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- Harry Hill was born in Aberdeen, Scotland. He was educated in Aberdeen Grammar School and then undertook an honors degree course in English at Aberdeen University. He began performing in a choir to overcome a stammer, and got his first taste of acting at university when he appeared in several student shows. He made his own puppet shows and went around primary schools entertaining his fellow students.
His Edinburgh-born father had moved to Aberdeen as manager of the SAI fertilizer factory. His mother came from Musselburgh.
During his studies at Aberdeen University, Hill excelled in both comedy and drama.
On graduating with honors in English, he took up a year-long appointment at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, a popular first posting for Aberdeen English graduates at that time. Thereafter, he attempted to launch a career in the theatre but had a hard struggle finding work. A season of summer stock in Alberta and a tour with Vancouver Playhouse tided him over until he spent 12 months as the artistic director of a new theatre company in Victoria, British Columbia.
In 1969, he returned to university work, lecturing in English at Winona State College, Minnesota. The following year, he joined the English department of Concordia University, Montreal, as lecturer assistant, rising to associate professor. From then until he took early retirement from the university, in 1999, he enjoyed a dual career of academic and actor. He appears to have been as much at home in the lecture-room as he was in the theatre. A former student testified that, in the opinion of numerous former students, he was "quite simply the best teacher" they had ever had.
Hill was equally comfortable on radio, stage, film and television. He first taught English at Loyola College was also an associate professor of English at Concordia University until June, 1999, as well as a published writer (A Voice for the Theatre, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1984) and recording artist.
Before coming to Canada in 1963, he performed frequently at His Majesty's Theatre in Aberdeen in musicals, operetta and opera as well as in the modern and classical repertory.
In all he did, he was committed to the cultured life, and the vitality of the arts in the lives of all with whom he came in contact. He had expensive, but refined cultural tastes.
He did a great deal of voice work in film and television. He was probably best known for lending his plummy voice to the stuffy, rheumatism-plagued old raven Jacob Scribble in the Canadian cartoon series 'Wunschpunsch'.
Sadly, Jacob was his final acting role. He suffered from poor health in his last years and died of a short illness in Montreal in August 2005, at the age of 64. - Hal Frank was born on 6 September 1936 in Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Thief (1981), Somewhere in Time (1980) and Class (1983). He died on 18 August 2005 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Henri Génès was born on 3 July 1919 in Tarbes, Hautes-Pyrénées, France. He was an actor, known for Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966), L'oeil en coulisses (1953) and To Hell with the Virtue (1953). He was married to Jeannette Batti, Christiane Greslon and Raymonde Malville. He died on 18 August 2005 in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine, France.- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Meredith M. Nicholson was born on 11 March 1913 in Crawfordsville, Indiana, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for The Fugitive (1963), Frankenstein's Daughter (1958) and Get Smart (1965). He died on 18 August 2005 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Jensen Collier was born on 19 September 1947 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA. She was an actress, known for Murder, She Wrote (1984), Hunter (1984) and Moonlighting (1985). She was married to Erich Collier (I). She died on 18 August 2005 in Redlands, California, USA.
- Elza Radzina was born on 10 February 1917 in Kharkov, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. She was an actress, known for Teatris (1978), King Lear (1970) and Tayna chyornykh drozdov (1983). She died on 18 August 2005 in Riga, Latvia.
- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Martin Eckermann was born on 27 November 1930 in Wittenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for Tierparkgeschichten (1989), Wege übers Land (1968) and Die Verschworenen (1971). He died on 18 August 2005 in Berlin, Germany.- Animation Department
- Art Department
- Writer
Fred Carrillo was born in 1926 in Aklan, Philippines. Fred was a writer, known for The Transformers: The Movie (1986), Dino-Riders (1988) and The Transformers (1984). Fred died on 18 August 2005 in California, USA.- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Ronaldo Lupo was born on 18 December 1913 in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. He was an actor and producer, known for As Aventuras de Chico Valente (1968), O Supercareta (1972) and Trabalhou Bem, Genival (1955). He died on 18 August 2005 in Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.- Antonio García de Pedro was born on 17 January 1925 in Texas, USA. He died on 18 August 2005 in Pomona, California, USA.
- Déda Papez was born on 23 April 1916 in Prague, Cechy, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republik]. He was an actor, known for Na lane (1963), Valcík pro milión (1961) and Jeste svatba nebyla (1954). He died on 18 August 2005 in Prague, Czech Republic.
- Freddy Alborta was born in 1932 in Bolivia. He died on 18 August 2005 in La Paz, Bolivia.
- Writer
- Sound Department
Jean-Pierre Desaulniers was born in 1946 in Shawinigan, Québec, Canada. He was a writer, known for Babel 78 (1973) and Fred-dy (2001). He died on 18 August 2005 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.