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- Music Department
- Writer
- Actor
The son of a Jewish Tailor in London's working class East End young Lionel had no formal musical education and never learned musical notation but his music teacher at school declared him to be a genius. He gained a scholarship to St Martin's School of Art at age 16 and started work as a set painter in the theatre. When he saw a notice asking for song writers it was to change his life. His new name was inspired on a bus journey past St. Bartholomew's Hospital (affectionately known as Barts). He wrote his first musical in 1958, Wally Pone of Soho. It was not a success. However, the songs he wrote for the early British rock'n'rollers Tommy Steele (Rock With the Caveman and Little White Bull) and Cliff Richard (Living Doll - at No. 1 for 6 weeks in 1959) brought Lionel his first taste of success. His first musical success was with "Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be". By the end of 1959 both "Fings" and "Lock Up Your Daughters" were running successfully in London's West End. In June 1960 he opened "Oliver!" which had been turned down by a dozen promoters and had to be financed by Bart himself. An immediate hit it received 16 curtain calls on the opening night and had advanced sales of 30,000 in the first week. Oliver! was followed by other fairly successful shows such as Blitz and Maggie May. Bart was just 30 and earning £16 a minute! To finance his next musical "Twang!!" (based on the Robin Hood story) he signed away all rights to Oliver! The new show flopped badly and Bart estimated he lost about one million pounds in that and in the lost rights to Oliver! He filed for bankruptcy in 1972 with debts of £73,000. By the late 1970s his heavy drinking had brought on diabetes. He stopped drinking but one third of his liver had been destroyed. Lionel Bart died aged 68 after suffering cancer for 6 months.- Writer
- Additional Crew
- Director
Writer/director Howard R. Cohen was born on August 12, 1942 in Illinois. Trained as a designer at the Chicago Institute of Design, Cohen helped found the alternative humor magazine Aadvark in 1966 before going to work as a party joke editor for Playboy magazine. Howard later went on to become a member of the Chicago comedy group the Conception Corporation along with comics Murphy Dunne, Ira Miller, and Jeff Begun. The Conception Corporation recorded three albums as well as made the experimental video production Void Where Prohibited by Law (1971), which was shown in both Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles, California in 1971. Moreover, Cohen also wrote and/or directed a handful of low-budget movies that were mostly made under the auspices of Roger Corman. Well known for his knowledge of movie and music trivia, Howard was the author of the 1989 book "Test Your Movie IQ." Cohen died of a heart attack at age 56 on April 3, 1999 in Los Angeles, California.- Camera and Electrical Department
Harry Young was born on 15 July 1932 in California, USA. He is known for Mean Streets (1973), St. Ives (1976) and Three the Hard Way (1974). He died on 3 April 1999 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Animation Department
- Director
- Art Department
Evelyn Lambart was born on 23 July 1914 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She was a director, known for Begone Dull Care (1950), Family Tree (1950) and Short and Suite (1959). She died on 3 April 1999.- Producer
- Writer
John Robinson was born on 2 October 1923 in California, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958), King of Diamonds (1961) and Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1956). He died on 3 April 1999 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Helen Aberson was born on 16 June 1907 in Syracuse, New York, USA. She was a writer, known for Dumbo (1941), The Magical World of Disney (1954) and The Railways of Crotoonia (2017). She was married to Richard Mayer and Harold Pearl. She died on 3 April 1999 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Animation Department
- Producer
- Art Department
Kay Wright was born on 30 September 1919 in New York City, New York, USA. Kay was a producer, known for Mighty Mouse in the Great Space Chase (1982), Spider-Man (1967) and Super Friends (1973). Kay died on 3 April 1999 in Gilbert, Arizona, USA.