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Jansen Panettiere was born on 25 September 1994 in Palisades, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Robots (2005), The Fog (2005) and The Eye (2008). He died on 19 February 2023 in New York City, New York, USA.- Actor
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Sicilian born actor/writer/director was very popular with European audiences, but largely unknown to the west apart from his portrayal of the villainous SPECTRE agent "Emilio Largo" in the spectacular James Bond film Thunderball (1965). However, due to his heavy accent, Celi's voice was dubbed by Robert Rietty. Two years later Celi popped up in the appalling James Bond spoof Operation Kid Brother (1967) starring Neil Connery brother of Sean Connery.
Additional to his many film appearances in Italian productions, Celi spent many years on stage in South America to very positive reviews, and directed three films made in South America, Caiçara (1950), Tico-Tico no fuba (1952)_ and L'Alibi (1969)_.
He passed away on February 19th 1986 from a heart attack.- Actress
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This Hollywood High graduate began her career as a secretary and script girl, working for Josef von Sternberg and Charles Chaplin. A sexy and bubbly player, she was repeatedly miscast as a singer-dancer. She toured the vaudeville circuit after her career spluttered, returning to Hollywood only to get involved in a sex scandal in 1933 with her boyfriend, actor Jack Warburton, and future husband Sy Bartlett. She continued working on the stage and screen for the next two decades, but a series of divorces, further sex scandals, and a 1957 accident effectively ended her career.- Amanda Ledesma was born on 31 December 1911 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was an actress, known for The Last Meeting (1938), Mañana me suicido (1942) and Dancing (1933). She died on 19 February 2000 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Artie Wayne was born on 22 January 1942 in New York, New York, USA. He is known for Come Back Charleston Blue (1972) and Bandstand (1958). He died on 19 February 2019 in Palm Springs, California, USA.- Bubbling, lively Argentinian comedienne and singer with a 50+ year career, who shone in local versions of Boeing Boeing, My Fair Lady, Mame and Pippin, but appeared in only several movies - most notable was her co-starring role in La pérgola de las flores (1965). She also frequently appeared on television, including roles on the series House Master and Illusions.
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Bob Cobert was born on 26 October 1924 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), Click (2006) and Dark Shadows (2012). He was married to Helen Elizabeth Fosse. He died on 19 February 2020 in Palm Desert, California, USA.- Actor
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Ronald Belford Scott was born on July 9, 1946 in Kirriemuir, Scotland, UK. In 1952, the Scott family relocated to Australia. Bon's strong distaste for authority led him to quit his studies at the age of 15. Bon's earliest musical efforts were both on vocals and drums. His first "real" job in the music business was in a pop band called The Valentines, whose single "Every Day I Have To Cry" reached the top five of the local charts. On September 1969, however, The Valentines were arrested for dope possession which shattered their clean-cut image beyond repair, and the band officially called it quits a few months later. Within six months of The Valentine's dissolution, Bon joined a new blues-rock band called Fraternity; the efforts of the band to achieve some success in Europe were largely fruitless and they returned to Australia slightly disillusioned. After returning home, Bon was involved in a motorbike accident that left him in a coma for three days and in the hospital for several months, ending his association with Fraternity. Now based in Adelaide, Bon was reduced to taking on casual work until the day he was offered the chance to drive the bus for this new and really young rock band called AC/DC around. But Bon harboured ambitions to front the band. He persuaded the Young brothers that the band needed a better frontman and he suggested himself as the ideal replacement. And when former singer Dave Evans failed to turn up for a show, Bon seized his chance. With Bon Scott as a frontman, AC/DC got into sharp focus and the next five and a half years saw them getting more popular with each passing year, ultimately achieving world-wide success with their million-selling "Highway To Hell". The band's legendary status is believed to be largely due to the period spent with Bon Scott as the band's lead singer. Yet Bon Scott was also an excessive drinker and this would ultimately lead to tragedy. After a night of heavy drinking, Bon died in a car parked outside a friend's flat in South London sometime on February 19, 1980. He was prononced dead on arrival at Kings College Hospital. Bon Scott lies in the Fremantle Cemetery's Memorial Garden in Australia.- Charley Taylor was born on 28 September 1941 in Grand Prairie, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for The NFL on NBC (1965), The NFL on CBS (1956) and NFL Monday Night Football (1970). He was married to Patricia. He died on 19 February 2022 in Sterling, Virginia, USA.
- Chris Wiggins was born on 13 January 1931 in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar (1969), Rock & Rule (1983) and Friday the 13th: The Series (1987). He was married to Sandra Crysler-Wiggins. He died on 19 February 2017 in Elora, Ontario, Canada.
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Christopher Nupen was born on 30 September 1934 in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was a director and writer, known for Barenboim on Beethoven (1970), Jean Sibelius: Maturity and Silence (1984) and Pinchas Zukerman: Here to Make Music (1975). He was married to Caroline Percival and Diana Baikie. He died on 19 February 2023 in the UK.- Director
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Dan Graham was born on 31 March 1942 in Urbana, Illinois, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Rock My Religion (1984) and Minor Threat (1983). He was married to Mieko Meguro. He died on 19 February 2022 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.- Daniel Peredo is known for Once machos (2017).
