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The star of the Carry On series of films, Sid James originally came to prominence as sidekick to the ground breaking British comedy actor Tony Hancock, on both radio and then television. Born in Johannesburg, South Africa and named Solomon Joel Cohen, James arrived in England in 1946, second wife in tow, having served with the South African Army during World War 2. By now an aspiring actor, James claimed to have boxed in his youth, perhaps to explain his craggy features, but was certainly a well respected hairdresser in his native country. Known in the trade as "one take James", he became a very talented and professional actor, constantly in demand for small parts in British post-war cinema. In 1960 James debuted in the fourth of the Carry On films, taking the lead role in Carry on Constable (1960) and went on to appear in a further 18 Carry On films as well as various stage and television spin-offs. Reputed not to have got on with Carry On co-star Kenneth Williams, the two often played adversaries on-screen, notably in the historical parodies Carry on Up the Khyber (1968) and Carry on Don't Lose Your Head (1967). James however was respected and revered by almost everyone he worked with and contrary to popular myth, a true gentleman. An addiction to gambling played a large part in James' workaholic schedule and subsequent heart attack in 1967. He was soon back in action however, playing a hospital patient in Carry on Doctor (1967), able to spend most of the film in bed. He suffered a second and fatal heart attack on stage in Sunderland, England on April 26 1976, leaving behind 3 children and his third wife Valerie who had stuck by him despite his affair with Carry On co-star Barbara Windsor, saying, "He always came home to me".- Actor
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German actor Christian Oliver worked in the entertainment industry for more than 15 years, with, among others, Steven Soderbergh in The Good German; with Brian Singer and Tom Cruise in Valkyrie; and with the Wachowski sisters in Speed Racer. He also starred in Europe's Number One action series Alarm for Cobra 11 (RTL) for two years and had numerous other TV appearances in the US and Germany.- Director
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Winner was an only child, born in Hampstead, London, England, to Helen (née Zlota) and George Joseph Winner (1910-1975), a company director. His family was Jewish; his mother was Polish and his father of Russian extraction. Following his father's death, Winner's mother gambled recklessly and sold art and furniture worth around £10m at the time, bequeathed to her not only for her life but to Michael thereafter. She died aged 78 in 1984.
He was educated at St Christopher School, Letchworth, and Downing College, Cambridge, where he read law and economics. He also edited the university's student newspaper, Varsity (he was the youngest ever editor up to that time, both in age and in terms of his university career, being only in the second term of his second year). Winner had earlier written a newspaper column, 'Michael Winner's Showbiz Gossip,' in the Kensington Post from the age of 14. The first issue of Showgirl Glamour Revue in 1955 has him writing another film and showbusiness gossip column, "Winner's World". Such jobs allowed him to meet and interview several leading film personalities, including James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich. He also wrote for the New Musical Express.
He began his screen career as an assistant director of BBC television programmes, cinema shorts, and full-length "B" productions, occasionally writing screenplays. In 1957 he directed his first travelogue, This is Belgium, shot largely on location in East Grinstead. His first on-screen credit was earned as a writer for the crime film Man with a Gun (1958) directed by Montgomery Tully. Winner's first credit on a cinema short was Associate Producer on the film Floating Fortress (1959) produced by Harold Baim. Winner's first project as a lead director involved another story he wrote, Shoot to Kill (1960). He would regularly edit his own movies, using the pseudonym "Arnold Crust". He graduated to first features with Play It Cool (1962), a pop musical starring Billy Fury.
