Name	Escape to Athena
Caption	Escape to Athena release poster
Director	George P. Cosmatos
Producer	Lew GradeDavid Niven Jr.Jack Wiener
Writer	George P. Cosmatos (story)Edward Anhalt (screenplay)Richard Lochte (screenplay & story)
Starring	Roger MooreTelly SavalasDavid NivenStefanie PowersClaudia CardinaleRichard RoundtreeSonny BonoandElliott Gould
Music	Barry Blue &Rod Temperton (song, "Keep Tomorrow For Me")Lalo Schifrin
Cinematography	Gil Taylor
Distributor	Associated Film Distribution
Released	June 6, 1979
Runtime	125 min.(Sweden: 119 min.)(Argentina: 120 min.(US: 101 minutes)
Country	UK
Language	English

Escape to Athena is a British adventure war film (with elements of comedy) released in 1979, directed by George Pan Cosmatos and produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment. The international cast included many well-known actors of the 1970s.

The film is set during the Second World War on a German-occupied Greek island. It was filmed on the island of Rhodes according to the credits at the end of the film. The presence of various Ottoman Turkish buildings, and structures and even a mosque with beautifully adorned minaret (where a German sniper was perched in one scene) is noteworthy.

Plot summary

Set on an anonymous Greek island during the last year of the war, 1944, Allied POWs in a remote POW camp are forced to work for the Germans by digging up ancient Greek archaeological artifacts. The camp Commandant, Major Otto Hecht (Roger Moore), was an Austrian antiques dealer before the war. Unknown to Hecht's superiors is the fact that he's withholding the more valuable finds for his own personal gain, and sending them to his sister living in Switzerland. Hecht is far from the dutiful army officer, the total opposite of the nearest town's Commandant, SS Major Volkmann (Anthony Valentine). Volkmann and his Lieutenants (Siegfried Rauch and Richard Wren) rule the town's population with a sadistic grip, executing the innocent residents just as easily as enemy soldiers.

The only opposition to the Germans is Zeno (Telly Savalas), a former Monk, and his few resistance fighters who use the local brothel as an undercover headquarters. Zeno, who is in contact with Allied Headquarters, is ordered to break the prisoners out of their camp to increase his numbers and therefore takeover the town from the SS and also secure a U-Boat refuelling depot. Using two captured USO artists Charley (Elliott Gould) and Dottie (Stephanie Powers) to perform a concert as cover, the prisoners and Zeno's resistance take over the camp. With the choice of helping the resistance or being killed by Zeno, Hecht joins forces with the allies and helps them eradicate Volkmann's troops as well as capturing the fuel depot.

With Volkmann dead and the Germans in town no longer a threat, Charley asks Zeno to lead him and two other prisoners (Roundtree and Bono) up to the monastery on Mount Athena to steal Byzantine treasures being kept by the monks. Zeno agrees, to everyone's surprise, but insists they take weapons and explosives as there's a German garrison up there. In reality, Zeno has been ordered to destroy the garrison and its V2 rockets that would be capable of hindering a proposed Allied invasion, and knows Charley wouldn't go if he knew of the Germans' presence.

The film features one of the most memorable motorcycle chase scenes in cinematic history.

Cast

Roger Moore as Major Otto Hecht – the Wehrmacht commandant of the POW camp who opposes his government's ideology

Telly Savalas as Zeno – the head of the local resistance movement

David Niven as Professor Blake – an archaeologist, prisoner in the camp

Stefanie Powers as Dottie Del Mar – an American artist (in fact, stripper), who was shot down with Charlie and detained in the POW camp.

Elliott Gould as Charlie – a comedian, partner of Dottie.

Claudia Cardinale as Eleana – a local madame, girlfriend of Zeno

Richard Roundtree as Nat Judson – a magician, POW

Sonny Bono as Bruno Rotelli – an Italian chef, POW

Anthony Valentine as Sturmbannführer Volkmann – the ruthless SS commander of the island and Hecht's rival

Siegfried Rauch as Obersturmführer Braun – a vicious SS officer and Volkman's senior subaltern

Richard Wren as SS Obersturmfuhrer Reistoffer;Volkmann's adjutant

Michael Sheard as Sergeant Mann – Hecht's senior NCO

Cameo

William Holden, who was in a relationship with Stefanie Powers at the time of filming, makes a cameo in the film as a POW. Elliot Gould's character passes by Holden leaning against the POW barracks, looks at him and asks, "Are you still here?" This is in reference to Holden's Oscar-winning performance in Billy Wilder's WWII/POW film Stalag 17 as Sgt. J.J. Sefton, who actually escapes at the end of that film.

See also

Kelly's Heroes (1970)

Inside Out (1975)

External links

Category:1979 films Category:World War II films Category:Prisoner of war films Category:British films Category:English-language films Category:ITC Distributions Category:War adventure films Category:1970s adventure films Category:Films directed by George P. Cosmatos Category:Films about the German Resistance

Name	Telly Savalas
Caption	Telly Savalas, 1980
Birth name	Aristotelis Savalas
Birth date	January 21, 1922
Birth place	Garden City, New York, U.S.
Death date	January 22, 1994
Death place	Universal City, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1959–1994
Spouse	Katherine Nicolaides (1948–1957)Marilyn Gardner (1960–1974) Julie Hovland (1984–1994 (His Death))}}

Aristotelis "Telly" Savalas (; January 21, 1922 January 22, 1994) was an American film and television actor and singer, whose career spanned four decades.

Best known for playing the title role in the 1970s crime drama Kojak, Savalas was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Birdman of Alcatraz (1962). His other movie credits include The Young Savages (1961), The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), Battle of the Bulge (1965), The Dirty Dozen (1967), The Scalphunters (1968), supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Kelly's Heroes (1970), Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971), Inside Out (1975) and Escape to Athena (1979).

Early life

Savalas, the second of five children, was born as Aristotelis Savalas (Greek: Αριστοτέλης Σαβάλας) in Garden City, New York, to Greek American parents Christina (née Kapsalis), a New York City artist who was a native of Sparta, and Nick Savalas, a Greek restaurant owner. When he entered Sewanhaka High School in Floral Park, New York, he initially only spoke Greek, yet learned English and graduated in 1940. After graduation, he worked as a lifeguard, but on one occasion, was unsuccessful at rescuing a man from drowning, an event which would haunt Savalas for the remainder of his life. When he entered Columbia University School of General Studies, Savalas took a variety of courses, such as English, radio and psychology, graduating in 1948. At that time, he fell in love with radio and television, which led to his interest in acting. Savalas also gained life experience with a three-year stint (1943–1946) in the Army during World War II, working for the State Department as host of the "Your Voice of America" series, then at ABC News, before beginning an acting career in his late thirties. In 1950, Savalas hosted a popular radio show called The Coffeehouse in New York City.

Early television and movie career

Savalas started out as an executive director and then senior director of the news special events at ABC. He then became an executive producer for the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports where he gave Howard Cosell his first job.

Savalas was a character actor on TV shows during 1959 and the 1960s. His first acting role was on And Bring Home a Baby, an episode of Armstrong Circle Theater in January 1959. He appeared on two more episodes of this series, in 1959 and 1960. Between 1959 and 1967, he made more than fifty guest appearances in various television programs, including Naked City, The Eleventh Hour, King of Diamonds, The Aquanauts, The Untouchables, , Burke's Law, Combat!, The Fugitive, Breaking Point, Bonanza, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The F.B.I. and the The Twilight Zone classic episode Living Doll. He had a recurring role as Brother Hendricksen on the popular crime drama series, 77 Sunset Strip.

While playing Lucky Luciano on the TV series The Witness, actor Burt Lancaster "discovered" him. He appeared with Lancaster in three movies — the first of these was the crime drama The Young Savages (1961). After playing a police officer in this movie, he moved on to play a string of heavies. Once again opposite Lancaster, he won acclaim and an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as the sadistic Feto Gomez in Birdman of Alcatraz (1962).

Savalas shaved his head for his role as Pontius Pilate in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), and decided to remain bald for the remainder of his life.

Savalas was memorable as the weirdly religious and very sadistic convict Archer Maggott in The Dirty Dozen (1967), the seminal ensemble action film by director Robert Aldrich. He later returned to play a different character in two of the movie's TV sequels - The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (1987) and The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (1988). He co-starred with Burt Lancaster for the third time in The Scalphunters (1968), a comedy western that looked at racism during the Civil Rights movement. Two more appearances in comedies for Telly were as Herbie Haseler in Crooks and Coronets (1969) and opposite Clint Eastwood in Kelly's Heroes (1970).

