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Samantha Gail Weinstein was born on March 20, 1995 in Toronto, Canada. An actor since the age of six, she was best known for her roles as Heather in MGM's remake of Carrie (2013), Audrey in Jesus Henry Christ (2011), and Josephine in the TIFF award winning short film, Big Girl (2005). Big Girl also won Samantha the 2006 ACTRA award for Best Performance-Female. Having won the award at age ten, she was the youngest recipient to date.
Other notable film roles include Brooke in the independent feature, Reign (2015), Violet in The Rocker (2008), and young Hagar in Margaret Atwood's The Stone Angel (2007). Some of Samantha's television credits include guest roles on Being Erica, Less Than Kind, Copper, and Darknet. Darknet marked Samantha's second project with Canadian director Vincenzo Natali, the first being the independent feature, Haunter (2013). She was also an avid voice performer and had voiced numerous animated characters during her career.
As lead singer/songwriter and lead guitarist, Samantha founded the Toronto based, garage rock band, Killer Virgins, in April of 2016. On May 14th, 2023 Samantha died from ovarian cancer after bravely fighting for two and a half years. She died at Toronto's Princess Margaret Hospital surrounded by her loved ones.- Albert Krieger was born on 4 November 1923 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He was married to Irene Stoller. He died on 14 May 2020 in Miami, Florida, USA.
- Alice Rivlin was born on 4 March 1931 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was married to Signey G. Winter and Lewis A. Rivlin. She died on 14 May 2019 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- Alyce Andrece was born on 5 September 1936 in Thornton, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Star Trek (1966), Hell's Bloody Devils (1970) and Occasional Wife (1966). She died on 14 May 2005 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA.
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The daughter of a clergyman, Anna Lee was born Joan Boniface Winnifrith and encouraged to pursue an acting career by her father. After training at London's Royal Albert Hall, she took to the boards and later began appearing in English films, first as an extra, then working her way up to featured roles and finally earning the unofficial title "The Queen of the Quota Quickies". Lee and her husband, director Robert Stevenson, relocated to Hollywood in the late 1930s, and Lee began starring in stateside productions as well as becoming a fixture of the John Ford stock company (she appeared in How Green Was My Valley (1941), Fort Apache (1948) and a half-dozen others). In 1970, she became the seventh wife of novelist, poet and playwright Robert Nathan (Portrait of Jennie (1948), The Bishop's Wife (1947)); they married three months after they met. Now widowed, Lee continued despite adversity, regularly playing wealthy Lila Quartermaine on the soap opera General Hospital (1963). She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire at the 1982 Queen's Birthday Honours for her services to drama. On May 14, 2004, Anna Lee passed away from pneumonia at age 91 at her home in Beverly Hills, California.- Music Artist
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Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 - May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. He introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending, shimmering vibrato and staccato picking that influenced many later blues electric guitar players. AllMusic recognized King as "the single most important electric guitarist of the last half of the 20th century".
King was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, and is one of the most influential blues musicians of all time, earning the nickname "The King of the Blues", and is considered one of the "Three Kings of the Blues Guitar" (along with Albert King and Freddie King, none of whom are related). King performed tirelessly throughout his musical career, appearing on average at more than 200 concerts per year into his 70s. In 1956 alone, he appeared at 342 shows.
King was born on a cotton plantation in Itta Bena, Mississippi, and later worked at a cotton gin in Indianola, Mississippi. He was attracted to music and the guitar in church, and he began his career in Juke joints and local radio. He later lived in Memphis and Chicago; then, as his fame grew, toured the world extensively. King died at the age of 89 in Las Vegas on May 14, 2015.- Berith Bohm was born on 23 August 1932 in Stockholm, Sweden. She was an actress, known for Storstad (1990), Jourhavande (1974) and Bröderna Mozart (1986). She was married to Roland Eriksson. She died on 14 May 2020 in Sweden.
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Billie Burke was born Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke on August 7, 1885 in Washington, D.C. Her father was a circus clown, and as a child she toured the United States and Europe with the circus (before motion pictures and after the stage, circuses were the biggest form of entertainment in the world). One could say that Billie was bred for show business. Her family ultimately settled in London, where she was fortunate to see plays in the city's historic West End, and decided she wanted to be a stage actress. At age 18, she made her stage debut and her career was off and running. Her performances were very well received and she became one of the most popular actresses to grace the stage. Broadway beckoned, and since New York City was now recognized as the stage capital of the world, it was there she would try her luck. Billie came to New York when she was 22 and her momentum did not stop. She appeared in numerous plays and it was only a matter of time before Hollywood came calling, which is exactly what happened. She made her film debut in the lead role in Peggy (1916). The film was a hit, but then again most films were, as the novelty of motion pictures had not worn off since The Great Train Robbery (1903) at the turn of the century. Later that year, she appeared in Gloria's Romance (1916). In between cinema work, she would take her place on the stage because not only was it her first love, but she had speaking parts. Billie considered herself more than an actress--she felt she was an artist, too. She believed that the stage was a way to personally reach out to an audience, something that could not be done in pictures. In 1921, she appeared as Elizabeth Banks in The Education of Elizabeth (1921), then she retired. She had wed impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. of the famed Ziegfeld Follies and, with investments in the stock market, there was no need to work.
What the Ziegfelds did not plan on was "Black October" in 1929. Their stock investments were wiped out in the crash, which precipitated the Great Depression, and Billie had no choice but to return to the screen. Movies had become even bigger than ten years earlier, especially since the introduction of sound. Her first role of substance was as Margaret Fairlfield in A Bill of Divorcement (1932). As an artist, she loved the fact that she had dialog, but she had to work even harder because her husband had died the same year as her speaking debut - and work she did. One of her career highlights came as Mrs. Millicent Jordan in David O. Selznick's Dinner at Eight (1933), co-starring Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery, John Barrymore and Jean Harlow - heady company to be sure, but Billie turned in an outstanding performance as Mrs. Jordan, the scatterbrained wife of a man whose shipping company is in financial trouble and who was trying to get someone to loan his company money to help stave off disaster. Her character loved to give dinner parties because a dinner affair at the Jordans had a reputation among New York blue-blood society as the highlight of the season. With all the drama and intrigue going on around her, her main concern is that she is one man short of having a full seating arrangement. The film was a hit and once again Billie was back on top. In 1937, she had one of her most fondly remembered roles in Topper (1937), a film that would ultimately spin off two sequels, and all three were box-office hits. In 1938, Billie received her first and only Academy Award nomination for her portrayal of Emily Kilbourne in Merrily We Live (1938). This was probably the best performance of her screen career, but she was destined to be immortalized forever in the classic The Wizard of Oz (1939). At 54 years of age - and not looking anywhere near it - she played Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. The 1940s saw Billie busier than ever--she made 25 films between 1940 and 1949. She made only six in the 1950s, as her aging became noticeable. She was 75 when she made her final screen appearance as Cordelia Fosgate in John Ford's Western Sergeant Rutledge (1960). Billie retired for good and lived in Los Angeles, California, where she died at age 85 of natural causes on May 14, 1970.- Bob Watson was born on 10 April 1946 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977), Brewer's Boys and 1981 American League Championship Series (1981). He was married to Carol Lefer. He died on 14 May 2020 in Houston, Texas, USA.
