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David Horowitz, the Creator, Host and Executive Producer of the popular television program "Fight Back! With David Horowitz", has been at the forefront of bringing consumer issues into public awareness for nearly 35 years.
David has won 15 Emmy Awards for his "Fight Back!" television series, documentaries, and news programs. To honor his consumer reporting, he has received over 400 awards from government, industry, and citizens' groups.
"Fight Back!" enjoyed a run of eighteen seasons in syndication. It is one of the longest running shows to date of any genre.
Over the course of his career, David has been an on air reporter at NBC, ABC, CBS, and CNBC where he has received accolades for his courageous reporting tactics. In 1963, David opened the first Saigon News Bureau for NBC, and served as a network correspondent and cameraman during the Vietnam War.
In 1971, he risked his life providing the only live television coverage of the earthquake in Los Angeles on a worldwide broadcast originating from the NBC studio parking lot in Burbank.
In 1989, he was held hostage by a gun-wielding mental patient during a live news broadcast on KNBC. The event was broadcast internationally. The "gun" turned out to be a toy. David used the incident to create a global campaign to mark "look a like" weapons and toys so they can be easily identified instead of being confused with real weapons.
David made over forty appearances as a guest on the "Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson." Johnny's character "David Howitzer" charmed and amused audiences worldwide. David was a guest correspondent on "The Today Show" for eight years. He has been a featured guest on a broad range of other talk, news, and variety television shows including: "Oprah Winfrey" the "Late Show with David Letterman," "The Jay Leno Show," and "20/20".
In addition to his television appearances, David has written syndicated newspaper columns and has eight best-selling books. His radio features on Jones Radio Network and his long-form show, "Fight Back! Talk Back!" on Talk Radio Network aired from 2001-2005. He is a regular contributor to "The Costco Connection" magazine which has a readership of over seven million people worldwide.
From 2002-2004, David was a member of the FCC's Consumer Advisory Board in Washington. He was a member of the Los Angeles Board of Directors and the National Board of Directors for AFTRA from 2006-2009. David has consulted for international corporations and makes regular personal appearances at universities all over the country.
As the CEO of FightBack.com, he runs the premiere online website for consumer concerns. David also runs a non-profit organization called the "FightBack! Foundation for Consumer Education." He is devoted to guiding young people towards careers as consumer affairs professionals in business, government, politics, and journalism.- Alan Howard was born on 5 August 1937 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). He was married to Sally Beauman and Stephanie Hinchcliffe Davies. He died on 14 February 2015 in Hampstead, London, England, UK.
- Alicia Muñíz was born on 18 August 1955 in Montevideo, Uruguay. She was an actress, known for Ladies' Photographer (1978), Fatso Catastrophe (1977) and Encuentros muy cercanos con señoras de cualquier tipo (1978). She died on 14 February 1988 in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.
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Andrea Levy was born on 7 March 1956 in London, England, UK. She was a writer and producer, known for The Long Song (2018), National Theatre Live: Small Island (2019) and Small Island (2009). She was married to Bill Mayblin. She died on 14 February 2019 in London, England, UK.- Actor
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Andrew Koenig was born on 17 August 1968 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and director, known for InAlienable (2007), Batman: Dead End (2003) and Growing Pains (1985). He died on 14 February 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.- Actress
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Born Dorothy Lee Perrins in Los Angeles, California on March 11, 1943, Angelique Pettyjohn began modeling at a very young age. She also took advantage of her living in the locus of "American Dreams" by studying acting. Pettyjohn made her movie debut at age 21, under the name "Angelique", in the low-budget The Love Rebellion (1967), before tasting the big-time, co-starring opposite "The King", Elvis Presley, in Clambake (1967). This was her first appearance in an A-list movie, and this led to small roles in other big-budget films.
