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Catherine Zeta Jones

Catherine Zeta Jones was born in Swansea, Wales in 1969. She came to national prominence in the UK in the popular television series “The Darling Buds of May”. In 1993 she was featured in the film “Splinning Heirs” and then in the mid 1990’s she went to Hollywood where she achieved starring roles in such big budget featues as “The Mask of Zorrro”, “Entrapment” and “The Haunting”. She won as Oscar for her role as Velma Kelly in “Chicago” opposite Richard Gere. In 2010 she won a Tony on Broadway for her role in “A Little Night Music” opposite Angela Lansbury. She is married to the actor Michael Douglas.

TCM Overview:

Welsh-born actress Catherine Zeta-Jones captivated both U.S. audiences and one of film’s most prominent leading men, establishing her as Hollywood royalty seemingly overnight. Following more than a decade’s worth of work on the stages of Britain, Zeta-Jones broke out in a big way opposite Antonio Banderas in the swashbuckling adventure, “The Mask of Zorro” (1998). After a pair of unremarkable mainstream efforts, she earned critical acclaim for her turn in Steven Soderbergh’s drama “Traffic” (2000), co-starring her future husband, Hollywood icon Michael Douglas. Zeta-Jones later drew upon her extensive musical theater background for her Oscar-winning performance in Rob Marshall’s adaptation of “Chicago” (2002). Critical and commercial disappointments such as the Coen Brothers’ dark-comedy “Intolerable Cruelty” (2003) were balanced by bright spots like a supporting turn in Soderbergh’s heist sequel, “Ocean’s Twelve” (2004), but Zeta-Jones increasingly chose to devote her time to her and Douglas’ growing family. A Tony Award for her Broadway performance in “A Little Night Music,” Douglas’ battle with throat cancer, and her own hospitalization for a bipolar disorder were just a few of the high and low points that marked a tumultuous period for Zeta-Jones between 2009 and 2011. Eventually, she returned to screens in several feature films, the musical, “Rock of Ages” (2012), among them. Almost preternaturally beautiful and talented, Zeta-Jones remained one of film’s more impressive leading ladies.

Catherine Zeta-Jones was born Catherine Jones on Sept. 25, 1969 – or so the story went (rumors would persist that she was as much as 10 years older than her age, but she always denied the claims. Her mother Patricia was an Irish seamstress and her Welsh father Dai ran a confectionary company. Dai’s mother’s name, “Zeta,” would prove a helpful addition to her name when the aspiring actress began a career in a world full of Catherine Joneses. But that career would not begin for about five long years after Zeta-Jones was born in the Welsh seaside town of Swansea. She started taking dance classes at the age of four, and by the age of 10, was performing regularly with the local church-sponsored theater group and already harboring dreams of a career singing and dancing onstage. Unfortunately, she contracted a viral infection that not only kept her offstage and out of school for a period, it impaired her breathing and required a tracheotomy – traces of which would remain visible in the form of a tiny scar on her neck. Following her recovery, Zeta-Jones was enrolled in a private school to help her catch up on her missed studies, a move enabled in no small part by her parents netting a sizeable winning in a local lottery. The Jones family moved to a nicer neighborhood, but their newly-minted prep schooler was still an incurable performer. When she was not in local productions she was belting out Broadway numbers from atop the kitchen table for friends and family. Zeta-Jones’ father doubled as a supportive coach, taking her to auditions in London where the teen landed roles in productions of “Bugsy Malone” and “Annie.”

When Zeta-Jones was 14, a traveling musical theater production helmed by former Monkee Mickey Dolenz came to Swansea, casting local talent to participate in the chorus. Not only was Zeta-Jones chosen to perform, but producers cast her in a touring production of “The Pajama Game,” at which point she quit school, moved to London, and got her Actor’s Guild card. Camped out in the spare room of a former acting tutor, the promising newcomer lucked into the lead in a revival of “42nd Street” after her fill-in performance blew away producers and audiences. She logged an impressive schedule of eight shows per week for two years, and by the time she was 19, Zeta-Jones was ready for a change of pace. In 1989, she left London for a year of exploring Paris. While there, director Philip de Broca gave Zeta-Jones and her unbelievable exotic looks a screen debut in the feature “Sheherazade: 1001 Nights” (1990). In 1991, Zeta-Jones returned to England and was offered a co-starring role as the eldest daughter in a boisterous farm family on the British TV series “The Darling Buds of May” (Yorkshire TV, 1991-93). The show was a hit, and its three-year run turned Zeta-Jones into a bona fide television star in the U.K. She began to land offers in America, appearing in the TV film “Christopher Columbus: The Discovery” (1992) and in an episode of “Young Indiana Jones Chronicles” (ABC/USA Network, 1992-96). The newcomer turned out memorable performances in the Eric Idle comedy flop “Splitting Heirs” (1993) and the “Hallmark Hall of Fame adaptation of “The Return of the Native” (CBS, 1994) before making a return to the stage in Kurt Weill’s “Street Scenes” with the British National Opera in 1994.

