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Charles Nelson Reilly was born to Charles Joseph Reilly and Signe Elvera Nelson. His father was Irish-American and Catholic, his mother was Swedish-American and Lutheran. As a child he amused himself with improvised puppet theater performances.
He had a traumatic experience in 1944, when present for the Hartford circus fire in Hartford, Connecticut. A fire during a performance of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus killed 167 people and injured 700 people. While Reilly was one of the survivors, he was left with a life-long fear of fires. He never attended public performances of theater and circus again, as an audience member, for fear of another fire.
Reilly wanted to enter show business as a youth, and in particular to become an opera singer. He took lessons at the University of Hartford Hartt School, but eventually realized that his voice skills were inadequate. He turned to theater next, and debuted in film with a bit role in "A Face in the Crowd" (1957). During the late 1950s, Reilly appeared regularly in comic roles in theatrical performances off-Broadway. In 1960, Reilly first gained critical attention, for a small but noteworthy part in Broadway musical "Bye Bye Birdie". In 1961, Reilly joined the cast of the musical "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying". He won his first Tony Award in 1962 for that performance. He kept appearing in Broadway shows for the rest of the decade.
As a notable actor, Reilly started making television appearances in the 1960s. He started as a guest in panel shows and as a player in television advertisements. He eventually gained a key role in the television series "The Ghost & Mrs. Muir", where he appeared from 1968 to 1970. In the 1970s, Reilly was a regular in game shows and children's series, such as "Match Game" and "Uncle Croc's Block".
In 1976, Reilly started teaching acting to others, while shifting his own career from acting to directing. He directed Broadway shows regularly and was nominated for a Tony Award for directing in 1997. He also directed a number television episodes. In the 1990s, he had guest roles in television series such as "X-Files" and "Millennium".
In the 2000s, Reilly was primarily known for the autobiographical play "Save It for the Stage: The Life of Reilly", and for its film adaptation. While touring the United States, he developed respiratory problems which led to his retirement. His illness got worse, and he died due to pneumonia in 2007.- Laurie Bartram was born on 16 May 1958 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for Friday the 13th (1980), Emergency! (1972) and Another World (1964). She was married to Gregory McCauley. She died on 25 May 2007 in Lynchburg, Virginia, USA.
- Director
- Writer
- Cinematographer
Lee Frost rates highly as one of the best, most talented and versatile filmmakers in the annals of exploitation cinema. Frost was born on August 14, 1935, in Globe, Arizona. He grew up in Glendale, California, and Oahu, Hawaii. He eventually wound up in Hollywood, where he started his career making TV commercials for the studio Telepics. Frost made his film debut with the early 1960s nudie cutie Surftide 77 (1962). He went on to make a slew of films in many different genres: tongue-in-cheek horror comedy (House on Bare Mountain (1962)), mondo shock documentaries (Hollywood's World of Flesh (1963), Mondo Bizarro (1966), Mondo Freudo (1966)), perverse softcore roughies (The Defilers (1965), The Animal (1968)), crime drama (The Pick-Up (1968)), westerns (Hot Spur (1968), The Scavengers (1969)) and even Nazisploitation (Love Camp 7 (1969), which has been widely cited as the prototype for the notorious Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS (1975)). A majority of Frost's 1960s features were made for legendary trash flick producer Bob Cresse. Moreover, Lee added sex inserts into such foreign films as London in the Raw (1964), Night Women (1964) and Witchcraft '70 (1969). Frost continued cranking out entertainingly sleazy drive-in items throughout the 1970s; they include the startling psycho sniper outing Zero in and Scream (1971), the passable biker opus Chrome and Hot Leather (1971), the gritty Chain Gang Women (1971), the hilariously campy The Thing with Two Heads (1972), the immensely enjoyable Policewomen (1974), the gnarly blaxploitation winner The Black Gestapo (1975), the rowdy redneck romp Dixie Dynamite (1976) and the jolting roughie porno shocker A Climax of Blue Power (1974). Frost often cast former football player Phil Hoover in his 1970s movies and frequently collaborated with producer/screenwriter Wes Bishop (in addition to their own pictures, Frost and Bishop wrote the script for Jack Starrett's terrific Race with the Devil (1975), which Frost was originally supposed to direct as well). Both Frost and Bishop often appear as actors, usually in small parts, in Frost's films. Lee worked as an editor on industrial movies for a film laboratory throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. His last feature was the straight-to-video Shannon Whirry erotic thriller Private Obsession (1995).
Lee Frost died at age 71 on May 25, 2007.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Ellen Plasschaert was born on 3 October 1937 in Lancaster, Lancashire, England, UK. She was an actress. She died on 25 May 2007 in North Hollywood, California, USA.- Art Director
- Art Department
- Production Designer
Ben Kasazkow was born on 29 June 1916 in The Bronx, New York, USA. He was an art director and production designer, known for The French Connection (1971), The Anderson Tapes (1971) and Coronet Blue (1967). He died on 25 May 2007 in New York, USA.- Alice Fényes was born on 11 May 1918 in Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary [now Oradea, Romania]. She was an actress, known for Ördöglovas (1944), A hegyek lánya (1942) and Vihar után (1945). She died on 25 May 2007 in London, England, UK.
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Dick Harvey was born on 19 February 1930 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Dick was a cinematographer, known for Nature (1982) and New Channels for Sockeye (1973). Dick died on 25 May 2007 in Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada.- Marjorie Preece was born on 3 January 1914 in England, UK. She was an actress, known for Tilly of Bloomsbury (1931) and Hate in Paradise (1938). She was married to Ralph Edwards. She died on 25 May 2007 in Union Township, New Jersey, USA.
- Art Director
- Production Designer
- Art Department
Ulrich Damrau was born on 13 November 1914 in Bromberg, West Prussia, Germany. Ulrich was an art director and production designer, known for Das kleine und das große Glück (1953), Alpha Alpha (1972) and Moment's Caress (1968). Ulrich died on 25 May 2007 in Backnang, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.- Editor
- Director
- Writer
Guillermo Cifuentes was an editor and director, known for Diálogo de sordos (1995), El desquite (1999) and La península de los volcanes (2004). He died on 25 May 2007 in Santiago, Chile.- Eve Shelley was born on 3 January 1914 in England, UK. She was an actress, known for Tilly of Bloomsbury (1940), Hate in Paradise (1938) and Doctor 'My Book' (1938). She was married to Ralph Edwards. She died on 25 May 2007 in Union, New Jersey, USA.
- Visual Effects
- Animation Department
- Art Department
Eric Algren was born on 22 August 1974 in Narragansett, Rhode Island, USA. He is known for The Fifth Element (1997), Armageddon (1998) and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006). He died on 25 May 2007 in Marina Del Rey, California, USA.