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- Linda Bates was born in Follansbee, West Virginia, USA. She was an actress, known for Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000), Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm (1999) and Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time (2021). She was married to Robert B. Weide. She died on 25 December 2022 in California, USA.
- Bob Penny was born on 29 June 1935 in Anniston, Alabama, USA. He was an actor, known for Mississippi Burning (1988), Forrest Gump (1994) and My Cousin Vinny (1992). He died on 25 December 2022 in Huntsville, Alabama, USA.
- Additional Crew
- Actor
- Producer
Hubert Wells was born on 15 August 1934 in Budapest, Hungary. He was an actor and producer, known for Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), The Phantom (1996) and Wolf (1994). He died on 25 December 2022 in Thousand Oaks, California, USA.- Actor
- Soundtrack
John Leddy was born on 12 January 1930 in The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. He was an actor, known for Zeg 'ns Aaa (1981), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) and Bijltjesdag (2017). He was married to Jannig Greydanis and Helen van Meurs. He died on 25 December 2022 in Den Bosch, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands.- Veteran character actor Lawrence (Larry) Wolf was born in New York City, studied acting with Stella Adler and is best known as an ensemble member of filmmaker Robert Downey Sr.'s legendary catalog of satirical films. The two most notable, Putney Swope (1969) and Pound (1970), are avant-garde and shocking today, perhaps even more so than in the febrile artistic ground of the 1960s and 70s when they were created. In Pound, he was Robert Downey Jr.'s acting partner in the five-year-old's first onscreen speaking role, Wolf's anguished Mexican Hairless lamenting to Downey Jr.'s not-so-innocent puppy in a film in which clothed and unmasked humans play canines languishing in a dog lockup, waiting to be gassed that night. And in Putney Swope, his character Mr. Borman Six, a German auto tycoon with suspicious political leanings, resonates eerily.
In an article in Show magazine about the film Pound, writer Bob Sarlin observed:
The best actor/director relationship I have ever witnessed is the one between Downey and Larry Wolf, the hairless hysteric who is capable of bringing the most blasé crew to howls of uncontrollable laughter. . . . Each man respects the intelligence and judgment of the other and could probably work interchangeably as actor and director or teacher and pupil. For a scene, Downey illustrates with his body bent down to Wolf's height, hands gesturing frantically toward the ceiling, as Wolf watches critically, like a straight director. The scene finished, Downey's only comment is a little self-composed playlet in which he stares at Wolf. . . as if to say "this man is out of his mind." Then he passes judgment: "I don't know what it means, but it's great."
And in a 2016 interview with The Village Voice, Robert Downey Sr. said:
Interviewer: Who's the best actor you've ever worked with? Besides your son, of course.
Downey: There's a bald-headed guy in a lot of my films called Larry Wolf. He's the best. I didn't have to say much to him. He says, "I got it!" And then he goes and does something else. He's great.
Wolf has appeared in numerous other films, commercials and television shows, including two pilots that never made it to air: The Great Gondoli, an NBC pilot in which he played a ventriloquist with two dummies (one sounding like Mae West, the other like W. C. Fields), and Phoebe B. Beebie's Popcorn Parade, a children's show pilot in which he starred as Dr. Disgusting. He wrote and directed the award-winning short film Billy Butterfly in 1971.
Working in live theatrical productions as well as film and television, Wolf's stage career has been no less avant-garde than his onscreen one. As Jacques Goldetsky, leader of The First Topless String Quartet, he led a string quartet of four nubile and, yes, topless women as a similarly topless (but cummerbund-wearing) conductor. The group received acclaim as serious artists, while never playing a single note. Produced by celebrated hoaxer Alan Abel, they won Esquire Magazine's annual Dubious Achievement Award in 1969, and Wolf was invited as Jacques to interview for an appearance on the popular game show To Tell The Truth. It was ultimately turned down as too risqué for a family program, only enhancing its bawdy cachet.
Wolf is also a musician and has been singing since the 1960s. As the lead singer of The Electric Chair Rock band, another collaboration with Robert Downey Sr., Wolf provided lead vocals to such tongue-in-cheek originals as "Bow Wow Wow" and "Cremation Blues." And as alter ego Vegas lounge singer Johnny Slime, he performed a satirical rendition of the Lord's Prayer that prompted the then-fledgling Saturday Night Live (1975) to call him upon seeing it. But, as luck would have it, the entire production staff was replaced right at that time, and Johnny Slime never graced the SNL stage.
Wolf lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two sons and has just completed production on a full-length album, Mood Swings, singing classic jazz and blues tunes with a quintet of Los Angeles musicians. Mood Swings will be released in summer 2019. - Actor
- Soundtrack
Blues guitarist Luther "Guitar Jr." Johnson was born in Itta Bena, MS, in 1939. His family moved to Chicago in 1955, and Luther--who played bass and sang--worked with such blues artists as Tall Milton Shelton. In the early 1960s he gained a following in Chicago's West Side blues clubs, and played for a few years with guitar legend Magic Sam, who became his mentor. Sam's influence helped Johnson's reputation as a guitarist grow, and he eventually joined Muddy Waters' band, playing with them from 1972 to 1980.
