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- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Character actor and playwright Jason Miller had a variety of jobs before he started a writing career and wrote his own play, "That Championship Season", for which he received the Pulitzer Prize Award. Miller gave up his professional writing career in the early seventies to start acting. In 1973, he starred as a troubled priest in the horror film classic The Exorcist (1973), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. In 1982, he directed the revival of his play, That Championship Season (1982), to the screen. The father of actor Jason Patric and actor/director/writer Joshua John Miller, Miller's other film credits include playing the title role in the made-for-television film F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood (1975), The Ninth Configuration (1980), Toy Soldiers (1984), The Exorcist III (1990) and Rudy (1993)". Miller died in Scranton, Pennsylvannia at the age of 62.- Producer
- Production Manager
Steve Parker was born on 6 February 1922. He was a producer and production manager, known for My Geisha (1962), John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965) and The Lords of the New Church: Holy War (1992). He was married to Miki Hasegawa and Shirley MacLaine. He died on 13 May 2001 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.- Actor
- Director
- Producer
Byron Mabe was born on 10 April 1932 in Walkertown, North Carolina, USA. He was an actor and director. He was married to Jennifer Ann Sharkey, Katherine Landstein and Patricia Joyce Steffey. He died on 13 May 2001 in Orlando, Florida, USA.- Actress
Eddra Gale was born on 16 July 1921 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for 8½ (1963), The Graduate (1967) and Somewhere in Time (1980). She died on 13 May 2001 in Deming, New Mexico, USA.- Ralph Tabakin was born on 22 September 1921 in San Antonio, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for The Natural (1984), Sleepers (1996) and Bugsy (1991). He was married to Madolyn Doress. He died on 13 May 2001 in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.
- Writer
- Additional Crew
- Producer
Gwen Bagni was born on 24 January 1913 in Nebraska, USA. She was a writer and producer, known for Backstairs at the White House (1979), Captain China (1950) and Honey West (1965). She was married to Paul Dubov, Irwin Gielgud and John Bagni. She died on 13 May 2001 in Glendale, California, USA.- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
In Czechoslovakia he ran afoul of both the Nazis and the Communists who subsequently replaced the Nazis in the postwar period, and spent seven years in prison and labor camps, four of them in a uranium mine labor camp. He was one of Czechosolvakia's leading Film and TV actors and writers when the Soviet tanks rolled into Prague. Valenta fled to Canada with his family, where he directed films for the National Film Board of Canada and appeared in numerous Canadian and European Films. He once said he had lived under six different political regimes "... and when you are a character, like me, and not a collaborator, you worry every day [no matter the regime]." He played Max the Stationmaster in the 1968 Oscar winning foreign film, Closely Watched Trains. In the 1970s he collaborated with Milos Forman and Ivan Passer in the Chelsea Hotel in New York. Valenta was the subject of a National Film Board documentary called Closely Watched Freedom directed by Tom Radford in 1993.- Sound Department
Gregory Beaumont was born on 5 June 1963. He is known for Batman Beyond (1999), The Dentist (1996) and Behind Enemy Lines (1997). He died on 13 May 2001.- R.K. Narayan was born on 10 October 1906 in Madras, Madras Presidency, British India. R.K. was a writer, known for Guide (1965), The Guide (1965) and Banker Margayya (1983). R.K. died on 13 May 2001 in New Delhi, India.
- Anna Komolova was born on 31 January 1911 in Khvostovo, Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire [now Dmitrovsky Raion, Moscow Oblast, Russia]. She was an actress, known for The Snow Queen (1957), Shumi, gorodok (1940) and Staryy naezdnik (1941). She died on 13 May 2001 in Moscow, Russia.
- Editor
- Production Manager
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Harold Minter was born on 5 March 1903 in Illinois, USA. He was an editor and production manager, known for The Crimson Ghost (1946), Manhunt of Mystery Island (1945) and Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe (1953). He died on 13 May 2001 in Laguna Hills, California, USA.- Writer
- Director
Salvador Garmendia was born on 11 June 1928 in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. He was a writer and director, known for Juan Topocho (1979), Aunque me cueste la vida (1998) and Fiebre (1976). He died on 13 May 2001 in Caracas, Venezuela.- Composer
- Music Department
- Writer
Alex Glasgow was born on 14 October 1935 in Low Fell, Gateshead, County Durham, England, UK. He was a composer and writer, known for Flambards (1979), The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970) and Trinity Tales (1975). He was married to Paddy Wallace. He died on 13 May 2001 in East Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia.- Music Department
Bettie Biery was born on 17 March 1921. She is known for The Car (1977), Gemini Man (1976) and Riding with Death (1976). She was married to Edward A. Biery. She died on 13 May 2001.- Maurice Thompson was born on 4 February 1907 in West Ham, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's (1921), Froggy's Little Brother (1921) and A Soul's Awakening (1922). He died on 13 May 2001 in Worthing, Sussex, England, UK.
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Actor
- Cinematographer
Louis Cochet was born on 2 August 1907. He was an actor and cinematographer, known for Wings of Desire (1987), The Aeronauts (1967) and La truite (1982). He died on 13 May 2001.- Jorge Miguel Couselo was an important critic and one of the best-known historians in Argentinean cinema. He published articles in the newspapers El Mundo, La Opinión and Clarín, among other newspapers and in the magazines Leoplán and Panorama. He published books on the history of the Argentinean cinema. Among these books "Leopoldo Torres Ríos: el cine del sentimiento" and "El Negro Ferreyra: un cine por instinto", stand out. He was professor at the University of the Cinema of Buenos Aires, director of the Municipal Museum of the Cinema Pablo Ducrós Hicken and he collaborated on eliminating film censorship in Argentina.
- Cinematographer
- Director
- Writer
Giorgio Mangiamele was born on 13 August 1926 in Sicily, Italy. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Clay (1965), Beyond Reason (1970) and Ninety Nine Per Cent (1963). He died on 13 May 2001 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.