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Todd Karns was born on 15 January 1921 in Hollywood, California, USA. He was an actor, known for It's a Wonderful Life (1946), Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941) and The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942). He was married to Katherine Julia Flaten. He died on 5 February 2000 in Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico.- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Vicente Fernández was born on 17 February 1940 in Huentitán El Alto, Jalisco, Mexico. He was an actor and producer, known for La ley del monte (1976), El Arracadas (1978) and Matar o morir (1984). He was married to María del Refugio Abarca Villaseñor. He died on 12 December 2021 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.- Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
A stage actor, Archie Mayo went to Hollywood in 1915 and worked until his retirement in 1946. He began directing slapstick two-reelers, later making features at Warner Bros. just about the time sound was being introduced into films. He did much work for Warners, but he also made films at Goldwyn and 20th Century-Fox. During the 1940s he became somewhat of a tyrant on the set and fought constantly with stars; the heavyset Mayo was referred to by one particular star as a "fat slob". He left the business for 12 years and returned as a producer in 1958.- Producer
- Actor
- Production Manager
Ash Christian was an Emmy Award-winning producer, director, and actor, with more than 15 feature films and television series to his credit.
Most recently, he produced the SXSW hit film 1985 (2018), which was released. Ash recently produced the thriller Burn (2019), released by eOne in 2019. He also executive produced After Everything (2018) (written and directed by Hannah Marks and Joey Power), which premiered at SXSW. Other productions include Southern Pride (2018), Little Sister (2016), Miles (2016), Hello Again (2017), Coin Heist (2017), Stranger in the House (2015), Petunia (2012), Mangus! (2011), Addiction: A 60's Love Story (2015), Nate & Margaret (2012), and Fat Girls (2006). In 2019, Coyote Lake (2019), was released. Other films released in 2019 included Kindred Spirits (2019) (directed by Lucky McKee) and Milkwater (2020). In 2018, he produced Social Animals (2018), which will be released in theaters from Paramount Pictures. He also produced Hurricane Bianca: From Russia with Hate (2018) (the sequel to Hurricane Bianca (2016)), released theatrically in 2018.
Through his company, Cranium Entertainment, he is developing several feature film projects. Titles include "Untitled Timothy McVeigh Project" (directed by Mike Ott), "As Sick As They Made Us" (directed by Mayim Bialik), "Platonic" (directed by Cameron Fay and written by Sono Patel), and "Nightfall" (written and directed by Addison McQuigg).
Ash Christian died on August 13, 2020, aged 35, in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.- Music Department
- Composer
- Sound Department
Of Hungarian ancestry, the son of film composer George Steiner followed in his father's footsteps. A child prodigy, he played the piano by the age of six and cello at thirteen. Growing up in Manhattan, Fred immersed himself in his father's vast collection of records, which included a great deal of orchestral and chamber music. Highly motivated to study composition and playing two instruments, he soon earned himself a scholarship. By the age of twenty, he graduated with a degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio, and, in later years, added a PhD from USC to his resume for writing a dissertation on the legendary film composer Alfred Newman. Straight out of college, Fred began writing and arranging scores for several New York-based radio broadcasts, including "Suspense" and "CBS Radio Workshop". He also scored wartime propaganda shorts, selling war bonds. Another popular show, for which he composed and conducted, was "This Is Your FBI", a semi-documentary production based on actual case files and often narrated by movie personalities, like Richard Widmark, Jack Lemmon and Jeff Chandler.
From 1947, Steiner (who was not related to the legendary Max) spent time in Hollywood, working as arranger, conductor and (often uncredited) composer. His first solo motion picture effort and personal favourite among his scores, Run for the Sun (1956), came about via a recommendation from his good friend Bernard Herrmann. Though he later shared an Academy Award nomination for adaptation/orchestration of The Color Purple (1985), Fred reserved his best work for the small screen. One of the most prolific of television composers, he contributed to numerous episodes of popular series, ranging across diverse genres, from Gunsmoke (1955) to Hogan's Heroes (1965); from The Twilight Zone (1959) to Hawaii Five-O (1968). He was singularly adept at suiting his music to a particular dramatic situation or conveying specific emotions to a certain scene, as, for example, in his use of violins and harp in the Rachmaninoff-inspired score for the "Twilight Zone" episode "The Passersby".
One of Steiner's most fondly remembered compositions is the jazzy "Park Avenue Beat", which served as the theme for the long-running courtroom drama series Perry Mason (1957), conceived to represent a combination of 'sophistication and toughness'. In stark contrast, he provided a more light-hearted musical approach to his score of the animated cult favorite The Bullwinkle Show (1959). His affinity for animation can be traced back to his father, who wrote music for many of the early classic cartoons, such as the "Betty Boop" series and Terrytoons productions, almost always working from home.
