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- Actress
- Soundtrack
Angela Thorne was born on 25 January 1939 in Karachi, Sindh, British India. She was an actress, known for To the Manor Born (1979), Mystery and Imagination (1966) and The BFG (1989). She was married to Peter Penry-Jones. She died on 16 June 2023 in Battersea, London, England, UK.- Paxton Whitehead was born on 17 October, 1937 in Kent, England, UK. He trained at London's Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts starting at the age of 17. After attending the academy for two years he went to work in stock companies starting with the "weekly rep", small touring companies that rehearsed and performed a new play each week. He made his professional debut in 1956, and within two years was signed by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Whitehead produced with Doric Wilson, directed and starred in "And He Made A Her" (1961), a production at the off-off-Broadway venue Caffe Cino. He made his Broadway debut in "The Affair" (1962) after appearing in Canadian stage and TV productions. Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett, Peter Cook and Paxton Whitehead provided vocals on the track "Some Thoughts From Aboard" from the comedy album "Beyond The Fringe '64". He went on to appear with the American Shakespeare Company to direct in regional repertory.
Whitehead was the Artistic Director of the Shaw Festival, the second-largest repertory theatre in North America. The Shaw Festival at Niagara-on-the-Lake began as an amateur summer happening. It developed into a professional, international event, particularly under Paxton Whitehead, its dedicated artistic director from 1966 to 1977. Notable appearances there included Magnus in "The Apple Cart", Cusins in "Major Barbara", "The Philanderer", Sergius in "Arms and the Man", Lord Summerhays in "Misalliance", Fancourt Babberly in "Charley's Aunt", Tempest in the North American premiere of Alan Bennett's "Forty Years On" and Hector in "Heartbreak House" with Jessica Tandy and Tony Van Bridge, a role he repeated at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London with Rex Harrison and Diana Rigg. Whitehead was also the Artistic Director for The Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company from 1971 to 1973.
Whitehead appeared opposite Carol Channing in "The Bed Before Yesterday" (1976) at the Robert Morris University, Colonial Theatre, Pennsylvania. He received an honourary degree in arts from Trent University in 1978. At the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Main Stage July 11 - July 15, 1978, Whitehead played Leo in "Design for Living". Suzanne Grossman and Paxton Whitehead translated and adapted the plays by Georges Feydeau "The Chemmy Circle" in 1979 and "A Flea in her Ear" in 1982.
Whitehead earned a Tony Award nomination for his appearance in "Camelot" during 1980. He has appeared in numerous Broadway productions including "My Fair Lady", opposite Richard Chamberlain, "The Harlequin Studies" with Bill Irwin, Noël Coward's "Suite in Two Keys", "A Little Hotel on the Side", "Lettice and Lovage" (playing an emotionally shut-down police investigator), "Artist Descending A Staircase", "Run For Your Wife", "The Crucifer of Blood", "Habeas Corpus", "Candida", "Beyond the Fringe" (1964), "The Affair" and "London Suite" (a comedy by Neil Simon). Whitehead appeared in "Noises Off" (September 22 - November 27, 1983) with Linda Thorson, his Marblehead Manor (1987) co-star.
He moved to California in 1980 to rear his children and has been a resident of Irvine, California for many years. The Shaw Festival of Canada debuted at the Annenberg Centre with "Charley's Aunt" starring Paxton Whitehead. Whitehead has also appeared in the Los Angeles productions of "Woman in Mind" with Helen Mirren, "The Rocky Horror Show", "Pirates of Penzance", "How the Other Half Loves" and "Beyond The Fringe", as well as duplicating some of his Broadway roles. Paxton Whitehead directed the Seattle Repertory Theatre production of "The Real Thing" in 1986. He was nominated for Best Lead Performance at the 1988-1989 20th Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards for "How the Other Half Loves".
Whitehead appeared in the June 1992 Tiffany Theatre production of "Woman in Mind". In 1996 Whitehead appeared in the Studio Arena Theatre production of "Springtime for Henry". From January 7 to February 15, 1997, Paxton Whitehead starred in Hugh Leonard's play "The Mask of Moriarty" at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey. Whitehead was the narrator for the February 1999 Tiffany Theater production of "The Rocky Horror Show".
In April 2000, Hayley Mills appeared with Whitehead in "Suite in 2 Keys", "Shadows of the Evening" and "A Song at Twilight". Whitehead played the celebrated British poet and Latin Professor A.E. Housman in "The Invention of Love" at Court Theatre, Chicago, Illinois (September 6 - October 21, 2000). On October 10, 2001, The UCLA Centre for the Performing Arts for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies sponsored "Lady Windermere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde, a staged reading by John Lithgow and friends with Lord Augustus Lorton played by Paxton Whitehead. In the Signature Theatre Company production of "The Harlequin Studies" (October 2003) featured Whitehead as Harlequin's master, Pantalone. Performances of Whitehead's are available on audio CDs of "The Doctor's Dilemma" (January 11, 2003), "Thank You, Jeeves" and "The Foreigner" (May 17, 2003) from L.A. Theatre Works.
