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- Petite and amiable blonde 50s B-movie starlet June Kenney was groomed for a performing career from early childhood. By the age of four she was proficient as a singer and dancer. Her mother enrolled her in the 'Meglin Kiddies' dancing troupe (Judy Garland was a former alumnus) to learn ballet and tap. Hoping to break into films, teenaged June attended the Hollywood Professional School and made ends meet as an usherette at Grauman's Chinese. While acting in a local play she was spotted by the brother of talent agent and producer Paul Kohner and signed up with the agency. Her first appearance on screen was in 1952. She made little headway for the first five years, though her face and voice garnered some exposure through TV ads for Vaseline, Coppertone and Austin-Healy.
In 1957, June headlined as a juvenile delinquent in her first feature: Roger Corman's Teenage Doll (1957). Corman liked her performance and this paved the way to further leads in teen exploitation flics like Sorority Girl (1957), Hot Car Girl (1958) and the interminable titled The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent (1957). Her stock-in-trade characters were usually naive girls caught up in bad company or unjustly accused. June attracted some scream queen notice in Bert I. Gordon's sub-zero budget Dr. Cyclops (1940) pastiche Attack of the Puppet People (1958) and in the even sillier The Spider (1958). With this resume, it was somehow inevitable that she would end up being typecast as a B-movie actress. Unable to break out of the mould and obtain better roles, June's career took a turn for the worse after her final starring fling (in Bloodlust! (1961), an inferior reworking of Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game (1932) ) was universally panned by critics and audiences alike. By 1962, she seems to have lost heart, abandoned acting and segued into voicing commercials for a Los Angeles sports radio station. Her work in that medium continued after she married and settled down on a horse ranch in Nevada as June C. Sebastian. - Director
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- Additional Crew
John Erman was born on 3 August 1935 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a director and producer, known for The Blackwater Lightship (2004), Roots (1977) and The Outer Limits (1963). He died on 25 June 2021 in New York City, New York, USA.- Litzi Botello was born on 22 November 1958 in Norwalk, California, USA. She died on 25 June 2021 in Port Protection, Alaska, USA.
- Harry DeLeyer was born on 21 September 1927 in Sint-Oedenrode, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands. He was married to Joan Gaisunas and Johanna. He died on 25 June 2021 in Standardsville, Virginia, USA.
- Actress
Olga Barnet is a Russian actress of Moscow Art Theatre (MKhAT).
She was born Olga Borisovna Barnet on September 3, 1951, in the Soviet Union. Her father, Boris Barnet, was a legendary Soviet film actor and director, who was in his fourth marriage to Olga's mother, Alla Kazarnovskaya, an actress of Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow. Her father committed suicide in 1965, when Olga was 14. From 1968 -1972 she studied acting under A. Borisov at Shchukin Theatrical School of Vakhtangov Theatre, graduating in 1972 as an actress. That same year she made her film debut as Mother in Solaris (1972) by director Andrei Tarkovsky.
Since 1972 Olga Barnet has been a permanent member of the troupe at Moscow Art Theatre (MKhAT). There her stage partners were such renown Russian actors as Anatoli Ktorov, Alla Tarasova, Olga Androvskaya, Angelina Stepanova, Mikhail Yanshin, Viktor Stanitsyn, Aleksey Gribov, Mark Prudkin, Anastasiya Georgievskaya, Vasili Toporkov, Mikhail Bolduman, Pavel Massalsky, and the next generation of MKhAT actors - Oleg Efremov, Tatyana Doronina, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Oleg Tabakov, Kristina Babushkina, Alla Pokrovskaya, Kira Golovko, Tatyana Lavrova, Iya Savvina, Nina Gulyaeva, Elena Panova, Darya Moroz, Olga Litvinova, Natalya Rogozhkina, Ekaterina Semyonova, Olga Yakovleva, Raisa Maksimova, Irina Miroshnichenko, Evgeniya Dobrovolskaya, Anastasiya Voznesenskaya, Andrey Myagkov, Stanislav Lyubshin, Vladimir Kashpur, Vladlen Davydov, Viktor Sergachyov, Vyacheslav Nevinnyy, Evgeniy Kindinov, Vladimir Krasnov, Sergei Desnitsky, Dmitriy Nazarov, Sergey Sazontev, Avangard Leontev, Igor Vasilev, Igor Vernik, Sergei Sosnovsky, Mikhail Porechenkov, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Valeri Khlevinsky, Aleksei Agapov, Valeriy Troshin, Mikhail Trukhin, Eduard Chekmazov, Aleksey Kravchenko, and Evgeniy Mironov among others. In the 1970s - 1990s Barnet made her best known stage appearances in Anton Chekhov's classic plays as Olga in 'Tri Sestry' (aka.. The Three Sisters), and in 'Vishnevy sad' (aka.. The Cherry Orchard). She also made acclaimed performances as Fiery in 'Sinyaya ptitsa' (aka.. The Blue Bird) by Maurice Maeterlinck, and as Countess-daughter in Aleksandr Griboyedov's 'Gore ot Uma' (aka.. Woe From Wit).
