Your Travalanche Daily Digest for September 19, 2025

Today’s new Travalanche post for September 19, 2025 is about actor William Hickey:

In no particular order, other Travalanche posts for September 19 include ones on:

(For Talk Like a Pirate Day) The Five Best Pirate Actors and Our Flag Means Death

Cross eyed comedian Ben Turpin

Adam West (Batman)

Beatles manager Brian Epstein

Paul Williams

Vaudeville monologist Marshall P. Wilder

Randolph Mantooth and Emergency!

Ricardo Cortez

Bandleader Roger Wolf Kahn

Don Harron (Hee Haw)

Vlues singer Lovey Austin

Stage and screen actor Lynne Overman

Broadway and silent film star Ernest Truex

Magician Elmer P. Ransom

Fred Gabourie, Buster Keaton’s art director

Irish character actor Ted McNamara

Joseph Louis Vance (The Lone Wolf)

Silent comedy actor Glen Cavender

James Haskins, biographer of black heroes

Noah Orr, the Ohio Giant

September 19 was also the release date of:

W.C. Fields’ Pook Sharks (1915)

Harry Langdon’s The Strong Man (1926)

Buster Keaton’s Battling Butler (1926)

The Marx Brothers’ Monkey Business (1931)

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