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French director François Truffaut began to assiduously go to the movies at age seven. He was also a great reader but not a good pupil. He left school at 14 and started working. In 1947, aged 15, he founded a film club and met André Bazin, a French critic, who became his protector. Bazin helped the delinquent Truffaut and also when he was put in jail because he deserted the army. In 1953 Truffaut published his first movie critiques in "Les Cahiers du Cinema." In this magazine Truffaut, and some of his friends as passionate as he was, became defenders of what they call the "author policy". In 1954, as a test, Truffaut directed his first short film. Two years afterwords he assisted Roberto Rossellini with some later abandoned projects.
The year 1957 was an important one for him: he married Madeleine Morgenstern, the daughter of an important film distributor, and founded his own production company, Les Films du Carrosse; named after Jean Renoir's The Golden Coach (1952). He also directed The Mischief Makers (1957), considered the real first step of his cinematographic work. His other big year was 1959: the huge success of his first full-length film, The 400 Blows (1959), was the beginning of the New Wave, a new way of making movies in France. This was also the year his first daughter, Laura Truffaut, was born.
From 1959 until his death, François Truffaut's life and films are mixed up. Let's only note he had two other daughters Eva Truffaut (b. 1961) and Josephine (b. 1982, with French actress Fanny Ardant). Truffaut was the most popular and successful French film director ever. His main themes were passion, women, childhood and faithfulness.- Like many actors of his day, George Hickman made a long career out of being seen but hardly ever heard. The rough looking Hickman started in making films in the mid 1920s when he was just 18 years old. He continued to make them until military service interrupted his career. Once his enlistment was up, he came back to Hollywood to resume his acting career were he had a few credited roles in the 1940s but he found steadier work as a stand-in and as an extra.
By the 1960s, Hickman got his big break when he became the stand-in for Paul Brinegar on the television show Rawhide. This lead to steady work through the entire duration of the series. His work on Rawhide even lead to a handful of credited appearances. After the series ended, Hickman started appearing in several different television westerns and dramas where the scenes required rough looking extras.
With the downfall of television westerns, Hickman's work began to drop off but he continue to find work as bums and barflies. Like a lot of extras, Hickman continued working until the end devoting his entire adult life using his unique appearance to add a little touch of authenticity to whatever scenes he appeared in. - Lajos Öze was born on 27 April 1935 in Szentes, Hungary. He was an actor, known for The Witness (1969), III. Richárd (1973) and Ártatlan gyilkosok (1973). He was married to Thoma, Ildikó. He died on 21 October 1984 in Budapest, Hungary.
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Leonardo Cortese was born on 20 May 1915 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a director and actor, known for Art. 519 codice penale (1952), Violenza sul lago (1954) and Cavalleria rusticana (1939). He was married to Margherita Ligios. He died on 21 October 1984 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Writer
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Thomas Francis Morgan Walsh was an author of mystery and suspense stories, with some brilliant crime novels to his credit, contemporaneous with Cornell Woolrich, but unduly neglected and much less remembered.
He was born in New York City on September 19, 1908, the son of Thomas Walsh and Margaret Hefferine, Walsh started writing for his high school paper and continued writing while he attended Columbia University, he would later leave Columbia mid term of his sophomore year and move to Baltimore, where he took a job as a journalist for the Baltimore Sun working as a police beat reporter, and also working for the U.S. Army Historical Branch, but by 1933 he retired from journalism and turned to writing short stories.
His writing career began with writing crime stories under the editorial tutelage of Joseph Shaw, the legendary chief of Black Mask Magazine, Walsh wrote and sold crime and suspense stories to several magazines, including Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Dime Detective, Good Housekeeping, Woman's Home Companion, and other periodicals.
As a self-employed writer, Walsh published more than fifty short stories and eleven novels, many of them featuring hard-shelled, tender-hearted Irish-American cops largely working alone, but in their ordinary tours of duty, and each of them set in the streets of New York City and depicting various elements of the city's vital population.
By 1950, he had published his first novel "Nightmare in Manhattan" for which he won the Edgar Allen Poe award for best first mystery. The novel was made into a movie called "Union Station" starring William Holden, Barry Fitzgerald and Nancy Olsen. Walsh wrote another 11 crime novels and continued to write short fiction long after the last of the pulps had folded, his other novels include, "Dark Window", "Dangerous Passenger", "The Action of the Tiger", and "The Eye of the Needle", and "Night Watch", which was made into the 1954 movie, "Pushover," starring Fred MacMurray and Kim Novak.
Walsh died October 21, 1984, in Danbury, Connecticut at the age of 76.- Ion Fintesteanu is a famous Romanian film and theater actor .He was born on March 18, 1899 in Bucuresti, Romania. He graduated from Conservatory of Dramatic Art in 1921.In 1926, he plays first role in the movie Datorie si sacrificiu . Other notable roles in O scrisoare pierduta (1953), Afacerea Protar (1955), Citadela sfarâmata (1957). Play on the stage of the theater ''National I.L. Caragiale'' in Bucharest.He was a University professor at the Faculty of Theater within the Institute of Theater and Cinematographic Art and head of the actor's art department. He was awarded the title of Artist of the People.He died on October 21 1984 in Bucharest, Romania.
- Lillie Shelton was born on 31 October 1896. She was an actress, known for They Call Me Bruce (1982), The Gong Show Movie (1980) and The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (1979). She died on 21 October 1984 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Adolf Fischer was born on 18 November 1900 in Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire. He was an actor and production manager, known for Murderers Among Us (1946), Das Mädchen vom Moorhof (1958) and Verwirrung der Liebe (1959). He died on 21 October 1984 in Potsdam, German Democratic Republic.- Charles Gilbert was an actor, known for The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1962), Moonstrike (1963) and BBC Sunday-Night Play (1960). He died on 21 October 1984.
- Michael Heppell was born on 28 December 1907 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Fighting Playboy (1933), Convicted (1938) and Stampede (1936). He died on 21 October 1984 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
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Sven Buemann was born on 3 December 1902 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was an actor, known for I de lyse nætter (1948), Moster fra Mols (1943) and Gengæld (1955). He died on 21 October 1984 in Denmark.- Eva Fiebig was born on 21 May 1900 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for Hänsel und Gretel (1971), A Love Story (1954) and The Captain from Köpenick (1956). She died on 21 October 1984 in Hamburg, West Germany.
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Dalibor C. Vackár was born on 19 September 1906 in Korcula, Croatia. He was a composer, known for Divá Bára (1949), The Proud Princess (1952) and Podobizna (1948). He died on 21 October 1984 in Prague, Czechoslovakia.- Sound Department
Albert D. Cuesta was born on 29 February 1912 in Spain. He is known for McCloud (1970), McMillan & Wife (1971) and Black Sheep Squadron (1976). He died on 21 October 1984 in Los Angeles, California, USA.