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- Actress
- Soundtrack
She was one of a bevy of sexy blondes shuffled about in 50s films, thrust into the limelight by ambitious movie studios as possible contenders to Marilyn Monroe's uncooperative pedestal. Almost none of these ladies managed to even step up to the plate when it came to the powerful allure of "La Monroe" and starlet Carol Ohmart managed to be no different.
Armelia Carol Ohmart was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on July 3, 1927, the daughter of a dentist father (Thomas Carlyle Ohmart, a one-time actor) and an abusive Mormon mother (Armelia Merl Ohmart). Raised in Seattle and a baby contest winner as an infant, she was on stage from age 3 in a vaudeville act with her uncle. She then lived all over the place with her mother after her divorce from her father, attending high school at Lewis & Clark High in Spokane. A radio singer back in Salt Lake City, Carol won the "Miss Utah" title (then a brunette) at age 19, coming up fourth runner-up when she segued into the 1946 "Miss America" contest (came in 5th). The attention she received led to a modeling, commercial and magazine cover career.
In the early 1950s Carol found TV and commercial work and on stage on Broadway (in the ensemble of "Kismet" and also as Joan Diener's understudy) and summer stock. Paramount took interest after a talent agent caught her in "Kismet" and signed her in 1955, billing her, of course, as the "next Marilyn." But Carol came off more hardbitten and unsympathetic than the vulnerable, innocent sex goddess, and when the knockout blonde's first two movies The Scarlet Hour (1956) and The Wild Party (1956) tanked at the box office, she was written off in 1957. Only a few more film offers came her way, including director William Castle's gimmicky House on Haunted Hill (1959) (her best known); the campy horror Spider Baby or, the Maddest Story Ever Told (1967); and her last, The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe (1974). She had steadier work on TV with guest appearances on "Bat Masterson," "Perry Mason," "Get Smart," "Mannix" and "Barnaby Jones," but by 1974 she retired from the screen.
Carol wed three times. The first, to radio actor Ken Grayson, lasted two years before it was annulled. A second brief two-year marriage in 1956 was with cowboy actor Wayde Preston (ne William Erskine Strange), who starred in the rugged "Colt .45" TV western. In the late 1970s, she married a third time to a non-professional (fireman), which lasted. After a particularly depressing period dealing with medication addiction and disability, a recovered, spiritual-leaning Carol found a helpful avenue outside the Hollywood scene in the 1970s studying metaphysics, delving also in oil painting, gardening, poetry and writing. She died on New Year's Day, 2002, at age 74, in Colorado.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Meg Wyllie was born on 15 February 1917 in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, USA [now Hawaii, USA]. She was an actress, known for The Last Starfighter (1984), Marnie (1964) and Dragnet (1987). She died on 1 January 2002 in Glendale, California, USA.- Daughter of English hair stylist Vidal Sassoon and American actress Beverly Adams, she was born and lived her tender years in Manhattan, New York, then in Los Angeles, California.
At 14, she dropped out of Beverly Hills High School to pursue a modeling career in New York, due to the persuasion of talent agent John Casablancas. She signed with the Prestige Agency and was considered with their best junior models, svelte and with beautiful gray eyes, and long reddish hair. She traveled to London with her father, and made that city her new hometown while modeling in Europe.
During a visit to Los Angeles, she was invited to do a film test, and soon she earned a nickname, the title of her first big movie, Tuff Turf (1985). Managing her schedules, she continued her fashion model career while taking part in TV series like Amazing Stories (1985), Out of This World (1987), Hardball (1989), and The Fanelli Boys (1990).
The big movies came next, and the first of a series of five films she signed for with producer Roger Corman. Angelfist (1993) was not her best film, but it certainly became popular and resisted two decades in video, portraying an undercover narcotics agent, Catara Lange (a name reminiscent of her real name, and Los Angeles), in the milieu of competitive and extreme martial arts. She invested for her new character by studying tae kwon do and arnis de mano, but did not fulfill her contract due to her premature death, during a New Year's Eve party.
