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Probably best-remembered for his turbulent personal life with Elizabeth Taylor (whom he married twice), Richard Burton was nonetheless also regarded as an often brilliant British actor of the post-WWII period.
Burton was born Richard Walter Jenkins in 1925 into a Welsh (Cymraeg)-speaking family in Pontrhydyfen to Edith Maude (Thomas) and Richard Walter Jenkins, a coal miner. The twelfth of thirteen children, his mother died while he was a toddler and his father later abandoned the family, leaving him to be raised by an elder sister, Cecilia. An avid fan of Shakespeare, poetry and reading, he once said "home is where the books are". He received a scholarship to Oxford University to study acting and made his first stage appearance in 1944.
His first film appearances were in routine British movies such as Woman of Dolwyn (1949), Waterfront Women (1950) and Green Grow the Rushes (1951). Then he started to appear in Hollywood movies such as My Cousin Rachel (1952), The Robe (1953) and Alexander the Great (1956), added to this he was also spending considerable time in stage productions, both in the UK and USA, often to splendid reviews. The late 1950s was an exciting and inventive time in UK cinema, often referred to as the "British New Wave", and Burton was right in the thick of things, and showcased a sensational performance in Look Back in Anger (1959). He also appeared with a cavalcade of international stars in the World War II magnum opus The Longest Day (1962), and then onto arguably his most "notorious" role as that of Marc Antony opposite Elizabeth Taylor in the hugely expensive Cleopatra (1963). This was, of course, the film that kick-started their fiery and passionate romance (plus two marriages), and the two of them appeared in several productions over the next few years including The V.I.P.s (1963), The Sandpiper (1965), the dynamic Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) and The Taming of The Shrew (1967), as well as box office flops like The Comedians (1967). Burton did better when he was off on his own giving higher caliber performances, such as those in Becket (1964), the film adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play The Night of the Iguana (1964), the brilliant espionage thriller The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) and alongside Clint Eastwood in the World War II action adventure film Where Eagles Dare (1968).
His audience appeal began to decline somewhat by the end of the 1960s as fans turned to younger, more virile male stars, however Burton was superb in Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) as King Henry VIII, he put on a reasonable show in the boring Raid on Rommel (1971), was over the top in the awful Villain (1971), gave sleepwalking performances in Hammersmith Is Out (1972) and Bluebeard (1972), and was wildly miscast in the ludicrous The Assassination of Trotsky (1972).
By the early 1970s, quality male lead roles were definitely going to other stars, and Burton found himself appearing in some movies of dubious quality, just to pay the bills and support family, including Divorce His - Divorce Hers (1973) (his last on-screen appearance with Taylor), The Klansman (1974), Brief Encounter (1974), Jackpot (1974) (which was never completed) and Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977). However, he won another Oscar nomination for his excellent performance as a concerned psychiatrist in Equus (1977). He appeared with fellow acting icons Richard Harris and Roger Moore in The Wild Geese (1978) about mercenaries in South Africa. While the film had a modest initial run, over the past thirty-five years it has picked up quite a cult following. His final performances were as the wily inquisitor "O'Brien" in the most recent film version of George Orwell's dystopian 1984 (1984), in which he won good reviews, and in the TV mini series Ellis Island (1984). He passed away on August 5, 1984 in Celigny, Switzerland from a cerebral hemorrhage.- Producer
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Carlo Ponti was born on 11 December 1912 in Magenta, Lombardy, Italy. He was a producer and production manager, known for Doctor Zhivago (1965), The Road (1954) and Marriage Italian Style (1964). He was married to Sophia Loren and Giuliana Fiastri. He died on 10 January 2007 in Geneva, Switzerland.- Genteel, ladylike British actress who was a much respected theatrical star in the 1920s and '30s, both in her own country and in the United States. Born in March 1900 in Hove, Sussex, she took to the stage at the age of seventeen as Ela Delahay in 'Charley's Aunt'. She played Peter Pan three years later and married the first of her actor husbands, Seymour Beard. By the mid '20s, Edna had become the toast of London for her performances in 'Fallen Angel' (with Tallulah Bankhead), and (in a role she made her own) as Teresa (Tessa) Sanger in 'The Constant Nymph' (opposite Noël Coward, and, subsequently, John Gielgud). With the part of Tessa she also enjoyed a successful run on Broadway in 1926, which was followed by another Margaret Kennedy play, 'Come With Me'. She married her co-star, Herbert Marshall, after divorcing Beard in 1928.
