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Ray Ballard was born on 23 August 1929 in the USA. He was an actor and producer, known for McCloud (1970), The Invisible Man (1975) and Mr. Too Little (1978). He died on 2 February 2020 in Poway, California, USA.- Johnny Lee Davenport was born on 24 July 1950 in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA. He was an actor, known for The Fugitive (1993), U.S. Marshals (1998) and Ted (2012). He died on 2 February 2020 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- Actor
- Stunts
- Producer
Robert Miller was born on 30 November 1946. He was an actor and producer, known for Hubad sa mundo (1978), Lucas Abelardo (1994) and Eksperto: Ako ang sasagupa! (2001). He died on 2 February 2020.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Lovelady Powell was born on 9 May 1930 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for Dark Shadows (1966), The Possession of Joel Delaney (1972) and I Never Sang for My Father (1970). She died on 2 February 2020 in Long Island, New York, USA.- Composer
- Director
- Producer
Ivan Kral was born in 1948 in Prague, Czechoslovakia to a musician mother and journalist father.
The award-winning composer, filmmaker and musician knew his calling early. By the age of five, when he wrote his first song, he could sing, play guitar, piano and violin. At 16, he reached Czechoslovakia's Top 10 Hit Parade with Pierot, his own composition recorded with his band, Saze.
Ivan's family fled to New York just ahead of the Soviet Union closure of the Czech border in 1968. They settled in New York City, where his father, Dr. Karel Kral, was already a translator at the United Nations. While at the UN, Dr. Kral earned Czech government wrath over his criticism of the expected Soviet invasion.
Ivan, then 18 years old, adapted to his new country less readily than his older brother Pavel, 23. He stayed in the family's apartment on 81st Street, struggling to learn English - with the help of Daffy Duck cartoons - and hoping to return to Czechoslovakia and his rock 'n' roll celebrity.
Eventually, he attended Geneseo College in upstate New York, earning a degree in French literature. He paid for his education with a series of menial jobs, most notably working the midnight shift at Birds Eye Foods, where he donned a hazmat suit before jumping into 9-foot tall steel containers to remove leftover CoolWhip.
It was all a prelude to his life as a proto-punk, singer-songwriter and film chronicler of a musical era that still resounds today. Ivan wore eyeliner and satin onstage during the early 70s glitter glam rock phase. In 1974, he played guitar with Debbie Harry in Blondie. In 1975, he joined the seminal Patti Smith Group transforming them from poetry to rock and roll. The band recorded numerous tunes written by Kral with Smith, including debut album Horses, Radio Ethiopia, Easter and Wave.Rock journalist Dave Thompson quotes Patti: "Ivan fit in perfectly, because all of us were slightly offbeat, and felt somehow alienated from the mainstream of society, and of course, Ivan being a true alien fit in well with us. The greatest thing he had to struggle with, as we toured around the country and various parts of the world, was being stateless. Ivan was a part of what we were as a group."
Ivan and Mick Ronson, from Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, collaborated, though the band never materialized. He joined Iggy Pop at Rockfield Studios in Wales and remained his collaborator on two albums and four tours. Frequently, he filmed his musician friends in 8mm and 16mm. CBGBs and Max's Kansas City footage selections were edited with no wave filmmaker Amos Poe, resulting in The Blank Generation film -- hailed as the historical document of the punk revolution - featuring the Ramones, Talking Heads, New York Dolls, Television, Patti Smith Group, Wayne County, Heartbreakers and more.
He shared the occasional New York stage with Bruce Springsteen, John Cale from The Velvet Underground, Noel Redding from Jimi Hendrix, Ronnie Spector and Chris Spedding. His collaboration with Babys singer, John Waite, resulted in many songs, including the hit, Every Step of the Way. His new band, Eastern Bloc, produced one album, but disbanded after Polygram folded.
In 1982, Ivan composed the music score for the Barry Levinson film, "Diner". He wrote scores for underground films like Subway Riders, Unmade Beds and The Foreigner.
He stopped touring and moved to Seattle until his return to Prague in 1992. During this time, his music was recorded by many, including David Bowie, U2, Simple Minds, and France's Telephone. Ivan now secured status as an independent writer and record producer.
From CBGB's to the mailroom of ABKCo's Beatles, where his duties included driving John Lennon and Yoko Ono's psychedelic Rolls Royce and watching underground films over dinner with Allen Klein. Ivan was in bands that shared billing with Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Kiss, Journey and Tom Petty.