Fred Steiner also made a lasting impact on fans of Star Trek (1966), composing music for several episodes, of which "The Corbomite Maneuver" and "Balance of Terror" are often considered among the best of the original series. In an interview (recorded in Santa Fe on June 25, 2003), he recalled that Gene Roddenberry had made it clear to him from the beginning, that he didn't want "poops and peeps music", but "Captain Blood in space"!
Between 1958 and 1960, Steiner worked in Mexico, compiling and archiving Latin American music for government-sponsored television documentaries. He grew to admire the local traditional culture and was in later years drawn back to spend his twilight years there. He also continued his life-long interest in musicology, co-founding the Film Music Society, lecturing in composition at USC and regularly contributing to a number of musical publications (authoring analyses of classic film scores, such as King Kong (1933) and The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)).- Billy Wayne was born on 12 February 1897 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He was an actor, known for The Jackie Robinson Story (1950), Air Devils (1938) and The Luckiest Girl in the World (1936). He died on 12 June 1970 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
- Gregorio Casal was born on 13 July 1935 in San Miguel el Alto, Jalisco, Mexico. He was an actor and director, known for Chanoc en las garras de las fieras (1970), Chanoc contra el tigre y el vampiro (1972) and Mercenarios de la muerte (1983). He died on 25 April 2018 in Tepatitlán, Jalisco, Mexico.
- Actress
- Writer
Bárbara Gil was born on 27 March 1928 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. She was an actress and writer, known for The Outsider (2001), La tigresa (1973) and Señoritas a disgusto (1989). She was married to Miguel Córcega. She died on 11 September 2015 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.- Lefty SM was an actor, known for Dharius x Lefty SM: Solita (2023) and SmokeCast (2022). He was married to Maria Isabel. He died on 2 September 2023 in Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico.
- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Lyricist ("When I Fall in Love," "Body and Soul"), author and producer, educated at the University of Michigan. He wrote college musicals, then Broadway musicals, including "Here Goes the Bride," "Through the Years," "Murder at the Vanities," and "Pardon Our French," plus "Bluebird of Happiness" for Radio City Music Hall. Coming to Hollywood in 1938, he wrote songs for films until joining the US Air Force during World War II, where he wrote the musical "At Your Service." By 1954 and into 1961, he produced for The Players, a Mexico City English-speaking theater group. Joining ASCAP in 1931, his chief musical collaborators included Arthur Schwartz, Vincent Youmans, Victor Young, Morton Gould, Dana Suesse, Nacio Herb Brown, James Van Heusen, Johnny Green, Ray Henderson, Oscar Levant, Richard Myers, Sigmund Romberg, and Rudolf Friml. His other popular-song lyrics include "Blue Star," "Out of Nowhere," "I Cover the Waterfront," "Hello, My Lover, Goodbye," "Drums in My Heart," "Through the Years," "Kinda Like You," "You're Everywhere," "My Silent Love," "You're Mine, You," "I Wanna Be Loved," "Blame It on My Youth," "To Love You and To Lose You," "It's High Time I Got the Low-Down on You," "Carefree" (theme of the Chesterfield Hour), "Moonburn," "You Oughta Be in Pictures," "Bluebird of Happiness," "Easy Come, Easy Go," "Love and Learn," "Seal It With a Kiss," "Boo-Hoo," "They Say," "Have You Forgotten So Soon?," "The Sky Fell Down," "Love Letters," "Strange Love," "If I Could Steal a Kiss," "No More Shadows," "All Yours," and "The More I See of Lisa." When he was not writing a song lyric, he and his partner Lou LaFrance enjoyed renovating old houses and reselling them.- Actor
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Ernesto Hill Olvera was born on 22 December 1936 in Mezquital del Oro, Zacatecas, Mexico. He was an actor, known for Teatro del crimen (1957), Música de siempre (1958) and Besos prohibidos (1956). He was married to María González. He died on 10 March 1967 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Hermosillo was one of the most successful Mexican directors. Born in Aguascalientes, a small city in central Mexico, Hermosillo's films dissected the hypocrisy of Mexican middle class and "torn the curtain" behind which many perversities are hidden. He became an important figure in Mexican contemporary cinema, and was known for treating themes of sexual diversity from a personal approach. One of the few openly gay Mexican directors, Hermosillo found great success with Doña Herlinda y su hijo (1985), a comedy about a mother of a gay doctor who manipulates her son, his male lover and his fiancée to fulfill her desire of becoming a grandmother. Homosexual themes in Hermosillo's films can be found in Matinee, El Cumpleaños del Perro, and Las apariencias engañan (1978). Hermosillo was also an explorer of film language. La Tarea is one of the most complex exercises in film style in recent years (the film consists of one long shot, from the POV of a camcorder). Hermosillo's films presented a fresh look at Mexican society. A strong advocate of digital cinema, he made ten feature films in this format.- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Jesús González Leal was born in 1934 in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. He was an actor and director, known for Man on Fire (2004), El pícaro norteño (1990) and El pájaro muerto (1988). He died on 20 August 2000 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.- Writer
