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- Hal Jon Norman was born on 27 August 1911 in Wichita, Kansas, USA. He was an actor, known for The Loners (1972), Escape to Passion (1971) and Jezebel's Kiss (1990). He died on 14 July 2011 in Wichita, Kansas, USA.
- Camera and Electrical Department
Dick Deats was born on 27 February 1945 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is known for National Treasure (2004), Dante's Peak (1997) and The Hunted (2003). He died on 14 July 2011 in Whitefish, Montana, USA.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Antonio Prieto was a Chilean crooner who enjoyed great success as a recording artist in Latin America in the 1950s and 1960s. His popularity won over film producers and he was cast in several musical comedies mainly playing himself as in "Vacaciones en Acapulco" (1961). He was also featured singing the main theme in films such "Acapulqueña" (1959) and "La novia" (1962). However he did play the leading male role in "La pérgola de las flores" (1965) filmed in Chile. He was also seen quite often singing his greatest hits on television variety shows.- Robert Cartland was born on 31 January 1922 in Hackney, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Doctor Who (1963), Play for Today (1970) and Legend of Death (1965). He died on 14 July 2011 in Richmond, Surrey, England, UK.
- Valéria Hidvéghy was born on 14 June 1914 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. She was an actress, known for Hello, Peter! (1939), Varjú a toronyórán (1938) and Megvédtem egy asszonyt (1938). She was married to George T. Delacorte, Gabriel Pascal and Jakabbfy, Tibor . She died on 14 July 2011 in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, USA.
- Régis Fontenay was born on 30 May 1935 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for My Uncle (1958), School for Love (1955) and The Contessa's Secret (1954). He died on 14 July 2011 in Dreux, Eure-et-Loir, France.
- Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Masahisa Sadanaga was a director and writer, known for Ryokan (1996), Shitto (1971) and Flickering Flames (1977). He died on 14 July 2011 in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.- Walter Balzarini was born on 29 August 1936 in Ceres, Santa Fe, Argentina. He was an actor, known for Héroes y demonios (1999), Accomplices (1998) and After the Condor (1990). He died on 14 July 2011 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Jim Austin was born on 14 September 1930 in Niagara Falls, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Lost Stallions: The Journey Home (2008), Pirate Kids II: The Search for the Silver Skull (2006) and Pirate Kids: Blackbeard's Lost Treasure (2004). He died on 14 July 2011 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.
- Music Department
- Composer
- Actor
Poul Godske was born on 6 May 1929 in Tommerup, Denmark. He was a composer and actor, known for Camping (1990), Help, My Daughter Wants to Marry (1993) and Tegneviser (1971). He died on 14 July 2011 in Frederiksberg, Denmark.- Zbigniew Bednarczyk was born on 6 July 1934 in Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland. He was an actor, known for La classe morte (1989), Wolna sobota (1977) and Nigdy tu juz nie powróce (1990). He died on 14 July 2011 in Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland.
- Producer
After finishing school with a high school diploma, Kirch studied business administration and mathematics in Würzburg and Munich. In 1952 he received his doctorate. rer. pol, after which he worked as an assistant at the University of Munich. In 1956 he married his wife Ruth. The couple had a son, Thomas Kirch. After this training, Kirch entered the media business as a rights marketer in 1956 with the purchase of 400 films from United Artists and Warner Brothers, for which he founded the company Sirius-Film und Einkauf GmbH in 1955. There were also BetaFilm, founded by Kirch in 1959, and TaurusFilm in 1963, which were used to distribute films and television programs. Unitel was founded in 1966 and IdunaFilm for feature and television film productions in 1968, as well as BetaTechnik, a service center for the Kirch Group, in 1975, and TaurusVideo in 1983.
Kirch's first major acquisition was a 10% stake in the Hamburg-based Axel Springer publishing house in 1985. In 1987, Kirch started a joint venture with the American media group Tribune Company and in 1988 he acquired the majority share in the cable and satellite broadcasting program company, PKS. In 1989, Kirch bought the German Book Association and in 1990 the PKS acquired a 43% stake in the television station SAT.1. At the end of the 1990s, the station was merged with ProSieben and listed on the stock exchange as a subsidiary of the KirchGroup under the name ProSiebenSat1 Media AG 2000. The channels Premiere and DF1 were also united in the KirchGruppe. In 2000, the Australian media entrepreneur Rupert Murdoch acquired a stake in the newly renamed pay-TV channel PREMIERE WORLD for 2.9 billion DM or 24%.
The group now consisted of four main business areas: 1.) The core business was KirchMedia, with the marketing of around 16,000 film and TV productions, program licenses and sports rights; 2.) the pay-TV channel PREMIERE WORLD, with income from subscription fees and the sale of decoders (d-box); 3.) the investments in TV channels such as ProSieben, SAT1, DSF, N24 and 4.) the 40% shares in Axel Springer-Verlag. In addition, there were 36.5% stakes in Constantin Film and 50% in the sports rights agency ISPR, which, among other things, bought the TV rights to the Bundesliga. Kirch also acquired the European broadcast rights to the 2002 and 2006 World Cups for 3.4 billion DM.
