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- Short, dapper Jay Novello specialized in playing ethnic types, sometimes Spanish, Greek or Mexican but usually Italian--not surprising, since his parents were Italian immigrants and he grew up speaking the language before he learned English. Born in Chicago in 1904, he came from a very diverse neighborhood and, in addition to speaking Italian and English, also picked up a working knowledge of German and Greek. He got a job acting with various theater companies in the Chicago area, and his facility with languages got him work in radio as a dialect specialist. He soon moved to Hollywood and got work in the radio industry there, and made his film debut in an uncredited bit part in 1930. He played in everything from westerns to action pictures to serials (in one of which, The Adventures of Smilin' Jack (1943), he played a Japanese spy!). He did much television work, and one of his best known roles was as the scheming Mayor Lugato in the Ernest Borgnine comedy series McHale's Navy (1962). He died of lung cancer in North Hollywood in 1982.
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Tom Baker was born on 23 August 1940 in West Virginia, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Bongo Wolf's Revenge (1970), Two-Minute Warning (1976) and Angels Die Hard (1970). He died on 2 September 1982 in New York City, New York, USA.- Lyalya Chyornaya was born on 15 February 1909 in Nalchik, Nalchik okrug, Terek Oblast, Russian Empire [now Kabardino-Balkar Republic, Russia]. She was an actress, known for Queen of the Gypsies (1976), Gypsies (1936) and Vkus khalvy (1975). She died on 2 September 1982 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Kamilla Császár was born on 14 December 1891 in Budapest, Hungary. She was an actress, known for Csendes otthon (1958), Csigalépcsö (1957) and Pisti meg a mama (1958). She died on 2 September 1982 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Ada Voytsik was born on 1 August 1905 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]. She was an actress, known for Sorok pervyy (1927), The Day the Earth Froze (1959) and Anna (1936). She died on 2 September 1982 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia].