Russell Family History & Genealogy

Rosalind Catherine Russell was born to James Edward Russell (1860 - 1926) and Clara A. McKnight (1874 - 1958). Both of her parents were born in Connecticut. She had siblings James Edward, Clara J., John J.. George Benedict, Mary Jane, and Josephine B. Russell. The middle of seven children, she was named after the S.S. Rosalind at the suggestion of her father, a successful lawyer. After receiving a Catholic school education, she went to the American Academy of Dramatic Art in New York, having convinced her mother that she intended to teach acting. In 1934, with some stock company work and a little Broadway experience, she was tested and signed by Universal. Simultaneously MGM tested her and made her a better offer. When she plead ignorance of Hollywood (while wearing her worst-fitting clothes), Universal released her and she signed with MGM for seven years. For some time she was used in secondary roles and as a replacement threat to limit Myrna Loy's salary demands. Knowing she was right for comedy, she tested five times for the role of Sylvia Fowler in The Women (1939). George Cukor told her to "play her as a freak." She did and got the part. Her "boss lady" roles began with the part of reporter Hildy Johnson in His Girl Friday (1940), through whose male lead, Cary Grant, she met her future husband, Grant's house guest at the time. In her forties, she returned to the stage, touring "Bell, Book and Candle" in 1951 and winning a Tony for "Wonderful Town" in 1953. Columbia, worried the public would think she had the female lead in Picnic (1956), billed her "co-starring Rosalind Russell as Rosemary." She refused to accept an Oscar nomination as supporting actress for the part, an Oscar she would no doubt have won had she relented. "Auntie Mame" kept her on Broadway for two years followed by the movie version. Following her death, she was interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. She died about three weeks after Patrick Dennis, the author of Auntie Mame (1958), which was one of her most famous roles. Rosalind gave birth to her only child at age 35, a son Lance Brisson, on May 7, 1943. Lance's father was her husband, Frederick Brisson. Rosalind won Broadway's 1953 Tony Award as Best Actress (Musical) for "Wonderful Town", a musical based on the same source as her film My Sister Eileen (1942), for which she received an Oscar nomination playing the same character. She also received a 1957 Tony Award nomination as Best Actress (Dramatic for "Auntie Mame", a role she recreated in an Oscar-nominated performance in the film version Auntie Mame (1958). See Rosalind Russell: Obituary.

First (known) war correspondent. During his career, he reported from Denmark, Russia, Crimea, and many more countries. He retired as a war correspondent in 1882, and founded the Army and Navy Gazette. He was knighted in 1895 and died in 1907. William was born in Ireland. During his life he married twice and had one affair. First marriage: Mary Burrows, Irish. Married until she died in 1867. Second marriage: Countess Antoinette Malvezzi, Italian. Two sons and one daughter (none of them had children). Married until his death. Affair (young man): Anna Catharina Oelrichs, had son William Russel (born 1863)

Richard Clayton Russell was born in VT and married Freda Ethel Stocker, daughter of Fred E.C.Stocker & Iradore Legacy Stocker. She was born in Rutland, Rutland Co., VT, and died in Sprakers, Montgomery Co., NY, and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Fonda, Montgomery Co., NY. Richard married2 Marie _ McNeil, daughter of Frank McNeil & Linna Brodeur McNeil. Marie was born in West Rutland, Rutland Co., VT. They lived in VT, where Richard worked as a _. Marie died in Rutland, Rutland Co. VT; Richard died in Rutland, Rutland Co. VT. They are buried in Hillside Cemetery in Castleton, VT, section 10 beside his parents. FAG# Richard 152950141, Freda 35974366, Marie 152950127

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Wyatt Hawn Russell was born on July 10, 1986 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Wyatt Hawn Russell.

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Kurt Vogel Russell was born on March 17, 1951 in Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Kurt Vogel Russell.

Lori Lyn Russell of Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan United States was born in 1968 in Grand Rapids to Richard William Russell and Pamela Claire Thompson. Lori was baptized in 1987.

Robert Russell of New South Wales Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Robert Russell.

James F Russell was born on April 30, 1918. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember James F Russell.

