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A one-time pin-up beauty and magazine story model, Barbara Loden studied acting in New York in the early 50s and was on the Broadway boards within the decade. She was discovered for films by legendary producer/director Elia Kazan who was impressed with what she did in a small role as Montgomery Clift's secretary in Wild River (1960). He moved her up to feature status with her next role as Warren Beatty's wanton sister in his classic Splendor in the Grass (1961). As Kazan's protégé, she appeared as part of Kazan's stage company in the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater's production of After the Fall, winning the Tony and Outer Critic's Circle awards for that dazzling performance. An oddly entrancing, delicate blonde beauty possessed with a Marilyn Monroe-like vulnerability, she impressed in two of his other stage productions as well - But For Whom Charlie and The Changeling . After appearing in the failed movie Fade In (1973) with Burt Reynolds, she married Kazan and went into semi-retirement. Barbara wrote, directed and starred, however, in a bold independent film entitled Wanda (1970) and became an unexpected art house darling, distinguishing herself as one of the few woman directors whose work was theatrically-released during the period. She won praise in all three departments, nabbing the Venice Film Festival's International Critics Prize. Supposedly discouraged by a doubting, perhaps even resentful Kazan, Barbara never followed up on this success. She expressed interest and was in the midst of putting together another film, based on the novella The Awakening by Kate Chopin, when she learned in 1978 she had breast cancer. Barbara died two and a half years later, at age 48, after the cancer spread to her liver - before the project ever came to fruition. The Hollywood industry lost a burgeoning talent who just might have opened doors for other women directors had she been given the time.- Composer
- Music Department
- Script and Continuity Department
Australian-born composer and multi-instrumentalist, trained on piano, saxophone, violin and trombone. The son of a jazz musician, he grew up and was educated in Melbourne. After serving with the Army Medical Corps during the war years, he studied at the University Conservatorium of Music and graduated with a diploma in composition. Banks moved to England in 1950 to continue his training under the Hungarian émigré Matyas Seiber, while supporting himself financially as a sideman in a dance band.
During the 1950's, he composed a number of concertos and chamber music which attracted critical notice. He won several prestigious awards, including the Sir Arnold Bax Society Medal (1959). One of his works, 'Four Pieces for Orchestra' was performed by the London Philharmonic in 1954. Due in part to his father's legacy, he also remained very much steeped in jazz, both as a player and as arranger. He became more prolific as a jazz composer after cultivating a friendship with Cleo Laine and John Dankworth. The resulting creative partnership spawned a series of works which fused classical music and jazz, including "Settings from Roget" (1966). He later created pieces like 'Nexus' (1971), for jazz quartet and symphony orchestra; and 'Take 8' (1973) for jazz and string quartet. Furthermore, Banks was at the cutting edge of combining traditional acoustic instruments with electronics, including using some of the first available synthesizers, eventually becoming a founding member of the British Society for Electronic Music.
Primarily for commercial reasons, Don Banks joined Hammer studios in 1962. He wrote several atmospheric scores for thrillers and horror films, working in tandem with musical directors Philip Martell and John Hollingsworth. Best among a body a body of diverse and polished works, are his jazzy, typically 60's 'film noir' score for Hysteria (1965); his eerie, dramatic theme for Nightmare (1964), full of foreboding and hidden terror; and the equally evocative score for The Reptile (1966), with its predominant Indian motifs. Banks left Hammer after five years to resume, what he regarded as more serious musical pursuits. In 1972, he returned to Australia to take up a position with the Canberra School of Music, followed thereafter by appointments to the music board of the Australian Council for the Arts and as head of composition to the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music. Physically frail and afflicted for the last eight years of his life by leukemia, he died in September 1980, aged 56.- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Obrad Gluscevic was born on 17 January 1913 in Metkovic, Yugoslavia. He was a director and writer, known for Vuk samotnjak (1972), Lito vilovito (1964) and Goli covjek (1968). He died on 5 September 1980 in Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia.- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Pharic Maclaren was born in 1923 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK. He was a producer and director, known for Huntingtower (1978), The Prior Commitment (1969) and Scobie in September (1969). He was married to Doris McLatchie. He died on 5 September 1980 in Kelvindale, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK.- Don Witty was born on 19 September 1914. Don was a writer, known for Kraft Theatre (1947) and Encounter (1952). Don died on 5 September 1980 in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, USA.
- Nikolai Valyano was born on 12 May 1903 in Stavropol-Kavkazsky, Stavropol uyezd, Stavropol Governorate, Russian Empire [now Stavropol, Stavropol Krai, Russia]. He was an actor, known for Granitsa (1935), Sentimentalnyi Roman (1976) and Tri tolstyaka (1966). He died on 5 September 1980 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia].