| Christina Aziz |
American actor, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He received the NBR Award in 1955 for the movie Not as a Stranger (1955). He received two stars on the Walk of Fame in 1960 for his work in film and television. In 1963, he won the Golden Laurel Award for Days of Wine and Roses (1962). He married Beatrice Ursula Allen (1916-1967) with whom he had a daughter and a son; he remained with her until his death.
Among his most important works are The Song of Bernadette (1943), A Star Is Born (1954), and The Virginian (1962). He was tried and acquitted at the age of nine for attempting to kill a trolley motorman who ran over his dog by shooting him. He worked as a lumberjack and investment promoter, and he also ran a pest extermination business. He left for San Francisco and started a romantic relationship with a burlesque actress, joining her show as a performer.
He then worked for years in touring theater groups until he settled in Broadway theaters, where Cecil B. DeMille watched him and gave him a role in the movie Dynamite (1929). He signed a contract with MGM but was blacklisted by film companies for being too argumentative, which made him work for several years in independent films. He continued working in prestigious films until his death in 1967. He owned a poultry farm, a pig farm, a gas station, a car garage, two whaling boats, and an island off the coast of the Indonesian island of Java where coconuts were harvested. He died on November 9, 1967 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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