- Ernie Kovacs
Ernest Edward Kovacs was a creative and innovative entertainer in the early days of television. His on-air antics would influence later TV shows such as "Laugh-In", "the Uncle Floyd Show", "Saturday Night Live" and TV hosts like David Letterman. Born in Trenton, New Jersey, the Hungarian-American Kovacs became a pioneer of television comedy as a distinct medium. Earlier television comedians had mainly continued the comedy styles of vaudeville, … - Lucien Ballard
Lucien Ballard was an American cinematographer and director of photography. Born in Miami, Oklahoma, Ballard began working on films at Paramount Studios in 1929. He later joked in an interview that it was a three day party at the home of actress Clara Bow that convinced him "this is the business for me". He began his career loading trucks at Paramount, and became a camera assistant, often working for director Josef von Sternberg. - Malik Sealy
Malik Sealy (February 1, 1970 - May 20, 2000) was an American professional basketball player from 1992 until his death in an automobile accident. Sealy played eight seasons in the NBA for the Indiana Pacers, the Los Angeles Clippers, the Detroit Pistons, and the Minnesota Timberwolves. A native of The Bronx, New York, he played college basketball at St. John's University and was selected by the Indiana Pacers as the 14th overall pick of the 1992 NBA Draft. - Lino Brocka
Lino Brocka 's story is so unusual that if it was pitched to a movie studio it would be rejected -- for being too unbelievable. Yet ask most any Filipino Latter-day Saint, and they know the story: the man who is widely considered the greatest filmmaker in his country, was also a Latter-day Saint. Beyond that, he could be called the "first convert" to the church, earning him forever a place in Latter-day Saint history and film history. - Alan J. Pakula
Alan Jay Pakula was an American film producer, writer and director noted for his contributions to the conspiracy thriller genre. Pakula was born in New York to Polish Jewish parents and was educated at Yale University, where he majored in drama. He started his Hollywood career as an assistant in the cartoon department at Warner Brothers. In 1957, he undertook his first production role for Paramount Pictures. In 1962, he produced "To Kill a Mockingbird", … - Desmond Llewelyn
Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn (legend) (September 12, 1913 or 1914 - December 19, 1999) was a Welsh actor, famous for playing the fictional character of Q in the James Bond series of films. - Jill Banner
Jill Banner (November 8, 1946 - August 7, 1982) was an American film actress, possibly best recalled for her role as Virginia, the "spider baby" in the 1964 cult horror-comedy film "Spider Baby". She also had roles as James Coburn's flower child friend in "The President's Analyst" (1967), and a couple of hippie girls in Jack Webb's television series, "Dragnet". - Herbert Mundin
Herbert Mundin was an English-born Hollywood character actor. He was frequently typecast in films as older cheeky eccentrics, a type helped by his jowelled features and cheerful Cockney disposition. He was born Herbert Thomas Mundin in St Helens, then in Lancashire (now part of Merseyside), on 21 August, 1898. His father was a nomadic, Primitive Methodist home missionary. - Percy Kilbride
Percy Kilbride (July 16, 1888 - December 11, 1964), born in San Francisco, California, was a popular character actor. Despite being raised in a big city, he made a career of playing country hicks, most memorably as lazy Pa Kettle in the "Ma and Pa Kettle" movie series. Kilbride began working in theater at the age of 12 and eventually became an actor on Broadway. Ironically in light of his most familiar roles, … - Fred Buscaglione
Ferdinando "Fred" Buscaglione (Turin, 23 November 1921 - Rome, 3 February 1960) was an Italian singer and actor who became very popular in late 1950s. His public persona - the character he played both in his songs and his movies - was a humorous mobster with a penchant for whisky and women. His great passion for music showed up at a very young age. When he was 11, his parents enrolled him at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Turin. - Ian Bannen
Ian Bannen (June 29, 1928 - November 3, 1999) was a Scottish character actor and occasional leading man. - Michelle Parma
Michelle Parma (January 14, 1975 Fairfax, Virginia - October 19, 2002) was an actress, waitress, and flight attendant. She appeared on MTV's "Road Rules: Europe", and is perhaps most famous for her participation in the "Our First Time" Internet hoax. She was a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader from 1995 to 1996. She died in a car accident in Texas on October 19, 2002, along with her 28 year-old cousin Mandie Parma. - Enrico Sabbatini
