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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.- Allan Hersholt was born on 4 December 1914 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Adventures of Frank Merriwell (1936), Sky Liner (1949) and Forgotten (1933). He was married to Marjorie Fay Sanft, Janet Russell and Osa Massen. He died on 19 February 1990 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Gabriel Katzka was born on 25 January 1931 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was a producer, known for The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), Kelly's Heroes (1970) and Ellis Island (1984). He was married to Carol Ward Dudley. He died on 19 February 1990 in New York City, New York, USA.- Charles Williams was born in 1915 in Bodffordd, Anglesey, Wales, UK. He was an actor, known for The Tunnel (1940), From the Old Earth (1981) and Gwaed ar y Ser (1975). He was married to Jini ?. He died on 19 February 1990.
- Wilfredo Hernández was born on 28 May 1950. He was an actor, known for Marathon Man (1976), 8 Million Ways to Die (1986) and Tales of the Gold Monkey (1982). He died on 19 February 1990 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- John Warnock was born in 1945 in Australia. He was an actor, known for Innocent Prey (1984), Act of Betrayal (1988) and Ride on Stranger (1979). He died on 19 February 1990 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- Janusz Paluszkiewicz was born on 20 March 1912 in Lódz, Poland, Russian Empire [now Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for A Generation (1955), Westerplatte Resists (1967) and Knights of the Teutonic Order (1960). He died on 19 February 1990 in Glowno, Lódzkie, Poland.
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Bernard DeRoux was born on 9 August 1902 in France. He was an actor, known for All This, and Heaven Too (1940) and Tovarich (1937). He died on 19 February 1990 in Orange, California, USA.