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She was born Lelia Vita Goldoni in New York City, of Sicilian ancestry, the daughter of an actor. After her family relocated to California, she spent her upbringing in Los Angeles and eventually attended L.A. City College to study Italian, English literature and psychology. After hours, she performed with the Lester Horton troupe of interpretive dancers. Aged nineteen, she moved back to New York to study drama at a workshop run by John Cassavetes and Burton Lane on West Forty-Sixth Street in Manhattan. Cassavetes gave Goldoni her first break by casting her in his independently produced avant-garde racial drama Shadows (1958) as the youngest of three African-American siblings living in a cramped New York apartment. The film focused on their various relationships, on human rather than racial issues. According to Ray Carney in his book 'The Films of John Cassavetes: Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies', "Cassavetes was opposed to the notion of art having a negative or satiric agenda, and to works that mocked or denigrated their characters." Carney further asserts that Goldoni "steals most of the scenes in which she appears, not only because her part is so much more emotionally expressive than anyone else's, but because Lelia Goldoni...is brilliantly able to use her face, voice and body to express the smallest flicker of feeling".
Goldoni received the first of her two BAFTA nominations for her role in Shadows. Her unaffected appearance in the picture also set the tone for her future look in subsequent roles. In her own words: "When you do not have regular features you must make the most of your individuality... I like a pale look with the accent on my eyes".
Her next appearance was in an episode of Johnny Staccato (1959), which starred Cassavetes as a jazz piano-playing private detective. Sandwiched in between TV guest spots (and based in Britain for some years) Goldoni headlined as a murderess in the Hammer-produced thriller Hysteria (1965) and then enjoyed a notably animated role pivotal to the gothic drama Theatre of Death (1967), starring opposite horror icon Christopher Lee. Upon her return to the U.S. in 1973, she played Ellen Burstyn's best friend Bea in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) (her second BAFTA nominated performance) and the girlfriend of tough-talking Abe Kusich (Billy Barty) in The Day of the Locust (1975), a bitter satire about failed aspirations in 1930s Hollywood. In the remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Goldoni played one of the alien infectees, duplicated as 'a pod person'. She was also a frequent guest star in episodic television, often in crime dramas like Vega$ (1978), Cagney & Lacey (1981), The New Mike Hammer (1984), L.A. Law (1986) and Cold Case (2003).
A lifelong alumnus of The Actor's Studio, Goldoni later taught acting technique at several institutions, including UCLA and the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. As to her own role models, she admitted to being a big fan of actor Stanley Tucci. Goldoni died at the age of 86 at The Actor's Fund Home in Englewood, New Jersey, on July 22 2023.- Actor
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Arthur Rubin was born on 16 June 1926 in the USA. He was an actor, known for Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), The Producers (1967) and Crossing Delancey (1988). He died on 22 July 2023 in the USA.- Actor
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Vince Hill was born on 16 April 1934 in Coventry, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Long Duel (1967), Some May Live (1967) and Coronation Street (1960). He was married to Annie Davison. He died on 22 July 2023 in Henley, Berkshire, England, UK.- Director
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- Production Designer
Ian Emes is a British film director, animator, artist, writer and pioneer of experimental film techniques, famous for his work with Pink Floyd. His career spans animation and live-action, drawing being at the core of his practice. He has won numerous awards including three BAFTAS and an Oscar Nomination.
Emes was born in Handsworth, Birmingham in 1949. His father Ronald Walter Emes MBE was a Navy gunner, Head of the West Midlands Police Federation and Manager of the British Olympic Canoe Team. Emes' daughter Olivia is a film director.
Emes cites his first visual influences to be glorious colour comics of the 50's such as 'The Eagle' and 'Boys World', and 'Flash Gordon' films shown at 'Saturday Morning Minors' at Odeon cinemas.
Education: West of England College of Art 1967. Arriving in Bristol aged 18, Emes was exposed to the LSD culture of the time and deeply influenced by psychedelic imagery and music, namely Jimmi Hendrix and Pink Floyd.
