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- Maddison Jaizani was born on 3 June 1995 in Sale, England. She is an actress, known for Into the Badlands (2015), Versailles (2015) and Tyrant (2014).
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Son of a small shopkeeper, he attended Manchester Grammar School. He later said that he made poor uses of his opportunities there. He went to work in an insurance office, but later entered Manchester University, taking a degree in History. A post-graduate year at Exeter University led to a schoolmaster's position, first at a village school in Devon, then for seven years at Millfield. During this time he wrote a dozen radio plays, which were broadcast. Encouraged by the London success of his stage play "Flowering Cherry" he left teaching for full-time writing. 1960 saw two of his plays ("The Tiger And The Horse" and "A Man For All Seasons") running concurrently in the West End.- Director
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Gregor Jordan was born in 1966 in Sale, Victoria, Australia. He is a director and writer, known for Two Hands (1999), Ned Kelly (2003) and Buffalo Soldiers (2001).- Claire Davenport was born on 24 April 1933 in Sale, Cheshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Elephant Man (1980), Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) and The Return of the Pink Panther (1975). She died on 25 February 2002 in London, England, UK.
- Campbell was born in Sale, Cheshire on 26th April 1880 and began acting as a boy. He married fellow music hall performer Fanny Gertrude Robotham on March 30, 1901 and was later hired by English music hall impresario Fred Karno for his "Fun Factory" comedy troupes that featured other comics like a young Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel. Campbell arrived in New York with a Karno troupe in July, 1914 and was soon hired by Broadway producer Charles Frohman. In late 1915 fellow Karno alum Chaplin and his brother Sid found Eric working in a George M. Cohan play "Pom Pom" and in March, 1916, brought him to Hollywood. Built like a wrestler, over 6' tall and over 250 pounds, topped by small shaved head. Chaplin smeared his face with exaggerated eyebrows and darkened eyes, with a scraggly and long beard. He was the menacing bearded ogre opposite Chaplin in his most famous silents. His first Chaplin film was The Floorwalker (1916), playing the role of the villainous heavy, reprised in subsequent classics like The Rink (1916), The Pawnshop (1916), The Adventurer (1917), The Cure (1917), The Immigrant (1917), Easy Street (1917) and Chase me Charlie (1917). By the summer of 1917 Campbell was Chaplin's favorite co-star and foil, and almost as famous as the little comedian. In early 1917 Campbell filmed his last Chaplin Mutual, The Adventurer, after which Chaplin began construction on his own studio on LaBrea Avenue in Hollywood (which still stands today). During the five-month construction period, Chaplin lent Campbell to Mary Pickford, the world's biggest star, to appear in her film Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley (1917). He was on the verge of becoming a world-wide star as filming began. But at the same time that he was becoming famous his personal life was beset by tragedy and scandal. On July 9, 1917 his wife died suddenly of a heart attack after dinner at a Santa Monica restaurant near their home. Walking to a nearby store to buy a mourning dress, his 16-year-old daughter Una was hit by a car a seriously injured. At a September 12th party given for Artcraft Studio publicity man Pete Schmid, Campbell met Pearl Gilman, a diminutive vaudeville comedienne with a family reputation for gold-digging. She had been married to candy heir Charles W. Alisky in 1912, and a few years later divorced and married another wealthy man, Theodore Arnreiter. Her sister Mabelle was married to elderly steel magnate William E. Corey, the owner of U.S. Steel. Just five days after they met, Campbell and Gilman Alisky-Arnreiter were married at the home of Elaine Hardy at 824 5th Street in Santa Monica. His daughter Una, still recuperating at a friend's home in Santa Monica canyon, was not told of the wedding for several weeks. Less than two months after marrying the gentle giant, Gilman Alisky-Arnreiter sued him for divorce. He moved out of the Santa Monica bungalow and into the Los Angeles Athletic Club, taking a room next to his best friend Chaplin. A month later later on December 20, Campbell attended a Christmas party at the Vernon Country Club, and drove back to L.A. in a drunken stupor. Approaching the intersection of Wilshire Blvd. and Vermont Ave. at over 60 m.p.h., he lost control of his car, crossed Wilshire and hit another car head-on. He was killed instantly, his massive body locked in the crumpled wreckage for over five hours. Heartbreak never left Campbell, even in death. After his remains were cremated, his ashes were sent to the Rosedale Cemetery, where they remained for six months while the cemetery waited in vain for someone to pay for his funeral. When the bill remained unpaid, the urn was returned to the Handley Mortuary, where it sat unnoticed in a closet from 1917 until late 1938. When the mortuary closed the urn was sent back to Rosedale, where it sat in another closet for still another 13 years. In 1952 a kindhearted office worker arranged for Campbell's remains to finally be buried. But, unfortunately, he forgot to record exactly where Campbell was buried, so the burly Scotsman is lost among the markers and statues in the quiet cemetery. In conjunction with a Scottish film about Campbell's life, a memorial plaque was laid in 1996. Campbell's death had a profound effect on Chaplin, and a quieter effect on movie history. After that time, Chaplin's movies lost some of their comic mystery; that certain something that his Mutual films had but subsequent films did not. His later works were much more self-centered and missing the comic give-and-take of his work with Campbell. There's no telling how famous Eric Campbell would have become, or what different films Chaplin may have done with his burly best friend.
