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- 'Amarillo Slim' Preston was born on 31 December 1928 in Johnson, Arkansas, USA. He was an actor, known for California Split (1974), 2009 World Series of Poker (2009) and All In: The Poker Movie (2009). He was married to Helen. He died on 29 April 2012 in Amarillo, Texas, USA.
- 'Big Walter' Price was born on 2 August 1914 in Gonzales, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Sugar Hill (1974). He died on 7 March 2012 in Houston, Texas, USA.
- His childhood was spent in Peshawar, where he had performed in theater for some major roles. However, his primary occupation for the early part of his life was that of a tailor. He was an active participant in the Indian freedom struggle. Following his father's retirement, the family moved from Peshawar to Karachi. He moved to Bombay after the Partition of India in 1949 after 3 years in prison in Pakistan. He was involved with the theater group IPTA along with Balraj Sahni and Kaifi Azmi, both of whom had Marxist leanings.
He started his Hindi film career at the very late age of 30 with Basu Bhattacharya's Teesri Kasam in 1946, and went on to play the quintessential meek and oppressed old man in innumerable Hindi movies. His own favorites are the roles he played in Sholay and Shaukeen. In movies he has played a very large number of character roles, mostly positive. He has acted in more than 125 films so far. - Actor
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A.S. Murthy was an actor and writer, known for Ondu Muthina Kathe (1987), Sandarbha (1978) and Chakravyuha (1983). He died on 18 December 2012.- Additional Crew
ANGELES CITY, Philippines (CelebrityAccess MediaWire) - Veteran agent Aaron Clint Brasseaux of International Entertainment Agency died on September 14th in the Philippines.
Brasseaux was a well-known agent and instrumental in the careers of a number of artists, including Baton-Rogue based rapper Kyper. Since 1999, Brasseaux partner with Nene Musik Talent Agency, co-managing artists and artist booking.
"We are at an extreme loss here. Aaron was not only a business associate but a true friend and mentor. He was a great guy who was always joyful and went out of his way to help others. I feel like I lost an older brother" Says Ruben Martinez of Nene Musik.
He is survived by his daughter Megan Coco and his son Beau Brasseaux.- Aase Rasmussen was born on 19 December 1921 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was married to Willy Walden. She died on 24 April 2012 in Bennekom, Gelderland, Netherlands.
- Aatos Erkko was married to Jane. He died on 5 May 2012 in Helsinki, Finland.
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Abby Gail Palanker was born on 11 May 1958 in Buffalo, New York, USA. Abby Gail was a production manager and producer, known for 15 Minutes (2001), The Faculty (1998) and Mimic (1997). Abby Gail died on 14 February 2012 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Abdullah el Baoudi was born on 4 November 1986. He was an actor, known for Van Speijk (2006), Deadline (2008) and Northern Light (2006). He died on 11 April 2012 in Agadir, Morocco.
- Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed was born on 15 December 1934 in Barta, Italian Somaliland [now Barta, Somalia]. He was married to Hawa Abdi Samatar. He died on 23 March 2012 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
- Abrahão Farc was born on 28 July 1937 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He was an actor, known for As Amorosas (1968), O Detetive Bolacha Contra o Gênio do Crime (1973) and Excitação (1976). He died on 24 September 2012 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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- Composer
Abram Wilson was born on 30 August 1973 in Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for AfterGlow (2012) and News 24 Sunday (2005). He was married to Jennie Cashman. He died on 9 June 2012 in London, England, UK.- Abune Paulos died on 16 August 2012 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
- Actress
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Achala Sachdev was born on 3 May 1920 in Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province, British India. She was an actress, known for Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003), Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (2001) and Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995). She was married to Clifford Douglas Peters. She died on 30 April 2012 in Pune, Maharashtra, India.- Art Department
Adam Adamowicz was born on 9 March 1968 in Huntington, Long Island, New York, USA. Adam is known for Fallout 3 (2008) and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011). Adam died on 9 February 2012 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.- Adam Briesemeister was born on 14 May 1986 in Racine, Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor, known for Pinmonkey (2007), Forfeit (2006) and Cross-Hatch (2008). He died on 21 March 2012 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
- Adam Peter Lanza was born on April 22, 1992 in Kingston, New Hampshire to Peter and Nancy Lanza. On December 14, 2012, Lanza killed his mother and drove to the Sandy Hook Elementary School, where he committed a mass shooting before taking his own life. The shooting received worldwide media attention.