With her extensive performing background and certifiable star status in the U.K., Zeta-Jones could take any path she wanted from stage to screen. She chose to move to Los Angeles and take a crack at American film stardom. “Blue Juice” (1995) and “The Phantom” (1996) failed to garner much notice but a supporting role in the CBS miniseries, “Titanic” (1996), caught the eye of filmmaker Steven Spielberg, who shared news of his find with director Martin Campbell. Campbell, blown away but her timeless beauty and its similarities to 1940s screen goddess Hedy Lamarr – once called “the most beautiful woman in the world” during her 1930s and ’40s heyday – cast Zeta-Jones in “The Mask of Zorro” (1998). The film was an instant hit and star-making role for Zeta-Jones, whose swordplay, horseback riding and flamenco dancing was imbued with a sexual charge that audiences found irresistible. American entertainment magazines were abuzz over this latest overseas import with her onscreen Castilian lisp and off-screen Hollywood glamour that earned comparisons to legendary radiant beauties like Lamarr and Gardner. Though she did not know it yet, this hard working, ambitious, exceedingly talented woman was about to become the epitome of the phrase “the woman who has it all.”

Trumpeted as the next big thing, Zeta-Jones dazzled opposite Sean Connery in the romantic thriller “Entrapment” in 1999, for which she did many of her own stunts. But her onscreen May-December match-up with the aging Connery mimicked a real-life romance with actor-producer Michael Douglas, the dashing Hollywood heavyweight 25 years her senior. After seeing Zeta-Jones onscreen in “Zorro,” Douglas reportedly turned to a friend and said, “I don’t know who she is, but I’m gonna marry that woman.” Taking off like gangbusters, the two became parents and subsequently married in 2000, culminating in a ceremony that reportedly cost a cool million dollars at New York’s Plaza Hotel. Unfortunately the ceremony was overshadowed by high-profile lawsuits concerning photo rights for the affair. Prior to the nuptial circus, Zeta-Jones’ talents were criminally underused in the 1999 remake of “The Haunting,” but she had a memorable cameo as the free-wheeling former girlfriend of John Cusack’s central character in “High Fidelity” (2000). But it was with director Stephen Soderbergh’s film “Traffic” (2000) that Zeta-Jones was first able to change public perception by gaining universal acclaim for her portrayal of a drug dealer’s wife who transforms from innocent bystander to business partner, a role she played while pregnant with her first child with Douglas. The stunning performance caused an outcry when Zeta-Jones was overlooked come Oscar time.

In 2001, Zeta-Jones was featured in “America’s Sweethearts,” a romantic comedy about a high-profile Hollywood couple, but that was soon forgotten when she displayed heretofore unseen (on the big screen) singing and dancing chops as the murderess Velma Kelly in the film version of the Broadway musical “Chicago” (2002). Her captivating performance earned Zeta-Jones an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress, as well as a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical. That same year, Zeta-Jones – named as one of People magazine’s “Most Beautiful People” – signed on as the global spokeswoman for Elizabeth Arden cosmetics. After an awards season that dovetailed with her second pregnancy, the actress returned to the screen in the dark Coen Brothers comedy “Intolerable Cruelty” (2003), which fell flat with audiences and critics, despite starring an equally attractive George Clooney. At that time, the beaming mother of two had also signed on as a spokesmodel for T-Mobile cellular phones.