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Asmae El Moudir was born in 1990 in Salé, Morocco. She is a director and writer, known for The Mother of All Lies (2023), The Postcard (2020) and Le Soleil Des Autres.- Actress
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- Soundtrack
Margot Knight is an Australia actress, stage actress and voice over artist. Knight is best known for her roles on Blue Heelers (1994), Neighbours (1985), The Dressmaker (2015), Knight would also be part of legendary Australian prison drama Prisoner (1979) as two separate characters Terri Malone and Sharon Gilmore. After Knight would depart Prisoner she returned to theatre and would give her voice to several commercial campaigns.- Anne Hamilton-Byrne was born on 30 December 1921 in Sale, Victoria, Australia. She was married to Bill Byrne, Michael Riley and Lionel Harris. She died on 13 June 2019 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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- Producer
Howard Baker was born on 15 October 1931 in Sale, Cheshire, England, UK. He was a director and producer, known for Inheritance (1967), Coronation Street (1960) and Crown Court (1972). He was married to Kathleen Potter. He died on 23 September 1993 in Hale, Cheshire, England, UK.- Actor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Casting Director
Ahmed Boulane was born in Salé, Morocco. He was expelled from school three times, and was only 16 when they threw him out for good. However, this didn't stop him from learning to speak four languages fluently.
Boulane was an actor with the Moroccan National Theater Company and the national Moroccan radio theater troupe from 1974 to 1977. His first job in the cinema was with Nabyl Lahlou in a wacky Moroccan movie, "Al-Kanfoudi". He was hired to play the part of a young, unemployed man, but Boulane found it impossible to leave the set once he had finished being an actor. He tried his hand at being a boom operator and grip (both of these too physically strenuous for him), and eventually finished the film as a floor assistant.
But Ahmed Boulane had been bitten by the bug, a passion that has been the motor for a rich and varied career in cinema and television as actor, location manager, assistant director, casting director, and awarded screenwriter/director/producer. During the past 40 years he has worked on more than 50 feature films and documentaries and more than a hundred commercials, both Moroccan and international. The names of Giuliano Montaldo, Alan Pakula, Carlo Di Palma, Phillipe de Broca, Jean Delannoy, Nicholas Roeg, and William Friedkin appear on his long C.V.
During the mid-90s he began to feel restless. He decided to add a nationality; he became an Irish citizen in 1995. And he decided he needed to direct his own projects. The result... in 1996 he created his production company, Boulane-O'Bryne Production (BO'B Prod), to produce "Voyage dans le Passé" ("Past Recollections") and "Ali, Rabiaa et les autres" ("Ali, Rabiaa and the Others"), two films that earned him both critical acclaim and the respect of the public.
His film "Les anges de Satan" ("The Satanic Angels") was released in March, 2007. The film is based on a true story: the controversial arrest of fourteen young Moroccan hard rock musicians falsely accused of adhering to Satanism.
His feature film "Le retour du fils" ("The Return of the Son") was selected as "Coup de coeur" in the 12th Marrakech International Film Festival in 2012.