However, her fame as a thespian lies with her work on the small screen, appearing in memorable roles on Get Smart (1965) and Star Trek (1966). In 1967, she appeared on the former in two appearances as "Charlie Watkins", (Charlie was a male CONTROL agent who disguised himself as a gorgeous woman). After testing for the role of Nova in Planet of the Apes (1968), she won the role that made her an immortal among fans of science fiction: Shahna in the episode The Gamesters of Triskelion (1968).
The episode is a favorite of Star Trek fans and, although Pettyjohn would later reap the benefits of the role by appearing in countless Star Trek fan conventions in the distant future, at the time, this led exactly nowhere for her career. She continued in the bimbo sexual desire in such cinematic horrors as Hell's Belles (1969), The Curious Female (1969) and Bordello (1974). Her career was strictly in movies churned out for drive-ins and the exploitation circuit. In the early 1980s, she appeared as a stripper in Las Vegas, Nevada but soon abandoned her avocation as a stripper and softcore star for hardcore porn. Titillation (1982), Stalag 69 (1982) and Body Talk (1982) featured Pettyjohn, billed as either "Angel St. John", "Heaven St. John", or under her old moniker, "Angelique".
The burgeoning Star Trek cult, bolstered by the series of movies released by Paramount beginning in 1979, allowed Pettyjohn to quickly ditch her hardcore career. She began working Star Trek conventions to earn her keep, selling posters of herself, in and out of her sexy outfit from "The Gamesters of Triskelion". Her appearance on the circuit raised her profile in the movie industry. Indie film directors, who knew of her earlier work in low-budget exploitation fare, began hiring her for small roles in their films. She appeared in such indie features as Repo Man (1984), Biohazard (1985) and The Wizard of Speed and Time (1988).
Eventually, Pettyjohn's fame grew and she began headlining science fiction conventions as the main guest of honor. She overcame alcoholism and drug abuse to put her life on an even keel, overcoming the low self-esteem that had led her to her pornographic appearances. Pettyjohn appeared at her last science fiction convention in autumn 1989. Las Vegas had offered her a chance to cash in on her cult notoriety as an exotic dancer, and she took this; she was 46 years old, but still beautiful and vivacious, doing what made her happy, performing for a live audience.
Angelique Pettyjohn died of cervical cancer at age 48 on February 14, 1992 in Las Vegas, Nevada.- Director
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Antoni Krauze was born on 4 January 1940 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. He was a director and writer, known for Palec bozy (1973), Czarny czwartek. Janek Wisniewski padl (2011) and The Weather Forecast (1983). He died on 14 February 2018 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Brenda Deiss was born on 9 September 1961 in Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for Red Rocket (2021). She died on 14 February 2022 in Clear Lake, Texas, USA.
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Buddy Knox was born on 20 July 1933 in Happy, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for American Graffiti (1973), Look Who's Talking Too (1990) and Hexed (1993). He died on 14 February 1999 in Bremerton, Washington, USA.- Carl Judie was born on 11 July 1958. Carl was an actor, known for Dhar Mann (2018) and A True Menstrual Show (2020). Carl died on 14 February 2021 in Lubbock, Texas, USA.
- Carlos Saúl Menem was born on 2 July 1930 in Anillaco, La Rioja, Argentina. He was an actor, known for Chantaje complot criminal (1995), Delito de corrupción (1991) and Ladrón (1988). He was married to Cecilia Bolocco and Zulema Yoma. He died on 14 February 2021 in Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina.
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Charles Judels or Charles Judel was born in Amsterdam in 1882. Starred on vaudeville in the early 1900s, and made his Broadway stage debut in 'The Ziegfeld Follies of 1912'. Highly talented chubby man who appeared in more than 130 American comedy and drama movies, his expertise with dialects served him well throughout his career. His first film was the comedy Old Dutch (1915) directed by Frank Hall Crane and starring Lew Fields for the Shubert Film Co. He is perhaps best remembered as the cheese-store proprietor in the Laurel & Hardy film Swiss Miss (1938). He also did extensive work as a voice actor in animated films, most notably as the voice of Stromboli in Disney's Pinocchio (1940). His last appearance on screen was as a Danite Merchant in Samson and Delilah (1949).- Clayton Williams was born on 8 October 1931 in Alpine, Texas, USA. He was married to Modesta Simpson and Betty Meriwether . He died on 14 February 2020 in Midland, Texas, USA.
