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- Rip Coleman was born on 31 July 1931 in Troy, New York, USA. He died on 14 May 2004 in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, USA.
- Gato Dumas was born on 20 July 1938 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was an actor, known for Cha cha cha (1993) and Sábado Bus (1999). He died on 14 May 2004 in Pilar, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Dennis Lingard was born on 21 April 1950. He was an actor, known for Billy Elliot (2000), Spender (1991) and The Gambling Man (1995). He was married to Susan. He died on 14 May 2004 in Cumbria, England, UK.
- Thomas Russell was born on 17 September 1924 in Eugene, Oregon, USA. He died on 14 May 2004 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
- Rudi Arndt was born on 1 March 1927 in Wiesbaden, Germany. He died on 14 May 2004 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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- Writer
Philippe Manez was born in 1954. He was an actor and writer, known for À vot' service (1999), Marc et Sophie (1987) and T.i.c. - Trouble involontaire convulsif (2003). He died on 14 May 2004.- Jesús Gil y Gil was born on 12 March 1933 in Burgo de Osma, Soria, Castilla y León, Spain. He was married to María Ángeles Marín. He died on 14 May 2004 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
- Writer
- Actor
After finishing school with his Abitur, he studied history and German at the University of Munich. He didn't finish his studies because he was already working as a journalist. In 1958 Gaus began working as a political editor at "Spiegel". In 1961 he moved to the "Süddeutsche Zeitung", where he attracted attention mainly through his portraits until 1965. At this time he also began working regularly at Second German Television (ZDF). On April 10, 1963, the first broadcast of the interview series "On the Person - Portraits in Question and Answer" was broadcast. His first guest was the then Federal Minister of Economics Ludwig Erhard. He later continued the series, sometimes under different titles, on different channels. During the broadcast, only his interview partners were visible, Gaus always from behind, which earned him the nickname "most famous back of the head". Two years later, in 1965, Günter Gaus was appointed program director and deputy director of Südwestfunk.
In the same year he published his first book entitled "Bonn without a government? Chancellor regiment and opposition", in which, among other things, he examined Ludwig Erhard's style of government. He was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize in 1964 and 1965 for his achievements. In 1966, the recordings of conversations with Herbert Wehner were published under the title "State-preserving opposition or has the SPD capitulated?" appeared. Gaus also became head and presenter of the first TV news magazine "Report". He worked as editor-in-chief of "SPIEGEL" from 1969 to the end of March 1973. During this time, Gaus was considered an important supporter of the détente policy initiated by Willy Brandt and Egon Bahr. Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt appointed Gaus State Secretary in 1973. The official appointment as Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic in the GDR took place after the Basic Treaty came into force on June 21, 1973. The question of establishing the permanent representations of the Federal Government and the GDR in East Berlin and Bonn was initially due to irreconcilable differences of opinion and a general hardening of the negotiating climate on ice for some time. The corresponding protocol was finally signed in Bonn in mid-March 1974 by Günter Gaus and GDR Foreign Minister Kurt Nier.
Gaus' services as the federal government's "chief negotiator" include a total of 17 agreements that were negotiated with the GDR, including the transport contracts for the construction of a new motorway connection between Hamburg and Berlin and the flat rate of road usage fees for domestic German travel from 1979. Due to differences with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Gaus was replaced as permanent representative of the Federal Republic by the then government spokesman Klaus Bölling in the post in East Berlin. He then took over the office of Science Senator in the newly formed Berlin Senate led by Governing Mayor Hans-Jochen Vogel in January 1981. After the early elections to the House of Representatives and the success of the CDU, which formed a new Senate with the FDP under Richard von Weizsäcker, Gaus' term of office ended in June 1981. Gaus now devoted more time to his work as a journalist and publicist. In his books he preferred to analyze the societies of the GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany.
In October 1981, Brandt appointed him domestic and foreign policy advisor to the International Commission of the SPD executive board. In 1983 his book "Where Germany Lies - A Location Determination" was published. Gaus dealt with the living conditions he observed in the GDR "niche society". The work was named "Political Book of the Year" in 1987. In 1984, "Germany and NATO - Three Speeches" was published with his reflections and thoughts on security policy, followed in 1986 by "The World of the West Germans. Critical Considerations", a psychogram of West German society. Günter Gaus was awarded the honorary Adolf Grimme Prize in 1988. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, he suggested a "Germany conference of the four victorious powers". He saw the goal as a Central European confederation for the peaceful development of German-German relations.
In 1990, Gaus published the story "Wendemut", in which he expressed his pessimism for the first time about the establishment of internal unity in Germany. In the same year he became co-editor of the left-wing weekly newspaper "Freitag". In 1991 he was awarded the German Critics' Prize and he also became a member of the newly founded broadcasting advisory board of the new federal states. Günter Gaus caused a stir again in 1998 with the publication of "Kein einig Vaterland. Texts from 1991 to 1998". In 2001, Gaus left the SPD after almost 30 years of membership. As a reason for that He cited the Schröder government's "unrestricted solidarity" with the USA after the terrorist attacks of September 11th.
Günter Gaus died on May 14, 2004 at the age of 74 from serious cancer. He left behind his wife Erika, whom he married in 1955, and their daughter Bettina (1956).- Producer
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He was one of the most influential figures in British television. He was head of BBC Television Drama from 1969-81. He was responsible for such groundbreaking productions as Dennis Potter's "Pennies From Heaven" and "Brimstone and Treacle" as well as "I, Claudius," "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" and classic serials including "The Six Wives of Henry VIII," and "Testament of Youth."
As a director, he worked on detective series such as "Z Cars" and the costume drama "The Forsyte Saga," the most acclaimed BBC series of the sixties. In 1981, he was appointed executive producer of the BBC Shakespeare series, in which all 37 plays were adapted for television.
He was born Shaun Alfred Graham Sutton in Hammersmith, London, England to theatrical parents. He studied drama at the Embassy School. He worked as an actor in several London shows before the outbreak of World War II.
He served in the Royal Navy in 1940 and after the war, he returned to acting. He joined the BBC in 1952 working on mainly children's comedies and in 1962 became one of the original directors for the then new series "Z Cars."
In 1966, he became head of serials for the BBC, responsible for a huge output of high quality drama including "The Forsyte Saga." The 1967 serial put BBC2 on the map, attracting six million viewers on Sunday evenings and was repeated a year later on BBC1, gaining an audience of 18 million. It was the first serial ever to be sold to the Soviet Union and was purchased by stations all over America. The series confirmed the BBC's reputation for costume dramas and spawned a host of clones like "The First Churchills" and "The Pallisers."
In 1969, he was promoted to head of drama in an era which was later to be described as the golden age of British television drama. Under his auspices at the BBC. he produced more than 120 plays annually by writers including Joe Orton, David Storey and Sir Alan Ayckbourn. He championed controversial productions such as the prison drama "Scum" and several of Dennis Potter's plays.
With Cedric Messina and Jonathan Miller, he was executive producer of the 1978-85 BBC Shakespeare anthology, which starred actors such as Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sir Derek Jacobi, Timothy West CBE and Sir John Gielgud. When the Shakespeare cycle was completed, he worked on Theatre Night, a BBC2 season of six plays a year adapted from the stage.
He wrote several books including the seminal guide to television drama, "The Largest Theatre in the World" in (1982).- Producer
- Director
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Philip Jones was born on 7 December 1927 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK. He was a producer and director, known for Big Night Out (1961), As Time Goes By (1992) and Thank Your Lucky Stars (1961). He died on 14 May 2004 in Teddington, Middlesex, England, UK.- Reinhard Reiner was born in 1948. He was an actor, known for Shirts Up Knickers Down (1972), Wer liebt, dem wachsen Flügel... (1999) and Kommissar Rex (1994). He died on 14 May 2004 in Vienna, Austria.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Singer/comedy actress Lu Leonard was a plus-sized talent, especially notable in offbeat comedy, who took advantage of her plus-sized girth to create some memorable and formidable characters on stage, film and TV. She would go on to play atmospheric roles from wardens, waitresses and clerks to nuns, nannies and sperm bank nurses!
Born Mary Lou Price in Long Beach, California on June 5, 1926, to vaudevillian parents, Lu, as she was called almost from birth, went on the road with her mom and dad as an infant. Named after her father's sister Lulu, her actress/mother, Amy Goodrich died in July of 1939, when Lou was only 13. Her actor/comedian father, "Happy" Hal Price, settled comfortably into Hollywood movies as a character player, finding hundreds of small roles in Republic and Monogram westerns.
As a young singer and entertainer, Lu stuck with show business into adulthood. A short-lived marriage to another actor gave her the impetus to switch her stage moniker to "Lu Leonard", keeping the name even after their divorce. She eventually spent two decades in New York and brightened up Broadway. She made her musical Broadway debut as a Mrs. Peacham replacement in "The Threepenny Opera" and continued with "The Happiest Girl in the World" (1961), "The Gay Life" (1961), "Bravo Giovanni" (1962) and "Drat! The Cat" (1965). She also toured in such musical shows as "The Pajama Game," "Plain and Fancy," "The Music Man," "Oliver!" and "Man of La Mancha."
On-camera performances began in the early 1950's with appearances on such programs as "My Little Margie," "The Life of Riley," "The Red Skelton Hour" and "December Bride," along with a bit part in the bucolic comedy film The Kettles in the Ozarks (1956). She also played the wife of Larry in The Three Stooges comedy short Husbands Beware (1956). The following decades led to frequent TV work in both the comedic and dramatic vein -- "Route 66," "Car 54, Where Are You?," "The Patty Duke Show," "The San Pedro Beach Bums," "Police Woman" and "Mork & Mindy." In 1976, Lu returned to Broadway in a production of "Something's Afoot" as a standby.
Lu eventually settled back in the Southern California area after much touring. As the years went on, Hollywood played off of Lu's harsh-looking features and large girth. A good sport despite the fact that the parts were usually minor and the lowbrow laughs often came at her own expense, she was a lively, cheerful and fun-loving presence offstage -- in marked contrast to her somewhat imposing character typecast. There were ups-and-downs and some lean years, but she made the most of whatever roles she was given.
In the 1980s, Lu was handed a recurring role as William Conrad's wry, wise-cracking secretary in Jake and the Fatman (1987). TV guest parts, primarily comedy, included "Laverne & Shirley," "Buffalo Bill", "The Fall Guy," "Knight Rider," "Cagney & Lacey," "Night Court," "Webster," "Married...with Children." On the larger screen, she played the small part of the Warbuck cook, Mrs. Pugh, in the musical film Annie (1982), and went on to play a greasy spoon waitress in Starman (1984), a nurse in Micki + Maude (1984), Mrs. Whitehead in Stand Alone (1985) and Miss Frigget in You Can't Hurry Love (1988).
Lu's strongest fan base came from her offbeat L.A. stage performances. She earned a devoted cult audience for her hatchet-faced prison matron in the 1983 revival of "Women Behind Bars," a campy musical spoof of 1950's women's prison movies also starring Adrienne Barbeau and Sharon Barr. Lu became a steady fixture in a variety of local theater revues, musicals and comedy shows thereafter.
The veteran actress moved steadily into 90's films with Circuitry Man (1990), A Climate for Killing (1991), Kuffs (1992), Made in America (1993) and Blank Check (1994). Frequent TV offers also came in with "Growing Pains," "Amen," "Uncle Buck," "Daddy Dearest," "The Nanny" and the revised "Get Smart").
Health problems, including diabetes, eventually took their toll in the mid-1990s, however, and she was forced to retire after filming a part in the movie Man of the Year (1995). Residing primarily in Oregon, Lu eventually needed full care and moved to the Motion Picture Country Home in Woodland Hills, California, where she spent her remaining years. She died of a heart attack on May 14, 2004 at age 77, and a bench in the Roddy McDowall garden at the Motion Picture Home was dedicated in her memory.- Actress
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The daughter of a clergyman, Anna Lee was born Joan Boniface Winnifrith and encouraged to pursue an acting career by her father. After training at London's Royal Albert Hall, she took to the boards and later began appearing in English films, first as an extra, then working her way up to featured roles and finally earning the unofficial title "The Queen of the Quota Quickies". Lee and her husband, director Robert Stevenson, relocated to Hollywood in the late 1930s, and Lee began starring in stateside productions as well as becoming a fixture of the John Ford stock company (she appeared in How Green Was My Valley (1941), Fort Apache (1948) and a half-dozen others). In 1970, she became the seventh wife of novelist, poet and playwright Robert Nathan (Portrait of Jennie (1948), The Bishop's Wife (1947)); they married three months after they met. Now widowed, Lee continued despite adversity, regularly playing wealthy Lila Quartermaine on the soap opera General Hospital (1963). She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire at the 1982 Queen's Birthday Honours for her services to drama. On May 14, 2004, Anna Lee passed away from pneumonia at age 91 at her home in Beverly Hills, California.