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Cult horror movie director Norman J. Warren was born on June 25, 1942, in London, England. His fright features are distinguished by their cold, grim tones, modern-day settings (this was a radical departure from the period Gothic horror movies made by Hammer), young adult main characters, and startling outbursts of hideously graphic violence.
Warren suffered from polio as a child and hence had only one functioning arm. An avid film buff since he was a kid, he got his start working as a runner on The Millionairess (1960) and handled assistant director chores on the feature Trial and Error (1962). Norman made his debut as a filmmaker with the 15-minute short Fragment (1965). Warren then directed the immensely successful softcore sex pictures Her Private Hell (1968) and Loving Feeling (1968). He next did the grisly devil-worship horror entry Satan's Slave (1976) starring Michael Gough. This was followed by the nifty supernatural shocker Terror (1978), the twisted sci-fi/horror item Prey (1977), the smutty softcore sci-fi sex comedy romp Spaced Out (1979), and the nasty sci-fi/horror Alien (1979) cash-in Inseminoid (1981). Warren took a break from the horror genre by directing the exciting spy action outing Gunpowder (1986). His last feature was the dreary horror clunker Bloody New Year (1987). He went gone on to direct music videos and educational shorts, worked as a cinematographer on the retrospective documentary shorts Corridor Gossip (2007), Haunted Memories (2007) and Making Space (2007) and was interviewed in the documentary Doing Rude Things (1995). Warren was also a regular guest at Manchester's Festival of Fantastic Films. He died at age 78 on March 11, 2021.- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Actor
Isidore Mankofsky was born on 22 September 1931 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a cinematographer and actor, known for The Arrival (1996), Somewhere in Time (1980) and Better Off Dead (1985). He was married to Christine Ludwig. He died on 11 March 2021 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Director, painter, and author Peter Patzak was born in Vienna, Austria where he studied psychology and art history. His first art exhibition was held under the patronage of Albert Paris Gütersloh. In the mid-1960's he was invited to participate in the Films of Art show in New York. From 1968 to 1970 he worked on experimental and short films in New York where he became friends with Paul Morrissey. Today his body of work includes one hundred feature and television films including Kassbach by Author Helmut Zenker, The Unicorn by Martin Walser, Frau Berta Garlan by Arthur Schnitzler, and Wahnfried - Richard and Cosima, the official selection for the Cannes Film Festival. Following his return to Vienna, Patzak directed his first feature film, Die Situation, in 1972. He held a professorship at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna since 1990, and in 2008 became Head of the Institute for Film and Television from which he retired in 2013.
Peter Patzak made television history with his anarchistic parody of the crime genre in Kottan Ermittelt, which ran from 1976 to 1983. He is the recipient of many awards including the Adolf Grimme Prize, the Goldene Kamera, the Goldene Romy, the Berlin and Moscow Film Festival Prizes for Kassbach, the 1996 Russian Filmmakers Prize in Moscow for Shanghai 1937, and the UNESCO Prize for Gelobtes Land. Patzak was honored with retrospectives of his extensive and multifaceted career at festivals including the Cinématèque Francaise (Laudatio Jean-Jacques Annaud) and the Max Ophüls Festival. Other retrospectives took place at the Carnegie Hall Cinema in New York, in Jerusalem (in conversation with Philip Roth), at the Austrian Film Days in Berlin, and at festivals in Cairo, Damascus, and Shanghai. In 2002 Peter Patzak received the Canal Grande Award for best director in Venice for his adaptation of Die Wasserfälle von Slunj based on the novel of the same name by Heimito von Doderer. The film also received the Austrian National Education Prize. In 2003 Patzak won the Emerging Maverick Director's Award for Zodiac Sign at the San Jose Film Festival. In 2010 he was honored with a retrospective by the Filmarchiv Austria accompanied by a comprehensive monograph with an introduction by Marin Scorsese.
Patzak's painting career began as early as 1961 with regular exhibitions that he titled, The Physicists' Halftime, Communication Machines and TV-Images, The Color White, Body Serviettes and Tablecloths, Traces and Shrines, Shanghai Notebook, Le Porte Delle Vecchie, and Finestre von Vedute. Since 2007 he has created following series: Die ungleichen Stunden, Stimmen aus dem Lupanar, Das Buch der Nikarete, Rectinas Briefe. His latest exhibitions were all titled Daten and included the series Briefe nach Perigord, Gate to the Garden, and Briefe an Eve.
Peter Patzak also served as author, co-author, and producer of many of his films. Several of his books were made into audio books, including his 2005 novel Der Geist der Farbe. His play, Akte - im Schweigen vermählt premiered in 2008 at Vienna's Stadttheater. In October of 2008 a prose version of the theater script appeared in the Ralph Klever Verlag. Other publications include Full Circle, and Walter Schurian's Bild, Film, Schrift, which investigates the correlation between Peter Patzak's artistic, filmic, and literary work.- Luis Palau was born on 27 November 1934 in Ingeniero Maschwitz, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was married to Patricia. He died on 11 March 2021 in Portland, Oregon, USA.
- Theofilos Vandoros was born on 1 July 1960 in Athens, Greece. He was an actor, known for Tmima ithon (1992), Fakellos porneia (1984) and S1ngles (2004). He died on 11 March 2021 in Athens, Greece.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Executive
Michael Dickerson was born on 5 October 1937 in Ashland, Kentucky, USA. He was an actor and executive, known for USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (2016). He died on 11 March 2021 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.- Make-Up Department
- Actress
Leigh Mitchell was born on 17 June 1939 in South Gate, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Steel Magnolias (1989), L.A. Law (1986) and Jackson County Jail (1976). She was married to Ron Mitchell. She died on 11 March 2021 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Production Designer
- Art Department
- Costume Designer
G.W. Mercier was born on 20 July 1954 in Methuen, Massachusetts, USA. He was a production designer and costume designer, known for American Playhouse (1980), Southie (1998) and Old Hats (2016). He was married to Robert Hart Frazier. He died on 11 March 2021 in Rowayton, Connecticut, USA.- Composer
- Actor
- Music Department
Viktor Lebedev was born on 5 January 1935 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]. He was a composer and actor, known for Hard to Be a God (2013), Zavist bogov (2000) and Magnitnye buri (2003). He was married to Natalya Sedykh and Irina. He died on 11 March 2021 in St. Petersburg, Russia.- Actor
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Claes Dieden was born on 4 June 1942 in Stockholm, Sweden. He was an actor and composer, known for Strandhugg i somras (1972), Melodifestivalen 1973 (1973) and Skratt (1968). He died on 11 March 2021 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.- Dope Boy Yungn was born on 26 January 1996. He was an actor, known for Dope Boy Yungn: Feel Me (2019) and Dope Boy Yungn: Dead Wrong (2021). He died on 11 March 2021 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
- Greg Steltenpohl was born on 20 October 1954 in Homestead, Florida, USA. He died on 11 March 2021 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Florentin Gimenez was born on 14 March 1925 in Ybycuí, Paraguay. He was a composer, known for Requiem (2002). He died on 11 March 2021 in Asunción, Paraguay.
- Jack Hicks was born on 26 November 1934 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He died on 11 March 2021 in Wichita, Kansas, USA.
- Special Effects
Tom Hartigan was born on 10 October 1949 in New York, USA. Tom is known for Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985), Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986) and The Outing (1987). Tom died on 11 March 2021 in Chatham, Massachusetts, USA.