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- Music Department
- Composer
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Hoyt Curtin was born in Downey, California, but grew up in San Bernadino. He began playing the piano when he was 5, and by ninth grade, he had his own orchestra. He graduated from the San Bernadino High School in 1940 and the University of Southern California in 1943. While at USC, he enrolled in the Navy V-7 program, and after graduation, was assigned to Northwestern University for advanced training. He received his commission as an ensign in 1944 and was assigned to the destroyer base in San Diego. He saw duty in the Pacific during World War II and was slightly injured with a shrapnel wound in his leg. After the war, he completed his Master's Degree in music from USC. While there, he took a course in composition for motion pictures, taught by Miklos Rozsa. His intention was to be a film composer. However, his big break came in the late 1950s when he scored a Schlitz beer commercial that was being produced at MGM. The producers of the commercial were William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, who asked Curtin if he would write the music for a cartoon series they were going to produce, called "Ruff and Ready." The producers called him on the phone with the lyrics, and five minutes later Curtin called them back with a song. When Hanna and Barbera left MGM to form their own company in 1957, they took Curtin along. Curtin would write the songs for "The Flintstones" and "The Jetsons," the same way he wrote his earlier songs; back and forth on the telephone. He eventually became the musical director for the company. Curtin died on December 3, 2000, at a hospital in Thousand Oaks, California.- Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Writer
Jun Fukuda would spend his childhood in Manchuria before attending Nihon University College of Art. His interests would lead him to filmmaking and in 1946 he joined Toho as an assistant director. In his tenure as an assistant director, he would work under filmmakers such as Hiroshi Inagaki and Ishirô Honda, leading to his first work in special effects filmmaking with Rodan (1956). His career as a full-fledged director would take off in 1959. His early work leaned more towards mystery but he began to expand into more action and comedic centric works by the mid-1960s. Around this time, Toho gave Fukuda the opportunity to direct a Godzilla film. Beginning with Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966), Fukuda would become Toho's go to director for special effects films after Ishiro Honda. Fukuda's films would develop a unique identity beginning with his his choice to replace series composer Akira Ifukube with Masaru Satô. His films would be full of colorful characters and vibrant action demonstrating his filmmaking craftsmanship. During his career he would direct five Godzilla films, along with espionage films and comedies. He would also write the un-produced screenplays of The Invisible Man and Invisible Man vs. the Human Torch. While Fukuda was known to harbor a disdain for his work, he would seem to develop an understanding of what his work met to people as fans would send him letters and messages during his final years. Fukuda would passed away from lung cancer on December 3, 2000, at the age of 77.- Actress
- Additional Crew
Kramer's career spanned wide associations in the fields of Motion Pictures, Education, Literature and Psychiatry.
Anne, nee "Pearce," Kramer was born in Saginaw, Michigan, the daughter of June and Perce Pearce, the Disney cartoonist.
She started her career as an actress and was featured in several films often playing multi-ethnic characters due to her striking exotic looks. Soon following, she went on to work in the theatre in New York.
When she met her husband, Stanley Kramer, they formed a working partnership on most of his early remarkable films. They had two children together, actress Casey Kramer and script editor and academic Lawrence (Larry) Kramer.
Kramer worked in motion picture production, distribution, casting, editing and marketing of the award-winning films "Cyrano de Bergerac," "High Noon," "Member of the Wedding," "The Wild One," "The Caine Mutiny," "Not as a Stranger," "The Pride and the Passion," "The Defiant Ones," "On the Beach," "Inherit the Wind" and "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" during her marriage to producer/director Stanley Kramer. Later, she held positions with Castle Hill Productions, working with Elaine May and Julian Schlossberg, and was involved in the development of several projects, among them "Million Dollar Baby," "Face of Fear," "Little Me," and Tolkien's "The Rock Hobbit."
During filming of "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World," in Palm Springs, she survived a severe fire causing third-degree burns covering her body. She then returned to a successful academic career, born in her days at the University of Southern California.
Over the course of her educational career, she acquired two PhD's in Comparative Literature and Film. She was Professor of Comparative Literature and Film at California State University Long Beach and Senior Lecturer on literature and film at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, as well as lecturer at New York University, Orange Coast College and University of California, Berkeley. Among her students were Jim Morrison of The Doors and director, George Lucas. She later became Executive Story Editor at Columbia Pictures.
Dr. Kramer authored, co-authored and contributed to several books including "Directors at Work," featuring a section on her husband, Stanley Kramer, "Comparative Metamorphoses in Ovidian Myth," "Modern Literature and the Arts," "Encyclopedia Britannica Films" and "Focus on Film and Theatre." She spoke five languages.
In the community, Dr. Kramer created the communications consultancy, Cathexis 3; chaired "The University Forum" for the University of Southern California, Los Angeles Graduate School; was Co-Director of Model United Nations in Los Angeles, under the auspices of Eleanor Roosevelt; and participated as Educational Consultant and teacher at Camarillo State Mental Hospital.
She became a psychoanalyst in the 1990's, seeing patients in private practice in Beverly Hills.- Bobby Kottarakkara was an actor, known for Pilots (2000), Ee Sabdam Innathe Sabdam (1985) and Rudraksham (1994). He died on 3 December 2000 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
- Kevin Mills was born on 7 March 1968 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He died on 3 December 2000 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Gwendolyn Brooks was born on 7 June 1917 in Topeka, Kansas, USA. She was married to Henry Blakely. She died on 3 December 2000 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.