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After school, Jarman studied history and art history at King's College. In 1963 he began studying art in Pop Art London. In the general mood of optimism from the mid-1960s onward, he began to openly confront his homosexuality. Jarman took over the set design for Ken Russell on the films "The Devils" (1971) and "Savage Messiah" (1972). Then he began making experimental films himself - initially in Super 8 format. Jarman presented his first feature film in 1976 with "Sebastiane", an openly homosexual film adaptation of the life of the early Christian martyr Sebastian - in Latin! This was followed by "Jubilee" (1978), a sarcastic allusion to the crown jubilee of Elizabeth II the year before.
Jarman then turned to Shakespeare, which he filmed in the punk revue "The Tempest" (1979) and in the erotic-themed work "The Angelic Conversation" (1985). With "Caravaggio" (1986), Jarman approached the passions depicted in the Renaissance painter's paintings and which the director re-staged. At the end of 1986, Jarman learned of his HIV infection. The films "The Last of England" (1987) and "War Requiem" (1989) were made under the sign of the AIDS threat and the Falklands War, which deal with the themes of death and destruction. His films about the ambivalent historical figures of "Edward II" also deal with homosexual dramas. (1991) and "Wittgenstein" (1992). When Jarman slowly went blind, he made "Blue" in 1993, a film that only shows a blue screen and otherwise lives from its texts and sounds from the "off".- Dickie Davies was born on 30 April 1928 in Wallasey, Cheshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Pardon My Genie (1972), The New Statesman (1987) and Mind Your Language (1977). He was married to Elisabeth Mann. He died on 19 February 2023 in England, UK.
- Emile Francis is a former player, coach, and general manager in the National Hockey League, most notably with the New York Rangers Hockey Team.
He became a star in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League and was pursued for a professional contract by the Chicago Black Hawks. In 1947, he was called up to a squad mired in last place and took over the starting role in net. After starting on a dismal Chicago team in 1948-49, Francis was traded to the New York Rangers Hockey Team as part of a major personnel shakeup. Over the next four years, he would play sparingly in a relief role for the Rangers while manning the spot between the pipes on New York's American Hockey League affiliate. He finished his career in Western Hockey League, including stints with the Vancouver Canucks, Saskatoon Quakers and Seattle Americans.
Francis was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1982, and received the Wayne Gretzky International Award in 2015. - Minor American character actor Forrest Taylor was a veteran of the stage by the time he started appearing as a silent lead in both short and feature-length films. He went on to appear in hundreds of secondary "B" movies, although his name does not appear in a large percentage of them. Taylor was born Edwin Forrest Taylor in Bloomington, Illinois, in 1883. Little is known about his early days on stage but he assayed prime roles in such films as In the Sunset Country (1915), April (1916), True Nobility (1916) and The Abandonment (1916) before World War I service intervened. With his leading-man career fatally interrupted, he would not return to films until a decade later in 1926. Playing a few strong supports, he regressed quickly to atmospheric bits primarily in westerns and cliffhangers. With a no-nonsense attitude and imposingly thick mustache, his attorneys, judges, scientists, executives and professors were for the most part scarcely acknowledged, so when he did receive a bit more screen time than usual he pounced on the opportunity, such as he got in John Wayne's programmer Riders of Destiny (1933) where he played a sagebrush villain; the serial Shadow of Chinatown (1936) as a Chief of Police; and The Oregon Trail (1939) as a nemesis to hero Johnny Mack Brown. Taylor also managed some deliciously hammy roles in a few popular serials including The Green Archer (1940), The Spider Returns (1941) and The Iron Claw (1941). On-camera for nearly five decades, he extended himself into TV programming in the 1950s, taking part in various TV westerns including episodes of Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1951), Annie Oakley (1954), The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955), Maverick (1957) and My Friend Flicka (1955), not to mention both Gene Autry's and Roy Rogers' weekly shows. He was an occasional player on the series The Cisco Kid (1950) from 1950 on, and from 1952-1954 had one of his more visible roles as Grandpa Fisher on the religious TV series This Is the Life (1952). Broaching the age of 80, Taylor finally retired in 1962 after filming an episode of Bonanza (1959) and died three years later of natural causes in Garden Grove, California.
- Frank Delfino was born on 13 February 1911 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Lord of the Rings (1978), The Hunter (1980) and McDonaldland (1963). He was married to Sadie Delfino. He died on 19 February 1997 in San Diego, California, USA.
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Gary Brooker was born on 29 May 1945 in Southend, Essex, England, UK. He was a composer and actor, known for Oblivion (2013), The Net (1995) and Widows (2018). He was married to Françoise Riedo. He died on 19 February 2022 in Surrey, England, UK.- Gary Poulter was born on 16 September 1959 in California, USA. He was an actor, known for Joe (2013). He died on 19 February 2013 in Austin, Texas, USA.
