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- Actor
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Everett De Roche was born on 12 July 1946 in the USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Harlequin (1980), Razorback (1984) and Patrick (1978). He was married to Chris De Roche. He died on 2 April 2014 in Melbourne, Australia.- Actor
- Writer
- Script and Continuity Department
Glyn Jones was born on 27 April 1931 in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He was an actor and writer, known for Doctor Who (1963), Here Come the Double Deckers! (1970) and Bindle (One of Them Days) (1966). He died on 2 April 2014 in Vamos, Crete, Greece.- Director
- Writer
Pierre J. Capretz was the creator of the popular French language instruction program "French In Action", that continues to be shown on many public television stations.
Born in 1925 in Mazamet, France, Capretz attended the University of Paris. He arrived in the United States, specifically in Gainesville, Florida in 1949, on an army boat. The morning after his arrival, he began teaching Latin at the University of Florida, eventually moving on to teach French. In 1956, Capretz went on to become a professor at Yale University until his retirement in 2003, after which he moved back to France. During his tenure at Yale, he developed the "French In Action" method, where rather than have students learn the standard way of simply studying from textbooks, they would be immersed with visual and audio context of the courses by using pictures of France and recordings.
In 1985, filming began on the "French In Action" series (later airing on most PBS stations in 1987). The 52-episode lighthearted series tells the story of a young couple falling in love while traveling throughout France while dealing with everyday life, family and friends. When the storyline ends in each episode, Capretz becomes a guide and mentor by instructing grammar lessons through recaps of the previously shown scenes. The entire course (sans the orientation episode) is spoken only in French. After his retirement, he continued working on a third edition of "French in Action" as well as other projects. In 2012, he attended a reunion for the 25th anniversary of the "FIA" series, featuring those involved in the PBS production.
Professor Capretz passed away on April 2, 2014 at the age of 89, in Aix-en-Provence, France. He is survived by his longtime companion, Sylvie Mathé, their son Pierre Olivier Mathé, and also three sons (Michel, Yves, and Alain) from his previous marriage, and one grandson.- Actor
- Producer
Gustavo Rodríguez was born on 19 February 1947 in Ciudad Bolívar, Bolívar, Venezuela. He was an actor and producer, known for Estefanía (1979), El país de las mujeres (1998) and Contra viento y marea (1997). He was married to Gabriela Rodríguez. He died on 2 April 2014 in Caracas, Venezuela.- Alfonso Bayard was born on 19 May 1966 in Madrid, Spain. He was an actor, known for Hipnos (2004), Hospital Central (2000) and Korscha (2009). He died on 2 April 2014 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
- Director
- Cinematographer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Ivan Galin was born on 28 August 1932 in Moscow, USSR. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Pri ispolnenii sluzhebnykh obyazannostey (1963), Tuda, gde shodjatsja meridiany (1963) and Mission to Mir (1997). He died on 2 April 2014.- Lyndsie Holland performed with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company as Principal Contralto in the following roles: Lady Sangazure in "The Sorcerer"; Little Buttercup in "HMS Pinafore"; Ruth in "The Pirates of Penzance"; The Fairy Queen in "Iolanthe" (also recorded); Lady Blanche in "Princess Ida"; Katisha in "The Mikado" (also recorded); Dame Hannah in "Ruddigore"; Dame Carruthers in "The Yeomen of the Guard"; The Duchess in "The Gondoliers" (also recorded); Lady Sophy in "Utopia, Ltd." (also recorded); Baroness Caroline Von Krakenfeldt in "The Grand Duke" (also recorded). Most of Lyndsie's recording with Decca are still available on CD.
- Sandy Grossman was born on 12 June 1935 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. He was a director, known for Super Bowl XVIII (1984), Celebrity Boxing (2002) and Lingerie Bowl (2006). He was married to Faithe. He died on 2 April 2014 in Boca Raton, Florida, USA.
- Writer
- Director
Urs Widmer was born on 21 May 1938 in Basel, Basel, Switzerland. He was a writer and director, known for Das kleine Welttheater (1970), Television Theater (1953) and Jeanmaire - Ein Stück Schweiz (1993). He was married to Anna Marie Rinderknecht. He died on 2 April 2014 in Zürich, Switzerland.- Writer
- Additional Crew
Milos Mikeln was born on 23 May 1930 in Celje, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He was a writer, known for Long Live Freedom (1987), Bratovscina Sinjega galeba (1969) and Do Not Come Back Along the Same Road (1965). He died on 2 April 2014 in Slovenia.- Additional Crew
Lucy Hood was born on 27 January 1958 in New York, New York, USA. She is known for Pinwheel (1976), The Regard of Flight (1983) and The Country Girl (1982). She was married to Rob. She died on 2 April 2014 in the USA.- Kees Kooper was born on 13 May 1923 in Netherlands. He was married to Mary Louise Boehm. He died on 2 April 2014 in New York, USA.
