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Tano Cimarosa was born on 1 January 1922 in Messina, Italy. He was an actor and director, known for Cinema Paradiso (1988), Uomini di parola (1981) and La sarrasine (1992). He died on 24 May 2008 in Messina, Sicily, Italy.- Writer
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Jerry Robinson was an American comic book artist from Trenton, New Jersey. He was one of the earliest creative staff of the "Batman" stories by DC Comics. Robinson is primarily remembered for co-creating two popular characters: Robin/Dick Grayson and the Joker. The first was the most prominent sidekick hero in comics, and the second was one of the most prominent super-villains. Robinson was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2004.
In 1922, Robinson was born in Trenton, New Jersey. Trenton briefly served as the capital of the United States in 1784. Robinson was born to a Jewish family. His father was entrepreneur Benjamin Robinson. Benjamin was from European Russia (the European regions of the Russian Empire). He had emigrated to the United States in 1895, primarily to avoid conscription into the Imperial Russian Army. Mae Robinson (Robinson's mother) was a bookkeeper from Lower Manhattan.
As a teenager, Robinson aspired to become a journalist. He studied journalism at Columbia University, but dropped out before earning a degree. In 1939, Robinson was hired by Bob Kane to serve as an assistant for his small artist studio. Kane had already created the Batman character, and needed help to produce more stories. His new job required Robinson to move to The Bronx, as he had to live in proximity to Kane's own residence.
Robinson started out as both a letterer and a background inker for the "Batman" stories. He was then entrusted with inking secondary figures in the stories. By 1940, Robinson became the Batman series' primary inker, while George Roussos served as the inker for the background art. To supplement their income, Robinson and Roussos also worked as inkers and background artists for the superhero comic series "Target and the Targeteers", published by Novelty Press.
In late 1940 or early 1941, Robinson became a company staffer for National Comics (a predecessor for DC Comics). National was the publisher for Batman, and reportedly wanted the exclusive services of the people who were working in the popular "Batman" series.
In 1940, Bob Kane and Bill Finger contemplated adding a sidekick figure to the Batman series. Robinson suggested code-naming the character "Robin", naming him after Robin Hood. Robinson had reportedly read several books about Robin Hood as a boy. The trio of co-creators worked on Robin's origin story. Robin/Dick Grayson was depicted as an orphaned circus performer who becomes the legal ward of Batman/Bruce Wayne. The boy sidekick soon became a popular character, and served as the main inspiration for the creation of several other sidekick characters during the Golden Age of Comic Books (c. 1938-1956).
Also in 1940, Kane, Finger, and Robinson created a new super-villain, the Joker. The character's appearance was modeled on the visual appearance of actor Conrad Veidt in the film, "The Man Who Laughs" (1928). In the film, Veidt was portraying Gwynplaine, a Victor Hugo character whose mouth has been mutilated into a perpetual grin. Like him, the Joker had a permanent mirthless smile. Robinson reportedly came up with the initial idea for creating the new villain, but Bob Kane claimed in interviews that it was Kane and Finger who had the idea to model the character on Veidt.
Robinson's other contributions to the "Batman" supporting cast was redesigning Batman's butler Alfred Pennyworth into a slender figure, and offering ideas for the design of the villain Two-Face/Harvey Dent. He is not credited with creating either of the two characters, but he had a hand in their development.
In 1943, Bob Kane stopped drawing new comic book stories for Batman, as he wanted to focus on the "Batman" newspaper comic strip. Robinson took over the artist duties for the Batman comic book stories, primarily sharing this role with Dick Sprang. They both served as ghost artists, with Kane continuing to be credited as the series' artist.
In 1944, Robinson created his own artist studio. His business partner was fellow comics artist Mort Meskin (1916-1995), who had worked extensively for Fiction House, MLJ Comics (later renamed to Archie Comics), and National Comics. The main customer of their small studio was Spark Publications (1944-1946), a Massachusetts-based company owned by pulp fiction writer Ken Crossen ( 1910 - 1981). Spark went bankrupt in 1946, due to a decline in its sales. Consequently, Robinson and Meskin shut down their own studio.
