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Edgar Kennedy
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Edgar Livingston Kennedy (April 26, 1890 – November 9, 1948) was an American comedic film character actor, known as "Slow Burn". A slow burn is an exasperated facial expression, performed very deliberately; Kennedy embellished this by rubbing his hand over his bald head and across his face, in an attempt to hold his temper. Kennedy is best known for a small role as a lemonade vendor in the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup, as well as the many Hal Roach films he appeared in.
Kennedy became so identified with frustration that practically every studio hired him to play hotheads. He often played dumb cops, detectives, and even a prison warden; sometimes he was a grouchy moving man, truck driver, or blue-collar workman. His character usually lost his temper at least once. In Diplomaniacs, Kennedy presides over an international tribunal, where Wheeler & Woolsey want to do something about world peace. "Well, ya can't do anything about it here", yells Kennedy, "this is a peace conference!" Kennedy, established as the poster boy for frustration, even starred in an instructional film titled The Other Fellow, in which loudmouthed roadhog Edgar always vents his anger on other drivers (each one played by Kennedy as well), little realizing that, to them, he is "the other fellow."
Perhaps his most unusual roles were as a puppeteer in the detective mystery The Falcon Strikes Back and as a philosophical bartender inspired to create exotic cocktails in Harold Lloyd's last film, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947). He also played comical detectives opposite two titans of acting: John Barrymore in Twentieth Century (1934) and Rex Harrison in Unfaithfully Yours (1948); in the latter, he tells conductor Harrison that "Nobody handles Handel like you handle Handel."
Kennedy died of throat cancer at the Motion Picture Hospital, San Fernando Valley on 9 November 1948. His body was interred at the Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California.
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Elisabeth Brooks
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Brooks was born Elisabeth Brooks Luyties in Toronto, Ontario and began her acting career aged five, encompassing both stage and screen. She started appearing in television roles in the mid-1970s and managed to pursue her acting career as a single mother while working a variety of jobs to support herself and her son. She had a brief role in Rich Man, Poor Man (1976), before appearing regularly on the soap opera Days of Our Lives, and in such popular television series as The Rockford Files, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Hart to Hart, Starsky and Hutch, The Six Million Dollar Man and Emergency!
Brooks is probably best remembered for her role as the evil leather-clad siren Marsha Quist in the horror film The Howling (1981). Her other film appearances included Deep Space (1988), and The Forgotten One (1989), starring Kristy McNichol.
After a three-year struggle with brain cancer, Brooks died in a hospital near her home in Palm Springs, California, at the age of 46
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Murali Vidhyadharan
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Acting has been Murali's main passion since the time he won the best actor award in a Drama competition play at the age of 13. In 1973 he came to UK and settled there. Graduated in Mathematics from Imperial College London in 1980 and obtained a Masters degree in Computer Science from University College London in 1981. He then worked in the IT industry and took early retirement in 2020 from his job as a Senior IT Project Manager. He has acted in over 20 Indian plays in UK; mainly playing lead roles. Since retirement he has acted in Feature films, Short films, Commercials and Music Videos. Credits include Bring me a Skin to dance in , I fell in Love with my Stalker, The Sketchbook, Footprints on Water, A Mind Full, G.O.D TECH New World Order, Khel Khel Mein , Big Trouble in Little India, Aanandhapuram Diaries,,Irish Ashes and Diciannove The feature film 'Footprints on Water' won awards at Film Festivals in London, New York, Berlin and Ottawa in May/June 23.
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Noveen Crumbie
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Noveen grew up in Hartford, Connecticut. Her love for acting blossomed during her childhood; dancing, singing, and acting at the Hartford Children's Theatre. At the age of 7, she began performing here in Connecticut at The Hartford Stage Company. During her time at the Hartford Stage, she was noticed and thus cast in TV commercials for the Science Center of Connecticut. After graduating from South Windsor High School, she settled in Los Angeles to study acting and subsequently earned her bachelor's degree in Fine Arts at AMDA: College and Conservatory of Performing Arts.
Noveen quickly gained success in Hollywood, most prominently appearing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show where Ellen surprised her with a new car! She also began voiceover work and most recently become the official voice of E! Network, voicing all promos and commercials in the US, Australia, New Zealand, Asia & The Philippines. Her video games Red Dead Redemption II, Friday the 13th, Creed: Rise to Glory (to name a few) are available in stores everywhere. She is a SAG-AFTRA Member seeking theatrical representation. She is managed by Discover Management, represented by Atlas Agency for voiceover and Activity Talent Agency for commercials. You can catch Noveen performing in parades at the happiest place on Earth, the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, CA.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Noveen's Team
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Pascal Baes
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Pascal Baes is a French experimental filmmaker, best known for his animated shorts, and a recipient of the Villa Médicis hors les murs award (Répertoire des Lauréats 1980-1994, Ministère des affaires étrangères, 1994, p.125). He also makes commissioned films for advertising and music videos. Born in 1959 in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes), he began by studying biology, painting and photography. It was in 1985 that he turned his attention to cinema, keeping a scientific eye, and specializing in frame-by-frame animation and the stop-motion technique. Literally "stop-action", he experimented with long exposure combined with slow shutter speed, enabling him to "freeze movement and reanimation", creating what was to become his trademark: the "Staccato effect". He works autonomously and extensively on movement and the body, notably through dance with the participation of his partner Aï Suzuki, and also experimented with the use of phenakistiscopes (stroboscopic disks) at his first exhibition in 1997, Kronolome.
