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Gordon Edward Pinsent was born on July 12, 1930 in Grand Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, to Florence (Cooper) and Stephen Arthur Pinsent. Gordon was known as "Porky" as a child, and dreamed of performing as early as he can remember. He served with the Royal Canadian Regiment from 1948-51. Gordon received an L.L.D. from the University P.E.I. in 1975, an Honorary doctorate from Queen's University in 1988, as well as from the Memorial University of Newfoundland and the University of Prince Edward Island.
Gordon left Newfoundland at the age of 17 and began his career on stage. His first theatrical experiences were in Winnipeg, Manitoba. While there, he was involved in the first live radio drama out of Winnipeg. He eventually moved east, working in Toronto and Stratford, Ontario. He has since won numerous credits and awards, and is one of Canada's most well-respected artists.
In addition to acting, he directs and produces, and has written a number of novels and screenplays, as well as plays for the stage, including 'Corner Green' for the Newfoundland amateur drama festival. The play was staged in St. John's, Newfoundland in April of 1997, and was was based upon life his hometown of Grand Falls, Newfoundland.
He is a member of the Honorary Advisory Board for the Newfoundland Symphony Youth Orchestra, and is very active in various charities. His humorous and poignant autobiography, "By the Way", was published.
His wife until her death was actress Charmion King, whom he met during his early theater days. He has a daughter, actress Leah Pinsent, from that union, as well as a son and daughter from an earlier marriage (Barry and Beverly Kennedy). He has two brothers, Harry and Haig, and three sisters: Nita, Hazel, and Lil, who passed away in 1998.- Ainsley Gotto was born on 14 February 1946 in Annerley, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. She was married to Nicholas Roderick (Nick) Carson. She died on 25 February 2018 in Woollahra, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- Ayten Erman was born on 26 November 1935 in Istanbul, Turkey. She was an actress, known for Cennet Mahallesi (2004), Kaygisizlar (1994) and Temas (1987). She was married to Semsi Inkaya. She died on 24 February 2022 in Istanbul, Turkey.
- Bernard Pingaud was born on 12 October 1923 in Paris, France. He was a writer, known for L'amour triste (1974) and Apostrophes (1975). He died on 25 February 2020 in Uzès, Gard, France.
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Bill Paxton was born on May 17, 1955 in Fort Worth, Texas. He was the son of Mary Lou (Gray) and John Lane Paxton, a businessman and actor (as John Paxton). Bill moved to Los Angeles, California at age eighteen, where he found work in the film industry as a set dresser for Roger Corman's New World Pictures. He made his film debut in the Corman film Crazy Mama (1975), directed by Jonathan Demme. Moving to New York, Paxton studied acting under Stella Adler at New York University. After landing a small role in Stripes (1981), he found steady work in low-budget films and television. He also directed, wrote and produced award-winning short films including Barnes & Barnes: Fish Heads (1980), which aired on Saturday Night Live (1975). His first appearance in a James Cameron film was a small role in The Terminator (1984), followed by his very memorable performance as Private Hudson in Aliens (1986) and as the nomadic vampire Severen in Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark (1987). Bill also appeared in John Hughes' Weird Science (1985), as Wyatt Donnelly's sadistic older brother Chet. Although he continued to work steadily in film and television, his big break did not come until his lead role in the critically acclaimed film-noir One False Move (1991). This quickly led to strong supporting roles as Wyatt Earp's naive younger brother Morgan in Tombstone (1993) and as Fred Haise, one of the three astronauts, in Apollo 13 (1995), as well as in James Cameron's offering True Lies (1994).
Bill died on February 25, 2017, in Los Angeles, from complications following heart surgery. He was 61.- Actress
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Carmen Montejo was born on 26 May 1925 in Pinar del Río, Cuba. She was an actress and writer, known for Mujeres sin mañana (1951), Los cachorros (1973) and La infame (1954). She was married to Manuel González Ortega. She died on 25 February 2013 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico.- Claire Davenport was born on 24 April 1933 in Sale, Cheshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Elephant Man (1980), Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) and The Return of the Pink Panther (1975). She died on 25 February 2002 in London, England, UK.
