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- Jeffrey Disick was born on 10 February 1950. He was married to Bonnie Disick. He died on 2 January 2014 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Writer
- Actress
Elizabeth Jane Howard was born on 26 March 1923 in London, England, UK. She was a writer and actress, known for Getting It Right (1989), The Very Edge (1963) and Dark of the Night (1984). She was married to Kingsley Amis, Jim Douglas Henry and Peter Scott. She died on 2 January 2014 in Bungay, Suffolk, England, UK.- Additional Crew
- Producer
- Writer
Mike Vraney first fell in love with exploitation cinema while working various jobs at several drive-in movie theaters and porno theaters as a teenager. The high school dropout ran a comic book shop and produced concerts and film conventions prior to launching the video distributor Something Weird Video (SWV) in 1990. SWV specializes in releasing a rich array of low-grade trashy out-of-the-mainstream independent fare on both VHS and DVD alike that runs the gamut from horror features to softcore flicks to vintage classroom scare items to TV commercials to hardcore X-rated smut to theatrical trailers to collections of nudie loops and burlesque clips.
Among the notable schlock cult cinema figures whose pictures have been issued on the SWV label are Herschell Gordon Lewis, David F. Friedman, Harry H. Novak, Joseph W. Sarno, Doris Wishman, William Grefé, Bethel Buckalew and Barry Mahon. Vraney was an associate producer on the belated sequel Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat (2002) and appeared as himself in the documentaries Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films (2003), Mau Mau Sex Sex (2001) and Hype! (1996). In addition to his cinema-related business, he also managed the punk band 'DEK'; his son Mark Vraney was a member of the group.
Vraney lived in Seatle, Washington, with his artist wife, Lisa Petrucci. He died at age 56 from lung cancer on January 2, 2014.- Producer
- Director
- Actor
Chicago-born Bernard Glasser grew up in what he calls "the movie generation" and fell in love with pictures at the ripe old age of four. In the late 1940s, while working as a teacher at Beverly Hills High School, he got his feet wet in the film industry by working as a production assistant. In 1950 he invested in an old motion picture studio and turned it into a rental lot, Keywest Studios. Glasser leased his facility to producers like Roger Corman (The Fast and the Furious (1954)), Burt Lancaster (Apache (1954)) and others as well as using the facilities to make a five-day, $50,000 film of his own--The Three Stooges' Gold Raiders (1951), directed by Glasser's friend Edward Bernds. When Glasser's studio lease expired in 1955, he and Bernds combined forces on a series of budget features for Robert L. Lippert's Regal Films.
Working overseas during the 1960s, often in collaboration with producer/writer Philip Yordan, Glasser added to his filmography such well-remembered films as Battle of the Bulge (1965), The Day of the Triffids (1963) and Crack in the World (1965).- Ron Ray was an actor, known for Homicide (1964), Rising Shores (2007) and Erotique (1994). He died on 2 January 2014 in Encinitas, California, USA.
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Ming Li was born in 1966 in China. He was a producer, known for Reign of Assassins (2010), Beauty on Duty (2010) and Fleet of Time (2014). He died on 2 January 2014 in Beijing, China.- Casting Department
Claudia Speicher was born on 24 April 1948 in Huntington, Indiana, USA. Claudia is known for The Dangerous (1995). Claudia died on 2 January 2014 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Tai-Hsiang Li was born on 20 February 1941 in Taichung, Taiwan. He was a composer, known for Your Smiling Face (1979), Ming jian feng liu (1981) and The Unsinkable Miss Calabash (1981). He died on 2 January 2014 in Xindian, Taiwan.- Sam Ulano was born on 8 August 1920 in New York City, New York, USA. He died on 2 January 2014 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Additional Crew
- Actress
Jeanne Brabants was born on 25 January 1920 in Antwerpen, Flanders, Belgium. She was an actress, known for Floraliënshow (1965), De TV maakt muziek (1955) and De theaterdirecteur (1965). She was married to Bert Van Kerkhoven. She died on 2 January 2014 in Antwerp, Belgium.- Mel Richardson was a captive wild animal health consultant and had over 40 years of experience from zookeeper to veterinarian. He cared for animals in zoos, circuses, drive-thru wildlife parks, and private animal owners. He was Mountain Gorilla Veterinarian from September 1992 until March 1993 when war forced an evacuation from Rwanda. He was Project Director for the Brazzaville Gorilla Orphanage in the Republic of the Congo from December 1995 until July 1996. He was veterinarian with Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) in San Andreas, CA. He acted as Project Veterinarian for Animal Defenders International's Bolivian Circus Lion Rescue from December 2009 through February 2011, working to inform and educate the public to the reality of the suffering endured by captive wildlife. He assisted groups and like minded individuals by reviewing records, site visits, and expert testimony where needed.