Edna started in films as early as 1921 but made little headway until Michael and Mary (1931), for which she recreated her role from the London stage. She then co-starred again with husband Herbert Marshall in Faithful Hearts (1932), but neither of these films received much international exposure. Her only Hollywood film at this time was The Key (1934), which -- though directed by Michael Curtiz -- was decidedly too 'low-key' as far as critical plaudits or the box office was concerned. She had smallish parts in other British films, notably South Riding (1938) and the original version of Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) as the mother of kidnap victim Nova Pilbeam. Not until 1939 did a worthy motion picture role come her way in the shape of the forlorn wife whom violinist Leslie Howard deserts for Ingrid Bergman in Intermezzo (1939). Other worthy screen roles included her Catherine Apley in The Late George Apley (1947) and the housekeeper Martha in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), which the New York Times review of June 27 considered 'by far the best performance' in the picture. All in all, Edna's film appearances were few and far between, and only a handful adequately showcased her talents as an actress otherwise so abundantly evident from the body of her work in the theatre.
From 1939 a U.S. resident and a nationalised citizen by the early 1950s, Edna continued her frequent triumphant returns to the stage. Her most celebrated performances on Broadway were in Terence Rattigan's 'The Browning Version' as downtrodden housewife Millie Crocker-Harris and in 'Harlequinade' (1949) (both co-starred 'Maurice Evans (I)' (q)) and as the titular character 'Jane' (1952) in a play adapted by S.N. Behrman from a W. Somerset Maugham short story. Brooks Atkinson described her performance as the timorous spinster as both 'comic' and 'forceful'. In her last significant role on stage she co-starred with Brian Aherne and Lynn Fontanne in the romantic comedy 'Quadrille' (1954-55), directed by Alfred Lunt and outfitted by Cecil Beaton, who also designed the costumes. Edna retired from acting in the early 1960s and died in a clinic in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1974. - Alessandra Panaro was born on 14 December 1939 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She was an actress, known for Conquest of Mycene (1963), Poor But Beautiful (1957) and Treasure of the Aztecs (1965). She was married to Giancarlo Sbragia and Jean-Pierre Sabet. She died on 1 May 2019 in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Frank Villard was born on 24 March 1917 in Saint-Jean-d'Angély, Charente-Maritime, France. He was an actor, known for Apocalypse Now (1979), Gigi (1949) and L'ennemi sans visage (1946). He died on 19 September 1980 in Geneva, Switzerland.- Writer
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Borges was born into an upper class family, and received his education in Buenos Aires, Cambridge, and Geneva. He began writing as a student, and when in 1918 he settled in Spain, it was as a member of an experimental literary group. He returned to Argentina in 1921, and had his first poems published in 1923. He loved Buenos Aires. He lost his eyesight during the 1950's, but continued to write prolifically. His works have been translated into many languages. Brilliant, courtly, and thoughtful, Borges was director of the National Library of Argentina for many years. A month before his death he married Maria Kodama, with whom he had collaborated on his last book.- Director
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Alain Tanner was born on 6 December 1929 in Geneva, Switzerland. He was a director and writer, known for Charles, Dead or Alive (1969), In the White City (1983) and Return from Africa (1973). He was married to Janine Giudici. He died on 11 September 2022 in Geneva, Canton de Genève, Switzerland.- Writer
- Director
- Script and Continuity Department
Colin Eggleston was born on 23 September 1941 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He was a writer and director, known for Long Weekend (1978), Cassandra (1987) and Division 4 (1969). He was married to Dimity Reed and Briony Behets. He died on 10 August 2002 in Geneva, Canton Geneva, Switzerland.- Mony Rey was an actress, known for Not Without My Daughter (1991), Shock Troops (1967) and Härte 10 (1974). She died on 9 April 2017 in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Fons Rademakers was born on 5 September 1920 in Roosendaal, Netherlands. he began his career as an actor and theater director. His film directorial debut, Village by the River (1958), was also the first Dutch movie ever nominated for an Academy award (Oscar). In 1986 Rademakers won the Foreign Language Oscar for The Assault (1986), after a novel by Harry Mulisch. Rademakers' film version of Stijn Streuvels novel "De Teloorgang van de Waterhoek", Mira (1971), caused a shock in conservative circles in Flanders, especially Dutch actress Willeke van Ammelrooy's performance as "Mira". In 1976 Rademakers directed the ultimate Multatuli-classic Max Havelaar (1976). Rademakers' forte were Dutch-language literary masterpieces, such as The Dark Room of Damocles (1963), after Hermans' "De donkere kamer van Damocles" and the less acclaimed Mijn vriend (1979) (linked to the then notorious Jespers trial). The English-language drama The Rose Garden (1989) was his last movie.
