Sim -Sin Inc.; chmn. in the Fog, Guys and Dolls, Hilda Crane, This Could Be Corp. of Amer.; Creative Merchandising, the Night, Until They Sail, Home Before Dark, Spar- exec. comt., Georgetown Racing Assn., Inc.; Schick tacus, The Grass Is Greener, All the Way Home, Electric, Inc. Elmer Gantry, Divorce American Style, Rough Night SIMPSON, GARRY: Producer, director, writer. e. Stan- in Jericho, The Happy Ending (Acad. Award nom.). ford U. Major shows with NBC-TV: Jimmy Durante Show, SIMMONS, JOHN: Producer, director, writer, creative Show, Armstrong Circle Theatre, Ed Wynn consultant. e. St. Clement Danes, the Univ. of London, Philco TV Playhouse, Ballet Theatre. Awards: the Temple. Assoc. with many adv. doc. feature & TV Academy of TV Arts & Sc., Sylvania. Documentary films. Numerous International Festival awards, incl. film writer -producer awards: International Film & TV Oscar nomin.; creative dir., Cinevista Ltd.; wrote, The Festival, Chicago Film Festival, Broadcast Media Blue Bird, Loganberry Fair (lyrics, etc.), devised adv. Awards. Currently, pgm mgr., Vermont Ed. TV Net- campaigns, trailers, The Guns of Navarone, Summer work. Holiday; creative dir., John Simmons Creative Con- SIMPSON, ROBERT: Film editor. b. St. Louis, Mo., July sultants Ltd. Join The Tea Set, Shell, Ovaltine, Wad- 31, 1910. Joined Fox 1929 in laboratory, title dept. dington, Tide, Terylene, Marks & Spencer, Schwep- negative room and as foreign synchronizer; appt. film pes, Crown, Cleveland, Gold Camera Award (1st ed. 1931. Place) for The Bosch Equation, U.S. Int. Ind. Film PICTURES INCLUDE: Call Me Madam, There's Festival 1974. 1st Prize San Francisco Fest. 1975. No Business Like Show Business, Man Called Peter, Dev. & Dir. Cinema Ad. Awards, 1976. Corr. 18 Fin. Virgin Queen. Times, Variety, Campaign etc. SIMS, JOAN: Actress. b. Laindon, England 1930. SIMMONS, STANLEY: Producer, director. b. New York PICTURES INCLUDE: Dry Rot Off the Record, City, May 8, 1915. e. McBurney Preparatory School. No Time for Tears, Just My Luck, The Naked Truth, Entered m.p. ind. 1930; pres. own distributing co.; ad- The Captain's Table, Passport to Shame, Emergency vance man on roadshow m.p. 5 yrs.; ed. Hollywood Ward 10, Most of the 'Carry On' films, Doctor In Love, shorts & features; apptd. managing dir. Amer. Watch Your Stern, Twice Round The Daffodils, The Museum of Natural History's exhibit at N.Y. World's Iron Maiden, Nurse on Wheels, Doctor in Clover, Fair; film ed.; prod. -dir. Carnival in Brazil, 1941; Doctor in Trouble, The Garnett Saga, Not Now Darl- served in U.S. Army 1942-45, as prod. -dir. -ed. over ing, Don't Lie There Somethin Among 100 documentaries & head of special trailer dept. ETO; the Ruins,JustO of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing. feature series; prod. head of a aupvr. color Western Messina. b. Brook- Realart Productions, Inc.; lab. & exchange rep. for SINA, SANDY: Executive. r.n. Sante Soundies Distributing Corp.; prod. mgr. North Amer. lyn, N.Y., Aug. 5, 1927. Pres., exec. rec. engr., Video Productions, Inc. Jaysina Recording Studios Inc., since 1961; pres., PICTURES INCLUDE: (prod. -dir. for video) It's a Motivation Concepts of America Inc., since 1962; Woman's World series, Album of Songs (musical pres., International Concepts Inc., since 1963. and others. 9 series), spots for Life Cigarettes SINATRA, FRANK: Actor, singer. b. Hoboken, N.J., Acapello musicals. 1915. Sportswriter; then singer on radio various N.Y. SIMMS, FRANK: Announcer. b. Tulsa, Okla., June 8, stations; joined Harry James orchestra, later Tommy 1921. e. U. of Tulsa, 1946. Radio announcer, U.S. Air Dorsey. On screen 1943 in Higher and Higher. Spec. Force, W.W. II; announcer, KVOO, Tulsa, to N.Y., Academy Award 1945 for acting in The House I Live 1953. In, short subject on tolerance; Academy Award 1953. TV: I Love Lucy, My Little Margie, Public De- PICTURES INCLUDE: Step Lively, Anchors fender, Garry Moore Show. Aweigh, It Happened in Brooklyn Till the Clouds Roll By, Miracle of the Bells, Kissing Bandit, Take Me Out SIMON, ABRAM ROBERT: Lawyer. b. Lansing, Mich. Town, Double Dynamite, 1925; Harvard to the Ball Game, On the Nov. 10, 1903. e. U. Michigan, A.B. Meet Danny Wilson, From Here to Eternity (Acad. Law School, LL.B. 1928. Practicing lawyer since 1928; actor, 1953), Suddenly, Young