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- Actress
- Writer
Actress Collin Wilcox extended her given name twice over the duration of her professional acting career -- billing herself as Collin Wilcox-Horne and Collin Wilcox Paxton, to be exact. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and raised in Highlands, North Carolina, and her interest in theater was sparked by her parents, Jack H. and Virginia Wilcox, who founded the Highlands Community Theatre (now known as the Highlands Playhouse) in 1939. She made her acting debut there as a young girl and appeared in various productions, including "Our Town". In later years, Collin would dutifully return from time to time and perform at her theater alma mater in appreciation.
She attended high school in Knoxville, Tennessee and became the resident ingénue at the regional Carousel Theatre. She majored in drama at the University of Tennessee and studied performing at the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago, Illinois, as well as improv at The Compass (a forerunner of the Second City troupe) where Paul Sills was the director. There, she worked alongside up-and-coming talents Mike Nichols, Elaine May, Barbara Harris, Severn Darden and Shelley Berman. She eventually migrated to New York in 1957 and earned membership with Lee Strasberg's Actor's Studio, who saw great potential in her. She worked there for eight years.
Collins' Broadway debut came a year later with "The Day the Money Stopped", starring Richard Basehart and Mildred Natwick, which earned her the Clarence Derwent Award for "Best Supporting Actress". Slowly garnering notice for her growing quirks and interesting, edgy performances, Collin went on to work with the crème de la crème of Broadway eccentrics including Tallulah Bankhead in "Crazy October", Geraldine Page in "Strange Interlude" and Ruth Gordon in "La Bonne Soup". Neurotic Southern plays such as Tennessee Williams off-Broadway productions of "Camino Real" and "Suddenly, Last Summer" fit her like a glove. In Los Angeles, she appeared in "The Sea Gull" under the direction of John Houseman, "Period of Adjustment" with William Windom and "Getting Out" with Susan Clark. Williams, himself, chose Collin to repeat her leading role as "Isabel" in "Period of Adjustment", when the play went to London.
Collin's film debut came with her brilliant, award-worthy role as young "Mayella", whose Southern white trash teenager, under the duress of her racist father, falsely accuses black man Brock Peters of rape in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). Her cross-examination courtroom sequence with Peters' hired attorney, Gregory Peck, is unforgettable. No other film role would have the same impact as that once-in-a-lifetime part. Prior to this, "Mockingbird" director Robert Mulligan personally selected the classically-trained Collin as his TV "Frankie" in a strong presentation of The Member of the Wedding (1958). It was her first television role. For such a strong start, her later film career would prove strangely erratic, with a number of offbeat roles in The Baby Maker (1970), arguably her best post-Mockingbird part, opposite Barbara Hershey and Sam Groom, Catch-22 (1970), September 30, 1955 (1977), Jaws 2 (1978), Marie (1985), The Journey of August King (1995) and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997), among them.
While Collin graced a number of quality TV programs, such as the mini-movies The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974), Foxfire (1987) and Wildflower (1991) along with such established series as Gunsmoke (1955), The Twilight Zone (1959), The Fugitive (1963) and The Waltons (1972), it was the live stage that kept her fiery passion for acting alive. In the late seventies, she returned to her hometown, met and married third husband Scott Paxton, and founded the multi-arts center, "The Highlands Studio for the Arts", in 1981. She served as its artistic director for nine years as well as its resident playwright and improv teacher. She and her husband (who has been president of the Board of Directors) formed a troupe called "The Instant Theatre Company" (ITC) which reaffirmed her family's name in the commitment to its town's local theater. The company lasted for close to a decade before resurrecting again in 2003 with Collin and Rex Reed performing in a presentation of "Love Letters".
Married three times, she has two children, Kimberley and William, from her former husband, British actor Geoffrey Horne, and one child, Michael, from the marriage to Scott Paxton. She died of brain cancer at her North Carolina home in Highlands on October 14, 2009. She was 74.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Lou Albano was born on 29 July 1933 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor, known for Wise Guys (1986), Stay Tuned (1992) and The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! (1989). He was married to Geraldine Tango. He died on 14 October 2009 in Westchester County, New York, USA.- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Martyn Sanderson was born on 24 February 1938 in Granity, New Zealand. He was an actor and writer, known for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), Flying Fox in a Freedom Tree (1989) and The Harp in the South (1987). He was married to Wanjiku Kiare. He died on 14 October 2009 in Otaki, Manawatu, New Zealand.- Simone Frost was born on 22 April 1958 in East Berlin, East Germany. She was an actress, known for Unser kurzes Leben (1981), Alle Alle (2007) and Hälfte des Lebens (1985). She died on 14 October 2009 in Berlin, Germany.
- Robert Graham Gray was born on 15 October 1980 in Canada. He was an actor, known for Tangled (2001). He died on 14 October 2009 in Canada.
- Writer
- Music Department
Aleksandr Faynberg was born in November 1939 in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, USSR. He was a writer, known for Opalyonnye Kandagarom (1989), Prestupnik i advokaty (1981) and Moy starshiy brat (1976). He died on 14 October 2009 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.- Anna-Louise Lefèvre was born on 25 September 1942 in Denmark. She was an actress, known for Taxa (1997), I den grønne skov (1968) and Kurt og Valde (1983). She died on 14 October 2009.
- Art Department
Earl W. Huntoon Jr. is known for Love and Bullets (1979), Police Story (1973) and Hardcastle and McCormick (1983). He died on 14 October 2009 in Pioneer, California, USA.- Caralyn Tomlin was born on 9 April 1953. She was an actress, known for The Pirates of Penzance (1985). She was married to Frank Guglielmello. She died on 14 October 2009 in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.
- Additional Crew
Clare Piller was born on 5 September 1946 in Canada. Clare is known for Jumper (2008), Don't Say a Word (2001) and Breach (2007). Clare was married to Heinar. Clare died on 14 October 2009 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.- Additional Crew
- Actor
- Art Department
Pady Blackwood was born on 5 August 1939 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He was an actor. He died on 14 October 2009 in Casselberry, Florida, USA.- Camera and Electrical Department
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Werner Eduard Baur was born on 22 December 1919 in Berne, Switzerland. She was an assistant director, known for Hinter den sieben Gleisen (1959), Café Odeon (1959) and Die Venus vom Tivoli (1953). She was married to Ines Torelli. She died on 14 October 2009 in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada.- Birgit Zacho was born on 15 February 1926 in Horsens, Denmark. She was an actress, known for Seksdagesløbet (1958), Ungdommens rus (1943) and Verdens rigeste pige (1954). She died on 14 October 2009.