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chitecture). Began in m.p. as art dir., Paris; then dir., TV: Hamlet (1970), F. Scott Fitzgerald and the later prod. many pictures Paria. To London as head of Last of the Belles, The Count of Monte Cristo. GPO Film Unit (later Crown Unit). Days, CHAMBERS, EVERETT: Producer, director. b. Mon- PICTURES INCLUDE: North Sea, First trose, Calif.; Aug. 19, 1926. e. New School For Soc. Squadron 992, Men of the Lightship, Foreman Went to Res., Dramatic Workshop, NYC. Entered industry as France, Halfway House, Went the Day Well Cham- actor; worked with Fred Coe as casting dir. and dir., pagne Charlie, Dead of Night, Nicholas Nickleby, NBC, 1952-57; prod., dir. Run Across the River, They Made Me a Fugitive, First Gentleman, For Them indep. feature and The Kiss, short nominated for Acad. That Trespass, & features in Brazil. Award, 1958; prod. Johnny Staccato, MCA, 1959; STAGE: Blood Wedding, Fuente -Ovejuna. prod., Tess of the Storm Country, 20th -Fox. TV: Thus Spake Theodor Herzl, Les Empailles, La TV: Target: The Corruptors, Dick Powell Theater, Visite de la Vieille Dame. Saints and Sinners (pilot), The New Lloyd Bridges CAVETT, DICK: Actor-Writer. b. Kearny, Nebr., 1937. e. Show, numerous pilots; prod., dir., co-author with Don Yale Univ. Acted in TV dramas and Army training Gordon, The Lollipop Cover, Chicago Film Fest. films. Was writer for Jack Paar, and his successors on awards, Best Film, Best Actor, 365 episodes Peyton the Tonight Show and had comedy writing assignments Place, prod. writer for Nightslaves-ABC Movie of the with Mery Griffin, Jerry Lewis, Johnny Carson. In Week, exec. prod. Monty Nash prod. staff producer 1967 wrote for self and appeared in night clubs. On TV ABC TV: produced movies of the week, Moon of the starred in Where It's At (special on ABC Stage 67) and Wolf, Trouble Comes to Town, The Great American What's In (special). Began daytime series for ABC-TV Beauty Contest, Can Ellen Be Saved?, The Girl Must in 1968, three -weekly series summer of 1969. Current Live, They Only Come Out at Night.-Currently prod. program: The Dick Cavett Show. of Columbo. CHABROL, CLAUDE: Director. b. 1930. One of the first CHAMPION, GOWER: Dancer, actor, dir. b. Geneva, Ill., directors involved in the . June 22, 1921. e. Fairfax H.S., Los Angeles. Started as PICTURES INCLUDE: , The dancer, teamed with Marge, wife. Coconut Grove, Cousins, Leda, , Les Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles; team appeared Godelureaux, , Seven Capital Sins, nightclubs. Chicago & N.Y. (Persian & Rainbow Ophelia, Landru, Le Tigre Aime la Chair Fraiche, Rooms); featured, Radio City Music Hall. U.S. Coast Marie -Chantal Contre le Docteur Kah, Le Tigre Se Guard, WW II transport duty toured with musical Parfume a la Dunamite, Paris vu par ... Chabrol, La revue Tars & Spars. Screen debut, Till the Clouds Ligne de Demarcation , The Roll 1#y, 1946. Route to Corinth Les Niches, La Femme Infidels This BROADWAY: Streets of Paris, 1939; Lady Comes Man Must Die , La Rupture, Ten Days' Across, 1940 (as Gower and Jeanne); Count Me In, Wonder, , Dr. Popaul, Les Noces 1941, 3 for Tonight, 1955; dir. hor. Bye, Bye, Birdie, Rouges, Nada. 1960, Carnival 1961; My Mother, My Father and Me, 1962; Hello Dolly, 1964; I Do I Do, 1966: Three Bags CHAFFEY, DON: Director. b. Hastings, England, 1917. Full, 1967; Happy Time, 1968. Trained as artist; secured work in art dept. of PICTURES INCLUDE: Fame¡ Star of Tomorrow, Gainsborough Studios in early 40e. Eventually moved 1952; Show Boat, Lovely to Look At, Everything I to Gaumont British International where directed first Have is Yours, Give a Girl a Break, Three for the film, a documentary on dogfish. Show, Jupiter's Darling. Director: My Six Loves, Bank PICTURES INCLUDE: Time Is My Enemy, The Shot. Girl in the Picture, The Flesh Is Weak, A Question of TV: Dinah Shore Show, Telephone Hour, NBC Adultery, The Man Upstairs, Danger Within, Dentist TV Spec. 1958-59- a Acci- color specials. Dir., choreographer in the Chair, Greyfriars Bobby, Nearly Nasty 60; Mary Martin Special '65; Oscar Show '69; Julie dent, A Matter of Who, The Prince and the Pauper, Andrews Special '69. Irene (stage), 1973. Jason and the Artonauts, A Jolly Bad Fellow, One Mil- lion Years B.C., The Viking Queen, A