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Dave Marks was born on 24 January 1900 in London, England, UK. He was an assistant director and actor, known for Agent for H.A.R.M. (1966), Nancy Goes to Rio (1950) and Space Probe Taurus (1965). He was married to Matilda Greenberg, Gwen and Marion Martha Freibrun. He died on 14 February 1997 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
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Don Potter was born on 15 August 1932 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for The Children of Sanchez (1978), Double Exposure (1982) and Snow White Live (1980). He died on 14 February 2023 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Writer
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- Actress
Dory Previn was born on 22 October 1925 in Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, USA. She was a writer and actress, known for Colossal (2016), Fight Club (1999) and Two for the Seesaw (1962). She was married to Joby Baker, André Previn and Leon Joseph Bronesky. She died on 14 February 2012 in Southfield, Massachusetts, USA.- Actor
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Doug Fieger was born on 20 August 1952 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Super 8 (2011), Reality Bites (1994) and The Next Karate Kid (1994). He died on 14 February 2010 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Elliott Leyton was born on 21 August 1939 in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada. He was a writer, known for For the Record (1976), Unsolved Mysteries (1987) and The Man Who Studies Murder (2003). He was married to Bonnie Averbach . He died on 14 February 2022 in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada.
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Esther Scott was born on 13 April 1953 in Queens, New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Transformers (2007), Dreamgirls (2006) and Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002). She died on 14 February 2020 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Eva was born in England in 1953. Few details are known of her early life or of her break into acting. Her biggest success on television was her role in Widows (1983) as Bella O'Reilly. After the show's successful first series a second was commissioned. She was replaced by Debbie Bishop after Eva sadly committed suicide.
Another role she was famed for was Corrine in Only Fools and Horses (1981). Her character was introduced in the episode 'Who's a Pretty Boy?' along with her screen husband, Denzil. She was a headstrong, if sharp-tongued, woman and nobody wanted to be in her bad books. Writer, John Sullivan, had planned to bring Corrine back into the show, seeing great potential in her character. But sadly this was never to be. Eva died on 14th February 1985 from a suspected drugs overdose. She was just 31 years of age. Any 'Only Fools and Horses' fan will know immediately who Corrine was. She may only have appeared in one episode, but her performance was strong enough to merit her a place in the show's history books. - Actor
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Friedo Solter was born on 24 July 1932 in Reppen, Pomerania, Germany [now Rzepin, Lubuskie, Poland]. He was an actor and director, known for Martin Luther (1983), Scharnhorst (1978) and König Lear (1971). He died on 14 February 2023 in Usedom, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.- Actor
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- Music Department
George Shearing was born on 13 August 1919 in Battersea, London, England, UK. He was an actor and composer, known for Bedtime Stories (2008), Green Book (2018) and The Muppets (2011). He was married to Eleanor Geffert and Beatrice Bayes. He died on 14 February 2011 in New York City, New York, USA.- Graciela Doring was born in 1939 in Mexico City, Mexico. She was an actress, known for Pedro Páramo (1967), The Wild Bunch (1969) and Coronación (1976). She died on 14 February 2018 in Mexico.
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Multi-Academy Award-nominated cinematographer (13 in all), Harry Stradling was unique in that he established his reputation both in America and in Europe. He was the nephew of Mary Pickford's cameraman Walter Stradling, who provided the connections for his first job in Hollywood. Walter died in 1918 and Harry went on to serve his apprenticeship, working on B-movies and short subjects for lesser companies, like Pathe and Arrow. In 1930, he journeyed to France where he established a fruitful collaboration with the director Jacques Feyder, working on films which have become classics of French cinema: Le grand jeu (1934), La dame aux camélias (1934) and, his first noteworthy success, bringing to life the Flemish paintings of Carnival in Flanders (1935).