Winner's first significant film was West 11 (1963), a sympathetic study of rootless drifters in the then seedy Notting Hill area of London. Filmed on location (always Winner's preference), with a script by Willis Hall and Keith Waterhouse, the film remains an interesting contribution to the working-class realism wave of the early 1960s. Following differences with his producer, Daniel Angel, Winner (who had wanted to cast Julie Christie in the main female role) resolved to produce as well as direct his films and set up his own company, Scimitar. The Girl-Getters (1964) and the hectic, dystopian I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967) were paired pieces starring Oliver Reed that continued Winner's exploration of alienated youth adrift in a rising tide of affluence, dreaming of an alternative life they can never achieve. These films and the exuberant 'Swinging London' comedy The Jokers (1967), also starring Reed, were well-suited to Winner's restless, intrusive camera style and staccato editing. They were followed by Hannibal Brooks (1969), a witty Second World War comedy written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, which attracted attention in America and led to Winner pursuing a Hollywood career in the 1970s.
Winner now developed a new reputation as an efficient maker of violent action thrillers, often starring Charles Bronson. The most successful and controversial was Death Wish (1974), with Bronson cast as a liberal architect who embraces vengeance after the murder of his wife and daughter. An intelligent analysis of the deep roots of vigilantism in American society, Death Wish is restrained in its depiction of violence. With his obsessive need to work, Winner accepted many inferior projects, including two weak Death Wish sequels, though occasionally he tried to make more prestigious films, notably The Nightcomers (1971), a prequel to Henry James' The Turn of the Screw, made in Britain with Marlon Brando; and A Chorus of Disapproval (1989), a satisfying version of Alan Ayckbourn's bittersweet comedy.
By the 1990s Winner had become less prolific, and reaped no benefit from the Lottery-prompted rise in genre film-making, which favoured the young and inexperienced. Dirty Weekend (1993), a rape-revenge movie with a female vigilante, aroused considerable controversy, but hardly enhanced Winner's reputation; Parting Shots (1998), a comedy revenge thriller suffused with allusions to Death Wish and restaurant scenes invoking Winner's current incarnation as a food critic, is perhaps his swan song.
In an interview with The Times newspaper, Winner said liver specialists had told him in summer 2012 that he had between 18 months and two years to live. He said he had researched assisted suicide offered at the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland, but found the bureaucracy of the process off-putting. Winner died at his home, Woodland House in Holland Park, on 21 January 2013, aged 77. Winner was buried following a traditional Jewish funeral at Willesden Jewish Cemetery.- Will Kuluva was born on 2 May 1917 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Go Naked in the World (1961), To Trap a Spy (1964) and Odds Against Tomorrow (1959). He was married to Jane A. Johnston. He died on 6 November 1990 in Bequia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
- He attended the Duke of Yorks Royal Military School in Dover, Kent from 1963 to 1970 where he achieved both academic and sporting success. He was academically very gifted and was also a gifted sportsman playing Rugby and a good athlete. He achieved good A level results and went to Bristol University.
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David's father was the Rev. W.J. Parradine Frost who died in 1967, his mother Mona, born in 1903, lived in Beccles, Suffolk. He had a sister, Mrs Margaret Bill who lived in Whitby. He owned 'Sweet Briar Cottage in Eastbridge near Theberton, Norfolk, a Georgian town house in Knightsbridge, London and a hotel suite in New York. His marriage to actress Lynne Frederick in 1981 lasted 6 months.- John Normington was a distinguished English actor and a veteran of stage and screen. He also trained as an opera singer at the Northern School of Music. He made his theatrical debut in the 1950 production of "The Happiest Days of Your Life". He later became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (1962-1966).
Perhaps his most prominent and enduring film role was in the classic British comedy A Private Function (1984), where he holds his own among a heavyweight supporting cast that included Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott, Richard Griffiths, Alison Steadman, Jim Carter and Pete Postlethwaite. His television appearances were also vast. He is fondly remembered by science fiction fans for his role as the scheming villain Morgus in one of the most popular Doctor Who (1963) serials ever produced, The Caves of Androzani: Part One (1984).
