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Jethro was born on 8 March 1948 in St Buryan, Cornwall, England, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for Mick Miller: In the Club (2005), Jethro: The Beast of Bodmin Moor (1997) and Let It Be All Right on the Night (1987). He died on 14 December 2021 in Plymouth, Devon, England, UK.- Producer
- Additional Crew
- Director
Ken Kragen was born on 24 November 1936 in Berkeley, California, USA. He was a producer and director, known for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1988), Gallagher: An Uncensored Evening (1980) and Gallagher: Two Real (1981). He was married to Cathy Worthington. He died on 14 December 2021 in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Jason Hitch was married to Cassia Tavares. He died on 14 December 2021 in Florida, USA.
- Writer
- Producer
Henry Orenstein was born on 13 October 1923 in Hrubieszów, Lubelskie, Poland. He was a writer and producer, known for The Transformers: The Movie (1986), The Transformers (1984) and Poker Superstars II (2005). He was married to Susie and Adele Bigajer. He died on 14 December 2021 in Livingston, New Jersey, USA.- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Blues guitarist Sonny Rhodes was born Clarence Smith in Smithville, TX, in 1940. He learned to play the guitar and bass as a young man. Joining the US Navy in 1957, he served one hitch and after his discharge he got work playing bass for such musicians as Freddie King and Albert Collins. In 1963 he left Texas for Califonia, settling in Oakland. He hooked up with a musician named L.C. Robinson (aka "Good Rockin' Robinson") who played the steel Hawaiian lap guitar. Robinson taught Rhodes how to play the instrument, which Rhodes had first heard played by Hop Wilson years before in Texas.
His proficiency on that instrument got him recording deals with a few small labels, but nothing really broke for him. While touring Europe in the late 1970s he recorded a pair of albums, "I Don't Want My Blues Colored Bright" and "Live in Europe". The next year he came out with "Forever and a Day", an album on which he was backed by the Paris National Symphony Orchestra. He has since recorded several more albums and has toured in both the US and Europe, where he has a very large fan base. He has also headlined at various blues festivals all over the US.- Actor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Additional Crew
Milogost Reczek was born on 10 February 1961 in Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland. He was an actor and assistant director, known for The Witcher (2007), Na dobre i na zle (1999) and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015). He was married to Monika Szalaty. He died on 14 December 2021 in Poland.- Silvia Curiel was born on 12 December 1951 in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Wish I Was Here (2014), Short Term 12 (2013) and Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014). She died on 14 December 2021 in Toluca Lake, California, USA.
- Tania Mendoza was an actress, known for Emboscada de federales (2003), La dama de la Texana 1000x (2001) and Semilla de odio (2000). She died on 14 December 2021 in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
- Giorgos Tragas was born on 30 July 1949 in Metaxourgeio, Greece. He was married to Maria Carra. He died on 14 December 2021 in Athens, Greece.
- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Fei-Lit Chan was born on 25 December 1940 in Kingston, Jamaica. He was a composer, known for Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991), Tommy (1975) and Dragon Inn (1992). He died on 14 December 2021.- Actor
- Music Department
- Composer
Georges Blaness was born on 18 July 1928 in Cherchell, Algeria. He was an actor and composer, known for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), Café de Flore (2011) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967). He died on 14 December 2021 in Vaucresson, Hauts-de-Seine, France.- María Guðmundsdóttir was an actress, known for Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead (2014), The Night Shift (2007) and Heiðin (2008). She died on 14 December 2021 in Reykjavík, Iceland.
- Paul Rinne was born on 25 June 1934 in Posevnaya, Novosibirsk Oblast, RSFSR, USSR. He was an actor, known for Osoboye mnyeniye (1967), Dva dnya trevogi (1974) and Vozvrashchenie k zhizni (1972). He was married to Lilya Turubanova. He died on 14 December 2021 in Finland.
- Guido Saenz was born on 1 January 1929 in San Jose, Costa Rica. He was an actor and producer, known for Teatro Nacional: Un siglo para soñar (1997), La insurrección (1980) and El moto (1999). He died on 14 December 2021 in San Jose, Costa Rica.
- Lionel Antoine was born on 31 August 1950 in Biloxi, Mississippi, USA. He died on 14 December 2021 in Biloxi, Mississippi, USA.