The visual quality of this film so impressed producer Alexander Korda, that he hired both Feyder and Stradling for his London Films production, Knight Without Armor (1937), starring Marlene Dietrich - hired by Korda for the then princely sum of $350,000. Despite budgetary constraints, which meant that many sets had be improvised and stylised, Stradling's low key lighting gave the film an impressionistic feel and made it look more 'expensive' than it was. It ended up furthering Dietrich's career and led to other prestige assignments in England, including South Riding (1938), The Citadel (1938) and Alfred Hitchcock's Jamaica Inn (1939). With an impressive portfolio thus in hand, Stradling returned to Hollywood and soon worked with 'Hitch' again on Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) and Suspicion (1941). Who can forget that indelible scene of Cary Grant ascending a staircase with that suspicious glass of warmed milk for poor Joan Fontaine (the contents of the glass rendered even more dubious by being lit from the inside with a light bulb)? The ever- innovative Stradling also impressed critics and audiences alike with his application of double exposure, creating realistic-looking twins of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. for The Corsican Brothers (1941).
Between 1942 and 1949, Harry worked at MGM, where his close-ups of the changing face of Hurd Hatfield, in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), further established him as one of the most versatile cinematographers in the business. For Republic, he imbued Nicholas Ray's off-beat Trucolor western Johnny Guitar (1954) with an immense visual style which adds to the almost lyrical quality of the picture. Glamour and technicolour were also key ingredients in Stradling's musicals for MGM, foremost among them The Barkleys of Broadway (1949) and Guys and Dolls (1955). In 1955, Harry went across to Warner Brothers . During his nine year-long tenure there, he earned four Academy Award nominations, culminating in a second Oscar for his much lauded 70 mm filming of My Fair Lady (1964). Towards the end of his career, he contributed to boosting Barbra Streisand's, particularly through his meticulous soft-focus photography of Hello, Dolly! (1969) and Funny Girl (1968). Harry died on the job, during filming of another Streisand vehicle, The Owl and the Pussycat (1970), and was replaced by Andrew Laszlo.- James Bond was born on 4 January 1900 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was married to Mary Bond. He died on 14 February 1989 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Javed Khan Amrohi was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is an Indian actor who has acted in various Bollywood films in supporting and cameo roles, amounting to approx. 150 Hindi films. He is best known for his role in Academy Award-nominated Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001), Andaz Apna Apna (1994) and the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Chak De! India (2007). He is also known for working in Phir Hera Pheri (2006) as a Police Constable.- Actress
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Teenage fashion model and Earl Carroll showgirl Jean Wallace failed in her first bid to break into movies, after MGM discovered that she was only 17, not 19 years old - as she had claimed. Being underage meant that she could only work four hours a day (and with an official tutor) and so her bit in Ziegfeld Girl (1941) was all there was. At Paramount, her luck improved. Signed to a six months contract (plus complimentary tutor) the platinum blonde insurance salesman's daughter made her first motion picture appearance in a credited part in Louisiana Purchase (1941). Her next stop was 20th Century Fox where she spent five years under contract, but had very little to do after refusing to appear in Kiss of Death (1947), not a good career move, as it turned out. For the next few years, Jean's screen career was overshadowed by her turbulent private life.
A chance meeting in July 1941 between Jean and the actor Franchot Tone, formerly Joan Crawford partner and twice her age, had led to a whirlwind romance, seven years of rocky marriage and, ultimately, divorce. Jean twice attempted suicide, the first with sleeping pills in 1946, the second by stabbing herself in the abdomen in 1949. During the acrimonious divorce proceedings that followed, Jean alleged extreme jealousy and an affair with peroxide blond siren Barbara Payton, while Tone claimed that his wife had been involved with gangster Johnny Stompanato, bodyguard of infamous L.A. mobster Mickey Cohen (Stompanato later came to grief at the hands of Lana Turner's daughter, Cheryl Crane, in 1958). In 1950, Jean married soldier James Randall in San Diego, but this union was annulled after just five months. Having lost custody of her two children to Tone, she then lost her driver's license, following a charge of drunk driving. Things could only get better.
