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Lean and lanky Gil Lamb should have been a professional contortionist. Every part of him seemed to be elastic. He could bend at the hip and jackknife to the floor, his head almost touching the ground, face turned sideways. That face was also peculiarly long and lugubrious. His 'fish-eyed' double-take became one of his trademarks. Even his neck and Adam's apple lent themselves to a comedy routine in which he pretended to have swallowed a harmonica. An eccentric dancer and funny man, Gil came from a vaudeville background. He got his entry visa to films via a stint as a character named Homer Clinker opposite Verna Felton in a slapstick radio segment of the "Rudy Vallee Show" in 1942. He was then signed by Paramount and enlivened several musicals of the 1940's as perennial comic relief and specialty dancer. Best of these were The Fleet's In (1942) and Star Spangled Rhythm (1942). One of Gil's most typical screen incarnations was that of the comic sailor, as in the Technicolor romp Rainbow Island (1944), starring (predictably) a sarong-clad Dorothy Lamour.
Between 1949 and 1953, Gil starred in his own series of eight two-reel comedies for RKO, which were directed by Hal Yates. In these, he invariably played an accident-prone goofball named Slim, who leaves disaster in his wake. This was true slapstick in the old style, but very well made. In the 1950's, Gil entered the world of television, often in supporting roles or cameos as drunks, party guests or janitors, allowing him to brush up some of his old routines for episodes of popular shows like Pistols 'n' Petticoats (1966) and The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (1968). He was an 1890's policeman in "Once Upon a Time", a curious slapstick entry into the The Twilight Zone (1959), starring Buster Keaton.
On stage, Gil played Ichabod Crane in a 1949 Broadway run of "Sleepy Hollow", alas, rather short-lived. However, that same year Disney animators used his looks and movement as inspiration for Ichabod in The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949).- Don McHenry was born on 25 February 1908 in Paterson, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for Three Days of the Condor (1975), The Defenders (1961) and Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1958). He died on 2 November 1995 in New York, USA.
- June Brewster was born on 13 August 1913 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Flying Devils (1933), The Case Against Mrs. Ames (1936) and Bridal Bail (1934). She was married to McAfee, Guy. She died on 2 November 1995 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
- Violet Gabriel was born in 1934 in Mexico D.F., Mexico. She was an actress, known for El hogar que yo robé (1981), Vagabundo y millonario (1959) and El duende y yo (1961). She died on 2 November 1995 in Mexico, D.F., Mexico.
- Álvaro Gómez was born on 8 May 1919 in Bogotá, Colombia. He died on 2 November 1995 in Bogotá, Colombia.
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Walter Heynen was born on 12 May 1944 in Schoten, Antwerp, Belgium. He was a composer and actor, known for La cage aux ours (1974), Verloren maandag (1974) and Adieu Filippi (1967). He died on 2 November 1995.- Frieda Sembach-Krone was born on 15 April 1915 in Vienna, Austria. She was married to Carl Sembach-Krone. She died on 2 November 1995 in Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany.
- Florence Greenberg was born on 16 November 1913. She died on 2 November 1995 in Hackensack, New Jersey, USA.