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Elton Hayes was born on 16 February 1915 in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. He was an actor and composer, known for Enchanted (2007), The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952) and The Splendid Spur (1960). He died on 23 September 2001 in Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk, England, UK.- Linus Weiss was an actor, known for The Origin of Man (2000). He died on 23 September 2001 in La Jolla, California, USA.
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One of the genuine visionaries of Digital Computer Graphics and Visual Effects. From the early 1970s through the mid-80s, the Hollywood-based studio Robert Abel & Associates (RA&A) pushed the leading -- sometimes bleeding -- edge of visual effects. Working primarily in television advertising, (the only consistent market for such work at the time) RA&A created 33 Clio Award-winning commercials, including the dazzling 7Up "Uncola" spots and the influential CG "Sexy Robot." This body of work, as noted by New York's Museum of Modern Art, "changed television forever." Abel was primed for this path since his undergraduate studies at UCLA, where his mentor was the "father" of computer graphics, John Whitney Sr.. Working with an analog computer strapped to a camera, Abel happened accidentally upon a look that evolved into the 'slit scan' effect used in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). His friend Con Pederson, who pursued the technique in that film's famous 'stargate' sequence, would eventually become Abel's first partner. By the time the pair set up shop in 1971, Abel had become an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, with credits as varied as Making of the President 1968 (1969) and Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs & Englishmen (1971). The first visual effects job which the fledgling studio produced was the now-famous Whirlpool "streak" logo, which opened the door to assignments in TV graphics, commercials and films. Abel and Pederson were joined early on by Richard Taylor, and the list of accomplished effects experts who worked at RA&A would grow over the years to include -- among many -- Richard Edlund, Richard E. Hollander, Robert Legato, Mark Stetson and John Hughes.- Jonie Camara was born on 27 May 1916. She died on 23 September 2001 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
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Henryk Tomaszewski was born on 20 September 1919 in Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland. Henryk was a writer and director, known for Television Theater (1953), Postkontoret (1968) and Smeden og Bageren (1978). Henryk died on 23 September 2001 in Kowary, Dolnoslaskie, Poland.