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Hugh McDermott was born on 20 March 1906 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for Devil Girl from Mars (1954), 'Pimpernel' Smith (1941) and Lilli Marlene (1950). He was married to Angela J. Laurillard and Daphne Courtney. He died on 29 January 1972 in London, England, UK(undisclosed).- Actor
- Writer
Gambian Louis Felix Danner Mahoney was born on Septenber 8, 1938 and came to England ostensibly to train as a doctor. However, he abandoned medicine for the stage, probably his original intention. He enrolled at acting school in the 1970s. He was a tireless campaigner for racial equality in his profession, as a member of the Equity Afro-Asian Committee and as co-creator, with Mike Phillips, of the Black Theatre Workshop. He helped establish the Equity Performers Against Racism group, developed to circumvent Equity rules preventing political campaigning, in which he was helped by a number of white actors. He was Vice President of Equity between 1994 and 1996. In addition to appearing with most of the major theatre companies he notched up numerous television performances. One of his most famous roles was as the dying werewolf Roy in Being Human (2008).- Actress
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Gloria Charles was born on 3 March 1955 in the USA. She was an actress, known for Friday the 13th: Part 3 (1982), Brewster's Millions (1985) and National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985). She died on 8 December 2016 in Marina Del Ray, California, USA(undisclosed).- Writer
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Bill Finger was a comic book writer. His father Louis Finger was born in Austria and emigrated to the United States in 1907, while still a teenager. Louis worked as a tailor. Tessie, Bill's mother, was born and raised in New York City. Both parents were in their early 20s at the time of Finger's birth. Bill Finger had two sisters.
Finger was born in Denver, Colorado, but the Finger family eventually moved to New York City. Finger was mostly raised in The Bronx, and attended DeWitt Clinton High School. He graduated high school in 1933, and started his working career in the Great Depression. In 1938, Finger entered the comic strip business, as a ghost writer for a few comic strips created by Bob Kane's studio. Kane was a fellow graduate of DeWitt Clinton High School and the two of them were acquaintances.
In 1938-1939, National Comics (predecessor of DC Comics) had its first major success with a character called "Superman". This created a market for superheroes and several creators started working on creating other hero/vigilante characters. Bob Kane came up with a hero called "Bat-Man" or "Batman", and asked for Finger's assistance on the project. Finger rejected several of Kane's initial ideas about the character and suggested several changes in design and characterization. He came up with a civilian identity for the character as "Bruce Wayne", which Finger named after Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland and general Anthony "Mad Anthony" Wayne.
Kane marketed the "Batman" character to National Comics, and Batman's first story was published in "Detective Comics" #27 (May 1939). The script was written by an uncredited Finger, making him the first of many ghost writers to work on comics officially credited to Bob Kane. When Kane negotiated a contract about selling the rights to the "Batman" character, he claimed he was the sole creator of the character and demanded a sole mandatory byline on all Batman comics and adaptations thereof, acknowledging him as the creator. Finger's work on the character was not acknowledged.
Finger kept on working in "Batman"-related stories for much of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s either as a writer or a ghost writer. He is generally credited by comic book historians with creating or co-creating a number of Batman's foes and supporting characters. Among them: the Joker, Catwoman, Robin, Ace the Bat-Hound. Bat-Mite, Clayface, Bat-Girl/Betty Kane, the Penguin, the Scarecrow, Two-Face, the Riddler, and the Calendar Man. He also came up with the name "Gotham City" for the previously nameless metropolis where Batman operates, and co-created the Batmobile and the Batcave.
Besides "Batman", Finger's other writing credits for National Comics/DC Comics involve various stories for "Green Lantern", "Superman", and "Superboy". He is credited with co-creating Green Lantern/Alan Scott, the original character with that code-name. The Green Lantern series of the 1940s was a fantasy series, and the hero had magical powers. A reboot of the series in 1959 turned "Green Lantern" into a science fiction series featuring space cops and aliens, as the fantasy concept was considered outdated. In "Superman" stories, Finger is credited for adapting "Kryptonite" into comic books in 1949. The fictional element was created for the Superman radio series, but was adapted into the comic book series and became a permanent part in of the "Superman" saga. Finger's main contribution in the "Superboy" series was creating the character Lana Lang, as a love interest for the teenage hero.
Outside National Comics,Finger also contributed stories and characters to rival companies, such as Fawcett Comics, Quality Comics and Timely Comics (predecessor of Marvel Comics). Marvel credits him with the co-creation of the All-Winners Squad (introduced in 1946), the company's first superhero team.