He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2004 but continued working, making his final screen appearance in Atonement (2007), which was released in the UK following his death. Tributes were paid by Old Vic artistic director Kevin Spacey, National Theatre artistic director Nicholas Hytner and Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director Michael Boyd. Normington was gay and was survived by John Anderson, his partner of almost 40 years. - Of all the films that Graham Moffatt worked on, about half were with Will Hay, in his Billy-Bunter style persona. After being dropped by Will Hay, Moffatt (and Moore Marriott) went on to support Edmund Gwenn in Cheer Boys Cheer (1939) and Arthur Askey in Band Waggon (1940). The last film he made with Moore Marriott was in 1943, after which the pair went their separate ways. He left show business to run a pub, but appeared in many more films, up to the age of 44.
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Paul Pope (1958-2022) was a dynamic force in the Canadian film industry, having produced or worked on hundreds of films. A founding member of the Newfoundland Filmmakers Cooperative (NIFCO), where he served as president for over twenty years, he was instrumental in the development of a vibrant production industry in Newfoundland. A generous mentor, he was a passionate voice for independent production at a national level with a long-standing tradition of supporting Canadian artists and ensuring that Canadian stories are brought to the screen. Paul served as a board member on the Canadian Media Producers Association, Resource Centre for the Arts, NIFCO and was Vice-Chair of the Canadian Media Fund. In addition to his awards and nominations for his projects with Pope Productions, he also received the Arts Achievement Award from ArtsNL, the Douglas James Dales Industry Builder Award, the Legend Award from the City of St. John's, and an honorary Doctorate from Memorial University. Paul received a BAA in Film and Photography from Ryerson. Shortly before he passed away in 2022, Paul's goal of a Film and Television School in Newfoundland was announced by the College of the North Atlantic.- Reinhard Heydrich began his career as an officer in the post-World War I German navy. He was dishonorably discharged after becoming involved in an illicit love affair. The young woman became pregnant, but instead of marrying her, Heydrich met and soon got engaged to Lina von Osten. In 1930 Heydrich, now unemployed, was persuaded by his wife to join Adolf Hitler's National Socialist (Nazi) party, which he did the next year; he also became a member of the SS at that same time. As one of its first officers, Heydrich was tasked by Heinrich Himmler to expand the small organization into an internal security force to monitor the Nazi party. The result was the creation of the SD (Sicherheistdienst [Security Service]), which was combined, in 1934, with the Gestapo (Gestaatspolizei, or state secret police) to form the much feared SS Security Police, which Heydrich--now an SS Brigadier General--commanded. He played a major role in the destruction of the SA, known as the "storm troopers", which was an internal security service set up by Hitler but which he now suspected of plotting against him; the organization was destroyed and many of its officers, including its leader, Ernst Röhm, were murdered in June of 1934. For his services Heydrich was made a Lieutenant-General in the SS.
At the start of World War II Heydrich became commander of the consolidated Reich security forces, which he formed into the Reich Security Central Office of the SS. Also, by this time, Heydrich had become a major figure in the rounding up and planned extermination of Europe's Jews. On his orders, the SS-Einsatzgruppen--Special Groups--were created for the purpose of hunting down, rounding up and exterminating Jews in Poland and Russia. Three years later, in 1942, he chaired the infamous Wannsee Conference, where the decision was made to exterminate all the Jews of Europe. Promoted to SS-General (Obergruppenfuhrer), Heydrich was made the Reich Governor of Czechoslovakia at the start of 1942. Aware of how powerful, cunning and dangerous Heydrich was, British intelligence agents put together an operation designed to kill him, and trained and dispatched three Czech exiles to Prague. The assassination was carried out in May of 1942. Heydrich died a short while later, on June 4th, the same day of the historic Battle of Midway in the Pacific.
If ever a truly monstrous and evil man existed, it was Reinhard Heydrich, one of the masterminds of the Holocaust. In a horrific act of revenge, called "Operation Reinhard," Hitler had the entire village of Lidice, Czechoslovakia--near where Heydrich was killed--exterminated. All male inhabitants above the age of 15 were shot; all other residents were sent to concentration camps, and the village itself was physically wiped off the face of the earth. Heydrich was buried with full honors. His grave on the Invalidenfriedhof in Berlin is now anonymous in order to prevent any form of remembrance. - Norma Ronald was born on 1 March 1937 in Northumberland, England, UK. She was an actress, known for UFO (1970), The Plane Makers (1963) and The Power Game (1965). She was married to Edward Judd. She died on 20 November 1993 in Clara Vale, Ryton, Tyne and Wear, England, UK.
