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John Uhler “Jack” Lemmon III (born in Newton, MA, on February 8, 1925, died in Los Angeles on June 27, 2001) is an unusual movie star, because he did not play typical masculine heroes, but a great variety of everyman characters. He worked in the theatre and on television, before signing a 7-year contract with Columbia Pictures and being cast in his first film, It Should Happen to You (1954) by George Cukor, as a shy documentary filmmaker who falls in love with a girl (Judy Holliday) obsessed with seeing her name on billboards.

Olivia de Havilland was born in Tokyo on July 1, 1916, of British parents. Her father Walter was an attorney; her mother Lilian, an actress before her marriage, left her cheating husband and moved to California in 1919, with daughters Olivia and her younger sister Joan.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) and dick clark productions (dcp) announced the date for next year's Golden Globes ceremony today. The Awards will be presented on Sunday, January 11, 2015.

Before Capote, he was considered a character actor with a devoted but limited following. His scene-stealing roles in The Talented Mr.

Maximilian Schell, the Swiss-Austrian actor who won a Golden Globe for his role in Judgment at Nuremberg (1962) and a second one in 1992 for the TV Movie Lenin, died last Saturday in Innsbruck, Austria. He was 83.

Having started acting in the theater, which remained a lifelong passion, Henry Fonda (born May 16, 1905, died August 12, 1982), nicknamed Hank, had a long and varied Hollywood career, spanning historical dramas like Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) by John Ford, comedies like The Lady Eve (1941) by Preston Sturges, westerns like My Darling Clementine (1946) by John Ford AND political thrillers like Fail Safe (1964) by Sidney Lumet.

A legendary icon of classic Hollywood cinema, Ruth Elizabeth Davis changed the spelling of her nickname, Betty, to Bette after Honoré de Balzac's La Cousine Bette. Born on April 5, 1908 in Lowell, Massachusetts, she had acted in Broadway plays before signing a contract with Warner Bros in 1932.

A Golden Globe winner 48 years ago, the prolific Italian soundtrack compose r Riz Ortolani has died at his villa outside Rome. He was 87.

One of the great pleasures of the past Sundance film festival was screening A Most Wanted Man at the Eccles, on January 19. Philip Seymour Hoffman’s performance in Anton Corbijn’s taut adaptation of the Le Carré thriller is nothing short of exceptional, as we noted at the time, the sort of intense interpretation which was his hallmark, and now sadly his legacy: He is in almost every scene of that film and yet you want to see more of him! Hoffman, 46, who was found dead in his New York apartment, was a five-time Golden Globe nominee and had won the Award for best actor in 2006 for his role in Capote.

Picture: AP. Golden Globe winner Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead of an apparent drug overdose — in the bathroom with a hypodermic needle still in his arm — say New York police.