A living national treasure in today's Czech Republic, he has 10 solo albums on Universal and BMG. He's a prolific writer and producer of major Czech talent. Ivan has been a guest at Prague Castle, and former President Vaclav Havel has attended his concerts.
Ivan's awards include Czech Grammys for his 1994 solo album, Nostalgia. He was awarded Grammys for Rock Producer of the Year in 1995 and 1998. Nominations include the Oscar-equivalent Cesky Lev for his 2001 Cabriolet film score. He and Patti Smith's song, Dancing Barefoot, entered #323 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In 1995, Mojo Magazine ranked Horses the 10th Greatest Album of All Time.
In 2007, he performed his own tribute song, Wasn't It Great, at the Bowery Ballroom memorial for the late CBGB founder, Hilly Kristal.
He continues to work globally from his Ann Arbor, Michigan home studio. In 2009, Ivan was songwriter/vocalist/musician for the soundtrack of the Japanese animated TV show, Yozakura Quartet 3.- Bernard Ebbers was born on 27 August 1941 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He was married to Kristie Webb, Linda Pigott and Linda Pigott . He died on 2 February 2020 in Brookhaven, Mississipi, USA.
- Additional Crew
Michael Thomas Bernard Hoare was born in India in 1919 to Irish parents. He spent his childhood in India, but was sent to England for his schooling, first at Margate College. When World War II broke out, he joined the British army and served in the London Irish Rifles. He attended officer training school, and upon graduation was posted to the Royal Armored Corps as a 2nd Lieutenant. He was assigned to the Pacific theater, and took part in the Battle of Kohima in India in 1944, which resulted in a stinging defeat for the Japanese. After further service in Burma, he was demobbed and left the army.
After the war he continued his education in London, and eventually became an accountant. In 1948, now married and with a child, he decided that his family's fortunes would be better in South Africa. He, his wife, and their son, Chris, moved to Durban. Hoare started a safari business, taking tourists across the Kalahari Desert to the Okavongo Delta. In 1961, the Congo in Africa was granted independence by Belgium, and the mineral-rich province of Katanga decided to secede from the new country and declared its own independence. Hoare was contacted by Katanga leader Moise Tshombe for help, as the central Congolese government had decided to forcibly bring Katanga back into the Congo and the United Nations had backed them up. Katanga had no army to speak of, just some local native police. Hoare accepted Tshombe's offer and gathered a group of ex-soldiers to train the Katangese.
In 1964, the Congo was wracked by a rebellion by a particularly savage movement called the Simbas, who rampaged throughout the country, burning villages, raping and murdering civilians in particularly horrific and brutal fashion, in addition to often cannibalizing victims and prisoners. The Congolese government forces were terrified of them and could not, or would not, fight them. Tshombe again asked Hoare for aid, and he responded by raising a mercenary force of veteran soldiers--both African and European--called 5 Commando to put down the rebellion and destroy the Simbas. In little more than a year he and his men had taken Stanleyville from the Simbas, freed hundreds of hostages they had taken and had pretty much pushed the rebels out of the country -- he had once been called "Mad Bloodhound Hoare" by an East German broadcaster because of his reputation for not only defeating his enemies but hunting them down and wiping them out afterwards.
By the time he had completed his mission and retired at the end of 1965, his success at accomplishing with relatively few men what other military organizations could not had made him the most famous mercenary leader in the world. He had single-handedly changed the image of mercenaries from brutal, drunken, disreputable and corrupt thugs to efficient, well-trained and effective military units. He himself came across as articulate, well-spoken and professional, an almost stereotypical British officer and gentleman. In 1978 he was hired as a technical adviser on the film The Wild Geese (1978), starring Richard Burton (who played a character largely based on Hoare) and Richard Harris, about a mercenary hired to rescue a respected African leader from a murderous renegade general who had overthrown and imprisoned him and was set to execute him. The film was a major success, spawned several sequels and brought Hoare back into the spotlight again.
In 1981 he was in the news once more when he and a band of ex-soldiers were recruited for a coup against a dictatorial regime in the Seychelles, a small island country in the Indian Ocean. The coup failed, however, and he and his men wee forced to hijack a plane in order to escape. They landed in South Africa, where they were promptly arrested. Hoare was sentenced to ten years in prison, but was released in 1985 after having served almost three years. Mike Hoare died in Durban, South Africa in 2020, aged 100.- Actor
- Additional Crew
Hou-Tao Hsiao was born on 29 December 1947 in Tainan, Taiwan. He was an actor, known for Dad's Suit (2018), Wu hu si hai (1992) and Farewell Summer (2010). He died on 2 February 2020 in New Taipei City, Taiwan.- Script and Continuity Department
Margaret Catherine Varian was born Margit Katalin Sara Stevka on October 19, 1939 in Nabrad Hungary, to Laszlo Denes Szaniszlo Stevka, a Major in the Royal Hungarian Artillery and Margit Sara Leovey, who was a successful Hungarian competitive fencer in 1935-36', better known as Sari or Nana to her grandchildren. Due to the Russian invasion of Hungary, Margaret and her mother fled Hungary and stayed as displaced persons in Austria. They then were able to emigrate to Canada in 1949 where Margaret went on to become a Canadian citizen in 1956. She flourished in Toronto graduating 2nd in her class from Commerce High.
In 1959 Margaret was crowned Miss Ottawa Rough Rider (Regional Football Team), a prestigious national beauty pageant. Many prizes and scholarships were awarded to her for this honor. She attended Ryerson Institute and was able to get a job writing and producing documentaries for a local TV station. One of her awarded prizes included a course to become a Script Supervisor for film and television. Although realizing this was not similar to the job of writing and producing, which she loved, this would take her into a new world of film and television which would define her future career.
She met John Tary in Canada and after a long-distance relationship they were married in August 1965 and moved to California. They had 3 children, John, Susannah, and Stephen. After several decades, she then married Spencer Varian a pilot and part time location generator operator with whom she lived and loved for a few more decades. She was very successful with her career having worked continuously in the motion picture and television industry spending almost twenty years alone on two popular shows, St. Elsewhere and LA Law.
She had a stroke in 1999 and was unable to continue working (her last show was one of her favorites "Providence"), but she still loved her life and was able to enjoy and so dearly love her children and 8 grandchildren: Bryan, Charlotte, Lily, Aeva, Alex, Yoko, Amelia, and Rebecca. She passed peacefully on 02/02/2020 surrounded by her children. She was a devoted wife and mother who was selfless and loving to everyone. She added joy and love to the world and will be dearly missed. Per her wishes, she was laid to rest with her mother's ashes by her side at Green Hills Mortuary in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.- Claire Clouzot was born on 2 August 1933 in Paris, France. She was a director, known for L'homme fragile (1981), Rémy Duval, 28 place des Vosges (1986) and Ciné regards (1978). She died on 2 February 2020 in Paris, France.
- Rabi Singha was an actor, known for Garmil (1990). He died on 2 February 2020 in India.
- Dave Long was born on 28 April 1950. He was an actor, known for The Mark (2011), Confederate Zombie and Billy the Kid (2013). He died on 2 February 2020 in Augusta, Georgia, USA.
- Tadeusz Zawadka was born on 27 April 1931. He was an actor, known for Botoks (2017), Sluzby specjalne (2014) and Pitbull: New Orders (2016). He died on 2 February 2020.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Kurt Stadel is a German voice impersonator. His talent has been discovered by Dutch show master Rudi Carrell, during a tour of his band The Four Kings. He imitated 14 different artists in 5 minutes. In 1970, Stadel appeared in Musik, Musik - da wackelt die Penne (1970) and in Wenn die tollen Tanten kommen (1970).
Several international known singers including: Karel Gott, Louis Armstrong, Rex Gildo, Tom Jones, Andrea Bocelli, Mario Lanza, Freddie Mercury, Peter Hofmann, John Miles, Elvis Presley, Adriano Celentano, Chris Andrews, Udo Jürgens, Sandie Shaw, Roy Black and Lale Andersen had been imitated by him.- Script and Continuity Department
- Producer
Frizhetta Gukasyan was born on 17 July 1930. Frizhetta was a producer, known for God sobaki (1994), Avariya (1965) and 713 prosit posadku (1962). Frizhetta was married to Genrikh Marandzhyan. Frizhetta died on 2 February 2020.- Cultus Pearson was born on 28 May 1925 in the USA. He was married to Frances Davis Pearson. He died on 2 February 2020 in Lacombe, Louisiana, USA.
- Editor
- Additional Crew
Maria Wisnicka was born on 5 December 1957 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. Maria was an editor, known for Frontline (1983) and I w Ostrej swiecisz Bramie (1998). Maria died on 2 February 2020 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Jeff Shiffrin was born on 8 March 1954 in Dover, New Jersey, USA. He died on 2 February 2020 in Edwards, Colorado, USA.