Teaming for the first time with Tom Hanks and director Steven Spielberg, Zeta-Jones next appeared in “The Terminal” (2004) which, although she made a solid attempt to portray a romantically-challenged woman, she was simply too beautiful and sharp to be believed as a loser in love. She reteamed with Clooney and his heisting cohorts for the lackluster sequel “Ocean’s Twelve” (2004), this time providing a love interest for Pitt. Zeta-Jones film appearances eased up over the next few years as she raised her two children and split time between the family’s estate in Bermuda and other homes in New York City, Spain, and Wales. In 2005, Zeta-Jones reprised her role as Elena in “The Legend of Zorro” (2005), the character now estranged from her masked husband (Antonio Banderas) and trying to balance the thirst for adventure with the desire to be a responsible parent. Off-screen, Zeta-Jones continued to successfully strike that balance, starting her own production company Milkwood Productions, based out of her hometown of Swansea. Following her starring role as a chef in the predictable but moderately popular romantic comedy “No Reservations” (2007) Zeta-Jones was slated to enjoy her first producer credit with Milkwood’s debut, “Coming Out” (2008), a comedy in which Alan Cumming plays the gay coach of a Welsh Rugby team.

Following a two-year absence from the screen, Zeta-Jones returned in the May-December romantic comedy, “The Rebound” (2009) in which she played a recently divorced mother who entrances a much younger man (Justin Bartha). Unfortunately, the U.S. distributor declared bankruptcy just prior to release, relegating it to the direct-to-DVD market. On a much better note that year came Zeta-Jones’ Broadway debut in the 2009 revival of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s “A Little Night Music,” a performance that won her the Tony for Best Actress in a Musical. The following year, however, proved to be one of the most difficult of the actress’ charmed life. In August 2010, Michael Douglas publically revealed that he had been diagnosed with a dangerously advanced stage of throat cancer. Over the course of the next year, Douglas battled the disease aggressively – at one point losing as much as 32 pounds as a side-effect – and by early 2011 he announced that the tumor had been eliminated, much to the obvious relief of Zeta-Jones, who had foregone career opportunities in order to remain by her husband’s side during the ordeal.

Zeta-Jones returned to theaters once more with a slew of projects. First up was a turn opposite Bruce Willis and Vince Vaughn in director Stephen Frears’ Las Vegas gambling comedy “Lay the Favorite” (2012), based on journalist Beth Raymer’s memoir of the same name. Next came the highly-anticipated adaptation of the smash Broadway musical, “Rock of Ages” (2012), starring Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Russell Brand and Zeta-Jones as the story’s antagonist, a conservative activist looking to shut down a popular 1980s L.A. rock music venue.

Leueen MacGrath was born in 1914 in London. She made her film debut in 1936 in Britain in “Whom the Gods Love”. In 1948 she was on Broadway in “Edward, My Son” and recreated her role in the film version with Spencer Tracy and Deborah Kerr in 1949. She was married for a time to the playwright George S. Kaufman. She died in 1992.

William Roache

William Roache was born in 1932 in Ilkestone. Derbyshire. He is of course famous as Ken Barlow the only original member of the cast of “Coronation Street” still in the hughly popular series. He was featured in the Norman Wisdom film “The Bulldog Breed” in 1960. His son is the actor Linus Roache.

Edward MacLiam was born in Mallow, Co Cork in 1976. He trained at RADA in London and graduated in 2001. His film debut was in “Conspiracy of Silence” in 2003. Has featured in such drama series as “Wakingth Dead” and “Coronation Street”. Recently starred in “Holby City” and “Paula” and “Cucumber”. His agency page here.

Kenneth Williams was born in 1926 in Islington, London. He is a cult favourite from his starring roles in 26 of the Carry On films. Prior to this he had in “Beyond Our Ken” with Kenneth Horne from 1955 until 1964. In the earlier Carry On films he was somewhat sombre but became more outrageous as the series proceeded. After the series was finished he became very popular on the talk show TV circuit e.g. Parkinson. He made his film debut in 1952 in “Trent’s Last Case” with Margaret Lockwood. A subsequent film was “The Seekers” with Jack Hawkins and Glynis Johns. He had three notable stage sucesses, “Saint Joan” with Siobhan McKenna in 1954, “Share My Lettuce” with Maggie Smith and “Captain’s Brassbound Conversion” in 1971 with Ingrid Bergman. Keneth Williams died in 1986 at the age of 62.

IMDB entry:

The acting bug bit Kenneth Williams when, as a student, his English teacher suggested he try out for a school play. He found that he enjoyed it tremendously, but when he raised the possibility at home of becoming an actor, his father forbade it. Williams was eventually sent to art school in London in 1941. In 1944 he was drafted into the army, and although posted to the Royal Engineers, he managed to land a job in the Combined Services Entertainment unit, where he got a chance to act in shows that were put on to entertain the troops, and even designed the posters that advertised the shows.

After his discharge from the army he began to work as a professional actor, and traveled the country in repertory companies. It was in a production of “Saint Joan”, where he played the Dauphin, that a radio producer saw him and hired him to do voice characterizations on a popular radio comedy show, “Hancock’s Half Hour”. His penchant for wild, off-the-wall characters led to his being hired by the producers of the “Carry On” comedy series, where he performed in 26 entries in the long-running series. When the series ended, Williams returned to radio work, and also made the rounds of the TV talk shows in addition to writing several books, including his autobiography. Later in his life Williams developed a serious ulcer, and was given medication to combat the pain. On April 15th 1988, he was found dead in his bed; it was determined that in addition to his regular pain pills, he had apparently taken some sleeping pills the night before, and the combination of those and his regular medication proved fatal.

– IMDb Mini Biography By: frankfob2@yahoo.com

The above IMDB entry can be accessed online here.

Sylvester McCoy was born in 1943 in Scotland. He was brought up in Ireland as his mother was Irish. He played the title character “Dr Who” from 1987 until 1989. He is currently filming “The Hobbit”.

Billy Connolly

Billy Connolly was born in 1942 in Glasgow. In the late sixties be began a career as a folk singer and sang with the group The Humblebums. He then developed a reputation as a splendid stand up comedian and from there branched into film. Among his films are “Water” in 1985, “Indecent Proposal” and “Mrs Brown” opposite Judi Dench. He is married to actress Pamela Stephenson.

IMDB entry:

Billy Connolly was born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland. He left school to work in the shipyards becoming a welder and joined the Territorial Army (in the parachute regiment) at around the same time. He developed an interest in folk music, eventually becoming an accomplished banjo player and a member of the band Humblebums with Gerry Rafferty(later of Baker Street fame). The jokes he told between songs eventually took over his act and he became a full-time comedian. Already a big star in Scotland, he became a household name in the UK after appearing on Parkinson (1971) in the early seventies. Billy has released many recordings and videos of his concert performances over the years. He has expanded his repertoire to include acting, appearing in a number of television dramas and films, most recently in the USA. In the 90s he made two documentary series for the BBC, about Scotland and Australia respectively, and in 1997 he starred in the award winning film Mrs Brown (1997). He is one of the UK’s top comedian.

– IMDb Mini Biography By: Anony

The above IMDB entry can also be accessed online here.

Francesca Annis was born in Kensington, London in 1945. She made her film debut as a teenager in “The Cat Gang” in 1959. Other films include “Cleopatra”, “Murder Most Foul” with Margaret Rutherford, “The Eyes of Annie Jones” and “Penny Gold”. She has had a steller career on television with choice roles in “Madame Bovary”, “Lillie” and “Parnell and the Englishwoman”. Currently starring on ITV’s Wolrd War Two drama “Homefires”.

TCM Overview:

Attractive and seemingly ageless, Francesca Annis was an aspiring dancer when she began her film acting career in the late 1950s in teen roles, receiving her first major exposure as a handmaiden of Elizabeth Taylor in “Cleopatra” (1963). She was fashionably radical during London’s swinging 60s, befriending such scenesters as guitar legend Jimi Hendrix before portraying Ophelia to Nicol Williamson’s “Hamlet” on Broadway in 1969. As Lady Macbeth, Annis appeared nude in the sleepwalking scene in Roman Polanski’s extra-gruesome “Macbeth” (1971), but when Hugh Hefner (one of the film’s backers) asked her to pose for PLAYBOY, she replied, “I’m an actress, not a pinup.” While a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1975-1978, she also starred as “Madame Bovary” (1976) and portrayed Lillie Langtry in “Lillie” (1978), with both acclaimed British productions broadcast later as segments of “Masterpiece Theatre” (PBS).

