Jean Pierre Hersholt (July 12, 1886 – June 2, 1956)
He was best known for his 17 years starring on radio in Dr. Christian and for playing Shirley Temple's grandfather in Heidi. Of his total credits, 75 were silent films and 65 were sound films. He appeared in 140 films and directed four. In 1939 Hersholt helped form the Motion Picture Relief Fund to support industry employees with medical care when they were down on their luck. The fund was used to create the Motion Picture Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California, and it led to the creation in 1956 of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, an honorary Academy Award given to an "individual in the motion picture industry whose humanitarian efforts have brought credit to the industry". Jean Hersholt died of cancer that same year, and is interred at Forest Lawn-Glendale.