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Handsome, rugged, and talented Italian-American actor Tony Musante was born on June 30, 1936 in Bridgeport, Connecticut to an accountant father and a school teacher mother. He attended both Northwestern University and Oberlin College. Tony worked as a school teacher prior to beginning his acting career in Off-Broadway theater in 1960. In 1962 Musante married his writer wife Jane Sparkes. He made his film debut in 1965 in "Once a Thief." Musante gave a chillingly believable and electrifying portrayal of nasty punk hoodlum Joe Ferrone in the harsh and hard-hitting "The Incident," a role which he had previously played in the hour long made-for-TV drama "Ride With Terror." Tony won a best actor award at the Mar del Plata Film Festival for his outstanding performance in "The Incident." Musante went on to act in a handful of features made in Italy; he was especially memorable as brash Mexican revolutionary Paco Roman in the superior spaghetti Western "The Mercenary" and as imperiled American writer Sam Dalmas in Dario Argento's masterful giallo murder mystery thriller "The Bird With the Crystal Plumage." In addition, Tony played more than his fair share of Mafiosa types: He was genuinely frightening as vicious hit man Paul Rickard in "The Last Run;" spot-on as smooth heel Eddie Hagan in Robert Aldrich's supremely gritty "The Grissom Gang;" excellent as Eric Roberts' mob-connected Uncle Pete in "The Pope of Greenwich Village;" and once again splendid as shrewd mob capo Nino Schibetta on the gritty cable TV prison drama "Oz." Musante had a starring role as real life chameleon-like New Jersey cop Dave Toma on the short-lived TV series "Toma." After Tony left the show due to creative differences with the producers, the program was changed to "Baretta" with Robert Blake in the lead. Among the TV shows Musante had guest spots on are "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour," "The Fugitive," "Marcus Welby, M.D.," "The Rockford Files," "Medical Story" (Tony was nominated for an Emmy award for his performance in the episode "The Quality of Mercy"), "Police Story," "The Equalizer," "Night Heat," and "Nothing Sacred." Moreover, Tony had a recurring part on the popular daytime soap opera "As The World Turns." On stage Musante appeared in the Broadway productions of "P.S., Your Cat Is Dead!" (Tony was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for his acting in this particular play), "A Memory of Two Mondays/27 Wagons Full of Cotton," and "The Lady from Dubuque." Musante died at age 77 on November 26, 2013 in New York City.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Lovely, vivacious, honey-blonde entertainer Jane Kean enjoyed a lengthy career spanning over six decades encompassing vaudeville, radio, Broadway, nightclubs, Las Vegas showrooms, TV variety and the occasional film. Born April 10, 1923, in Hartford, Connecticut, Jane's parents split up while she was fairly young and her mother, prodding her daughters into the performing arts, moved the family to New York to test the waters. Her elder sister, Betty Kean (1914-1986), moved quickly and successfully into show business and Jane followed suit.
Beginning her career on the professional stage with a role in "Hi Ya, Gentlemen!" at the Colonial Theatre in Boston, she made her film debut in the Republic musical Sailors on Leave (1941) starring William Lundigan and Shirley Ross and was also featured in the film Flying with Music (1942) before focusing strongly on the live stage. She took her first Broadway curtain call in the Fats Waller musical "Early to Bed" with actor/producer Richard Kollmar in 1943. She followed this with another Broadway musical "The Girl from Nantucket" (1945) and then came in as a replacement for "Call Me Mister".
Following these successes, Jane and sister Betty teamed up as a popular nightclub duo ("Betty & Jane Kean") who weaved singing and dancing with broad comedy. The ladies also worked together on Broadway in the musical shows "Along Fifth Avenue" (1949) which starred Jackie Gleason and "Ankles Aweigh" (1955) which featured Betty's third husband, Lew Parker, a veteran character actor who would gain fame a decade later as Marlo Thomas beleaguered dad on That Girl (1966). Betty and Jane appeared on the such TV variety shows as "The Ed Sullivan Show" and "The Jackie Gleason Show", and headlined their own vaudeville act both here and abroad (London Palladium, 1956).
Betty, who was previously married to comedian Frank Fay and actor Jim Backus before marrying Parker, and Jane eventually decided to go their own ways. Having worked with The Great One" Jackie Gleason back on the vaudeville circuit as well as on the musical stage back in the 1940s and 1950s, Jane was asked to join "The Honeymooners" cast as Trixie Norton when the show was revived on Gleason's variety show The Jackie Gleason Show (1966) as a sketch segment. Joining Sheila MacRae as Alice Kramden and TV husband Art Carney as Ed Norton, the segment, which was shot in Miami Beach, subsequently expanded to an hour format and would include songs.
