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ATKINSON George
Date of birth : December 15, 1876, Grimsby, England.
Date of death : May 1, 1968, Woodland Hills, California.
Addresses* in 1917, 3910 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles (
)* in 1920, 4716 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles (
)* in 1930, 1553 La Baig Avenue, Los Angeles (
)
* in 1933, Arbol Street, Hollywood
* in 1940, 2200 North Highland Avenue (
)
* in 1944, 5140 Riverton Avenue.
Profession
English actor. He played small parts in the movies of actor George Arliss, and was his stand-in.
In 1933, he doubled him in "The House of Rothschild".
His wife was a walk-on actress. Their daughter worked sometimes as Madelaine Carroll stand-in.
Story
He emigrated to the USA in 1915.
His wife Maude May Legard (May 3, 1884, Grimsby, England-March 7, 1944, California 
) and their daughter Nellie (August 27, 1913, Grimsby, England-December 1979, California) emigrated in 1919.
In 1933, they lived in the same house that Gladys Baker and Norma Jeane. For helping her to pay the bills, Gladys rented a part of the house, and the Atkinson family shared with them the kitchen and the bathroom.
When Gladys was sent to the hospital in January 1934, the Atkinson took care of Norma Jeane for a while.
In 1934, Darryl Zanuck shot "Cardinal Richelieu", the last American movie of George Arliss. Zanuck was about to join the Fox Film Company to the Twentieth Century Film. George Arliss presumed that, aged 67, he would become the grain of sand in this huge studio machine, and planned to go back to England. So George Atkinson apprised those plans.
On March 17, 1939, wedding of their daughter Nell with Eugene Leonard (
-
).
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