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Andy Hallett is from the tiny Cape Cod village of Osterville, part of the town of Barnstable. He attended Barnstable High School and then Assumption College in Worcester. Always shy, he didn't begin singing until Patti LaBelle invited him onstage at a concert. After moving to Los Angeles he worked as a runner for an agency and then as a property manager and personal assistant. When Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) creator Joss Whedon saw Hallett singing in a Universal City blues revue, Whedon conceived the character of The Host, an anagogic demon who reads people when they open up through singing karaoke. Hallett was invited to try out and got the part, his first job ever as an actor.- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Unlike many musicians who started to learn music while still in their childhood, Maurice Jarre was already late in his teens when he discovered music and decided to make a career in that field. Against his father's will, he enrolled at Conservatoire de Paris where he studied percussions, composition and harmonies. He also met and studied under Joseph Martenot, inventor of the Martenot Waves, an electronic keyboard that prefigured the modern synthesizer.
After leaving the Conservatoire, Jarre played percussion and Martenot Waves for a while at Jean-Louis Barrault's theater. In 1950, another actor-director, Jean Vilar , asked Jarre to score his production of Kleist's 'The Princess of Homburg', the first score Jarre wrote. Shortly after, Vilar created the 'Théâtre National Populaire' and hired Jarre as permanent composer, an association that lasted 12 years.
In 1951, filmmaker Georges Franju asked him to write the music of his 23 minutes documentary Hôtel des Invalides (1952), Jarre's first composition for the movie screen. His first full-length feature, again directed by Georges Franju, was Head Against the Wall (1959) followed by Franju's best known film, Eyes Without a Face (1960).
Jarre's career took a spectacular turn in 1961 when producer Sam Spiegel asked him to work on David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia (1962). Initially, three composers were supposed to write the score, but for various reasons, Jarre ended up writing all the music himself and won his first Oscar. His second collaboration with David Lean on Doctor Zhivago (1965) earned him another Oscar and obtained a level of success rarely achieved by a film score. He collaborated with Lean again on Ryan's Daughter (1970) and A Passage to India (1984) for which he received a third Academy Award. He was set to score Lean's next movie, 'Nostromo', but the director became ill and died before the film could ever get made.
He also worked for directors as diverse as William Wyler (The Collector (1965)); John Huston (three films); Franco Zeffirelli (Jesus of Nazareth (1977)); Volker Schlöndorff (The Tin Drum (1979) [The Tin Drum] and Circle of Deceit (1981) [Circle of Deceit]); Peter Weir (four films); Michael Apted (Gorillas in the Mist (1988)) and Alfonso Arau (A Walk in the Clouds (1995)).
Mainly perceived as a symphonist and known for his prominent use of percussions, Jarre often integrated ethnic instruments in his orchestrations like cithara on 'Lawrence of Arabia' or fujara (an old Slovak flute) on 'The Tin Drum'. During the eighties, he incorporated synthetic sounds in his music, writing his first entirely electronic score for The Year of Living Dangerously (1982). His son Jean-Michel Jarre is a well-known popular musician.- Actor
- Soundtrack
American B-Western star and singing cowboy Monte Hale was born Samuel Buren Ely in 1919 in Ada, Oklahoma, to Herod and Helen Ely. He learned to sing and play guitar at an early age. In Houston and later Galveston, Texas, he played for vaudeville shows and local rodeos. During World War II a job as a replacement guitar player with the Stars Over Texas War Bond Drive led to a friendship with several Republic Pictures stars and staff. At the completion of the tour, the Republic contingent recommended young Hale to studio president Herbert J. Yates. Hale went to California and met Yates, who saw promise in the tall, good-looking musician, and signed him to a seven-year contract, and promptly discarded his birth name for the more appealing name of Monte Hale. After a quick apprenticeship in a couple of bit parts, Hale was given the lead in Home on the Range (1946), which led to a five-year run as one of Republic's popular singing-cowboy stars.
Following the demise of the "B" western in the early 1950s, Hale toured the country as part of a musical cowboy act in rodeos and circuses. He made a few television guest appearances and taught James Dean his rope tricks during their work together on Giant (1956). Hale thereafter retired from films. In his later years, he wrote songs and continued making appearances at Western film fan conventions.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Kenneth Harp was born on 28 March 1924 in Napa, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Fear and Desire (1952), The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (1956) and Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955). He died on 29 March 2009 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Iris Junik was born on 26 August 1968 in Wolfen, German Democratic Republic. She was an actress, known for Marienhof (1992), HeliCops - Einsatz über Berlin (1998) and Tatort (1970). She died on 29 March 2009 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
- Irvin 'Zabo' Koszewski was born on 20 August 1924 in Camden, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for Things Are Tough All Over (1982), Nice Dreams (1981) and You Bet Your Life (1950). He died on 29 March 2009 in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Cinematographer
- Editor
- Director
Helen Levitt was born on 31 August 1913 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. She was a cinematographer and editor, known for The Quiet One (1948), An Affair of the Skin (1963) and Another Light (1952). She died on 29 March 2009 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.- Additional Crew
Epoy Molina is known for SineSerye (2007). Epoy was married to Cathy Garcia-Molina. Epoy died on 29 March 2009 in Baguio City, Philippines.- Helvecia Viera was an actress, known for Versus (2005), Don Floro (2004) and Jappening con Ja (1978). She died on 29 March 2009 in Santiago, Chile.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Kliment Denchev was born on 26 May 1939 in Sofia, Bulgaria. He was an actor and director, known for Bokser (1967), Magareshki raboti (1979) and Hollow Point (1996). He died on 29 March 2009 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.- Miroslav Moravec was born on 6 June 1939 in Prague, Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977), Lady Macbeth von Mzensk (1992) and The Secret of Steel City (1979). He died on 29 March 2009 in Prague, Czech Republic.
- Sandra Jatahy Pesavento was born on 22 February 1946 in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She was married to Roberto Pesavento. She died on 29 March 2009 in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
- Richard Golembiewski (aka Dick Nitelinger) passed away on 29 March 2009 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, from a heart attack while shoveling snow. He was the son of George Golembiewski and Bernadine Thomas, and had a brother Patrick.
Golembiewski, engineer by profession, was an expert on Milwaukee's TV history. His detailed "Milwaukee Television History: The Analog Years," was the product of more than a decade of research, and was published in 2008.
He also created a web site, that chronicled the hosted and non-hosted horror movie shows in Green Bay, Madison, Milwaukee.
Golembiewski worked the microphone at WMSE-FM (91.7) under the name Dick Nitelinger, a persona he kept alive at his Horror Hosts site. - Music Department
- Soundtrack
Roger Burn is known for I, Tonya (2017), Sideways (2004) and Another Gay Movie (2006). Roger died on 29 March 2009 in Oceanside, California, USA.- Additional Crew
Roman Harte was born on 22 June 1924. He is known for Sophie's Choice (1982). He died on 29 March 2009 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Eugène Godfried was born on 23 October 1952 in Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles. He died on 29 March 2009 in Willemstad, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles.
- Lou Saban was born on 13 October 1921 in Brookfield, Illinois, USA. He was married to Joyce McCord and Lorraine. He died on 29 March 2009 in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA.
- Katia Castillo was an actress, known for La septima puerta (2004), Protagonistas de novela 3 - El juicio final: Colombia (2004) and The Story of Fenist (2001). She died on 29 March 2009 in Bogota, Colombia.