, and author.

Robert Sherwood (1896-1955)

Robert Sherwood may refer to: Robert E. Sherwood (1896–1955), American playwright, editor, and biographer and speechwriter for President Franklin D.

Ruth Goetz

Ruth Goetz (January 12, 1912 — October 12, 2001) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and translator along with her husband and collaborator Augustus Goetz.

Sholem Ash (1880-1957)

Sholem Asch (Yiddish: שלום אַש, Polish: Szalom Asz; 1 November 1880 – 10 July 1957), also written Shalom Ash, was a Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language who settl...

Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

William Somerset Maugham ( MAWM; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories.

Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)

Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (; August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school.

Thomas Mann (1875-1955)

Paul Thomas Mann (6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.

W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

William Somerset Maugham ( MAWM; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories.

Musicians (15)

Alan Jones (1907-1992)

Allan Jones (1907-1992) was an American singer and actor, best known for his roles in Show Boat (1936) and A Night at the Opera (1935). His signature song was "The Donkey Serenade."

Alec Templeton

Alec Andrew Templeton (4 July 1909/10 – 28 March 1963) was a Welsh composer, pianist, and satirist.

Bibi Johnson

Cab Callaway (1907-1994)

Cabell Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer, songwriter and bandleader.

Harry James (1916-1983)

Harry Haag James (March 15, 1916 – July 5, 1983) was an American musician who is best known as a trumpet-playing band leader who led a big band to great commercial success from 1939 to 1946.

Julie Wilson (1924-2015)

Julie May Wilson (October 21, 1924 – April 5, 2015) was an American singer and actress widely regarded as "the queen of cabaret".

Lena Horne (1917-2010)

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American singer, actress, dancer and civil rights activist.

Louis Kaufman (1905-1994)

Louis Kaufman (May 10, 1905 – February 9, 1994) was an American violinist. He played on the soundtrack of as many as 500 movies and made over 100 musical recordings.

Mary Garden (1874-1967)

Mary Garden (20 February 1874 – 3 January 1967) was a Scottish-American operatic lyric soprano, then mezzo-soprano, with a substantial career in France and America in the first third of the 20th ce...

Mary Martin's (1913-1990)

Mary Virginia Martin (December 1, 1913 – November 3, 1990) was an American actress and singer.

Noble Sissle (1889-1975)

Noble Lee Sissle (July 10, 1889 – December 17, 1975) was an American jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, singer, and playwright, best known for the Broadway musical Shuffle Along (1921), and its h...

Robert Stoltz

Robert Stoltz (born 10 August 1976) is a Swedish football defender. He joined the Djurgårdens IF for the 2006 season, leaving Kalmar FF.

Sari Barabas (1914-2012)

Sári Barabás (14 March 1914 – 16 April 2012) was a Hungarian operatic soprano, particularly associated with coloratura roles.

Politicians (16)

A.A. Ribicoff (1910-1998)

Ribicoff is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Abraham Ribicoff (1910–1998), American politician Casey Ribicoff (1922–2011), American philanthropist and socialite, wife of the above.

Harold Burton (1888-1964)

Harold Burton may refer to: Harold H. Burton (1888–1964), American politician and lawyer Harold W.

Harold Stassen (1907-2001)

Harold Edward Stassen (April 13, 1907 – March 4, 2001) was an American Republican Party politician, military officer, and attorney who was the 25th governor of Minnesota from 1939 to 1943.

Irving Saypol (1905-1977)

Irving Howard Saypol (September 3, 1905 – June 30, 1977) was a United States attorney for the Southern District of New York and a New York Supreme Court Justice.

Jan H. Van Royen

Ellie de Lange is a Dutch-British television actress. Her appearances have included The Serpent (2021), Arcadia (2023) and Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light (2024).

Jim Farley (1888-1976)

James A. Farley (1888-1976) was an American politician who served as Postmaster General and Democratic National Committee chairman under FDR.

Lewis W. Douglas (1894-1974)

Lewis Williams Douglas (July 2, 1894 – March 7, 1974) was an American politician, diplomat, businessman and academic.

Lloyd George (1863-1945)

David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922.

Paul V. McNutt (1891-1955)

Paul Vories McNutt (July 19, 1891 – March 24, 1955) was an American diplomat and politician who served as the 34th governor of Indiana, high commissioner to the Philippines, administrator of the Fe...

Paul-Henri Spaak (1899-1972)

Paul-Henri Charles Spaak (French: [pɔl ɑ̃ʁi ʃaʁl spak]; 25 January 1899 – 31 July 1972) was an influential Belgian Socialist politician, diplomat and statesman who thrice served as the prime minist...

