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Adept at both comedy and drama, character player Eugene Roche (sometimes billed as Gene Roche) had an extensive four-decade career. Born in Depression-era Boston on September 22, 1928, he was the son of a Navy man.
Roche started on radio at age 15, displaying a knack for character voices, both men and women. He enlisted in the U.S. Army following high school, then studied at Emerson College. Searching for work in summer stock and variety shows, he appeared in productions of "Pal Joey" with Bob Fosse and "Point of No Return" with Henry Fonda. Newly married at this time, he found classical stage parts to play in early 1950s San Francisco, then headed for New York and began appearing in dramatic TV shows and commercials. He made his Broadway debut with "Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole" starring Darren McGavin and went on to do "The White House" with Helen Hayes and "Mother Courage" with Anne Bancroft.
Comedy became his forte on TV with recurring or featured roles on Soap (1977), Night Court (1984), Perfect Strangers (1986) and Webster (1983), while choice support parts came his way on film, including The Late Show (1977) and Foul Play (1978). Not overly tall but built like the base of a Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, he could and did play scary guys very well. His "Luther Gillis" on Magnum, P.I. (1980), in a recurring role as an acquaintance in the same line of business whose violent streak Magnum keeps underestimating, went from bulldog PI to violent near-sociopath in less than a minute whenever faced with a (male) obstacle standing in his way. Roche also appeared in many 1970s/1980s TV series -- usually, but not always, as heavies -- such as "The Rookies", "Ironside", "McCloud", "Hawaii Five-0", "Kojak", "Phyllis", "Medical Center", "The Streets of San Francisco", "Barnaby Jones", "Maude", "Police Woman", "Starsky & Hutch", "Lou Grant", "All in the Family", "Hart to Hart", "Taxi", "Gimme a Break", "Airwolf", "Highway to Heaven", and "Murder, She Wrote". His last role was in an episode of "7th Heaven" in 2004 (the year of his death).
The father of nine children, three of his sons also opted for careers in entertainment: Eamonn Roche and Brogan Roche are actors, and Sean Roche is an Emmy award-winning writer and producer. Eugene died at the age of 75 on July 28, 2004 after suffering a heart attack.- Actor
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Sam Edwards grew up in a show business family, having made his debut on stage while he was just a baby (his mother, the actress Edna Park, was holding him). With his family, he acted on radio in "The Adventures of Sunny and Buddy," and on his family's show, "The Edwards Family."- Actor
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Jackson Beck was born on 23 July 1912 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Take the Money and Run (1969), Tom Corbett, Space Cadet (1950) and Radio Days (1987). He was married to Bernice. He died on 28 July 2004 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.- Producer
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Alexei de Keyser was born on 21 September 1967 in London, England, UK. He was a producer, known for Waking the Dead (2000), Grease Monkeys (2003) and Casualty (1986). He died on 28 July 2004 in London, England, UK.- Veteran Scottish character actor who appeared in numerous theatre, radio and television productions over a 50 year career but is best remembered as Sgt 'Scotty' Macleod in the classic Australian TV series Division 4 (1969).
Frank Taylor was born February 22 1921 at Kirkhill, Coldingham, Berwickshire in Scotland. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, trained for the stage at the Scottish School of Drama under the direction of Sybill Attwell and made his professional debut as the Second Page in "Richard of Bordeaux" at the Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh in September 1938.
At the outbreak of World War II he joined the RAF, serving 5 years as a Wireless Operator/Air Gunner with two squadrons, Squadron 608 and Squadron 217, before being shot down and taken prisoner in February 1942. After an attempted escape and incarceration in no fewer than seven POW camps he was liberated on May 2 1945 by the British 2nd Army's 11th Armoured Division.
Following his demobilization he was employed as assistant stage manager at the Mercury Theatre in London under the direction of E. Martin Browne. Returning to acting and singing roles he trained with Robert Burnett in Edinburgh and Dawson Freer in London and would appear in several London West End productions including "Pacific 1860" with Mary Martin, "Much Ado About Nothing" with Robert Donat, "Pericles" with Paul Scofield,"The Silver Curlew" with Denys Blakelock and "Oklahoma" with Howard Keel.
From 1951 through 1954 he toured South Africa for African Theatres in "Seagulls Over Sorrento" with Clifford Mollison and again in Australia and New Zealand for J.C. Williamson's. Settling permanently in Sydney, Australia in 1956 he appeared in many theatrical productions as well as many of the early landmark series in Australian television before being cast in "Division 4", winning a Penguin Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series in 1972 - he would eventually appear in every one of the show's 301 episodes.
In 1988 he wrote his autobiography "Barbed Wire and Footlights: Seven Stalags to Freedom" and continued in occasional acting roles throughout the rest of the 1970s and 1980s before retiring. - Tichy was born on 7 August 1923 in Vienna and attended the famous Reinhardt Seminar from 1944 to 1946. His acting career began in Salzburg and in the "Wiener Theatre" in the "Parkring Cafe". He also performed on the stage in Kaiserslautern, Bielefeld, Luebeck and Hamburg until he continued at the "Wiener Burgtheater". In September 1986, with the beginning of the management of Claus Peymann at the Viennese "Burgtheater" he went into pension.
