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The son of orchestra conductor André Hossein, Paris-born Robert Hossein was trained at René Simon's acting school. Hossein labored away as actor/director with the legendary Theatre Grand Guignol in Montmartre, then spent several years on the "legitimate" stage. In films from 1955's Rififi (Rififi (1955)), he has been generally cast as jaded villains. Making his movie directorial debut with The Wicked Go to Hell (1955) The Wicked Go to Hell (1955)), Hossein went on to call the shots on such Film Noir fare as Toi... le venin (1958) and J'ai tué Raspoutine (1967). In the 1960s, Robert Hossein appeared regularly as Jeoffrey de Peyrac in the soft-core Angélique films. He also worked as director.
As he was one of the most prominent leading men in French cinema, he was the screen partner of leading ladies like Brigitte Bardot, Michèle Mercier, Marina Vlady, Stéphane Audran, Claude Jade or the Italian beauty Sophia Loren, and more recently with Audrey Tautou in Venus Beauty Institute (1999).- Actor
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Jeremy Burnham was an English actor-writer. Born in Yorkshire and educated at Stowe School, he went on to train at the Old Vic Theatre School in London. He appeared in many West End plays, including 'Hippo Dancing' by Robert Morley, E. M Forser's 'A Passage to India' and the anonymously published 'The Rehearsal'. He was the only person to have both appeared in and written for the cult TV series The Avengers (1961). He also wrote for many other British TV series, including When the Boat Comes In (1976), Minder (1979) and Inspector Morse (1987). He is perhaps best known as the co-author of 'Children of the Stones', another cult TV series in the nineteen-seventies. A sequel, 'Return to the Stones' was published in 2013. Jeremy Burnham died on 31 December 2020.- Gary Howard Klar was born on 24 March 1947 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor, known for Day of the Dead (1985), Big (1988) and Hackers (1995). He died on 31 December 2020.
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Sherrie Wills was born on 6 March 1967 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for Heathers (1988), The Exorcist III (1990) and If Things Were Different (1980). She died on 31 December 2020 in Studio City, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
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Versatile and underrated B-movie Renaissance man John "Bud" Cardos was born in 1929 in St. Louis, Missouri. His family has interesting roots in the entertainment industry: his cousin Spyros Skouras worked at Twentieth Century-Fox and his father and uncle managed the lavish Graumann's Egyptian and Chinese theaters. Cardos began his lengthy and extensive show business career as a child actor in Hal Roach's 1940s "Our Gang" comedies. He was a rodeo rider in his teen years, and worked as an animal wrangler and bird handler on Alfred Hitchcock's outstanding killer animal classic The Birds (1963). Cardos achieved his greatest cult popularity acting in several entertainingly trashy exploitation features for legendary Grade-Z schlockmeister Al Adamson: he's especially memorable as Mohawk-sporting Native American biker Firewater in the splendidly sleazy Satan's Sadists (1969) and as crazed half-breed Joe Lightfoot in the gritty (and often incoherent) western Five Bloody Graves (1969). He got into stunt work, and among the films Cardos performed stunts in are Nightmare in Wax (1969), the trippy hippie gem Psych-Out (1968), The Savage Seven (1968), The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant (1971), and Jud (1971). Cardos tackled second unit director chores for Sam Peckinpah's magnificent landmark western The Wild Bunch (1969). He was a production manager on many movies; they include the creepy Dead of Night (1974), Killers Three (1968), The Rebel Rousers (1970), Lash of Lust (1972), Hell's Bloody Devils (1970), and Deadwood '76 (1965).
Cardos made his directorial debut with the blaxploitation item The Red, White, and Black (1970). His other directorial efforts include the superior revolt-of-nature horror winner Kingdom of the Spiders (1977), the not-half-bad sci-fi/horror opus The Dark (1979), and the nifty zombie flick Forbidden World (1982). Outside of his substantial film work, Cardos also did Western art. He died at age 91 on December 31, 2020 in Acton, California.- Director
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As a successful director working both inside and outside the Hollywood studio system, Joan Micklin Silver was a true lamplighter. Garnering a steady stream of awards and box office successes, she proved herself time and again as one of the most important woman directors to come out of the United States, and demonstrated that films about Jewish topics can succeed with both Jews and non-Jews alike.
