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- DeVeren Bookwalter honed his TV and movie acting talents originally in stage work in New York. From the east he moved to Los Angeles in the early 1970s, to plumb the opportunities of West Coast acting. One of the first of varied small roles in his new movie career was The Omega Man (1971). Bookwalter had a particular passion for Shakespeare and found an adequate outlet in his association with R. Thad Taylor's Shakespeare Society of America in West Hollywood. Working out of a turn-of-the-century Victorian mansion converted to several production stages, the SSA was especially devoted to performing all of Shakespeare's plays with a pool of LA legitimate theater, TV, and movie talent. Bookwalter played Feste the Clown in the SSA's ambitious Twelfth Night (1971)which used the mansion's massive backyard patio as the central stage. The production included young British actors Vincent Mongol and Vickery Turner and veteran funny man Avery Schreiber. When the mansion's owners tore it down in early 1972 (for the proverbial parking lot), Taylor moved the SSA to a converted garage a few miles north and with Bookwalter and the addition of a varied trove of talented volunteers constructed within it a half scale model of the Globe Theater.
Reconstituting the new location as the LA Globe Theater, the SSA continued the goal of completing Shakespeare's plays, along with a steady insertion of new plays and some modern classics. Bookwalter took the helm as director and star in the SSA's acclaimed Cyrano de Bergerac (1975) which garnered the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards for production, director, and lead performance for that year. The SSA completed the Shakespeare collection of plays in 1976-77 season, and Bookwalter once again moved into movies, including the American TV production of Othello (1981). His most notable movie role was as the home grown terrorist leader Bobby Maxwell in the Clint Eastwood continuing Dirty Harry installment The Enforcer (1976). Thereafter Bookwalter moved into the steady work of soap operas (1982-84) and finally returned to New York where he passed away before his time in 1987. - Actor
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The son of stage actor/playwright Arthur L. Jarrett (1884-1960), Arthur Jarrett was a prominent singer in the 1930s and 1940s. Near the end of the 1920s he recorded for Victor and Brunswick with dance orchestras of Ted Weems, Earl Burtnett, Red Nichols, Jimmie Noone and 'Frankie Trumbauer' . He was famous for his high tenor "counter melody" style. He made many feature films and shorts, and introduced such hit songs "Everything I Have is Yours" (Dancing Lady (1933)), "Let's Fall in Love" (Let's Fall in Love (1933)) "Did You Ever See a Dream Walking" (Sitting Pretty (1933)) and "I've Got a Date With a Dream" (My Lucky Star (1938)). He led his own orchestra in the mid-'30s while married to swimmer Eleanor Holm. He starred in one "B" western. He took over Hal Kemp's band in early 1941 after Kemp was killed in an auto accident. Jarrett also appeared on Broadway in "Three After Three" (aka "Walk With Music"). He led orchestras throughout the 1940s before becoming a disc jockey and later a salesman.- Bell Poulsen was born on 18 September 1927 in Frederiksberg, Denmark. She was an actress, known for Det gyldne smil (1935) and Kidnapped (1935). She died on 23 July 1987.
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Newton House was born on 1 November 1911 in Holly, Colorado, USA. He was an actor, known for Shattered Lives (1925), The Ridin' Kid from Powder River (1924) and A Final Reckoning (1928). He died on 23 July 1987 in Colton, California, USA.- Virgilia Chew was born on 9 July 1905 in Houston, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for The Fugitive Kind (1960), Robert Montgomery Presents (1950) and East Side/West Side (1963). She died on 23 July 1987 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.
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Willy Faktorovitch was born on 22 November 1915 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France. He was a cinematographer and actor. He died on 23 July 1987 in Paris, France.- Joseph Sterns was born on 8 December 1908 in Dallas, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for No Woman Knows (1921) and Penrod (1922). He died on 23 July 1987 in Washington, USA.
- Bertha Lehar was born on 10 January 1911 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was an actress, known for In the Palm of Your Hand (1951), Tal para cual (1953) and Se acabaron las mujeres (1946). She was married to Fernando Pacheco. She died on 23 July 1987 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
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Randy Connor was born on 14 December 1954 in Virginia, USA. He was an actor, known for Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984), Space Raiders (1983) and Bad Manners (1984). He died on 23 July 1987 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.