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- Billy Tipton was born on 29 December 1914 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. He died on 21 January 1989 in Spokane, Washington, USA.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Roberta Hyson was an actress and nightclub dancer. She was in the first black talkie shorts made in Hollywood, co-starring with Evelyn Preer, and they formed a great comedy duo. Roberta had a real flair for physical comedy, too, which she utilized in her singing and dancing.
She was the ultimate performer, a popular entertainer in the late 1920s and early 1930s on stage and in films. Her roles were enjoyable, and didn't descend into the stereotypical "mammy" or "maid" roles to which most black actresses were limited. She was among the few who got a chance to "just be" on screen and was one of the first black entertainers to provide positive images and role models for black people in a business that had precious few of them.- Two-time National League All-Star Carl Anthony Furillo was a mainstay in the outfield of the Brooklyn Dodgers dynasty of 1947 through 1956, and even appeared in the 1959 World Series with the World's Champion Dodgers of Los Angeles. He came up with "Da Bums" after the war in 1946, and was released by the team in 1960, at which time he was unceremoniously retired with a .299 lifetime batting average in his 15 year career. An excellent fielder, Furillo was famous for his strong and accurate throwing arm, which won him the nickname of "The Reading Rifle" when he played with the Reading, Pennsylvania franchise of the Interstate League.
With the Dodgers, Furillo played on seven National League pennant winners, appearing in six World Series against the Yankees, whom the Brooklyn Dodgers beat only once, in 1955. He also was on the first Los Angeles Dodgers team to appear in, and win, the World Series, in 1959, when they beat owner Bill Veeck's "Go-Go" Chicago White Sox four games to two. By 1959, Furillo was less than a part-time player, appearing in only 50 games during the regular season. However, he did appear in four of the six World Series games as a pinch-hitter, getting one hit in four at-bats and driving in two runs.
The Dodgers released him on May 7, 1960, after he had appeared in only two games. Furillo went on to sue the team and major league baseball, claiming that his contract forbade him from being released while he was injured. Furillo lost, and he became embittered about the game. His story was prominently featured in Roger Kahn's baseball classic "The Boys of Summer" (1972). Kahn interviewed Furillo for his book, who was then laboring as an elevator installer at the World Trade Center in Nee York City. Furillo felt that he had been forgotten by the game and had not been rewarded sufficiently for his contribution to the Brooklyn dynasty he had been a key part of. It was the fate of such players as Furillo that helped spark the labor movement among baseball players like Furillo that, in the 1970s, helped create the labor movement that eventually freed the slaves under the steady hand of Major League Baseball Players Association Executive Director Marvin Miller, a seasoned trade unionist.
In his 15 years in The Show, Furillo batted in 80 or more runs eight times, batted .290 or better nine times (including five .300 season, winning the 1953 batting title with an average of .344). As a right fielder, he had nine or more assists in eleven season, including a phenomenal 24 in 1951 after racking up 18 assists in 1950.
After developing leukemia, Carl Furillo died on January 21, 1989 in Stony Creek Mills, Pennsylvania, the town he had been born in 66 years before, of a heart-attack. Though he's been playing on God's team for a generation now, Furillo remains one of The Boys of Summer in memories still green with the heroics of the post-war Brooklyn Trolley-Dodgers. - Additional Crew
Leslie Halliwell, born in 1929 in Bolton, Lancashire, England, doyen of British film buffs, was best known as the author from 1977 of "Halliwells Film Guide", probably the most authoritative and best selling book of its kind in the UK and said to be "The film guide Hollywood insiders refer to more than any other". His interest in film started in boyhood with visits with his mother to the scores of cinemas then existing in pre-war Bolton. At school, in the army and at Cambridge University he ran film societies before later becoming a journalist on Picturegoer. In 1958 he became a film researcher for Granada TV and in 1968 became film buyer for the entire ITV network. Following this he was film buyer for Channel 4 introducing a younger audience to classic British films from the heyday of British cinema. He was though a frequent visitor to, and authority on, Hollywood and equally included foreign films of merit in his enormous storehouse of cinema knowledge. His many different associations with cinema from one-time cinema manager to the most important film buyer in Britain produced a thorough professional whose artistic and technical judgments were measured and reliable. He praised only when it was merited but this praise has largely stood the test of time. His readers though could come to know his particular dislikes - uncalled for violence, explicit sex, bad language and a lack of conventional professionalism - any of these could cause a film to be marked down. There was then an increasing divergence between what cinema had become and what perhaps he would have liked. His sensibilities - and his heart - were undoubtedly closest to Britain's so called "Golden Age of Cinema". He died in 1989 but his main film guide continues in his name under the editorship of John Walker.- Cinematographer
- Director
- Camera and Electrical Department
Frédéric Geilfus was born on 15 May 1917 in Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Manalive (1973), Les gommes (1969) and Le cercle romain (1960). He died on 21 January 1989 in Bruxelles, Belgium.- John Bonnet was born on 10 August 1906 in Longbenton, Northumberland, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Children Galore (1955). He was married to Emery Bonnett. He died on 21 January 1989.
- Writer
- Actor
Zoltán Hegedûs was born on 18 July 1912 in Kolozsvár, Austria-Hungary [now Cluj-Napoca, Romania]. He was a writer and actor, known for A nagy kék jelzés (1970), Naphosszat a fákon (1969) and Diary for My Lovers (1987). He died on 21 January 1989 in Budapest, Hungary.- Writer
- Director
- Actor
Harald Zusanek was born on 14 January 1922 in Vienna, Austria. He was a writer and director, known for Südtirol - Land der Sehnsucht (1961), Literatur im Bild (1973) and Ein gewisser Judas (1958). He was married to Anna Renate Keppler and Rose Kern. He died on 21 January 1989 in Vienna, Austria.- Sound Department
Chris Greenham was born on 21 April 1923 in Oxfordshire, England, UK. Chris is known for The Guns of Navarone (1961), Superman (1978) and The Lion in Winter (1968). Chris died on 21 January 1989 in Esher, England, UK.- Allan Francis Harding was born on 10 February 1896 in South Petherton, Somerset, England, UK. He died on 21 January 1989 in Nether Compton, Dorset, England, UK.