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Helmut Schmid was born on 8 April 1925 in Neu-Ulm, Bavaria, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Die Dame ist nicht fürs Feuer (1960), Der Stechlin (1975) and The Salzburg Connection (1972). He was married to Liselotte Pulver. He died on 18 July 1992 in Heiligenschwendi, Bern, Switzerland.- Stunts
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- Additional Crew
Joel Harris was born in 1971. He was an actor, known for Wrong Turn (2003), The Incredible Hulk (2008) and Jumper (2008). He died on 29 October 2015 in Lauterbrunnen, Bern, Switzerland.- Actress
- Director
- Writer
Charlotte Kerr was born on 29 May 1927 in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany. She was an actress and director, known for Anna Weidacher - In Memoriam (1975), Heldinnen (1960) and Raumpatrouille - Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion (1966). She was married to Friedrich Dürrenmatt and Harry R. Sokal. She died on 28 December 2011 in Bern, Switzerland.- Actor
- Producer
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His father, Willy Sachs, ran a ball bearing and motor factory that had been founded by his grandfather Ernst Sachs, who had developed the "Torpedo" bicycle freewheel hub. His maternal great-grandfather was Adam Opel, the founder of the automobile company of the same name. As a result of his parents' separation from 1935, Sachs grew up in Switzerland with his mother Eleonor von Opel. After attending Swiss boarding schools, Sachs first studied mathematics and then economics at the University of Lausanne. Sachs then moved to the Federal Republic of Germany to begin an apprenticeship as a precision mechanic at the Stuttgart company Bosch in 1955. He then completed a banking apprenticeship at Commerzbank Munich. He attended an interpreting course at the University of Nantes, which he completed with a diploma.
Since after his father's death, his older brother, Ernst Wilhelm Sachs, ran the Sachs company's business in Schweinfurt from 1958 onwards, Sachs concentrated on the company's foreign division. He also joined the board of the holding company Sachs AG Munich. During the 1950s he distinguished himself as a brilliant tennis player. In 1954 he also broke the track record twice in the two-man bobsleigh on the St. Moritz run. In 1955 he married Anne-Marie Faure, with whom he had a son and who died in 1958. In 1959, Gunter Sachs won the junior European championship title in the two-man bobsleigh as a member of the St. Moritz Bobsleigh Club. In 1961, Sachs took over the presidency of the St. Moritz Bobsleigh Club. In the 1960s, Sachs was in the spotlight of the tabloid press because of his extravagant lifestyle. On July 14, 1966, he married the French film star Brigitte Bardot in Las Vegas with great fanfare. The marriage ended in divorce in 1969.
In the same year he married the Swedish model Mirja Larsson for the third time. Together, Sachs commuted between the domiciles spread around the world. Sachs then had two other sons with her, Christian Gunnar (1971) and Claus Alexander (1982). In the 1970s, as an art dealer, he became a special supporter of Pop Art. He opened modern art galleries in Hamburg's Milchstrasse and Munich's Villa Stuck. In 1972, Gunter Sachs was the first gallerist to exhibit the American artist Andy Warhol in Germany. This relationship resulted in a close friendship, just like with Salvador Dali. Sachs became a Swiss citizen in 1976. Sachs also demonstrated his own great entrepreneurial skills: from 1965 to 1981 he built up an international chain of fashion boutiques called "Micmac", which ultimately had over 400 branches.
From the mid-1970s onwards, the Sachs brothers gradually sold their shareholdings in the company, which they had sold completely by around the turn of the millennium. In the meantime, Gunter Sachs had long since made a name for himself in the artistic field. Sachs had already begun to develop artistic ambitions in the fields of film and photography in the 1960s. He created seven documentaries, some of which were award-winning, which focus on, among other things, South Sea cultures and other anthropological-ethnic topics. In 1972 he received the first prize from the International Olympic Committee for his film "Happening in White" (1970), a film about winter sports. Sachs' interest in photography dates back to his school days. In 1974 he achieved his international breakthrough in this field through an exhibition at Photokina. His brother Ernst Wilhelm died in an avalanche accident in 1977. By 1988, the art photographer had published four volumes of photographs.
