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- Paul Eddington was a tall, debonair actor who achieved international success in the 1970s with The Good Life (1975), a popular television series about a young couple farming their backyard in a London suburb. He played the supporting role of neighbor Jerry Leadbetter. It was the hit comedy series Yes Minister (1980), and its sequel Yes, Prime Minister (1986), in the 1980s that brought him television stardom as the inept politician Jim Hacker. The actor's performances as an incompetent government minister were so admired by Margaret Thatcher that she awarded him the honor of Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Despite suffering from skin cancer, he continued to perform on stage and television, concealing his illness, until the tabloid press began suggesting that he had AIDS.
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Mr. Egan was the tough-talking New York City police officer whose exploits inspired the Academy Award winning film The French Connection (1971). With partner Sonny Grosso, he managed a 112-pound heroin bust in 1962, one of the biggest in New York's history. Mr. Egan was nicknamed 'Popeye' and was played in The French Connection (1971) by Gene Hackman. Mr. Egan played the role of his own boss. Mr. Egan, who retired to Fort Lauderdale, FL, in 1984, died "the toughest cop in New York", said Cheryl Kyle-Little, who shared a home with him. Kyle-Little said Mr. Egan was working on a movie deal at the time of his death.- Actress
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Britain's clown queen of comedy during the 1980s, Marti Caine's brand of humour combined an appealing dizziness with an endearing vunerability. Often compared to America's Phyllis Diller, she paved the way for women working in British light entertainment, both in nightclubs and in television.
Born Lynn Shepherd in Sheffield, Caine attended several schools in Yorkshire before working as a model, croupier and petrol pump attendant. At 18, she made her first professional appearance as a comedienne in a club in Rotheram and spent the next 15 years playing the Northern working men's club circuit.
She became an overnight household name at the age of 30 on the TV talent show, New Faces (1973). Viewers loved her gawky figure and glamorous looks and she went on to star in her own BBC2 TV show, The Marti Caine Show (1979), throughout the eighties.
In 1982, Caine spent 18 months starring in a stage show in South Africa which caused uproar from anti-apartheid demonstrators and, for a time, she was blacklisted by the United Nations.
During the latter part of her career, she combined TV work with stage shows in Britain and, for 3 years from 1986, was a judge on Central TV's New Faces (1973). She was popular in pantomime and made the part of the "Red Queen" in "Snow White and The 7 Dwarfs" her own, playing in Cambridge, Bath, Bournemouth and London.
A gifted and talented comedienne, Caine was an incisive and intelligent performer who often surprised her critics with her depth as an actress.- Tristram Jellinek, actor; born August 28, 1933, died November 4, 1995.
Born in London to a father of Czech origin and an English mother, he was brought up mainly in the home counties, and after two years' service with the RAF won a scholarship to RADA. His first jobs were in repertory in Harrogate and Eastbourne and he later appeared in a variety of plays at Richmond, Leatherhead, and Hornchurch, playing everything from a Japanese denizen of The Teahouse of the August Moon to Simple Simon in Mother Goose.
In 1959 he appeared in the West End in The Visit, directed by Peter Brook, and in 1964 in Oblomov with Spike Milligan and Joan Greenwood. Despite such successes and regular television work, he was diverted by his early fascination with antiques. His shop in Kensington was a favourite haunt of collectors.
Tristram Jellinek combined the dual careers of actor and antique dealer with aplomb and in both professions he made his own distinctive mark. As a character actor who gave many a sharply etched cameo, he was a familiar face in feature films and on television. As an antique dealer, he achieved a reputation for having a keen eye for a bargain, backed by a very personal taste. To both careers he brought an attitude of fine critical discernment combined with fastidious application.
When Jellinek returned to acting just over 10 years ago, he struck a useful vein in the portrayal of a certain brand of English upper-class acerbity, a characteristic which won him a lucrative contract when in 1985 he was chosen to play a disdainful duke in a long-running American television commercial advertising Schweppes Tonic Water, purveyed as a prime necessity in the pursuit of an aristocratic life style. He also appeared in movies such as Greystoke, Another Country, Revolution, White Mischief, M. Butterfly and A Handful of Dust, giving to each of his directors an immediate, finely judged character without fret or fuss. His television appearances included such plays as Selling Hitler and The Old Devils and popular series such as Widows and One Foot in the Grave.
It was, however, for the Glasgow Citizens Theatre, that most daring of British repertory companies, that he did his best work. As Pawnie in Philip Prowse's arrestingly febrile production of Noel Coward's The Vortex (which transferred to the Garrick Theatre, in London, in 1990), he brought to the role of the elderly tabbycat boulevardier a feline relish which did not mask a touching sense of inner desolation. As Karenin (in Anna Karenina, 1987) he was again ideally cast as Tolstoy's painfully decent but passionless cuckold. In 1990 he appeared with Glenda Jackson as the Chaplain in Mother Courage, in 1991 as a boilingly choleric Anthony Absolute in The Rivals and in 1993 as the desperately beleaguered Dr Rance in Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw.
Jellinek was born in London in 1933, to a father of Czech origin and an English mother, but he was brought up mainly in the Home Counties. After school in Dorset, Sussex and Hampshire and two years' national service with the RAF regiment at Boscombe Down, he won a scholarship to RADA to train as an actor. His first jobs were in repertory in Harrogate and Eastbourne and he later appeared in a variety of plays at Richmond, Leatherhead and Hornchurch, playing everything from a Japanese denizen of The Teahouse of the August Moon to Simple Simon in Mother Goose.
