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- Thomas Henty was born on 19 January 1956 in Marylebone, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Bellman and True (1987), Cooper's Half Hour (1980) and Robin Hood (1984). He died on 13 August 1988 in Fulham, London, England, UK.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
First major freelance director-character actor in Marathi and Hindi cinema. Born in Amravati. Child actor on amateur stage. Started Arun Players in Pune and staged Chekov's Cherry Orchard and Harindranath Chattopadhyay's Returned from Abroad. Claimed Ernst Lubitsch's The Patriot (1928) as a major influence. Started in films as writer of English intertitles at Prabhat; then bit actor. Apprenticed to Bhalji Pendharkar. Made films for Master Vinayak's Huns Pictures, briefly at Minerva Movietone as scenarist for Sohrab Modi (Meetha Zaher, Talaaq, etc.) and at P.K. Atre's company. Best-known film: Ramshastri (at Prabhat), taking over the direction from Raja Nene and Bedekar as well as playing the lead role. Main performance was as the Muslim patriarch in Shantaram's Shejari. Appointed first director of the FTII (1960) and became well-known pedagogue applying e.g. Stanislavski's theories to local conditions in a book about acting (1983). Published two autobiographies (1971 & 1986). Made a TV serial, Swami, on the life of Madhavrao Peshwa, celebrating Marathi chauvinism.- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Rogelio Brambila was born on 29 August 1912 in Santa Rosalía, Jalisco, Mexico. He was an actor and producer, known for Yo no me caso compadre (1960), El viaje (1977) and Carita de primavera (1977). He was married to Luz Castillo Villanueva and Raquel Fonseca Ballesteros. He died on 13 August 1988 in Mexico, D.F., Mexico.- Edward Bennett Williams was born on 31 May 1920 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. He was married to Agnes Anne Neill and Dorothy Adair Guider. He died on 13 August 1988 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- Jack Sobel was born on 6 March 1897 in Bialystok, Poland, Russian Empire [now Bialystok, Podlaskie, Poland]. He was a writer, known for Thieves Fall Out (1941), Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth (1998) and The Merv Griffin Show (1962). He died on 13 August 1988 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Sydney Jacobson was born on 26 October 1908 in Zeerost, Transvaal Colony [now South Africa]. He died on 13 August 1988.
- Gordon Scherer was born on 26 December 1906 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He died on 13 August 1988 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.