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- Actor
- Soundtrack
James Olson was born on October 8, 1930 in Evanston, Illinois, the son of LeRoy Olson, an engineer. He made his stage debut at age 12 as "Hans Brinker" in the Evanston Children's Theatre production of 'Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates'. He received a BS degree in Speech from Northwestern University before serving in the U.S. Army as a military policeman (M.P.) in 1952 for a two-year stint.
A Chicago-based stage actor before moving to New York, the 6'3" Olson studied with Lee Strasberg and made his Broadway debut in 'The Young and Beautiful'. Throughout the late 1950s and 1960s he continued to find poignant Broadway roles in 'J.B.' (1958), 'Romulus' (1962), 'The Chinese Prime Minister' (1964), 'The Three Sisters' (1964) and 'Of Love Remembered' (1967). Olson was featured in the 1966 Mary Tyler Moore-Richard Chamberlain musical misfire 'Holly Golightly' (based on the film Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)); the ill-fated musical closed before it reached Broadway.
Olson debuted on television as the title character in The Life of Mickey Mantle (1956). His film career began with the forgettable action drama The Sharkfighters (1956) but he later appeared in better roles in the film noir drama The Strange One (1957) and the Chekhov classic The Three Sisters (1966) (as Baron Tuzenbach, his Broadway stage role). He displayed an understated power in his performance as Joanne Woodward's suitor in the Oscar-nominated picture Rachel, Rachel (1968), which garnered him the best reviews of his film career. This was followed by a prime scientist role in the classic sci-fi thriller The Andromeda Strain (1971). He continued onstage in roles in 'The Glass Menagerie', 'The Crucible', 'A Safe Place', 'Twelve Dreams', and 'Winterplay'.
He had numerous TV-movie roles in Paper Man (1971), Incident on a Dark Street (1973), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1974), The Sex Symbol (1974), The Missiles of October (1974), The Family Nobody Wanted (1975), Someone I Touched (1975), Strange New World (1975), Law and Order (1976), and The Spell (1977), and guest and/or recurring roles on such TV series as Bonanza (1959), Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969), Medical Center (1969), Police Story (1973), Police Woman (1974), The F.B.I. (1965), Gunsmoke (1955), Mannix (1967), Harry O (1973), Hawaii Five-O (1968), Maude (1972), Barnaby Jones (1973), The Bionic Woman (1976), and Battlestar Galactica (1978).
Major stardom proved elusive, however. Olson wrapped up his career with the films Ragtime (1981), Amityville II: The Possession (1982), Commando (1985) and Rachel River (1987) and 1990 TV appearances on The Family Man (1990) and Murder, She Wrote (1984), before retiring.- Actress
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Catherine Spaak was born on 3 April 1945 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France. She was an actress and writer, known for The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971), The Easy Life (1962) and The Empty Canvas (1963). She was married to Vladimiro Tuselli, Daniel Rey, Johnny Dorelli and Fabrizio Capucci. She died on 17 April 2022 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Patrick Carlin was born on 1 October 1931. He was a writer and actor, known for The George Carlin Show (1994), The Headless Nun (2012) and Live from the NYPL: A Tribute to George Carlin (2010). He was married to Marlene Carlin. He died on 17 April 2022 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Lars Gerhard was born on 5 May 1969 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Shutter Island (2010), The Good Shepherd (2006) and Non-Stop (2014). He died on 17 April 2022 in New York, New York, USA.- Virginia Graham was born on 10 December 1932. She died on 17 April 2022 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
- Hollis Resnik was born on 1 June 1955 in Euclid, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for Backdraft (1991), The Untouchables (1993) and Crime Story (1986). She was married to Thomas Mendel. She died on 17 April 2022 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Paolo Noël was born on 4 March 1929 in Saint-Joachim-de-Tourelle, Québec, Canada. He was an actor, known for Omertà (2012), Danger pour la société (1970) and Omertà, la loi du silence (1996). He was married to Diane Bolduc. He died on 17 April 2022 in Québec, Canada.- Remus Margineanu was born on 22 March 1938 in Cugir, Romania. He was an actor, known for Somewhere in the East (1991), Priveste înainte cu mânie (1993) and Drumul oaselor (1980). He died on 17 April 2022 in Craiova, Romania.
- Producer
- Actor
- Writer
Kay Slay was born on 14 August 1966 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and actor, known for District 13: Ultimatum (2009), Straight Stuntin Chronicles: Volume 4 - Sometimes the Queen Is King (2016) and Straight Stuntin Chronicles: Volume 3 - The Man in the Mirror (2016). He died on 17 April 2022 in New York City, New York, USA.- Johnny May Cash was born on 17 February 1995. He was an actor, known for Johnny May Cash feat. YB & Rampage: Zonin (2012), Johnny May Cash feat. YB & Rampage: 30 Clip (2013) and French Montana feat. Johnny May Cash: Paranoid (2014). He died on 17 April 2022.
- Fred Busby was an actor, known for Forbidden (2007), Veterans Day (2006) and Grandpa (2006). He died on 17 April 2022 in the USA.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Nikolai Gusarov was born on 20 November 1940 in Sevastopol, Crimean ASSR, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Crimea, Ukraine]. He was an actor and director, known for Kazachya byl (1999), Vverkh tormashkami (1992) and Dikoe pole (1991). He died on 17 April 2022.- Actor
- Sound Department
Roderick Clark was born on 27 February 1973 in the USA. He was an actor, known for What is Murphy's Law? (2014), Hi-Five: I Just Can't Handle It (1990) and Hi-Five: I Like the Way (The Kissing Game) (1991). He died on 17 April 2022 in Waco, Texas, USA.- Soundtrack
Radu Lupu was born on 30 November 1945 in Galati, Romania. He was married to Delia Bugarin and Elizabeth Wilson. He died on 17 April 2022 in Lausanne, Switzerland.- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Gilles Remiche was born in 1979 in Brussels, Belgium. He was an actor and director, known for Madly in Life (2020), The Chance (2014) and Marchands de miracles (2006). He died on 17 April 2022 in Belgium.- Raeqwon tha Chef was born on 27 May 1996. He was an actor, known for Raeqwon tha Chef: UFO (2019), Raeqwon tha Chef: Won't Be Nun (2019) and Raeqwon tha Chef: Virginia Not 4 Lovers (2019). He died on 17 April 2022 in Petersburg, Virginia, USA.
- Actress
Re Styles was born on 3 March 1950 in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, USA. She was an actress, known for Xanadu (1980), The Tubes: Prime Time (1979) and Cher... Special (1978). She died on 17 April 2022 in San Francisco, California, USA.- Henry Scott Stokes was born on 15 June 1938 in Glastonbury, Somerset, England, UK. He was married to Akiko Sugiyama and Charlotte. He died on 17 April 2022 in Tokyo, Japan.
- Lalita Bharvani was born on 2 August 1948 in Bombay, India. She was married to Pierre Lanthier. She died on 17 April 2022 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Polo de Haas was born on 25 September 1933 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He was an actor, known for Ramses (2002) and De wonderbaarlijke avonturen van Professor Vreemdeling (1977). He died on 17 April 2022 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.- Ursula Bellugi was born on 21 February 1931 in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. He was married to Piero Bellugi and Edward S. Klima. He died on 17 April 2022 in San Diego, California, USA.
- Jacques-André Bertrand was born on 29 December 1946 in Annonay, Ardèche, France. He died on 17 April 2022 in Paris, France.
- Art Department
Tom Scull was born on 6 May 1947 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Tom is known for Blade: Trinity (2004). Tom was married to Brenda. Tom died on 17 April 2022 in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.- Iby Knill was born on 25 November 1923. She died on 17 April 2022.
- Editor
- Editorial Department
- Producer
David Harris was born in 1960 in Athens, Ohio, USA. He was an editor and producer, known for Chasing Robert (2007), Face Off (2011) and Construction Intervention (2010). He died on 17 April 2022 in Athens, Ohio, USA.- Gina Montrone was an actress, known for Hellraiser: Deader - Winter's Lament (2009), Split Ends (2009) and In Hell's Way: Making 'Hellraiser: Deader - Winter's Lament' (2010). She died on 17 April 2022 in Morristown, New Jersey, USA.
