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Yvonne De Carlo was born Margaret Yvonne Middleton on September 1, 1922 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She was three when her father abandoned the family. Her mother turned to waitressing in a restaurant to make ends meet--a rough beginning for an actress who would, one day, be one of Hollywood's elite. Yvonne's mother wanted her to be in the entertainment field and enrolled her in a local dance school and also saw that she studied dramatics. Yvonne was not shy in the least. She was somewhat akin to Colleen Moore who, like herself, entertained the neighborhood with impromptu productions. In 1937, when Yvonne was 15, her mother took her to Hollywood to try for fame and fortune, but nothing came of it and they returned to Canada. They came back to Hollywood in 1940, where Yvonne would dance in chorus lines at night while she checked in at the studios by day in search of film work. After appearing in unbilled parts in three short films, she finally got a part in a feature.
Although the film Harvard, Here I Come! (1941) was quite lame, Yvonne glowed in her brief appearance as a bathing beauty. The rest of 1942 and 1943 saw her in more uncredited roles in films that did not quite set Hollywood on fire. In The Deerslayer (1943), she played Wah-Tah. The role did not amount to much, but it was much better than the ones she had been handed previously. The next year was about the same as the previous two years. She played small parts as either secretaries, someone's girlfriend, native girls or office clerks. Most aspiring young actresses would have given up and gone home in defeat, but not Yvonne. She trudged on. The next year, started out the same, with mostly bit parts, but later that year, she landed the title role in Salome, Where She Danced (1945) for Universal Pictures. While critics were less than thrilled with the film, it was at long last her big break, and the film was a success for Universal. Now she was rolling.
Her next film was the western comedy Frontier Gal (1945) as Lorena Dumont. After a year off the screen in 1946, she returned in 1947 as Cara de Talavera in Song of Scheherazade (1947), and many agreed that the only thing worth watching in the film was Yvonne. Her next film was the highly regarded Burt Lancaster prison film Brute Force (1947). Time after time, Yvonne continued to pick up leading roles, in such pictures as Slave Girl (1947), Black Bart (1948), Casbah (1948) and River Lady (1948). She had a meaty role in Criss Cross (1949), a gangster movie, as the ex-wife of a hoodlum. At the start of the 1950s, Yvonne enjoyed continued success in lead roles. Her talents were again showcased in movies such as The Desert Hawk (1950), Silver City (1951) and Scarlet Angel (1952). Her last film in 1952 was Hurricane Smith (1952), a picture most fans and critics agree is best forgotten.
In 1956, she appeared in the film that would immortalize her best, The Ten Commandments (1956). She played Sephora, the wife of Moses (Charlton Heston). The film was, unquestionably, a super smash, and is still shown on television today. Her performance served as a springboard to another fine role, this time as Amantha Starr in Band of Angels (1957). In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Yvonne appeared on such television series as Bonanza (1959) and The Virginian (1962). With film roles drying up, she took the role of Lily Munster in the smash series The Munsters (1964). However, she still was not completely through with the big screen. Appearances in such films as McLintock! (1963), The Power (1968), The Seven Minutes (1971) and La casa de las sombras (1976) kept her before the eyes of the movie-going public. Yvonne De Carlo died at age 84 of natural causes on January 8, 2007 in Woodland Hills, California.- Producer
- Art Department
- Production Designer
Iwao Takamoto had recently graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in Los Angeles when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Iwao, his parents and siblings were interned as enemy aliens in the Manzanar internment camp where he learned the rudiments of drawing and animation from two fellow internees who had worked as art directors at Hollywood film studios. When given a chance to leave the camp to pick fruit in Idaho, Iwao applied to Walt Disney for a job as an animator; he spent the weekend before his appointment drawing and sketching almost everything he saw. He got the job as an assistant illustrator working as an apprentice under the tutelage of Disney's "Nine Old Men", particularly Bob Carlson and Milt Kahl. While at Disney, Takamoto worked on both short films and features. In 1961 he left Disney for Hanna-Barbera where he would have a hand in developing many well-known and beloved cartoon characters such as Scooby Doo, George Jetson's dog Astro, and Penelope Pitstop. He retired as Vice President of Special Prohjects for Warner Brothers.- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Stunts
Grand Master Bong Soo Han was the world's foremost practitioner of Hapkido, and is referred to as the "Father of Hapkido" in the Western World. As one of the original senior students to the Founder of Hapkido, Yong Sul Choi, he led a dedicated effort in the development of Hapkido as it is known today.
