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- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Al Silvani was born on 26 March 1910. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Rocky (1976), Rocky III (1982) and Rocky II (1979). He died on 10 January 1996 in North Hollywood, California, USA.- Director
- Writer
Don Richardson was a director and teacher of actors for over fifty years. His credits include three Broadway productions and numerous prime-time television shows, among them winners of the Emmy and Peabody awards. His work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Broadcasting and the Jewish Museum in New York. In California he is represented in the UCLA film and television archives. He taught actors at Barnard College, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and California, and Tel Aviv University in Israel, and had a workshop of his own. During his retirement from television he taught actors and directors at UCLA Arts Extension four semesters per year until his death. His classes sold out weeks in advance. Among some of his former students were Anne Bancroft, Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Montgomery, Lois Nettleton, John Cassavetes, Zero Mostel, Don Adams and a host of others. Helen Hayes, the First Lady of the American Theatre forwarded his 1988 book on acting, Acting Without Agony, an Alternative to the Method, published by Allyn and Bacon, Inc.- Dennis McCarthy died on 10 January 1996 in Bingham, Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire, England, UK.
- Music Department
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Songwriter, composer and author, educated at the University of Michigan (BA, MA). He wrote the score for the college variety show, then taught English at the University of Michigan and was an assistant professor at North Carolina State University between 1923-1926. He co-founded the Yale Puppeteers at the Turnabout Theatre in Hollywood, and wrote songs and sketches. Later he wrote the Broadway stage score for "Music in My Heart",and new lyrics for "The Red Mill", and also composed for Los Angeles and San Francicsxo Civic Light Opera productions including "The Merry Widow", "The Chocolate Soldier", and "The Great Waltz". He wrote the books "The Pie-Eyed Piper" and "Punch's Progress". He wrote special material for Elsa Lanchester, Imogene Coca, Shirley Booth, and Edgar Bergen. Joining ASCAP in 1959, he collaborated musically with Raymond Scott, Franz Steininger, Henry Russell and Rudolf Friml. His popular-song compositions include "Song of the Sleighbells", "While There's a Song to Sing", "Stolen Kisses", and "It Must Be Religion".