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Eric Nies (41)

Hollywood.com Entertainment Highlights — Mon, 21 May 2012 05:00:59 +0000

Known in pop-cultural circles as a pioneer of reality television, Eric Nies was a key housemate in MTV's long-running series The Real World in its original season, The Real World: New York. The show found Nies struggling with issues of identity, as well a

Sylwester Checinski (82)

Hollywood.com Entertainment Highlights — Mon, 21 May 2012 05:00:58 +0000

Filmmaker Sylwester Checinski is best known in his native Poland for comedies and crime films, but he also worked in other common genres. Checinski learned directing at the Lodz Film School, where he graduated in 1955. Checinksi then worked as a second un

Renée Soutendijk (55)

Hollywood.com Entertainment Highlights — Mon, 21 May 2012 05:00:57 +0000

A former Olympic athlete, Amsterdam-born Renee Soutendijk began her film career in Germany. The blonde, powerfully built young actress scored a hit playing loose-cannon "heroines" in a brace of Paul Verhoeven-directed cult films, Spetters (1980) and The F

Garry Marsh (110)

Hollywood.com Entertainment Highlights — Mon, 21 May 2012 05:00:57 +0000

British actor Garry Marsh began his stage career at the age of 15. In films from 1930, Marsh started out as an action hero, but later settled into self-important character roles. His more notable roles of the 1930s include Esterhazy in The Dreyfus Case (1

Carol Potter (64)

Hollywood.com Entertainment Highlights — Mon, 21 May 2012 05:00:56 +0000

Best known as Cindy Walsh, mother of Brenda and Brandon on TV's Beverly Hills 90210, Carol Potter began her acting career on the stage, appearing in the Broadway play Gemini in 1977. She began dabbling in onscreen acting in the early '80s, but her big bre

Anthony Steel (92)

Hollywood.com Entertainment Highlights — Mon, 21 May 2012 05:00:55 +0000

Cambridge-educated leading man Anthony Steel had several seasons of theatrical work behind him when he first stepped before the movie cameras in 1948. His heyday was in the 1950s, a fact that can be attributed as much to his well-publicized marriage to ac

Scotty Leavenworth (22)

Hollywood.com Entertainment Highlights — Mon, 21 May 2012 05:00:55 +0000

Just over a decade into his young life, Scotty Leavenworth had already managed to accumulate an impressive list of credits to his name as an actor. Appearing in films that starred the likes of Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, and Jim Carrey, the youthful perform

Joe Alves (76)

Hollywood.com Entertainment Highlights — Mon, 21 May 2012 05:00:54 +0000

Production designer Joe Alves is best known for his work with Steven Spielberg, with whom he has worked on four films. Before beginning his career, he studied at San Jose State, Chinaurd Institute (where he majored in motion picture design) and at USC. Du

Richard Libertini (72)

Hollywood.com Entertainment Highlights — Mon, 21 May 2012 05:00:53 +0000

Saturnine, generously bearded character actor Richard Libertini cut his comic teeth with Chicago's Second City Troupe. With MacIntyre Dixon, Libertini appeared in the nightclub comedy act "Stewed Prunes;" he then began toting up such New York stage credit

Renee Soutendijk (55)

Hollywood.com Entertainment Highlights — Mon, 21 May 2012 05:00:53 +0000

With her curly blonde hair, kewpie doll looks and trim figure, it seemed almost inevitable that Soutendijk would abandon her ambitions as an Olympic gymnast to pursue an acting career. Upon graduating from the Academy of Performing Arts in her native The