The artist toured the images developed in his Munich photo studio "MM 14 Factory" at numerous exhibitions throughout Europe. In addition to film and photography, Sachs also developed a strong interest in European contemporary art, which also brought him into contact with Yves Klein and numerous other artists. With his wife Mirja, Sachs founded the "Mirja Sachs Foundation for Children in Need" in 1987. With an unusual initiative, Sachs managed to get himself onto the bestseller lists of the German, French and English book trade in the mid-1990s: in 1995 he founded the "Institute for the empirical and mathematical investigation of the possible truth of astrology in relation to human character", which, in cooperation with independent state and private statistical institutes, sought to scientifically substantiate the connection between zodiac signs and behavioral structure in a large-scale study ("The Astrology File").
In the fall of 2005, Gunter Sachs published his autobiography entitled "My Life." His art photographs turned out to be a crowd puller. The exhibition "Art is Female" in the Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts was seen by around 70,000 visitors in 2008.
Gunter Sachs shot himself in Gstaad on May 7, 2011, at the age of 78. In a farewell letter, Sachs justified his suicide with references to an illness from "A".- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Paolo Cossa was born on 26 November 1929 in Rome, Italy. He was an assistant director, known for Anna (1951) and Prigionieri del male (1955). He was married to Faith Domergue. He died in November 1992 in Bern, Switzerland.- Actress
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Liane Haid was a prima ballerina, dancer, singer, stage and film actress. As a child, she studied voice and dancing and played at the Viennese Open Ballet. She worked in Budapest and Vienna as a dancer. On stage, she was in Berlin and Vienna. She also made close to a hundred movies - silents and talkies. She was the first female star of Austria. She was married three times. The last one was Swiss Dr. Carl Spycher, with which she had one son, the jazz musician, Pierre Spycher. She lived with her family near Bern, Switzerland, where she died at the age of 105 years young.- Caleb Bradham was born on 27 May 1867 in Chinquapin, North Carolina, USA. He was married to Charity Credle. He died on 19 February 1934 in New Bern, North Carolina, USA.
- Kofi Atta Annan was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) from 1997 to 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. He was the founder and chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, as well as chairman of The Elders, an international organization founded by Nelson Mandela.
Annan studied economics at Macalester College, international relations at the Graduate Institute Geneva, and management at MIT. Annan joined the UN in 1962, working for the World Health Organization's Geneva office. He went on to work in several capacities at the UN Headquarters including serving as the Under-Secretary-General for peacekeeping between March 1992 and December 1996. He was appointed secretary-general on 13 December 1996 by the Security Council, and later confirmed by the General Assembly, making him the first office holder to be elected from the UN staff itself. He was re-elected for a second term in 2001, and was succeeded as secretary-general by Ban Ki-moon in 2007.
As secretary-general, Annan reformed the UN bureaucracy, worked to combat HIV/AIDS (especially in Africa), and launched the UN Global Compact. He was criticized for not expanding the Security Council and faced calls for his resignation after an investigation into the Oil-for-Food Programme, but was largely exonerated of personal corruption. After the end of his term as secretary-general, he founded the Kofi Annan Foundation in 2007 to work on international development. In 2012, Annan was the UN-Arab League Joint Special Representative for Syria, to help find a resolution to the ongoing conflict there. Annan quit after becoming frustrated with the UN's lack of progress with regards to conflict resolution. In September 2016, Annan was appointed to lead a UN commission to investigate the Rohingya crisis. He died in 2018 and was given a state funeral. - Jacqueline Ventura was born on 22 August 1931 in Bayeux, Calvados, France. She was an actress, known for ...And God Created Woman (1956), Femmes de Paris (1953) and Man and Child (1956). She was married to Michael Curtis Elliot and Ray Ventura. She died on 19 July 2017 in Gstaad, Bern, Switzerland.
