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Julian Glover

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Primarily a classical stage actor, Julian Glover trained at the National Youth Theatre, performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and became a familiar face to British television viewers by appearing in many popular series during the 1960s and 1970s. His talent for accents and cold expression made him an ideal choice for playing refined villains. During the 1980s, Glover achieved some fame in Hollywood by playing roles in such popular films as Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), For Your Eyes Only (1981) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989).
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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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Walker Fairbanks

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Walker Fairbanks can be seen in national ads for Craftsmen F-150 on PBS, On-Star Germany, and a handful of independent films available on Amazon Prime and iTunes. In 2019, three feature films will hit theatres with Walker in poignant supporting roles. Watch for Collective Development's feature film Man's Best Friend aka MBF which premiers in summer 2019. Walker portrays the Mayor's son 'Wyatt Sawyer' who faces a major moral dilemma. Also, keep an eye out for Painted Creek Production's horror Agramon's Gate also due to its premiere in 2019. Walker plays a young version of the lead character 'Young Richie.' Also, set to premiere in 2019, Crooked Limb Studio & Productions' psychological thriller 'Descend' in which Walker portrays principle character 'Joey Townsend.' In the meantime, Walker loves hanging out with his older brother Liam, playing his guitar, running cross country, performing on his middle school Forensics team, participating on his school track team, and playing his clarinet in the school band.
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Lauren McNamara

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Lauren McNamara is a young Canadian actress who started her acting career in commercials at the age of nine. Lauren booked her first commercial audition for Coldwell Banker followed quickly by an International Commercial for Tourism Jamaica. After nine days of filming in Jamaica Lauren quickly realized this was the career she wanted to pursue. The transition to film and TV happened shortly thereafter and a role in Lifetime's "A Sister's Nightmare" alongside Peyton List, Natasha Hentsridge, and Kelly Rutherford. Most recently Lauren is starring in "Aliens Ate My Homework" a book series written by Author Bruce Coville and Directed by Sean McNamara, scheduled for release by Universal Pictures in 2018. Lauren has also had supporting lead roles in Hallmark Channel's "Falling For Vermont" ,due out Sept.2017,as well as Hallmark Channel's "Summer of Dreams". In addition, to her success in TV movies, Lauren also appeared as Sherry in an episode of the Canadian series "Aftermath" alongside James Tupper.
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Robb Hudspeth

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After spending his formative years in the oil fields of East Texas, Robb moved to Dallas and earned his B.F.A. in Cinema from SMU and completed the Professional Acting program at KD Conservatory. He is a founding member of Lone Star Comedy, the groundbreaking improv troupe and a member of TBell Actors Studio Masters Class. Robb has landed lead and supporting roles in a number of critically acclaimed, independent short and feature films; most notably Rockin' Reverend, Sleep Now in the Fire, and Blood Reunion 3: Hunters. He is a music nerd of the highest order and enjoys trivia more than he probably should.
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Jason Alan Cook

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Jason Alan Cook is an American actor known for Point Man, A Haunting: Norman the Doll, Necropolis, The American Miracle, and Hope of Escape. He is from a small town and still retains that love of the quiet life. Jason's first introduction into acting was as an infant; however, he did not get back into the craft until decades later. His re-entry into acting was as an extra in several feature films and was hooked from there. Jason continued to develop his acting skills through theater classes, mentoring, and acting workshops. In addition to appearances in feature films, short films, and television shows; Jason has appeared in numerous local, national, and international commercials and print ads.
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Mel Brooks

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Melvin James Brooks (né Kaminsky; June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, and songwriter. With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. A recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of 21 entertainers to win the EGOT (which includes an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony). He received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2010, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013, a British Film Institute Fellowship in 2015, a National Medal of Arts in 2016, a BAFTA Fellowship in 2017, and the Honorary Academy Award in 2024. Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer for Sid Caesar's variety show Your Show of Shows(1950–1954). There, he worked with Neil Simon, Woody Allen, Larry Gelbart, and Carl Reiner. With Reiner, he co-created the comedy sketch The 2000 Year Old Man. He released several comedy albums, starting with 2000 Year Old Man in 1960. Brooks received five nominations for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album, finally winning in 1999. With Buck Henry, he created the hit satirical spy comedy series Get Smart (1965–1970) on NBC television. Brooks won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Producers (1967). He then rose to prominence by directing a string of successful comedy films such as The Twelve Chairs (1970), Blazing Saddles (1974), Young Frankenstein (1974), Silent Movie (1976), and High Anxiety (1977). Later, Brooks made History of the World, Part I (1981), Spaceballs (1987), Life Stinks (1991), Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), and Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995). A musical adaptation of his first film, The Producers, ran on Broadway from 2001 to 2007 and earned Brooks three Tony Awards. The project was remade into a musical film in 2005. He wrote and produced the Hulu series History of the World, Part II (2023). Brooks was married to actress Anne Bancroft from 1964 until she died in 2005. Their son, Max Brooks, is an actor and author known for his novel World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (2006). In 2021, Mel Brooks published his memoir titled All About Me!. Three of his films are included on the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 comedy films of the past 100 years (1900–2000), all of which were ranked in the top 15: Blazing Saddles at number 6, The Producers at number 11, and Young Frankenstein at number 13.
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Mickaël Miro

