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- Additional Crew
- Soundtrack
Don DeFore toured the country in stock companies for several years before making his Broadway debut in 1938. In films since 1941, he occasionally played leads in B pictures, but was more often cast as the good-natured buddy of the hero or a likable but gullible character whom the hero has to bail out of trouble. DeFore found much more success on television, and was a regular in the hit series Hazel (1961) and The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952).- Writer
- Director
- Art Department
One of the most distinguished (if frequently overlooked) directors ever to emerge from the British film industry, Alexander Mackendrick, was in fact born in the US (to Scottish parents), but grew up in his native Scotland, where he studied at the Glasgow School of Art. He started out as a commercial illustrator, and his first film endeavors were in animation (for advertising films) but he soon found himself attracted by live-action, shooting numerous short documentaries and writing screenplays throughout the 1940s. He made his feature debut in 1948 with the Ealing comedy classic Whisky Galore! (1949), set in his native Scotland, and more than half his total feature output would be for the studio including such masterpieces as The Man in the White Suit (1951) and The Ladykillers (1955) -- comedies with a rather darker, more satirical edge to them than the rather cosy and parochial British comedy more typical of the era. His first Hollywood film pushed this style to its limit in Sweet Smell of Success (1957), a vicious, no-holds-barred portrait of the world of ruthless New York gossip columnists. Although now acclaimed as one of the great American films, and a career high-point for Mackendrick, stars Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis and cinematographer James Wong Howe, it was a critical and box-office disaster that, sadly, ensured that Mackendrick would never again scale such heights. After just three more films, he was offered an academic job as the Dean of the Film Department of the California Institute of the Arts, which he accepted and held from 1969 until shortly before his death.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Marion Burns was born on 9 August 1907 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for The Devil Tiger (1934), The Dawn Rider (1935) and Sensation Hunters (1933). She was married to Kane Richmond and Bruce MacFarlane. She died on 22 December 1993 in Laguna Niguel, California, USA.- Sylvia Bataille was an acclaimed French actress, who in 1939 won Le prix Suzanne-Bianchetti, given to France's most promising actress - other winners include the great actresses Audrey Tatou, Isabelle Adjani, Geneviève Bujold, Isabelle Huppert, Simone Signoret. Bataille acted in Renoir's Crime of Monsieur Lange, and A Day in the Country.
Her first husband was the troubled, philosophical novelist Georges Bataille (Ma mere, Story of the Eye - both filmed 2004). The Batailles' daughter Laurence (1930-1986) became a psychiatrist and acted in Renoir's movie French Cancan. Sylvia left Georges for Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) an influential and controversial French psychoanalyst. After Sylvia's early retirement from acting, she worked closely with Lacan. Both Georges and Lacan were influenced by surrealists, including Spanish painter Salvador Dali, inspiring Lacan to devise a unique synthesis of psychiatry and Surrealism. With Lacan, Sylvia also had a daughter, the philosopher Judith Miller (born 1941). Sylvia eventually married Lacan (1953). Judith married the philosopher/psychoanalyst Jacques-Alain Miller.
In the 1930's, Sylvia was a member of the great screenwriter Jacques Prevert's (Children of Paradise, Port of Shadows) agit-prop theatre company, Le groupe Octobre.
For 38 years Sylvia owned Gustave Corbet's still-controversial painting The Origin of the World. After her death, the French government received the painting to pay inheritance tax. Sylvia's sister Rose Makles married painter André Masson, who made a surrealist companion piece to The Origin of the World, which was attached to the Corbet canvas. Masson was a major influence on American abstract expressionists. Sylvia's other sister Simone Makles married the French government minister Jean Piel, who wrote and edited with Sylvia's ex-husband Georges Bataille. - Actor
- Producer
- Director
Salah Zulfikar was an Egyptian actor and producer. He started his career as a police officer before becoming an actor in 1956. He is considered one of the greatest Egyptian actors of all time. He was one of the most consistent box-office performers in Egyptian cinema. Zulfikar starred in over fifty box office hits, remaining a bankable star for almost three decades.
Descendant from the Zulfikar family, one of the noble and most well-known families in Egypt.