His career was transformed with the lead role in the celebrated TV-movie The Marcus Nelson Murders (CBS, 1973), which was based on the real-life Career Girls Murder case, and pop culture icon Theo Kojak was born.

Kojak

Savalas' most famous role was as the star of the television series Kojak. Lt. Theo Kojak was a bald New York City detective with a fondness for lollipops and whose trademark line was "Who loves ya, baby?" (He also liked to say "Everybody should have a little Greek in them.") Although the lollipop gimmick was added in order to indulge his sweet tooth, Telly also smoked heavily onscreen — cigarettes, cigarillos and cigars — throughout the first season's episodes.

"Telly Savalas can make bad slang sound like good slang and good slang sound like lyric poetry. It isn't what he is, so much as the way he talks, that gets you tuning in ," wrote the critic Clive James trying to explain some of the great popularity of the show.

He was nominated for a Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series two years in a row, winning the Emmy in 1974. He was also nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a TV Drama Series from 1975 to 1978, winning twice, in 1975 and 1976. His younger brother George played the regular role of Detective Stavros — a sensitive, wild-haired, quiet, comedic foil to Kojak's street-wise humor in an otherwise dark dramatic TV series.

Kevin Dobson played the role of Kojak's trusted young partner, Det. Bobby Crocker. The on-screen chemistry of Savalas and Dobson was a success story of 1970s television. After the show's cancellation. Dobson went on to further fame in the popular prime-time 1980s soap opera Knots Landing. As a result, he did not appear in a majority of Kojak TV movies. Savalas and Dobson were reunited on-screen for one last time when they appeared together in the 1990 TV movie Kojak: It's Always Something, where Dobson's character was a lawyer — similar to his role on Knots Landing - instead of a police officer.

Dobson said of his first meeting with Savalas: "The moment I met Telly Savalas, we shook hands and our eyes met and locked and the chemistry was there."

Dobson added: "The lollipops scene took place in the fifth show, when we're in the office and we're about to do the scene, he said, 'I need something, you know?' And here's a guy standing over there with the Tootsie Pop sticking out of his shirt. Give me a Tootsie Pop, huh? Telly, they flipped it to him, doing it like this, unwrapped it, stuck it to him and his head, his mouth and became a lollipop cop."

In 1978, after five seasons and 118 episodes, CBS cancelled the show due to low ratings. Savalas was unhappy about the show's demise, but he got the chance to reprise the Kojak persona in several TV movies.

Savalas portrayed Kojak in the following shows:

The Marcus-Nelson Murders (1973) (TV pilot)

Kojak (1973 – 78) TV Series

Kojak: The Belarus File (1985) (TV)

Kojak: The Price of Justice (1987) (TV)

Kojak: Ariana (1989) (TV)

Kojak: Fatal Flaw (1989) (TV)

Kojak: None So Blind (1990) (TV)

Kojak: It's Always Something (1990) (TV)

Kojak: Flowers for Matty (1990) (TV)

Other career achievements

As a singer, Savalas had some chart success. His spoken word version of Bread's If produced by Snuff Garrett was #1 in Europe for 10 weeks in 1975 and his sung version of Don Williams' Some Broken Hearts Never Mend topped the charts in 1980. He worked with composer and producer John Cacavas on many albums, including Telly (1974), Airport 1975, (1974) and Who Loves Ya, Baby (1976).

In the late 1970s, Savalas narrated three UK travelogues titled Telly Savalas Looks at Portsmouth, Telly Savalas Looks at Aberdeen and Telly Savalas Looks at Birmingham. These were produced by Harold Baim and were examples of quota quickies which were then part of a requirement that cinemas in the United Kingdom showed a set percentage of British produced films. He also hosted the 1989 video UFOs and Channeling. In the 1980s and early 1990s, Savalas appeared in commercials for the Players' Club Gold Card.

Savalas also appeared on the Australian supernatural television show The Extraordinary, where he told a personal ghost story similar to The Vanishing Hitchhiker. The story was total fiction, as it differs noticeably from a version he told many years earlier.

