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- Underrated British leading man predominantly of the Seventies and Eighties, Collins made his mark in the 1970s action drama The Professionals (1977). As hard man William Bodie, Collins became a household name worldwide. Unfortunately, since the show ended in 1983, Lewis Collins has been miscast in a number of cheap straight-to-video foreign actioners.
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Kang-Chien Chiu was born in 1940 in Gulangyu, Fujian, China. He was a writer and director, known for Love Unto Waste (1986), Boat People (1982) and Full Moon in New York (1989). He died on 27 November 2013 in China.- Earl McClung was born on 27 April 1923 in Inchelium, Washington, USA. He died on 27 November 2013 in Pueblo West, Colorado, USA.
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Ali Avaz was born on 2 March 1936 in Elazig, Turkey. He was an actor and writer, known for Isikta Kaybolanlar / Ibret (1987), Sanssizim (1987) and Yillarim (1987). He died on 27 November 2013.- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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James Marcus Howe was born on 21 May 1971. He was an assistant director and production manager, known for A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila (2007), Lonely Street (2008) and He's Such a Girl (2009). He died on 27 November 2013 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
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Josef Harringer was an actor and editor, known for Rather Infamous Then Unknown (2009), Hate and Reconciliation (2015) and Någon Annanstans (2009). He died on 27 November 2013 in Gothenburg, Sweden.- Gary Mason was an actor, known for Silas Marner (1964), Catch Hand (1964) and Cup Fever (1965). He was married to Kath. He died on 27 November 2013 in North Hampshire, England, UK.
- Nilton Santos was born on 16 May 1925 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He died on 27 November 2013 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Rudolf Lorenzen was born on 5 February 1922 in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He was a writer and actor, known for Hallo Nachbarn! (1963), Schlagerfestival 1925 (1975) and The Butterfly (1970). He was married to Annemarie Weber. He died on 27 November 2013 in Berlin, Germany.- Gábor Hajzer was born on 8 July 1954 in Furta, Hungary. He was an actor, known for Linda (1984) and Salome (1985). He died on 27 November 2013.
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Stan Mak was born on 20 February 1970 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Stan is known for Todd and the Book of Pure Evil (2010), The Lookout (2007) and We Were Children (2012). Stan died on 27 November 2013 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.- His father of the same name, a doctor of law, had worked as a diplomat in the German Empire and then as an in-house counsel for business associations. At the age of 17, settlers were drafted into military service for National Socialist Germany as air force helpers. Because of the alleged "undermining of military strength", the young settler received a prison sentence of several months, after which he was sent to the front and became a prisoner of war. After graduating from high school, Siedler began studying sociology, history, philosophy and German studies in 1948, initially at the Humboldt University in Berlin. A year later he moved to the newly founded Free University in the western part of the four-sector city. However, Siedler soon dropped out of his studies without completing his studies.
Instead, he was involved in the Berlin Germany office of the "Congress for Cultural Freedom", of which he was general secretary from 1953 to 1956. In 1954 he joined the "Neue Zeitung", where he worked as a features editor until 1955. Following this, Siedler was appointed to the editorial team of the Berlin "Tagesspiegel" as features editor. In 1963, the journalist moved to the Ullstein publishing group, where he headed the "Propyläen-Verlag" from then on. Here Siedler was responsible for such renowned major projects as the continuation of the "Propylaea World History" in 12 volumes as well as the initiation of the "Art History" of the same name in 23 and the "Europe" History in six volumes. In 1967, Siedler also became managing director of "Verlag Ullstein GmbH". He headed the publishing group until 1979. At the beginning of 1980, Siedler took the step into independence by founding the publishing houses "Severin und Siedler" and "Quadriga" in Berlin with the film producer Jochen Severin.
The publishing program focused on historical and contemporary publications, the demanding level of which soon brought the company success. After Severin's departure, who had transferred his shares to "Bertelsmann AG", the company was converted into "Wolf Jobst Siedler Verlag GmbH" in 1983, in which "Bertelsmann" initially held a quarter of the shares. The publishing director and managing partner continued the company's demanding publishing program in the following decades. In addition to the complete edition of the estate of the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic, Konrad Adenauer, the memoirs of important statesmen from home and abroad - including Helmut Schmidt, Franz Josef Strauß, Hans Dietrich Genscher, Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin - were among the most committed projects of the "Siedler Verlag".
Large-scale historical projects on German history as well as individual publications on contemporary historical issues rounded off the publishing program. In 1996, Siedler rekindled the public debate about the German population's involvement in the Holocaust with the publication of the German translation of Daniel J. Goldhagen's book about "Hitler's Willing Executors." Even after Siedler had transferred his remaining shares to "Bertelsmann AG" in 1993, which has since become the sole owner of the publishing house, he continued to manage the company until 1998. In the same year, "Siedler Verlag" was merged with "Berlin Verlag" and placed under the management of Arnulf Conradi. Since then, Siedler has remained associated with the publisher as editor of the history series. He also worked as a freelance journalist for several newspapers; including the FAZ, the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Zeit, DIE WELT and the Berliner Morgenpost.
Siedler has been honored with several publishing and journalism awards. In 1984 he received the "Karl Friedrich Schinkel Ring" and in 1987 he was awarded the "Ernst Robert Curtius Prize for Essays". In the same year he also received the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class, which was followed by the Grand Federal Cross of Merit with Star in 1995. The History Department of the Philosophical Faculty of the Free University of Berlin awarded Siedler an honorary doctorate in 1996. Towards the end of 2001, together with the writer Günter de Bruyn, he received the "National Prize of the German National Foundation in Weimar". In 2007 he was honored with the "Gerhard Löwenthal Prize".