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- Ann Prentiss was born on 27 November 1939 in San Antonio, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988), The Out of Towners (1970) and California Split (1974). She died on 12 January 2010 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Elizabeth Moody was born on 29 October 1939 in Worthing, Sussex, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Dead Alive (1992), The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) and Heavenly Creatures (1994). She was married to Terence Moody. She died on 12 January 2010 in Christchurch, New Zealand.
- Actor
- Stunts
Stuntman and actor Fred Krone was born on June 19, 1930 in Kentucky. Krone grew up in California and attended Hollywood High School in the 1940s. Fred originally planned on being a concert violinist, but an accident in 1946 that resulted in some of his fingers getting blown off ended that choice. Krone started out doing stunt work with his sister as a youth and began his career as a professional stuntman in earnest in the early 1950s after actress Carolina Cotton introduced Krone to fellow stuntman Jock Mahoney. Fred's career as both an actor and stuntman spanned three decades altogether. Among the notable actors that Krone doubled are Steve McQueen, David Janssen, Myron Healey, Kirby Grant, Steven Hill, Gene Barry, and Efrem Zimbalist Jr.. In 1974 Fred voluntarily quit the film industry and went on to operate a very successful clock repair business that he eventually sold in 1992. A lifetime member of the Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures, Fred died of cancer at age 79 on January 12, 2010 in Santa Paula, California.- Paul Butler was born on 12 March 1942 in Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Reign Over Me (2007), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) and The Rookie (1990). He died on 12 January 2010 in Manhattan, New York, USA.
- Ken Strong was born on 3 January 1958 in Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA. He was an actor, known for RoboCop 3 (1993), Love Potion No. 9 (1992) and All My Children (1970). He was married to Kee. He died on 12 January 2010 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
- Barry Cox was an actor, known for The Italian Job (1969) and Mini Adventures (2009). He died on 12 January 2010.
- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Bruce Leitl was born on 4 September 1963. He was a composer, known for Catching the Chameleon (2005), Hooligans (2004) and Claire (1996). He died on 12 January 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.- Soundtrack
Noel Goemanne was born on 10 December 1926 in Poperinge, Belgium. He was married to Janine Marloye. He died on 12 January 2010 in Dallas, Texas, USA.- Editor
- Writer
- Editorial Department
Melvin Sloan grew up in the Bronx, moving to Los Angeles in 1940 to study filmmaking at USC. With the outbreak of World War II, he interrupted his studies and joined the military in March 1943. He was stationed in Los Angeles and assigned to work in a film production unit under the direction of Pare Lorentz. Working with Lloyd Nosler, editor of the 1925 version of Ben Hur, his duties included editing aerial briefing films.
Following the end of the war, he returned to USC to complete his undergraduate degree in filmmaking. Shortly thereafter, Sloan (who insisted his students call him by his first name) partnered with Herb Farmer, Dave Johnson, Gene Moriarity and Dan Wiegand. This group, which Moriarity jokingly referred to as the "Unholy Five," was instrumental in the creation of the school's production curriculum. Over the next 51 years, Sloan taught a wide variety of courses for both undergraduates and graduates, including classes in his specialty, editing. Thousands of USC cinema students studied under Sloan, and he influenced filmmakers Irvin Kershner, Randal Kleiser, George Lucas, Walter Murch, Gary Rydstrom and Robert Zemeckis, to name just a few.
Sloan influenced the evolution of the beginning 290 Visual Communication course from a lecture class into a team-taught hands-on Beginning Film Workshop. Film students used simple cameras and editing equipment to produce five to seven short films every semester. In addition, students wrote, in about 25 words, what they were trying to say in their film and why they wanted to say it. Faculty and fellow students critiqued the films and the various-and often differing-perspectives provided valuable feedback and insight for the developing filmmakers.
From the late 1940s to the 70s, in addition to teaching, Sloan also worked on documentaries and ethnographic films, two relatively new film genres at the time. In 1947-48, he worked as a producer and editor with ethnographer/cinematographer Conrad Bentzen on Mokil, a 60-minute documentary about how the people on a small and remote Micronesian atoll in the Pacific dealt with the effects of population pressures and the introduction of trade goods. Sloan also worked on some feature film productions, including Stakeout on Dope Street with producer Roger Corman, Irvin Kershner, cinematographer Haskell Wexler and production manager Gene Peterson, who later taught with Sloan.
Sloan was also very involved in the community, serving 25 years as a member of the Board of Directors for the ACLU-Southern California. He also was a training director for New Communications, a project that reached into Black, Chicano, and Native American communities to teach filmmaking, and served on the L.A. County Human Relations Commission's Communication Committee. He traveled the world (for pleasure and work) and enjoyed bonsai, square dancing and collected fine wine.
He passed away on January 12, 2010.- Florane Guerrier was born in February 1985 in Port Au Prince, Haiti. She was an actress, known for The Price to Pay (2008) and The Forgotten Father (2008). She died on 12 January 2010 in Miami, Florida, USA.
- Daniel Bensaïd was born on 25 March 1946 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France. He was an actor and writer, known for Les Fantômes de Mai 68 (2018), À mort la mort! (1999) and Campus, le magazine de l'écrit (2001). He died on 12 January 2010 in Paris, France.
- Sound Department
- Actor
- Music Department
Jussi Väntänen was born on 26 June 1965 in Helsinki, Finland. He was an actor, known for Etydi (1990), Kotia päin (1989) and Jadesoturi (2006). He died on 12 January 2010.- Wladimiro Ganzarolli was born on 9 January 1932 in Piacenza d'Adige, Veneto, Italy. He was an actor, known for Luisa Miller (1979) and Mostra internazionale di musica leggera (1965). He was married to Helga Schmidt. He died on 12 January 2010 in Cortemilia, Piedmont, Italy.
- Dorothy Jensen Payne was born on 15 March 1921 in https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72478495/dorothy-payne. She was an actress, known for The Heart of No Place (2009). She died on 12 January 2010 in San Diego, California, USA.
- Walt Ratterman was born on 14 February 1952 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Walt was married to Jeanne. Walt died on 12 January 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
- JoAnn Autry was born on 21 July 1942 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She died on 12 January 2010 in Providence, Utah, USA.
- (Alice) Kealoha Pau'ole Holt was born on the Garden Island of Kaua'i on February 10, 1919. She was born into a life of modest means with a lineage directly tied to the royal families of Hawaii. Kealoha developed into one of the most celebrated hula dancers in the world and was crowned Miss Hawaii Aloha in 1939. Her introduction to the world of movies came by way of MGM, who sponsored the event, and sent her to Hollywood to play the part of the native dancer in the movie Honolulu with Robert Young and Eleanor Powell. Movie life was not for her and she returned to Hawaii, married FBI Agent Dan Curnan, and produced seven children. Her former daughter-in-law is author/screenwriter/producer Cynthia Curnan; her grandson Chris E. Curnan also produces and great-grandson Kahokuloa (Hoku) Curnan is an aspiring young musician who also worked as an intern in an Albert Pyun production. Kealoha is in good health and enjoying life with family and friends in Kailua-Kona on the island of Hawaii.