Anouska Hempel. Anouska Hempel, Lady Weinberg (born 13 December 1941 as Anne Geissler ; sometimes credited as Anoushka Hempel ) [ 2 ] ) is a New Zealand -born film and television actress turned hotelier and interior designer. [ 3 ] She is a noted figure in London society. [ 4 ] Personal life [ edit ] Hempel is of Russian and Swiss German ancestry and claims to have been born on a boat en route from Papua New Guinea to New Zealand . [ 1 ] Her father emigrated to New Zealand and became a sheep farmer. [ 5 ] Her family later moved to Cronulla , south of Sydney where he owned a garage .
As a teenager in the mid-1950s, Hempel attended Sutherland High School, leaving at 15 to train as a psychiatric nurse in Sydney. In 1962 she moved to England carrying only ten pounds. [ 6 ] Two years later, she married Constantine Hempel, a journalist and property developer who died in a car accident. David McCallum. Early life[edit] McCallum was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the second of two sons of Dorothy Dorman, a cellist, and orchestral leader David McCallum, Sr.
When he was 10, his family moved to London for his father's move to lead the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Early in the Second World War he was evacuated to Scotland, where he lived with his mother at Gartocharn by Loch Lomond.[1] McCallum won a scholarship to University College School, a boys' independent school in Hampstead, London, where, encouraged by his parents to prepare for a career in music, he played the oboe.[1] In 1946 he began doing boy voices for the BBC radio repertory company.[1] Also involved in local amateur drama, at age 17 he appeared as Oberon in an open-air production of A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Play and Pageant Union. Career[edit] Rin Tin Tin. Rin Tin Tin from the film Frozen River, 1929.
Rin Tin Tin (September 1918 – August 10, 1932) was a male German Shepherd Dog rescued from a World War I battlefield by an American soldier, Lee Duncan, who nicknamed him "Rinty". Duncan trained Rin Tin Tin (often hyphenated as Rin-Tin-Tin) and obtained silent film work for the dog. Rin Tin Tin was an immediate box office success and went on to appear in 27 Hollywood films, gaining worldwide fame.
Along with the earlier canine film star Strongheart, Rin Tin Tin was responsible for greatly increasing the popularity of German Shepherd Dogs as family pets. The immense profitability of his films made Warner Bros. studios a success and helped advance the career of Darryl F.