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Michael Dennis Henry was born August 15th, 1936. He was an athletic professional football player at the time he entered the movies. He played for the Pittsburgh Steelers (1958-61) and the Los Angeles Rams (1962-64). During part of that time (1961-64) he was under contract with Warner Brothers and played a variety of bit parts (TV's Surfside 6 (1960), Hawaiian Eye (1959), Cheyenne (1955) & the movie, Spencer's Mountain (1963)). He earned the role of Tarzan when series producer, Sy Weintraub began looking for a "younger Burt Lancaster" type, anticipating not only more Tarzan movies but a TV series as well. Weintraub was a Rams fan and had seen a TV documentary about them called Men from the Boys, produced by and featuring Mike Henry. Mike only made three Tarzan movies. He suffered animal bites, food poisoning, infections, and impossible work schedules in Mexico and especially Brazil. He wound up suing Weintraub for "maltreatment, abuse, and working conditions detrimental to my health and welfare." Just before his second Tarzan release in 1967 he was signed as Sgt. Kowalski in John Wayne's The Green Berets (1968). He made more movies, including the part of "Junior", as a naive son of Jackie Gleason, with the role of Buford T. Justice! in the Smokey and the Bandit (1977) movie set there were three.- Diana became involved in show business at a very early age, tap dancing at seven and winning a beauty contest three years later. This led to modeling sun suits for Sears Department Stores, and, eventually, to becoming a Conover model for the John Robert Powers Agency in New York. She also acquired plenty of acting practice during seven seasons of summer stock, playing assorted leads in classic plays like The Little Foxes, The Seven Year Itch (the role immortalized by Marilyn Monroe on screen!), Tobacco Road and Life With Father. From the mid-50s, she appeared on numerous live TV shows in New York and even enjoyed a second-billed leading role in a 1955 episode of Star Tonight (1955). This did not lead anywhere career-wise, so the blonde, comely-looking Diana took on further acting studies and got herself noticed with covers in popular contemporary magazines. Alas, it took a move to Hollywood for her career to really gain some traction, then, before long, she became a much-in-demand guest actress for prime-time TV shows. So much so, where by 1962, she was given the sobriquet 'Miss Emmy'.
Diana also appeared thrice on Broadway, culminating in a leading role in the comedy play Boeing-Boeing in 1962. That same year, she toured the U.S. and Canada in a National Theatre Company Production of The Seven Year Itch, opposite Eddie Bracken.
During her prolific TV appearances in the 60s, Diana accumulated screen credits on some of the most popular shows of the day, including Maverick (1957), Gunsmoke (1955), Route 66 (1960), Rawhide (1959), Perry Mason (1957), 77 Sunset Strip (1958), The Virginian (1962) and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964).
However, her undoubted career highlight came near the end of her life as an actress when producer/creator Dan Curtis offered her the juicy role of Laura Collins (an immortal Phoenix-like entity) in his cult supernatural day time series Dark Shadows (1966). Between 1966 and 1969, Diana lived and breathed this character in 62 episodes and a subsequent spin-off movie release, Night of Dark Shadows (1971). After that, her acting career ended somewhat inconspicuously.
In later years, she moved back to New York where she reinvented herself as an author of several books, including "The Power of Halloween" (dealing with supernatural themes, such as witchcraft), "How to Create Good Luck" and "I'd Rather Eat Than Act".
Between 1966 and 1968, Diana Claire Millay was married to Geoffrey Montgomery Talbot Jones, a Broadway producer, Princeton alumnus and former wartime OSS officer. Sometime during the 1990s, she worked as a promoter for Microhydrin, an antioxidant and nutritional supplement.
Diana passed away in New York on 8 January 2021 at the age of 86. - Director
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Born in Brooklyn, New York, Steve Carver received his first camera when he was eight years old. At 13 he began his formal education in photography, attending the High School of Music & Arts in Manhattan where he received training in art and music. Fascinated by techniques of creating imagery, he experimented with situations to maximize his learning experience--testing and exploring the creative limitations of the mediums.
Attending the University of Buffalo in New York on a Regents Scholarship, Carver developed an interest in photography while studying commercial art and illustration. Determined to learn the entire photographic process, he served an apprenticeship under several professional photographers and gained invaluable technical knowledge. It was his willingness to explore ideas and adapt his skills to new situations that resulted in an impressive portfolio of work.
