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Julian Colbeck
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Julian Colbeck (born 1952) is current CEO of Keyfax NewMedia and a former professional keyboard player of over 25 years, author of several music-related books and guides, the creator of Twiddly.Bits MIDI loops, the concept designer for the PhatBoy MIDI controller, and producer of several music technology DVDs and websites. He has played/collaborated with Greep, The New Seekers, Charlie, John Miles, Yes offshoot Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, and Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett. He also worked as a session player on numerous recordings, including the debut Vitamin Z album, produced by Alan Parsons, with whom he would later collaborate on the 2009 DVD set, Alan Parsons' The Art & Science of Sound Recording.
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Ujwal Sharma
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Ujwal Sharma is an award-winning entrepreneur, investor, and digital marketer from India. He is the Founder and CEO of Uzi World Digital, one of the country's fastest-growing digital marketing and PR solutions firms. Ujwal is also the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Empire Weekly, an international award-winning Internet news publishing company.
With over 6 years of experience as a digital marketing specialist, Ujwal has helped numerous Indian and foreign companies increase their online presence. He is a winner of the India 500 CEO Awards 2022 and The Indian Achievers' Award 2020 and is recognized as one of the most influential CEOs in India.
As a leader in the digital marketing industry, Ujwal is dedicated to helping businesses grow and succeed in the online world. He is constantly looking for new and innovative ways to drive results for his clients and is always willing to share his expertise and resources to help them reach their goals.
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Walter Baldwin
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Walter S. Baldwin Jr. (January 2, 1889 − January 27, 1977) was a prolific character actor whose career spanned five decades and 150 film and television roles, and numerous stage performances.
Baldwin was born in Lima, Ohio from a theatrical family and served in the First World War.
He was probably best known for playing the father of the handicapped sailor in The Best Years of Our Lives. He was the first actor to portray "Floyd the Barber" on The Andy Griffith Show.
Prior to his first film roles in 1939, Baldwin had appeared in more than a dozen Broadway plays. He played Whit in the first Broadway production of Of Mice and Men, and also appeared in the original Grand Hotel in a small role, as well as serving as the production's stage manager. He originated the role of Bensinger, the prissy Chicago Tribune reporter, in the Broadway production of The Front Page.
In the 1960s he had small acting roles in television shows such as Petticoat Junction and Green Acres. He continued to act in motion pictures, and one of his last roles was in Rosemary's Baby.
Baldwin was known for playing solid middle class burghers, although sometimes he gave portrayals of eccentric characters. He played a customer seeking a prostitute in The Lost Weekend and the rebellious prison trusty Orvy in Cry of the City. Walter Baldwin was featured in a lot of John Deere Day Movies from 1949-59 where he played the farmer Tom Gordon. In this series of Deere Day movies over a decade he helped to introduce many new pieces of John Deere farm equipment year-by-year. In each yearly movie he would be shown on his in A Tom Gordon Family Film where he would be buying new John Deere farm equipment or a new green and yellow tractor.A picture of Walter Baldwin playing Tom Gordon can be found on page 108 of Bob Pripp's book John Deere Yesterday & Today
Hal Erickson writes in Allmovie: "With a pinched Midwestern countenance that enabled him to portray taciturn farmers, obsequious grocery store clerks and the occasional sniveling coward, Baldwin was a familiar (if often unbilled) presence in Hollywood films for three decades."
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Nicholas Triandafyllidis
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Nikos Triantafyllidis (1966–2016) was a Greek artist, director and film producer.
He was born in Chicago, United States, on September 9, 1966, the son of satirical artist Vasilis Triantafyllidis (Harry Klynn) and Chariklia Makri, who was a dancer.
He studied sociology and communication at Panteion University of Athens and continued his studies at the International Film School in London between 1990 and 1992.
His first short film was the short documentary Momus: Amongst Women Only, which was filmed as part of his internship during the third trimester of his studies in London. His graduation film Dogs Licking My Heart, starring jazz musician Blaine Reininger and Panagiotis Thanasoulis, won the First Prize for Fiction at the 7th Drama Greek Short Film Festival in 1993. The film was also screened at international festivals.
In the same year, in 1993, he directed the black-and-white super 8 mm video clip for the song "You Don't Fit Anywhere" by the band Trypes. He also directed a short souvenir from the Trypes concert at the Marquee club in London.
In 1995, he completed his first feature film for Radio Moscow.In 1996, Nikos Triantafyllidis filmed the TV movie The Overcoat for ET2, a free adaptation of the short story of the same name by Nikolai Gogol by himself and Evgenia Lyroudia. Nikos Triantafyllidis announced his return behind the camera as a director with the film The Sentimentalists. The film belongs to the film noir category, began shooting in 2012, was presented incompletely (as a work in progress) in 2013 and was first screened in its entirety in the main program (competition section) of the 36th Moscow International Film Festival in June 2014, to finally be screened in Greek theaters in October of the same year. He died on June 7, 2016 from cancer
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John Kelly
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John Kelly is a renowned criminal profiler, psychotherapist, and addiction specialist. In his 1992 paper, "The Alcohol, Drug, and Serial Killer Connection", he was the first theorist to label serial killing as an addiction. Kelly's profiling expertise was used in over 100 cases, including well-known cases such as the Green River Killer, the Molly Bish case, the Atlantic City Murders, the Woodsman of Worcester, and the Golden State Killer.
His efforts as a profiler have led to three appearances on CBS 48 Hours and multiple interviews on CNN Primetime with Nancy Grace, FOX-Geraldo at Large, NJ Channel 12, and HLN-Jane Velez-Mitchell Show. Also, in the three-season television show "Dark Minds" on the Investigation Discovery channel, Kelly was seen around the world in 22 episodes over a three-year span.
