Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
Only includes names with the selected topics
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
1-26 of 26
- Actress
Olivia Cole was born on 26 November 1942 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. She was an actress, known for Roots (1977), Backstairs at the White House (1979) and Something About Amelia (1984). She was married to Richard Venture. She died on 19 January 2018 in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.- A strikingly beautiful leading lady of the Nouvelle Vague, Juliette Mayniel was the daughter of a café owner and his wife, born in the small rural community of Saint-Hippolyte, Aveyron, in southern France. After World War II, her parents resettled in Bordeaux. Juliette spent her adolescence there, went to high school, and, in due course, discovered amateur dramatics. Following a brief sojourn with a local repertory company, she moved to Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris, aged twenty, hoping to resume further acting studies at the Conservatoire. However, stage fright got the better of her and she failed to progress beyond the entrance exam.
For a short time, Juliette found work in the field of haute couture fashion design. Through an advertising agency, her face first popped up on screen in a commercial for a brand of soap. The director Claude Chabrol later claimed in his autobiography that this clip led him to cast Juliette as the promiscuous Florence, coveted by two law students played by Gérard Blain (as the serious Charles) and Jean-Claude Brialy (as the rakish and hedonistic Paul) in his film The Cousins (1959). For this, her first important movie role, Juliette garnered good reviews. The New York Times described her performance as "thoroughly provoking".
Her success next prompted leading roles in period drama (Pêcheur d'Islande (1959)), a crime thriller (La nuit des traqués (1959)) and in Georges Franju's classic horror film Eyes Without a Face (1960) (as the hapless recipient of a face transplant experiment). Curiously, Juliette won her one major accolade, a Silver Bear at the 10th Berlin International Film Festival, for her role in a German-produced drama film, Kirmes (1960), directed by Wolfgang Staudte. Chabrol then directed her again as one of the murder victims of France's most notorious serial killer in Bluebeard (1963), and, as Lucie, the object of a disturbed young man's fantasy in Ophélia (1963). She acted among an international cast in the 'giallo' thriller Assassination in Rome (1965) and as Priam's daughter Creusa in the peplum spectacle The Trojan Horse (1961), love interest of Trojan hero Aeneas, as portrayed by muscular American bodybuilder Steve Reeves (chiefly famous in Italy for playing Hercules).
In 1964, Juliette divorced her husband, the actor Robert Auboyneau. She was for four years the partner of well-known Italian star Vittorio Gassman with whom she had a son (actor and writer Alessandro Gassmann). She continued to act in films of widely varying quality until 1983. Juliette eventually quit show biz and lived for many years in Mexico, where she died on July 21 2023, aged 87. - Additional Crew
- Writer
- Producer
Emily Marshall was born on 24 March 1943 in Columbus, Ohio. She was a writer and producer, known for Coming of Age (1988), Designing Women (1986) and Newhart (1982). She was married to Doc Severinsen. She died on 17 March 2023 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Guillermo Murray was born on 15 June 1927 in Colón, Argentina. He was an actor and writer, known for Lazos de amor (1995), Una vez, un hombre... (1971) and Para usted jefa (1980). He was married to Lidia Prisant. He died on 6 May 2021 in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.- Alejandro Ferretis was born in 1944 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was an actor, known for Japan (2002). He died on 30 March 2004 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Neal Cassady became the well-spring from which the Beat Generation gushed forth due to his close friendships with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg Born on February 8, 1926 (in the back of a car, according to his own fanciful musings). Cassady -- arguably the most famous non-professional automobile driver in history -- became famous as Dean Morarity, the character Kerouac based on him in his seminal 1957 novel "On the Road". Unlike Kerouac (and like Ginsberg), he also became an icon of the psychedelic movement in the 1960s, traveling with Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters in the psychedelic school-bus "Further". Immortalized as a remarkable driver with a Zen-like sense of the road in the 1950s by Kerouac, he was further immortalized as the driver of "Further" in the 1960s by Tom Wolfe. As a driver and free spirit with boundless energy and enthusiasm, Cassady went down in literary history as a symbol of the wandering pioneer-spirit of America.
