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- Producer
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Hillard Elkins, a producer who broke down sexual barriers and created one of the biggest hits in Broadway history when he brought the erotic revue "Oh! Calcutta!" to the stage which ran for 20 years. Hilly as his friends called him started out in the mail room at William Morris in New York and quickly rose to become a top agent, heading the company's theatrical division. After forming his own company whose clients included Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Robert Culp, Mel Brooks, Charles Strouse and Lee Adams, Sammy Davis Jr. among others he set up as a producer and in short order developed a string of notable plays and films, including the musical "Golden Boy," the film "Alice's Restaurant" and the Broadway premieres of two plays by Athol Fugard which won double Tonys. With Al Goldin he made his Broadway debut in 1962 with "Come On Strong," A Garson Kanin comedy starring Carroll Baker and Van Johnson. He approached Sammy Davis Jr to take the starring role of the violinist turned prizefighter in a musical version of the Clifford Odets play "Golden Boy." He then lured Odets out of retirement to writ the book, which was revised after Odets death in Aug.1963 by William Gibson. It won four Tony nominations for best musical, best actor in a musical, best choreography and best producer of a musical. More seriously he produced the Ibsen plays "Hedda Gabler" and A Doll's House" in London, Broadway and opened the Kennedy Center in Washington with his then wife Claire Bloom. He went on to write his own chapter in the history of the 1960s counterculture when he produced Ken Tynan's musical sex revue "Oh! Calcutta! and with Arthur Penn as director he produced the film version of Arlo Gutherie's "Alice's Restaurant". In 1960 he created his first production company, Elkins Productions International. His frenetic style and knack for juggling multiple theater and film projects simultaneously was captured in the 1972 book "The Producer" an inside look at show business by Christopher Davis. His producing projects over the years included "The Rothschilds" 1970 starring Hal Linden and Jill Clayburgh. Sammy Davis Jr. "Stop the World", Ben Vereen's Pippin, Leonard Bernstein's Candide, The Huberman Festival in Israel, Gore Vidal's Richard Nixon, The Leary-Liddy debates, Quentin Crisp and Georgia Brown in Concert as well as numerous films including the Elaine May-Walter Matthau comedy "A New Leaf" (1971) and "Richard Pryor: Live in Concert(1979)praised by Pauline Kael as probably he greatest of all recorded-performance films. He is survived by his wife Sandi Love, his two sons Johnny and Daniel and granddaughter Ellen.- Special Effects
- Make-Up Department
- Director
James Thomas Cummins has been involved in all phases of the motion picture industry. Starting in 1980 as an illustrator and continuing as a special effects designer and, ultimately, screenwriter and director. Studying Film/Video and Character Animation at the California Institute of the Arts, he was awarded the only full scholarship granted by the "Walt Disney Company" during the Institute's 1978-79 academic year.
Prior to his screen-writing and directing assignments, Cummins was responsible for designing and executing the special make-up effects for New World Pictures House (1985), Orion's Strange Invaders (1983), ABC's The Intruder Within (1981), as well as television episodes of The Twilight Zone (1985) and The Hitchhiker (1983). He also made design and sculpting contributions to such major motion pictures as: Enemy Mine (1985), Cat People (1982), The Thing (1982), Cocoon (1985), DeepStar Six (1989), Jaws 3-D (1983), Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), Dead & Buried (1981), The Beast Within (1982), Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988), Heartbeeps (1981) and The Exterminator (1980).
His credits as a writer-director include Atmosphere Entertainment's Harbinger (1996), Grand AM's Dark:30 (1993), and Prism Entertainment's The Boneyard (1991), starring Phyllis Diller and the late Norman Fell.
As a direct result of open heart surgery early in 2002, he created and illustrated "Good Things To Share", an inspirational picture book for all ages, starring cartoon tyke, "Little Doodle". Benefiting directly from the work of the American Heart Association, Mr. Cummins donates a portion of all sales from "Good Things To Share" to the organization's children's health programs, including "Jump Rope For Heart".- Birlanti Abdulhamid was born in 1935 in Beni Suef, Egypt. She was an actress, known for Ismail Yassine fil madhaf el shami (1956), Seraa fil jebel (1961) and Rannet el kholkhal (1955). She was married to Abdel Hakim Amer. She died on 1 December 2010 in Cairo, Egypt.
- Actor
- Writer
Frank Emi was born on 23 September 1916 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for A Divided Community (2012), Rabbit in the Moon (1999) and Watada, Resister (2007). He was married to Itsuko. He died on 1 December 2010 in West Covina, California, USA.- Animation Department
Heidi Guedel was born on 30 August 1948. She is known for The Secret of NIMH (1982), An American Tail (1986) and Space Jam (1996). She died on 1 December 2010 in Glendale, California, USA.- Warner Weidler was born on 16 June 1922 in Almau, Germany. He was an actor, known for Pups Is Pups (1930), A Tough Winter (1930) and The Pinch Singer (1936). He died on 1 December 2010 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Production Manager
Zygmunt Kniaziolucki was born on 27 February 1922 in Skarszewy, Pomorskie, Poland. He was a production manager, known for Dezerter (1958), Domek z kart (1954) and Budujemy nowe wsie (1946). He died on 1 December 2010 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Composer
- Music Department
Alojz Srebotnjak was born on 27 April 1931 in Postojna, Slovenia. He was a composer, known for The Action (1960), Don't Cry Peter (1964) and Balada o trobenti in oblaku (1961). He died on 1 December 2010 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.- Peter Gyurov was born on July 10, 1934 in Pernik, Bulgaria. He studied acting at the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arat, Sofia, Bulgaria in the class of Professor Nikolay Masalitinov . He was playing in the theater troupe of "Bulgarian Army" Theater. On its stage he played many roles of world classics and new Bulgarian plays: La Haier ( "St. John" by B. Shaw), Hector ( " Heartbreak House " by B. Shaw ), Ivan ( "Fateful 21st" by Al. Stein), Ivan Vladislav ( "Samuel" by Magda Petkanova), Naiden ( "Masters" by Racho Soyanov), Figaro ( "A fool day or The Marriage of Figaro" by Beaumarchais), Mate Bernichevich ( "Sailors from Qatar" by Fr.. Wolf), Goran ( "Time" by Anton Donchev), Longwy ( "Labours of love" by Shakespeare), Marin ( "A boat in the woods" by Nikolay Haytov ,) field-keeper and second defendant ( "Lucky comes" from Russy Bojanov), Topaz ( "Topaz by Marcel Panyol), Constantine (" The Last "by M. Gorky), Artak (" Miracle "by Ivan Radoev), Michael Tsarigradski ( "Odyssey travels to Ithaca" by Konstantin Iliev), Don Antonio ( "Much ado about nothing" by Shakespeare), Bedros ( "Charming my fleas" by Boyan Papazov). In his time on that stage Peter Gyurov worked with the valuable directors, such as Asen Shopov, Elka Mihaylova, Leon Daniel, Krikor Azaryan, Krassimir Spassov, Nikolai Lambrev. He died on December 1, 2010 in Sofia.
- Nijat Özön was born on 25 December 1927 in Istanbul, Turkey. He died on 1 December 2010 in Istanbul, Turkey.
- Speck Noblitt was born on 15 August 1918 in St. Joseph, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Home Town Story (1951). He died on 1 December 2010 in Simi Valley, California, USA.
- Helen Boatwright was born on 17 November 1916 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA. She was an actress, known for Hansel and Gretel (1954). She was married to Howard Leake Boatwright Jr.. She died on 1 December 2010 in Syracuse, New York, USA.