Birmingham College of Art 1968 - 1969. (First Class Honours Degree in Painting and Sculpture). Citing to have had 'fifteen years of amazing, free education under practicing artists' - attributable to Harold Wilson's Labour government' - Emes worked across the mediums of drawing, painting, sculpture, kinetic art, light shows, photography and film. He also studied art history, specialising in Surrealism and the Dadaist movement. He supplemented his living costs by painting murals in night clubs and performing 'liquid light shows'.
Experimental Workshop 1970 - 1971. Emes was given free reign, making 8mm films with hand-built sets and models ('Corridors', 'The Death of Mr Blitz') under the tutorage of artist Roger Westwood. Emes would screen his films accompanied by Pink Floyd music, in particular 'Ummagumma'.
Birmingham Polytechnic 1972 - 1973. (First Class Honours Degree in Graphic Design). Rejected by the Royal College of Art School of Film and Television on the basis that his films were 'too much like sculpture', Emes was offered a place at the new animation department which was well-equipped but to which no teaching staff been assigned. Emes had no interest in animation until seeing two films - the rotoscoped 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' sequence in 'Yellow Submarine' and the Slit-Scan sequence in '2001 a Space Odyssey'. Realising that he could short-cut the labour-intensive process of animation by rotoscoping live-action, Emes made his first animation experiments.
Emes envisioned his first musical animation one night at a party: 'There was so much dope smoke in the room I was passive-stoned just standing there. Someone put on 'One of These Days' from Pink Floyd's 'Meddle' album and I pictured the whole thing, right in front of me. I rushed home to draw the storyboard'. Emes spent the next 6 months hand-drawing and shooting the film, titled 'French Windows'. Learning the principles of animation through trial and error, Emes first filmed then rotoscoped figures set against cyclic perspective backgrounds, synchronised to 'One of These Days'.
In 1972 the film was screened on BBC'S 'The Old Grey Whistle Test', and seen by Rick Wright, who brought it to the attention of the other members of the band. The following day Emes 'got the call' from Pink Floyd's manager, Steve O'Rourke.
'French Windows' is the first animated film to be set to Pink Floyd music, and the first film to be synchronised precisely to one of their tracks. Working with Emes marked a departure for Pink Floyd, who previously had only used lighting effects during their performances. Upon meeting Emes, the band saw the next step towards expanding their concert experience, by projecting synchronised 35MM film onto a gigantic circular screen (dubbed Mr. Screen) as they performed. The band commissioned Emes to produce a sequence of flying clocks for the track 'Time' from 'The Dark Side of the Moon'. Renting a small studio in London's Soho, Emes animated the now world-famous 'Time' sequence, subsequently named 'The Emes Clocks'.
Following the enthusiastic reception to 'Time' during Floyd's performance at Wembley Arena in 1974, the band commissioned Emes to animate the entire album. While they were in Italy filming 'Live at Pompeii', Emes set about creating his animated vision of 'The Dark Side of the Moon'. He created storyboards for the entire album but in the three month period he was given to produce the film he was only able to deliver sequences for 'Speak To Me', (which included animation of the iconic prism) 'On the Run' and 'Us and Them'.
'The Dark 'Side of the Moon' is regarded as one of the greatest albums of all time. The 'Emes Clocks' sequence has been seen by millions across the world. In 2017 Roger Waters projected the re-digitised 'Time' animation onto vast screens during his 'Us and Them' World Tour. The concept of time is a recurring theme in Emes' work.
Emes produced tests for 'Marching Crosses' which were later adapted for 'The Wall'. Emes' animation became a founding style for future Pink Floyd visuals, evident in Roger Waters' concert projections.
In July 1990 Emes directed sequences for Roger Waters' 'The Wall - Live in Berlin', starring Marianne Faithfull, Ute Lemper and Rupert Everett. 'An army of roadies hoisted a 35MM projector onto a truck and we drove into an abandoned East Berlin where we projected the Marching Hammers onto the remains of the Berlin Wall, while escorted by East German Police'. The concert was performed to a sell-out crowd of over 350,000 people, then the biggest rock concert audience in history.