In 1995, he left Paris for a new location suitable for his experiments, which required freedom and open-mindedness, qualities he found in Brussels. He has also spent time in Tokyo, where the many rejected and unsuitable Japanese ghost stories of the 19th century have been a particular source of inspiration.
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Maude Nugent
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From Wikipedia: American singer and composer, born in Brooklyn, New York. She became a vaudeville singer, singing at venues like The Abbey and Tony Pastor's.
In 1896, she composed and wrote the lyrics to "Sweet Rosie O'Grady", which became one of the most popular waltz standards of the time. The song was initially rejected when she tried to sell it to Tin Pan Alley publisher Joseph W. Stern & Co.; Stern's partner Edward Marks recounted that they changed their minds as soon as she left their office to market it elsewhere, and he chased her down the street to make an offer. The sheet music for the song sold over million copies. In 1899 it was recorded by Lil Hawthorne for Berliner Gramophone.
Nugent continued to compose songs for a number of years, but none approached the success of "Rosie O'Grady". Nugent performed her own songs, introducing many of them to audiences in this manner. Occasionally she collaborated with her husband, fellow-songwriter William Jerome.
Nugent retired from performing when she was 28 in order to raise a family; however, she continued to write music. In the 1940s and -50s, "Gay Nineties" revues came into vogue and Nugent began to perform again, on television.
She died June 3, 1958 in New York.
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Richard Rawlings
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Richard Rawlings, a native of Fort Worth, Texas, followed in his dad’s footsteps and developed a passion for cars at an early age, building cars and attending car shows with him. The earliest photograph of Richard, aside from his infant years, is of him sitting in a Volkswagen Beetle pedal car. His dad sometimes would work three jobs so he could afford to have his one toy — a car or motorcycle he could call his own. Richard bought his first car when he was 14 years old: a green ’74 mercury comet. By his senior year in high school he was already on his third car, a ’77 Bandit Trans Am. Richard says he has always worked so he could buy cars and his passion for them is one he’s worth shedding not only sweat for, but blood. He took a bullet in the early ’90s as he fought off a carjacker who was trying to steal his 1965 Ford Mustang 2+2 Fastback.
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Corinne Griffith
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Griffith was born in Texarkana, Texas to John Lewis Griffin and Ambolina (Ambolyn) Ghio. She attended Sacred Heart Convent school in New Orleans and worked as a dancer before she began her acting career. Griffith began her screen career at the Vitagraph Studios in 1916. She later moved to First National, where she became one of their most popular stars. In 1928, she had the starring role in The Garden of Eden. The next year, in 1929, Griffith received an Academy Award nomination for her role in The Divine Lady. Griffith's first sound film, Lilies of the Field, was released in 1930. Griffith's voice did not record well (The New York Times stated that she "talked through her nose"), and the film was a box office flop. After appearing in one more motion picture, the British film Lily Christine in 1932, she retired from acting. She returned to the screen in 1962 in the low-budget melodrama Paradise Alley, which received scant release.
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Jonas Berggren
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Jonas Petter Berggren (born 21 March 1967) is a Swedish musician and singer-songwriter and record producer, also known as Joker. He started writing songs when he was seven, and continues to write for the Swedish band Ace of Base, which he is a founding member of, as well as other bands. He was born in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Jonas Petter Berggren was the first child of three siblings; his younger sisters are Linn and Jenny. Jonas was born with a cleft lip, undergoing three surgeries within his first year. He became interested in music when he was 10, after his father started teaching him to play the guitar.
A founding member of Ace of Base, Berggren has written all of their biggest hits, including "All That She Wants", "The Sign", and "Beautiful Life". He also plays the guitar and keyboards. Berggren also has his own recording studio, called The Barn. Two former members of Ace of Base, Linn Berggren and Jenny Berggren, are his sisters. He has also worked with DJ Bobo, Army of Lovers, E-Type, and Meja.
Berggren produced and composed for the album Pride by Swedish pop group Yaki-Da in 1995.
Berggren met Norwegian hairdresser Birthe Haugland during a cruise in Norway in the summer of 1996, and they were married on 12 July 2000. Together they have four children: Julia, born in 1999, Gabriel, born in 2001, Amanda, born in 2006, and Molly, born in 2008.
Source: Article "Jonas Berggren" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Ladislav Smoljak
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Ladislav Smoljak (9 December 1931 – 6 June 2010) was a Czech film and theater director, actor and screenwriter. He was born in Prague.
Smoljak tried to study at an art academy but failed the admission process. He went on to study physics and mathematics, and later worked as journalist and scriptwriter. Together with Zdeněk Svěrák he founded the Theater of Jára Cimrman (Divadlo Járy Cimrmana, DJC) in Prague, named after a fictitious genius. Smoljak wrote scripts and directed several films; these became very successful in the Czech Republic.
He died of cancer on 6 June 2010 in Kladno.
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