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- Cynthia Wesley was born on 30 April 1949 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. She died on 15 September 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
- Addie Mae Collins was born on 18 April 1949 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. She died on 15 September 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
- Carole Robertson was born on 24 April 1949 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. She died on 15 September 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
- Actress
Stephanie Gorman was born on 11 June 1949 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. She was an actress. She died on 5 August 1965 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Sylvia Likens was born on 3 January 1949 in Lebanon, Indiana, USA. She died on 26 October 1965 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
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Cathy Wayne was born on 7 December 1949 in Arncliffe, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She died on 20 July 1969 in Da Nang, Vietnam.- Hana Masková was born on 26 September 1949 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. She died on 31 March 1972 in Vauvray, France.
- Mark Essex was born on 12 August 1949 in Emporia, Kansas, USA. He died on 7 January 1973 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
- Michael James Brody, Jr. was an heir to the Jelke oleomargarine fortune; upon reaching his twenty-first birthday in 1970, he rented a mansion in Scarsdale, New York, and with his bride (whom he had met two weeks before when she came to Scarsdale to sell his friends some weed) announced to the world that he would start giving away his fortune to anyone who asked, because he wanted "peace in the world." He wrote thousands of dollars worth of personal checks and distributed his largesse to all who asked. He later said that the idea came to him while high on drugs. The response was so overwhelming that he soon had to go into hiding, at about the same time many recipients of his checks found when they attempted to cash them that they were worthless, since the bank they were drawn on refused to honor them. Brody's gift giving career ended in April 1970 when he was temporarily committed to a California mental institution after filing a false police report, and was then subsequently arrested on a charge of marijuana possession. In late 1971, he was arrested on charges of making threats against the life of President Richard Nixon, and was also found sitting on the lawn of his sister's house in Norwalk, Connecticut while the house itself burned to the ground. Although Brody was arrested on an arson charge, the charges were later dropped. Brody soon faded from public view, and subsequently took his own life.
- Rosalind Thorpe was born on 30 September 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She died on 5 February 1973 in Alameda County, California, USA.
- Maury Muehleisen was born on 14 January 1949 in Trenton, New Jersey, USA. He died on 20 September 1973 in Natchitoches, Louisiana, USA.
- Jim Dixon was born on 3 April 1949 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Ice Station Zebra (1968), Mannix (1967) and That Girl (1966). He died on 13 March 1974 in Inyo County, California, USA.
- Julie Cunningham was born on 10 January 1949 in the USA. She died on 15 March 1975 in Aspen, Colorado, USA.
- Actress
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Peggy Clinger was born on 11 January 1949 in Payson, Utah, USA. She was an actress, known for The Partridge Family (1970), Beautiful People (1971) and Cattanooga Cats (1969). She was married to Johnny Cymbal. She died on 9 August 1975 in Boulder, Colorado, USA.- Massafumi Yoshinaga was born on 22 January 1949 in São Paulo, Brazil. He died on 7 June 1976 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
- Cinematographer
Bunker Spreckels was born on 15 August 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for My Surfing Lucifer (2009). He died on 7 January 1977 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Christa Helm was born on 10 November 1949 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. She was an actress, known for Let's Go for Broke (1974), Wonder Woman (1975) and Legacy of Satan (1974). She was married to Gary Clements. She died on 12 February 1977 in West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Transportation Department
Tom Pryce was born on 11 January 1949 in Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales, UK. He is known for Bobby Deerfield (1977), Formula 1 (1950) and The Grand Prix Night of the Stars (1976). He died on 5 March 1977 in Midrand, South Africa.- Actor
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Sound Department
Steve Gaines was born on 14 September 1949 in Miami, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for A Way Back In (2010), Locked in! (1964) and Blue Surfari (1967). He was married to Teresa Gaines. He died on 20 October 1977 in Gillsburg, Mississippi, USA.- Dean Kilpatrick was born on 30 May 1949 in Québec, Canada. He died on 20 October 1977 in Amite County, Mississippi, USA.
- Georgia Wixted was born on 22 December 1949 in Troy, New York, USA. She died on 16 December 1977 in Malibu, California, USA.
- István Szilárdy was born on 22 April 1949 in Budapest, Hungary. He was an actor, known for Red Psalm (1972), Makra (1974) and Egy srác fehér lovon (1973). He died on 26 November 1978 in Békéscsaba, Hungary.
- Ming-Lun Ku was born on 4 July 1949 in Taiwan. He was an actor, known for War God (1976), Zhen zhen chun feng (1974) and Taibei liu shi liu (1977). He died on 24 December 1978 in Taiwan.
- Gennady Komnatov was born on 18 September 1949 in Zhelannoye, Omsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. He died on 30 March 1979 in Zhelannoye, Omsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.