- Claude Flagel was born on 1 July 1932 in Paris, France. He was a composer, known for Le chantier des gosses (1956). He was married to Louise Matlet. He died on 25 February 2020 in Brussels, Belgium.
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Cynthia Heimel was born on 13 July 1947 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was a writer, known for Dear John (1988), Kate & Allie (1984) and Lauren Hutton and... (1995). She was married to Steven Heimel and Abe Opincar. She died on 25 February 2018 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
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A remarkably seasoned actor of stage, screen and television, Darren McGavin has notched in excess of 200 performances; however, he is most fondly remembered by cult TV fans as heroic newspaper reporter Carl Kolchak in the classic but short-lived horror TV series Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974). In a long and varied career, McGavin has often turned up as authority figures including policemen, military officers, stern-faced business executives or father figures; however, he is equally adept at light-hearted comedic performances.
Darren McGavin was born William Lyle Richardson on May 7, 1922, in Spokane, Washington, to Grace Mitton (Bogart) and Reed D. Richardson. His mother was from Ontario, Canada. He received his dramatic arts training at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse and the Actors Studio, and debuted on screen in an uncredited role in A Song to Remember (1945). Several standard roles followed over the next decade before he landed the key role of Louie the drug pusher in The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) and Capt. Russ Peters in The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955), both directed by Otto Preminger. Each of these performances showcased McGavin's versatility, and his virile looks scored him the role of Mickey Spillane's hard-boiled private eye in Mike Hammer (1958).
McGavin stayed continually employed throughout the 1960s, appearing in such films as The Great Sioux Massacre (1965), The Outsider (1967), The Challengers (1970) and The Tribe (1970). In addition, he was regularly guest-starring in dozens of TV shows, including Gunsmoke (1955), Dr. Kildare (1961), Mission: Impossible (1966) and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964). In 1971 he landed the role of cynical reporter Carl Kolchak in the low-budget horror thriller The Night Stalker (1972), about a vampire running amok in Las Vegas. The film was a monster ratings winner (pun intended!) and the highest-rated telemovie of 1972, and original scriptwriters were soon hard at work on a punchier sequel. The Night Strangler (1973) saw Kolchak in Seattle (after being booted out of Las Vegas by the police), and this time on the trail of a serial killer seeking the elixir of eternal youth. The second movie was equally successful, and spawned the short-lived TV series Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974) with Simon Oakland as McGavin's long-suffering editor and a host of weekly guest stars including Jim Backus, Phil Silvers, Richard Kiel, Tom Skerritt, Scatman Crothers and Larry Storch.
"Kolchak" only lasted one season, but it became a bona-fide cult classic, and many years later its premise of "the unknown amongst us" inspired writer Chris Carter to create the phenomenally successful long-running TV series The X-Files (1993), which saw McGavin guest-star in several episodes.
McGavin remained busy throughout the rest of the 1970s and into the 1980s, appearing in Airport '77 (1977), as Gen. George S. Patton in the TV miniseries Ike: The War Years (1979), alongside Rock Hudson in the uneven sci-fi miniseries The Martian Chronicles (1980) and a few years later endeared himself to to a whole new generation of fans with his superb performance as the vitriolic, yet buffoonish, father in the delightful Christmas classic A Christmas Story (1983). The always versatile McGavin also popped up as a detective in Turk 182 (1985), assisted Arnold Schwarzenegger in cleaning up the mob in Raw Deal (1986) and was a doctor in the bizarre zombie/cop/zombie cop film Dead Heat (1988).
At this point it's worth mentioning that, along with his film and TV work, McGavin has also enjoyed an illustrious career on the stage, with appearances in dozens of critically acclaimed productions across the length and breadth of the US. He has appeared in stage presentations of "Death of a Salesman", "The Rainmaker", "The King and I" and "Blood Sweat & Stanley Poole", to name a few.
In 1990 the opportunity arose for McGavin to play another somewhat stern, yet comedic, father figure, this time as "Bill Brown" to Candice Bergen in the much loved sitcom Murphy Brown (1988). McGavin was again wonderful, and his entertaining performances resulted in an Emmy Award nomination in 1990. Several other film roles followed in the 1990s, in such films as Adam Sandler's hit Billy Madison (1995). He died on 25th February 2006 at the age of 83.- Transportation Department
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Dennis Radesky was born on 20 July 1948 in New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Men in Black (1997), Vanilla Sky (2001) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991). He was married to Jill ?. He died on 25 February 2009 in West Islip, Long Island, New York, USA.- Actor
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Iconic American-born singer and actor in international films since the 1950s. Born in L.A. to Russian immigrant parents, Constantine studied voice in Vienna. He returned to the US, where his singing career wavered and he found work as a film extra. Constantine first achieved fame in Paris, where he launched a successful career as a popular singer under the tutelage of Édith Piaf. On screen from 1953, his tough guy manner was put to good use in French imitations of Humphrey Bogart films, several of which featured Peter Cheyney's no-nonsense, hard-hitting private detective, Lemmy Caution. In 1965 Jean-Luc Godard appropriated both Constantine and the Caution character for Alphaville (1965), a futuristic, parodic homage to the detective genre. The tough guys that craggy-faced Constantine played were ideals derived from the already stylized and ritualized world of G-men and private eyes found in American movies. Filmmakers of the New German Cinema resurrected Constantine and his persona; notably, Rainer Werner Fassbinder cast him as the laconic star of the film-within-the-film in Beware of a Holy Whore (1971). Constantine also appeared in a number of German TV dramas in the 70s and 80s and, late in life, reprised his most famous role in Godard's Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1991).- Enrique Victoria was born on 18 August 1925 in Managua, Nicaragua. He was a writer and actor, known for Cumbres borrascosas (1963), Así aprendí a quererte (1969) and La virgen de Fátima (1969). He died on 25 February 2018 in Lima, Peru.
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Erland Josephson, the distinguished Swedish actor best known for his appearance in Ingmar Bergman's films, was born in Stockholm, Sweden on June 15, 1923. Josephson's relationship with Bergman, a long-time friend, began in the late 1930s when they first worked together in the theater.
Although he was in several motion pictures in the late 1940s and early '50s, including a bit part in Bergman's "The Man With an Umbrella" (1946), Josephson confined himself to the stage during the first part of his career. After appearing in Bergman's "The Magician" (1958) in support of Max von Sydow, Josephson did not make another movie until the late '60s, when he was cast in Bergman's "Hour of the Wolf" (1968). He collaborated on two screenplays with Bergman (using the joint pseudonym of Buntel Eriksson), Alf Kjellin's "The Pleasure Garden" (1961) and Bergman's own "Now About These Women" (1964).
In 1966, Josepheson succeeded Bergman as creative director of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, a post he held until 1975. He also succeeded Max Von Sydow as Bergman's favorite male lead in the 1970s, which brought him global fame. After co-starring with Von Sydow and Liv Ullmann in "The Passion of Anna" (1969), he had major roles in "The Touch" (1971), "Cries and Whispers" (1972), "Scenes From a Marriage" (a television mini-series edited into a film in 1973), and "Face to Face" (1976).
François Truffaut, in his guise as a film critic, wrote in 1958: "Bergman's preeminent strength is the direction he gives his actors. He entrusts the principal roles in his films to the five or six actors he loves best, never type-casting them. They are completely different from one film to the next, often playing diametrically opposite roles." In Bergman's films of the 1970s, Erland Josephson engendered the neurotic, post-war 20th century man: aloof, introspective, and self-centered.
Josephson also appeared in Bergman's "Autumn Sonata" (1978), "Fanny and Alexander" (1982) and "After the Rehearsal" (1984). After starring in "Trolösa" (2000), a film directed by frequent co-star Liv Ullmann and scripted by Bergman, it was time for him to be reunited with Ullmann as an actress under the hand of the maestro himself with "Saraband" (2003).
Josephson did not appear in a non-Swedish film until 1977, when he starred as Friedrich Nietzsche in Italian director Liliana Cavani's "Beyond Good and Evil." He continued to work in international cinema in the 1980s and '90s, appearing in Franco Brusati's "To Forget Venice (1980), Dusan Makavejev's "Montenegro" (1981), Philip Kaufman's "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" (1988), István Szabó's "Hanussen" (1988), and Peter Greenaway's "Prospero's Books" (1991). His most memorable non-Bergman roles were in the films of Andrei Tarkovsky, "Nostalghia" (1983) and "The Sacrifice" (1986).
