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- Englishman Alan Lyle-Smythe was born in 1914. The future film and TV writer-actor trained as an actor before serving for four years with the Palestine Police in the 1930s. At the outbreak of World War II, he joined the British Army; part of their Intelligence Corps, he operated behind enemy lines in Libya and Tunisia, escaped a firing squad execution, and worked with guerrillas in Yugoslavia. ("Alan Caillou" was one of Lyle-Smythe's many wartime aliases; thinking it lucky, he took it in real life.) After the war, he was a police chief in Ethiopia, a district officer in Somalia, and the founder of a theatrical company in Africa. Returning to the old professions of acting and writing, Caillou worked in Canadian TV in the 1950s and later relocated to Hollywood, where he became a familiar name in the credits of movies and TV series.
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Renato Polselli was born on 24 February 1922 in Arce, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Mania (1974) and La verità secondo Satana (1972). He died on 1 October 2006 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Actor
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Larry Robinson was born on 15 October 1929 in Manhattan, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer (1984), Studio One (1948) and The Goldbergs (1950). He died on 1 October 2006 in Trenton, New Jersey, USA.- Jennifer Wright was born on 1 February 1931 in Croydon, Surrey, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Jane Eyre (1956), Garry Halliday (1959) and BBC Sunday-Night Play (1960). She died on 1 October 2006 in Norfolk, England, UK.
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Nikos Kazis was born in 1927. He was an actor, known for Antigone (1961), O ziliarogatos (1956) and O ahristos tis koinonias (1956). He died on 1 October 2006.- Alice Mildred Puter was born on 19 January 1924 in Sacramento, California, USA. She was an actress, known for The Crowd (1928). She died on 1 October 2006 in Lamar, Johnson, Arkansas, USA.
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After school, Frank Beyer studied theater studies. He started his career with an internship at the theater and as a stage dramaturge. He later attended the Film School in Prague (FAMU). While still a student, he became Kurt Maetzig's assistant and accompanied films such as "Castles and Cats" (1957). With his graduation film "Two Mothers" from 1957, based on Berthold Brecht's "The Caucasian Chalk Circle", he also made his directorial debut. Beyer made anti-fascist films such as "Naked Among Wolves" from 1963 and "Jakob the Liar" from 1974. But he also worked on film comedies.
With the genre piece "Karbid und Sauerampfer" from 1963, he made his breakthrough as a celebrated director of comedies. Frank Beyer became the most important filmmaker in the GDR alongside Gerhard Klein, Joachim Kunert and Konrad Wolf, but his works also caused political controversy. His work "Trace of the Stones" premiered in 1966, but was removed from the cinema program after three days - due to anti-socialist content. The film with Manfred Krug was not shown in cinemas again until 1989. The director repeatedly challenged the ideas of those responsible for GDR culture.
This was followed by his expulsion from the state film production company DEFA. Beyer was then hired for the theater in Dresden, but he was constantly exposed to obstacles from the state. In 1980 he received permission to make films in the Federal Republic of Germany. The showing of his 1977 film "The Hideaway" was initially banned in the GDR because the main actor, Manfred Krug, had fled to West Germany. The film was only shown to the public a year later. In 1983, Beyer's film "The Stay" was not shown at the Berlinale due to Polish protests: a German SS man is innocently accused of murder while in Polish captivity.
Beyer's late film works dealt with socially critical and political themes. This is how the title "End of Innocence" came about in 1991, which is about the Germans and the atomic bomb based on a template by Wolfgang Menge. "She and He" followed in 1992, about a marital crisis. In 1995 "Nikolaikirche", a film about a family during the time of reunification, was made. Two years later, Beyer remade Carl Zuckmayer's "The Captain of Köpenick" with Harald Juhnke. The director delivered autobiographical information about Manfred Krug with the film title "Abgehaut". Other important film titles include "Königskinder" (1962), "The Seven Affairs of Dona Juanita" (1973), "The Second Skin" (1981), "Bockshorn" (1983) and "The Big Feast" from 1992.- Judith Pizarro was an actress, known for Pasaporte a la fama (2005) and El cuerpo del delito (2005). She died on 1 October 2006.
- Chinin de Triana was born on 22 January 1927 in Santo Domingo de la Calzada, Spain. He died on 1 October 2006 in Abelda, Spain.
- Adela Villamil was born on 5 January 1927 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She was an actress, known for Maten al león (1977), Calumnia (1963) and Busquen a esta mujer (1967). She died on 1 October 2006 in Santurce, Puerto Rico.
- Luki Botha was born on 16 January 1930 in Pretoria, South Africa. He died on 1 October 2006 in Pretoria, South Africa.
- Wanda Rucinska was born on 12 February 1919 in Leczyca, Lódzkie, Poland. She was an actress, known for Hipoteza (1973). She died on 1 October 2006 in Sopot, Pomorskie, Poland.
- Leonard Porter Salazar was born on 3 November 1961 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Lost Angels (1989). He died on 1 October 2006 in Los Angeles, California, USA.