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- Haven Earle Haley was born on 10 June 1928 in Portland, Maine, USA. He was an actor, known for Casino (1995), The Octagon (1980) and Columbo (1971). He died on 4 April 1998 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
- Scott Bremner was born in 1979. He was an actor, known for The New Adventures of Beans Baxter (1987), Encyclopedia Brown (1989) and Monkey House (1991). He died on 4 April 1998 in Canada.
- This "B"-level actress was one of the more wholesomely attractive, if minor, co-stars of westerns, crimers and serials of the late 30s. Her less-than-half-decade leading lady film career playing both vulnerable and resourceful ladies stretched just slightly into World War II territory.
Kay was born Catherine Mary Rhoads in Los Angeles on January 16, 1914, and lived part of her childhood in her father's native Ohio. The child suffered a near fatal bout of pleurisy at the age of six which left her health extremely challenged. As a teenager she would be prone to sickness as well undergoing extensive rib surgery due to her severe infections. The family returned to California when she was 9.
Kay's hopes of being a dancer were dashed due to her fragile health. Undeterred, she pursued modeling and acting roles and broke into film in feature-length dramas and musicals, including Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935) (her debut: as a dancer), After the Dance (1935), George White's 1935 Scandals (1935), Fighting Youth (1935) and Strike Me Pink (1936) (as a Goldwyn Girl).
Finally moving into small, featured roles in such secondary films as Robin Hood of El Dorado (1936), Every Saturday Night (1936) and Brides Are Like That (1936), Ruth was signed by Republic and immediately moved up to co-star status opposite Robert Livingston in the 12-part action adventure serial The Vigilantes Are Coming (1936) with Livingston playing a Zorro-like masked hero dubbed "The Eagle." Thereafter, Ruth moved up to "prairie flower" status in such westerns as The Three Mesquiteers (1936) and Ghost-Town Gold (1936), which reunited her with Livingston; and two westerns Ride, Ranger, Ride (1936) and The Big Show (1936) opposite Gene Autry. She eventually broke her contract with Republic and moved to Universal.
Lovely Kay, who would occasionally be billed as Catherine Hughes in later years, appeared in the crimers The Mandarin Mystery (1936), A Man Betrayed (1936) and Trouble at Midnight (1937); co-starred in another popular serial Radio Patrol (1937) starring heroic Grant Withers as a radio cop out to bust a crime syndicate; and enjoyed her most popular role, if rather overlooked, as girlfriend Gwen Andrews in her final serial Dick Tracy (1937) starring Ralph Byrd as the clench-jawed master detective.
In the 1940s her career took a decidedly secondary position following her marriage to an MGM still photographer and two children, the first born in 1940. She ended her career with a few "B" fare movies, including the westerns Riders of the Badlands (1941) starring Charles Starrett and Russell Hayden; Enemy of the Law (1945) starring Tex Ritter and Dave O'Brien; and Fighting Bill Carson (1945) starring Buster Crabbe and Al St. John.
Divorced from her first husband in the mid 1940's, Kay would marry twice more (in 1947 and 1965) and would be twice widowed. She lived in the mid-West with husband #2 and Reno with husband #3. Living much of her later life in Desert Hot Springs, California, Kay underwent heart surgery in December of 1997, and died the following April at the age of 84. - Actor
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Born in Belgrade,on Dorcol (part of Belgrade), in the summer of 1933, he graduated at so called "First Men High School". He studied Philosophy for French, Spanish, and Italian language. From 1957,he became a professional actor, and besides acting in domestic cinematography, he also played in France, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Germany, Poland and Austria. His film creations noted like anthology in the Yugoslavian cinematography,an he had a status of an artist. He was a profesional dancing player in "Flamenco", where he got a nickname El Caballero. He played on alternative scenes, and folk programes. Through his entire career, he has played pop music in many different orchestras, and film also. The house in which he had lived for a more than 4 decades, waiting for someone's call for film, survived a German Bombing on Belgrade in 1941 and 1944. He was also a partner of Anthony Quinn, Alain Delon, Horst Buchholz, Orson Welles, Gina Lollobrigida, Monica Vitti.
In 1997 he published a book called "Susreti"(Encounters).- Elena Volskaya was born on 30 August 1923 in Ekaterinoslav, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Dnipro, Ukraine]. She was an actress, known for Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980), Po tonkomu ldu (1966) and It Can't Be! (1975). She died on 4 April 1998 in Moscow, Russia.
- Born in 1920, Lin Tuan-Chiu was a Taiwan's playwright, theater and film director. And also a producer: in 1957, he created the Hushan Film Studio and Yufeng Film Company. He studied at Tokyo, Japan, where he worked at Toho studios. Between 1959 and 1965, Tuan-Chiu directed six feature films, forgotten during many years. Recently, the Taiwan Film Institute restored some of them and unveiled them to the world. He died in 1998 (age 77).
- Ladislav Fecko was born on 12 April 1927 in Kosice, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]. He was an actor, known for Vanoce s Alzbetou (1968), Stastie príde v nedelu (1959) and Pacho, hybský zbojník (1976). He died on 4 April 1998 in Bratislava, Slovakia.
- Alecia St Leger was born on 18 June 1906 in Derby, Derbyshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Ugly Duckling (1959). She was married to Jack Armstrong. She died on 4 April 1998 in Wandsworth, London, England, UK.
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Milutin Vasovic was born in 1942. He was an actor, known for Seki snima, pazi se (1962), Sedam plus sedam (1978) and Folk parada (1982). He died on 4 April 1998 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia.