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The laconic character actor Owen Bush was born on November 10, 1921 in Savannah, Missouri. Owen first became interested in acting in high school, when auditioning for a school play got him out of a boring study hall. In the late 1940s, Bush began working as a radio announcer, and in the early '50s, became a sportscaster on WDAF-TV in Kansas City. Like many television announcers in Kansas City at that time, Bush also frequently acted in industrial films made by the Calvin Company of Kansas City. There, he met the young director Robert Altman, who loved Bush's comic acting style and cast him in many short industrial "docu-dramas" as well as a bit part in Altman's first feature film, "The Delinquents," shot in Kansas City in 1956. In 1959, Altman who by this time was a busy director of episodic TV in Hollywood, convinced Bush to take a leave of absence from WDAF-TV and come out to California to play a regular role in a short-lived syndicated TV series Altman was producing called "The Troubleshooters." The show didn't get off the ground, but with some help from old friend William Frawley (of "I Love Lucy" fame) whom Bush first met during the making of an industrial film in Kansas City, Bush went on to become a popular radio personality in Los Angeles and also one of the most prolific character actors in movies and TV, not only appearing in many early-'60s Altman-directed episodes of the series "The Whirlybirds," "Maverick," "Peter Gunn," "Bus Stop", and "Bonanza", but also "on his own" in many episodes of "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Gunsmoke" and in the movie "Valley of the Dolls". Bush kept on working steadily through the 1970s, '80s, and '90s, and most recently could be spotted in the movie "Best Laid Plans" and in a recurring role on the TV soap opera "Passions". One of the classic and most recognizable character actors, Owen Bush died on June 12, 2001, in L.A., aged 79.

He became a well known face playing the part of policeman Jock Weir in the television series Z Cars when he partnered Fancy Smith, played by Brian Blessed, as the Z Victor 1 team. One of a large Glasgow working class family he spent 5 years in the merchant navy before, encouraged by his sister he became an actor graduating from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama as Best Comedy Actor and Most Promising Male Actor. He was given a years contract at the Glasgow Citizens Theatre and spent a year at Perth Theatre before joining Z Cars. After leaving the series in the late 60's he played the lead in BBC's17th century drama The Borderers which ran for 26 episodes. After which he alternated between stage and television, the latter included Dr Finlay's Casebook, Taggart, The Bill and Casualty. In the70's he toured with Shirley Anne Field in The Hasty Heart and appeared in many productions at the Edinburgh Lyceum. In '85 he was in The Seagull with Vanessa Redgrave in London's West End and in '88 A Handful of Stars which was a big success. A favourite role was of Joe's father in Golden Boy at The National in '84. He was a big Queens Park Rangers fan and a season ticket holder. A bachelor he lived in Chiswick area of London. He died June 12th 2001

Gay Singleton was born on 23 January 1945 in Surrey, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Crown Court (1972), Yellow Dog (1973) and Permissive (1970). She died on 12 June 2001 in Waltham Forest, London, England, UK.

Ferenc Paláncz was born on 6 September 1932 in Békéscsaba, Hungary. He was an actor, known for Szombattól hétföig (1959), Makra (1974) and Utazás Jakabbal (1972). He died on 12 June 2001.

Seiroku Miyazawa was born on 1 April 1904 in Hamaki Kawaguchi, Hienuki, Iwate, Japan. He is known for Miyazawa Kenji sono ai (1996) and Gauche the Cellist (1982). He died on 12 June 2001.

Wendy Bott was a writer/producer for over a decade, beginning with work for National Lampoon magazine, moving on to Nickelodeon and VH-1. In New York, she was one of two staff writers for Comedy Central's Short Attention Span Theater (1989), and she was a segment director for the Sci-Fi Channel's _"Anti-Gravity Room, The" (1996)_. In LA, she worked for ABC, FX, Noggin and Nickelodeon as a writer, producer and director before forming Bodo Films and collaborating with Tom Dorfmeister on the feature Robbie's Brother (2001). On June 12, 2001, she was reported missing when she failed to show up at a Hollywood restaurant for a friend's birthday celebration. Her car, with her cell phone and purse inside, was found two days later in Culver City, less than a mile from where her body was later discovered (June 21) by a man walking his dog in a vacant, overgrown field near Venice's Marina Peninsula neighborhood. Over a period of several years, she had taken the prescribed antidepressant Paxil, believed to be a factor in her death from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Robert Hochner was born on 30 August 1945 in Budapest, Hungary. He was an actor, known for ZiB 2 (1975), Tatort (1970) and Autsch!!! (1996). He was married to Clarissa Stadler. He died on 12 June 2001 in Vienna, Austria.