- Jean Bell was born in Lifford, county Donegal on the 8th February 1942.
In 1962, he met Gerry Corr at a dance in the Pavilion ballroom in Blackrock, Dundalk (county Louth, Leinster, Ireland). He immortalized the meeting in verse, which he entitled 'Pavilion 62':
'Did angels convene/
To bring me to Jean/
Of wraparound eyes/
In passion of pink/
First dance/
Last dance/
We dance for ever.'
He said in an interview in 2002: "From the first time I met her, I loved her speaking voice. Later, when I heard her sing, my future was sealed! Happily, she liked me too." She sang "... an Irish song called Mo Shean Dun na Gall which she had learned at school in her native Donegal. Jean's is the voice of the Corrs".
Jean and Gerry were married on October 3, 1963 in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dundalk. They had 5 children: Jim Corr, Gerard Corr, Sharon Corr, Caroline Corr and Andrea Corr. Little Gerard died as a child due to a traffic accident.
Music was always to the fore throughout their life. She, together with his dear husband founded 'The Sound Affair' in the 1970's and they were to play together in a variety of venues throughout Co Louth for many years. Not surprisingly, this love of music filtered down to their children with the inevitable consequence - The Corrs.
Sadly, Jean died in the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, on 24 November 1999 from a rare lung condition, Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. - Director
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Zivko Nikolic was born on 20 November 1941 in Ozrinici near Niksic, Montenegro, Yugoslavia. He was a director and writer, known for Cudo nevidjeno (1984), Biljeg (1981) and Graditelj (1980). He was married to Vesna Pecanac. He died on 17 August 2001 in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro.- Actor
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Ljuba Tadic was born on 31 May 1929 in Urosevac, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He was an actor and writer, known for Doktor Mladen (1975), Mars na Drinu (1964) and Uka i Bjeshkëve të nemura (1968). He was married to Visnja Djordjevic and Snezana Niksic. He died on 28 October 2005 in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro.- Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas. His expeditions were the first known European contact with the Caribbean, Central America, and South America.
- Bob Cole was born on 24 June 1933 in St. John's, Newfoundland [now St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador], Canada. He was an actor, known for Hockey Night in Canada (1952), Republic of Doyle (2010) and Gold Rush 2002 (2002). He died on 24 April 2024 in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
- Doreen Lawrence was born on 13 July 1919 in Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The British Greats (1980), This Is Your Life (1955) and Hollywood Greats (1977). She was married to Jack Hawkins and Patrick Harry Grantham Atkinson. She died on 15 June 2013 in Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Chelsea, London, England, UK.
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Born in Subotica 1924. Studied directing at the Academy for Theater, Film and Television in Belgrade. He began his career as a theater director, first in the National theater in Nis and later in Belgrade. As the same time he acquired his experience at Television Belgrade, directing TV dramas, films, shows and series. He made his debut as a feature film director in 1974 with the very popular film The Written Offs (Otpisani, 1974). He directed some of the most popular Yugoslav films: The Written Offs Return (Povratak otpisanih, 1976), Let's Love Each Other (Hajde da se volimo, 1987), A Tigar Spot 3 (Tesna koza 3, 1988), Balkan Express 2 (Balkan ekspres 2, 1989) etc..- Danilo Lazovic was born on 25 November 1951 in Brodarevo near Prijepolje, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He was an actor, known for Srecni ljudi (1993), A Holy Place (1990) and Porodicno blago (1998). He was married to Branka Lazovic. He died on 25 March 2006 in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro.