Olga Barnet was designated People's Actress of Russia, and received numerous awards from the Soviet and Russian governments. Besides her work at Moscow Art Theatre, Barnet made stage appearances at Moscow Theatre of Oleg Tabakov. Outside of her acting profession Barnet has been involved in humanitarian causes, such as pet rescue missions. Olga Barnet is living in Moscow, Russia.- Actor
- Writer
Karel Urbánek was born on 13 February 1930 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor and writer, known for Gottwald (1986), Pod Jezevci skalou (1978) and Neobycejná trída (1965). He died on 25 June 2021 in Prague, Czech Republic.- Diego Leon was an actor, known for Lala's Spa (2021), El fantasma del Gran Hotel (2009) and Enfermeras (2019). He died on 25 June 2021 in Bogotá, Colombia.
- Yekaterina Krupennikova was born on 15 February 1940 in Leningrad, USSR. She was an actress, known for Bukhta smerti (1991), Zdes nam zhit (1972) and Shkura belogo medvedya (1980). She died on 25 June 2021 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actor
- Composer
- Music Department
Wes Madiko was an actor and composer, known for The Wild Thornberrys (2002), Wes: Alane (1997) and Wes: Awa Awa (1997). He died on 25 June 2021 in Paris, France.- Producer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Production Manager
Justine Héroux was born in 1942 in Canada. Justine was a producer and assistant director, known for The Plouffe Family (1981), Le matou (1985) and Atlantic City (1980). Justine was married to Denis Héroux. Justine died on 25 June 2021 in Outremont, Quebec, Canada.- Production Designer
- Actor
- Art Director
Zurab Nijaradze was born on 4 December 1928 in Tiflis, Georgian SSR, TSFSR, USSR [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia]. He was a production designer and actor, known for Alka (1990), Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird (1970) and Mamali-qirurgi (1970). He died on 25 June 2021.- 44 the Stepper was born on 8 December 1997 in Houston, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for 44 the Stepper & TSG Skitzo 400: Givin Up (2019), 44 the Stepper x TSG Skitzo 400 x Lah Faneeto x 314 Skrap: TSG Still Stepping (2020) and 44 the Stepper x Kaego: Back in Blood Shotta Mix (2021). He died on 25 June 2021 in Houston, Texas, USA.
- Igor Sirenko was born on 8 December 1940 in Mariupol, Ukrainskaya SSR, USSR. He was an actor, known for Arena (1967). He died on 25 June 2021 in Moscow, Russia.
- Camera and Electrical Department
Monianne was born on 22 September 1941 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Monianne is known for The Disappearance (1977). Monianne died on 25 June 2021 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.- Rinaldo Rafanelli was born in 1949 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He died on 25 June 2021 in Villa Mercedes, San Luis, Argentina.
- Giangavino Sulas died on 25 June 2021 in Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy.
- Martijn Van Kerrebroeck was an actor, known for Voorjaarsontwaken (1976) and Wierook en tranen (1977). He died on 25 June 2021 in Aalst, Flanders, Belgium.