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American-Asian musician and actor, #americanasianactor, native New Yorker. Geoff's first musical experience, the local church choir at age 10. Studied contemporary Afro-American music at SUNY Old Westbury under jazz professor Makanda McIntryre. His first theater experience was as musical director for Pan-Asian Repertory@La Mama, Bullet-Headed Birds, directed by Tisha Chang. After college Geoff taught music to teenagers at Project Reach in Chinatown, NY, but left teaching to answer the call of the vibrant New York rock music scene, joining The Heat as bassist and composer for this multiracial rock band was ultimately signed to Polygram Records. The Heat regularly played Friday and Saturday gigs at clubs such as CBGBs and Max's Kansas City, and also toured England and Wales. After The Heat, Geoff co-founded another rock band, Fierce Jones, which also played at CBGBs - this time Geoff was playing guitar.
The acting bug bit hard when Geoff studied drama with Mako (East/West Players, Pacific Overtures) and he took independent classes taught by a member of Actors Studio. In 2017, he attended a master actors class taught by Tzi Ma.
In 2013 he composed/recorded the music score for the short film Tu-Na House, which won a Golden Eagle award in NYC, dir Bea Soong. He is featured as an actor/musician in the films Year of The Dragon and Magic Sticks (German).
Most recently Geoff is seen playing two roles, Knowledge and Liu The Ancient, in the action-comedy feature film Made In Chinatown which premiered at the Newark International Film Festival, 9/2019.
2019 - Geoff played a co-star role with James Spader on The Blacklist.
2018 - In the comedy series Nightcap, Geoff guest starred with Bob Saget.
On The Daily Show (2013) Geoff played the role of Zhi Peng, Jon Stewart's Chinese bandleader.
Geoff worked as a stunt double in Black Rain (dir Ridley Scott) and in The Other Guys (dir Andy McKay) as well doing his own stunts in Taking Manhattan (dir Kirk Wong).
In the award winning feature film The Exquisite Corpse Project (dir Ben Popik), a documentary-comedy, Geoff plays the three combo-characters of Mr. Kim.
Additional: 2019, Geoff is featured in five indie films, "Eugenia and John" , dir Hossein Keshavar, "Paradise City", dir John Marco Lopez, Snakeeater, dir Tori Knos, I Want More, I Want Less by Bryce Richardson and he appears in "The Garden Left Behind", dir Flavio Alves.
In 2014 "Revenge of the Green Dragons" was released and Geoff is featured in the role of Charlie Lo, a gambling house owner. He was honored to work with well-known Hong Kong director Andrew Lau (Infernal Affairs) and co-director Andrew Loo, exec producer Martin Scorsese.
Geoff can also be seen in three web series, "The Streets", "Queering" and "Stills". Additionally, in Spring 2016 he played a featured role the web series, "Mahjongg" (dir Troy Antonio). He also is seen in two music videos by renown Asian rapper China Mac. In 2019,- Actor
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Giulio Brogi was born on 13 May 1931 in Verona, Veneto, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Spider's Stratagem (1970), St. Michael Had a Rooster (1972) and The Seagull (1977). He died on 19 February 2019 in Negrar, Veneto, Italy.- Actor
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Grandpa Jones was born on 20 October 1913 in Niagara, Kentucky, USA. He was an actor, known for The Marty Stuart Show (2008), Hee Haw (1969) and Country Boy (1966). He was married to Ramona Jones and Eulalia Marie Losher. He died on 19 February 1998 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.- Actor
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Greg Crowe was born at the US Naval Hospital in Yokosuka, Japan. But because of the International Dateline, he is never absolutely certain when exactly he should celebrate his birthday when in the US. Greg's father was an NCO in the Navy, and his family moved to San Diego, California before Greg was a year old. In the summer in which he was five years old, his family moved to Maryland, where he spent the remainder of his formative years.
Greg only relatively recently realized he wanted to be an actor when he grew up (whenever that might be). In the last few years he has played everything from a corrupt senator to a quirky coworker to a nerdy boyfriend to an angry, angry squirrel. His favorite roles are ones that test his abilities and push them farther than he thought possible.- Writer
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Nelle Harper Lee grew up in Monroeville, Alabama in the 1920s. It was a time of hostility between whites and blacks in the United States, especially in Alabama. Her father, a lawyer, also ran a local newspaper. Her mother suffered from mental illness and oftentimes stayed inside from others; she was thought to suffer from bipolar disorder. Harper was a young lady with an agile personality. She was tomboyish, and eventually befriended Truman Persons. Truman would also turn out to become a writer later on in life, as Truman Capote, and they would later on collaborate in a newspaper called The New Yorker. Harper would often serve as Truman's protector in elementary school, as she was a tougher girl who did not fear other boys. Lee developed a passion for literature in high school. After graduating in 1944, she went on to join Huntingdon College-an all-female academy located in Montgomery. Throughout her college years, she was distant from other students. Rather than working on her makeup and getting dates, she was focused on her studies, constantly reading and writing.