- Mirsad Tuka was born on 19 June 1965 in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia. He was an actor, known for Underground (1995), Remake (2003) and Crna hronika (2004). He was married to Nerma Tuka. He died on 11 July 2023 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Robert Crewdson was born on 20 January 1927 in Lambeth, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Blood Beast from Outer Space (1965), Epitaph for a Spy (1963) and Escape (1957). He was married to Lucy Pearson, Pamela Strong and Kathleen Bidmead. He died on 7 February 2023 in Castle Douglas, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK.
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Miodrag Petrovic-Ckalja was born on 1 April 1924 in Krusevac, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He was an actor, known for Truckers (1973), Kamiondzije opet voze (1984) and Kamiondzije (1972). He died on 20 October 2003 in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro.- Vikki Richards was born on 29 December 1949 in Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]. She was an actress, known for The Love Factor (1969), Black Snake (1973) and The Onedin Line (1971). She died on 6 March 2024 in Valsayn, Trinidad and Tobago.
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Stevo Zigon was born on 8 December 1926 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Yugoslavia. He was an actor and writer, known for Written Off (1974), Otpisani (1974) and Povratak otpisanih (1976). He was married to Jelena Zigon. He died on 28 December 2005 in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro.- Zan Marolt was born on 25 September 1964 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was an actor, known for The Hunting Party (2007), Elvis (1997) and Operacija Cartier (1991). He died on 11 July 2009 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Hajrudin "Siba" Krvavac (22 December 1926 - 11 July 1992) was a Bosnian film director most notable for directing movies from the Partisan film genre during 1960s and 70s.
His gift for precise storytelling was visible in his early documentaries and would become a staple of his feature films later on. Starting with his directorial debut, the segment Otac (Father) of the anthology film Vrtlog (Vortex, 1964), all his feature films are action films set in World War II. Their storytelling owes a lot to comic books and American action films, especially westerns, with an imaginative combination of action and emotions, personal drama and epic tragedy, idealised heroism and psychological trials, sometimes with a dose of humor. Because of the style of his films, Krvavac was sometimes compared to Howard Hawks.- Actress
Anna Nicholas was born on 14 September 1947 in Simla, India. She was an actress, known for Cuba (1979), Tales of the Unexpected (1979) and Armchair Thriller (1978). She was married to Graham Smith. She died on 3 February 2014 in Kent and Canterbury Hospital, Canterbury, Kent, England, UK.- Actor
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Chas Chandler was born on 18 December 1938 in Heaton, Tyne and Wear, England, UK. He was an actor and composer, known for Tag (2018), Cruella (2021) and American Animals (2018). He was married to Madeleine Stringer and Lotta. He died on 17 July 1996 in Heaton, Tyne and Wear, England, UK.- Actor
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Rejhan Demirdzic was born on 2 January 1927 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Yugoslavia. He was an actor and writer, known for Tale (1977), Vrata ostaju otvorena (1959) and Glineni golub (1966). He died on 22 August 1988 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Yugoslavia.- Actor
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Faruk Begolli was the most famous Kosovo Albanian actor and director in Yugoslavia (along with Bekim Fehmiu). He attended high school in Pristina and completed the academy of film in Belgrade (1966). Begolli played in more than 60 films, starting with Veljko Bulajic's Pogled u zenicu Sunca (1966). He cooperated with director Purisa Dordevic in his films Podne (Noon), Jutro (The Morning), and San (The Dream), and his notable roles include Bitka na Neretvi, Cuvar plaze u zimskom periodu and Dervis i Smrt (The Dervish and Death). In the late 1980s, Begolli returned from Belgrade to Kosovo, where he worked at the University of Pristina as a professor at the Faculty of Drama. His last lead role was in Ekrem Kryeziu's Dashuria e Bjeshkeve te Nemuna (Love in the Damned Mountain), and his last piece was Etjet e Kosoves (Kosovo: Desperate Search), where he was also a co-scenarist. He died in 2007, after a long battle with cancer.- Djordje Jovanovic was born on 12 May 1933 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He was an actor, known for Gradjani sela Luga (1972), Poslednji cin (1981) and Radjanje radnog naroda (1969). He died on 10 May 2004 in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro.
- Neville Barber was born on 1 March 1931 in Barton-upon-Irwell, Lancashire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Doctor Who (1963), Anna Karenina (1977) and Vanity Fair (1967). He died on 21 March 2002 in Pitlochry, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK.
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Abdulah Sidran was born on 2 October 1944 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia. He was a writer and actor, known for Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (1981), The Perfect Circle (1997) and Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020). He died on 23 March 2024 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.- Native of Antigua and Barbuda, George 'Rick' James moved to San Francisco in 1961 to pursue a career in acting. James made his debut in Hollywood, appearing in the West Coast Premier of the "Blood Knot", produced and directed by Frank Silvera (1965).
James ultimately moved to London where he appeared in numerous stage plays including "Clouds" (Derby Theatre), "Detective Story" (Royal Exchange) and on the West End in "Sit Quietly on the Bollard" and "Shack-Shack". Rick James went on to earn numerous acting credits for the BBC including appearance in "Blake 7", "Play for Today" and the critically acclaimed "Dr. Who". - Dragan Jovicic was born on 22 November 1953 in Rogatica, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Yugoslavia. He was an actor, known for Crna hronika (2004), Brisani prostor (1985) and Ranjenik (1988). He died on 6 November 2020 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Mira Nikolic was born on 2 July 1935 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia. She was an actress, known for It Was Not in Vain (1957), H-8... (1958) and Izgubljena olovka (1960). She died on 25 April 2005 in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro.
- Born on December 18, 1863, the eldest son of Archduke Karl-Ludwig von Habsburg and his wife, Princess Annunziata di Borbone, Franz Ferdinand was third in line to the thrown of the Austro-Hungarian Empire upon his birth. After his cousin Crown Prince Rudolf committed suicide in 1889 and his father died in 1896, Franz Ferdinand became the heir of his aging uncle Emperor Franz Josef. He eloped with Countess Sophie Chotek in 1900, but this marriage was considered unequal and they were forced to renounce rights of rank and succession for their three children. A radical reformist, Franz Ferdinand had a number of new ideas he planned to implement when he became Emperor, one of them giving Slavs an equal voice in the empire. After the annexation of Bosnia by Austria, he decided to go on a tour of his new province in 1914 in hopes of fostering good will with his new subjects. A Serbian terrorist group called The Black Hand sent three of its members to murder Franz Ferdinand and his wife as they visited Sarajevo. Their first assassination attempt, throwing a bomb at the Archduke's car, failed, though a number of bystanders were wounded. The assassins almost gave up their plans, and one of them, Gavrilo Princip, wandered off down the street. Meanwhile, the Archduke and Archduchess decided to visit the wounded in the hospital, but their driver took a wrong turn and they ended up on the same street as Princip. Seizing his chance, Princip stepped forward and fired several times into the car, fatally wounding both Franz Ferdinand and Sophie. They were raced to the governor's mansion where they were pronounced dead. Not only did this act of violence orphan their three young children, it also set off a series of events that led directly to World War I.
- Dragoljub Milosavljevic-Gula was born on 30 May 1923 in Petrovac na Mlavi, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He was an actor, known for TV teatar (1956), Bila jednom jedna zemlja (1995) and Maratonci trce pocasni krug (1982). He died on 25 March 2005 in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro.
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Zivorad 'Zika' Mitrovic was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1921. He belongs to the first generation of post-WW2 directors, and began directing in 1946. His first film was a documentary about the National Army rally named Nove pobede (1946). After this feature, he made a series of shorts (Prve svetlosti (1949), Zemlja je cekala traktor (1951), Prizrenski motivi (1952) and Pozari u gradu (1953)).
Mitrovic was one of the most productive directors in the history of Yugoslav cinema, and by 1986 he had made 20 feature films, including _Esalon doktora M (1953)_ and Captain Lechi (1960). This latter film lead to great success and popularity for both Mitrovic and the star Aleksandar Gavric, and spawned a sequel, Obracun (1962).
Mitrovic made several historic films but also tackled contemporary subjects within the crime genre. His famous urban crime films are Poslednji kolosek (1956), Noz (1967) and Murder Commited in a Sly and Cruel Manner and from Low Motives (1969). He also made two spectacular war epics Mars na Drinu (1964) and _Uzicka republika (1974)_. The first film is considered noteworthy because it portrays the heroics of the Serbian Royal Army in WW1; communist authorities used to forbid even faint mentions of the subject, so even the production of this film remains a secret to this day. One of the rare non-action films in his opus is Savamala (1982), an acclaimed period piece about life in Belgrade in 1936. Mitrovic's work won many national and international awards.- Nada Djurevska was born on 8 January 1952 in Skoplje, Macedonia, Yugoslavia. She was an actress, known for Od zlata jabuka (1986), Obrana i zastita (2013) and Viza za buducnost (2002). She died on 13 September 2017 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Scottish actor and comedian Walter Carr was born Walter Anderson on December 26, 1925 in Larkhall, Lanarkshire, Scotland. When Carr was a young man living in Prestwick he joined and sang with the Ayrshire Philharmonic Opera Society. Walter went on to join the popular repertory company The Wilson Barrett Players for their record-breaking seasons at both Glasgow and Edinburgh in 1947. Carr eventually achieved the status of a top pantomime dame and was a frequent foil to famous Glasgow comedian Lex McLean. His work in theatre encompassed everything from Shakespearean drama to portraying gangling fools in music hall sketches. Walter had a recurring role as likable rogue Dougie on the comedy series The Vital Spark (1959) and made a memorable appearance as the singing school master in the cult classic The Wicker Man (1973). Carr died at age 72 on May 30, 1998 in Perth, Scotland.- Actress
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Milja Vujanovic was born on 21 August 1945 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia. She was an actress, known for Early Works (1969), This Crazy World of Ours (1970) and Most (1969). She died on 4 June 2005 in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro.- Frances Shand Kydd was born on 20 January 1936 in Sandringham, Norfolk, England, UK. She was married to Peter Shand Kydd and Earl John Spencer. She died on 3 June 2004 in Seil, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK.
- Mirsad Zulic was born in 1959 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was an actor, known for Time of the Gypsies (1988), Crna hronika (2004) and Nafaka (2006). He died on 7 February 2009 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Vojka Cordic was born on 26 April 1962 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia. She was an actress, known for The Misfit Brigade (1987), We Are Not Angels (1992) and It Isn't Easy to Get Along with Men (1985). She died on 27 May 2005 in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro.
- Bill Armour was born in 1941 in Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for Huntingtower (1978), Take the High Road (1980) and Angels (1975). He died on 12 January 2017 in Dunoon, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK.
- Unity Mitford was born on 8 August 1914 in Kensington, London, England, UK. She died on 28 May 1948 in Oban, Argyll, Scotland, UK [now Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK].
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John Cranko was born on 15 August 1927 in Rustenburg, North West Province, South Africa. He was a writer and director, known for Cranks (1962), Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung (1971) and The Turning Point (1977). He died on 26 June 1973 in on flight between Philadelphia and Stutgart.- Make-Up Department
Marija Kordic was born on 11 February 1930 in Kosinj, Croatia, Yugoslavia [now Croatia]. She is known for Jos ovaj put (1983), Petrijin venac (1980) and Dimitrije Tucovic (1973). She died on 20 June 2005 in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro [now Serbia].- Slobodan Velimirovic was born on 2 August 1927 in Sid, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He was an actor, known for Walter Defends Sarajevo (1972), Salas u Malom Ritu (1975) and Valter brani Sarajevo (1974). He died on 5 October 2000 in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.