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- Music Department
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Born on February 10, 1929, Jerry Goldsmith studied piano with Jakob Gimpel and composition, theory, and counterpoint with Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. He also attended classes in film composition given by Miklós Rózsa at the Univeristy of Southern California. In 1950, he was employed as a clerk typist in the music department at CBS. There, he was given his first embryonic assignments as a composer for radio shows such as "Romance" and "CBS Radio Workshop". He wrote one score a week for these shows, which were performed live on transmission. He stayed with CBS until 1960, having already scored The Twilight Zone (1959). He was hired by Revue Studios to score their series Thriller (1960). It was here that he met the influential film composer Alfred Newman who hired Goldsmith to score the film Lonely Are the Brave (1962), his first major feature film score. An experimentalist, Goldsmith constantly pushed forward the bounds of film music: Planet of the Apes (1968) included horns blown without mouthpieces and a bass clarinetist fingering the notes but not blowing. He was unafraid to use the wide variety of electronic sounds and instruments which had become available, although he did not use them for their own sake.
He rose rapidly to the top of his profession in the early to mid-1960s, with scores such as Freud (1962), A Patch of Blue (1965) and The Sand Pebbles (1966). In fact, he received Oscar nominations for all three and another in the 1960s for Planet of the Apes (1968). From then onwards, his career and reputation was secure and he scored an astonishing variety of films during the next 30 years or so, from Patton (1970) to Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) and from Chinatown (1974) to The Boys from Brazil (1978). He received 17 Oscar nominations but won only once, for The Omen (1976) in 1977 (Goldsmith himself dismissed the thought of even getting a nomination for work on a "horror show"). He enjoyed giving concerts of his music and performed all over the world, notably in London, where he built up a strong relationship with London Symphony Orchestra.
Jerry Goldsmith died at age 75 on July 21, 2004 after a long battle with cancer.- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Benny Poulsen was born on 11 August 1942 in Denmark. He was an actor and director, known for The Kingdom (1994), Kinostalgia Bio (1978) and Europa (1991). He was married to Grethe Holmer. He died on 21 July 2004.- Margot Medicus was born on 2 March 1940 in Vienna, Austria. She was an actress, known for Derrick (1974), Autofahrer unterwegs (1961) and Telerop 2009 - Es ist noch was zu retten (1974). She was married to Jürg Medicus. She died on 21 July 2004 in Zürich, Switzerland.
- Virginia Rambal was an outstanding member of Spanish-American theater in New York. She played in more than 100 stage plays and she was awarded with the OBIE from Village Voice of New York. She was the daughter of Valencian actor Enrique Rambal. Virgina was buried along with her father in Mexico City.
- Actor
- Writer
Radoy Ralin (his real name was Dimitar Stefanov Stoyanov ) is a Bulgarian writer , poet, satirist and dissident, inspired generations of Bulgarians for the values of freedom. During the totalitarian system in Bulgaria, the poet Boris Hristov said of him: "He is the only one so different from the same people." Radoy Ralin was born in Sliven, Bulgaria on April 23, 1922. His father was a bookseller and printer, owner of the bookstore "Modern Art". His mother Kina Stoyanova was an extremely pious woman. Radoy Ralin graduated from high school in his hometown in 1941, and then studied right in the Sofia University . At that time the police following him code-named "philosopher" and registered his exclusion from school for reading of the left-wing poems. Later, the Communist State Security will haunt him under the alias "Malice" and "Goat." In July and September 1941 with Ducho Mundrov and Z. Skubarev he wrote and edited a illegal anti-fascist newsletter "The truth of the anti-Soviet war." In 1942, he was arrested. In 1944, he went as a volunteer at the front and participated in World War II (1944-45). He was an editor (1945-46) in the journal "Slavs". In the 50th, when in Bulgaria jazz is considered heretical art, Radoy Ralin was one of its ardent supporters; with Milcho Leviev he created (1965) formation "Jazz Focus ." He was one of the founders of Satire Theater ( 1953 ). In 1946-49, he was editor in newspaper " Literary Front "; in 1952-61 - in the newspaper " The Gadfly "; in 1961-63 - in the newspaper "Literary News"; in 1961-63 - in Boyana Film Studios; in 1964-66 - in Documentary Studios, where he created a series of satire documentaries "Focus". He was an editor in publishing house "Bulgarian writer" (1967-68); in Bulgarian cinematography (1976-87); in the newspaper "Literary Front" (1987-90). Since 1992, together with Boris Dimovski and his son Kin Stoyanov had issued briefly newspaper "Lucky." Radoy Ralin died on 21 July 2004 in Sofia, Bulgaria. His name is called the square, where there is his monument. Satirical works by Ralin are extremely popular. Radoy Ralin revived for non-traditional Bulgarian short satire genre forms - apostrophes , aphorism , satirical parable. He is translated in 27 languages (including Chinese). In 2003, was awarded with the National Literature Prize for humor and satire "Rayko Alexiev" for complete literary work and contribution in the field of humor and satire.- Actress
Celia McCann was born on 29 December 1911 in Mexico. She was an actress, known for Maniac (1934). She was married to DeWitt McCann. She died on 21 July 2004 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Rolf Bergström was born on 28 September 1925 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for While the City Sleeps (1950). He died on 21 July 2004 in Norrköping, Östergötlands län, Sweden.
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Cinematographer
Julien Lugrin was born on 4 May 1927 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was a cinematographer, known for Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967), Thunderbirds (1965) and Stingray (1964). He was married to Sheila Wingfield Cottrell and Ingeborg Bridi. He died on 21 July 2004 in Poole, Dorset, England, UK.- Ed Lewis was born on 20 May 1918 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA. Ed was married to Pamela Harrah. Ed died on 21 July 2004 in Pasadena, California, USA.
- Richard Bloch was born on 15 February 1926 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He was married to Annette. He died on 21 July 2004 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
- Art Department
- Actress
Éva Gaál was born on 6 November 1930 in Debrecen, Hungary. She was an actress, known for Gerolsteini kaland (1957), Csigalépcsö (1957) and Süsü, a sárkány kalandjai (1977). She died on 21 July 2004 in Budapest, Hungary.- Camera and Electrical Department
Pavel Stecha was born on 20 December 1944 in Prague, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia [now Czech Republic]. He is known for Hra o jablko (1977), Faunovo velmi pozdní odpoledne (1983) and Obcan Havel (2008). He died on 21 July 2004 in Prague, Czech Republic.