Anna Russell Born Anna Claudia Russell-Brown 27 December 1911 Maida Vale, London, England Died 18 October 2006 (aged 94) Rosedale, New South Wales, Australia Occupation Vocalist and comedian. Anna Russell (born Anna Claudia Russell-Brown; 27 December 1911 – 18 October 2006) was an English–Canadian singer and comedian. She gave many concerts in which she sang and played comic musical sketches on the piano. Among her best-known works are her concert performances and famous recordings of The Ring of the Nibelungs (An Analysis) – a humorous 22-minute synopsis of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen – and (on the same album) her parody How to Write Your Own Gilbert and Sullivan Opera. Early life Russell was born in Maida Vale, London, England, and was educated at St Felix School at Southwold, Suffolk, at Harrogate College and in Brussels and Paris. She studied at the Royal College of Music, where her piano teacher was Marmaduke Barton (whose wife's maiden name happened also to be Anna Russell).[10] She had a difficult childhood, and particularly a difficult relationship with her mother, who often shipped her off to live with other relatives for some time. Russell was twice married and divorced, first to John Denison and second to artist Charles Goldhamer. In her "Who's Who" entry she described herself as single. In one of Russell's comic routines she said that some of the world's greatest teachers had completely ruined her voice, going on to relate that she was interrupted early in her graduation song recital by the Royal College's judges who indicated her singing was a joke. Whether this was literally true or not, it is a fact that she began to think of what she might be able to do with the voice and technique she had. Russell's early career included a few engagements in opera (including a disastrous appearance as a substitute Santuzza in a British touring production of Cavalleria rusticana, where she clumsily tripped on a set piece and pulled it down – an event later used in her comedy) – as well as appearances as a folk singer on BBC radio in 1931. Russell's mother was Canadian, and the family returned in 1939 to Toronto, after her father's death, where she began to appear on local radio stations as an entertainer.[11][12] By 1940, she was beginning to find success as a soloist on the concert stage in Canada. Russell's first one-woman show as a parodist was sponsored by the Toronto Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire in 1942, though it was the Canadian conductor Sir Ernest MacMillan who really set her on her international career as a "musical cartoonist", when he invited her to take part in his annual burlesque Christmas Box Symphony Concert in 1944. Russell made her New York City debut in her one-woman show in 1948, which she toured throughout North America, Britain, Australia and the rest of the English-speaking world. Peak years In her first major successful season, 1952–53, she performed in 37 cities in the United States and Canada before an estimated 100,000 listeners. Her recording Anna Russell Sings? became a best seller. She wrote the lyrics and music for Anna Russell's Little Show (1953) and sang the role of the Witch in an animated film of the opera Hansel and Gretel in 1954, also singing that role at New York City Opera the same year and with the Cosmopolitan Opera in San Francisco in 1957. She took Anna Russell's Little Show to Broadway in 1953 and also appeared on Broadway in All by Myself in 1960. In 1963, with Robert Paine Grose and Joan White, she founded Grow Productions, Inc., which presented Lady Audley's Secret at the New York World's Fair in 1964. She also played a leading role in Noël Coward's comedy Blithe Spirit. Other stage shows included Quality Street in 1965 at the Bucks County Playhouse in Pennsylvania. Russell appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and in a number of plays and television episodes. She performed her concerts at New York's Carnegie Hall and London's Royal Albert Hall. In 1977, she played the Duchess of Crackenthorp in the Canadian Opera Company production of Daughter of the Regiment, a role which she later recreated for Tulsa Opera in a production with Erie Mills and Giorgio Tozzi. Russell became known for her deadpan humour, including her disbelieving emphasis of the absurd in well accepted stories and her mockery of pretension. For example, in her humorous analysis of Wagner's Ring cycle, she began by noting that the first scene takes place in the River Rhine: "In it!!" After pointing out that a character in the Ring Cycle is the first woman that Siegfried has ever met who is not his aunt, she pauses and declares, "I'm not making this up, you know!" This phrase also became the title of her autobiography, published in 1985. At the end of her monologue she sings the Rhinemaidens' leitmotif and declares, "You're exactly where you started, 20 hours ago!" Besides her Ring and Gilbert and Sullivan parodies, Russell was famous for other routines, including "Wind Instruments I Have Known", and parodies of Lieder ("Schlumpf"), French art songs ("Je ne veux pas faire l'amour" and "Je n'ai pas la plume de ma tante"), English folk songs ("I Wish I Were a Dicky-Bird" and "Oh How I Love the Spring"), and English music-hall songs ("I'm Only A Faded Rose"); even stretching to blues and jazz ("I Gave You My Heart and You Made Me Miserable"). Perhaps the apotheosis of Russell's Wagner Ring parody came during the celebrations of the Cycle's 100th Anniversary in 1976 when Wolfgang Wagner held a dinner and musical soiree featuring lighter entertainment based on his grandfather's music. The program included some Chabrier adaptations into waltzes and polkas, and was capped by playing Russell's Ring send-up for his guests. She composed, wrote, and performed her own material for Columbia Records, was the author of The Power of Being a Positive Stinker (1955) and the Anna Russell Songbook (1958), and was the President of the B & R Music Publishing Company. She received the Canadian Women's Press Club Award in 1956 as the best Canadian comedy writer of the year. Giving advice on how to be a successful singer, she quipped that although a glorious voice was important, "it helps to be an independently wealthy, politically motivated, back-stabbing b****." Later years Russell retired to Unionville, Ontario, Canada, in the late 1960s, living on a street named after her, but she went on several "farewell" tours in the 1970s and 1980s, including one-woman shows at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and Carnegie Hall parodying opera divas who did the same. In 1980 she played Helga ten Dorp opposite Charles Dennis's Sidney Bruhl in Deathtrap at the Grand Theatre in London, Ontario. In 1975 she toured rural New South Wales and interstate centres in the joint Ashton's Circus and Degrey-Williams-Kendall production ‘The Clown Who Lost His Circus’. This unusual circus pantomime, which combined performing acts with a play, featured Sydney actors Colin Croft, Anna Russell, Keith Little, Anita Roberts, Peter Williams and Ron May. In her last years she moved to Australia to be cared for by Deirdre Prussak, a fan who became Russell's close friend for over 50 years. Russell and Prussak had developed a kind of mother-daughter relationship.Prussak was the author of Anna in a Thousand Cities, a memoir of Anna Russell's life. Russell died in Rosedale, New South Wales, near Batemans Bay.

Richard William Russell of Hart, Oceana County, Michigan United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Richard William Russell .

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Bessie (Harvey) Russell was born on January 6, 1869 at Michigan, and died at age 78 years old on February 15, 1947 at California. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Bessie (Harvey) Russell.

William Russell was born to John H. Russell and Mary (Reid) Russell. William Russell married Mary (Richardson) Russell. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember William Russell.

Arthur Holtham Russell was born on September 21, 1917 in Horsham, Victoria Australia, and died at age 24 years old on February 20, 1942 in Ambon, Maluku Indonesia. Arthur Russell was buried at Ambon Memorial Column 5. in Ambon. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Arthur Holtham Russell.

Sarah Ellen (Martin) Russell was born in 1880 at Kentucky, and died at age 67 years old in 1947 at Virginia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Sarah Ellen (Martin) Russell.

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