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A.J. Russell was born on 25 January 1915 in New York, USA. He was a writer, known for The Phil Silvers Show (1955), Stiletto (1969) and General Hospital (1963). He died on 18 November 1999 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Ab Van der Linden was born on 6 September 1911 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. He was an actor, known for Tita Tovenaar (1972), Floris (1969) and De gulle minnaar (1990). He died on 22 May 1999.
- Abdel Salam Mohamed was born on 1 July 1934. He was an actor, known for Ma al naas (1964), Law kont rajol (1964) and Ayyam bala hub (1962). He died on 24 November 1999 in Cairo, Egypt.
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- Director
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Abdusalom Rakhimov was born on 9 November 1917 in Khodzhent, Khidzhent uyezd, Samarkand Oblast, Russia [now Khujand, Sughd Region, Tajikistan]. He was an actor and director, known for Pod peplom ogon (1968), Zumrad (1962) and Na perevale ne strelyat! (1983). He died on 5 January 1999.- Writer
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- Director
Writer-director Abraham Lincoln Polonsky, one of the most prominent victims of the Hollywood blacklisting of communists and social progressives in the post-World War II period, was born on December 5, 1910, in New York, New York. An unreconstructed Marxist, Polonsky never hid his membership in the Communist Party. (Indeed, it was known by the federal government during World War II, when he was a member of the O.S.S. working in France with the Resistance, given credence to the charge that the House Un-American Activities Committee wasn't interested so much in "ferreting out" communists and fellow-travelers as in making progressives of the F.D.R. coalition publicly repudiate their beliefs in a form of public penance.) After being named by former fellow O.S.S. member Sterling Hayden, Polonsky himself was arraigned before HUAC in 1951. After defying the committee by refusing to name names, he was blacklisted for 17 years by the U.S. film industry.
As director and screenwriter, Polonsky was an "auteur" of three of the great film noirs made in the last century: Body and Soul (1947) (screenplay; directed by fellow CPUSA member Robert Rossen, who kept his career by "naming names"), Force of Evil (1948) (which he wrote and directed), and Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) (which he wrote using a front).
Polonsky studied English at City College of New York (CCNY) and, after briefly shipping out as a merchant seaman, went to Columbia Law School. Polonsky's father wanted him to have a profession, and he preferred the law over medicine. The young Polonsky had wanted to be a writer, and he taught English at CCNY while matriculating at Columbia Law, but the law was his first career. After graduation from Columbia Law, he became a practicing attorney, which ironically, led to his career in screenwriting.
Gertrude Berg, the creative force behind the popular radio show "The Goldbergs" (which later made the transition to TV), was a client of his firm. Needing background for an episode that would feature the machinations of the law, Polonsky was assigned to Berg as an expert. Berg was so impressed when Polonsky dictated a scene to his secretary, she hired him as one of her writers. Thus, in 1937, by a serendipitous route charted originally by his father, who wanted his son to be a professional, not a writer, Polonsky was on his way to becoming a hot, Oscar-nominated screenwriter and writer-director.
Polonsky eventually left Berg and became a labor organizer. In 1939, after organizing autoworkers at a General Motors plant near his home in Briarcliff, New York, he became the educational director of the Congress of Industrial Organization, the major labor federation for skilled workers, in upstate New York. While working as a labor organizer, Polonsky wrote his first novel, "The Discoverers", a novel dealing with New York City bohemians, radicals, and frustrated intellectuals. The book was optioned by a publisher that unfortunately went out of business; it remains unpublished to this day. However, he began to thrive as a novelist: Simon and Schuster published a novel he co-wrote, "The Goose Is Cooked," in 1942, and Little Brown published his sea-adventure story "The Enemy Sea," which originally had been serialized in "Colliers Magazine".
Paramount became interested in Polonsky and offered him a contract. However, as a dedicated anti-Nazi, Polonsky was determined to serve in the war despite being turned down for military service due to poor eyesight. Recruited by the O.S.S. (likely because of his communist background; it was said that during World War II, communists made the best secret agents due to their propensity for secrecy and their dedication to their ideology). He signed a contract with Paramount guaranteeing him a job after the war, and then was shipped off to London before serving in France as a liaison with the French underground.
Back from World War II, Polonsky alienated Paramount's head writer when he complained that his nominal boss had kept him waiting too long for their initial meeting. The peeved head writer gave him the Marlene Dietrich potboiler Golden Earrings (1947) as his first screenwriting assignment, and although he received a screen credit, he claimed that nothing he wrote made it to the screen. He quit Paramount to take a job with John Garfield's Enterprise Productions, which had a collectivist philosophy akin to the old Group Theater on Broadway, of which the former Julius Garfinkle (Garfield) had been a member. Garfield was a leftist, though not a member of the Communist Party, though he did employ director Robert Rossen, who was a member of CPUSA, as was Polonsky, who had joined during the Depression.
Working from Polonsky's script, Rossen shot the classic boxing drama Body and Soul (1947). Polonsky actually was allowed on the set (not a common occurrence for the film industry) and actively gave Rossen advice. Some critics see Polonsky as a "co-director," a claim Polonsky rejected as "no one," he said, "co-directs a Robert Rossen Picture." However, in the collectivist atmosphere of the studio, he was able to prevail over Rossen's conception of a "happy ending," ensuring that his own ending was part of the picture. Polonsky won an Oscar nomination for his screenplay for the film that was hailed as a classic by cineastes not long after its release. Garfield encouraged Polonsky to become a director, a development the screenwriter relished as it would give him more control over his screenplay and enable him to bring his vision to the screen just as he saw it. Adapting a 1940 crime novel "Tucker's People," Polonsky wrote and directed Force of Evil (1948), which has been hailed as the greatest low-budget film noir ever.
By the time production had wrapped, Enterprise had gone bankrupt, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was impressed enough to pick up the picture, though its hard-hitting indictment of big business, capitalism and political corruption was not Louis B. Mayer's cup of tea. MGM essentially dumped the picture as the bottom half of a double bill released for the Christmas season. This classic noir, with its indictment of capitalist society, was not exactly Christmas fare, and as Turner Classic Movies' Robert Osborne has said, it was quickly forgotten until rediscovered in the early 1960s. It has been considered a classic for at least a generation and had a big influence on Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972), whose equation of crime with business, and business with criminal behavior had been aired 24 years before in Polonsky's debut. In a huge loss to American cinema, Polonsky's debut was to be his last directorial effort for 20 years.
Both Body and Soul (1947) and Force of Evil (1948) are about the deleterious effects of materialism on the soul, as both protagonists (both played by John Garfield operating at the peak of his talent) face the loss of their soul due to the temptation of big money. Indeed, it is easy to see why conservatives would be offended by Force of Evil (1948) as it arguably is the most radical film to have come out of mainstream Hollywood, and definitely is informed by Marxism.
Blacklisted after his uncooperative appearance before HUAC in April 1951, Polonsky did not get a chance to direct another film until 1968, when he helmed the production of the revisionist Western Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969), which he turned into an indictment of genocide. Although he wrote screenplays and marketed them through fronts (most famously, with the indictment of racism Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), directed by Robert Wise, it wasn't until 1968 that he was credited on a film, for the screenplay for Don Siegel's exegesis of police corruption, Madigan (1968). After the release of the well-reviewed "Willie Boy," Polonsky enter4ed into "Fiddler on the Roof" territory and helmed the more light-hearted Romance of a Horsethief (1971). After that, he was told by his physician that his heart could not take the strain of movie directing, so he retired from that part of his work, though he continued to write screenplays until the end of his life.
After the tide of public opinion turned against the HUAC informers after Victor Navasky's 1980 history "Naming Names," Polonsky was rediscovered by scholars of the cinema. However, he proved a frustrating subject to those that wanted to ferret out the films that had been produced from his fronted-work screenplays. Similarly to his stand 40 years earlier, when he had refused to "name names," Polonsky refused to cite the pictures he had ghostwritten or to name the fronts he had used for his fronted screenplays during the days of the blacklist. He said he had given the men his word that he would not betray their confidence, and indeed, he refused to cite his anonymous work as he felt it would have gone back on his pledge to the men who had helped him through a tough period, as it would have resulted in them being denied credit for the work. Polonsky had bargained with them in good faith, and a man of principle, he refused to go back on his pledge to them.
An unrepentant Marxist until his death, Polonsky publicly objected when director Irwin Winkler sanitized his script for Guilty by Suspicion (1991) to make the character played by Robert De Niro a liberal rather than a communist. He also was prominent in objecting to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences awarding an honorary Academy Award to director Elia Kazan, who was the most prominent of the people who "named names" before HUAC.
Abraham Polonsky died of a heart-attack in Beverly Hills, California, on October 26, 1999, convinced that he had been exonerated by history. As the auteur of three classic films that will live on in cinema history, he was right.- Composer
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Abu Taher was born on 1 November 1954 in Dacca, East Pakistan [now in Dhaka, Bangladesh]. He was a composer and writer, known for Khoma (1992), Asha Bhalobasha (1995) and Agomon (1988). He died on 14 July 1999 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.- Actor
- Music Department
Adalberto Menéndez was born in 1947 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was an actor, known for Halcon asesino profesional (1997), Bloody Marlene (1979) and Tequileros del Rio Grande (1991). He died on 23 May 1999 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico.- Costume Designer
Adam was born on 3 April 1979 in Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland. He was a costume designer, known for Ah! Qu'il fait bon chez nous (1951) and Ah! t'Is zo fijn in België te leven (1950). He died on 5 May 1999 in Moscow, Russia.- Actor
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Adauto Santos was born on 22 April 1940 in Bernardino de Campos, São Paulo, Brazil. He was an actor and composer, known for O Jogo da Vida e da Morte (1972) and O Profeta da Fome (1969). He died on 22 February 1999 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.- Costume Designer
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
Adele Balkan was born on 27 August 1907 in Alameda County, California, USA. She was a costume designer, known for The Fly (1958), The Young Lions (1958) and From Hell to Texas (1958). She died on 20 November 1999 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Animation Department
- Visual Effects
- Editor
Adolf Pedan was born on 20 April 1936. Adolf was an editor, known for Adventures of Captain Vrungel (1976), Srazhenie (1986) and Delo poruchaetsya detektivu Teddi (1976). Adolf died on 8 January 1999.- Adolfo Bioy Casares was born on 15 September 1914 in Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina. He was a writer, known for Invasion (1969), Bajo el agua and L'invenzione di Morel (1974). He was married to Silvina Ocampo. He died on 8 March 1999 in Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina.
- Soundtrack
Adrian Borland was born on 6 December 1957 in London, England, UK. He died on 26 April 1999 in Wimbledon, London, England, UK.- Adrian Love was born on 3 August 1944 in York, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was a composer, known for The Great Adventure (1977), It's a Knockout (1966) and Star Games (1978). He died on 10 March 1999 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, UK.
- Adriana Gallandt was born on 8 June 1933 in Rome, Italy. She was an actress, known for Tua per la vita (1955), Vacanze a Villa Igea (1954) and Avventura a Capri (1959). She died on 9 October 1999 in Terni, Italy.
- Adrienne Pyms was born on 1 May 1926 in Boyd, Kentucky, USA. She was an actress, known for Everglades! (1961). She died on 8 January 1999 in Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
- Adrián Ramos was born on 13 May 1945 in Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico. He was an actor, known for Ya sé quién eres (Te he estado observando) (1971), ¡Mátenme porque me muero! (1991) and El águila descalza (1971). He died on 8 October 1999 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
- Actress
- Writer
Agnes Bernelle was born on 7 March 1923 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress and writer, known for The Good Companions (1957), An Awfully Big Adventure (1995) and Still Life (1999). She was married to Desmond Leslie. She died on 15 February 1999 in Dublin, Ireland.- Actor
- Director
Agustín Barrios Gómez was born on 22 December 1925 in Mexico City, Mexico. He was an actor and director, known for El caso L (1956), Orquídeas para mi esposa (1954) and Nunca me hagan eso (1957). He died on 15 March 1999 in Mexico City, Mexico.- Ahmet Karaca was born in 1938 in Kayseri, Turkey. He was an actor, known for Kan gövdeyi götürdü (1965), Birakin Yasayalim (1974) and Yalniz Adam (1974). He died on 23 July 1999 in Istanbul, Turkey.
- Ahmet Taner Kislali was born on 10 July 1939 in Zile, Tokat, Turkey. He died on 21 October 1999 in Ankara, Turkey.
- Aimée Delamain was born on 21 April 1906 in Hillingdon, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for High Spirits (1988), Doctor Who (1963) and The Avengers (1961). She died on 18 June 1999 in Denville Hall, Northwood, Hillingdon, London, England, UK.
- Actress
- Writer
Aino-Inkeri Notkola was born on 24 October 1903 in Kiihtelysvaara, Finland. She was an actress and writer, known for Lokki (1966), Toukokuun taika (1948) and Tanssi yli hautojen (1950). She was married to Arvo Lehesmaa. She died on 18 January 1999.- Ajlan Büyükburç was born on 13 November 1970 in Istanbul, Turkey. She died on 22 July 1999 in Fethiye, Mugla, Turkey.
- Akbar Farzaliyev was born on 1 October 1932 in Gusar, Azerbaidzhanskaya SSR, USSR. He was an actor, known for In the Heat of the Sun (1957), Foster-mother (1958) and Asl dost (1959). He died on 7 May 1999.
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- Soundtrack
Akhlaq Ahmed (10 January 1946 - 4 August 1999) was a Pakistani film playback singer. Akhlaq Ahmed was born in Delhi, India on 10 January 1946. He migrated to Pakistan with his family after the independence of Pakistan in 1947. His family settled in Karachi, Pakistan and he was raised there. In the early 1960s, he would sing for fun at social gatherings at friends' homes. Then, with a couple of personal friends who later would become famous in the Pakistani film industry, namely the singer Masood Rana and actor Nadeem, he formed a musical group that would perform at public events. He got introduced to some professional musicians through friends who could recognize his singing talent. Soon thereafter, he was singing on Pakistani television and then in 1973, his big breakthrough came where he was hired to sing for films as a playback singer. During his professional career, he sang for nearly 100 films and some of his film songs became big popular hits during the 1970s and early 1980s. But then he was diagnosed with blood cancer in 1985. He continued singing despite his illness until 1998. He died on 4 August 1999 in London, England where he was being treated for his blood cancer.- Music Department
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Al Hirt was born on 7 November 1922 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003), 21 Jump Street (2012) and The Green Hornet (1966). He was married to Beverly Essel , Zide Bowers Jahncke and Mary Patureau. He died on 27 April 1999 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.- Al Nesor was born on 31 March 1911 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Hot Stuff (1979), Harry & Son (1984) and Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964). He was married to Lillian Braunstein. He died on 15 April 1999 in Aventura, Florida, USA.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Al Norman was born on 29 November 1906 in New York, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Paramount on Parade (1930), 52nd Street (1937) and King of Jazz (1930). He was married to Marjorie Helen Norman. He died on 15 December 1999 in St. Augustine, Florida, USA.- Al Sealey died on 15 December 1999.
- Al Shapiro was born in 1942 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He died on 12 September 1999 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Writer
- Animation Department
- Special Effects
Al Stahl was born on 3 July 1916 in Yonkers, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Square Root of Zero (1963), Black Fox: The True Story of Adolf Hitler (1962) and PM Picnic (1950). He died on 10 December 1999 in New York City, New York, USA.- Alain Chevallier was born on 12 September 1940 in Geneva, Switzerland. He was an actor, known for Pont Dormant (1972), The Middle of the World (1974) and Tang (1971). He died on 9 October 1999 in Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine, France.