Behind the camera, Josephson co-directed "One and One", a 1978 full-length film, with fellow Bergman collaborators Ingrid Thulin and Sven Nykvist, and directed the full-length "Marmalade Revolution" (1980). Erland Josephson also is an accomplished writer: He has written screenplays for Swedish films, as well as dramas, novels, and poetry.- Actress
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Farrah Forke was born on 12 January 1968 in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA. She was an actress and producer, known for Heat (1995), Wings (1990) and Disclosure (1994). She died on 25 February 2022 in Texas, USA.- Actor
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François Hadji-Lazaro was born on 22 June 1956 in Paris, France. He was an actor and composer, known for The City of Lost Children (1995), Cemetery Man (1994) and Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001). He died on 25 February 2023 in Paris, France.- George Lee Miles was born on 5 June 1945 in New York, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), The Warriors (1979) and The Purge: Election Year (2016). He died on 25 February 2021.
- Haing S. Ngor was a native of Cambodia. Before the war, he was a physician & medical officer in the Cambodian army. He became a captive of the Khmer Rouge. He was imprisoned & tortured. In order to escape execution, he denied being a doctor or having an education. He moved to the U.S. as a refugee in 1980. Though he had no formal acting experience, he was chosen to portray photographer Dith Pran in The Killing Fields (1984) & won an Academy Award. He went on to a modestly distinguished acting career while continuing to work w/ human rights organizations in Cambodia on improving the conditions in resettlement camps as well as attempting to bring the perpetrators of the Cambodian massacre to justice. OnFebruary 25, 1996, he was found shot to death in the garage of his apartment building in L.A. Relatives & friends speculated that the killing was revenge for his opposition to the Khmer Rouge.
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Harve Bennett was born on 17 August 1930 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989), Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982). He was married to Carole Patricia Oettinger and Jani. He died on 25 February 2015 in Medford, Oregon, USA.- Hosni Mubarak was born on 4 May 1928 in Al-Minufiyah, Egypt. He was an actor, known for Wadaa' fi elfagr (1956), Vremya (1968) and Tagesschau (1952). He was married to Suzan Mubarak. He died on 25 February 2020 in Cairo, Egypt.
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Born in New York City of humble means, character player James Coco was the son of Feliche, an Italian shoemaker, and Ida (Detestes) Coco. Shining shoes as a youngster with his father, his interest in acting occurred early on as a child. At age 17 he toured with a children's theatre troupe for three years portraying Old King Cole and Hans Brinker. Intensive study with acting guru Uta Hagen led to his Broadway debut at age 29 in "Hotel Paradiso" in 1957, but he earned his first acting award, an Obie, for his performance in the 1961 off-Broadway production of "The Moon in Yellow River". He went on to win a second and third Obie for his performances in the plays "Fragments" (1967) and "The Transfiguration of Benno Blimppie" (1977). Dark, hefty and prematurely balding, he proved to be a natural on the comedy stage and in scores of commercials (notably as Willy the plumber in the Drano ads) throughout the 1960s. Other comedy theater highlights included roles in "Auntie Mame," "Everybody Loves Opal," "A Shot in the Dark," "Bell, Book and Candle" and "You Can't Take It With You".
In the late 60s he formed a strong collaboration with playwright Terrence McNally and appeared in an off-Broadway double-bill of his one-act plays (his one-act was entitled "Witness") in 1968, followed by "Here's Where I Belong" a failed 1968 Broadway musical variation of the Steinbeck play "East of Eden" that closed on opening night. Their most notable alliance occurred the following year with the play "Next," which ran more than 700 performances and earned Coco a Drama Desk award. Sixteen years later, and shortly before Coco's death, the two reunited for the 1985 Manhattan Theatre Club production of "It's Only a Play".
