We met John Howard Davis twice in the translation productions at the Translation Factory, once in Orphans of the Mist, where the 9-year-old played Oliver;
Another time was in The Magic Box, where the 12-year-old played william Fries-Green, a childhood British film inventor.
John Howard Davis' father was the famous British screenwriter Jack Davis ("The Good Guy in the Flying Machine"), who recommended his son when he heard that his old friend David Lane was going to make "Orphans of the Mist". Little Davis, pale and with big talking eyes, is like a character from Dickens's novel, and he became the perfect choice to play Oliver.
It is worth mentioning that the voice of Oliver that year was Wen Zhaoxuan, a young actor from the Translation Factory. Wen Zhaoxuan was beaten to the right, left the dubbing position early, was rehabilitated and transferred to the US film studio, and finally died of pancreatic cancer.
John Howard Davis stopped acting as an adult, working in the Navy, selling carpets and oil, earning his first Rolls-Royce, and after a big lap, he returned to film and television in the 1960s.
He is active in the British television industry as a director and producer, specializing in comedy sitcoms, and he is familiar with "Mr. Bean".
On August 22, 2011, John Howard Davis died of cancer at the age of 72.
The Romanian children's film "The Adventures of Babushka", translated by the long film studio in 1975, must still have an impression on everyone. Babuska, the little hero who wits and bravely fights smugglers, is played by Gabriel Naku.
It was Naku's only film, and while it opened the way for him to be a child star, he wasn't willing to go down that path because what he really loved was music. As an adult, Naku was a brilliant guitarist dedicated to forming a band on tour. In 1984, the Red and Black band centered on him won the Grand Prix at the Socialist State Festival in Dresden.
(From left) Gabriel Naku, program director Doru Jonescu and his son Gabriel Naku Jr
Naku immigrated to Britain in the 1990s as a computer engineer, but he still didn't give up on music. Today, his son Gabriel Naku Jr. is also a member of his band.
In the French translation of The Old Gun, Caroline Bonholm plays Florent, the daughter of Philippe Noire and Romy Schneider, 8 years old, florence, when the years are quiet and the family lives a happy and comfortable life.
When he grew up, Bonham did not develop in the film industry, but returned to his hometown of Nice and joined the famous local Voglia Equestrian Theater Troupe. In 2006, she graduated from the University of Nice with a master's degree in clinical psychology and founded an Alzheimer's rehabilitation institution to provide communication training for the sick elderly through art intermediaries such as theater, music and film.
In February, she was married for the second time, and the groom was the famous French musician Jean-Felix Laland.
Remember the British fantasy film "New Heaven and Night" translated by the translation factory? The big-eyed boy Majid is played by Punet Serra, a 12-year-old Indian boy at the time, and Liang Zhenghui, who voices him, has also endorsed Takeshi in "The Call of the Distant Mountains" and Mike in "Growing Pains".
Serra was born in the UK and has been involved in filming since the age of 9. From the 1990s onwards, he began to move behind the scenes, first teaching at the London School of Performing Arts, which his father founded, and then creating his own agency to provide job opportunities for Asian actors working in the UK.
In 2000, Hill returned to his hometown in India as a director and has now directed many films such as Proud Indian, Angry Flames, and Farmer.
In the Yugoslav film Temporary Worker, Nikola Koyo plays Ivan, and his teacher is Ryubisha Samadzic of "Var Defending Sarajevo".
"Temporary Worker" also has two sequels, "Temporary Daddy" and "Temporary Divorce", the actors are the original team, Ando also played from the age of 13 to 19, from a child star to a popular young actor in the audience.
Now 54 years old, Coyote has never left the screen, and has played major roles in films such as "Beautiful Village, Beautiful Flame" and "Life is a Miracle". In 2017, he also directed and starred in the comedy "Herd".