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- Robert Earl Jones was born on 3 February 1910 in Senatobia, Mississippi, USA. He was an actor, known for The Sting (1973), Sleepaway Camp (1983) and Witness (1985). He was married to Ruth Connolly, Jumelle P. Jones and Ruth Williams. He died on 7 September 2006 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.
- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Best remembered as strapping comic strip boxer Joe Palooka on screen in the late 1940s and early 1950s, fair-haired, amiable-looking, exceedingly athletic Joe Kirkwood, Jr. may have been the son of renowned professional golfer and trick artist Joe Kirkwood, but he was actually born Reginald Thomas Kirkwood on May 30, 1920 in Melbourne, Australia, the second of two sons. His father eventually took young Reginald and older brother Donald to the United States to live where they settled in Philadelphia for a time before moving to Florida. Joe eventually boarded at a military academy in Georgia where he excelled in sports, including golf, tennis, swimming and boxing. It was at this juncture that he started to win sports tournaments himself and decided to bill himself "Joe Kirkwood, Jr." in honor of his famous father.
Despite his sports capabilities, Joe Jr. suffered from asthma and high blood pressure and, after joining the Army in 1943, was medically discharged 8 months into his tour of duty. A year later he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force but was released again for the same disabilities.
While performing in a Los Angeles golf tournament, the handsome sportsman was noticed by director David Butler and was given a Warner Bros. screen test and signed. Not much happened and, after a few uncredited parts in such movies as Night and Day (1946), he was released. Later when Monogram had a nationwide search for someone to play their lead comic strip role of wholesome boxer Joe Palooka, they found what they were looking for in fresh-faced, handsome Joe, Jr. Co-starring comedy legend Leon Errol as his manager, 11 Palooka films were made between the years 1946 and 1951 with various actresses filming the role of Joe's girlfriend and later wife. An amateur boxer earlier, Joe did his own boxing stunts in the film. In between filming, Joe continued on the professional golfing circuit.
Following that series, little popped up outside of the Palooka association. In 1954 he starred and was associate producer of the TV series The Joe Palooka Story (1954). Real-life actress wife Cathy Downs played Palooka wife Anne in the series with Luis Van Rooten in the support role of Knobby. When the series went off the air, Downs filed for divorce claiming abandonment -- that he preferred golf over her. Kirkwood later began a long term relationship in 1968 with the much younger Joyce Woltz. It lasted and they later married in1980.
Other than a few jobs on radio, on TV and the film The Marriage-Go-Round (1961), he was now completely focused on his golf career. He later turned entrepreneur, investing smartly and buying land in the Los Angeles Valley area where he made an especially lucrative investment by building a golf course, restaurant and sports center. He later owned a bowling alley. Kirkwood died at age 86 in Hesperia, California, and is interred at Sunset Hills Memorial Park in Apple Valley.- The Flemish (Dutch-language Belgian) actor Julien Schoenaerts made a most notable acting career, foremost in the theatre but also on the movie - and TV screen.
Schoenaerts was born on 30 August 1925 in Eigenbilzen (Belgian province of Limburg). He once said his first public part was that of St-John at age four, when his sister put a living lamb in his arms during a Catholic procession. From age six Schoenaerts joined "Lust en Leven", the amateur theatre society his father belonged to. After classical humanities (Latin-Greek) he joined in 1948 the then two years young Studio Herman Teirlinck, after which he played ten years in Herman Teirlinck's theatre "Koninklijke Nederlandse Schouwburg" (KNS) in Antwerp. In the 1950s he toured both Dutch-speaking countries with such plays as (both in Dutch translation) "De huisbewaarder" by Harold Pinter and "De kleine prins" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Frustrated by Flanders' weak theatre policy, he emigrated north, played a year in Karl Guttmann's Ensemble and two with De Nederlandse Comedie, but remained at unease. Schoenaerts returned to Belgium, working with the Flemish public broadcaster BRT, and simultaneously started his own Ringtheater. Unable to continue both, Schoenaerts started a solo career; his last theatre performance was in 1993.
His first screen part was in 1955 in 'Meeuwen sterven in de haven' (scenario by Ivo Michiels). Memorable film parts were Pieter De Coninck in Hugo Claus' 'De Leeuw van Vlaanderen' (1983) and Monseigneur Stillemans in the Oscar-winning 'Daens' (1992). In 1999 he acted in a movie for a young audience; in 2004 he and his son Matthias Schoenaerts appeared in Rudolph Mestdagh's 'Ellektra'.
His artistic interest extended to other arts forms. In 2003 the gallery of "kunstkring Jacques Gorus" in Antwerp held an exposition of his paintings and etchings. Since the 1970s he suffered from mental problems. - John M. Watson Sr. was born on 10 January 1937 in Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for The Fugitive (1993), Natural Born Killers (1994) and Groundhog Day (1993). He was married to Virginia. He died on 7 September 2006 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- Animation Department
- Producer
- Director
Bernard Wolf was born on 18 July 1911 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and director, known for Dumbo (1941), Pinocchio (1940) and Fantasia (1940). He was married to Muriel Wolf. He died on 7 September 2006 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Visual Effects
Hiroshi Takase was born on 13 October 1955 in Tokyo, Japan. He was a cinematographer, known for Death Note (2006), Lost Paradise (1997) and Heaven and Earth (1990). He died on 7 September 2006 in Tokyo, Japan.- Dando Kluever was born on 8 July 1952 in Atlantic, Iowa, USA. He was an actor, known for Mazinger Z (1972). He died on 7 September 2006 in Orlando, Florida, USA.
- James DeAnda was born on 28 August 1925 in Houston, Texas, USA. He was married to Joyce Anita Goode and Olga Hilma Vizcarra. He died on 7 September 2006 in Traverse City, Michigan, USA.
- Joan Donaldson was born on 23 April 1946 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She died on 7 September 2006 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
- Make-Up Department
Dave Bubniw was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He is known for The House of the Dead (1996), The Shortest Dream (2005) and Bones (1998). He died on 7 September 2006 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.- Andreas Meyer-Hanno was born on 18 February 1932 in Berlin, Germany. He died on 7 September 2006 in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany.
- Actor
Uel Deane was born on 21 October 1935 in Armoy, County Antrim, Ireland. He was an actor. He died on 7 September 2006 in Pourrières, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.