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Rick May was a Canadian-American voice actor, director, theatrical performer and teacher known for voicing the Soldier from Team Fortress 2, Dr. M from Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves and Peppy Hare and Andross from Star Fox 64. He also voiced in Freddi Fish 5 and Age of Empires II. He passed away at Seattle in 2020.- Lois Kelly-Miller was born on 15 October 1917 in Crossroads, Saint Andrew, Jamaica. She was an actress, known for Meet Joe Black (1998). She died on 8 April 2020 in Kingston, Jamaica.
- For a short time, Linda Tripp became a central figure in one of the biggest Presidential scandals in American history, and was cast as one of the villains in a spectacle that had no heroes. She had lived her life in anonymity and returned to it a short time later. Her parents were brought together by World War II. Her father, Albert Carotenuto, was an American soldier stationed in Germany and her mother, Inge, was a German national whose family home was destroyed during Allied bombings. They married in Frankfurt, Germany, and they moved to Whippany, New Jersey, 30 miles from New York City. Her father was a high school math and science teacher and her mother was a homemaker. She was close to her mother but her relationship with her father was testy. He was a stern disciplinarian, despite the best efforts of her mother persuade him to not be so quick with corporal punishment, and she to this day has few happy memories of him. She was larger than most girls and very sensitive about it, feeling homely and unwanted. In high school, she never had any boyfriends or dated. When she was a senior in high school, her mother found out that her father was having an affair with a fellow teacher, and he walked out of the family a short time later. Their divorce in 1968 was bitter, and Tripp herself was angered and humiliated, refusing any relationship with her father and developing a strong dislike for adulterers. After graduation from high school, she enrolled in a secretarial school. In 1971, she fell in love with and married Bruce Tripp, a military officer. She pointedly refused to invite her father to the wedding. She then became a military wife, living on military bases mostly in Europe, and she developed a strong sense of patriotism and civic duty, although she was not political. She became a mother and did secretarial work. In 1990, her own marriage fell apart, but the split was far less bitter than that of her parents and she remained on civil terms with her ex-husband. By this time, she moved to Washington, D.C., and now began to focus on her career. In April of 1990, she got a non-political secretarial job in the White House, and she found the career to be significant and exciting. Tripp quickly became known for her intelligence and diligence, and she was respected by her colleagues. She thought highly of President George Bush and found his staff to be both friendly and professional. In 1993, Bill Clinton became President and the change in the White House was felt immediately. She found Clinton's appointees to be crude and unprofessional, and she also claimed that many were also dishonest. She became friends with Gary Aldrich, an FBI agent who did security background checks for White Hosue employees, and they often exchanged stories about the bad behavior of the new co-workers they were forced to deal with. But Tripp's job performance remained stellar and she was promoted to Special Assistant to the Counsel to the President. In that capacity, she worked closely with Bernard Nussbaum and Vincent Foster, and in the process, she became privy to a number of White House scandals. On July 20, 1993, she was the last person to see Foster alive, and his suicide deeply shook her. She was also horrified at how the Clinton's staff acted in the wake of his death, and she began to wonder if they had something major to hide. In August of 1994, she was transferred from the White House to become Public Affairs officer at the Department of Defense and received a substantial raise in the process. However, this did nothing to curtail her disillusionment with the Clinton Administration and her belief that they routinely lied to the public and skirted the law. In the process, she became acquainted with literary agent Lucianne Goldberg, and was considering a book deal, but it eventually fizzled out. However, they remained friendly and occasionally chatted. In 1996, Aldrich published a book called "Unlimited Access", which featured many allegations against the Clinton staff, and Tripp was suspected of being one of his anonymous sources. That same year, she became friendly with a co-worker and former White House intern named Monica Lewinsky, whom she was fond of but regarded as high-strung and immature. She had been friendly with a number of young female employees, often giving them advice and sharing gossip with them. But Lewinski revealed that she and Clinton had had been in a sexual relationship which had ended badly, leaving her distraught. This immediately got Tripp's full attention. The turning point came in August of 1997, when she was interviewed about charges by Kathleen Willey that the President had groped and propositioned her. Tripp had been friendly with Willey at the White House and in fact saw Willey as she fled from Clinton, and she told the reporter that Willey was flustered and disheveled. In response, Robert Bennett, the President's lawyer, stated that "Linda Tripp is not to be believed," which infuriated her. She also became alarmed and contacted Goldberg. Willey had become a witness in a sexual harassment suit against Clinton by Paula Jones, a former Arkansas state employee, and Tripp suspected she would be contacted by Jones' lawyers. During those conversations, she told Goldberg about Lewinski's failed affair with Clinton. During these chats, Goldberg suggested that Tripp start taping her conversations with Lewinski to protect herself. Although initially reluctant, Tripp agreed to do so, and also promised to keep Goldberg up on the major points. So over the next year, Tripp got Lewinski to reveal details of her relationship with Clinton on the telephone and secretly tape-recorded the conversations. Ultimately, Jones' lawyers learned of Lewinski and subpoenaed her to testify, which frightened her. She began to ask Tripp to lie. Also, Lewinski revealed that she was in contact with the White House, and Tripp became convinced that Clinton was leaning on Lewinski to commit perjury. Eventually, she came in contact with the office of Independent Counsel Ken Starr, who had been investigating Clinton's involvement in a series of financial scandals collectively known as Whitewater. In January of 1998, she turned over the tapes of Lewinski to Starr's office. The resulting scandal made headlines around the world and Tripp was thrust into the limelight. She was vilified as a backstabbing, fair-weather friend, and also her size and weight were ridiculed. It was a very difficult time for her, and she mostly kept as low a profile as she could. The scandal dominated the American news for the entire year, and in December of 1998, Clinton was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives. He was not removed by the U.S. Senate, but the ordeal left the entire nation exhausted. Afterwards, Tripp agreed to a few interviews, but was disenchanted with the news media. In 2000, she was fired from her job at the Pentagon, and took early retirement. She got some cosmetic surgery and lost some weight. Also, she filed a lawsuit against the government for illegally leaking her security background file to the press, and in 2003, she won a settlement. In 2004, she remarried an German-born architect whom she had been friends with for many years. They subsequently opened a German-themed restaurant and gift shop which has proved to be popular.