During the next several years, Robinson worked as a freelance artist, and as an illustrator for textbooks. In the 1950s, Robinson worked as a cover artist for "Playbill" (1884-), a monthly magazine whose main audience is theatergoers. He also started producing political cartoons for newspapers. In the 1960s, he started working primarily as a newspaper cartoonist. He was the only credited creator for the syndicated comic strip "True Classroom Flubs and Fluffs" (1965-1967), which humorously depicted real-life error perpetrated by American students.
In 1967, Robinson was elected as the new president of the National Cartoonists Society (1946-). It is an organization for professional cartoonists in the United States, though it works primarily as a way for cartoonists to socialize with each other, rather than a labor union. His term ended in 1969. From 1973 to 1975, Robinson served as the president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.
In 1974, Robinson published the non-fiction book "The Comics". It was a comprehensive guide the history of newspaper comic strips. In the mid-1970s, Robinson championed creator rights for comic book creators. He was one of the leaders of a campaign that demanded full recognition and compensation of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster as the creators of Superman. In 1975, DC Comics agreed to grant lifetime stipends and a credit in all broadcast and published Superman work to Siegel and Shuster.
In 1978, Robinson established "CartoonArts International", a New York City-based cartooning newspaper syndication service which distributes political and humor cartoons, caricatures, and graphics internationally. By the 2010s, the syndication service represented about 550 artists from 75 different countries.
In 1999, Robinson co-created the manga series "Astra", working with artists Shojin Tanaka and Ken-ichi Oishi. Originally published in Japanese, the series was translated and published in English by an imprint of Central Park Media (1990-2009). It was Robinson's first comic-book related work in decades.
In May 2007, Robinson was hired as a creative consultant for DC Comics. The extent of his duties to the company was left undefined in its press release. In December 2011, Robinson died in his sleep in Staten Island. He was 89-years-old. He was survived by his wife Gro Bagn and two of their children. His legacy endures as his comic book creations remain popular.- Actor
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Born in Coamo, Puerto Rico, Bobby Capo began his musical career began when he was chosen to replace a member of the orchestra that was led by Rafael Hernandez. Later moving to New York City, he became a bandmember in Xavier Cugat's band. An established songwriter and singer, Capo wrote many songs, and was a big sensation in Cuba, where his music blared from radios almost everyday. In his final years he worked for the offfice of Puerto Rican Affairs in New York. He died in 1989 in New York City.- Actor
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Antal Farkas was born on 1 January 1922 in Öcsöd, Hungary. He was an actor and writer, known for A pénzcsináló (1964), Rough, Tough & Company (1980) and Kakuk Marci (1973). He was married to Kovács, Eszter. He died on 24 September 2010 in Budapest, Hungary.- Mohammad Afzal was born on 1 January 1922 in Lahore, Punjab, British India [now Pakistan]. He was an actor, known for Elan (1947), Anarkali (1958) and Shahjehan (1946). He died on 1 January 1984 in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
- Bernard Evslin was born on 1 January 1922 in New Rochelle, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Journey Back to Oz (1972) and a.k.a. Cassius Clay (1970). He was married to Dorothy Clinton. He died on 4 June 1993 in Kauai, Hawaii, USA.
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Ivan King was born on 1 January 1922 in the UK. He is an art director and production designer, known for Village of the Damned (1960), The Interrupted Journey (1949) and Third Time Lucky (1949).- Director
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Manhar Raskapur was born on 1 January 1922 in Surat, Bombay Presidency, British India. He was a director and assistant director, known for Kadu Makrani (1960), Mendi Rang Lagyo (1960) and Akhand Saubhagyavati (1963). He died on 14 February 1980 in Halol, Gujarat, India.- Ernest F. Hollings was born on 1 January 1922 in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. He was an actor, known for City Hall (1996), Bicentennial Minutes (1974) and Today (1952). He was married to Rita Liddy and Martha Salley. He died on 6 April 2019 in Isle of Palms, South Carolina, USA.
- Ariel Heath was born on 1 January 1922 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA. She was an actress, known for Black Hills Express (1943), Machine Gun Mama (1944) and Career Girl (1944). She was married to Shipley Bayliss. She died on 21 July 1973 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.
