Youk the Bear was an actress, known for The Bear (1988). She died on 21 December 2011 in Emmen, Drenthe, The Netherlands.

Landy Martinez was born on 13 December 1990 in Cuba. He died on 21 December 2011 in Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA.

Jürgen Hentsch was born on 17 March 1936 in Görlitz, Germany. He was an actor, known for Die Manns - Ein Jahrhundertroman (2001), Im Schatten der Macht (2003) and Hamlet_X (2003). He was married to Wassilka. He died on 21 December 2011 in Berlin, Germany.

Ryûichi Takamori was born on 31 October 1925 in Mikkabi, Shizuoka, Japan [now Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan]. He was a director and assistant director, known for Yakuza deka: Oretachi ni haka wa nai (1971), Yakuza deka: Kyofu no doku gasu (1971) and Onsen osana geisha (1973). He was married to Sachie Takamori. He died on 21 December 2011 in Japan.

Gerd Deutschmann was born on 24 July 1935 in Munich, Germany. He was an actor, known for Forsthaus Falkenau (1989), Night on Mont-Blanc (1951) and Gesetz ohne Gnade (1951). He was married to Ruth. He died on 21 December 2011 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

John Chamberlain was born on 16 April 1927 in Rochester, Indiana, USA. He is known for An Unmarried Woman (1978), Who Gets to Call It Art? (2006) and Masters of Modern Sculpture Part III: The New World (1978). He was married to Elaine Grulkowski and Prudence Fairweather. He died on 21 December 2011 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

Ann-Marie Adamsson was born on 22 January 1934 in Skee, Sweden. She was an actress, known for Roseanna (1967), Ett dockhem (1970) and Karneval (1961). She died on 21 December 2011 in Sweden.

Johnny Hayes was born on 5 November 1942 in Gastonia, North Carolina, USA. He was married to Elizabeth Ann Hoak. He died on 21 December 2011 in Denver, North Carolina, USA.

Pauli Virta was born on 21 November 1945 in Helsinki, Finland. He was an actor and writer, known for Likainen puolitusina (1982), Olavi Virta (1988) and Kymppitonni (1985). He was married to Titta Jokinen. He died on 21 December 2011 in Finland.

Ernest Evans was born in 1923 in Llanelli, Wales, UK. He was an actor, known for The District Nurse (1984), Hawkmoor (1978) and Taff Acre (1981). He died on 21 December 2011 in Cross Hands, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK.

Ashton McComb was born on 5 May 1985 in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA. Ashton is known for CSI: Miami (2002), The Glades (2010) and The Hawk Is Dying (2006). Ashton died on 21 December 2011 in Rhinebeck, New York, USA.

Scotty Dugan says he became addicted to moving pictures after beginning his career in still pictures at the age of 14. He was barely a teenager when he sold his first photograph -- a high school game-winning, fingertip touchdown reception -- at his hometown newspaper, The Reading Chronicle. The editor paid him $5 and discouraged him from submitting more material, as "The paper has its own photography staff," Dugan was told. But the thrill of capturing filmed images that told a story had set in. Dugan kept taking "story-type" pictures and the Chronicle kept publishing them. Soon, so did the Boston Herald and the Boston Globe. His photographs then landed in Encyclopedia Britannica and on the AP Wire. Even one-time presidential candidate Gov. Michael S. Dukakis hired him to shoot stills. And when the Reading Chronicle began publishing his sample captions verbatim, Dugan was off to journalism school at Boston University, where in addition to studying newswriting, he honed more camera skills as the school's official sports photographer. After college he went on to work as a copy editor in the sports department at the Boston Herald during the Larry Bird era. But his love for photography and storytelling drove him to relocate in the late 1980s to Los Angeles, where he kept one foot in publishing and the other in the movie business by working as an editor at The Hollywood Reporter. Dugan then spring-boarded from entertainment journalism to entertainment publicity in the mid-'9Os, forming his own PR company, Dugan & Story Public Relations. During this time he wrote press materials for clients ranging from Charlton Heston to Barbara Streisand, billionaire philanthropist Sir John Templeton, and fitness guru Tony Little. While he was writing during the day about other people's entertainment industry careers, Dugan was furthering his own at night. He worked a second full-time job as a graveyard script processor at Warner Bros., where he transformed drafts of script for movies ("The Fugitive," "Dave") and TV programs ("Murphy Brown," "Designing Women") into final shooting format. He took film directing classes at UCLA and began hosting directors' workshops out of his home, studied screenwriting under some of the industry's leading story professionals, and finished four stories, among them the romantic comedy "Click," about a love bug that visits a New England beach community, which is the first film produced by his company Dugan & Story Productions.

Yuval Zamir was born on 15 July 1963 in Givatayim, Israel. He was an actor, known for The Dybbuk of the Holy Apple Field (1997), Dangerous Acts (1998) and The Day We Met (1990). He died on 21 December 2011 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Jozef Novan was born on 9 March 1938 in Brno, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. Jozef was a composer, known for Kým sa skoncí táto noc (1966) and Leto na Rovniach (1979). Jozef died on 21 December 2011 in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Umanosuke Ueda was born on 20 June 1940 in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. He was an actor, known for Burst City (1982), World Class Championship Wrestling: Star Wars (1981) and World Class Championship Wrestling (1972). He died on 21 December 2011 in Usuki, Oita, Japan.