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- Actress
Corinne Pulver was born on 19 June 1927 in Bern, Kanton Bern, Switzerland. She was a writer and director, known for Man kann auch anders leben (1975), Sie 67 - Skizzen zu einem Porträit der modernen Frau (1967) and Kinder ohne Eltern (1957). She died on 10 October 2023 in Bern, Switzerland.- Adrian Frutiger was born on 24 May 1928 in Unterseen, Bern, Switzerland. He was married to Simone Huguette Bickel and Paulette Flückiger. He died on 10 September 2015 in Bremgarten, Bern, Switzerland.
- Johann David Wyss was born on 28 May 1743 in Berne, Switzerland. Johann David was a writer, known for Swiss Family Robinson, Perils of the Wild (1925) and Swiss Family Robinson (1960). Johann David died on 11 January 1830 in Bern, Switzerland.
- He was the son of a litographer. He studied music and singing in Zurich and later in Paris. Then he got engagements in Breslau, Hamburg, the Berlin and Vienna operas, the German Festival Plays at the Theatre Pigalle in Paris, and sang Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail as a guest in Barcelona and in many other venues. He spent most of his career in his country : Zurich, Basilea, Geneva, Luzern, Saint Gallen and mainly Bern.
He was trained in the Italian lyric style as a tenor, and also played intermediate voice parts and performed as Heldentenor, both in stage operas and in concert. He sang Italian, German, French and Slavic repertoire. He was keen on many sports, and agile as an interpreter, which added effective acting to his singing.
After World War II was over, he combined singing with directing, and staged many operas in Bern, becoming sound engineer and director for Radio Bern between 1947 and 1966. It was also in that city that he gave his last bow on stage in 1960 with Haydn's Il mondo della luna. Then he stayed as teacher at the Bern Music Academy (Konservatorium für Musik) from 1960 until 1981.
He married twice, to actress Käthe Gold (their son died shortly after birth) and to Annemarie Düsterdieck.
He also occasionally went into pictures for the Swiss cinema post-war industry, like Matura-Reise (1943) or Frühlingslied (1954). - Cioma Schönhaus was born on 28 September 1922 in Berlin, Germany. He was a writer, known for The Forger (2022), Aeschbacher (2001) and III nach neun (1974). He died on 22 September 2015 in Biel, Kanton Bern, Switzerland.
- Elisabeth Schnell was born on 22 January 1930 in Zürich, Switzerland. She was an actress, known for Uli der Knecht (1954), Oberstadtgass (1956) and Polizist Wäckerli in Gefahr (1967). She died on 1 February 2020 in Lauenen, Bern, Switzerland.
- Anne-Cecile Vogt was born on 18 February 1981. She was an actress, known for Sandstone, Run with Me Ricky and Half Broken (2017). She died on 28 August 2020 in Bern, Switzerland.
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Franz Schnyder was born on 5 March 1910 in Burgdorf, Switzerland. He was a director and writer, known for Der 10. Mai (1957), Die Käserei in der Vehfreude (1958) and Die sechs Kummerbuben (1968). He died on 8 February 1993 in Münsingen, Bern, Switzerland.- Actor
- Writer
- Composer
Text: Switzerland's most famous rock musician Urs "Polo" Hofer was born on March 16th, 1945 in Interlaken. His first album Polo's Pop Tails (1968) was in English. In the mid 70s Polo was the leader of the band "Rumpelstilz". The single "Kiosk" taken from the album "Füüf Narre Im Charre" (1976) was their biggest hit. They were one of the first groups to sing in Swiss German. A few years later, he formed "Polo's Schmetterding". These guys played together until the early 80s. In 1983 he formed the "SchmetterBand". Their official discography contains over 20 albums. Polo Hofer has also a great talent to adapt famous world hits, such as Marc Cohn's "Walking In Memphis" into Swiss German.
