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- Jack Garner was born on 19 September 1926 in Norman, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for My Fellow Americans (1996), The Rockford Files (1974) and The Rousters (1983). He was married to Elizabeth J. Ludwick. He died on 13 September 2011 in Rancho Mirage, California, USA.
- Producer
- Actor
Calley was born the son of a car salesman in Jersey City, New Jersey, and attended Columbia University before briefly serving in the Army. At NBC, he started in the mail room and moved up through the ranks from from 1951-57 in a still-young TV industry, from sale and production before settling in as director of nighttime programming. Later at Henry Jaffe Enterprises, he developed and produced musical programming; soon after he served the Ted Bates Advertising Agency as its radio and TV programming VP, until 1960.
Eventually it was at Filmways, where Calley hit his stride and either developed or produced appealing fare from Catch-22 (1970) to The The Americanization of Emily (1964), The Cincinnati Kid (1965) and The Loved One (1965). When Warner Bros., merged with Filmways later in the '60s, Calley was promoted to executive VP of worldwide production, later rising to president and then vice chairman, under Frank Wells.
In addition to All the President's Men (1976), Calley's Warner Bros. years featured hits like Superman (1978), Chariots of Fire (1981) and Woodstock (1970). However, after falling victim to an unhappy marriage and burnout from his involvement in the making of over 120 films at Warner's, he all but dropped out of Hollywood for the next 10 years, moving away from the studio scene to pursue the life of a "virtual hermit" first at his huge home on Fishers's Island, New York, and then in rural Connecticut.
Eventually in the 1990s, Calley returned as one of the producers of Merchant-Ivory's The Remains of the Day (1993), which led to the only Oscar nomination in his half-century career.
Also in 1993, Calley was persuaded to return to the executive suite in an effort to resurrect faded United Artists. His credit for doing so was linked to his shepherding the latest James Bond feature, big-budget GoldenEye (1995), as well as his decision to support the low-budget Leaving Las Vegas (1995).
Ultimately, it was when he once again teamed with director Mike Nichols (of 'Catch-22' fame) that he scored his greatest triumph at UA, with The Birdcage (1996), a comedy that grossed well over $100 million.
However, that same year, Calley moved on from MGM/UA to Sony Pictures Entertainment as its president and COO, where he managed to achieve another turnaround. Two years later, having met his latest challenge, he returned to producing, once again hitting the mark with Nichols's Closer (2004), and then with the The Da Vinci Code (2006) original and its' sequel Angels & Demons (2009).
In 2009, Calley received recognition from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences when he won the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award and was celebrated as 'one of the most trusted and admired figures in Hollywood.
When film executive and producer John Calley died on September 13, 2011, Variety described him as a "studio lion." In his 50-year career, he headed three different major movie studios and helped fashion dozens of popular as well as influential pictures, including The Exorcist (1973), 'Catch-22,' 'All the President's Men' and 'The Da Vinci Code.' Calley was renowned as a brilliant, almost scholarly executive, who was candid, humorous and low-key, yet his productions ran the gamut of budgets and genres.- Stunts
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Victor Paul was born on 15 January 1927 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Armageddon (1998), Die Hard (1988) and The Blues Brothers (1980). He died on 13 September 2011 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Producer
- Director
- Actor
Paul Hunt began making films in 1965 under the pseudonym H.P. Edwards. His first film was The Psychedelics (1966), followed by Blow the Man Down (1968), "Jefferson Hotel" (1966), "Sweet Smoke" (1967) and 60+ others. He was also the cinematographer and editor on most of them. His company, Canyon Films, became one of the largest distributors of underground films in America (future director Lewis Teague was at that time running the Cinematèque in Hollywood where Hunt's films debuted). Under his pseudonym Hunt worked for directors such as Bethel Buckalew, William Rotsler, Gary Graver, Manuel Conde, Lee Frost and others as a cinematographer, gaffer, sound recordist and editor. The first film produced in his own name was Blue Surfari (1967), a surfing docudrama starring Ricky Grigg. He also has headed up Pacific International Pictures Inc., Filmmakers International Releasing Inc. and still heads United Filmmakers Inc. In 1970 he began working with Orson Welles on The Other Side of the Wind (2018) and continued to work with him on all his films (F for Fake (1973), The Magic Show (1983)) until Welles' death in 1985. During that time he served as Welles' production manager, gaffer, sound recordist, actor and editor. He was also the director of photography in India (produced by Ismail Merchant) and The Netherlands (produced by himself) on Mata Hari (1985), directed by David Carradine, starring Calista Carradine, Bruce Carradine and Nikolai van der Heyde (the Dutch director).- Actor
Rodney Bieber was born on 12 December 1931 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor. He died on 13 September 2011 in Lincoln, California, USA.- Walter Bonatti, born in Bergamo, and died in Rome, was an Italian mountaineer, mountain guide, journalist and photographer, considered by many to be the best mountaineer of all time.