In 2018 Emes' work was celebrated in the record-breaking 'Pink Floyd - Their Mortal Remains' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum. The exhibition continues to tour the world. Emes' 54 minute visualisation of Pink Floyd's ultimate album 'The Endless River' is set for release on December 13th 2019. Following the success of 'The Dark Side of the Moon' animations, Emes was invited to work with numerous other musicians, notable amongst them Paul and Linda McCartney, The Who, The Mission, Duran Duran and Mike Oldfield, with whom he became friends.
'Tubular Bells' and 'Incantations' for Mike Oldfield - 1974. Having seen 'The Dark Side of the Moon' concert, the introverted genius called Emes and asked him to visit him at his isolated mansion in Gloucestershire to discuss animation for his concerts. Emes created a series of 'perpetual cycles' inspired by the works of one of his favourite artists M.C. Escher.
'The Oriental Nightfish' - 1978 for Paul and Linda McCartney. (Palme d'Or Nomination Cannes Film Festival 1978). A precursor of digital animation, it was Emes' most technically advanced animation. The film was included in the release of 'Rupert and the Frog Song' but later removed on the basis that it was too frightening for children. Martin Rosen asked Emes to animate the 'Bright Eyes' sequence on the 'Watership Down' animated feature but he was too busy completing 'The Oriental Nightfish' to accept.
The same year Emes travelled to Paris to meet with Jean-Michel Jarre and his wife Charlotte Rampling to discuss an animated version of 'Oxygene', which Emes had storyboarded. 'The Beard' 1979 - Tired of the labour-intensive, airbrushed techniques of the 'Oriental Nightfish' Emes opted for a simpler approach - BFI: 'Best known for his clean-lined visuals Emes uses an appropriately scratchier look in this bizarre short. Produced directly on paper with ink-pen over many months, as the film progresses in ever wilder fashion it seems the protagonist's relationship with the beard may not be dissimilar to that of the artist and his film'. (Nomination Berlin Film Festival).
In 1979, while working on 'The Beard', Emes, Mike Oldfield and Richard Branson visited the set of Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining' at Elstree Studies. Unable to gain access, they sneaked behind the set and watched Jack Nicholson performing the ball-throwing scene in the Overlook Hotel lobby. Shortly afterwards, Emes delivered his film 'The Beard' to Kubrick's home, in the hope that he would screen it with 'The Shining'. Emes heard nothing from Kubrick, but noted a similarity between Nicholson's axe sequence and the axe sequence in his own animated short. In 1980 Campaign Magazine cited Emes to be 'Britain's foremost animator'. The same year his achievements were celebrated in a Retrospective at the National Film Theatre. By the early eighties Emes' Camden studio had become world famous for its ground-breaking visuals.
That year Emes advised Gerald Scarfe and Roger Waters on the production of animation for 'The Wall'. Several members of Emes' animation team worked on the production, and some of Emes' signature style images evolved into the film such as the 'Falling Man' and the 'Marching Hammers'.
In 1981 Emes was asked to animate a sequence for the 'Heavy Metal' feature film and had to decline due to his numerous projects in production, including a test sequence for an animated horror film 'Hyde' using back-painted Kodalith sheets as used in Steve Lisberger's 'Tron'. 'The Chauffeur' - 1982 for Duran Duran. Russell Mulcahy introduced Emes to the band who asked him to produce an 'erotic animation' for their 'Girls on Film' compilation. It was shot on 35MM black and white Ilford film by the esteemed DOP Gilbert Taylor B.S.C. the footage primarily intended for rotoscoping into animation. Taylor's photography was so beautiful that the band decided to abandon the animation and keep it as live-action. The final sequence features Peri Lister, then partner of Billy Idol. 'The Chauffeur' is considered to be one of the greatest music videos of all time.
The move into Live Action: In the following years Emes divided his time between art (installation - exhibiting), writing, commercials and film-making. Film highlights: 1982 - 'The Magic Shop' based on the short story by H.G. Wells. Starring Karl Johnson and Ron Cook.