Coco also earned kudos for his work in Neil Simon comedies, and "The Last of the Red Hot Lovers" (1969), which was specifically written for him, earned him a Tony Award nomination as Best Actor. The two later joined forces for a Broadway revival of the musical "Little Me" and the hilarious film comedy spoofs Murder by Death (1976) and The Cheap Detective (1978), in addition to his moving support role as Marsha Mason's depressed gay actor/friend in Only When I Laugh (1981), which garnered his sole Oscar nomination.
Achieving stardom first on stage, Coco's other films were a mixed bag with more misses (Ensign Pulver (1964), Man of La Mancha (1972) (as Sancho Panza), The Wild Party (1975), Scavenger Hunt (1979)) than hits (A New Leaf (1971)). On the TV screen, Coco fronted two short-lived 1970s comedy series, Calucci's Department (1973) and The Dumplings (1976), and also appeared in daytime soaps (The Edge of Night (1956) and "The Guiding Light"). Throughout his career he played an amusing number of characters on such sitcoms as Maude (1972) and Alice (1976) and also played bathos and pathos to great effect, not only winning an Emmy for his dramatic performance on a St. Elsewhere (1982) episode but appearing opposite Doris Roberts as the brittle Van Daan couple in the TV version of The Diary of Anne Frank (1980). One of his last TV assignments was a recurring role on the sitcom "Who's The Boss?" in 1986-1987.
In his last years, Coco received attention for his culinary talents and best-selling cookbooks. The James Coco Diet, an educational book which included chapters on menu planning and behavior modification as well as choice recipes), was just one that he promoted on the talk show circuit. It is probably not a coincidence that he often played characters with extreme food issues. Suffering from obesity (5'10", 250 lbs.) for most his adult life, the talented actor died unexpectedly of a heart attack in New York City in 1987 at the age of 56, and was buried in St. Gertrude's Roman Catholic Cemetery in Colonia, New Jersey.- Jim Lange was born on 15 August 1932 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. He was an actor, known for Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), Captain 11 (1954) and Amazing Stories (1985). He was married to Nancy Fleming and Fay Marie Madigan. He died on 25 February 2014 in Mill Valley, California, USA.
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John C. Mula was born on 31 December 1942 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was an art director and production designer, known for Dinosaurs (1991), CBS Summer Playhouse (1987) and Barney Miller (1975). He died on 25 February 2018 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.- José Nun was born on 22 September 1934 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He died on 25 February 2021 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Daughter of silent actor Patrick H. O'Malley Jr. and actress Lillian (Wilkes) O'Malley. Kathleen and her sisters Sheila and Eileen, all worked in show business as children. Her first film was "My Old Dutch" (1926). She portrays Herbert Brown as a baby, her sister, Sheila, as Herbert Brown at 3 years old, and her father , Pat, as Joe Brown, Herbert's father.
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Kazuhisa Hashimoto was born on 15 November 1958 in Tokyo, Japan. He was a producer, known for Gungage (1999), Gradius (1985) and ISS Pro Evolution (1999). He died on 25 February 2020 in Japan.- Actor
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Kenneth Spencer was born on 25 April 1911 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Unser Haus in Kamerun (1961), Cabin in the Sky (1943) and Armchair Theatre (1956). He died on 25 February 1964 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.Kenneth Lee Spencer- Lance Waldroup was born on 3 November 1990 in the USA. He died on 25 February 2021 in Robbinsville, North Carolina, USA.
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Born in 1942 in Wichita, Kansas, Laurel Goodwin was a child model, and made her film debut in Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962) opposite Elvis. She only made a few more movies, but appeared in many TV series; and she was in the "pilot" (Star Trek: The Cage, 1965, which has an actual copyright date of 1964) for the Star Trek (1966) TV series (this was part of a two-hour show, Star Trek: The Menagerie: Part II (1966), which had parts of "The Cage" in "flashback" and was finally aired in its entirety in 1986). She married, in 1971, businessman Walter Wood, and the two lived in Palm Springs. She was involved with home-nursing, and attended Elvis Presley "reunions" and Star Trek conventions.- Writer
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Lee Phillip Bell was born on 10 June 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was a writer and producer, known for The Young and the Restless (1973), The Bold and the Beautiful (1987) and Gunsmoke (1955). She was married to William J. Bell. She died on 25 February 2020 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Leif Liljeroth was born on 18 October 1924 in Stockholm, Sweden. He was an actor, known for Roseanna (1967), Hassel/Förgörarna (2000) and Dubbelstötarna (1980). He died on 25 February 2018 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.
