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Douglas Wilmer was born on 8 January 1920 in London, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Octopussy (1983), Jason and the Argonauts (1963) and El Cid (1961). He was married to Anne Harding and Elizabeth Joan Melville. He died on 31 March 2016 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK.- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Ronnie Corbett began his successful show business career in the early 1950s. Amongst many other things he performed on stage with Danny La Rue in a cacophony of well received variety and cabaret shows.
It was whilst performing in these shows that Corbett attracted the attention of several top TV producers and executives who were impressed with his abilities as a stand up comedian, compare and all round entertainer.
Before too long Corbett found himself being offered roles in various sitcoms, films and family shows.
His varied film roles include "Polo" in the spoof Bond film Casino Royale (1967), "Drooby" in Mad Little Island (1958) and finally the hapless "Chumleigh" in Fun at St Fanny's (1955).
On television he provided light hearted comedy in Crackerjack! (1955) for many years.
His big break came during the 1960s when he was asked to join the cast of the hugely popular The Frost Report (1966) which included the likes of John Cleese and of course David Frost.
The show also saw him performing alongside Ronnie Barker for the very first time. All aspects of "The Frost Report" were very funny but some of the most enjoyable involved Barker and Corbett who shared a rare comic chemistry between each other.
TV producers recognized this chemistry and there were talks of giving the pair their own comedy series.
Corbett had numerous projects in the late sixties including the enjoyable The Corbett Follies (1969) and No - That's Me Over Here! (1967). Then in 1971 Barker asked him to star in the comedy sketch series The Ronnie Barker Yearbook (1971).
The rest is history - the Two Ronnies had arrived together - it was simply comic genius, Barker and Corbett were made for each other, a pairing that was just destined to be. Later on that year The Two Ronnies (1971) show was born on BBC 1 and remained incredibly popular well into the late eighties when Barker sadly announced his retirement from television.
There is no doubt that Ronnie Barker is the best comedy actor of his generation, but over the years many critics have unfairly overlooked the brilliant talents of Corbett - he is a fantastically versatile comedy actor in his own right. He was an equal part in the relationship - put simply he complemented Barker and Barker complemented him.
As well as being a wonderful comedy actor Corbett is also an accomplished after dinner speaker and of course a very very funny stand up comedian. During the filming of the "Two Ronnies" Corbett found time to branch off into a whole host of other projects as did Ronnie Barker.
First there were his own shows such as The Saturday Special: All This and Ronnie Corbett Too (1975), The Prince of Denmark (1974) and The Ronnie Corbett Special (1979). Then came his excellent sitcom Sorry! (1981) which ran for over seven years. There were also films such as No Sex Please - We're British (1973).
Ronnie Corbett has enjoyed continued success in both film and television. He starred alongside old friend John Cleese, and Jamie Lee Curtis in the film Timbuctoo (1998), has done numerous pantomimes with Frank Skinner and Paul Merton and is one of the stars in The All Star Comedy Show (2004) with Steve Coogan, Vic Reeves, Matt Lucas and David Walliams.
In 2005 Corbett reunited with Barker to present a special six part series looking back at their favorite moments from the "Two Ronnies".
Corbett is a charismatic and extremely likable man - there is absolutely no doubt that he will be fondly remembered by millions of people as being not only half of one of the most successful comedy duos of all time, but also as a truly brilliant entertainer.- Joan Koplan was born on 29 September 1950 in River Edge, New Jersey, USA. She was an actress, known for Bee and PuppyCat (2013), Tarzan in the Golden Grotto (1969) and Small Town Security (2012). She was married to Irwin Koplan. She died on 31 March 2016 in Ringgold, Georgia, USA.
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- Soundtrack
Terry Plumeri (b. 11/28/1944 - d. 03/31/2016), Multi-Platinum and Gold Record recording artist, began music at the age of 10 and went on to attend The Manhattan School of Music in New York City on scholarship. It was here that Terry studied with Robert Brennand, principal bass of the New York Philharmonic. Later, during his period as a bassist with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington D.C., he studied composition and conducting with the Hungarian conductor/composer Antal Dorati, himself a student of the legendary Bela Bartok. Most recently, he was honored to be a guest conductor and composing for the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, live at Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow.
Terry wrote the music to over 57 feature films and television scores, which includes the score to the award winning crime story One False Move, which has recently been added to "The New York Times List of the 1000 Best Films Ever Made". His score for One False Move was nominated for Best Score by the IFP Spirit Awards.
Terry played with such jazz greats as Cannonball Adderley, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Quincy Jones, Arthur Prysock, Frank Sinatra, Joe Williams, Les McCann, Yusef Lateef, John Abercrombie and Woody Herman. Notable performances include Carniegie Hall/New York City, Albert Hall/London, Herodicus Atticus Theater/Athens, Tchaikovsky Hall/Moscow, as well as the Newport, Monterey and Montreux jazz festivals.
He was murdered in his home on 3/31/2016.- Hadid spent her childhood and teenage years in European boarding schools. She began studying at the American University in Beirut. In 1972 she continued her architecture studies at the renowned Architectural Association in London. Hadid completed her studies in 1977. She then held numerous international teaching positions and visiting professorships and led master classes. Among other things, she was a visiting professor at Harvard and Columbia University. Even before she opened her own office, she attracted attention with her extraordinary design sketches. She became a member of the "Office Metropolitan Architecture". The Iraqi master of architecture received a wide range of inspiration from the works of Russian constructivism, such as Kazimir Malevich or El Lissitzki. Hadid impressed with her forward-looking visions. Hadid also wanted to shape people's future with her designs. Her construction sketches feature dynamic shapes and conformist 90-degree angles.
Her designs are often confused with the deconstructionists, of which the architect did not consider herself one. Her personal concern was the implementation of theory into construction practice. With her ideas about avant-garde architecture, Hadid signaled the dissolution of space and at the same time a new definition of its realized form. This gives the person affected a new, unprecedented spatial experience. Despite all the novelty and future promise, the architectural artist attached great importance to functionality, which is expressed in flexible, flowing spatial divisions. They make the rooms suitable for both old and new usage concepts. In 1983, Hadid first earned international credit for the project "The Peak", a suspended amusement and recreation park on a hill in Hong Kong. She was also able to win the competition. Her most extraordinary recent projects include the contemporary art centers in Rome and Cincinnati, the "Mind Zone" in the Millennium Dome in London and the Science Center in Wolfsburg.
Hadid's other works include the Art and Media Center in Düsseldorf (1989), the exhibition pavilion for Video Art in Groningen (1990) and the Cardiff Bay Opera House (1994). In 1982 she was awarded the Architectural Design Gold Medal for the design of the London apartment in Eaton Place. In addition, Hadid designed furniture and interior design for her own projects. In 1992 she realized an installation for the Great Utopia exhibition in New York's Guggenheim Museum as well as other theater sets and theater costumes. She designed a revolving stage for the pop group "Petshop Boys". The all-rounder created architectural drawings as artistic works that are as valuable as a house. In her early phase she devoted herself to painting and drawing. Hadid's works have already been shown in exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (1978), in the GA Gallery in Tokyo (1985), in the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1988), in The Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and in Waiting Room at Grand Central Station in New York (1995).
Her works enrich the holdings of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt, among others. In 1999, Hadid caused a sensation at the State Garden Show in Weil am Rhein. For this event she designed a 140 meter long pavilion made of concrete, wood and glass. The building stands in an artificial landscape on the site of a former gravel pit. The architect has already built another building in the Baden town: a fire station for the Vitra factory in Weil am Rhein (1993). In January 2000, the Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid received first prize and the construction contract for the "Science Center" in Wolfsburg. In 2003 she designed the Bergiselschanze near Innsbruck. In 2004 she received the Pritzker Prize. This was the first time that the world's most important architectural award went to a woman. She was awarded the German Architecture Prize for the central building of the BMW factory in Leipzig. In 2009 she received the Praemium Imperiale; In 2010, Hadid was awarded the Stirling Prize. In 2015 and 2016, Hadid was honored with the Grand Decoration of Honor in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria and the Royal Gold Medal. Most recently she lived and worked in London.
Zaha Hadid died of a heart attack on March 31, 2016 in Miami, USA. - Writer
- Composer
- Music Department
Giorgio Calabrese was born on 28 November 1929 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He was a writer and composer, known for Whatever Works (2009), Facing Windows (2003) and Indian Summer (1972). He died on 31 March 2016 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Actress
- Writer
Denise Robertson was born on 9 June 1932 in Sunderland, Co Durham, England, UK. She was an actress and writer, known for Property Rites (1984), The Young Doctors (1976) and Beyond Expectations (1998). She was married to Bryan Thubron, John (Jack) Tomlin and Alexander (Alex) Inkster Robertson. She died on 31 March 2016 in Royal Marsden Hospital, Brompton and Belmont, London, England, United Kingdom.- Martha Dewachter was born on 29 September 1919 in Antwerpen, Flanders, Belgium. She was an actress, known for De meeuw (1968), Louisa, een woord van liefde (1972) and Het meisje en de madonna (1958). She was married to Hugo Michielsens. She died on 31 March 2016 in Beveren, Flanders, Belgium.
- Petrúcio Melo was born on 15 September 1950 in Santana de Ipanema, Alagoas, Brazil. He was an actor, known for As Amantes de Helen (1982), Padre Pedro E a Revolta das Crianças (1984) and Meu Cunhado (2004). He died on 31 March 2016 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- Imre Kertész was born on 9 November 1929 in Budapest, Hungary. He was a writer, known for Fateless (2005), Emelet (2006) and Csacsifogat (1984). He was married to Magda Ambrus-Sass and Albina Vas. He died on 31 March 2016 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Doug Owen was born in 1941 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He was an actor, known for Australian Playhouse (1966), Bandstand (1958) and The Go!! Show (1964). He was married to Jennifer (Jennie). He died on 31 March 2016 in Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia.- George Chatalas was born on 2 February 1938 in Seattle, Washington, USA. He was an actor, known for Drifter TKD (2008), Animus (2013) and Scorched Earth (2013). He was married to Marcia K. Lewis. He died on 31 March 2016 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
- Eugene Parker was born on 24 February 1956 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA. He died on 31 March 2016 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA.
