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- Actor
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Michael Craze was born on 29 November 1942 in Cornwall and got into acting quite by chance as, at the age of twelve, he discovered through Boy Scout Gang Shows that he had a perfect boy soprano voice. This led him to win parts in "The King and I" and "Plain and Fancy", both at Drury Lane, and "Damn Yankees" at the Coliseum. Once he had left school, he went into repertory and got into TV through his agent. His first televison was a show called "Family Solicitor" for Granada which was followed for Granada which was followed, amongst others, by a part in ABC TV's 1960 series "Target Luna" (written by Malcolm Hulke and Eric Price and produced by Sydney Newman). When he was twenty Michael wrote, directed and acted in a film called "The Golden Head" which won an award at the Commonwealth Film Festival in Cardiff. Following Doctor Who, Michael worked on several ITV productions, including one episode (The Last Visitor) of Hammer Films' first TV series "Journey to the Unknown" in 1968. In the eighties Michael acted only occasionally and also managed a pub.- Music Department
- Composer
- Actor
British composer, primarily of film scores. From a military family and the son of a Royal Field Artillery colonel, John Mervyn Addison was born March 16, 1920, in Chobham, Surrey, and attended Wellington College, Berkshire, with plans for a military career. His interest and talent for music intervened, and he left Wellington for the Royal College of Music. With the opening of the Second World War, however, he was diverted back to the military and spent the war in a tank unit of the 22nd Hussars, being wounded in Normandy and rising to the rank of captain. After the war, he returned to the Royal College of Music, specializing in composition, clarinet, and oboe. By age 30, he had been made a professor of composition. He had previously won the RCM's Sullivan Award for Composition and was soon deluged with commissions for new compositions. He produced a wide variety of concerti, chamber pieces, and ballets. Although his first music for a film came in 1942 for Roy Boulting's Thunder Rock, his score was not used, and it was 1950 before he truly entered his principal profession, that of film composer. He scored numerous prominent films, among them Seven Days to Noon, Look Back in Anger, The Entertainer, and Tom Jones, for which he won an Academy Award. He received another Oscar nomination for his score to Sleuth, and a BAFTA nomination for his music for A Bridge Too Far, coincidentally the story of a World War II battle in which he himself had participated. In the late 1970s, Addison moved to the United States and focused a good deal of his work on television productions, most famously creating the popular theme music to the TV series Murder She Wrote. He died following a stroke, on December 7, 1998, in Bennington, Vermont. He was survived by his wife Pamela, 2 stepchildren, and 3 of his four biological children.- Writer
- Additional Crew
Tim Kelly was born on October 2, 1931, in Saugus, Massachusetts, to Francis Seymour Kelley and wife Mary Edna Furey. He had two sisters, Jackie Hayes and Patricia Schultz.
Kelly began writing when he was about 12 years old. He entered a contest, using his maternal grandmother's name on one and his mother's name on the other (unbeknownst to them!) because the contest was in a publication catering to women--and they were both published. Thus began his devotion to writing.
Kelly was one of the most prolific American writers ever, with more than 300 plays to his credit. His works--which include comedies, dramas, one-acts, mysteries, melodramas, children's shows and musicals--have been produced by New York's Studio Ensemble Theatre, Royal Court Rep, Apple Corps, Manhattan Theatre Club, Los Angeles Actor's Theatre, Aspen Playwright's Festival, the Seattle Repertory Company, and countless other theaters around the world. He thoroughly enjoyed writing plays specifically for high-school students to perform. A television and screenwriter as well, Kelly penned such films as Cry of the Banshee (1970) and Sugar Hill (1974). Critics would often marginalize his work, but Kelly's presence in amateur theater is still felt today. His work continues to be performed all over the world - constantly.- Daniel Lee Corwin was born on 13 September 1958 in Garden Grove, California, USA. He died on 7 December 1998 in Huntsville, Texas, USA.
- Doris Hume was born on 4 December 1922 in Battle Creek, Michigan, USA. Doris was a writer, known for Susan Slade (1961), Cavalcade of America (1952) and Studio 57 (1954). Doris died on 7 December 1998 in Battle Creek, Michigan, USA.
- Azalea Djacic was born on 18 November 1908 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She was an actress, known for Kamiondzije (1972) and Ko ce da spase oraca (1969). She died on 7 December 1998 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia.