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Genial Manchester-born comic actor Sam Kelly had a considerable gift for timing and observation. His special forte was playing decrepit, rheumy characters of more advanced years than his own actual age. Among the many endearing impressions he made on the small screen, he is probably best remembered as the illiterate crook 'Bunny' Warren in Porridge (1974) and as the inept German officer Hans Geering in 'Allo 'Allo! (1982), forever abbreviating the Nazi salute to a shout of "Tler!" (which to many ears sounded like 'klop' or 'club'). His other sitcom credits include Norman Elston in Now and Then (1983), the servant Nathaniel Grunge in the Georgian period romp Haggard (1990) and the chauffeur Sam Jones in On the Up (1990). Kelly's expressive features also splendidly suited a varied gallery of Dickensian characters: the timid Mr. Snagsby (Masterpiece Theatre: Bleak House (1985); the undertaker Mr. Mould (Martin Chuzzlewit (1994); the kindly manservant Giles (Oliver Twist (1999); and the grocer Cudlipp (in John Sullivan's ITV adaptation Micawber (2001)).
By his own admission, Kelly might have been content running a village post office. He began his working life as a clerk in the Liverpool civil service before enrolling at the London Academy of Dramatic Arts at the age of twenty. He graduated in 1967 and then acted in regional repertory theatre for five years. In the course of his subsequent career, he made frequent appearances at London's West End, at the Old Vic and at the Royal Court in plays ranging from "The Odd Couple" and "HMS Pinafore" to "War and Peace". The stage was to remain his preferred medium, allowing him to occasionally branch out into serious roles (while regular television work necessarily paid the bills). His dramatic performance as a sorrowful bachelor facing retirement in "Grief" (2011) at the National Theatre was said to have been his best.
In 1977, Kelly co-founded the Croydon Warehouse Theatre, which operated until its closure due to financial and structural problems in 2012.- Actor
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Francis Joseph Matthews was born in York to Kathleen, nee Empson and Henry Ernest Matthews and was educated at St Georges School in York and St Michaels Jesuit College in Leeds and did some work at Leeds Repertory Theatre before doing his National Service in the Royal Navy after which he did repertory at various theatres including 2 years at the Oxford Playhouse. In 1962 he went to the Hebrides to film Shark Island, a six part series for the BBC and was picked up from the airport by the actress Angela Browne who he married the following year and had 3 sons,Paul, Dominic and Damien. Gerry Anderson was planning a television puppet television series when he heard Francis on the radio doing a Cary Grant voice and liked the transatlantic sound of his voice and asked him to provide the voice of Captain Scarlett in the television puppet series he was preparing. He has an actor brother, Paul Shelley and a sister, Maura. Another brother, Anthony, predeceased them.- Terry Richards was born on 2 November 1932 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Brazil (1985) and Red Sonja (1985). He died on 14 June 2014 in Ruislip, London, England, UK.
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The noted outré underground celebrity Ultra Violet was born Isabelle Collin Dufresne on September 6, 1935, and a convent-raised French bourgeois heiress. A coiffured society deb in those days, she moved to New York in 1953 where she spent a decade surrounding herself with modernist artists like John D. Graham, John Chamberlain, and Salvador Dalí, the last of whom triggered her career as a painter.
It was through her relationship with Dali that she eventually met pop icon Andy Warhol in the early 1960's and changed her name to Ultra Violet, evolving into one of Warhol's more accessible and unforgettable trashy-chic East 47th Street "Factory" superstars. An exotic vamp in style and attitude, Ultra Violet seemed to pick up quite a bit of makeup tips from silent star Theda Bara and made her Warhol debut with The Life of Juanita Castro (1965) and went on to appear next in Warhol's I a Man (1967) before her cameo inclusions in other counterculture cult films such as the odd Norman Mailer film Maidstone (1970) and The Secret Life of Hernando Cortez (1969).
Ultra Violet made her legit film debut playing herself as a decadent party guest in the Oscar-wining x-rated film Midnight Cowboy (1969), and went on to offer a flash of weirdness in such bizarre, offbeat films as The Phynx (1970), Dinah East (1970) (starring Jeremy Stockwell as a 50's movie queen who is actually a man), Simon, King of the Witches (1971) (as a high priestess), The Telephone Book (1971) (as a whip lady), Curse of the Headless Horseman (1972) (as a Countess), Savages (1972), Bad Charleston Charlie (1973) and a New York character named Lady MacBeth in the Jill Clayburgh drama An Unmarried Woman (1978).
