Antonio Margheriti, also known under the pseudonyms Anthony M. Dawson and Antony Daisies, was an Italian filmmaker. Margheriti worked in many different genres in the Italian film industry, and was known for his sometimes derivative but often stylish and entertaining science fiction, sword and sandal, horror/giallo, Eurospy, Spaghetti Western, Vietnam War and action movies that were released to a wide international audience. He died in 2002.
Tab Hunter was an American actor, singer, film producer, and author. Known for his blond hair and clean-cut good looks, Hunter starred in more than forty films. During the 1950s and 1960s, in his twenties and thirties, Hunter was a Hollywood heart-throb, acting in numerous roles and appearing on the covers of hundreds of magazines. His notable screen credits include Battle Cry (1955), The Girl He Left Behind (1956), Gunman's Walk (1958), and Damn Yankees (1958). Hunter also had a music career in the late 1950s; in 1957, he released a no. 1 hit single "Young Love". Hunter's 2005 autobiography, Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star, was a New York Times bestseller.
Ángel de Saavedra y Ramírez de Baquedano, 3rd Duke of Rivas was a Spanish poet, dramatist and politician born in Córdoba. He is best known for his play Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino (1835), the first romantic success in the Spanish theater.
Homero Nicolás Manzione Prestera, better known as Homero Manzi was an Argentine tango lyricist, author of various famous tangos.
Richard Rush was an American film director, scriptwriter, and producer. He is known for directing The Stunt Man, for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director. His film Color of Night won a Golden Raspberry Award as the worst film of 1994, but Maxim magazine also singled the film out as having the best sex scene in film history. Rush, whose directing career began in 1960, also directed Freebie and the Bean, a police buddy comedy/drama starring Alan Arkin and James Caan. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 1990 film Air America.
El Dedo de Dios is a 30 m (98 ft) high sea stack in the Atlantic Ocean, off the northern part of Gran Canaria, one of the Canary Islands. During Tropical Storm Delta in November 2005, the thin top of this geological formation broke off and fell into the sea.
ATV is a Peruvian television network founded in 1959 and relaunched in 1983. The network is the flagship property of Grupo ATV, one of Peru's largest media and broadcasting companies.
Alfred Mulock Rogers, better known as Al Mulock or Al Mulloch, was a Canadian character actor.
Antonio Molino Rojo was a Spanish film actor who appeared primarily in Spaghetti Westerns in the 1960s and 1970s.
Leo Fleider was a Polish born Argentine film director and screenwriter, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era.
Alita Blanca Barchigia, better known as Alita Román, was an Argentine film actress of the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema (1940–1960).
Juan Ángel Obelar is a Uruguayan retired professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Luis Prendes Estrada was a Spanish actor. He was considered one of the country's most famous movie star during the 1940s and 1950s. He was also an important figure in the country's theatre.
Gustavo Rojo Pinto was a Uruguayan-Mexican actor.
Patricia Moran Shepard was an American film actress based in Madrid, Spain. She appeared in more than fifty Spanish, Italian and French films from the 1960s to the 1980s, notably several cult horror films.
The Rigorous Fate, also released as The Sternness of Fate, is a 1985 Argentine drama-historical film written and directed by Gerardo Vallejo. It stars Carlos Carella, Víctor Laplace, Leonor Manso, and Ana María Picchio. The film was released on August 29, 1985, and was awarded the Golden Columbus Award at the Ibero-American Film Festival of Huelva that same year. It was entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival.
Matheus Dória Macedo, commonly known as Dória, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Liga MX club Santos Laguna.
Francisco Martínez Roca aka Paco Roca is a Spanish strip cartoonist with experience in graphic novels and advertisement illustrations.
This is a list of Spanish television related events from 1961.
Alfredo Vergara Morales, best known by the stage name Eduardo Alcaraz, was a Chilean-Mexican actor. Born in Santiago, he was based in Mexico since 1951. He appeared in films such as Escuela de rateros (1958) alongside Pedro Infante. He also worked as voice actor in many movies and cartoons.