He also produced his films, as well as those of his spouse Lili Rademakers'. On February 22, 2007, he died, aged 86, in a hospital in Geneva, Switzerland, near his French domicile Thoiry, from pulmonary emphysema.- Director
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Claude Goretta was born on 23 June 1929 in Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. He was a director and writer, known for The Invitation (1973), The Lacemaker (1977) and La provinciale (1980). He died on 20 February 2019 in Geneva, Canton de Genève, Switzerland.- Writer
- Director
- Actress
Nelly Kaplan was born on 11 April 1931 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was a writer and director, known for Charles and Lucie (1979), Papa, the Lil' Boats (1971) and A Very Curious Girl (1969). She died on 12 November 2020 in Geneva, Canton de Genève, Switzerland.- Producer
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E. Gary Gygax was born on 27 July 1938 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Dungeons & Dragons (1983), Dungeons & Dragons and Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Mystery (1981). He was married to Gail Carpenter. He died on 4 March 2008 in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, USA.- Actor
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- Soundtrack
Artur Rubinstein was born on 28 January 1887 in Lódz, Poland, Russian Empire [now Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for The Truman Show (1998), Night Song (1947) and Carnegie Hall (1947). He was married to Aniela Mlynarska. He died on 20 December 1982 in Geneva, Switzerland.- François Simon was born on 16 August 1917 in Geneva, Switzerland. He was an actor, known for Alzire oder der neue Kontinent (1978), The Roads of Exile (1978) and Histoire du soldat (1972). He was married to Ana Simon and Jutta Weiss. He died on 5 October 1982 in Geneva, Switzerland.
- Alan Adair was born on 9 June 1923 in Hove, Sussex, England, UK. He was an actor, known for I Love You, I Love You (1968), Les fiancées de l'empire (1981) and Mistral's Daughter (1984). He died on 23 June 2010 in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Michel Soutter was born on 2 June 1932 in Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. He was a director and writer, known for Les arpenteurs (1972), L'amour des femmes (1981) and La lune avec les dents (1967). He died on 10 September 1991 in Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.- Brian Sullivan was born on 9 August 1917 in Oakland, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Omnibus (1952), Max Liebman Presents: The Merry Widow (1955) and Musical Comedy Time (1950). He died on 17 June 1969 in Geneva, Switzerland.
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John Baird was born on 18 October 1961 in Tucson, Arizona, USA. He was an actor, known for The Pirate Movie (1982), The Man from Snowy River (1982) and The Mango Tree (1977). He was married to Ronda . He died on 29 August 2022 in Geneva, Illinois, USA.- Germaine Aussey was born on 18 December 1909 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Idillio a Budapest (1941), The Pearls of the Crown (1937) and Princesse Tam-Tam (1935). She was married to John Ringling North. She died on 15 March 1979 in Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
- Marshall Brodien was born on 10 July 1934 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Bozo's Circus (1961), The Bozo Show (1982) and Bozo: 40 Years of Fun! (2001). He was married to Mary Doyle. He died on 8 March 2019 in Geneva, Illinois, USA.
- Raymone was born on 11 August 1896 in Gardanne, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. She was an actress, known for This Man Must Die (1969), Le théâtre de la jeunesse (1960) and Café de Paris (1938). She was married to Blaise Cendrars. She died on 15 March 1986 in Geneva, Canton de Genève, Switzerland.
