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- Richard Overton was born on 11 May 1906 in Austin, Texas, USA. He died on 27 December 2018 in Austin, Texas, USA.
- Gillo Dorfles was born on 12 April 1910 in Trieste, Austria-Hungary [now Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy]. He was a writer, known for A proposito di 'Arden of Feversham' (1968), Ultra Dorfles (2018) and Latta e caffè - Riccardo Dalisi, Napoli e il teatro della decrescita (2009). He died on 2 March 2018 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.
- Georges Loinger was born on 29 August 1910 in Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France. He was married to Flore Rosenzweig. He died on 28 December 2018 in France.
- Rosa Bouglione was born on 21 December 1910 in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium. She was married to Joseph Bouglione. She died on 26 August 2018 in Paris, France.
- Johan van Hulst was born on 28 January 1911 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. He was married to Anna Jannetta Donker. He died on 22 March 2018 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.
- Bessie Nolan was born on 5 November 1911 in Clane, County Kildare, Ireland. She was married to Jackie Nolan. She died on 1 March 2018 in Dublin, Ireland.
- Soundtrack
Les Lieber was born on 16 March 1912 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was married to Edith. He died on 10 July 2018 in Fire Island, New York, USA.- Connie Sawyer was born on 27 November 1912 in Pueblo, Colorado, USA. She was an actress, known for Dumb and Dumber (1994), Pineapple Express (2008) and Out of Sight (1998). She was married to Marshall Schacker. She died on 21 January 2018 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Benjamin Melniker was born on 25 May 1913 in Bayonne, New Jersey, USA. He was a producer, known for National Treasure (2004), Batman & Robin (1997) and Batman Begins (2005). He was married to Shirley Gross and Jean Brody. He died on 26 February 2018 in Roslyn Harbor, Long Island, New York, USA.- Director
- Animation Department
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Don Lusk was born on 28 October 1913 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. He was a director and assistant director, known for Lady and the Tramp (1955), Sleeping Beauty (1959) and Alice in Wonderland (1951). He was married to Marjorie Gummerson. He died on 30 December 2018 in San Clemente, California, USA.- Landrum Bolling was born on 13 November 1913 in Parksville, Tennessee, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Searching for Peace in the Middle East (2006). He was married to Frances Morgan. He died on 17 January 2018 in Arlington, Virginia, USA.
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Producer
Ralph Woolsey was born on January 1, 1914. A native of Oregon he began his career making wildlife and conservation films for the state of Minnesota in the late 1930s and in World War II worked as a cameraman for the U.S. air force. After the war he worked chiefly in documentaries, in 1957 becoming a contracted photographer for Warner Brothers television shows such as 'Maverick., 'Cheyenne' and '77, Sunset Strip', gaining an Emmy for his work on 'It Takes a Thief' in 1968. In addition to his work in films and television he taught cinematography at the USC film school and San Diego University. He was president of the American Society of Cinematographers from 1983 to 1984 and in 2003 received their Presidents Award for outstanding contribution to cinematography.- Actress
- Soundtrack
She was the standard prototype of the porcelain-pretty collegiate and starry-eyed romantic interest in a host of Depression-era films and although her name may not ring a bell to most, Mary Carlisle enjoyed a fairly solid decade in the cinematic limelight.
The petite Boston-born, blue-eyed blonde was born on February 3, 1914, and brought to Hollywood in 1918, at age 4, by her mother after her father passed away. The story goes that the 14-year-old and her mother were having lunch at the Universal commissary when she was noticed by producer Carl Laemmle Jr., who immediately gave her a screen test. Her age was a hindering factor, however, and Mary completed her high school studies before moving into the acting arena. An uncle connected to MGM helped give the young hopeful her break into the movies as a singer/dancer a few years later.
Mary started out typically as an extra and bit player in such films as Madam Satan (1930), The Great Lover (1931) and in Grand Hotel (1932) in which she played a honeymooner. The glamorous, vibrant beauty's career was given a build-up as a "Wampas Baby Star" in 1933 and soon she began finding work in films playing stylish, well-mannered young co-eds. Although she performed as a topline actress in a number of lightweight pictures such as Night Court (1932) with Anita Page, Murder in the Private Car (1934) starring Charles Ruggles, and It's in the Air (1935) alongside Jack Benny, she is perhaps best remembered as a breezy co-star to Bing Crosby in three of his earlier, lightweight '30s musicals: College Humor (1933), Double or Nothing (1937) and Doctor Rhythm (1938). In the last picture mentioned she is the lovely focus of his song "My Heart Is Taking Lessons". Her participation in weightier material such as Kind Lady (1935) was often overshadowed by her even weightier co-stars, in this case Basil Rathbone and Aline MacMahon.
