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- Actress
- Producer
Kristina Söderbaum was born on 5 October 1912 in Stockholm, Sweden. She was a professor's daughter from Djursholm, Stockholm, Sweden. After graduation she went to Paris to learn French and by chance got a role in the short film Hur behandlar du din hund? (1934). In 1935, she studied history of art in Berlin and attended acting classes. There she got to know her future husband Veit Harlan. During WWII Kristina Söderbaum played the main parts in popular Nazi propaganda movies under the direction of her husband Veit Harlan. Between 1939 and 1945 they made together the successful films Covered Tracks (1938), The Immortal Heart (1939), The Trip to Tilsit (1939), Die goldene Stadt (1942), Immensee - Ein deutsches Volkslied (1943), Opfergang (1944) and Burning Hearts (1945). The most infamous was Jud Süß (1940), a strong antisemitic propaganda film. Three years after "Jud Süss" she became an honoury student at Uppsala University, Sweden. Söderbaum said after the war that she regretted the films, but she never made a comeback as a popular actress. She didn't work until Harlan was allowed to direct again in 1950 and then appeared mostly in his films and on German TV until the 1990s. After Harlan's death in the 1964, she also established herself as a fashion photographer in Munich, Germany and wrote her memoirs, "Nichts bleibt immer so", in 1983. On 12 February 2001, she died in Hitzacker, Lower Saxony, Germany.- Producer
- Writer
- Director
Ralph Smart was born to Australian parents in the London suburb of Chingford, some ten miles northeast of Charing Cross. He began his professional career in films as an editor, writer and director of documentary shorts in 1927. Smart collaborated on the screenplays of some of Michael Balcon's early films at Gaumont-British, before moving 'down under' to make propaganda films and documentaries for the Australian government during the Second World War. After the war, he worked as producer or producer/director on two seminal films shot by Ealing in Australia: The Overlanders (1946) and Bush Christmas (1947). From the mid-1950's, he was active again in Britain, affiliated with ITC as writer/producer/director of several popular TV period adventures, notably The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955), The Buccaneers (1956) and William Tell (1958). His best known contribution came about in the 1960's, when he created the action series Danger Man (1960) and its incorruptible lone wolf protagonist John Drake, played brilliantly by Patrick McGoohan. After the show was cancelled in 1966, Smart returned to working as a freelance screenwriter on the short-lived Australian-based series Riptide (1969), starring American actor Ty Hardin. Smart settled down in Bowen, Queensland, where the show was filmed and died there in February 2001 at the venerable age of 92.- Bhakti Barve was born on 10 September 1948 in Sangli, State of Bombay, India. She was an actress, known for Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (1983), Bichhoo (2000) and Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa (1998). She was married to Shafi Inamdar. She died on 12 February 2001 in Maharashtra, India.
- Sergio Vodanovic was born in 1926 in Split, Croatia. He was a writer, known for Las herederas (1983), Deja que los perros ladren (1961) and Mi mujer necesita marido (1959). He died on 12 February 2001 in Santiago, Chile.
- Ernie Vincent was born on 2 October 1923 in Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for Eye for an Eye (1996), Grand Isle (1991) and Belizaire the Cajun (1986). He was married to Teddy Vincent. He died on 12 February 2001 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Ted Toll was born on 12 May 1912. He was an actor, known for Dallas (1978), Dynasty (1981) and P.S.I. Luv U (1991). He died on 12 February 2001 in Clackamas, Oregon, USA.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Pentti Kultala was born on 2 March 1922 in Kokkola, Finland. He was an actor, known for Sodan ja rauhan miehet (1978), Reinikainen (1982) and Montserrat, taipumaton (1963). He died on 12 February 2001 in Tampere, Finland.- Tiberio Mitri was born on 12 July 1926 in Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Hills Run Red (1966), Il nostro campione (1955) and Jolanda la figlia del corsaro nero (1953). He was married to Fulvia Franco. He died on 12 February 2001 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Ron graduated from Harvard University. He was in the same graduating class as Al Franken. When he was young, Ron performed magic on the Steel Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He performed along side Stevie Wonder. After leaving the film industry, he returned to his hometown of Cherry Hill, New Jersey and opened an animation studio for budding animators called Animation Arts in Marlton, New Jersey.