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Mickaël Miro (born in Lyon, France, on 8 November 1978 as Mickaël Cohen) is a French singer-songwriter. His name is a pseudonym, which he chose as a tribute to his grandfather, who was called Miro. He is best known for his debut single "L'Horloge Tourne", followed by his debut album Juste comme ça in 2011. Born in Lyon, Mickaël Miro studied business law in college and started writing many songs while studying. He sticks to the tradition of French songs, influenced by what he calls French "BCBG" (meaning Balavoine, Cabrel, Berger, and Goldman). In 2007, he took part in a musical collective "Les Marguerites" for fighting against Alzheimer appearing in the single "J'y étais pas" and later was signed to Midi52/EMI. In 2008, he toured with the rock group ANESA, opening for their shows. In October 2010, he released his debut single "L'Horloge Tourne" with great success, followed by his debut album Juste comme ça, which contains collaborations with Natasha St Pier in duo. "Ma scandaleuse" became the second single release from the album. He also appeared in a number of television variety shows including Taratata and Tous Ensemble. Source: Article "Mickaël Miro" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Max Devereaux

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Max Devereaux (b. 1994) is an American artist, musician, and filmmaker whose work moves fluidly between sound, image, and performance. Raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he was shaped by the city’s cultural fabric—its museums, concert halls, and historic movie theaters—which sparked an early fascination with storytelling across forms. Largely self-taught, he developed his practice outside academia through obsessive study and hands-on experimentation. Devereaux’s work is defined by its range and intensity. His output spans experimental improvisation, indie country, outsider film, abstract painting, ikebana flower arranging, and electroacoustic composition. Often these modes converge into hybrid, cross-disciplinary forms that resist easy categorization. Guided more by intuition and lo-fi aesthetics than by formal training, he has built a practice centered on invention and personal mythology. His filmmaking career has unfolded in distinct phases. As a teenager, he created stop-motion animations and music videos; in his late teens and early twenties, he turned to short narrative films. By the age of thirty, his focus had shifted decisively to experimental cinema and free improvisation, rejecting conventional storytelling in favor of accident, blur, and fracture. Parallel to his film work, Devereaux has released music with independent labels in Japan, Mexico, South Korea, Canada, the United States, Belgium, Poland, and the United Kingdom, positioning him within a wider international avant-garde community. His visual art has followed a similar trajectory: in 2024, he presented a solo exhibition at M.A.P. Gallery in Tokyo’s Koenji district, while his films have been screened at festivals and multimedia events in Japan and abroad. Now based between Southern California and Minneapolis, Devereaux continues to pursue a cross-media approach. His projects are less concerned with fixed outcomes than with creating spaces of perception and attention. In this way, his work participates in a larger experimental tradition while remaining singular in its voice, its poetics, and its restless search for new forms.
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Robert Kurrle

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Kurrle (February 2, 1890 – October 27, 1932), also known as Robert B. Kurrle, was an American cinematographer during the silent and early talking film eras. Prior to entering the film industry, he was already experimenting with aerial photography. Considered a very prominent cinematographer, even his early work received notice and praise from both critics and other industry professionals. The advent of sound film did not abate his continued rise, and he became the top director of photography at Warner Brothers by 1932. He shot 70 films over the sixteen years of his career, working with such prominent directors as William Wellman, Raoul Walsh, Michael Curtiz, Archie Mayo, and William Dieterle. He was a member of the American Society of Cinematographers by 1921, and he was also one of the inaugural members of the International Photographers branch of I.A.T.S.E. (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees). In October 1932, at the height of his career, he suddenly fell ill after wrapping a film. Hospitalized, his condition quickly worsened and within a week he was dead of an infection to the brain. By 1928 Kurrle was being called a "camera ace", a reference not only to his skill behind the camera, but also to the fact that he was one of the few people in Hollywood to own their own plane. In 1928 he worked exclusively with Universal Pictures, before returning to freelance the following year. In mid-1930, Kurrle signed a contract with Warner Brothers. Over the next two years he rose to become their top cinematographer. During his sixteen-year career, he worked with such notable directors as John Ince, William Wellman, Raoul Walsh, Michael Curtiz, Archie Mayo, and William Dieterle (who directed the final film Kurrle photographed). In 1928 Kurrle was one of the inaugural members of the International Photographers branch of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (I.A.T.S.E.). Kurrle was behind the camera for Lloyd Bacon's 1930 version of Moby Dick, for which his work received high praise, being called "... one of the three outstanding elements of the entire work." In 1931, his work on Resurrection was described as "... brilliant and sweeping". During 1932, Kurrle was the director of photography on ten feature films which were released that year. In September and October 1932, he worked on back to back films. The first was The Match King, featuring Warren William and Lily Damita, followed by Lawyer Man, starring William Powell and Joan Blondell. Lawyer Man was his final film.
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