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- Pinchoo Kapoor was born in 1927 in India. He was an actor, known for Don (1978), Anmol Ghadi (1946) and Karz (1980). He died on 28 April 1989 in Bombay, Maharashtra, India.
- Ann Thomas was born on 8 July 1913 in Newport, Rhode Island, USA. She was an actress, known for Midnight Cowboy (1969), Walk East on Beacon! (1952) and Suspense (1949). She died on 28 April 1989 in New Rochelle, New York, USA.
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- Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Géza von Cziffra was a prolific novelist, screenwriter and director, born in Arad, Hungary, of ethnic German ancestry. He began his career as a journalist in Vienna in 1918 and later worked in Berlin as a political commentator and film writer for the publications Berliner Tageblatt and Welt am Abend. In 1922, he became apprenticed in the film business as an assistant director for Alexander Korda at Sascha Films. By 1932, the multi-faceted Cziffra divided his time running a cabaret on Berlin's Kurfürstendamm and writing film scripts, plays and novels. For much of this output he used a plethora of pseudonyms, including John Ferguson, Karel Kubela, Horace Parker, Enrique Anden, Thomas Harrer, Albert Anthony and Peter Trenck.
Cziffra directed his first four feature films (all Hungarian-language productions) in Budapest between 1934 and 1935. His next directing assignments, the ice revue Der weiße Traum (1943) (one of the most profitable German films of the period) and the romantic comedy Hundstage (1944), set the tone for his subsequent output, which would consist almost entirely of light commercial entertainments: musical comedies, marital farces, crime potboilers and Heimatfilms. In the pleasure-starved post-war era, such unambitious films were often pure box-office gold.
After the war, Cziffra established his own production company, Cziffra-Film GmbH, under American license in Vienna. It ceased operation in 1949. Undeterred, Cziffra soon co-founded another company in Hamburg, Arion-Film GmbH, which also existed for a mere four years (1952-56).
Cziffra's most popular post-war films as writer/director include Gabriela (1950), Tanzende Sterne (1952), Banditen der Autobahn (1955), Der müde Theodor (1957) and no less than twelve musical comedies starring the Austrian entertainer Peter Alexander. Cziffra retired from films in 1974, but continued to publish novels, memoirs and a collection of anecdotes well into the late 1980's.- Actor
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Esa Pakarinen was born on 9 February 1911 in Rääkkylä, Finland. He was an actor, known for Rovaniemen markkinoilla (1951), Pekka Puupää (1953) and Pekka ja Pätkä neekereinä (1960). He was married to Elli Aho, Orvokki Vesaranta and Aino Juntunen. He died on 28 April 1989 in Varkaus, Finland.- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Although related to MGM head Louis B. Mayer, Cummings started his career at the studio as a low-paid office boy. He worked his way up to script supervisor and assistant director, and was eventually placed in charge of the studio's short-subjects department, where he personally produced most (and directed several) of them. In 1934 MGM made Cummings a producer of features, and as such he was responsible for many of the studio's most famous musicals.- Leonidas Ossetynski was born on 22 October 1910 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was an actor, known for Mission: Impossible (1966), Night Gallery (1969) and The Man in the Glass Booth (1975). He died on 28 April 1989 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actor
- Director
Franco Parenti was born on 7 December 1921 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He was an actor and director, known for I promessi sposi (1967), Arlecchino servitore di due padroni (1955) and Don Giovanni (1967). He died on 28 April 1989 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.- Producer
Donald S. Rugoff was born on 7 February 1927 in the USA. Donald S. was a producer. Donald S. was married to Susan ?. Donald S. died on 28 April 1989 in Edgartown, Massachusetts, USA.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Michael Forella was born on 11 March 1947 in Bronx, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Bad (1977) and Camera Three (1955). He died on 28 April 1989.- Rudolf Lampa was born on 1 September 1905 in Prague, Austria-Hungary. He was an actor, known for Na Svatém Kopecku (1934), Ze vsech jediná (1938) and Bylo to v máji (1951). He died on 28 April 1989 in Vyskov, Czechoslovakia.
- Writer
- Additional Crew
László Tabi was born on 7 October 1910 in Budapest, Hungary. He was a writer, known for Minden kezdet nehéz (1966), Másfél millió (1964) and Musical TV Theater (1970). He died on 28 April 1989 in Budapest, Hungary.