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Lidia Quaranta
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She began her career as an actress in the theater, in the Dante Testa company. In 1910, together with her sister Letizia, she was hired by Itala Film, but her film debut took place in the same year in the short film L'ignota produced by Aquila Films. 1914 is the year of her artistic consecration with the interpretation in the film Cabiria, which also makes her gain international fame.
Between 1915 and 1920 he starred in several films, produced by other film companies; among these we remember the film The three sentimental. After this film he moved to Fert, for which he acted in some films. She died in 1928, aged 36, of a bout of pneumonia. She is buried in the Monumental Cemetery of Turin.
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Florence Hartigan
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Florence Hartigan is an American-born, New Zealand-raised, LA-based actress and musician best known for playing the leading role in Phoenix Forgotten, produced by Ridley Scott (Alien), Wes Ball (Maze Runner) and Mark Canton (The Martian).
Hartigan's other film credits include the animated feature, To Your Last Death, starring William Shatner and Morena Baccarin, Entrance (IFC/LA Film Festival), The Witch of Portabello (based on Paulo Cohello's novel), and the romantic comedy Magik and Rose.
Hartigan was born in Ithaca New York, and raised in Ireland and New Zealand. At a young age, she started working as an actor, playing a guest star role in "Shortland Street," New Zealand's leading and longest-running TV drama. Hartigan went on to play a main role in Vanessa Alexander's feature film Magik and Rose, as well as several TV shows and pilots and award-winning short films, before taking a break from acting professionally to study film and theater at the University of Otago, Dunedin and the University of California, Berkeley. Post-college, she studied with leading New Zealand Meisner teacher Michael Saccente, before moving to Los Angeles to further her acting career.
Hartigan has studied improv comedy and writing at the Upright Citizen's Brigade and The Groundlings, and acted in Comedy Central Studios' web project "Bro Dependent." Hartigan can also be seen in several projects produced by Funny or Die, and has written and acted in several of her own projects which FoD featured on their front page. She has also performed regularly at UCB, Nerdist, iO West, and other venues with her musical improv group, Kaboombox.
When not acting or writing, Hartigan is a musician, and plays regularly at venues around Los Angeles, and in NY, as well as occasionally writing music for various TV and film projects.
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Marcel Ichac
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Marcel Ichac, born October 22, 1906 in Rueil-Malmaison (Seine-et-Oise) and died April 9, 1994 in Ézanville (Val-d'Oise), was a French filmmaker, photographer, explorer, and mountaineer. He was the brother of Pierre Ichac (1901-1978).
"A great master of documentary filmmaking," according to historian Jean Tulard, Marcel Ichac is particularly considered "the greatest filmmaker specializing in mountain films in France and undoubtedly in the world" of his generation by Georges Sadoul. Initially a skier and mountaineer, a great witness to French mountaineering, Marcel Ichac went on to become, through the diversity of the spaces he explored, the filmmaker of French exploration in the 1930s and 1950s (the first two French expeditions to the Himalayas in 1936 and 1950, scuba diving with Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Greenland with Paul-Émile Victor, the world's first caving documentaries, notably with Norbert Casteret, etc.).
Marcel Ichac revolutionized documentary filmmaking with his desire to place the viewer at the heart of the action, obsessing over authenticity. This required, beyond accompanying the athlete in his efforts, technical innovations (the widespread use of lightweight cameras, whereas the cameras of the time were generally heavy and fixed), artistic innovations (the subjective camera, mounted on skis, carried on the shoulder, etc., shooting from the mountaineer's perspective), and narrative innovations. Marcel Ichac is considered a pioneer of "cinema verité" and docu-fiction. Beyond that, Marcel Ichac played a pioneering role, both in the technical field (notably with the production of the first French film in CinemaScope, etc.), institutions (founding the Group of Thirty to promote short films), and individuals (launching Jacques Ertaud, Jean-Jacques Languepin, Gérard Oury, Jean-Louis Trintignant, and Robert Enrico into the film industry).
Marcel Ichac received the highest accolades in world cinema (an Oscar in Hollywood, awards at the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival, not to mention festivals specializing in mountain and exploration cinema). Marcel Ichac boasted over a hundred ascents to his name as a mountaineer. He was a member of the Explorers Club of New York, the French Society of Explorers, and the Groupe de Haute Montagne (GHM), as was his wife, Gabrielle Ichac-Lartigue, herself an experienced mountaineer.
When high mountain climbing was closed to him at the age of 70, Marcel Ichac took up running and long-distance walking. He regularly competed in the Millau 100K (France) and the New York City Marathon, where he won first place in the Diamond Age category for those over 80 in 1986.
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Seth Moulton
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Seth Wilbur Moulton (born October 24, 1978) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 6th congressional district since 2015. A former Marine Corps officer, he is a member of the Democratic Party.
After graduating from Harvard University in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts in physics, Moulton joined the United States Marine Corps. He served four tours in Iraq and then earned his master's degrees in business and public policy in a dual program at Harvard. He entered politics in 2014, when he was elected to represent Massachusetts's 6th congressional district.
In early 2019, Moulton was seen as a potential presidential candidate for the Democratic nomination in 2020. Publicly expressing his interest in the prospect, he traveled to early primary states. After announcing his candidacy on April 22, 2019, Moulton withdrew from the race on August 23.
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Rick Roberts
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Richard Charles Roberts (born November 13, 1965) is a Canadian film, TV and stage actor. His most substantial role to date is as Donald D'Arby in the series Traders, for which he was nominated for a Gemini Award.
He moved briefly to Los Angeles in 1998 appearing in the CBS series L.A. Doctors alongside Ken Olin and Sheryl Lee. He returned to Canada to star in An American in Canada, which ran for two seasons.
In 2012, he was tapped to play Jack Layton in the CBC biopic Jack, alongside Sook-Yin Lee as Olivia Chow. His portrayal of Jack garnered him a Canadian Screen Award and an ACTRA Award for Best Actor.
Other work includes guest starring roles on Saving Hope (CTV/NBC), Copper (BBC America), Cracked (CBC), Republic of Doyle (CBC), Murdoch Mysteries (CBC), Cra$h & Burn (Showcase), Haven (SyFy), ZOS (Whizbang Films), and was featured regularly in the hit CBC series, This is Wonderland.
As a writer, his work Mimi (which he co-wrote with Allan Cole and Melody Johnson) premiered at The Tarragon Theatre and was nominated for a Dora Award. His play Kite premiered to critical acclaim earning numerous Dora Award nominations for writing and production. Other writing credits include Nod (Theatre Gargantua) and Fish/Wife (Tarragon Theatre).
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Jon Finch
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John Nicholas Finch (2 March 1941 – 28 December 2012) was an English actor, noted for his many Shakespearean roles. Perhaps his most notable role was Macbeth in Roman Polanski's film adaptation of Macbeth (1971).
Finch was born in Caterham, Surrey. He appeared in films such as the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Frenzy (1972), portraying a man wrongly accused of murder, Death on the Nile (1978), and in one of his last roles, a small part as the Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem (Heraclius, though unnamed in the film) in the Ridley Scott film Kingdom of Heaven (2005). Decades earlier, Finch was cast as Kane in Ridley Scott's Alien, but had to drop out because of his diabetes. The role was eventually played by John Hurt.
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Brian Pillman
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Brian William Pillman was an American football player and professional wrestler best known for his appearances in World Championship Wrestling, Extreme Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation in the 1990s. Pillman had a legacy as "The Loose Cannon", a wrestling gimmick that would see him do a series of worked-shoots that would gain him a degree of infamy for his unpredictable character. He was also known for being extremely agile in the ring, although a car accident in April 1996 from which he received extensive ankle injuries limited his in-ring ability.
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Chris Welsby
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Chris Welsby is a British/Canadian experimental filmmaker, digital media and installation artist. In the 1970s he was a member of the London Film-Makers' Co-op (now LUX film distributors), and co-founder of the Digital Media Studio (now Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art) at the Slade School of Fine Arts, UCL, London. He is considered one of the pioneers of expanded cinema and moving image installation and was one of the first artists to exhibit film installations at the Tate and Hayward galleries London. His expanded cinema works and installations have since continued to break new conceptual ground and attract critical attention. A. L. Reece, in British Film Institute's A History of Experimental Film and Video, wrote: "Twenty-five years ago, when he made his first projections for large spaces, film and art rarely met in the gallery; now it is common and installation art is a distinct practice."
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Theresa Russell
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Theresa Russell (born Theresa Lynn Paup; March 20, 1957) is an American actress. Russell made her film debut in The Last Tycoon (1976), followed by a lead role in Straight Time (1978). She was then cast in Nicolas Roeg's controversial thriller Bad Timing (1980), which earned her critical praise. After marrying Roeg in 1982, she appeared in many films directed by him, mainly arthouse and experimental films, including Eureka (1983), Insignificance (1985), and Cold Heaven (1991).
Russell starred in Whore and Kafka, both released in 1991. Russell appeared in the box-office hit thriller Wild Things (1998), starred in the critically acclaimed drama The Believer (2001) and, in the later 2000s, appeared in HBO miniseries Empire Falls (2005) and had a minor role in Spider-Man 3 (2007).
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Keye Luke
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Keye Luke (Chinese: 陸錫麒, Cantonese: Luk Shek Kee; June 18, 1904 – January 12, 1991) was a Chinese-American actor. He was known for playing Lee Chan, the "Number One Son" in the Charlie Chan films, the original Kato in the 1939–1941 Green Hornet film serials, Brak in the 1960s Space Ghost cartoons, Master Po in the television series Kung Fu, and Mr. Wing in the Gremlins films. He was the first Chinese-American contract player signed by RKO, Universal Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was one of the most prominent Asian actors of American cinema in the mid-twentieth century.
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