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Lisa Sheridan was born on December 5, 1974, in Macon, Georgia. She spent her childhood running around in the woods - until she did her first play at the age of 11. Lisa studied in the conservatory program at Carnegie Mellon University, where she graduated with honors and won the Thomas Auclair Memorial Scholarship Award for Most Promising Student Actor. She went on to study in Moscow and performed in fringe theatre in London before relocating to Los Angeles. She is best known for her roles as a series regular in three network series and for her extensive work in network television and independent film. She lived in Los Angeles.
In 1998, she was cast as a series regular in the short-lived UPN's western drama Legacy (1998), alongside Brett Cullen, Melissa Leo and Tony Hale. She was then a series regular in FOX's FreakyLinks (2000) alongside Ethan Embry (her love interest), Eric Balfour, and Erika Christensen. She then continued playing guest roles in Concealing Evidence (2003), The Family Jewels (2004), Bloodlines (2004), Mr. Monk and the Game Show (2004), End Game (2005), and Clinical Risk (2005). Another regular role came in Shaun Cassidy's ABC sci-fi television series Invasion (2005), alongside William Fichtner, Eddie Cibrian (who played her fiancé), and Alexis Dziena. Unfortunately that series ended, like "Legacy" and "FreakyLinks", after the first season.
After "Invasion", she continued playing guest roles. In 2007, she had recurring roles on Journeyman (2007) opposite Kevin McKidd and Reed Diamond as Dr. Theresa Sanchez, and on CSI: Miami (2002) as Kathleen Newberry. Other roles include Try the Pie (2007), Out of the Past (2007), One Hit Wonder (2008), Miss Red (2009), Child's Play (2009), and Boom Goes the Dynamite (2013). She also appeared in two episodes of Halt and Catch Fire (2014).
She appeared in movies as well. In the romantic comedy Elsa & Fred (2014) she acted alongside Christopher Plummer and Shirley MacLaine, in A Magic Christmas (2014) alongside Jonathan Silverman and Burt Reynolds, and the lead in Only God Can (2015). She also had a lead in Strange Nature (2018), alongside Stephen Tobolowsky and John Hennigan. Her prior feature film appearances included playing the lead in McCartney's Genes (2008), starring in the short film Pirates (2003) directed by Eric McCormack, in Carolina (2003) alongside Julia Stiles and Shirley MacLaine, and in Beat (2000) alongside Kiefer Sutherland and Courtney Love.- Malisa Zini was born on 5 March 1921 in Argentina. She was an actress, known for Los muchachos de antes no usaban gomina (1937), Honeysuckle (1938) and Arroz con leche (1950). She died on 26 February 1985 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Manfred Borges was born on 1 October 1928 in Blankenburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Tempel des Satans (1962), Berlin - Ecke Schönhauser (1957) and Tatort (1970). He died on 25 February 2022 in Berlin, Germany.
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Lank and plain-looking, poker-faced and a bit starchy but looking all the more mysterious for that, Margo Lion will forever remain Jenny, the "brothel queen', in Pabst's adaptation of Bertold Brecht and Kurt Weill's immortal 'Dreigroschen Oper', singing their unforgettable song 'La fiancée du pirate'. A great film debut for this French actress born in Istanbul, who was then a successful cabaret performer in Berlin. And yet, although she was kept very busy working for the cinema and later on for television, Margo Lion never became an idol or a star or even a leading lady. On the other hand, she worked with talented directors (Carné, Chenal, Duvivier, Pabst as well as creators of the next generation such as Demy, Chabrol or Franju) and proved how versatile and talented a character actress she was. She could indeed play any type of role: a prostitute ('L'alibi') or a nun ('Le dialogue des carmélites'), a peevish maid ('La danse de mort') or a petty bourgeois ('L'affaire Lafarge'). If there was a common point between such varied characters, it was the elegant distance and the distinguished iciness she brought to the characters she embodied. A derelict woman played by Margo Lion was not a wreck but a lady who seemed to go through temporary trouble. Margo Lion is almost forgotten, which is a pity. She deserves better.- Actor
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Mark Hollis was born on 4 January 1955 in Tottenham, London, England, UK. He was an actor and composer, known for Head-On (2004), White Bird in a Blizzard (2014) and White Chicks (2004). He died in February 2019.- Maurice André was born on 21 May 1933 in Alès, Gard, France. He was an actor, known for Georg Friedrich Händels Auferstehung (1980), L'invité du dimanche (1968) and Le grand échiquier (1972). He was married to Liliane. He died on 25 February 2012 in Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France.
