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- Actress
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This most consummate, vibrant and versatile actress established a distinguished reputation on the stage, in films and on TV. The former Miss Chicago of 1948 beauty pageant winner and Miss America semifinalist was born in Oak Park, Illinois. Her family was impoverished and her parents divorced early on. Young Lois used make-believe to escape her reality by creating small plays in her backyard, which led to an affinity with the idea of acting. Having set her sights on the stage she joined a community theatre at the tender age of eleven and appeared on local radio and television. She later continued her training at Chicago's Goodman Theatre and then studied 'the method' at the Actors' Studio in New York City, eventually making her Broadway debut in Dalton Trumbo's "The Biggest Thief in Town" (1948) using the stage moniker "Lydia Scott" (her given name, she felt, was too plain and sounded "schoolmarmy").
Lois was understudy to Barbara Bel Geddes for the role of "Maggie the Cat" in the original 1955 Broadway production of Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer-Prize winning "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", staged by Elia Kazan. Occasionally, she got to play "Maggie", herself. Of her (own personal favourite) role as Blanche DuBois in the 1973 stage production of "A Streetcar Named Desire", New York Times critic Clive Barnes wrote: ""Miss Nettleton plays Blanche as a woman of nearly unshatterable courage." Williams himself called her one of the greatest actresses with whom he had ever worked. Not surprisingly then, that the self-confessed method actress went on to win the prestigious Clarence Derwent Award for her performance in "God and Kate Murphy".
Lois was married for seven years to Jean Shepherd, a radio host and television humorist. She and Shepherd clicked after she called his nightly radio show at WOR in the 1950s and the beguiled Shepherd broadcast their telephone conversations on the air. They later appeared together in Shepherd's off-Broadway play "Look Charlie" in 1959.
While her official film debut came in the 1962 adaptation of Tennessee Williams's "Period of Adjustment", Lois had previously played a bit part in Elia Kazan's classic A Face in the Crowd (1957), scripted by Budd Schulberg. She subsequently acted in many movies, but most of her best work was on stage and in television where she appeared in everything from sitcoms to soap operas. In a 1985 interview she referred to herself as 'a gypsy actress', saying "I always wanted to be as different in everything as possible". Consistently selective, on the lookout for 'interesting' characters and mature roles to play, she tackled pretty much every genre -- even playing one of Londo Mollari's bitchy wives in Babylon 5 (1993). She gave a particularly fine performances in the classic 1961 "Midnight Sun" episode of The Twilight Zone (1959). She declared her own personal favourite screen role to have been that of the Israeli prosecutor (opposite Maximilian Schell) in the American Film Theater production of The Man in the Glass Booth (1975). Roger Ebert for the New York Times wrote "She has a steadiness and intelligence and doesn't back down. She's the closest thing the film has to a moral center."
A charming and gracious actress, Lois was nominated six-times for Emmy Awards. She won twice for her TV work: for the daytime special The American Woman: Portraits of Courage (1976) and for "A Gun for Mandy" (1983), an episode of the syndicated religious anthology Insight (1960).- Georgia Frontiere was born on 21 November 1927 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She was a producer, known for Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003), Our Voices Ourselves (1982) and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962). She was married to Dominic Frontiere, Carroll Rosenbloom, William J. Wyler, Wallace Hayes, Bruce B. Johnson and Francis J. Geiger. She died on 18 January 2008 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Writer
- Additional Crew
- Director
Ugo Pirro was born on 24 April 1920 in Salerno, Campania, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970), Celluloide (1996) and We Still Kill the Old Way (1967). He died on 18 January 2008 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Iris Dávila was born on 18 May 1918 in Güines, Cuba. She was a writer, known for Y si ella volviera (1957), El amor no tiene precio (2005) and Mi apellido es Valdez (1957). She died on 18 January 2008 in Havana, Cuba.
- Additional Crew
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Actress
Michelle Jackson was born on 2 November 1973 in Newfoundland, Canada. She was an assistant director and actress, known for Anchor Zone (1994), The Bread Maker (2003) and The Divine Ryans (1999). She died on 18 January 2008 in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada.- Music Department
- Composer
- Sound Department
Frank Lewin came to the U.S. in 1940. He studied composition with (among others) Roy Harris, Richard Donovan and Paul Hindemith at The Yale University School of Music, where he received his Bachelor of Music degree in 1951. He was a professor at the Yale School of Music, teaching composition for film from 1971 to 1992, and at the Columbia University School of the Arts, where he taught the course "Music in Modern Media" from 1975 to 1989.- Animation Department
Joe Montell was born on 24 June 1925 in Porterville, California, USA. He is known for The Bullwinkle Show (1959), Destination Earth (1956) and Snooper and Blabber (1959). He died on 18 January 2008 in the USA.- Actress
Sally West was born on 12 February 1913 in Seattle, Washington, USA. She was an actress. She was married to Frank Gordon. She died on 18 January 2008 in Pasadena, California, USA.- Sandy Roth Ruben was born on 28 July 1911 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Poison Ivy (1992) and Stripped to Kill 2: Live Girls (1989). She was married to Aaron Ruben. She died on 18 January 2008 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Vladimir Kozlov was born on 14 August 1941. He was an actor, known for Unamenables (1959), Opasno dlya zhizni! (1985) and Tainstvennaya stena (1968). He died on 18 January 2008.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Production Manager
Lea Ashton was born on 5 July 1920 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He was an actor and production manager, known for Murder Not Proven? (1984), Taggart (1983) and King's Royal (1982). He died on 18 January 2008 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.- Allen Bloom was born on 28 August 1935 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. He died on 18 January 2008 in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
- Pier Miranda Ferraro was born on 30 October 1924 in Altivole, Veneto, Italy. He was an actor, known for Verdi (1982) and Verdi: Otello (1966). He died on 18 January 2008 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.
- Actor
Uzi Cohen was born on 1 May 1952 in Tal Shahar, Israel. He was an actor. He died on 18 January 2008 in Kfar Saba, Israel.- Jimmy James was born on 17 April 1915 in India. He was married to Madge James. He died on 18 January 2008 in Shrewsbury, England, UK.