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- Breck was born Joseph Peter Breck, the son of a jazz musician also named Joseph (nicknamed "Jobie"). Over time, his father worked with such legendary greats as Fats Waller, Bix Beiderbecke, Paul Whiteman and Billie Holiday. Nicknamed "Buddy" while young, Peter's parents were on the road for much of his early life and he was sent to live with his grandparents in Haverhill, Massachusetts, a move that provided more stability.
His parents eventually divorced and young Peter returned to Rochester to live with his mother and her new husband, Al Weber, who was a sports editor of the Rochester Times-Union. Following his schooling at John Marshall High School in Rochester, Peter served in the United States Navy. He then turned his attention back to education and studied English and drama at the University of Houston in Houston. While performing in college plays, he started to apprentice at Houston's Alley Theatre, where he appeared in such productions as "Stalag 17", among others. He had a talent for singing and performed in several clubs in and around the Houston area.
Breck extended his stage resume at Washington D.C.'s Arena Theatre. While performing there in a 1957 production of George Bernard Shaw's "The Man of Destiny", he was "discovered" by Robert Mitchum, who cast him in an unbilled role in the film Thunder Road (1958), which Mitchum himself produced, co-wrote and starred in. Mitchum invited the young tenderfoot to Los Angeles and helped set him up out there. While Breck struggled trying to establish himself in films (he played a juvenile delinquent in the movie The Beatniks (1958)), it seemed that rugged TV roles came easier to him. He found his first series lead as "Clay Culhane" in the western Black Saddle (1959), the story of a gunfighter (Breck) who switches guns for law books and tries to tame the West through reason. Co-starring Russell Johnson (later the "Professor" on Gilligan's Island (1964)), who plays a suspicious U.S. Marshal, the series was canceled after two seasons.
A Warner Brothers studio contract, however, did come out of this-and a new visibility. Tall, dark and handsome at 6'2", Breck guest-starred on all the top Warner Bros. TV shows of the day: Sugarfoot (1957), Surfside 6 (1960), Bronco (1958), Hawaiian Eye (1959), 77 Sunset Strip (1958), Cheyenne (1955) and played a recurring "Doc Holliday" in the popular series Maverick (1957). He returned to the movies as well, but this time in stronger leads or co-leads. Handed a choice co-starring assignment in Portrait of a Mobster (1961) opposite star Vic Morrow, who played the infamous "Dutch Schultz", Peter also managed to show a rare, gentler side in the outdoor family drama Lad: A Dog (1962).
He left Warners after only a few years but managed to score the leads in two low-budget cult thrillers in its wake: Shock Corridor (1963)_ and The Crawling Hand (1963), along with a very dismal lead in the musical outing Hootenanny Hoot (1963), in which he was given no songs to perform despite his singing capabilities. Again, TV came to the rescue when he won the brotherly co-lead on The Big Valley (1965). Despite a uniformly strong ensemble cast that included oldest brother Richard Long, younger brother Lee Majors and sister Linda Evans, Stanwyck was the only performer on the show who was nominated for an Emmy during its four-season run; she was nominated twice and won once.
Following this TV peak, Breck abruptly left Hollywood and focused on the theater both in the U.S. and Canada throughout the 1970s, appearing in such showcase vehicles as "The Gazebo", "A Thousand Clowns", "The Rainmaker" and "Mister Roberts". Married to former dancer Diana Bourne since 1960, the couple settled in Vancouver, Canada, with their son Christopher, where Breck checked out the film scene. He also set up a full-time acting academy school, The Breck Academy, which ran for ten years. Tragically, it was during this time that their son, Christopher, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and died (two years later).
Breck decided to lay back following this traumatic period, but still manages to perform in films and TV from time to time. As he grew older, he joined the cast of some very offbeat "B" films: Terminal City Ricochet (1990) and and Highway 61 (1991). His more recent "B" movies included Decoy (1995), Enemy Action (1999) and Jiminy Glick in Lalawood (2004). He also wrote a western column and showed up occasionally at nostalgia conventions until he was diagnosed with dementia. He made his last film with a small role in the Martin Short vehicle Jiminy Glick in Lalawood (2004). Breck died on February 6, 2012, in Vancouver, Canada. - Actor
- Art Department
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Baykal Kent was born on 1 January 1943 in Istanbul, Turkey. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Kaçis (1985), Aglayan bir ömür (1968) and Kader Utansin (1976). He died on 6 February 2012 in Bursa, Turkey.- Brigitte Borghese was born on 2 January 1951 in Mazagan, Maroc. She was an actress, known for Les petites saintes y touchent (1974), The Sidewalks of Bangkok (1984) and Operation Las Vegas (1990). She was married to Richard Berneron. She died on 6 February 2012 in Paris, France.