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Gene Gilbeaux was born on 1 January 1922 in Beaumont, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Calypso Heat Wave (1957), The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950) and The Jackie Gleason Show (1952). He died on 23 September 1991 in San Francisco, California, USA.- Münevver Girik was born on 1 January 1922 in Istanbul, Turkey. She was an actress, known for Belali torun (1962), Sazli damin kahpesi (1956) and Avare Mustafa (1961). She died on 28 March 2023 in Istanbul, Turkey.
- Élide Brero was born on 1 January 1922 in Lima, Peru. She was an actress, known for Reportaje a la muerte (1993), Isabella (1999) and Todos somos estrellas (1994). She was married to Aldo Brero. She died on 1 July 2021 in Lima, Peru.
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Pierre Franck was born on 1 January 1922 in Paris, France. He was a writer and actor, known for Au théâtre ce soir (1966), Autour d'une enquête (1931) and Die fixe Idee (1967). He was married to Danièle Huet. He died on 13 November 2013 in Paris, France.- Darix Togni (1922-1976),was a circus artist/owner, animal trainer and actor. He was the son of circus director and clown Ercole Togni and his wife Caterina Barbera. Darix Togni was the most famous performer of the Togni dynasty, and the first true popular circus star in Italy. He entered the ring at age seven, as a young equestrian in a voltige à la Richard act with his sisters Leda and Doly, and then appeared in a Russian dance act with his cousins Wally and Angly. At age fourteen, he was included in the family's perch-pole act. In 1946, an unforeseen event changed Darix's life, and propelled him to circus stardom. The Circo Nazionale's lion trainer having left the circus, Darix took his place and entered the cage after only five days of rehearsals, donning an old gladiator costume he had used in one of his equestrian acts. He developed important relationships with the movie industry. He was featured in several "peplum" films requiring lions or tigers, such as Richard Fleischer's "Barabbas" (1961), starring Anthony Quinn. In 1959, in a spectacular publicity stunt, he replicated Hannibal's march through the Alps with three of his elephants. Darix Togni appeared in 7 feature films from 1949- 1961. Darix Togni was married to Fiorenza Colombo 1946 (granddaughter of Elena Fratellini), with whom he had five children: Danila, Livio, Corrado, Davio, and Nevia.
- Tadeusz Somogi was born on 1 January 1922 in Czerwonogród, Lwowskie, Poland [now Chervonohrad, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for The Hours of Hope (1955), How I Unleashed World War II (1970) and Lawa. Opowiesc o 'Dziadach' Adama Mickiewicza (1989). He died on 12 September 2009 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- György Galambos was born on 1 January 1922 in Kuntelep, Hungary. He was an actor, known for Az elvarázsolt dollár (1986), Csak semmi pánik... (1982) and Forró mezök (1979). He died in May 1995 in Pécs, Hungary.
- Veikko Manninen was born on 1 January 1922 in Kuusankoski, Finland. He is an actor and director, known for Kevään kohinaa Merenkurkussa (1962), Kätkäläinen (1980) and Jaakko Ilkka (1982).
- Andrzej Hiolski was born on 1 January 1922 in Lviv, Ukraine. He was an actor, known for Die Teufel von Loudun (1969). He died on 26 February 2000 in Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland.
- Sayuri Tanima was born on 1 January 1922. She was an actress, known for No Regrets for Our Youth (1946), Wakare-gumo (1951) and Repast (1951). She was married to Jin Usami. She died in February 2003 in Japan.
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Katsuya Susaki was born on 1 January 1922 in Fukuoka, Japan. He was a writer and assistant director, known for Mori Shigeru's Hoax Gentleman (1955), No Advice Taken (1958) and Three Brother's Duel (1960). He died on 9 January 2015 in Japan.- Zbigniew Prus was born on 1 January 1922 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. He was an actor, known for Skradziona kolekcja (1979) and Television Theater (1953). He died on 8 November 1997 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Rafiq Awijan was born on 1 January 1922 in Lebanon. He was an actor, known for Captain Bob (1988), Rajol Min El-Madi (2004) and Jamil and Jamileh (2001). He died on 9 January 2016 in Lebanon.