Disappointed with the momentum of her career and her inability to extricate herself from the picture-pretty, paragon-of-virtue stereotype, Mary traveled and lived in London for a time in the late '30s. Following her damsel-in-distress role in the horror opus Dead Men Walk (1943) with George Zucco and Dwight Frye, Mary retired from the screen, prompted by her marriage to James Blakeley, a flying supervisor, the year before. The Beverly Hills couple had one son. Her husband, a former actor who also appeared in '30s musicals with Crosby as a dapper second lead (e.g., in Two for Tonight (1935)), later became an important executive (producer, editor, etc.) at Twentieth Century-Fox.
In later years Mary managed an Elizabeth Arden Salon in Beverly Hills and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Her husband passed away in 2007. Mary herself lived to the ripe old age of 104 on August 1, 2018.- Moi-Yo Miller was born on 24 April 1914 in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. She died on 7 October 2018 in Prahran, Victoria, Australia.
- Georges-Emmanuel Clancier was born on 3 May 1914 in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France. He was a writer, known for Chroniques de France (1964), Le pain noir (1974) and La fabrique du roi (1965). He was married to Anne Marie Yvonne Gravelat. He died on 4 July 2018 in Paris, France.
- Jimmy Thirsk was born on 30 May 1914 in Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was married to Joan Watkins. He died on 2 June 2018 in the UK.
- Nicanor Parra was born on 5 September 1914 in San Fabián de Alicom, Chile. He was married to Inga Palmen and Ana Delia Troncoso. He died on 23 January 2018 in Santiago de Chile, Metropolitan Region, Chile.
- Maciej Maciejewski was born on 1 October 1914 in Augustów, Poland, Russian Empire [now Augustów, Podlaskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for A Short Film About Killing (1988), Kanal (1957) and Young Chopin (1952). He died on 17 May 2018 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Actress
- Producer
Gertrude Jeannette was born on 28 November 1914 in Urbana, Arkansas, USA. She was an actress and producer, known for Shaft (1971), Nothing But a Man (1964) and Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970). She was married to Joe Jeanette. She died on 4 April 2018 in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.- Olivia Hooker was born on 12 February 1915 in Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA. She died on 21 November 2018 in White Plains, New York, USA.
- Doreen Mary English was born on 8 March 1915 in Norfolk, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Please Believe Me (1950). She was married to Henry John Heinz II, John Mackenzie Robertson and Dale Maher. She died on 30 March 2018 in Lasswade, Scotland, UK.
- Éva Gyulányi was born on 15 March 1915 in Kolozsvár, Hungary. She was an actress, known for The Heiresses (1980), Just like Home (1978) and Diary for My Children (1984). She died on 10 October 2018 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Woefully misused while in her prime screen years at Paramount during the late '30s and '40s, Patricia Morison, lovely and exotic with Rapunzel-like long, dark hair, nevertheless became a star in her own right -- as a supremely talented diva on the singing stage.
Born on March 19, 1915, in New York City, her father, William Morison, was a playwright and occasional actor who billed himself under the name Norman Rainey. Patricia's mother worked for British Intelligence during WWI. Graduating from Washington Irving High School in New York, Patricia studied at the Art Students League and proceeded to take acting classes at the Neighborhood Playhouse while also studying dance with the renowned Martha Graham. She earned a steady check at the time as a dress shop designer.
At age 19 Patricia made her Broadway debut in the short-lived play "Growing Pains" and proceeded to understudy the legendary Helen Hayes in her classic role of "Victoria Regina". She never went on. In 1938, shortly after opening in the musical "The Two Bouquets" opposite musical star Alfred Drake, Paramount talent scouts, looking for exotic, dark-haired glamour types then to rein in their star commodity, Dorothy Lamour, scoped Patricia out and tested her. The blue-eyed beauty who indeed resembled Lamour was signed and made her film debut the following year, showing bright promise in the "B" film Persons in Hiding (1939).