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Adam Yauch, an only child, was born on August 5, 1964 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Frances and Noel Yauch, who is a painter and architect. His father was Catholic (of Irish, German, and French descent) and his mother was Jewish. Adam attended Edward R. Murrow High School in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn. In high school, he taught himself to play the bass guitar. He formed Beastie Boys with John Berry, Kate Schellenbach, and Mike D. On his seventeenth birthday, they played their first show, then still a hardcore punk band in the vein of Reagan Youth. Adam attended Bard College for two years before dropping out.
Beastie Boys added Adam Horovitz to the group, and released their first album, Licensed to Ill, on Def Jam Records, now performing as a hip hop trio. They went on to open for Madonna on her famous "Like a Virgin" tour. The group gained huge success with numerous genius albums and tours, and founded their own label "Grand Royal Records" in 1993.
Under the pseudonym "Nathanial Hörnblowér", Yauch directed many of the Beastie Boys' music videos. In 2002, Yauch built a recording studio in New York City called Oscilloscope Laboratories. He began an independent film distributing company called Oscilloscope Pictures. Yauch directed the 2006 Beastie Boys concert film, although in the DVD extras for the film, the title character in "A Day in the Life of Nathanial Hörnblowér" is played by David Cross. He also directed the 2008 film Gunnin' For That #1 Spot about eight high school basketball prospects at the Boost Mobile Elite 24 Hoops Classic at Rucker Park in Harlem, New York City. Yauch produced Build a Nation, the comeback album from hardcore/punk band Bad Brains. Oscilloscope Laboratories also distributed Adam Yauch's directorial film debut, basketball documentary Gunnin' For That #1 Spot (2008) as well as Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy (2008) and Oren Moverman's The Messenger (2009).
Yauch was a practicing Buddhist. Inspired by his own extensive travels as well as the The Dalai Lama, Yauch became publicly passionate about the destructive, violent situation in Tibet, and created "The Milarepa Fund" in 1994 to help promote awareness and generate support around the world. He organized the first "Tibetan Freedom Concert" in San Francisco in 1996, which he followed with years of a similar series in the United States and worldwide. His Milarepa Fund has raised large sums of money for the Tibetan cause and its nonviolent Buddhist struggle to maintain an actual state of existence on the planet. In May of 1998, Adam married Dechen Wangdu, and they have a daughter named Tenzin Losel Yauch. Yauch has influenced an entire generation of human souls to look deep within themselves in search of a greater truth and a peaceful, compassionate understanding of all that surrounds us.
In 2009, Yauch was diagnosed and treated for a cancerous parotid gland and a lymph node, and underwent surgery and radiation therapy, delaying the release of Hot Sauce Committee Part Two and the subsequent tour. He was unable to appear in music videos for the album. Yauch became a vegan under the recommendation of his Tibetan doctors.
Beastie Boys had sold 40 million records worldwide by 2010. In 2011, Yauch received the Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters from Bard College, the college he attended for two years. In April 2012, the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Yauch was inducted in absentia due to his illness. His bandmates paid tribute to Yauch, and a letter from him was read to the crowd.
Adam Yauch died from cancer on May 4, 2012, in New York City. He was survived by his wife and son.- Actress
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Ademilde Fonseca was born on 4 March 1921 in São Gonçalo do Amarante, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. She was an actress, known for O Viúvo Alegre (1960), O Batedor de Carteiras (1958) and O Ébrio (1946). She was married to Naldimar Gedeão Delfim. She died on 27 March 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.- Music Department
Aditi was the younger of the two daughters of Kshitindra Kumar Nag and Provabati Nag. Family sources say that Kshitindra Kumar, then a young man and "Foreign retuned" was a pucca sahib and he chose Prova as his wife only for her singing talents and always lent active support to Prova to develop her as a powerful singer. Kshitindra Kumar was professor in Chicago University and served The Indian Aluminium after returning to India. Prova was winner of first position in several examinations conducted by The Bengal Music Board. However she never took up singing as her profession and her renditions were restricted to private audiences, Ramkrishna Mission functions and the like. Aditi was born on the seventh day of November, 1936 in Cooch Behar of undivided Bengal. She started training in pure classical music from a very early age of four to five. About the same time she had lessons in Bharat Natyam at Bani Bidyabithi but soon gave up dancing in favor of singing. Contrary to the common happening of being trained primarily by a very able