- Ruth Bolton was born in Oneonta, New York. She attended Oneonta High School where she enjoyed performing in school plays, and the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island, where she continued acting and earned a degree in painting.
From 1954 to 2006, she performed a wide range of roles in more than 70 theater productions with companies such as the Dramashop at MIT's Kresge Little Theater, the Charles Playhouse in Boston, summer theaters in Boston, Bar Harbor and Livermore Falls, Maine, Edgartown Summer Theatre on Martha's Vineyard, Brandeis University Forum Theatre, Provincetown Theater on the Wharf, the Whole Theater Co., in Montclair, New Jersey, and the Forum Theater in Worcester, Massachusetts. She often created costumes for the plays she was in, as well as set decorations and publicity posters. Her 2000 performance with the New England Theatre Company as the lead in Edward Albee's "Three Tall Women" took place at Anna Maria College in Paxton, Massachusetts. Her final role was in a 2006 performance of "The Vagina Monologues" at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Worcester, Massachusetts.
During the 1960s and 1970s she also created a series of puppet shows for which she made her own puppets. In 1980, she began taking writing classes and workshops, and through subsequent decades wrote poetry, stories and personal memoirs.
Throughout her consummately creative life, she battled severe depression instigated possibly by the trauma of her mother Dorothy's suicide in 1942, two days after Ruth's 14th birthday. Much of her writing and painting explored feelings of remembrance and grief about the loss of her mother. In 1990, Ruth produced a dramatic one-act play with Blackbird Labs in Worcester, Massachusetts, about her parents' courtship and marriage, called "The Farmer Took a Wife." She also performed in the 1997 production of her play at the Stageloft in Sturbridge, Massachusetts.
Ruth continued painting and drawing all her life, using acrylics, pastels and watercolors, to create still-lives, landscapes, and surreal dream-related imagery. She passed away on April 17, 2022, just weeks before her 94th birthday. - Music Department
- Composer
- Actor
Prafulla Kar was born on 16 February 1939 in Puri, Bengal Presidency, British Raj. He was a composer and actor, known for Shesha Shrabana (1976), Pacheri Uthila Majhi Duaru (1994) and Mamata (1975). He was married to Manorama Kar. He died on 17 April 2022 in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.- Jim Hartz is a former American television personality during the mid- and late-1970s. Hartz became best known to a national audience for a two-year stint as the co-host of the Today Show, along with Barbara Walters. Hartz replaced Frank McGee. Hartz was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and graduated from Tulsa Central High School in 1958. He then attended the University of Tulsa as a premed student, but after three years he decided to pursue journalism instead. Hartz first became a reporter for KOTV in Tulsa in 1962 and was promoted to news director in 1964, shortly before he joined NBC-owned WNBC-TV in New York. At the age of 24, he was the youngest correspondent that NBC had ever hired. There, he served as anchor of the 6 o'clock and 11 o'clock nightly newscasts, where he remained until 1974, when NBC promoted him to Today. Throughout his career with NBC, Hartz earned five Emmy Awards and two Ace Awards for cable television. His run turned with "Today" turned out to be relatively brief; future NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw would take over from him in 1976, when Walters left for ABC. Hartz then went to WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., where he was an anchor until 1979. After leaving NBC, Hartz succeeded Hugh Downs as co-host of the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Over Easy, sharing the program with Broadway legend, Mary Martin. He also hosted another public television program, Innovation, during the early 1980s. In the early 1990s he co-anchored a weekly PBS-NHK joint venture news program, Asia Now, from Tokyo, Japan. Hartz, who resides in Alexandria, Virginia, became chairman of the Will Rogers Memorial Commission in 1993, is a member of the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame, and is regarded as an aerospace expert. His first major assignment was co-anchoring with David Brinkley during the sudden return of Gemini VIII on March 16, 1966. Hartz has covered every manned flight after that from 1966 to 1976.