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- Miranda Jones was born on 14 April 1934 in North Carolina, USA. She was an actress, known for The Twilight Zone (1959), Have Gun - Will Travel (1957) and The Man and the Challenge (1959). She was married to Robert Webber. She died on 12 February 1973 in Kinston, North Carolina, USA.
- A native Texan who attended Texas A & M and won the All-Around Cowboy title at the Calgary Stampede in Alberta, Canada on September 12, 1913. Toured Australia with Hoot Gibson in a Wild West Show. Made silent films with G. M. Anderson (Broncho Billy) and with Anna Little and Alice Joyce, and appeared in most of the "101 Bison" westerns. Went on tour to England, made several sound films there in addition to performing in his own variety and cabaret act. English stage appearances in C. B. Cochran's "League of Notions (1921), "The Jazz Mistress" at the Hippodrone and in Lew Leslie's "White Birds", in addition to four years in London's "Midnight Follies." Remained in England and became somewhat of an icon, especially among those with an interest in the American West, real or reel.
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Composer, conductor, arranger and music director. Trained Cologne, Berlin and London (at the Guildhall school of Music and Drama). From the age of seventeen, earned a living as a jazz fiddler, pianist and arranger in, among others, Carroll Gibbons' Savoy Orpheans and Henry Hall's BBC Dance Orchestra. Entered films in 1934, ultimately working on over a hundred scores for cinema, theatre and television. Also worked as music director on shows of C.B.Cochrane and Noel Coward in London's West end. His works for the concert hall gained recognition toward the end of the War, with a string of fine chamber works and, in 1951, the Violin Concerto "In memory of the Six Million" who had perished in the Holocaust. His reputation as a serious composer was later affirmed by a series of eight symphonies and an opera, "Marching Song", from the play by John Whiting, all composed between 1958 and his death in 1973. His concert music during this period combined a late-romantic quality with the twelve-tone (serial) principles laid down by Arnold Schoenberg and his score for the 1960 film "Curse of the Werewolf" is believed to be the first in Britain have been based on upon them. Reputedly, he was the highest paid British composer of film music, during the 1950s.- Betty Rome was born on 2 November 1892 in Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for The Magic of David Copperfield IV: The Vanishing Airplane (1981). She died on 12 February 1973 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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German Shulyatin was born on 17 March 1906 in Sevastopol, Crimea, Russian Empire. German was a cinematographer, known for Sovyetskaya Latviya (1951), The Mannerheim Line (1940) and Podvig Leningrada (1959). German died on 12 February 1973 in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union [now Saint Petersburg, Russia].- Composer
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David Saxon was born on 31 July 1919 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a composer, known for That Tender Touch (1969), The Wizard of Baghdad (1960) and The Jackie Gleason Show (1952). He died on 12 February 1973.