parent, Aditi's first GURU was Pandit Ramkrishna Mishra of Vishnupur Gharana. She switched over to Tagore music at a later date after the demise of the Pandit around 1949 and took lessons at Geetabitan, Dakshinee and other renowned institutions. In 1958 her position in Geetabitan changed from that of a student to that of a teacher. Satyajit Ray made a documentary on Gurudev Rabindra Nath Tagore in 1961 at the request of the then Prime Minister Pandit Nehru. Ray utilized the services of Geetabitan artistes including Aditi for this film and here she sang Amar Mukti Aloy Aloy solo for this documentary. Ray chose Aditi again for his 1962 release Kanchanjangha. None other than Bijaya Ray trained Aditi for the famous E Parabase Rabe Ke. However, her voice was not used ultimately. Her first 78 r.p.m. disc, from Hindustan Musical Products, was published in the mid six-tees and she sang two duets SEI TO Basanta Phire Elo and Eki Gabhir Bani with Debabrata Biswas, who was her teacher at the time. Later she came to be associated with the His Master's Voice where Santosh Sengupta, Prasad Sen gave her lessons. She cut several discs in the two companies and for duets her co singers included Debabrata Biswas, Prasad Sen, Gautam Mitra. Along with her basic discs, she was a regular Tagore song artiste with Akashbani and with the advent of television, with Doordarshan. All India Radio classified her in the Hi B grade but listeners always felt she was a class by herself. Her association with Geetabitan came to an end in 2003. As a rule she chose songs with a classical touch and those which were not already made popular by other artistes. She got married to Sukamal Sengupta when she was only eighteen. Her son is Debashish Sengupta and her daughter's name is Tublu. Tragedy stuck around 2005 when she started to forget lyrics of her songs. That was a terrible thing to realize. Soon she was forgetting other things as well and ended up with total loss of memory. She was looked after by her son and daughter in law Sharmishtha very well but she could not sing any more. Her last days were physically painful and she breathed her last on the second day of October, 2012.- Adnan Pekak was born on 1 January 1937 in Turkey. He was an actor, known for Ben Masumum (1961), Sokak sarkicisi (1959) and Ask Dilencisi (1982). He died on 24 February 2012 in Antalya, Turkey.
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Adolf Hejzlar was born on 4 May 1924 in Dobruska, Austria-Hungary. He is known for Three Wishes for Cinderella (1973), Stenata (1958) and Hlavni vyhra (1959). He died on 12 December 2012 in Praha, Czech Republic.- Adolf Wessely was born on 10 December 1931 in Hustopece, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Tatort (1970), Wegen Verführung Minderjähriger (1960) and 38 (1986). He died on 11 December 2012 in Vienna, Austria.
- Adolfo Schwelm Cruz was born on 28 June 1923 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He died on 10 February 2012 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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- Producer
Adrian Console was born in 1930 in Lewisham, London, England, UK. Adrian was a cinematographer and producer, known for Dr. Frankenstein on Campus (1970), No Love for Judy (1955) and Love in Monaco (1959). Adrian was married to Brenda Walker. Adrian died on 10 November 2012 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England, UK.- Adrian Foley was born on 9 August 1923 in London, England, UK. He was married to Hannah Steinberg, Baroness Cubitt Ghislaine and Patricia Meek. He died on 12 February 2012 in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England, UK.
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Adrian Vaux was born on 30 May 1936. Adrian was a production designer, known for Out of This World (1962). Adrian was married to Edna Rosen Vaux. Adrian died on 21 August 2012 in Israel.- Adrianne Robert was born on 4 January 1983 in Brunswick, Maine, USA. She died on 14 July 2012 in Clearwater Beach, Florida, USA.
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Adriano Stuart was born on 19 February 1944 in Quatá, São Paulo, Brazil. He was a director and writer, known for Bacalhau (1976), Fofão, a Nave sem Rumo (1988) and Os Trapalhões na Guerra dos Planetas (1978). He was married to Liza Vieira and Márcia Maria. He died on 15 April 2012 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.- Adrienne Rich was born on 16 May 1929 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. She is known for Listening for Something... Adrienne Rich and Dionne Brand in Conversation (1996) and La tribu de las palabras (2002). She was married to Alfred H. Conrad. She died on 27 March 2012 in Santa Cruz, California, USA.
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Adrián Otero was born on 31 July 1958 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was an actor, known for Alma mía (1999), Los nuevos y clásicos bloopers (2004) and No seas cruel (1996). He died on 12 June 2012 in Ballesteros, Argentina.- Afifa Iskandar was born on 10 December 1921 in Mosul, Iraq. She was an actress, known for Yom said (1940) and El kahira-Baghdad (1947). She died on 22 October 2012 in Baghdad, Iraq.
- Ageeth Scherphuis was born on 30 March 1933 in Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. She was an actress, known for Vijf minuten bedenktijd (1984), Tinkeltje (1957) and Varen is fijner dan je denkt (1958). She was married to Bert Sprenkeling. She died on 16 April 2012 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.
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Agustin Román was born on 5 May 1928 in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. He is known for America Undercover (1983). He died on 11 April 2012 in Miami, Florida, USA.- Agustín Zaragoza was an actor, known for The Executioner (1963), Ella y el miedo (1964) and La venganza de Don Mendo (1962). He died on 21 November 2012 in Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico.
- Ahmed Ben Bella was born on 25 December 1916 in Maghnia, Oran, France [now Algeria]. He was married to Zohra Sellami. He died on 11 April 2012 in Algiers, Algeria.
- Ahmed Ramzy was a famous Egyptian actor who was born in Alexandria in 1930. He played the leading roles in many Egyptian films in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. He was born Ramzy Mahmud Bayumi to Dr Mahmoud Bayoumi, a famous Egyptian orthopedist, and Helen MacKay, a Scottish lady. His dad died in 1939 after he lost a fortune (250,000 Egyptian Pounds) in the stock market, and his mom had to raise him by herself. Ramzy graduated from the renowned school Victoria College where he met Omar Sharif, and they became best friends since then. Ramzy joined the Medical school for 3 years, then he transferred to the Faculty of Commerce, which he eventually dropped to pursue his acting career. He had one brother, Dr. Hassan Bayoumi, who was older by 9 years and followed in their father's footsteps and had his practice in London. He got married 3 times and he had 3 kids; 2 daughters and a son. He was discovered by the producer Helmy Halim in 1955, and he was cast in his first role, as "Ramzy" in Ayyamna al-Holwa (Our Best Days), along with Faten Hamama, Abdel Halim Hafez, and his lifelong friend Omar Sharif. The film was a box office hit. Since the late 1950s, he participated in many movies and was famous for the role of the funny playboy and womanizer. He was very active till the 1970s. His last appearance was in a TV series called Hanan Wa Haneen with his friend Omar Sharif in 2007. Some of his close friends were Omar Sharif, Faten Hamama, Rushdi Abaza and Saleh Selim. Some of his well known movies are Our Best Days, Dark Waters, Hamidu's Son, Girls of Today and Adrift on the Nile. He passed away on September 28th, 2012 at the age of 82 due to a severe brain clot.
- Ahmed Tayeb Laalej was born in 1928 in Fès, Morocco. He was an actor, known for La prière de l'absent (1995). He died on 1 December 2012 in Fès, Morocco.
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Aimo Jäderholm was born on 28 August 1916 in Helsinki, Finland. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Oma koti (1956), Lahjakengissä koulutielle (1950) and Valon ja varjon siveltimellä - taidetta ja työtä (1961). He died on 10 May 2012 in Helsinki, Finland.- Producer
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Aimée Danis was born on 19 September 1929 in Maniwaki, Quebec, Canada. She was a producer and director, known for Mon amie Max (1994), Leolo (1992) and Souris, tu m'inquiètes (1973). She died on 8 May 2012 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.- Akira Adachi was a writer, known for Yôkai ningen Bem (2011), Demon-man Bem (1968) and Yôkai ningen Bem (2006). Akira died on 6 January 2012.
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After working as animator and background settings designer in various short films from 1950, he enters in the Nichido Company in the mid-50s, shortly before to become absorbed by Toei in 1956. Toei's ambitious plans for its animation studio were doing an long feature animation film every year. After the first of them, "The White Snake Enchantress" (1958), Daikuhara was promoted to co-director of the following movie, "Young Sasuke Sarutobi" (1959). This was his only film as director; in the films of the next almost 15 years in Toei Doga he worked as animator or animation director. His last film was "The Adventures of Kikansha Yaemon D51" (1974). After that he began to work as a free-lance in illustration and occasionally in some TV animation series, as "Jetter Mars" in 1977.- Additional Crew
Akira Tonomura was born on 25 April 1942 in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Akira is known for A Night with the Stars (2011). Akira died on 2 May 2012 in Japan.- Akshay Pendse was an actor, known for Kay Dyache Bola (2005), Kairee (1999) and Uttarayan (2004). He died on 23 December 2012 in Pune, Maharashtra, India.