Lee moved to New York in the 1950s, took a job as an airline reservations clerk, and wrote her first novel during that time. "To Kill a Mockingbird," published in 1960, won a Pulitzer Prize, and is still admired, widely-taught, and beloved. The film version, To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), received several Academy Awards. Lee insisted that the novel is a work of fiction, not autobiography. She protected her privacy, spoke through her literary agent, McIntosh and Otis, did not appear on television and did not give interviews. She lived in Monroeville, Alabama and New York. She died in Monroeville on February 19, 2016.- Writer
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Harris Wittels was born on 20 April 1984 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Parks and Recreation (2009), Master of None (2015) and Eastbound & Down (2009). He died on 19 February 2015 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Writer
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Heather Couper was born on 2 June 1949 in Wallasey, Cheshire, England, UK. She was a writer and producer, known for Universe (1999), The Planets (1985) and The Stars (1988). She died on 19 February 2020 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England, UK.- Quiroga was born in Uruguay, but he went to Argentina in 1901, to live and work. His life was marked by a series of tragic events : his father had died in an accident with a rifle, briefly after that he lost his eldest brother and his stepfather in another accident. In 1900 he lost his best friend in an accident with a pistol ànd his wife committed suicide. In 1937, Quiroga learned that he was seriously ill and committed suicide.
- Humbert Allen Astredo was born on 4 April 1929 in Pasadena, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Dark Shadows (1966), House of Dark Shadows (1970) and The Edge of Night (1956). He died on 19 February 2016 in Guilford, Connecticut, USA.
- Jack Youngerman was born on 25 March 1926 in Webster Groves, Missouri, USA. He was married to Delphine Seyrig and Hilary Helfant. He died on 19 February 2020 in Stony Brook, New York, USA.
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Born in New York City, Jamie Gillis trained as a legitimate actor. In the early 1970s he drifted into performing in pornographic films, and continued to work in that field through the late 1990s. Despite the occasional foray into "legitimate" film, such as a cameo in Nighthawks (1981), Gillis remained identified with the porn industry, and is regarded as one of its most prolific and potent actors. After a stint as one of the "Nasty Bros". in producer Ed Powers' series of amateur "Dirty Debutantes" series, Gillis began branching out to produce homemade porn videos of his own, some of them made in France (where he was able to show off his command of the French language). Never having made a secret of his bisexuality, Gillis made his first all-gay porn film in 1997, a sado-masochistic video in which he did not actually perform sex acts, but rather issued orders to the other members of the cast.- Director
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Jan Hryniak was born on 12 May 1969 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. He was a director and actor, known for Czas honoru. Powstanie (2014), Kantor and Trick (2010). He was married to Marta Hryniak. He died on 19 February 2022 in Poland.- Actress
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When it came to bright and polished, they didn't get much spiffier than singer/actress Janet Blair -- perhaps to her detriment in the long haul. At Columbia, she was usually overlooked for the roles that might have tested her dramatic mettle. Nevertheless, she pleased audiences as a pert and perky co-star to a number of bigger stars, ranging from George Raft and Cary Grant to Red Skelton and The Dorsey Brothers.
Of Irish descent, she was born Martha Janet Lafferty in Altoona, Pennsylvania, in 1921. Raised there in the public school system, she sang in the church choir during her youth and adolescence. The inspiration and talent were evident enough for her to pursue singing as a career by the time she graduated. At age 18, she was a lead vocalist with Hal Kemp's band at the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles. While with Kemp's outfit, Janet met and, subsequently, married the band's pianist, Lou Busch, a respected musician, songwriter, and, later, ragtime recording artist.
A Columbia Pictures talent scout caught her behind the microphone and spotted fine potential in the pretty-as-a-picture songstress. The death of Kemp in a car accident in December of 1940 and the band's eventual break-up signaled a life-changing course of events. She signed up with Columbia, for up to $100 a week, and moved to Los Angeles while her husband found work as a studio musician. Janet made an immediate impression in her debut film as the feisty kid sister of Joan Blondell and Binnie Barnes in Three Girls About Town (1941) and also dallied about in the movies, Two Yanks in Trinidad (1942) and Blondie Goes to College (1942), until her big break in the movies arrived. Star Rosalind Russell made a pitch for Janet to play her co-lead in My Sister Eileen (1942) as her naive, starry-eyed younger sister (Eileen), who carried aspirations of being a big-time actress. The film became an instant hit and Janet abruptly moved up into the "love interest" ranks. Usually appearing in a frothy musical or light comedy, she was seeded second, however, to another redhead, Rita Hayworth, when it came to Columbia's dispensing out musical leads. Janet, nevertheless, continued promisingly paired up with George Raft in the mob-oriented tunefest, Broadway (1942); alongside Don Ameche in the musical, Something to Shout About (1943); and opposite Cary Grant in the comedy-fantasy, Once Upon a Time (1944), one of his lesser known films. She played second lead to Ms. Hayworth in Tonight and Every Night (1945) and was right in her element when asked to co-star with bandleaders Jimmy Dorsey and Tommy Dorsey in their biopic, The Fabulous Dorseys (1947). A rare dramatic role came her way in the Glenn Ford starrer, Gallant Journey (1946), but again she was relegated to playing the stereotyped altruistic wife. In retrospect, the importance of her roles, although performed quite capably, were more supportive and decorative in nature and lacked real bite. By the time the daring-do "B" swashbuckler The Black Arrow (1948) rolled out, Columbia had lost interest in its fair maiden and Janet had lost interest in Hollywood.
