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Kamatari Fujiwara
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Kamatari Fujiwara (藤原 釜足 Fujiwara Kamatari, January 15, 1905 - December 21, 1985) was a Japanese actor.
Fujiwara was born in Tokyo, on January 15, 1905, in Tokyo, Japan. Fujiwara's parents ran a printing business. The business did not go well, so at the age of 10, Fujiwara started working at a local confectionery store. By the age of 14 he had started selling timber for building and manufacturing in Shizuoka prefecture. A year later he returned to Tokyo to study as a pharmacist.
Fukiwara worked regularly and extensively with Akira Kurosawa, and was known for both being adept at comic acting, as well as being able to do serious roles.
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Gabrielle Anwar
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Gabrielle Anwar (born 4 February 1970) is an English and American actress. She is known for her roles as Fiona Glenanne on Burn Notice, Margaret Tudor in the first season of The Tudors, Lady Tremaine in the seventh season of Once Upon a Time, and Sam Black in the second series of Press Gang.
She is also known for the 1991 film Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken, for dancing the tango with Al Pacino in the 1992 film Scent of a Woman, and for the 1993 films Body Snatchers, and For Love or Money.
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David Benioff
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David Friedman (/ˈfriːdmən/; born September 25, 1970), known professionally as David Benioff(/ˈbɛniɒf/), is an American writer and producer. Along with his collaborator D. B. Weiss, he is best known for co-creating Game of Thrones (2011–2019), the HBO adaptation of George R. R. Martin's series of books A Song of Ice and Fire. He also wrote 25th Hour (2002), Troy (2004), City of Thieves (2008) and co-wrote X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009).
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David Loughery
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David Loughery was an American screenwriter and producer. Born in Chicago, Loughery attended Ball State University and the University of Iowa where he was a member of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop. His first produced screenplay was Dreamscape in 1984. It marked his first collaboration with director Joseph Ruben for whom Loughery wrote or rewrote several films including The Stepfather, The Good Son and Money Train. Other screenplays include Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Flashback, Passenger 57, The Three Musketeers, Lakeview Terrace and Obsessed.
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Tim Hassan
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Taim Hasan ( تيم حسن) is a prominent Syrian actor, known for his distinct dramatic roles in Syria and the Arab world. Hasan achieved fame in Syria through a number of highly acclaimed and extremely successful Syrian series most notably Saladin, Taifas and Nizar Qabbani. Taking on the title role in the Egyptian series King Farouk, Hassan's latest role has established him as one of the leading stars in the Arab world. He appeared perennially with Hatem Ali, one of Syria's leading directors, in a majority of his series such as The Philanderer Salem (2000), Saladin (2001), Taifas (2005) and King Farouk (2007), a role that earned him a best actor's award by Egyptian audiences and critics and earned him vast recognition and success and established him as one of the leading actors of his generation. He has also starred in The Waiting (2006). He is best known for his role as Abboud, a man who does not have a family, and he loved and cared for by the people of his new town.
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Thierry Lhermitte
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Thierry Lhermitte (born 24 November 1952) is a French actor, director, writer and producer, best known for his comedic roles. He was a founder of the comedy troupe Le Splendid in the 1970s, along with, among others, Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot, and Michel Blanc. The group adapted a number of its stage hits for the cinema, and scored major successes with films such as Les Bronzés (1978), Les Bronzés font du ski (1979), Le Père Noël est une ordure (1982) and Un indien dans la ville (1994).
In 1981, he received the Prix Jean Gabin. He was made Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 2001. He was made Officier of the Ordre national du Mérite in 2005.
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Danièle Delorme
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Gabrielle Danièle Marguerite Andrée Girard (9 October 1926 – 17 October 2015), known by her stage name Danièle Delorme, was a French actress and film producer, famous for her roles in films directed by Marc Allégret, Julien Duvivier or Yves Robert.
Delorme was born in Levallois-Perret, Hauts-de-Seine, one of four children to the well-known painter, poster-maker and theater-designer André Girard and his wife Andrée (nee Jouan). Girard maintained a studio in Venice in 1936–37 and in Manhattan in 1938. Back in France he was not called up in 1939. After the Battle of France, M. Girard removed to Antibes, then a free-zone and set up a network which provided recruiting and spying work for the French resistance. It was during this time that young Delorme began her acting career.
In 1940 at the age of 14 Delorme began acting and played a series of minor roles before she began acting in film. Two years later, owing to her father's contacts, she was able at 16 years old (at the time using the name Danièle Girard) to secure a bit part in The Beautiful Adventure (La Belle aventure (1942)).
Two years later director Marc Allégret again used Delorme, this time in a large role. This time she performed on the stage name she would use for the rest of her career, Danièl Delorme. One story developed that she took the name in order to hide from the Gestapo her relationship to her father. But the suggestion came from character actor Bernard Blier, who performed with her in her second film to take the name from the heroine of Victor Hugo's play Marion Delorme. (Delorme would co-star with Blier two decades later in the philosophical courtroom criminal drama, The Seventh Juror (Le septième juré (1962)).
