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Herbert Lom was born on September 11, 1917 as Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchacevich ze Schluderpacheru into an aristocratic family living in genteel poverty. His incredibly long surnames led him to select the shortest surname he could find extant ("Lom") and adopt it as his own, professionally. He made his film debut in the Czech film Woman Below the Cross (1937) and played supporting and, occasionally, lead roles. His career picked up in the 1940s and he played, among other roles, Napoleon Bonaparte in The Young Mr. Pitt (1942) and in War and Peace (1956). In a rare starring role, Lom played twin trapeze artists in Dual Alibi (1947). He continued into the 1950s with roles opposite Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers in The Ladykillers (1955), and Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon and Rita Hayworth in Fire Down Below (1957). His career really took off in the 1960s and he got the title role in Hammer Films' production of The Phantom of the Opera (1962). He also played "Captain Nemo" in Mysterious Island (1961) and landed supporting parts in El Cid (1961) and an especially showy role in Spartacus (1960) as a pirate chieftain contracted to transport Spartacus' army away from Italy.
The 1960s was also the decade in which Lom secured the role for which he will always be remembered: Clouseau/Peter Sellers' long-suffering boss, Commissioner Charles Dreyfus, in the "Pink Panther" films, in which he pulled off the not-inconsiderable feat of stealing almost every scene he and Sellers were in--a real accomplishment, considering what a veteran scene-stealer Sellers was. However, Lom did not concentrate solely on feature films. He became a familiar face to British television viewers when he starred as Dr. Roger Corder in The Human Jungle (1963). He moved into horror films in the 1970s, with parts in Asylum (1972) and And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973). He played Prof. Abraham Van Helsing opposite Christopher Lee in Count Dracula (1970), matching wits against the sinister vampire himself.
Lom appeared as one of the victims in Ten Little Indians (1974), the drunken Dr. Edward Armstrong. His career continued into the 1980s, a standout role being that of Christopher Walken's sympathetic doctor in The Dead Zone (1983). He also played opposite Walter Matthau in Hopscotch (1980) and returned to the murder mystery Ten Little Indians (1989), this time playing The General. Lom has been taking it easy since then, though he returned to his familiar role of Dreyfus in Son of the Pink Panther (1993). He was always a reliable and eminently watchable actor, and unfortunately did not receive the stardom he should have.
Herbert Lom died in his sleep at age 95 on September 27, 2012, in London, England.- Soundtrack
R.B. Greaves was born on 28 November 1943 in Georgetown, British Guiana [now Guyana]. He was married to Maura Dhu Studi, Sandra Golden and Claire Francis. He died on 27 September 2012 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Production Manager
J. Edward Shugrue was born on 8 January 1950 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He was a production manager, known for The Emperor Jones (1933). He was married to Maeve Burke. He died on 27 September 2012 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.- Ted Boy Marino was born on 18 October 1939 in Fuscaldo Marina, Italy. He was an actor, known for Dois na Lona (1968), Bang Bang (2005) and Você Decide (1992). He died on 27 September 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Sanjay Soorkar was born on 19 August 1959 in Deoli, Wardha, State of Bombay, India. He was a director and writer, known for Stand By (2011), Saatchya Aat Gharat (2004) and Aai Shappath..! (2006). He died on 27 September 2012 in Pune, Maharashtra, India.- Actress
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Eija Inkeri was born on 27 May 1926 in Kuopio, Finland. She was an actress and writer, known for Orpopojan valssi (1949), Snow White and the 7 Dudes (1953) and Professori Masa (1949). She was married to Osmo Kock and Juhani Hukkanen. She died on 27 September 2012 in Lahti, Finland.- Composer
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Frank Wilson was born on 5 December 1940 in Houston, Texas, USA. He was a composer, known for Phenomenon (1996), Hitch (2005) and Striptease (1996). He was married to P. Bunny Wilson and Barbara Jean Dedmon. He died on 27 September 2012 in Duarte, California, USA.- Sound Department
Nely Bailon is known for A Shallow Grave (2012). Nely died on 27 September 2012.- Slawomir Sierecki was born on 15 February 1924 in Miedzeszyn, Wawer, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. Slawomir was a writer, known for Szkatulka z Hongkongu (1984). Slawomir died on 27 September 2012 in Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland.
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Hans Hindpere was born on 18 March 1928 in Jõhvi, Estonia. He was a composer, known for Teaduse ohver (1982) and Igavesti Teie (1977). He died on 27 September 2012 in Estonia.- Mohamed Mernich was born in 1951 in Mzouda, Chichaoua, Morocco. Mohamed was a director, known for Tamazight Ouffela (2009). Mohamed died on 27 September 2012 in Casablanca, Morocco.
- Bob Laufer was born on 8 April 1946 in Saginaw, Michigan, USA. He died on 27 September 2012 in Michigan, USA.
- Zane Mc Intosh was born in 1975 in Napa and raised in the towns of Yountville, Rutherford, and St. Helena. Mc Intosh's maternal family thrived by farming land holdings within the Napa Valley for 7 generations, since their first arrival in 1849 by horseback, ship, stage coach, and covered wagon. In Napa City his ancestors held the successful law firm Johnston and Johnston, along with several businesses, during the 19th and 20th centuries. His family were founding members of the Napa Valley Country Club, Napa State Hospital, and devoted their time towards holding elected offices, including 2 seats on the California State Senate. His father's line also pioneered California during the 1849 gold rush. His paternal family eventually settled within the Duboce Triangle District of San Francisco, while later surviving the 1906 Great Earthquake. The actor's lineage descends from some of the earliest established European families from the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the Antebellum Old South. Zane's maternal grandfather and maternal grandmother both descend from the House of Plantagenet. The actor descends from the Saxon Kings of England (Edward I), the Kings of France and Spain, the Dukes of Normandy, and the Counts of Flanders. One of his ancestors is French Nobleman Matthieu de Jouhet, Master of the Horse to Louis XIII of France. Through his father, the Zane is 1st cousins, 5 times removed, to United States President Ulysses S. Grant. Oral tradition on his maternal line points to close blood ties to President Tyler, President Johnson, and President Taylor; and to Jefferson Davis through marriage. His mother is a grape grower of Cabernet Franc in the Rutherford Bench. The actor's father built submarines for the United States Navy. During Mc Intosh's formative years he was an avid member of the Rutherford 4H club, eventually serving as its treasurer and president. While at St. Helena High School, he involved himself in sports, primarily football and track. Mc Intosh attended the University of Oregon where he first took advantage of acting classes while concurrently double-majoring in Psychology and Sociology. He later obtained a masters degree in counseling from Sonoma State University. Before acting Mc Intosh supported himself by keeping individuals safe from harm while in a temporary period of psychiatric crisis. Prior to this he involved himself towards the making of wine and viticulture.
- Aleksandr Gorelik was born on 9 August 1945 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for Goluboy lyod (1970). He died on 27 September 2012 in Moscow, Russia.
- John Silber, the former president and chancellor of Boston University and the 1990 Democratic candidate for governor of Massachusetts, was born on August 15, 1926 San Antonio, Texas. He took his undergraduate degree at Trinity University in Texas in 1947, then spent the following academic year at Yale Divinity School before matriculating for a semester at the University of Texas Law School. Silber eventually returned to Yale University to earn his doctorate in philosophy, writing his dissertation on Immanuel Kant. He also studied the philosophy of education. He remained at Yale as a philosophy teacher for five years before taking a teaching position at the University of Texas at Austin. As a scholar, he distinguished himself by serving as the editor of "Kant-Studien", an international journal for Kant scholarship.
