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Hal Holbrook was an Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor who was one of the great craftsmen of stage and screen. He was best known for his performance as Mark Twain, for which he won a Tony and the first of his ten Emmy Award nominations. Aside from the stage, Holbrook made his reputation primarily on television, and was memorable as Abraham Lincoln, as Senator Hays Stowe on The Bold Ones: The Senator (1970) and as Capt. Lloyd Bucher on Pueblo (1973). All of these roles brought him Emmy Awards, with Pueblo (1973) bringing him two, as Best Lead Actor in a Drama and Actor of the Year - Special. On January 22, 2008, he became the oldest male performer ever nominated for an Academy Award, for his supporting turn in Into the Wild (2007).
He was born Harold Rowe Holbrook, Jr. on February 17, 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio, to Eileen (Davenport), a vaudeville dancer, and Harold Rowe Holbrook, Sr. Raised primarily in South Weymouth, Massachusetts by his paternal grandparents, Holbrook attended the Culver Academies. During World War II, Holbrook served in the Army in Newfoundland. After the war, he attended Denison University, graduating in 1948. While at Denison, Holbrook's senior honors project concerned Mark Twain.
He later developed "Mark Twain Tonight!," the one-man show in which he impersonates the great American writer Mark Twain, aka Samuel Clemens. Holbrook learned his craft on the boards and by appearing in the TV soap opera The Brighter Day (1954). He first played Mark Twain as a solo act in 1954, at Lock Haven State Teachers College in Pennsylvania. The show was a success that created a buzz. After seeing the performance, Ed Sullivan, the host of TV's premier variety show, featured him on The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) on February 12, 1956. This lead to an international tour sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, which included appearances in Iron Curtain countries. Holbrook brought the show to Off-Broadway in 1959. He even played Mark Twain for President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The 1966 "Mark Twain Tonight" Broadway production brought Holbrook even more acclaim, and the Tony Award. The show was taped and Holbrook won an Emmy nomination. He reprised the show on Broadway in 1977 and in 2005. By that time, he had played Samuel Clemens on stage over 2,000 times.
Among Holbrook's more famous roles was "The Major" in the original Broadway production of Arthur Miller's "Incident at Vichy", as Martin Sheen's significant other in the controversial and acclaimed TV movie That Certain Summer (1972), the first TV movie to sympathetically portray homosexuality, and as Abraham Lincoln in Carl Sandburg's acclaimed TV biography of the 16th President Lincoln (1974), a role he also portrayed in excellent performances too in North & South: Book 1, North & South (1985) and North & South: Book 2, Love & War (1986). He also is known for his portrayal of the enigmatic "Deep Throat" in All the President's Men (1976), one of the major cinema events of the mid-'70s. In the 1990s, he had a regular supporting role in the TV series Evening Shade (1990), playing Burt Reynolds' character's father-in-law.
Hal Holbrook died on January 23, 2021, at 95 years, in Beverly Hills. He was buried in McLemoresville Cemetery in Tennessee with his wife Dixie Carter.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Patricia Ann Ruth Noble was born on February 3, 1944 in Sydney, New South Wales to a popular Australian theater family. Her father, Buster Noble, was a well-known comedian, singer and dancer, and her mother, Helen de Paul, was a noted choreographer and producer. At the age of six, Patsy Ann, as she was known, performed on the Saturday radio program, "Anthony Horden's Children's Party". She also worked in her parents' stage productions and variety show. At age 14, Patsy Ann became one of the youngest qualified ballet teachers in Australia. In 1960, at age 16, she made her first television appearance as a guest on Keith Walshe's Youth Show (1959). Impressed with the youngster, Brian Henderson, the Australian equivalent of Dick Clark, immediately signed her as a regular on Bandstand (1958).
Around that time, Patsy Ann signed a deal with the HMV record label and issued her debut single, "I Love You So Much It Hurts", in November 1960. She released three more singles on HMV, of which "Good Looking Boy" became her biggest hit when it reached #6 in Melbourne and #16 in Sydney. In 1961, she was the winner of the first Logie Award for the Best Female Singer on Australian Television. She followed that with a successful acting debut at the Independent Theatre, Sydney, playing the lead role of Carmel in 'The Grotto'. Shortly thereafter, Patsy Ann and her mother left for London to further her career. She launched her British career in 1963 and shared her first BBC radio show with The Beatles, with whom she also appeared on British television. During this period, she recorded for EMI (England and France) with some chart success and performed at the London Palladium and at the Olympia Theatre in Paris.