In 1959 he appeared in the West End with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in The Visit directed by Peter Brook and in 1964 he was in a production of Oblomov at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, with Spike Milligan and Joan Greenwood. But in spite of such frequent stage employment and steady work in films and television (he appeared in 13 episodes of Harpers W1) his ardour for acting was taking second place to his early obsession with antiques.
Beginning with a stall in the Portobello Road in the late Sixties, he became an expert in pottery and graduated to a shop in Peel Street, Kensington. Later he was in partnership in the Brompton Road and finally in the mid- Eighties he opened a charming shop, Lindsay Antiques, in Church Street, Kensington (named after his partner Lindsay Shand, who died earlier this year), which became a Mecca for connoisseurs and leading London decorators and reflected Jellinek's flair for finding sometimes unlikely articles and, by dint of his sense of display and presentation, making them covetable wares.
His innate flair was much in evidence both in his successive houses in Notting Hill Gate, filled with fine and unusual furniture and decorated with panache, and also in his country retreats in the Cotswolds, first in a late-18th-century Gothic manor-house and later a pretty cottage in the grounds.
Although as an actor Jellinek specialised in defining a kind of English froideur, in real life he was a warm companion who relished gossip and employed an enjoyable vein of waspish humour. In appearance he could have modelled for an austere Roman bust, a look which suited his sometimes imperious manner. Asked on stage by a nervous young actor what he should do next, he furiously whispered: "Not much - and probably just as badly."
It was fitting that his last performances, as the Inquisitor in Schiller's Don Carlos, were given at the Glasgow Citizens, in an environment that he had always found adventurous and congenial and where his intelligence and professional exactitude were properly valued. Typical of the insouciance and fortitude with which he faced his long illness was the fact that he missed only two performances and been playing on stage until six weeks before his death. - Gilles Deleuze was born on 18 January 1925 in Paris, France. He was a writer and actor, known for The Thoughts That Once We Had (2015), The Tilted X (1986) and George qui? (1973). He was married to Denise Paul Grandjouan. He died on 4 November 1995 in Paris, France.
- James Hyland was born on 4 November 1915 in New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Midnight Story (1957), Highway Patrol (1955) and Panic! (1957). He died on 4 November 1995 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Jackie Banks was born on 4 June 1941 in Michigan, USA. Jackie was a production manager, known for Spacecats (1991), Tom and Jerry: The Movie (1992) and Super Friends (1973). Jackie died on 4 November 1995 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Cinematographer
Yitzhak Rabin was an Israeli politician, statesman and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974-77, and from 1992 until his assassination in 1995.
Rabin was born in Jerusalem to Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe and was raised in a Labor Zionist household. He learned agriculture in school and excelled as a student. He led a 27-year career as a soldier and ultimately attained the rank of Rav Aluf. As a teenager he joined the Palmach, the commando force of the Yishuv. He eventually rose through its ranks to become its chief of operations during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. He joined the newly formed Israel Defense Forces in late 1948 and continued to rise as a promising officer. He helped shape the training doctrine of the IDF in the early 1950s, and led the IDF's Operations Directorate from 1959 to 1963. He was appointed Chief of the General Staff in 1964 and oversaw Israel's victory in the 1967 Six-Day War.
Rabin served as Israel's ambassador to the United States from 1968 to 1973, during a period of deepening U.S.-Israel ties. He was appointed Prime Minister of Israel in 1974 after the resignation of Golda Meir. In his first term, Rabin signed the Sinai Interim Agreement and ordered the Entebbe raid. He resigned in 1977 in the wake of a financial scandal. Rabin was Israel's minister of defense for much of the 1980s, including during the outbreak of the First Intifada.
In 1992, Rabin was re-elected as prime minister on a platform embracing the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. He signed several historic agreements with the Palestinian leadership as part of the Oslo Accords. In 1994, Rabin won the Nobel Peace Prize together with long-time political rival Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Rabin also signed a peace treaty with Jordan in 1994. In November 1995, he was assassinated by an extremist named Yigal Amir, who opposed the terms of the Oslo Accords. Amir was convicted of Rabin's murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. Rabin was the first native-born prime minister of Israel and was the only prime minister to be assassinated and the second to die in office after Levi Eshkol. Rabin has become a symbol of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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Francisco "Chico" Day, brother of actor Gilbert Roland, was the first Mexican-American to become a member of the Directors Guild of America, and was honored as such in 1995 by the DGA Latino Committee. Being bilingual, he was often the First Assistant Director or Production Manager of choice for big Hollywood studio films shooting on location in Mexico, such as One-Eyed Jacks (1961) and Major Dundee (1965), but also worked on many other major productions outside of Mexico, for directors such as Cecil B. DeMille and John Frankenheimer. Shortly after his retirement, he was awarded the DGA's Frank Capra award in 1981, in recognition of his career achievement in the Industry and service to the Directors Guild of America.- Actor
Jerry Nordquist was born on 20 February 1916. He was an actor. He died on 4 November 1995.- Essex Hemphill was born on 16 April 1957 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a writer, known for Tongues Untied (1989), Black Is... Black Ain't (1994) and Black Nations/Queer Nations? (1995). He died on 4 November 1995 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Ireneusz Gawronski was born on 14 June 1954 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. He was an actor, known for Fetysz (1985). He died on 4 November 1995 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
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Yuri Sagyants was born on 3 May 1927. He was an actor, known for Polyot s kosmonavtom (1980), Pozdnyaya yagoda (1978) and Kavkasiuri ambavi (1977). He died on 4 November 1995 in Moscow, Russia.- Laurence Shiel was born on 9 February 1909 in Foxford, County Mayo, Ireland. He was an actor, known for Juno and the Paycock (1938), Quatermass II (1955) and The End of the Affair (1955). He died on 4 November 1995 in Danehill, East Sussex, England, UK.