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Chester Erskine was born on 29 November 1903 in Hudson, New York, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for All My Sons (1948), The Egg and I (1947) and Take One False Step (1949). He was married to Sally. He died on 7 April 1986 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Valerie von Martens was born on 4 November 1894 in Lienz, Tyrol, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. She was an actress and director, known for Hocuspocus (1953), Das Haus in Montevideo (1951) and Frauenarzt Dr. Prätorius (1950). She was married to Curt Goetz. She died on 7 April 1986 in Riehen, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland.

Writer and editor who wrote the "Flash Gordon" strip for twenty years. He graduated second in his Dartmouth class with a bachelor's degree in English and then joined his retired parents in Miami, taking jobs with the Miami Herald and the Miami Beach Beacon. He later founded the Nassau News Bureau (which became the Bahama News Bureau) and simultaneously worked for both the Associated Press (AP) and United Press International (UPI) without letting the agencies know he was also on the staff of each other's rival.

He was an assistant editor for the pulp magazine Argosy in 1930; he was made full editor in late '30. In 1934, he became an assistant editor for Cosmopolitan magazine.

In 1934, King Features Syndicate approached him to create a strip to compete with the popular "Buck Rogers" science-fiction series. Moore accepted the job for $25 a week and created the new "Flash Gordon" strip, which was drawn by Alex Raymond. Simultaneously, he wrote "Jungle Jim".

Moving on to RKO Radio Pictures and Warner Brothers, he wrote fiction for Cosmopolitan magazine and was a story editor for MGM and Screen Gems television. His first television scripts were for "Captain Video and His Video Rangers".

He was married in approximately 1934 to Isabel Walsh (b. 1911); she became a short-story writer for Cosmopolitan. Their daughter was the novelist Pamela Moore. Don and Isabel divorced in 1946; Don had a second wife, Anne.

Don retired to Venice, Florida in 1969.

Evgeni Konstantinov was born on 5 February 1923 in Varna, Bulgaria. He was a writer, known for Na vseki kilometar (1969), Pod igoto (1990) and Ivaylo (1964). He died on 7 April 1986 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Roland Legrain was born on 20 January 1934 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for 12 légionnaires (1976), Bête, mais discipliné (1979) and La zizanie (1978). He was married to Mireille Pascarel. He died on 7 April 1986 in Fresnes, Val-de-Marne, France.