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The lovely Susannah York, a gamine, blue-eyed, cropped-blonde British actress, displayed a certain crossover star quality when she dared upon the Hollywood scene in the early 1960s. A purposefully intriguing, enigmatic and noticeably uninhibited talent, she was born Susannah Yolande Fletcher on January 9, 1939 in Chelsea, London, but raised in a remote village in Scotland. Her parents divorced when she was around 6. Attending Marr College, she trained for acting at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, winning the Ronson Award for most promising student. She then performed classical repertory and pantomime in her early professional career.
Making an impression on television in 1959 opposite Sean Connery in a production of "The Crucible" as Abigail Williams to his John Proctor, the moon-faced beauty progressed immediately to ingénue film roles, making her debut as the daughter of Alec Guinness in the classic war drama Tunes of Glory (1960). She emerged quickly as a worthy co-star with the sensitively handled coming-of age drama Loss of Innocence (1961), the more complex psychodrama Freud (1962), as a patient to Montgomery Clift's famed psychoanalyst, and the bawdy and robust 18th century tale Tom Jones (1963), with Susannah portraying the brazenly seductive Sophie, one of many damsels lusting after the bed-hopping title rogue Albert Finney.
Susannah continued famously both here and in England in both contemporary and period drama opposite the likes of Warren Beatty, William Holden, Paul Scofield and Dirk Bogarde. Susannah was a new breed. Free-spirited and unreserved, she had no trouble at all courting controversy in some of the film roles she went on to play. She gained special notoriety as the child-like Alice in her stark, nude clinches with severe-looking executive Coral Browne in the lesbian drama The Killing of Sister George (1968). A few years later, she and Elizabeth Taylor traveled similar territory with X, Y & Zee (1972).
Award committees also began favoring her; she won the BAFTA film award as well as Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for her delusional Jean Harlow-like dance marathon participant in the grueling Depression-era film They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969). Her crazy scene in the shower with Oscar-winner Gig Young was particularly gripping and just one of many highlights in the acclaimed film. She also copped a Cannes Film Festival award for her performance in Images (1972) playing another troubled character barely coping with reality. On television, she was Emmy-nominated for her beautifully nuanced Jane Eyre (1970) opposite George C. Scott's Rochester.
Susannah's film career started to lose ground into the 1970s as she continued her pursuit of challengingly offbeat roles as opposed to popular mainstream work. The film adaptations of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971) opposite Rod Steiger and Jean Genet's The Maids (1975) with Glenda Jackson were not well-received. Her performances in such films as Gold (1974), Conduct Unbecoming (1975) which starred another famous York (Michael York), That Lucky Touch (1975), Sky Riders (1976) and The Shout (1978) were overlooked, as were the films themselves. In the one highly popular movie series she appeared in, the box-office smashes Superman (1978) and its sequel Superman II (1980), she had literally nothing to do as Lara, the wife of Marlon Brando's Jor-El and birth mother of the superhero. While the actress continued to pour out a number of quality work assignments in films and television, she failed to recapture her earlier star glow.
Wisely, Susannah began extending her talents outside the realm of film acting. Marrying writer Michael Wells in 1960, she focused on her personal life, raising their two children for a time. The couple divorced in 1980. In the 1970s, she wrote the children's books "In Search of Unicorns" and "Lark's Castle". She also found time to direct on stage and wrote the screenplay to one of her film vehicles Falling in Love Again (1980). On stage Susannah performed in such one-woman shows as "Independent State", 'Picasso's Women", "The Human Voice" and "The Loves of Shakespeare's Women", while entertaining such wide and varied theatre challenges as "Peter Pan" (title role), "Hamlet" (as Gertrude), "Camino Real", "The Merry Wives of Windsor", "A Streetcar Named Desire", "Private Lives", "Agnes of God" and the title role in "Amy's View".
At the age of 67, Susannah showed up once again on film with a delightful cameo role in The Gigolos (2006), and seemed ripe for a major comeback, perhaps in a similar vein to the legendary Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Helen Mirren. Sadly, it was not to be. Diagnosed with bone marrow cancer, the actress died on January 15, 2011, six days after her 72nd birthday. Her final films, Franklyn (2008) and The Calling (2009), proved that she still possessed the magnetism of her earlier years.- Don Ross was born on 4 April 1920 in Missoula, Montana, USA. He was an actor, known for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), Anatomy of a Murder (1959) and The Loretta Young Show (1953). He died on 15 January 2011 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actor
- Writer
Romulus Linney, the prolific American playwright, was born on September 21, 1930 in Philadelphia. He was the namesake of his great-grandfather, the Republican Congressman, Romulus Zachariah Linney, a Confederate Army veteran who represented North Carolina's 8th District from 1895-1901. Raised in North Carolina and Tennessee, Linney graduated from Oberlin College and then attended the Yale School of Drama, here he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree.
Linney wrote 85 plays, including "Holy Ghosts", "Sand Mountain, "The Sorrows of Frederick", and "2: Goering at Nuremberg". His play "The 34th Star" was produced for public television in 1974.
His plays were staged Off- and Off-Off-Broadway and by regional theaters. His one Broadway production, "The Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks", was a flop, closing after only five performances in 1972. (The play was revived Off-Broadway in 1992, playing for a little over two weeks.) While he was never a success in commercial terms, he was highly respected. Linney won two Obie Awards, one of which was for career achievement, and two National Critics Awards. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Academy honored him with its Award in Literature, its Award of Merit and the Gold Medal, its highest award. In 1994, he also received an honorary doctorate award from his alma mater, Oberlin College.
Linney also taught dramatic writing, eventually serving as the head of Columbia University's MFA Playwriting program. He also taught playwriting at the Actors Studio's MFA program, and taught at the New School in New York, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania, among other schools.