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Michel Le Royer was born on 31 August 1932 in Carrouges, Orne, France. He was an actor, known for Le voyageur des siècles (1971), Le chevalier de Maison Rouge (1963) and Lafayette (1962). He was married to Pascale Roberts. He died on 25 February 2022 in France.- Actor
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Neil Fingleton was born on 18 December 1980 in Durham, England, UK. He was an actor, known for X-Men: First Class (2011), 47 Ronin (2013) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015). He died on 25 February 2017 in London, England, UK.- Nesby Glasgow was born on 15 April 1957 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He died on 25 February 2020 in the USA.
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Nicky Tesco was an actor and composer, known for The American Way (1986), Amar Akbar & Tony (2015) and Cha Cha Cha (1989). He died on 25 February 2022 in the UK.- Actress
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Raised in Homestead, Florida, Fritz lived in California. She studied acting with the following teachers: Grant Tom Cramer Reilly, Howard Fine, and Michael Arabian. With more than 50 feature films and television shows on her resume, she took the art of eroticism very seriously. This intoxicating beauty got her a role playing a bikini-clad girl in Columbia Pictures' Spring Break (1983).
After that film, she parlayed her natural ability to turn heads into a full-fledged acting career. Like so many other Hollywood luminaries, she got her start in Hollywood working with legendary producer Roger Corman in flicks like Dinosaur Island (1994) (of which Corman was an uncredited co-producer). She landed a supporting role in Go (1999), the sophomore project from Doug Liman, the director of Swingers (1996). With her love for computers, she elevated her career to the next level by bringing herself into cyberspace before her untimely death in 2020 from cancer.- Actor
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Norberto 'Pappo' Napolitano was born on 10 March 1950 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was an actor and composer, known for Carola Casini (1997), Rojo (2018) and Something Has Changed. He died on 25 February 2005 in Lujan, Buenos Aires, Argentina.- Composer
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Paco de Lucía was born on 21 December 1947 in Algeciras, Cádiz, Andalucía, Spain. He was a composer and actor, known for The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) and Don Juan DeMarco (1994). He was married to Casilda Varela. He died on 25 February 2014 in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico.- Patricia Haines was born on 3 February 1932 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Avengers (1961), The Last Shot You Hear (1969) and The Adventures of Don Quick (1970). She was married to Bernard Kay and Michael Caine. She died on 25 February 1977 in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK.
- Penny Vincenzi was born on 10 April 1939 in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK. She was married to Paul Vincenzi. She died on 25 February 2018 in the UK.
- Peter Pritchard was born in 1943 in England, UK. He is married to Sibille Hart. They have three children.
