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Rex McNicol Robbins was an American character actor of stage and screen. He played the Narrator/Mysterious Man in the first national tour of Into the Woods. Robbins appeared opposite Angela Lansbury in the 1974 Broadway revival of Gypsy. He made his Broadway debut in 1963 as the doctor in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and subsequently went on to play roles in over 30 plays and films. He also starred with John Lithgow in several British plays, including The Changing Room (1973) and Comedians (1976) and was directed by Lithgow in Boy Meets Girl (1976) based on the 1938 film of the same name. He replaced David Ogden Stiers in the long-running Doug Henning musical The Magic Show. In 1972, he played the role of Roger Sherman in the film version of the musical 1776. Off-Broadway, he appeared in Urban Blight at Manhattan Theatre Club, A.R. Gurney's The Dining Room at Playwrights Horizons and Henry IV, Part I at the Public Theater. His last stage appearance was as Mr. Brown in the musical adaption of James Joyce's The Dead in 2000. He is most remembered for portraying an openly gay bartender in Shaft.

His last film was a brief appearance in The Royal Tenenbaums. Robbins was born in Pierre, South Dakota, to Lucy Geraldine (McNichol), who worked in journalism, and Clarence Edward Robbins, a doctor. He was an alumnus of Yale University and was married with three children. Robbins died of a stroke on September 23, 2003, at age 68.

Louis Seigner was born on 23 June 1903 in Saint-Chef, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France. He was an actor, known for The Charterhouse of Parma (1948), Would-Be Gentleman (1958) and Dreams of Love (1947). He was married to Marie Cazeaux. He died on 20 January 1991 in 12 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 5, Paris, France.

Pierre Jansen was born on 28 February 1930 in Roubaix, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. He was a composer and actor, known for Violette (1978), Les bonnes femmes (1960) and Blue Panther (1965). He was married to Colette Zerah. He died on 13 August 2015 in Saint-Pierre-Saint-Jean, Rhone-Alpes, France.

Marion Hänsel was born on 12 February 1949 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. She was a producer and director, known for Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (1995), Si le vent soulève les sables (2006) and The Quarry (1998). She died on 8 June 2020 in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Belgium.

Anne Bécaud was born on 10 December 1965 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. She died on 3 September 2019 in Saint-Pierre-de-Maillé, Vienne, France.

René Remblier was born on 14 July 1962 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999), Sandra et les siens (2000) and Félix et Lola (2001). He died on 25 March 2024 in Saint-Pierre-lès-Nemours, Seine-et-Marne, France.

Jean-Pol Ferbus was born on 11 April 1949 in Brussels, Belgium. He was a writer and director, known for Des morts (1979), Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) and Wedding Trough (1974). He died on 10 October 1999 in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Belgium.

Jean Labussière was born on 18 October 1927 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. He is known for The 400 Blows (1959), Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) and So Long, Stooge (1983). He died on 3 August 2020 in Saint-Pierre, France.

Claude Volter was born on 31 January 1933 in Matadi, Belgian Congo [now Democratic Republic of the Congo]. He was an actor, known for Le mannequin assassiné (1970), L'ennemi sans visage (1970) and Pentimento (1989). He died on 15 October 2002 in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Belgium.

Etienne Willem was born on 11 September 1972 in Charleroi, Wallonia, Belgium. Etienne is known for The Breadwinner (2017), Strawberry Shortcake (2003) and Dino Squad (2007). Etienne died on 16 June 2024 in Saint-Pierre, Libramont-Chevigny, Wallonia, Belgium.

Doane Robinson was born on 19 October 1856 in Sparta, Wisconsin, USA. He died on 27 November 1946 in Pierre, South Dakota, USA.

Lise Vincent-Doucet-Bon was born on 22 May 1910 in Saint-Jean-de-Bournay, Isère, France. She died on 17 June 1993 in Pierre-Bénite, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.

Cheikh El Hasnaoui, born was born in Taazibt, a village in Kabylie in Algeria, is a singer, musician and singer-songwriter. Orphaned by his mother at two years old, Mohamed Khelouat was raised by his family. The child grew up in the culture of the Zaouias where he attended Timaamrin, where he learned the Koran and the Arabic language, the script of which he would later use to transcribe his songs. He left his native village around 1930 for the capital Algiers. He then lived on rue Mogador in the Casbah of Algiers and was even part of the Hadj M'hamed El Anka orchestra.

In 1937, on the eve of the Second World War, El Hasnaoui left Algeria for Paris, in the 15th arrondissement. The orphanage, the hunger, the poverty that Cheikh El Hasnaoui experienced during his childhood, marked him for life. Dreaming of impossible, but beautiful things, to escape a most atrocious and unbearable reality... He therefore took off and, like many of his colleagues, began his artistic career in Parisian North African cafes, transformed every Saturday evening and Sunday morning into Chaâbi performance halls. He became friends with certain great figures of the Algerian artistic scene and song based in France (Mohamed Iguerbouchène, Kaddour Cherchalli, Dahmane El Harrachi, etc.). In 1946, El Hasnaoui recorded for Odéon Yemma, Yemma (mother, give me your blessing), Ijah Errayis (the dissolute life) and Ayatwakal Aberkane (vibrant homage to the native land).

The second theme of El Hasnaoui's work, unlike that of the legend of the spurned lover, is inspired by his experience of exile. He sang of his own torments as a man exiled and deprived of his native land which nevertheless never left him in his heart and his mind. Everything that El Hasnaoui sang about Tamurt (the native land), this affliction and these setbacks of exile, we find them in legendary songs like La Maison Blanche, Ad Ruhegh, Aqlagh Nesbek, Ya Noudjoum Elil... The El Hasnaoui's specificity also lies in the fact that he sang in both languages, Amazigh and Arabic. His songs are very short in duration, an unprecedented detail in Algerian and Kabyle song in particular. El Hasnaoui was also the first to address themes considered taboo in his songs in the sentimental register.

From 1939 until the beginning of the 1950s, before the outbreak of the Algerian War, he produced most of his repertoire composed of 29 Kabyle songs and 17 in Algerian Arabic. In 1968, he recorded his last songs: Cheikh Amokrane, Haïla hop, Mrebha, Ya Noudjoum Ellil and Rod Balek.

In 1968, he left the music scene for good. He first lived in Nice, in a small retirement, before settling for the last twelve years of his life in Saint-Pierre (Reunion), where he died. He is buried in the cemetery landscaper alongside his wife (Denise Khelouat, born Denis).

Rediscovered in the 1970s by Kabyle intellectuals, it has since been broadcast regularly on Algiers Channel 2; From Lounès Matoub to Lounis Ait Menguellet or later Kamel Messaoudi, El Meskoud, Hamidou, DuOudet and many others are inspired by or evoke the musical work of Cheikh El Hasnaoui, by honoring some of his successes .