- Trewin Copplestone was born in 1922 in Dartmouth, Devon, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Art for All (1971). He was married to Audrey Levy. He died on 6 February 2012 in Newton Abbot, Devon, England, UK.
- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Noel Kelehan was born on 26 December 1935 in Dublin, Ireland. He was a composer, known for James Joyce's Women (1985), Bracken (1980) and Speed Easy (1970). He was married to Mary. He died on 6 February 2012 in Dublin, Ireland.- Antoni Tàpies was born on 13 December 1923 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He was an actor, known for Nocturno 29 (1969), És quan dormo que hi veig clar (1989) and Catalans universals (1980). He was married to Teresa Barba Fàbregas. He died on 6 February 2012 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
- Director
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Cenek Duba was born on 4 February 1919 in Maribor, Slovenia. He was a director and writer, known for Letiste neprijímá (1960), Vecery s Jindrichem Plachtou (1953) and Vánice (1962). He died on 6 February 2012 in Zurich, Switzerland.- Production Designer
- Art Department
- Art Director
Feliks Yasyukevich was born on 14 December 1923. He was a production designer and art director, known for The Diamond Arm (1969), Doroga (1955) and Queen of the Gypsies (1976). He died on 6 February 2012.- Angel Georgiev was born on 28 December 1944 in Vratza, Bulgaria. He was an actor, known for Maj za milioni (2006) and Stuklen dom (2010). He died on 6 February 2012 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
- Jochen Krause was an actor, known for Gangster, Geld und Rock'n'Roll (2012). He was married to Rike. He died on 6 February 2012 in Hannover, Germany.
- Cinematographer
Yasuhiro Ishimoto was born on 14 June 1921 in San Francisco, California, USA. Yasuhiro was a cinematographer, known for Ako (1964). Yasuhiro died on 6 February 2012 in Japan.- Angel Gueorguiev Nikolov - Acho is Bulgarian dramatic actor. In 1968 he graduated acting at the National Academy for Theatre and Film Art, Sofia, Bulgaria in the class of Professor Zhelcho Mandadziev and Professor Grisha Ostrovsky . His acting career began in Blagoevgrad Drama Theater in 1968 - 1970. In 1970 and 1971, he played in the Pazardzhik Drama Theatre. In the next 30 years he was settled in the Satire Theater . Since 2002 he was in the company of Theater "Sofia" . He has toured with the Municipal Theatre "Renaissance" and drama theaters of Targovishte and Smolyan. In the theater Angel Gueorguiev has performed over 100 roles in plays by St. Kostov , Stanislav Stratiev , Sava Dobroplodni , Stefan Tzanev , Edward Albee , William Shakespeare and many others. In addition to the theater , he has roles in movies : more than 20 films in Bulgarian, 4 in Italian, 3 in French and American film productions. Among Bulgarian movies, better known are " Do not go! " (1976), " The Five of Worker's Youth Union " (1977) and " Danube Bridge " (1999). In 2011 he starred in the television series "The Seven Hours Difference ". Gueorguiev has won numerous awards for theater: 1969 - National Review of Bulgarian drama and theater; 1970 - Review of Youth Play, Ruse; 1971 - Lenin's Theater Days, Sofia; 1976 - View to the radio, Bansko; 1989 - National Review of Bulgarian Drama and Theater; 1998 - Best Actor Award of the Union of Bulgarian Actors.
- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Manuel Gonzalez Casanova was born on 8 December 1934 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was a director and writer, known for Jose Guadalupe Posada (1966), Tamayo (1967) and Siqueiros (1969). He died on 6 February 2012 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.- Sharada Dwiwedi was born in 1942 in Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India. Sharada died on 6 February 2012 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
- Carla Marcus was born in 1965 in San Francisco, California, USA. Carla was a producer, known for NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (1970), NBC News Decision 2010 (2010) and Intimate Portrait (1990). Carla was married to Sean. Carla died on 6 February 2012 in the USA.