He has been honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Personal life

Savalas was married three times. In 1948 after his father's death from bladder cancer, Savalas married his college sweetheart, Katherine Nicolaides. Daughter Christina, named after his mother, was born in 1950. In 1957, Katherine filed for divorce after she found out from Telly that he was running away to flee his creditors. She urged him to move back to his mother's house during that same year. While Savalas was going broke, he founded the Garden City Theater Center in his native Garden City. While working there, he met Marilyn Gardner, a theater teacher, and they fell in love. They married in 1960. Marilyn gave birth to daughter Penelope in 1961. A second daughter, Candace, was born in 1963.

In 1969, while working on the movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Savalas met Sally Adams. Sally gave birth to their son Nicholas Savalas on February 24, 1973. Gardner filed for divorce from Savalas in 1974, but Savalas and Sally Adams apparently never legally married. In 1977 during the last season of Kojak, he met and fell in love with Julie Hovland, a travel agent from Minnesota. They were married in 1984 and had two children together, Christian and Ariana. Julie and Telly remained married until his death. Christian Savalas is an actor, singer and songwriter. Ariana Savalas is an actress and singer/songwriter. Julie Savalas is an inventor and artist.

Telly Savalas held a degree in psychology and was a world-class poker player who finished 21st at the main event in the 1992 World Series of Poker, as well as a motorcycle racer and lifeguard. His other hobbies and interests included golfing, swimming, reading romantic books, watching football, traveling, collecting luxury cars and gambling. He loved horse racing and bought a racehorse with movie director and producer Howard W. Koch. Naming the horse Telly's Pop, it won several races in 1975 including the Norfolk Stakes and Del Mar Futurity.

In his capacity as producer for Kojak, he gave many stars their first break, as Burt Lancaster did for him. He was considered by those who knew him to be a generous, graceful, compassionate man. He was also a strong contributor to his Greek Orthodox roots through the Saint Sophia and Saint Nicholas cathedrals in Los Angeles and was the sponsor of bringing electricity in the 1970s to his ancestral home, Yeraka, Greece.

Savalas had a minor physical handicap in that he was missing part of his left index finger. This missing digit was often indicated on screen; Kojak episode "Conspiracy of Fear" in which a close-up of Savalas holding his chin in his hand clearly shows the incomplete finger.

Deaths of relatives and his own last days

After Savalas came back to reprise his role on Kojak in the 1980s, he began to lose close relatives.

George Savalas, his brother who played Detective Stavros on the original Kojak series, died in 1985 of leukemia at age 60. His mother Christina, who had always been his best friend, supporter and devoted parent, died in 1989. Later that year, Savalas was diagnosed with transitional cell cancer of the bladder. He refused to see a doctor until 1993, but by then he did not have much time to live. While fighting for his life, he continued to star in many roles, including a recurring role on The Commish.

Death

Savalas died on January 22, 1994, at the age of 72, just one day after his birthday, of complications of cancer of the bladder and prostate at the Sheraton-Universal Hotel in Universal City, California where he lived for twenty years. He was interred at the George Washington section of Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery. The funeral, held in the Saint Sophia Greek Orthodox Church, was attended by his third wife Julie and his brother Gus. His first two wives, Katherine and Marilyn, also attended with their own children. Some of the many other mourners present included Angie Dickinson, Nicollette Sheridan, Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Sorbo, Sally Adams, Frank Sinatra, Don Rickles, and several of Telly's Kojak co-stars - Kevin Dobson, Dan Frazer and Vince Conti.

Movie roles

His silver screen career usually involved him being cast as the villain in such films as:

Mad Dog Coll (1961)

The Young Savages (1961)

Cool Johnny Cool (1963)

The Man from the Diner's Club (1963)

The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) as Pontius Pilate

''The Slender Thread (1965)

Beau Geste (1966) as Sergeant Dagineau

The Dirty Dozen (1967) as Archer Maggott

The Karate Killers (1967) as Count Valeriano De Fanzini

The Scalphunters (1968) as Jim Howie

The Assassination Bureau (1969)

On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) as Ernst Stavro Blofeld

Land Raiders (1969)

Crooks and Coronets (1969) as Herbie Haseler

Mackenna's Gold (1969) as Cavalry Sergeant Tibbs

Violent City (1970)

A Town Called Bastard (1971)

Pancho Villa (1972)

Redneck (1972)

Crime Boss (1972)

Scenes from a Murder (1972)

Horror Express (1973)

Lisa and the Devil (1973)

A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die (1973)

Redneck (1973)

Inside Out (1975)

Killer Force (1976)