He was also the founder of S.T.A.L.K., Inc. (System to Apprehend Lethal Killers) and the Executive Director of ExtraCare Health Services LLC, an outpatient counseling agency for mental health and addictive illness. He is a board Certified Forensic Examiner, a Fellow of the American Board of Forensic Examiners, and a National Certified Addiction Specialist. Kelly is also a published author who wrote the book "Warning Signs - A Guidebook for Parents", and he will be releasing a second book called "Finding Lazarus".
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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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Alicja Bachleda-Curuś
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Alicja Bachleda-Curuś (born May 12, 1983) is a Polish actress and singer, who has appeared in films including Trade, Ondine, and Pan Tadeusz. She was born in Tampico, Mexico, as the daughter of Lidia and Tadeusz Bachleda-Curuś, a geologist who was working in Mexico at that time. She has a brother, Tadeusz Bachleda-Curuś and half-sister, Urszula Welenc. Her uncle, Adam Bachleda-Curuś, is the former mayor of Zakopane, Poland, the city where she was raised. While growing up in Poland, Bachleda studied at the Elzbieta Armatys' Theater, Music and Dance Studio with an additional profile with extended learning of Spanish and English. She studied Iberian studies and cultural studies at the Jagiellonian University, but suspended her studies due to professional reasons. She studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City, as well as psychology at the University of California where she graduated with a degree in art history.
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Buddy Campbell
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Buddy Campbell grew up in the Ozark Foothills of Arkansas. While getting his degree from Arkansas Tech University he took several jobs including a position with his hometown newspaper as a movie critic. While getting paid to watch every movie that came to town, he became hooked on the cinema. He got leads in college plays but when he graduated he thought his acting career was over. For the next twenty years or so he made a living in the real world doing "real" jobs but his love for movies never died. In 2013, he answered an open casting call for a feature film that was dear to his heart. The movie was called Greater and it was the true story of one of his beloved Arkansas Razorback football players who died tragically in a car crash several years earlier. He auditioned for the movie and was asked to play the role of a high school teacher in the movie. While he had no lines, the experience of being on a genuine movie set gave him the bug to do more of it. He decided to attend a class for new actors at Excel Models and Talent in Little Rock. The experience of working with like-minded people as well as the words of wisdom from owner Melissa Moody cemented his desire to make acting his new life goal. He was cast by producer James Wood in a short movie called Hare Trigger directed by Donavon Thompson. His performance in Hare Trigger was noticed. Shortly thereafter, he was asked to join the cast of a feature film called The Boo. This was followed by a string of offers that included more feature films and movie shorts as well as a TV series and a commercial. He finally believes his life is on the path he was destined for and couldn't be happier with the results so far.
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Guo Zifan
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Guo Zifan, born in Qingdao, Shandong province, is a Chinese singer-actor, and a member of the Chinese male pop group "X-NINE".
In 2015 while still in high school, after participating in the youth network drama "Seventeen Blue", he joined Zhejiang Satellite TV "Burning Boy" youth talent program to become a trainee of Tianyu, and was screened to become one of the 16 recorded program contestants, thus making his official entry into showbiz.
In February 2016, he and his team mates, namely Wu Jiacheng, Gu Jiacheng and Zhao Lei, debuted officially as "X-Fire". In September of same year, Guo participated in the "X-Nine Youth League" debut conference, marking his official debut as a dancer at the same time.
In 2017, he was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy with the first place in the performance department in the country.
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Vince Clarke
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Vincent John Martin (born 3 July 1960), known professionally as Vince Clarke, is an English synth-pop musician and songwriter. Clarke has been the main composer and musician of the band Erasure since its inception in 1985, and was previously the main songwriter for several groups, including Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and the Assembly. In Erasure, he is known for his deadpan and low-key onstage demeanour, often remaining motionless over his keyboard, in sharp contrast to lead vocalist Andy Bell's animated and hyperactive frontman antics.
Erasure have recorded over 200 songs and have sold over 28 million albums worldwide. Clarke was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020 as a member of Depeche Mode.
Vincent John Martin was born on 3 July 1960 in South Woodford, Essex; he later moved to Basildon, Essex. He initially studied the violin and then the piano. Clarke's early musical influences included Sparks, Paul Simon, and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), who inspired his interest in electronic music. Clarke also cites electronic influences such as the Human League, Daniel Miller and Fad Gadget.
In December 2013, Clarke listed his "13 LPs that mean the most to him" for The Quietus: Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon (1973): Kraftwerk – Computer World (1981); The Human League – Travelogue (1980); Simon & Garfunkel – Bookends (1968); T. Rex – Electric Warrior (1971); David Bowie – "Heroes" (1977); The Eagles – Hotel California (1976); OMD – Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (1980); Philip Glass – Glassworks (1982); Genesis – A Trick of the Tail (1976); Michael Jackson – Dangerous (1991); The Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (1977); Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin IV (1971).
In the late 1970s, Clarke and schoolmate Andy Fletcher formed a short-lived band called No Romance in China, with Clarke on vocals and guitar and Fletcher on bass guitar. In 1979, Clarke played guitar in the Plan, an Ultravox-influenced band, with friends Robert Marlow and Paul Langwith.
In 1980, after the Plan dissolved, Clarke and Fletcher formed Composition of Sound, and were soon joined by Martin Gore. Clarke provided vocals until lead vocalist Dave Gahan joined the band, which was renamed Depeche Mode. At that time he adopted the stage name Vince Clarke, by which he is currently known. The band initially adopted a slick synthesised electropop sound, which produced the studio album Speak & Spell and the Clarke-penned singles "Dreaming of Me", "New Life", and "Just Can't Get Enough" in 1981. ...
Source: Article "Vince Clarke" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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