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- Stephen Mines was born on 3 February 1939 in Muskegon, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for Star Trek (1966), Days of Our Lives (1965) and As the World Turns (1956). He was married to Elizabeth Ann Butts and Michele. He died on 21 May 2019.
- Royce Mills was born on 12 May 1942 in Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Chastity Belt (1972), History of the World: Part I (1981) and Real Life (1984). He was married to Una Morriss. He died on 21 May 2019.
- Writer
- Director
- Actor
Yavuz Özkan was a Turkish film director, screenwriter, and producer who was active in the Turkish film industry from the 1970s to the 2000s. He is best known for his films that deal with social and political issues, and for his collaborations with some of the leading actors of Turkish cinema.
Özkan began his career as an assistant director on several films in the early 1970s. He made his directorial debut in 1975 with the film "Anayurt Oteli" (The Hotel Anatolia), which was a critical and commercial success. The film won several awards at the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, including the award for Best Film.
Özkan went on to direct a number of successful films, including "Nehir" (The River, 1977), "Yol" (The Road, 1982), and "Hakkari'de Bir Mevsim" (A Season in Hakkari, 1983). These films are known for their realistic portrayal of Turkish society and for their strong political messages.
Özkan was also a prolific screenwriter. He wrote the screenplays for many of his own films, as well as for films directed by other directors. He was a member of the Writers' Union of Turkey and was awarded the union's Grand Prize for his screenplay for the film "Yol".
Özkan was a leading figure in Turkish cinema for over three decades. His films were widely acclaimed by critics and audiences alike, and he won numerous awards for his work. He was a committed and passionate filmmaker who used his films to explore important social and political issues.
In addition to his work in film, Özkan was also active in theater and television. He directed several plays and television series, and he was a member of the board of directors of the Istanbul State Theater.
Özkan passed away in 2019 at the age of 76. He is survived by his wife and two children. His legacy lives on through his films, which continue to be screened and studied by film lovers around the world.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Rev D. Wayne Love was born on 27 April 1960 in Basildon, Essex, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Definitely, Maybe (2008), The Sopranos (1999) and The Football Factory (2004). He died on 21 May 2019 in the UK.- Joe Yablonsky was born on 29 December 1928 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. He died on 21 May 2019 in The Villages, Florida, USA.
- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Dennis Farnon (born 13 August 1923) was a Canadian musical arranger, composer and orchestra conductor.
Dennis Farnon was born in 1923 in Toronto, Canada as John Denis Farnon to Robert and Elsie Farnon (née Menzies). He grew up in a musical family, and learned to play the trumpet at age 12. Through his older brother Robert, he enlisted into the Canadian Army Band, also travelling to Europe to entertain the Allied troops during the last years of the war. In his mid-20's, he moved to Chicago where he played in jazz clubs and pursued studies in conducting, arranging, and orchestration, strongly influenced by the works of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Béla Bartók and Sergey Prokofiev.
Several years later, he accepted an invitation to Hollywood as musical director for singer Johnny Holiday, and he stayed, continuing to compose, conduct and arrange. In 1956, he was tapped by RCA Records to head their West Coast A & R and signed on as producer, arranger and recording artist. During that time, the Dennis Farnon Orchestra recorded numerous albums, including Magoo in Hi-Fi, over 10 episodes of Mr Magoo cartoon shorts, Chet Atkins in Hollywood, Velvet Carpet - The George Shearing's Quintet, The Enchanted Woods, Songs From The Motion Picture Gigi with singers Gogi Grant and Tony Martin (American singer), and Caution! Men Swinging.
In 1957, he was one of the five founding members (along with Paul Weston, Lloyd Dunn, Jesse Kaye, and Sonny Burke) of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (now known as The Recording Academy) - the organisation which bestows the annual Grammy Awards.
In the early 1960s he moved to London, where he learnt about library music and signed up with a number of publishing companies such as Boosey and Hawkes, KPM (now EMI) and Chappell Music. Over the course of the next 20 years, he went on to compose and publish a large volume of library music licensed for film, television, radio and other media. The styles ranged from jazz, funk, drama and romantic to his personal favourite, comedy music, which more recently has appeared in The Ren and Stimpy Show and SpongeBob SquarePants. His movie credits include the score for the 1966 Tony Curtis film Arrivederci, Baby!. For television, he composed music for some episodes of the British children's series Follyfoot (1971) and wrote the theme for the London Weekend Television production Bouquet of Barbed Wire (1976).