Perhaps Annis’ strongest film performance to date was as the Karen Silkwood-like main character attempting to expose a radioactive leak in Michael Apted’s “Stronger Than the Sun” (1979). Fans of PBS’ “Mystery!” may remember her as Agatha Christie’s Prudence ‘Tuppance’ Beresford in the “Partners in Crime” series (Part I 1984, Part II 1986) and “The Secret Adversary” (1987), the world premiere movie that preceded the series in England. Annis made headlines in 1995 both onstage as Gertrude to Ralph Fiennes’ “Hamlet” and offstage when their romance signaled the end of Fiennes’ marriage to Alex Kingston. She then starred in the British serial “Reckless” (1997), shown on “Masterpiece Theatre” in 1998, playing the art-imitating-life role of an older woman falling for a younger man.

The above TCM overview can also be accessed online here.

Calvin Lockhart was born in Nasseau in the Bahamas in 1934. He made his debut on Broadway in “The Cool World” at the age of 26. The play closed after just a few performances and he moved to Europe. He made many films in Britain including “A Dandy in Aspic” and “Leo the Last”. In 1970 he wnet back to the U.S. and made “Halls of Anger”. He died in 2007.

“Guardian” obituary from 2007 by Ronald Bergan.

Bahamian classical actor, he took roles in the ‘blaxploitation’ films of the 1970s

Until very recently, there were few black actors in a white-dominated society who were not faced with difficult choices and obstacles. The Bahamas-born Calvin Lockhart, who has died following complications from a stroke aged 72, was no exception. The handsome, charismatic Lockhart, who had classical acting training and who spoke French, German, Italian and Spanish, was mainly forced to take roles that he disliked.At the start of the 1970s, more than two decades after the birth of the modern civil rights movement, America’s 20 million black citizens wanted a more positive media image of themselves. In the meantime, they had to settle for broad comedies and slick thrillers, labelled “blaxploitation”. These films became more formulaic as the 1970s progressed – most of them were either “private detective takes on the mob” or “dealer becomes king of the pimps”.

According to Lockhart’s widow, New York interior designer Jennifer Miles-Lockhart, her husband felt that he did not get enough dramatic roles with “meaning, content, which would make a statement. Calvin felt that he wanted to be somewhere where skin colour didn’t matter, where he could do his craft freely, on a high level.” Nevertheless, whatever the quality of the blaxploitation movies, they were directed by black directors and starred black actors, playing characters not seen from a white perspective. Lockhart appeared in one of the first black – as distinct from noir – thrillers, Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970), directed by Ossie Davis. He was the swindler-cum-preacher Reverend Deke O’Malley, who has conned $87,000 from the “good folks” for his phony Back to Africa movement.

Lockhart played suave gangsters called Silky Slim and Biggie Smalls respectively in Sidney Poitier’s Uptown Saturday Night (1974) and Let’s Do It Again (1975). At least, Melinda (1972), directed by Hugh Robertson, the first African-American editor to be nominated for an Oscar, gave Lockhart the chance to play a super-hero, an egotistic disc jockey who has to take on the mobsters who had murdered his girlfriend. In the same year, Lockhart was invited to join the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon, where he appeared in several plays, notably Buzz Goodbody’s production of Titus Andronicus in which, as Aaron the Moor, he asks “is black so base a hue?” and launches into a defence of his colour.

Lockhart had already spent almost five years in England (1965-1970), where he had appeared in TV dramas, such as the Wednesday Play and five British films in 1968: A Dandy in Aspic, The Mercenaries, Only When I Larf, Nobody Runs Forever and Joanna. In the last, directed by Mike Sarne, which also featured Donald Sutherland as a dying English aristocrat, Lockhart, as a nightclub owner was one of the first actors to dent a cinematic taboo with a black-white love scene with the heroine, Genevieve Waite.

Sarne then cast him as the effete Irving Amadeus in the disastrous Myra Breckinridge (1970), and he played a pimp in John Boorman’s Leo the Last (1970), before returning to the US to star in Halls of Anger, (also 1970). The setting of this was an all-black blackboard jungle which, because of the national integration plan, has to accept 60 white students who suffer the kind of racism that usually affects black people. However, Lockhart, cast as a teacher, solves all the school’s problems by his liberal approach. Despite the theme he disliked making the film and walked off the set more than once.

Lockhart, born Bert Cooper, the youngest of eight children, had left the Bahamas aged 19 to study engineering at New York, but became involved in a YMCA theatre group, and studied with the legendary drama coach Uta Hagen. He made his Broadway debut, taking over from Billy Dee Williams, in Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey, in the role of the sailor who gets the white girl (Joan Plowright) pregnant. He returned to the stage only rarely between Broadway and his stint with the RSC.