His latest film "La Isla" ("The Island"), a political comedy in co-production between Morocco and Spain, was selected as "Coup de coeur" in the 15th Marrakech International Film Festival in 2015 and won the best comedy award in a festival in Cordoba, Columbia.
In 2019 he wrote his autobiography "Ma vie est belle", translated into English "What a Beautiful Life".- Dorothy Dewhurst was born on 16 September 1886 in Sale, Cheshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Pride and Prejudice (1952), ITV Play of the Week (1955) and George and Margaret (1946). She died on 12 December 1959 in St. Pancras, London, England, UK.
- Bob Greaves was born on 28 November 1934 in Sale, Cheshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Coronation Street (1960), What's the Word? (1980) and This Is Your Life (1955). He was married to Sonia. He died on 14 March 2011 in Timperley, Greater Manchester, England, UK.
- Victoria Bennett was born on 16 June 1986 in Sale, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Brookside (1982).
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- Editorial Department
Philip Jenkinson was born on 17 August 1935 in Sale, Cheshire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Doppelganger (1955), Mr Stennett (1960) and Mr Sennett (1960). He was married to Sally Jenkinson. He died on 11 March 2012.- Benjamin Grant Mitchell was born in 1969 in Sale, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Neighbours (1985), Skirts (1990) and Blue Heelers (1994).
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Vyacheslav Lisnevskiy was born on 30 January 1983 in Gaz-Sale, Tazovskiy rayon, Yamalo-Nenetskiy AO, Tyumenskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. Vyacheslav is a cinematographer, known for Beyond the Edge (2018), Dance to Death (2017) and Grach (2012).- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Aldo Grasso was born on 10 April 1948 in Sale delle Langhe, Piedmont, Italy. He is a writer and assistant director, known for L'ultima mazurka (1986), Semmelweis (1980) and Funari Funari Funari (2022).- Music Department
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Sandy Wilson was born on 19 May 1924 in Sale, Cheshire, England, UK. He was a writer and composer, known for The Boy Friend (1971), Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (2005) and Riff-Raff (1991). He died on 27 August 2014 in Taunton, Somerset, England, UK.- Natália Anderle was born on 23 May 1986 in Roca Sales, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
- Jean Higgs was born Jean Florence Taylor in Sale, Australia. Her parents were Alice and William (a butcher). She grew up in a small rural community. She worked as an infant teacher initially and commenced acting in amateur theatre there. When she moved to Melbourne Australia in the 1960s, she began working with semi-professional groups such as the Ken Woodward players in Kew. During the early 1960s she played the role of Mrs Whelan in the first movie directed by Phillip Adams "Jack and Jill: a postscript", which won the inaugural Australian Film Institute award for Best Picture in the fledgling days of the Australian film industry. This was her only professional role, but she continued to act and direct amateur theatre in Victoria and Queensland, despite being legally blind in her later years. She particularly promoted Australian playwrights, staging first amateur performances of new Australian plays such as The Hope by Harry Reed. She was a founding and lifetime member of the Sale Theatre Company with her husband Alan Higgs. She died in 1993 aged 71 after a short struggle with kidney cancer.
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Joseph Zobel was born on 29 April 1915 in Rivière-Salée, Martinique, France. He was an actor and writer, known for Sugar Cane Alley (1983) and Aimé Césaire, une voix pour l'histoire (1995). He died on 17 June 2006 in Alès, Gard, France.- Ghita Zellou was born in 1930 in Salé, Maroc. Ghita died in 1992 in Salé, Maroc.
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Anthony de Lotbinière was born on 18 January 1925 in Sale, Cheshire, England, UK. He was a producer and director, known for One Pair of Eyes (1967), Special Enquiry (1955) and Eye to Eye (1957). He died on 14 June 1995 in London, England, UK.- Director
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Driss Mrini was born on 11 February 1950 in Salé, Morocco. Driss is a director and producer, known for Larbi ou le destin d'un grand footballeur (2011), Bamou (1983) and Aida (2015).- Lina Tartara Minora was born on 7 July 1892 in Sale, Piedmont, Italy. She was an actress, known for I Have Lost My Husband (1937), Song to the Wind (1939) and Ball at the Castle (1939). She died on 17 February 1968 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.