Zulfikar's notable films as an actor include; Djamilah (1958), Money and Women (1960), The Second Man (1960), The Cursed Palace (1962), Saladin (1963), Soft Hands (1963), Dearer than My Life (1965), My Wife, the Director General (1966), Good Morning, my Dear Wife (1969), The Killers (1971), Featureless Men (1972), The Other Man (1973), Secret Visit (1981), and The Peacock (1982). In the 1980s and early 1990s, he started focusing on television serials, and became the highest paid TV actor in the Arab World in mid 1980s.
In 1958, he established a film production company, with his brother Ezz El-Dine Zulficar, together they produced major productions such as Among the Ruins (1959), The Second Man (1960). In 1962, he established his own film production company and produced notable films such as My Wife, the Director General (1966), A Taste of Fear (1969) and I Want a Solution (1975).
As an actor and producer, he participated in 13 films listed in the Top 100 Egyptian films of all time. Zulfikar won several awards during his career. He won the state award for his acting performance in a leading role for five times in: Soft Hands (1963), Dearer than My Life (1965), My Wife's Dignity (1967), Secret Visit (1981), and The Peacock (1982). He also won the state award for production for two times in (My Wife, the Director General (1966), I Want a Solution (1975).
He was married to Nafisa Bahgat, the mother of his children Ahmed Zulfikar and Mona Zulfikar. His second wife was Zahrat El-Ula and third wife, Shadia.
Salah Zulfikar died at the age of 67 on December 22, 1993 in Cairo, Egypt.- Writer
- Director
- Actor
Mario Amendola was born on 8 December 1910 in Recco, Liguria, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Trappola per sette spie (1966), Sword of Damascus (1964) and Storia de fratelli e de cortelli (1973). He died on 22 December 1993 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Henry McCarthy was born on 27 March 1906 in the UK. He was an actor, known for Doctor Who (1963), Theatre 625 (1964) and Oliver Twist (1962). He was married to Helena McCarthy. He died on 22 December 1993 in Lambeth, London, England, UK.
- Reuben Martin was born on 15 March 1921 in Edmonton, Middlesex, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Carry on Up the Jungle (1970), Bel Ami (1971) and Oh in Colour (1970). He died on 22 December 1993 in Uttlesford, Essex, England, UK.
- Gregor Hansen was born in 1954 in Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany. He was an actor, known for Eine deutsche Revolution (1982), Klassen Feind (1983) and Liebling Kreuzberg (1986). He died on 22 December 1993 in Berlin, Germany.
- Set Decorator
- Art Director
- Production Designer
Juan Alberto Soler was born on 27 September 1919 in Barcelona, Spain. He was a set decorator and art director, known for They Came to Rob Las Vegas (1968), The Blood Spattered Bride (1972) and Juanillo, papá y mamá (1957). He died on 22 December 1993 in Barcelona, Spain.- Production Designer
- Art Director
Viktor Migulko was born on 7 December 1924 in Gubnik, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]. Viktor was a production designer and art director, known for Klyuchi ot neba (1965), Artist iz Kokhanovki (1962) and Tsyganka Aza (1987). Viktor died on 22 December 1993 in Kiev, Ukraine.- Writer
- Director
- Actor
Oto Bihalji-Merin was born on 3 January 1904 in Zemun, Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary [now Serbia]. He was a writer and director, known for Slikarstvo (1948), The Red Flower (1950) and Kako su lepe slike ove (1958). He died on 22 December 1993 in Belgrade, Serbia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.- Helene van Herck was born on 20 July 1908. She was an actress, known for Het verjaardagsfeest (1966), De humorist (1968) and Lieve leugenaar (1964). She died on 22 December 1993.
- Cinematographer
Franz Josef Dahinden was born on 7 June 1898 in Switzerland. Franz Josef was a cinematographer, known for The Legend of William Tell (1934) and Ice and Snow (1955). Franz Josef died on 22 December 1993.- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Orlando Silveira was born in 1922 in Rincão, São Paulo, Brazil. He was an assistant director, known for Eterna Esperança (1940). He died on 22 December 1993 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.