Following the completion of his undergraduate studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, Carver accepted a fellowship to study classical arts at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Inspired by insightful portrait photography, he attempted to broaden the scope of his study by serious practice. Establishing himself as a freelance portraitist, he began his career with limited success and encouragement. Determined to work as a photographer, Carver undertook a photojournalist assignment on a documentary film. By learning the flexibility and immediacy that the work required, he gained valuable experience that contributed to his artistic vision of observed life. The experience also sowed the seed for Carver's interest in storytelling. He spent increasing amounts of time studying the creative process of filmmaking. In his final year at graduate school, Carver was a mature artist who had a passion for the visual arts and whose goals were vividly conceived. He rejected a conventional presentation of his thesis in favor of creating a film as a deliberate aesthetic choice to enhance the collective nature of his artwork with visual excitement and inventiveness. Working feverishly, Carver prepared a scenario that incorporated an assemblage of images derived from his photographs, paintings, drawings and etchings. While he labored with the arduous and complicated process, the single-minded intensity and pure ambition that he brought to the task ultimately motivated the completion of his first film. The achievement earned Carver a Master of Fine Arts degree and reinforced a new objectivity. During the next two years, Carver devoted himself to studying filmmaking while concentrating primarily on photography and art.
Resuming his freelance career, he worked as a conceptual artist, contract photographer, lecturer, film consultant and sometimes journalist. He accepted an invitation to attend a special postgraduate program in photojournalism at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. Under a core group of staff photographers from "Life" magazine, Carver began studying the techniques of pictorial journalism. By drawing upon his unique vision and the imagery of culture, he built a portfolio of photographs that explored the interstices connecting culture, art and the artist. Returning to St. Louis, he exhibited his work at a fine-arts gallery and enjoyed both critical and commercial success. That success earned Carver a teaching position at Florissant Valley College and offers of employment.
Dividing his time between working as a photography instructor and freelance photojournalist, he contributed to the "St. Louis Post-Dispatch", ABC-TV's Wide World of Sports (1981), "Architectural Digest", "National Geographic" and "Time-Life". He later became a staff photographer for United Press International, where he developed a documentary portrait style producing a significant body of work. While photojournalism inspired his creativity, Carver maintained his fascination with filmmaking. On weekends he enjoyed the challenge of experimenting and exploring its technical process by shooting and editing thousands of feet of 16mm film. For inspiration he turned to the work of documentary filmmakers and the intellectual stimulation provided by friends. Mainly self-taught, he began taking on assignments as a cameraman and film editor. While teaching photography and filmmaking at the Metropolitan Education Council in the Arts in St. Louis, he began producing educational films that documented urban life and attitudes under the auspices of the St. Louis Mayor's Council on the Arts. Subsequently, the photo-documentaries created collections of images, dramatically increasing his productivity as well as his profitability. Despite his best efforts, however, the work exhausted Carver's interests in art and photography of all kinds. At the invitation of the American Film Institute in Beverly Hills, California, he shifted the focus of his efforts and relocated to Los Angeles to pursue a formal education in filmmaking.
Over the next 20 years he gradually gave up professional photography and rarely used a still camera. While attending the fellowship program at the Center for Advanced Film Studies, Carver studied screenwriting, film directing and editing, exclusively as a student. His principal mentors were great directors, producers and actors. Their counsel contributed enormously to his education in film and provided an outstanding professional atmosphere. Through the apprenticeship program at the Directors Guild of America (DGA), Carver gained employment as an assistant director and developed a technical aptitude for the craft. As a result, he got a foothold in the movie industry and received his first directorial assignment, establishing himself as a feature film director. Directing feature films and TV-movies throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa, he made good use of the creative vision he developed through photography. While working on location in Moscow he receiving a still camera as a gift, and he renewed his interest in photography by undertaking a series of photographic expeditions throughout Russia. After his return to Los Angeles he was offered a partnership in a business, but decided to take a break from directing and turned his attention to a different kind of creative enterprise--establishing a photography business he named The Darkroom, located in Venice Beach. Its opening, however, coincided with the demise of the partnership, and Carver ran the business himself for five years--he was not only the owner but the operator, technician, educator and photographer, even doing the rentals and services that helped to support the facility. Largely self-taught, he quickly came to terms with the arduous business process. Since his technical skills relied heavily on the precepts and techniques that he learned over the previous 20 years, he began to focus his efforts on encompassing new photographic technology to stimulate diversity in his work. To maximize production, he practiced, concentrating more and more on photography, adapting his idiosyncratic working methods. Working independently, he explored the boundaries of his classical photographic vision in black-and-white, and by using applications of early chemical processes as a means of documenting the evolving ideas and facets of his work, he liberally incorporated the technology from his explorations into his photography as a means of expression. Gradually, it allowed him to produce photographs of exceptional depth and quality. As a result, The Darkroom gained popularity and increasingly attracted a core group of photographic artists and serious students.
