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- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
The youngest of six brothers, all of them music lovers, Masaru Sato decided early in life that he wanted to be a composer. His models were two other composers born, as he was, on the northernmost Japanese island of Hokkaido: Akira Ifukube and Fumio Hayasaka. "To me", Sato said, "they were like gods". After hearing Hayasaka's score for Rashomon (1950), Sato decided Hayasaka was the only one he wanted for his teacher. He absorbed much of Hayasaka's modernist leanings, and grew to know Hayasaka's best friend Akira Kurosawa during this period. The year 1955 was a vast turning point for Sato: after scoring numerous insignificant pictures for various studios in Tokyo, Sato won the assignment for Gojira no Gyakushu (1955). Then his teacher Fumio Hayasaka died tragically young, while finishing the score for Kurosawa's Ikimono no Kiroku (1955). Sato stepped in to complete the score, uncredited. Kurosawa was sufficiently pleased with Sato to use him for all his pictures for the following ten years. Though the two had a falling-out after Akahige (1965), Sato remained one of Japan's most in-demand film composers, returning to the Gojira series several times and remaining a favorite of many other directors such as Kihachi Okamoto and June Fukuda. After scoring Dun-Huang in 1987, Sato had to call a brief halt to his career in order to tend to family interests in real estate in his native Hokkaido; but within a few years, the problems were wrapped up, and Sato was able to go back to film composing full time, at last reaching and surpassing his 300th movie score. Sato is almost unique among Japan's prolific film composers in that he has written extensively for his chosen field, but has never written for the concert stage.- Alexander Baron was born on 4 December 1917. He was a writer, known for Four Desperate Men (1959), Robbery Under Arms (1957) and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984). He was married to Delores Salzedo. He died on 5 December 1999.
- Director
- Producer
- Actress
Joan Craft was born on 2 May 1916 in Hull, Humberside, England, UK. She was a director and producer, known for The Herries Chronicle (1960), Compact (1962) and Pride and Prejudice (1967). She died on 5 December 1999 in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England, UK.- Additional Crew
- Art Department
- Art Director
Ted Cooper was born on 11 November 1920. He was an art director, known for The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950), The Jonathan Winters Show (1956) and Startime (1959). He died on 5 December 1999 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA.- Gloria Caruso was born on 18 December 1919 in New York City, New York, USA. She was married to Michael Hunt Murray. She died on 5 December 1999 in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
- Composer
- Writer
Mojmír Balling was born on 29 August 1928 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. Mojmír was a composer and writer, known for Valcík pro milión (1961), Co neodnesl cas (1978) and Lucistníci a lukostrelci (1978). Mojmír died on 5 December 1999 in Prague, Czech Republic.- Actress
Ella Büchi was born on 25 February 1929 in Dübendorf, Zurich, Switzerland. She was an actress, known for Faust (1960), Hinter den sieben Gleisen (1959) and Das geliebte Klischee - Wandlungen zentraler Motive der deutschen Dramatik des 20. Jahrhunderts (1971). She was married to Richard Münch. She died on 5 December 1999 in Zürich, Switzerland.- Director
- Writer
- Animation Department
Edvin Biukovic was born on 22 June 1969 in Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia [now Croatia]. He was a director and writer, known for Greetings from Croatia (1991) and Ad Astra (1991). He died on 5 December 1999 in Zagreb, Croatia.- Bohumil Musil was born on 10 May 1922 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He was a director and actor, known for Bez pasu a bez víza z Kudlova do San Franciska (1964) and Futbol (1965). He died on 5 December 1999.