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Franco Interlenghi was born on 29 October 1931 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor and writer, known for The Bullocks (1953), Shoeshine (1946) and The Big Night (1959). He was married to Antonella Lualdi. He died on 10 September 2015 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Murray Rubin was born on 6 June 1925 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Ghostbusters (1984), Walk Like a Man (1987) and Remington Steele (1982). He died on 10 September 2015.
- Born in Philadelphia, John Connell received five Battle Stars and a Purple Heart during WWII. From September of 1944 through April of 1945, he was a radio operator and waist gunner aboard a B-24 with Squadron 513 of the Fifteenth Air Force, 376th Heavy Bombardment Group. The crew completed 43 bombing missions before the conclusion of WWII, most of them from its base in Apulia, Italy. Connell has often spoken in praise of the "Tuskegee Airmen", the all-black 99th Pursuit Squadron, which provided protective cover for two-thirds of the missions he flew. The Tuskegee Airmen had been transferred to the Fifteenth Air Force shortly after Connell began his enlistment.
After the war, he attended the University of Missouri, where he met his wife Mila, who was then a dance student. After graduating with a degree in Journalism in 1950, he moved to New York to act. He appeared on Broadway ("Time Limit" and "Uncle Willie") and with the National Company of "Picnic". Working in the heyday of live television, he appeared in dozens of live broadcasts including Studio One (1948), Kraft Theatre (1947), You Are There (1953), Goodyear Playhouse (1951), Danger (1950), The Alcoa Hour (1955) and Robert Montgomery Presents (1950). He starred for five years as "Dr. David Malone" on the live soap opera Young Dr. Malone (1958), and made appearances on The Edge of Night (1956), Love of Life (1951), The Secret Storm (1954) and Dark Shadows (1966). He also collaborated with his wife to write more than one hundred "Secret Storm" scripts.
His film work includes Three Days of the Condor (1975), Family Business (1989) and Fail Safe (1964), As a member of the bomber crew in the latter film, and drawing upon his own experience in a B-24, he let his longtime friend, director Sidney Lumet, know that intercom radio equipment aboard a bomber was built into the oxygen masks, and that removing the mask to use an external intercom would lead to unconsciousness. Lumet was glad for the technical insight.
In the 1960s, his professional apex developed from what was then a little-trod path in the acting profession: commercial voice-overs. With his warm, rich tones, Connell became a preeminent and ubiquitous radio and television spokesman for hundreds of sponsors and products. He also developed a reputation in the studio for an unmatched sense of timing; he can deliver readings to a tenth of a second. He has been at various times the voice of Maxwell House Coffee, American Airlines, Xerox, Proctor & Gamble, Ford, Uniroyal, McDonald's, H&R Block (12 years) and Brooklyn Union Gas (16 years). He has also narrated industrial films and documentaries including "Rice", which won a Rockefeller Foundation award.
On September 19, 1967, he played the narrator in a special, abbreviated version of "Man of La Mancha" starring Richard Kiley that was performed at the White House for President Lyndon B. Johnson. There is no narrator in the full-length version of the play; his function was to bridge the cut scenes.
He has also delved into playwriting. He and Kiley collaborated on an adaptation of Brian Moore's "The Feast of Lupercal", which was performed to acclaim at the Actor's Studio but never commercially produced. Connell's one-acts, "The Only Way Out is In" and "Who the Hell is Rodney Chappel?", were produced Off-Broadway at the Triangle Theatre in 1969 under the umbrella title "The Business of Show".
Connell has served as a Councillor of the Episcopal Actors Guild, where he founded the "Come Hither Players", a Shakespeare-reading group made up of voice-over actors. He was elected to several successive terms on the National Board of Directors of Screen Actors Guild, serving 13 years and editing the Guild's New York magazine, "Reel".
He and his wife are the parents of Kathy Connell, producer of the Screen Actors Guild Awards, and of John V. Connell, an associate producer of sports broadcasts who has worked on football, boxing, gymnastics, and tennis events for Showtime and for CBS Sports. - Editor
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Millie Moore was born on 3 December 1928. She was an editor and production manager, known for Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982), The Rape of Richard Beck (1985) and Cagney & Lacey (1981). She died on 10 September 2015 in Calabasas, California, USA.- Composer
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German film and TV show composer Gert Wilden was born as Gert Wychodil on April 15, 1917 in Moravska Trebova, Czechoslovakia. Wilden studied conduction and composition at the Prague Conservatorium under the expert tutelage of George Szell, Fritz Rieger, and Fidelio Fincke. In the late 1940's Gert composed and arranged music for most German radio stations. In addition, Wilden worked as a ghost writer in collaboration with Michael Jary, H.M. Majewski, Alfred Newman, and Victor Young. He first began composing film scores in the mid-1950's. Gert was perhaps best known for providing the groovy, joyous and jaunty music for the notoriously naughty "Schoolgirl Report" lowbrow soft-core comedy features that were made throughout the 70s. Wilden has more than 50 movie scores to his credit in a diverse array of pictures in such genres as comedy, Western and even thrillers. Moreover, Gert has over 300 CDs and LPs on his resume as an arranger, composer, or producer. He headed the Bavarian Television Orchestra from 1961 to 1964. Wilden worked as an arranger and supervisor on music recordings for such artists as Hildegard Knef, Zarah Leander, Elke Sommer, Hans Albers, and Heinz Ruhmann. He was married to former actress and singer Trude Hofmeister; they are the parents of a son and a daughter. Gert resided in Munich and Tutzing at the Starnberger Lake. He died at age 98 on September 10, 2015 in Tutzing, Bavaria, Germany.- Utz Richter was born on 23 June 1928 in Olbendorf, Strehlen, Lower Silesia, Germany. He was an actor, known for Traffik (1989), Achtung Zoll! (1980) and Masters of the Universe (1984). He died on 10 September 2015 in Hamburg, Germany.
- Valiahd Valiev was born on 20 January 1952. He was an actor, known for Ölsäm... bagisla (1989), Iliq danizda buz parçasi (1983) and Khochu ponyat (1980). He died on 10 September 2015.
- Ana Poltronieri was born in 1929 in San Jose, Costa Rica. She was an actress, known for La segua (1985). She died on 10 September 2015 in San Jose, Costa Rica.
- Alberto Schommer was born in 1928 in Vitoria, Gasteiz, Spain. He was a writer, known for Máquina más hombre igual comunicación (1969), Miradas 2 (2004) and Estudio abierto (1970). He was married to Mercedes Casla. He died on 10 September 2015 in San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, País Vasco, Spain.
- Norman Farberow was born on 12 February 1918 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Suicide: A Teenage Dilemma (1986). He was married to Pearl Ross. He died on 10 September 2015 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Adrian Frutiger was born on 24 May 1928 in Unterseen, Bern, Switzerland. He was married to Simone Huguette Bickel and Paulette Flückiger. He died on 10 September 2015 in Bremgarten, Bern, Switzerland.
- Henri Bedex was born on 3 September 1929 in France. He was an actor, known for Airs de France (1955), La vie de bohème (1960) and Don Quichotte (1961). He was married to Françoise. He died on 10 September 2015 in Le Palais, Belle-Ile, Morbihan, France.
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Tony Nelle was born on 21 August 1925 in Manila, Philippines. Tony is known for Startime (1959), Another World (1964) and The Doctors (1963). Tony died on 10 September 2015 in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA.