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- John Gilpin was born on 10 February 1930 in Southsea, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Theater of Blood (1973), They Were Sisters (1945) and The Years Between (1946). He was married to HSH Princess Antoinette of Monaco and Sally Gilpin. He died on 5 September 1983 in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
- Animation Department
- Art Director
- Art Department
Yale Gracey was a Disney Imagineer, writer, and layout artist for many Disney animated shorts and full-length features, including classics such as "The Three Caballeros" and "Fantasia". Gracey joined the company in 1939 as a layout artist for "Pinocchio".
By 1961, through years of hands-on experimentation and curiosity, Yale began his second career at Disney as a special effects and lighting artist at Walt Disney Imagineering - then WED Enterprises. He designed many of the special effects for the Pirates of the Caribbean and Haunted Mansion attractions at Disneyland. Gracey retired from the company on October 4, 1975. He became widely recognized for the iconic 'grim grinning ghosts' that inhabit the Haunted Mansion as well as the realistic flames burning the overtaken city in Pirates of the Caribbean.
Gracey is also responsible for creating unique and creative illusions for Walt Disney's most beloved attractions including the Carousel of Progress for the 1964-65 New York World'd Fair. The simple, elegant illusion of glimmering pixie dust developed for the Carousel of Progress was later used in Space Mountain to block out the surrounding roller coaster structure. For the original EPCOT Center, Gracey created the breathtaking 'CenterCore' finale of the much missed World of Motion attraction.
On September 5, 1983, Gracey was shot and killed in Los Angeles by a burglar. His wife was injured in the attack. Gracey and his wife, Beverly, were staying overnight at their cabana at the Bel Air Bay Club, on Pacific Coast Highway in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of western Los Angeles. The shooting was reported at approximately 2:30 a.m. by another club member. A police spokesman indicated that Gracey and his wife were both asleep when an unknown intruder entered and shot them both, then fled onto the beach. A motive was not determined, and there were no suspects.- Richard Deming was born on 25 April 1915 in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. He was a writer, known for Arrivederci, Baby! (1966), Suspicion (1957) and Mike Hammer (1958). He was married to Ruth DuBois. He died on 5 September 1983 in Ventura, California, USA.
- Carter was born in Montreal and grew up in a working-class neighborhood. With little education, he dropped out of school to perform car stunts with a team of traveling daredevils. Soon he was a solo act, jumping at racetracks all over North America. He became a notorious showman, earning the nickname "The Mad Canadian" for his death-defying antics.
In 1976, after 20 years of car jumps, Carter launched his most ambitious project: an attempt to jump over the Saint Lawrence River-a distance of over one mile-in a rocket-powered Lincoln Continental. The preparations for the jump were the subject of a documentary called The Devil at Your Heels, directed by Robert Fortier and produced by the National Film Board of Canada. For months, Carter prepared his car and looked for sponsors, with his persistence in self-promotion paying off when U.S. broadcaster ABC gave him $250,000 to air the stunt on the episode of Wide World of Sports scheduled for September 25, 1976. Carter anticipated a live audience of 100,000. Construction of a 1,400-foot takeoff ramp began on fifty acres of farmland near Morrisburg, Ontario. Evel Knievel visited the site as a special correspondent for ABC and concluded that there was little chance of success. Delays in finishing the car and completing the ramp caused Carter to miss the broadcast date and ABC withdrew its support.
Carter resumed preparations the following year and again in 1978, but the jump was canceled both times. On September 26, 1979, Carter got to within five seconds of takeoff before aborting the jump following a mechanical failure. The planned jump had been sponsored by a film producer in exchange for exclusive film rights. Believing that Carter had lost his nerve, the film crew secretly arranged for another stunt driver, American Kenny Powers, to perform the jump while Carter was in his hotel room in Ottawa. The Powers jump was a failure, with the car traveling only 506 feet in the air and breaking apart in flight before crash-landing in the water. Powers broke eight vertebrae, three ribs and fractured a wrist.
Carter returned to stunt driving and in 1983 attempted to jump a pond in Peterborough, Ontario. During the jump his car - a modified Pontiac Firebird - suffered a malfunction and Carter crashed badly but vowed to try the jump again. Several months later he did. The vehicle missed its target landing ramp by 30 meters and landed on its roof. Carter was killed instantly. - Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Writer
Gerbert Moritsevich Rappaport was born on July 7, 1908, in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria). His father, Morice Rappaport, was a Doctor psychoanalyst. In 1927-28, young Rappaport studied law at University of Vienna. In 1928 he moved to Berlin and started working at Nero-Film Studio. There he met his Austrian compatriot, director Georg Pabst. During the 1930s he worked as assistant director with Georg Wilhelm Pabst in about ten productions, including several works with the Paramount Studios in Hollywood. There, in 1935, Rappaport was handpicked by Boris Shumyatskiy, the leader of the Soviet State Committee for Cinema. Boris Shumyatskiy invited Rappaport to work as director at the Lenfilm Studios in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). Rappoport accepted the invitation, because the Soviets supported his artistic ideas for making anti-Nazi films.
In 1938 Rappaport made his directorial debut with Professor Mamlock (1938), an anti-Nazi film about a brilliant Jewish doctor who saves the life of a Nazi leader, and get killed as a reward.The film based on the eponymous play by Friedrich Wolf was a success in the Soviet Union, but it was temporarily banned in 1939, after the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentropp Pact. During the Second World War, the film was popular again, and Rappaport continued making successful films securing himself a steady career and a high reputation in the Soviet Cinema.
Gerbert Rappaport was designated Honorable Artist of Russia. He was nominated for Grand Prize of the Cannes Film Festival for Stars of the Russian Ballet (1954). His last film was a criminal drama Menya eto ne kasaetsya (1976). Gerbert Rappaport died on August 31, 1983, in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Russia, Soviet Union.- Actress
Utako Tamaki was born on 28 October 1901 in Hakodate, Hokkaidô, Japan. She was an actress, known for Orochi (1925), Hi no kuruma Oman (1923) and Mâkan no kiyuru korô (1923). She died on 5 September 1983.- Director
- Writer
- Composer
Erich F. Bender was born in 1909. He was a director and writer, known for Helga (1967), Michael and Helga (1968) and Kali (1954). He died on 5 September 1983.- Actor
- Composer
- Music Department
Antonio Mairena was born on 7 September 1909 in Mairena del Alcor, Seville, Andalucía, Spain. He was an actor and composer, known for María de la O (1939), eXtrañas heterodoXias (2021) and Cante jondo (1952). He died on 5 September 1983 in Seville, Spain.- Bernard Lancret was born on 4 September 1912 in Gonesse, Val-d'Oise, France. He was an actor, known for Et moi j'te dis qu'elle t'a fait d'l'oeil! (1950), Carnival in Flanders (1935) and Maman Colibri (1937). He died on 5 September 1983 in Mougins, Alpes-Maritimes, France.