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- Carmelo Carrisi was married to Jolanda Ottino. He died on 26 March 2005 in Ospedale Antonio Perrino, Brindisi, Puglia, Italy.
- Jim Callaghan was born on 27th March 1912 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, to a Catholic father and Baptist mother. He was the only son and younger of 2 children. His father was a Royal Navy Chief Petty Officer of Irish ancestry, who died when Callaghan was aged 9. His father died when he was 9, plunging the family into poverty. They received no pension until Labour came into office in 1931 and paid the Callaghans a weekly pension of 10 shillings (then worth about $2).
He had an unspectacular education at Portsmouth Northern Secondary School, and left at 16 to work as a clerk for the Inland Revenue and became involved with the union (Staff Federation). He later met Harold Laski, the Chair of the Labour Party's National Executive Committee. Laski encouraged him to stand for Parliament. Callaghan served in the Royal Navy Patrol Service in World War II from 1943, but while on leave he was able to get selected as a Parliamentary candidate for Cardiff South, later Cardiff South East. He won the seat in the 1945 UK general election. He rose steadily through the party in Opposition, and stood for the leadership after Gaitskell's death in 1963.
In 1964 as Chancellor of the Exchequer, he decided not to devalue the pound, which proved to be a disastrous decision. He was forced to do so three years later and felt obliged to resign as Chancellor and became Home Secretary, where he was able to partially restore his reputation. During this time there was worsening violence in Northern Ireland and in 1969 he sent troops to the province, initially to protect the Catholic minority.
In Opposition Callaghan became Shadow Foreign Secretary, and in government after 1974 it was his job to renegotiate the terms of Britains EC membership. When Harold Wilson resigned unexpectedly, Callaghan was not the favourite to win the leadership, being the oldest candidate at 64. However, he was the least divisive candidate, and won the vote.
He was Prime Minister from 1976 to 1979. As a PM he presided over a sterling crisis, which led to negotiations with the IMF for a rescue package. However, problems became more difficult when Labour lost its overall small majority in 1977, following a succession of by-election defeats. They became dependent on the support of the Liberals to survive. However, Callaghan persevered in office even when this pact broke down.
During the 'Winter of Discontent' in 1978, industrial action over pay policy severely damaged the governments authority. Following a loss of a confidence motion on 28 March 1979 by just one vote, Callaghan was obliged to hold a general election, which was won by Margaret Thatcher 's Conservative Party. He resigned as leader of the Labour party in September 1980, shortly after the 1980 party conference.
In 1983, he became Father of the House as the longest continuously serving member of the Commons and one of only two survivors of the 1945 general election. The other one was Michael Foot , who, however, had been out of the House from 1955 to 1960. Callaghan remained an MP until the 1987 general election when he retired after forty-two years as a member of the Commons. The same year, he was elevated to the House of Lords as Baron Callaghan of Cardiff.
In 1988 his wife Audrey spotted a letter to a newspaper which pointed out that the copyright of Peter Pan was about to expire. Callaghan moved an amendment to the Copyright Bill then under consideration in the Lords to extend it permanently, and this was accepted by the government. (Royalties from Peter Pan go to the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital)
He was married for 67 years to Audrey Elizabeth Moulton. They had a son and two daughters. Margaret, born in 1940, became Baroness Jay of Paddington and was Leader of the House of Lords from 1998 to 2001. Julia was born in 1943 and Michael in 1946.
He died at his farm in Ringmer, East Sussex on 26 March 2005 on the eve of his 93rd birthday and just 11 days after the death of his wife Audrey. - Actor
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There is an old saying in show business "The Show Must Go On". Hester tried his very best to live his life according to that old adage, but sadly, could not beat his own personal demons and the show did not go on. Paul Hester always smiled on the outside. As an eight-year old child he wrote a journal entry about one day hoping to become a famous drummer with a successful band. Hester achieved his goal, but he discovered the hard way that there was more to life than money and power. When Hester joined Split Enz during their final days (in 1983) he was on top of the world. He was always a little strange and appearing with a band that thrived in their own quirkiness and eccentricities seemed like the perfect place for the young, spiky haired, eccentric drum prodigy. Hester became well known for his on-stage antics and tomfoolery, and he always gave the audience a good show. When Split Enz disbanded shortly after he joined he was devastated. What was he now to do with his exceptional talent that had no showcase for it? He dabbled in films, with Split Enz front man Tim Finn securing him a one-line bit part in his project "The Coca Cola Kid" - it was fulfilling, but Hester yearned for more. He needed to be on stage, where he was most comfortable. When Neil Finn offered him the role as drummer for Crowded House, a band he was forming, he was ecstatic - he thought that this was finally the chance he needed to shine. Crowded House promised a much smaller line up than Split Enz, only three members, so he would truly have a chance to shine. However, during their 1993 tour stress took its toll on Hester. He became sarcastic and withdrawn - when he answered interview questions he was abrupt and rude, a far cry from the once quirky Hester. He had had enough - he finally walked. After he left Crowded House it looked like Hester might turn his life around - he married and had two children and found solace by becoming a popular TV personality. But it was all a front - music was what he loved and he needed to get back to drumming. He found this by forming a band, Tarmac Adam, with band-mate Nick Seymour. In 2003 it looked like he had turned his life around. Gone were the demons that haunted him and he was on the straight and narrow- but it was all a front. The life long depression finally got the most
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Klara Luchko was a Soviet Russian and Ukrainian actress best known as Dasha, a Cossack woman in the popular movie Cossacks of the Kuban (1950) by director Ivan Pyrev.