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Paul Vincent Raven was born on 16 January 1961 in Wolverhampton, England, UK. He was an actor and composer, known for Weird Science (1985), The Hurt Locker (2008) and One Fine Day (1996). He died on 20 October 2007 in Geneva, Switzerland.- Writer
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- Editor
Jean-Louis Roy was born in 1938 in Lugano, Switzerland. He was a writer and director, known for The Unknown Man of Shandigor (1967), Black Out (1970) and Talou (1980). He died on 29 March 2020 in Geneva, Canton de Genève, Switzerland.- Leslie Handford was born on 19 December 1901 in Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Theatre of Death (1967), Night of the Prowler (1962) and Lilli Palmer Theatre (1955). He died on 13 April 1967 in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Alberto Ginastera was born on 11 April 1916 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a composer and writer, known for The Artist (2011), Livets vår (1957) and The Competition (1980). He died on 25 June 1983 in Geneva, Switzerland.- Additional Crew
- Writer
- Actor
Roland Petit was born on 13 January 1924 in Villemomble, Seine-Saint-Denis, France. He was a writer and actor, known for Black Tights (1960), Le Jeune Homme et la Mort (1967) and Hans Christian Andersen (1952). He was married to Zizi Jeanmaire. He died on 10 July 2011 in Geneva, Canton Geneva, Switzerland.- Joël Robuchon was born on 7 April 1945 in Poitiers, Vienne, France. He was a writer, known for Bon appétit bien sûr (2000), Le grand échiquier (1972) and Champs-Elysées (1982). He died on 6 August 2018 in Geneva, Switzerland.
- Liliane Sottane was born in 1934. She was an actress, known for The Camp on Blood Island (1958), The Headless Ghost (1959) and Up the Creek (1958). She was married to Jean Geneux. She died on 12 June 2015 in St George, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Dominic Noble was born on 28 December 1963 in Geneva, Switzerland. He was an actor and writer, known for Un cadeau, la vie! (1999), Fin de siècle (1998) and Docteur Sylvestre (1995). He died on 18 January 2002 in Geneva, Switzerland.- Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (28 July 1812 - 19 March 1887) was a Polish writer, publisher, historian, journalist, scholar, painter, and author who produced more than 200 novels and 150 novellas, short stories, and art reviews, which makes him the most prolific writer in the history of Polish literature. He is best known for his epic series on the history of Poland, comprising twenty-nine novels in seventy-nine parts.
- Robert Musil was born on 6 November 1880 in Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was a writer, known for Young Törless (1966), Emergency Squad (1940) and Die Schwärmer (2013). He was married to Martha Marcovaldi. He died on 15 April 1942 in Geneva, Switzerland.
- Ignacy Moscicki was born on 1 December 1867 in Mierzanowo, Mazowieckie, Poland. He died on 2 October 1946 in Versoix, Geneva, Switzerland.
- Lester Piggott was born in Wantage to a family that could trace its roots as jockeys and trainers back to the 18th century. The Piggotts were a Cheshire farming family who in the 1870s ran the Crown Inn in Nantwich for at least 40 years. Lester's grandfather Ernest (Ernie) Piggott (1878-1967) owned a racehorse stable at The Old Manor in Letcombe Regis and his father (Ernest) Keith Piggott (1904-1993) another at South Bank in Lambourn, where Lester lived until 1954. Ernie Piggott rode three Grand National winners, in 1912, 1918 and 1919 and was married to a sister of the jockeys Mornington Cannon and Kempton Cannon, who both rode winners of the Derby, in 1899 and 1904 respectively. He was also three-times British jump racing Champion Jockey (in 1910, 1913 and 1915). Keith Piggott was a successful National Hunt jockey and trainer, winning the Champion Hurdle as a jockey in 1939 and the Grand National as a trainer in 1963 with Ayala, becoming the British jump racing Champion Trainer of the 1962-63 season. Lester Piggott was the cousin, through his mother Lilian Iris Rickaby, of two other jockeys, Bill and Fred Rickaby. Fred Rickaby was British flat racing Champion Apprentice in 1931 and 1932.
Piggott was married to Susan Armstrong. They married at St. Mark's church, North Audley Street, London in 1960. Her father, Sam Armstrong, and her brother, Robert Armstrong, were both racehorse trainers. They have two daughters, Maureen, an ex-eventer (married to Derby-winning trainer William Haggas) and Tracy (a sports presenter on Irish television station RTÉ). He also has a son, Jamie, from a relationship with Anna Ludlow. His house is named after a famous racehorse from history - Florizel.
Piggott began racing horses from his father's stable when he was 10 years old and won his first race in 1948, aged 12 years, on a horse called "The Chase" at Haydock Park. A teenage sensation, he rode his first winner of the Epsom Derby on Never Say Die in 1954 aged 18 years and went on to win eight more, on Crepello (1957), St. Paddy (1960), Sir Ivor (1968), Nijinsky (1970), Roberto (1972), Empery (1976), The Minstrel (1977) and Teenoso (1983). He was stable jockey to Noel Murless and later to Vincent O'Brien and had a glittering career of unparalleled success. Known as the "housewives' favorite", Piggott had legions of followers and did much to expand the popularity of horse racing beyond its narrow, class-based origins.
Famously tall for a jockey (5 ft 8 in/1.73 m), hence his nickname of "The Long Fellow", Lester Piggott struggled to keep his weight down and for most of his career rode at little more than 8 stone (112 lb/51 kg). He pioneered a new style of race-riding that was subsequently widely adopted by colleagues at home and abroad and enabled him to become Champion Jockey eleven times.
In 1980 his relationship with the Sangster-O'Brien combination came to an end and he was appointed as stable jockey to Noel Murless' son-in-law Henry Cecil, the British flat racing Champion Trainer, at Murless's old stables, Warren Place. He was again champion jockey in 1981 and 1982. However, as the result of a dispute in late 1983 as to whether he had reneged on an agreement to ride Daniel Wildenstein's All Along, Piggott's ride in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe went instead to Walter Swinburn, with Wildenstein refusing to allow him to ride any more of his horses. It was costly for Piggott, as All Along won the Arc and a string of other international races in an autumn campaign that ended with her being named US Horse of the Year. Further, as Wildenstein was one of Cecil's principal owners, this placed a strain on the relationship, and in 1984 Cecil and Piggott split, with Steve Cauthen taking over at Warren Place. - Music Department
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Syrinx was born on 23 December 1949 in Bucharest, Romania. He was a composer, known for Quest for Fire (1981), Programme X (1970) and The Return of the Tall Blond Man (1974). He died on 6 July 2010 in Geneva, Switzerland.- Additional Crew
Robert J. White was born on 21 January 1926 in Duluth, Minnesota, USA. He is known for The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008), Technocalyps (2006) and Monsterquest (2007). He died on 16 September 2010 in Geneva, Ohio, USA.- Stefan Lux was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was a Slovak (later on Czech citizen) writer, journalist, theater actor, film director and an activist who sacrificed himself for a greater cause yet no one paid attention and millions of people would suffer major consequences if they had listened to what he had to say. Lux will be remembered for his act of defiance in speaking against the Nazi Germany and its persecution on the Jewish people back in 1936, an alarming case of anti-semiti pre-World War II with the world either keeping quiet about the issue or not knowing the full extent of such facts.
On 3 July 1936, during the League of Nations convention in Geneva, Stefan Lux stormed through the room, interrupted the meeting and spread leaflets while protesting about the on-going rampant anti-semitism and prejudice faced by the Jewish community in Europe. The attendees weren't paying much attention until Lux pulls out a revolver and say "This is the final blow", committing suicide in front of the whole crowd. An act of self-immolation to provide a wider attention to the cause of saving lives and warning Europe about the dangers the German nationalism was causing on foreigners or people of different backgrounds and religion. His act was a shock for those who saw it and criticized by many as being a cowardice act since one could point out all the same arguments he was doing without taking their own lives. But story would be different had those witnesses make a case on what they heard and what they witnessed...but to no avail: after 1936, World War II broke in 1939 until 1945 and in between that period millions of people from all around the world suffered the consequences, dying in the trenches, concentration camps or several other forms.
As for Lux in the cinema community, his only film credit is the movie Gerechtigkeit (1920) of which he directed.
The acclaimed film Amen. (2002) recreates that fateful moment of his suicide right on its opening scenes. - Vittorio Emanuele di Savoia was born on 12 February 1937 in Naples, Italy. He was married to Marina di Savoia. He died on 3 February 2024 in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Arié Dzierlatka was born in 1933 in Antwerpen, Belgium. He was a composer and actor, known for My American Uncle (1980), The Stolen Diary (1992) and Love in the Afternoon (1972). He died on 27 January 2015 in Geneva, Switzerland.- Additional Crew
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Herbert Graf was born on 10 April 1904 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was a director, known for Opera Television Theatre (1950), The Metropolitan Opera Presents (1977) and Producers' Showcase (1954). He died on 5 April 1973 in Geneva, Switzerland.- Jacques Verlier was born on 19 July 1933 in Tramelan, Switzerland. He was an actor, known for Valérie (1974), Saluti e baci (1953) and La nemica (1952). He was married to Florence Simonin and Lucile Saint-Simon. He died on 2 July 1992 in Geneva, Switzerland.
- Ignazio Silone was born on 1 May 1900 in Pescina, Abruzzo, Italy. He was a writer, known for Fontamara (1980), Il segreto di Luca (1969) and Priester (1987). He was married to Darina Laracy. He died on 22 August 1978 in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Francis Reusser is a Swiss Filmmaker. Trained at the Vevey School of Photography and the TSR, Francis Reusser created with François Albera the audiovisual section of the "École supérieure de l'art visuel de Genève" (HEAD). He has directed numerous movies as well as TV magazines. He is the father of Jean Reusser who has been editing his films regularly since 2007. Francis Reusser died during the night of April 9-10, 2020 at the age of 77.- Pitoeff only appeared in two films but had a major impact on theater in France during his prime years (1934-1939) during which his Theater of the Champs Elysees put on over 200 productions. He was born in 1884 in Tiflis, Georgia, when it was part of the Russian empire.Though his father has been head of a Tiflis drama group, Georges first studied law and engineering before turning back to the family profession as an actor and starting his first management company in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1915.The group toured in Paris and returned there after the Great War, turning into a permanently French based troupe. Pitoeff 's company specialized in translations of more recent authors such as Chekhov, O'Neill, Pirandello, Schnitzler and Shaw and was especially remembered for its interpretations of Ibsen.Through these stagings, these particular playwrights became more well known to the French. The actor also wrote a book on stage direction .During the period leading up to the Second World War he retreated to Switzerland, where he died,in 1939.His wife Ludmilla, with whom he had had seven children, including future actor Sacha Pitoeff continuing the tradition, then dissolved the theater business.
- Rachel Cathoud was born on 15 March 1946 in Geneva, Canton de Genève, Switzerland. She was an actress, known for The Umbrella Coup (1980), Love at the Top (1974) and Joséphine ou la comédie des ambitions (1979). She died on 27 February 2021 in Geneva, Canton de Genève, Switzerland.
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Bogdan Cavadia was born on 31 July 1938 in Targoviste, Romania. He is known for Captain Ion's Arrow (1973), 100 (1973) and Rautaciosul adolescent (1969). He died on 27 September 2010 in Geneva, Switzerland.- Actress
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Gloria Davy was born on 29 March 1931 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Inzwischen (1967), Music for You (1951) and Einer wird gewinnen (1964). She was married to Hermann Penningsfeld. She died on 28 November 2012 in Geneva, Switzerland.- William Visteen was born on 4 January 1931 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Mission: Impossible (1966), Class (1983) and The Untouchables (1993). He died on 12 June 2014 in Geneva, Illinois, USA.
- Ernest Hofstetter died on 1 June 2007 in Geneva, Switzerland.
- Bernard Schulé was born in 1909 in Zürich, Switzerland. He was a composer, known for La peur du silence (1959), S'Waisechind vo Engelberg (1956) and La fille au fouet (1952). He died on 1 November 1996 in Geneva, Switzerland.