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Jack Kehler was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He worked as a waiter in New York, until he decided to pursue a career in theater at the age of 24. In 1982, he was admitted into the Actors Studio. After a while, he moved to Los Angeles. In his career in Hollywood, worked as character actor in supporting roles on the film as: Strange Invaders (1983), Year of the Dragon (1985), The Last Boy Scout (1991), Wyatt Earp (1994), My Fellow Americans (1996), Lost Highway (1997), Lethal Weapon 4 (1997), The Big Lebowski (1998), Men In Black II (2002), Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), Pineapple Express (2008), The Last Godfather (2010), Lost on Purpose (2013), A Winter Rose (2016). Appreciated multifaceted actor, today he continues to work in many television and film productions.- Actress
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Kang Soo-youn was born on 18 August 1966 in Seoul, South Korea. She was an actress and producer, known for The Surrogate Woman (1987), Come, Come, Come Upwards (1989) and All That Falls Has Wings (1990). She died on 7 May 2022 in Seoul, South Korea.- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Producer
Bruce MacVittie was born in Providence, RI in 1956. He began acting in high school, attended Boston University, studied with Jerzy Grotowski in 1976 and moved to New York City to pursue a career in acting in 1979. He began his career at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in 1980 in Edward Allen Baker's "Prairie Avenue", where he worked for many years as a member. He was a founding member of Naked Angels Theater Company. Bruce spent over ten years at the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights' Conference under Lloyd Richards, 10 seasons at the Williamstown Theatre Festival under Michael Ritchie and Jenny Gersten, and was a member of the Blue Light Theatre Company where he began a collaboration with Joanne Woodward for several years on the plays of Clifford Odets. In 1982, he began as understudy to James Hayden in David Mamet's American Buffalo with Al Pacino and J.J. Johnston at Circle In the Square, eventually replacing Hayden in the subsequent Broadway production, national tour, and West End Productions with Pacino and Johnston. MacVittie, a character actor, had a long tenure playing guest-starring roles in television and film beginning with Barney Miller (1975) in 1981 working on both coasts, but predominantly in New York. In New York, he worked in most off-Broadway theaters including the Public, Playwright's Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, Signature Theatre, and the Cherry Lane. He appeared in over 75 film and television productions over 32 years.- Actor
- Producer
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Country western star Mickey Gilley was born on March 9, 1936 in Natchez, Mississippi, the cousin of future rockabilly legend Jerry Lee Lewis, and raised in Ferriday, Louisiana. In his childhood, Mickey, Jerry, and Jerry's cousin, future Pentecostal televangelist Jimmy Swaggart would all play the piano when they got together and sing gospel and boogie-woogie songs. After Lewis became a chart-topper in the 1950s, Mickey turned professional himself and cut some singles before becoming a session player in the Big Easy.
First married at age 17, Gilley had a minor hit, "Call Me Shorty", in 1958, but it would be years before he came out from under Jerry lee's shadow and established himself as a star. He didn't release his first album, "Down the Line", until 1967. The album yielded a minor hit, "Now I Can Live Again". Three years later, he became a nightclub owner when he opened Gilley's Club in Pasadena, Texas in 1971. The club, billed as the "world's biggest honky tonk", became famous when it was used as the setting for Urban Cowboy (1980), which boosted Gilley's national exposure. By the 1980s, Gilley was experiencing crossover success when he mellowed his C+W with a more pop orientation. He managed to put songs on the charts in each of 15 years, enjoying 17 #1 country hits.
Gilley and partner Sherwood Cryer had a falling out after Cryer became increasingly hostile about changes made to the club. Gilley eventually had to sue Cryer over their "50-50" deal, which Gilley argued favored Cryer much more heavily. Gilley won $17 million from Cryer, but it completely shattered their relationship and forced the closing of the club in 1989. Gilley opened another club in Dallas under the same name in 2006. There's a Gilley's in Las Vegas, and the town of LaPorte, Texas, approved a new Gilley's, not far from the original.- Actor
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Robin Parkinson was born on 25 October 1929 in Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Good Companions (1980), Moody and Pegg (1974) and Thursday Theatre (1964). He was married to Patricia A Rogers. He died on 7 May 2022 in the UK.- Donald Elson was raised in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood, just a "whoop and a holler" from Hollywood. He was a young college student at the outbreak of WWII. After serving in the Air Force, he attended the Columbia Radio School of Broadcasting on the GI Bill and pursued a career as a radio announcer at stations in Texas and Oklahoma before returning to college. He graduated from the University of Southern California with a BA degree in Theatre Arts in 1949 and headed to New York. Elson became a successful Broadway actor, appearing in "Inherit The Wind," "Desire Under the Elms," "Peter Pan," "Threepenny Opera" and numerous off-Broadway productions. He returned to Hollywood in the early 1960s, "saddling up" in a string of Film and TV Westerns.
His skill and craftsmanship have enabled him to portray a wide variety of characters. Why is that craggy face so "gol'durn" familiar? Because we've seen it a thousand times in movies, television series, anthologies and Movies of the Week as well as countless television commercials. - YNMM Benjee was born on 17 November 1995. He was an actor, known for Fyndee Boyy x YNMM Benjee: Okae (2021), Fyndee Boyy x YNMM Benjee: Who Is Dude (2021) and Fyndee Boyy feat. YNMM Benjee: Ouu (2022). He died on 7 May 2022 in West Pullman, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- Ashley Nissenberg was born on 23 May 1980 in La Jolla, San Diego, California, USA. Ashley was married to Brett. Ashley died on 7 May 2022 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.
- Roberto Vandelli was an actor, known for Infernet (2016), R.I.S. - Delitti imperfetti (2005) and Fango e gloria (2014). He was married to Isabella Caserta. He died on 7 May 2022 in Verona, Veneto, Italy.
- Jürgen Blin was born on 24 April 1943 in Burg auf Fehmarn, Germany. He was an actor, known for Gipsy Queen (2019), Jonas oder Der Künstler bei der Arbeit (1970) and Muhammad Ali - The Baddest Daddy in the Whole World (1972). He died on 7 May 2022 in Reinbek, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
- Eugenio Allegri was born on 21 February 1956 in Collegno, Piedmont, Italy. He was an actor, known for Round Trip (2004), Vorticale and Dracula 3D (2012). He died on 7 May 2022 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
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Yuriy Averbakh was born on 8 February 1922 in Kaluga, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for Grossmeyster (1973). He died on 7 May 2022 in Moscow, Russia.- Zifeng Liu was born in December 1938 in Henan, China. He was an actor, known for The Red Violin (1998), The Black Cannon Incident (1985) and Tiangou (2006). He died on 7 May 2022 in Shanghai, China.
- Siyabonga Zwane died on 7 May 2022 in South Africa.