Elsewhere, she appeared a series of stage plays and musicals including "The Pajama Game" and "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" in which she would take over Jayne Mansfield's sexpot role. Other productions included "The Mind with the Dirty Man," "Light Up the Sky," "Last of the Red Hot Lovers", "Carnival", "Follies", and "70 Girls 70". On television, she guested on such established programs as "The Danny Thomas Show", "The Lucy Show", "Love, American Style", "The Dean Martin Show", "Cannon", "The Love Boat", "The Facts of Life", "Growing Pains", "Dallas", "Dream On", and the daytime soaps "Days of Our Lives" and "General Hospital". She intermittently lent her voice to films and commercials, notably the perennial animated holiday classic Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962), starring Jim Backus, Jack Cassidy and Royal Dano, in which she spoke and sang the part of Belle, and in the part live/part animated feature film Pete's Dragon (1977) which co-starred Helen Reddy and Jim Dale. In later years, she performed on the dinner theatre circuit, at college campuses and on cruise lines.
She remained active throughout her life and in 2012, at age 89, appeared in her own one-woman show "An Evening with Jane Kean" in which she humorously referred to herself as the "Lady Gaga of the Stone Age". She wrote a memoir, "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to The Honeymooners...I had a Life". One of her last professional jobs was voicing the role of Aunt Ida in the animated feature Dose Hermanos: Shadow of the Invisible Man (1999). Jane Kean died in Burbank, California, on November 26, 2013, aged 90, of a stroke after being hospitalized following a fall at her Toluca Lake home. She was married twice -- first to Richard Linkroum (1962-69) and then to her manager, Joe Hecht (who died in 2006). Both unions were childless.- Actor
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- Composer
Arik Einstein was born on 3 January 1939 in Tel Aviv, Palestine [now Israel]. He was an actor and writer, known for Florentine (1997), Metzitzim (1972) and Lo Kolel Sherut (1990). He was married to Sima Eliyahu and Alona Einstein. He died on 26 November 2013 in Tel Aviv, Israel.- Actor
- Location Management
- Producer
Shelby Gregory was born on 29 December 1950 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for As We Sleep (2002), Lone Star Blues (1994) and Suspicious Agenda (1995). He died on 26 November 2013 in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, USA.- He never knew his father and his mother died when he was 11 leaving him and his 3 brothers - Roger, Alec and Peter.He worked as a van driver, a coach driver for the Ivy Benson band and served in the army. He taught himself to play the guitar and in 1946 was a resident comedian in a radio series. In 1959 he joined The Black and White Minstrels and in 1979 was awarded an O.B.E.
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Actor
Marcello Gatti was born on 9 February 1924 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a cinematographer and actor, known for The Battle of Algiers (1966), The Anonymous Venetian (1970) and Sierra Maestra (1969). He died on 26 November 2013 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- René Bouloc was born on 17 July 1944 in Saint-Pol-de-Léon, Finistère, France. He was an actor, known for Lacombe, Lucien (1974), Goodbye, Children (1987) and Murmur of the Heart (1971). He died on 26 November 2013 in Plougonven, Finistère, France.
- Composer
- Actor
- Music Department
Temistocle Popa was born on 27 June 1921 in Galati, Romania. He was a composer and actor, known for Cîntecele marii (1971), Nemesis's secret (1987) and La vîrsta dragostei (1963). He was married to Cornelia Teodosiu. He died on 26 November 2013 in Bucharest, Romania.- Paco Cambres was born in Albacete, Albacete, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. He was an actor, known for Amanece, que no es poco (1989), La caja 507 (2002) and Policía (1987). He died on 26 November 2013 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
- William Stevenson was born on 24 July 1924 in London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Bushbaby (1969), A Man Called Intrepid (1979) and Sougen no chiisana tenshi busshu beibii (1992). He was married to Monika Jensen and Glenys Rowe. He died on 26 November 2013 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Ursula Danera was born on 29 January 1920 in Nikolaiken, Lithuania. She was an actress, known for Three on a Honeymoon (1939), Ehe man Ehemann wird (1941) and Der Fall Rainer (1942). She was married to Mr. Hare and Herr von der Marwitz. She died on 26 November 2013 in Waipahu, Oahu, Hawaii, USA.
- Art Department
Roland E. Hill Jr. was born on 5 August 1929 in Oxnard, California, USA. Roland E. is known for Die Hard (1988), Over the Top (1987) and The Monster Squad (1987). Roland E. died on 26 November 2013 in Burbank, California, USA.- Saul Leiter was born on 3 December 1923 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He died on 26 November 2013 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Camera and Electrical Department
Gerry Lord was born in 1936. Gerry is known for Behind the Bike Sheds (1983), Let's Face the Music (1989) and That's My Boy (1981). Gerry died on 26 November 2013 in Lancashire, England, UK.