Artists, Inc. & Pro- Award, best supporting attorney -at -law for Independent at Heart, Not as a Stranger, Guys and Dolls, Tender ducers Actors Corp. Arm, Concho, High Alpha Mu. Trap, Man With the Golden Johnny MEMBER: Friars Club, Sigma Society, Pride and the Passion, The Joker Pal Joey, SIMON, NEIL: Playwright. b. Bronx, N.Y. Wrote comedy Kings Go Forth, Some Came Running, A Hole in the for radio with brother, Danny also TV scripts for Sid Head, Never So Few, Ocean's 11, Devil at Four Caesar, Red Buttons, Jackie Gleason. O'Clock, Sergeants 3, The Manchurian Candidate, PLAYS INCLUDE: Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Come Blow Your Horn, 4 For Texas, Robin and the Couple Sweet Charity, The Star Spangled Girl, Plaza Seven Hoods, None But the Brave (dir.), Von Ryan's Suite, Promises, Promises, The Last of the Red Hot Express, Marriage on the Rocks, Assault on a Queen, Lovers, The Gingerbread Lady. Adapted several of The Naked Runner, Tony Rome, The Detective, Lady own plays to screen and wrote original s.p., The Out- in Cement, Dirty Dingus Magee, That's En- of-Towners. tertainment! PICTURES: Sunshine Boys, Murder by Death. TV: The Frank Sinatra Show, numerous specials, Award. Her- National etc. Won both an Emmy and a Peabody SIMON, SEYMOUR F.: Attorney. Director, Humanitarian Award, 1971. General Corp. b. Chicago, Ill., Aug 10, 1915. e. sholt Northwestern U., B.S. 1935; J.D. 1938. m. Roslyn SINCLAIR, ANDREW: Director, writer. Early career as Schultz. Alderman, 40th Ward, City of Chicago, 1955- novelist and historian, playwright. Published 14 books 61; mem. Bd. of Commissioners of Cook County, Ill., in U.K. U.S.A. Entered m.p. ind. 1968. 1962-66. Alderman 40th Ward, Chicago, 1967 -present. PICTURES INCLUDE: s. Before Winter Director, National General Corp. Comes, Adventures in the Skin Trade, The Voyage of Breaking of SIMON, SIMONE: Actress. b. April 23, 1914, Marseilles, the Beagle, You?; dir., writer: The France. Played in many films in Europe, among them Bumbo, 1970; dir. writer: Under Milk Wood, 1971; dir. Les Beaux Jours and Lac aux Dames. On stage in Toi writer Blue Blood, 1973; prod. Malachi's Cove, 1973. C'est Moi and others. SINCLAIR, MARY: Actress. r.n. Mary Cook. b. San PICTURES INCLUDE: Girl's Dormitory, Ladies Diego, Nov. 15. Model; summer stock; TV debut, CBS, in Love, Seventh Heaven, Love and Kisses, Josette, 1949. Screen debut in Arrowhead, 1953. Johnny Doesn't Live Here Any More Silent Bell, TV: Fireside Theatre, Studio One, Suspense, Temptation, Harbor, Lost Women, La Ronde, Pit of Pulitzer Prize Playhouse. Under contract CBS TV, Loneliness, Le Plaisir. 1951. SIMONELLI, CHARLES F.: Executive. b. New York, SINDELL, BERNARD I.: Talent agent b. Nov. 27, 1912. N.Y., May 28, 1923. Entered m.p. ind. as office boy, e. Western Reserve Univ.; vice-pres., Jaffe Agency, Eastern adv. & pub. dept., Universal, 1942. In chg. 1944-57; talent agent, the Sindell Agency, 1967. commercial tie-ups & spcl. out-of-town openings, radio 1945; dir. of spe- SINDEN, DONALD: Actor. b. Plymouth, England, Oct. 9, exploit., 1943; Eastern exploit. mgr., TV 1948; cial events, 1946; exec. in chg. of nat'I exploitation, 1923. Stage debut 1941 in fit -up shows; debut 1949; mgr. Eastern adv. & pub. dept., May, screen debut in 1953, Cruel Sea. June, PICTURES INCLUDE: The Cruel Sea, Mogambo, 1951-59 ass't to pres., 1959. Formerly chmn. of bd., Are, dir. and mem. of exec. finance comm. of Thompson - A Day to Remember, You Know What Sailors Starrett Co., Inc.; formerly chmn. bd. of man. of BIB Doctor in the House, The Beachcomber, Mad About Corp.; mem. bd. dir. Superior Tool and Die Co., Beth- Men, Simba, Above Us the Waves, Josephine and Men, lehem Machine and Foundry Co.; dir., Interboro Pre- An Alligator Named Daisy, Black Tent, Eyewitness, mium Finance Co.; dir., mem. Finance Comm., Rest. & Tiger in the Smoke, Doctor at Large, Rockets Galore, Waldorf Assoc., Inc.; gen. v.p., Entertainment Corp. The Captain's Table, Operation Bullahine, Your Money of America, Inc.; corp. v.p., Technicolor, Inc.; dir., or Your Wife, The Siege of Sydney Street, Twice Walter Reade/Sterling, Inc.; mem. bd. of dirs. at: Around the Daffodils, Mix Me a Person, Decline and Technicolor, Inc.; Technicolor Italians; Technicolor Fall, Villain, Rentadick , The National Health, The 261 .