In September 1951, Jean got married for the third time. From here on, her career became inextricably linked to that of her husband, actor and director Cornel Wilde, who assumed a 'Svengali'-like role in attempting to mould her into an actress of stature. She was featured opposite him in a number of mostly routine B-movies, made by his production company Theadora. Best among those was a lesser film noir, The Big Combo (1955), where she played a self-destructive gangster's moll torn between evil crime boss Richard Conte and nice police lieutenant, Wilde. In the colourful Maracaibo (1958),which was largely shot on location, she was an icy journalist, one third of a love triangle, involving Wilde as a 'Red' Adair-type action hero, dousing oil fires in Venezuela (featuring in the cast a young Michael Landon of Bonanza (1959) fame). Jean sang in the soundtrack, which she also did for both Star of India (1954), and Beach Red (1967) (though her acting part in this war picture was somewhat perfunctory). In Sword of Lancelot (1963), she was Guinevere to Wilde's Lancelot, who also co-produced and directed. Her last starring role was in Wilde's No Blade of Grass (1970), in which a family escapes from a post-apocalyptic world, not unlike I Am Legend (2007)(or its earlier incarnation, The Omega Man (1971)).
After divorcing Wilde in 1980, Jean lived with a menagerie of pets (including two snakes and a tarantula) in Beverly Hills until her death in February 1990.- Producer
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Jerry Jarrett was born on 4 September 1942 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for TNA iMPACT! Wrestling (2004), TNA Wrestling: No Surrender (2005) and CWA Wrestling (1977). He was married to Deborah Marlin and Julie. He died on 14 February 2023 in Franklin, Tennessee, USA.- John Shrapnel was born in Birmingham, the son of Norman and Myfanwy Shrapnel. He was brought up in Stockport and south London, attending City of London School and Cambridge University. He was an original member of the National Youth Theatre and had worked extensively in theatre, particularly the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre. He lived in Suffolk and London.
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John Strauss was born on 28 April 1920 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a composer, known for The Blues Brothers (1980), Hair (1979) and Take the Money and Run (1969). He was married to Charlotte Rae. He died on 14 February 2011 in West Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
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Manly actor Lee Patterson will always be remembered by American audiences as the hunky detective alongside equally hunky detectives Van Williams and Troy Donahue on Surfside 6 (1960) from the early 1960s. But, prior to that, he had a solid second-string career in British films playing Americanized parts.
Born in British Columbia, he went to a college in Ontario before crossing the ocean and settling in England. A former stage manager and theatre publicist in his salad days, he was a rock-solid presence in such "B" films as Terror Street (1953) (aka Terror Street), The Good Die Young (1954), Reach for the Sky (1956), The Mailbag Robbery (1957) (aka The Mailbag Robbery) and Jack the Ripper (1959). The monumental success of the private eye series 77 Sunset Strip (1958) and the hair-combing Edd Byrnes "Kookie" craze instigated a number of imitations with Surfside 6 (1960) being just one of them. It lasted a rather short two seasons but it did establish Lee here in America. As good looking as the exotic locales behind him on the show, his own good looks carried him much further, going on to star in a number of guest spots and earning a slew of soap opera roles along the way, most notably on One Life to Live (1968) as Erika Slezak's one-time husband. He grew into a reliable character actor and was also seen on the stage in later years.