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Songwriter ("Mr. Custer"), composer, conductor, pianist and arranger who after college, conducted and arranged for the USAF Band. He went on to be a night club pianist, and has made many records. Joining ASCAP in 1956, his other popular-song compositions include "Johnny Willow" and "Battle of Gettysburg".- Actor
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Al Freeman, Jr. was an actor and director who was the first African American to win a Daytime Emmy Award for acting. His most famous role was that of Police Captain Ed Hall in the soap opera One Life to Live (1968), which brought him the Emmy in 1979. He was a regular on the soap from 1972 through 1987, and appeared off and on as Captain Hall from 1988 through 2000. He received three additional Emmy nominations playing the role in 1983, '86 and '87. Freeman also was the first African American to direct a TV soap opera, helming "One Life to Live" episodes.
Born on March 21, 1934 in San Antonio, Texas, he was raised primarily by his father, an actor and jazz musician, after his parents divorced. Al Freeman father and son left Texas, moving to Cleveland, Ohio. After studying drama at Los Angeles City College, Freeman fils moved to New York City to act in the theater, making his Broadway debut in Ketti Frings's "The Long Dream" in 1960, a flop that closed after five performances. He had a major success playing the lead in James Baldwin's play "Blues for Mister Charlie" in 1964. In 1970, he appeared in "Look to the Lilies" on Broadway, a musical version of the 1963 movie Lilies of the Field (1963), playing the part of Homer Smith, the role that brought Sidney Poitier an Oscar. Despite a prestigious production team that included director Joshua Logan, composer Jule Styne and lyricist Sammy Cahn, the show was a flop.
Freeman made his reputation primarily in television. He debuted as a television actor in the series Suspicion (1957) in 1958, and his soap opera debut came in 1967 in The Edge of Night (1956). He was nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards for My Sweet Charlie (1970) and for Roots: The Next Generations (1979), in which he played Malcolm X.
In 1958, Freeman made his movie debut in an uncredited role in the Glenn Ford WWII picture _Torpedo Run (1958)_ and first received billing in the 1960 gang war B-movie potboiler This Rebel Breed (1960). His most memorable role was the lead in Amiri Baraka's Dutchman (1966) opposite Shirley Knight, who was named Best Actress at the 1967 Venice Film Festival. Freeman won the N.A.A.C.P. Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for playing Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad in Spike Lee's Malcolm X (1992).
Freeman was a professor in the drama department of Howard University. When he died on August 9, 2012, in Washington, D.C. at the age of 78, he had established himself as a legend in the African American arts community.- Writer
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Al Gordon was born in Akron, Ohio in 1923 but moved to The Bronx as a child. He was the middle of three children, with an older brother and a younger sister. After finishing high school, Al joined the Air Corps and spent time on bases throughout the US before moving to Tersiera. A plane of entertainers arrived at his station, and several of the men in the barrack were writers. As they labored on a Broadway-bound show, APO Zoot, Al offered writing ideas and suggestions. One year later, these same writers flew Al to Hollywood, where he got his start as a radio writer for Jack Benny. From the time he started until he retired in the early 1990's, Al was employed every single television season. His knack for quick thinking, combined with his partner's speedy typing, powered his career in sitcoms. A pioneer in entertainment, Al won three Primetime Emmys and received nine nominations in his lifetime. Al was married to Charlotte Berkus (who was a first cousin twice removed to Nate Berkus) until her death in 2008. In the last eight years of her life, Al was her constant companion through a battle with Alzheimer's disease. They had two children: director/producer Neil Gordon and writer Jill Gordon. Al passed away suddenly in May 2012. His comedy expertise lives on in his grandchildren, including writer/actress 'Victoria Gordon (II)' and director Natalie Gordon.- Producer
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Al Rabin was born on 26 January 1936 in Waukegan, Illinois, USA. He was a producer and director, known for Days of Our Lives (1965), Sanford and Son (1972) and Guiding Light (1952). He died on 14 August 2012 in California, USA.- Camera and Electrical Department
- Actor
Al Stetson was an actor, known for The Other Guys (2010), Cop Out (2010) and Salt (2010). He died on 11 December 2012.- Cinematographer
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Alain Derobe was born on 23 February 1936 in Paris, France. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Coplan sauve sa peau (1968), Le futur aux trousses (1975) and First Desires (1983). He died on 11 March 2012 in Paris, France.