Finger mostly retired from comic book writing c. 1961, starting a new career as a screenwriter for films and television series. He was even hired to write two episodes for the 1960s "Batman" live-action series. But he was in increasingly poor health, suffering a series of heart attacks in 1963, 1970 and 1973. He died due to atherosclerosis in 1974. His remains were cremated, and the ashes scattered on a beach. Finger has no known grave.
Finger was married twice, and he was survived by a son, Fred. While he never claimed rights to the Batman character, his granddaughter Athena Finger requested a creator's credit for his work. After negotiations, DC Entertainment finally credited Finger as Batman's co-creator in 2015.- Actor
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Patrick M. Wright was a gruff, burly and intimidating constant presence in an alarmingly large volume of delightfully down'n'dirty drive-in exploitation pictures made in the 70s. Patrick was born on November 28, 1939 in San Francisco, California. Stocky and strong-looking, with a thick mustache, a mass of curly brown hair, a husky, muscular, powerful frame, and a blunt, scruffy, rough-around-the-edges demeanor, Wright was frequently cast as stolid jerk cops, ramrod military men, prison guards, assorted vicious villains, and various boorish blue collar working class types. The brother of actress Mary Catherine Wright and husband of 70s B-movie actress Talie Cochrane (they often acted together in a sizable number of films), Wright first began acting in the late 60s. He appeared in three films for director Russ Meyer: "Good Morning ... and Goodbye!," "The Seven Minutes," and "Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens." Wright's most memorable parts include the ineffectual Sheriff Mack in the laughably lousy creature feature hoot "Track of the Moonbeast," a lecherous high school football coach in the hilariously bawdy "The Cheerleaders," the nasty leader of a white slavery ring in the splendidly sleazy "The Abductors," a sadistic goon in Matt Cimber's enjoyably trashy "The Candy Tangerine Man," a hostile gay biker in "Bare Knuckles," the lord of the jungle in the amusingly inane "Tarz and Jane and Boy and Cheetah," the crude patriarch of a hillbilly family in "Sassy Sue," a friendly police sergeant in "Roller Boogie," and the rich sponsor of an illegal cross country road race in Paul Bartel's gloriously outrageous "Cannonball." Wright did guest spots on the TV shows "Wizards and Warriors," "Dynasty," "The Dukes of Hazzard," and "The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams." Moreover, Wright directed the entertainingly lowbrow teen sex comedy "Hollywood High," produced the failed horror spoof "Frightmare," and worked on several movies and TV shows in minor behind-the-scenes production capacities. He also acted under the pseudonyms Silver Foxx, Bal Johnson and Michael Wright. Patrick ended his lengthy and extensive film career with a few small parts in a handful of straight-to-video items. Wright died at age 65 on December 9, 2004 in Palmdale, California.- John Barrie was born on 6 May 1917 in New Brighton, Merseyside, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Patton (1970), Sword of Lancelot (1963) and Victim (1961). He died on 24 March 1980 in York, England, UK(undisclosed).
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Isabelle Weingarten was born on 18 April 1950 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971), Passion of Mind (2000) and The State of Things (1982). She was married to Wim Wenders. She died on 3 August 2020 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France(undisclosed).- Grant McFarland was born in 1947. He was an actor, known for Power Rangers DinoThunder (2004), Underbelly: Land of the Long Green Cloud (2011) and Power Rangers Ninja Storm (2003). He died on 20 November 2018 in Whangapoua, New Zealand(undisclosed).
- Marilyn Johnson was born on 19 September 1922 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She was an actress, known for Secrets of a Sorority Girl (1945), I Love Lucy (1951) and Wife Decoy (1945). She was married to Forrest Tucker. She died on 19 July 1960 in Beverly Hills, California, USA(undisclosed).
- Kouka was born on 7 March 1917 in Cairo, Egypt. She was an actress, known for Antar wa Ablah (1945), Rabha (1945) and Wedad (1936). She was married to Niazi Mostafa. She died on 29 January 1979 in Cairo, Egypt(undisclosed).
- Byron Fox (Foxy B.) was born in Kensington, England. His father, an Oxford Professor, Berry Fox and his mother, Sheri, moved to Los Angeles where Bryon landed a part on _"Lizzy McGuire" (2001)_. After deciding he liked being behind the camera, he contacted Max Speilberg and together they worked on Snap Shot, in which he starred.