As with his brothers Brian and Robert, Dennis Farnon specialised in light music and orchestral arrangements of well-known standards, sometimes writing under the pseudonyms of Paul Gerard and John Dennis.
Farnon resided for a short time in Cascais, Portugal, where he worked with various Portuguese composers-singers including Fernando Tordo, Carlos do Carmo and Sérgio Borges. He eventually moved again and settled in the Netherlands. He continued writing, producing solo and chamber pieces with the classical guitarist Yves Storms and composing various short piano pieces. In the mid-1990s he was invited to the Hilversum recording studios to work with the celebrated Dutch Metropole Orchestra on a digitally recorded version of the Mother Magoo Suite.
The films Reversal of Fortune (1990), Fever Pitch (2005) and numerous popular television series such as Spiderman, Doctor Who, Sons and Daughters, Prisoner (TV series) and Flying Doctors also carry credits for his work.
He continued to write short piano compositions right up until his death, always favouring lighthearted comical tunes to make people laugh, with titles such as The Camel with the Wooden Leg, Two Doves on a Chimneypot, Grass Valley and Friend, Ms. Penguin and Twinkletoes and Me.
He died in Aalst, Buren on May 21, 2019 at the age of 95.- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Densey Clyne was born on 4 December 1922 in Risca, Wales, UK. She was a director and writer, known for Natural World (1983), Webs of Intrigue (1992) and The World About Us (1967). She was married to Peter Clyne. She died on 21 May 2019 in Wauchope, New South Wales, Australia.- She billed herself as Baby Jane Dexter to distinguish herself from her mother Jane Nesbitt Dexter, who was an actress. She died of heart failure and complications of diabetes at the Lillian Booth Actors Home. She performed in nightclubs in the New York area and had performed at Kennedy Center and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. She released five albums from 1993 to 2008. She had developed a program called Healing Through Entertainment, which, through personal stories and songs, coached women to cope with depression, domestic violence, homelessness and rape.
- Make-Up Department
Vladimír Petrina was born on 8 October 1921 in Czechoslovakia. He is known for Three Wishes for Cinderella (1973), Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977) and Hvezda jede na jih (1959). He died on 21 May 2019.- Arnold Hottinger was born on 6 December 1926 in Basel, Switzerland. He was married to Elizabeth Craig. He died on 21 May 2019 in Zug, Zug, Switzerland.
- Director
- Cinematographer
- Editor
Roz Payne was born on 25 October 1940 in Patterson, New Jersey, USA. She was a director and cinematographer, known for What We Want, What We Believe: The Black Panther Party Library (2006), The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015) and Hippies (2007). She was married to Arnold Payne and Serge Ernandez. She died on 21 May 2019 in Richmond, Vermont, USA.- Dave Bookman was born on 30 May 1960 in Ontario, Canada. He died on 21 May 2019 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Jüri Aarma was born on 30 May 1951 in Kirovsksya oblast, RSFSR, USSR. He was an actor, known for Pihlakaväravad (1982), Jüri Rumm (1994) and Löö vastu (1975). He died on 21 May 2019.
- Additional Crew
- Art Department
- Production Designer
Roslaw Szaybo was born on 13 August 1933 in Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland. He was a production designer, known for Quo vadis (2001), With Fire and Sword (1999) and Battle of Warsaw 1920 (2011). He died on 21 May 2019 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Director
- Writer
- Cinematographer
Rik Kuypers was born on 11 April 1925 in Mortsel, Flanders, Belgium. He was a director and writer, known for Meeuwen sterven in de haven (1955), Atcha (1954) and Adieu Filippi (1967). He died on 21 May 2019 in Lima, Peru.- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Roland Helia was born on 28 October 1955 in Kleinmachnow, German Democratic Republic. He was an assistant director, known for Die Schauspielerin (1988), Fahrschule (1986) and Darf ich Petruschka zu dir sagen? (1981). He died on 21 May 2019 in Stahnsdorf, Brandenburg, Germany.- Binyavanga Wainaina was born on 18 January 1971 in Nakuru, Kenya. He died on 21 May 2019 in Nairobi, Kenya.