Out of the limelight for quite some time, Lee remained quite private, and his death on Valentine's Day in 2007 at a Galveston Island, Texas hospital of congestive heart failure (complicated by lung cancer and emphysema) was not reported until nearly a year later. A sizable portion of his estate went to charitable organizations such as the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, which was founded by his good friend Danny Thomas.- Lerone Bennett was born on 17 October 1928 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA. He was married to Gloria Sylvester. He died on 14 February 2018 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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Drummer, composer, author and conductor. He performed with the orchestras of Ted Fiorito, Benny Goodman, the Dorsey brothers, Harry James, Duke Ellington, and Count Basie. He toured with Jazz At the Philharmonic, and later organized his own band and did a concert tour with his wife Pearl Bailey. In 1965 he rejoined the Ellington orchestra. He has made many records. Joining ASCAP in 1956, he composed "Hawk Talks", Skin Deep", "You Gotta Dance", and "Ting-a-Ling".- Actor
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Louis Jourdan was born Louis Robert Gendre in Marseille, France to Yvonne (née Jourdan) and hotel owner Henry Gendre. He was educated in France, Britain, and Turkey. He trained as an actor with René Simon at the École Dramatique. He debuted on screen in 1939, going on to play cultivated, polished, dashing lead roles in a number of French romantic comedies and dramas.
After his father, the manager of the Cannes Grand Hôtel, was arrested by the Gestapo during World War II, Louis and his two brothers (Pierre Jourdan and Robert Gendre, both of whom became film directors) joined the French underground; his film career came to a halt when he refused to act in Nazi propaganda films.
In 1948, David O. Selznick invited him to Hollywood to appear in The Paradine Case (1947); he remained in the USA and went on to star in a number of Hollywood films. After 1953, he appeared in international productions and, in 1958, appeared in Gigi (1958), his best-known film by American audiences. He also made numerous appearances on American television.
Jourdan died at his home in Beverly Hills, California in 2015, at age 93.- Actor
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Luis Marín was born on 16 January 1932 in Madrid, Spain. He was an actor and production manager, known for La leyenda del alcalde de Zalamea (1973), I tre del Colorado (1965) and The Great Treasure Hunt (1972). He died on 14 February 2022.- Actress
Lynn Cohen was born on 10 August 1933 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for Munich (2005), Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) and The Cobbler (2014). She was married to Ronald Theodore Cohen and Gilbert Laman Frazen. She died on 14 February 2020 in New York City, New York, USA.- Mark Venturini was born on 10 January 1961 in Elmhurst, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Return of the Living Dead (1985), Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985) and Knight Rider (1982). He died on 14 February 1996 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Michael Vincente Gazzo was born in Hillside, New Jersey, on April 5, 1923. He attended Erwin Piscator's Dramatic Workshop at the New School on the GI Bill after being demobilized from the US Army Air Force after World War II.
Gazzo's first major success was as a playwright. His play about drug addiction, "A Hatful of Rain," was a success on Broadway, running for 389 performances in 1955 and 1956 and winning Ben Gazzara and Anthony Franciosa Tony award nominations as Best Actor and Best Featured Actor, respectively. However, his second (and what would prove to be his last) Broadway play, "The Night Circus," also starring Gazzara, was a flop, lasting just 7 performances in 1958,
"A Hatful of Rain" was made into a successful film by Oscar-winning director Fred Zinnemann in 1957. Franciosa won an Oscar nomination for reprising his role in the film. Gazzo turned to screenwriting, penning the Elvis Presley hoses-opera King Creole (1958). Eventually he turned back to acting, where his stocky physique and unique screech of a voice made him a first-rate character actor by the 1970s.
His biggest and best acting gig came to him when Richard S. Castellano refused to appear in The Godfather Part II (1974) due to a money dispute. Castellano's character Clemenza was killed off and Gazzo was cast as Clemenza's successor in the Corleone crime family in New York. Gazzo was outstanding as the old-fashioned, unsophisticated mafioso who, believing he has been betrayed and marked for death by his don, turns state's evidence against him, only to honor the Mafia code of "omerta" in the end. Gazzo won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nod for his performance.
Gazzo continued to work in films until his death, mostly assaying Mafia bosses and other criminal types. On film, though, he was able to break out of typecasting in his frequent television appearances and play good guys. He died of a stroke on February 14, 1995 in Los Angeles, at the age of 71.- Michel Ragon was born on 24 June 1924 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He was a writer, known for L'histoire du samedi (1995), Louise Michel (2009) and Une main... Un regard... Un tableau...: Les diverses fonctions de la peinture (1968). He died on 14 February 2020 in France.
- Mickie Henson was born on 1 May 1961 in Tampa, Florida, USA. He was an actor, known for WCW Monday Nitro (1995), WWE Smackdown! (1999) and WCW Thunder (1998). He died on 14 February 2022 in Florida, USA.
- Pamela Cundell was born on January 15, 1920 in Croydon, Surrey, England as Pamela Isabel Cundell. She was an actress, known for TwentyFourSeven (1997), Big Deal (1984) and Dad's Army (1968). She was married to Bill Fraser, Leslie Newport-Gwilt and Robert O'Connor. She died on February 14, 2015 in Finchley, North London, England.
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Pepe Parada was born on 15 January 1937 in San Cristóbal, Provincia Buenos Aires, Argentina. Pepe was a producer and actor, known for Basta para mí (1990), Juan Moreira (1973) and La mano del muerto (2011). Pepe died on 14 February 2003 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.- Actor
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Perry Lopez was born on 22 July 1929 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Chinatown (1974), The Two Jakes (1990) and Kelly's Heroes (1970). He was married to Claire Kelly. He died on 14 February 2008 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.- Fashion Model. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, her father was employed as a horse trainer. After moving to Port Elizabeth, South Africa with her family, she attended Saint Dominic's Priory School and later enrolled at the University of Port Elizabeth (now part of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University) where she studied law and graduated with a Bachelor of laws Degree in 2005. After receiving her degree, she did paralegal work and applied to the bar in 2011. At the age of 14 she started her modeling career and was a finalist in the Weekend Post Faces of the Future competition in 2004 and in The Herald Miss Port Elizabeth contest in 2005. Her career as a model and cover girl continued with an appearance in FHM magazine, modeling jewelry for Sivana Diamonds, and was the first face of Avon cosmetics in South Africa. Additionally, she appeared in television advertisements for a number of products, including Toyota Land Cruiser, Clover "The One," Redds, and Aldor Pin Pop. An avid horse rider, she broke her back in a fall in her early twenties and had to learn to walk again. In 2012 she was featured as a celebrity contestant on the BBC Lifestyle show "Baking Made Easy." In November 2012 she began dating Oscar Pistorius, the celebrated South African Olympic and Paralympic track and field athlete. Three months later she was shot and killed at Pistorius' home who, having admitted to accidentally shooting her (thinking she was an intruder), was arrested and formally charged with her premeditated murder. At the time of her death she had agreed to appear in the 5th season of the reality television program "Tropika Island of Treasure" and had filmed the series episodes on location in Jamaica. The screening of the series aired as scheduled on February 16, 2013, only two days after her death, and its first episode was dedicated to her with a video tribute to her that preceded it.
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Reinbert de Leeuw was born on 8 September 1938 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. He was a writer and composer, known for Satie and Suzanne (1994), Toonmeesters (1997) and The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012). He died on 14 February 2020 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.- Music Department
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Born in Santa Monica, California, legendary rock drummer Sandy Nelson seemed destined for a career in music--his best friends in high school were future rock stars Jan Berry and Dean Torrence (later to become the singing duo of Jan & Dean) and Kim Fowley, who became one of the most influential record producers in rock history.
When he was 20 years old his first record, "Geronimo" (recorded with a band called The Renegades), was chosen to be on the soundtrack of American-International Pictures' teen exploitation movie Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow (1959). Nelson's talent propelled him to the front ranks of session musicians. He was the drummer on some of the biggest rock hits of the 1950s and 1960s, such as "To Know Him Is to Love Him" by the Teenage Teddy Bears (written by one of its members, Phil Spector), "A Thousand Stars" by Kathy Young and "Alley Oop" by The Hollywood Argyles.
