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- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Producer/director Basil Wright was born in London, England, in 1907. He got into the film industry as one of the first members of pioneering documentary filmmaker John Grierson's Empire Marketing Board in 1931. In 1936 he directed, with Harry Watt, the well-received Night Mail (1936), and the next year he formed, with Alberto Cavalcanti, the Realist Film Unit. During World War II he worked at the famous Crown Film Unit, producing such documentaries as Humphrey Jennings' A Diary for Timothy (1945).
In 1960 he moved to the US and taught film at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles). He wrote two books on film, "The Use of Film" (1948) and "The Long View" (1974). He died in October of 1987.- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Rodolfo Halffter was born on 20 October 1900 in Madrid, Spain. He was a composer, known for The Dreamers (2003), The Young and the Damned (1950) and Entre hermanos (1945). He died on 14 October 1987 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.- Elzbieta Barszczewska was born on 29 November 1913 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Girls of Nowolipki (1937), Tredowata (1936) and Nad Niemnem (1939). She was married to Marian Wyrzykowski. She died on 14 October 1987 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Tino Santoni was born on 9 January 1913 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a cinematographer, known for Argoman the Fantastic Superman (1967), War Gods of Babylon (1962) and Valley of the Lions (1961). He died on 14 October 1987.- Emmy Loose was born on 22 January 1914 in Karbitz, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Chabarovice, Czech Republic]. She died on 14 October 1987 in Vienna, Austria.