Patricia's stock did not improve, however, despite such promise, and she was relegated to such second-string westerns as I'm from Missouri (1939), Rangers of Fortune (1940), Romance of the Rio Grande (1940), and The Round Up (1941). When things didn't improve with such stilted fare as Night in New Orleans (1942), Beyond the Blue Horizon (1942), and Are Husbands Necessary? (1942), she left Paramount. She freelanced in 'other woman' roles which included the Tracy/Hepburn vehicle Without Love (1945) and The Fallen Sparrow (1943), and played Empress Eugenie in The Song of Bernadette (1943), but the focus was seldom on her. Overlooked when cast in top leads at 'poverty row' programmers, her best chance at film stardom came as Victor Mature's despairing wife who takes her own life (which was to have been shown on screen) in Kiss of Death (1947), but her juicy role was excised from the film by producers (or, more likely, the Breen Commission) who felt audiences weren't ready for such shocking displays.
During the war years, Patricia had trained her voice and performed in USO tours. Cole Porter heard her sing in Hollywood one evening and decided she had the right tenacity, feistiness and vocal expertise to play the female lead in his new show. In 1948, over the objections of both the producer and director, stardom was clenched in the form of Porter's classic musical-within-a-musical "Kiss Me Kate." As the sweeping, vixenish Lilli Vanessi, a severe-looking stage diva whose own volatile personality coincided with that of her onstage role (Kate from "The Taming of the Shrew"), Patricia found THE role of her career, giving over 1,000 performances in all. Playing again alongside her former Broadway co-star Alfred Drake, Patricia basked in the multitude of glowing reviews, and such songs as "I Hate Men," "Wunderbar" and "So In Love" rightfully became signature songs. Following this triumph, film work never became a top priority again.
Patricia continued on successfully in the London version of "Kate" and went on to conquer other classic leads in the musicals "The King and I," "Kismet," "The Merry Widow," "Song of Norway" and Pal Joey," among others. Her last movie role was a cameo part as writer George Sand in the mildly received biopic Song Without End (1960) starring Dirk Bogarde as composer Franz Liszt.
On TV Patricia recreated her Kate role with Mr. Drake and made a few scattered but lively appearances over the years. One of her later guest shots was on a 1989 episode of "Cheers" and a 1991 episode of "Gabriel's Fire." In later years the never-married actress devoted herself to painting (an early passion) and enjoyed many showings in the Los Angeles area. The lovely lady with the trademark long hair died in L.A. at the age of 103, on May 20, 2018.- Marie Runyon was born on 20 March 1915 in Brevard, North Carolina, USA. She was an actress, known for The Manchurian Candidate (2004) and Rachel Getting Married (2008). She was married to Dick Runyon. She died on 7 October 2018 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- Actress
- Additional Crew
- Soundtrack
Nini Theilade was born on 15 June 1915 in Poerwokerto, Banjoemas, Dutch East Indies [now Purwokerto, Central Java, Indonesia]. She was an actress, known for A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), The Song to Her (1934) and The Big Bluff (1933). She was married to Arne Buchter-Larsen and Peter Loopuyt. She died on 13 February 2018 in Svendborg, Denmark.- Vicki Joyce was born on 30 July 1915 in San Francisco, California, USA. She was an actress, known for The Film Follies (1935), Double or Nothing (1936) and Leon Navara and Orchestra (1936). She was married to Harold Heller. She died on 27 January 2018 in Palm Desert, California, USA.
- Selma Cipes was born on 3 November 1915 in New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Big Trouble (2002) and Detective Extralarge (1991). She died on 9 March 2018 in the USA.
- Reigning from the mountains of Alabama, Dr. Rev. Dorothy Forrest Trumbo is no stranger to the Gospel scene. Dorothy and her late husband, Rev. C.R. Trumbo were both Pentecostal Ministers in Fyffe, Alabama. Dorothy also taught house making (now Home Economics) and coached Volleyball for many years at Fyffe High school, one of her students being Vestal (Freeman) Goodman, landing Dorothy a spot on Bill Gaither's 1994 film about the Happy Goodman Family. Following the bible by it's word, Dorothy practiced snake handling, her strong belief landed her 7 iconic appearances on Snake Salvation (2013), and the fact that she was the great-aunt of Jamie Coots (d. 2014) Dorothy died in 2018 at her daughter's home in Texas, she was 102.
- Chin Y. Lee graduated from National Southwest Associated University, Kunming, China, in 1940 with Bachelor of Arts degree. He entered the United States in 1943, attended Yale University, and by 1947 Lee earned a Master of Fine Arts degree.
Lee's first novel, "The Flower Drum Song: A Novel of San Francisco's Grant Avenue," was published in 1957. The novel formed the basis of Rodgers and Hammerstein musical and the subsequent film. - Austin Hay was born on 25 December 1915 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Being There (1979) and Her Alibi (1989). He died on 5 November 2018 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- Mary Wilson was born on 12 January 1916 in Diss, Norfolk, England, UK. She was married to Harold Wilson. She died on 6 June 2018 in London, England, UK.
