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- Harry Landis was an English character actor of Polish parentage, born in impoverished circumstances in the Jewish East End of London. As a youngster, he worked a variety of short-lived jobs, including in a café pouring tea, as a window cleaner and as a milkman. His love of theater eventually led him to performing with a variety troupe during the war years, mostly in parks and air raid shelters. At the age of twenty and having completed his military service, Landis received a grant from the London County Council to study for three years at the Central School of Speech and Drama. He then acted with the Elizabethan Theatre Company (in Shakespearean roles) and in repertory theatre before making his screen bow in 1955. Landis was essentially regarded as a 'working class actor' and cast accordingly. One of his first leading roles was in Arnold Wesker's play The Kitchen. He later also turned to direction, notably with Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman at the Unity Theatre in 1966 and in the capacity of artistic director of the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury. On the screen, he tended to portray army privates, barkeeps, tradesmen, passengers and generally unassuming average Joe's. More specifically, Landis has been familiar to television audiences as the insufferable Mr. Morris in the sitcom Friday Night Dinner (2011) and as Polish barber Felix Kawalski in 53 episodes of EastEnders (1985). He also played Fagin's accomplice Toby Crackit in Oliver Twist (1962) and popped up multiple times as different characters in Dixon of Dock Green (1955). His film resume includes small roles in such wartime dramas as Hell in Korea (1956) (with a very young Michael Caine far down in the cast list), Bitter Victory (1957), Dunkirk (1958) and Private Potter (1963). Landis was president of the actor's union Equity from 2002 to 2008. Between 1994 and 2001 he also served as director of the Equity Charitable Trust.
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William Klein was born on 19 April 1926 in Manhattan, New York, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (1966), Le couple témoin (1977) and Far from Vietnam (1967). He was married to Jeanne Florin. He died on 11 September 2022 in Paris, France.- Director
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Alain Tanner was born on 6 December 1929 in Geneva, Switzerland. He was a director and writer, known for Charles, Dead or Alive (1969), In the White City (1983) and Return from Africa (1973). He was married to Janine Giudici. He died on 11 September 2022 in Geneva, Canton de Genève, Switzerland.- Actor
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Krishnamraju was born on 20 January 1940 in Mogultur, Andhra Pradesh, India. He was an actor and producer, known for Bobbili Brahmanna (1984), Tandra Paparayudu (1986) and Amaradeepam (1977). He was married to Syamala Devi and Seeta Devi. He died on 11 September 2022 in India.- Director
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Director, author, producer (* August 11, 1954 in Ludwigshafen - + September 11, 2022 in Unterdießen)
"Roland Reber's films are finds of an independent cinema that is rare in the international cinema landscape." (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Fritz Göttler)
Roland Reber was a writer, actor and director throughout his life, a rebel, dreamer and fantasist.
Reber began writing poems, essays and plays at a young age. He trained as a nurse for two years before going to the Bochum Drama School (under the artistic direction of Peter Zadek) in 1976 to study acting and devote more time to writing. He played, among other things, at the Schauspielhaus Bochum, in Essen with Hansgünther Heyme, in Düsseldorf, Lünen, Kingston/Jamaica, played in the SDR series Die kleine Heimat alongside Hanns Dieter Hüsch and had numerous guest appearances with his interpretation of Dario Fo's Mistero Buffo in German-speaking countries .
In his first feature film You have bent my soul like a beautiful dancer from 1979, he cast the roles with both professionals, such as ensemble members from the Bochum Schauspielhaus, as well as with talented amateur actors. The script served as a suggestion and the entire team had a say in the design. Reber has remained true to this principle in all of his other theater, film and book projects.
In 1980, Reber staged his play allsam at the Curio House in Hamburg, an experienced relationship drama that caused a lot of excitement thanks to its intense and drastic portrayal: "Extase, tenderness and cruelty" (Hamburger Morgenpost). The scandal of this production was the honesty with which sexuality and violent fantasies were portrayed on stage. For some it was pathological, for others it was great drama. The Theater Pathology Institute (TPI) was born: "Just as in pathology corpses are opened to determine the cause of suffering, the Theater Pathology Institute wants to uncover the illness of society and the theater." (Roland Reber)
The TPI, which later called itself the Theater Institute (TI), had a permanent venue in the Künstlerforumschulenburg in Hattingen and, from 1985, at the Heinz Hilpert Theater in Lünen.
From the late 80s, Reber moved to countries such as Egypt, Mexico, India and especially Jamaica as a theater maker and privately. In 1989, the TI developed into the world theater project WTP (in collaboration with the German, Russian, Caribbean and Mexican UNESCO Commission as part of the United Nations World Decade for Cultural Development). The ensemble of the world theater project was made up of artists from different countries such as Jamaica, Germany and India, who developed and performed the plays together with Reber in each country - theater as dialogue. During this time he taught acting and directing in Moscow, New Delhi, Cairo and the Caribbean.
At the turn of the millennium, Reber devoted himself entirely to film again; the artist community wtp-kollektiv was created, a dynamic team that jointly designs projects and now consists of the film production wtp international GmbH and wtp-verlag - always independent in order to ensure creative freedom preserve.
With his feature films under his belt, Reber continued to travel the globe to numerous international film festivals, audience discussions and workshops to discuss the films and his style of collaborative, independent filmmaking. He received six international awards for his direction. He was an international jury member at the Cairo, Alexandria, Sitges/Spain, Fantasporto/Portugal and Dakha/Bangladesh Film Festivals. 2003-2007 he was the official representative of the Cairo International Film Festival for Germany and general representative for the Damascus International Film Festival for Europe.
