Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
Only includes names with the selected topics
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
1-7 of 7
- Actor
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Although versatile character actor and voice extraordinary Henry Corden will forever be associated with, and fondly remembered for, providing the bellicose, gravel-toned rasp of cartoon immortal Fred Flintstone, he enjoyed a long and varied career prior to this distinction, which took up most of his later years.
Born in Montreal, Canada, on Tuesday, January 6, 1920, his family moved to New York while he was still a child. Henry received his start on stage and radio before heading off to Hollywood in the 1940s. He made his film debut as a minor heavy in the Danny Kaye vehicle, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947), as Boris Karloff's bestial henchman, and continued on along those same lines, often in uncredited/unbilled parts. A master at dialects, he was consistently employed as either an ethnic Middle Eastern villain or some sort of streetwise character (club manager, salesman) in 1950s costumed adventures and crime yarns, both broad and serious.
He seldom made it into the prime support ranks, however, with somewhat insignificant parts in Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), Viva Zapata! (1952), Scaramouche (1952), I Confess (1953), King Richard and the Crusaders (1954), Jupiter's Darling (1955) and The Ten Commandments (1956). On TV, he could regularly be found on both drama ("Perry Mason", "The Untouchables") and light comedy ("My Little Margie," "Mister Ed"). A heightened visibility on TV included playing Barbara Eden's genie father on "I Dream of Jeannie" and as the contentious landlord "Mr. Babbitt" on "The Monkees".
Henry made a highly lucrative move into animation in the 1960s supplying a host of brutish voices on such cartoons as "Johnny Quest", "The Jetsons", "Secret Squirrel", "Atom Ant", "Josie and the Pussycats", and "The Harlem Globetrotters". He inherited the voice of Fred Flintstone after the show's original vocal owner, Alan Reed, passed away in 1977. He went on to give life to Flintstone for nearly three decades on various revamped cartoon series, animated specials and cereal commercials. He was performing as Flintstone, in fact, until about three months prior to his death of emphysema at the age of 85 on Wednesday, May 19, 2005.
Married four times, he was survived by wife Angelina; two daughters (from his first marriage), and three stepchildren (from his last union).- Composer
- Music Department
- Additional Crew
Linda Martinez was born on 2 December 1975 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. She was a composer, known for Apollo 18 (2011), Kinsey (2004) and Teeth (2007). She died on 19 May 2005 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Alastair Forbes was born on 12 May 1918 in Surrey, England, UK. He was married to Georgina Ward and Charlotte Bergsoe. He died on 19 May 2005 in London, England, UK.
- Roy Edwin Schallert was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Schallert who both worked for the Los Angeles Times' Drama Department as Editor and Journalists respectively. Although Roy Schallert is best known for his appearance in the 'I Love Lucy' show in the 1950's, he spent most of his career running the 'New Playwright's Foundation', which was first on Hyperion Blvd. and then on Santa Monica Blvd. in Hollywood, of which he founded and put on many new plays written by both himself and new play writers over a span of forty years. He directed most of the plays and often appeared in them himself; a few of them being, 'The Twenty-First Wife' in which he played the part of Brigham Young, and 'Poop', a comedy that he wrote. Well-known actors and writers were presented through the 'New Playwright's Foundation, among them being Dalene Young. Roy Schallert was also a remarkable computer programmer, working for the Los Angeles County Health Dept. and developing a first of its kind computerized billing program for health insurance for the entire county. In his spare time Roy Schallert enjoyed writing poetry and dabbling in music, composing songs; one of them notably about Marilyn Monroe.
- Batya Gur was born on 20 January 1947 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Batya was a writer, known for Die Seele eines Mörders (2009), Mörderischer Besuch (2010) and The Saturday Morning Murder (1991). Batya was married to Ariel Hirschfeld and Amos Gur. Batya died on 19 May 2005 in Jerusalem, Israel.
- Producer
- Autor
- Composer
Composer, author and producer Richard Lewine was born in New York, NY on July 28, 1910 and was educated at Franklin Prep, Columbia University and NYU, and was a student of the Schillinger System. A captain in the Signal Corps during World War II, he joined CBS Television to direct special programs over a nine-year period, and produced "Cinderella", "Aladdin", and "Blithe Spirit". Joining ASCAP in 1967, he wrote the Broadway stage scores for "The Fireman's Flame", "Naughty-Naught", "The Girl From Wyoming", "Make Mine Manhattan" and "The Girls Against the Boys", and songs for the Ziegfeld Follies and Star and Garter and co-edited "The Encyclopedia of Theatre Music". His chief musical collaborators included Ted Fetter and Arnold Horwitt, and his popular-song compositions include "Let's Hold Hands", "I Like the Nose on Your Face", "Do My Eyes Deceive Me?", "Saturday Night in Central Park", "Love Makes the World Go Round", "I Fell In Love With You", "Gentleman Friend", "Mother Isn't Getting Any Younger", "Doing the Waltz", "Old-Fashioned Girl", "Home by the Sea", "Hootenanny Saturday Night", "I Gotta Have You", and "Lolita".- Anatoliy Grachyov was born on 12 July 1937 in Ishimbay, Bashkir ASSR, RSFSR, USSR [now Bashkortostan, Russia]. He was an actor, known for Vrag naroda - Bukharin (1991), Volchya staya (1975) and K Chyornomu moryu (1958). He died on 19 May 2005 in Moscow, Russia.