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Beautiful, swift and tough-tongued British character actress Rachel Roberts gained notice for her roles on the English stage, before she hit it largely in films. Born in Wales and married to actor Rex Harrison in 1962, Roberts made her film debut in a key role in J. Lee Thompson's Young and Willing (1954) a drama film about the life of women in prison. Around the early sixties, it wasn't uncommon to see a British actress in feature films, usually such an actress would remain on the British screen for such time, but Roberts continued going strong, she's hard to forget as the cankerous housewife in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960).
After her divorce from Rex Harrison in 1971, Roberts continued such supporting roles usually as tough authority women characters or villainous beauties in films including Doctors' Wives (1971), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Foul Play (1978), When a Stranger Calls (1979) and Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981). Although never far from the screen, she was occasionally seen on television, such as Mrs. Bonnie McClellan in the 1976 series The Tony Randall Show (1976). She probably achieved her greatest success as Richard Harris's love interest in the film This Sporting Life (1963) which earned her an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress. Rachel Roberts committed suicide in November of 1980 of a "barbiturate overdose" at her home in Studio City, California. Roberts was only 53 years old.- Hector Ross was born on 11 February 1912 in Ormskirk, Lancashire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Happy Go Lovely (1951), Operation Diplomat (1952) and BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950). He was married to June Sylvaine and Muriel Smith. He died on 26 November 1980 in Westminster, London, England, UK.
- Grace Webb was born on 1 December 1897 in Bromsberrow Heath, Gloucestershire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950), Portrait of Alison (1955) and New Ramps for Old (1956). She died on 26 November 1980 in Denville Hall, Northwood, London, England, UK.
- Peter DePaolo was born on 6 April 1898 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He died on 26 November 1980 in Laguna Hills, California, USA.
- György Haraszti was born on 7 January 1912 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He died on 26 November 1980 in Budapest, Hungary.
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Conrad Nervig had the distinction of being the first-ever recipient of an Academy Award for best editing. This was for Eskimo (1933), a drama shot in semi-documentary style by outdoor and action specialist W.S. Van Dyke in the northernmost inhabited settlement in Alaska. The entire dialogue was in an Inuit language and subtitles were used in translation. The South Dakota-born Nervig had started in the industry with Goldwyn Pictures in 1922 and remained after the merger with Metro, spending his entire career at MGM until his retirement in 1954. He worked on many classic films across diverse genres, including A Tale of Two Cities (1935), Maytime (1937), The Big Store (1941) and The Bad and the Beautiful (1952). He won a second Oscar for King Solomon's Mines (1950) in collaboration with Ralph E. Winters.
Here is an interesting footnote to Nervig's life: as a naval officer en route to Rio (where he was assigned as a replacement aboard the U.S.S. Glacier), Nervig was a passenger on the ill-fated collier U.S.S. Cyclops during her penultimate voyage. The ship disappeared without trace in March 1918 in the Bermuda Triangle, along with 306 crew and passengers. Fifty-one years after the event (in 1969), Nervig published his recollections -- entitled "The Cyclops Mystery" -- in "The Naval Institute Proceedings".- Additional Crew
Éva Szabolcsi was born on 28 February 1934 in Budapest, Hungary. Éva is known for Mesélö városok (1975) and A nagy képmás (1977). Éva died on 26 November 1980.