Zalman King
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Zalman King’s Red Shoe Diaries Collection (The Movie/Girl on a Bike/Soundtrack CD)
Born on May 23, 1941 in Trenton, New Jersey.
Zalman King was an American film director, writer, actor and producer. His films are known for incorporating sexuality, and are often categorized as erotica.
King died on February 3, 2012 at the age of 70 after a battle with cancer.
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The Dick Van Dyke Show – The Complete Series
Born on July 6, 1925 in Rockaway Beach, New York.
John Rich was an American film and television director. He directed such television shows as Where’s Raymond?, Mister Ed, The Dick Van Dyke Show, All in the Family, The Jeffersons, Maude, Good Times, Barney Miller, Newhart, Benson, The Brady Bunch, and Gilligan’s Island. His feature film credits include Wives and Lovers, Boeing Boeing, Roustabout and Easy Come, Easy Go (the latter two starring Elvis Presley). He also participated in the live telecast of the opening day ceremonies of Disneyland in 1955.
Rich died on January 29, 2012 after a brief illness. He was 86.
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Hammer Horror Series (Brides of Dracula / Curse of the Werewolf / Phantom of the Opera (1962) / Paranoiac / Kiss of the Vampire / Nightmare / Night Creatures / Evil of Frankenstein)
Born on 19 April 1922 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Don Sharp was an Australian-born British film director. His most famous films were made for Hammer Studios in the 1960s, and included The Kiss of the Vampire (1962) and Rasputin, the Mad Monk (1965).
Don sharp died on 18 December 2011 (aged 89).
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“My casting couch is too short”: an interview with Marion Dougherty.(Cinematic Views)(Interview): An article from: World Literature Today
Marion Dougherty was the legendary casting director who gave James Dean, Warren Beatty, Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman and Glenn Close their first shots in front of the camera.
Dougherty died on December 4 at her home in New York. She had been suffering from cardiovascular. She was 88.
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Born on July 3, 1927 in Southampton, Hampshire, England.
Ken Russell was an English film director, known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his flamboyant and controversial style. He attracted criticism as being obsessed with sexuality and the church. His films often dealt with the lives of famous composers or were based on other works of art which he adapted loosely. Russell began directing for the BBC, where he made creative adaptations of composers’ lives which were unusual for the time. He also directed many feature films independently and for studios. He is best known for his Oscar-winning film Women in Love (1969), The Devils (1971), The Who’s Tommy (1975), and the science fiction film Altered States (1980).
Ken Russell died on November 27, 2011 in London, England. Aged 84.
Gilbert Cates
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Born on June 6, 1934 in New York City.
Gilbert Cates was an American film director and television producer. He is probably best known for producing the annual Academy Award shows. In September 2007, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that he would be producing the 80th Academy Awards, his 14th time. The awards took place on Sunday February 24, 2008. Cates directed a number of feature films including I Never Sang for My Father (1970) and Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973), Oh, God! Book II (1980) and The Last Married Couple in America (1980).
Cates died at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles on October 31, 2011 at age 77.
Comments OffCharles S. Dubin
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Born on February, 1, 1919 in Brooklyn, New York.
Charles S. Dubin was an American film and television director. From the early 1950s to 1991, Dubin worked in television, directing episodes of Tales of Tomorrow, Omnibus, The Defenders, The Big Valley, The Virginian, Hawaii Five-O, M*A*S*H, Matlock, The Rockford Files, Murder, She Wrote and among other notable series.
Dubin died on September 5, 2011, of natural causes, he was 92 years old.
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Born on October 29, 1948.
Jag Mundhra was an Indian filmmaker best known for his early career as an American exploitation film writer-director and his later career as maker of such issue-oriented films as Bawandar and Provoked. Mundhra directed in the late 1980s and the 1990s, a string of horror and erotic thriller movies for theatrical distribution and direct to video, including The Jigsaw Murders (1988), Halloween Night (1988), Night Eyes (1990), L.A. Goddess (1993), Sexual Malice (1994) and Tales of the Kama Sutra 2: Monsoon (1998).
Mundhra died on September 4, 2011, aged 62, from undisclosed causes.
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Born on January 29, 1939 in Fort Sheridan, Illinois, United States.
Polly Platt was an American film producer, production designer and screenwriter. Her screenwriting credits included Pretty Baby (1978), on which she was also an associate producer, as well as Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff, and A Map of the World. Platt worked extensively with James L. Brooks throughout her career. She was the executive vice president of his production company Gracie Films from 1985 to 1995. Platt was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction for Brooks’ film Terms of Endearment (1983). She also co-produced many of the films he worked on, which Gracie made, including Broadcast News (1987), The War of the Roses (1989) and Bottle Rocket (1996), as well as producing Say Anything… (1989). Platt gave Brooks the nine-panel Life in Hell cartoon “The Los Angeles Way of Death” by cartoonist Matt Groening. She suggested that the two meet and that Brooks produce an animated TV version of Groening’s characters; the meeting spawned a series of short cartoons about the Simpson family, which aired as part of The Tracy Ullman Show and later became The Simpsons.
Platt died aged 72 on July 27, 2011 in New York, from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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Born on June 25, 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Sidney Lumet was an American director, producer and screenwriter with over 50 films to his name. He was nominated for the Academy Award as Best Director for 12 Angry Men (1957), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Network (1976) and The Verdict (1982). He did not win an individual Academy Award, although he did receive an Academy Honorary Award and 14 of his films were nominated for various Oscars, such as Network, which was nominated for 10, winning 4.
Lumet died aged 86 on April 9, 2011 in his residence in Manhattan, New York from lymphoma.
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