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1997 King Hu, film director, scriptwriter, set designer, directed films 'Come Drink With Me', 'Dragon Gate Inn', dies at 64
1996 Lucio Fulci, director, screenwriter, actor, known for directing gore films, dies at 68 1991 Wilfrid Hyde-White, Brits actor (Peyton Place/140+ films), dies at 87 1982 Roy Webb, composer, arranger for over 200 films, Academy Award nominee, wrote fight song 'Roar, Lion, Roar', dies at 94 1982 Charles Russhon, USAF Lieutenant Colonel/liaison for James Bond films, dies at 71 1973 Fay Holden, actress (Mother-Andy Hardy films), dies at 77 1972 Dane Cook, born in Boston, Massachusetts, Dane Jeffrey Cook, comedian, stand up comic, released five comedy albums, 'Retaliation' went double platinum, the highest charting comedy album in 28 years, appeared in 15 films since 1997, including 'My Best Friend's Girl' 1971 Soundarya, born in Gangigunte, India, film actress, played heroine in Kannada, Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam films 1970 Oded Fehr, born in Tel Aviv, Israel, actor, television, appeared in NBC series, UC: Undercover, films include, 'The Mummy', 'The Mummy Returns' 1969 Christian Slater, born in New York City, New York, actor, films include 'Broken Arrow', 'Heathers', 'Robin Hood' 1968 Naomi Watts, born in Shoreham, England, British-Australian actress, films include 'Mulholland Drive', 'King Kong' 1967 Billy Wells, Gong striker for Rank Films, dies at 79 1962 Val Paul, actor, director, silent film era star, appeared in 99 films 1913 - 1922, dies at 73 in Hollywood, California 1961 Andy Lau, born in Hong Kong, China, singer, film actor, producer, Cantopop genre, appeared in over 100 films, 300 TVB television mini-series 1961 Supreme Court rules cities and states have right to censor films 1959 "Plan 9 From Outer Space," one of the worse films ever, premieres 1959 Sean Bean, born in Handsworth, England, actor, television, appeared in series 'Sharpe', films include 'The Lord of the Rings', 'GoldenEye' 1956 Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin end partnership after 16 films 1956 Charles Dingle, actor, stage, film, played role of senator in 'Call Me Madam', films include 'The Little Foxes', dies 1955 Patrick McCabe, born in Clones, Ireland, novelist, wrote 'Butcher Boy', 'Breakfast on Pluto', both adapted into films by Neil Jordan 1949 "My Friend Irma" is 1st of 12 films starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis 1948 Jean Reno, born in Casablanca, Morocco, Juan Moreno y Herrera-Jimenez, actor, films include 'The Pink Panther', 'The DaVinci Code', 'Ronin' 1948 T-Bone Burnett, born in St. Louis, Missouri, musician, songwriter, produced artists including BoDeans, Counting Crows, music for films 1942 Peter Eyre, born in New York City, New York, actor, films include 'Hedda', 'Dragonslayer', 'The Affair of the Necklace' 1941 Ruth Stonehouse, film director, silent era film actress, directed films 'The Winning Pair', 'Tacky Sue's Romance', dies in Hollywood, California, at age 48 1940 Nazi occupiers in Netherlands forbid anti-nazi films 1934 Sydney Pollack, born in Indiana, American film director, producer, actor in over 30 films 1933 Costantinos Gavras, born in Greece, known as Costa-Gavras, French filmmaker, created political-themed films, known for fast-paced thriller titled Z, first film titled Missing, 1982 1932 Jaan Raats, born in Tartu, Estonia, composer, composed Estonian language films, wrote 'Aeg elada aeg armastada' 1932 King Hu, born in Beijing, China, film director, scriptwriter, set designer, directed films 'Come Drink With Me', 'Dragon Gate Inn' 1928 Patrick McGoohan, born in New York, American actor of Irish descent, appeared in films, theater, television 1927 Raaj Kumar, born in Balochistan, Pakistan, film star, actor in Bollywood movies, famous for film 'Mother India', starred in more than 70 Bollywood films, had an iconic, gravelly voice 1927 Lucio Fulci, born in Rome, Italy, director, screenwriter, actor, known for directing gore films, Zombi 2 and The Beyond, other genres, including giallo, western, comedy 1922 Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films 1919 John Michael Hayes, born in Massachusetts, screenwriter, scripted several famous Alfred Hitchcock films 1914 Richard Widmark, born in Minnesota, American actor in films, theater, radio, television 1911 Charles Joseph A. Russhon, USAF Lieutenant Colonel/liaison, James Bond films 1905 Clara Bow, silent screen actress, Wings, "it" girl of 1920's films 1901 Stefan Lorant, born in Budapest, Hungary, writer, Hungarian-American filmmaker, photojournalist, made fourteen films in Vienna and Berlin, opposed to Adolph Hitler, imprisoned, wrote memoir 'I was Hitler's Prisoner' 1895 Fay Holden, Birmingham England, actress, Mother-Andy Hardy films 1895 British inventor Birt Acres films Oxford-Cambridge 1892 Ruth Stonehouse, born in Denver, Colorado, film director, silent era film actress, directed films 'The Winning Pair', 'Tacky Sue's Romance' 1888 Roy Webb, born in New York City, New York, composer, arranger for over 200 films, Academy Award nominee, wrote fight song 'Roar, Lion, Roar' 1887 Charles Dingle, born in Wabash, Indiana, actor, stage, film, played role of senator in 'Call Me Madam', films include 'The Little Foxes' 1886 Val Paul, born in Denver, Colorado, actor, director, silent film era star, appeared in 99 films 1913 - 1922 |
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