Married twice, Catya Sassoon had three children: a son born in London, in 1995, and twin daughters Mycca and Syke born in the spring of 2000. - Producer
- Actress
Julia Phillips made history in Hollywood by becoming the first woman to win the Best Picture Oscar for producing the classic The Sting (1973), along with husband and producing partner Michael Phillips and Tony Bill. From there, she went on the produce other hits such as Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976) and Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), becoming an important figure in the business on the wave of the rising figures of the New Hollywood era.
She was born in New York City on 7 April, 1944. Daughter of Adolph Miller (a chemical engineer) and Tanya, Julia Miller attended Mount Holyoke where she earned her bachelor's degree in political science and awards for her writings. After marrying Michael Phillips (of whom she got her last name. They married in 1964), she contributed as a book section editor for a magazine, and later as story editor for Paramount studios. When they moved to the West Coast, they had the chance to produce their first film, the comedy Steelyard Blues (1973). After that experience, their next move was with The Sting (1973), their second film together and produced when Julia was just 29 years-old. The movie was a critical and commercial success that established as a highly influential figure in Hollywood.
However, after the Oscar and the successful films, the excesses of fame came along with a drug addiction that cost her career in the 1980's - a period in which she producer only one film after spending some time in rehab. In 1991 she produced Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991) which would be her final producing credit. That same year, Julia published her autobiography "You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again", an infamous book about her reckless life and also of many stars and executives in the Hollywood industry. The book was a best-seller due to her candid and scathing revelations but also made her unwanted by the film industry. In 1995, she wrote her second autobiography "Driving Under the Affluence", accounting her experiences after addiction.
She died on 1 January, 2002.- Actor
- Writer
Benjamin Lum was born on 9 May 1953 in Hawaii, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Another 48 Hrs. (1990), Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) and Black Day Blue Night (1995). He died on 1 January 2002 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Gigi Darlene was born Heli Leonore Weinreich on March 4, 1943 in Berlin, Germany. Of mixed French and German descent, Gigi had a repressive relationship with her strict mother and uncaring stepfather. Gigi entered and won regional beauty pageants as a teenager growing up in Germany. After threatening to run away from home at age sixteen, Gigi in 1959 was allowed by her mother to immigrate to Flushing, Queens, New York City, where she lived with a couple of family friends.
Darlene did a fair amount of commercial print and magazine layout work as well as was hired for industrial shows. In 1963 Gigi got a short contract as a Wilson Girl working for the tennis clothing company. Darlene eventually moved to Manhattan; she lived on West 43rd Street and began posing for photo shoots for various men's magazines. Gigi branched out as an exotic dancer making the rounds at clubs in New York, New Jersey, and Long Island. While dancing at clubs Darlene met and befriended future soft-core movie actress Darlene Bennett.
After crossing paths with exploitation picture director Barry Mahon, Darlene started acting in assorted low-budget sexploitation features that were made throughout the early to mid 1960's. Among the notable maverick East Coast exploitation filmmakers Gigi appeared in movies for were Doris Wishman, Joseph P. Mawra, David E. Durston, and Joseph W. Sarno. She often co-starred with Darlene Bennett in these films.
Gigi was working as a featured dancer at a club in New Jersey when she first met her future husband Edwin Greal, who did a stage show as a hypnotist using the pseudonym Charles Lamont. Darlene and Greal got married on August 29, 1966. Gigi moved to Fort Lee, New Jersey after marrying Greal and agreed to stop acting in movies. Greal and Darlene eventually formed a stage act together and went on the road. The couple moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1975. They resided in Vegas for five years and continued to do stage shows before eventually moving to South Florida in 1980. Alas, shortly after moving to South Florida Greal died at age 56 on December 18, 1980.