- Composer
- Music Department
Ernesto Cortázar was born on 10 December 1897 in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico. He was a writer and composer, known for En cada puerto un amor (1949), Noches de ronda (1943) and La muerte enamorada (1951). He died on 30 November 1953 in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, Mexico.- Actor
- Additional Crew
Milan Melvin was born on 16 September 1942 in Richmond, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Caveman (1981), Queensrÿche: Video Mindcrime (1989) and The Life and Times of the Red Dog Saloon (1996). He was married to Georgeanne Edgar, Bonnie Bales, Mimi Fariña, Sherrill Williams and Zella Earle. He died on 6 October 2001 in El Tuito, Jalisco, Mexico.- Pedro Galván was born on 17 January 1911 in Mexico D.F., Mexico. He was an actor, known for The Wild Bunch (1969), Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) and The Big Cube (1968). He was married to Charlotta Kraus and Guadalupe Arce. He died on 6 April 1986 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
- Joaquín Roche hijo was born on 5 October 1939 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was an actor, known for Las abandonadas (1945), Marejada (1952) and La mujer que engañamos (1945). He was married to Rosalba Garcia. He died on 13 September 1984 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
- Juan Sedillo was born on 14 February 1902 in Socorro, New Mexico, USA. He was an actor, known for The Girl from Havana (1929). He was married to Countess Eva Knuth. He died in November 1980 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
- Jorge Berry was born on 21 March 1951 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He died on 13 July 2023 in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Susana Cora was born on 24 May 1919 in Mexico D.F., Mexico. She was an actress, known for Una aventura en la noche (1948), The Brainiac (1962) and Jesusita en Chihuahua (1942). She was married to Charles Eugene Hill Reed and Bernabé Jurado Ángel. She died on 17 August 1988 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.- Harrington Reynolds was born on 25 October 1886 in Cheshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Two Sinners (1935), Old English (1930) and Ride 'em, Cowgirl (1939). He died on 24 November 1961 in Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico.
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Actor
Pat Blymyer was born on 20 May 1938 in Beckley, West Virginia, USA. He was an actor, known for Star Trek: First Contact (1996), Virtuosity (1995) and Star Trek: Insurrection (1998). He was married to Sugar Blymyer. He died on 5 January 2009 in Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico.- Cashetta - The Queen of magic was born Scott Weston in Paterson, New Jersey. Growing up near Manhattan, and attending summer camp at Stage Door Manor in Loch Sheldrake, NY, he had no other desire but to be in show business.
His lifelong dream was to have his own show in Vegas. His dream came to fruition. He had always expected to be on Broadway, but after a few auditions and experiencing the reality of it, the idea became less desirable. While he continued to make the rounds and hone his skills,
He tried a string of hopeless professions from advertising to automobile sales but held fast to his dream of becoming a professional entertainer. In the mid-'90s, he got his big break landed a job working at Lips, a Manhattan restaurant that featured drag entertainment. He became a female impersonator, a stand-up comedian and a jazz singer.
Always interested in magic, Scott spent a summer in Las Vegas working as a makeup artist and attending magic shows and studying the magicians. When he returned to New York he began studying magic himself, and three months later landed a gig at the Fez jazz club in NYC as a drag magician.
H/She's been featured on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Today Show, Outlaugh Festival-Wisecrack on Logo with Margaret Cho and Law and Order among many others. He also starred in "Magic's a Drag" at the Harmon Theater in Las Vegas. - María Eugenia Llamas was born on 19 February 1944 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. She was an actress, known for Los niños miran al cielo (1950), Los tres huastecos (1948) and Cazador de asesinos (1983). She died on 31 August 2014 in Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico.
- Luis Barba was born on 7 January 1947 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. He was an actor, known for Santo vs. the She-Wolves (1976), El asesino enmascarado (1970) and Tambo (1990). He died on 7 March 2017 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.