By 1965, she had turned to acting, taking the role of Francesca in the British thriller Love Is a Woman (1966). She toured England with Cliff Richard and began to work on English television in dramatic and variety shows. In 1967, she married law student Allan Sharpe. During that year, she changed her stage name from Patsy Ann to Trisha and continued to work in British television and film. In her early 20s, she appeared on an Engelbert Humperdinck musical special and was seen by an American producer, who signed her to star in revue at the Las Vegas Sands Hotel. After a six-month engagement, she moved to Los Angeles and made her home there, making guest appearances on various television series. Trisha returned to Australia briefly in the early 1970s and starred in the stage musical 'Sweet Charity'. After seven years of marriage, she and Allan divorced and she threw herself into her work. Upon her return to the United States, she worked extensively in television series, miniseries and feature films. In 1976, she wed American model Scott MacKenzie and the following year gave birth to their son, Patrick. However, after four years of marriage, the couple divorced in 1980.
Despite personal setbacks, Trisha's acting career continued to thrive as she co-starred with Don Knotts and Tim Conway in The Private Eyes (1980) and she landed the role of Detective Rosie Johnson in the Aaron Spelling/Robert Stack police drama Strike Force (1981). In 1983, her father, Buster, had a heart attack and was not expected to live long. She decided to leave her successful acting career in Hollywood to return home to Australia to be with her family. She enjoyed seven years with her father before his death in July 1990. In 1985, Trisha married pharmaceutical scientist Peter Field and started a mineral-water business, Noble Beverages. Several years later, though, her third marriage ended in divorce and the business fell on hard times. At that point, she decided to sell the business and get back to her first love, show business.
In 1997, a 25-song CD collection of her early 1960s recordings was released: "The Story of Patsy Ann Noble: Hits & Rarities". In August 1997, she filmed a small role in the CBS miniseries Blonde (2001) and was cast in a secret role in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002). Shortly thereafter, Trisha was cast to co-star with David Campbell in the musical 'Shout!' as Thelma O'Keefe, mother of Australian rock 'n' roll star, Johnny O'Keefe. The musical opened on January 4, 2001, in Melbourne, and a cast recording followed in March. To top it all, she was nominated in May for an Australian Entertainment MO Award in the category: Female Musical Theatre Performer of the Year for her role in 'Shout!' Her last film credit was Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005). One of her most recent roles was playing Miss Jacobs/Mrs Crown in the Australian stage production of 'Ladies in Black' in 2017.
Trisha Noble died after an 18 month battle with mesothelioma on January 23, 2021, aged 76. The location of her death has not been revealed.- Producer
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Larry King was born on 19 November 1933 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and actor, known for Ghostbusters (1984), Enemy of the State (1998) and Bee Movie (2007). He was married to Shawn Ora Engemann, Julie Alexander, Sharon Lepore, Alene Akins, Mickey Sutphin, Annette Kaye and Freda Miller. He died on 23 January 2021 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Writer
- Producer
- Director
Blacklisted writer in the 1950s, a victim of the HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee), he still continued to write under pseudonyms as did many other blacklisted writers such as Ring Lardner Jr. and Dalton Trumbo, and his biggest contribution during that time was probably his writing work with other blacklisted writers Arnold Manoff & Abraham Polonsky on the You Are There (1953) TV segments starring Walter Cronkite. Of large importance is his screenplay for the dark comedy about blacklisted screenwriters, The Front (1976) starring Woody Allen. The blacklisted writers in the deli are based on a composite of him, Manoff & Polonsky. After he graduated from Dartmouth, he wrote for The New Yorker magazine and also the G.I. weekly "Yank" during World War II. He had barely started working in Hollywood when he was blacklisted. He is a recipient of The Writers Guild of America East Lifetime Achievement Award and he also wrote the book "Inside Out: A Memoir of the Blacklist". Though unfairly blacklisted by Hollywood for his political alliances, luckily he recovered to have a long remarkable career.- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Tony Ferrer was born on 12 June 1934 in Macabebe, Pampanga, Philippines. He was an actor and producer, known for Sabotage (1966), Ang agila at ang falcon (1980) and Legs Katawan Babae (1981). He was married to Imelda Ilanan. He died on 23 January 2021 in Pasig City, Philippines.- Actor
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Marty Brill was born on 6 May 1932 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Soupy Sales Show (1976), One in a Million (1980) and What's Happening!! (1976). He died on 23 January 2021.- Producer
- Additional Crew
Alberto Grimaldi is a fine example of a lawyer who become film producer. His first contacts with cinema were of a legal nature, but these slowly led to production. By the early 1960s he had created his company Produzioni Europee Associate (PEA), and was very successful when he distributed Joaquín Luis Romero Marchant's «La venganza del Zorro» (1962), the second European western shot in Almería, Spain, where Sergio Leone had also made his first western, «Per un pugno di dollari». The filmmaker was having trouble with his producers for its sequel, he sought legal advice, and met Grimaldi, who became the majority investor in «Per qualche dollaro in più». With the following success and a third western, Leone turned into one of the greatest European filmmakers and PEA became a significant production company.
