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- Rich Jeffries was born on 1 September 1938 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He was married to Brenda Chitwood. He died on 30 March 2012 in Ojai, California, USA.
- Keturah Sorrell was born in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England in 1912, the daughter of William and Jenny Sorrell. She attended Middlesbrough High School for Girls where she excelled at languages, a useful talent in her future career. While at school, she was encouraged to enter singing competitions and to perform publicly. She won prizes and made her first radio broadcast from Newcastle at 14 in 1926. It was during one of these competitions that her gift of perfect pitch was discovered. The adjudicator's bell went, and she launched immediately into a Schubert song, perfectly in tune, without waiting for the note from the astonished accompanist.
Keturah Sorrell was the principal soprano for the Intimate Opera company and also sang leading roles at Sadler's Wells Opera. During the war she toured with CEMA, the precursor of the Arts Council, and in 1950 she toured North America with Intimate Opera. At 68 she embarked on a new career in television.
After leaving school she joined the Civil Service for a while, but she continued singing, performing amateur principal roles in Gilbert and Sullivan with Redcar Operatic Society and also making further broadcasts. After her marriage in 1939 she studied at the Royal College of Music. She received much encouragement from the college principal, Sir George Dyson, whose music she included in her programmes. She continued to sing professionally in concerts and oratorio, and won the Gold Medal in the North of England Musical Festival for the outstanding individual performance of the year.
On graduating, Sorrell went straight to Sadler's Wells Opera where she was immediately cast as Esmeralda in The Bartered Bride. Peter Pears was performing the role of Vasek and they became friends. They also performed together in oratorio. She subsequently sang leading roles at Sadler's Wells in The Marriage of Figaro and Il tabarro as well as Gretel in Hansel and Gretel.
In 1947 Sorrell joined Intimate Opera whose core repertoire was small-scale one-act operas such as Thomas Arne's Thomas and Sally, James Hook's The Musical Courtship and The Musick Master attributed to Pergolesi. These performances were frequently taken round public schools, colleges and music societies, as well as provincial theatres in Leeds, Cambridge and Oxford. In 1950 the company toured the United States from coast to coast, with further stops in Vancouver and Montreal. The following year the company recorded its entire repertoire on the Decca label. Sorrell retired from solo performance in the mid-1950s, but continued to sing professionally in choirs and with the Ambrosian Singers.
In 1980 she embarked on a new career in television as a supporting artiste. Her first appearance was in a Scottish wedding sketch in Not the Nine O'Clock News and she was a regular on Waiting for God (1990) featuring in at least 25 episodes. She also appeared in The Bill (1984), EastEnders (1985), Drop the Dead Donkey (1990), A Bit of Fry and Laurie (1987), an early episode of One Foot in the Grave (1990), in Victoria Wood's Pat and Margaret (1994) as well as in two episodes of Keeping Up Appearances (1990).
Her most conspicuous appearances were with the comedians Hale and Pace with whom she allowed herself to be pushed full in the face to send her flying, and expelled from the studio in disgrace during a spoof snooker sketch with Steve Davis and Jimmy White. The consummation of this part of her career was when she crawled along the top of a milk float which she had climbed up after pursuing it on a mobility scooter in a take-off of a James Bond-style chase. She was in her mid-eighties at the time.
Sorrell's husband, Eric S Sadler, whom she married in 1939, was a journalist, he died in 1999.
Sorrell died in 2012, aged 99. She was survived by her son Paul K Sadler (born 1947). - Jorge Villarmarzo was born in 1960 in Burgos, Burgos, Castilla y León, Spain. He was an actor, known for Adicciones (2011). He died on 30 March 2012 in Burgos, Burgos, Castilla y León, Spain.
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Choel Evans was born on 18 March 1957 in Galion, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for The Island (2005), Uninvited Guest (1999) and Death 4 Told (2004). She died on 30 March 2012 in Ashland, Ohio, USA.- Marion Falconer Pontacq was a nationally renowned swimmer and was National Backstroke champion in 1939 and a member of the 1940 United States Olympic Swim Team. She was born in San Francisco, California to John and Sarah Falconer in 1920. Marion grew up in SF and moved to Millbrae, California, with her husband Peter L. Pontacq and lived there the remainder of her life.
- Wilbur Bastian was born on 13 December 1921 in Hinckley, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for At Any Price (2012). He was married to Jane Groves. He died on 30 March 2012 in DeKalb, Illinois, USA.
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Saim Kokona was born on 26 February 1934 in Gjirokastër, Albania. He was a cinematographer, known for Shëmbja e idhujve (1977), Shpërthimi (1974) and Njeriu i mirë (1983). He died on 30 March 2012 in Tirana, Albania.- Cinematographer
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Pasa Gündogdu was born in 1942. Pasa was a cinematographer, known for Ocak Söndürenler (1972), Üçünüze Bir Mezar (1971) and Akma Tuna / Estergon Kalesi (1973). Pasa died on 30 March 2012 in Istanbul, Turkey.- Serge Frédéric was born on 6 March 1930 in Joinville-le-Pont, Val-de-Marne, France. He was an actor, known for Double Murder (1977), Les compagnons de Baal (1968) and Le voyageur des siècles (1971). He died on 30 March 2012 in Paris, France.
- Rex Babin was born in 1962 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He died on 30 March 2012 in Sacramento, California, USA.