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Brad Grey was born on 29 December 1957 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for The Departed (2006), The Sopranos (1999) and The Larry Sanders Show (1992). He was married to Cassandra Huysentuyt and Jill Gutterson. He died on 14 May 2017 in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Writer
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Breno Silveira is a Brazilian film director with an outstanding career in movies, music videos, and television commercials. A partner of Conspiração Filmes, Breno has a degree in cinematography from École Louis-Lumière in Paris and began his career as director of photography, having signed the photography of more than ten feature films. His first feature, "Dois Filhos de Francisco" ("Two Sons of Francisco"), launched in 2005, stands as one of the biggest blockbusters of the past 25 years in Brazil, having reached a public of more than 5.3 million people in theaters, and was the Brazilian candidate for the Oscars that year. He has also directed "Era Uma Vez" ("Once Upon a Time in Rio"), 2008, selected for the Toronto International Film Festival; "À Beira do Caminho" ("Along the Way"), 2012, winner of 5 awards in the Cine PE Festival, including best film, best screenplay and best actor; "Gonzaga - de Pai pra Filho" ("Gonzaga"), 2012, winner of 5 Grand Awards of the Brazilian Cinema, including best film, best director and best actor. In 2016 Breno created and directed his first television series, "1 Contra Todos" ("One Against All"), the most seen Brazilian series on paid TV within Brazil, and second in ratings only to "The Walking Dead" on Fox channel. "1 Contra Todos" raised Fox's prime time audience in 74% and received an International Emmy® Awards nomination.
Following this achievement, the series is now on its third season and Fox is developing an international remake. Breno's latest work, "Entre Irmãs" ("The Seamstress"), 2017, a feature film and a short series on Rede Globo (Brazil's largest TV network), was the most successful show in Brazilian television in the past 20 years, having reached a public of more than 84 million people.- Director
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Dalila Ennadre was born on 12 August 1966 in Casablanca, Morocco. She was a director and cinematographer, known for I Loved So Much... (2008), Walls and People (2013) and Fama: Heroism Without Glory (2004). She died on 14 May 2020 in Paris, France.- Composer
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Daniel Brewbaker was born in 1951 in Elgin, Illinois, USA. He was a composer, known for Hard Four (2007), Grant It! and Butterfield (2008). He died on 14 May 2017 in Barrington, Illinois, USA.- Writer
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Dante Quinterno was born on 26 October 1909 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a writer and director, known for Úpa en apuros (1942) and Patoruzito (2004). He died on 14 May 2003 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.- Don Packard was born on 7 March 1927 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Troll 2 (1990) and Best Worst Movie (2009). He died on 14 May 2021 in Holladay, Utah, USA.
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Doyle Brunson was born on 10 August 1933 in Longworth, Texas, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Godfather of Poker, The Grand (2007) and Lucky You (2007). He was married to Louise Carter. He died on 14 May 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.- Australian-born Enid Bennett (her sisters, Catherine Bennett and Marjorie Bennett, were also actresses) started her career on stage in Sydney. She became a well-regarded stage actress there, and eventually made her way to New York to conquer Broadway. Broadway, however, wasn't particularly interested in being conquered by Miss Bennett, and it took her several months to find any work at all. Finally, her "English" (actually Australian) accent got her a job in "Cock of the Walk". She was seen there by film producer Thomas H. Ince, who signed her to a contract and brought her to Hollywood. She married twice, both of her husbands being top Hollywood directors: Fred Niblo and Sidney Franklin. Her last film was The Big Store (1941) with The Marx Brothers, in which she had an uncredited bit part as a clerk, and she retired from the movie business soon afterward. She died of a heart attack in Malibu, CA, in 1969.
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Étienne Perruchon was born on 23 October 1958 in Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He was a composer and actor, known for Les arcandiers (1991), Les percutés (2002) and Voir la mer (2011). He died on 14 May 2019 in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France.- Director
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Eva Dahr was born on 30 October 1958 in Oslo, Norway. She was a director and writer, known for Dolce vita (1989), En Mann (1997) and Fjord pony (1993). She died on 12 May 2019 in Oslo, Norway.- Actress
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Former actress Eva Norvind was an independent film and video producer as well as a psycho-sexual counselor in New York City. She was born Eva Johanne Chegodayeva Sakonskaya in Trondheim, Norway, on May 7th, 1944, the daughter of Russian refugee Prince Paulovic Chegodayef Sakonsky and a Norwegian sculptress Johanna Kajanus. Besides the name Eva Norvind, she has also worked under the pseudonyms Ava Taurel and Eva Hultgreen.
