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- Actress
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- Location Management
Sunny, dynamic and beautiful slender blonde actress Jillian Kesner was born on August 9, 1949 in Portsmouth, Virginia and grew up primarily in Denver, Colorado. Her father was a Navy officer. Jillian received a B.A. in business from a Colorado university in 1967. In 1969 Kesner moved to Los Angeles, California and worked as a model prior to embarking on an acting career in both movies and television. Jillian made her impressive film debut as fiery juvenile delinquent Carrie in the fun drive-in exploitation romp "The Student Body." (She met her future husband and noted cinematographer Gary Graver while acting in this particular picture.) Other memorable movie roles include the sweetly kooky, yet intelligent Angel in the amusing "Starhops," tough, but sexy karate instructor Susanne Carter in the hugely enjoyable "Firecracker," feisty martial arts expert Cookie Winchell in the gloriously tasteless "Raw Force," and alluring vampiress Claudia in the lowbrow hoot "Beverly Hills Vamp." Kesner was a regular cast member of the short-lived sitcom "Co-ed Fever." Perhaps best known to the general public as Fonzie's girlfriend Lorraine on "Happy Days," Jillian made guest appearances on such TV shows as "S.W.A.T.," "The Blue Knight," "The Rockford Files," "Three's Company," "Mork & Mindy," and "T.J. Hooker." Outside of her acting credits, Jillian also handled production coordinator chores on a handful of low-budget straight-to-video movies that were directed by Graver. In addition, both Kesner and Graver tried to complete Orson Welles's unfinished film "The Other Side of the Wind." Following Graver's death in 2006, Jillian continued her efforts to preserve Welles's cinematic legacy. Jillian Kesner died at age 58 from a staph infection on December 5, 2007 in Irvine, California.- Actor
- Stunts
Born in Los Angeles, Joe Brooks became an actor after graduating high school. He did some work as an extra, and his first speaking part was in the John Wayne WW II actioner The Fighting Seabees (1944). His acting career was interrupted by wartime service in the South Pacific. Returning to California after the war, he got back into acting again. He spent most of his career in bit parts and extra work until he was called to audition for the pilot for the western comedy series F Troop (1965). When told he would be testing for the part of the lookout, Brooks got the idea to play him as extremely nearsighted, making him virtually useless as a sentry. The pilot sold and Brooks was cast in the series as the "sight-impaired" lookout, Trooper Vanderbilt.- Christine Finn was born in 1929 in Wellington, Tamil Nadu, India. She was an actress, known for Thunderbirds Are GO (1966), Thunderbirds (1965) and Thunderbird 6 (1968). She died on 5 December 2007 in Guildford, Surrey, England, UK.
- Ken Parry was born on 20 June 1930 in Wigan, Lancashire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Lifeforce (1985), Lisztomania (1975) and The Taming of The Shrew (1967). He died on 5 December 2007 in London, England, UK.
- Producer
- Additional Crew
- Writer
Tony Tenser was born on 10 August 1920 in London, England, UK. He was a producer and writer, known for Repulsion (1965), Cul-de-sac (1966) and The Tomcat (1967). He died on 5 December 2007 in Southport, Lancashire, England, UK.- Writer
- Script and Continuity Department
Rene Villanueva was born on 22 September 1954 in Quezon City, Philippines. Rene was a writer, known for Pasan ko ang daigdig (1987), Akyat bahay gang (1988) and Ikasa Mo, Ipuputok Ko (1990). Rene died on 5 December 2007 in Quezon City, Philippines.- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
A musical pioneer, Karlheinz Stockhausen broke many barriers and taboos. He wrote more than 300 works in various genres from opera and orchestral pieces to electronic music and complex compositions where performers, producers, helicopters, recording equipment, and audiences all together become his instruments.
He was born Karlheinz Stockhausen in the suburb of Cologne, in 1928. His father, Simon, was a school teacher, his mother, Gertrude, was an amateur pianist. He played piano from age 7, showing a perfect pitch and impressive memory. He lost both parents in WWII, being only twelve years old. At age 16 he was recruited to serve at the war hospital, where he attended hundreds of severely wounded. He studied music at Cologne Musikhochschule, at Cologne University (1945-51), at Paris Conservatory (1951-53) with Olivier Messiaen and Darius Milhaud. At the University of Bonn (1954-56) he studied information theory, acoustics and composition.
