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11 Nov

#OTD 1979 – Dimitri Tiomkin, 85, Ukrainian-US composer. (b. 1894)

Classically trained in St Petersburg, he eventually moved to New York. In 1929, after stock market crash, he moved to Hollywood. He won Oscars for High Noon (1952) High and Mighty (1954) Old Man and the Sea (1958)

#OTD 1979 – Dimitri Tiomkin, 85, Ukrainian-US composer. (b. 1894)

OscarNom: Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Corsican Brothers * The Moon and Sixpence * Bridge of San Luis Rey * Champion * High Noon (Oscar + Song) The High and Mighty (Oscar) Giant * Friendly Persuasion (1957)

#OTD 1979 – Dimitri Tiomkin, 85, Ukrainian-US composer. (b. 1894)

OscarNom: Wild Is the Wind (1957 Song) Old Man and Sea (Oscar) Young Land (Song) Alamo (+ Song) Guns of Navarone * Town Without Pity (+ Song) 55 Days at Peking (+ Song) Fall of Roman Empire * Tchaikovsky (1969)

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10 Nov

#BOTD 1928 – 2020 Ennio Morricone, 91, Italian trumpet player, composer.

He entered Saint Cecilia Music Conservatory in 1940, age 12, for a four-year program he completed in six months. He composed his first film score in 1955, his first worldwide hit A Fistful of Dollars (1964)

#BOTD 1928 – 2020 Ennio Morricone, 91, Italian trumpet player, composer.

A Fistful of Dollars (1964) * For a Few Dollars More * Hollywood: John Huston's The Bible: In the Beginning (1966) * For a Few Extra Dollars * The Good, the Bad and the Ugly * Once Upon a Time in the West

#BOTD 1928 – 2020 Ennio Morricone, 91, Italian trumpet player, composer, conductor.

Two Mules for Sister Sara * The Exorcist II: The Heretic * Days of Heaven (OscarNom) * La Cage aux Follies I/II/III * The Thing * Once Upon a Time in America * The Mission (OscarNom)

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10 Nov

#BOTD 1925 – 1984 Richard Burton, (b. Jenkins), 58, Welsh actor. Oscar nominated seven times, never won.

My Cousin Rachel (1952 OscarNom) * The Robe (OscarNom) * Alexander the Great * Look Back in Anger * Cleopatra * Becket (OscarNom) * Spy Who Came in from the Cold (OscarNom)

#BOTD 1925 – 1984 Richard Burton, 58, Welsh actor.

"From the first time I saw you, entering Rome on that monstrous stone beast, shining in the sun like a little gold toy, how I envied Caesar. Not his conquests or his triumphs. Not his titles. I envied him you."

Cleopatra (1963)

#BOTD 1925 – 1984 Richard Burton, 58, Welsh actor.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (OscarNom) * Taming of the Shrew * Where Eagles Dare * Anne of Thousand Days (OscarNom) * Assassination of Trotsky * Massacre in Rome * Equus (OscarNom) * Medusa Touch * Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)

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10 Nov

#OTD 2006 – Jack Palance, (b. Volodymyr Palahniuk), 87, US actor (b. 1919)

One of six children of Ukrainian immigrants, he worked in coal mines in his youth, before becoming a professional boxer in the late 1930s. After serving in WW2, he eventually pursued a career in acting.

#OTD 2006 – Jack Palance, 87, US actor (b. 1919)

His big break was as Marlon Brando's understudy in A Streetcar Named Desire, eventually replacing Brando on stage as Stanley Kowalski. He made his film debut in
Elia Kazan's Panic in the Streets (1950) who had directed Streetcar.

#OTD 2006 – Jack Palance, 87, US actor (b. 1919)

Panic in the Streets (1950) * Halls of Montezuma * Sudden Fear (OscarNom) * Shane (OscarNom) * Second Chance * Man in the Attic * The Sign of Pagan * The Big Knife * Attack * The Man Inside * Ten Seconds to Hell * The Barbarians

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6 Nov

#BOTD 1931 – 2014 Mike Nichols, (b. Igor Mikhail Peschkowsky), 83, German-born US performer, filmmaker, writer.

He began his career in 1950s in improvisational comedy, teaming with Elaine May as 'Nichols and May' they were a big hit on Broadway and won Grammy Best Comedy Album.

#BOTD 1931 – 2014 Mike Nichols, 83, German-born US performer, director, writer.

He began directing Broadway plays, his debut, Barefoot in the Park, 1963, with Robert Redford and Elizabeth Ashley. In 2012 he won his 6th Tony for Death of a Salesman, with Philip Seymour Hoffman.

#BOTD 1931 – 2014 Mike Nichols, 83, US director, writer.

In 1966 he directed his first film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with Taylor and Burton. It won five Oscars from 13 nominations. For The Graduate (1967) with unknown Dustin Hoffman, Nichols won the Best Director Oscar.

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Lauren Facall

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6 Nov

#OTD 1991 – Gene Tierney, 70, US actress (b. 1920)

She spent two years at a Swiss International School, and learned fluent French. In 1936 she visited Warner's studios, (where her mother's cousin was a producer), and met Anatole Litvak, who told her she should become an actress.

#OTD 1991 – Gene Tierney, 70, US actress (b. 1920)

Film debut: Return of Frank James (1940) Hudson's Bay * Tobacco Road * Belle Starr * Sundown * Shanghai Gesture (all 1941) Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake * Rings on Her Fingers * Thunder Birds * China Girl (all 1942)

#OTD 1991 – Gene Tierney, 70, US actress (b. 1920)

Heaven Can Wait (1943) Laura (1944) Bell for Adano * Leave Her to Heaven (1945 OscarNom) Dragonwyck * Razor's Edge (both 1946) Ghost and Mrs Muir (1947) Iron Curtain (1948) Wonderful Urge (1948) Whirlpool * Night and City (1950)

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