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) as Doctor Stefan Svevo

Cannonball Run II (1984) as Hymie Kaplan

(voice) (1986)

Other movie roles where Savalas didn't play the villain were:

Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) as Feto Gomez

Cape Fear (1962)

Love Is a Ball (1963) as P.I. Charles Sievers

The New Interns (1964)

Genghis Khan (1965) as Shan

The Slender Thread (1965)

Battle of the Bulge (1965) as Tank Sgt. Guffy

Sol Madrid (1968)

Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)

Kelly's Heroes (1970) as Master Sergeant "big" Joe

Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971)

Clay Pigeon (1971)

Inside Out (1975) as Harry Morgan

Capricorn One (1978) as Albain, the bi-plane pilot

Escape to Athena (1979) as Zino

Border Cop (1979) as Frank Cooper

The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland (1985) as the Cheshire Cat

(1987) as Major Wright

Faceless (1988) as Terry Hallen

(1988) as Major Wright

References

External links

The Official Site of Telly Savalas

Famousbaldpeople.com

Savalas.TV - Who loves ya, baby?

TellySavalas.de - German Infoside

TellySavalas.com

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Name	Stefanie Powers
Caption	Stefanie Powers attending the "Night of 100 Stars" for the 82nd Academy Awards viewing party at the Beverly Hills Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA on March 7, 2010
Birthname	Stefanie Zofya Paul
Birthdate	November 02, 1942
Birthplace	Hollywood, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress/Singer
Yearsactive	1958–present
Spouse	Patrick De La Chenais(1993–1999)Gary Lockwood(1966–1972)

Stefanie Powers (born Stefanie Zofya Paul; November 2, 1942) is an American actress best known for her role as Jennifer Hart in the 1980s television series Hart to Hart.

Early life

The auburn-haired actress was born in Hollywood, California, to parents of Polish-Jewish descent. Her parents divorced during her childhood and her mother, Julia Golan, remarried. Powers was a cheerleader at Hollywood High School; one of her classmates was Nancy Sinatra. In 1965, using the alias Taffy Paul, she made an obscure independent film, The Young Sinner, with future Billy Jack star Tom Laughlin.

She developed a serious interest in bullfighting, facing her first bull at the age of twenty. A few years later she became an honorary member of the Mexican bullfighters union and part owner of a bull ring and breeding farm in Texcoco, Mexico.

Career

Powers appeared in several motion pictures in the early 1960s in secondary roles such as the thriller Experiment in Terror with Glenn Ford and Lee Remick, the comedy If a Man Answers with Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin, and as the daughter of John Wayne in the lighthearted comedy-Western McLintock! (1963). She played a schoolgirl in Tammy Tell Me True (1961) and the police chief's daughter Bunny in the romantic comedy Palm Springs Weekend (1963). She was also in the 1962 hospital melodrama The Interns and its sequel The New Interns in 1964. In 1965, Powers had a more substantial role playing opposite veteran actress Tallulah Bankhead in the Hammer horror film Die! Die! My Darling (originally released in England as Fanatic). Her early television work included Route 66 and Bonanza (both in 1963).

In 1966, her "tempestuous" good looks led to a starring role as April Dancer in the short-lived NBC television spy thriller series The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.. This was a spin-off of the popular The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. Powers' linguistic skills, dance training, and interest in bullfighting were written into several episodes of the series. She also learned how to fence for a five-minute fight sequence with sabers.

Shortly after the series' debut, she was featured on the cover of TV Guide (Dec. 31, 1966–Jan. 6, 1967). The article mentions her "117-pound frame is kept supple with 11 minutes of Royal Canadian Air Force exercises every morning." It also noted: "Unlike her fellow U.N.C.L.E. agents, the ladylike April is not required to kill the bad guys. Her feminine charms serve as the bait, while her partner Noel Harrison provides the fireworks." Dancer was written as a demure, passive figure instead of an action heroine like The Avengers' Emma Peel. The show's reliance on self-parody and camp humor instead of dramatic action and suspense was not a success. The series lasted for only one season (29 one-hour episodes) airing from September 16, 1966 to April 11, 1967.

In 1967, she was in the film Warning Shot with David Janssen. Her 1970s began with two Disney films, The Boatniks (1970) and Herbie Rides Again (sequel to The Love Bug).

She was a guest star on the Robert Wagner series It Takes a Thief in 1970. The two would go on to co-star in the popular Hart to Hart series nine years later.