Whitehead is an Associate Artist of the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. His appearances there include "The Miser", "Richard III", "Sir Peter Teazle", "Sir Anthony Absolute" and "Benedick". In Costa Mesa he has been seen in "Heartbreak House", "How the Other Half Loves" and "The Circle". He has appeared as Lear in Manitoba and several Ray Cooney farces. He has recent regional credits that include "The Voysey Inheritance" (December 13, 2003), W. Somerset Maugham's "The Circle", A.E.H. in the Chicago production of Tom Stoppard's "The Invention of Love" and "Where's Charley?" (Williamstown Theatre Festival, June 19-30, 2002). Whitehead played Clive Champion-Cheney in "The Circle" by W. Somerset Maugham at South Coast Repertory. During the rehearsal of "The Circle" he played Malvolio in The Globe's "Twelfth Night". He appeared with John Lithgow, Melissa Errico, Roger Daltrey and Rosemary Harris and played Col. Pickering in a semi-staged production of Alan Jay Lerner and Enrique Loewe's Classic Musical "My Fair Lady" at the Hollywood Bowl on August 3, 2003. Paxton Whitehead headed the cast of The Huntington Theatre Company presentation of "What the Butler Saw" as Dr. Rance at the Boston University Theatre, March 5-April 4, 2004 for which he received the Norton Awards for Outstanding Actor, Large Company. He is co-author on the books "The Doctor's Dilemma" and "The Voysey Inheritance" published by L.A. Theatre Works. Whitehead appeared in "Don Juan in Hell" at 92nd Street Y on January 28, 2005. - Daniel Ellsberg was born on 7 April 1931 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (2009), The Education of Max Bickford (2001) and War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State (2013). He was married to Patricia Ellsberg and Carol Cummings. He died on 16 June 2023 in Kensington, California, USA.
- Edmund L. Shaff was born on 19 May 1935 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992), Herbie Fully Loaded (2005) and Set It Off (1996). He died on 16 June 2023 in the USA.
- Jim Tweto was born on 26 November 1954 in Wichita, Kansas, USA. He was married to Ferno Tweto. He died on 16 June 2023 in Shaktoolik, Nome, Alaska, USA.
- Actor
- Producer
- Costume Designer
Tonino Zaccagnini was born on 9 September 1967 in the USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Sirens of Chrome, Holy Car! (2011) and A Grain of Sand (2013). He died on 16 June 2023 in Clinton Township, Michigan, USA.- Marisa O'Brien was born on 3 October 1972 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Mothership (2013), The Two Henrys (2000) and Just Left of the Drama (2008). She died on 16 June 2023 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Dewey Dellay was born in 1954 in Stamford, Connecticut, USA. Dewey was a composer, known for 12 Labours of Hercules (2013), Bloodsucking Babes from Burbank (2007) and Otsuyu: Kaidan botan-dôrô (1998). Dewey was married to Cathleen McCormick. Dewey died on 16 June 2023 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.- Camera and Electrical Department
Brian Osborne was born on 13 February 1925 in Barnet, Middlesex, England, UK. He is known for Lifeforce (1985), Never Say Never Again (1983) and Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980). He was married to Joan Drummond. He died on 16 June 2023 in London.- Gerry Maher was born on 13 May 1948 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Mother's Day (2022), Of Dreams and Glory (2008) and Black Goat (2020). He died on 16 June 2023 in Buffalo, New York, USA.
- Hanna Zembrzuska was born on 7 August 1934 in Sofia, Bulgaria. She was an actress, known for Wyrok (1962), Wolne miasto (1958) and Wniebowstapienie (1969). She was married to Jan Kobuszewski. She died on 16 June 2023 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Producer
- Additional Crew
- Production Manager
Norman Siderow was born on 6 December 1956 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a producer and production manager, known for Stardust (2006), The Lost World (1992) and Return to the Lost World (1992). He was married to Jill R. Cohen. He died on 16 June 2023 in Ojai, California, USA.- Esteban Volkov was born on 7 March 1926 in Yalta, USSR. He was an actor, known for El asesinato de Trotsky (2007), Trotsky: A Film (1987) and Rear Window (1990). He was married to Palmira Fernández. He died on 16 June 2023 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
- Cinematographer
- Writer
- Director
Pëllumb Kallfa was born in 1945 in Tiranë, Albania. He was a cinematographer and writer, known for Sukses i ri i ansamblit Dajti në Greqi (1978), Ansambli ynë në Itali (1979) and Lulekuqet mbi mure (1976). He died on 16 June 2023 in Tirana, Albania.- Peter Dickinson was born on 15 November 1934 in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England, UK. He was married to Bridget Tomkinson. He died on 16 June 2023 in the UK.
- Art Department
John A. Girard was born on 10 December 1961 in Rochelle, Illinois, USA. John A. is known for The Village (2004) and Stateside (2004). John A. died on 16 June 2023 in West Bend, Wisconsin, USA.- Bob Brown was born on 8 December 1941 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was married to Cecelia Grier. He died on 16 June 2023 in Oakland, California, USA.
- Producer
- Writer
Cary Wolinsky was born on 14 October 1947 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Cary was a producer and writer, known for Raise the Roof (2015), Unmoored (2009) and Judy & Sophie's Story (2011). Cary was married to Barbara . Cary died on 16 June 2023 in Weymouth, Massachusetts, USA.- Writer
- Director
- Producer
John David Mayo was born in Radford Virginia. He became interested in making short films after he took theater in community college. His first short film was called Illwood Stars of Morning with his two friends. He is a Civil War buff. He is also a Captain in the Boone Composite Squadron. Civil Air Patrol. He also is also a huge hockey fan.- Manabu Kitabeppu was born on 12 July 1957 in Japan. He was an actor, known for Ryûsei Wagon (2015). He died on 16 June 2023 in Japan.
- Mavis Cheek was born on 15 June 1948 in Wimbledon, London, England, UK. She was married to Chris Cheek. She died on 16 June 2023 in England, UK.
- Additional Crew
Seiji Sakami is known for Hakata Movie: Chinchiromai (2000) and Kat-Tun: Rescue (2009). Seiji died on 16 June 2023.- Ben Helfgott was born on 22 November 1929 in Pabianice, Poland. He was married to Arza. He died on 16 June 2023 in London, England, UK.