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- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Songwriter ("I'll Remember April", "Cow Cow Boogie", "Teach Me Tonight"), composer, pianist, singer and arranger, educated at Benjamin Franklin High School and in private piano study. He was a pianist in dance orchestras, and toured theatres as a singer, also arranging music for vocal groups before working under contract to film studios. He served in the US Army during World War II. For Broadway, he wrote the stage score for "Li'l Abner". Joining ASCAP in 1941, his chief musical collaborators included Johnny Mercer and Don Raye, and his other popular-song compositions include "Mister Five by Five", "He's My Guy", "Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet", "Love Me", "Star Eyes", "You Don't Know What Love Is", "Irresistible You", "When You're In Love", "Lonesome Polecat", "Sobbin' Women", "Love In a Home", "If I Had My Druthers", "The Country's in the Very Best of Hands", "Namely You", "Jubilation T. Cornpone", "Your Red Wagon", "A Song Was Born", "Pigfoot Pete", "You Can't Run Away from It", and "Temporarily".- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Special Effects
Born in El Reno, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), Kenneth Peach entered the film industry in 1923 and became a director of photography in 1926. He worked with composite processes, miniatures, montages and matte shots for Tiffany Pictures for two years, then joined Fred Jackman's technical effects department at Warner Bros.- First National for three years. In 1931 he joined RKO Pictures' special effects department. In 1933 he began a long association with producer Hal Roach of Hal Roach Studios, where he shot many of the comedy shorts of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.- George Clutesi was born in 1905 in Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada. He was an actor, known for Prophecy (1979), Nightwing (1979) and Dreamspeaker (1976). He died on 27 February 1988 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
- Günther Heising was born on 10 February 1919 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for Tatort (1970), Stammheim - The Baader-Meinhof Gang on Trial (1986) and Die Melchiors (1972). He died on 27 February 1988 in Hamburg, West Germany.
- Neil Collins was born on 14 June 1904 in New York. He was an actor, known for General Electric Theater (1953) and Dragnet (1951). He died on 27 February 1988 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Afro Poli was born on 22 December 1902 in Pisa, Tuscany, Italy. He was an actor, known for Tosca (1956), Lucia di Lammermoor (1946) and Love of a Clown - Pagliacci (1948). He died on 27 February 1988 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Director
- Writer
- Music Department
Vakhtang Vronsky was born on 10 September 1905 in Tiflis, Russian Empire [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia]. He was a director and writer, known for Lileya (1959), Pesni nad Dneprom (1958) and Zvezda baleta (1965). He died on 27 February 1988 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine].