Actress Diana Rigg passed away yesterday due to cancer that was diagnosed in March.
Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, this is her full name, was born on July 20, 1938, in Doncaster, Yorkshire. Diana Rigg’s acting career began in the theater, and in the late 1950s, she also began to find roles in television productions. Fame came when she was cast to play Emma Peel in the TV show “The Avengers”.
David William Duchovny was born on August 7, 1960 in New York, USA. In 1993, David Duchovny became a big hit when he started playing Special Agent Fox Mulder in the the TV show “The X-Files”. He’s also famous as the protagonist of the TV shows “Californication”, which aired between 2007 and 2014, and “Aquarius”, which aired between 2015 and 2016. Duchovny also worked as executive producer on both shows.
Patrick Stewart was born on July 13, 1940, in Mirfield, West Riding, Yorkshire, England. Patrick Stewart agreed to work in American productions for purely economic reasons. This allowed him to be noticed and picked to play Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show “Star Trek: The Next Generation”. At the time there was skepticism about the possibility of modernizing the Star Trek saga and the actor expected to return to England after one season. In the end, the show lasted seven seasons, Stewart also participated in some movies connected to the saga and lent his voice to some video games connected to the show.
Throughout his life, Patrick Stewart got married three times and had a total of two children. His son Daniel also became an actor. For his acting activity, Patrick Stewart has received various awards and honors. Not only has he not stopped working, but he recently reprised the role of Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show “Star Trek: Picard”. This role gave him international fame, but the actor helped to shape him and is continuing to influence his evolution.
The news arrived of the death of the composer Ennio Morricone. He was hospitalized in a clinic in Rome following a fall that caused his femur’s fracture.
An encyclopedia could be written to analyze the hundreds of music pieces written by Ennio Morricone. His soundtracks, which include a wide range of styles, made the history of cinema contributing to the success of many movies of all genres. He will be remembered as one of the greatest composers in the history of cinema.
Ray Harryhausen was born on June 29, 1920, in Los Angeles, California, USA. The first professional jobs for Ray Harryhausen were for director George Pal in short films that included animations. The great success came for Ray Harryhausen with “The 7th Voyage of Sinbad” (1958), a milestone of stop motion animations. In the following years, he created more extraordinary animations for “The 3 Worlds of Gulliver” (1960) and “Mysterious Island” (1961) up to what is considered his masterpiece, “Jason and the Argonauts” (1963).
In the following years, the animations produced by Ray Harryhausen ranged from the space creatures of “First Men in the Moon” (1964) to the dinosaurs of “One Million Years BC” (1966) and “The Valley of Gwangi” (1969), a project Harryhausen had been trying to develop personally for years.