Today, Polo sings English again.- Nora Illi was born on 3 April 1984 in Uster, Kanton Zürich, Switzerland. She died on 23 March 2020 in Bern, Kanton Bern, Switzerland.
- Writer
- Script and Continuity Department
Victor Paskov was born on 10 September 1949 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Victor was a writer, known for Ti, koyto si na nebeto (1990), Plyontek (1991) and Indianski igri (1990). Victor died on 17 April 2009 in Bern, Switzerland.- Camera and Electrical Department
- Stunts
Eli Thompson was born on 11 July 1973 in Illinois, USA. He is known for Species (1995), Breakdown (1997) and Kingpin (1996). He died on 28 August 2009 in Lauterbrunnen, Bern, Switzerland.- Director
- Producer
- Writer
Julius Pinschewer was born on 15 September 1883 in Inowrazlaw, West Prussia, Germany [now Inowroclaw, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland]. He was a director and producer, known for Aegir: Ein Film-Festspiel (1918), Ewald-Film GmbH, Berlin (1924) and Jettes Ausgang (1925). He was married to Charlotte Wohlgemuth. He died on 16 April 1961 in Bern, Switzerland.- Moses LaMarr was born on 8 December 1916 in Georgia, USA. He was an actor, known for Porgy and Bess (1959), Bonditis (1967) and Three's Company (1953). He died on 3 August 1985 in Bern, Switzerland.
- Paul-Felix Binz was born on 17 October 1932 in Bern, Kanton Bern, Switzerland. He was an actor, known for Dällebach Kari (1970), Geld und Geist (1964) and Katzendiebe (1996). He died on 19 September 2002 in Bern, Kanton Bern, Switzerland.
- Hans Rehmann was born on 20 March 1900 in Zurich, Switzerland. He was an actor, known for Wie d'Warret würkt (1933), Crown of Thorns (1932) and The Way of Lost Souls (1929). He was married to Anna Katharina Salten. He died on 10 August 1939 in Langenthal, Bern, Switzerland.
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Otto Ackermann was born on 18 October 1909 in Bucharest, Romania. He is known for The Killer Inside Me (2010), The Rose King (1986) and The Yard (2016). He died on 9 March 1960 in Wabern, Bern, Switzerland.- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Albert Roth-De Markus was born on 5 December 1861 in Vevey, Canton de Vaud, Switzerland. Albert was a director and writer, known for Roulez tambours! (1913), Le roman fantastique du Dr. Mercanton ou Le justicier invisible (1916) and Une aventure de Redzipet (1908). Albert died on 22 October 1927 in Huttwil, Kanton Bern, Switzerland.- Composer
- Music Department
Heinz Reber was born on 14 March 1952 in Bern, Switzerland. He was a composer, known for Der vierte König (1983), Pestalozzis Berg (1989) and Em Roger si Gschicht (1984). He died on 14 August 2007 in Bern, Switzerland.- Janet Haufler was born on 15 March 1931 in Basel, Kanton Basel Stadt, Switzerland. She was an actress, known for Grauzone (1979), La lune avec les dents (1967) and Kleine frieren auch im Sommer (1978). She died on 29 September 2020 in Bern, Kanton Bern, Switzerland.
- Art Department
- Actor
Jean Tinguely was born on 22 May 1925 in Fribourg, Switzerland. He was an actor, known for The Laughing Woman (1969), Un rêve plus long que la nuit (1976) and Träumende Maschinen (1989). He was married to Niki De Saint Phalle. He died on 30 August 1991 in Bern, Switzerland.- Álvaro Bultó was born on 11 June 1962 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He died on 23 August 2013 in Lauterbrunnen, Bern, Switzerland.
- King Faisal I was born on 20 May 1885 in Mecca, Ottoman Empire [now in Saudi Arabia]. He died on 8 September 1933 in Bern, Switzerland.