Reber had a special relationship with Hof. As early as October 1986 he performed his piece allam at the Hofer Herbst. 19 years later, he became a regular guest with his films at the Hof Film Festival and discussed regularly and passionately with the Hof audience, even when he was already in a wheelchair after a stroke in 2015. On the occasion of his death, the Hof Film Festival 2022 dedicated the Roland Reber & wtp-kollektiv homage to this "exceptional artist" and "life rebel". It was a moving farewell to Roland and also a departure for the entire wtp collective, which accompanied this retrospective, discussed it with the audience and presented the new projects. Even though Roland was an integral part of the wtp collective, the wtp collective continues to be creative with new film and book productions.
He will not live to see his final works published; Reber died in 2022, one day before his multimedia book psst... Gedichte . Gedanken . Geschichten went to print, his most personal work, a kind of quintessence of his artistic work. His words and ideas live on.
Roland Reber on filmmaking: "We are not a company that produces films, we are filmmakers. And for me that is a creative adventure and a holistic process - and one that is fun. I'm not a tamer who tells actors or film crew how to function. I see myself more as a conductor who simply coordinates the soloists and brings them together into a harmonious orchestra. That's my definition of teamwork, so they're not "my" films, they're "our" films."
"Almost every topic is now ignored in the media: you get married on television, you cook, you look for a partner, you remodel your house, you save animals - everything becomes a multimedia show, everything is staged. The current media situation is only a mirror of our own lives, which everyone stages for themselves, but not according to their needs, but according to what is most effective for the viewer or the "ratings". I only think about its meaning when the film is in the cinema and I discuss it with the audience. If I had a prefabricated interpretation from the outset, it would mean depriving the film, and ultimately the viewer, of the vision of their own thoughts. I see my style of cinema as an adventure of one's own mind that provokes thought."
"The way we work is characterized by the fact that it is not. I refuse to force myself into a corset. And when we give interviews or speak in front of an audience, it always looks like a stylistic device, it always looks like, yes, almost dogma, but that's not it. I always surprise myself that the films get finished. I always wonder what they look like. And always ask myself, how could this happen? That's the way we work, that we don't have any. Creativity perhaps. But that's part of any filmmaking. At least it should."- Director
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Sven Strömerstén Holm was born on 12 June 1954 in Malmö Sankt Pauli, Malmö, Skåne, Sweden. He was a director and actor, known for Hvide løgne (1998), The Bridge (2011) and I lagens namn (1986). He was married to Åsa Marie Sigurdsdotter Strömerstén. He died on 11 September 2022 in Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden.- Actor
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David Dwyer was born on 20 August 1955 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for A Dave in the Life and Orang-U: An Ape Goes to College (2017). He was married to Judi Dwyer. He died on 11 September 2022 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.- Writer
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Javier Marías was born on 20 September 1951 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. He was a writer and actor, known for El desastre de Annual (1970), While the Women Are Sleeping (2016) and El último viaje de Robert Rylands (1996). He was married to Carme López Mercader. He died on 11 September 2022 in Madrid, Spain.- Linda Dyer was born on 19 October 1947 in Anadarko, Oklahoma, USA. She was an actress, known for Little Big Man (1970). She was married to Mark Daniel . She died on 11 September 2022 in Sallisaw, Oklahoma, USA.
- Arnold Fisher was married to Sally Ogden. Arnold died on 11 September 2022 in Pine Plains, New York, USA.
- Elias Theodorou was born on 31 May 1988 in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for Red Door and Lemon Tree, The Listener (2009) and Clusterf*ck (2017). He died on 11 September 2022 in Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada.
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Ken Howard was born on 26 December 1932 in Neasden, London, England, UK. Ken is known for Rumpole of the Bailey (1978). Ken was married to Bertolutti Dora, Annie Popham and Gaa Köhler Christa. Ken died on 11 September 2022 in the UK.- Actor
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Ryszard Parol was an actor, known for Autumn Girl (2021), Charon (2015) and Na dobre i na zle (1999). He died on 11 September 2022.- Rebecca Ansley was born on 10 May 1960. She was an actress, known for Misery or the 4 Ambiguities (2004). She died on 11 September 2022 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Monica Burger was born on 30 January 1986. She died on 11 September 2022.
- Roy Schmidt was an actor, known for Number One (1969) and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (1999). He was married to Nancy. He died on 11 September 2022 in Athens, Georgia, USA.
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John O'Malley was born on 11 June 1927 in Titusville, Ohio, USA. John is known for The Vatican Revealed (1999). John died on 11 September 2022 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.- Additional Crew
Kim Lenaghan is known for Creature Comforts (2003). Kim was married to Andrew Jones. Kim died on 11 September 2022 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.- Maf464 was born on 18 April 1979 in France. Maf464 died on 11 September 2022 in France.
- John O'Malley was born on 11 June 1927 in Tiltonsville, Ohio, USA. He died on 11 September 2022 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
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Eureka Glinton was born on 23 December 1956. Eureka is known for Jaws: The Revenge (1987). Eureka died on 11 September 2022 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Anthony Varvaro was born on 31 October 1984 in Staten Island, New York City, New York, USA. He was married to Kerry Thomson. He died on 11 September 2022 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA.
- John Szalkowski was born in Westerly, Rhode Island, USA. John is known for The Last Chance Detectives: Mystery Lights of Navajo Mesa (1994). John died on 11 September 2022 in Westerly, Rhode Island, USA.
- Page Pate died on 11 September 2022 in Georgia, USA.