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- Educated at Loreto College, North Great George's Street, Dublin. Joined Gaiety School of Acting in 1947, began acting professionally with the Radio Éireann Players in 1948, later joining the Abbey Theatre company. She soon became recognised as a character actress of exceptional force and talent. Received Jacob's Television Award in 1964 for her performance as Winnie in Beckett's Happy Days. Won nationwide popularity as Mrs Kennedy in the Radio Éireann serial 'The Kennedys of Castleross'. She later played with the Royal Shakespeare Company, toured France and Canada, and appeared on television and in films.
- He studied in Leninakan Art College and Theatre Studio, then finished at the Acting Department of Yerevan Institute of Fine Arts and Theatre. Since 1953 he has performed in the Sundukyan Drama Theatre of Yerevan. He also directed many successful productions, best of them Maxim Gorky's "The Lower Depths". His cinema career began in 1955. His famous roles in Aybolit-66 (1967), Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967), Mimino (1977) earned him the reputation of one of the leading comedy actors in the Soviet Union. But that reputation sometimes overshadowed his real talent and emotional deepness which he put in such classics of Armenian cinema as Yerankyuni (1967),_Menq enq, mer sarere (1970)_, Hayrik (1973), Life Triumphs (1977), Hin oreri yerge (1982), Tango of Our Childhood (1985). Certainly he was the most famous and internationally recognized Armenian artist of the 2nd half of 20th century.
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Axel Corti was born on 7 May 1933 in Paris, France. He was a director and actor, known for Wohin und zurück - Teil 3: Welcome in Vienna (1986), Radetzkymarsch (1994) and The King's Whore (1990). He was married to Cecily Corti. He died on 29 December 1993 in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria.- Robert Lankesheer was born on 28 April 1914 in Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Doctor Who (1963), Lilli Palmer Theatre (1955) and The Avengers (1961). He died on 29 December 1993 in London, England, UK.
- June Wurster was born on 8 June 1925 in the USA. She was an actress, known for Racket Squad (1950). She died on 29 December 1993 in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
- Aliman Zhankorozova was born on 31 December 1914 in Sary-Tologoy, Semirechye Oblast, Turkestan Governor-Generalship, Russian Empire [now Tup District, Issyk Kul Region, Kyrgyzstan]. She was an actress, known for The Mischievous Boy (1978), Jamilya (1969) and Three Days in July (1978). She died on 29 December 1993.
- Nicolas Economou was born in Nicosia, Cyprus in 1953. At the age of five, he started taking piano lessons and very soon he revealed his extraordinary talent by improvising on the piano and composing short pieces of music. In 1964, after an audition, he was accepted at the Special School of Music of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, a preparatory school for youngsters to enter the Conservatory. In December of that year, in Athens, he won the "Keti Papaioannou" Panhellenic Competition for young musicians up to the age of seventeen. The following year at the age of twelve, he begun his musical studies in Moscow. At the age of sixteen, he participated in the Tchaikovsky competition, gaining favourable reviews from the Press, Radio and Television. A year later, he was admitted to the Tchaikovsky Conservatory itself. After Moscow he moved to Dusseldorf and then to Munich, Germany. From his new base there he established himself throughout Europe as a concert pianist, composer (he studied composition with the Russian Vladislav Zolotorev), arranger, conductor and organiser of music festivals.
As a performer he appeared in Europe, the USA and Canada as well as the USSR, Japan, Iceland, and Israel. He performed solo, with orchestras and other famous performers and composers like Martha Argerich, Rodion Shchedrin, Siatoslav Richter, Michel Beroff, Chick Corea and others. Apart from performing in concert with Martha Argerich and Chick Corea, he also recorded with them. The record with Chick Corea, entitled " On Two Pianos", was the result of a series of concerts in Germany in 1981/82 during which the two musicians would interact with each other by improvising in their own style.
In addition to the records mentioned above, he also released two other solo albums.
As a composer he wrote music for piano, for small ensembles, symphonic music and film music. Many of his compositions have themes and rhythms from Cyprus and the Mediterranean. Some of his compositions are: "Children Studies", "Sonata for Chick" (dedicated to Chick Corea) for piano, "Cyprus Pictures" and "Cyprus Dances" for an eight piece musical ensemble (octet), the soundtracks for twelve films including "Rosa Luxemburg" and "Die bleierne Zeit", both by Margarethe von Trotta.
In 1978, with the collaboration of the City of Munich, Nicolas organised a "Cyprus Week" in Munich, with artists from Cyprus including actors, musicians, painters, sculptors and the late shadow performer, Paphios. He was also the founder of the "Solisten Ensemble" in Munich with which he performed some of his compositions and those of other composers. He was the co-founder of the well - established "Munich Summer Piano Festival". In February 1992 he organised in Venice the first of a series of piano festivals he intended to establish in Europe with the title "Pianisti non Solo".
As a conductor he directed the distinguished Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Bavarian Symphony Orchestra, Germany's Youth Orchestra and the La Fenice Opera Orchestra of Venice.
As an acknowledgement of his services and contribution to Culture and the Arts in general, Nicolas was honoured on various occasions by several bodies. The city of Munich honoured him in 1979 for his contribution to the Arts, as a composer and interpreter of classical and modern music, with the award for "Best Interpreter of the Year". In 1983, the Bavarian TV produced a television portrait of Nicolas, more than an hour in duration, in which he is shown in all facets of his creative life. The film, called "Kreisleriana", was directed by Klaus Voswinkel. Since 1988, a seat bearing his name has stood in the Prinzregententheatr of the City of Munich, next to seats of other prominent artists. Because of his outstanding contribution to music, he was accepted in 1992 into one of Europe's prominent societies, the Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea (The European Academy of Sciences and Arts) members of which are Nobel Prize winners, politicians, artists, church dignitaries and others. In Cyprus he was honoured with the "Tevkros Anthias and Theodosis Pierides" Award. - Eino Taimisto was born on 27 February 1907. He died on 29 December 1993.
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Fredbjørn Bjørnsson was born on 10 September 1926 in Denmark. He was an actor, known for Forelsket i København (1960), Mit navn er ... (1963) and I de lyse nætter (1948). He died on 29 December 1993 in Denmark.- Additional Crew
Czeslaw Bilski was born on 9 October 1949 in Sosnowiec, Slaskie, Poland. He is known for Kawalerskie zycie na obczyznie (1992). He died on 29 December 1993 in Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland.- Gyula Xantus was born on 28 December 1919 in Borosbenedek, Hungary [now Benic, Romania]. He was an actor, known for Eszkimó asszony fázik (1984). He died on 29 December 1993 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Benvenuto Lobina was born on 8 January 1914 in Villanova Tulo, Sardinia, Italy. He died on 29 December 1993 in Sassari, Sardinia, Italy.