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Rodney Stephen Steiger was born in Westhampton, New York, to Augusta Amelia (Driver) and Frederick Jacob Steiger, both vaudevillians. He was of German and Austrian ancestry. After his parents' divorce, Steiger was raised by his mother in Newark, New Jersey. He dropped out of Westside High school at age 16 and joined the Navy. He saw action in the Pacific on a destroyer. Steiger returned to New Jersey after the war and worked for the VA. He was part of an amateur acting group, and then joined the Actors' Studio using his GI Bill benefits.
Steiger received his first film roles in the early 1950s. His first major one was in Teresa (1951), but his first lead role was in the TV version of Marty (1953). The movie version, however, had Ernest Borgnine in the lead and won him an Academy Award. Steiger's breakthrough role came in 1954, with the classic On the Waterfront (1954). Since then he has been a presence on the screen as everything from a popular leading man to a little-known character actor. Steiger made a name for himself in many different types of roles, from a crooked promoter in The Harder They Fall (1956) to the title character in Al Capone (1959). He was one of dozens of stars in the epic World War II film The Longest Day (1962). In 1964, he received his second Oscar nomination for The Pawnbroker (1964). The next couple of years he was at the height of his powers. In 1965, he starred in the dark comedy The Loved One (1965), and in David Lean's epic Doctor Zhivago (1965). In 1966, he starred in the BBC Play of the Month (1965) episode "Death of a Salesman" as Willy Loman in the TV version of his stage play "Death of a Salesman," but in 1967, he landed what many consider his greatest role: Sheriff Bill Gillespie in In the Heat of the Night (1967), opposite Sidney Poitier. Steiger deservedly took home the Best Actor Oscar for his work in that film.
He took another controversial role as a man with many tattoos in The Illustrated Man (1969) and as a serial killer in the classic No Way to Treat a Lady (1968). After that, he seemed to have withdrawn from high-profile movies and became more selective in the roles he chose. He turned down the lead in Patton (1970) and also in The Godfather (1972). Among his more notable roles in the 1970s are Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971), Lolly-Madonna XXX (1973), as Benito Mussolini in The Last 4 Days (1974), Portrait of a Hitman (1979), Jesus of Nazareth (1977), F.I.S.T. (1978) and The Amityville Horror (1979). He starred in the critically acclaimed The Chosen (1981) with Robby Benson and Maximilian Schell, perhaps the highlight of his 1980s movie career. Steiger increasingly moved away from the big Hollywood pictures, instead taking roles in foreign productions and independent movies. As the 1980s ended, Steiger landed a role as the buttoned-up New York City Chief of Police in The January Man (1989).
Steiger was seriously affected by depression for 8 years. As he returned to the screen in the late 1990s he began creating some of his most memorable roles. He was the doctor in the independently-made movie Shiloh (1996), about an abused dog. He was the crazed, kill-'em-all army general in Mars Attacks! (1996) who always called his enemies peace-mongers. He took a small part as a Supreme Court judge in The Hurricane (1999) and as a preacher in the badly produced film End of Days (1999). He was still active in films moving into the new millennium.- Gerald Campion was born on 23 April 1921 in Bloomsbury, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), Department S (1969) and Carry on Sergeant (1958). He was married to Suzie Mark and Jean Symond. He died on 9 July 2002 in Agen, Lot-et-Garonne, France.
- Bruno Arturovich Freindlikh was born on October 10, 1909, in Russia. His German ancestors were invited to Russia by Tsar Peter the Great and settled in St. Petersburg around 1700's. The Freindlikh family started a successful glass-making factory in the Russian capital. Young Bruno Freindlikh received an excellent private education and was amateur actor at school. From 1931-1934 he studied acting at the Leningrad Theatrical School, then studied at the Leningrad Institute of Arts from which he graduated in 1938 as an actor.
Freindlikh worked on stage at the Leningrad State Theatre named after Komsomol, which was evacuated to the city of Tashkent during the Second World War. During the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, all members of the Freindlikh family were arrested "as German suspects" upon the order from Joseph Stalin. Actor Bruno Freindlikh escaped the arrest because he was evacuated with the theatre to the city of Tashkent, Uzbekistan. From 1941-1945 he worked at the Leningrad Theatre for the Young Audience in evacuation, and returned back to Leningrad after the end of the siege in 1945. From 1946-1948 he worked with the Leningrad Bolshoi Drama Theatre.
From 1948-2002 Bruno Freindlikh was the leading actor of the Pushkin Drama Theatre in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). There his best role was his highly acclaimed portrayal of Ivan Turgenev in the biographical play 'Elegy'. His stage partners at the Pushkin Drama Theatre were Nikolay Cherkasov, Nikolai Simonov, Konstantin Skorobogatov, Yuriy Tolubeev, Aleksandr Borisov, Vasiliy Merkurev, Leonid Vivyen, Olga Lebzak, Nina Urgant, Igor Gorbachyov, Valentina Panina, and other notable Russian actors. In 1941 Bruno Freindlikh played Hamlet on stage, in what was the first collaboration of director Grigoriy Kozintsev and writer Boris Pasternak, before they made the legendary film.
Bruno Freindlikh was awarded the State Prize of the USSR for his film work, and received many other awards and decorations from the State of the USSR. He was honored with the title of the People's Artist of the USSR. He died on July 9, 2002, in St. Petersburg, and was laid to rest in the "Literatorskie mostki" Necropolis of The Masters of Art at Volkovskoe Cemetery in St. Petersburg, Russia. - Actor
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Guy Henry was born on 6 January 1922 in Saint-Aubin-lès-Elbeuf, Seine-Maritime, France. He was an actor and assistant director, known for The Night Heaven Fell (1958), Dishonorable Discharge (1957) and Les femmes s'en balancent (1954). He died on 9 July 2002 in Trets, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.- Renato Corazza was born on 20 September 1929 in Pola, Istria, Italy [now Pula, Istria, Croatia]. He died on 9 July 2002.
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Ernõ Vashegyi was born on 7 December 1920 in Budapest, Hungary. He was an actor, known for Pixi és Mixi a cirkuszban (1954), Hazugság nélkül (1946) and Pázmán lovag (1957). He died on 9 July 2002 in Zürich, Switzerland.