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Sadik Sendil was born in 1913 in Istanbul, Turkey. He was a writer, known for Kalbimin Efendisi (1970), Oh Olsun (1974) and Sev Kardesim (1972). He died on 26 July 1986 in Istanbul, Turkey(undisclosed).- Bob Proctor was born on 5 July 1934 in Canada. He was an actor, known for The Secret (2006), The Ravine (2021) and The Grand Self (2020). He died on 3 February 2022 in (undisclosed).
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Åke Fridell was born on 23 June 1919 in Gävle, Gävleborgs län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for The Seventh Seal (1957), Wild Strawberries (1957) and Smiles of a Summer Night (1955). He died on 26 August 1985 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden(undisclosed).- C.J. Hincks was born on 20 November 1947. She was an actress, known for Night Moves (1975), Baretta (1975) and Strike Force (1981). She died on 11 January 2017 in Burbank, California, USA(undisclosed).
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Wendelle Stevens was born on 18 January 1923 in Minnesota, USA. He was a writer, known for Where Are All the UFO's? (1996), Contact (1987) and UFO's Are Real (1979). He died on 7 September 2010 in Tucson, Arizona, USA(undisclosed).- Writer
- Director
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Louis Cha was born on 10 March 1924 in Haining, Zhejiang Province, China. He was a writer and director, known for Wong lao hu qiang qin (1960), Sakra (2023) and The Romance of the Condor Heroes (2014). He was married to Lin Leyi, Zhu Mei and Du Zhifen. He died on 30 October 2018 in Hong Kong, China(undisclosed).- Raúl Meraz was born on 13 March 1927 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was an actor, known for La Valentina (1966), Los caudillos (1968) and La presidenta municipal (1975). He died on 20 April 1996 in Mexico D.F., Mexico(undisclosed).
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Versatile Greek poet and tragic dramatist. He was the son of Sophilus, a wealthy arms manufacturer. Sophocles studied tragedy under Aeschylus, whom he subsequently defeated in the dramatic festival of 468 BC, thus gaining his first victory at these competitions. He became a general under Nicias and after the failure of the Athenian expedition to Syracuse (413) was appointed one of the special commissioners to deal with the emergency. He was a priest of Amynos, a god of healing, and offered his own house as a place of worship for the healing deity Asclepius until his temple was ready. In addition, he founded a literary and musical society. His descendants were also tragedians - his son Iophon and grandson Sophocles the younger. Unlike his rival Euripides, he had very early acquired a favorable public. About 130 plays were attributed to him, (7 of which were subsequently reckoned spurious). In the dramatic competitions he probably won 24 victories--that is to say, 24 of his tetralogies (each comprising 3 tragedies and a satyr play) were successful. Seven of his tragedies have survived viz. Ajax, Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Electra, the Trachinian Women, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus (his last play performed in 401 after his death). Sophocles died just before the catastrophic end of the Peloponnesian War.- Thierry Ravel was born on 16 November 1963 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He was an actor, known for Bras de fer (1985), Descent Into Hell (1986) and Qui trop embrasse... (1986). He died on 26 April 1991 in Paris, France(undisclosed).
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Former playwright George B. Seitz left the theater for Hollywood in 1913, and before long he was turning out screenplays for action serials such as The Perils of Pauline (1914), The Exploits of Elaine (1914), and The Iron Claw (1916). In addition to writing and sometimes starring in these productions, he began to direct them as well, with great success. A prolific director, Seitz, unlike many of his B-picture colleagues, survived the transition from silents to talkies quite well, and directed everything from comedies to dramas to westerns at most of the studios around town. Although he spent a good amount of time at Columbia, he came to be most closely associated with MGM, where he directed - among others - almost all of the entries in the fondly remembered "Andy Hardy" series.- W.E. Lawrence was born on 22 August 1896 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Intolerance (1916), Blood and Sand (1922) and Common Clay (1919). He died on 28 November 1947 in Hollywood, California, USA(undisclosed).
- Carlos Monden was a Mexican actor who was born in Chile. Carlos' acting career began in the early of the 1960's, acting in television and films. He acted in telenovelas as Siempre tuya (1964), El corrido de Lupe Reyes (1966), Amor sublime (1967), Rosario (1969), La gata (1970), El carruaje (1972), Barata de primavera (1975), Viviana (1978), Aprendido a vivir (1984), Dulce desafío (1988), Alcanzar una estrella II (1991), Tenías que ser tú (1992), A flor de piel (1994), Sin ti (1997), Por tu amor (1999), Por un beso (2000), Aventuras en el tiempo (2001), among others. In films, Carlos' acted in Los tres farsantes (1965), Pasaporte a la muerte (1968), La carrera del millón (1974), Supervivientes de Los Andes (1976), Nora la rebelde (1979), Fiebre de amor (1985), La lotería (1993), among others.
