| Christina Aziz |
American actor, born on June 9, 1910, in Joplin, Missouri, USA. He won an Emmy Award in 1955 for Studio One (1948–1958). He also received two stars on the Walk of Fame for his work in film and television. He married five times: Emma Myers (1931-1933), Vivi Janiss (1935-1943), Mary Elliott (1945-1970), Gina Fong (1971-1987), and Martha Burzynski (1989-his death). Among his most important works are Saboteur (1942), My Hero (1952), Dial M For Murder (1954), and The Bob Cummings Show (1955).
He was a prolific film actor during the 1930s and 1940s and began working on television during the 1950s and 1960s. He was born to a surgeon father and an ordained minister of the Science of Mind mother. He graduated from Joplin High School, joined the Carnegie Institute of Technology, where he studied aeronautical engineering for a while, and then joined the American Academy of Arts. He signed a contract with Paramount in 1935. He played small roles in films and Broadway theaters and always got the role of the Englishman. He obtained a first-class flight instructor certificate, a job he performed in the US Air Force while enlisting in World War II. In his later days, he suffered from Parkinson's disease. He died on December 2, 1990, in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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