William Gillette

He also wrote the 1883 play Esmeralda together with Frances Hodgson Burnett. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame - for Motion Pictures at 6366 Hollywood Boulevard, and for Television at 1722 Vine Street. Some of his plays included Held by the Enemy (1886) and Secret Service (1896), the latter becoming a movie in 1931. Henreid died from pneumonia at Santa Monica, California and was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery. Gillette starred in Sherlock Holmes (1916) as Sherlock Holmes. In 1964 Bette Davis, who had expressed both trust and admiration for Henreid since their first collaboration, was directed by Henreid in Dead Ringer. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut. He made regular film appearances throughout the 1940s, and in the early 1950s began directing for both film and television. His important film credits include The Spanish Main (1945), Of Human Bondage (1946), Song of Love (1947), Siren of Bagdad (1953), and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1961). His television directorial credits include Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Maverick, Bonanza and The Big Valley.

William Hooker Gillette (July 24, 1853 - April 29, 1937) was an American actor and dramatist. He next appeared in Casablanca as Victor Laszlo, the husband of the Ingrid Bergman character. In 1942 he appeared in two films that would become the most recognisable of his career. In Now, Voyager, he played the married man that Bette Davis loved, and with Davis created one of the screen's most imitated scenes when he lit two cigarettes and handed one to her. Chips (1939) led him to Hollywood. A small featured role in Goodbye, Mr.