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- Johnny Duncan lived well into his 90's, with his wife Susan, enjoying life not far from where it began.
He started out on a small farm near Kansas City in 1923. As a child growing up during the Great Depression, Johnny danced up a storm in local towns, and with the money he saved he was able to pay out his parent's overdue mortgage to the banks. Not long after, he ran a little dance school with his little girl pal, Lou, teaching locals kids how to tap dance.
Not long after, an agent helped him make it to L.A. on a $50-a-month contract. He got roles playing juveniles with the East Side Kids/Bowery Boys and other movie roles. You can see him working the radio in the Bogart classic Action in the North Atlantic (1943). During the war he met Lana Turner and taught her the Lindy Hop (Jitterbug). At the age of 26, he became the second Boy Wonder, in the 15-part serial Batman and Robin.
Off the set, you could find Johnny out on his Triumph 600 on the weekend in the canyons around Calabasas with mates like Lee Marvin, Larry Parks, Keenan Wynn and Clark Gable, or at dinner parties held by Jimmy Cagney. During the '50s, Johnny made fewer films after The Caine Mutiny (1954) (also with Bogart), but he did play another sailor in a film with Rita Hayworth, whom he described as the most beautiful woman in Hollywood. You can also spot him in the legendary Ed Wood flick Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957) and getting his head chopped off in Spartacus (1960). Nowadays, you can still spot him at the occasional movie convention, signing photos from Batman and Robin and The East Side Kids. - Writer
- Additional Crew
- Soundtrack
Born in London in 1922, Norman Hudis is now a dual citizen of Britain and the U.S. He began his working life at 16, as a junior reporter, and volunteered for the Royal Air Force in 1940. Rejected for flying duties on medical grounds, he served almost 6 years in WWII, the last two of which on the reporting staff of the Air Force News, stationed in Cairo and covering the entire Middle East area. He was, as a result, the youngest War Correspondent in that conflict.
After many post-war years as a Film Studio publicist in England, he was eventually offered a contract as an apprentice screenwriter, at Pinewood Studios. Two years there gave him invaluable experience, but nothing he wrote was filmed. He resigned, went freelance, created and wrote almost all the scripts for two seasons of the one-hour comedy series, "Our House" (ABC TV, Britain), and became one of the most prolific writers of "B" films. One of them, "The Tommy Steele Story" (US title, "Rock Around The World"), took fifty times its production cost on its first release and changed his status forever.
He went on to write, for producer Peter Rogers and director Gerald Thomas, the first six of the phenomenally successful "Carry On" series of bawdy British movie comedies: "Sergeant", "Nurse", "Constable", "Teacher", "Regardless" and "Cruising." The series went on for more than 20 other movies. As a result of the freak success of "Nurse" in America, he was invited to Hollywood where he has lived and worked ever since, writing for most of the TV series of the time. Awards came his way for the Biblical epic, "Esther" (Best Religious Special, and Best Writing, from "Religion in Media"), "Baretta" ("Dear Tony", from The Mystery Writers of America, Edgar Allen Poe Award, best TV episode), American Women In Radio and TV (for enhancing the image of women in the media), and a nomination for Best Episode, Drama, "Marcus Welby MD", episode "Hell is Upstairs", from the Writers' Guild of America (West.)
Hudis has commuted to Britain several times to work on various projects: one of these, "A Monkey's Tale" (aka "Le Chateau des Singes"), won a Special Award for Excellence at the Heartland Film Festival, as well as at the Toronto and Hollywood Film Festivals, in the animation-feature category. In Cologne, Germany, he was Story Editor for the animated TV series, "Waldo", and wrote several of the scripts. Always a lover of live theatre, he has occasionally written stage-plays, most notably the controversial "Dinner With Ribbentrop", premiered at the Rude Guerilla Theater in Santa Ana, California. He's married to Rita, former RN, and has two sons: Stephen, a stunt coordinator and 2nd unit director, and Kevin, a retired veteran Hollywood Teamster, now managing a hobby store.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Ken Delo was born on 8 December 1938 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for Destination Inner Space (1966), Mission: Impossible (1966) and The Delo and Daly Show (1963). He was married to Marilyn Markhart. He died on 8 February 2016 in the USA.- Amelia Bence was born on 13 November 1914 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was an actress, known for A sangre fría (1947), La danza del fuego (1949) and Lauracha (1946). She was married to Alberto Closas and Charlie Ortiz Basualdo. She died on 8 February 2016 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Make-Up Department
Teddy Antolin was born in October 1947 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Teddy is known for Liza Minnelli: Losing My Mind (1989), David Bowie: Glass Spider (1988) and David Bowie: Black Tie White Noise (1993). Teddy died on 8 February 2016 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Producer
- Actor
- Manager
Rick Ax was a producer and actor, known for Waiting for Woody (1998) and Four Reasons (2002). He died on 8 February 2016 in Venice, California, USA.- Music Department
- Writer
- Composer
Nida Fazli was born on 12 October 1938 in Delhi, British India. She was a writer and composer, known for Sarfarosh (1999), Dev (2004) and Billoo Baadshah (1989). She died on 8 February 2016 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.- Margaret Forster was born on 25 May 1938 in Carlisle, Cumbria, England, UK. She was a writer, known for Georgy Girl (1966), Daphne (2007) and Celebration (1979). She was married to Hunter Davies. She died on 8 February 2016 in London, England, UK.
- Actress
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Violette Verdy was born on 1 December 1933 in Pont-l'Abbé, Finistère, France. She was an actress and writer, known for Dream Ballerina (1950), Olivia (1951) and Deux maîtres pour un valet (1952). She was married to Colin Clark. She died on 8 February 2016 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.- Editor
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- Director
Joe Ravetz was born on 13 October 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Joe was an editor and producer, known for Remington Steele (1982), Angels Hard as They Come (1971) and Unsolved Mysteries (1987). Joe died on 8 February 2016 in Rio Del Mar, California, USA.- Actress
- Additional Crew
Claude Chantal was born on 5 February 1932 in Alger, Algeria. She was an actress, known for Asterix in America (1994), Clockwork Bananas (1974) and Revenge of the Humanoids (1983). She died on 8 February 2016 in Paris, France.- Rita Topor was born on 23 August 1978 in Debrecen, Hungary. She was an actress, known for Kis Romulusz (1995). She died on 8 February 2016 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Anne Arntz was born on 18 February 1931. She was an actress, known for Vi som går køkkenvejen (1953) and Grevinde Mariza (1958). She died on 8 February 2016.
- Willie Richardson was born on 17 November 1939 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA. He died on 8 February 2016 in Jackson, Mississippi, USA.
- Sixto Buten died on 8 February 2016 in Santo Domingo Este, Dominican Republic.
- Al Konetzni was born on 19 May 1915 in New York City, New York, USA. He died on 8 February 2016 in Florida, USA.
- Giorgio Bottos was born on 24 October 1947 in Bannia, Pordenone, Italy. Giorgio was a director, known for Dolce Vita (2004). Giorgio died on 8 February 2016 in Markham, Ontario, Canada.