Born poor in Salt Lake City, his mother died when he was a child and he raised by an alcoholic father on Denver's skid row. Cassady served many stints in reform school for car theft, claiming to have stolen 500 cars by the time he was 18. Cassady met Kerouac and Ginsberg in 1946 through mutual friend Hal Chase, who was from Colorado and told them stories of this remarkable Westerner from Denver. Ginsberg was matriculating in Columbia College's pre-law program and Kerouac was living in the vicinity of New York's premier university in a Morningside Heights apartment with his first wife Edie Parker when Cassady rolled into town with his 16-year old bride LuAnne Henderson. (Cassady also met William S. Burroughs at the same time, and although he later stayed with Burroughs on his Louisiana marijuana farm, the two never were close.) Cassady forged friendships with Kerouac and Ginsberg, with his relationship with Kerouac resembling that of a surrogate brother. Though both men were somewhat bisexual and loved one another, according to Ginsberg, they never were sexually intimate. On the other hand, Cassady - a muscular, good-looking con man who was a master at manipulation and was not adverse to using sex to get his ultimate desires - had a sexual relationship with Ginsberg that lasted off and on for the next twenty years.
What Cassady wanted was to learn how to write, and he apprenticed himself to both Kerouac and Ginsberg. Cassady proved to be a major catalyst for the Beat Movement, influencing the spontaneous poetics of Kerouac and Ginsberg through the famous "Joan Anderson letter" written by Neal to Jack in December 1950. Kerouac, who had just published a conservatively written, Thomas Wolfe-pastiche of a novel "The Town and the City", thought it was the most brilliant thing he had ever read. As real as spoken speech, the stream of consciousness approach used by Neal to discuss his seduction of a woman gave Kerouac the direction which his future prose would take, most famously in "Road" and his other paean to Cassady, "Visions of Cody" (with Neal as Cody Pomeroy). This spontaneous prose would inform all of Kerouac's other writing (for good and bad as Kerouac became incapable of revision), including his other two masterworks, The Subterraneans (1960) and "The Dharma Bums". (Although much of this letter is lost, a surviving fragment originally was published in an early 1964 edition of John Bryan's magazine, "Notes From Underground," the only time Cassady was published during his lifetime. His autobiography "The First Third" was published posthumously by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Press, and his complete surviving letters were published in two volumes, "Grace Beats Karma: Letters from Prison" (Blast, 1993) and "Neal Cassady: Collected Letters, 1944-1967" (Penguin, 2004). On his part, Ginsberg mentioned Cassady in his famous poem, "Howl" as "N.C., secret hero of these poems...."
After divorcing his immature bride Luanne Henderson, Cassady married the middle-class former art student Carolyn Robinson in 1948. They had three children and lived near San Jose, California, a major terminus on the Southern Pacific Railroad where Neal worked for as a brakeman. Kerouac often visited their first home (Cassady even got him a job as a brakeman), and became part of a menage a trois by bedding Carolyn with Neal's approval. Cassady was a compulsive womanizer and was constantly involved with multiple women aside from his wife, taking many of his "conquests" in an aggressive fashion that bordered on rape. Carolyn Cassady believed that Neal, being raised poor and Irish Catholic, had a deep psychological need for punishment. When he would confess his "sins" (such as running off with a new girlfriend), Carolyn would respond by punishing him, which would have the effect, she later realized, of absolving him of his current sin and fulfilling his need for abasement; as soon as this cycle was completed, he would be off womanizing again.
Attracted to psychologically damaged women who could be controlled, he would try to foist them off on Kerouac, a mother-obsessed alcoholic suffering from an Oedipal complex who was in no position to take on the responsibility of a woman (as Carolyn realized). One of Neal's girlfriends committed suicide, while another wound up in a madhouse. Cassady even remained intimate with his first wife, LuAnne, into the late 50s.
In addition to introducing Kerouac to a stream-of-consciousness prose style, Cassady was instrumental in getting Kerouac on the road. Kerouac hitchhiked out to see Neal and went on several car trips with him across the U.S. and into Mexico that were the basis for Jack's break-through novel, "On the Road", one of the seminal works of American fiction. Written soon-after the events transpired in 1951, it took six years for the novel to be published. When it was, in 1957, Jack Kerouac was famous. And so, in a way, was Neal, as Kerouac -- disliking that the press misidentified him as being the "real" Dean Moriarity -- told them that it was a Neal Cassady that was the real Dean, and that he was an unsung great American writer.