Prior to the Hart to Hart success, she starred in The Feather and Father Gang as Toni "Feather" Danton, a successful lawyer. Her father, Harry Danton, was a smooth-talking ex-con man played by Harold Gould. It ran for 13 episodes. Guest roles on other popular TV shows include: McCloud (1971), The Mod Squad (1972), Kung Fu (1974), The Rockford Files (1975), The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman (1976), and McMillan & Wife (1977). These shows were the ones that Powers appeared, long after she signed a contract with Universal Studios in 1970, coincidentally, her longtime friend and Hart to Hart series' star, Wagner, signed up a contract with Universal, but did not guest-star on more shows than Powers did.

Her role as stripper Dottie Del Mar in 1979's Escape to Athena with Roger Moore turned out to be Powers' last theatrical film to date.

She became widely known as a television star for her role opposite old friend Wagner as a pair of amateur sleuths in the 1979-1984 series Hart to Hart for which she received two Emmy and five Golden Globe Award Best Television Actress nominations. In the 1990s she and Wagner reunited to make eight Hart to Hart made-for-TV two-hour movies.

In 1985, Powers starred as twins who swap places leading to dire consequences in the two-part made-for-TV movie Deceptions.

She starred briefly in a 1991 London musical, Matador, which closed prematurely due to the sharp drop in tourism during the Persian Gulf War. In 1993, she won the Sarah Siddons Award for her stage performance in Love Letters.

In 1996, she toured in a production of Applause which was slated to go to New York in hopes of a Broadway revival. She played the role of Margo Channing, played in the original production by Lauren Bacall (and later Anne Baxter), and in the source film All About Eve by Bette Davis.

She toured the United Kingdom in 2002 in the singing role of Anna Leonowens for a revival of The King and I. She also toured the U.S. in 2004 and 2005 in that role. Powers released her debut CD in 2003, titled, On The Same Page. The album features selections from the classic Great American Songbook era. Since 2006 she has been the U.S. location presenter on the BBC's long running Through the Keyhole panel show.

On April 30, 2008, she was reunited with Robert Wagner for the filming of a special Hart to Hart edition of the Graham Norton show [BBC].

Personal life

Powers was married to actor Gary Lockwood between 1966 and 1972. She had a relationship with actor William Holden that led to their being involved with wildlife conservation. Following his death in 1981, Powers became President of the William Holden Wildlife Foundation and a director of the Mount Kenya Game Ranch in Kenya. In the United States, she works with both the Cincinnati and Atlanta zoos. She devotes a great deal of time to the cause and is international guest speaker on wildlife preservation.

On April 1, 1993 she married Patrick Houitte de la Chesnais. They divorced in 1999. Powers has no children.

A polo player, along with Canadian retailing magnate Galen Weston and Thoroughbred owner/breeder Henryk de Kwiatkowski, she was among the first foreign members of the Royal County of Berkshire Polo Club in the United Kingdom, whose membership includes HRH The Prince of Wales. In 2005, she competed in the Joules United Kingdom National Women's Championships at Ascot.

Her mother Julia Golen died on January 3, 2009, according to the actress's official Web site.

Powers has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6778 Hollywood Boulevard.

Selected filmography

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References

External links

The Official Stefanie Powers Website

The William Holden Wildlife Foundation

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Name	Claudia Cardinale
Caption	Cardinale at the 2009 Women's World Awards
Birth name	Claude Joséphine Rose Cardinale
Birth date	April 15, 1939
Birth place	Tunis, Tunisia
Occupation	actress
Years active	1958-present
Spouse	Franco Cristaldi (1966-1975) (divorced)
Partner	Pasquale Squitieri (1975-present) 2 children

Claudia Cardinale (born 15 April 1939; some sources claim 1938) is an Italian-Tunisian actress. She had starring roles in Cartouche in 1962, 8½ (1963), The Professionals (1966), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) and The Pink Panther (1963); the majority of Cardinale's films have been either Italian or French.

Early life

Claudia Cardinale was born Claude Joséphine Rose Cardinale in La Goulette, an Italian Tunisian neighborhood of Tunis. Her mother, Yolande Greco, was born in Tunisia to Sicilian emigrants from Trapani. Her father was an Italian railway worker, born in Gela. Her native languages were Tunisian Arabic and French. She had to learn Italian once she pursued her career. She did not speak Italian well (only the Sicilian language learned from her parents, like many Italian Tunisians) until the age of sixteen.