In 1967 another encounter and litigation diversified Grimaldi's profession. When Federico Fellini collapsed, after meeting many obstacles to do «Il viaggio di G. Mastorna» for producer Dino de Laurentiis, Grimaldi freed the maestro from the contract and produced him the short «Toby Dammit», for the film «Histoires extraordinaires». Thenceforth, while still producing more commercial films, Grimaldi became associated with several Italian filmmakers who also had artistic aspirations. He produced Gillo Pontecorvo's «Queimada», Elio Petri's «Un tranquillo posto di campagna», Pier Paolo Pasolini's 'Trilogy of Life' and «Salò o Le 120 giornate di Sodoma», Bernardo Bertolucci's «Ultimo tango a Parigi» and Francesco Rosi's «Cadaveri eccellenti»...
In the 1970s Grimaldi had different setbacks and his production activities decreased. First, «Il Casanova di Federico Fellini» was a financial failure, and the «Novecento» proved too problematic, although the cast and production values were attractive for the international markets. Bertolucci proposed a cut of 375 minutes and wanted to release the film in two parts, but Grimaldi had to deliver a 195-minute version to Paramount for the American market. When the producer decided to make the contractual version without the filmmaker and they ended in court, Bertolucci finally agreed and made a 280-minute version, but for Twentieth Century Fox. Then, in the next decade Grimaldi and Leone were reunited for «Once Upon a Time in America», but fearing a five-hour film after reading the final script, he stepped back and impresario Arnon Milchan took charge. Grimaldi only produced Fellini's nostalgic comedy «Ginger and Fred» in the 1980s.
Sixteen years passed until Grimaldi released a new production, when «Gangs of New York» opened in 2002. Under Martin Scorsese's direction, it was shot -like in the old times- in the Cinecittà studios in Rome, but it also had problems: a few months before shooting, Grimaldi sued Universal, Walt Disney, executive producer Michael Ovitz and other persons related to the film, claiming they had denied him the producer credit of a project he had planned for 20 years.
In 2007 the Valladolid International Film Festival honored Grimaldi with a retrospective of his more significant films, and the book dedicated to his work «The Art of Producing with Success» by José María Otero and Paola Savino, was launched on the occasion. Alberto Grimaldi was also awarded for the body of his work by the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists.- Geronimo Meynier was born on 5 July 1941 in Fiume, Italy [now Rijeka, Primorje-Gorski Kotar, Croatia]. He was an actor, known for Romeo e Giulietta (1964), The Woman in the Painting (1955) and First Love (1959). He died on 23 January 2021 in Milan, Italy.
- Producer
- Talent Agent
Larry Robins was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Larry was a producer and talent agent, known for Sex/Life (2021). Larry died on 23 January 2021 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Music Department
- Composer
- Actor
Jonas Gwangwa was born on 19 October 1937 in Orlando East, South Africa. He was a composer and actor, known for Cry Freedom (1987), Generations: The Legacy (2014) and Soweto Green (1995). He was married to Violet Molebatsi. He died on 23 January 2021 in Johannesburg, South Africa.- Song Yoo-jung was born on 8 June 1994 in South Korea. She was an actress, known for School 2017 (2017), Dear My Name (2019) and Make a Wish (2014). She died on 23 January 2021 in Seoul, South Korea.
- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Charles Dyer was born on 7 July 1928 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950), Staircase (1969) and The Knack... and How to Get It (1965). He was married to Fiona Jean Thomson. He died on 23 January 2021 in England.- Born in Romania in 1921, he emigrated to the USA, settling in the Bronx when he was 2 yrs. old. In 2009, he decided to do 'stand-Up Comedy'. Famous for his "Hershel, the magnificent Jew". Another is, "The Question for the Nurse". He does an half-hour entirely in Yiddish.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Sumiko Sakamoto was born on 25 November 1936 in Osaka, Japan. She was an actress, known for The Pornographers (1966), The Ballad of Narayama (1983) and Watashi wa makenai (1966). She was married to Keijiro Ishii. She died on 23 January 2021 in Kumamoto City, Japan.- Mykolas Dorofejus was born on 30 November 1961 in Radviliskis, Lithuanian SSR, USSR. He was an actor, known for The Assets (2014), Elizabeth I (2005) and Otryad (1984). He died on 23 January 2021 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
- Onerealdcode was an actor, known for Onerealdcode feat. Slime: Get Active (2020) and Onerealdcode: Spinning Yo Ben (2021). He died on 23 January 2021 in Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA.