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- Production Manager
- Sound Department
Richard Brick was senior producer of a two-hour HD special, Peter Jennings Reporting- UFOs: Seeing is Believing for ABC. In 2003, he was senior producer of another two-hour special for ABC, Peter Jennings Reporting - The JFK Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy. Previously, he was the Co-Producer of Woody Allen's Deconstructing Harry, Celebrity and Sweet and Lowdown and of Emir Kusturica's Arizona Dream. He produced Robert M. Young's Caught and Joe Vasquez' Hangin' with the Homeboys. He was the unit production manager of Mike Nichol's Silkwood and Robert Benton's Places in the Heart and was the Assistant Unit Production Manager/Location Manager of Milos Forman's Ragtime.
On Peter Gimbel's syndicated television feature documentary, Andrea Doria: the Final Chapter, he was associate producer and production manager. He served as production manager on Waris Hussein's Little Gloria...Happy At Last, television mini-series; as production manager of John Lowenthal's theatrical feature The Trials of Alger Hiss, which won the Grand Prix at the 12th Annual Nyon Film Festival; and as production manager of Michael Roemer's Pilgrim...Farewell, a dramatic feature for PBS. Brick was the production manager of Westinghouse Broadcasting's bicentennial television series Six American Families, winner of a Gabriel and DuPont/Columbia Awards. On Paul Ronder's Part of the Family, winner of the Prix George Sadoul, a feature documentary made for PBS and released theatrically in Europe, he was production manager. Brick produced and directed Last Stand Farmer.
Brick had a highly successful tenure as the first Commissioner of the New York City Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting, 1992-94. He was Chairman of the M.F.A. degree film program at Columbia University, 1988 and 1989, where he continues as an Adjunct Professor in the producing program. In 1987 he established the Columbia Film Festival for the M.F.A. program, which celebrated its 25th anniversary at Lincoln Center in 2012, at which he endowed the Richard Brick Producing Prize at Columbia.
Brick has in active development with Ira Deutchman, Barbara Ehrenreich's best-seller Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting by in America; James Salter's stunning mountain climbing novel Solo Faces, with Mark Obenhaus; and with Kenneth Murphy, Fire on the Beach, the gripping 1880 true story of former slave Richard Etheridge, who is made "Keeper" of the Pea Island Life Saving Station on the North Carolina coast. He is Executive Producer of Shadow 19, a sci-fi feature in development by Joel Silver at Warner Brothers.
Brick is a member of the Producers Guild of America and the Directors Guild of America, which he's served since 2002 on the Eastern Assistant Directors/Unit Production Managers Council, as a Delegate to the National Conventions in 2003, 2005, 2007, 2011, and 2013 (elected but unable to attend), and on the National Negotiating Committee 2010-11 and 2013-14. He served on the board of directors of the IFP, 1985-2001, as Chairman, 1995-97. In 1985 he founded and Chairs the Advisory Board of the Geri Ashur Screenwriting Award, a $10,000 fellowship administered by the New York Foundation for the Arts. He was an official Guest at Emir Kusturica's 2010 Kustendorf Film Festival and Juror at the 2011 Kustendorf Film Festival. President of the Jury, the 2012 Targowa Street Film and Music Festival of The Leon Schiller Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre, Lodz, Poland
Brick received an American Film Institute Independent Filmmaker Grant in 1977; the Vermont Council on the Arts' Grant-in-Aid in 1974 and the Vermont Council on the Humanities and Public Issues' Regrant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1974. His awards include a 2004 Radio-Television News Directors Edward R. Murrow Award and the British Broadcasting Press Guild Television Awards: Best Single Documentary, 2003, for The Kennedy Assassination; Best Feature nomination from the Independent Spirit Awards for Hangin' with the Homeboys in 1991; the 1993 Motion Picture Bookers Club Award; the Directors Guild of America Best Picture nomination as UPM for Places in the Heart in 1984; the John Grierson Award for Social Documentary and the Blue Ribbon from the 1976 American Film Festival, and the 1975 Gold Ducat of the Mannheim Internationale Filmwoche, all for Last Stand Farmer. He lives in New York City and northern Vermont and is married to Sara Bershtel, Publisher of Metropolitan Books at Henry Holt and Company.