A new decade brought about a new career direction. Putting together a successful nightclub act, she was spotted by composer Richard Rodgers and made a sparkling name for herself within a short time. Rodgers & Hammerstein's "South Pacific", starring Mary Martin, was the hit of the Broadway season and Janet dutifully took on the lead role of "Ensign Nellie Forbush" when the show went on tour in 1950. She gave a yeoman performance -- over 1,200 in all -- within a three-year period. Following this success, she made her Broadway debut in the musical, "A Girl Can Tell," in 1953. She went on for decades, appearing in such tuneful vehicles as "Anything Goes," "Bells Are Ringing," "Annie Get Your Gun," "Mame," and "Follies."
Her career, however, took second place after marrying second husband, producer/director Nick Mayo in 1953, and raising their two children, Amanda and Andrew. The couple met when he stage-managed "South Pacific" and went on to co-own and operate Valley Music Theatre in Woodland Hills, California, during the mid-1960s. There, she played "Maria" in "The Sound of Music" and "Peter Pan" opposite Vincent Price's "Dr. Hook," among others. Her second marriage lasted until the late '60s. TV's "Golden Age" proved to be a viable medium for her. A promising series role came to her in 1956 when she replaced Emmy-winning Nanette Fabray as Sid Caesar's femme co-star on Caesar's Hour (1954) but she left the sketch-based comedy show after only one season because she felt stifled and underused. She also returned to films on occasion, appearing opposite her The Fuller Brush Man (1948) co-star, Red Skelton, in another of his slapstick vehicles, Public Pigeon No. 1 (1957); as Tony Randall's wife in the domestic comedy, Boys' Night Out (1962), starring Kim Novak; and in the excellent cult British horror, Night of the Eagle (1962) (aka Burn, Witch, Burn) and she was fresh as a daisy, once again, in the antiseptic Disney musical, The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968). After her second divorce, Janet laid off touring in musicals and settled in Hollywood to raise her two teenage children while looking for TV work. She found a steady paycheck paired up with Henry Fonda on the sitcom, The Smith Family (1971), playing another of her patented loyal wives. She also found scattered work on such TV shows as Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969), Switch (1975), Fantasy Island (1977), and The Love Boat (1977). Her last guest showing was on the Murder, She Wrote (1984) episode, Who Killed J.B. Fletcher? (1991). Janet died at age 85 in Santa Monica, California, after developing pneumonia.- Jean Daniel was born on 21 July 1920 in Blida, Alger, France [now Algeria]. He was married to Michèle Bancilhon. He died on 19 February 2020 in Paris, France.
- Jean-Luc Brunel was born in 1946 in Paris, France. He was married to Roberta Chirko and Helena Högberg. He died on 19 February 2022 in Paris, France.
- Jeff Connors was born in Los Angeles, California, as Jeffrey Alan Connors. Jeff Connors was second son of Chuck Connors (Rifleman) and Faith Quabius, known for Soylent Green, The Police Connection and The Streets of San Francisco..
Jeff was an actor, known for his two (2) lines in The Rifleman (1958) episode "Tension." He died on February 19, 2014 in Los Angeles, California from complications of an outpatient surgery. - Jen Apgar was born on 21 May 1972. She was an actress, known for Cold Mountain (2003), The Skeleton Key (2005) and Sweet Home Alabama (2002). She was married to Jiri Vala. She died on 19 February 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
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Joaquin Cordero was born in the city of Puebla in Mexico. Shortly after his birth his family moved to Mexico City, and in the following years he studied in a seminary and even considered becoming a priest, but eventually he decided to pursue a law career. By the mid forties, after three years of law classes, against his family's wishes he decided to become an actor. He initially appeared in bit parts, but by the early fifties he was getting larger parts. Eventually he became one of the most prolific and popular actors in Mexican cinema, he also went on to do theatre, television and throughout his career won numerous awards, and even today, into his early eighties, he is still as active as ever.- A native Ohioan, John Howard (born John R. Cox, Jr.) had no interest in working in theater until schoolmates at Cleveland's Western Reserve University turned him on to acting. After some work on his college stage, he made his movie debut in a bit part in Paramount's One Hour Late (1934) before moving up the Hollywood ladder to featured parts and ultimately landing his own series, the Bulldog Drummond mysteries. Decades later, when offers of work began to slow down, Howard went into teaching.