Roy M. Cohn (1927-1986)

Roy Marcus Cohn ( KOHN; February 20, 1927 – August 2, 1986) was an American lawyer and prosecutor.

Van Royan

The GR 4 is a long-distance walking route of the Grande Randonnée network in France.

William N. Tuck

The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College is the graduate business school of Dartmouth College, a private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire.

Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 (duri...

Business (13)

Abraham Levitt

Levitt & Sons was a real estate development company founded by Abraham Levitt and later managed by his son William Levitt. The company built the town of Levittown, New York.

C. V. Whitney (1899-1992)

Cornelius "Sonny" Vanderbilt Whitney (February 20, 1899 – December 13, 1992) was an American businessman, film producer, government official, writer and philanthropist.

David Lilienthal (1899-1981)

David Eli Lilienthal (July 8, 1899 – January 15, 1981) was an American attorney and public administrator, best known for his presidential appointment to head Tennessee Valley Authority and later th...

Elizabeth Firestone (1897-1990)

Elizabeth Parke Firestone (1897–1990) was the mother of Martha Firestone, who wed William Clay Ford Sr., grandson of Henry Ford.

Elsa Maxwell (1883-1963)

Elsa Maxwell (May 24, 1883 – November 1, 1963) was an American gossip columnist and author, songwriter, screenwriter, radio personality and professional hostess renowned for her parties for royalty...

Hattie Carnegie (1886-1956)

Hattie Carnegie (March 15, 1886 – February 22, 1956) was a fashion entrepreneur based in New York City from the 1920s to the 1950s. She was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, as Henrietta Kanengeiser.

Jacques Fath

Jacques Fath (6 September 1912 in Maisons-Laffitte, France – 13 November 1954 in Paris, France) was a French fashion designer who was considered one of the three dominant influences on immediate po...

James H. McGraw Jr. (1895-1953)

Curtis Whittlesey McGraw (October 13, 1895 – September 10, 1953) was an American publisher and president of McGraw-Hill from 1950 to 1953.

John Ringling North (1903-1985)

John Ringling North (1903-1985) was president of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus from 1937-1943 and 1947-1967.

Norman Chandler (1899-1973)

Norman Chandler (September 14, 1899 – October 20, 1973) was the publisher of the Los Angeles Times from 1945 to 1960.

Walt Disney (1901-1966)

Walter Elias Disney ( DIZ-nee; December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur.

Athletes (6)

Buster Crab

Soft-shell crab is a culinary term for crabs that have recently molted their old exoskeleton and are still soft.

Charlie Atlas (1892-1972)

Charles Atlas (1892-1972) was an Italian-born American bodybuilder who developed the famous "Dynamic-Tension" mail-order bodybuilding course.

Jackie Robinson (1919-1972)

Jack Roosevelt Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American professional baseball player who was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era.

Joe Lewis (1914-1981)

Joe Louis (1914-1981), "The Brown Bomber," was the world heavyweight boxing champion from 1937 to 1949, with a record 25 consecutive title defenses.

Sugar Ray Robinson (1921-1989)

Walker Smith Jr. (May 3, 1921 – April 12, 1989), better known as Sugar Ray Robinson, was an American professional boxer who competed from 1940 to 1965.

Military (5)

Alan Kirk (1888-1963)

Alan Goodrich Kirk (October 30, 1888 – October 15, 1963) was a United States Navy admiral during World War II who most notably served as the American senior naval commander during the Normandy land...

Felix von Luckner

Felix Nikolaus Alexander Georg Graf von Luckner (9 June 1881, Dresden – 13 April 1966, Malmö), sometimes called Count Luckner in English, was a German nobleman, naval officer, author, and sailor wh...

Howling Mad Smith

This article lists the characters created for the popular 1980s American action-adventure television series The A-Team and its 2010 film adaptation as well as other media appearances.

von Luckner

Felix Nikolaus Alexander Georg Graf von Luckner (9 June 1881, Dresden – 13 April 1966, Malmö), sometimes called Count Luckner in English, was a German nobleman, naval officer, author, and sailor wh...

Artists (4)

Anthony Beauchamp (1918-1957)

Antony Roger Beauchamp Entwistle (1918 – 18 August 1957) was a British photographer, and the second husband of Sarah Churchill. He was the son of the artist Ernest Entwistle and his wife, fellow ph...

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)

Frank Lloyd Wright Sr. (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator.

Oliver Messing

Olive Mess is a progressive rock band from Latvia that sings in English. They are one of the most famous Baltic progressive rock bands.

Oscar Carl Weiss

Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius ( pist-OR-ee-əs, Afrikaans: [pəˈstuəriœs]; born 22 November 1986) is a South African double amputee, former professional sprinter, and convicted murderer.