Bonatti was not yet 20 when he climbed the austere west face of the Aiguille Noire de Peuterey and the formidable north face of the Grandes Jorasses. At 20 years old when he manages to trace a route in the overhanging walls of the east face of the Grand Capucin. Masterful demonstration of the possibilities of artificial climbing in the Mont-Blanc massif. "The greatest rock feat accomplished to date" soberly comments Gaston Rébuffat. Even today, climbing the Bonatti-Ghigo at Grand Cap means marveling at the intelligence of a route within a completely overhanging wall. Just 24 years old and Bonatti is from the Italian team that made the first ascent of K2 (8611 m, second summit of the Earth). The feat that restores pride to a country hardly relevant to the Second World War is tainted with a lie.
He is accused, wrongly, of having consumed oxygen from the precious bottles he is carrying towards the assault rope. Slander of this rope party which made sure not to share the tent at more than 8000 m - forcing Bonatti and the carrier Madhi to a bivouac without protective equipment and to affirm not to have been able to use the oxygen bottles until ' at the top for lack of sufficient quantity of the precious gas. Back in Italy, Bonatti failed to make his voice heard. Affected in his honor, the young climber goes through a deep moral crisis from which he emerges by the extraordinary ascent of the western pillar of the Drus, alone and in five days.
The irrefutable proof of the lie finally came out in 1993 in the form of a photo which shows Compagnoni at the top of K2. An oxygen mask covers his face: the summits used the precious gas well until the end of the ascent.
In the decade 55-65, Walter Bonatti devoted himself to his job as a guide and achieved many firsts in the Mont-Blanc massif, which he made his garden (Grandes Jorasses, Pilier d'Angle, Pilier Rouge du Brouillard). On the distant mountains, the success of the impressive Gasherbrum IV (7925 m, Pakistan) with the second Italian national expedition does not reconcile it with the Himalayas of the time: "The conquest of the G4 was for me a disappointing experience , limited, in complete disagreement with my state of mind". In 1959, he became Millet's first technical advisor, and participated in the development of the brand's mountain backpacks. The tragedy of the pillar of Frêney lived in the heart of the summer of 1961 definitively shapes the legend of Bonatti. The attempt to open the highest granite wall of Mont Blanc ended in the death of four climbers among the two ropes who had joined forces when the storm arrived. The survivors (Pierre Mazeaud, Roberto Gallieni) owe life only to Bonatti's abnegation and resistance qualities.
In 1965, Walter Bonatti was 35 years old and bowed out with panache: the opening in winter of a new route on the austere north face of the Matterhorn. Of this great success, he would simply write: "Bonatti has now ceased to be the Bonatti mountaineer." - Actor
- Art Department
- Writer
Richard Hamilton was born on 24 February 1922 in Pimlico, London, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Greetings (1968), Heads (1969) and Richard Hamilton (1969). He was married to Rita Donagh and Terry O'Reilly. He died on 13 September 2011 in Northend, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, UK.- Camera and Electrical Department
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Gautam Rajadhyaksha was born on 16 September 1950 in Bombay, State of Bombay, India. He was a writer, known for Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (2001), Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998) and Ishq (1997). He died on 13 September 2011 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.- Soundtrack
Wilma Lee Cooper was born on 7 February 1921 in Valley Head, West Virginia, USA. She was married to Stoney Cooper. She died on 13 September 2011 in Sweetwater, Tennessee, USA.- Producer
- Editor
- Director
F. Paul Benz was born on 14 August 1966 in New Jersey, USA. He was a producer and editor, known for JFK (1991), The River Wild (1994) and The Doors (1991). He died on 13 September 2011 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Sam DeLuca was born on 2 May 1936 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He died on 13 September 2011 in Pelham, New York, USA.
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Sound Department
- Additional Crew
Jaroslaw Roszyk is known for A Few People, a Little Time (2005), Unkenrufe (2005) and Nothing (1998). He died on 13 September 2011 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Composer
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Mehdi Faveris-Essadi was born on 20 January 1977 in Hauts-de-Seine, France. He was a composer and actor, known for Hitman (2007), Rust and Bone (2012) and Grand Theft Auto V (2013). He died on 13 September 2011 in Paris, France.- Carl Oglesby was born on 30 July 1935 in Akron, Ohio, USA. He died on 13 September 2011 in Montclair, New Jersey, USA.
- Additional Crew
Bruce A. Beers was born on 8 April 1944 in Santa Monica, California, USA. He is known for Josh and S.A.M. (1993), Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) and City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold (1994). He was married to Susan McLaughlin. He died on 13 September 2011 in Fallbrook, California, USA.- Gavin Dorrian was born in 1949 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for This Man Craig (1966) and Dr. Finlay's Casebook (1962). He died on 13 September 2011 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.