Celebrities born on March 18

He studied in the United States but in the mid-1940s returned to Cuba, where he worked as a music archivist in a television station and participated in Communist Party activities.[1] After the Cuban Revolution he became a founding member of the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC) and directed its weekly Latin American Newsreel.[2] One of his most famous works, the short Now (1964) about racial discrimination in the US, mixed news photographs and musical clips featuring singer/actress Lena Horne. Other well-known works included the anti-imperialist satire LBJ (1968) and 79 Springs (1969), a poetic tribute to Ho Chi Minh. In 1968, he collaborated with Octavio Getino and Fernando E. Solanas (members of Grupo Cine Liberación) on the four-hour documentary Hora de los hornos, about foreign imperialism in South America. Among the other subjects he explored in his films were the musical and cultural scene in Latin America and the dictatorships which gripped the region. The second chapter of French director Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(s) du cinéma is dedicated to Álvarez, amongst others.[3] He died of Parkinson's disease in Havana on May 20, 1998 and was buried there in the Colon Cemetery.

Bryan Barter was born on March 18, 1976 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. He is an actor, known for The Social Network (2010), Arn: The Knight Templar (2007) and Duke (2013).

Philippe Swan (born Philippe Colpaert on 18 March 1961 in Elisabethville, Democratic Republic of the Congo) is a Belgian singer-songwriter. He had a hit in 1989 with "Dans ma rue". He is now practising painting under the artist name Le Closier, in a style close to pop art and urban art. He lives and works in the United States. After his studies in Solvay, he worked in a Belgian record company. Then he wrote a few songs, including "J'ai joué, j'ai perdu", "Suzy", "Policy of Love", "Je plane", "Machinalement" and "Rien faire sauf l'amour". "Dans ma rue" was released in France in 1989 and reached No. 36 on the French SNEP Singles Chart. However, he preferred to write and compose for other artists, released a few albums under his own name, then became a producer. His most notable client was Mélanie Cohl, who performed a song from the soundtrack of the Walt Disney movie Mulan. He also wrote "Dis oui", the song she entered in the Eurovision Song Contest 1998, as well as lyrics for Günther Neefs (2000), Priscilla (2002), Lutin Plop, and Fred & Samson (2007). Source: Article "Philippe Swan" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

William "Bill" Benjamin Lava (March 18, 1911 – February 20, 1971) was a composer and arranger who composed and conducted music for feature films as well as that for the Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies animated cartoons from 1962 to 1969, replacing the deceased Milt Franklyn, making him the last composer and arranger in the classic era of Warner Bros. Cartoons.

After retiring from the NYPD, Howard pursued a second career in acting, using the screen name Ron Voz. He played the corpse in three different productions of "Lucky Stiff." He filmed with Richard Gere in "The Hoax," playing the role of Norman Mailer, and with Robin Williams and John Travolta in the film "Old Dogs." He played the role of the chauffeur in the Julia Roberts & Clive Owens film, "Duplicity." Following a principle role in the Disney film "Enchanted," he joined the Screen Actors Guild. He recently filmed the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers teaser trailer, produced by his grandson Louis Maldarelli. He plays the butler in "Can a Song Save Your Life" (forthcoming, with Keira Knightley). He especially enjoyed volunteering in student-directed films at New York University, the School of Visual Arts, and the New York Film Academy. - IMDb Mini Biography

Julian Brave NoiseCat (born 18 March 1993; Minnesota) is a Canadian writer, filmmaker, and activist who is an enrolled member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq'secen of the Secwepemc (Shuswap) Nation in the Canadian province of British Columbia. He is a public thinker and advocate on issues of climate justice and Indigenous rights in North America.

Louis "Loulou" Gasté (18 March 1908 – 8 January 1995) was a French composer of songs. Louis Gasté was born in Paris in 1908. In his fifty-year career, he composed approximately 1,200 songs, ten of which were internationally successful. In 1929, he played in Ray Ventura's orchestra, and composed several pieces for him. He discovered and launched French singer and actress Line Renaud in 1945, and they married in 1950. He died at Rueil-Malmaison in 1995. In September 1956, Gasté composed "Pour Toi" ("For you") with lyrics by Albert Simonin and his wife Marie-Hélène Bourquin, for the singer Darío Moreno, who sang it in the film Le Feu aux Poudres. It was sung later by Line Renaud, and was reinterpreted in France and internationally by various singers. In 1974, Morris Albert sang it in English and was credited as the original author of "Feelings", launched in São Paulo by Augusta Do Brazil. In 1975, Mike Brant brought it back to France under the title "Dis-Lui" ("Tell her"). In 1976, "Feelings" was a worldwide success and was recorded by Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and others. In 1977, Gasté discovered the song was one of his melodies and sued Morris Albert. On 22 December 1988, a court found in favour of Gasté, and he won recognition as the sole creator of the song, gaining seven-eighths of all royalties, with Albert receiving the remainder for his lyrics contribution. Source: Article "Loulou Gasté" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.