Best-known for his role as Ronald Colman's brother in director Frank Capra's classic Lost Horizon (1937), Howard later said he felt he did a bad job of playing the character: "Damn it, I thought I was too brash, too uncontrolled, too unbelievable. And I've wished always that I could go back and do it again." - Actor
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To many of his fans, country music singer Johnny PayCheck was the epitome of the hell-raising outlaw singer. He was known as much for his string of classic country hits as he was for his scrapes with the law. Born Donald Eugene Lytle on May 31, 1938, in Greenfield, Ohio, PayCheck began his career playing in backing bands for George Jones, Ray Price, Porter Wagoner, Faron Young. He also proved himself to be an adept songwriter, writing Tammy Wynette's debut hit, 1966's "Apartment No. 9." PayCheck broke onto the country music charts in 1965 with his first bonafide "A-11." But it wasn't until 1971 that he truly arrived on the scene with "She's All I Got", which peaked at No. 2 that December on Billboard magazine's country singles chart. His follow-up, the raw, soulful "Someone to Give My Love To" from the spring of 1972, also made the top five. Other hits followed, including "Mr. Lovemaker" (1973), "Song and Dance Man" (1974), and 1977's "Slide off Your Satin Sheets" and "I'm the Only Hell (Mama Ever Raised)." But it was his blue-collar anthem, "Take This Job and Shove It", that made Johnny a hero to the working class. "Take This Job and Shove It" was PayCheck's only No. 1 hit on Billboard's country singles chart, spending two weeks there in January 1978; the song also inspired a hit movie of the same name.
Unfortunately, PayCheck was just as well known in the court system, but not as a singer. Among his troubles with the law: He spent time in a military prison in the 1950s for assaulting an officer; and in 1989, was sentenced to prison (he served two years) in connection with a shooting of a man during a barroom quarrel in Ohio.
But to his fans and a legion of younger country singers, Johnny PayCheck will always be known as the epitome of the outlaw country singer who gave the genre some of its best-loved hits and lived life on his own terms.- Actor
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José Mojica Marins was born on March 13, 1936 in San Paulo, Brazil, to a family of simple means. José's love of movies began at an early age. He spent a great deal of his time with his family at the local movie house, which his father helped manage. By the time he was eighteen, he had completed over eighty films. From his earliest years, his interest has been in horror movies or ones that offer shocking social commentary.
When José was offered the lead role of "Coffin Joe" in Brazil's first full-length horror movie "At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul", the character quickly became his trademark. His look included a black top hat, suit and cape. Initially, he wore long artificial nails, but for over thirty years, grew his own nails to grotesque lengths. He finally cut his famous nails in 1998.
Interestingly, the first two "Coffin Joe" movies from the 1960s, "At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul" and "This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse", are now officially part of a trilogy. José completed filming of the third "Coffin Joe" film in December, 2006, more than forty years after the release of the first film in the series. Fans will be pleased to know that this new movie, "The Embodiment of Evil" is expected to be released in the summer of 2008.
Those who would like some interesting insights into José Mojica Marins' unique world may wish to view the documentary of his life. The movie is called "Coffin Joe: The Strange World of José Mojica Marins" and was produced in 2001.- Actor
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Judy Blame was born on 13 February 1960 in Leatherhead, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor and costume designer, known for Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies (1994), Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998) and Tramps! (2022). He died on 19 February 2018 in London, England, UK.- Actor
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Jules Munshin was an American actor, comedian, and singer from New York City. He is primarily remembered for his appearances in MGM film musicals. Munshin's family name was originally "Monszejn", and his father was named Gershon Joseph Monszejn. He first gained fame as a Broadway actor, starring in the musical revue "Call Me Mister" (1946), by Arnold M. Auerbach (1912-1998) and Harold Rome (1908-1993). The theme of the musical was the then-ongoing demobilization of troops from service in World War II, their return to civilian life, and their demand to be called by name and not by military rank. The musical was a hit, and had a run of 734 performances.
His film debut was Easter Parade (1948), in which he played the headwaiter, François. The film was a box office success, earning about 5,8 million dollars at the domestic box office. It was the most financially successful picture to feature lead actor Fred Astaire and lead actress Judy Garland. Munshin had a supporting role in the baseball-themed musical Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949), which featured Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra, as the male leads. Munshin had another supporting role in the romance film That Midnight Kiss (1949), in which Mario Lanza was the male lead. Munshin had a more substantial role in the musical On the Town (1949) about three sailors on shore leave in New York City. The film was a critical and commercial hit, and remains Munshin's most memorable film appearance.
Munshin resurfaced in We Go to Monte Carlo (1953) (original title: "Monte Carlo Baby") about a spoiled young actress (played by Audrey Hepburn). The film helped launch her career. Munshin then had a minor role in the romantic comedy Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957), which featured Dean Martin as the male lead. He had a more substantial role in the musical comedy Silk Stockings (1957), which was loosely based on Ninotchka (1939). Munshin played Bibinski, an inept Soviet operative who has to convince expatriate Russian composer Peter Illyich Boroff (played by Wim Sonneveld) to return to their motherland. The film was a popular hit and garnered acclaim for Cyd Charisse (the female lead). Munshin's next supporting role was in the Disney comedy film Monkeys, Go Home! (1967). The plot involved chimpanzees used as a labor force in an olive grove, and other workers protesting about the chimps stealing their jobs. Munshin's final film role was in the Charlie Chan-parody film Mastermind (1976), in which he played an Israeli agent.
In February 1970, Munshin suffered a heart attack. He died three days before his 55th birthday.- Costume Designer
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Karl Lagerfeld was born on 10 September 1933 in Hamburg, Germany. He was a costume designer and actor, known for The Valet (2006), Reincarnation (2014) and The Tale of a Fairy (2011). He died on 19 February 2019 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France.- Actor
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With his bald head, firm jawline and bristling moustache, Lionel Jeffries played a nice line of English eccentrics. This belied his RADA training. Following military service in WWII, he played his major roles - everything from Grandpa Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) to the Marquis of Queensberry in The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) - in the 1960s.
