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Oglala Lakota, born Edsel Wallace Little Sky on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota. Eddie served with the U.S. Navy in the Pacific theatre during World War II. Tall (at 6 ft, 2") and muscular, he was subsequently employed as an oil field wildcatter and then toured the rodeo circuit with Casey Tibbs' American Wild West Show & Rodeo as a bull and bareback bronco rider. He entered films as a stuntman in the early 50s. By the middle of the decade, Eddie was playing Native American chiefs and braves and eventually amassed a portfolio of more than 60 film credits and numerous TV episodes -- often as a featured player rather than a mere extra. Among his better known roles was that of Black Eagle in A Man Called Horse (1970). Eddie and his wife Dawn Little Sky moved to Los Angeles in 1959, but they never regarded this as their true 'home'. "Phasing out the Hollywood era", as Dawn called it, they returned to South Dakota in 1975 whereupon Eddie worked as director of the Oglala Lakota Tribal Parks and Recreation Authority. Both Eddie and Dawn were also well known for their accomplishments as exponents of traditional dance, having toured both Europe and Japan and performed before royalty.- Mother Teresa also known as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun who in 1950 founded and was an active member of the Missionaries of Charity. Although her passport name was Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, she was born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (Skopje, capital of North Macedonia. After living in Skopje for eighteen years, she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life.
- Iain Anders was born on 8 February 1933 in Barnet, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Taggart (1983), The Avengers (1961) and A Horseman Riding By (1978). He died on 5 September 1997 in Chichester, Sussex, England, UK.
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Robert Sherman was born on 6 December 1926 in New York, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Barnaby Jones (1973), Knight Rider (1982) and Kiss Me Deadly (1955). He died on 5 September 1997 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Sir Georg Solti was a renowned orchestra and opera conductor, best known as the music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, who set a since-surpassed record by winning 31 Grammy Awards. He was born György Stern in Budapest, Hungary (his Germanic last named was changed under the country's post-World War One "Hungarianization" policy) into a Jewish family. His mother had a musical background and the young Georg would accompany his sister, who was encouraged to sing by their mother, on piano.
When he was 10 years old, he began his musical education at Budapest's Ernö Fodor School of Music before transferring to the Franz Liszt Academy, which was more highly regarded, with a faculty that included Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály. At the age of 12, a performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth instilled in him the desire to conduct an orchestra. He had to finance his own further musical education from the age of 13 on by providing piano instruction. He graduated in 1930 and became a member of the Hungarian State Opera staff. He also worked at the Salzburg Festival for Arturo Toscanini.
Hungary was destined to become an ally of Adolf Hitler during World War II, and the future for a Jew in Hungary was not bright. In 1938, he served a season at the Royal Opera House in London conducting Russian ballet, after which he sought sanctuary in Switzerland. He remained there throughout World War II, forced to support himself as a pianist as he was forbidden to conduct.
In 1946, he was named the director of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, moving to the Frankfurt Opera in 1952, where he stayed until 1961, when he was appointed musical director of London's Covent Garden Opera Company. Solti won fame for turning Covent Garden into a world class company, winning for it the honorific "Royal". He moved on to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1969, where he would serve as music director until 1991. That orchestra had seen its reputation in decline after maestro Fritz Reiner's departure in the early '60s, but under his baton, Chicago re-established itself as one of the world's premier orchestras. With Chicago, Solti would win 24 of his 31 Grammy Awards.
Solti in his career produced than 250 sound recordings. One of his works, a complete set of Richard Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen' produced between 1958 and 1965, has been cited as the greatest recording ever made.
Sir Georg Solti died on September 5, 1997 at the age of 84.- Gilberto Puentes was born on 6 June 1938 in Moniquirá, Boyacá, Colombia. He was an actor, known for Karla contra los jaguares (1974), Sur verde (1980) and Los jaguares contra el invasor misterioso (1975). He died on 5 September 1997 in Bogotá, Colombia.
- Johanna Karl-Lory was born on 15 February 1902 in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. She was an actress, known for Michael Kramer (1984), Tatort (1970) and Vor dem Sturm (1984). She died on 5 September 1997 in Kierspe, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- Actor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Camera and Electrical Department
Larry Reichman was born on 26 July 1952 in Maryland, USA. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Nightbeast (1982). He died on 5 September 1997 in the USA.- Rudolf Klicks was born on 21 May 1917 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for Das Schloß in Flandern (1936), The Four Companions (1938) and Seven Slaps (1937). He died on 5 September 1997 in Germany.
- Mildred Dein was born on 8 November 1911 in the USA. She was a writer, known for Seven Guns to Mesa (1958), Sword of Granada (1953) and Shack Out on 101 (1955). She died on 5 September 1997 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Ekaterina Ignatova was born on 2 July 1922 in Bulgaria. She was an assistant director, known for S detza na more (1972), Kaloyan (1963) and Mazhe (1966). She died on 5 September 1997 in Sofia, Bulgaria.