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- Jan Peters was born on 8 September 1927 in New York, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Mission: Impossible (1966), Mannix (1967) and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964). He died on 27 March 2013 in Thousand Oaks, California, USA.
- Actor
- Writer
Brett Forrest was born on 15 December 1943 in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Doctor Who (1963), Blake's 7 (1978) and Room to Let (2006). He was married to Pamela Douglas. He died on 27 March 2013 in London, England, UK.- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Will Zens was born on 26 June 1920 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He was a director and writer, known for The Starfighters (1964), Capture That Capsule (1961) and To the Shores of Hell (1966). He was married to Janis Elblein. He died on 27 March 2013 in Laguna Hills, California, USA.- Ryôko Sakaguchi was born on 23 October 1955 in Yoichi, Hokkaido, Japan. She was an actress, known for Ultraman Taro (1973), The Inugami Family (1976) and The Devil's Island (1977). She was married to Tateo Ozaki. She died on 27 March 2013 in Tokyo, Japan.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Production Manager
Steve Gadd was born on 6 November 1949 in England, UK. He was an actor and production manager, known for Iron Maiden: Maiden England (1989), Iron Maiden: Behind the Iron Curtain (1985) and Iron Maiden: En Vivo! (2012). He died on 27 March 2013 in London, England, UK.- Writer
- Producer
- Actress
This screenwriter and playwright began working in Hollywood in the early 1940s, usually in collaboration with her husband, Michael Kanin, and blossomed after his retirement as a writer and producer of some of the small screen's most distinguished TV-movies. Statuesque, articulate, with the air of a socialite, Fay Kanin became an industry leader through her presidency of the Academy of Motion Arts and Sciences, 1979-1983.
Born Fay Mitchell in New York City, she married Michael Kanin in 1940, a few years after he had abandoned a career as a commercial artist and had begun writing. They moved to Hollywood, where, in 1942, he won an Academy Award for co-writing Woman of the Year (1942), the film that launched the Tracy-Hepburn screen collaboration. Kanin's career was slower to start. In 1942, she contributed the story to Blondie for Victory (1942), one of the low-budget second feature series based on the popular comic strip by Chic Young, and, with her husband and Allen Rivkin, co-wrote Sunday Punch (1942), a second feature for MGM about a chorine living in a boarding house with boxers. She even made an appearance as an actor in A Double Life (1947), co-written by her brother-in-law Garson Kanin and his wife, Ruth Gordon.
Kanin went to Broadway in 1949 with "Goodbye My Fancy", about a female congressional representative renewing past loves, which her husband produced. (The movie, Goodbye, My Fancy (1951), was filmed by Vincent Sherman in 1951, with Joan Crawford and Robert Young co-starring). The Kanins returned to Hollywood in the early 50s, where they developed into one of the more successful of many wife-husband writing teams (i.e., Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron, Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon). They wrote My Pal Gus (1952), in which Richard Widmark becomes a good father and falls in love with Joanne Dru, Rhapsody (1954), an Elizabeth Taylor vehicle, The Opposite Sex (1956), a musical remake of "The Women", and earned an Oscar nomination for Teacher's Pet (1958), in which newspaper editor Clark Gable and journalism teacher Doris Day fall in love.
Michael Kanin's interest in writing waned in the late 60s, so she moved into writing solo, generally scripting TV-movies, beginning with Heat of Anger (1972) (CBS, 1972). In 1974, she wrote Tell Me Where It Hurts (1974), a CBS movie starring Maureen Stapleton as a woman who has raised her children, been a wife, and now wants something more. The script won Kanin an Emmy. The following year, she wrote and was associate producer of Hustling (1975) (ABC), which launched the career of Jill Clayburgh, who played a prostitute recounting her life to a reporter (Lee Remick). Kanin went on to write and co-produce the Emmy-winning Friendly Fire (1979) (ABC, 1979), a heralded TV-movie starring Carol Burnett as a mother who challenges the military to get to the bottom of how her son died in Vietnam. Kanin and Lillian Gallo, who had produced "Hustling", formed a production company in 1980, which yielded Fun and Games (1980) (ABC), starring Valerie Harper in a tale of sexual harassment and gender discrimination in the workplace. Kanin then wrote Heartsounds (1984) for producer Norman Lear, the story of a woman (Mary Tyler Moore) and her travails as her husband (James Garner) copes with heart disease which consumes their lives.
Kanin made a brief return to Broadway in 1985 with the Tony-nominated musical, "Grind", adapted from an unproduced screenplay. Even after her tenure as president of the AMPAS ended in 1983, she remained an articulate industry spokesperson on such matters as film preservation and a social leader.- Erkki Thil was born on 7 February 1929 in Leppävirta, Finland. He was an actor, known for Saastamoisen poika (1989), Arvottomat (1982) and Pertsa ja Kilu (1970). He died on 27 March 2013 in Tampere, Finland.
- Actor
- Music Department
- Additional Crew
Gordon Stoker was born on 3 August 1924 in Gleason, Tennessee, USA. He was an actor, known for Heart of Dixie (1989), From Nashville with Music (1969) and Buffalo Gun (1961). He was married to Jean Wilkerson. He died on 27 March 2013 in Brentwood, Tennessee, USA.- Bill Tregle was born on 23 November 1955 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He died on 27 March 2013 in Bayou Boeuf, Louisiana, USA.
- Music Department
- Composer
- Special Effects
Heinz Funk was born on 18 May 1915 in Hennef, Sieg, Germany. He was a composer, known for Dead Eyes of London (1961), Tatort (1970) and Stahlnetz (1958). He died on 27 March 2013 in Hützel, Lower Saxony, Germany.- Hjalmar 'Hjallis' Andersen was born on 12 March 1923 in Rodoy, Norway. He was an actor, known for Skjemtegauken (1968), The VI Olympic Winter Games, Oslo 1952 (1952) and Da Capo (1991). He was married to Gerd Aune. He died on 27 March 2013 in Oslo, Norway.
- Elisabeth Woska was born on 5 June 1938 in Baden, Austria. She was an actress, known for Alpha Alpha (1972), Les aventures du capitaine Luckner (1971) and Ich will leben (1976). She was married to Wilfried Hiller. She died on 27 March 2013 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
- Actress
- Music Department
- Stunts
Valentina Smirnova was born on 23 May 1941. She was an actress, known for Unikum (1984), Crazy Girls Undercover (2008) and Streets of Broken Lights (1998). She died on 27 March 2013.- László Klauz was born on 6 November 1961 in Gyõr, Hungary. He died on 27 March 2013 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Philippe Hiquilly was born on 27 March 1925 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Six in Paris (1965). He died on 27 March 2013 in Villejuif, Val-de-Marne, France.
- Paul Williams was born on 19 May 1948 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He is known for The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick (2001), Arena (1975) and Gotta Serve Somebody: The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan (2006). He was married to Cindy Lee Berryhill, Donna Nassar and Sachiko Kanenobu. He died on 27 March 2013 in Encinitas, California, USA.
- Elvira Cervera was born on 4 January 1923 in Sagua la Grande, Villa Clara, Cuba. She was an actress, known for Terre indigo (1996), Cumbite (1964) and Operación Fangio (1999). She died on 27 March 2013 in Habana, Cuba.
- Anne Vig Skoven was born on 1 May 1960 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She died on 27 March 2013 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Tudor Tataru was born on 1 April 1957 in Pojareni, Moldavian SSR, USSR. He was a director, known for Danila Prepeleac (1996). He died on 27 March 2013 in Bucuresti, Romania.