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- Writer
- Director
John Frey worked internationally as an actor, screenwriter, and teacher in theater, film, and television for over 25 years.
John's screenwriting credits include "Cabaret Maxime" (dir. Bruno de Almeida), opened in February 2020 at the Metrograph Theater in NYC (Best Film Award and Best Screenplay Nominee - Portuguese Society of Authors, Portugal, 2019), "Operação Outono" (dir. Bruno de Almeida, Best Adapted Screenplay Award - Academy of Portuguese Cinema, Portugal, 2013), "The Lovebirds" (dir. Bruno de Almeida, Best Screenplay Award - Festival de Cine de Ourense, Spain, 2009), "The Collection" (dir. Bruno de Almeida, New York City, 2005).
Film acting credits include "The Hungry Ghosts" (dir. Michael Imperioli), "On the Run" (dir. Bruno de Almeida), "The Collection" (dir. Bruno de Almeida), "15 Months in May" (dir. Anja Murmann) (all USA); "Call Girl" (dir. António-Pedro vasconcelos), "Em Câmara Lenta" (dir. Fernando Lopes), "The Lovebirds" (dir. Bruno de Almeida), "Operação Outono" (dir. Bruno de Almeida), "A Palestra" (dir. Bruno de Almeida, produced by Guimarães European Capital of Culture) and "Cabaret Maxime" (dir. Bruno de Almeida) (all Portugal); "The Wake" (dir. Michael Kvium, Christian Lemmerz, Denmark); "Benoît Brisefer: Les Taxis Rouges" (dir. Manuel Pradal) with Jean Reno (France). Television acting credits include "Rescue Me", with Dennis Leary (USA), and the TV miniseries "Mata Hari", with Rutger Hauer and Gérard Depardieu (Russia). Theater acting credits include "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", "27 Wagons Full of Cotton", "Miss Julie", "Of Mice and Men", and the Bruce Nauman Retrospective at DIA Center for the Arts, written and directed by Tate Award winner Mark Wallinger.
He established the John Frey Studio for Actors in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2009 (Meisner Technique Acting School). He was the artistic director of Below The Belt Theatre Company in Lisbon. He directed critically acclaimed productions of "Danny and the Deep Blue Sea" and "The MotherF**ker with the Hat" in Lisbon with Below the Belt, as well as various staged readings including Denis Johnson's "Love's Debris" in conjunction with the Disquiet International Literary Program. In New York City, John Frey directed "Summer and Smoke", "Talk to Me Like the Rain" and "Let Me Listen and Call it Clover" on Theater Row. John Frey was an acting teacher at the William Esper Studio in NYC.- Art Department
- Production Designer
- Set Decorator
Patrick Colpaert was born on 10 April 1957 in Lille, Nord, France. He was a production designer and set decorator, known for Joyeux Noel (2005), Until the End of the World (1991) and The Bodyguard (1984). He died on 23 January 2021 in Levallois-Perret, Hauts-de-Seine, France.- 18 Veno was born on 24 May 2001. He was an actor, known for Veno: Trappin (2020), 18 Veno: Partments (2020) and Bossman Black feat. 18 Veno: Danger (2020). He died on 23 January 2021 in Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA.
- Rama Aravind was an actress, known for Nilukada Nakshatra (1995) and Vasantha Purnima (1993). She died on 23 January 2021 in Bangalore, India.
- Sylvanus Blackman was born on 1 July 1933 in Bridgetown, Barbados. He died on 23 January 2021 in (undisclosed).
- Robert Rowland was born on 28 February 1966 in Bowdon, Cheshire, England, UK. He was married to Lisa Marie. He died on 23 January 2021 in the Bahamas.
- Jorge Sousa Costa was born on 2 October 1928 in Lisbon, Portugal. He was an actor, known for Via Macau (1966), Anatomia de uma História de Amor (1969) and Retalhos da Vida de Um Médico (1963). He died on 23 January 2021 in Lisbon, Portugal.
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Producer
- Cinematographer
Ali Utku was born on 7 April 1960 in Eskisehir, Turkey. He was a producer and cinematographer, known for Karsilasma (2003), Melekler Evi (2000) and The Third Page (1999). He died on 23 January 2021.