Having moved to France at age 15 with her family, she entered the field of entertainment when she won the second prize in the beauty contest at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival where the reward was a minor role as a German tourist in Marcel Moussy's Saint-Tropez Blues (1961). Shortly thereafter Eva changed her name to Eva Norvind when she became a showgirl at the Follies Bergere and began acting at the Comedie Francaise.
In 1962 Eva moved to Canada and then to New York City, where she worked as a showgirl and Can-Can dancer in cabarets, as well as a lunch-time Playboy bunny. Upon finishing high school in 1964 she took a bus to Mexico City to study Spanish over the summer and was recruited by a television producer to act a small part in a TV variety show. Because of her Nordic beauty, voluptuous figure, and daring attitude she rapidly became a film actress and a sex symbol in the Mexican media.
After her first Mexican film, 'Nuestros buenos vecinos de Yucatan' (1965), made in 1965, Eva went on to act in six more films over the next three years; Esta noche no (1966), followed by her first co-starring role in Pacto de sangre (1966), and Juan Pistolas (1966), where she played the sheriff's wife opposite Javier Solis. Other films include Santo contra la invasion de los marcianos (1966), Baname mi amor (1966), and her last Mexican film Don Juan 67 (1966), with Mauricio Garces.
After a highly publicized scandal in 1966 when she spoke of birth control on national TV, the Mexican government ordered Eva to leave the country within 24 hours. With help from the actors union she was able to remain in Mexico, but was forbidden all work on television for one year and any kind of work for 4 months. She did return to the theatre, acting in 'En el Closet, no' and Machiavelli's 'La Mandragola.'
In 1968, still living in Mexico, she became a freelance photographer covering fashion and celebrity news in Paris and New York. She also worked as a journalist specializing in film, covered international film festivals and got Latin American exclusives with major Hollywood talent from Paramount and Universal Pictures. She then worked in film distribution, buying European films for the Mexican Cineteca and selling Mexican films to Scandinavian Television.
In 1980, Eva returned to New York to study film production at NYU, where she received her BFA in 1982. She produced shorts and promotional films within the health field, and worked as associate producer of feature films in the development stage with Ziegler Films in Berlin and the Kibbutz Association in Israel.
In 1985, she became fascinated with the exploration of erotic power exchange and invented a pseudonym for herself as dominatrix Ava Taurel. In 1987 she founded Taurel Enterprises, Inc, the umbrella company for counseling, erotic role play and video production for health related services. She gave lectures at national conferences worldwide, to both health professionals and lay audiences. In 1996 she received her MA in Human Sexuality and Health Education from NYU and pursued graduate studies in Forensic Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Her controversial life and work has been documented in many books and feature films; In 1996 she was featured in 'Whipped', a documentary by Iana Porter and Sasha Waters which premiered at The Chicago Underground Film Festival and was screened at the Anthology Film Archives in NYC two years later. In 1997, feminist filmmaker Monika Treut made 'Didn't Do It for Love' (1997), a documentary about Eva's life, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, followed by the Berlin International Film Festival, among others.
In 1999, Eva appeared in 'Tops & Bottoms' (1999), by Christine Richie. She has been featured in many magazines as well as books like 'How to Be Hap Hap Happy Like Me' by Merrill Markoe, Marianne Macy's 'Working Sex' (1996), Bill and Gloria Brame's 'Different Loving', and Luisa Valenzuela's 'La travesia' (2002) and 'Black Novel with Argentines' (2003).
In 1999, John McTiernan hired her to coach Rene Russo for her assertive sexual image in 'The Thomas Crown Affair' for which she got screen credit.
