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Lanky, charismatic and versatile actor with an amazing grin that put everyone at ease, James Coburn studied acting at UCLA, and then moved to New York to study under noted acting coach Stella Adler. After being noticed in several stage productions, Coburn appeared in a handful of minor westerns before being cast as the knife-throwing, quick-shooting Britt in the John Sturges mega-hit The Magnificent Seven (1960). Sturges remembered Coburn's talents when he cast his next major film project, The Great Escape (1963), where Coburn played the Australian POW Sedgwick. Regular work now came thick and fast for Coburn, including appearing in Major Dundee (1965), the first of several films he appeared in directed by Hollywood enfant terrible Sam Peckinpah.
Coburn was then cast, and gave an especially fine performance as Lt. Commander Paul Cummings in Arthur Hiller's The Americanization of Emily, where he demonstrated a flair for writer Paddy Chayefsky's subtle, ironic comedy that would define his performances for the rest of his career.
The next two years were a key period for Coburn, with his performances in the wonderful 007 spy spoof Our Man Flint (1966) and the eerie Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966). Coburn followed up in 1967 with a Flint sequel, In Like Flint (1967), and the much underrated political satire The President's Analyst (1967). The remainder of the 1960s was rather uneventful for Coburn. However, he became associated with martial arts legend Bruce Lee and the two trained together, traveled extensively and even visited India scouting locations for a proposed film project, but Lee's untimely death (Coburn, along with Steve McQueen, was a pallbearer at Lee's funeral) put an end to that.
The 1970s saw Coburn appearing again in several strong roles, starting off in Peckinpah's Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973), alongside Charles Bronson in the Depression-era Hard Times (1975) and as a disenchanted German soldier on the Russian front in Peckinpah's superb Cross of Iron (1977). Towards the end of the decade, however, Coburn was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, which severely hampered his health and work output for many years. After conventional treatments failed, Coburn turned to a holistic therapist, and through a restructured diet program, made a definite improvement. By the 1990s he was once again appearing regularly in both film and TV productions.
No one was probably more surprised than Coburn himself when he was both nominated for, and then won, the Best Supporting Actor Award in 1997 for playing Nick Nolte's abusive and alcoholic father in Affliction (1997). At 70 years of age, Coburn's career received another shot in the arm, and he appeared in another 14 films, including Snow Dogs (2002) and The Man from Elysian Fields (2001), before his death from a heart attack in November of 2002. Coburn's passions in life included martial arts, card-playing and enjoying Cuban cigars (which may have contributed to his fatal heart attack).- Actor
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José Rizaldy Zshornack was born in Manila, December 30, 1940.
He finished high school at the Manila Central University, and married actress/beauty queen Shirley Gorospe, who became his leading lady in many of his pictures.
Zshornack first appeared in Sisa (1951), a film directed by Gerardo de Leon for Premiere Productions, starring Anita Linda.
The lead character comes from the novel by Jose Rizal, the "Noli me tangere," a woman who goes mad looking for her two children.
Zshornack followed up with Ukelele Boy (1957), for Larry Santiago Productions (LSP).
His first leadng role was in Barumbado (1957), but it was in LSP's Lo Waist Gang (1958), with "Fernando Poe, Jr", in which he gained recognition.
An appealing action star was born.
Other films from t this period include Kamay ni Cain (1957), Bakya mo Neneng (1957), Pusakal (1957), Tokyo 1960 (1957), Batang piyer (1958), Anak ng lasengga (1958), Wanted: Husband (1958), Asintado (1958), Viuda de Oro (1960) and Falcon (1962).
Zshornack was suave with the ladies, quick on the draw and a good with children, but, he also excelled outside the Western genre.
Zshornack's reel and real life romance with favorite leading lady "Shirley Gorospe", resulted in a string of musicals and dramas on their love life, such as Sweethearts (1957), Shirley, My Darling (1958), You're My Everything (1958), the "Hong Kong Story" episode in the film _Obra-maestra (1958)_, _Hong Kong Honeymoon (1960)_, and Fil-American Girl (1963).
When his contract with Premiere studio expired, Zshornack set up his own ZZ Productions, which made Zaldong Bangketa (1966).
He also free-lanced with over movie studios, and among the films he made in this period are: _Apatna agila (1964)_, for Lea Productions; _Nueva Vizcaya (1973)_, with Eddie Garcia, for Rosal Films (owned by "susan Roces"; Rio Tigre (1974), for Roda Films; Sacramento (1974), for Film Productions; and _Kutong Lupa (1976)_, for Rootman Productions.
Zshornack was chosen Best Actor at the Second Quezon (City) Film Festival for De la Cruz (1971).
He was twice nominated for Best Actor, by the Filipino Academy of Movie Arts & Sciences ("FAMAS" qv), for Hindi na Sisikat ang Araw (1973) and Batingaw (1974).
He was also nominated by the Film Academy of the Philippines (FAP) for best supporting actor, for his gritty portrayal of a police captain in _Kaaway ng Batas (1990)_.- The United Press International Hollywood correspondent and columnist for 52 years, Vernon Scott was a widely respected member of the Tinseltown journalistic community. In addition to his daily column for UPI, which started in 1950, Scott also offered a radio version of his filmic observations and musings on UPI Radio Network for 12 years.
Among his many and varied credentials covering Hollywood for UPI was the fact that Vernon was one of the first top-of-the-line journalists to not only GET the joke of the RAZZIE Awards (which "dis-honor" Worst Achievements in Film) but to run with it. For more than 20 years, Scott was an unflagging supporter of the counter-culture awards, doing everything he could think of to help bring them into the mainstream. He continued to cover the movie business until shortly before his death from a double cardiac arrest (and complications from pancreatitis) on November 18, 2002. - Bolot Beyshenaliev was born on 25 June 1937 in Toktogul, Kirghiz SSR, USSR [now Toktogul, Jalal Abad, Kyrgyzstan]. He was an actor, known for Andrei Rublev (1966), Poslednyaya okhota (1980) and Gde 042? (1969). He died on 18 November 2002.
- Llewelyn Thomas was an actor, known for The Boogey Man (1980). He died on 18 November 2002.
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Vasilica Istrate was born on 14 November 1934 in Prahova, Romania. She was a producer and writer, known for Shootings Under the Moonlight (1977), Eu, tu si Ovidiu (1978) and Impossible Love (1984). She died on 18 November 2002 in Bucharest, Romania.- Writer
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Angelo Stea was born on 10 February 1949. He was a writer and producer, known for Videodrome (1983), The Skulls (2000) and Dracula 2000 (2000). He died on 18 November 2002.- Claire Leyba was born on 5 April 1912 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Anna Lucasta (1958) and Fight That Ghost (1946). She died on 18 November 2002 in New York, New York, USA.
- Anatoli Sosnin was born on 1 December 1925. He was a writer, known for Ot zarplaty do zarplaty (1986) and Gribnoy dozhd (1982). He died on 18 November 2002.
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Andrei Lyusikov was born on 20 February 1966. He was an art director, known for Lichter (2003). He died on 18 November 2002 in Berlin, Germany.- Francesco De Martino was born on 31 May 1907 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He died on 18 November 2002 in Naples, Campania, Italy.
- Juliusz Wyrzykowski was born on 6 June 1946 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. He was an actor, known for Stan strachu (1989), Bezkresne laki (1977) and Glód (1986). He died on 18 November 2002 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.