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- American character actor of rather bizarre range, a member of the so-called "John Ford Stock Company." Originally a New York stage actor of some repute, Whitehead entered films in the 1930s. He played a wide variety of character parts, often quite different from his own actual age and type. He is probably most familiar as Al Joad in 'John Ford (I)''s The Grapes of Wrath (1940). But twenty-two years later, in his fifth film for Ford, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), Whitehead at 51 was playing a lollipop-licking schoolboy! He continued to work predominantly on the stage, appearing now and again in films or on television. In his last years, he suffered from cancer and died in 1998 in Dublin, Ireland, where he had lived in semi- retirement for many years.
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Jerome Robbins was one of the founding members of the Ballet Theatre when it was formed in 1940 portraying a variety of roles for several years before devising his own creations such as 'Fancy Free' about 3 sailors on leave in New York which marked a long association with Leonard Bernstein. With Jerome in one of the leading roles it opened at the Metropolitan Opera House in April 1944 and quickly established Jerome and Leonard as important talents particularly when the play was turned into the film'On the Town' Among ballets Jerome staged for the New York City Ballet, of which he became company director are 'Pied Piper','The Cage',and 'Inter Play'. In 1958 he formed his own company 'Ballets: USA which did tours of Europe and the Middle East, New York and a national tour. Several members of the company were in the film West Side Story which Jerome staged fir Broadway, the National Company and London.- Actress
Lovely blonde stage actress Doris Nolan, a one-time model, was born on July 14, 1916, in New York City and raised there. The daughter of an importer, she first appeared in plays at New Rochelle High School. Invited to join the Provincetown Players in 1933 following graduation, she worked as a secretary to the director as compensation for her tuition. She then played summer stock in plays such as "The Late Christopher Bean."
Nolan's first movie contract was with Fox Film Corporation. Set to make her debut with a small role in the Shirley Temple vehicle Our Little Girl (1935), Doris kept blowing her scene to the point it was deleted from the film and Fox quickly dropped her. Undeterred, Doris sought out Broadway and took her first bow in 1935 with the mystery "Night of January 16th" as the femme fatale lead. Other plays followed including "Arrest That Woman," "Tell Me Pretty Maiden" and "Lorelei."
Doris' Broadway stage visibility led to a return to films and she won a Universal contract. This time she made a distinct impression starring in two "B"-level Universal pictures directed by Ralph Murphy. The first, a drama The Man I Marry (1936), paired Doris opposite Michael Whalen; the second was a musical comedy Top of the Town (1937) that had her co-starring with song-and-dance man George Murphy. She then starred in the romantic comedy As Good as Married (1937) alongside John Boles. Doris' best-remembered role, by far, was in the second lead category, as Katharine Hepburn's chic, high-society sister in the delightful Columbia comedy classic Holiday (1938).
Doris would alternate between the stage and film after this film success. Returning to her theatre roots, she appeared in "Cue Passion" and "The Cat Screams" before co-starring successfully in the long-running New York war-era hit "The Doughgirls" for two years (1942-1944). As for the large screen, she returned to second-string filming co-starring as cop Charles Bickford's girlfriend in the crime drama One Hour to Live (1939). She then moved down the credits line in the Anna Neagle/Ray Milland musical romance Irene (1940); had the second femme lead as Dorothy Lamour's romantic rival in Paramount's adventure comedy Moon Over Burma (1940); and then abruptly ended her film career co-starring with Wendy Barrie in the minor musical Follies Girl (1943).
Doris met and married Canadian actor Alexander Knox in 1944. He wrote a play for them, "The Closing Door," which they starred together on Broadway in 1949. In the early 1950's, the couple moved permanently to England after he was blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Slowing down considerably, Doris would be occasionally glimpsed in a few British films (The Servant (1963), Juggernaut (1974), The Romantic Englishwoman (1975)), but would appear more prominently as a guest on TV ("The Adventures of Robin Hood," "The Saint," "The Third Man," "Emergency Ward-10," "Boy Meets Girl"). Her last on-camera credit was a 1981 episode of the mini-series "Brideshead Revisited."