- Actor
Frank Ceniceros was born on 15 March 1949 in Texas, USA. He was an actor. He died on 23 May 1979 in San Benito County, California, USA.- Born Mary Eileen "Mimi" Chesterton (nicknamed Mimi by her friends and family) in St. Paul, Minnesota, titian beauty Claudia Jennings was raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 1966, she moved to Evanston, Illinois, the first suburb north of Chicago just south of the Wisconsin state line, where she graduated high school in 1968.
After joining the Hull House theater company in Chicago, she took a job as a receptionist at the offices of Playboy magazine in September 1968. Photographer Pompeo Posar asked her to test, and with a potential $5,000 check at stake -- enough for a ticket to Hollywood -- she agreed. She eventually appeared as a Playmate in November 1969, and later as 1970 Playmate of the Year. Re-naming herself Claudia Jennings to avoid family embarrassment due to posing in the nude, she became the most perennially popular Playmate of the 1970s, as well as the number one female star of "Drive-In" movies such as The Unholy Rollers (1972) and 'Gator Bait (1973). Her first film role was with the film Jud (1971), a low-budget, socially conscious, independent film about a Vietnam soldier's return home. While the film came and went without much notice, it encouraged Claudia to go into the acting business full time.
From 1970 to 1975, she lived with songwriter/producer Bobby Hart but, after their split, her personal life began to spiral. She began using drugs and soon got a reputation for being unreliable. As her cocaine use began to escalate, her career from this point began to flounder.
One of her last theatrical film roles was a co-starring part in the little-seen Canadian racetrack drama Fast Company (1979). After narrowly missing the role of Kate Jackson's replacement on Charlie's Angels (1976) to Shelley Hack in May 1979, she began a tumultuous relationship with Beverly Hills realtor Stan Herman. Following their split later that summer, Jennings turned her life around and tried to quit drugs and drinking, but sadly died before she could continue performing in better films. On the morning of October 3, 1979, she was at the wheel of her VW convertible in Malibu on the Pacific Coast Highway, and drifted across the center divider, colliding head-on with a pickup truck near the intersection of Topanga Canyon Boulevard. She died a few minutes later before paramedics could arrive and get her to a nearby hospital. She was 29. - Nick attended the South Kent School in Ct., followed by Middlebury College in Vermont. He then went on to become a High Episcopalian minister, working in Chicago, etc. Nick ran an acting school in L.A. while he acted until his untimely death. After his divorce, he lived with Freddye Chapman, an actress.
- Nelson Hailparn was born on 13 May 1949 in New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Voices (1979) and Night-Flowers (1979). He died on 22 January 1980 in New York City, New York, USA.
- David Johnston was born on 18 December 1949 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He died on 18 May 1980 in Mount St. Helens, Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, Washington, USA.
- Meri Oravisto was born on 12 April 1949 in Helsinki, Finland. She was an actress, known for Pilvilinna (1970), The Gauntlet (1971) and Tenderness (1972). She died on 19 August 1980 in Helsinki, Finland.
- Ewa Adamska was born on 24 December 1949 in Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland. She was an actress, known for Zabijcie czarna owce (1972) and Television Theater (1953). She died on 27 August 1980 in Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland.
- Actress
Norma Burkus was born on 30 April 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress. She died on 15 March 1981 in Orange County, California, USA.- Ronald McQueen was born on 2 November 1949 in Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for The White Shadow (1978). He died on 5 May 1981 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Elzbieta Kozlowska was born on 5 April 1949 in Wolbórz, Lódzkie, Poland. She was a production manager, known for Dziecinne pytania (1981), Pokój z widokiem na morze (1978) and The Moth (1980). She died on 22 May 1981.- Pundar-Bosse was born on 1 March 1949 in Spånga, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for They Call Us Misfits (1968). He died on 25 July 1981 in Spånga, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.
- Darien Angadi was born on 19 March 1949 in Stoke Newington, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The BBC Television Shakespeare (1978), I, Claudius (1976) and Antony and Cleopatra (1974). He died on 5 December 1981 in Haringey, London, England, UK.
- Lynn Orrand was born on 4 December 1949. He died on 16 January 1982 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA.
- Actor
- Writer
- Music Department
John Belushi was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA, on January 24, 1949, to Agnes Demetri (Samaras) and Adam Anastos Belushi, a restaurant owner. His father was an Albanian immigrant, from Qytezë, and his mother was also of Albanian descent. He grew up in Wheaton, where the family moved when he was six. Though a young hellion in grade school, John became the perfect all-American boy during his high school years where he was co-captain of the Wheaton Central High School football team and was elected homecoming king his senior year. He also developed an interest in acting and appeared in the high school variety show. Encouraged by his drama teacher, John decided to put aside his plans to become a football coach to pursue a career in acting.