On April 8, 2020, Tripp died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 70, Her husband and adult children were with her on her death bed. - Writer
- Producer
- Actor
Michael C. McCarthy was born on 15 February 1959 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Big News TV (2010), Saturday Night Live (1975) and The Drew Carey Show (1995). He died on 8 April 2020 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.- Victor A. Young was born on 9 June 1947 in Two Hills, Alberta, Canada. He was an actor, known for Serendipity (2001), Bait (2000) and Four Brothers (2005). He was married to Jayne Lewis. He died on 8 April 2020 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Madeleine Fischer was born on 12 November 1935 in Romanshorn, Thurgau, Switzerland. She was an actress, known for The Girlfriends (1955), L'ultima canzone (1960) and Lazzarella (1957). She died on 8 April 2020 in Gubbio, Umbria, Perugia, Italy.
- Jennie Zeidman died on 8 April 2020 in the USA.
- Meg Hogarth was born on 5 June 1935 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was an actress, known for American Playhouse (1980), The Big Town (1987) and Lost Girl (2010). She was married to Franklyn John Charles Griffiths. She died on 8 April 2020 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- During World War II and its aftermath, Joel Kupperman was one of the most famous children in the country, and also one of the most loathed.
From 6 to 16, Joel was a star on "The Quiz Kids," a popular radio program that later migrated to television. He captivated Marlene Dietrich and Orson Welles by performing complex math problems, joked with Jack Benny and Bob Hope, charmed Eleanor Roosevelt and Henry Ford. He played himself in a movie ("Chip Off the Old Block," in 1944), addressed the United Nations and was held up as an exemplar of braininess to a generation of children. - Actor
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Glenn Fredly was born on 30 September 1975 in Jakarta, Indonesia. He was an actor and producer, known for We Are Moluccans (2014), Letters from Prague (2016) and Filosofi Kopi (2015). He was married to Mutia Ayu and Dewi Sandra. He died on 8 April 2020 in Jakarta, Indonesia.- Actress
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Mary Lou Anderson was born on 22 June 1929, to John and Mary McCullough in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Anderson discovered a love for entertaining through her grandmother who would paint faces on fruits and vegetables to create characters for storytelling. Friends and family in Cleveland, and eventually Webster Groves, Missour. Her first paid professional job was in 1947 at Famous Barr department store in St. Louis, Missouri. She was hired as a standup comedian for entertainment before fashion shows in which she would wander onto the runway and pretend to be a model having issues with her clothing. Her ambition to be a standup comedian took her to Dennison University where she studied theater alongside Hal Holbrook and Frank Cover.
After college she married William (Bill) Anderson whose service in the Air Force led them to Tripoli, Libya. There she created her first television show, Gracie the Good Witch, on the base TV station. After moving to Kansas City in the late 1960's, she put an assortment of her handmade fruit and vegetable characters in a plastic bag and pitched to Bob Wormington, general manager of Channel 41, an idea for a children's live TV show. Throughout the 70's and early 80's, 41 Tree House Lane with Mother Nature, was a popular TV show for kids in the greater Kansas City metropolitan area which focused on local guests and audience participation.
Mother Nature and her puppets, Hairy Arms, Squeegee the bookworm, Ribbit the frog, Smarty Pants the toilet Brush, Monica Mushroom, Prudence Sprinkle Pot, Anna Banana, Whiney Piney the pineapple, Glorious Gloria the Good Witch, and many others who were as popular as any other celebrity in town.