Career

In 1957, Cardinale won the 'Most Beautiful Italian Girl in Tunisia' contest of the Italian embassy, which brought her to the traditional Venice Film Festival. Her feature film debut was Goha (1957), a French-Tunisian co-production. After attending the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia of Rome for two months, she signed a 7-year contract with the Vides studios. In 1958, she had a role in the major international success I soliti ignoti. Her early career was largely managed by producer Franco Cristaldi, a studio producer to whom Cardinale was married from 1966 until 1975.

Throughout the 1960s, she appeared in some of the most acclaimed Italian and European films of the period, including Luchino Visconti's Rocco e i suoi fratelli (Rocco and His Brothers 1960) and Il Gattopardo (The Leopard, 1963), Philippe de Broca's Cartouche (1963), Federico Fellini's Otto e mezzo (8½ 1963), and Sergio Leone's epic Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). In her early Italian films, another actor dubbed for Cardinale, because her naturally deep voice (which later became one of the reasons of her success) contrasted with her feminine appearance. Not until 8½ was she allowed to dub her own dialogue.

Because Cardinale was not interested in leaving Europe for extended periods of time, she never made a real attempt to break into the American market. The list of her Hollywood films includes The Pink Panther (1963), Circus World (1964); Blindfold (1965); and The Professionals (1966).

A photograph of Cardinale was featured in the original gatefold artwork to Bob Dylan's album Blonde on Blonde (1966), but because it was used without Cardinale's permission, the photo was removed from the cover art in later pressings.

Her performance in Visconti's Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa (known as Sandra in the United States and Of A Thousand Delights, 1965) is regarded as mesmerizing, playing a Holocaust survivor who has an incestuous relationship with her brother. In Comencini's heart-breaking La storia (from Elsa Morante's novel), Cardinale plays a widow raising a son during World War II, and gave another well-received performance. Other memorable performances include Valerio Zurlini's Girl with a Suitcase and Mauro Bolognini's Libera.

Cardinale, now considered an icon of European cinema, remains active. Her later films include Qui comincia l'avventura (1975), Fitzcarraldo (1982), Un homme amoureux (1987), Mayrig (1991), and And now... Ladies and Gentlemen (2002).

Cardinale was honored as a tributee at the 2010 Telluride Film Festival and was the guest of honor at the 47th Antalya "Golden Orange" International Film Festival. She won the Golden Orange Best Actress Award for the movie of Signora Enrica (2010) from Antalya Film Festival in Turkey.

Personal life

as Jill McBain in Once Upon a Time in the West.]] Claudia Cardinale was married to Italian film producer Franco Cristaldi from 1966 until their divorce in 1975, and now lives with Pasquale Squitieri, an Italian film director who has been her companion since 1975.

She has two children: Patrizio, who was born out of wedlock to a Frenchman when she was 17 and later adopted by her longtime companion Pasquale Squitieri, and Claudia, whose biological father is Squitieri.

Cardinale is a liberal with strong political convictions. She is involved in many humanitarian causes, including pro-women and pro-gay issues, and has frequently stated her pride in her Tunisian and Arab roots - as evidenced by her book 'Ma Tunisie' and her appearance as herself in the Tunisian film Un été à La Goulette ("A Summer in La Goulette").

She wrote an autobiography, Moi Claudia, Toi Claudia. In 2005, she also published a French-language book, Mes Etoiles, about her personal and professional relationships with many of her directors and co-stars through her nearly 50 years in show-business.

Cardinale has been a regular attendee of the Academy Awards. In 2002, she was awarded an honorary Golden Bear award of the Berlin Film Festival, and previously in 1993 she was awarded even an honorary Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

Cardinale has been a UNESCO good will ambassador for the Defense of Women's Rights since 1999. In 2006 (World Water Year) she symbolically extended such a role for the Defense of the Rights of the Absolute Woman : Mother Earth while declaring her support for Powerstock, a sustainable electronic music festival that proposes a "water-consciousness" for youth culture and seeks to make sustainability an integral part of mainstream culture.

Claudia Cardinale now lives in Paris, France.

