Achmed Abdullah (ne Alexander Nicholayevitch Romanoff) is born in Yalta. Author of a popular series of adventure novels in the 1910s and 1920s, his most renowned work is The Thief of Bagdad, (1924), the source for the various movie incarnations of that story.
Leslie Charteris and Roger Moore (1960s Saint on TV)
1907
Leslie Charteris, creator of Simon Templar (aka The Saint) is born in Singapore. Born Leslie Charles Bowyer Yin, his mother was English, his father Chinese - a physician.
In 1926 he adopts the pseudonym Leslie Charteris because of his admiration for Colonel Francis Charteris, the notorious duelist, gambler, rogue and founder of the Hellfire Club.
From the Saint's first appearance (1928, in Meet the Tiger) the modern Robin Hood was an enormous hit.
As a youth, Charteris produced and illustrated his own magazine. One of his stick-figure drawings eventually became known as the calling card of the Saint.
George Sanders played The Saint in 4 movies in the 1940s. Despite this advertisement, the Saint Overboard and the Saint's Vacation were never made. Sanders left the series to play as similar role as Gay Lawrence, the Falcon, for 3 movies, then turned that role over to his brother Tom Conway and moved on to other things.
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