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- Canadian-born actor Arthur Hill was raised in the Saskatchewan town of Melfort. The son of a lawyer, he served with the Royal Canadian Air Force during WWII before receiving his college education at the University of British Columbia. Intending on following in his father's footsteps in the field of law, he supported himself in school with a job doing radio theatre with the Canadian Broadcasting Co.
Continuing to pursue his interest in acting for a time in Seattle, he married fellow actress Peggy Hassard and subsequently made a major move in 1948, at age 26, to England where he slowly built up a fine, steadfast theatre reputation for himself along with occasional radio, film and TV roles. Making his London stage debut with "Home of the Brave" in 1948, he achieved major attention playing Cornelius Hackl in the Thornton Wilder classic "The Matchmaker", a role he took successfully to Broadway. Other important work on stage included "Man and Superman" (1951) and "Look Homeward Angel (1957).
In 1962, he, Uta Hagen, George Grizzard and Melinda Dillon bowled over Broadway audiences as the vitriolic foursome in Edward Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' Hill won both the Tony and New York Drama Critics awards for his role as George, the browbeaten academician and husband of Hagen's emasculating Martha (played by theatre legend Uta Hagen, who also won a Tony Award for her performance), who manages to turn the tables on her in front of two young guests invited for an ill-fated nightcap .
This led to stable work in Hollywood films in the 1960s with stalwart support roles in The Ugly American (1963), Harper (1966), Rabbit, Run (1970) and The Andromeda Strain (1971). This, in turn, led to an abundance of television work in the 1970s where Hill found a comfortable white-collar niche as mild-mannered, gray-haired professionals and an occasional shady villain. He earned star status with his own series Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1971), and in such quality mini-movies as Death Be Not Proud (1975) and Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys (1976), among others.
He retired in the 1990s and later was suffered from Alzheimer's disease, which claimed his life at an assisted-living facility in Pacific Palisades, California. At the time of his death on October 23, 2006, he was survived by his second wife, Anne-Sophie Taraba, and his son, Douglas. (Hill's first wife, Peggy, had died in 1998, also of complications from Alzheimer's disease.) - Nelson de la Rosa was born on 6 September 1968 in Bayaguana, Monte Plata, Dominican Republic. He was an actor, known for The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996), Cross Mission (1988) and Rat Man (1988). He was married to Jennifer Diloné. He died on 22 October 2006 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
- Richard Mayes was born on 26 December 1922 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Top Secret! (1984), Gandhi (1982) and Doctor Who (1963). He was married to Beryl King. He died on 22 October 2006 in Barnet, London, England, UK.
- B. Constance Barry was born on 29 April 1913 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Arthur (1981), Trading Places (1983) and Easy Money (1983). She died on 22 October 2006 in Wappingers Falls, New York, USA.
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Manoj Punj was born in 1970. He was a director and writer, known for Shaheed-E-Mohabbat Boota Singh (1999), Des Hoyaa Pardes (2004) and Waris Shah: Ishq Daa Waaris (2006). He died on 22 October 2006 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.- Lirio Lakindanum was born on 4 June 1920. She was an actress, known for Ibong Sawi (1941), Rosa Birhen (1940) and Ang Tik-Tik (1941). She was married to Honorio Cuna. She died on 22 October 2006.
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A graduate of the University of Wisconsin and the Yale Drama School, Arnold Sundgaard was best known as a Broadway playwright and librettist, having a hand in the writing of six Broadway plays; he also was known as a writer of children's books and a short story writer as well as a college professor specializing in drama and theatrics.