He recorded his first album, "Luther's Blues", in 1976 for a French label, Black and Blue Records. In 1980 four of his recordings appeared on a blues compilation CD, "Living Chicago Blues Vol. 4". After leaving Waters' band he formed his own, The Magic Rockers. In 1983 he won a Grammy for his work on the Atlantic Records compilation album "Blues Exploision". In 1982 he moved to Boston and soon became one of the city's most popular blues artists. He has recorded several albums since then and still tours with The Magic Rockers.- Additional Crew
- Actress
Rita Walter was born on 8 March 1951 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Cry from the Mountain (1985), As the World Turns (1956) and Zeit zu leben (1969). She was married to Rev. Norman Walter. She died on 25 December 2022 in the USA.- Producer
- Animation Department
- Director
Mr. Nunokawa is the president of Studio Pierrot, a Japanese animation studio that produces animation for both film and television. He founded Studio Pierrot in 1979, and in a short time became a leader in the anime industry. A "pierrot" is a French clown, and Nunokawa used this word for his studio to reflect his love for the circus. The company's logo even features a grinning clown face.- Alya Nikulina was born on 30 November 1937. She was an actress, known for The Darkest Hour (2011), Metro (2013) and To the Lake (2019). She died on 25 December 2022 in Russia.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Camilo Azuquita was born on 18 February 1939 in Colón, Panama. He was an actor, known for Ant-Man (2015), Hands of Stone (2016) and Better Call Saul (2015). He died on 25 December 2022 in Panama City, Panama.- Director
- Writer
- Producer
K.P. Sasi was a director and writer, known for Ek Alag Mausam (2003), Ilayum Mullum (1994) and Silence Please (2008). He died on 25 December 2022 in Thrissur, India.- Director
- Editor
- Producer
Reynaldo Boury was a director and editor, known for Carrossel (2012), Chiquititas (2013) and Irmãos Coragem (1970). He died on 25 December 2022 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.- Micheline Gary was born on 1 October 1925 in Mimbaste, Landes, France. She was an actress, known for Loves of Casanova (1947), Les amours finissent à l'aube (1953) and Jupiter (1952). She was married to Paul Meurisse. She died on 25 December 2022 in Paris, France.
- Brian Casser was born on 21 March 1936 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK. He died on 25 December 2022 in Germany.
- Editor
- Cinematographer
Walter Hess was born in 1931 in Ruppichterroth, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was an editor and cinematographer, known for The Exiles (1989), Free Time (2019) and I Never Promised You a Long Run (1971). He was married to Hannah Hess. He died on 25 December 2022 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.- Françoise Bourdin was born in 1952 in Paris, France. She was a writer, known for Chasseurs d'écume (1999), Cordier and Son: Judge and Cop (1992) and Retour à Fonteyne (1999). She was married to N Le Ternier. She died on 25 December 2022 in France.
- Paula Petri was born on 12 June 1940. She was an actress, known for De kleine zielen (1969), The Assault (1986) and Baantjer (1995). She died on 25 December 2022.
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Actor
- Production Manager
Bernard Quatrehomme was born on 28 January 1931 in Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, France. He was an assistant director and actor, known for Aux frontières du possible (1971), Triple Cross (1966) and Love Me Strangely (1971). He died on 25 December 2022 in Limeil-Brévannes, Val-d'Oise, France.- Camera and Electrical Department
Fred Antenorcruz is known for Lethal Weapon (2016), Operation: Endgame (2010) and Primrose Lane (2015). Fred died on 25 December 2022 in California, USA.- Fabián O'Neill was born on 14 October 1973 in Paso de los Toros, Uruguay. He died on 25 December 2022 in Montevideo, Uruguay.
- Francesco Silvestri was an actor and writer, known for Sabato, domenica e lunedì (2004), Le cinque rose di Jennifer (1989) and Peggio di così si muore (1995). He died on 25 December 2022 in Naples, Italy.
- Becca Booth was born on 29 October 1977 in Lawrence, Kansas, USA. She was an actress, known for Lincoln's Last Day (2015). She was married to Chad Meyers. She died on 25 December 2022 in Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
- Marilyn Robinson was born on 2 January 1937. She was an actress, known for Scope (1949). She was married to Frank Rodwell. She died on 25 December 2022.
- Claire Gagnier was born on 28 March 1924 in Montreal, Québec, Canada. She was an actress, known for Folio (1955), Festival (1960) and Moi et l'autre (1966). She died on 25 December 2022 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.