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Born in 1911, Jeanette Nolan began her acting career in the Pasadena Community Playhouse. While still a student at Los Angeles City College, she made her radio debut in 1932, aged 20, in "Omar Khayyam", the first transcontinental broadcast from station KHJ. Her film debut was probably also her best part: Lady Macbeth opposite director/actor Orson Welles's Macbeth (1948). Her final film role was as Tom Booker (Robert Redford)'s mother, Ellen Booker, in The Horse Whisperer (1998).
She appeared in more than 300 television shows, including episode roles in Perry Mason (1957), I Spy (1965), MacGyver (1985), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955), and as a regular on The Richard Boone Show (1963) and The Virginian (1962). She received four Emmy nominations.
Nolan died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, in 1998, aged 86, following a stroke.- Although Viola Keats never achieved national stardom she was a popular actress on the West End stage and in British films from the 1930s to the 1970s.
Born in Worthing, Sussex, she studied acting at RADA where in 1933 she won the Bancroft Gold Medal. She made her professional debut at the Liverpool Playhouse the same year with the repertory company appearing as Sarah in Easy Virtue. She quickly switched to film roles and appeared in a host of low budget crime capers.
During the 1940s she was a regular voice in BBC radio drama and in the 1950s she toured Australia in several plays, notably as Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire and Diana Hartland in Down Came a Blackbird.
Throughout the 1960s and 70s she played a variety of character roles on the West End stage including Lady Frinton in Aren't We All? (1967), the mother in Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author (1972) and Mrs Culver in The Constant Wife (1975).
She was regularly picked out by critics for her stylish and quirky acting. She married first, to the actor Harold Petersen and, secondly, to William Kellner. - Alfred Kazin was born on 5 June 1915 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He died on 5 June 1998 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Ivan Jonas was born on 16 September 1922 in Stara Pazova, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He was an actor, known for Letovi koji se pamte (1966), Kapelski kresovi (1974) and Mrtvacima ulaz zabranjen (1965). He died on 5 June 1998 in Belgrade, Serbia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- Oskar Hoby was born on 11 January 1918 in St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland. He was an actor, known for Grauzone (1979), Polizischt Wäckerli (1955) and Demokrat Läppli (1961). He died on 5 June 1998 in Heiden, Kanton Appenzell, Switzerland.
- Sam Yorty was born on 1 October 1909 in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. He was an actor, known for The Candidate (1972), CHiPs (1977) and Here's Lucy (1968). He was married to Elizabeth Hensel. He died on 5 June 1998 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Guy Favereau was born on 17 June 1919 in Noisy-le-Sec, Seine-Saint-Denis, France. Guy was a writer, known for Studio en folies (1947), Une histoire d'amour Maurice Chevalier (1982) and Rue de la gaîté (1960). Guy was married to Frida Gevertz. Guy died on 5 June 1998 in Chennevières-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne, France.