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Buddy Lester, stand-up comedian and character actor on television and in motion pictures was born in Chicago and became a fixture on the international nightclub circuit for seven decades. In Las Vegas, he opened for Frank Sinatra several times and appeared in the Rat Pack films Ocean's Eleven (1960) and Sergeants 3 (1962) . Lester also appeared with Jerry Lewis in five films,The Ladies Man (1961), The Nutty Professor (1963), The Patsy (1964), Three on a Couch (1966) and The Big Mouth (1967). Lester made his film debut playing himself as an entertainer in The Gene Krupa Story (1959) starring Sal Mineo. The comedian proved even more popular on television, and was a part of the regular cast of The New Phil Silvers Show (1963). Lester also appeared in several episodes of the police series' Adam-12 (1968) and Barney Miller (1975) and was also a familiar face on Love, American Style (1969), The New Dick Van Dyke Show (1971), The Odd Couple (1970) and Starsky and Hutch (1975).
A handsome man with dark hair, Lester could assume mockingly menacing personas because of a somewhat mysterious scar to the right of his mouth. He delighted in making up various stories about how he acquired it. He frequently said he got the scar when he was blown off a barge at Guadalcanal. He once used it to intimidate beefy rabble-rousers at a nearby table when he was watching friends on stage in a Chicago nightclub. And in a New York hotel, he told a group of Germans that he got the scar in a fencing duel while he was a student in Heidelberg. The truth, he confessed to the now-defunct Los Angeles Mirror in 1961, was: "I fell off a chair onto a broken water glass when I was 3 years old." Lester once considered plastic surgery to erase the mark, but changed his mind after a movie makeup artist liked it so much that he enlarged it for Lester's scenes.
Lester died Friday Oct. 4, 2002 of cancer in a Van Nuys nursing home. He was 86. Lester was survived by his son, Paul; daughter, Sylvia Jensen; four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.- Director
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After having studied German philology, law, piano and composition Andre Delvaux filmed some TV documentaries. In 1965 he debuted in the movies with a film adapted from a novel of Johan Daisne. His films always played in a set between reality and fantasy. Writing his own scripts he filmed e.g. Een vrouw tussen hond en wolf (1979) and Benvenuta (1983) but he had had then problems in financing his projects. Nevertheless he went on with e.g. L'oeuvre au noir (1988) but the interest of the masses was only small.- Don Peters was born on 19 May 1921. He was a writer, known for The Naked Prey (1965), Bloody Mama (1970) and Zeimers in Zambezi (1970). He died on 4 October 2002 in Oxnard, California, USA.
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- Composer
- Additional Crew
Shony Alex Braun was born on 14 July 1924 in Duca, Romania. He was an actor and composer, known for Wild at Heart (1990), The Black Marble (1980) and '68 (1988). He was married to Shari Braun. He died on 4 October 2002 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Per Bronken was born on 13 March 1935 in Tromsø, Norway. He was a director and writer, known for Vestavind (1994), Jenny (1983) and Benoni & Rosa (1973). He was married to Marie Louise Tank and Monna Tandberg. He died on 4 October 2002 in Oslo, Norway.- Guy Vidal was born on 8 June 1939 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He was a writer, known for A Fistful of Dynamite (1972), Interdit de vieillir (1998) and Les noces de carton (1993). He died on 4 October 2002 in Le Tremblay, Maine-et-Loire, France.
- Actress
- Additional Crew
Lucille La Marr was born on 7 September 1916 in the USA. She was an actress. She died on 4 October 2002 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Production Manager
- Animation Department
- Art Department
Frank Schudde was born on 4 July 1913 in Red Bank, New Jersey, USA. Frank was a production manager, known for Outer Space Visitor (1959), The Deputy Dawg Show (1959) and Tree Spree (1961). Frank died on 4 October 2002 in Middletown, New York, USA.- Bontarô Taira was an actor, known for Rodan (1956), Ôwarai Jiro chô ikka: Sanshita nitei kenjû (1962) and Kantô musho gaeri (1967). He died on 4 October 2002 in Suginami, Tokyo, Japan.
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- Writer
Holmér made a career in the Swedish police, starting from walking the beat and later taking a degree in law and becoming Chief of the Swedish National Security Police Agency ("Secret police") and later on, head of the Stockholm Municipal Police. At the assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme on February 28, 1986, Holmér quickly became head of the investigations and held a number of legendary press briefings. He was forced out after a big police raid on exile Kurds living in Sweden had failed to substantiate his theory that this group had been involved in the murder. Later he worked for the UN on questions of the trade in narcotics.- Hana Prosková was born on 30 November 1924 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. Hana was a writer, known for Zlaté rybky (1978), Prízrak (1987) and Mesíc s dýmkou (1966). Hana died on 4 October 2002 in Prague, Czech Republic.
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- Director
Joe Sweet was born on 13 September 1959 in Connecticut, USA. Joe was a writer and director, known for How to Kill a Mockingbird (2002), Star (2001) and Ticker (2002). Joe died on 4 October 2002 in Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France.- Linde Sommer was born on 10 January 1925. She was an actress, known for Kabale und Liebe (1959), Zeit zu leben (1969) and Senta auf Abwegen (1959). She died on 4 October 2002 in Switzerland.