During his second stay in England, Lockhart was given one of his best film roles in The Beast Must Die (1974) as the millionaire owner of a country estate where he has gathered a number of people, one of whom he hopes to reveal as a werewolf. It was enjoyable, camp nonsense, but it did feature a rich, successful black man, whose colour is never mentioned, a rare phenomenon in films of the early 1970s. Another potentially interesting part was in The Baron (1977), where Lockhart played a struggling African-American film-maker who turns to the underworld to raise money. However, the film descended into many of the cliches of blaxploitation gangster movies.

A couple of years later, Lockhart suffered a heart attack brought on by the news that his son from a former marriage (he was married four times) had lost the use of his legs from jumping under a train. But he returned to work, albeit in a minor capacity. He was in seven episodes as Jonathan Lake in TV’s Dynasty (1985-86), was the head of a Jamaican voodoo-gang in Predator 2 (1990), and had small roles in David Lynch’s Wild at Heart (1990) and Twin Peaks (1992).

In 1979, Calvin met Jennifer Miles in New York, and they had a son in 1981. They married in 2006: she survives him, as do his other two sons and a daughter.

· Calvin Lockhart (Bert Cooper), actor, born September 18 1934; died March 29 2007

he above “Guardian” obituary can also be accessed online here.

Gary Brumburgh’s entry:

Bahamian-born Calvin Lockhart first caught moviegoers’ attention in the supercharged urban films Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970) and Halls of Anger (1970) before becoming a fairly steady fixture in the “blaxploitation” movies of the early-to-mid 1970s.

Born Bert Cooper to a large family in Nassau on October 18, 1934, he was raised there before moving to New York in his late teens with initial designs on becoming a civil engineer (Cooper Union School of Engineering). Dropping out after a year to pursue an acting career, Calvin worked as a carpenter and construction worker, among other odd jobs. He first studied with legendary coach Uta Hagen and then hit the New York theater boards. The story goes that he was discovered by playwright Ketti Frings while working as a taxi driver. She was so impressed with his arrogance that she cast him in her play “The Cool World” in 1960. From there Calvin drummed up interest via a bit of controversy on Broadway when he played a sailor in love with a white girl in the racially-themed “A Taste of Honey” starring Angela Lansbury.

Serious film and TV roles for black actors were scarce at that time, so Calvin moved to Europe. In Italy he owned a restaurant and formed his own theater company, serving as both actor and director. He also lived in Germany before settling in England. He starting building up film credits with minor work in such British movies as A Dandy in Aspic (1968) and Only When I Larf (1968). He made news in another racially-motivated project entitled Joanna (1968), which centered around a “mod”, interracial romance with ‘Genevieve Waite’.

Returning to the US with a stronger resume, he made a distinct early impression as a slick preacher bent on fraud in the hip cop flick Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970) and as an English teacher in the inner-city potboiler Halls of Anger (1970). He also involved himself in such black action features as Melinda (1972), Honeybaby, Honeybaby (1974) and The Baron (1977). Similar in charismatic style and intelligence to Sidney Poitier, the famed actor-director was impressed enough to cast Calvin in his broad comedy vehicles Uptown Saturday Night (1974) and Let’s Do It Again (1975). Calvin could also play fey upon request, camping it up briefly in Myra Breckinridge (1970). During this rich period he also became an artist-in-residence with the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford (the first black actor so honored) and appeared prestigiously in such productions as “Titus Andronicus” (1972).

Calvin’s career grew lackluster, however, by the end of the decade, resorting to trivial guest parts in such TV shows as Good Times (1974) and Get Christie Love! (1974). He landed a recurring role on the nighttime soap Dynasty (1981) in the early ’80s.

In 1974, Calvin married a woman also from the West Indies and had three children. After his career subsided, he decided to return to his homeland in the mid ’90s and resettled in Nassau with his fourth wife, Jennifer Miles. There he involved himself with the Freeport Players Guild as a director. He also returned to films after a 15-year absence, completingRain (2008), a movie shot in the Bahamas, shortly before he suffered a major stroke. Calvin died of complications on March 29, 2007, and his family is in the process of establishing a scholarship fund in his name for Bahamian student pursuing an acting or filmmaking career.

– IMDb Mini Biography By: Gary Brumburgh / gr-home@pacbell.net