Filmography

I soliti ignoti (1958)

Goha (1958)

Vento del sud (1959)

Three Strangers in Rome (1959)

Un maledetto imbroglio (1959)

Il magistrato (1959)

Upstairs and Downstairs (1959)

Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti (1960)

I Delfini (1960)

Il bell'Antonio (1960)

Napoleone ad Austerlitz (1960)

Rocco and His Brothers (1960)

Girl with a Suitcase (1961)

La Viaccia (1961)

Les Lions sont lâchés (1961)

Cartouche (1961)

Senilità (1962)

La ragazza di Bube (1963)

8½ (1963)

The Leopard (1963)

The Pink Panther (1963)

Gli indifferenti (1964)

Circus World (1964)

Il magnifico cornuto (1964)

Una rosa per tutti (1965)

Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa (1965)

Blindfold (1965)

Le fate (1966)

The Professionals (1966)

Né onore né gloria (1966)

Piano piano, non t'agitare (1967)

Don't Make Waves (1967)

Ruba al prossimo tuo ... (1968)

I contrabbandieri del cielo (1968)

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

Il giorno della civetta (1968)

Nell'anno del Signore (1969)

La tenda rossa (1969)

Certo certissimo ... anzi probabile (1969)

The Adventures of Gerard (1970)

Popsy Pop (1970)

Les Pétroleuses (The Legend of Frenchie King) (1971)

Bello, onesto, emigrato Australia sposerebbe compaesana illibata (1971)

L'udienza (1971)

Le pistolere (1971)

Il clan dei marsigliesi (1972)

Il giorno del furore (1973)

I guappi (1974)

Conversation Piece (1974) cameo as the professor's wife

Libera, amore mio (1975)

Qui comincia l'avventura (1975)

A mezzanotte va la ronda del piacere (1975)

Il comune senso del pudore (1976)

Goodbye & Amen - L'uomo della CIA (1977)

Il prefetto di ferro (1977)

Jesus of Nazareth (1977)

Corleone (1978)

L'arma (1978)

Amici e nemici (1979)

Escape to Athena (1979)

Si salvi chi vuole (1980)

La Salamandra (1981)

Il regalo (1981)

Fitzcarraldo (1981)

La pelle (1981)

Trail of the Pink Panther (1982) (footage from first film)

Una cascata d'oro (1983)

Claretta (1984)

Enrico IV (1984)

La donna delle meraviglie (1985)

Un uomo innamorato (1986)

La storia (1986)

Blu elettrico (1988)

Atto di dolore (1990)

Mayrig (1991)

588, rue Paradis (1992)

Son of the Pink Panther (1993)

Nostromo (1996)

Li chiamarono briganti! (1999)

Luchino Visconti (1999)

And now... Ladies and Gentlemen (2002)

(2006)

Cherche Fiance Tous Frais Payes (2007)

Asterix at the Olympic Games (2008)

Le Fil (2009)

Signora Enrica (2010)

References

External links

A Tribute to Claudia Cardinale

Claudia Cardinale profile, at the UNESCO site.

Photographs and literature

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Name	Mux Mool
Landscape	yes
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Brian Lindgren
Genre	Dubstep, Electronic
Label	Moodgadget, Ghostly International

Mux Mool (born Brian Lindgren) is an American electronic musician, DJ, and producer, affiliated with the labels Moodgadget and Ghostly International.

Biography

Mux Mool was born in Minnesota, but began his career in Brooklyn, releasing his first tracks with Moodgadget in 2006. In 2008 he released several EPs and had a track placed on the Ghostly Swim compilation assembled for Adult Swim by the label Ghostly International. His debut full-length, Skulltaste, followed in 2010.

Name Etymology

Lindgren was dubbed Mux Mool by a band he admired after he posted a blog on MySpace soliciting fans to submit names for his project. “Mux is short for ‘multiplexing,’ which is the streaming of many types of information through one channel,” he explains, “and Chac-Mool is an ancient Meso-American statue of a reclining man.”

Discography

;Albums

Skulltaste (Ghostly International, 2010)

;EPs

Drum EP (Moodgadget, 2008)

Death 9000 (Moodgadget, 2008)

Just Saying Is All (Moodgadget, 2009)

Viking Funeral (Ghostly International, 2010)

Wax Rose Saturday (Ghostly International, 2010)

References

External Links

Mux Mool at Ghostly International

Mux Mool at RCRD LBL

Mux Mool on Twitter

Category:American electronic musicians Category:Musicians from Minnesota Category:Living people