Stockhausen began his experiments with live music and recorded sounds in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He played with the tape-recorded sounds of glass, metal, wood and other unconventional sources in Paris Radio Studio and at Cologne Radio (WDR) electronic studio. His experimental work at the West Deutsche Rundfunk (WDR) studio in Cologne was the leading work with recorded sound at that time. His purely electronic compositions made in 1953-54, such as "Electronic Study" (1953), were the first ever written and published works in this new genre. His ground-braking "Klavierstuck XI (1956), which features 19 elements to be performed in changing sequences, was one of the early works in aleatoric (controlled chance) music.
In the early 1960s Stockhausen collaborated with Yoko Ono in her New York loft concerts. He also staged happenings with George Maciunas and other avant-garde performers of the "Fluxus" movement. At that time he experimented with cross-genre shows where musicians and audiences all together become performers in a setting that provoked imagination and inventiveness. and various non-musical objects, and even people in the audience were also used as musical instruments. Although details of such experimentations could not be registered in notation, the breakthrough was that any person could come out of the audiences and join the performers in making music.
In 1968 Stockhausen wrote the conceptual "From Seven Days" after living completely alone and without food, being influenced by Sri Aurobindo. In "Ylem" (1972) he instructs 19 musicians to establish telepathic communication with each other while performing this 26-minute happening. His "Helikopter-Streichquartett" (1992-95) was written for 4 musicians performing on 4 flying helicopters with electronic video and sound inter-com technology, and was performed and recorded in 1996 several times by the Arditti Quartet on helicopters provided by the Austrian Army. Stockhausen's largest work took him 25 years to complete. It is the mega-opera consisting of seven operas, one 24-hour opera for each day of the week, is entitled "Licht" (Light, 1977-2003).
In the course of his career spanning over 60 years, Stockhausen created over 300 compositions, presenting a conceptual mix of occidental an oriental cultures. His thought-provoking output was cited as an influence by the The Beatles, Yoko Ono, Kraftwerk, Miles Davis, Frank Zappa, Herbie Hancock, and Björk. Stockhausen appeared on the cover of The Beatles' album Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band with Paul McCartney, one of his numerous fans across the universe.
Outside of his entertainment profession, Stockhausen was a highly unusual and sometimes controversial figure. His comment about the tragedy of 9/11 as "the work of art" attracted much controversy. He later apologized for the reaction to the comment, but said that he was misquoted and misunderstood. Stockhausen was married twice and had six children. He died of natural causes on December 5, 2007, in Kuerten, and was laid to rest in the Forest cemetery in Kuerten, Germany.- Abderrahim Bargache was born on 5 October 1949 in Casablanca, Morocco. He was an actor, known for Beyond Justice (1991), The Law of the Desert (1991) and Hideous Kinky (1998). He died on 5 December 2007 in Casablanca, Morocco.
- Producer
- Editor
- Editorial Department
Peter Orton was born on 17 June 1943 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK. He was a producer and editor, known for Look and Read (1967), Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1992) and Lavender Castle (1999). He was married to Susan Stevenson. He died on 5 December 2007 in Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, England, UK.- Charles Sinnickson was born on 12 August 1921 in Rosemont, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Theater of Blood (1973). He died on 5 December 2007 in London, England, UK.
- Additional Crew
H. Wiley Hitchcock was born on 28 September 1923 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. H. Wiley is known for American Experience (1987). H. Wiley died on 5 December 2007 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.- Editorial Department
Dode Weyant was born on 22 March 1930. Dode is known for Prince of Darkness (1987), The Man Who Wasn't There (1983) and Shocker (1989). Dode died on 5 December 2007 in California, USA.- Makwan Moloudzadeh was born on 31 March 1986 in Paveh, Iran. He died on 5 December 2007 in Kermanshah, Iran.