- Obie Dunson was born on 1 January 1922 in the United States. He was an actor, known for Black Devil Doll from Hell (1984). He died on 26 December 2018 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- Jirí Pick was born on 1 January 1922 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Zivot pro Jana Kaspara (1959), Touha (1958) and Chceme zít (1950). He died on 11 December 1978 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
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Blond, good looking Jason Evers played many seemingly ordinary men who often turned out to harbor malign tendencies. Although probably best known for playing Dr. Bill Corter in the 1962 cult film The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962), Evers did much more than meets the eye. He quit school to join the army during WWII, and later decided to act after seeing such Hollywood stars as John Wayne and Humphrey Bogart. His first big break was in 1960 in the TV series Wrangler (1960) and he followed that with roles in Pretty Boy Floyd (1960), House of Women (1962), and another TV series, Channing (1963).
His career began to decline in the 1970s. He appeared with Roddy McDowall in Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), one of the sequels to the smash Planet of the Apes (1968), and in the made-for-TV thriller Fer-de-Lance (1974). He was a vengeful hunter out to kill a murderous grizzly bear in Claws (1977) and a biologist out to stop man-eating fish (with Wayne Crawford) in Barracuda (1978).
He made more than 65 appearances in TV series and made-for-TV films during the 1980s, and returned to the big screen in 1990 for Basket Case 2 (1990). He died of heart failure in New York City in 2005.- John Blatchley was born on 2 January 1922 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He was a writer, known for The Black Arrow (1951), The March of the Peasants (1952) and The Black Arrow (1958). He was married to Catherine Clouzot and Chattie Salaman. He died on 1 July 1994 in London, England, UK.
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Vivian A. Daniels was born on 2 January 1922 in Manchester, England, UK. Vivian A. was a producer and director, known for Nom-de-Plume (1956), Magnolia Street (1961) and BBC Sunday-Night Play (1960). Vivian A. died in June 2001 in Gloucestershire, England, UK.- Miriam Wolfe was born on 2 January 1922 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Front Row Center (1955), Hands of Mystery (1949) and Folio (1955). She died on 29 September 2000 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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María Fux was born on 2 January 1922 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was a producer, known for Génesis del Chaco (1965), Dancing with Maria (2014) and Pura Química (2010). She died on 31 July 2023 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.- Jack Agnew was born on 2 January 1922 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. He died on 8 April 2010 in Hatboro, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Blaga Dimitrova was born on 2 January 1922 in Bjala Slatina, Bulgaria. Blaga was a writer, known for Detour (1967) and Lavina (1982). Blaga died on 2 May 2003 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
- Elzbieta Swiecicka was born on 2 January 1922 in Piotrków Trybunalski, Lódzkie, Poland. She was an actress, known for Pingwin (1965), Trzy kobiety (1957) and Rozwodów nie bedzie (1964). She died on 8 December 2019 in Kraków, Poland.
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Georgi Prokopets was born on 2 January 1922 in Krasnodar, RSFSR [now Russia]. He was a production designer and art director, known for Lita molodiyi (1959), Kogda payut solovy (1957) and Mesyats may (1965). He died on 12 May 2001 in Kiev, Ukraine.- Albert Aycard was born on 2 January 1922 in Marseille, France. He was a writer, known for La route (1963). He died on 21 March 1998 in Paris, France.
- Konstanty Jelenski was born on 2 January 1922 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. He was an actor, known for Télévision de chambre (1982), Leonor Fini (1988) and Culture (1985). He died on 4 May 1987 in Paris, France.
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Ottavio Spadaro was born on 2 January 1922 in Catania, Sicily, Italy. Ottavio was a director and writer, known for Il figlio di due madri (1976), Il segreto di Luca (1969) and Il mondo di Pirandello (1967). Ottavio died on 29 January 1996 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Actor
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He made his film debut in The Conspirator in 1949 and went on to starring roles in such as Geordie and The Bridal Path, He's probably better known though for the animal films which he made with his actress wife Virginia McKenna such as Born Free, An Elephant Called Slowly and Ring of Bright Water, His sister was the actress Linden Travers and his niece is the actress Penelope Wilton- Novelist and actress, Dana Broccoli, began her career as an actress on the New York and Boston stage and later moved to Los Angeles, where she met and married film producer Albert R. Broccoli. They moved to London and, together, they formed a film company, Danjaq LLC, which acquired the James Bond franchise and the "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" property.