- Walter Vogt was born on 31 July 1927 in Zurich, Switzerland. He was a writer, known for Spiele der Macht - Auf den Abgrund zu... (1970), Der Club (1985) and Leichen pflastern seinen Ruhm (1972). He was married to Elisabeth Schwarz. He died on 21 September 1988 in Muri bei Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
- Rolf Bloch was born on 24 June 1930 in Bern, Switzerland. He died on 27 May 2015 in Bern, Switzerland.
- Niklaus Debrunner was born on 19 May 1953 in Switzerland. Niklaus was a composer, known for Damned Queers (1977). Niklaus died on 13 October 1986 in Bern, Switzerland.
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- Soundtrack
Antal Doráti was born on 9 April 1906 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He is known for Quartet (2012), The Assignment (1977) and Les passagers (1999). He was married to Ilse von Alpenheim and Klara Kordy. He died on 13 November 1988 in Gerzenbach near Bern, Switzerland.- Edzard Schaper was born on 30 August 1908 in Ostrowo, Prussia, Germany [now Ostrowo, Wielkopolskie, Poland]. Edzard was a writer, known for Der vierte König (1983), Der Gefangene der Botschaft (1964) and Nikodemus (1955). Edzard died on 29 January 1984 in Bern, Switzerland.
- Writer
- Composer
Karl Grunder was born on 20 November 1880 in Arni-Hammegg, Kanton Bern, Switzerland. Karl was a writer and composer, known for S'Vreneli am Thunersee (1936). Karl died on 5 January 1963 in Bern, Kanton Bern, Switzerland.- Wolf Appel was born on 1 May 1942 in Senftenberg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Marie Ward - Zwischen Galgen und Glorie (1985) and Karussell (1977). He died in 1999 in Bern, Switzerland.
- Gerhard von Graevenitz was born on 19 September 1934 in Schilde, Prignitz Mark Brandenburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Obrigkeitsfilm (1971). He died on 20 August 1983 in near Habkern, Bern, Switzerland.
- Kurt Wasserfallen was born on 27 April 1947 in Bern, Switzerland. He died on 2 December 2006 in Bern, Switzerland.
- Walter Wegmüller was born on 25 February 1937 in Bern, Switzerland. He died on 26 March 2020 in Bern, Switzerland.
- Alexander Heimann was born on 27 June 1937 in Ferenberg, Bern, Switzerland. Alexander was a writer, known for Lisi und der General (1986) and Rufer, der Wolf (2005). Alexander died on 28 May 2003 in Bern, Switzerland.
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- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Director
Franz Matter was born on 2 March 1931 in Schüpfen, Kanton Bern, Switzerland. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Rosen auf Pump (1961), Anne Bäbi Jowäger - I. Teil: Wie Jakobli zu einer Frau kommt (1960) and Geld und Geist (1964). He died on 13 October 1999 in Bern, Switzerland.- Music Department
Hans Kotter was born in 1480 in Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France. Hans is known for BBC Proms (1972). Hans died in 1541 in Bern, Kanton Bern, Switzerland.- Marc Hodler was born on 26 October 1918 in Bern, Switzerland. He died on 18 October 2006 in Bern, Switzerland.
- Composer
- Music Department
Sándor Veress was born on 1 February 1907 in Kolozsvár, Austria-Hungary. He was a composer, known for Treasured Earth (1948) and Paul (2016). He died on 4 March 1992 in Bern, Switzerland.- Siegfried Meisner was born on 25 May 1926 in Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany. He was an actor, known for Via Mala (1985), San Gottardo (1977) and Konfrontation (1974). He died on 18 November 2001 in Bern, Switzerland.
- Additional Crew
Tad Michel was born on 22 March 1926 in Torun, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland. Tad is known for The Shining (1980). Tad died on 21 February 2020 in New Bern, North Carolina, USA.- Theo. W. Baumfeld was born on 20 June 1902 in New York City, New York, USA. Theo. W. was a producer, known for The Shanghai Gesture (1941), Hangmen Also Die! (1943) and It Happened Tomorrow (1944). Theo. W. was married to Martha Wright. Theo. W. died in November 1981 in Bern, Switzerland.