His last movie, Game of Death (1978), was his first film to be shot with sound, unlike most of his earlier films which were filmed without sound and later dubbed in by the actors. Some of the lost footage was later shown in Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey (2000).
The 57-year-old Austrian is the grandson of the man widely acknowledged as the inventor of the snow globe. His grandfather, the first Erwin Perzy, came up with the idea by accident in 1900. Mass production started in Vienna in 1905, and 108 years later, the company - Original Vienna Snow Globes - is still going strong.
AP. DALLAS, Sept. 12â Samuel Bert, the man credited with inventing the snow cone ice machine, died Sunday at Baylor University Medical Center of complications from a fall that broke his hip two weeks ago. He was 88 years old. Mr. Bert worked at the State Fair of Texas for 65 years. His son, Nick, said his father invented a machine to mechanically scrape ice for snow cones in the late 1920's.