- Tatyana Karpova was born on 17 January 1916 in Kharkov, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine]. She was an actress, known for Na podmostkakh stseny (1956), Tyoshcha (1974) and Igra bez pravil (1965). She was married to Sergey Mayorov, Evgeny Alexandrovich, Konstantin Kuleshov and Dmitry Dolgopolsky. She died on 26 February 2018 in Moscow, Russia.
- David Douglas Duncan was born on 23 January 1916 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He is known for Underfire: The Untold Story of Pfc. Tony Vaccaro (2016), The Mike Douglas Show (1961) and The David Frost Show (1969). He was married to Sheila Macauley and Leila Khanki. He died on 7 June 2018 in Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
- Edmund Ikeda was born on 10 March 1916 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Last Airbender (2010), Win Win (2011) and Black Rain (1989). He died on 15 July 2018 in Larchmont, New York, USA.
- Composer
- Music Department
- Actor
Chûji Kinoshita was born on 9 April 1916 in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. He was a composer and actor, known for Somewhere Under the Broad Sky (1954), The Garden of Women (1954) and Trucker Yaro IX: A 5000 Km Run (1979). He was married to Michiko Kinoshita. He died on 30 April 2018 in Mihonmachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan.- Costume Designer
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
Paulette Coquatrix was born on 28 April 1916 in Paris, France. She was a costume designer, known for The Night Affair (1958), Frou-Frou (1955) and Femmes de Paris (1953). She was married to Bruno Coquatrix. She died on 28 May 2018 in Les Clérimois, Yonne, France.- Anna Teluren was born on 22 May 1916 in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany. She was an actress, known for Der Tod läuft hinterher (1967), Eine halbe Stunde (1968) and Die Firma Hesselbach (1960). She died on 22 August 2018 in Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- Bernard Lewis was born on 31 May 1916 in London, England, UK. He was married to Ruth Hélène Oppenhejm. He died on 19 May 2018 in Voorhees Township, New Jersey, USA.
- Olivier Bell was born on 20 June 1916 in London, England, UK. She was married to Quentin Bell. She died on 18 July 2018 in Firle, Sussex, England, UK.
- Soundtrack
Livia Rev was born on 5 July 1916 in Budapest, Hungary. She was married to Pierre Aubé. She died on 28 March 2018 in Paris, France.- Kathryn Keys was born on 21 July 1916 in the USA. She was an actress, known for Raw Timber (1937), Escort Girl (1941) and Riders of the Dawn (1937). She was married to Dr. Carl H. Frame. She died on 27 March 2018 in Burbank, California, USA.
- Bill Coors was born on 11 August 1916 in Golden, Colorado, USA. He was married to Phyllis Mahaffey, Rita Bass and Geraldine Jackson. He died on 13 October 2018 in Golden, Colorado, USA.
- Helmut Sinn was born on 3 September 1916 in Metz, Lorraine, Germany. He died on 14 February 2018 in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany.
- Lyman Potts was born on 11 November 1916 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. He was an actor, known for Why Shoot the Teacher? (1977). He was married to Michelle Bole. He died on 9 December 2018 in Burlington, Ontario, Canada.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Helen Clare was born on 29 November 1916 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Jack Jackson and His Band (1938), Flotsam's Follies (1950) and Songs of Praise (1961). She was married to Frederick Riddle. She died on 15 September 2018 in the UK.- Arsène Tchakarian was born on 21 December 1916 in Sabandja, Marmara region, Turkey. He died on 4 August 2018 in Île-de-France, France.
- Helen Burns was born on 22 December 1916 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Changeling (1980), If You Could See What I Hear (1982) and Scarlett (1994). She was married to Michael Langham. She died on 23 July 2018 in London, England, UK.
- Albin Irzyk was born on 2 January 1917 in Salem, Massachusetts, USA. He died on 10 September 2018 in West Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
- Writer
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Henry Morgenthau Jr. III was born on 11 January 1917 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Changing World (1964), The Doctor (1952) and NET Journal (1966). He was married to Ruth Schachter. He died on 10 July 2018 in Washington, D.C., USA.- Mary Ellis was born on 2 February 1917 in Leafield, Oxfordshire, England, UK. She was married to Donald Gordon Ellis. She died on 24 July 2018 in Sandown, Isle of Wight, England, UK.