'Goodie-Two-Shoes' - 1983 a ballroom dancing comedy produced by Jeff Katzenberg then of Paramount Pictures. (Oscar Nomination, British Academy Award). 1986 'The Box of Delights' animated sequences for the BBC. 1987 Emes wrote and directed his feature debut 'Knights & Emeralds', an interracial romantic comedy set in the world of marching brass bands, produced by Sir David Puttnam for Warner Brothers and Goldcrest Films.
The cult film 'The Yob' - 1988 'a defining film of the eighties' - for The Comic Strip and Channel 4, starring Keith Allen, Adrian Edmonson, Lia Williams and Peter Wyngarde with appearances by Derek Jarman and the infant Lily Allen. 'How to Be Cool' - 1988 starring Roger Daltrey, adapted by Emes from the book by Phillip Pullman. 'Streetwise' - 1989 starring Andy Serkis. 1990 'The Wall - Live in Berlin'.
1992 - 1998 in-house director in Ridley Scott's London-based commercials production company Ridley Scott Associates (winning numerous awards). 'The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas' - 1997 produced by John Landis for Universal, starring Sam McMurray, Ann Magnuson, Sandy Baron, Mary Woronov. 'Deadly Summer' - 1998 for Channel 5, staring Pauline Quirke and Francesca Annis.
'The Invisible Man' for Universal Studios - 2000. 'Sir Gadabout the Worst Knight in the Land' - 2002 - 2004. 'Bookaboo' (2 British Academy Awards) - 2009 - 2010. 'Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds' - 2013. Pink Floyd's 'Nothing Part 14' - 2016.
Pink Floyd's 'The Endless River' - 2017. 'Queens of Mystery - Murder in the Dark' and 'Smoke and Mirrors' - 2019 (Emmy Award Nomination).- Caroline Seebohm was born on 14 September 1940 in Woodsetts Grange, Nottingham, England, UK. Caroline was a writer, known for Love Story (1963). Caroline was married to Walter H. Lippincott, Jr. and Roger Smith. Caroline died on 22 July 2023 in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, USA.
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Eduard Labkovskiy was born on 24 July 1938 in Kazakhskaya SSR, USSR. He was an actor, known for V zone osobogo vnimaniya (1978), Sledstvie vedut znatoki (1971) and Klop 75 ili Mayakovskiy smeyotsya (1976). He died on 22 July 2023 in Russia.- Carl van der Plas was born on 23 November 1930 in Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. He was an actor, known for Jane Eyre (1958), Max Havelaar (1976) and A Question of Silence (1982). He died on 22 July 2023.
- Roger Sprung was born on 29 August 1930 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He was married to Joan and Nancy. He died on 22 July 2023 in Newtown, Connecticut, USA.
- Hristos Pappas was an actor, known for To retire (1990), I kyria mas (1987) and Sweet Charity (1994). He died on 22 July 2023 in Athens, Greece.
- Monica Ann Bolton died on 22 July 2023 in Royal Preston Hospital, Preston, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom.
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Rick Amon was an actor, known for The Backpacking Experience (1995), Kidnapped in Paradise (1999) and The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005). He died on 22 July 2023 in the USA.- Nikolay Vashchilin was born on 7 April 1947. He was an actor, known for The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1980), Close to Eden (1991) and Komendantskiy chas (1981). He died on 22 July 2023 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
- Camera and Electrical Department
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Murdoch Campbell was born on 27 January 1947 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He is known for Shooter (2007), The Sum of All Fears (2002) and Man of the Year (2006). He was married to Carol Flaisher. He died on 22 July 2023 in Midlothian, Virginia, USA.- Marianne Werner was born on 4 January 1924 in Dülmen, Germany. She died on 22 July 2023 in Dortmund, Germany.
- Russell Greenan was born on 7 September 1925 in Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. Russell was a writer, known for The Secret Life of Algernon (1998). Russell died on 22 July 2023 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
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Henryk Jablonski was an actor and set decorator, known for Faustina: The Apostle of Divine Mercy (1994), Bank nie z tej ziemi (1994) and Television Theater (1953). He died on 22 July 2023 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.