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- Dark-haired, Ivy League-looking Bradford Dillman, whose white-collar career spanned nearly five decades, possessed charm and confident good looks that were slightly tainted by a bent smile, darting glance and edgy countenance that often provoked suspicion. Sure enough, the camera picked up on it and he played shady, highly suspect characters throughout most of his career.
The actor was born in San Francisco on April 14, 1930, to Dean and Josephine Dillman. Yale-educated, he graduated with a B.A. in English Literature. Following this he served with the US Marines in Korea (1951-1953) before focusing on acting as a profession. Studying at the Actors Studio, he spent several seasons apprenticing with the Sharon (CT) Playhouse before making his professional acting debut in "The Scarecrow" in 1953.
Dillman took his initial Broadway bow in Eugene O'Neill's play "Long Day's Journey Into Night" in 1956, originating the author's alter ego character Edmund Tyrone and winning a Theatre World Award in the process. This success put him squarely on the map and 20th Century-Fox took immediate advantage by placing the darkly handsome up-and-comer under contract. Cast in the melodrama A Certain Smile (1958), he earned a Golden Globe for "Most Promising Newcomer" playing a Parisian student who loses his girl (Christine Carère) to the worldly Italian roué Rossano Brazzi. He followed this with a strong ensemble appearance in In Love and War (1958), which featured a cast of young rising stars including Hope Lange and Robert Wagner. More acting honors followed after completing the film Compulsion (1959), which told the true story of the infamous 1920s kidnapping/murder case of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb. He went on to share a "Best Actor" award at the Cannes Film Festival with fellow co-stars Dean Stockwell, who played the other youthful murderer, and veteran Orson Welles.
Though he was a magnetic player poised for stardom, Dillman's subsequent films failed to serve him well and were generally unworthy of his talent. Though properly serious and stoic as the title character in Francis of Assisi (1961), the film itself was stilted and weakly scripted. Circle of Deception (1960) was a misguided tale of espionage and intrigue, but it did introduce him to his second wife, supermodel-cum-actress Suzy Parker. While A Rage to Live (1965) with Suzanne Pleshette was trashy soap material, The Plainsman (1966) was rather a silly, juvenile version of the Gary Cooper western classic. As a result of these missteps--and others--he began to top-line lesser quality projects or play supporting roles in "A" pictures. His nothing role as Robert Redford's college pal-turned Hollywood producer in The Way We Were (1973) and his major roles in the ludicrous The Swarm (1978) and Lords of the Deep (1989) became proof in the pudding. His last good film role was in O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh (1973), although he did play an interesting John Wilkes Booth in the speculative re-enactment drama The Lincoln Conspiracy (1977) and had a fun leading role in the Jaws (1975)-like spoof Piranha (1978).
Dillman bore up very well on TV over the years, subsisting on a plethora of mini-movies and guest spots on popular series, playing everything from turncoats to frauds and from adulterers to psychotics. He earned a Daytime Emmy for his appearance in Last Bride of Salem (1974) and starred in two series--Court Martial (1965), as a military lawyer, and King's Crossing (1982), as an alcoholic parent and teacher attempting to straighten out. He also spent a season on the established nighttime soap Falcon Crest (1981) in 1982.
A narrator, director and teacher of acting in later years. Bradford launched a late-in-the career sideline as an author. The football fan inside him compelled him to write "Inside the New York Giants" (1995), a book that rated players drafted by the team since 1967. Two years later he published his memoirs, the curiously-titled "Are You Somebody?: An Actor's Life." He retired from the screen after a few guest star shots on "Murder, She Wrote" in the mid-90s.
From 1956 to 1962, Dillman was married to Frieda Harding, and had two children, Jeffrey and Pamela. Following their divorce, he met well-known model-turned-actress Suzy Parker during the production of Circle of Deception (1960) and the couple married on April 20, 1963. They had three children, Dinah, Charles, and Christopher. Daughter Pamela Dillman has worked as an actress. Dillman was made a widower when Parker died on May 3, 2003. He lived for many years in Montecito, California, and helped raise money for medical research. He died in Santa Barbara, California on January 16, 2018, aged 87, from complications of pneumonia. - Moya O'Sullivan was born on 8 June 1926 in Australia. She was an actress, known for Neighbours (1985), The Adventures of Skippy (1992) and Midnite Spares (1983). She died on 16 January 2018 in Bondi Junction, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- Actress
- Writer
Jan Englund was born on 23 August 1927 in Bronx, New York. She was an actress and writer, known for High School Hellcats (1958), The Diary of a High School Bride (1959) and A Candidate for a Killing (1969). She was married to Mark Lowell. She died on 16 January 2018 in Boynton Beach, Florida, USA.- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Matt Dike was born on 2 December 1961 in Suffern, New York, USA. He was a composer, known for 11:14 (2003), Baby Driver (2017) and Taxi (2004). He died on 16 January 2018 in Echo Park, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Dave Holland was born on 5 April 1948 in Northampton, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Judas Priest: Turbo Lover (1986), Judas Priest: Parental Guidance (1986) and Judas Priest: You've Got Another Thing Comin' (1982). He died on 16 January 2018 in Lugo, Galicia, Spain.
