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Kay Walsh graced the British Cinema of the 1930s and 1940s as a leading lady, before maturing into character roles. She was born Kathleen Walsh in London, England of Irish parentage. She and her sister Peggy were raised in Pimlico by their grandmother. She began her career as a dancer in the chorus of several Andre Charlot revues, before performing solo in New York and Berlin.
Kay made her screen debut in Get Your Man (1934) and later appeared in The Luck of the Irish (1936). After appearing as a dancer in the West End show "The Melody that Got Lost", the producer Basil Dean signed her to a contract with Ealing Studios. She starred opposite George Formby in the comedies Keep Fit (1937) and I See Ice! (1938). She met an aspiring film editor David Lean in 1936 and they were married in 1940. She collaborated on several of his films by writing additional dialogue and advising on production and casting.
She made an impression in In Which We Serve (1942), as Queenie Gibbons in This Happy Breed (1944), as Nancy in Oliver Twist (1948), Vice Versa (1948), Stage Fright (1950), The Magnet (1950), Last Holiday (1950), Encore (1951), Young Bess (1953), Lease of Life (1954), Tunes of Glory (1960) and Scrooge (1970). She won a BAFTA nomination and a National Board of Review award for Best Actress for "The Horse's Mouth" (1958). She retired from acting after appearing in Night Crossing (1982).
She was twice married. Following her divorce from David Lean in 1949, she married the Canadian psychologist Elliott Jaques (1917-2003). They adopted a daughter Gemma in 1956, but the marriage was later dissolved. Kay Walsh died at age 93 on April 16, 2005 at the Chelsea and Westminister Hospital from multiple burns, days after being injured in a fire at her London residence.- Helen Lloyd Breed was born on 27 January 1911 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Witches of Eastwick (1987), Big Daddy (1999) and Mickey Blue Eyes (1999). She died on 16 April 2005 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Actor
- Producer
Gerald Milton was born on 12 January 1923 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Twisted Justice (1990), The Naked Kiss (1964) and The Restless Breed (1957). He died on 16 April 2005 in Laguna Hills, California, USA.- Writer
- Director
- Actor
Volker Vogeler was born on 27 June 1930 in Bad Polzin, Pomerania, Germany [now Polczyn-Zdrój, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]. He was a writer and director, known for Jaider, der einsame Jäger (1971), Yankee Dudler (1973) and Das Tal der tanzenden Witwen (1975). He died on 16 April 2005 in Hamburg, Germany.- Actor
- Composer
Wataru Takada was born on 1 January 1949 in Gifu, Japan. He was an actor and composer, known for Kaizokuban Bootleg Film (1999), Flic (2005) and Takada Wataru teki (2004). He died on 16 April 2005 in Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan.- Mu-saeng Kim was born in 1942. He was an actor, known for Duldo eobtneun neo (1977), Daewi (1976) and Sarangui nakshi (1988). He died on 16 April 2005.
- Director
- Producer
- Cinematographer
Dave Heather was born on 17 February 1941 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, UK. He was a director and producer, known for Great Performances (1971), Princess Ida (1982) and Mozart's Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti (1975). He was married to Annie Heather. He died on 16 April 2005 in Tonbridge, Kent, England, UK.- Music Department
- Composer
Don B. Ray was born on 7 June 1925 in Santa Maria, California, USA. Don B. was a composer, known for Hawaii Five-O (1968), I Love You All (1980) and Playhouse 90 (1956). Don B. died on 16 April 2005 in Santa Monica, California, USA.- Marla Ruzicka was born in a tiny conservative town in northern California. She was one of six children, and a born activist, with a passion for human rights and an innate ability to hustle anyone. When she was in the eighth grade, Marla rallied her entire school to stage a walkout in protest of the Persian Gulf War. At seventeen, Marla began volunteering at the San Francisco headquarters of Global Exchange, an international human-rights organization co-founded by Medea Benjamin, who became her surrogate mother. Marla enrolled at Long Island University, in the Friends World Program, and for four years studied in Costa Rica, Cuba, Israel/Palestine, and Eastern Africa. After graduating from LIU in 1999, Marla returned to Zimbabwe, where she'd met a musician named Phillip Machingura. They returned to California together, and were married in 2000.
But Marla was restless in San Francisco, particularly after September 11, 2001. Six weeks after the war in Afghanistan was launched, she visited Afghan refugee camps in Peshawar, Pakistan. Marla was horrified by the sight of orphaned children and the civilian devastation caused by U.S. air strikes. Instead of returning to California as planned, she stayed in Pakistan to collect stories of civilian victims; a few days later, as the Taliban fell, she hitched a ride over the border to Afghanistan.
There, Marla befriended journalists, and examined the collateral damage of the U.S. bombing campaign. She knocked on doors and visited the wounded in hospitals. With her uncombed platinum hair and childlike demeanor, she was highly unconventional. The press corps dubbed her "Bubbles." In the summer of 2002, Ruzicka went to Washington, D.C., where she lobbied Patrick Leahy to institutionalize the U.S.'s policy of compensating civilians. She and Leahy developed legislation to provide $1.5 million in medical care, home rebuilding, micro-loans and other forms of assistance to Afghan civilians. The legislation was the first of its kind in American history.
In 2003, shortly before the U.S. declared war, she moved to Baghdad, and founded the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC) to count civilian casualties, which the U.S. government was not doing. Marla visited villages and hospitals, interviewing witnesses and holding demonstrations, demanding that the U.S. compensate civilians for the destruction. Over time, the press started following her. Her efforts were reported in papers around the world, including Newsweek and the New York Times. Along with Iraqi colleagues, Marla and CIVIC organized door-to-door surveys, with more than 160 volunteers, to obtain firsthand accounts of civilian casualties and injuries as a result of military action. As a result of her data, Sen. Leahy sponsored another bill in 2003, awarding a record $10 million in assistance to Iraqi civilians.
On April 16, 2005, Marla and her driver were killed when a suicide bomb exploded on Baghdad's Airport Road. According to Rolling Stone Magazine, "Ruzicka is perhaps the most famous American aid worker to die in any conflict of the past two decades... She stands as a youthful representative of American idealism, and darkly symbolic of what has gone so tragically wrong in Iraq." Six hundred people, including Barbara Boxer and Sean Penn, attended her funeral in her hometown of Lakeport. There were also memorial services in New York, Washington, Baghdad, Kabul, and San Francisco. - Set Decorator
Henry Goetze was born on 26 January 1952. He was a set decorator, known for Shoemaker (1996). He died on 16 April 2005.