In the wake of Greal's untimely passing Gigi in 1981 went on to obtain a Real Estate license in Fort Lauderdale and sold time-share apartments on and off for twenty years. Moreover, Darlene was a member of the Screen Actors Guild and worked as an extra in movies that were shot in South Florida. Gigi died from stomach cancer at a hospice in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on New Year's Day in 2002. She was 58 years old. Her body was cremated and her ashes were scattered off the pier in Deerfield Beach, Florida into the Atlantic Ocean. - Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Charles W. Short was born on 6 December 1919 in the USA. He was a cinematographer, known for The Enforcer (1976), 1941 (1979) and The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976). He died on 1 January 2002 in Studio City, California, USA.- Yumeko Aizome was born on 25 December 1915 in Inawashiro, Fukushima, Japan. She was an actress, known for Dragnet Girl (1933), Sabakaruru onna (1939) and Tonari no Yae-chan (1934). She died on 1 January 2002 in Inawashiro, Fukushima, Japan.
- Shizue Kawarazaki was born on 25 January 1908 in Tokyo, Japan. She was an actress, known for The Ceremony (1971), Double Suicide (1969) and The Beauty and the Dragon (1955). She died on 1 January 2002.
- Stanislaw Szymczyk was born on 29 April 1930 in Marles les Mines, Pas-de-Calais, France. He was an actor, known for Mother Joan of the Angels (1961), Koniec naszego swiata (1964) and Weekendy (1963). He died on 1 January 2002 in Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland.
- Cinematographer
Wiktor Prejs was born on 16 March 1919. Wiktor was a cinematographer, known for Opowiesc o ziemi odrodzonej (1954), Ratujemy dziela sztuki (1955) and Z ziemi opolskiej (1959). Wiktor died on 1 January 2002.- Dugarsürengiin Oyuunbold was born on 25 December 1957 in Sükhbaatar, Mongolia. He died on 1 January 2002.
- Production Manager
- Additional Crew
- Actor
Wlodzimierz Kaczmarski was born on 19 August 1933 in Winiary, Kalisz, Wielkopolskie, Poland. He was a production manager and actor, known for Trad (1971), Lalka (1968) and Z tamtej strony teczy (1973). He died on 1 January 2002 in Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland.- Moe Greengrass was born on 11 January 1917 in Harlem, New York, USA. He died on 1 January 2002 in Manhattan, New York, USA.
- Yevgeniy Nachalov was born on 4 January 1924. He was an actor, known for Kindergarten (1984) and Noyev kovcheg (1976). He died on 1 January 2002.
- Bibi Osterwald was born on 3 February 1920 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. She was an actress, known for As Good as It Gets (1997), The World of Henry Orient (1964) and Producers' Showcase (1954). She was married to Justin Arndt. She died on 2 January 2002 in Burbank, California, USA.
- Cindy Garner was born on 21 December 1924 in North Carolina, USA. She was an actress, known for Red Ball Express (1952). She was married to Jerry Gray and Mr. Marschall. She died on 2 January 2002 in Sanford, North Carolina, USA.
- Joan Favreau was an actress, known for Swingers (1996) and Made (2001). She was married to Eustace Favreau. She died on 2 January 2002 in New York, USA.
- Santanón was born on 24 October 1929 in San Miguel el Alto, Jalisco, Mexico. He was an actor, known for El gato con botas (1961), La caperucita roja (1960) and Isle of the Snake People (1971). He died on 2 January 2002 in Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico.
- Rosa María Gallardo was born on 18 October 1938 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico. She was an actress, known for The Brainiac (1962), De grueso calibre (1988) and Los invisibles (1963). She died on 2 January 2002 in Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico.
- Actor
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Zachary Foley was an actor and composer, known for The Jacket (2005), Definitely, Maybe (2008) and Central Intelligence (2016). He died on 2 January 2002.- Dan Foster was born on 13 April 1920 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Scaramouche (1952), The Velvet Touch (1948) and Schlitz Playhouse (1951). He was married to Ann. He died on 2 January 2002 in Apple Valley, California, USA.
- Rick 'Grizzly' Brown died on 2 January 2002 in Berkeley, California, USA.
- Bob Stevens was born on 10 October 1916 in the USA. He died on 2 January 2002 in the USA.
- Jimmy Hayeson was born on 27 June 1924 in Carthage, North Carolina, USA. He was an actor, known for Across 110th Street (1972), Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970) and Shaft's Big Score! (1972). He died on 2 January 2002 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Armi Aavikko was born on 1 September 1958 in Helsinki, Finland. She died on 2 January 2002 in Espoo, Finland.
