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- William Andrews was born on 16 December 1925 in Chicago. He was an actor, known for Saturday Night Fever (1977), The Wanderers (1979) and Ryan's Hope (1975). He died on 22 December 2018 in Exeter Township, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Paddy Ashdown was born on 27 February 1941 in New Delhi, British India. He was married to Jane Courtenay. He died on 22 December 2018 in the UK.
- Zinaida Sorochinskaya was born on 25 April 1925 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR. She was an actress, known for The Big Space Travel (1975), Syshchik (1980) and Ispravlennomu verit (1959). She died on 22 December 2018 in Moscow, Russia.
- Actor
- Composer
John Turner was born in Bristol in 1947 and educated at Cotham Grammar School. After leaving school aged sixteen, he was a musician in France and Germany; had a short spell as a Sapper in the army; but was rather more successful selling vacuum-cleaners door to door.
He later managed The Troubadour folk club in Clifton, Bristol, became a session musician (bass) on several records produced locally, and was a founder member of The Pigsty Hill Light Orchestra. During a stint as a travelling Guitar teacher, he met his future wife, Pat Vedmore, who taught at one of the schools he visited.
His BBC career began in 1974, when he composed the music for a TV series, The Age of Innocence, and during the seventies he also presented a folk music programme for BBC Radio Bristol. This began a lifelong fascination with local radio, which encouraged him to learn the techniques of interviewing and presenting, and led to him taking over the mid-morning programme, Compass. This included the highly popular phone-in section, Person to Person, during which he would play devil's advocate to a succession of callers.
He presented Compass for many years, often with a co-presenter, such as Jenni Mills and Polly Lloyd, but a change in Radio Bristol's management in the 2000s, led to him being moved to present the Breakfast show, with which he never seemed to be entirely comfortable. In 2007, aged 60, he decided to retire from broadcasting and spent much of his increased leisure time with trips to France, one of his favourite countries.- Jesferh was an actor, known for Varietés (1971). He died on 22 December 2018 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
- John Jay Douglas was born on 8 March 1922 in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. He was an actor, known for Violent Zone (1989). He died on 22 December 2018.
- Alfred Mechtersheimer was born on 13 August 1939 in Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. He died on 22 December 2018.
- Enzo Boschi was born on 27 February 1942 in Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy. He died on 22 December 2018 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Soundtrack
Jimmy Work was born on 29 March 1924 in Akron, Ohio, USA. He was married to Ruth Elizabeth Coltharp. He died on 22 December 2018.- Argo Aa Jimmy was an actor, known for Udah Putusin Aja! (2018), Shy Shy Cat (2016) and Enak Sama Enak (2012). He died on 22 December 2018 in Pandeglang, Banten, Indonesia.
- Additional Crew
Simha Rotem was born on 10 February 1925 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. He is known for Uprising (2001), Les combattants de l'ombre - Des résistants européens contre le nazisme (2011) and Shoah (1985). He died on 22 December 2018 in Jerusalem, Israel.- Talal bin Abdul Aziz was born in 1931 in Saudi Arabia. He was married to Mona Al-Solh. He died on 22 December 2018 in Saudi Arabia.