Theater, Broadcasting, Cinema

Berglas, David

Berglas came to Britain in 1938 alone, as a Jewish refugee from Europe. He is/has been president of the Magic Circle (the UK association for professional magicians) and King Rat (president ... [more]

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Bergman, Ingrid

Bergman's mother died when she was two and her father when she was 12. She then lived with an aunt, who died six months later, and then with an uncle. Her first film was Munkbrogreven in 19... [more]

Best, James

Best was born Jules Guy in Powderly, Kentucky, to a poor coal mining family with six children. When he was three poverty forced the family to place him in an orphanage, but he was adopted t... [more]

Bilderback, Nicole

Bilderback is a Korean adopted through the Holt International Program when she was six months old by an American couple who also have two older sons. She was not given any special cultural ... [more]

Black, Pauline

Black's birth mother was a teenage secretary, Jewish, and her father was a Nigerian prince, Oladosu Adenle. She was born Belinda Magnus and because her parents were unmarried her mother was... [more]

Bowen, Jim

Bowen was born Peter Williams in Liverpool and adopted as a baby nine months old, with the name Jim Whittaker. His adoptive parents were a weaver and a brick-maker in Lancashire, and he had... [more]

Braimoh, Dilly

Braimoh was born to a white Jewish mother and a Nigerian father. He never knew his mother, had only slight contact with his father, and was raised in a children's home in Surrey. He present... [more]

Brakhage, Stan

Brakhage was born Robert Sanders in Kansas City and adopted at two weeks old by Ludwig and Clara Brakhage. He started college at Dartmouth, but dropped out in his first year to make films. ... [more]

Brosnan, Pierce

Brosnan's parents separated when he was a baby and he was raised by relatives in Ireland while his mother went to London to train as a nurse. In 1964 he joined her in London. As a young m... [more]

Brown, Leslie Calvin

Brown and his twin brother, born in a Miami ghetto, were adopted at six weeks of age by a single woman. He was hyperactive as a child and labeled a slow learner. After high school he bec... [more]