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Conrad Nagel – February 24, 1970 was an American screen actor and matinee idol of the silent film era and beyond. He was also a well-known... television actor and radio performer. Born in Keokuk, Iowa, into an upper-middle-class family, he was the son of a musician father, Frank, and a mother, Frances , who was a locally praised singer. Nagel’s mother died early in his life, and he always attributed his artistic inclination to growing up in a family environment that encouraged self-expression. His father, Frank, became dean of the music conservatory at Highland Park College and when Nagel was three, the family moved to Des Moines. After graduating from Highland Park College at Des Moines, Iowa, Nagel left for California to pursue a career in the relatively new medium of motion pictures where he garnered instant attention from the Hollywood studio executives. With his 6-foot-tall frame, blue eyes, and wavy blond hair; the young, Midwestern Nagel was seen by studio executives as a potentially wholesome matinee idol whose unpretentious all-American charm would surely appeal to the nation's nascent film-goers.
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Richard Page , is an American musician who is the lead singer and bassist of 1980's US band Mr. Mister and is now a songwriter and solo artist. Born... May 16, 1953 in tiny Keokuk, lowa on the Mississippi River, Richard Page seems pre-destined to have had a life surrounded by music. His parents, Robert and Joyce Page, were both professional musicians. He a singer and choral director, she an accomplished organist, pianist, and singer. The family of seven landed in Montgomery, Alabama in the mid 1950's where his parents worked as music directors at a local Methodist church. His mother knew Richard had a special interest in the family "business" when he came home from Sunday school to announce that he was the only baritone in the four-year-old class. In the early 1960s Richard, along with millions of other American kids, discovered The Beatles, The Beach Boys and the wave of awe-inspiring music of that era. His first major band, Pages, was formed with his childhood friend from Phoenix, Arizona, Steve George after he moved to Los Angeles from San Diego in the late 1970s.
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Jeremy Soule is an American composer of soundtracks for film, television and video games. He has won multiple awards and has been described as the... "John Williams of video game music" and "a model of success" for Western composers. He has composed soundtracks for over 60 games and over a dozen other works during his career. He is best known for his work in The Elder Scrolls series, the Guild Wars series, and several other top-selling titles such as Total Annihilation, Neverwinter Nights, Dungeon Siege and Harry Potter. After earning the equivalent of a Master's degree in composition before completing high school, he became an employee of Square in 1994. After composing the soundtrack to Secret of Evermore, he left to join Humongous Entertainment, where he composed several children's games as well as Total Annihilation, his first award-winning score. He left to form his own music production company, Soule Media in 2000, now called Artistry Entertainment.
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Conrad Nagel March 16, 1897 – February 24, 1970 was an American screen actor and matinee idol of the silent film era and beyond. He was also a... well-known television actor and radio performer. Born in Keokuk, Iowa, into an upper-middle-class family, he was the son of a musician father, Frank, and a mother, Frances , who was a locally praised singer. Nagel’s mother died early in his life, and he always attributed his artistic inclination to growing up in a family environment that encouraged self-expression. His father, Frank, became dean of the music conservatory at Highland Park College and when Nagel was three, the family moved to Des Moines. After graduating from Highland Park College at Des Moines, Iowa, Nagel left for California to pursue a career in the relatively new medium of motion pictures where he garnered instant attention from the Hollywood studio executives. With his 6-foot-tall frame, blue eyes, and wavy blond hair; the young, Midwestern Nagel was seen by studio executives as a potentially wholesome matinee idol whose unpretentious all-American charm would surely appeal to the nation's nascent film-goers.
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Raymond McKee was an Iowa-born American actor. He appeared in 173 films between 1912 and 1935. During the production of Down to the Sea in Ships he... met actress Marguerite Courtot. They married after the production of the film and were wed for 60 years until his death in 1984. He died in Long Beach, California from pneumonia, aged 91.
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Edward M. Kimball was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 63 films between 1912 and 1936. Like many older actors of the Victorian... and Edwardian eras, he enjoyed a varied stage career on and off Broadway before entering the silent films. He was born Edward Marshall Kimball in Keokuk, Iowa and died in Hollywood, California. He was the father of actress Clara Kimball Young in whose films he sometimes appeared. 1. Modern Times ...as a Doctor 2. I'll Show You the Town ...as Professor Carlyle McCabe 3. Passion's Pathway ...as John Deering 4. The Cheat ...as a Judge 5. Trilby ...as Impresario 6. The Remittance of Woman ...as Anthony Campbell 7. The Woman of Bronze ...as Papa Bonelli 8. Omar the Tentmaker ......as Omar's Father 9. The Masquerader ......as Brock 10. What No Man Knows ......as Bit 11. Charge It ......as Tom Garreth 12. An Unwilling Hero ...as Lovejoy 13. Boys Will Be Boys ...as Judge Priest 14. Roman Candles ......
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Brian Keith Allen is an actor.