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Philip Kindred Dick was born in Chicago in December 1928, along with a twin sister, Jane. Jane died less than eight weeks later, allegedly from an allergy to mother's milk. Dick's parents split up during his childhood, and he moved with his mother to Berkeley, California, where he lived for most of the rest of his life. Dick became a published author in 1952. His first sale was the short story "Roog." His first novel, "Solar Lottery," appeared in 1955. Dick produced an astonishing amount of material during the 1950s and 1960s, writing and selling nearly a hundred short stories and some two dozen or so novels during this period, including "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?," "Time Out Of Joint," "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch," and the Hugo-award winning "The Man In The High Castle." A supremely chaotic personal life (Dick was married five times) along with drug experimentation, sidetracked Dick's career in the early 1970s. Dick would later maintain that reports of his drug use had been greatly exaggerated by sensationalistic colleagues. In any event, after a layoff of several years, Dick returned to action in 1974 with the Campbell award-winning novel "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said." Perhaps more importantly, though, this same year Dick would have a profound religious experience that would forever alter his life. Dick's final years were haunted by what he alleged to be a 1974 visitation from God, or at least a God-like being. Dick spent the rest of his life writing copious journals regarding the visitation and his interpretations of the event. At times, Dick seemed to regard it as a divine revelation and, at other times, he believed it to be a sign of extreme schizophrenic behaviour. His final novels all deal in some way with the entity he saw in 1974, especially "Valis," in which the title-character is an extraterrestrial God-like machine that chooses to make contact with a hopelessly schizophrenic, possibly drug-addled and decidedly mixed-up science fiction writer named Philip K. Dick. Despite his award-winning novels and almost universal acclaim from within the science-fiction community, Dick was never especially financially successful as a writer. He worked mainly for low-paying science-fiction publishers and never seemed to see any royalties from his novels after the advance had been paid, no matter how many copies they sold. In fact, one of the reasons for his extreme productivity was that he always seemed to need the advance money from his next story or novel in order to make ends meet. But towards the very end of his life, he achieved a measure of financial stability, partly due to the money he received from the producers of Blade Runner (1982) for the rights to his novel "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?" upon which the film was based. Shortly before the film premiered, however, he died of a heart attack at the age of 53. Since his death, several other films have been adapted from his works (incuding Total Recall (1990)) and several unpublished novels have been published posthumously.- Max Amyl was born on 11 May 1921 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He was an actor, known for Fantastic Planet (1973), Les brigades du Tigre (1974) and Aux frontières du possible (1971). He died on 2 March 1982 in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France.
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Haunani Kahalewai was born on 19 February 1929 in Hilo, Hawaii, USA. Haunani is known for Pagan Love Song (1950). Haunani died on 2 March 1982 in San Carlos, California, USA.- Costume and Wardrobe Department
Italian painter, illustrator, stage scenery designer, and, minimally, art director for films. Born in Casale Monferrato in Italy's Allesandria region on June 18, 1896, he studied at the Istituto d'Istruzione Superiore Leardi there. His studies were interrupted by the First World War, in which he commanded Alpine troops, trained as a pilot, and was decorated for shooting down enemy planes. After the war, he returned to his art career and flourished. Initially working under the pseudonym Ninon, later expanding it to Victor Max Ninon, he became a popular illustrator for such magazines as Giornalino della Domenica and In Penombra. In 1923, he won first prize in the El Hogar di Buenos Aires competition, and in 1925, the Gold Medal of the Parisian International Exhibition of Decorative and Modern Industrial Art. He began that year to design covers for American magazines as well, and in 1929, with his first wife Edina Altara, he moved to New York. For a while he succeeded in creating set designs for various theatrical productions, but the Great Depression and his love of Italy led him to return home. He separated from his wife in 1934 and devoted most of his work to illustrating over sixty children's books from the works of the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Edgar Allan Poe, and a well-received edition of Perrault's Pinocchio. He obtained work designing sets and costumes for a pair of films in 1936 (under the name Vittorio Accornero), then moved decisively into the theatre, creating sets and costumes for opera, ballet, and plays at La Scala, Teatri Manzoni, Teatri Lirico, and Teatri Olympia in Milan. His work from this point forward was under his full real name, Vittorio Accornero de Testa. He balanced his theatrical work with further children's book illustrations and gallery exhibitions of his work. In the 1960s, he expanded his work to fashion, designing ties, scarves, and foulards for Gucci, including a famous one made in 1966 for Princess Grace of Monaco. He continued to work in this arena until 1981. He died in Milan on March 2, 1982.- Music Department
- Sound Department
Remi Gassmann was born on 30 December 1908. He is known for The Birds (1963) and Zelenka (1968). He died on 2 March 1982 in Canada.- Pierre Louis-Guérin was born on 16 December 1906 in Paris, France. He was married to Cécile Marthey. He died on 2 March 1982 in Paris, France.
- Dagba Dondukov was born on 15 February 1915 in Edermik, Russian Empire. He was an actor, known for Posledniy ugon (1969), Przhevalsky (1952) and Steklyannye Busy (1979). He died on 2 March 1982.