Still of Gene Tierney and Cornel Wilde in Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Caption: Still of Gene Tierney and Cornel Wilde in Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Actor, Director, Producer
Born: October 13, 1912
Star sign: Libra
Height: 6' 1" (1.85 m)
Known for: The Naked Prey (1965), The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), Leave Her to Heaven (1945), Beach Red (1967)
Source: IMDB
Dashing actor Cornel Wilde was born Kornel Lajos Weisz on October 13, 1912, in Prievidza, Hungary (now part of Slovakia), to a Jewish family. He immigrated with his parents and elder sister Edith to New York City in 1920. His family Americanized their names and Kornel took the name Cornelius Louis Wilde. He spent much of his youth traveling in ...