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Clark Howat was born on 22 January 1918 in Calaveras County, California, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Airport (1970), The Giant Claw (1957) and Billy Jack (1971). He was married to Muriel Mansell. He died on 30 October 2009 in Arroyo Grande, California, USA.- Actor
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Stuntman and actor Jerry Summers was born on February 3, 1931. A first-rate athlete, Summers studied acting with Richard Boone. Jerry began his career as an actor and stuntman in the mid-1950's. Among the notable actors that Summers doubled for are Tony Curtis, Sal Mineo, Christopher Jones, and Walter Koenig. Jerry played ranch hand Ira Bean on the first season of the Western TV series The High Chaparral (1967). Moreover, Summers was a stunt driver for the hit TV show The Dukes of Hazzard (1979) as well as a member of the Hollywood Stuntmen's Hall of Fame. Jerry died at age 74 on January 1, 2006 in Arroyo Grande, California. He was survived by his wife Frankie and six children.- Actress
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Cynthia Songé was born on 26 September 1951 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress and casting director, known for The Saboteur (2009), Stuart Little (1999) and Crazy Mama (1975). She was married to Susan Blu. She died on 19 May 2010 in Arroyo Grande, California, USA.- Writer
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- Actor
This screenwriter and director won acclaim for his first two produced screenplays, Where the River Runs Black (1986) and River's Edge (1986). The latter, arguably, was the first grimly honest portrait of what would soon come to be called "Generation X." Unlike, say, Reality Bites (1994), the adolescent protagonists who populated River's Edge were not cuddly in their surliness. Opening with an obese dead-eyed youth seated next to his freshly murdered girlfriend, the film presented a chilling collection of sullen and hopeless characters including Dennis Hopper's crazed ex-hippie burnout and Crispin Glover's manic speed freak.
Jimenez co-scripted (with Marshall Brickman and Lindy Laub) For the Boys (1991), a slight but overlong musical drama with a skimpy historical overview. This diverting, if forgettable, Bette Midler vehicle followed brassy entertainer Dixie Leonard as she entertained the troops from WWII to Vietnam to today. Jimenez made his directorial debut (co-helming with Michael Steinberg) with The Waterdance (1992), the story of a quadriplegic writer played by Eric Stoltz. Set in a physical rehab center, the film dealt movingly and unflinchingly with differences in class and temperament between the patients, as well as between Stoltz and his able-bodied girlfriend. Scripted by Jimenez, The Waterdance was based on his personal experiences after a 1984 accident paralyzed him.
Jimenez was also one of five writers credited with Sleep with Me (1994), a slight comedy about a man (Eric Stoltz) who confesses his love for the wife (Meg Tilly) of a friend (Craig Sheffer). He also worked on the adaptation of Dean R. Koontz' novel Hideaway (1995), a muddled suspense thriller about a man (Jeff Goldblum) whose near-death experience links him with a serial killer which in turn threatens his family.- Adela Rogers St. Johns was born Nora Adela Rogers on May 20, 1894 in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of legendary criminal defense attorney Earl Rogers, a brilliant barrister who drank himself to death at an early age. Lionel Barrymore won a Best Actor Oscar playing a mouthpiece based on her father in A Free Soul (1931), which was based on a 1927 novel written by Adela. A story of hers was adapted into another talkie classic, What Price Hollywood? (1932), the precursor of the 1937's A Star Is Born (1937) and its two remakes.
Earl Rogers, a lawyer whose reputation for winning acquittals in seemingly hopeless cases was so great that another legend of the bar, Clarence Darrow, used his services in a jury tampering case, was a friend of newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst. As a nineteen-year-old, the teen-aged Adela became a reporter for "San Francisco Examiner", Hearst's self-heralded "Monarch of the Dailies". As a cub reporter working her way up the ranks, she covered everything from crime and sports to politics and high society.
She quit the newspaper racket in the early part of The Roaring Twenties to became a freelance writer. During the halcyon years of The Jazz Age, she made her living interviewing celebrities for "Photoplay Magazine", the premiere movie rag of its time. She also began publishing short stories in top drawer magazines such as Hearst's "Cosmopolitan" and toiled in the belly of The Hollywood Beast of as a screenwriter before returning to the fold of the Hearst newspapers in the late 1920.
She remained a reporter until 1948, when she shifted her focus to writing books and teaching. In 1970,St. Johns was awarded the Presidential Medal for Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, by President Richard Nixon. She got back in harness as a reporter for the "Examiner" in 1976, when the 82-year-old covered the trial of Patricia Hearst, William Randolph Hearst's granddaughter.
St. Johns married Richard Irving Hyland and Ivan St. Johns. She died on August 10, 1988 in Arroyo Grande, California at the age of 94. - Mike Steele was born on 23 March 1919 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Bat (1959), The Lost Missile (1958) and Sea Hunt (1958). He died on 12 May 2013 in Arroyo Grande, California, USA.
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Herbert Neil Travis was born on 12th October 1936 and studied Advertising and Theatre Arts at the University of California in his native Los Angeles. He began his career as an assistant editor at Paramount studios in his early twenties,becoming second editor on a series of television shows for Fox and in 1970 received his first credit as a film cutter for 'The Travelling Executioner'. His career spanned some four decade,the highlight probably being the Academy Award he received for his work on' Dancing With Wolves',paring an extremely long director's cut down to the finished product. A member of the American Cinema Editors society he received a career achievement award in 2010 and his last,Emmy-nominated,work was editing the 79th Academy Awards. Neil Travis died of natural causes on March 28 2012 at his home in Arroyo Grande,California.- Rita Quigley was born on 31 March 1923 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Susan and God (1940), The Human Comedy (1943) and Blonde Inspiration (1941). She was married to Arthur J. Goehner. She died on 25 August 2008 in Arroyo Grande, California, USA.
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- Writer
Robert Mott was born on 27 September 1924 in Nyack, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Days of Our Lives (1965), The Red Skelton Hour (1951) and Playhouse 90 (1956). He died on 28 September 2016 in Arroyo Grande, California, USA.- Bobby Folkerson was born on 28 December 1945 in Inglewood, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Lassie (1954) and Wagon Train (1957). He died on 1 February 1988 in Arroyo Grande, California, USA.