In 2002, she was featured in a documentary film directed by Radovan Tadic, made for French and German cable television. She recently optioned a screenplay by Tadic for a feature film that she planned to produce with him as director.
Eva lived in New York and Connecticut but travelled frequently. She was fluent in English, French, Spanish, German, Swedish and Norwegian, and conversed in Russian and Italian. She was the sister of Georg Kajanus, London based singer and composer, and she was the single mother of Mexican actress Nailea Norvind.
At the time of her death, Eva was making a documentary about severely handicapped Mexican actor and musician Jose Flores, entitled 'Born Without'.- Actress
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Florence Auer was born on 3 March 1880 in Albany, New York, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for The Bishop's Wife (1947), That Forsyte Woman (1949) and At the Crossroads of Life (1908). She died on 14 May 1962 in New York City, New York, USA.- Music Artist
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Frank Sinatra was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, to Italian immigrants Natalina Della (Garaventa), from Northern Italy, and Saverio Antonino Martino Sinatra, a Sicilian boxer, fireman, and bar owner. Growing up on the gritty streets of Hoboken made Sinatra determined to work hard to get ahead. Starting out as a saloon singer in musty little dives (he carried his own P.A. system), he eventually got work as a band singer, first with The Hoboken Four, then with Harry James and then Tommy Dorsey. With the help of George Evans (Sinatra's genius press agent), his image was shaped into that of a street thug and punk who was saved by his first wife, Nancy Barbato Sinatra. In 1942 he started his solo career, instantly finding fame as the king of the bobbysoxers--the young women and girls who were his fans--and becoming the most popular singer of the era among teenage music fans. About that time his film career was also starting in earnest, and after appearances in a few small films, he struck box-office gold with a lead role in Anchors Aweigh (1945) with Gene Kelly, a Best Picture nominee at the 1946 Academy Awards. Sinatra was awarded a special Oscar for his part in a short film that spoke out against intolerance, The House I Live In (1945). His career on a high, Sinatra went from strength to strength on record, stage and screen, peaking in 1949, once again with Gene Kelly, in the MGM musical On the Town (1949) and Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949). A controversial public affair with screen siren Ava Gardner broke up his marriage to Nancy Barbato Sinatra and did his career little good, and his record sales dwindled. He continued to act, although in lesser films such as Meet Danny Wilson (1952), and a vocal cord hemorrhage all but ended his career. He fought back, though, finally securing a role he desperately wanted--Maggio in From Here to Eternity (1953). He won an Oscar for best supporting actor and followed this with a scintillating performance as a cold-blooded assassin hired to kill the US President in Suddenly (1954). Arguably a career-best performance--garnering him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor--was his role as a pathetic heroin addict in the powerful drama The Man with the Golden Arm (1955).
Known as "One-Take Charlie" for his approach to acting that strove for spontaneity and energy, rather than perfection, Sinatra was an instinctive actor who was best at playing parts that mirrored his own personality. He continued to give strong and memorable performances in such films as Guys and Dolls (1955), The Joker Is Wild (1957) and Some Came Running (1958). In the late 1950s and 1960s Sinatra became somewhat prolific as a producer, turning out such films as A Hole in the Head (1959), Sergeants 3 (1962) and the very successful Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964). Lighter roles alongside "Rat Pack" buddies Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. were lucrative, especially the famed Ocean's Eleven (1960). On the other hand, he alternated such projects with much more serious offerings, such as The Manchurian Candidate (1962), regarded by many critics as Sinatra's finest picture. He made his directorial debut with the World War II picture None But the Brave (1965), which was the first Japanese/American co-production. That same year Von Ryan's Express (1965) was a box office sensation. In 1967 Sinatra returned to familiar territory in Sidney J. Furie's The Naked Runner (1967), once again playing as assassin in his only film to be shot in the U.K. and Germany. That same year he starred as a private investigator in Tony Rome (1967), a role he reprised in the sequel, Lady in Cement (1968). He also starred with Lee Remick in The Detective (1968), a film daring for its time with its theme of murders involving rich and powerful homosexual men, and it was a major box-office success.
After appearing in the poorly received comic western Dirty Dingus Magee (1970), Sinatra didn't act again for seven years, returning with a made-for-TV cops-and-mob-guys thriller Contract on Cherry Street (1977), which he also produced. Based on the novel by William Rosenberg, this fable of fed-up cops turning vigilante against the mob boasted a stellar cast and was a ratings success. Sinatra returned to the big screen in The First Deadly Sin (1980), once again playing a New York detective, in a moving and understated performance that was a fitting coda to his career as a leading man. He made one more appearance on the big screen with a cameo in Cannonball Run II (1984) and a final acting performance in Magnum, P.I. (1980), in 1987, as a retired police detective seeking vengeance on the killers of his granddaughter, in an episode entitled Laura (1987).- Actor
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Franklyn Seales was a stage and television actor best remembered for playing the finicky business manager Dexter Stuffins on the NBC sit-com "Silver Spoons." He also appeared in films, most notably as the real-life cop killer in "The Onion Field."
One of eight children, Seales was born in 1952 on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent. In 1960, Seales' family emigrated to the United States, where they settled in New York City.
A painter since age six, Seales planned to study art at Pratt Institute. But then John Houseman noticed Seales when he was helping a friend to audition by performing the balcony scene from "Romeo and Juliet." Signed on the spot to a full scholarship at Juilliard, Seales studied acting as a member of Houseman's Acting Company, during the early 1970s.
Seales' first big break was the PBS broadcast of the television drama The Trial of the Moke (1978). He portrayed Lt. Henry O. Flipper, the first black graduate of West Point.
Seales' film debut was in the true-crime drama The Onion Field (1979). He portrayed a weak, gullible ex-con who's just out of jail when a fast-talking killer, played by James Woods, talks him into a senseless crime that results in the murder of a police officer.
From 1983 to 1987, Seales played the character for which he was best remembered, the finicky business manager Dexter Stuffins on the NBC situation-comedy Silver Spoons (1982), which also starred John Houseman as stoic Grandpa Stratton.
Toward the end of his life, Seales worked mainly in the non-profit Equity-waver theatre on the Westside of Los Angeles. He appeared in plays ranging from the theater of the absurd to Shakespeare. Los Angeles Times critic Lawrence Christon called Seales "one of America's most compelling stage actors."
As a member of the all-star L.A. Theatre Works, Seales was one of a company of 36 actors who contributed $6,000 each for the pleasure of performing classic plays together on the radio. Some of the Theater Works other members were James Earl Jones, Ted Danson, Richard Dreyfuss, Bonnie Bedelia, Stacy Keach, Michael York, and Ed Asner.
Seales last appeared in "Nothing Sacred," at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in the fall of 1988. A comedic adaptation of Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons," it was directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg. Seales appeared as Uncle Havel, an aristocratic fop and former military man. For his characterization, Seales relied on his recollections of the English colonels and majors of his native St. Vincent, when it was still a British colony, "with their little sticks and stiff mustaches."
Although he was acclaimed for his versatility, Seales admitted that being a light-skinned black man had limited the roles that were available to him.
Franklyn Seales died on Monday, May 14, 1990 from complications from AIDS at his family's home in Brooklyn, New York. He had been too ill to work for several months. In its obituary, the Los Angeles Times said that "Seales as an actor came to be seen as a link between the tradition of black Africa and the sophistication of classical Anglo drama."
He was survived by his mother, three brothers and three sisters. A memorial service was planned at Juilliard.- Gato Dumas was born on 20 July 1938 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was an actor, known for Cha cha cha (1993) and Sábado Bus (1999). He died on 14 May 2004 in Pilar, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Gianluigi Gabetti was born on 29 August 1924 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. He died on 14 May 2019 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.