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- Jack Kelly started acting at age two, modeling in soap ads and garnering a lifetime supply of soap for his pay. He continued to model until the age of nine when he appeared in his first play with Hope Emerson called "Swing Your Lady". Broadway shows and radio followed until his family moved to California in 1938. He attended St. John's Military Academy and spent two years as a law student at UCLA. For three years, he dropped acting to concentrate on school and making money. He worked as a shoe salesman, gas station attendant, lifeguard, grocery delivery boy, and men's clothing salesman. In 1945, Kelly was inducted into the army taking basic training at Camp Roberts in California. He was sent to Alaska as a weather observer and was on the first B-29 to fly over the Arctic Circle. After his discharge in 1946, Kelly returned to UCLA and worked nights on such radio programs as "Lux Radio theater", "Suspense", "Tell It Again", and "Romance of the Ranchos".
Upon leaving school he joined the Circle Theater in Los Angeles appearing in "Time of Your Life", "The Adding Machine", and "Love On The Dole". In 1949, he acted in "Anna Lucasta" at the coronet Theater. This performance brought Kelly to the attention of several Hollywood directors. He then made his film debut in "Fighting Man Of The Plains", starring Randolph Scott. In 1955, Kelly was signed by Warner Bros. to star as Dr. Parris Mitchell in the "King's Row" series of "Warner Bros. Presents". The show debuted in September 1955. Kelly was best known as Bart Maverick on Maverick (1957). His hobbies included ship models, reading historical literature, sculpting, and listening to show tunes records. He also enjoyed sailing, badminton, skin diving, golf, horseback riding and flying. - Richard Yates was born on 3 February 1926 in Yonkers, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Revolutionary Road (2008), The Bridge at Remagen (1969) and Lie Down in Darkness. He was married to Martha Speers and Sheila Bryant. He died on 7 November 1992 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
- At the time of his death from AIDS, Scott McPherson had been the life-partner of Chicago AIDS activist Daniel Sotomayor, who preceded Scott in death by nine months, in February 1992. Often ill at the same time, during Daniel's last hospitalization, Scott had also contracted an aggressive AIDS-related illness, and the two were hospitalized together, sharing the same room. The nursing staff and their devoted physicians, well-acquainted with the two young men, saw to it their hospital beds were pushed together in the center so Scott and Daniel could hold hands. Daniel never left the hospital, dying while they were there together. Scott bravely agreed to follow Daniel's strict orders not to be kept alive by artificial means, and let him go. Much of Scott's writing was influenced both by his childhood recollections of helping care for sick and dying family members, as well as by his experiences with AIDS. His seminal play "Marvin's Room" was written while he was a student participating in a workshop at the Goodman, before finding out he had contracted HIV. (In fact the young boy character of Charlie was based on himself as a child.) He completed the screenplay adaptation for "Marvin's Room" just weeks before his own death. His last wish was that he live "at least as long as Jesus." He died a few days after his 33rd birthday.
- Stella Anastassakis was born on 1 October 1899 in Canera Crete, Greece. Stella was married to Anthony Aniston Anastassakis. Stella died on 7 November 1992.
- Sound Department
Don Merritt was born on 14 August 1937 in California, USA. He is known for RoboCop 3 (1993), Popeye (1980) and A Perfect Couple (1979). He was married to Linda. He died on 7 November 1992 in California, USA.- Alexander Dubcek (27 November 1921 - 7 November 1992) was a Slovak politician who served as the First Secretary of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSC) (de factors leader of Czechoslovakia) from January 1968 to April 1969. He attempted to reform the communist government during the Prague Spring but was forced to resign following the Warsaw Pact invasion in August 1968.
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Henri Temianka was born on 19 November 1906 in Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK. Henri is known for Ethan (1964). Henri died on 7 November 1992 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Zbigniew Bessert was born on 20 April 1913 in Posen, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire [now Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland]. He died on 7 November 1992 in Bialystok, Bialostockie, Poland.