During the first decade of her career Delorme played delicate, demure, bright young women, roles for which she was physically fitted. Her first husband Daniel Gélin, who also performed in The Beautiful Adventure, said she had "the face of a little girl, an upturned nose with passionate nostrils, the lips of a child, the body of a woman and a certain way about her that turns heads." Richard W. Seaver of the New York Times described her as "a winsome wisp of an actress, with her soft smile and grey eyes." These features landed her a breakthrough role in Miquette et sa mère (1949). In 1949, she also played the title role in Gigi (1949 film), before Leslie Caron's success in the same role in the American (musical) version (Gigi (1958 film)) .
Also notable was her performance as femme fatale in Julien Duvivier's Voici le temps des assassin (1956) (Deadlier Than the Male in the US and Twelve Hours to Live in the UK), co-starring with Jean Gabin.
In 1960 Delorme joined more than 140 intellectuals, teachers, writers and celebrities in signing a manifesto supporting the right of French conscripts to refuse military service in Algeria. As a result, the French government on 28 September issued a ban against all signatories from appearing on state-run radio or television or in state-run theaters. At the same time the information minister said that another cabinet order was in preparation that would deny government funding to any film project in which any signatory appeared. ...
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Ron Kauk
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Ron Kauk, born September 23, 1957, in Redwood City, California, is an American professional climber. He is a pioneer of rock climbing and a resident of Camp 4 in Yosemite National Park.
Ron Kauk's first experiences with rock climbing date back to when he was fourteen, when he hiked through Yosemite on a school backpacking trip. That same summer, he and his brother enrolled in a climbing course in Tuolumne Meadows. "In town, I climbed the school walls, did at least 100 pull-ups a day, and practically memorized the Yosemite route guidebook."
During the summer of 1973, Ron spent his weekends in Yosemite and was drawn to the "Stonemasters," a group of climbers who stayed at Camp 4 in tents and old buses. After spending the entire summer of 1974 in the valley, he returned to high school but only stayed for one day, declaring he never wanted to breathe the air of a classroom again. He then moved to Camp 4 to live among climbers including Jim Bridwell, Dale Bard, and John Bachar. "It was Jim Bridwell who set the tone; he started tackling very short and very physical routes. The most important thing was to climb a route, if possible onsight, and increasingly difficult ones." By 1974, Ron was able to onsight Nabisco Wall, at the time the hardest route in the valley. In 1975, he achieved the first free ascent of Astroman and several other first ascents, such as Tales of Power, Separate Reality, and Midnight Lightning.
At the age of seventeen, he battled for five days on the 1,000-meter vertical drop of El Capitan's Great Wall. Then, still on El Capitan and with Steve Sutten, he climbed the North American Wall in winter during a freezing storm. With Dale Bard, he successfully climbed Window Tears, a difficult icefall in Yosemite. In 1978, he led the Nose in a single day. That same year, Ron and Chapman went to Canada to climb Mount Kitchener and successfully ascended the north face. In 1979, Ron participated with John Roskelly and Kim Schmitz in an expedition to Uli Biaho Tower in the Karakoram. Upon his return, Ron felt he had accomplished everything he could and his motivation waned. He settled on the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada and earned a living sometimes as a lumberjack, sometimes as a miner, occasionally climbing in Tuolumne.
In 1986, Ron Kauk won a bouldering competition in the USA, and Yvon Chouinard offered him a ticket to come to France to participate in a competition. "During these competitions, I rediscovered the spirit of the 70s: the European climbers piqued my curiosity and motivated me." For several years, Ron successfully participated in numerous international competitions. Then, in 1993, difficult routes attracted him again. "I've always been open to evolution in the sport. I also believed that Spits bindings could give new impetus to the rather stagnant climbing scene in Yosemite and revive free climbing." The purists refused to even consider it, until Ron established Crossroads in 1993, considered at the time to be a revolutionary route.
Thanks to systematic training, on his thirty-seventh birthday, Ron became the first American to climb an 8c route, Burn For You.
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Peter Coyote
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Peter Coyote (born Rachmil Pinchus Ben Mosha Cohon; October 10, 1941) is an American actor, author, director, screenwriter and narrator of films, theatre, television and audio books. His voice work includes narrating the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics and Apple's iPad campaign. He has also served as on-camera co-host of the 2000 Oscar telecasts.
Coyote was one of the founders of the Diggers, an anarchist improv group active in Haight-Ashbury during the mid-1960s. Coyote was also an actor, writer and director with the San Francisco Mime Troupe; his prominence in the San Francisco counter-culture scene led to his being interviewed for the noted book, Voices from the Love Generation. He acted in and directed the first cross-country tour of the Minstrel Show, and his play Olive Pits, co-authored with Mime Troupe member Peter Berg, won the Troupe an Obie Award from the Village Voice. Coyote became a member, and later chairman, of the California Arts Council from 1975 to 1983. In the late 1970s, he shifted from acting on stage to acting in films. In the 1990s and 2000s, he acted in several television shows. He speaks fluent Spanish and French.
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Carrie-Anne Moss
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Carrie-Anne Moss (born August 21, 1967) is a Canadian actress. After early roles on television, she rose to international prominence for her role of Trinity in The Matrix franchise. She has starred in Memento (2000) for which she won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female, Red Planet (2000), Chocolat (2000), Fido (2006), Snow Cake (2006) for which she won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, Disturbia (2007), Unthinkable (2010), Silent Hill: Revelation (2012), and Pompeii (2014). She also portrayed Jeri Hogarth in several television series produced by Marvel Television for Netflix, most notably Jessica Jones (2015–2019).
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