- Camera and Electrical Department
Alain Dutartre was born on 15 July 1958 in Saint-Remy, Saone-et-Loire, France. He is known for Taxi (1998), The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999) and Taxi 2 (2000). He died on 16 August 1999 in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France.- Alain Gillot-Pétré was born on 16 June 1950 in Versailles, France. He was a director, known for Les métiers dangereux et spectaculaires (1981), Droit de réponse: l'esprit de contradiction (1981) and Drôle de jeu (1997). He died on 31 December 1999 in France.
- Alain Peyrefitte was born on 26 August 1925 in Najac, Aveyron, France. He was a writer, known for Actualités télévisées (1963), Le Québec est au monde (1979) and Lectures pour tous (1953). He died on 27 November 1999 in Paris, France.
- Alan Bodenham was born on 19 August 1952 in Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for U.F.O. (1993), Without a Clue (1988) and Bodyguards (1996). He died on 26 March 1999 in Camden, London, England, UK.
- Alan Clark was born on 13 April 1928 in Paddington, London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Alan Clark Diaries (2004), Machine Gun: History Down the Barrel of a Gun (1999) and The Major Years (1999). He was married to Jane Clark. He died on 5 September 1999 in Saltwood Castle, Hythe, Kent, England, UK.
- Alan Evans was born on 14 June 1949 in Rhondda, Wales, UK. He died on 11 April 1999 in Barry, Glamorgan, Wales, UK.
- Alan Hyman was born on 15 January 1910 in London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939), Trouble Ahead (1934) and The World About Us (1967). He died on 23 February 1999.
- Alan Krassner was born on 27 August 1925 in New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Hawaii Five-O (1968) and The Little People (1972). He died on 14 July 1999 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
- Alan Maitland was born on 13 February 1920 in Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for Hoodoo McFiggin's Christmas (1995), Pinocchio's Birthday Party (1973) and Hugh MacLennan: Portrait of a Writer (1982). He died on 11 February 1999 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- Alastair Hetherington was born on 31 October 1919 in Llanishen, Cardiff, Wales, UK. He was a producer, known for Great Walks: Torridon (1984), Great Walks: The Ochils (1984) and It's My Opinion (1958). He was married to Sheila Janet Cameron and Miranda Oliver. He died on 3 October 1999 in Stirling, Scotland, UK.
- Albert Burke was a writer, known for Probe (1962), PM East (1961) and The Merv Griffin Show (1962). He died on 9 January 1999 in The Dalles, Oregon, USA.
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- Composer
- Soundtrack
Albert J. Buhrman was born on 19 April 1915 in Springfield, Missouri, USA. He was a composer, known for The Help (2011), Volume One (1949) and Dimension X (1950). He died on 29 January 1999 in Springfield, Missouri, USA.- Writer
- Director
- Actor
Albert Krogmann was a writer and director, known for Schwierigkeiten beim Zeigen der Wahrheit? (1966), Panorama (1957) and Bitte umblättern (1965). He died on 10 April 1999 in Italy.- Actor
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Handsome, leanly built African-American actor who notched up guest appearances in dozens of popular US TV shows, including Mannix (1967), McCloud (1970), Emergency! (1972) and Magnum, P.I. (1980). However, he's better known to cult films fans for his portrayal of character "Matthew Johnson" in the successful blaxploitation films Cleopatra Jones (1973) and the sequel Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (1975).
