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- Joan Hickson was born in 1906 at Kingsthorpe, Northampton. Her stage career began with provincial theater in 1927, going on to a long series of West End comedies, usually playing the part of a confused or eccentric middle-age woman. She performed at the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, at the time London was subject to World War II bombing. Her work gradually included screen roles: The Outsider (1948), The Promoter (1952), The 39 Steps (1959) - over 80 movies in all - but her stage career continued, with parts in three Peter Nichols plays, Noël Coward's "Blithe Spirit" (1976) and and a Tony award supporting actress performance in Alan Ayckbourn's "Bedroom Farce" (1977). Her first Agatha Christie role was "Miss Pryce" in the play, "Appointment With Death" (1946), which prompted Christie, herself, to write "I hope you will play my dear Miss Marple". She began playing this, her best known part, in her late 70s, in a BBC television series which ran from 1984 to 1992. A Miss Marple fan, Queen Elizabeth II, awarded her the Order of the British Empire in 1987. After the series closed, Joan recorded audio books of the Christie mysteries. She died, aged 92, in a hospital at Colchester, Essex, survived by a son and daughter (her physician husband Eric Butler died in 1967).
- Carmen Molina was born on 20 January 1920 in Mexico, D.F., Mexico. She was an actress, known for Las mañanitas (1948), Hipócrita..! (1949) and El mártir del Calvario (1952). She was married to David Arturo Fernández. She died on 17 October 1998 in Mexico D.F., Mexico.
- Anita Laurenzi, full name Anita Sagnotti Laurenzi (1932 - Rome, 17 October 1998), was an Italian actress. She began acting in theater at sixteen (since 1948) and in a fifty-year career she worked with Luca Ronconi (in the first performance of "Calderón" of Pier Paolo Pasolini at the Teatro Metastasio in Prato in 1978), Sandro Sequi ("La vita che ti diedi", with Sabina Vannucchi), Massimo Castri ("Le avventure della villeggiatura" and "Il ritorno dalla villeggiatura" of Carlo Goldoni), Gigi Proietti, Franco Brusati (she was among the top performers of "La fastidiosa"), and several others, ranging from brilliant to other dramatic roles. Her last performance on stage was in the role of Carlotta in "Recita dell'attore Attilio Vecchiatto nel teatro di Rio Saliceto" by Gianni Celati, later replaced by Marisa Belli. On the big screen she acted in a dozen films from 1975 to 1998, among others with Emidio Greek, Marco Bellocchio and Daniele Luchetti (memorable character of Serino Professor in "La scuola"). She worked assiduously for the small screen with several works of prose, drama series and TV movies. Occasionally she is also dedicated to dubbing (she is the voice of Hattie McDaniel in ridoppiaggio of 1977 "Via col vento"). She died at the age of 66 years.
- Tron died on 17 October 1998 in Berlin, Germany.
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Sally Cleaves was born on 15 January 1909 in Texas, USA. She was an actress. She died on 17 October 1998 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.- Actor
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Antonio Agri was born on 5 May 1932 in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. He was an actor, known for The Tango Lesson (1997), Diary for a Tale (1998) and Tango (1998). He died on 17 October 1998 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.- Albert Johnson was born on 9 May 1925 in New York City, New York, USA. He died on 17 October 1998 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.