Enrico Sabbatini (b. January 1, 1932; d. November 25, 1998) was an Italian-born costume designer and production designer for the theater and cinema industries. Sabbatini was born in Spoleto, in the province of Umbria. His creations were usually very lavish and detailed, made for epoch movies. In 1986 he won the award for best costume design by the British Academy, as well as a nomination for the Oscar for his work in "The Mission". - Jennifer Syme
Jennifer Maria Syme (December 7 1972 - April 2 2001) was an assistant for the film director David Lynch and worked for him 10 years. She was most famous for being the girlfriend of Keanu Reeves. They dated from 1990 until 2000. She was the daughter of Maria St John and lived in California for 18 years, soon after moving to LA to work for David Lynch - who she worked for 10 years. - Larry Blyden
Larry Blyden (June 23, 1925 - June 6, 1975) was an American actor and game show host, best known for his appearances on Broadway and as the host of the game show What's My Line? - Stiv Bators
Steven John Bator, known as Stiv Bators (October 22 1949 - June 2 1990), was an American rock and roll and punk rock vocalist and guitarist from Youngstown, Ohio. He is best remembered for his bands, The Dead Boys and The Lords of the New Church. - Alan Crosland
Alan Crosland (born August 10, 1894; died July 16, 1936) was an American actor and film director. Born in New York City, New York to a well-to-do family, Alan Crosland attended from Dartmouth College. After graduation he took a job as a writer with the "New York Globe" magazine. Interested in the theatre, he began acting on stage, appearing in several ptroductions with Shakespearian actress Annie Russell (1864-1936). - Wolfgang Reitherman
Wolfgang Reitherman (June 26, 1909 - May 22, 1985), also known and sometimes credited as Woolie Reitherman, was a famed Disney animator and one of Disney's Nine Old Men. Born in Munich, Germany, Reitherman's family moved to America when he was a child. After attending Pasadena Junior College and briefly working as a draftsman for Douglas Aircraft, Reitherman returned to school at the Chouinard Art Institute, graduating in 1933. - Gene Stratton-Porter
Gene Stratton-Porter (August 17, 1863 - December 6, 1924) was an American author, amateur naturalist, wildlife photographer, and one of the earliest women to form a movie studio and production company. She wrote some of the best selling novels and well-received columns in magazines of the day. Born Geneva Grace Stratton in Wabash County, Indiana, she married Charles D. Porter in 1886, and they had one daughter, Jeannette. - Jessica Savitch
Jessica Beth Savitch (February 1, 1947-October 23, 1983) was a well-known American television broadcaster and news reporter. - Slatan Dudow
Slatan Theodor Dudow (Zlatan Dudov) (January 30, 1903 - July 12, 1963) was a Bulgarian born film director and screenwriter who made a number of films in the Weimar Republic and East Germany. Dudow was born in Zaribrod, Bulgaria, but emigrated to Berlin in 1922 with the intention of becoming an architect. He gave up this plan and began studying theatre in 1923, first under Emmanuel Reicher, and then, from 1925 to 1926, … - Larisa Shepitko
Larisa Efimovna Shepitko (Artemovsk, Ukraine, 6 January 1939 - Kaliningrad Oblast, 2 June 1979) was a Soviet Russian film director. She went to the Moscow Film school (VGIK) as a pupil of Alexander Dovzhenko. She was a student of Dovzhenko's for 18 months until he died in 1956. Shepitko graduated from VGIK in 1963 with her prize winning diploma film "Heat" made when she was 22 years old. - Andrzej Munk
Andrzej Munk was a Polish film director, screenplay writer and camera operator and was one of the most influential artists of the Polish Film School. Andrzej Munk was born in Kraków. Shortly before the World War II (in June 1939), he finished his gymnasium. During the German occupation of Poland he moved to Warsaw, where he was forced to hide because of his partially Jewish ancestry. Using a false name, he worked as a construction worker. - Herb Shriner
Herb Shriner (born Herbert Arthur Schiner on May 29, 1918 in Toledo, Ohio; died April 23, 1970 in Delray Beach, Florida) was an American humorist, radio personality and television host. Shriner was best known for his homespun monologues, usually with roots in his adopted home state of Indiana. He was often compared to fellow humorist Will Rogers. Shriner moved to Fort Wayne as a toddler, when his mother Edith left his father. - Paul Jarrico
Paul Jarrico was an American screenwriter and film producer who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses during the era of McCarthyism. - Edmond Audran
Edmond Audran (11 April 1842 - 17 August 1901) was a French composer. He was born at Lyon, and studied music at the Ecole Niedermeyer, where he won the prize for composition in 1859. Two years later he accepted the post of organist of the church of St Joseph at Marseille. He made his first appearance as a dramatic composer at Marseille with "L'Ours et le Pacha" (1862), a musical version of one of Scribe's vaudevilles. - Lexie Bigham