- Nala Najan was born on 28 June 1932 in Pennsylvania. He died on 2 January 2002.
- Charlie Mitten was born on 17 January 1921 in Rangoon, Burma. He died on 2 January 2002 in Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK.
- Stunts
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Mickey Dora was born on 11 August 1934 in Budapest, Hungary. He was an actor, known for Beach Blanket Bingo (1965), How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965) and Bikini Beach (1964). He died on 3 January 2002 in Montecito, California, USA.- Tony Bateman was born on 25 July 1927 in Edmonton, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Upstairs, Downstairs (1971), ITV Play of the Week (1955) and The Good Companions (1949). He died on 3 January 2002 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK.
- Mohammad Al-Ali was born on 17 July 1947 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He was an actor, known for Asweed's Return (1985) and Understand me (1985). He died on 3 January 2002.
- Composer
- Music Department
- Actor
Juan García Esquivel was born on 20 January 1918 in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico. He was a composer and actor, known for Out of Sight (1998), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) and Secretary (2002). He was married to Carin Osorio. He died on 3 January 2002 in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.- Costume Designer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
Monique Dunan was born on 19 December 1924 in Paris, France. She was a costume designer and assistant director, known for Devil in the Flesh (1947), Picnic on the Grass (1959) and Famous Love Affairs (1961). She died on 3 January 2002.- Visual Effects
Warren Wray Hamilton was born in his grandfather's farmhouse in Adams County, Iowa on December 18, 1906. His family moved to Southern California in 1916. He graduated from Santa Ana High School in 1926. He and his brother Dwight, purchased and operated a dairy farm in Laguna Beach. This property later become the home of 'The Laguna Festival of Arts."
It was in the year 1928 that Warren began his career in the motion picture industry when he went to work for MGM studios.
During this period the industry was making its transition from silent films to 'talkies'. After a short apprentice period, he was assigned to the Paint Department where he developed hi skills as a set painter. He became quite adept at gaining sets. He worked on over 200 films and his personally proud of his contribution to 'Tarzan of the Apes', 'Wizard of Oz' and "Northwest Passage.'
Leaving MGM in 1940 he joined 20th Century Fox where he was in charge of painting and preparing miniatures for various feature productions. It was through this experience that he became a scenic artist and created many of the cloud and sky scrapes on the huge sky backing at Fox Studios.
Warren also served Fox as a stand-by painter on locations that took him too many parts of the country. His artistic work was evident in such films as 'The Black Swan', The day the Earth Stood Still', 'Broken Arrow', 'Miracle on 34th Street' and 'A Night to Remember,' just to mention a few that he enjoyed working on during their production.
Walt Disney lured him away from Fox in 1954 and put him in charge of the special effects miniatures for their epic film '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' At the conclusion of this film, Warren rejoined Fox in their newly created television unit.
He retired from his work at the studios in 1959. But Warren thrived on work and retirement was not in his blood. His new career was to teach others what he had done for so many years. UCLA hired him as Senior Scene Technician for Motion Picture Division in their Theater Arts Department. Here he taught many students in the art of designing and constructing sets for the motion picture industry. He retired from UCLA in 1977.
His work at the studios and UCLA were only a part of his creative and productive life. As early as the mid 30's he was interested in designing and building furniture which later developed into designing and building homes and apartments that he constructed himself. He had a fascination with the desert and its landscape and it showed in his designs. In 1960 he purchased his first piece of property in Desert Hot Springs and built his first home in the desert at Cholla Gardens.
In 1962 he bought an old non-operating, steel fabricating building on Indian Avenue in Desert Hot Springs and transformed it into Hamilton's Restaurant. He opened it on July 4, 1976, bicentennial of the nation's birthday which he operated until 1982. The interior was decorated with many stage props discarded by the studios. The most famous was the bar used in 'Gun Smoke'. From 1983 to 1990 he leased it to the Desert Hot Springs Elks Lodge. It was later leased to various restaurateurs until fire destroyed it in 2001.
