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Pete Seeger

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Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, Seeger also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of the Weavers, notably their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene", which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. Members of the Weavers were blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. In the 1960s, Seeger re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, counterculture, workers' rights, and environmental causes.
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Jeffrey Boam

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Jeffrey David Boam (November 30, 1946 – January 26, 2000) was an American screenwriter and film producer. He is known for writing the screenplays for The Dead Zone, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Innerspace, The Lost Boys, and Lethal Weapon 2 and 3. Boam's films had a cumulative gross of over US$1 billion. He was educated at Sacramento State College and UCLA. Boam died of heart failure on January 26, 2000, at age 53. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeffrey Boam, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Dan Schneider

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Daniel James "Dan" Schneider (born January 14, 1966) is an American songwriter, actor, writer, and producer of films and television. He is the co-president of his own production company called Schneider's Bakery. Dan Schneider is sometimes credited as Daniel Schneider, Daniel J. Schneider, or Daniel Jamie Schneider. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, he went to Memphis University School (MUS) for some years but graduated from White Station High School in 1982 and was the president of his senior class. He attended various classes at Harvard University.
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Keith Walker

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Keith Walker (June 29, 1935 — December 30, 1996) was an American writer, producer, and actor. He co-wrote the screenplay for the film Free Willy, and wrote for television series including The Fall Guy, Emergency!, Quincy, M.E. and M*A*S*H." He wrote 26 episodes of the Rod Serling hosted radio show The Zero Hour, all of them coming in the second, and final, season of the show. He appeared as an actor on television shows Mannix, The Rookies, Mission: Impossible, and Fantasy Island. Walker had a memorable role as Irving Walsh in the film The Goonies. He was married to actress Peggy Walton-Walker. Following brief treatment for cancer, Keith Walker died in Franklin, Tennessee at the age of 61 in late 1996. The third Free Willy film, Free Willy 3: The Rescue, was dedicated to his memory.
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Tamás Szabó Kimmel

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Szabó Kimmel Tamás (Kaposvár, 1984. október 9.–) magyar színész. A Színház- és Filmművészeti Egyetemen, zenés-színész szakon végzett. Mesterei Novák Eszter, Ascher Tamás és Zsótér Sándor voltak. Az egyetem elvégzése után játszott Szolnokon, Kaposváron és a József Attila Színház tagja volt egy évig. 2008 és 2013 között a Nemzeti Színház tagja volt. Eljátszhatta – többek között – a Hamlet címszerepét. Több filmben is játszott, országos ismertséget a Fonyó Gergely által rendezett Made in Hungaria című film biztosított számára. A 2012. október 12-én induló The Voice – Magyarország hangja című tehetségkutató műsor első évadjának műsorvezetője. Forrás: Wikipédia
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Ben Miles

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Benjamin Charles Miles (born 29 September 1966) is an English actor, best known for his starring role as Patrick Maitland in the television comedy Coupling, from 2000 to 2004, as Montague Dartie in The Forsyte Saga, from 2002 to 2003, as Peter Townsend in the Netflix drama The Crown (2016–2017) and George in episode 8 "The One That Holds Everything" in the TV drama The Romanoffs (2018). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ben Miles, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Kevin Folliard

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Kevin M. Folliard is a Chicagoland fiction writer with a degree in English and creative writing from the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign. His published fiction includes scary stories collections Christmas Terror Tales and Valentine Terror Tales, and adventure novels for 12 and up such as Jake Carter & the Nightmare Gallery, Violet Black & the Curse of Camp Coldwater, and Jimmy Chimaera & the Temple of Champions. Folliard's work has been collected in Sanitarium Magazine, as well as anthologies by Nosetouch Press and Black Bed Sheet Books. He has also developed films and web series for the Champaign based studio Neon Harbor, including the acclaimed videogame parody “Press Start” series.
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Alexandros Antonopoulos

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Alexandros Antonopoulos (Los Angeles, August 10, 1947) is a Greek actor with an important career in theater, cinema and television. He is best known for his roles in the films Safe Sex and Crying Out of Paradise, while in the theater he has played in plays by Euripides, Aristophanes, William Shakespeare, Henrik Ibsen, Luigi Pirandello, Noti Pergiali and many others. Alexandros Antonopoulos was born in Los Angeles, where he lived the first years of his life. He is the grandson of Katina Paxinos and the godson of Alexis Minotis. He was for 17 years the announcer of the news bulletin at ERT, not being a journalist, when the then Director General of ERT (1974-1975) Dimitris Horn promoted actors for this position instead of journalists.
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Maha Ammar

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An Egyptian actress, born in 1994 to an Egyptian mother and Syrian father, worked in her childhood in advertisements, and the director Sandra discovered her, and chose her to work with her in the movie (Why did you make me love you) and also achieved great fame through her role in the movie (Thieves in KG2), as well as She presented a TV program entitled (Stars in KG2) after the great success of the movie (Thieves in KG2). She moved away from artistic work, studying filmmaking, and currently residing in Germany.
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Valérie Kaprisky

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Valérie Kaprisky (née Chérès; born 19 August 1962) is a French actress. She was born Valerie Chérès on 19 August 1962 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Kaprisky is her Polish mother's maiden name. She is of Greek-Ottoman and Argentine descent on her father's side. When she was eight years old, her family moved to Cannes, where she discovered the Cannes film festival and decided to become an actress. At 17, she moved to Paris, attending high school during the day and the Cours Florent acting school at night. She appeared in a French erotic movie (Aphrodite), then made her American debut in the À bout de souffle remake Breathless (1983) starring alongside Richard Gere. She also appeared in La femme publique (1984) by Andrzej Żuławski, for which she was a nominee for the 1985 César Award for Best Actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Valérie Kaprisky, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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