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Connie Hines was born on 24 March 1931 in Dedham, Massachusetts, USA. She was an actress, known for Mister Ed (1961), Thunder in Carolina (1960) and Sea Hunt (1958). She was married to Lee Savin and Arthur Bryl Higgs. She died on 18 December 2009 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.- Floyd Mahaney was born on 16 October 1926 in Marietta, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for Paper Moon (1973) and The Last Picture Show (1971). He died on 18 December 2009 in Calera, Oklahoma, USA.
- Camera and Electrical Department
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Bob Willoughby, born in Los Angeles in 1927, studied cinema at the USC Cinema Department and design with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art. At the same time he apprenticed with many Hollywood photographers as: Wallace Seawell, Paul Hesse, and Glenn Embree during the late 40's. His first magazine assignments were with Harper's Bazaar in the early 50's. He was soon discovered by the film studios and was the first 'outside' photographer to be hired to get space for them in the magazines, starting in 1954, when Warner Brothers asked him to photograph Judy Garland in the final number of "A Star Is Born". This proved successful for them both, (with Willoughby getting his first Life Magazine cover) and it began a 20 year collaboration with the publicity departments of all of the major studios, and provided a new link to the great magazines of the day. Popular Photography called him "The man who virtually invented the photo journalistic motion picture still". His work was literally never out of print for one week during his 20 year career in films. In 1972 he moved to the south of Ireland with his wife, four children and his mother-in-law, Quig. They lived 17 years in a castle on Courtmacsherry Bay, where he translated a book of early Irish poetry; Voices From Ancient Ireland. With the children and grandchildren now scattered to many places in the world, he and his wife Dorothy now live in the south of France.
Willoughby devised a number of technical innovations to get the photographs he needed. He financed the first successful sound blimp of a still-camera, which is now common on most movie sets. He was the only photographer working on films at the time, to use radio-controlled cameras, allowing him unprecedented access for certain shots. He had made special brackets that held his still camera on or over the Panavision cameras.
His photographs can be found in the collections of The National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., The National Portrait Gallery, London. The National Museum of Photography, Bradford, UK. The Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris. Musee de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium. The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences, Beverly Hills. CA., The Museum of Modern Art, Film Department, NYC, The Tate Gallery Collection, London, & The Musee de la Photographie et de l'Image, Nice, France.- Jacqueline Laurent was born on 6 August 1918 in Brienne-le-Château, Aube, France. She was an actress, known for L'abito nero da sposa (1945), Le Jour Se Leve (1939) and L'homme qui joue avec le feu (1942). She died on 18 December 2009 in Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
- José Bardina was born on 27 March 1939 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He was an actor, known for Mariana de la noche (1975), Cumbres borrascosas (1976) and La señorita Elena (1967). He was married to Amelia Roman. He died on 18 December 2009 in Miami, Florida, USA.
- Actress
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Renée Lebas was born on 23 April 1917 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Cité de l'espérance (1948), Unter den tausend Laternen (1952) and La nuit est à nous (1953). She died on 18 December 2009 in Paris, France.- Actress
- Director
- Producer
Paulita Sedgwick was born on 7 December 1943 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. She was an actress and director, known for Blackout (1994), Quartet (1981) and Bolero (1981). She died on 18 December 2009 in Arizona, USA.- Robin Wood was born on 23 February 1931 in Richmond, Surrey, England, UK. He was married to Aline Macdonald. He died on 18 December 2009 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Gwendolyn Gray was born on 16 January 1912 in Hampstead, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Without the Prince (1947), A Musical Masquerade (1946) and The Dover Road Mystery (1960). She died on 18 December 2009 in London, England, UK.
- Music Department
- Actor
- Writer
Oskar Danon was born on 7 February 1913 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Yugoslavia. He was an actor and writer, known for Siberian Lady Macbeth (1962), Nevjera (1953) and Mis Ston (1958). He died on 18 December 2009 in Belgrade, Serbia.- Art Department
David Green, known to his friends and colleagues as Dave was an extremely talented scenic artist in the film and television industry
A quote from the Scenic Art CO website is below:
"When the BBC closed their "in house" production services, five Artists from the Scenic Art Department got together and created the Scenic Art Co.
The Artists were Jim McCarthy, Peter Nurse, Colin Wright, Dave Green and Catherine Mayer.
Probably the most experienced scenic art group in the UK, Scenic Art CO have worked for most of the big names including the BBC, (of course), LWT, Carlton, Thames, The National theatre, Disney, Warner bros, Shakespeare's globe, Sky etc etc.
Set painting, backdrops, murals, gauzes, production paintings either copies or of original design, trompe l'oeil and faux finishes, the traditional work of scenic art are all provided, but we also provide storyboard, production illustration and concept art services."
Dave was one of less than 40 scenic artist globally who had the skillset to accurately create the size backdrop scenery required, all of which was intricately painted by hand.- Actress
- Additional Crew
Georgina Parkinson was born on 20 August 1938 in Brighton, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Black Swan (2010), Romeo and Juliet (1966) and Great Performances: Dance in America (1976). She was married to Roy Round. She died on 18 December 2009 in New York City, New York, USA.- Actor
John Zilly was born on 11 November 1921 in Waterbury, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor. He was married to Lala O'Toole. He died on 18 December 2009 in Narragansett, Rhode Island, USA.- Additional Crew
Chas Balun was without a doubt a horror fan's horror fan. Renowned for his brutally blunt and profane in-your-face wildman writing style, wholehearted and unapologetic love for hardcore gruesome horror splatter cinema, and, most of all, his trademark savagely witty, sardonic, and unconventional iconoclastic perspective, Chas was a true cult figure of horror journalism with a strong and substantial fan following. Born in 1948 in Compton, California, Balun grew up as a hippie in the 1960s in Southern California. He wrote his first book "The Connoissseur's Guide to the Contemporary Horror Film" in 1983. Chas became a regular contributing writer for "Fangoria" magazine in 1987 starting with issue # 62. He achieved his greatest enduring cult fame with his fiercely caustic, outspoken, and opinionated "Piece of Mind" column in the spin-off publication "GoreZone." This column ran from 1988 to 1991 and was one of the most popular and beloved features in the magazine. Balun was the founder of his own self-published magazine "Deep Red" and the author of the novel "Ninth and Hell Street." Among the nonfiction books Chas wrote are "The Gore Score," "More Gore Score," "Horror Holocaust," and "Beyond Horror Holocaust." Besides writing, he was also an underground cartoonist, a graphic designer (he designed the monster for the 1991 Fred Olen Ray horror comedy "Evil Toons"), and a t-shirt designer. Balun lived with his wife Pat in his home in Westminster, California. Chas died from cancer at age 61 on December 18, 2009. Although he's sadly no longer with us, Balun's fiery love and unbridled passion for the horror genre shall continue to bleed on for all eternity in his exceptionally lively, funny, and always entertaining say-it-like-you-see-it writing.