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Ernie Anderson was born Ernest Earle Anderson on November 12, 1923 in Lynn, Massachusetts. He began working in radio at Burlington, Vermont's WSKI-AM in 1946. He met Tim Conway at WHK-AM in Cleveland and began writing with him. They were hired by Cleveland's WJW-TV in 1961 where they created "Ernie's Place", a daytime show of movies and comedy sketches. He created the beatnik character Ghoulardi for himself, wearing a lab coat, fright wig, fake goatee beard and mustache and became popular introducing WJW-TV's Friday night horror movie show Shock Theater (1963). Rose Marie, best known as Sally Rogers on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961), recommended him to Steve Allen who recruited him for his own show.
Ernie had many run-ins with his management in Cleveland and moved to California full time in 1966. He appeared in two episodes of Conway's television series Rango (1967) and then formed a comedy act with his old friend. He was hired as "the voice of ABC" in the late 1970s where he continued to work well into the 1980s. He also did the voiceover for the previews of current episodes during the first three seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987). Ernie Anderson died at age 73 of cancer in Los Angeles, California on February 6, 1997.- Writer
- Director
- Producer
New York-born Harry Essex planned on a writing career throughout his young life. Among his first jobs were stints on the New York newspapers "The Daily Mirror" and "The Brooklyn Eagle", short stories for "Collier's" and "The Saturday Evening Post" and even a Broadway play titled "Something for Nothing" (which Essex later called "a resounding failure"). Writing for the movies was uppermost in Essex's mind throughout the period (and he DID co-write the original story for Universal's Man Made Monster (1941)), but "the big break" never came, and World War II intervened. Five or six days after Essex's discharge, he ran into an old acquaintance whose new job was finding playwrights to turn into screenwriters for Columbia Pictures. Essex wrote or co-wrote dozens of movies and numerous TV shows during his lengthy Hollywood career.- Sheldon Stark was born on 7 August 1909 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for The Waltons (1972), The Fugitive (1963) and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964). He died on 6 February 1997 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Telford Jackson was born on 11 July 1913 in Moree, New South Wales, Australia. He was an actor, known for Mad Max (1979), The Magic Boomerang (1965) and Country Town (1971). He was married to Dawn. He died on 6 February 1997 in Cabrini, Hospital, Malvern, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Visual Effects
Ray Rich was born on 14 May 1912 in Colorado, USA. Ray is known for Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), The Fugitive (1963) and Cannibal Attack (1954). Ray died on 6 February 1997 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Dan Polier Jr. was born on 9 August 1918 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He was a writer, known for California Fever (1979) and Young Love, First Love (1979). He died on 6 February 1997 in Rancho Mirage, California, USA.
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Production Manager
Harrold Weinberger was born on 4 December 1899 in New York, USA. He was an assistant director and production manager, known for The Last Voyage (1960), Big City (1948) and Hell to Eternity (1960). He died on 6 February 1997 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Roger Laurent was born on 21 February 1913 in Liège, Belgium. He died on 6 February 1997 in Uccle, Brussels, Belgium.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Nick Jolley was born on February 17, 1948 in Hindsboro, Illinois. Jolley's lone foray into film acting was playing the heroic lead character of Chris Duncan in the low-budget horror movie Asylum of Satan (1972). Besides acting in Asylum of Satan (1972), Nick also sings the song "Red Light Lady" that's featured on the soundtrack. Moreover, Jolley not only was both an understudy on and onstage performer in Broadway theatre revivals of the hit plays "Oklahoma!" and "The Pirates of Penzance," but also acted in TV commercials and dinner theater productions. Nick died at age 48 on February 6, 1997.- Herbert Probst was born on 21 May 1928 in Vienna, Austria. He was an actor, known for Ein Monat auf dem Lande (1967), König Johann (1971) and Tatort (1970). He died on 6 February 1997 in Vienna, Austria.
- Rolf Rodenstock was born on 1 July 1917 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. He died on 6 February 1997 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.