Lexie Darnell Bigham, Jr. was an African-American film and television actor. Bigham appeared in numerous independent films and television series. His prominent roles came in the films "Se7en", "Boyz n the Hood", "South Central", "Dave", "Drop Zone", "Airheads", "Up Close and Personal", and "High School High". Bigham died in a car accident in Los Angeles on December 17, 1995, at the age of 27, … - Romolo Valli
Romolo Valli (7 February, 1925 - 1 February, 1980) was an Italian actor. Valli was born in Reggio Emilia. He was one of the best known Italian actors between 1950s to 1970s. He died in a car accident. - Ferdinand Marian
Ferdinand Marian was an Austrian actor. Marian was born in Vienna, then part of Austria-Hungary. Marian's career was overshadowed by his appearance as the title character in Jud Süß, an infamous anti-Semitic German movie made in 1940 by Veit Harlan. This film, made under the supervision of Joseph Goebbels, is widely considered to be one of the most hateful depictions of Jews in film. - Richard Rober
Richard Rober (May 14, 1910 - May 26, 1952) was a film actor known for his rugged roles in films. Born Richard Steven Rauber, Rober died in an auto accident in 1952 when the actor was 42 years old. He appeared many B-movies and film noir-type films including "Call Northside 777" (1948) (his first film), "Sierra" (1950), and "The Well" (1951). - Rukmani Devi
Rukmani Devi (January 15, 1923-September 25, 1978) was a Sri Lankan singer and actress often acclaimed as "The Nightingale of Sri Lanka". - Keith Godchaux
Keith Godchaux was a musician best known for his tenure in the rock group the Grateful Dead. Keith was born in Seattle, Washington and grew up in Concord, California. He met and married Donna Jean Godchaux in 1970. The couple introduced themselves at a Jerry Garcia concert in October 1971. At the time Keith had been appearing with Dave Mason (formerly of Traffic). He was also known to Betty Cantor-Jackson, a Grateful Dead sound engineer. - Viktor Lutze
Viktor Lutze was an SA officer ("Obergruppenführer") in Nazi Germany. He joined the German Army in 1912 and fought during World War I, where he lost his left eye. After the war, Lutze joined the police force. He was a member of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) and the Prussian State Council. He was appointed police president of Hanover in 1933. His participation in the Night of the Long Knives was very important, … - Jeff Cravath
Newell Jefferson Cravath was an American football coach best known as the head coach of the USC Trojans football team from 1942-1950. He compiled a 54-28-8 record while coaching at USC, and is known to have introduced the T formation to the USC program. - Marcelo Fromer
Marcelo Fromer was the guitarist of Brazilian rock band Titãs. One of the founding members and also the band's manager, he died in 2001, after being hit by a motorcycle while jogging. - Shankar Nag
Shankar Nag originally known as Shankar Nagarakatte (ಶಂಕರ್ ನಾಗರಕಟ್ಟೆ), along with his elder brother Anant Nag (ಅನಂತ್ ನಾಗ್) was a popular actor and director of Kannada cinema. He also directed and acted in the teleserial, Malgudi days (ಮಾಲ್ಗುಡಿ ಡೇಸ್), based on celebrated novelist R.K.Narayan's (ಆರ್.ಕೆ.ನಾರಾಯನ್) short stories. - Pascale Audret
Pascale Audret(1936-2000) was a French actress whose career was more prominent in the 1950's through to the 1960's. - Yevgeni Urbansky
Yevgeni Urbansky (born February 27, 1932 in Moscow, Russia - November 5, 1965) was a prominent Soviet Russian actor. The creative life of Yevgeni Urbansky was short but very bright. A whole cinema epoch with peculiar aesthetics was created by him in the films "Kommunist" (The Communist) (1958), "Chistoe nebo" (Clear Skies) (1961), and Ballada o soldate (Ballad of a Soldier) (1959). - Gustav Winckler
Gustav Frands Wilzeck Winckler was a popular Danish singer, composer and music publisher. He grew up in the Nørrebro district of Copenhagen and started his career as a decorator. In 1948 as a young man he won a talent competition at National Scala Theatre in Copenhagen, as well as many others in Copenhagen. He was often compared to Bing Crosby. He finally broke through in 1950 with engagements, regular appearances on Danmarks Radio and his first professional recording. - Ernest Haller
Ernest Haller, also credited as Ernie B. Haller, (31 May 1896-21 October 1970), was an American cinematographer. Born in Los Angeles, California, Haller joined Biograph Studios as an actor in 1914, then began to freelance as a cinematographer. By 1920, he was a fully-fledged director of photography and worked on some 180 films. Among his notable films are "Captain Blood" (1935), "Dangerous" (1935), "Jezebel" (1938), …
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