In 1958, Cassady was arrested for selling marijuana to an undercover narcotics agent in a San Francisco night club and sentenced to 10 years in San Quentin Prison. Kerouac, who had made Neal famous through "On the Road", felt guilty as he felt Cassady's notoriety (which Jack did not know he had embraced) had made him known to narcotics cops in San Francisco. Actually, Cassady did little to disguise the fact that he was dealing (his concept of dealing was more akin to Johnny Appleseed: he gave away enormous quantities of pot to his friends for free), at one point boasting to friends of having given a narc two joints in a North Beach nitery. On their part, the narcotics police though Neal was part of a ring that was using the railroads to smuggle massive quantities of pot into the U.S. due to the large quantities of grass he frequently had. It was a charge that was never proven, and eventually, he was released in June 1960, by which time Carolyn was almost through with him. She stuck it out with him for the children. Though Neal struggled to meet his family obligations, but Carolyn finally divorced him when his parole period expired in 1963.
Cassady's second bout with fame came through Ken Kesey, who had been hailed as a sort of successor to Kerouac after the publishing of his One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975). The two met during the summer of 1962, and Neal eventually became one of Kesey's hangers-on, the Merry Pranksters as they became known, serving as the driver of Kesey's psychedelic-painted school-bus called "Furthur". Startign in 1965, the Pranksters crossed America putting on "Happenings" (light shows with rock music) at which the then-legal LSD was distributed freely. The Pranksters and Neal were immortalized in Tom Wolfe's book "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test." After being an icon of the Beat Geneartion, a decade later, Neal became an icon of the psychedelic scene in California in the 1960s (an era that ended with the Tate-LaBianca murders by the Charles Manson family in 1969), becoming close to such counter-cultural idols as The Grateful Dead.
Neal Cassady never lived to see 1969. He died sometime on the night of February 3/4, 1968, after attending a wedding party in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. He imbibed the alcoholic beverage pulque at the wedding, which may have contributed to his death as he was taking the barbiturate Seconal that day. After the party, he went walking on the railroad track to reach the next town wearing nothing but a T-shirt and jeans, and was found passed out the next morning in a coma. He was taken to the closest hospital, where he died a few hours later. As the night had been cold and rainy, the coroner ruled he had died from exposure, but Carolyn Cassady believed that he had been worn out, used up by the likes of Ken Kesey and others. He had told Carolyn shortly before his death that he was tired of playing the fool (the Holy Fool or Goof, the role that Kerouac had immortalized him in for all time). She believed that Neal simply did not want to live anymore. He was four days shy of his 42nd birthday when he died, alone, on the railroad tracks.- Gene Crane was born on 27 May 1920 in Queens, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Rocky III (1982), Friends (1994) and ABC Afterschool Specials (1972). He was married to Joan Meyers. He died on 26 August 2019 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Deborah Scaling-Kiley was born on 21 January 1958 in Throckmorton, Texas, USA. She was a writer, known for Two Came Back (1997), I Shouldn't Be Alive (2005) and I Survived... (2008). She was married to Greg Blackmon and John Coleman Kiley III. She died on 13 August 2012 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.- Jimboy Salazar was born on 2 March 1973 in the Philippines. He was an actor, known for Mga nagbabagang labi (1996), Bocaue Pagoda Tragedy (1995) and Hatulan: Bilibid Boys 2 (1995). He died on 24 July 2015 in San Miguel, Bulacan, Philippines.