His surprisingly brief career as a director included the highly popular family films The Railway Children (1970) and The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1972).- Actress
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Lisabeth Hush was born on 3 November 1934 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), The Stone Killer (1973) and The Jesus Trip (1971). She was married to Sam Gilman. She died on 19 February 2021.- Lou Myers was born on 26 September 1935 in Cabin Creek, West Virginia, USA. He was an actor, known for The Wedding Planner (2001), Volcano (1997) and Tin Cup (1996). He died on 19 February 2013 in Charleston, West Virginia, USA.
- Lucien Aimé-Blanc was born on 23 March 1935 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He died on 19 February 2020 in Lille, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
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Lynne Overman was born on 19 September 1887 in Maryville, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Union Pacific (1939), Reap the Wild Wind (1942) and She Loves Me Not (1934). He was married to Emily Helen Drange and Sylvia Antoinette Hazette. He died on 19 February 1943 in Santa Monica, California, USA.- Actress
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Spouse: James Lincoln Blake (1 Child)
During World War II, she and her husband, James Lincoln Blake, worked in Utah on construction of the detonator for the atomic bomb and performed such jobs as testing equipment destined for the Manhattan Project. The couple received a citation for their work from the U.S. government.- Actor
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Marco Antonio Campos will forever be best remembered as the thin, serious half of the comedy duo Viruta and Capulina (with Gaspar Henaine as the chubby, silly half), but he was also an excellent musician, a gifted singer, and a capable screenwriter. Viruta (Campos) and Capulina (Henaine) achieved success and enduring popularity in the mid-1950s with their movies, TV shows, radio programs, and stage appearances. A decade later, they parted ways and Campos began a short-lived solo career as a supporting actor before retiring from show business.
Campos was born in Mexico City during the Mexican Revolution. He inherited his musical talent from his mother, Sara Contreras, who played piano and guitar and also had a beautiful voice. After his parents divorced, he and his mother moved to his maternal grandparents' home, where he discovered his lifelong love for books. When he was 18 years old, he decided to begin a career as an entertainer, took his guitar with him, and left home to work as a bar singer.
In 1938, Campos made his professional debut as a member of the musical quartet El Poker de la Armonía. From 1940 to 1942, he sang and played tropical music with the Trío Latino. He also performed on stage and in radio programs with the Trío Romanceros. He found his stage name when he expressed his desire to become a great dancer like Adalberto Martínez but his friends said he looked more like a woodchip ("viruta") than a coil spring ("resortes", Martínez's nickname).
In the early 1950s, Campos started a singing duo with a performer named Chamula. Viruta and Chamula recorded several humorous songs written by Chava Flores, but the comedy team did not last long because Chamula was a heavy drinker. It was shortly after that professional upset when Gaspar Henaine "Capulina" invited Campos to create a new duo for stage and radio. Before the decade was over, Viruta and Capulina were starring in their hit TV show Cómicos y canciones (1956) and had already released their first box-office success, Se los chupó la bruja (1958).
The next decade brought Viruta and Capulina even more fame. They began touring Latin America and continued making highly profitable movies for several production companies. Their screenplays were usually written by Jaime Salvador or Roberto Gómez Bolaños. Campos wrote the story of Cascabelito (1962), which Henaine thought was one of the duo's best movies. They also ventured into science fiction with Los astronautas (1964) and La edad de piedra (1964). However, their joint career was waning and Dos pintores pintorescos (1967) was their last movie.
Henaine chose to embark on a new career without Campos and began producing his own movies. Now alone, Campos reinvented himself as a television host and a reliable supporting actor. He enjoyed playing the character roles of his post-Viruta and Capulina career but eventually retired before the end of the decade to spend more time with his beloved wife and mother. His favorite pastimes included writing, music, painting, and sculpturing. At the time of his death, he was planning the publication of his two-volume autobiography, "Memorias de un trovador".- Actress
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From an early age her dream was to become an actress. Her first application for acting studies at The Royal Dramatic Theater in 1944 was unsuccessful. After additional dramatic coaching she was finally accepted in 1947. But screenwriter Edwin Blum arranged a screen test for RKO which eventually led to her being offered a contract with Universal Studios. It was a hard choice but she accepted and left her studies after one semester. In Hollywood she quickly made 10 movies, including Sirocco (1951) with Humphrey Bogart. From 1952 she accepted movie offers from Italy with more demanding roles. She married director Leonardo Bercovici on June 13, 1952, and gave birth to a daughter. In early 1957, she went back to Sweden for her stage debut in a play by J.B. Priestley. She died one month later, at the age of 30, of a brain hemorrhage.- Mayilsamy was born on 2 October 1965 in Sathyamangalam, Erode district, Tamil Nadu. He was an actor, known for 2.0 (2018), Kangalal Kaidhu Sei (2004) and Potta Potti (2011). He died on 19 February 2023.
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The son of Thomas William Powell and Mabel (nee Corbett). Michael Powell was always a self-confessed movie addict. He was brought up partly in Canterbury ("The Garden of England") and partly in the south of France (where his parents ran a hotel). Educated at Kings School, Canterbury and Dulwich College, he worked at the National Provincial Bank from 1922-25. In 1925 he joined Rex Ingram making Mare Nostrum (1926). He learned his craft by working at various jobs in the (then) thriving English studios of Denham and Pinewood, working his way up to director on a series of "quota quickies" (short films made to fulfill quota/tariff agreements between Britain and America in between the wars). Very rarely for the times, he had a true "world view" and, although in the mold of a classic English "gentleman", he was always a citizen of the world. It was therefore very fitting that he should team up with an émigré Hungarian Jew, Emeric Pressburger, who understood the English better than they did themselves. Between them, under the banner of "The Archers", they shared joint credits for an important series of films through the 1940s and '50s. Powell went on to make the controversial Peeping Tom (1960), a film so vilified by critics and officials alike that he didn't work in England for a very long time. He was "re-discovered" in the late 1960s and Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese tried to set up joint projects with him.
In 1980 he lectured at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. He was Senior Director in Residence at Coppola's Zoetrope Studios in 1981, and in fact married Scorsese's longtime editor Thelma Schoonmaker. He died of cancer in his beloved England in 1990.- Actress
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Muriel Landers was born on 27 October 1921 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Doctor Dolittle (1967), Musical Comedy Time (1950) and The Red Skelton Hour (1951). She was married to Ernest Richman. She died on 19 February 1977 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actress
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Nightbirde was born on 29 December 1990 in Zanesville, Ohio, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for Nightbirde: Girl in A Bubble (2019), Leonard Knight: A Man & His Mountain (2015) and America's Got Talent (2006). She was married to Jeremy Claudio. She died on 19 February 2022 in the USA.- Producer
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Pedro Olmedilla is known for L'homme de Marrakech (1966), Miguel Servet (La sangre y la ceniza) (1989) and ¡Ay, Señor, Señor! (1994).- Music Artist
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Bashar Barakah Jackson (July 20, 1999 - February 19, 2020), known professionally as Pop Smoke, was an American rapper. He is considered by many to be the face of Brooklyn drill. Born and raised in Canarsie, Brooklyn, Pop Smoke began his musical career in late 2018 with his debut single "MPR (Panic Part 3 Remix)". Pop Smoke rose to fame with the release of his breakout singles "Welcome to the Party" and "Dior" in 2019. He often collaborated with UK drill artists and producers, who employed more minimal and aggressive instrumentation than drill artists from Chicago.- Actor
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A social misfit, Belzer was kicked out of every school he ever attended, due to his uncontrollable wit. His mother (Frances) died of breast cancer when Richard was 18. Four years later, his father (Charles) committed suicide. A dedication is written to Charles Belzer in Richard Belzer's "UFOs, JFK, and Elvis: Conspiracies You Don't Have To Be Crazy To Believe" (Ballantine Books, 1999).- Richard McMillan was born on 20 March 1951 in Beaverton, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for The Day After Tomorrow (2004), The Fountain (2006) and Cube Zero (2004). He was married to Anne Louise Bannon. He died on 19 February 2017 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Richard Shepherd was born on 6 December 1942 in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK. He died on 19 February 2022 in the UK.
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Stanley Kramer was born on 29 September 1913 in Hell's Kitchen [now Clinton], Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and director, known for Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) and Inherit the Wind (1960). He was married to Karen Sharpe, Anne P. Kramer and Marilyn Erskine. He died on 19 February 2001 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Sylvia Rivera was born on 2 July 1951 in New York City, New York, USA. She died on 19 February 2002 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- Teresa Gisbert is known for Potosí del esplendor al olvido (1990).
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He is a professor of semiotics, the study of communication through signs and symbols, at the University of Bologna. Also a philiosopher, a historian, literary critic, and an aesthetician. He is an avid book collector and owns more than 30,000 volumes. The subjects of his scholarly investigations range from St. Thomas Aquinas, to James Joyce, to Superman. He lives in Milan.- Wilfred De'Ath was born in August 1937. He was married to Erica ?. He died on 19 February 2020.
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Xavier Marc was born on 16 January 1948 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. He was an actor and cinematographer, known for Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970), The Legend of Zorro (2005) and Juro que te amo (2008). He was married to Cristian and Claudia Obregon. He died on 19 February 2022 in Mexico City, Mexico.- Actor
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Yervand Manaryan was born on 20 September 1924 in Arac, Iran. He was an actor and writer, known for Karine (1969), Spitak aper (1976) and Kapitan Arakel (1986). He died on 19 February 2020 in Yerevan, Armenia.- Writer
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Yona Friedman was born on 5 June 1923 in Budapest, Hungary. He was a writer and director, known for Points de vue (2009), Le petit bestiaire de Yona Friedman (2010) and Une Region, Qu'est Ce Que C'est (2012). He was married to Denise. He died on 21 February 2020 in Paris, France.