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- Writer
- Director
- Producer
Paul Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey on February 3rd 1947. His father was a landlord, who owned buildings with his brothers in Jersey City. The family was middle-class and the parents' marriage was not a happy one. Auster grew up in the Newark suburbs of South Orange and Maplewood. He read books enthusiastically and developed an interest for writing.
Auster attended high school in Maplewood, some twenty miles southwest of New York City. After his parents' divorce, during his senior year in high school, his mother moved, with his sister and him, to an apartment in the Weequahic section of Newark. Instead of attending his high-school graduation, Auster headed for Europe. He visited Italy, Spain, Paris and naturally James Joyce's Dublin. While he travelled he worked on a novel.
He returned to the United States in time to start at Columbia University in the fall. In early 1966 he began his relationship with Lydia Davis. Davis, who is now also a writer, was at that time attending Barnard College and was a good match for Auster's intellect. In 1967 Auster again left the US to attend Columbia's Junior Year Abroad in Paris. Auster became disillusioned with the dull existence within the programme and quit college. But he was still reinstated at Columbia when he returned to New York.
Auster's undergraduate years at Columbia coincided with a period of social unrest but he didn't participate actively in student politics. He supported himself with a variety of freelance jobs and wrote articles for university magazines. In June of 1969 Auster was granted a B.A. in English and comparative literature. The following year he received his M.A. from Columbia.
A high lottery number saved Auster from having to worry about the Vietnam draft and he took a job with the Census Bureau. During this period he also began work on the novels "In the Country of Last Things" and "Moon Palace", which he would not complete until many years later. In February 1971 Auster left once again for Paris. He supported himself there with a variety of odd jobs and minor literary tasks. He also worked on several film projects, one of them being in Mexico. In 1973 he moved with Davis to Provence where they became caretakers of a farmhouse.
After returning to the US in 1974, Auster has written poems, essays, novels, screenplays and translations. He directed his first motion picture in 1995. He lives in Brooklyn, New York City with his wife and two children.- Zoey Alexandria was born on 14 November 1994 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Dead by Daylight (2016). She died on 30 April 2024 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- Actor
- Music Department
- Composer
Duane Eddy was born on 26 April 1938 in Corning, New York, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Natural Born Killers (1994), Forrest Gump (1994) and Broken Arrow (1996). He was married to Diane Mary 'Deed' Abbate, Maureen A Power, Jessi Colter and Carol Fowler. He died on 30 April 2024 in Franklin, Tennessee, USA.- Actor
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Producer
Some actors were born in a trunk. Al Hubbs was born in the caboose of the Canadian National Railway near the city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. That makes him a railroad brat and he has been traveling ever since. Somewhere along the way he was introduced to drama by one of his teachers and he was hooked. High school plays in Toronto, local talent nights, amateur theater and stage productions became his consuming passion. He gave up the security of a steady job to pursue a life long desire of becomming a night club comedian. With a wife and seven months old baby, he moved to the City of Detroit to follow that dream. All it took was seven years, but he soon opened show for people like Tony Bennett, or Lena Horne and then spent ten years traveling the U.S. and Canada with singer Al Martino. From comedy, the step to film and television was a very short one. During the next twenty-five years his career expanded to include film and TV commercial work in Toronto, Chicago, New York and Los Angeles. Relocating to Orlando in 1985 he began writing scripts for the University of Central Florida, local video production companies, and teaching the craft of film acting. Joining the Florida Motion Picture & Television Association he rose through the ranks to be Chapter President and finally Florida State President.
A SAG actor since 1971, he served nine years as Detroit Branch President, three years on the Hollywood Board and the last eighteen years as a trustee to the SAG Pension and Health Plans out of Burbank, California. Al still works as a comedy speaker at corporate banquets and conventions, as a film and television actor in Orlando and Miami, and continues to teach. His professional career spans forty years and shows no sign of slowing down.- Gary Floyd was born in the USA. He was an actor, known for Revolution Summer (2007), We Got Soul: The Story of the Big Boys (2022) and You Can Color Outside the Lines... The Big Boys (2018). He died on 30 April 2024 in San Francisco, California, USA.
- Costume Designer
- Actress
Eleonora Maklakova was born on 7 May 1939 in the USSR. She was a costume designer and actress, known for Unizhennye i oskorblennye (1991), Umirat ne strashno (1991) and Peter the Great (1986). She was married to Mikael Tariverdiev. She died on 30 April 2024 in Moscow, Russia.- Transportation Department
Linda Kay Simpson was born on 4 December 1968 in West Memphis, Arkansas, USA. Linda Kay is known for Stone: Lone Wolf (2025). Linda Kay died on 30 April 2024 in West Memphis, Arkansas, USA.- Rodoljub Simic was born on 19 February 1932 in Rakam near Mionica, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He was an actor, known for TV teatar (1956) and Zasto je pucao Alija Alijagic (1974). He died on 30 April 2024 in Belgrade, Serbia.
- Production Manager
Marek Ring was born on 15 February 1947 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. Marek was a production manager, known for Anatomia milosci (1972), Opetanie (1973) and Pelnia nad glowami (1983). Marek died on 30 April 2024 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.