After graduation in 1967, John performed in summer stock in rural Indiana in a variety of roles from "Cardinal Wolsey" in "Anne of a Thousand Days" to a comic detective in "Ten Little Indians". In the fall of his freshman year at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, John changed his image into a bad-boy appearance by growing his hair long and began to have problems with discipline and structure of attending classes.
Dropping out of Wisconsin, John spent the next two years at the College of DuPage, a junior college a few miles from his parents' Wheaton home, where his father began persuading him to become a partner in his restaurant, but John still preferred acting. While attending DuPage, John helped found the "West Compass Players", an improv comedy troupe patterned after Chicago's famous "Second City" ensemble.
In 1971, John made the leap to "Second City" itself where he performed in various on-stage comic performances with others, who included Harold Ramis and Joe Flaherty. John loved his life at "Second City" where he performed six nights a week, perfecting the physical "gonzo" style of comedy he later made famous.
A year later, John and his live-in girlfriend from his high school years, Judith Belushi-Pisano, moved to New York because John had joined the cast of National Lampoon's Lemmings, an off-Broadway rock musical revue that was originally booked for a six-week run but played to full crowds for nearly 10 months.
In 1973, John was hired as a writer for the syndicated National Lampoon's Radio Hour which became the National Lampoon Show in 1975. John's big break came that same year when he joined the ground-breaking TV variety series Saturday Night Live (1975) which made him a star. The unpredictable, aggressively physical style of humor that he began on "Second City" flowered on SNL.
In 1978, while still working on Saturday Night Live (1975), John appeared in the movie Goin' South (1978) which starred and was directed by Jack Nicholson. It was here that director John Landis noticed John and decided to cast him in his movie National Lampoon's National Lampoon's Animal House (1978). John's minor role as the notorious, beer-swilling "Bluto" made it a box-office smash and the year's top grossing comedy. Despite appearing in only a dozen scenes, John's performance stole the movie, which portrays college fraternity shenanigans at a small college set in the year 1962.
In 1979, John along with fellow SNL regular Dan Aykroyd quit the series to pursue movie projects. John and Dan Aykroyd appeared in minor roles in Steven Spielberg's financially unsuccessful 1941 (1979) and, the following year, in John Landis' The Blues Brothers (1980). Around this time, John's drug use began escalating. Cocaine, which was ubiquitous in show-business circles in the 1970's, became his drug of choice. After he first experimented with cocaine in the mid 1970s, John almost immediately became addicted to it. His frequent cocaine sniffing binges became a source of friction between him and Judy, whom he married in 1976.
John's love for blues and soul music inspired the "Blues Brothers". He and Aykroyd first appeared as Joliet Jake and Elwood Blues, a pair of white soul men dressed in black suits, skinny ties, fedora hats and Rayban sunglasses, as a warm-up act before the telecasts of Saturday Night Live (1975). Building on the success of their acts and the release of their album "A Briefcase Full of Blues", John and Dan Aykroyd starred in the movie, which gave John a chance to act with his favorite musical heroes including Ray Charles, James Brown and Aretha Franklin.
Although John's reputation for being an off-screen party animal is legendary, his generous side is less well known. Using some of his money, he bought his father a ranch outside San Diego for him to live. John helped set up some of his Chicago friends with their own businesses and even financially helped his younger brother, Jim Belushi, who followed his older brother's path to both "Second City" and Saturday Night Live (1975).
In 1981, John appeared in the movie Continental Divide (1981), playing a hard-nosed Chicago newspaperman who finds romance in Colorado with eagle expert Blair Brown. That same year, John and Dan Aykroyd appeared again in the movie Neighbors (1981), which gave them a chance to reverse roles, with John playing a straight-arrow family man whose life is turned upside down when a wild family man (Aykroyd) moves in next door.
In January 1982, John began work on the screenplay for another movie to be titled "Noble Rot". Also, John had checked into a bungalow at the Chateau Marmont, a popular celebrity hotel in Los Angeles. John's drug use had been steadily increasing for over a year now, which alarmed his wife and friends, but he continued to promise Judy that he would quit someday. On March 5, 1982, John Belushi was found dead in his hotel room at the age of 33. The local coroner gave the cause of death as a lethal injection of cocaine and heroin. Several years later, John's drug dealing/drug user companion during his final weeks, Cathy Evelyn Smith, was tried and sentenced to three years in prison for supplying John with the drugs. Close friend James Taylor sang "That Lonesome Road" at a memorial service at Martha's Vineyard cemetery where John was buried.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Hibiscus was born on 6 September 1949 in Bronxville, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Cockettes (2002), Elevator Girls in Bondage (1972) and Luminous Procuress (1971). He died on 6 May 1982 in New York City, New York, USA.- Anne Winton was born on 3 July 1949 in Brewster County, Texas. She was an actress, known for Bruce Lee - Super Dragon (1974) and When Taekwondo Strikes (1973). She was married to Kusanovic, Marcos. She died on 18 October 1982 in Alexandria, Virginia, USA.
- Ray Vitte was born on 20 November 1949 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for 9 to 5 (1980), Up in Smoke (1978) and Cruising (1980). He was married to Ernesta F. Gomez. He died on 20 February 1983 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Legendary Canadian folk singer, songwriter and guitarist Stan Rogers began his professional career in 1969 and quickly became a fixture on the Canadian folk club and festival circuit. In the 1970s, he performed frequently on CBC Radio and appeared on the Canadian television variety series "John Allan Cameron".
His first album, Fogarty's Cove, was recorded in 1976. He later went on to establish with his brother, musician Garnet Rogers, Fogarty's Cove Music label.
Rogers' songs spoke for the ordinary lives that reflect the diversity of the Canadian experience. He gave voice to those who work closest to the land and the sea as well as to the dispossessed and the disaffected. The universal themes of his songs were honor, loyalty and hope. His terms of reference and his images were evocatively specific and his sense of Canadian history equally poetic and heroic.
Of Rogers' titles, nearly 100 in total, the best-known are 'Barrett's Privateers,' 'Make and Break Harbour,' 'The Mary Ellen Carter,' 'Northwest Passage' and the love song 'Forty-Five Years'. His songs have been recorded by more than 25 other artists and groups including Peter Paul and Mary, Raffi, Eric Bogle, the Battlefield Band, John Allan Cameron, Margaret Christl, Mary O'Hara and the Tannahill Weavers.
Rogers began attract international attention and made his US debut in 1978 and subsequently appeared widely there in folk clubs and at festivals. Tragically, he was killed in 1983 in a fire aboard an Air Canada DC-9 at the Greater Cincinnati Airport. At the time, he was en route home from an appearance at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas.
The Stan Rogers Folk Festival was founded in 1997 and named in his honor. It is held annually in Canso, Nova Scotia and has featured such acts as Bruce Cockburn, Ron Sexsmith, Jimmy Rankin, The Barra McNeils, The Irish Descendants and Eric Bogle.
Rogers is widely considered to be the greatest Canadian folk singer of all time.- Roy Radin was born on 13 November 1949. He died on 10 June 1983 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- George Lamphere was born on 26 April 1949. He died on 11 June 1983 in Mishawaka, Indiana, USA.
- Producer
- Writer
- Cinematographer
Byron Kennedy was born on 18 August 1949 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He was a producer and writer, known for Mad Max (1979), Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) and The Devil in Evening Dress (1975). He died on 17 July 1983 in Warragamba Dam, New South Wales, Australia.- Actor
- Writer
Marc Porel was born on 3 January 1949 in Lausanne, Switzerland. He was an actor and writer, known for The Psychic (1977), Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man (1976) and Don't Torture a Duckling (1972). He was married to Barbara Magnolfi and Bénédicte Lacoste. He died on 15 August 1983 in Casablanca, Morocco.- Tuija Ahvonen was born on 27 January 1949 in Helsinki, Finland. She was an actress, known for Hukkaputki (1981), Jouluksi kotiin (1975) and Niilon oppivuodet (1971). She was married to Pertti Nurminen. She died on 8 October 1983 in Helsinki, Finland.
- Branimir Zamolo was born on 19 March 1949 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He was an actor, known for Filip na konju (1973), Smrt gospodina Goluze (1982) and Gradjani sela Luga (1972). He died on 2 November 1983 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia.
- Galina Venevitinova was born on 4 April 1949 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She was an actress, known for Prosto uzhas (1982), Beregite zhenshchin! (1981) and Sem bratiev (1980). She died on 29 December 1983 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Actor
- Writer
- Composer
Referred to by some as a dadaistic comedian, Andy Kaufman took comedy and performance art to the edges of irrationality and blurred the dividing line between reality and imagination. Born in New York City on January 17, 1949, the first son of Stanley and Janice Kaufman, Andy grew up on New York in the town of Great Neck. He began performing for family and friends at the age of 7, and by the time he was 9 was being hired to entertain at children's parties. After a year at a Boston junior college, Andy began performing his unique brand of stand-up comedy at coffee shops and nightclubs on the east coast. Discovered by Improvisation comedy club owner Bud Friedman, Andy quickly earned a reputation as a talented, yet eccentric performer. Impressed by his abilities, Lorne Michaels asked Kaufman to appear on the inaugural broadcast of Saturday Night Live (October 11, 1975). Best known for his work as Latka Gravas on the TV sitcom Taxi, Andy appeared in several TV shows and movies, on Broadway, did a one man show at Carnegie Hall, enjoyed a brief professional wrestling career and performed in concerts nation-wide.