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José Calvo was born on 3 March 1916 in Madrid, Spain. He was an actor, known for A Fistful of Dollars (1964), Viridiana (1961) and El gran crucero (1970). He was married to Mercedes Barranco. He died on 16 May 1980 in Los Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.- Editor
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Born in London to an American father--he was the London Bureau Chief for the Associated Press--and an English mother, Kent MacKenzie began his education in the British school system, but finished his high-school education in Bronxville, NY, after his father was finally transferred back to the US.
While spending a summer vacation in a camp in Maine, he struck up a friendship with the camp's craft counselor, who was an Onondaga Indian, and became fascinated with the lives and problems of American Indians. Upon graduating Dartmouth he spent a short stint in the Air Force, and after his discharge decided to try for a film career in Hollywood, arriving there in 1953. He enrolled in the University of Southern California's Cinema Department. His senior film project, "Bunker Hill-1956 (1956), about the lives of residents of a fading Los Angeles neighborhood, was well received and was given a screening at the Edinburgh Film Festival, winning the Silver Award.
He secured a job with Parthenon Pictures, which produced industrial films, and gained experience in virtually all aspects of film production. In 1958 he got a chance to make a film he had always wanted to, about the plight and lives of American Indians. The result was The Exiles (1961), a semi-documentary (not released until 1961) about young Indians living and working in the rundown areas of downtown Los Angeles. Although the film scored good critical reviews it didn't get the kind of distribution it needed. MacKenzie managed to get a few more jobs in the film industry, including making a documentary for producer David L. Wolper and a short for the US Information Agency. He made one more feature, Saturday Morning (1971). He died in 1980 in Marin County, California.- Marin Preda was born on 5 August 1922 in Silistea-Gumesti, Muntenia, Romania. He was a writer, known for Morometii (1987), Impossible Love (1984) and Desfasurarea (1955). He was married to Aurora Cornu, Elena and Eta Vexler. He died on 16 May 1980 in Bucharest, Romania.
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Cornett Wood was born on 12 September 1905 in Indiana, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for Fantasia (1940), Fantasia 2000 (1999) and Why Not Be Beautiful? (1969). He died on 16 May 1980 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.- Writer
- Actor
Walter Schmieding was born on 12 December 1928 in Beuthen, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Bytom, Slaskie, Poland]. He was a writer and actor, known for Aspekte (1965), Der Nobelpreis (1964) and Kulturbilanz der R-Mark-Zeit (1965). He died on 16 May 1980 in Berlin, Germany.- Janina Martini was born on 2 June 1907 in Krakau, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Ja tu rzadze (1939), Szatan z siódmej klasy (1960) and Skrzypki (1949). She died on 16 May 1980 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Editor
- Editorial Department
Leonard Weiner was born on 2 August 1922 in Connecticut, USA. He was an editor, known for Lost in Alaska (1952), Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation (1952) and The Stand at Apache River (1953). He died on 16 May 1980 in Los Angeles, California, USA.