This made the KirchGroup the leading provider of film and TV programming in Europe. Kirch also planned, under the management of Dieter Hahn, to become the first fully integrated media company in Germany, which was to be listed on the stock exchange as KirchMedia AG in 2002. This would have made it the largest listed media group in Europe, with interests in over 40 companies worldwide. In 2001, KirchMedia expected sales to increase from 6.5 to 7.0 billion marks or 3.6 billion euros for the first time. ProSiebenSAT.1 Media AG, which was already fully consolidated, contributed around two thirds of the revenue. Since the end of 2001, however, there have been rumors that the Kirch Group could be taken over by the American media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
The KirchGroup is said to be heavily in debt. At the end of January 2002, Axel Springer Verlag demanded around 770 million euros back for its stake in the TV group ProSiebenSAT.1, which is part of the Kirch Group. Kirch declared the put option ineffective. This demand revealed the company's financial difficulties and economic situation. Hypo-Vereinsbank offered Leo Kirch 1.1 billion euros for the Springer stake. In February 2002 the mountain of debt became public: 6.5 billion euros. In March, the pay channel Premiere announced a loss before taxes and interest of 989 million euros for 2001. To overcome the crisis, the banks offered the media group 600-800 million euros in March 2002 in exchange for a stake in KirchMedia, the core business. Kirch declared his willingness to withdraw from the company.
The investors around Murdoch and Silvio Berlusconi's companies expressed interest in the KirchGroup. The banks fought with them over a necessary bridging loan. On Monday, April 8, 2002, KirchMedia filed for bankruptcy at the Munich District Court. The insolvency administrators subsequently tried to restructure the group; Among other things, it was about Axel Springer's shares in the Kirch broadcaster Pro Sieben-Sat1. Consideration was given to how the demand for 767 million euros could be met. After months of negotiations, the Israeli-American entrepreneur Haim Saban finally won the contract: After Saban had beaten out his German competitor, Heinrich-Bauer-Verlag, he began negotiations in mid-March 2003 to take over the former PRO7-SAT.1 group Kirch Group.
But at the beginning of June 2003 the agreement collapsed and both sides met without result. In the meantime, the insolvency administration tried to find a homemade solution to the crisis through the KirchMedia Group and the banks involved. In early August 2003, Saban brought himself back into the game by making another offer. Surprisingly, on August 5th he was awarded the contract for his option to take over 26% shares in ProSiebenSAT.1. Since then, the former KirchMedia group has been led by the Israeli-American media entrepreneur. Kirch was repeatedly linked in public with the CDU party donations affair under the former federal government of Helmut Kohl.
In mid-September 2003 it became known that the Berlin public prosecutor's office had initiated an investigation against former Chancellor Kohl and the media entrepreneur on suspicion of making unsworn false statements. The accusation related to a consulting contract that Kirch is said to have entered into in 1999 for a high remuneration for Kohl and which both were said to have kept secret from the previous Bundestag investigative committee. Meanwhile, Kirch himself was successful in December 2003 with a lawsuit against Deutsche Bank, which he accused of indiscretion in the run-up to his company's insolvency: The failed media entrepreneur then demanded 6 billion euros in damages from the bank. In September 2004, a settlement was reached between the Springer publishing house and the church insolvency administration.
Springer waived its right to sell its stake in ProSiebenSat.1, which the publisher, on the contrary, increased. For this reason, Springer's claim of 325 million euros was recognized in the insolvency proceedings. The sum was financed from a partial sale of KirchMedia to the media entrepreneur Haim Saban, who had had the majority in ProSiebenSat.1 since 2003. After a New York court rejected Kirch's lawsuit against Deutsche Bank in September 2004, Kirch hired star lawyer David Boies to file an appeal in November 2004. The background to the affair was that Deutsche Bank boss Rolf Breuer is said to have publicly questioned the creditworthiness of the Kirch Group in New York in 2002 and, in Kirch's opinion, caused the collapse of his empire. Towards the end of 2004 it became known that the Federal Court of Justice had granted an appeal from Deutsche Bank in the damages dispute with Kirch.
After the Federal Court of Justice ruled in favor of Kirch on January 24, 2006, Rolf E. Breuer resigned from his position as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bank on May 3, 2006. Since it was determined that only the company that had taken out the loan from Deutsche Bank (PrintBeteiligungs GmbH), but not Kirch or other companies in the Kirch Group, was generally entitled to compensation, Kirch planned to file a performance action against Deutsche Bank. He therefore sued Deutsche Bank in May 2007 for damages of 1.6 billion euros. On October 9, 2007, it was announced that the media entrepreneur and his company Sirius GmbH would be marketing the television rights of the Bundesliga from summer 2009, for which he would guarantee the clubs three billion euros over six years. Kirch developed diabetes. In December 2007 his left foot had to be amputated. As a result of the illness, he was ultimately almost blind.
Leo Kirch died on July 14, 2011 in Munich.- Cinematographer
- Director
Mieczyslaw Wiesiolek was born on 1 January 1921 in Sanok, Podkarpackie, Poland. Mieczyslaw was a cinematographer and director, known for Bogaty plon (1951), Peace Will Win (1951) and Pokój zwyciezy! (1950). Mieczyslaw died on 14 July 2011 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Camera and Electrical Department
Don Altwasser was born on 14 September 1931 in Verwood, Saskatchewan, Canada. Don is known for Folio (1955), Neil Diamond: The 'Thank You Australia' Concert (1976) and Bandstand (1958). Don died on 14 July 2011 in Dural, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.- Otia Ioseliani was born on 16 June 1930 in Gwischtibi, Imeretia, Georgia. He was a writer, known for Male gazapkhuli mova (1967), Chemi qalaqis varskvlavi (1970) and Tetri qalishvili (1962). He died on 14 July 2011 in Zqaltubo, Imeretia, Georgia.
- Terry Lanni was born on 14 March 1943 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He died on 14 July 2011 in Pasadena, California, USA.
- James O'Connor was born on 15 January 1919. He died on 14 July 2011.