Her best-selling 1988 autobiography "Famous for Fifteen Minutes: My Years with Andy Warhol" detailed her rise in celebrity, and her play "You Are What You Eat" was performed in Czechoslovakia in 1992. She also appeared several Warhol documentaries, including Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol (1990) and Andy Warhol's Factory People (2008).
As a visual artist with political and spiritual overtones, her mixed-media works have been displayed worldwide. She opened an art studio in Nice in 1990, creating a movement called "L'Ultratique," publishing two manifestos in the early 1990's. Her work was included in the Audart exhibition that commemorated the tenth anniversary of Warhol's death.
In 1973, suffering from acute depression, the lilac-haired Ultra Violet had a reawakening after a near-death experience. In the 1980's renounced her excessive lifestyle and became a disciple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which she practiced for the rest of her life. Slowly parting ways from the Factory scene, she, as such, took a more independent focus on her art. A bi-continental resident, Ultra Violet divided her time in later years between her studio in Nice and her penthouse apartment in Manhattan.
Diagnosed with cancer, her last New York exhibition entitled "Ultra Violet: The Studio Recreated" occurred at the Dillon Gallery in Chelsea. A few weeks later, the 78-year-old NYC artist died on June 14, 2014. She was taken back to her homeland and buried in France.- Steve London was born Walter Gragg in St Louis, Missouri. His best-known role was as Agent Jack Rossman on the original The Untouchables (1959), which starred Robert Stack as Eliot Ness. London reprised his role as an Eliot Ness-type sidekick, Detective Lane (with fellow "Untouchables" actors Stack and Bruce Gordon), in 1966 on Lucy the Gun Moll (1966). After this his career waned, and after graduating law school, he practiced law under his birth name.
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Forrest Gardner was born on 27 December 1956. He was an actor, known for Zoobilee Zoo (1986), Angels' Brigade (1979) and Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985). He died on 14 June 2014.- Telangana Sakuntala was born on 9 June 1951 in Maharashtra, India. She was an actress, known for Ganesh (1998), Sankham (2009) and Namo Venkatesa (2010). She died on 14 June 2014 in Kompalli, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
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John Gee was born on 27 October 1927 in East London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Play for Today (1970), The Interview (2012) and The Wednesday Play (1964). He died on 14 June 2014 in London, England, UK.- Gordon van Rooyen was born on 9 August 1925 in South Africa. He was an actor, known for The Gospel According to Matthew (1993), Skin (2008) and Ernest in the Army (1998). He died on 14 June 2014 in South Africa.
- Rodney Thomas was born on 30 March 1973 in Trinity, Texas, USA. He died on 14 June 2014 in Groveton, Texas, USA.
- Avis M. Raasch was born on 12 May 1931 in Wisconsin, USA. Avis M. was a writer, known for Pacific 13 (1956). Avis M. was married to George Robert Louis Worthington. Avis M. died on 14 June 2014 in Alameda, California, USA.
- Robert Lebeck was born on 21 March 1929 in Berlin, Germany. He was married to Cordula. He died on 14 June 2014 in Berlin, Germany.
- Dick Seltzer was an actor, known for Law & Order (1990) and Plastic Migration (2004). He died on 14 June 2014 in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA.
- Nikita Bychenkov was an actor, known for Zhenshchiny na grani (2013) and Shapovalov (2012). He died on 14 June 2014 in Orenburg, Russia.
- Ron Boorne was born on 14 September 1926 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Ron was a writer, known for Festival (1960). Ron died on 14 June 2014 in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada.
- Paolo Sceusan was born on 23 September 1930 in Marineo, Italy. He was an actor, known for Edipeon (1970), Il clan dei due Borsalini (1972) and Women in Cell Block 7 (1973). He died on 14 June 2014 in Pomezia, Italy.
- Stew Birbrower was born on 9 September 1935 in Peekskill, New York, USA. Stew was a director, known for My Man Done Me Wrong (1998). Stew was married to Sylvia Soskel. Stew died on 14 June 2014 in Ventura, California, USA.