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- Producer
- Writer
- Director
George Eckstein was born on 3 May 1928 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for The Fugitive (1963), Love, Sidney (1981) and The Name of the Game (1968). He was married to Selette Cole and Ann Morgan Guilbert. He died on 12 September 2009 in Brentwood, California, USA.- Alan Chávez was born on 23 December 1990 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was an actor, known for The Zone (2007), Used Parts (2007) and Innocent Voices (2004). He died on 12 September 2009 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
- Writer
- Composer
- Music Department
Shah Abdul Karim was born on 15 February 1916 in Sunamganj, Bengal Presidency, British India [now in Sunamganj, Bangladesh]. He was a writer and composer, known for Dubshatar (2010), Doya Koro Doyal (2016) and Coke Studio Bangla (2022). He was married to Aftabunnesa Sarola Bibi. He died on 12 September 2009 in Sylhet, Bangladesh.- Director
- Writer
Rasa Strautmane was born on 29 October 1931. Rasa was a director and writer, known for The Green Grasshopper (1972), Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 1 (2000) and Podvodnyye berety (1991). Rasa died on 12 September 2009.- Norman Borlaug was born on 25 March 1914 in Saude, Iowa, USA. He was married to Margaret Gibson. He died on 12 September 2009 in Dallas, Texas, USA.
- Martin E. Süskind was born on 12 July 1944 in Ambach, Bavaria, Germany. He was a writer, known for Kanzleramt (2005), Die Johannes B. Kerner Show (1998) and Leute (1983). He died on 12 September 2009 in Berlin, Germany.
- Cinematographer
- Director
- Camera and Electrical Department
Des Bartlett became one of the world's leading wildlife film makers in a career that lasted more than 50 years. He worked with the renowned documentary makers Armand Denis and Michaela Denis before making the Emmy award-winning Flight of the Snow Geese (1972), one of the greatest wildlife shows on earth.
During his career he shot more than 609,000 metres of film on six continents and made more than 200 documentaries. He contributed film, stills and articles to National Geographic, with whom, in 1993, he won a second Emmy for Survivors of the Skeleton Coast (1993), shot on the desert coastline of Namibia, his adopted homeland for the past 31 years.
In 1956, Bartlett was married in London to a fellow Australian, Jen Edmondson, who was playing tennis at Wimbledon. So began one of the most successful and enduring husband-and-wife partnerships in wildlife film history, with him shooting the moving pictures and her most of the stills. She gave up her tennis career to return with him to Africa, where Armand was producing documentaries for the BBC. The first series, Filming in Africa (1955), was followed by On Safari (1957). Presented by Armand and his wife, Michaela, the programs' animal behaviour sequences were largely the work of Bartlett and helped establish the popularity of the television wildlife documentary.
Norman Desmond Bartlett was born on April 2, 1927 in Canungra, Queensland. His father was a head teacher and keen naturalist who had the largest private butterfly collection in Australia and imbued his son with an early interest in natural history. Bartlett started work in a Brisbane bank at 16 but had ambitions to be a pilot and aircraft designer. He joined the ATC (Air Training Corps) and his design of the Bartlett Bullet plane was published in a 1944 edition of Wings Magazine, the official journal of the RAAF. After turning 18, Bartlett joined the RAAF, but his dreams of becoming a fighter pilot were never fulfilled as the war came to an end. He turned instead to photography, running a studio in Brisbane with a friend before taking a job at the department of information's films division in Melbourne.
He began his career in 1952 spending 12 months filming in eastern and central Australia for Under the Southern Cross (1954), a documentary by Armand. Bartlett spent five months on his own travelling by dugout canoe to a remote area of New Guinea to film the Sepik River people for the Denises' feature film, Among the Headhunters (1955).
In 1954 he flew to Kenya to join the Denises, who had signed a contract with the BBC. The resulting television programs, Filming in Africa and On Safari, became extremely popular. Bartlett was based in Kenya for 10 years, filming 70 half-hour programs and 104 short Animaland children's films. After the birth of their daughter Julie, in Australia in 1957, the Bartletts returned to Kenya. Julie lived an idyllic childhood ''on safari'' and Des realised a boyhood dream when he and Jen learned to fly.
In 1964, he went to film in North America. Eighteen months later Armand retired and Bartlett signed with Britain's Survival Anglia, whose wildlife shows were sold to more than 100 countries. Patient, painstaking, reliable and modest yet resourceful, Bartlett remained one of Survival's top three cameramen for 20 years. His film The World of the Beaver (1970), helped to establish the one-hour wildlife documentary as a component of the peak-time television schedules, and in 1973 won an Emmy for Flight of the Snow Geese.
The Bartletts followed the geese on their 4000-kilometre migration from Hudson Bay to the Mississippi Delta, obtaining stunning footage of the birds in flight by adopting orphans that regarded them as parents and could be filmed in close-up.
In 1978 they went back to Africa, planning to spend six months filming lions in Namibia, but stayed for over 30 years.- Former World Champion of Tennis in the late 1940s to the early 1950s. Known for popularizing the serve and volley style of tennis and the percentage game in tennis. Defeated some of the greatest players in tennis history on tour. A former Wimbledon and United States Nationals (the equivalent of the U.S. Open today) champion.
- Tadeusz Somogi was born on 1 January 1922 in Czerwonogród, Lwowskie, Poland [now Chervonohrad, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for The Hours of Hope (1955), How I Unleashed World War II (1970) and Lawa. Opowiesc o 'Dziadach' Adama Mickiewicza (1989). He died on 12 September 2009 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Production Designer
- Director
- Actor
Levan Shengeliya was born on 1 December 1921 in Kutaisi, Georgian SSR [now Republic of Georgia]. He was a production designer and director, known for Taras Shevchenko (1951), Kapronovye seti (1963) and Devochka na share (1967). He died on 12 September 2009 in Moscow, Russia.- Willy Ronis was born on 14 August 1910 in Paris, France. He was married to Marie-Anne Lansiaux. He died on 12 September 2009 in Paris, France.
- Production Designer
- Art Department
- Actor
Jochen Keller was born on 31 May 1931 in Zella-Mehlis, Thuringia, Germany. He was a production designer and actor, known for Frau Venus und ihr Teufel (1967), Beschreibung eines Sommers (1963) and Hatifa (1960). He died on 12 September 2009.- Antonio Olinto was born on 10 May 1919 in Ubá, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He was an actor, known for Uma Pulga na Balança (1953) and Caraça, Porta do Céu (1950). He died on 12 September 2009 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Karl-Heinz Grewe was born on 14 May 1944 in Bockum-Hövel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Eine Firma für die Ewigkeit (1983), Scherenschnitt (1975) and Engel aus Eisen (1981). He died on 12 September 2009 in Berlin, Germany.
- Zivorad 'Zika' Lazic was born on 28 October 1933 in Lugavcina, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He was a writer and actor, known for Kako su se voleli Romeo i Julija? (1966), Divlje seme (1968) and Seljaci (2006). He died on 12 September 2009 in Belgrade, Serbia.