Twist of Sand, CHAMPION, JOHN C.: Director, producer, writer. b. Creature the World Forgot, The Three Lives of Denver, Col., Oct. 13, 1923; e. Stanford U., Wit- Thomasina, The Horse Without a Head, Ride a Wild tenberg Coll.; p. Lee R. Champion, Supreme Court Pony. Judge. Col. Entered m.p. in Fiesta; did some radio work; in stock at MGM briefly; co-pilot Western Air CHAIKIN, WILLIAM E.: Executive. b. Cleveland, Ohio, Lines, Inc., 1943; served in U.S. Army Air Forces air April 7, 1919. e. Ohio State Univ. (BS, journalism; MS, command pilot 1943-5; public relations officer and colum- transport political science). Was newspaper reporter AAF; writer & prod. for Allied Artists; v.p. prod. nist for papers in Ohio, Indiana and Florida before join- Commander Films Corp.; pres. Champion Pictures, ing 20th -Fox pub. dept. in 1945. Also in pub. depts. of Inc.' prod., MGM, Warner, Para., Universal, Member: Republic and Eagle Lion Filma. Later pres., Chaikin- SAG, SWG, SIMPP, SPG; TV Academy, Prod. Writer, Perrett, p.r. firm. Became v.p. and treas. of Standard MIRISCH-U.A.; prod. TV Laramie series; created Capital, investment banking firm, where financed and McHales Navy; author, novel, The Hawks of Noon, supervised prod. of over 60 films. In 1963 named pres. 1965; National Cowboy,Hall of Fame Award, 1976. and bd. chm. of Charter Title Insurance Co. in Los PICTURES INCLDE: Panhandle, Stampede, Angeles. Is member of the Board of Marinera Savings Hellgate Dragonfly Squadron, Shotgun, Allied and Loan and of Avco Community Developers, Was The Texican, Colum- Alliance financial holding Artists; Zero Hour, Paramount; mem. of bd. of Capital Corp., bia; Attack on the Iron Coast, submarine X-1, The co. diversified building firm. From 1968-74 was v.p. in Last Escape, Mirisch-United Artists; Brother of the chg. of West Coast operations of Avco Embassy Pic- Wind, Sun International, dir -prod -writer, Mustang tures Corp. and asst. to James R. Kerr, pres. of Avco Universal. Corp. in July, 1974, assumed presidency of Avco Em- Country, bassy Pictures Corp. CHAMPION, MARGE: Dancer, actress. b. Los Angeles, CHAKERES, MICHAEL H.: Executive b. Ohio, Ky. Calif., Sept. 2. e. Los Angeles public schools; p. Ernest and Belcher ballet master; m. Gower Champion, dancer, Graduate of Wittenberg University. President for Los chief executive officer of Chakeres Theatres of Ohio & actor. In Blossom Time, Student Prince Kentucky. U.S. Army AF 1942-45. Member executive Angeles Civic Opera; Dark of the Moon. Beggar's committee of NATO national board of directors; Pres- Holiday in N.Y. Made debut with husband as dancing ident of NATO of Ohio. Member Variety Club, Motion team, played many night clubs; m.p. Debut in Mr. Picture Pioneers, Inc., Masonic Lodge, I.O.O.F., Music; then signed by MGM; Fame Star of Tomorrow, Order of AHEPA, Ohio Heart Ass'n. Member Board of 1952; on B'way in 3 for Tonight, 1955; toured, In- Directors Springfield Bank, Board of Directors vitation to A March 1962. Springfield Rotary Club, Board of Directors Wit- PICTURES INCLUDE: Show Boat, Lovely to tenberg University. Look At, Everything I have Have Is Yours, Give a Girl a Break, Three for the Show, Jupiter's Darling, The CHAKIRIS, GEORGE: Actor. b. Norwood, Ohio, Sept. Swimmer, The Party, The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico 16, 1934. Entered m.p industry as a dancer in There's County. No Business Like Show Business and Brigadoon; TV: GE Theatre, Chevy Show, Telephone Hour, academy award for West Side Story. Recently in the etc. Young Girls of Rocheford, The Big Cube. CHAMPLIN, CHARLES D.: Journalist. Entertainment CHAMBERLAIN, RICHARD: Actor. b. Loa Angeles, editor and principal film critic, Los Angeles Times. b. 1935. Became TV star in Dr. Kildare series (1961-65). Hammondsport, N.Y., March 23, 1926. e. Harvard Col- Theatrical film debut in 1962, A Thunder of Drums. lege (AB '47). U.S. Army 1944.46. Time -Life writer - PICTURES INCLUDE: Twilight of Honor Joy in correspondent, 1948-65. Joined Times March, 1965. the Morning, Petulia, The Madwoman of Chaillot, Film Critic, March, 1967. Contributes various national Julius Caesar, The Music Lovers, Lady Caroline magazines. Lamb, The Three Musketeers, The Four Musketeers, The Towering Inferno. CHANCELLOR, JOHN: TV Anchorman and News Re - 49