The bar had props from 'Bounty' and Judy Garlands home. Warren had a lifetime collection housed at the site. He even had an iron lung!
His son Warren Wray Hamilton Junior and his grandson Craig Hamilton also worked in the film industry.
He retired from most of his activities in 1985. Take up permanent residence in Palm Springs and later in Desert Hot Springs where he lived until he died.- Alfred Heineken was born on 4 November 1923 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. He was a producer, known for Een ochtend van zes weken (1966) and The Dark Room of Damocles (1963). He was married to Lucille Cummins. He died on 3 January 2002 in Noordwijk, Netherlands.
- Producer
- Director
- Additional Crew
Warren Steibel was born on 4 September 1925 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and director, known for Firing Line (1966), The Honeymoon Killers (1970) and NET Journal (1966). He died on 3 January 2002 in New York City, New York, USA.- Al Smith was born on 7 February 1928 in Kirkwood, Missouri, USA. He died on 3 January 2002 in Hammond, Indiana, USA.
- Anita Barends was born on 21 August 1933 in Paramaribo, Suriname. She was an actress, known for Dag juf, tot morgen (1995), Pleidooi (1993) and 12 steden, 13 ongelukken (1990). She died on 3 January 2002 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.
- Art Department
- Additional Crew
- Animation Department
Alan Shean was born on 27 September 1930 in New York City, New York, USA. He is known for A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969), The Bullwinkle Show (1959) and G.I. Joe (1985). He was married to Susan Dawn Hules, Marlene Charlotte Todd and Marlene C Todd. He died on 4 January 2002 in Santa Monica, California, USA.- Wayne Grice was born on 24 February 1942 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Hawk (1966), Armstrong Circle Theatre (1950) and The Doctors and the Nurses (1962). He died on 4 January 2002 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Ada Falcon was born on 17 August 1905 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was an actress, known for Idols of the Radio (1934), Tu cuna fue un conventillo (1925) and Innocent Lies (1995). She died on 4 January 2002 in Salsipuedes, Córdoba, Argentina.- Costume and Wardrobe Department
- Actress
- Costume Designer
Marilyn Putnam was born on 11 December 1925 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She was an actress and costume designer, known for Annie Hall (1977), The Godfather (1972) and Raging Bull (1980). She died on 4 January 2002 in New York City, New York, USA.- Editor
- Editorial Department
Bill Parker was born on 13 July 1937 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an editor, known for The Six Million Dollar Man (1974), Centennial (1978) and MacGyver (1985). He died on 4 January 2002 in Burbank, California, USA.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Georg 'Åby' Ericson was born on 18 December 1919 in Torshag, Östergötland, Sweden. He was an actor, known for En liten film om Fimpen (2015), XI FIFA World Cup 1978 (1978) and På parkett (1971). He died on 4 January 2002 in Åby, Östergötland, Sweden.- Sten Sköld was born on 14 June 1930. He was an actor, known for Kajan går till sjöss (1943). He died on 4 January 2002.
- Some of Anne's early work included radio in New York City with Louis Nye and Ed Begley. She was turned down for the role of Scarlet O'Hara in "Gone with the Wind", but although she chose the life of mother and homemaker over a professional acting career, she was active in community theater in Boulder, Colorado. When her children got older, she began, once more, to pursue professional acting, landing a few small parts in film and TV, and a lot of commercial jobs. Her career ended in 1993 when a stroke left her partially paralized.
- Douglas Jung was born on 24 February 1924 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He died on 4 January 2002 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- Anatoli Vasyutinsky was born on 17 April 1929 in USSR [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for Chempion mira (1955). He died on 4 January 2002 in Russia.
- Actor
- Director
- Composer
Ramiro Puerta was born in 1953 in Bogota, Colombia. He was an actor and director, known for Crucero/Crossroads (1994), Say Nothing (2001) and Two Feet, One Angel (1997). He died on 4 January 2002 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.- Music Department
Michael Howard was born on 14 September 1922 in London, England, UK. Michael is known for Murder in the Cathedral (1951), Music Now (1968) and Full House (1972). Michael died on 4 January 2002 in Groomsbridge, East Sussex, England, UK.