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Russell Waters began his acting career in the 1930s and soon found himself cast in various film roles at the start of what promised to be a bright future as an actor. Unfortunately, WWII radically changed his prospects; conscripted into the army for the duration and wounded at some point around mid to late 1944 which saw him invalided back to England.

Shortly after his return home he met a young war widow Barbara; they married and produced four children: John Waters, Angela, Stephen, and Fiona Fizz Waters. The Waters family lived in a rented top floor 2 bedroom flat in Anlaby Road, Teddington, Middlesex close to the Thames TV studios. Russell's career was capricious to say the least, an obviously talented actor, underrated and often overlooked probably due to the vagaries of time and circumstance brought about by the events of WWII.

Loyal Davis was born on 17 January 1896 in Galesburg, Illinois, USA. He was married to Edith Luckett and Pearl McPhersen. He died on 19 August 1982 in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.

Gregor Ziemer was an American educator and war correspondent who lived in Germany from 1928 to 1939, during which time he served as the headmaster of the American School in Berlin. After fleeing Germany once he saw what was about to happen, Ziemer returned to his wife Edna's hometown of Lake City, MN. "Ziemer wrote a couple of notable books about Nazi society: Education for Death", which inspired the eponymous Disney short (Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi (1943)) and, more directly, Edward Dmytryk's classic Hitler's Children (1943); and, along with his daughter Patricia, "Two Thousand and Ten Days of Hitler".

Ziemer returned to Europe as a correspondent, embedded this time with Gen. George S. Patton's Third Army. He provided information to Nuremberg Trial prosecutors about Nazi society.

Ziemer, who lived in California but summered in Lake City, kept busy as a writer of stories and articles and author of screenplays, contributing to the Saturday Evening Post and other popular magazines of the mid-20th century. He later served as a director of the American Foundation for the Blind as well as director of the Institute of Lifetime Learning. Among his key contacts in his eleemosynary work was Hoagy Carmichael.

A manuscript for a book about the history of water skiing was discovered only recently among Ziemer's papers by one of his publishers.

Hilliard Marks was born on 29 June 1913 in Seattle, Washington, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Jack Benny's 20th Anniversary TV Special (1970), The Jack Benny Program (1950) and The Best of Jack Benny (1953). He died on 19 August 1982 in Portland, Oregon, USA.

Guido Gonella was born on 18 September 1905 in Verona, Veneto, Italy. He died on 19 August 1982 in Nettuno, Lazio, Italy.

Mila Mosinger was born on 3 April 1894 in Gradec, Croatia, Yugoslavia [now Croatia]. She was an actress, known for Jubilej gospodina Ikla (1955), Mala nocna muzika (1965) and Seoba duse (1973). She died on 19 August 1982 in Zagreb, Croatia.

Pierre Mingand was born on 2 June 1900 in Besançon, Doubs, France. He was an actor, known for La guerre des valses (1933), Bad Seed (1934) and She Returned at Dawn (1938). He was married to Marguerite Arandel and Irène Montanet. He died on 19 August 1982 in Agen, Lot-et-Garonne, France.

Jack Curtice was born on 24 May 1907 in Kentucky, USA. He was married to Margaret Brittingham. He died on 19 August 1982 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.