Doris later worked for an art gallery. She suffered a major family tragedy when their only child, 39-year-old actor Andrew Knox, died in 1987, a probable suicide. Doris' husband Knox died in 1995 and she would follow him in death a couple weeks after her 82nd birthday on July 29, 1998, in Northumberland, England.- Director
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Bharathan was born on 14 November 1947 in Vadakkancheri, Trichur, Kerala, British India. He was a director and art director, known for Thevar Magan (1992), Prayanam (1975) and Thakara (1979). He was married to K.P.A.C. Lalitha. He died on 29 July 1998 in Madras, Tamil Nadu, India.- Actor
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Peter Tors was born on 26 January 1957 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Bad Boys (1995), Caddyshack (1980) and Porky's (1981). He died on 29 July 1998 in Miami, Florida, USA.- Stanley Burns was born on 22 June 1919 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Radio Days (1987) and The Art of Ventriloquism (1979). He was married to Sylvia Goldstein. He died on 29 July 1998.
- William Chappelle was born on 16 December 1938 in Columbia, South Carolina, USA. William died on 29 July 1998 in Yellow Springs, Ohio, USA.
- Nancy Gabrielle was born on 6 July 1917 in Hackney, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Passport to Pimlico (1949), Passion Potion (1971) and Nana (1968). She was married to Paul Bahadur. She died on 29 July 1998 in Brinsworth House, Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK.
- Zlatko 'Tschik' Cajkovski was born on 24 November 1923 in Zagreb, Croatia. He was an actor, known for X + YY: Formel des Bösen (1970), Wenn Ludwig ins Manöver zieht (1967) and 1954 FIFA World Cup (1954). He died on 29 July 1998 in Munich, Germany.
- Bohumír Vích was born on 28 July 1911 in Prague, Cechy, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Red Lizard (1949) and Z mého zivota (1955). He died on 29 July 1998 in Prague, Czech Republic.
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Yoram Pollack is known for The Delta Force (1986), America 3000 (1986) and The Beast of War (1988). He died on 29 July 1998 in Israel.- Éric Escoffier is a French mountaineer born on August 9, 1960 in L'Arbresle in France and died in the mountains, at Broad Peak, on July 29, 1998 in Pakistan. In 1984, he made a winter run on the north face of the Grandes Jorasses.
In September 1987, he was the victim of a car accident in the Arly gorges in Haute-Savoie and became 35% hemiplegic on the left side. However, by dint of courage and re-education, he sets out again to attack the Himalayas. Escoffier was constantly inventing new challenges: lining up the summits, taking part in the Monaco rally, flying hang-gliding or paragliding, practicing free solo climbing... In 1985, among some of his many exploits, he succeeded in overcoming three eight thousand meters in the Himalayas, Gasherbrum 2 (8,035 meters) Hidden Peak (8,068 meters) and K2 (French premiere, 8,611 meters). Two years later, a terrible car accident stops him in his tracks... no matter, he rehabilitates, in front of a flabbergasted doctor who wonders if this guy who does everything at top speed will also recover faster than the others from his wounds. Even if other accidents retained: falls in paragliders, another in a crevasse at Mont Blanc. Escoffier advances, Escoffier unrolls, Escoffier wonders all the same if he is not missing something by going at that speed. "Touch everything, have fun with the mountain by launching insane challenges and also without preparing simplified", launches the commentator of the documentary a little provocative, who highlights this sentence of the mountaineer, who looks so much like him: " It is better to live a short time like a lion than 150 years like a sheep.
Eric and his rope company Pascale Bessière disappeared while attempting the ascent of Broad Peak on July 29, 1998. A Polish mountaineer, Piotr Pustelnik, had seen them one last time on the summit ridge while a very strong wind was blowing. The day before, they had spent the night without bivouac equipment in a snow hole dug at 7,700 meters, under the pass which leads to the summit ramp. "Nothing is impossible", Eric Escoffier liked to repeat to anyone who wanted to hear it. - Actor
Warren Kliewer was born on 20 September 1931 in Mountain Lake, Minnesota, USA. He was an actor. He died on 29 July 1998 in Passaic, New Jersey, USA.- Don Keppy was born on 22 September 1928 in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for Head Office (1985), War of the Worlds (1988) and Hot Shots (1986). He died on 29 July 1998 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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Branko Blazina was born on 29 July 1916 in Rijeka, Austria-Hungary [now Croatia]. He was a cinematographer, known for Nase malo misto (1969), Sand, Love and Salt (1957) and Only People (1957). He died on 29 July 1998 in Zagreb, Croatia.