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Biography Phoenix's Irish-Spanish father, John Bottom, and Bronx-born Jewish mother, Arlyn Sharon Dunetz, joined the Children of God cult in the late 1960s and became missionaries, traveling throughout South America. Upon returning to the United States they adopted the surname "Phoenix." River Phoenix was born River Jude Bottom in Metolius, Oregon, five miles south of Madras, ...

photo: http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/09_04/RichardBurton_468x465.jpg Biography This article is about the 20th-century actor. For the 19th-century explorer, scholar, and orientalist, see Richard Francis Burton. Richard Burton CBE (November 10, 1925 – August 5, 1984) was a Welsh actor from the late 1940s through the 1980s. He was born Richard Walter Jenkins in the ...

Biography Dominic Felix Ameche (May 31, 1908 – December 6, 1993) was an American actor. Ameche was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin to Felix Ameche, an immigrant from Italy whose original surname was "Amici", and Barbara, who was of Irish and German descent. Ameche began his career in vaudeville with Texas Guinan until Guinan dropped him from the act, dismissing him as ...