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- Vic Christy had a varied career in the entertainment industry. He started out as a professional wrestler in the 1930s working for Jack Curley promotions constantly working in New York in the legendary Madison Square Garden. Like most wrestlers, Christy never was a gigantic start but he was able to start out with a big push up the card. He natural size and his good looks made him a natural with the audience. He eventually drifted to Oregon where he was frequently featured near the top of the card. Eventually he even won the Montreal Heavyweight Championship in the 1930s beating Yvonne Robert.
By the early 1940s, he made his way to Los Angeles where he appeared in a few pirate films but he also continued his regular profession by splitting time wrestling between territories located California and New York. He occasionally tagged with his real life brother Ted Christy but usually he appeared as a singles wrestler constantly ending in a no contest of a loss.
By the 1950s, Christy really found a home in Los Angeles and typically spent some times working their territory and the Hawaiian territories. Like most wrestlers, Christy really liked to keep busy by playing practical jokes on people. Sometimes he would take new arrivals and drive them all around Los Angeles for hours when the area was just 10 minutes from their hotel. He was a jack of all trades.
Like most wrestlers, Christy grew too old to constantly wrestle so he found a job as the stunt double for Mike Mazurki on various productions including It's About Time and in Batman. He would frequently be cast with his brother as an extra in films and ended up a staple of western film sets because of his sense of humor. It wasn't uncommon for him to put his fellow extras in wrestling hold and for him to just joke around with everybody.
By the late 1970s, his brother had passed away and Vic decided to retire where he passed away at the Motion Picture Retirement Home. - Composer
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John Sangster was a central figure in Australian jazz. He began playing traditional jazz with Graeme Bell and his Australian Jazz Band on trombone, later taking up the cornet, then drums. He toured with Bell (1950-55), playing in Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan and Korea. While in England he appeared in two Royal Command Performances, and recorded his first composition while playing on the Humphrey Lyttelton/Graeme Bell recordings. In the late 1950s Sangster began playing vibraphone, and played other percussion instruments, including many of his own invention. After leaving Bell's band, Sangster joined the Don Burrows Group, with whom he was to record several compositions.In the 1960s Sangster formed his own quartet and with them experimented with group improvisatory jazz, after he became interested in the music of such American jazz musicians as Sun Ra and Archie Shepp- Germaine Kieckens was born in 1906. She died on 26 October 1995.
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Antón Apruzzese was born on 2 May 1906 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. He was a composer, known for The Little Apartment (1958) and Segundo López, aventurero urbano (1953). He died on 26 October 1995 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain.- Director
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Nikoloz Sanishvili was born on 7 January 1903 in Kutaisi, Kutaisi Governorate, Russian Empire [now Imereti, Republic of Georgia]. He was a director and writer, known for Shekhvedra mtashi (1966), Udabno (1932) and Isini chamovidnen mtidan (1954). He died on 26 October 1995.- Director
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Wilhelm Freddie was born on 7 February 1909 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was a director and actor, known for Eaten Horizonts (1950), Det definitive afslag på anmodningen om et kys (1949) and Viva (2001). He died on 26 October 1995 in Copenhagen, Denmark.- Olesya Ivanova was born on 25 January 1925 in Merefa, Kharkov Governorate, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkivsky Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine]. She was an actress, known for Kin-dza-dza! (1986), Office Romance (1977) and Put slavy (1949). She died on 26 October 1995.
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Gorni Kramer was born on 22 July 1913 in Rivarolo Mantovano, Lombardy, Italy. He was a composer and actor, known for Luca (2021), Killing Eve (2018) and Boccaccio '70 (1962). He died on 26 October 1995 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.