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- Actress
Helen Hanft was born in The Bronx in New York City in 1934. She began her career on the stage in the late 1950s in theatre productions after studying drama at The Performing Arts High School. She transferred to Off-Off-Broadway productions, starring in a series of plays written by Tom Eyen. One of the plays was to make Hanft a star of both Off-Off-Broadway and the avant-garde underground, bringing her a cult following in the years to come. This was the groundbreaking "Why Hanna's Skirt Won't Stay Down" in which she portrayed Hanna O'Brien, a cinema ticket kiosk employee who spent her nights standing over a breezehole in Coney Island for sexual thrills. She is well-documented in many books and writings for having made theatre history with her performances and being at the center of such renowned companies as Theatre of The Eye and an integral part of the La Mama E.T.C. and Caffe Cino families. She continued to appear in plays for both Tom Eyen and other various New York playwrights throughout the 1960's and 1970's but later went on to develop a considerable film career. She still frequents the New York stage in mostly Off-Broadway productions there playing everything from distressed mothers to eccentric dying matriarchs to monstrously wicked society women. Occasionally Hanft appears in such popular television fare as Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001). She is perhaps best known for her roles in Used People (1992) as the ever-endearing "Aunt Ruthie" (opposite Shirley MacLaine) and as the almost villainous Department of Motor Vehicles employee, "Miss Hellberg" (originally the character was named "Miss Heilman" in the script), in License to Drive (1988) (opposite former teen heartthrob Corey Haim). Hanft also left indelible marks in such films as Stardust Memories (1980), (directed by Woody Allen), Honky Tonk Freeway (1981) (directed by the late John Schlesinger), Arthur (1981), (opposite Dudley Moore), and Moonstruck (1987), (opposite Cher) as the liquor store owner, Lotte. A marvelous actress of many facets and great depth, Hanft still delights and thrills audiences today with her film and stage characterizations.- Writer
- Director
- Music Department
Rituparno Ghosh is a Bengali film director. He has won 12 National Film Awards in India and several awards at international film festivals abroad. He began directing in advertising. In 1992, he made a low-key film debut with a children's feature titled Hirer Angti (The Diamond Ring). His second movie Unishe April (19 April), won the 1995 National Film Award Since then, Ghosh has directed Dahan, Utsab, Chokher Bali, Asukh, Bariwali, Antarmahal and Raincoat (in Hindi). He won the National Award for best direction for his bengali film "Abohoman" starring Jishu Sengupta, Ananya Chatterjee, Dipankar Dey and Mamata Shankar in India in 2010.- Actor
- Additional Crew
Dr. Dean Kent Brooks, M.D., was born in Everett, Washington, in 1916. He was the head of the Oregon State Hospital in 1975 when the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) was filmed there. He starred, surprising enough, as the head of the psychiatric hospital in the film, "Dr. John Spivey, M.D."
He attended the University of Kansas Medical School in Kansas City, Kansas, and graduated from there on June 1, 1942. He was first licensed in Oregon to practice psychiatry on January 21, 1950. He retired from the practice of Psychiatric Medicine on December 31, 1999.
During the filming of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), he diagnosed actor William Redfield (who played psychiatric hospital patient "Harding") with Leukemia (this was long before the days of bone marrow transplants), and gave Mr. Redfield 18 months to live (he died 18 months later, pretty much to the day).
He never had a single complaint filed against him in his long and distinguished career as a psychiatrist.- Additional Crew
- Actor
Oscar Unger was an actor, known for Kab? Kyoon? Aur Kahan? (1970), Do Aur Do Paanch (1980) and Dharmatma (1975). He died on 30 May 2013 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.- Yrjö Parjanne was born on 17 October 1929 in Valkeala, Finland. He was an actor, known for Samppanjaa ja vaahtokarkkeja (1995), Uuno Turhapuro armeijan leivissä (1986) and Natalia (1979). He was married to Tyyne Nora. He died on 30 May 2013 in Helsinki, Finland.
- Editor
- Sound Department
- Editorial Department
Tally Paulos was an accomplished Emmy Award Winning Sound Editor born on May 30, 1947 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. He was known for Dallas: The Early Years (1986), Mr. Nice Guy (1997), The Wedding Singer (1998) and Joe Versus the Volcano (1990). He died on 30 May 2013 in Nixa, Missouri, USA.- Mario Wirz was born on 3 December 1956 in Marburg, Hesse, Germany. He was an actor, known for Wie gut, daß es Maria gibt (1990), Die Wicherts von nebenan (1986) and Kleine Panne - Keine Panik (1985). He died on 30 May 2013 in Berlin, Germany.
- Tamás Homonnay was born on 2 January 1926 in Budapest, Hungary. He died on 30 May 2013 in Monroe, Connecticut, USA.
- Make-Up Department
Gerry Leetch was born on 16 January 1930 in Arkansas, USA. Gerry is known for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), American Graffiti (1973) and Terms of Endearment (1983). Gerry died on 30 May 2013 in Nevada, USA.