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Sean Connery
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Sir Thomas Sean Connery (August 25, 1930 - October 31, 2020) was a Scottish actor and producer who won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award), and three Golden Globes, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award.
Connery was the first actor to portray the character James Bond in film, starring in seven Bond films (every film from Dr. No to You Only Live Twice, plus Diamonds Are Forever and Never Say Never Again), between 1962 and 1983. In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables. His films also include Marnie (1964), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Highlander (1986), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Dragonheart (1996), The Rock (1996), and Finding Forrester (2000).
Connery was polled in a 2004 The Sunday Herald as "The Greatest Living Scot" and in a 2011 EuroMillions survey as "Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure". He was voted by People magazine as both the “Sexiest Man Alive" in 1989 and the "Sexiest Man of the Century” in 1999. He received a lifetime achievement award in the United States with a Kennedy Center Honor in 1999. Connery was knighted in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to film drama.
On October 31, 2020, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.
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Nelson Eddy
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Nelson Ackerman Eddy (June 29, 1901 - March 6, 1967) was an American singer and movie star who appeared in 19 musical films during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as in opera and on the concert stage, radio, television, and in nightclubs. A classically trained baritone, he is best remembered for the eight films in which he costarred with soprano Jeanette MacDonald. He was one of the first "crossover" stars, a superstar appealing both to shrieking bobby-soxers as well as opera purists, and in his heyday was the highest paid singer in the world.
During his 40-year career, he earned three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (one each for film, recording, and radio), left his footprints in the wet cement at Grauman's Chinese Theater, earned three Gold records, and was invited to sing at the third inauguration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He also introduced millions of young Americans to classical music and inspired many of them to pursue a musical career.
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Hobart Cavanaugh
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Hobart Cavanaugh (September 22, 1886 – April 26, 1950) was an American character actor in films and on stage.
He was born in Virginia City, Nevada on September 22, 1886. Cavanaugh attended the University of California.
He worked in vaudeville, teaming with Walter Catlett at some point. He appeared in numerous Broadway productions, including the original 1919 musical Irene and the long-running 1948 musical As the Girls Go.
He made his film debut in San Francisco Nights (1928). Over the next few years he established himself as a supporting actor, and although many of his roles were small and received no film credit, he played more substantial roles in films such as I Cover the Waterfront (1933) and Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933). By the mid-1930s, he was appearing in more prestigious productions, such as A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), Captain Blood (1935), Wife vs. Secretary (1936) and A Letter to Three Wives (1949). He continued playing small, often comical roles until the end of his life, mostly as downtrodden or henpecked little men. His last performance was in Stella (1950); he knew he did not have long to live and collapsed twice on set, but was determined to see it through. By the end of his life, he had appeared in more than 180 films.
He died following an operation at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. He was survived by his wife Florence and a daughter.
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Stephen Farrelly
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Stephen Farrelly (Irish: Stíofán Ó Fearghaile) is an Irish professional wrestler and actor. He is signed to the American professional wrestling promotion WWE, where he performs under the ring name Sheamus (pronounced /ˈʃeɪmʌs/) shortened from his previous ring name Sheamus O'Shaunessy. He currently appears on the Raw brand.
Prior to joining WWE, Farrelly wrestled on the European circuit and was a two-time International Heavyweight Champion during his tenure in Irish Whip Wrestling (IWW).
After becoming part of the WWE main roster in 2009, he would go on to be a four-time world champion in WWE, having held the WWE (World) Championship three times and the World Heavyweight Championship once. He is also a two-time United States Champion. In addition to these championships, he has won the 2010 King of the Ring tournament, the 2012 Royal Rumble match and the 2015 Money in the Bank ladder match, making him only the second wrestler (after Edge) to achieve all three accomplishments.
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Alison Stevenson
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Alison Stevenson is a comedian and writer based in Los Angeles.
Her debut TV appearance occurred on the Viceland stand-up series, 'FLOPHOUSE' where she told a joke about giving a man a panic attack with her thighs. Alison was also a member of the video sketch group, Blessed, whose videos still exist on YouTube. More recently, she was a perfect woman on the Adult Swim Streaming comedy series, 'The Perfect Women', which now exists on YouTube.
On top of stand-up she is a writer, most known as a VICE columnist wherein she wrote many viral articles for several years. She’s also written for Huffington Post, Glamour, The Guardian, MAD Magazine, and more. She currently has a monthly newsletter you can subscribe to. In August of 2016, she co-created a one-of-a-kind cunnilingus themed art show in Hollywood called 'Eat Me' which is essentially Alison’s life motto. This art show garnered national media attention from the likes of Huffington Post Arts, LA Weekly, Time Out, and LAist. Currently, she is the creator and lead organizer of Thick Strip Enterprises, which has also received a fair amount of media attention (Paper, Dazed, VICE, NY Times, etc.)
But wait, there’s more! In October 2020 Audible released the original scripted podcast, 'Like Mother'. Written by Alison, it is a semi-autobiographical, mother-daughter comedy starring her and Susie Essman.
Last but not least, Alison has self-released two stand up albums: 'Eat Me' in April 2017 and 'Mommy Issues' in September 2019. Oh wait, she was also in an Ariana Grande music video.
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Jella Haase
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Jella Haase (born 27 October 1992) is a German actress. She began acting in theatre at a very early age. Her film credits include Lollipop Monster, Fack ju Göhte and Kriegerin. She has also appeared on the television shows Polizeiruf 110 and Alpha 0.7 – Der Feind in dir. She won the Bavarian Film Award for Best Young Actress in 2012, the Günter Strack Television Award in 2013 and earned a nomination at the German Film Awards in 2014.
Haase was born in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Her mother is a dentist. Haase began her career as a child actor in drama theatre. In 2009, she made her film debut in the short film, Der letzte Rest at the age of 15. Her first major role was in the television film, Mama kommt!. It was followed by other TV productions, including two appearances in Polizeiruf 110. In 2010, she starred in six episodes of Alpha 0.7 – Der Feind in dir.
In 2011, she acted in the movie Männerherzen … und die ganz ganz große Liebe. In the same year, she played a leading role in David Wnendt's neo-Nazi film Kriegerin. In the film she appeared alongside Alina Levshin and Gerdy Zint. For this role, and also for the 2011 Ziska Riemann's directorial debut film Lollipop Monster, she received the Bavarian Film Award for Best Young Actress in 2012.
In 2013, she played the role of an underage prostitute who films herself having sex with judges and uses the video to blackmail them in the film, Puppenspieler. She also received the Günter-Strack-Television Award in June 2013 for Best Actress. In the same year, she played the role of a teenager Chantal Ackermann in the comedy film Fack ju Göhte directed by Bora Dağtekin. For her role in the film, she earned a nomination for the German Film Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in 2014. She also plays football for FC International.
In 2022, she starred in the Netflix series Kleo.
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May McAvoy
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May McAvoy (September 8, 1899 – April 26, 1984) was an American actress who worked mainly during the silent film era. Some of her major roles are Laura Pennington in The Enchanted Cottage, Esther in Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, and Mary Dale in The Jazz Singer.
McAvoy appeared in her first film, entitled Hate, in 1917. After appearing in more than three dozen films, she co-starred with Ramón Novarro and Francis X. Bushman in director Fred Niblo's 1925 production of Ben-Hur, released by MGM. The feature-length film was one of the most lavish and spectacular productions of the silent movie era.
Although her voice was not heard in The Jazz Singer, McAvoy did speak in several other films, including the second "all-talkie" released by Warner Brothers, The Terror, which was directed by Roy Del Ruth and co-starred Conrad Nagel.
For years a rumor circulated that McAvoy retired from the screen at the transition to sound films because of a lisp or speech impediment. In truth, she married the treasurer of United Artists, who asked her not to work.
Later, she returned to films and played small roles during the 1940s and 1950s, making her final film appearance in a small part in the 1959 version of Ben-Hur.