In 1959 his song "Teen Beat" hit #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, selling over 1,000,000 copies, which earned it a gold record. Nelson soon signed with Imperial Records, and for that label he came out with what is probably his best-known hit: the pounding, explosive "Let There Be Drums" (although it wasn't as big a hit as "Teen Beat" was).
In 1963 Nelson was involved in a motorcycle accident and was seriously injured, so seriously that his right foot and part of his right leg were amputated (it is erroneously believed by many that his foot was amputated before he made "Teen Beat" and "Let There Be Drums"). That didn't stop his career, however; he recorded for quite a few years after that, and released an album of new material in 2008.- Sergei Zakharov was born on 1 May 1950 in Nikolaev, USSR. He was an actor, known for Heavenly Swallows (1976). He was married to Alla Narimanovna Saligulin. He died on 14 February 2019 in Moscow, Russia.
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Sherry Jones was born on 21 April 1948 in Austin, Texas, USA. Sherry was a producer and writer, known for Watergate Plus 30: Shadow of History (2003), Frontline (1983) and Trade Secrets: A Moyers Report (2001). Sherry was married to Alan Stone . Sherry died on 14 February 2022 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.- Wonderfully talented German-born actor, capable of tremendous comedic and dramatic performances, usually as some type of pompous bureaucrat or similarly arrogant individual. Ruman was born on October 11, 1884, in Hamburg, Germany, and actually studied electrotechnology in college before making the switch to acting. He served with the Imperial German Forces in World War I before coming to the United States in 1924. He became friendly with playwright George S. Kaufman and critic Alexander Woollcott and was regularly appearing in high-quality stage productions on Broadway.
With the advent of talkies, he was kept very busy in the cinema and became a favorite of the Marx Brothers, appearing as stiff-shirted NYC opera owner Herman Gottlieb in the comedy classic A Night at the Opera (1935). He played a know-it-all surgeon crossing swords with Groucho Marx over what exactly was wrong with hypochondriac Margaret Dumont in A Day at the Races (1937). and a dual role in A Night in Casablanca (1946). With his German accent, he was also a regular in several WWII espionage thrillers, including Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939), They Came to Blow Up America (1943), and The Hitler Gang (1944), and gave a superb portrayal of the two-faced POW guard Schulz in the splendid Stalag 17 (1953). He was also popular with famed director Ernst Lubitsch, who cast Ruman in Ninotchka (1939), and To Be or Not to Be (1942). In all, he notched up over 100 feature film appearances as well as guest star spots on many TV shows.
Ruman suffered ill health for the final two decades of his life and passed away on February 14, 1967, from a heart attack. - Actor
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Sterling Brimley was born on 18 May 1936 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. He was an actor, known for Brigham City (2001), The Pandora Directive (1996) and Promised Land (1996). He was married to Joyce Cunningham and Pam Collier. He died on 14 February 2022 in Bountiful, Utah, USA.- Tony Fuochi was born on 25 April 1955 in Cremona, Lombardy, Italy. He was an actor, known for Saint Seiya Rebirth (2011), Saint Seiya Live Action: Una Nuova Minaccia (2011) and Arriva Cristina (1988). He died on 14 February 2022 in Padua, Veneto, Italy.
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Travis Engle was born on 16 March 1984 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. He was a producer and cinematographer, known for Brock on Your Block (2015), Dogs in the Distance (2014) and Gringa Latina (2014). He died on 14 February 2022 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Zoran Bogdanov was born on 1 July 1957 in Novi Knezevac, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He was an actor, known for Siroko je lisce (1981), Jagodici (2012) and Snohvatice (1983). He died on 14 February 2022 in Novi Sad, Serbia.