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Shirley Anne Field was one of Britain's most highly respected actresses. She starred opposite Laurence Olivier, Albert Finney, Steve McQueen, Michael Caine, Daniel Day-Lewis and Ned Beatty in such classic films as The Entertainer, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The War Lover, Alfie, My Beautiful Laundrette and Hear My Song.
As a teenager, she returned to London, her birthplace. She worked as a photographic model to pay her way through acting school, and had small parts in films. Her break came when she was cast as Tina the Beauty Queen opposite Sir Laurence Oliver in The Entertainer. She credited Tony Richardson, the director, with starting her (proper) career.
Her role as "Doreen" in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning soon followed. Only 22 years old, Shirley Anne was a major film star. Her next movie, Man in the Moon, was featured in a Royal Command Performance. This resulted in her name being above the title in all the major cinemas around Leicester Square. Apparently this is a record to this day.
A friend of Richardson told Shirley how Tony and he had gone to Leicester Square to see her name in lights. She worked with Albert Finney at the Royal Court in Lindsay Anderson production of The Lily White Boys. They later worked together again, on Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, written by Alan Sillitoe.
Hollywood was paying attention. Shirley Anne was cast as the female lead in The War Lover opposite Steve McQueen and Robert Wagner. Then she starred in a Hollywood blockbuster, Kings of the Sun, with Yul Brynner and George Chakiris, filmed in Mexico.
She interspersed her film career with theatre and TV performances in Britain and around the world. She played the lead in Wait until Dark in South Africa. She played the part of "Pamela" in the U.S. television drama Santa Barbara.
In the 1980s, she met up again with Stephen Frears, with whom she had worked when they were both beginners at the Royal Court. He cast her in My Beautiful Laundrette which was a big success and a breakthrough movie Her next big film was Hear My Song, as Cathleen Doyle, was made in the 1990s.
In recent years, she toured in theatre productions such as The Cemetery Club and Five Blue Hair Ladies Sitting on a Green Park Bench. Late in her career, she appeared alongside Flora Spencer Longhurst in Beautiful Relics, a short film directed by Adrian Hedgecock.- Anna Cardwell was married to Eldridge Toney and Michael Cardwell. She died on 10 December 2023 in Georgia.
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- Director
Lance Norris lives the life a country gentleman on the coast of Massachusetts. After shattering his kneecap during a bar fight scene in the movie The Mouse, Norris writes and does voice work for Charles Laquidara's morning radio show from his home studio, on WZLX in Boston. He also writes an occasional joke for "P.I with Bill Maher" and articles for magazines like "Entertainment Weekly" and "Musician". Norris is also the author of two joke books and a former Contributing Editor to National Lampoon. A multi-talented musician, Norris is active in the local Boston music scene and is credited with writing over 100 songs on BMI. As of 1998, only one CD of his works remains in print. He can also be seen in music videos by Stevie Nicks, Milli Vanilli, The Stools and Keel, and the random TV commercial.- Actor
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Michael Blakemore was born on 19 June 1928 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was an actor and director, known for Country Life (1994), Great Performances (1971) and Having a Wild Weekend (1965). He was married to Tanya McCallin and Shirley Bush. He died on 10 December 2023.- Camera and Electrical Department
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Rob Eshelby was born in 1957 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is known for Outlander (2008), K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) and Take This Waltz (2011). He died on 10 December 2023 in Blandford, Nova Scotia, Canada.- Animation Department
- Director
- Writer
Tony Claar was born on 28 June 1949 in Pleasant Hill, California, USA. Tony was a director and writer, known for No Sweat (2023), Tropical Chill (2023) and FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992). Tony was married to Liliana . Tony died on 10 December 2023 in Oakland, California, USA.- Norby Walters was born on 20 April 1932 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Arli$$ (1996), I'm Rick James (2009) and Power Plays (1993). He was married to Irene Solowitz. He died on 10 December 2023 in Burbank, California, USA.
- Daniel Abadie was born on 8 July 1945 in Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He died on 10 December 2023 in Paris, France.
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Edna Mazia was born in 1949 in Tel Aviv, Israel. She was a director and writer, known for Naomi (2010), Drifting (1982) and Haya O Lo Haya (2003). She died on 10 December 2023 in Israel.- Stolte spent his school years and youth in Cologne, Berlin, Saarbrücken, Thuringia, Saxony and Worms. After graduating from high school in Worms, Stolte studied philosophy, history and German studies at the universities of Tübingen and Mainz from 1955 to 1961. During his studies he began to gain his first professional experience in radio and the press as a freelancer. He also became active in the RCDS student association, which is close to the CDU. Stolte joined Saarland Radio in 1961, where he worked as head of the science department until 1962. In the same year he moved to ZDF in Mainz, where he initially served as personal assistant to the director, Karl Holzamer, until 1967.
Stolte was then appointed head of the main program planning department. He held this position until 1973. Stolte also worked in academic teaching on the side: from 1968 to 1970 he held a teaching position at the University of Television and Film in Munich. After an interlude at Südwestfunk Baden-Baden, where he was television director and deputy director from 1973 to 1976, Stolte was reappointed to ZDF in 1976 as program director. The journalist finally became director of his "house station" in 1982. Stolte was confirmed as head of Second German Television for four terms of office, meaning he led ZDF for a total of two decades. In this role, Stolte strengthened ZDF's competitiveness against the rapidly increasing competition from private TV providers.
Stolte is committed to adjusting broadcasting fees and liberalizing advertising times. He also initiated a rigorous austerity program. ZDF went online in mid-1996, and the station's Internet offering has been steadily expanded since then. In international cooperation, Stolte created the cable and satellite channel 3sat with the Austrian (ORF) and Swiss broadcasters (SRG), which from then on formed the cultural mainstay of the second German television channel. In addition, Stolte continued to be active academically: from 1980 he was professor of media theory and media practice at the University of Music and Theater in Hamburg. After leaving the position of ZDF director, Stolte was appointed editor of the two daily newspapers of the Axel Springer publishing house "Die Welt" and "Berliner Morgenpost" in April 2002.
In 2001 he was awarded the Robert Geißendorfer Prize. In 2002 he received the Ring of Honor from the city of Mainz. Shortly before his 70th birthday, the restless journalist took over the chairmanship of the Friends of the German Historical Museum in Berlin in May 2004. A month later, Stolte also joined the board of the Axel Springer Foundation. Stolte published numerous publications on media theoretical issues. He was represented on the supervisory boards and executive boards of several German and European media companies. After the merger of Deutschlandfunk, RIAS Berlin and DS Kultur to form DeutschlandRadio Berlin, Stolte, who temporarily also served as interim director of the new broadcaster, chaired the administrative board there from 1994 to 1999.
Stolte, who is himself the founder and chairman of the general meeting of the German Television Prize, has been awarded, among other things, the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class (1983) and numerous, including international, media awards such as the International Emmy Directorate Award from the Academy of Television Art & Sciences in New York (1997). excellent. In 1991 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Mainz and in 1994 an honorary professorship at the University of Hamburg.
Stolte is married to Petra née Grüttner and has a daughter. - Pascal Périz was born in Caen, Calvados, France. He died on 10 December 2023 in Caen, Calvados, France.
- Graziella Magherini was born on 23 August 1927 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. She was a writer, known for The Stendhal Syndrome (1996). She died on 10 December 2023 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
- Parviz Arazi was an actor, known for Ghessehaye Labe Rood (2011) and Zaniar (2011). He died on 10 December 2023 in Iran.
- Mutalip Dovletmirzaev was born on 18 April 1939. He was an actor, known for Gorskaya novella (1979). He died on 10 December 2023.