- Micki Varro was born on 19 June 1942 in Dearborn, Michigan, USA. She was an actress, known for Reform School Girls (1986), The Champ (1979) and Erotic Images (1983). She was married to Johnny Varro. She died on 16 January 2018 in Palm Court, Florida, USA.
- Jo Jo White was born on 16 November 1946 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for The Game Plan (2007), Inside Moves (1980) and The 1976 NBA Finals (1976). He was married to Deborah Dixon and Estelle Bowser. He died on 16 January 2018 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- Jacinthe Giscard d'Estaing was born on 3 May 1960 in Paris, France. She was married to Philippe Jean-Marie Guibout. She died on 16 January 2018 in Paris, France.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Günter Hendel was born on 22 December 1922 in Kolberg, Pomerania, Germany [now Kolobrzeg, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]. He was an actor and director, known for So viel nackte Zärtlichkeit (1968) and Graf Porno und seine Mädchen (1969). He died on 16 January 2018 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Shammi Akhtar was born on 22 September 1955 in Khulna, East Pakistan [now in Bangladesh]. She is known for Bhalobaslei Ghor Bandha Jay Na (2010), Jawab (1979) and Padma Meghna Jamuna (1991). She was married to Akramul Islam. She died on 16 January 2018 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.- Editor
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Editorial Department
Spent most of his career uncredited, re-editing and sometimes directing additional scenes in troubled movies to make them a little less bad. In 2003, finished his book "Killer Camera Rigs That You Can Build" which shows filmmakers how to build their own dollies, cranes, stabilizers, car mounts, etc. Often works as a consultant before films are shot and in post production to bring out the best film possible.
Teaches workshops on building rigs and Narrative Film Composition "Finding the Right Shot" at the NAB convention every year in Las Vegas and New York, and at the USC summer film program.- Lane Howell was born on 28 July 1941 in Monroe, Louisiana, USA. He died on 16 January 2018 in Monroe, Louisiana, USA.
- Vladimír Barton was born on 19 August 1948 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]. He was an actor, known for Stretnutie (1975), Alzbetin dvor (1986) and Na konci dialnice (1982). He died on 16 January 2018 in Nitra, Slovakia.
- John Monteith was an actor, known for The Shape of Things (1982), The Second City Toronto 15th Anniversary (1988) and Monteith and Rand (1986). He died on 16 January 2018.
- Actor
- Director
Peter Groeger was born on 1 June 1933 in Gröbzig, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Police Call 110 (1971), Die Geschichte Mitteldeutschlands (1999) and Das unsichtbare Visier (1973). He died on 16 January 2018 in Berlin, Germany.- Salle Ellis was born on 22 August 1934 in Cherokee, Iowa, USA. She was an actress, known for Children of the Corn: The Gathering (1996) and The Road to Galveston (1996). She was married to Walter Dean Ellis and Dean Flanders. She died on 16 January 2018 in Aransas Pass, Texas, USA.
- Yana Volkova died on 16 January 2018.
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Anshel Brusilow was born on 14 August 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He is known for After the Rain (1988) and Getz: Ravel, Sauter, Wilder, Macero and All That Jazz (1969). He was married to Marilyn Rae Dow. He died on 16 January 2018.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Madalena Iglésias was born on 24 October 1939 in Lisbon, Portugal. She was an actress, known for Uma Hora de Amor (1964), Diaper Trouble (1967) and Passagem de Nível (1965). She was married to Fernando Oliveira. She died on 16 January 2018 in Barcelona, Spain.- Rubén Osvaldo Díaz was born on 8 January 1946 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He died on 16 January 2018 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Javiera Muñoz was born on 28 May 1977 in Motala, Sweden. She died on 16 January 2018 in Gothenburg, Sweden.
- A native New Yorker, Giovanni Vincenzo deSica grew up on the streets of New York City's Greenwich Village in the 1950's and 60's and spent time on the Westside of mid-Manhattan, then known as "Hell's Kitchen." He was educated in public and private schools in New York City and graduated with degrees from both Fordham and Columbia Universities. He currently resides in Boca Raton, Florida.
- Pyotr Yurchenkov was born on 14 March 1976 in Minsk, Belorussian SSR, USSR. He was an actor, known for Povodyr (2001), Mezhdu zhiznyu i smertyu (2003) and Voskresnye progulki (1984). He died on 16 January 2018 in Minsk, Belarus.
- Tamara Sokolova was born on 1 May 1932 in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]. She was an actress, known for Carnival Night (1956), Matros s Komety (1958) and Variety Stars (1954). She died on 16 January 2018 in Aksinino village, Odintsovskiy rayon, Moskovskaya oblast, Russia.
- Harold Rosen was born on 30 December 1925 in Watertown, New York, USA. He died on 16 January 2018.