Based in New York, where she lived for many decades, Joan Micklin was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1935. She was the daughter of Maurice David and Doris (Shoshone) Micklin, Russian Jewish immigrants who came separately to the United States before the upheavals of the Russian Revolution. Her father later founded the Micklin Lumber Company. Her deep love for the movies was first nurtured during her earliest days in pre-television Omaha, where she attended the local cinema religiously. She attended Temple Israel Synagogue and graduated from Central High School in 1952 and often wrote sketches for school plays.
Fresh after graduating Sarah Lawrence College in 1956, she married Raphael D. Silver, son of the famous Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland. The Silvers lived in Cleveland from 1956 to 1967 and raised three daughters there: Dina (born 1958), Marisa (born 1960), and Claudia (born 1963). While in Cleveland, Silver taught music and wrote plays, two of which were performed at local Cleveland theaters. In 1967, the Silvers moved to New York, where she worked briefly for the Village Voice and was then hired to adapt Lois Gould's 1970 novel Such Good Friends for legendary director Otto Preminger (she was replaced by a long line of others that included Joan Didion and Elaine May). Her first original screenplay, Limbo, about the wives of prisoners of war in Vietnam, was purchased by Universal Pictures and made into a film directed by Mark Robson. When Silver clashed with the director over her vision for the film, she was fired and replaced by James Bridges, though she received story and co-scripting credit in the final film.
The Learning Corporation of America then commissioned her to write and direct a series of short films, among them The Immigrant Experience: The Long Long Journey (1972), which went on to win several awards. When her success as a screenwriter and director of short films failed to score her a break in directing feature films, and when a studio executive actually told her that "women directors were another problem the studios didn't need," Silver's husband agreed to raise the money for her debut feature and serve as its producer. The film became Hester Street (1975), adapted by Silver from the 1890s novella Yekl by Abraham Cahan, the founder of the Jewish Daily Forward. Turned down by every major studio as an "ethnic oddity" with a limited audience appeal, Hester Street was independently distributed by the Silvers, with the guidance of John Cassavetes. Joan and Ray formed the production and distribution company Midwest Films, through which the film was seen worldwide and admired by Jewish and non-Jewish audiences. Hester Street became one of the earliest independent films to be nominated for Academy Awards, securing a Best Actress nod for lead Carol Kane. The following year, she adapted F. Scott Fitzgerald's Bernice Bobs Her Hair (starring Shelley Duvall, Bud Cort and Veronica Cartwright) as part of a series of median-length features taken from classic American short stories.
Despite the critical and surprise commercial success of Hester Street, major studios still would not back Silver's next film. Her second feature, Between the Lines (1977), about a group of people who work for an alternative newspaper in Boston, was once again produced by her husband. That comedy feature an ensemble cast of now-famous faces, including Jeff Goldblum, John Heard and Stephen Collins. Her third feature, Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979), based on the novel by Ann Beattie, marked Silver's first experience working with a major Hollywood studio, namely United Artists. Turner Classic Movies's Robert Osborne selected the film for inclusion in a special festival recognizing pictures that were "woefully overlooked and under-appreciated," then later programmed the film for his "night of favorites" on TCM in 2007. In November 2014, Chilly Scenes of Winter played to a sold-out crowd at New York City's IFC Center.
After years of directing stage productions, including the well-received A...My Name is Alice (1983), she returned to features in 1985 with the comedy-drama Finnegan Begin Again, starring Robert Preston, Mary Tyler Moore and Sam Waterston. The first effort produced by the fledgling HBO Premiere Films, the film won the Silver Leopard's Eye at the Locarno Film Festival. Her next film with a Jewish subject, the beloved Crossing Delancey, a hit romantic comedy about an assimilated Jewish Manhattanite (played by Amy Irving) and her Lower East Side pickle-salesman suitor (played by Peter Riegert), was produced for Warner Brothers and released in 1988. Her other theatrical releases include Loverboy (1989) for Tri-Star and Stepkids (a.k.a. Big Girls Don't Cry...They Get Even) (1992) for New Line.
