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- Phyllis Crane was born on 7 August 1914 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She was an actress, known for Three Little Pigskins (1934), So This Is College (1929) and The Forward Pass (1929). She died on 12 October 1982 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Production Manager
The son of comedian and theatre director Ludwig Brahm, Hans followed in his father's footsteps and began his career on the stages of Vienna, Berlin and Paris. Again, like his father, he graduated to directing and had his first fling with the film business as a dialogue director for a Franco/German co-production, starring his future wife Dolly Haas. Hans went to England in 1934 to escape Nazi persecution (and to avoid being caught up in another war, having spent much of the previous conflagration as a conscript on the Russian Front). After a brief spell as a production supervisor, Brahm made his directing debut with an undistinguished remake of D.W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms (1936). A year later, he moved on to the U.S..
Having anglicised his first name to John, he arrived in Hollywood in 1937 and was signed to a three-year contract at Columbia (1937-40), followed by another three years with 20th Century Fox (1941-44). Brahm specialised in suspense thrillers, often with psychological undertones, at times involving madness. His affinity with filming the sinister and the grotesque had much to do with the influence of his uncle Otto, once an influential theatrical producer. Otto introduced his nephew to the dark and fantastic elements of classic German expressionist cinema, including films like Faust (1926). At Fox, Brahm directed two masterpieces back-to-back: the stylish and moody 'Jack the Ripper' look-alike The Lodger (1944); and, in a similar vein, Hangover Square (1945), a gothic melodrama about insanity and murder, set in Victorian London. Both films starred the excellent, sadly short-lived, actor Laird Cregar, whose professionalism and finely-etched performances Brahm greatly appreciated. Much of the credit for the pace and detail of these films belongs to Brahm himself, who meticulously mapped out every scene and camera angle before shooting commenced.
Another of Brahm's films, not in the same league as the aforementioned, but nonetheless quite enjoyable, is The Mad Magician (1954). Something of a precursor to the cycle of low-budget horror films Vincent Price was later to make at American-International, it was shot in the experimental 3-D process. What the picture lacked in a visceral sense, it made up for in period detail and in an enjoyable star performance reminiscent of the earlier House of Wax (1953).
By the mid-1950's, Brahm had segued from films to television, but never strayed far from the macabre. He directed some of the best-loved episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955), The Outer Limits (1963), The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962) and, especially, The Twilight Zone (1959) ("Time Enough at Last" comes to mind, in particular). Brahm retired in 1968. He spent the last years of his life confined to a wheelchair and died in October 1982 at the respectable age of 89.- Writer
- Script and Continuity Department
Howard Sackler was born on 19 December 1929 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Jaws 2 (1978), The Great White Hope (1970) and Fear and Desire (1952). He was married to Greta Lynn Lundgren. He died on 12 October 1982 in Ibiza, Spain.- Marten Lamont was born on 16 March 1910 in Preston, England, UK. He was an actor, known for How Green Was My Valley (1941), Federal Operator 99 (1945) and Pride and Prejudice (1940). He died on 12 October 1982 in Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
- Norman Tanner was born on 13 June 1906. He was married to Evelyn Winifred Glennie. He died on 12 October 1982.
- Art Baldwin was born on 3 April 1895. He died on 12 October 1982 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- Gilbert Sigaux was born on 4 May 1918 in Lure, Haute-Saône, France. He was a writer, known for Hedda Gabler (1967), La dame de la mer (1977) and Ôtez votre fille s'il vous plaît (1961). He died on 12 October 1982 in France.
- Sven 'Svängis' Johansson was born on 8 July 1914 in Spånga , Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for Biffen och Bananen (1951). He died on 12 October 1982 in Hornstull, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Senftleben received photographic training and initially worked as a camera assistant and subordinate cameraman in film. He had been chief operator since 1957 and worked several times for American clients from 1960 onwards. He was usually consulted for relatively ambitious projects, including Rainer Erler's Seelenwanderung (1962).
Towards the end of the 1960s, Senftleben founded his own production company GSF in Vaterstetten. With her he mainly produced documentaries for television.