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Michael Powell always used to say 'I'm a typical Englishman'. He was and he wasn't. He was very cosmopolitan and spent a lot of time in Europe.
Thelma Schoonmaker
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Thelma Schoonmaker
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: January 3
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People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria
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