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Rami Sebei
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Rami Sebei (Arabic: رامي سبعي) is a Canadian professional wrestler currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Sami Zayn. Prior to joining WWE, Sebei wrestled for Ring of Honor under the ring name El Generico, using the character of a luchador from Mexico with the catchphrase "Olé!" He wrestled while masked from his debut in 2002 until 2013. Upon signing with WWE, he began wrestling without a mask and became a one-time world champion in the company by winning the NXT Championship. Sebei achieved much success in Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) as a two-time PWG World Champion and five-time World Tag Team Champion. He is the only person to have won both of PWG's annual tournaments, the Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament in 2010 and the Battle of Los Angeles in 2011. He has also held the ROH World Television Championship and the ROH World Tag Team Championship as part of a team with Kevin Steen, with whom he later earned the 2010 Feud of the Year award from the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. He is also a two-time IWS World Heavyweight Champion for the Montreal-based International Wrestling Syndicate (IWS). Having wrestled internationally, he won the wXw Unified World Wrestling Championship in Germany and DDT Pro-Wrestling's KO-D Openweight Championship in Japan.
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William Lustig
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William "Bill" Lustig (born February 1, 1955, in The Bronx, New York) is an American film director and producer who has worked primarily in the horror film genre. He is the nephew of former middleweight champion Jake LaMotta. As a film director, Lustig is best known for his low-budget horror films Maniac, Vigilante, Uncle Sam, and the Maniac Cop series. Lustig has also worked as an actor playing small roles in his own films as well as in films by Sam Raimi, most notably as a fake shemp in Army of Darkness and a dockworker in Darkman. As of 2009, Lustig is the CEO of Blue Underground; an entertainment company specializing in the release of obscure films and exploitation films on DVD. He also produced a remake of his film Maniac (2012) and is rumoured to be producing a new upcoming Maniac Cop with Nicolas Winding Refn. In an interview with Vulture in January 2023, Refn, when asked whether the creation of the series was still under discussion, said: "All I can say is, unfortunately, it’s not going to happen."
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Barry Buchanan
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Barry Buchanan is an American professional wrestler, best known for his appearances in World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment as Bull Buchanan in Right to Censor and as John Cena's enforcer, B-2. Buchanan is an accomplished tag team wrestler having held three major tag team championships, the AJPW All Asia Tag Team Championship with Rico, the GHC Tag Team Championship with D'lo Brown and the WWF Tag Team Championship with The Goodfather. Buchanan has also enjoyed singles success on the independent circuit. On October 30, 2004, Buchanan and AJ Steele defeated David Young and Sonny Siaki to become the GCW Tag Team Champions but a week later, Steele would turn on him and teamed up with Damien Steel in a two on one handicapped match for the titles which the Steele Brothers won. Buchanan formed a stable called Bad Company which consisted of himself, David Young and The Grappler. In late 2004, Buchanan and The Grappler took on The Steele Brothers for the GCW Tag Team Championship and lost. On April 23, 2005, Buchanan and Young defeated Southside Trash (Big Daddy and Rowdy) for the GCW Tag Team Championship.[33] on July 11, they lost the titles to John Bogie and Lee Thomas.Over a year later on December 13, 2006, Buchanan and Johnny Swinger defeated The Diamonds In The Rough (David Young and Elix Skipper) to become a three time GCW Tag Team Champion.They would hold the titles for 56 days before losing them to the NOW (Hale Collins and Vik Dalishus).
On September 29, 2007, Buchanan defeated former tag team partner, Johnny Swinger, to become the GCW Heavyweight Champion. In December, Buchanan would lose the title back to Swinger. He would challenge Swinger to several rematches but lost his first and won the second via DQ, therefore not winning the title back. In mid-2008, Buchanan would team up with another former partner, David Young, and Sonny Siaki Although neither of them had a tag team title shot, the three of them earned a shot a Swinger heavyweight title and in a four-way elimination match, Swinger came out on top.On June 27, 2008, Buchanan and Scotty Beach defeated Hot Like Lava (Cru Jones and Shaun Banks) for the GCW Tag Team Championship. They held the titles until September 18 when they lost them to Micah Taylor defeats Cru Jones.On January 28, 2010, Buchanan defeated Kyle Matthews to become a two time GCW Heavyweight Champion, however, he would lose it to Murder-1 on February 11. For the rest of 2010, Buchanan had multiple title shots but failed to capitalize on any of them.
Buchanan worked mainly for Universal Independent Wrestling in Georgia in his final years as a performer.
Retirement (2014)
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