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Ms. Lindfors was a Swedish-born actress whose stage and screen career in the U.S. and Sweden spanned more than half a century. She was brought to Hollywood in 1946 by Warner Brothers in the hope that she would be a new Greta Garbo or Ingrid Bergman. She appeared with Ronald Reagan in her first Hollywood film, Don Siegel's Night Unto Night (1949). Perhaps best known as a stage actress, she returned to Sweden in August 1995 to tour with the play "In Search of Strindberg".- A rotund, jovial New Yorker, David Healy obligingly played every manner of stereotypical American in British films and on television for more than thirty years. The son of an Australian father and an American mother, he spent much of his youth in Texas. Studying at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, he majored in drama and befriended another young acting hopeful, named Larry Hagman. David first arrived in England as a member of the U.S. Air Force and soon wound up, along with Hagman, in the cast of a touring show written by John Briley. This later grew into The Airbase (1965), a 25-minute BBC sitcom (with David as Staff Sergeant Tillman Miller), which took a humorous look at British-American cultural differences at an RAF base.
Considering his job prospects to be rather more lucrative in Britain -- in keeping with the 'bigger fish, smaller pond' theory - David soon found himself in almost continuous demand for any part which required an affable or imperious American. His long gallery of characters included diplomats, businessmen, bureaucrats, spooks, military brass, and so on. There were rare occasions, when he acted against type and played 'Britishers' -- a notable point in case being a likeable Dr. Watson, opposite charismatic Ian Richardson as Sherlock Holmes, in The Sign of Four (1983). His comedic side was showcased in guest appearances with Dick Emery and Kenny Everett and a with couple of turns in Jeeves and Wooster (1990).
Though married and settled in Surrey, David took job offers on both sides of the Atlantic. He was glimpsed as a cleric in Patton (1970) and in Robert Aldrich's doomsday thriller Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977); well-cast as Teddy Roosevelt in Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977); and he had recurring roles in TV's favourite soapie of the day, Dallas (1978). British TV audiences saw him guesting in just about every major crime series, from The Saint (1962) and Department S (1969), to The Persuaders! (1971). Simultaneously, from 1967, David pursued a successful career as a stage actor in classical plays with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. In 1975, he re-visited his roots, playing Falstaff at a Shakespeare festival in Dallas. Ever versatile, David found another calling in musicals, appearing in "Kismet", "Call Me Madam" and "The Music Man". He received much praise for his interpretation of Runyonesque gambler Nicely-Nicely Johnson (played definitively on screen by Stubby Kaye) in "Guys and Dolls", performing show-stopping encores of "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat". - Bobby Riggs was probably most famous for losing to Billie Jean King in the famous Bobby Riggs vs. Billie Jean King: Tennis Battle of the Sexes (1973), held at the Houston Astrodome. What is often forgotten is that Bobby Riggs was at one time the Number One tennis player in the world and a former Wimbledon and United States champion. He was reputed to have bet on himself to win the Singles, Men's Doubles, and Mixed Doubles in the 1939 Wimbledon. The story goes that if he won all three titles that he would win $108,000. It is the part of the Rigg's mythology and may or may not be true. What is definitely true is that he did win the Singles, Men's Doubles, and Mixed Doubles at Wimbledon in 1939, making him one of the few players to ever complete this prestigious triple.
Riggs became a pro in the early 1940s and became the number one player in the world by defeating Don Budge 23 matches to 21 in 1946. Riggs remained Number One until he was decisively defeated by Jack Kramer in the tour of 1947-1948 by a score of 69 matches to 20. - Leonid Dyachkov was a Russian film and stage actor best known as surgeon Petr in You and Me (1971) by director Larisa Shepitko. He was born in 1939, in Leningrad, and survived the siege of Leningrad during the Second World War, as a child. From 1957 to 1961 he studied acting under Boris Zon at Leningrad State Institute of Theatre and Film, graduating in 1961 as actor.
From 1961 to 1985 Dyachkov was a member of the troupe at Lensoveta Theatre in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, Russia. There his stage partners were such actors as Alisa Freyndlikh, Igor Vladimirov, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Valentina Ulik, Larisa Luppian, Mikhail Boyarskiy, Vladimir Kuzin, Sergey Migitsko, Leyla Kirakosian, Dmitri Barkov, Irina Mazurkevich, Anatoliy Ravikovich, Mikhail Devyatkin, Anna Aleksahina, Efim Kamenetsky, Petr Shelokhonov and other notable actors. Dyachkov gave his most memorable stage performances as Raskolnikov in "Crime and Punishment" adaptation from the eponymous novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and as Cheshkov in 'Chelovek so storony' (aka.. A man from the outside). He played leading and supporting roles in about thirty film and television productions.
Dyachkov was designated People's Actor of Russia. In the 60s and 70s he received much critical acclaim for his works on stage and in film. However, in the late 1980s, he left the theatre company, and had a slowdown in his acting career. He suffered from a severe depression after the death of his only son in 1986, and the death of his wife in 1987. In an effort to make a comeback, Dyachkov joined the company at State Pushkin Theatre (Aleksandrinsky). There he was hit in the head by a piece of heavy stage equipment and suffered a severe head trauma; later he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. On October 25, 1995, Dyachkov committed suicide by jumping out of a balcony in his apartment building, leaving a suicidal note behind. He was laid to rest in Bogoslovskoe Cemetery in St. Petersburg, Russia. - Actress
Barbara Hallstone was born on 15 October 1923 in Turlock, California, USA. She was an actress. She died on 25 October 1995 in Riverside, California, USA.- Viktória Cseh was born on 26 August 1938 in Gyõr, Hungary. She was an actress, known for Az Elnökasszony (1977). She died on 25 October 1995 in Budapest, Hungary.