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Legendary exploitation cinema producer and distributor Harry H. Novak was born on January 12, 1928, in Chicago, IL. He got a job with RKO Pictures distributing movie posters and press books to theaters while still in his teens. Following a tour of duty in the Army during World War II, Novak went back to RKO, this time booking and selling films as well as designing ads (amazingly, one of his primary responsibilities while working at RKO was handling the distribution arrangements for innocuous family fare made by the Walt Disney studio!).
After RKO folded in 1957, Harry went to work booking exploitation films for the JEM distribution company. He founded his own production and distribution outfit called Boxoffice International Pictures (BIP) in 1964. The first film released by BIP was the nice'n'naughty nudie cutie Kiss Me Quick! (1964). Harry went on to make and/or release a slew of entertainingly trashy flicks throughout the 1960s and 1970s that run the gamut from sexy soft-core smut (Lila (1968), The Dirty Mind of Young Sally (1973), Below the Belt (1971)) to grimy crime thrillers (Booby Trap (1970), The Godson (1971), A Scream in the Streets (1973), Date with a Kidnapper (1976), Hitch Hike to Hell (1977)) to sizzling Southern-fried hicksploitation sleaze Country Hooker (1974), Country Cuzzins (1972), The Pig Keeper's Daughter (1972), Sassy Sue (1973)) to mondo crock documentaries (Mondo Mod (1967), Mondo Keyhole (1966)) to creepy horror outings (The Mad Butcher (1971), Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks (1974), Axe (1977), Rattlers (1976), The Child (1968)_). Novak's soft-core items often featured such popular drive-in film starlets as Rene Bond, Colleen Brennan (aka Sharon Kelly), Marsha Jordan and Uschi Digard. Boxoffice International Pictures was forced to shut down in 1978. Harry subsequently launched Valiant International Pictures in the late 1970s; this particular outfit distributed such X-rated porno fare as Sissy's Hot Summer (1979), Sweet Surrender (1980) and Leather Persuasion (1980).
Novak co-directed the early 1980's hardcore movies Moments of Love (1983) and Inspirations (1982) under the pseudonym H. Hershey. Moreover, he provided several hysterically bawdy commentaries on DVD releases of his pictures on the Something Weird Video label.
Harry Novak died on March 26, 2014.- Actor
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George Bookasta was born on 14 July 1917 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Hell Harbor (1930) and The Night Bird (1928). He died on 26 March 2014 in Saratoga Springs, New York, USA.- Composer
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Jacques Lasry was born on 29 January 1918 in Alger, Algeria. He was a composer, known for Sitcom (1998), Doctor Who (1963) and The Sweeney (1975). He died on 26 March 2014 in Jerusalem, Israel.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Ann Howard was born on 22 July 1936 in Norwood, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Ruddigore (1983), Rusalka (1986) and I Remember Nelson (1982). She died on 26 March 2014 in the UK.- Harriet Forssell was born on 27 May 1934 in Stockholm, Sweden. She was an actress, known for Holder De af ... (1965), Who Saw Him Die? (1968) and Dollarprinsessen (1962). She died on 26 March 2014 in Halmstad, Sweden.
- Meri Boskova was born on 2 May 1924 in Bitola, Macedonia. She was an actress, known for Frosina (1952), Goodbye, 20th Century (1998) and Mirno leto (1961). She died on 26 March 2014 in Skoplje, Macedonia.
- Klavdiya Khabarova was born on 27 November 1927 in Streltsy, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She was an actress, known for Perestupi porog (1970), Solntse, snova solntse (1977) and Zabludshiy (1966). She died on 26 March 2014 in Moscow, Russia.
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Emily Spiegel was an actress, known for Head Cases: Serial Killers in the Delaware Valley (2013), Head Case (2007) and Post-Mortem (2010). She died on 26 March 2014 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.- Writer
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Carl Otmar von Aretin was born on 2 July 1923 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. He was a writer and director, known for Es war Sauberkeit und Ordnung (1979), Zack - so'n ganzes Volk weg (1979) and Für mich war eine Welt untergegangen (1979). He was married to Ruth. He died on 26 March 2014 in Munich, Germany.- Warren Forma was born on 27 November 1923 in New York City, New York, USA. Warren was a cinematographer, known for Hans Hofmann: Artist/Teacher, Teacher/Artist (2003). Warren died on 26 March 2014 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Noriko Matsumoto was born on 9 August 1935 in Tokyo, Japan. She was an actress, known for The Warped Ones (1960), Garasu no Jonî: Yajû no yô ni miete (1962) and Yoru no kunshô (1963). She died on 26 March 2014 in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
- Rosamunde Tattersall was born in 1924 in Lambeth, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Railway Children (1951), The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1953) and Love and Mr Lewisham (1959). She died on 26 March 2014 in Lewes, East Sussex, England, UK.
- Mark Stock was born on 4 August 1951 in Frankfurt, Germany. He died on 26 March 2014 in Oakland, California, USA.
- Jirí Tauber was born on 12 January 1940 in Brno, Protektorát Cechy a Morava [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodday (1992) and Cops and Robbers (1997). He died on 26 March 2014 in Brno, Czech Republic.