Grand Master Han first introduced Hapkido into the United States in 1967, although mass exposure did not come until the motion picture "Billy Jack" filled the nation's theaters in 1971. In this film, Grand Master Han gained critical acclaim for creating and staging some of the most breathtaking and realistic fight sequences ever to have graced the silver screen. Up to the release of this film, brief references to martial arts were often portrayed by actors and not by martial artists. Grand Master Han redefined and revolutionized Hollywood's understanding of martial arts by demonstrating a level of martial arts skill previously not seen before, much to the delight of the audience who found it tremendously exciting.
Grand Master Han was the subject of hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles and countless martial arts magazine cover stories. He was a member of the Black Belt Magazine Hall of Fame (1978), the Martial Arts History Museum Hall of Fame (1999) and the Taekwondo Times Magazine Hall of Fame (2003). He was also featured in The Arts and Entertainment documentary, "The Martial Arts," the Wesley Snipes-produced "Master of the Martial Arts," and several other radio, Internet, and television profiles.
In addition to being cited in dozens of martial arts books, Grand Master Han himself wrote many articles on the Way of martial arts, and also authored the book, HAPKIDO: The Korean Art of Self Defense (Ohara Publications, 1974), which is now in its 23rd printing. He also completed a series of ten instructional Hapkido DVD's for worldwide distribution.
Grand Master Bong Soo Han was best known, however, for his indefatigable dedication to the teaching of Hapkido, sharing with thousands the truth and nature of martial arts.- Art Director
- Production Designer
- Art Department
Akira Naitô was an art director and production designer, known for Ronin Gai (1990), Kantsubaki (1992) and A Chaos of Flowers (1988). He died on 8 January 2007 in Kyoto, Japan.- Irma Álvarez was born on 21 November 1933 in Salligueló, Argentina. She was an actress, known for Pai Herói (1979), Encontro com a Morte (1965) and Porto das Caixas (1963). She died on 8 January 2007 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Christian Lund was born on 7 September 1943 in Lund, Skåne, Sweden. Christian was a director, known for Den nya människan (1979), Tjocka släkten (1975) and Ringlek (1982). Christian was married to Carina Olofsson and Sonja Lund. Christian died on 8 January 2007.
- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Gianni Toti was born on 24 June 1924 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for ...E di Shaul e dei sicari sulle vie da Damasco (1973), Alice nel paese delle cartaviglie (1980) and Sabatoventiquattromarzo (1984). He was married to Marinka Dallos. He died on 8 January 2007 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Antonio Vázquez Gallo was born on 22 May 1918 in Havana, Cuba. Antonio Vázquez was a director, known for La vida comienza ahora (1960) and El rojo y el negro (1979). Antonio Vázquez died on 8 January 2007.
- Editor
- Composer
- Sound Department
Alojzy Mol was born on 2 February 1924 in Wesola, Slaskie, Poland [now Wesola, Myslowice, Slaskie, Poland]. He was an editor and composer, known for Around the World with Bolek and Lolek (1977), Bolek i Lolek na Dzikim Zachodzie (1986) and Margo the Mouse (1985). He died on 8 January 2007.- Costume Designer
Georgi Zdravev was born on 2 April 1941 in Radovis, Macedonia, Yugoslavia. Georgi was a costume designer, known for Treto doba (1987), A Weekend of Deceased Persons (1988) and Vreme, zivot (1992). Georgi died on 8 January 2007 in Skoplje, Macedonia.