She was born Klara Stepanovna Luchko on 1 July 1925, in a village near Poltava, Ukraine, Soviet Union, into a peasant family. Her father, Stepan Grigorievich, and mother, Anna Ivanovna, both worked for a Soviet collective farm. During WWII, young Luchko with her mother were evacuated to Central Asia, while her father was fighting in the front-lines against the Nazis. During the war time, Klara Luchko became obsessed with movies and acting, so in 1943, she came to Almaty, Kazakhstan, where the Soviet State Film Institute (VGIK) was evacuated during WWII. Although Luchko was exhausted, hungry and unprepared, she improvised brilliantly and passed the entrance exam with flying colors. She studied acting under Sergey Gerasimov, graduating in 1948 as actress. That same year she made her film debut as Marina in The Young Guard (1948) by director Sergei Gerasimov.
In 1951, Klara Luchko was awarded the State Stalin's Prize for her role in the popular movie Cossacks of the Kuban (1950) by director Ivan Pyrev. During the 50s, Klara Luchko was the official face of the Soviet film industry: she represented Mosfilm for the first time at the 1952 Cannes film festival. Later, Luchko and the ensemble of actresses in A Big Family (1954) won the Best Actress award at the 1955 Cannes film festival. She also was member of official Soviet delegations at various international events, such as, the Edinburgh festival and other show business events in the 50s. Her film career spanned over fifty five years and she worked with such directors, as Iosif Kheifits, Sergei Gerasimov, Yan Frid, Ivan Pyryev, Adolf Bergunker, Eldar Shengelaya, and other notable Russian directors.
Klara Luchko was designated People's Actress of the USSR and received other awards and decorations from the Soviet and Russian government. In 2000 she was named "Woman of the Millennium" and received a lifetime awards from the Russian Actors Guild. Klara Luchko was married twice and had a daughter. She was living in Moscow, Russia. She died of a heart failure at age 79, on 26 March, 2005, and was laid to rest in Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow, Russia. A square in the Cossack town of Kurganinsk in the South of Russia, where she played her best known role as a Cossack woman, was named after Klara Luchko.- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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American production manager and assistant director who directed and produced films. A native of Philadelphia, Saeta grew up in Los Angeles, where his father was head of the Columbia Pictures electrical department. At 18, Saeta got a job as Columbia boss Harry Cohn's messenger boy, which led to work as a 3rd assistant director on westerns at Columbia and subsequently Monogram. Following service in the Second World War in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, Saeta returned to Columbia and spent nearly two decades as an assistant director. Subsequently he branched into work as a production manager, and produced and directed a few films as well. He received a Directors Guild Award for his work on the TV movie _Brian's Song (1973) (TV)_. He died at the age of 90.- Cinematographer
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Han Barkeij was born on 4 September 1929 in Bagan-siapiapi, Riau, Indonesia. He was a cinematographer, known for De vloek van Woestewolf (1974), Het is weer zo laat! (1978) and Pagnol (1977). He was married to Geertruida (Truus) Barkeij-Simon. He died on 26 March 2005 in Blaricum, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.- Editorial Department
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A pioneer of Anglia Television's flagship wildlife documentary series Survival (1961), Colin Willock was born in Finchley, north London, where a science teacher at Tonbridge School inspired his love of natural history. Leaving school at 16, he became a cadet journalist on the Courier, before serving in the Second World War as a captain in the Royal Marines in north Africa and Italy. After the war, he became Executive Editor of Lilliput Magazine, Assistant Editor of Picture Post and founding Editor of the Angling Times. Colin found his niche when Aubrey Buxton enlisted him to help with Anglia Television's first natural history programme, Wild Life in London (1961), leading to the subsequent establishment of Anglia Television's Survival (1961) Unit.
Colin became the Unit's Creative Head and remained in the post for over thirty years, writing and producing over 400 films. As Head of Anglia's Natural History Unit, his objective was to reach a wide audience by making wildlife conservation a popular issue using innovative styles, punchy language and carefully choosing the stories to present. With his talent and humour, Colin was the ideal choice as writer for what became a genre that was christened 'Pop-Nat-Hist'.
A prolific and gifted writer, Colin wrote 36 books and regularly contributed to a variety of magazines and papers. In 1986 he was awarded a Royal Television Society Fellowship for his outstanding contribution to the industry, and in 1987 the Royal Geographical Society awarded him the Cherry Kearton Medal and Award for excellence in the study of natural history through cinematography.
Colin Willock died on the 26th of March 2005.