Suffering from lung cancer, Romulus Linney died on January 15, 2011. He was 80 years old. The award-winning actress Laura Linney is his daughter. They appeared together in the movie Kinsey (2004).- Patti Gilbert was born on 14 May 1931 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Get Smart (1965), The Phantom Tollbooth (1970) and Spies, Lies & Naked Thighs (1988). She was married to Henry Gilbert, Henry G. Saperstein and Charles Schleussner. She died on 15 January 2011 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Paddy Ward was born in 1924. He was an actor, known for Waking Ned Devine (1998), Casanova (2005) and The Railway Children (1970). He was married to Deddie Davies. He died on 15 January 2011 in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England, UK.- Stephanie Glaser, a popular Swiss actress and singer, was born in Neuchâtel in 1920. After studying acting at the Reinhardt-Seminar in Vienna, she appeared in various theaters in Switzerland and Germany. Back in Switzerland, she sang at the "Bärenstatze", the "Floigefänger" and "Fédéral" cabarets, in solo or with partners like Walter Roderer, Freddy Lienhard, etc. From then on Stephanie Glaser ranked among the leading figures of the Swiss comedy scene. Hans Gmür wrote several pieces especially for her. In 1954, she started a film career: she was Trinette in the Gotthelf film adaptations by Franz Schnyder, Uli der Knecht (1954) and its sequel Uli, der Pächter (1955). In 1965, she married Oscar Düby. In the 1970s Glaser became the public's favorite as "Aunt Elise" with the goldfish "Traugottli" in the popular television show "Teleboy" by Kurt Felix. She also took part in series such as "Die Direktorin" (1994). In 2001 she was nominated for the Swiss Film Prize as Best Actress for her performance in the film "Komiker" by Markus Imboden. She was cast in her first leading film role in "Die Herbstzeitlosen". In 2006 Stefanie Glaser was honored with a Special Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival and, in the same year, the Swiss Award in the culture category. The vivacious old lady was nearly 91 when she died in 2011, after a long life and a long career.
- Michael Langham was born on 22 August 1919 in Bridgwater, Somerset, England, UK. He was a director, known for Great Performances (1971), Folio (1955) and Approach to Theatre (1956). He was married to Helen Burns. He died on 15 January 2011 in Cranbrook, Kent, England, UK.
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- Animation Department
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Yuriy Prytkov was born on 17 March 1920. Yuriy was a director and assistant director, known for Big 'Fuse' (1964), The Snow Maiden (1952) and The Tale About Laziness (1976). Yuriy was married to Tatyana Sazonova. Yuriy died on 15 January 2011 in Moscow, Russia.- Writer
- Producer
Nini Perno was born in 1935 in Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. Nini was a writer and producer, known for Quartetto K 589 di W. A. Mozart (2007), Leonidas Kavakos (2008) and Un giorno in pretura (1988). Nini died on 15 January 2011 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Writer
- Soundtrack
Sun Axelsson was born on 19 August 1935 in Gothenburg, Sweden. He was a writer, known for Gå på vattnet om du kan (1979), Honungsvargar (1990) and Canto Libre - den fria sången (1980). He died on 15 January 2011 in Sweden.- Patrick Leclercq was born on 21 January 1950 in Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He died on 15 January 2011 in Cairo, Egypt.
- Edward Wellen was born on 2 October 1919 in New Rochelle, New York, USA. Edward was a writer, known for Bourbon Street Beat (1959). Edward died on 15 January 2011 in New Rochelle, New York, USA.
- Undoubtedly Bolton Wanderers most famous player having scored 255 goals in 452 appearances during his time at Burnden Park. Born in Bolton he began his footballing career prior to the outbreak of the Second World War whilst combining his sport with work down a local mine. He became a key player for Bolton for over 20 years and was a regular in the England team notching up 30 goals in 33 games for the Three Lions including two in the 1952 match against Austria which earned him the nickname the Lion of Vienna. He took part in the 1953 FA Cup Final against Lancashire rivals Blackpool which became the "Matthews Final" due to the performance of the legendary Stanley matthews who set up the four Blackpool goals which included a hat trick for Stan Mortensen. Nat was a scorer for Bolton that day but they lost the game 4-3 having led for 3-1 for most of the contest. In 1958 he was an FA Cup winner scoring both the goals for Bolton in their 2-0 success over arch rivals Manchester United, who where in recovery after the tragic Munich air disaster the same year. One of his goals saw him bundle United's Northern Irish goalkeeper Harry Gregg into the goal, a goal which was allowed to stand and an incident that is still talked about to this day. He also won the Charity Sheild contest whilst with Bolton and is the only player at Bolton to have won the Footballer of the Year award. In 1960 he retired from the game as a player but in 1968 he took over from Bill Ridding as the Bolton manager. His time in the managerial seat was not as successful and he stood down in 1970 to become general manager of the club, standing in breifly as caretaker manager in 1971 and 1985 respectively.
- Roy Hartsfield was born on 25 October 1925 in Chattahoochee, Georgia, USA. He died on 15 January 2011 in Ball Ground, Georgia, USA.
- Ellen Alaküla was born on 30 April 1927 in Kohtla-Järve, Estonia. She was an actress, known for Valge laev (1971), Karge meri (1981) and Ma pole turist, ma elan siin (1989). She died on 15 January 2011.
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Gerhard Hellwig was born on 17 July 1925 in Berlin, Germany. He is known for The Magic Mountain (1982), Melodien einer Stadt (1964) and Ferien auf Immenhof (1957). He was married to Janis Martin. He died on 15 January 2011 in Berlin, Germany.