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- Sam Karas was born on 7 February 1922 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Unforgiven (1992). He was married to Edie. He died on 26 February 2003 in Monterey, California, USA.
- Music Department
- Composer
- Additional Crew
John Lanchbery was born on 15 May 1923 in London, England, UK. He was a composer, known for The Turning Point (1977), Orphans of the Storm (1921) and The Iron Horse (1924). He was married to Elaine Fifield. He died on 26 February 2003 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.- Actor
- Location Management
Max Trumpower was born on 20 March 1912 in Perrysville, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Minority Report (2002), Summerspell (1983) and A House Is Not a Home (1964). He died on 26 February 2003 in Santa Monica, California, USA.- Make-Up Department
Peggy Shannon was born on 7 September 1921 in the USA. She is known for The Tracey Ullman Show (1987), Burnt Offerings (1976) and Strait-Jacket (1964). She died on 26 February 2003 in Rosamond, California, USA.- Actor
- Producer
Willy Kralik was born on 24 September 1929 in Vienna, Austria. He was an actor and producer, known for Tatort (1970), Kraft durch Pleite (1983) and Die kranken Schwestern (1995). He was married to Jenny Pippal. He died on 26 February 2003 in Vienna, Austria.- Actor
- Music Department
- Additional Crew
Otha Turner was born in 1907 to Hollis and Betty Turner, both sharecroppers, in Jackson County, Mississippi.
Turner's father left town shortly after he was born, leaving his mother to raise him and his siblings alone. He grew up helping his mother in the fields, and was often put in charge of taking care of the rest of his family. His life of hard work began early, chopping cotton and plowing the fields as a young boy.
Turner demonstrated an unusual musical ability as a teenager. He started playing on the tin tub when he was 15 years old and began playing the drums at the age of 17. He also taught himself how to make and play a fife during these years.
Turner got his start as a performer by playing the fife and drums at local picnic celebrations. Money he raised playing at these gatherings enabled him to buy the farm where he still lives in the Gravel Springs Community outside Como, Mississippi (pop. 789) and where he and his wife Ada "Moochie" Turner raised four children.
At 94 years old, Turner was the oldest (and perhaps only) living African-American fife player in America. He was also the leader of the Rising Star Fife and Drum Corps, the only Mississippi fife and drum corps band left in America. Today, this small band consists of his daughter, Bernice, his grandsons, his granddaughter, and his nephew.
Until the day he died, he still farmed, raised horses, hogs, cattle, watermelon, black-eyed peas, corn, etc. He hosted an annual Labor Day picnic featuring barbecued goat, barbecued pork, blues, and most importantly, fife and drum music.
On most any summer afternoon, visitors could have received a private backyard performance by Turner and his band, as well as a lesson in fife making. Mr. Turner first found cane growing wild in the "bottom land" of his farm. He then cut the cane into pieces. Next, using a hot poker, Turner burned holes into cane, creating the finished fife.
Turner's unique style of fife and drum music has received national accolades and awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts Heritage award, the Smithsonian Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Charlie Patton Lifetime Achievement Award from the Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Festival. The Rising Star Fife and Drum Band has become a staple at several blues festivals including the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, the Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Festival, the Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival, and opening each day of the annual Chicago Blues Festival. He was perhaps proudest of his recent performance at Nashville's legendary Ryman Auditorium, where he, his band, family and friends recreated a rural Mississippi "picnic" on the stage and received more than one standing ovation.
He has been featured on ABC's "Good Morning America" and NPR's "All Things Considered"; in The New York Times, The Oxford American, Blues Access, Living Blues; Billboard Magazine; and the French magazine "Vibrations." His recently released first CD - at the tender age of 90- "Everybody's Hollerin' Goat" on Birdman records was recently named
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Ivan Marinov was born on 17 October 1928 in Sofia, Bulgaria. He was a composer, known for No Reservations (2007), Getting It Right (1989) and The Law of the Sea (1958). He died on 26 February 2003 in Sofia, Bulgaria.- Flora Elkins was born on 28 July 1935 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Double-Barrelled Detective Story (1965), Brenner (1959) and N.Y.P.D. (1967). She died on 26 February 2003 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Katrin Rosselle was born on 9 January 1922 in Vienna, Austria. She was an actress, known for The Power and the Glory (1941). She was married to Ralph Edward Nagel, Hugh D. Prince and Alois Peter Warren (born as Alois Wachstatter). She died on 26 February 2003 in Carlsbad, California, USA.
- Director
- Writer
- Cinematographer
Jean Vidal was born on 18 December 1904 in Paris, France. Jean was a director and writer, known for Balzac (1951), Émile Zola (1954) and Le roi soleil (1958). Jean died on 26 February 2003 in Paris, France.- Additional Crew
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Production Manager
Stanley J. Brooks was born on 6 September 1910. He was an assistant director and production manager, known for I Spy (1965), Love, American Style (1969) and Hey, Landlord (1966). He was married to Susan. He died on 26 February 2003 in Santa Monica, California, USA.- Writer
- Actor
- Director
Dimitris Potamitis was born in 1945 in Limassol, Cyprus. He was a writer and actor, known for To theatro tis Defteras (1970), Mora mou kalispera, voggame oli mera (1993) and Gefsi apo erota (1966). He died on 26 February 2003 in Athens, Greece.- Editorial Department
Martin Welsh was born on 24 August 1918 in New York City, New York, USA. He is known for Tron (1982). He was married to Mary Jane Queyrel and Patricia. He died on 26 February 2003 in Newport Beach, California, USA.- Lawrence Adams was born on 2 November 1936 in St. Boniface, Manitoba, Canada. He was an actor, known for Startime (1959), Folio (1955) and Festival (1960). He was married to Miriam Weinstein. He died on 26 February 2003 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Art Director
Roy Grace was born on 5 December 1936 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an art director, known for Alka-Seltzer: Spicy Meatball (1969), Volkswagen: Funeral (1969) and American Tourister: Gorilla (1970). He was married to Marcia Bell. He died on 26 February 2003 in New York City, New York, USA.