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- American writer of thrillers and film scripts, the son of a Chicago lawyer and a violinist. He was named 'Jonathan' after a famous ancestor who had served as a colonel on George Washington's staff during the American Revolutionary War. Latimer was a graduate of Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. Following travels in Europe, he began his writing career as a journalist for the Chicago Herald Examiner and the Chicago Tribune (1929-34), reporting on the activities of organized crime figures in his home town. That included meeting the likes of Al Capone and George Moran (aka 'Bugs') on their own turf!
From 1935, Latimer penned a series of hard-boiled crime novels published by 'The Crime Club' and usually featuring the dissolute private eye Bill Crane. These books were somewhat in the vein of Dashiell Hammett (by whom he was heavily influenced) and Raymond Chandler (whom he later befriended), with a suitably cynical but at times bawdily humorous, or self-mocking edge. He sometimes wrote under the pseudonym 'Peter Coffin' ("The Search for My Great Uncle's Head" (1937)). Latimer worked in Hollywood from the late 1930s, where he was at his best providing gritty dialogue for the film noir genre, notably Hammett's The Glass Key (1942), They Won't Believe Me (1947) and The Big Clock (1948). - Olga Yakovlevna Lebzak was born on October 23, 1914, in St. Petersburg, Russia (now Leningrad). From 1931 - 1935 she studied acting and directing at the Leningrad Institute of Theatre, graduating in 1935 as an actress and director. From 1935-1942 Lebzak was a member of the Leningrad Drama Theatre. In 1947 she made her film debut in a supporting role in Pirogov (1947) by director Grigoriy Kozintsev.
From 1942-1983 Olga Lebzak was a permanent member of the troupe of Pushkin Drama Theatre in Leningrad (now Aleksandrinski Theatre in St. Petersburg). She was invited to the troupe of the oldest Russian drama theatre by the legendary director Leonid Vivien. Olga Lebzak was among the leading actresses of the Pushkin Drama Theatre. There her stage partners were such remarkable actors as Nikolay Cherkasov, Nikolai Simonov, Vasiliy Merkurev, Konstantin Skorobogatov, Yuriy Tolubeev, Aleksandr Borisov, Bruno Frejndlikh, Vladimir Chestnokov, Vladimir Erenberg, Leonid Vivyen, Igor Gorbachyov, Nina Mamaeva, Lidiya Shtykan, Nina Urgant, Valentina Panina, and other notable Russian actors. Among her best known stage works were such roles as Masha in 'Zhivoi Trup' (aka.. The Living Corpse), an adaptation of the eponymous book by Lev Tolstoy.
Olga Yakovlevna Lebzak was known for her compassion and her legendary generosity. She was helping fellow actors during the time when they were struggling to survive under the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin. At that time Olga Lebzak and her husband hosted a big family of actor Vasiliy Merkurev and his wife Irina Vsevolodovna Meyerhold with six children, when they returned to Leningrad from Siberia, and had no place to live.
Olga Lebzak was designated People's Artist of Russia. She enjoyed a stellar acting career spanning almost 50 years, and received awards and decorations for her works in film and on stage. Olga Yakovlevna Lebzak died in 1983, in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), and was laid to rest in Serafimovskoe Cemetery in St. Petersburg, Russia. - Actress
Bertha Warnack was born on 16 February 1884 in Louisiana, USA. She was an actress. She died on 23 June 1983 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Writer
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Vlad Iovitse was born on 25 December 1935 in Kochiyery, Moldavian SSR, USSR. He was a writer and director, known for Dmitriy Kantemir (1973), U chertova logova (1981) and Se cauta un paznic (1968). He died on 23 June 1983 in Kishinyov, Moldavian SSR, USSR.