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Liverpool-born artist, who spent the 1930's working for Warner Brothers at Teddington Studio as a draughtsman. After gaining promotion to art director, he joined Alexander Korda at London Films, working out of Denham Studios. His career was interrupted by wartime service and did not resume fully until 1956, when he joined Hammer Films as a production designer. Robinson soon acquired a reputation for creating a lavish look, given the limited budgets and cramped facilities at Hammer's Bray studio. He built sets which could be rapidly re-built to suit different requirements. In this manner, the crypt from Horror of Dracula (1958) became the laboratory for The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958). Similarly, the same Cornish village set doubled for both The Plague of the Zombies (1966) and The Reptile (1966). Castle Dracula itself was used again as Baskerville Hall for The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959). Robinson's productive association with Hammer lasted until 1969. He died the following year.

Baba Alam Siaposh was considered a 'father figure' in the Pakistani film industry. He played a key role in film-making by writing film stories, film dialogue, film screenplay and film songs for dozens of super-hit Pakistani films in the early years of Pakistan between 1949 until up to his death in 1970. For example, famous Pakistani film actress Swaran Lata had lost touch with her mother-tongue Punjabi, as a young girl, by being away from her native Punjab and having been educated and also having lived at Hindi and Urdu speaking area of Lucknow, India, and needed a 'refresher course' in Punjabi language before starting to act in Punjabi language films back in 1949. Baba Alam Siaposh was then selected as her language coach for film Pheray (1949).He had graduated from the University of Punjab,Lahore before beginning his film-related career in Mumbai in the 1940s.His book 'Hanerian Raatan' included a list of his film songs. Besides films, he wrote the lyrics of a run-away super-hit Pakistan TV song-"Jhaanjhar phabdi naa mutiar bina" sung by Tahira Syed in 1974. He died on 2 March 1970 at Lahore,Pakistan and left behind a legacy that people still fondly remember him by.

Composer and songwriter John Jacob Loeb was educated at Woodmere Academy in New York and won a USA award during World War II for his work entertaining in military hospitals. Joining ASCAP in 1932, his stage scores include "Arabian Nights", "Paradise Island" and "Mardi Gras!", all at Jones Beach in New York, and his chief musical collaborators included Carmen Lombardo. Paul Francis Webster and Edward Lane. His popular-song compositions include "Rosie the Riveter", "Boo Hoo", "Seems Like Old Times", "The Kid in the Three-Cornered Pants", "A Sailboat in the Moonlight", "It's Never Too Late", "It's Easier Said Than Done", "Some Rainy Day", "Masquerade", "Reflections in the Water", "Sweetie Pie", "Boulevard of Memories", "Horses Don't Bet on People", "On the Waterfall", "Where Are You Gonna Be When the Moon Shines?", "Our Little Ranch House", "Get Out Those Old Records", "How Long Has It Been?", "A Thousand and One Nights", "A Whale of a Story", "Teeny Weeny Genie", "Marry the One You Love", "The Hero of All My Dreams", "Paradise Island", and "The Coconut Wireless", plus the work "Jazz Bolero".

Marc-Aurèle Fortin was born on 14 March 1888 in Ste-Rose, Laval, Québec, Canada. He died on 2 March 1970 in Macamic, Abitibi, Québec, Canada.

Paul Christman was born on 5 March 1918 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Triple Threat (1948), The Beverly Hillbillies (1962) and AFL on ABC (1960). He died on 2 March 1970 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA.