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Paul O' Sullivan was considered a close friend to Television comedy and Theatre in Canada and the United States. In the mid Eighties Paul graduated from Toronto's George Brown College Theatre Arts Program. He'd later receive his background in the art of Improv at Toronto's Second City, with whom he had frequently worked with. appearing and directing many shows. He was also a regular on all seasons of Improv Heaven and Hell. He hosted the six hour live-to-air broadcast for the launch of "The Comedy Network", called 'One Shameless Launchathon'. Paul died November, 18, 2012 survived by his wife Linda Kash and 3 daughters.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Ronnie Hawkins was born on 10 January 1935 in Huntsville, Arkansas, USA. He was an actor, known for Heaven's Gate (1980), The Last Waltz (1978) and Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987). He was married to Wanda Hawkins. He died on 29 May 2022 in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.- Kay Callard was born on 10 November 1923 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was an actress, known for White Hunter (1957), Knight Errant Limited (1959) and The Mailbag Robbery (1957). She was married to Jack McNaughton and Wayne Alton Drewry. She died on 7 March 2008 in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.
- Vernon Rich was born on 6 January 1906 in Rockingham, Vermont, USA. He was an actor, known for The War of the Worlds (1953), One Step Beyond (1959) and Outside the Law (1956). He died on 7 February 1978 in Peterborough, New Hampshire, USA.
- Eric Longworth was born on 20 July 1918 in Shaw, near Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Big Spender (1965), The Theban Plays by Sophocles (1986) and The First Lady (1968). He was married to Dorothy Hirst. He died on 20 August 2008 in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.
- Actor
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Lonnie Donegan was born on 29 April 1931 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He was an actor and composer, known for We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), Pawn Shop Chronicles (2013) and Agnes Browne (1999). He was married to Sharon Donegan, Maureen Donegan and Jill Westlake. He died on 3 November 2002 in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.- Actor
- Writer
Michael Burrell was born in 1936. He was an actor and writer, known for Hess (1986), Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982) and Red Dwarf (1988). He died on 28 June 2014 in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.- Carter was born in Montreal and grew up in a working-class neighborhood. With little education, he dropped out of school to perform car stunts with a team of traveling daredevils. Soon he was a solo act, jumping at racetracks all over North America. He became a notorious showman, earning the nickname "The Mad Canadian" for his death-defying antics.
In 1976, after 20 years of car jumps, Carter launched his most ambitious project: an attempt to jump over the Saint Lawrence River-a distance of over one mile-in a rocket-powered Lincoln Continental. The preparations for the jump were the subject of a documentary called The Devil at Your Heels, directed by Robert Fortier and produced by the National Film Board of Canada. For months, Carter prepared his car and looked for sponsors, with his persistence in self-promotion paying off when U.S. broadcaster ABC gave him $250,000 to air the stunt on the episode of Wide World of Sports scheduled for September 25, 1976. Carter anticipated a live audience of 100,000. Construction of a 1,400-foot takeoff ramp began on fifty acres of farmland near Morrisburg, Ontario. Evel Knievel visited the site as a special correspondent for ABC and concluded that there was little chance of success. Delays in finishing the car and completing the ramp caused Carter to miss the broadcast date and ABC withdrew its support.
Carter resumed preparations the following year and again in 1978, but the jump was canceled both times. On September 26, 1979, Carter got to within five seconds of takeoff before aborting the jump following a mechanical failure. The planned jump had been sponsored by a film producer in exchange for exclusive film rights. Believing that Carter had lost his nerve, the film crew secretly arranged for another stunt driver, American Kenny Powers, to perform the jump while Carter was in his hotel room in Ottawa. The Powers jump was a failure, with the car traveling only 506 feet in the air and breaking apart in flight before crash-landing in the water. Powers broke eight vertebrae, three ribs and fractured a wrist.
Carter returned to stunt driving and in 1983 attempted to jump a pond in Peterborough, Ontario. During the jump his car - a modified Pontiac Firebird - suffered a malfunction and Carter crashed badly but vowed to try the jump again. Several months later he did. The vehicle missed its target landing ramp by 30 meters and landed on its roof. Carter was killed instantly. - Cheryl Jan Ellis was born on 17 November 1946 in Noblesville, Indiana, USA. She was an actress, known for E.M.P.: 333 Days (2018). She died on 14 March 2023 in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
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- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Edmund Hockridge was born on 9 August 1919 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He was an actor, known for Game of Danger (1954), King's Rhapsody (1955) and Variety Makers (1948). He was married to Jackie Jefferson and Eileen Elliott. He died on 15 March 2009 in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.- Don Wortham was born on 23 May 1923 in Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK. He is known for Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Batman (1989) and Labyrinth (1986). He was married to Beatrice Amelia Mitchell. He died on 23 February 2007 in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.