She said that she and Cubby had the happiest professional time whilst filming Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) in England in 1967. It gives her great joy to be working again with Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, the composers and lyricists who created the original score, and to watch the development of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" as a musical for the London Palladium stage under the brilliant creative team and a wonderful cast.
Dana Broccoli has written two novels, Scenario for Murder and Florinda. In June 2000, she wrote the adaptation of her novel "Florinda" for the London stage musical La Cava. - Herbert Patterson was born on 3 January 1922 in Stockton, California, USA. He was an actor, known for One Step Beyond (1959), Voodoo Island (1957) and Soldiers of Fortune (1955). He died on 7 August 1982 in San Diego, California, USA.
- Filip Müller was born on 3 January 1922 in Sered, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]. He died on 9 November 2013 in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Timothy Gordon was born on 3 January 1922 in Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Dark Shadows (1966). He died on 28 September 1993 in Suncook, New Hampshire, USA.
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Ann Bupp was born on 3 January 1922 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress. She was married to Gordon Sloan. She died on 28 April 2005.- Rudolf Ulrich was born on 3 January 1922 in Halle, Germany. He was an actor, known for Tecumseh (1972), Der Floh im Ohr (1973) and Otpisani (1974). He was married to Hanna. He died on 4 April 1997 in Berlin, Germany.
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Béla Keresztesi was born on 3 January 1922 in Kiskunfélegyháza, Hungary. Béla is known for Erdö, adj menedéket! (1977). Béla died on 15 January 2001 in Budapest, Hungary.- Writer
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Ágnes Nemes Nagy was born on 3 January 1922 in Budapest, Hungary. She was a writer, known for Musical TV Theater (1970), Sing (2016) and Bors néni (1981). She died on 23 August 1991 in Budapest, Hungary.- Witold Kaluski was born on 3 January 1922 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. He was an actor, known for How I Unleashed World War II (1970), Nights and Days (1975) and Teddy Bear (1981). He died on 21 January 1991 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
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Peter Podehl was born on 3 January 1922 in Berlin, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for Der gemütliche Samstagabend (1967), Jan vom goldenen Stern (1980) and Die Höhlenkinder (1962). He died on 7 October 2010 in Mandela, Italy.- Composer
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Guilherme de Brito was born on 3 January 1922 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was a composer, known for Woman on Top (2000), Linha de Passe (2008) and Proibido Proibir (2006). He died on 26 April 2006 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.- Son of doctors, his first intention was to be a doctor, too, but during his attendance at the Tokyo Medical College in 1947, one novel he wrote was awarded a prize by a detective novel magazine, and after graduation in 1950, he decided to be a novelist. His favourite genres were the detective story and the ninja, "Koga Ninpocho" being the most famous. In 1956, two of his detective novels were converted into films, but from 1963 on, almost all of his 16 large screen adaptations were ninja novels. The success of the first movie, "Edo Ninpocho: Nanatsu no Kage" ("Record of Edo Ninjas: Seven Shadows") followed by "Tsukikage Ninpocho: Nijuichi no Manako" ("Account of Moon Shadow Ninjas: 21 Eyes" the same year, encouraged Toei Film Production into doing an entire film series about Yamada novels until 1969, firstly in B/W and CinemaScope.
In 1964, Toei started the "Kunoichi" film series, with female ninjas, and this was be the key to its success. At the beginning of the 1980s, Toei produced two films more Samurai Reincarnation (1981) ("Samurai Reincarnation") and Death of a Ninja (1982) ("Iga Magic Story"), which centered on the fantastic side of Yamada ninja novels. Yamada wrote his last novel, "The Death of Jûbei Yagyu" in 1991, but his popularity did not weaken. From 1991 to 1998 "Kunoichi" and "Makai Tensho" were converted into two original video series. And again, two films were produced based on these stories in 1998 and 2003, respectively.