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- Actress
- Soundtrack
Emma was born Emma Gwynedd Mary Chambers born in Doncaster, South Yorkshire in 1964 to John, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, and Noelle (nee Strange). The family moved around and, while attending St Swithun's school, Winchester, Chambers acted in Winchester college productions - saying she "enjoyed showing off" - and played lacrosse for Hampshire. Her parents eventually split up and she trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, where the former EastEnders actor Ross Kemp was one of her contemporaries.
Her best remembered film role, in Curtis's 1999 romcom Notting Hill, was the eccentric Honey Thacker, star-struck and overawed at meeting the Hollywood actor (played by Julia Roberts) who has fallen for her bookshop-owner brother (Hugh Grant). Honey explains her own difficulties in finding a partner: "I don't have hair - I've got feathers - and I've got funny, goggly eyes, and I'm attracted to cruel men and no one will ever marry me because my boosies have actually started shrinking." She eventually becomes engaged to her brother's slovenly housemate (Rhys Ifans).
Her sister, Sarah Doukas, and brother, Simon, went on to run Storm Model Management, which discovered Kate Moss at the age of 14.
Chambers made her television debut as Margaret, one of the young Brangwen children, in a 1988 BBC adaptation of the DH Lawrence novel The Rainbow. In between one-off roles on TV, she played Charity Pecksniff in a six-part serialisation of Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit, which began in the same week as The Vicar of Dibley (1994).
The popular BBC sitcom, written by Richard Curtis with Paul Mayhew-Archer, ran for two series, from 1994 to 1998, finishing with Alice's marriage to Hugo Horton (played by James Fleet), her second cousin once removed. Geraldine described both as having the intellectual capacity of a cactus and the wedding was notable for the two bridal attendants dressed as Teletubbies. Chambers won the 1998 British Comedy Award for best actress and returned as Alice in various Vicar of Dibley specials between 1999 and 2007.
She had significant supporting roles in the sitcom How Do You Want Me? (1998-99) as Helen Yardley, sister of the newlywed Lisa (Charlotte Coleman) returning from London to be near her family in the countryside, and Take a Girl Like You (2000), Andrew Davies's adaptation of Kingsley Amis's comic novel, as Martha Thompson, the bored housewife hostile to her beautiful, northern lodger.
Chambers' West End theatre debut came with the part of Geain, estranged daughter of Ian McKellen's composer Jerome, in Alan Ayckbourn's comedy Henceforward... (Vaudeville theatre, 1988-89) after appearing in the original 1987 production at the Stephen Joseph theatre, Scarborough. In his casting notes for Geain, Ayckbourn stipulated: "Not a child, please. Just a very small actress." Chambers lodged with McKellen for a while and said she regarded him as a father figure.
When, in 1989, she starred in the Scarborough premiere of Ayckbourn's Invisible Friends as another teenage daughter, Lucy Baines, who has an imaginary companion to relieve the awfulness of living with her family, the critic Harry Eyres praised Chambers' skill in "conveying Lucy's kaleidoscopic emotional states with startling immediacy" and negotiating the tricky device of also acting as the play's narrator. She reprised the role in London at the Cottesloe during two stints with the National Theatre company (1991-92) that included appearances in productions such as Franz Kafka's The Trial and Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III.
She gave a hilarious performance as Orgon's daughter Mariane in Tartuffe (Almeida theatre, 1996) and starred as Sheila in Michael Frayn's Benefactors (Albery theatre, 2002), a performance described by one critic as "a touching study in parasitic helplessness".
Chambers who suffered from asthma, attacks of which were often brought on by an acute allergy to animals, withdrew largely but not entirely from public life after the final episode of The Vicar of Dibley (1994) in 2007, which was also to remain her final television role. On the evening of 21st February 2018 Chambers suffered a heart attack and died at her home in Lymington, Hampshire, England at the age of just 53. Her death was announced three days later by her agent John Grant.
Chambers was survived by her husband, the actor Ian Dunn, whom she married in 1991, and by her siblings.- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Billy Graham was arguably the most successful Christian evangelist in the world. He was born William Franklin Graham, Jr., on Thursday, November 7th, 1918 on a dairy farm near Charlotte, North Carolina, to Morrow (Coffey) and William Franklin Graham, who were dairy farmers. Billy was an unofficial pontifex maximus to the American Republic, from the Truman Administration to the Obama years. Graham served as a spiritual adviser to several American presidents, though he is most widely associated with Richard Nixon. He gave a prayer at every Presidential inauguration from 1948 to 1996, and was presented with a Congressional Gold Medal by his fellow Southern Baptist, Bill Clinton, in 1996.
As a radio and TV evangelist, Graham touched the lives of an estimated two billion people. He personally oversaw the spiritual rebirth of over 2.5 million people, who accepted Jesus as their personal savior at his revival meetings. The Gallup Poll listed him as number seven on its list of the most admired people of the 20th century.
Graham was a moderate and temperate preacher with a high level of tolerance. His split with Bob Jones, Sr. circa 1950 was the watershed moment of the divergence of evangelicals, like Graham, from fundamentalists, like Jones.
Billy Graham died at the age of 99 on February 21, 2018, in Montreat, North Carolina.- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Ren Ôsugi was born on 27 September 1951 in Komatsushima, Japan. He was an actor and producer, known for Fireworks (1997), Shin Godzilla (2016) and Audition (1999). He died on 21 February 2018 in Japan.- Jumpy was an actor, known for Rules Don't Apply (2016), In a Valley of Violence (2016) and Pups United (2015). He died on 21 February 2018 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- John Ridgely Howard was born to William R. Howard III, and Dorothy Lamour.
In 1959, his family moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where he attended military school. His family had a close personal relationship with J. Edgar Hoover. From that friendship with "Uncle Edgar" he was influenced to pursue a career in law enforcement.
John enlisted in the United States Marine Corp the day after he graduated from Towson High School, where he became a CID investigator. After leaving the Marines, he formed a security investigation agency specializing in insurance fraud, arson investigation working throughout the United States. He was a special investigator for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and other government agencies. John was a member of the California Conference of Arson Investigators and their international chapter. He was an active member of Central Valley Arson Investigators.
He died in Fresno, California at the age of 72. He was survived by his wife of 30 years, Charlene DeTurk. - Additional Crew
Peter Jay is known for Csillaghálóban (2016), Crimes That Shook the World (2006) and Real Crime (2001). He died on 21 February 2018 in Suffolk, England, UK.- Ulrich Pleitgen was born on 1 November 1942 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, West Germany. He was an actor, known for Nicht von schlechten Eltern (1993), Die Kinder (1990) and K3 - Kripo Hamburg (2003). He was married to Monika Koepchen. He died on 21 February 2018 in Hamburg, Germany.
- Roy Grooms was born on 6 December 1946 in the USA. He was married to Kathleen Rutherford Grooms. He died on 21 February 2018 in Sylva, North Carolina, USA.
- Ian Aitken was born on 19 September 1927 in Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK. He was married to Catherine Hay Aitken. He died on 21 February 2018 in the UK.
- Arthur Black was born on 30 August 1943 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was a writer, known for Weird Homes (1998) and The Forest in Crisis (1981). He was married to Lynne Raymond. He died on 21 February 2018 in Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada.
- Soundtrack
Michaële was born in September 1942 in Alexandria, Egypt. She died on 21 February 2018 in Paris, France.- Joan Maria Melis was born in 1926 in Santander, Cantabria, Spain. He was an actor, known for Mossèn Capellà (2009) and Laberint de passions (2006). He died on 21 February 2018 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
- Myeong-Wook Cha was an actor, known for Oasis Laundry (2018). He died on 21 February 2018 in South Korea.
- Sound Department
- Camera and Electrical Department
Pawel Fidala was born on 25 October 1965 in Sosnowiec, Slaskie, Poland. He is known for Labirynt swiadomosci (2017), Chaos (2006) and Skazany na bluesa (2005). He died on 21 February 2018 in Katowice, Slaskie, Poland.- Milto Profi was born on 23 March 1938 in Durres, Albania. He was an actor, known for Një udhëtim i vështirë (1977), Dorina (1979) and Emblema e dikurshme (1979). He died on 21 February 2018 in Pireas, Greece.
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Taïeb Louhichi is a Tunisian director born on June 16, 1948 in Mareth. After literature and sociology studies which resulted in a doctorate degree, he turned towards cinematography and was trained at the Institut de Formation Cinématographique and Vaugirard Street School in Paris.
He shot several short films such as « Mon village, un village parmi tant d'autres » (My village, a village among others), winner of the Golden Tanit at the Cinematographic Days of Carthage in 1972, « Le Métayer » (The Sharecropper), awarded in many festivals in 1976 and « Carthage, An 12 » (Carthage, year 12). Louhichi released his debut feature film, Shadow of the Earth, in 1982. Shadow of the Earth won several awards at the 8th Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO), including best screenplay. Louhichi's debut was also screened by the International Critics' Week in Cannes. In 1987, he shot « Goree, island of grandfather » followed in 1989 by « Layla, my reason » which was selected for official competition at the Venice Film Festival of 1991 and received the Audience Award at the first African Film Festival in Milan.