- Rod Heffernan was an actor, known for Adderly (1986), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985) and Anne of Avonlea (1987). He died on 1 September 2013 in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
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- Additional Crew
Michael Fisher wrote and produced more than 500 hours of prime-time television and theatrical motion pictures, including "Spenser For Hire, "Starsky & Hutch," Fantasy Island," and "Mission Impossible." In 1991 he published his first novel Cries from the Darkness which was soon followed with a sequel, The Nightmare Man. In 1997 he produced a made for TV movie in Fiji based on his novels. He was the son of Steve Fisher, a prolific pulp fiction, film and TV writer whose original story for the 1943 Cary Grant movie "Destination Tokyo" earned him an Academy Award nomination in 1944. Michael Fisher was born May 1 1940, in New York City, to Steve Fisher and Edythe (Seimes) Fisher. He grew up in Beverly Hills and Van Nuys, California. At 17 he enlisted in the Navy and was stationed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, from 1957 to 1963. September 1969 he married Helen Mary Brennan. Together they raised their family in Woodlands Hill, California; Sydney, New South Wales and Paradise Point, Queensland in Australia; and Rye, New York. He moved to Peterborough, New Hampshire in 2005.- Jean Lockhart was born on 25 June 1916 in Swansea, Wales, UK. She was an actress, known for Coronation Street (1960), Tom Grattan's War (1968) and Castle Haven (1969). She was married to Peter Schofield and William Richard Eastham. She died on 14 June 1987 in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.
- Paul Cockburn was born on 20 May 1952 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Paul is known for Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004). Paul died on 7 December 2023 in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
- Coco the Clown was born on 5 October 1900 in the Russian Empire. He died on 25 September 1974 in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.
- Minoru Fukushima was born in June 1932 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He was an actor, known for Minoru: Memory of Exile (1992). He was married to Yoshiko "Kay". He died on 19 September 2021 in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
- Gerry Lee was born on 12 July 1917 in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Danger Man (1960), Dixon of Dock Green (1955) and Dick Whittington (1963). He died in 1999 in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.
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- Additional Crew
Lewis Sayre Schwartz (1926-2011) was an American comic book artist, advertising creator and filmmaker. He is credited as a ghost artist for Bob Kane on Batman, penciling some 120+ individual Batman shorts between 1947 and 1953. He also did ghost art for Brick Bradford and Secret Agent X-9, and co-created the villain Deadshot. His signature never appeared on any of this work, but Lew was well-known among practitioners of the comic strip.
After he had left the career in comics, Lew Schwartz was a teacher at the School of Visual Arts during the early 1960s, and co-founded the irreverent TV commercial production company Ferro, Mogubgub and Schwartz in 1961. They worked on the Kubrick movie Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), for which they brought an innovative style to the lettered credits. His long career in television would come to include segments for Sesame Street (1969) and the direction of a Barbra Streisand special. He was the recipient of an Inkpot Award in 2002, and four Emmy Awards.
In 1981, Lew produced a great documentary about Milton Caniff, in which several luminaries of comics art are interviewed on video, including the great Neal Sickles.- Additional Crew
Wayne Calder was born on 21 May 1949 in Canada. He is known for The Mothman Prophecies (2002). He was married to Margarett . He died on 22 August 2012 in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.- Rosemary Bakker was born on 26 August 1940. She died on 26 April 2021 in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
- David Openshaw was born on 8 December 1897 in Llanfechain, Powys, Wales, UK. He was an actor, known for London Melody (1930), The Veteran (1926) and Shipmates (1926). He died in 1977 in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.
- Art Department
- Additional Crew
Harold Town was born on 13 June 1924 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is known for Obsession (1981), Q for Quest (1961) and Telescope (1963). He died on 27 December 1990 in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.- Brian Mawhinney was born on 26 July 1940 in Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK. He was an actor, known for Dream Team (1997), Weekend World (1972) and Panorama (1953). He was married to Betty Oja. He died on 9 November 2019 in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.
- Alan Nunn was born on 3 March 1920 in Erdington, Birmingham, England, UK. He was an actor, known for CBC Summer Theatre (1955), The Unforeseen (1958) and Folio (1955). He died on 3 November 2004 in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.