- Will B. Able was born on 21 November 1923 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He was an actor, known for Jack and the Beanstalk (1965), Aladdin (1967) and Play of the Week (1959). He was married to Graziella Able. He died on 18 November 1981 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA(undisclosed).
- Raúl Amundaray was born on 18 May 1937 in Caracas, Venezuela. He was an actor, known for Cristal (1985), El engaño (1968) and Por amarte tanto (1993). He died on 21 January 2020 in Houston, Texas, USA(undisclosed).
- Pervin Par was born on 23 March 1939 in Bursa, Turkey. She was an actress, known for Kilink uçan adama karsi (1967), Balikçinin kizi Gülnaz (1959) and Sonbahar (1959). She was married to Mahir Özerdem. She died on 30 July 2015 in Izmir, Turkey(undisclosed).
- Ryôhei Uchida was born on 5 February 1931. He was an actor, known for 13 Assassins (1963), Diamonds of the Andes (1968) and Utamaro: Yume to shiriseba (1977). He died on 15 June 1984 in (undisclosed).
- Madeleine Newbury was born on 12 October 1930 in Dudley, West Midlands, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Wednesday Play (1964), The Adventures of Don Quick (1970) and The Professionals (1977). She was married to Brian Spink, Llewellyn Rees and Keith Marsh. She died on 27 September 2020 in UK(undisclosed).
- Mary Walter was born on 10 September 1912. She was an actress, known for Tres Cantos (1963), Alaala kita (1961) and Babae... Ikaw ang dahilan! (1972). She died on 25 February 1993 in (undisclosed).
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Latif Faiziyev was born on 2 January 1929 in Tashkent, USSR [now Uzbekistan]. He was a director and writer, known for Sohni Mahiwal (1984), Svyashchennaya krov (1956) and Probuzhdenie (1983). He died on 21 October 1994 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan(undisclosed).- Actor
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Jorge Zamora was born on 19 April 1928 in Havana, Cuba. He was an actor, known for Romancing the Stone (1984), The Bermuda Triangle (1978) and Teatro del crimen (1957). He died on 30 November 2022 in Mexico City, Mexico(undisclosed).- Randy Stripling was born on 13 May 1948 in the USA. He was an actor, known for October Sky (1999), Lone Star (1996) and Keys to Tulsa (1997). He died on 16 April 2020 in Texas, USA(undisclosed).
- Sensual, multi-talented actress-singer-dancer. She played her first film role in Pampa bárbara, with her uncle Francisco Petrone. Leopoldo Torres Ríos directed her in some movies during late forties (including the classic El crimen de Oribe). Successful in TV during the sixties, she played Marilyn Monroe in a theatrical version of Arthur Miller's After the Fall.
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Max Skladanowsky was a German inventor and early filmmaker. Born as the fourth child of glazier Carl Theodor Skladanowsky and Luise Auguste Ernestine Skladanowsky, he was apprenticed as a photographer and glass painter, which led to an interest in magic lanterns. In 1879, he began to tour Germany and Central Europe with his father Carl and elder brother Emil Skladanowsky, giving dissolving magic lantern shows. While Emil mostly took care of promotion, Max was mostly involved with the technology, and on 20 August 1892 he constructed their first film camera, but this more likely happened in the summer or autumn of 1894. He also single-handedly constructed the Bioskop projector, with which after shooting several short films the brothers would provide motion picture shows. Between the years 1895 and 1905, the brothers directed at least 25 to 30 short movies.- Writer
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John Law was born on 11 November 1929 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK. He was a writer, known for Casino Royale (1967), The Kenneth Williams Show (1970) and The Frost Report (1966). He died on 5 January 1970 in Chelsea, London, England, UK(undisclosed).- Actor
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Victor Travis was born on 2 January 1884 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He was an actor and writer, known for Fiddling Around (1938), Time Out for Trouble (1938) and Off Again, on Again (1945). He died on 26 May 1948 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA(undisclosed).- Actor
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Pu-Liao Hsu was born on 20 February 1951 in Keelung, Taiwan. He was an actor and director, known for Ji dan peng shi tou (1981), Thrilling Bloody Sword (1981) and Dance of Death (1976). He died on 3 July 1985 in Taipei, Taiwan(undisclosed).- Writer
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Don Haworth was born on 18 January 1924. Don was a writer and producer, known for Fred Dibnah: Steeplejack (1979), The Mersey Sound (1963) and The Fred Dibnah Story (1996). Don died on 17 January 2007 in (undisclosed).- Lewis L. Russell was born on 10 September 1889 in Farmington, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Lost Weekend (1945), Ladies' Man (1947) and A Night in Casablanca (1946). He died on 12 November 1961 in Los Angeles, California, USA(undisclosed).