- Knut Ørvig was born on 8 May 1924. He was an actor, known for Bare et liv - historien om Fridtjof Nansen (1968), Orions belte (1985) and Bortreist på ubestemt tid (1974). He died on 31 March 2016.
- George Cottier was born on 25 April 1922 in Céligny, Geneva, Switzerland. He died on 31 March 2016 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Tom Butters was born on 8 April 1938 in Delaware, Ohio, USA. He was married to Lynn. He died on 31 March 2016 in Durham, North Carolina, USA.
- He grew up as the son of the lawyer Kurt Genscher and the farmer's daughter Hilde Kreimein in Reideburg, then in nearby Halle, where the family moved in 1933. In 1943 he was drafted into the Second World War as an anti-aircraft assistant after leaving school at a high school in Halle. He was later deployed in the Reich Labor Service and again in military service in 1945. He was temporarily taken prisoner by the Americans, but was able to return to Halle immediately after the end of the war. There he initially made ends meet as an unskilled worker. In 1946 Genscher obtained his high school diploma. In the following 10 years, Genscher battled tuberculosis, which forced him to be hospitalized frequently. At the same time, he began studying law in Halle in 1946, which he later continued in Leipzig. After the first state law examination, Genscher worked as a court trainee in Halle from 1949 to 1952. In the meantime, the division of Germany had been sealed by the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic. Genscher moved to the Federal Republic, where he completed his studies at the University of Hamburg in 1954 with the second state examination.
Genscher's political commitment, which began in 1946 when he joined the Liberal Democratic Party, led him to the FDP in the West in 1952. In addition to his work as a lawyer in Bremen, he became involved with the local Young Democrats from 1954 onwards. From 1956 he dedicated himself to politics full-time: He initially worked in Bonn for the FDP parliamentary group, where he served as its managing director from 1959 to 1965. At the same time, he held the office of federal manager of his party from 1962 to 1964. In 1965, Genscher entered the Bundestag for the first time for the FDP, where he served as his party's parliamentary manager until 1969. In 1968 he was nominated as deputy party leader of the FDP. In Willy Brandt's social-liberal coalition government, Genscher headed the Interior Ministry from 1969 to 1974. Under Helmut Schmidt's subsequent chancellorship, he was put in charge of the Foreign Ministry, which he was to hold from 1974 to 1982.
During his 18 years as foreign minister, Genscher developed a continuous East-West dialogue that gave his détente policy a personal touch. He advocated the further development of the EC as a precursor to European unification. After the Soviet head of state and party leader Mikhail Gorbachev came to power, the German Foreign Minister strongly supported the reform process in the USSR, including with the West, which earned his détente and reconciliation course the label of "geneticism". Together with Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Genscher played a key role in the dramatic events in the fall of 1989 that led from the worsening crisis in the GDR to the waves of emigration and ultimately to the fall of the Wall. He prepared the diplomatic ground for German reunification in countless negotiations with his European neighbors, the USA and the USSR. The essential framework for achieving German unity was the integration of Germany into Europe, whose political union Genscher energetically promoted.
On May 18, 1992, Genscher resigned from the leadership of the Foreign Ministry at his own request, which passed to Klaus Kinkel. During his foreign policy work, Genscher also rose to become the leading figure in his party. From 1974 to 1985 he succeeded Walter Scheel as federal chairman of the FDP. On the occasion of the new elections in 1982, Genscher was significantly involved in the so-called "turnaround", which led to his party distancing itself from the SPD and turning to the CDU/CSU as the new coalition partner. In 1992, Hans Dietrich Genscher was made honorary chairman of the FDP. From 1994 to 1995 he accepted an honorary professorship in political science at the Free University. In 1999 he resumed his legal practice at the Büsing, Müffelmann and Theye law firm in Berlin. In 2000 he became managing partner of Hans-Dietrich Genscher Consult GmbH, providing advice, information and analysis on international, European and foreign trade issues. Although the politician continues to speak out critically in the public debate, he no longer ran for political office.
Genscher has received several awards for his services to German and European unity. For the same reason, he received the "Radio Rainbow Award" in Karlsruhe in March 2005 together with Kohl and Gorbachev. In 2014 he received the Marion Dönhoff Prize and in 2015 he was awarded the European Culture Prize.
Hans-Dietrich Genscher died on March 31, 2016 in Wachtberg-Pech. - Michael Blythe was born in 1925 in Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Outlaw Star (1998), Destination Downing Street (1957) and BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950). He died on 31 March 2016 in Winscombe, Somerset, England, UK.
- Béla Biszku was born on 13 September 1921 in Márok, Hungary [Now Márokpapi, Hungary]. He was married to Eva Beringer. He died on 31 March 2016 in Budapest, Hungary.