- David Dodge was born in Berkeley, California. His career as a writer began when he made a bet with his wife Elva that he could write a better mystery novel than the one she was reading. He drew on his professional experience as a Certified Public Accountant to create his first series character, San Francisco tax expert and reluctant detective James "Whit" Whitney. "Death and Taxes" was published in 1941 and he won $5.00 from Elva. Three more Whitney novels were published between 1943 and 1946. After Pearl Harbor Dodge was commissioned in the U.S. Navy and emerged three years later as a Lieutenant Commander. On his release from active duty, he set out for Guatemala by car with his wife and daughter. His Latin-American experiences produced a second series character, expatriate private investigator and tough-guy adventurer Al Colby, and launched Dodge's second career as a travel writer. Dodge was fond of explaining that while many writers traveled in order to gather material to write about, his goal was to write in order to gather money to travel. David Dodge also wrote short stories, magazine articles, and plays. He is best known as the author of "To Catch a Thief", which Alfred Hitchcock turned into a film (To Catch a Thief (1955)) starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly.
- Oscar Otranto was an actor, known for Sábado de todos (1982). He was married to Andrea Suarez and Gogó Rojo. He died on 29 May 2018 in San Miguel, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Director
Manfred Guthe was born on 16 October 1946 in Hessen, Germany. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987), Police Academy 3: Back in Training (1986) and Avonlea (1990). He died on 4 January 2023 in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.- Cristina Rubiales was born on 12 July 1950 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico. She was an actress, known for Renzo, el gitano (1973), Mujeres sin amor (1968) and Espérame en Siberia, vida mía (1971). She died on 23 February 2023 in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.
- Composer
- Soundtrack
John Dawson was born on 16 June 1945 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was a composer, known for The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico (2005), A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for A Living Planet (2012) and Festival Express (2003). He was married to Elana. He died on 21 July 2009 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.- Ilde Pirovano was born in 1899 in Catania, Italy. She was an actress, known for Flor de durazno (1917), El fin de la noche (1944) and A sangre fría (1947). She died on 15 August 1981 in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina.
- Cristina Lemercier was born on 3 April 1951 in San Miguel, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was an actress, known for El pulpo negro (1985), Destino de un capricho (1972) and El novicio rebelde (1968). She was married to Freddy Tadeo. She died on 27 December 1996 in San Miguel, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Toller Cranston was born on 20 April 1949 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor and writer, known for Romeo and Juliet on Ice (1983), Cowboy Bebop (1998) and Strawberry Ice (1982). He died on 24 January 2015 in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.
- Actor
- Composer
Carlos Torres Vila was born on 9 November 1946 in Los Toldos, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was an actor and composer, known for La carpa del amor (1979), The Beach of Love (1980) and Los éxitos del amor (1979). He died on 16 July 2010 in San Miguel, Buenos Aires, Argentina.- Writer
- Actor
- Director
Ashmead Scott was born on 27 November 1893 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for The Herb Shriner Show (1949), The Life of Riley (1948) and The House on Telegraph Hill (1951). He died on 3 February 1965 in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.- Erica Mireles was born on 20 April 1948 in Mexico. She was an actress, known for Las poquianchis (De los pormenores y otros sucedidos del dominio público que acontecieron a las hermanas de triste memoria a quienes la maledicencia así las bautizó) (1976), El esperado amor desesperado (1976) and Canoa: A Shameful Memory (1976). She died on 18 July 2017 in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.
- Camera and Electrical Department
Glenn Strong was born in 1904 in Kansas, USA. Glenn was married to Ila M. Strong. Glenn died on 25 July 1935 in off San Miguel Island, California, USA.- Berthold Heilig was born on 26 October 1914 in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He died on 7 November 1978 in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina.
- Writer
- Script and Continuity Department
Sharon Riis was born in 1947 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Sharon was a writer, known for Savage Messiah (2002), Loyalties (1986) and Latitude 55° (1982). Sharon died on 20 May 2016 in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.- Phil Roettinger was born on 22 September 1915 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He died on 7 January 2002 in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.
- Franklin 'Frank' Robbins (1917-1994) was a notable American comic book and comic strip artist and writer, as well as a prominent painter whose work appeared in museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art. Characters created by Frank Robbins: Man-Bat, Daphne Pennyworth, The Spook, Jason Bard, The 10-eyed Man, Warrior Woman. In the mid 1970s Robbins took on more art jobs, penciling a wide variety of issue-length stories for Marvel titles: Ghost Rider, Captain America, Morbius the Living Vampire, The Invaders, The Human Fly, Daredevil.