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- Cynthia Winehouse was born on 21 October 1927 in London, England, UK. She died on 5 May 2006 in London, England, UK.
- Director
- Producer
- Writer
Atif Yilmaz Batibeki was a renowned Turkish film director, screenwriter, and film producer. After finishing high school in Mersin, he attended the Law School of Istanbul University. Because of his interest in arts, he dropped out of Law School and entered the Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul. After graduating from the Academy, he did some painting works in workshops. His education in painting helped him when he was directing his movies, as he once remarked. In the beginning, he worked as a film critic, made paintings and wrote film scripts to earn a living. After co-directing two movies as an assistant director to Semih Evin in 1950, his directing career began with the film Kanli Feryat (The Bloody Cry). In 1960, he established his film company "Yerli Film" with the actor Orhan Günsiray.
The most important movies in his filmography were: Hickirik (The Sob), Alageyik (The Fallow Deer), Suclu (The Guilty One), Seni Kaybedersem (If I Lose You), Yaban Gülü (The Wild Rose), Kesanli Ali Destani (Kesanli Ali's Epic), Tacsiz Kral (The Crownless King), Topragin Kani (Blood of the Earth), Olum Tarlasi (Death Field), Utanc (The Shame), Zavallilar (The Poor People), Selvi Boylum, Al Yazmalim (My Girl with the Red Scarf), Baskin (The Raid), Adak (The Sacrifice), Bir Yudum Sevgi (A Sip of Love), Adi Vasfiye (Her Name is Vasfiye), Berdel, Düs Gezginleri (Walking After Midnight), Eylül Firtinasi (After the Fall) and Mine.
He made movies that were both fluent and had mainly social messages. Most of the themes of his movies were taboo when they were produced. Particularly "Mine" and "Her Name is Vasfiye" were both revolutionary at the time of their release with themes regarding sexuality and the reaction of society.
He never gave up making movies throughout his life and even in the time when the industry stopped filmmaking due to economic reasons.
Atif Yilmaz played an important role in the professional career of notable Turkish film directors like Halit Refig, Yilmaz Güney, Serif Gören, Zeki Ökten and Ali Özgentürk.
During the Antalya Film Festival in September 2005, he was admitted to hospital with gastro-intestinal complaints. He died on 5 May 2006 in Istanbul.- Composer
- Music Department
- Producer
Regarded as a pioneer of Indian music, Naushad Ali was one of the one of the first and foremost composers in the history of Bollywood. Since 1937, he was composing music for films that, along with his music, formed the very foundation and core of Bollywood. He is also known for introducing the legendary singers Lata Mangeshkar and Mohammad Rafi to the world and transfiguring them into the icons they are today. While he did less than a hundred films during his lifetime, 26 of those films went on to celebrate jubilees, some of them making golden and even diamond jubilees!
He was born on December 25, 1919, in the city of Lucknow. From early childhood, he was an avid film buff, listening to the live orchestras that accompanied silent films back then. He studied classical Indian music under renowned musicians like Ustad Ghurbat Ali, Ustad Yusuf Ali, and Ustad Babban Saheb, and began composing music for amateur theatrical groups like the Windsor Music Entertainers. He also spent much of his time repairing harmoniums.
In the late 1930s, he came to Bombay to be a success as a musician. But he had to struggle to make it to the top. Initially he faced rebuffs, and had to endure periods of utter deprivation. Naushad even spent nights sleeping on footpaths before he finally secured a job as a pianist in composer Mushtaq Hussain 's orchestra. Composer Khemchand Prakash took him on as his assistant and taught him, an act for which he remained extremely grateful throughout his life. Soon, Naushad got his break with the film Prem Nagar (1940), but it was only with Sharda (1942) that he got attention. The film Ratan (1944) took him right to the top, and from then on he could produce blockbuster songs for appropriately smash hit films, most notably films made by either Abdul Rashid Kardar or Mehboob Khan.
Naushad's style was renowned for his ability to incorporate classical rhythms into his symphonies. He based his music upon the "ragas" that formed a basis in Indian classical music, and thus his music took on complex formations and . His taste for classical music was legendary - in the Mughal musical Baiju Bawra (1952), he used actual classical singers to sing his ghazals. In spite of his classical tendencies, he could also keep up with the times and adapt Western techniques and instruments into his music, as heard in the films Jadoo (1951) and Mere Mehboob (1963). Naushad was also among the first to use the techniques of sound mixing, of separate recording of vocal and music tracks in playback singing, and using background scores to enhance characters' moods and dialogues through music.
