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- Ellis passed away in 1983 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. His parents parents had immigrated from war-torn Syria and Lebanon.
Ellis worked as an apprentice draftsman at a shipyard. He later moved to Richmond, where he meet and married Gwen and had a son, Michael. The family relocated to Atlanta in the early 1950s.
Not long after they arrived, he and his wife began to establish themselves in the local theater community. But the relationship was strained, and by the end of the decade, the couple had divorced. Gwen soon left the country for the Philippines, taking their son with her.
Around this time, the character of "Bestoink Dooley" was born.
From 1962, Ellis began to host horror movie shows as the character "Bestoink Dooley", as well as a children's cartoon show. In 1965, he started in the horror movie "The Legend of Blood Mountain" as the character "Bestoink Dooley".
After his run as a horror host came to an end, he ran the Film Forum Theatre in Atlanta between 1971 and 1974.
In 2013, George Ellis - "Bestoink Dooley" for "Big Movie Shocker", was inducted into "The Official Horror Host Hall of Fame". - Actor
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Earl Spainard was born on 25 June 1912 in East St.Louis, Illinois. He was an actor, known for Simon, King of the Witches (1971). He died on 2 June 1983 in El Rosario, Mexico.- Music Department
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Legendary Canadian folk singer, songwriter and guitarist Stan Rogers began his professional career in 1969 and quickly became a fixture on the Canadian folk club and festival circuit. In the 1970s, he performed frequently on CBC Radio and appeared on the Canadian television variety series "John Allan Cameron".
His first album, Fogarty's Cove, was recorded in 1976. He later went on to establish with his brother, musician Garnet Rogers, Fogarty's Cove Music label.
Rogers' songs spoke for the ordinary lives that reflect the diversity of the Canadian experience. He gave voice to those who work closest to the land and the sea as well as to the dispossessed and the disaffected. The universal themes of his songs were honor, loyalty and hope. His terms of reference and his images were evocatively specific and his sense of Canadian history equally poetic and heroic.
Of Rogers' titles, nearly 100 in total, the best-known are 'Barrett's Privateers,' 'Make and Break Harbour,' 'The Mary Ellen Carter,' 'Northwest Passage' and the love song 'Forty-Five Years'. His songs have been recorded by more than 25 other artists and groups including Peter Paul and Mary, Raffi, Eric Bogle, the Battlefield Band, John Allan Cameron, Margaret Christl, Mary O'Hara and the Tannahill Weavers.
Rogers began attract international attention and made his US debut in 1978 and subsequently appeared widely there in folk clubs and at festivals. Tragically, he was killed in 1983 in a fire aboard an Air Canada DC-9 at the Greater Cincinnati Airport. At the time, he was en route home from an appearance at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas.
The Stan Rogers Folk Festival was founded in 1997 and named in his honor. It is held annually in Canso, Nova Scotia and has featured such acts as Bruce Cockburn, Ron Sexsmith, Jimmy Rankin, The Barra McNeils, The Irish Descendants and Eric Bogle.
Rogers is widely considered to be the greatest Canadian folk singer of all time.- There is no doubt that one of the world's greatest lady riders was show-jumper Caroline Bradley. Caroline was born, in Buckinghamshire, England and went on to become one of the world's best riders until her tragic death at just 37.
Caroline was the kind of rider we all strive to be, utterly fearless, totally committed to the sport she loved and completely at one with each and every horse she rode. It is a treat to watch clips of her riding, she has beautiful soft hands and is incredibly focused on what she is doing. I feel very privileged to have been able to see her ride. She made her debut on the British team in 1966 when she was just 20 years old. In 1973 she took the silver medal on True Lass at the Ladies European Championships in Vienna. The following year, Caroline became the first woman to win the Puissance at Horse of the Year Show in London, in the same year she was also fourth in the Ladies World Championships in La Baule.
In 1975 she had a great victory in the Hamburg Derby on New Yorker becoming only the second woman to win this prestigious competition. A few years later, Caroline won the Queen Elizabeth II Cup at the Royal International Horse Show on Marius which was also a great year for her best horse Tigre. On him, she won the team gold medal in the World Championships in Aachen. She also won the Nice Grand Prix and the Grand Prix in Calgary.
In 1979 Caroline was again a member of a gold medal-winning British team, riding Tigre at the European Championships in Rotterdam. Again teamed with Tigre she won the President's Cup in Calgary and in Paris won the Grand Prix. The next year was an incredible one for Caroline, she was elected Sportswoman of Year in 1980 and also received an OBE from the Queen. Caroline also topped the money winner's list, won the Grand Prix at Hickstead and again won the Queen Elizabeth II Cup, this time on Tigre.
Tigre was sold in 1981, for more than eight times what Caroline had paid for him. She then bought a new young horse, Milton. Caroline's great horse Marius was the sire of Milton. Caroline was a tremendous horsewoman with an incredible instinct for picking fantastic horses she knew when he was a youngster that Milton would be one of the greatest of all time. Caroline rode and trained Milton until her sudden and tragic death. She was right about his potential Milton went on, with John Whitaker, to becoming the first show-jumper to win a million pounds.
Caroline had just completed the first round of competition at the Suffolk Show in 1983 when she slumped to the ground and attempts to revive her failed. She had suffered a heart attack at the age of just 37.
At her peak, Caroline was ranked by many as the greatest lady rider in the world, I wonder what she would have gone onto achieve if she had lived. Caroline was one in a million - an inspiration and a true equestrian legend. - Charlotte Küter was born on 17 January 1900 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for Columbus 64 (1966), The Axe of Wandsbek (1950) and Anna Susanna (1953). She was married to Paul Lewitt. She died on 2 June 1983 in Weimar, German Democratic Republic.
- Jackie Simpson was born on 20 August 1936 in Corinth, Mississippi, USA. He died on 2 June 1983 in Pontiac, Michigan, USA.
- Donald Gramm was born on 26 February 1927 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor, known for Live from Lincoln Center (1976), Verdi's Falstaff (1976) and NBC Television Opera Theatre (1949). He died on 2 June 1983 in New York City, New York, USA.