In two of his most distinctive performances, Hamilton appeared with Paul Newman in "The Hustler" (1961), playing Findley, a wealthy billiards player who gambles for high stakes, (1965-1966) "The Fugitive" and in "The Graduate" (1967) as Mr. Robinson, husband of Anne Bancroft's Mrs. Robinson.
In 1975, Hamilton starred again with Newman in "The Drowning Pool". He also worked with Robert Redford in a pair of films, 1973's "The Way We Were" and the 1980 prison drama "Brubaker".
For many years both before and during his movie career, Hamilton was a prominent dramatic actor, earning a Tony Award nomination for his role in the 1965 production of "Absence of a Cello".
He died from cancer and is interred at Oakdale Cemetery in Washington, North Carolina.
Peter Benchley
Peter Bradford Benchley (May 8, 1940 – February 12, 2006) was an American author, best known for his novel "Jaws" and its subsequent movie adaptation, the latter co-written by Benchley (with Carl Gottlieb) and directed by Steven Spielberg. Several more of his works were also adapted for cinema, including "The Deep" and "The Island".
He was the son of Marjorie (née Bradford) and author Nathaniel Benchley and grandson of Algonquin Round Table founder Robert Benchley. His younger brother, Nat Benchley, is a writer and actor. Peter Benchley was an alumnus of Allen-Stevenson School or now known as The Allen-Stevenson School, Phillips Exeter Academy, and Harvard University.
Benchley died of pulmonary fibrosis on February 12, 2006 in Princeton, New Jersey.
Lorraine Gary
Lorraine Gary (born August 16, 1937) is a retired American actress, best known for her role as "Ellen Brody" in "Jaws", "Jaws 2", and "". She also appeared in "1941" and "Car Wash".
Gary was born as Lorraine Gottfried in Forest Hills, Queens, New York on August 16, 1937, to Betty and George Gottfried, an entertainment business manager.
She began her acting career in the late 1960s doing guest appearances on several popular TV shows. These include "Night Gallery", "The Virginian Dragnet 1967", "McCloud", "Kojak" and "The F.B.I. (TV series)". She began her first major acting role when she was a guest star on seven episodes of the TV series "Ironside", among them "Tom Dayton Is Loose Among Us", in which she played the substitute librarian Miss Kirk, who pushes the unstable Tom Dayton too hard, and "In Search of an Artist", as a woman with a drinking problem who may have been involved in a murder.
She has been married to entertainment industry executive Sid Sheinberg, with whom she had two children, since August 19, 1956. She retired for eight years after "1941" but then came out of her voluntary retirement to reprise Ellen Brody in "".
Sid Sheinberg
Sidney Jay "Sid" Sheinberg (January 14, 1935 – March 7, 2019) was an American screenwriter, lawyer, and entertainment executive.
Sheinberg, the son of immigrants, a Ukrainian mother and a Polish father, is Jewish and grew up in Corpus Christi, Texas where he was born on January 14, 1935.
In June 1973, Sheinberg was elected President and Chief Operating Officer of MCA, Inc. At the time he was 38. During his presidency, Universal Pictures, a division of MCA, Inc., released the films that grossed more in each of the past three decades, starting with "Jaws" in 1975, following with "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" in 1982 and concluding with "Jurassic Park" in 1993 .
Sid Sheinberg married actress Lorraine Gary in 1956. They had two sons: Bill and Jonathan Sheinberg, both of whom work as film producers. Sheinberg died on March 7, 2019 in Beverly Hills, aged 84.
Denholm Elliott
Denholm Mitchell Elliott, CBE (31 May 1922 – 6 October 1992) was an English film, television and theatre actor. He was in more than 120 movies and television programmes. In the 1981, he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
Elliott was born in London, England. He was the son of Nina (née Mitchell) and Myles Laymen Farr Elliott. He attended Malvern College and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
In the 1980s, he won three consecutive British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards – Best Supporting Actor for "Trading Places" as Dan Aykroyd's kindly butler, "A Private Function", and "Defence of the Realm" – as well as an Academy Award nomination for "A Room with a View". He also became familiar to a wider audience as the well-meaning but addlepated Dr. Marcus Brody in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981) and "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade". A photograph of his character appears in "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" and a reference is made to Brody's death. In 1988, Elliott played the Russian mole Povin in the television miniseries "".
Elliott was diagnosed with HIV in 1987. He died of AIDS-related tuberculosis at his home on Ibiza, Spain, in 1992. His widow set up a charity, the Denholm Elliott Project, in his honour and collaborated on his biography.
Ted Nugent
Theodore Anthony "Ted" Nugent (born December 13, 1948) is an American musician, singer and songwriter. He was born in Detroit, Michigan. He moved to Palatine, Illinois during his teens. He has had many hit records while a part of different music groups. He has also had hits songs as a solo performer. His views are of a conservative nature. He has strong beliefs for gun rights.
Kim Chwa-chin
Kim Chwa-chin(hangul:김좌진, 金佐鎭, November 24 1889 - January 24 1930) was one of politician, reform activists and independent activists of Korea. nickname was Baikya (백야, 白冶) also Chinese style name was Myungyeo (명여, 明汝).
Royce D. Applegate
Royce D. Applegate (December 25, 1939 – January 1, 2003) was an American actor and screenwriter. Born in Oklahoma, his most visible role was that of Chief Petty Officer Manilow Crocker on the first season of the Steven Spielberg-produced television series "seaQuest DSV".
In 1985, Applegate played tragic family man-turned-kidnapper Donald Brown, a bereaved father who abducts the character Sam in order to replace his own dead son, on the season premiere of "Diff'rent Strokes" last season when it moved from NBC to ABC.
Applegate portrayed Confederate General James L. Kemper in two Ronald F. Maxwell movies, "Gettysburg" (1993) and "Gods and Generals" (2003).
On New Year's Day 2003, Applegate died in his Hollywood Hills home in a fire just one week after his 63rd birthday.
James Newton Howard
James Newton Howard (born June 9, 1951) is an American composer. He is best known for his scores to movies. A score is the music that is heard during a movie. He has written the music for over 100 movies. He is now one of the most well-known composers for movies.
He has eight Academy Award nominations. Some of Howard's best known movie scores include "The Prince of Tides" (1991), "The Fugitive" (1993), "Dinosaur" (2000), "King Kong" (2005), "Batman Begins", "I Am Legend" (2007) "The Dark Knight" (2008). Recent movies include "Green Lantern" (2011), "The Hunger Games" (2012), "Snow White and the Huntsman" (2012), and "The Bourne Legacy" (2012).
Howard is also known for working with director M. Night Shyamalan. He has scored all Shyamalan's movies since "The Sixth Sense" (1999).
From 1986 to 1987, Howard was married to actress Rosanna Arquette.
Dangriga
Dangriga, formerly known as Stann Creek Town, is a town in southern Belize. It is on the Caribbean coast at the mouth of Stann Creek. It is the capital of Belize's Stann Creek District and also the largest town in southern Belize. It is served by the Dangriga Airport.
Dangriga is a Garífuna word meaning "standing waters".
The city is served by Southern Regional Hospital.
Alexander Haig
Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr. (December 2, 1924 – February 20, 2010) was a United States Army general and diplomat.