Richard Steiff
Richard Steiff( February 7, 1877 – March 30, 1939) was a German designer, known for helping create the teddy bear.
Michi Takahashi
Michi Takahashi (real name: Michiyo Takahashi, Christian name:
Saint Mary Chiara, maiden name: Yoshimura, born July 22, 1963) is a teddy bear artist in Japan.
She is well known in the teddy bear industry in the world as the pioneer teddy bear artist in Japan, who enhanced the charm of teddy bear as an art, not just a stuffed toy.
One of her masterpieces “Look Here Bees!
I’m Good Boy Takuya!” was nominated for TOBY ® awards in 1996¸ and won the highest praise from teddy bear fans in the world.
She depicted the art of Takuya Kimura, whom she admires.
Michi is also an art producer, an art director, and a soft sculptor©.
Her husband, Hiro Takahashi (Teddy bear artist), is also a teddy bear artist.
Barbara Fairchild
Barbara Fairchild( born November 12, 1950) is an American country and gospel singer, who is best known for her hit 1973 country song" The Teddy Bear Song" and other country hits.
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog( born 5 September 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, author, actor, and opera director.
Herzog is a figure of the New German Cinema.
His films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals who are in conflict with nature.
Werner Herzog made his first film in 1961 at the age of 19.
Since then he has produced, written, and directed more than sixty feature- and documentary films, such as" Aguirre, the Wrath of God"( 1972)," Nosferatu the Vampyre"( 1978)," Fitzcarraldo"( 1982)," Lessons of Darkness"( 1992)," Little Dieter Needs to Fly"( 1997)," My Best Fiend"( 1999)," Invincible"( 2000)," Grizzly Man"( 2005)," Encounters at the End of the World"( 2007),( 2009), and" Cave of Forgotten Dreams"( 2010).
He has published more than a dozen books of prose, and directed as many operas.
French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog" the most important film director alive."
American film critic Roger Ebert said that Herzog" has never created a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons, or uninteresting.
Even his failures are spectacular."
He was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by" Time" magazine in 2009.
Duncan McKenzie (murderer)
Duncan Peder McKenzie, Jr.,( October 5, 1951 – May 10, 1995) was convicted of the murder of a Conrad, Montana schoolteacher named Lana Harding on January 21, 1974.
After his conviction in March 1975, he was on death row for 20 years, receiving eight stays of execution.
His ninth stay of execution was denied by the United States courts of appeals.
McKenzie was executed on May 10, 1995.
He was the first person executed in Montana since 1943, and also the first ever U.S. death row inmate to spend 20 years or more on death row and still eventually be executed.
He is 1 of only 3 people to have been executed in Montana since the reinstatement of the death penalty.
On Death Row
On Death Row is a television mini-series written and directed by Werner Herzog about capital punishment in the United States.
The series grew out of the same project which produced Herzog's documentary film" Into the Abyss".
The series first aired in the United Kingdom on March 22, 2012 on Channel 4.
Each episode of the series focuses on a specific murder case and those convicted of the crimes, each of whom was on death row during filming.
The cases profiled are:
Jacques Deray
Jacques Deray( 19 February 1929 in Lyon – 9 August 2003 in Boulogne- Billancourt) was a French film director and screenwriter.
Deray is prominently known for directing many crime and thriller films.
The Teddy Bear
The Teddy Bear is a 1994 French- Italian thriller- drama film directed by Jacques Deray.
It is based on the novel" L'ours en peluche" by Georges Simenon.
Richard S. Jaffe
Richard S. Jaffe( born February 27, 1950) is an American lawyer, legal analyst, leadership coach, and author of" Quest for Justice: Defending the Damned".
Jaffe is considered one of the foremost experts and lecturers on criminal law in America and is frequently called upon to comment on death penalty issues and other areas of criminal law by national television, radio and print media.
After his 3rd death penalty exoneration at a jury trial, a Birmingham television station led with the byline “ Birmingham ’s Matlock. ”
Jaffe is best known for leading the exonerations of three death row inmates in Alabama, and for representing Centennial Olympic Park bomber Eric Robert Rudolph.
Jaffe has successfully defended hundreds of individuals accused of murder, including more than sixty cases where the defendant faced the death penalty.
He tried twenty- two of those cases to conclusion to a jury.
In Alabama, six people have been exonerated from death row.
Jaffe served as lead lawyer in four of them: James Willie “ Bo ” Cochran, Randal Padgett, Gary Drinkard and Wesley Quick( on appeal).
None of Jaffe ’s clients are on death row nor have been executed.
In addition, Jaffe served as lead counsel, at the behest of the ACLU, in the case of State of Alabama versus Montez Spradley, who was also on death row.
Jaffe ’s efforts led to Spradley being released from Alabama ’s death row.
Jack Alderman
Jack Edward Alderman( 29 May 1951 – 16 September 2008) was, at the time of his execution, the longest- serving death row prisoner in the United States who has been executed.
He had remained on death row for over 33 years.

Question: Which film whose director is younger, On Death Row or The Teddy Bear?
Answer: On Death Row