Researching Bob Chinn
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 1018 people with the Chinn surname? In that year Chinn was ranked number 2575 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Bob means "Form of ROBERT - Bright fame" and is of German origin.
Records of Bob Chinn on Ancestry
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Some Famous People called Bob Chinn
Bob Chinn (film director)
Bob Chinn (born May 10, 1943) is a Chinese-American pornographic film director and actor. He is a member the AVN Hall of Fame and the XRCO Hall of Fame.
Born in Hawaii to immigrants from China who later settled in California, Chinn started his career circa 1970 after graduating from UCLA film school in 1966. He directed Candy Stripers, which is listed in the XRCO Hall of Fame.
He also created and directed the Johnny Wadd series of films featuring actor John C. Holmes. He made a total of 9 films with John Holmes in this series. Later, he was extensively interviewed in the documentary Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes. In the 2000s, Chinn directed a new Johnny Wadd series which featured Joel Lawrence as Wadd.
Source: Bob Chinn (film director), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaBob Chinn (restaurateur)
Bob Chinn (born March 2, 1923) is an American restaurateur. His most well known creation is Bob Chinn's Crab House, in Wheeling, Illinois, which was ranked by Forbes magazine in August 2012 as the top grossing restaurant in America with an estimated $24 million in revenue.
In a Chicago Tribune profile he is described as "brassy, gregarious, outsize personality, operating with the subtlety of a punch to the solar plexus".
Chinn was born in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1923 to Chinese immigrant parents. He would move with his family during the Great Depression to Chicago where the family owned the New Wilson Village, an Uptown restaurant. Chinn would later serve in the US Army as part of an artillery unit during World War II. After the war he started a number of his own restaurants. Bob Chinn's Crab House is his 14th and most successful establishment, and was opened in 1982.
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