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- Balding, often moustachioed Brooklyn-born Eugene Dynarski was a prolific character actor of Polish ancestry. He moved to California in 1957 after serving in the U.S. Navy and learned his craft at Los Angeles City College, Harbor College and UCLA. Obtaining acting work via renowned casting director Lynn Stalmaster, he first appeared on the screen in 1963, frequently personifying characters of Slavic background with names like Pollick, Barmak, Krodak or Kowalski. He had a particularly good line in villains which he made all the more menacing with his outwardly calm but intense manner. He portrayed Stalin to critical acclaim on the stage in a 1987 production of David Pownall's "Master Class" (as well as providing the dictator's voice for Command & Conquer: Red Alert (1996)). Dynarski made appearances in both Star Trek (1966) and Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), the latter featuring him as a starbase commander. Very much a regular contributor to the science fiction genre, he also played Egghead's henchman Benedict in Batman (1966), donned one of Paul Zastupnevich's monster heads as a sea centaur in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964), played a malevolent prison warden in Land of the Giants (1968) and an ill-fated hunter in The X-Files (1993) who falls victim to a bat-human hybrid monster. Dynarski also had small parts in the Steven Spielberg productions Duel (1971) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). In 1979, he established the Gene Dynarski Theater near Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles which remained in operation until the 1990s. Dynarski retired from screen acting in 2003.
- R.D. Call was an American actor, best known for his roles in films directed by Walter Hill. He was born and raised in Utah and attended the Utah State University and Weber State University. Call moved to Los Angeles in 1976 and began training with Lee Strasberg. His first role was in Barnaby Jones (1973), a TV series directed by Leo Penn.
Call then took roles in the Walter Hill films 48 Hrs. (1982) and Brewster's Millions (1985). Next came At Close Range (1986), opposite Sean Penn, and the Charlie Sheen thriller, No Man's Land (1987). Dennis Hopper cast him in Hopper's thriller, Colors (1988), again opposite Sean Penn. Call would work with both Leo and Sean Penn -- and Martin Sheen -- in Judgment in Berlin (1988).
Towards the end of the 1980s, roles included Michael Mann's L.A. Takedown (1989) -- the original version of Mann's Heat (1995) -- and a cameo appearance in Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July (1989). Call appeared opposite Emilio Estevez and Kiefer Sutherland in Young Guns II (1990) and was back with Sean Penn in State of Grace (1990), conveying a close working relationship with both the Penn and Sheen families.
The mid-1990s were equally kind to Call, with roles in Waterworld (1995) and Walter Hill's Last Man Standing (1996), in which he starred with Bruce Willis. More recent roles include the Sandra Bullock thriller, Murder by Numbers (2002), the Brad Pitt drama, Babel (2006), and the Sean Penn-directed Into the Wild (2007).
Call appeared in numerous TV series, including The X-Files (1993) and Stephen King's Golden Years (1991). - Actor
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Burkhard Driest was born on 28 April 1939 in Stettin, Pomerania, Germany [now Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]. He was an actor and writer, known for Querelle (1982), Annas Mutter (1984) and Cross of Iron (1977). He was married to Bettina and ???. He died on 27 February 2020 in Berlin, Germany.- Actor
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Pawel Królikowski was born on 1 April 1961 in Zdunska Wola, Lódzkie, Poland. He was an actor, known for Twoja twarz brzmi znajomo (2014), Na dobre i na zle (1999) and Pitbull (2005). He was married to Malgorzata Ostrowska-Królikowska. He died on 27 February 2020 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Richard Rodriguez was born on 23 December 1932 in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. He died on 27 February 2020 in Pensacola, Florida, USA.
- Natasha Reddican was a TV producer who died by suicide on 27 February 2020 at the age of 31. Natasha "such impressive potential", died nine months after the ITV show The Jeremy Kyle was axed following the suicide of Steve Dymond, who had appeared on the show as a guest days earlier; the episode was never broadcast.
Reddican's boyfriend and colleague on the show , Mackenzie Hanafan said the circumstances of the program being taken off air were "something that weighed on her mind a lot".
Senior Coroner for Manchester West, Timothy Brennand, said at the inquest into Natasha's death that the motivations for her actions appeared "multi-faceted" but he noted that it had been described to him that her job on The Jeremy Kyle Show was seen as "being a family at work such was the close-knit community of those involved". Mr Brennand continued it was a "tragic and harrowing case" involving a young woman with "such impressive potential. She was a local girl made good with a high work ethic who worked her way up from a modest post to become a producer on a well-known television production." - Alki Zei was born on 15 December 1925 in Athens, Greece. She was a writer, known for O pseftis pappous (2008), To kaplani tis vitrinas (1990) and O barba Mytousis (1966). She was married to Giorgos Sevastikoglou. She died on 27 February 2020 in Athens, Greece.
- Valdir Espinosa was born on 17 October 1947 in Porto Alegre, Brazil. He died on 27 February 2020 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Thomas 'Doc' Boguski was born on 22 April 1961. He was an actor, known for Unbreakable (2000), 12 Monkeys (1995) and Signs (2002). He died on 27 February 2020 in Havertown, Pennsylvania, USA.- Braian Toledo was born on 8 September 1993 in Marcos Paz, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He died on 27 February 2020 in Marcos Paz, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- David Callister was born on 23 March 1935 in Isle of Man, UK. He was an actor, known for Amy (2013). He was married to Ann Popplewell . He died on 27 February 2020 in the UK.