He was also named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France.
Louhichi suffered serious injuries in a 2006 car accident in the United Arab Emirates while visiting the country to chair the jury of an Emirati film festival.
In 2011, he filmed the documentary Les Gens de l'étincelle (People of the Spark) on the Tunisian Revolution. He released L'Enfant du soleil (The Child of the Sun) in 2013. His last feature film was 2017's La Rumeur de l'eau (Water Rumours).
In 2020, his hometown Mareth is organizing the first edition of the Taïeb Louhichi Film Festival.
Honors and Awards:- Carthage Film Festival (1972) : Golden Tanit (short documentary) for Mon village, un village parmi tant d'autres (My village, a village among others)
- Carthage Film Festival (1976) : Critics' Prize (short documentary) for El Khammès (The Sharecropper)
- International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (1977) : International Jury Prize for El Khammès (The Sharecropper)
- Cabourg Film Festival (1977) : Special Jury Prize and Press Prize for El Khammès (The Sharecropper)
- Festival international du court métrage de Lille (1977) : Citation Award for El Khammès (The Sharecropper)
- ACCT (1979) : Great Prize (shot documentary) for El Khammès (The Sharecropper)
- Cannes Film Festival (1982) : Unesco Prize and Mention of the Ecumenical Jury for L'Ombre de la terre (Shadow of the earth)
- Mannheim-Heidelberg International Filmfestival (1982) : Golden Doukat for L'Ombre de la terre (Shadow of the earth)
- Taormina Film Fest (1982) : City Prize and Italian Critic Prize for L'Ombre de la terre (Shadow of the earth)
- Moscow International Film Festival (1983) : Special Jury Prize for L'Ombre de la terre (Shadow of the earth)
- Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (1983) : Best Screenplay and Best Operator for L'Ombre de la terre (Shadow of the earth)
- International Film Festival Vues d'Afrique (1985) : Grand Prize of Les Journées du cinéma africain de Montréal for L'Ombre de la terre (Shadow of the earth)
- Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (1991) : Best Sound Editing for Layla, ma raison (Layla, my reason)
- African, Asian and Latin American Film Festival of Milan (1991) : Audience Award for Layla, ma raison (Layla, my reason)
- Rencontres cinématographiques de Dakar (1994) : Golden Dak RECIDAK for Kër Jo Ouakam
- Bari International Film Festival (1998) : Grand Prize for Noces de lune (Wedding of the moon)
- MNET (1998) : Prix du meilleur décor pour Noces de lune (Wedding of the moon)
- International Film Festival Vues d'Afrique (1999) : Mention de la jeunesse aux Journées du cinéma africain
- Arab Film Festival Rotterdam (2004) : Special Jury Prize for La Danse du vent (Dance of the wind)
- African Film Festival in Khouribga (2004) : Prize of La Cinéphilie and Best Actor for La Danse du vent (Dance of the wind)
- Festival international du cinéma arabe de Gabès (2015) : Prix d'honneur pour l'ensemble de son oeuvre
- Ecrans Noirs Festival (2015) : Charles Menzah Honor Prize for the Director's works
- Zagora Transsaharan Film Festival (2018) : Special Prize for his work
- Special Prize for his work at the 2018 Alexandria International Film Festival and the 2018 Annaba Mediterranean Film Festival
- Award of Honor for all of his work at the International Festival of Arab Cinema in Gabès 2018
- Tribute to his work at the Cinémathèque in Tunis 2018, at the Cinema La Clef Paris 2018 (by TV5 Monde Afrique, the International Organization of La Francophonie, the Guild of African Directors and Producers, Cinemawon, and CNCI Tunisia).
- Tribute for his work at Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou 2019 and at the Rencontres Cinématographiques de Dakar 2019
- Yury Khoroshilov was born on 18 November 1970. He was an actor, known for Vyshe radugi (1986). He died on 21 February 2018.
- Additional Crew
Sándor Halmágyi was born on 13 October 1929 in Budapest, Hungary. Sándor is known for A Budapesti Állatkert (1981). Sándor died on 21 February 2018 in Szombathely, Hungary.- Actor
- Stunts
Don Kell was an actor, known for Walker, Texas Ranger (1993) and A House Divided (2006). He died on 21 February 2018.