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Red Holloway was born on 31 May 1927 in Helena, Arkansas, USA. He is known for Can't Be Heaven (1999), Blues for Central Avenue (1986) and Martino Unstrung (2008). He died on 25 February 2012 in San Luis Obispo, California, USA.- Actor
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American character actor widely seen in film and television during the 1950s and '60s. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 5, 1908, to railroad agent Miller Foulk and his wife, the former Alice Casselberry, Robert Foulk attended the University of Pennsylvania as an architecture student. While in school, he became interested in theatre and by the age of 23 had made his Broadway debut as Jake Canon in "As Husbands Go." He reprised the role two years later, and supplemented his acting work by helping cast road companies of Broadway hits and by working with the press agents of various shows. He became friendly with legendary Broadway director-producer-actor George Abbott while playing Watson Brown in "John Brown," a Broadway flop about the abolitionist leader (played by Abbott). Foulk began a long period of employment under Abbott in a string of Broadway hits: "Boy Meets Girl," "Brother Rat," and "Room Service," in which Foulk understudied Eddie Albert. An encounter with Bette Davis led to Foulk's hiring by Warner Bros., not as an actor, but as a dialog director. He moved to Hollywood in 1939 and worked in that capacity on a number of films including The Sea Hawk (1940) and The Maltese Falcon (1941). In 1942, he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Forces and was assigned to make training films with the First Motion Picture Unit in Culver City, California. Discharged in 1946, he worked for Cecil B. DeMille as dialog director on Unconquered (1947) and then made his (non-military) film debut in Road House (1948). He quickly became a familiar face in movies, playing police officers, Western sheriffs, thugs, and many other types, often of a none-too-bright intelligence. He had recurring roles on numerous TV series including Lassie (1954), Bonanza (1959), The Rifleman (1958), Father Knows Best (1954), and as Curly Bill Brocius on Tombstone Territory (1957). Foulk continued his avocation of architecture, designing houses, including one for playwright Sam Spewack. He worked in local theatre in and around Los Angeles, though he never returned to Broadway. He was married briefly in 1933 to actress Alice Frost. He married actress Barbara Slater in 1947. They had one daughter, June Landis Foulk, born 20 July 1948. Robert Foulk died 25 February 1989.- Scott Forbes was born on 11 September 1920 in High Wycombe, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1956), The Saint (1962) and The Penthouse (1967). He was married to Jeanne Moody. He died on 25 February 1997 in Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK.
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Scott Lew was born on 24 September 1968 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Let's Go to Prison (2006), Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas (2006) and Aberration (1997). He died on 25 February 2017 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Art Department
Shirley Hughes was born on 16 July 1927 in West Kirby, Wirral, Merseyside, England, UK. She is known for Jackanory (1965), Bookmark (1983) and Read All About It (1974). She was married to John Sebastian Papendiek Vulliamy. She died on 25 February 2022 in London, England, UK.- Actress
Simone Gad was born on 17 April 1947 in Brussels, Belgium. She was an actress, known for Speed (1994), Eating L.A. (1999) and A Dark Foe (2020). She died on 25 February 2021 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Susan Beaumont was born on 26 February 1936 in Balham, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Carry on Nurse (1959), Ivanhoe (1958) and Eyewitness (1956). She was married to John Beard, James Hateley Seddon and Arthur Solomon. She died on 25 February 2020 in London, England, UK.
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Tennessee Williams met long-term partner Frank Merlo in the summer of 1948 (Merlo died of lung cancer in the fall of 1963). Though separated briefly in 1961 and again in 1962, the two were partners for 15 years. Merlo acted as his personal manager/secretary.
Williams spent much of his most prolific years in Rome, Italy, and his enduring friendship with Italian stage and screen legend Anna Magnani lasted 24 years and inspired both "The Rose Tattoo" and "Orpheus Descending". Magnani realized the lead parts of these two plays, which were written for her, in their film versions. The turbulent and inspirational friendship shared between Williams and Magnani is the subject of the internationally acclaimed play "Roman Nights" by Franco D'Alessandro.
Aside from his published "Memoirs", the only authorized biographical book on Williams is by Bruce Smith, entitled "Costly Performances - Tennessee Williams; The Last Stage." This book deals with the last four years of Williams' life (1979-1983).- Teresita Saad was an actress, known for Paramedicos (2012), Código postal (2006) and El Contador de Chanel (2010). She died on 25 February 2018 in Mexico City, Mexico.
- Tony Burton, who is famous for playing the corner man in six "Rocky" movies, was himself, in real life, a professional heavyweight boxer. Boxing in such avenues as Palm Springs, Los Angeles, and Hollywood, California, the 6 feet 200 pound Burton knocked-out among others, Bob Smith and Denny Chaney. His most important match was an April 4, 1959 6th round knockout defeat at the hands of undefeated LaMar Clark at Palm Springs, California. Clark was the 10th rated heavyweight and had won 38 straight knockouts. Burton gave as good as he got for 5 rounds, but Clark's relentless mauling style finally wore him down.