She used her puppetry to reach children on their own level. While her TV show lasted 14 years, schools and day cares, along with their teachers, throughout Kansas City enjoyed live shows for over thirty years. Mary Lou taught puppetry in the Creative Arts Center of the Nelson Gallery and performed on numerous local stages presenting original puppet productions. At age 84 she self-published a book of poetry on the subject of aging entitled Two Hairs Talking on an Old Head. Well into her late 80's, on weekends during summer months, she performed puppet shows at the River Market. With an audience in front of her she never slowed down. For her last Halloween at age 90 she dressed up as a good witch reading fortunes from an old football to residents in the memory care unit of her nursing home.- Country/rockabilly singer Carl Dobkins Jr. was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1941 to a family of musicians who moved to Cincinnati from the Appalachians. His father gave him a ukulele when he was nine years old. He not only learned to play that instrument but afterwards took up the guitar, and by high school he was writing and performing his own songs and eventually cut a few demo records. Local record producer/manager Gil Sheppard heard them and, after meeting with Dobkins, took him on as a client. Dobkins cut a record for local Cincinnati label Fraternity Records (also home to guitarist Lonnie Mack), but it went nowhere. Sheppard then signed Carl to King Records--a much larger label and home to such stars as James Brown and Hank Ballard--and Dobkins cut a record there, but before it could be released Sheppard sold the master to the national label Decca Records. The song, "If You Don't Want My Lovin'", became a regional hit, though it didn't chart nationally. Nevertheless, Decca thought it had a hot prospect in Dobkins and his next record was his breakout one--"My Heart Is an Open Book", which shot to #3 on the Billboard charts in 1959. Dobkins made several appearances on Dick Clark's iconic teen dance show American Bandstand (1952) (he made a total of 14 appearances on the show over the years) promoting the record. He went on a national tour and his follow-up songs, while not reaching the heights that "Open Book" did, sold respectably.
His subsequent career, while not spectacular, was nonetheless solid and he toured with some of the biggest names in rock--Bobby Rydell, Freddie Cannon, Frankie Avalon among them--and, though he is semi-retired, still makes occasional appearances. - Ken Kane was born on 24 March 1924 in the USA. He was an actor, known for Here Come the Brides (1968), The Second Hundred Years (1967) and The Farmer's Daughter (1963). He died on 8 April 2020.
- Ida Schuster was born on 28 September 1918 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. She was an actress, known for Death Watch (1980), The Revenue Men (1967) and Living Apart Together (1982). She was married to Allan Berkeley. She died on 8 April 2020 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
- Carlo Giordana was an actor, known for Una voglia da morire (1965), Fellini Satyricon (1969) and Nel sole (1967). He died on 8 April 2020.
- Chynna Rogers was born on 19 August 1994 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for Chynna: Glen Coco (2014). She died on 8 April 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Charles Gregory Ross was born on 7 March 1952 in the USA. Charles Gregory is known for Escape Plan 2: Hades (2018), The Hunting Party (2007) and Black Dynamite (2009). Charles Gregory died on 8 April 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.- Director
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Douglas Wilcox was born on 19 March 1947 in the UK. Douglas was a director and producer, known for The Book Tower (1979), Rosie & Jim (1990) and The Old Man of the Mountain (1989). Douglas died on 8 April 2020 in the UK.- Wolfram A. Guenther was born on 7 July 1929 in Dresden, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Lite Trap (1982), Wie ich ein Neger wurde (1970) and Dr. Fummel und seine Gespielinnen (1970). He died on 8 April 2020 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
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- Art Department
Jiggs Walker was an actor, known for The Manchurian Candidate (2004), Philadelphia (1993) and Something Wild (1986). He died on 8 April 2020.- Director
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David Kocharyan was born on 13 January 1941 in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, USSR. He was a director and actor, known for Znak Vechnosti (1978), Sud (1967) and Aktrisa (1943). He died on 8 April 2020.- Music Department
- Actor
Bill Solley was born in 1931 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for Never Alone (2019), Ray (2004) and The Dead Guy's Son (2005). He died on 8 April 2020.- Music Department
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- Soundtrack
Peter Ecklund was born on 27 September 1945 in Woodbridge, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor, known for Everyone Says I Love You (1996), The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001) and Eight Men Out (1988). He died on 8 April 2020 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.- Soundtrack
Andrzej Adamiak was born on 28 February 1960 in Poland. He died on 8 April 2020 in Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland.- Aubrey Burl was born on 24 September 1926 in London, England, UK. He was married to Margaret Mary O'Neil, Olwen Hughes and Judith Lawson. He died on 8 April 2020 in the UK.
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Sandy Langdale was born on 1 October 1944 in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK. Sandy is known for Legend (1985), Sword of the Valiant (1984) and American Playhouse (1980). Sandy was married to Tony Coroon. Sandy died on 8 April 2020 in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK.- Norah Gibbons was born on 6 June 1952 in Ireland. She was married to Sean . She died on 8 April 2020 in Dublin, Ireland.
- Pat Stapleton was born on 4 July 1940 in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for Osobennosti natsionalnogo khokkeya (2007), 1971 Stanley Cup Finals (1971) and 1967 NHL All-Star Game (1967). He was married to Jackie . He died on 8 April 2020 in Strathroy, Ontario, Canada.
- Henri Madelin was born on 6 April 1936 in Guebwiller, Haut-Rhin, France. He died on 8 April 2020 in Lille, Nord, France.
- Nicos Kyriacou was an actor, known for Brum (1991) and Calling All Toddlers 2 (2002). He died on 8 April 2020 in the UK.
- John Downing was born on 17 April 1940 in West Glamorgan, Wales, UK. He died on 8 April 2020 in England, UK.