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- Green-eyed blonde bombshell Belinda Lee was born in Devon, England to florist Stella Mary Graham and hotel owner Robert Esmond Lee on June 15, 1935. Nicknamed "Billie," she was an incredible beauty while still a teen attending the Rookesbury Park Prep School in Hampshire and St. Margaret's boarding school in Devon. Expressing an avid interest in acting, she focused on dramatics at the Tudor Arts Academy at Surrey (1947), then gained entry via a scholarship to London's RADA, at which she made her stage debut in "Point of Departure."
Sharp-faced Belinda was noticed by Rank Studio director Val Guest while performing at the Nottingham Playhouse. She was artificially groomed in starlet parts, the first being The Runaway Bus (1954), until Guest helped her obtain a movie contract with Rank and introduced her to one of Rank's prime still photographers, Cornel Lucas. That year she married the much-older Lucas, who helped promote her as a sex goddess with thousands of glamorous photographs.
Belinda was promoted as a docile young beauty, but her parts grew sexier. She worked intently in films but became frustrated with being stereotyped as a buxom peroxide blonde. Boxed in as a second-string Diana Dors, she played a sensuous foil to Benny Hill in Who Done It? (1956) and was served up as sexy window-dressing opposite both John Gregson in Miracle in Soho (1957) and Louis Jourdan in Dangerous Exile (1957).
Now estranged from Lucas, Belinda headed off to Italy for a change of pace and atmosphere but only found more of the temptress roles she tried to avoid--Aphrodite, Messalina, and Lucrezia Borgia--in low-budget spectacles. She also became preoccupied with married men, one being Prince Filippo Orsini, whose position with the Vatican led to a major scandal. This particular turbulent romance and a dissipating relationship with the Rank Studio (her last picture for the studio was Elephant Gun (1958) with Michael Craig) triggered a near-fatal suicide attempt with pills in January 1958. She later divorced Lucas and continued her torrid affair with Prince Orsini, then others.
It all ended much too soon for the 25-year-old when she decided to join her current love, the much-older Italian playboy/journalist/film producer Gualtiero Jacopetti, on a trip to Las Vegas, where he was working on a documentary (Women of the World (1963). While she, Jacopetti, and co-producer Paolo Cavara were auto passengers on their way to Los Angeles from Vegas, their driver lost control of their speeding car and flipped. The 25-year-old actress was thrown from the car and died of a fractured skull and broken neck. The other three escaped with fairly minor injuries. She was cremated in the States and her ashes were eventually returned to Rome and placed in the Campo Cestio Cemetery. - Cinematographer
- Director
Ted Tetzlaff was born in 1903 in Los Angeles, the son of racecar driver and movie stuntman Teddy Tetzlaff, Sr. The elder Tetzlaff appeared in a number of silent star Wallace Reid's famous racing movies like The Roaring Road (1919), Double Speed (1920), Excuse My Dust (1920), Too Much Speed (1921) and Across the Continent (1922). Young Tetzlaff was born Dale H. and lived with his mother after her 1915 divorce from Ted, Sr. Ted, Jr. became a well-known and well-respected studio cameraman who worked on over 100 films using the name "Teddy Tetzlaff, Jr."- Producer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Production Manager
Worked extensively on the Lucy Show with Lucille Ball. Best friend of Robert Altman. Worked with him on "Tennessee", "McCabe and Mrs. Miller", "Cookie's Fortune", "Dr. T and the Women", and others. Split with Altman after differences on the set of "Popeye" Noted in 'Easy Riders, Raging Bulls', a work recapturing the early days of modern filmmakers. Three grandchildren, one stepson with Peet from a previous marriage.- William 'Link' Lyman was born on 30 November 1898 in Table Rock, Nebraska, USA. He died on 16 December 1972 in Baker, California, USA.
- Chuck Mawhinney was born on 23 February 1949 in Lakeview, Oregon, USA. He was married to Robin J. Hood and Marcilyn Price. He died on 12 February 2024 in Baker City, Oregon, USA.
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Cinematographer
Edmond L. Koons was born on 15 December 1933 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for Nashville (1975), Meteor (1979) and Coffy (1973). He died on 18 February 2015 in Baker City, Oregon, USA.- Norma Ates was born on 29 March 1946 in Fairmont, West Virginia, USA. She died on 2 June 1991 in Baker, Florida, USA.
- Additional Crew
- Actor
Lex Connelly was born on 5 March 1926 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for J W Coop (1971), Stoney Burke (1962) and The Streets of San Francisco (1972). He died on 5 April 1984 in Baker, Oregon, USA.- Actress
Bonnadene Wolfe was born on 30 May 1924 in Nebraska, USA. She was an actress. She was married to George Nicolescu. She died on 29 November 2007 in Richland, Baker, Oregon, USA.