- Daemion Barry was born on 20 November 1960 in London, England, UK. He was a composer, known for Friday on My Mind (1992), Signs and Wonders (1995) and The War Behind the Wire (2000). He died on 28 July 2004 in the UK.
- Margo McLennan was born on 8 February 1938 in Peckham, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Prisoner (1979), Danger Man (1960) and Blue Heelers (1994). She was married to Rod McLennan and Tony Doonan. She died on 28 July 2004 in Colgate, West Sussex, England, UK.
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Michael Elder was born on 30 April 1931 in London, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for The Flight of the Heron (1976), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1978) and Sam (1973). He was married to Sheila Donald. He died on 28 July 2004 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.- Peggy Chester was born on 6 January 1914 in St George Hanover Square, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Cavalier of the Streets (1937). She was married to Wallace Douglas. She died on 28 July 2004 in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England, UK.
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Steve Oxley was born on 22 January 1958. He is known for Alone (2002), The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1991) and Dead in the Water (2002). He died on 28 July 2004 in England, UK.- Additional Crew
Eugenio Zoppi was born on 15 March 1923 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is known for Hora cero (2004). He died on 28 July 2004 in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.- Crick attended Northhampton Grammar School and, after moving to London, Mill Hill School. Even at school, his interest was primarily in the natural sciences - physics, chemistry and mathematics. So he decided to study physics at University College London. He graduated in 1937 and immediately began his doctoral studies. The outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 initially interrupted his training, but Crick continued to work for the British Admiralty as a scientist, mainly in connection with the development of magnetic and acoustic mines. In 1940 Crick married Ruth Doreen Dodd, and their son Michael Crick was born from this union. The couple divorced in 1947. After the war ended, Crick remained in the Navy for another two years. During this time he read the book "What is life? The physical aspects of Living Cell" by the physicist Erwin Schrödinger. From then on he became enthusiastic about the connection between physics and biology.
He left the Navy in 1947 and began studying biology. In Cambridge he initially worked at the Strangeways Research Laboratory, then in 1949 he moved to the Cavendish Laboratory. Meanwhile, he married again. With his wife Odile Speed he had two daughters, Gabrielle and Jacqueline Crick. In 1952, Crick met the young American biologist James Watson at the Cavendish Laboratory, with whom he developed a close collaboration. The two young scientists were interested in how the DNA molecule - the genetic information - is structured and how the genetic information it contains is passed on. With the help of the scientific work of Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins, they finally created a model of the DNA molecule (deoxyribonucleic acid) in 1953: the "Watson-Crick model". As a result, DNA consists of two strands wound around each other - i.e. a double helix - which are connected to each other by bases arranged in pairs.
On April 25, 1953, both researchers presented their work results in the article "The molecular structure of nucleic acids": DNA as a three-dimensional model of a molecule. It became clear that the individual strands do not destroy each other during their identical reproduction, but rather serve as a template for the formation of another, new, complementary strand. It was probably his enthusiasm for his own work that prompted Crick to name his house "Golden Helix". In 1962, Crick, Watson and Wilkins received the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology. Rosalind Franklin, whose work provided the scientific basis, came away empty-handed. In the same year Crick became director of the Molecular Biology Institute at Cambridge University and associate professor at the Californian "Salk Institute". In 1966, Crick wrote the book "Of Molecules and Men," in which he described the impact of the burgeoning research discipline of "biochemistry." In 1975 he finally went to the "Salk Institute" and increasingly focused on neurobiology. He was primarily concerned with consciousness research.
He later turned his interest to the processing of visual perception in the brain. Numerous other scientific papers and popular science books followed. For example, "Life itself: Its Origin and Nature", in which he suggests that the origin of life on earth could come from another planet and "What the soul really is. The scientific study of consciousness". In it he provides a neurobiological view of the nature of the soul.
Francis Crick died of colon cancer on July 29, 2004 at Thornton Hospital in La Jolla, California. - Additional Crew
Kinga Illyés was born on 10 December 1940 in Bretcu (Bereck), Kovasna, Romania. Kinga is known for Családi kör (1974). Kinga died on 28 July 2004 in Tirgu Mures, Romania.- Actor
John Elman was born on 21 March 1944 in the USA. He was an actor, known for Petticoat Junction (1963). He died on 28 July 2004 in Crawfordsville, Indiana, USA.- Tiziano Terzani was born on 14 September 1938 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. He was a writer, known for Das Ende ist mein Anfang (2010) and Francisco Sionil Jose - a Filipino Odyssey (1996). He died on 28 July 2004 in Orsigna, Tuscany, Italy.