As the chair of UT-Austin's Department of Philosophy from 1961 to 1967, he earned a reputation as a liberal for his support of desegregation. Silber served as the first chairman of the Texas Society to Abolish Capital Punishment and was involved in the creation of Operation Head Start, one of the educational programs enacted as part of Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society. In 1967, Silber was named Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), but was terminated three years later. Silber claims that it was the splitting of CAS into separate colleges of liberal arts and natural science that caused his departure, though many in the higher education community at the time thought UT-Austin sacked him because of his liberalism.
He became the President of Boston University in 1971 after being recommended by a faculty-student search committee. Silber's tenure at B.U. was earmarked by controversy from the very beginning of his tenure. A liberal in Texas is not necessarily a liberal in Boston, and Silber turned out to be vastly less progressive than B.U.'s faculty and student body. A conservative on many issues, Silber was pro-military and pro-military intervention, at one time calling in the police to break up the takeover of a Marine Corps. recruiting station at the university. Silber also was openly supportive of ROTC, a hot-button issue at the time of the Vietnam War.
Seemingly intolerant of criticism, Silber targeted the most prominent progressives in the political science department, Howard Zinn, who had become well-known as a Civil Rights activist in the 1960s and, as an anti-Vietnam War activist. Zinn would become Silber's nemesis at B.U. By the end of the decade, Silber's heavy-handed tactics as an administrator had alienated a majority of the core faculty, who openly opposed Silber during the 1970s and '80s over issues of university governance. Silber vetoed tenure recommendations of various departments to eliminate what he considered faddish scholarship, and he allegedly used the denial of merit raises to faculty critics, most famously to Zinn, B.U.'s most well-known faculty member after Nobel-Prize winner Elie Wiesel (the latter having been recruited by Silber). When Zinn and four other faculty members refused to return to the classroom during a general strike at B.U. in October 1979, Silber unsucessfully tried to terminate them. The National Labor Relations Board became yet another organization investigating the disturbances at B.U. (though the university was later cleared of unfair labor practices during the first Reagan Administration).
The controversies during Silber's tenure, in part, contributed to the low alumni giving rate at the university. However, during Silber's tenure, Boston University attained greater status, ranking consistently as one of the top "National Universities" in the United States. He was directly responsible for the hiring of not less than four Nobel Prize winners in science. However, a generation after taking over the top spot at BU, he had not mellowed. His was not a personality that promoted harmony on a northeastern liberal arts campus, in the 20th or the 21st Centuries. During his tenure as B.U. president, Silber became the symbol of the corporativization of the university to many critics. Silber likened the education of students to turning out automobiles on an assembly line, not a beguiling metaphor for students and their parents, who were paying some of the highest tuition fees in the nation after Silber took over.
Hailed as "Ronald Reagan's Favorite Democrat" during the 1980s for his staunch support of Reagan's Central American policy, Silber won the 1990 Democratic nomination to succeed the out-going Governor Michael Dukakis but lost the general election to former U.S. Attorney Willaim Weld. Interestingly, Weld was considered the true liberal during the contest and Silber a throwback to the conservative policies of Governor Edward J. King, who had defeated Dukakis in the 1978 Democratic primary (and was, in turn, defeated by Dukakis in 1982).
In 1996, Silber stepped down as president of Boston University and assumed the position of chancellor after Governor Weld, his former electoral foe, appointed him to serve as head of the Massachusetts Board of Education. After his term expired, he resumed the chancellorship of B.U., a post which his critics contend kept him the real power at B.U. The shift in post allowed Silber to continue enjoying a high salary and perks bestowed on him by the university. With an annual salary that reached $800,000, Silber had ranked as one of the highest paid college presidents in the nation, and his remuneration as chancellor reported was on the north side of half-a-million dollars, annually. - Uldis Stabulnieks was born on 8 October 1945 in Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR. He was a composer, known for Svesas kaislibas (1983), Aizaugusa gravi viegli krist (1987) and Divaina menesgaisma (1987). He died on 27 September 2012 in Latvia.