While his techniques and methods became the subject and inspiration of a diverse body of photographs, as a portraitist Carver began creating sensuous and moody figure studies that he considered being among his highest artistic achievements. As expressive formalism incorporating a traditional classic sensibility, his portraiture provided a stylish and diverse cultural document, serving to chronicle life and culture while conveying the emotional, psychological, and spiritual as opposed to merely rendering a likeness. He also produced photo-transformations of people in motion, isolating successive stages of rapid movement by using long exposures to permit the intrusion of motion into the image, as both a means of expression and transformation. These images typically included insightful psychological compositions, involving precise staging, elaborate props, and direction. Psychologically probing and surreal, the images often involved the use of light abstractions, color-frequency alteration, long-exposure techniques, split-filter printing, solarization, and archival chemical toning. Carver became affiliated with conservators and scientists in an effort to interact with private collectors, archivists, and curators, to further the development of his work in archival preservation of historical prints and negatives. He appropriated images from archives and private collections in order to raise issues of cultural heritage. Primarily produced and used as source material for scholars and as telling documentation to ensure the preservation of cultural heritages, he created replicas and duplicates of photographs that characteristically challenged perception of its originality. While the closing of the lab allowed Carver to resume his career as a director, his ambition now is to create exceptional collections of formal portraiture for wide publication. It is his hope that these informative photographic studies will offer new interpretations and contribute to the necessary preservation of cultural heritages.- Actor
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Ed Bruce was born on 29 December 1939 in Keiser, Arkansas, USA. He was an actor, known for Public Enemies (2009), American Honey (2016) and Catch and Release (2006). He was married to Patsy Bruce and Judith Woodlee. He died on 8 January 2021 in Clarksville, Tennessee, USA.- Art Department
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Tony Curtis was born on 25 January 1937. He was an art director and production designer, known for Krull (1983), The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982) and Tales from the Crypt (1972). He was married to Yutte Stensgaard. He died on 8 January 2021.- Editor
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Neil Mahoney was born on 7 March 1977 in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA. He was an editor and producer, known for Freak Dance (2010), Funny or Die Presents... (2007) and Key and Peele (2012). He died on 8 January 2021 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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Massimo Carocci was born on 22 January 1936 in Anzio, Italy. He was an assistant director and actor, known for Un affare trasversale (1998), Il sergente Klems (1971) and Power Force (1991). He died on 8 January 2021 in Rome, Italy.- Angie Jakusz was born on 27 March 1980 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA. She was an actress, known for Lucinda's Spell (1998), Survivor (2000) and TV Guide Specials: Survivor - Palau Preview (2005). She was married to Steven Calandra. She died on 8 January 2021 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
- Ivo Niederle was born on 26 December 1929 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He was an actor, known for xXx (2002), Die Tigerin (1992) and Sanitka (1984). He was married to Vera Kríbková. He died on 8 January 2021 in Prague, Czech Republic.
- Gaynor Bunning was born on 10 July 1942 in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. She died on 8 January 2021 in Mooloolaba, Queensland, Australia.
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David Darling (March 4, 1941 - January 8, 2021) was an American cellist and composer. In 2010, he won the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album. He performed and recorded with Bobby McFerrin, Paul Winter Consort, Ralph Towner and Spyro Gyra and released many solo albums. Among these were 15 recordings for ECM.- Alberto Terrani was born on 2 June 1935 in Pontelongo, Veneto, Italy. He was an actor, known for David Copperfield (1965), La fiera della vanità (1967) and The Possessed (1972). He was married to Lucia Valentini-Terrani. He died on 8 January 2021 in Padova, Italy.