Naushad's career continued at a steady peak throughout the 1950s and 1960s, with some of his melodies being featured in now-perennial classics like the Mughal period films Baiju Bawra (1952) and Mughal-E-Azam (1960) and the epic Mother India (1957). Unfortunately and to his distaste the times were changing and demanded more fast-paced, peppier tunes, and Naushad had to struggle to keep his music pure and classical. In fact for Saathi (1968), he was persuaded, against his will, to re-record two of his songs to pep up their pace and their appeal. It was due to this uncompromising attitude towards his music that he would only compose less than a hundred films in his lifetime.
In the 1960s, he composed for Dilip Kumar 's dacoit drama Gunga Jumna (1961), which became a smash hit in India. However, both Kumar's and Naushad's days were numbered, and as their films came unstuck at the box-office, their fortunes dwindled. Naushad was still held in high regard, but he was now given mostly period films, most notably the courtesan romance Pakeezah (1972). However, he still gave his all in his efforts and he continued composing for films right through to the 1990s. He received the Dhundiraj Govind Phalke Award in 1981 for his lifetime contribution to Bollywood cinema and in 2004, when Mughal-E-Azam (1960) was re-released in colour, he was on hand along with Dilip Kumar - to attend the premiere and revive their days of glory.
In early 2006, Naushad was admitted to Ninavati Hospital after complaints of uneasiness, and on 5 May 2006, he died of old age. His last film, Taj Mahal: An Eternal Love Story (2005), while receiving mixed reviews, was greatly praised for its musical score. Even in today's fast-moving world, people still found something special in his music. Such is the hallmark of a truly great composer...- Stanislav Korenev was born on 29 November 1932. He was an actor, known for Pyatdesyat na pyatdesyat (1973), V etot prazdnichnyi vecher (1959) and Syshchik (1980). He died on 5 May 2006 in Moscow, Russia.
- Red Fisher was born on 22 August 1926 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He was an actor, known for The Red Fisher Show (1965) and Psycho Pike (1992). He was married to Tillie. He died on 5 May 2006 in Chatham, Ontario, Canada.
- Oldrich Janovský was born on 23 June 1920 in Praha, Czechoslovakia. He was an actor, known for Prátelé Bermudského trojúhelníku (1987), Zde jsou lvi (1958) and Ve znamení Tyrkysové hory (1977). He died on 5 May 2006 in Praha, Czech Republic.
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Bob Salvini was born on 18 September 1929 in the USA. He is known for Young@Heart (2007). He died on 5 May 2006 in Massachusetts, USA.- Uldis Vazdiks was born on 27 May 1941 in Riga, USSR. He was an actor, known for The Last Relic (1969), Nepabeigtas vakarinas (1981) and Melna veza spiles (1976). He died on 5 May 2006 in Riga, Latvia.
- Larry Attebery was born on 29 March 1933 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Hero at Large (1980). He was married to Carol Attebery. He died on 5 May 2006 in Henderson, Nevada, USA.
- John Dunlop was born on 2 July 1915 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He died on 5 May 2006 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Soundtrack
Franz Josef Steffens was born on 27 December 1923 in Beckum, Germany. He was an actor, known for Der blinde Richter (1984), Claus Graf Stauffenberg (1970) and Celestina (1967). He died on 5 May 2006 in Hamburg, Germany.- Actor
- Additional Crew
R.C. Rosenbalm was born on 7 October 1954 in Crawfordsville, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Megalomania (2000), Sexbomb (1989) and The Bad Father (2002). He died on 5 May 2006 in Martinsville, Indiana, USA.- Tom Petitjean was born on 15 November 1956 in Rayne, Louisiana, USA. Tom was a writer, known for Alta comedia (1965), Another World (1964) and As the World Turns (1956). Tom died on 5 May 2006 in Natchitoches, Louisiana, USA.
- Stepán Lucký was born on 20 January 1919 in Zilina, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]. He was a composer, known for Nahá pastýrka (1966), 105 % alibi (1959) and O vecech nadprirozených (1959). He died on 5 May 2006 in Prague, Czech Republic.
- Jack Burkhard was born on 30 January 1927 in the USA. He was an actor, known for Preppies (1984). He died on 5 May 2006.
- Marijke Höweler was born on 27 July 1938 in Koog aan de Zaan, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. She was a writer, known for Van geluk gesproken (1987). She was married to Ype Isaac Höweler. She died on 5 May 2006.