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- Claude Choules was born on 3 March 1901 in Pershore, Worcester, Worcestershire, England, UK. He was married to Ethel Sim Wildgoose. He died on 5 May 2011 in Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia.
- Helen Faith Keane was born on 11 November 1901 in Manhattan, New York, USA. She died on 25 September 2011 in Manhattan, New York, USA.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Growing up as the youngest of four sons of the merchant Jacobus Heesters and his wife Gertruida, née van der Hoevel, he began a commercial apprenticeship after finishing school. He actually wanted to become a priest, but then began an apprenticeship in a bank. In 1920 he switched to acting. He initially completed singing and acting training in Amsterdam and had his first theater engagements there in 1921. He later also played on stages in The Hague, Brussels and Rotterdam. In 1924 he received a supporting role in his first silent film "Cirque Hollandais" directed by Theo Frenkel. In 1930 Heesters married Louisa H. Ghijs, with whom he had two daughters, Wiesje and Nicole. He was married to his wife for 53 years until her death in 1985. After appearances at theaters in the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland, he received his first engagement as a tenor in operetta in 1934 in Millöcker's "The Begging Student" at the Vienna Volksoper. A year later, in 1936, he went to Berlin.
Here Heesters celebrated his breakthrough, first at the Komische Oper and then at the Metropoltheater and the Admiralspalast. He also owed his nickname "Jopie" to the audience in the German capital. He was immediately discovered for the film. Numerous UFA productions followed, such as his first leading role in "The Bettelstudent" (1936) and "The Court Concert" (1936). With "Gasparone" (1937) alongside Marika Rökk, Heesters became a film star. In 1938 he sang the role of Count Danilo for the first time in the Franz Léhar operetta "The Merry Widow", a role that he developed into one of his signature roles for 35 years. This was followed by "The Adventure Continues - Every Woman Has a Sweet Secret", "My Aunt - Your Aunt" (1939) and "Love School" (1940). The Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda soon included him on the so-called "God-Given List". His attitude towards Nazi Germany was contradictory. Although he owed his success primarily to the UFA, he also rejected German citizenship. He neither became a member of the NSDAP nor did he explicitly distance himself from National Socialism.
Despite a few encounters with Adolf Hitler, he performed in the Netherlands in 1938 with a Jewish theater group that had fled Germany. There was massive criticism from abroad, especially in Holland, where he was accused of being a collaborator who was in German service when his homeland was occupied by the Wehrmacht. He celebrated great successes during the war years with films such as "Hello Janine" with Marika Rökk, "It began so harmlessly" with Theo Lingen and "Roses in Tirol" with Hans Moser. Despite his success in film, Heesters returned to theater after the Second World War. His popularity remained unbroken. Count Danilo's entrance song "I'm going to Maxim" from the operetta "The Merry Widow" became an evergreen. He appeared on stage in this role over 1,600 times. In 1953, Otto Preminger hired him for the Hollywood film "The Virgin on the Roof". Meanwhile, Heesters had already been involved in around 50 film productions by 1961. In 1970, after a long break from filming, he appeared in "The Inspector: Parking Lot Hyenas". "The Beautiful Wilhelmine" followed in 1983.
In 1984 Johannes Heesters became an honorary member of the Vienna Volksoper. In 1985 the comedy film "Otto - The Film" followed. Heesters was also active in literature. He described his life in his 1993 autobiography entitled "Thank God I'm Not Young Anymore." In the 1990s he appeared in front of the camera for the television plays "Two Munichers in Hamburg", "Two Old Hands" and "Between Night and Day". In 1992 Heesters married the actress Simone Rethel, who was 46 years his junior. From 1996 to the summer of 2001 he played alongside his wife in the play "A Blessed Age" written for him by Curth Flatow. In 1999 he was awarded a "Bambi" for his life's work. In 1997, at the age of 94, Heesters celebrated his 75th stage anniversary and went on tour with the play "A Blessed Age". At the turn of the millennium, Heesters, who was fond of tobacco and whiskey until old age, became the oldest active entertainer in the world. In 2001 he was honored with the Platinum Romy for his life's work.