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Parke Metzer was born and raised in Edmond, Oklahoma. He wrote, edited and directed short films ever since he was 13 years old. He graduated from Edmond North High School and attended the University Oklahoma, where he studied Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Creative Media Production, and Journalism there. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and a minor in Film and Media Studies. As of 2020, he resided in Chicago, Illinois. He died on January 8, 2021 in his native Oklahoma from undisclosed causes.- Jeff Frayer was born on 18 December 1961 in Mayfield Heights, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Wings of Honneamise (1987), Moldiver (1993) and The Super Dimension Century Orguss 02 (1993). He died on 8 January 2021 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Emile Hemmen was born on 6 December 1923 in Sandweiler, Luxembourg. He was married to Marie-Jeanne Jacoby. He died on 8 January 2021 in Luxembourg.
- Werner Klumpp was born on 12 November 1928 in Baiersbronn, Germany. He died on 8 January 2021 in Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany.
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Marissa Garrido was born on 30 May 1926 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. She was a writer, known for Las gemelas (1972), Mi querida Isabel (1996) and Borrasca (1962). She was married to Agustín Sauret. She died on 8 January 2021 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.- Daniel Carvalho died on 8 January 2021 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Josep Maria Loperena was born on 25 June 1938 in Alguaire, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. He was an actor, known for L'orgia (1978), Salut i força al canut (1979) and La campanada (1980). He died on 8 January 2021 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
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Stephen Nuwer was born on 28 April 1987 in Pacific Palisades, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Pearl (2016) and Mentors. He died on 8 January 2021 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Steve Lightle was born on 19 November 1959 in Kansas, USA. Steve was married to Marianne. Steve died on 8 January 2021.
- Hana Sekine was born on 29 July 1920. She died on 8 January 2021 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK.
- Dominique Darzacq was born in 1932 in Paris, France. She was a director and writer, known for Jean-Pierre Vincent: théâtre polémique rêves collectifs (1998). She was married to Martine Spangaro . She died on 8 January 2021 in Paris, France.
- Antón Cancelas was an actor, known for Redondela (1987), El pequeño mago (2013) and Holy Night! (2011). He died on 8 January 2021 in Vigo, Galicia, Spain.
- Mario Santonastaso was born on 11 October 1937 in Castel San Giovanni, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was an actor, known for Dal primo momento che ti ho visto (1976), Casa dolce casa (1992) and Tanto piacere (1974). He died on 8 January 2021 in Bologna, Italy.
- Deborah Rhode was born on 29 January 1952 in Evanston, Illinois, USA. She was married to Ralph Cavanagh. She died on 8 January 2021 in Stanford, California, USA.
- Steve Hendrickson was born on 30 August 1966 in Richmond, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Over My Dead Body (1990), NFL Monday Night Football (1970) and The NFL on NBC (1965). He died on 8 January 2021 in Nampa, Idaho, USA.
- Eve Branson was born on 12 July 1924 in Edmonton, Middlesex, England, UK. She was married to Edward James Branson. She died on 8 January 2021 in the UK.
- Colin McDonald was born on 17 November 1928 in Glen Iris, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He was married to Lois Ahlston . He died on 8 January 2021 in Melbourne, Australia.
- Antonín Linhart was born on 3 April 1940 in Prague, Protektorát Cechy a Morava [now Czech Republic]. He died on 8 January 2021 in Prague, Czech Republic.
- Katharine Whitehorn was born on 17 March 1928 in Hendon, North London, England, UK. She was a writer, known for In Their Opinion (1962), A Question of News (1971) and Bullseye (1981). She was married to Gavin Lyall. She died on 8 January 2021 in Hampstead, London, England, UK.
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Jim Inman was born on 2 March 1931 in Somerset, Kentucky, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Dallas (1978), The Young and the Restless (1973) and Romance Theatre (1982). He died on 8 January 2021 in Palm Springs, California, USA.- Bill Nankeville died on 8 January 2021 in Laleham, Surrey, England, UK.
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Michael Fonfara was born on 11 August 1946 in Stevensville, Ontario, Canada. He is known for Rock & Rule (1983), A Decade Under the Influence (2003) and Boiling Ice: Lou Reed (1975). He died on 8 January 2021 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.