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After passing his screen test, Rand Brooks played a bit role in the 1938 film Love Finds a Way. He then found several other roles before landing the part of Charles Hamilton in Gone with the Wind. He went on to play small roles in films such as Laddie, And One was Beautiful, The Son of Monte Cristo, Jennie, Niagara Falls, among others. Beginning in 1946, he took over the role of Hopalong Cassidy's youthful sidekick, Lucky, and played in twelve of the feature films. Among these, which starred William Boyd as Hoppy, were The Devil's Playground, Fool's Gold, Unexpected Guest, Dangerous Venture, and Hoppy's Holiday. Brooks continued playing roles in films throughout the 1940s and into the 1950s, which also started his television career. He made co-starring appearances on series such as The Roy Rogers Show, Highway Patrol, Lassie, Wagon Train, Maverick, The Real McCoys, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, Bat Masterson, Laramie, Gunsmoke, The Munsters, Perry Mason, Columbo, and Bonanza, as well as nine episodes of The Lone Ranger, where he began a friendship with Clayton Moore. In 1966, Rand Brooks started Professional Ambulance Service in Glendale, California, with two used ambulances and a credit card. By 1977 his company had become the largest private ambulance 9-1-1 paramedic provider in Los Angeles County. During his ownership the company received dozens of awards and commendations and was widely recognized as one of the finest ambulance services in the country. In 1995 Brooks sold it to corporate giant American Medical Response. He lived at his ranch in Santa Barbara County with second wife Hermine, a former executive with his company, until his death in 2003. Brooks has two children; a daughter and a son, Rand Brooks Jr., who owns a trucking company in Los Angeles. Brooks can be seen portraying a police officer in the two-hour premier episode of the television series Emergency! (1972), which was first aired in January of 1972 on NBC. Rand Brooks' acting career spanned over 140 films and television series, as well as writing, producing, and directing one film called Legend of the Northwest.- Director
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Emmy Award-winning director Jack Smight was born in Minneapolis, MN, on March 9, 1925, the offspring of Irish immigrants. After graduating from Cretin High School he served in the US Army Air Force during World War Two, where he flew combat missions in the Pacific Theater. After the war he attended the University of Minnesota, where he met up with an old high-school friend - Peter Graves (they had been matriculating in the theater department as drama students). After graduation they hooked up in Hollywood, where they rented a room and made the rounds, looking for work as actors while Jack worked as a carhop and Graves drove a cab, ignoring the advice of Graves' older brother, James Arness, to head straight back to Minneapolis.
Unlike his friend, Smight did not achieve success as an actor. He became a stage manager and then turned to directing. Graves later said of his friend that his acting background helped him understand actors. "He was also a very intelligent, literate man," Graves said, "who knew how to communicate with the writers." These skills made him a successful director, first in television and then in the movies. In 1959 he won an Emmy Award for Best Direction of a Single Program of a Dramatic Series - Less Than One Hour for Eddie (1958), which starred Mickey Rooney and featured an Emmy-winning script by Ken Hughes. In the 1960s he directed films featuring such A-list talent as Paul Newman and Rod Steiger before moving back to TV in the 1970s, while occasionally directing a feature film.
Jack Smight died of cancer on September 1, 2003 in Los Angeles, California. He was 78 years old.- Actor
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Renowned for portraying his witty, stereotypical norteño character named "Piporro" in the Pedro Infante film Ahí viene Martín Corona (1952), Eulalio González quickly became one of the box-office stars of the 1960s and the best norteño comedian ever. Born and raised in northern Mexico, González was the son of customs agent Pablo González Barrera and Elvira Ramírez. During his youth he studied medicine and accounting, though he never sought these professions. His first break came when he working as a radio announcer and popular film actor-singer Pedro Infante invited him to participate in the radio-novela "Martín Corona". The success of the radio-novela spawned a film starring Infante and Sara Montiel with González reprising his role as the comic norteño sidekick. It would not be until the early 1960s when González's popularity grew in both film and music, starring as the leading man in the films The Ship of Monsters (1960), Ruletero a toda marcha (1962), El rey del tomate (1963), El bracero del año (1964), La Valentina (1966), Qué hombre tan sin embargo (1967), and El pistolero desconocido (1967). His quick and inventive humor can be appreciated today in his films, screenplays, and songs.- Margie Tenney was born on 29 December 1929. She was an actress, known for The People's Choice (1955), The Bob Cummings Show (1955) and The Texan (1958). She died on 1 September 2003 in Clark, Nevada, USA.
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Ensio Suominen was born on 2 January 1934 in Askainen, Finland. He was an art director, known for The Glory and Misery of Human Life (1988), Rauta-aika (1982) and Täällä Pohjantähden alla (1968). He was married to Eliisa Luukkola. He died on 1 September 2003 in Pirkkala, Finland.- Aleksandr Palees was born on 8 March 1930 in Minsk, Belarussian SSR, USSR. He was an actor, known for Razbudite Mukhina (1968) and Sinyaya tetrad (1964). He died on 1 September 2003 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
- Ramón Serrano Súñer was born on 12 September 1901 in Cartagena, Murcia, Spain. He was married to Ramona Polo Martínez-Valdes. He died on 1 September 2003 in Madrid, Spain.