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Smaïl Lakhdar-Hamina was born on 1 January 1943 in M'Sila, Algéria. He was a cinematographer, known for Mughamarat batal (1979), Omar Gatlato (1977) and Hassan, Terrorist (1968). He died on 14 December 2021 in Alger, Algeria.- Actor
- Writer
Tadeusz Ross was born on 14 March 1938 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. He was an actor and writer, known for Lot 001 (1999), Miodowe lata (1998) and Milion za Laure (1971). He died on 14 December 2021.- Actress
- Writer
Rosita Sokou is a Greek journalist, author, playwright, translator.
Her father, Georgios Sokos, was a journalist, editor and playwright from Aitoliko who died at the age of 44, just before the war. Her mother Titika Michailidou came from Smyrna. Rosita-Maria-Zoe (her full name)was born in Athens, Greece, on September 9th, 1923. She graduated from the Arsakeio School in Psychiko. During the war and occupation she perfected her French and English. She attended the School of Fine Arts, was a pupil of painter [[Yannis Tsarouchis]] and also attended the Vassilis Rotas Drama School, while working from a tender age as a translator and a foreign language teacher. After the end of the German Occupation and Civil War, in 1947, she studied 20th century literature in Oxford.
One of the first women journalists in Greece, she started her career as a film critic in 1946, writing in newspapers such as Vradini, Kathimerini, Acropolis, Ethnos, Apoghevmatini and the English-language Athens News, as well as for numerous magazines and regularly attended film festivals in Cannes, Venice, Thessaloniki etc. From the 70s, she expanded to theatre criticism and various other columns. After her marriage to Italian journalist and author Manlio Maradei, she lived in Rome, Italy, from 1957 to 1961, but then came back to live in Greece with her daughter. In 1967, after the onset of the military dictatorship, editor Eleni Vlahou closed her media (the "Kathimerini" newspaper and "Eikones" magazine), in protest against the suppressed freedom of the press, and flew to London. Rosita was left jobless, and with a small child to provide for. Nevertheless she was one of the only two people (the other one was Freddie Germanos) who refused to sew Vlahou and ask for damages - for this she faced the disciplinary board of the Journalists' Union and threatened to be expelled from the Union. She held fast: accepting to sign the lawsuit meant to recognize that Vlahou's claim (that it was impossible to have press worthy of its name in Greece) was unsubstantial. These were difficult years, in which she worked editing encyclopedias, translating, and finally ended up working for the Botsis newspapers, Acropolis and Apoghevmatini. At the end of the 8-year dictatorship, Eleni Vlahou came back to Greece and opened "Kathimerini" again, and Rosita collaborated sporadically under the pseudonym of Irene Stavrou.
During the period 1977-1983 she became a celebrity thanks to the TV show "Na I Efkeria" ("Here's your chance", a Greek version of "Opportunity knocks"), where she was a member of the panel examining the candidates. These were the early days of TV, and the audience response was unprecedented. In 1992-93 she hosted her own TV show at Îew Channel.
She has translated many books - among others [Aldous Huxley], [Ingmar Bergman], [Isaac Asimov] and StanisÅaw Lem - reflecting her own tastes and interests, as well as comics such as the "Corto Maltese" series by Hugo Pratt. She has translated, edited and updated the two-volume "Cinema" encyclopedia by Georges Charensol, adding a whole new chapter on Greek cinema.
Since 1974 she started her deeper involvement with theatre, writing the play The Portrait of Dorian Grey (based on Oscar Wilde's novella), and adapting Georg Büchner's ''Lenz'' for the Dimitri Potamitis' Experimental Theatre. Later on, she translated Sam Shepard's 'Shock' and Edward Albee's 'Sea View' for Yorgos' Messalas. Together with her daughter, she translated Manjula Padmanabhan's 'Harvest' which was awarded 1st prize at the Onassis International Theatre Competition in 1998 and Jean Anouilh's 'Jesabel' for Jenny Roussea's troupe in 1999.
She has been given the medal "Chevalier de l' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" for her services to cinema by the French government (1986), and awarded by the Botsis Foundation (1988) for her offer to Greek journalism.- Composer
- Actor
Karl-Heinz Wahren was a composer and actor, known for Herzlichen Glückwunsch (1982) and Ich und Christine (1993). He died on 14 December 2021 in Berlin, Germany.- Ricardo Ehrmann was born on 4 November 1929 in Florence, Italy. He was married to Margherita. He died on 14 December 2021 in Madrid, Spain.