- Eddie Caswell was born on 22 December 1940 in England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Tripods (1984), Coronation Street (1960) and Soldier and Me (1974). He was married to Ruth Caswell. He died on 20 October 2022 in (undisclosed)a1.
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Gyula Maár was born on 2 August 1934 in Budapest, Hungary. He was a director and writer, known for Végül (1974), Teketória (1977) and The First Two Hundred Years of My Life (1986). He was married to Mari Törőcsik. He died on 20 December 2013 in Budapest, Hungary(undisclosed).- John Wald was born on 6 September 1908 in Hastings, Minnesota, USA. He was an actor, known for Canon City (1948), The Senator Was Indiscreet (1947) and Alias the Champ (1949). He died on 22 March 1988 in Los Angeles, California, USA(undisclosed).
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Albert Minski was born on 12 January 1928 in Paris, France. He was an actor and writer, known for Caligula et Messaline (1981), Carbon Copy (1970) and The Unfaithful Wife (1969). He died on 2 April 2000 in Clichy, France(undisclosed).- Visual Effects
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Bruce Cardozo was a director and writer, known for Johnny Mnemonic (1995), Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) and Election (1999). He died in June 2015 in (undisclosed).- 2015 has been a big year for Jack Edwards, as he just celebrated his 95th birthday with his wife Bea, son and daughter, and all of his grandchildren and great grandchildren. He was included in an article written by Tom Lamont and published in the UK Guardian weekend edition on May 23, 2015. The article includes a photograph of Jack and Eleanor Boardman in their roles in the movie "So This is Marriage". It is believed he had small roles in 40 films. This recent UK Guardian article came about because Austin and Howard Mutti-Mewse have approached him for their sequel book on silent film stars, "I Used to be in Pictures, Too". Jack Edwards was only in movies until the age of 4 years. He lived most of his childhood in the Tampa Bay area, graduated from Plant High School in 1939, joined the United States Marine Corps, served in the Pacific during WWII, receiving a Purple Heart for being wounded on Okinawa. As a technical sergeant, He was U.N. Ambassador John Muccio's bodyguard during the Korean War, and among the last to evacuate when the Chinese invaded Seoul. He is mentioned in the Truman Papers, when Muccio was interviewed. His adventures and assignments in the Marines are now being written up in his memoirs. He earned two degrees after retiring from the USMC, first attending FSU and later getting a Master's degree in Mathematics at Central Michigan. He put in 20 years in USMC followed by 20 years of teaching, before teaching himself Japanese and delivering a speech in Japanese to the Japanese Embassy in Washington, D.C., which led to TV segment about him for Japanese television.
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John Shakespeare was born in May 1923 in West Ham, Essex, England, UK. John was a composer, known for The Girl from Starship Venus (1975), The Ghost Goes Gear (1966) and The Over-Amorous Artist (1974). John was married to Joan Shakespeare. John died in 2002 in Worthing, West Sussex, England, UK(undisclosed).- Music Department
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Robert Van Eps was born on 9 March 1909 in Plainfield, New Jersey, USA. He was a composer, known for The Curse of La Llorona (2019), The Outer Limits (1963) and Hero's Island (1962). He died in March 1986 in Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, USA(undisclosed).- Incilay Sahin was born on 29 January 1961 in Kayseri, Turkey. She was an actress, known for Kuzenlerim (2002), Beyza'nin Kadinlari (2006) and Umutsuz Ev Kadinlari (2011). She died on 7 September 2021 in (undisclosed).
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Ramon Gow is known for The Living Daylights (1987), A View to a Kill (1985) and The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). He died on 27 June 1987 in Westminster, London, England, UK(undisclosed).- Yuri Gusev was born on 25 February 1936 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for K beregu pyatogo okeana (1991), Au! Ograblenie poezda (1991) and Ekipazh (1980). He died on 18 January 1991 in (undisclosed).