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- Music Department
- Composer
- Actor
Billy Strange was born on 29 September 1930 in Long Beach, California, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for Next (2007), Passengers (2016) and Ocean's Eleven (2001). He was married to Jeanne Black, Betty Jo Conrad and Joan O'Brien. He died on 22 February 2012 in Franklin, Tennessee, USA.- Frank Carson was born on 11 June 1926 in Belfast, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK. He was an actor, known for Wild About Harry (2000), Dick Dickman P.I. (2008) and Under and Over (1971). He was married to Ruth Carson. He died on 22 February 2012 in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK.
- Marie Colvin was born on 12 January 1956 in Oyster Bay, New York, USA. She died on 22 February 2012 in Homs, Syria.
- Music Department
- Composer
- Actor
Michael Melvoin was born on 10 May 1937 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for The Wedding Date (2005), Something's Gotta Give (2003) and Armed and Dangerous (1986). He was married to Sandra. He died on 22 February 2012 in Burbank, California, USA.- Kôji Kita was born on 20 January 1949 in Japan. He was an actor, known for Isoge! Wakamono (1974), 964 Pinocchio (1991) and Akuma no temari-uta (1977). He died on 22 February 2012 in Japan.
- Writer
- Producer
Robert Page Jones was a writer and producer, known for Kings of the Evening (2008) and L'homme de Marrakech (1966). Robert Page died on 22 February 2012 in La Jolla, California, USA.- Lyudmila Ivanovna Kasatkina is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1975). While studying in the fifth grade, choreographer Igor Lentovskiy came to her school, who selected girls for classes at the Central Music School at the Moscow Conservatory (Shatskiy Studio). So Kasatkina entered the school's choreographic department. At age 14, she was forced to stop ballet classes due to poor health and a broken leg. She studied at the Studio of Artistic Words at the Palace of Pioneers by Anna Bovshek and Anna Schneider. In 1943, on the advice of Schneider, she entered the GITIS named after A.V. Lunacharskiy in the class of Iosif Rayevskiy and Grigori Konsky. In 1947, after graduation, she was accepted into the troupe of the Central Theater of the Soviet Army, where she worked all her life. Kasatkina played more than sixty roles on the stage, among which the most famous productions include Orpheus Goes Down to Hell by Tennessee Williams, Broadway Charades by Mary Orr and Reginald Denham, Your Sister and Captive by Lyudmila Razumovskaya.
In 1954 she made her film debut, starring in the main role in the comedy Tiger Girl (1955). In 1964, she starred in the first Soviet multi-part television movie Vyzyvaem ogon na sebya (1963). She also gained fame thanks to her work on voicing cartoons, in particular, the character of Bagheera in the series The Adventures of Mowgli (1973). In 1979, together with her husband, she created a workshop at the acting faculty of GITIS (professor since 1979), which lasted 12 years and gave the professional scene dozens of actors. - Mária Angyal was born on 15 November 1929 in Budapest, Hungary. She was an actress, known for Kis Romulusz (1995) and Az a nap a mienk (2002). She died on 22 February 2012 in Budapest, Hungary.
- In 1943 in Warsaw, she graduated from the School of Rhythmics and Artistic Dance of J. Mieczynska, and from 1946 to 1948 she lectured on the history of dance at the State Higher School of Theater in Lódz. From 1947, she regularly published texts on contemporary ballet and dance. In the years 1951-1953 she was a member of the State Verification Commission at the Ministry of Culture and Art, which was established to regulate the principles of granting professional dancers' qualifications. From the mid-1950s, she cooperated with PWM Edition, publishing monographs and compendiums of knowledge about the history and theory of dance.
In the years 1964-1966, as a French government scholarship holder, she studied under Stanislaw Glowacki at the Ecole Supérieure d'Etudes Chorégraphiques in Paris, where in 1964 she defended her doctoral thesis. From 1972 to 1989, she gave lectures on the history and aesthetics of dance at the Extramural College of Dance Teachers at the Faculty of Music Education of the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw - at that time she was also the author of dance history textbooks intended for this study. From 1996, she was an activist in the Polish section of the European Dance Research Information Directory. - Eivin One Pedersen was born on 8 September 1956 in Norway. Eivin One was a composer, known for Karachi (1989). Eivin One died on 22 February 2012 in Norway.
- Production Designer
Heinz Peter Maya was born on 21 August 1944 in Villach, Carinthia, Austria. Heinz Peter was a production designer, known for Wenn die Musi spielt (1992). Heinz Peter died on 22 February 2012 in Austria.- Editor
- Editorial Department
Elzbieta Kurkowska was born in 1940 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. She was an editor, known for Big Animal (2000), Pogoda na jutro (2003) and Kochaj i rób co chcesz (1998). She died on 22 February 2012 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Tamara Shakirova was born on 26 November 1955 in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, USSR [now Uzbekistan]. She was an actress, known for Nepokornaya (1982), Parol 'Otel Regina' (1984) and Khorezmiyskaya legenda (1978). She died on 22 February 2012 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
- Dimitri Nabokov was born on 10 May 1934 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for Una jena in cassaforte (1968), Omnibus (1967) and Saturday Review (1986). He died on 22 February 2012 in Vevey, Switzerland.
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Yuri Avdeyev was born on 25 June 1936. Yuri was a cinematographer, known for Pozovi menya v dal svetluyu (1978), Vas ozhidayet grazhdanka Nikanorova (1978) and Nezvanyy drug (1981). Yuri died on 22 February 2012.- Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Writer
Otakar Fuka was born on 28 December 1936 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He was a director and assistant director, known for Akce Bororo (1973), Kam zmizel kuryr (1981) and Mys dobré nadeje (1975). He died on 22 February 2012 in Prague, Czech Republic.