Silver's other theater works include A...My Name Is Still Alice (1992), Album (1980), and Maybe I'm Doing It Wrong (1982). She has directed several films for television, among them Parole Board (1990), A Private Matter (1992), Invisible Child (1999) and Hunger Point (2003). In 2002, she directed independent film acting legend Gena Rowlands in Charms for the Easy Life (2002) for Showtime.
In 1995, Silver proved her versatility when she directed a series for National Public Radio called Great Jewish Stories from Eastern Europe and Beyond, which was co-produced by the National Yiddish Book Center. In 1983, she also directed Wallace Shawn and Hermione Gingold in How to Be a Perfect Person in Just 3 Days.
Joan Micklin Silver died at her Manhattan home on December 31, 2020. She was 85.- Dick Thornburgh was born on 16 July 1932 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He was married to Virginia Walton Judson and Virginia Kendall Hooton. He died on 31 December 2020 in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Jean Louis was an actor, known for Ramon the Mexican (1966), C'era una volta questo pazzo, pazzo, pazzo West (1973) and Django the Bastard (1969). He died on 31 December 2020.- Berto Marklund was born on 23 November 1931 in Malmberget, Gällivare, Norbottens län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for The Flight of the Eagle (1982), P & B (1983) and Hempas bar (1977). He died on 31 December 2020 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.
- Narsing Yadav was born in 1968 in India. He was an actor, known for Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Aithe (2003) and Daud: Fun on the Run (1997). He was married to Chitra Yadav. He died on 31 December 2020 in Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
- Tommy Docherty was born on 24 April 1928 in Gorbals, Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for Making Out (1989), The Play on One (1988) and Saturday Stayback (1983). He was married to Mary Brown and Agnes Docherty. He died on 31 December 2020 in England, UK.
- Karl-Maria Steffens was born on 8 December 1928 in Prüm, Germany. He was an actor, known for Police Call 110 (1971), Rita von Falkenhain (1989) and Leichensache Zernik (1972). He died on 31 December 2020 in Bad Münstereifel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Taran Kootenhayoo was born on 18 September 1993 in Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada. He was an actor and director, known for Bella Ciao! (2018), D.I.Y (2019) and Outside (2014). He died on 31 December 2020 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.- Actor
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Dusan Jovanovic was born on 1 October 1939 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He was an actor and writer, known for The Liberation of Skopje (2016), Odpadnik (1988) and The Lion Is Coming (1972). He was married to Milena Zupancic and Vido Zei. He died on 31 December 2020 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.- Additional Crew
Charles Pye was born on 18 August 1952 in New York City, New York, USA. Charles is known for Independent Lens (1999). Charles died on 31 December 2020 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.- Maxine Cheshire was born on 5 April 1930 in Harlan, Kentucky, USA. She was married to Jasper Warren and Herbert Cheshire. She died on 31 December 2020 in McAllen, Texas, USA.
- Rudolf Zahradník was born on 20 October 1928 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]. He died on 31 December 2020.
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Ronald Florance was born on 22 July 1934 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an assistant director, known for The Honeymoon Machine (1961) and Naked City (1958). He was married to Elaine Sheldrake. He died on 31 December 2020 in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, USA.- Olivier Royant was born on 16 July 1962 in Rostrenen, Côtes-d'Armor, France. He was married to Delphine Royant. He died on 31 December 2020 in France.
- Daniel Clavero was born on 23 February 1929 in Catalonia, Spain. He was an actor, known for Estefanía (1979), Bodas de papel (1979) and Sangre azul (1979). He was married to Karla Luzbel. He died on 31 December 2020 in Coro, Falcón, Venezuela.
- Tarik Mandour was born on 27 October 1959 in Egypt. He was an actor, known for Fattah Ainaik (2005), Al-bahths an Al-Sayyid Marzuq (1990) and Genainat el-Asmak (2008). He died on 31 December 2020 in Egypt.
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Szczepan Szczykno was a director and actor, known for Teatr Polskiego Radia (2004) and Szalency (2007). He died on 31 December 2020.- Tom Lankford was born on 20 September 1935 in Piedmont, Alabama, USA. He was married to Sherry Dean Murray and Chalermporn "Tan" Changseang. He died on 31 December 2020 in Gadsden, Alabama, USA.