Popwell additionally co-starred alongside screen icon Clint Eastwood in five films, starting off as "Wonderful Digby" in Coogan's Bluff (1968). The next four occasions were entries in the highly popular "Dirty Harry" films, firstly as the wounded bank robber at the receiving end of Eastwood's now legendary, "Do you feel lucky, punk?" speech in the opening minutes of Dirty Harry (1971). He was back as a sadistic pimp who murders a greedy call girl with a can of drain cleaner and is later executed by a vigilante motorcycle cop in Magnum Force (1973), and he was still on the wrong side of the law as a "Black Power" activist named "Big Ed" Mustapha in The Enforcer (1976). For his final appearance alongside Eastwood, Popwell was on the right side of Clint for once as a fellow detective in Sudden Impact (1983).
Popwell passed away on April 9, 1999, from complications arising after major surgery.- Albert Sinkys was born on 3 March 1940 in Wilno, Wilenskie, Poland [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was an actor, known for Ms .45 (1981). He was married to Catherine. He died on 25 July 1999 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Visual Effects
- Special Effects
- Art Department
Albert Whitlock was one of the most skilled matte artists in the history of motion pictures, with his work seen in more than 500 films and television shows. His very long career began in London in 1929, when, at the age of 14, he was a fetch-and-carry fellow at Gaumont Studios. He went on to build sets and worked as a grip. Trained as a sign painter, Whitlock began a life-long association with Alfred Hitchcock, doing all of the signs for The 39 Steps (1935) and then assisting in the miniature effects for The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934). The two maintained a close personal and professional relationship, working together upon several films through Hitchcock's final film, Family Plot (1976).
During World War II Al started doing matte work. His first solo glass shot was a ballroom scene appearing in The Bad Lord Byron (1949). He apprenticed alongside Peter Ellenshaw, under W. Percy Day (aka Pop). Admiring Al's work done within Walt Disney's British studio in the early 50s, Walt Disney, convinced Al to re-locate to America. Upon doing so in 1954, his first work was designing the titles for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954). Ellenshaw had preceded him, and was in charge of the Disney matte department.
At Disney, Whitlock successfully mastered his impressionistic approach to matte painting. Like the works of French Impressionism, they are not detailed upon close inspection. However, on the screen they are very realistic. He remained at Disney for seven years, helping with the design of Disneyland as well as film work.
Moving to Universal in 1961, and would head up the matte department there. Many considered Al the greatest master of the matte starting from this time to his retirement. He efficiently aided film productions by being able to supply masterful effects for films varying greatly in budget, often taking very little time to do so. His effects for the $10 million feature The Hindenburg (1975), cost just $180,000 (Paramount spent more than $20 million for the special effects on Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) just four years later). Like other matte artists, he blocked-out parts of shots into which the painting was inserted. However, Al developed a trademark technique of doing it all on the original negative, so his matte work was all first generation. The original negative of the live action was left undeveloped except for a portion used to guide the creation of the matte painting. The painting was then exposed on the negative and combined with the original photography. He also typically added moving elements such as clouds or waves to give more life to mattes (a skyline of Manhattan from an aerial perspective in The Hindenburg (1975) is a good example of this). The opening shot of 1930s Chicago in The Sting (1973) incorporated an elevated train into a skyline matte painting with live-action traffic, buses and pedestrians. For the dust-storm sequence in Bound for Glory (1976), three large balls of cotton dyed the color of dust were mounted on cardboard and rotated at different speeds. Portions of each matte were half-exposed, once with dust moving toward the camera and then with it moving away from the camera. This produced the effect of eddying dust.
After all the other studios closed their matte departments, Universal frequently loaned out Whitlock and his staff. Working with director of photography Conrad L. Hall, Whitlock produced matte paintings for the climactic scenes of The Day of the Locust (1975) at Paramount. Mel Brooks gave Al the chance to act in High Anxiety (1977) and cast him as a used chariot dealer in History of the World: Part I (1981).
Whitlock retired from Universal in 1985, but continued working on occasional productions for a few more years.- Aldecoa was born on 30 November 1922 in Deusto, Vizcaya. He was an actor, known for Once pares de botas (1954). He died on 4 September 1999 in Lloret de Mar, Girona, Catalunya, Spain.