In 2002, the 99-year-old Heesters was able to look back on 80 years on the stage. Another autobiographical work by Heesters followed in 2002 with the title "Even a hundred years are not enough". In 2003, Johannes Heesters received an honorary award from the "Bambi" for his life's work. In 2004, Heesters appeared four times in the role of the gentleman in Hofmannsthal's "Everyman". At the Wittenberge Elbland Festival he was awarded the title of "chamber singer". In August 2006, the first exhibition about Heesters took place in the Berlin Academy of Arts, which he personally opened with a song recital. In the year 2006 he received the "Honorary Radio Rainbow Award". In 2008, Heesters took on a supporting role in the Til Schweiger comedy "1 1/2 Knights - In Search of the Adorable Herzelinde". From July 2010, Heesters plays the king in Rolf Hochhuth's "Inselkomödie" in the Berliner Ensemble.
Johannes Heesters died on December 24, 2011 in Starnberg, at the age of 108.- Marge Jetton was born on 29 September 1904 in Yuba City, California, USA. She died on 15 February 2011 in Loma Linda, California, USA.
- Mrs. Earl E.T. Smith was born on 24 November 1904 in New York City, New York, USA. She was married to Noble Clarkson Earl Jr., William Warburton Jr., Henry Davis III and Earl E.T. Smith. She died on 21 February 2011 in Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA.
- Norrie Woodhall was born on 17 December 1905 in Dorset, England, UK. She died on 25 October 2011 in Owermoigne, Dorset, England, UK.
- Buster Martin was born on 1 September 1906 in Paris, France. He died on 13 April 2011 in London, England, UK.
- Eva Zeisel was born on 13 November 1906 in Budapest, Hungary. She was married to Hans Zeisel. She died on 30 December 2011 in New City, New York, USA.
- Victor B. Scheffer was born on 27 November 1906. He died on 20 September 2011.
- Wade Mainer was born on 21 April 1907 in Weaverville, North Carolina, USA. He died on 12 September 2011.
- Dorothy Young was born on 3 May 1907 in Otisville, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for E! Mysteries & Scandals (1998), 100 Years of Dorothy Young (2007) and Biography (1987). She was married to Gilbert Kiamie and Robert Perkins. She died on 20 March 2011 in Tinton Falls, New Jersey, USA.
- Miriam Seegar was born on September 1, 1907, to Frank and Carrie (née Wall) Seegar, both teachers. Raised in Greentown, Indiana, in the Seegar-Sewell home on 404 S. Main Street, she was the fourth of five daughters. Her sisters, known around town as the Seegar Sisters, were educator Helen Seegar-Stone (1895-1976) stage actress and opera singer Dorothy Seegar-Hatch (1897-1999) Mildred Seegar (1905-1913) and actress Sara Seegar (1914-1990.)
Seegar viewed her first movies in Kokomo, Indiana at the age of eight. As the sisters started acting and singing, Frank Seegar left teaching to open a hardware store in efforts to support his daughters' growing singing and acting pursuits. After his death at Seegar's age of 14, her two older sisters invited her to spend summers with them in their bedbug-laden Upper West Side apartment in New York City. Helen, working in a theatrical producer's office and Dorothy, acting and singing on Broadway, sent Miriam to an agent, and she began appearing on stage in minor, uncredited roles. She would return to Greentown in the winter upon her mother's insistence to complete her schooling with her younger sister, Sara.
After finishing school, Seegar acted in her first Broadway production as a Spanish blonde in a now-forgotten play at the 48th Street Theatre, followed by five more stage stints. While playing the part of the ingenue in The Squall (1926-1927) prolific producer Albert H. Woods took notice, and offered Seegar to star with Ernest Truex in the London West End production of his hit show Crime (1928.) At the age of 18, Seegar accepted Woods' offer and moved to London, soon followed by her mother and sister Sara to live with her in the Park Lane Hotel: "All my life I had wanted to go to England. I was just beginning to get a start in New York, but I was glad to be transferred to England." Between Stage engagements with multiple productions in London, she acted in her first two films The Price of Divorce and The Valley of Ghosts (film), both released in 1928. Next Miriam was chosen to co-star with Nelson Keyes in When Knights Were Bold (1929 film), as her figure of just under 5'1 and 100lbs would make her shorter and smaller than Keyes. The film was being directed by American director Tim Whelan, whom Miriam had just met. After the film's release she and Whelan, 14 years her senior, moved to Hollwood in 1929 and started dating. She quickly went to work making three pictures in 1929, signing with Paramount for Fashions in Love and the love doctor then making Seven Keys to Baldpate for RKO. For the next three years, Seegar made 11 more films, most being B-movies.
Blonde haired, blue eyed Miriam was one of the tiniest women in pictures, standing at just under 5'1 tall and weighing 100lbs. From a 1930 Photoplay magazine: "The question of clothes is a problem to her. Everything must be specially made, since she has no desire to step out in twelve-year-old dimities from a department store. She sees a gown model she likes and has it duplicated in a more miniature form. She likes frocks of rich material, but made without fuss and furbelows." Miriam didn't consider her name good for screen purposes as she said people were inclined to accent the last syllable, as if it were "cigar." However, she refused to change it unlike some Hollywood actresses, even after being asked by Albert H. Woods while offering to send her to London for "Crime." Also from Photoplay in 1930: "Miriam has had no very serious love affairs, although she does admit that she has been in love. In fact, several times. The only trouble is that she falls out of love so easily. She says that she believes married men are far more interesting than the young eligibles, but she's an old-fashioned girl and does not care to be the "heavy" in a real life triangle drama.
Seegar married Tim Whelan in 1931, and the couple had two sons, Tim Junior and Michael(1935-1997,) born with down's syndrome. Miriam's last film, false faces, was made in 1932. It played the Times Square Paramount, where her first American picture had been premiered just three and a half years earlier. Seegar retired from acting to raise her first child, Tim Whelan Jr, and found her career at odds with her husband's: "The sort of roles I got latterly were not becoming for a woman whose husband was then a major force in motion pictures. Selznick and Cukor offered me work, but after a while I just said no."
In 1953, she received her ASID certification and began working as an interior decorator, first with Harriet Shellenberger and later on her own. She did not retire until 1995. Her husband died in 1957, and decades later, both sons died within a span of nine months. Tim Whelan, Jr. died from cancer in 1997, and son Michael, who was born with Down syndrome, died in 1998. In 2000, at the age of 93, Seegar appeared in the documentary I Used to Be in Pictures, which featured commentary from many of her contemporaries. Thereafter she made a series of guest appearances at film festivals which culminated in an award for her screen work from the Memphis Film Festival when she was 95. On her 102nd birthday she sailed from Southampton to New York on the RMS Queen Mary 2 and back again.
Miriam Seegar had two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren at the time of her death on January 2, 2011. No specific cause of death was given, but her daughter-in-law Harriet Whelan stated that Seegar was very frail and had died from "age-related causes". - A pretty, diminutive (4'11") actress of the silent and early sound era, Barbara Cloutman (later Kent) was born in Gadsby, Alberta, Canada on December 16, 1907. Upon graduating from Hollywood High School in 1925, Kent won the Miss Hollywood Pageant, and set her sights on a career in the movies. She was 18 when Universal Studios signed her; she made her film debut in the western Prowlers of the Night (1926). That same year, Kent established herself with the classic romantic melodrama Flesh and the Devil (1926), in which she played the rival to femme fatale Greta Garbo's affections for John Gilbert. She was loaned to MGM for that movie. Kent was selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1927 as a result of the popularity of her film No Man's Law (1927), in which she had a nude scene.
Kent subsequently appeared opposite Richard Barthelmess in The Drop Kick (1927) and had a starring role in another silent classic, Lonesome (1928), before smoothly making the transition to talkies. She played Harold Lloyd's love interest in his first two sound movies, Welcome Danger (1929) and Feet First (1930). Kent had supporting parts opposite Gloria Swanson in Indiscreet (1931) and Marie Dressler in Emma (1932), as well as playing the role of the aunt in Oliver Twist (1933) (notable since the character is often omitted from dramatizations of the novel).
In 1933, Kent took a year-long hiatus from acting so that her new husband, talent agent Harry E. Edington, could groom her for what he intended to be a high-profile return. Unfortunately, Kent's popularity had declined by the time she did return. She made three more films between 1935 and 1941, before retiring from the screen.
Edington died in 1949, and Kent remarried in 1954, to Jack Monroe, an engineer. They settled in Palm Desert, California, where Kent remained after Monroe's death. Her retirement was long and peaceful; she passed away on October 13, 2011 at the age of 103. - Soundtrack
Bill Tapia was born on 1 January 1908 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. He was married to Barbie. He died on 2 December 2011 in Westminster, California, USA.- Alfred Proksch was born on 11 December 1908 in Vienna, Austria. He died on 3 January 2011 in Vienna, Austria.
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Sam Weisenthal was born on 26 January 1909 in New York City, New York, USA. Sam was an assistant director. Sam died on 11 February 2011 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Maria Krasna was born on 14 May 1909. She was an actress, known for Tatort (1970), Mädchen in Uniform (1958) and Das Bad auf der Tenne (1956). She was married to Günter Bloecker. She died on 7 July 2011.
- Actress
- Additional Crew
- Soundtrack
Dolores Hope was born on 27 May 1909 in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Soup for Nuts (1934), There Were Times, Dear (1985) and The Christophers (1952). She was married to Bob Hope. She died on 19 September 2011 in Toluca Lake, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Feo Mustakova was born on 14 June 1909 in Thessaloniki, Greece. She was an actress, known for Otnovo v zhivota (1947). She died on 30 December 2011 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
- Costume Designer
- Art Department
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
Rolf Gerard was born on 9 August 1909 in Berlin, Germany. He was a costume designer, known for The Silver Chalice (1954), The Honey Pot (1967) and Eine Frau, die weiss, was sie will (1958). He died on 19 November 2011 in Ascona, Ticino, Switzerland.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Arthur Lessac was born on 9 September 1909 in Haifa, Palestine. He was an actor, known for Micki + Maude (1984), Cheers (1982) and Throb (1986). He died on 7 April 2011 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Special Effects
- Additional Crew
- Producer
Harry Redmond Jr. was born on 15 October 1909 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer, known for Ripcord (1961), Science Fiction Theatre (1955) and Sea Hunt (1987). He was married to Dorothea Holt. He died on 23 May 2011 in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Richard Dorso was born on 29 November 1909 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Crown Theatre with Gloria Swanson (1952), Sierra Stranger (1957) and Men of Annapolis (1957). He was married to Elizabeth (Betty) J. McLoughlin. He died on 6 April 2011 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Hans Keilson was born on 12 December 1909 in Bad Freienwalde, Brandenburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Soldaten zonder geweren (1985), De wereld draait door (2005) and Der Sommer 1939 (2009). He died on 31 May 2011 in Bussum, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.
- George Mendonça was born on 29 December 1909 in Newport, Rhode Island, USA. He was married to Mary Theresa Carriero. He died on 2 February 2011 in Newport, Rhode Island, USA.
- Milton Rogovin was born on 30 December 1909 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was married to Anne Snetsky. He died on 18 January 2011 in Buffalo, New York, USA.
- Albert Dean Rosellini was born on 21 January 1910. He died on 10 October 2011.
- Annah Elnora Thurber was born on 5 April 1910 in Oklahoma, USA. She was married to Elmer M. Thurber. She died on 30 May 2011 in Stilwell, Oklahoma, USA.
- Writer
- Producer
- Director
Author, director, composer and producer, educated in public schools. He was a newspaperman for ten years, and then a writer, director and producer for CBS in New York. He served as chief of Special Projects for United Nations Radio, and was presented with a One World Award. Joining ASCAP in 1952, his chief collaborators included Deems Taylor, Bernard Rogers, Lyn Murray, and Maurice Goldman.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Anna Öst was born on 15 May 1910 in Ovanåker, Gävleborgs län, Sweden. She was an actress, known for Children's Island (1980), Åsa-Nisse i agentform (1967) and Allsång på Skansen (1979). She died on 5 March 2011 in Edsbyn, Sweden.- Ingrid Luterkort, born on June 28, 1910, Lund, Sweden, as Carola, Ingrid, Margareta Eklundh, was an actress. She first studied to become a cantor, a profession she could live on in case she wouldn't succeed as an actress. From 1932 to 1934 she was trained at the Royal Dramatic Theatre School in Stockholm, where she made her first stage appearance in "Cyrano de Bergerac" (1933). Among her classmates was Ingrid Bergman and Gunnar Björnstrand. Ingrid Luterkort's acting career lasted 76 years. She had a strong commitment in the development of Swedish theatre. As an actress, teacher, mentor and researcher. Ingrid Luterkort appeared in 39 feature films and television productions. Her last role was in the movie "Psalm 21", in which the recordings were completed in December 2009. She passed away at the age of 101, on August 3, 2011.
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Songwriter ("Cumana", "My Devotion"), composer, guitarist, and author, educated at the University of Colorado. He was a sports reporter for the Denver Post, and performed with his father in vaudeville, then was a guitarist in dance orchestras, eventually writing and directing Army shows during World War II and going on to become a music director for NBC Television in Hollywood. Joining ASCAP in 1943, his other popular-song compositions include "Long May We Love", "Just Lately", "I Bought a Wooden Whistle", "My Serenade", "A Gal in Nogales", "It Began in Havana", "The New Look", and "Timbales".- Hedda Sterne was born on 4 August 1910 in Bucharest, Romania. Hedda was married to Saul Steinberg and Fritz Stern. Hedda died on 8 April 2011 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- Cinematographer
- Actor
- Director
Guzzi Lantschner was born on 12 August 1910 in Innsbruck, Austria. He was a cinematographer and actor, known for Osterskitour in Tirol (1940), Canción de la nieve (1954) and Wilde Wasser (1937). He died on 19 March 2011 in Krailling, Bavaria, Germany.- Make-Up Department
Wava Green was born on 14 September 1910 in South Dakota, USA. Wava is known for Hell's Belles (1969), The Mini-Skirt Mob (1968) and The Young Animals (1968). Wava died on 30 May 2011 in Idaho, USA.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Paulette Dubost was born on 8 October 1910 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for The Rules of the Game (1939), Les vingt-huit jours de Clairette (1933) and Les mystères de Paris (1962). She was married to André Ostertag. She died on 21 September 2011 in Longjumeau, Essonne, France.- Margaret McConnell was born on 3 November 1910 in Oxford, Indiana, USA. She was an actress, known for Crashing Through Danger (1936) and Million Dollar Haul (1935). She was married to William L. Pereira. She died on 21 January 2011 in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.
- Brigitte Borchert was born on 15 November 1910. She was married to Wilhelm M. Busch. She died on 7 August 2011 in Hamburg, Germany.
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Director
Gunnar Fischer was born on 18 November 1910 in Ljungby, Sweden. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Wild Strawberries (1957), The Seventh Seal (1957) and Smiles of a Summer Night (1955). He was married to Gull Söderblom. He died on 11 June 2011 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.- Oda Rosa Christensen was born on 3 December 1910 in Denmark. She was an actress, known for Fællessang på plejecentret (2010). She died on 12 September 2011 in Hvidovre, Denmark.
- Composer
- Writer
- Music Department
Edmundo Ros was born on 7 December 1910 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, British West Indies [now Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago]. He was a composer and writer, known for A Good Year (2006), Paddington (2014) and Gangster No. 1 (2000). He was married to Britt Johansen. He died on 21 October 2011 in Alicante, Alicante, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain.- Writer
- Additional Crew
- Producer
Sol Saks, the screenwriter and TV executive who became a millionaire for writing the pilot for the TV series Bewitched (1964), was born on December 13, 1910 n New York City, though he was raised Chicago from the time he was two-years-old.
A radio actor as a child, Saks started out his professional life as an adult as a journalist, serving a stint as a cub reporter while attending Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. In the generation preceding him, it was newspapers that served as the field in which a young man could become a working writer and make a living from his pen. In Saks's generation, radio served that purpose. He also became a published short story-writer before becoming a writer for Chicago-based radio programs in the 1930s. He was paid the princely sum of $20 for his first radio script.
While Saks always dreamed of transitioning to drama, it was comedy writing that became his forte and made his fortune. Radio died off in Chicago at the start of the 1940s. He was specializing in Westerns and airplane scripts at the time and would put jokes in otherwise serious scripts, which gave him a reputation as a comedy writer. In 1943, Saks relocated to Los Angeles, as he heard there was a demand for comedy writers. Handled by the William Morris Talent agency in Chicago, the Los Angeles office ignored him, so he went to the advertising agency that sponsored Red Skelton's radio show. (At the time, the agencies were the producers of the shows.) Hired at $200 week for The Red Skelton Hour (1951), he quit after two weeks in order to go to work for Duffy's Tavern (1954), the most prestigious comedic radio show of its time.
On the staff at "Duffy's Tavern", he worked with the legendary Abe Burrows, the creator and head-writer of the series, but the two did not get along. Saks was too independent minded to take orders from Burrows. But it was the hours that got to Saks, The show became a demanding mistress. The writers worked 80 hours a week on a script, typically working 30 hours straight the day before the show aired, delivering the script one-half hour before air time.
After a year, Saks left "Duffy's Tavern" and went on to write for the radio shows "The Baby Snooks Show" with Fanny Brice,and "The Beulah Show" with Hattie McDaniel. He served as the head writer for one of two teams on "Beluah", the other team being headed by Sherwood Schwartz.
He also was a writer on Dinah Shore's radio show, which was a failure as no one knew how to write for her at the time. He worked on Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Nelson's radio show, transitioning it from a variety show to a story show. Sherwood Schwartz also worked on the show, and both resented the fact that they received no credit, which was typical of radio, but also because Ozzie took credit for writing the show himself by word-of-mouth.
Writers were as disrespected in radio and TV as they had been in the movies. Once a script was written, producers did not want the writer around.
In the early 1950s, radio showed began to be transformed for TV, and Saks segued into television as that's where the jobs were. Saks found that writing for TV was a lot easier than writing for the radio. Radio was written one line at the time, unlike TV, which was more story-driven. He had his first credit with the sitcom My Favorite Husband (1953), which originally was a radio series starring Lucille Ball (who was otherwise engaged in her epochal show). Saks himself approached CBS with the idea for adapting the radio show for TV. It was his idea not to use comedians but dramatic actors for the show, even though it was a comedy. Saks later developed the sitcom Mr. Adams and Eve (1957) (1957) for Ida Lupino. and wrote for other TV series and anthology programs.
Known for his independence, i.e., his penchant for quitting jobs he didn't like. Offered a writing job on I Married Joan (1952)m he refused as he did not like star Joan Davis. He soon relented and took a seven week-long writing-gig on the show simply to get enough money to buy a swimming pool. His independence was misinterpreted as his having great wealth, a misperception that made producers respect him.
He grew to loath writing for a weekly series due to the grind of putting the same characters into the same situations week after week. He moved on to writing pilots for TV series, plays that never made it to Broadway, and a script for Cary Grant's last movie, Walk Don't Run (1966), a remake of George Stevens's classic The More the Merrier (1943). In the 1960s, CBS hired him and put him in charge of its comedy series.
Ironically, after writing the script for the pilot of "Bewitched" for ABC, Saks never wrote another word for the hit series that ran on ABC for nine season from 1964 to 1972. The royalties accrued from creating the series made him rich. He admitted he based the idea for the series on he 1942 movie I Married a Witch (1942) and Bell Book and Candle (1958).
He published the book "The Craft of Comedy Writing" in 1985.
Sol Saks died of respiratory failure caused by pneumonia on April 16, 2011. He was 100 years old.- Producer
- Editor
- Editorial Department
Hugh Stewart was born on 14 December 1910 in Falmouth, Cornwall, England, UK. He was a producer and editor, known for The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), The Long Memory (1953) and Dark Journey (1937). He was married to Frances Curl. He died on 31 May 2011 in Denham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK.- Additional Crew
Bill Haast was born on 30 December 1910 in Paterson, New Jersey, USA. He is known for I Married a Savage (1949), Primus (1971) and I've Got a Secret (1952). He was married to Ann Nocker, Nancy Hassell and Clarita Haast. He died on 15 June 2011 in Punta Gorda, Florida, USA.- Gladys Luckie was born on 19 January 1911. She died on 16 March 2011.
- Producer
- Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Born in Shanghai, Dicky Leeman entered the film industry as child actor before developing into an assistant director at various studios during the 1930s. In 1948, he directed his only feature film, a musical entitled Date with a Dream (1948), also co-writing the screenplay. During the early 1950s, he moved into television production for both the BBC and ATV, specialising particularly in musical variety shows. Notable credits as a producer include The The Des O'Connor Show (1963) (1963) and Cliff! (1961) (1967).- Actor
- Soundtrack
Orrin Tucker was born on 17 February 1911 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for The Founder (2016), You're the One (1941) and The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (1956). He was married to Aline Cameron Tucker and Jill Powell. He died on 9 April 2011 in San Gabriel Valley, California, USA.- Writer
- Director
- Additional Crew
Otakar Vávra was born on 28 February 1911 in Hradec Kralove, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was a writer and director, known for Witchhammer (1970), Romance pro kridlovku (1967) and Dny zrady (1973). He died on 15 September 2011 in Prague, Czech Republic.- Leopold Hawelka was born on 11 April 1911 in Mistelbach, Lower Austria, Austria. He was married to Josefine Hawelka. He died on 29 December 2011 in Vienna, Austria.
- A 1933 graduate of Drake University,with a joint major of music and journalism Jane Margaret Truesdell married Earl Canady, the owner of a gas station and spent the first years of her marriage helping him in his business and raising five children. However, she continued to write, and subsequently (1958) joined the Des Moines "Register & Tribune" as Society Page Reporter; upon her marriage to Warren Edgington, she was known to her readers as Jane Canady-Edgington. At her retirement in 1980, she had risen to the Editor of the Society Page.