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Carl Lerner

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Carl Lerner was an American director screenwriter, actor, and editor. He started his career as an actor with theater companies in New York. In 1950 he joined as editor in Columbia Studios and debuted his first film Cry Murder. He directed his first documentary film American Homes in 1949. He is known for his works in movies such as Twelve Angry Men (1957), The Fugitive Kind (1959) and Middle of the Night (1959). Mr. Lerner taught film technique at City College, New York University, the School of Visual Arts, and other institutions, and had written many articles on the subject. He died on August 26, 1973 at the age of 61 in New York, USA.
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Chris Isaak

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Christopher Joseph Isaak (born June 26, 1956) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional actor. He is widely known for his breakthrough hit and signature song "Wicked Game", as well as songs such as "Blue Hotel", "Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing" and "Somebody's Crying". He is known for his reverb-laden rockabilly revivalist style and wide vocal range. His songs generally focus on the themes of love, loss and heartbreak. With a career spanning four decades, Isaak has released a total of 13 studio albums, toured, and received numerous award nominations. He is often compared to Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley, Ricky Nelson, and Duane Eddy. Isaak is closely associated with film director David Lynch, who has used his music in numerous films. As an actor, he's had supporting roles and bit parts in films such as Married to the Mob, The Silence of the Lambs, Little Buddha, That Thing You Do! and Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, and starred in two television series: the sitcom The Chris Isaak Show and the talk show The Chris Isaak Hour.
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Lee Tracy

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William Lee Tracy (April 14, 1898 – October 18, 1968) was an American actor. He was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his supporting role in the 1964 film The Best Man. In 1929, Tracy arrived in Hollywood, where he played the role of newspapermen in several films. He, for example, played a Walter Winchell-type gossip columnist in Blessed Event (1932). Tracy also starred as the columnist in Advice to the Lovelorn (1933), very loosely based on the novel Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West; and he played a conscience-stricken editor in the 1943 drama The Power of the Press, based on a story by former newspaperman Samuel Fuller. Tracy played "The Buzzard," the criminal who leads Liliom (Charles Farrell) into a fatal robbery, in the film version of Liliom (1930). He also played Lupe Vélez's frenetic manager in Gregory LaCava's The Half-Naked Truth (1932) and portrayed John Barrymore's agent in Dinner at Eight (1933), directed by George Cukor. Lee Tracy's flourishing film career was temporarily disrupted on 19 November 1933, while he was on location in Mexico filming the Wallace Beery vehicle Viva Villa! According to the actor and producer Desi Arnaz, in his published autobiography The Book (1976), Tracy stood on a balcony in Mexico City and urinated down onto a passing military parade. Elsewhere in his autobiography, Arnaz claims that from then on, if one watched other crowds of spectators, they would visibly disperse any time an American stepped out onto a balcony. However, other crew members there at the time disputed this story, giving a sharply different account of events. In his autobiography, Charles G. Clarke, the cinematographer on the picture, said that he was standing outside the hotel during the parade and the incident never happened. Tracy, he said, was standing on the balcony observing the parade when a Mexican in the street below made an obscene gesture at him. Tracy replied in kind; and the next day a local newspaper printed a story that, in effect, Tracy had insulted Mexico, Mexicans in general, and their national flag in particular. The story caused an uproar in Mexico, and MGM decided to sacrifice Tracy in order to be allowed to continue filming there. The young actor Stuart Erwin replaced Tracy. The film's original director, Howard Hawks, was also fired for his refusal to testify against Tracy. Jack Conway replaced him. During World War II, Tracy returned to military service. Later, he had two television series in the 1950s. One was Martin Kane: Private Eye, in which he was one of four actors to play the title role. The others were William Gargan, Lloyd Nolan, and Mark Stevens. In 1958, he returned to a newspaper reporter role in the syndicated New York Confidential. After World War II, his screen career was largely relegated to television, but he portrayed the former President of the United States, Art Hockstader, a character loosely based on Harry Truman, in both the stage and film versions of The Best Man (1964), written by Gore Vidal. The movie version featured Henry Fonda and Cliff Robertson. Tracy received his only Academy Award nomination, as Best Supporting Actor, for his performance in the film. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lee Tracy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Steve Kmetko

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Steven Kmetko (born February 16, 1953) is an American entertainment television host and reporter. Kmetko was born in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. His most prominent job was on the E! cable network. He had previously worked as an entertainment reporter for CBS's Los Angeles affiliate (KCBS). The television station replaced him with Ted Casablanca. Before that, he was a news anchor for station WAVE-TV in Louisville, Kentucky and WOTV (now WOOD-TV) in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In 1999, Kmetko gave an official "coming out" interview to The Advocate's Editor In Chief, Judy Wieder, citing as his reason for doing it: "It's like what Nathan Lane told you when he came out in The Advocate. It's about what happened to Matthew Shepard. By making this simple statement, maybe people will think twice about other gay people they encounter. Hopefully they'll look at me and say, 'Well, he's succeeded and come out and has a pretty good life." After his interview with The Advocate, Kmetko hosted the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association's Excellence in Journalism Awards on October 4, 2005, at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, California. In May 2007, Kmetko went on the air as a general assignment reporter for Los Angeles's KTTV Fox 11 News. Kmetko now trains celebrities on the art of being interviewed. He works for Media Training company, J2 Strategic Communications, alongside Bob Goen, Jon Kelley and Terry Murphy. He also has served as producer and reporter of several video segments on California's gay-marriage ruling for theadvocate.com, the website of the gay news magazine The Advocate. Description above from the Wikipedia article Steve Kmetko, licensed under CC-BY-SA. Full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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. He 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, Connery died at the age of 90.
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Kris Ong

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Kris Ong is the Singaporean writer/ director of several short films and music videos that have collectively screened at international film festivals and platforms such as MTV Asia. Her latest short film ‘Sunday', had its world premiere at the Palm Springs International ShortFest 2019. She is the co-writer of the feature film Ajoomma, to be directed by He Shuming (SEAFIC Award Winner 2018.) Kris was the youngest participant at the Singapore International Film Festival’s Southeast Asian Film Lab in 2014, and has written script coverage for an international variety of scripts, short stories and novels since 2016. In 2019 she joined HBO Asia as a script consultant.
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Daniel Travis

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Daniel Travis (born March 10, 1968) is an American actor. Travis was born and raised in Clarkston, Michigan. He received a BFA in theater from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He went on to receive an MFA at The Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. His early work was on the stage, playing John Buchanan in Summer and Smoke, The Earl of Richmond in Richard III and Paul in Barefoot in the Park. In 2001, Travis made his small-screen debut with guest appearances on the short-lived television show The Education of Max Bickford, starring Richard Dreyfuss. Without ever having appeared in a film, Travis made his big-screen debut in a starring role in Open Water (2004), about a couple who goes scuba diving and is left behind in the ocean by accident while on an organized dive. Most recently, Travis starred in the Subaru television commercial, Ricky. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel Travis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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William Gregory Lee

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William Gregory Lee (born January 24, 1973 in Virginia Beach, Virginia) is an American actor. His first prominent role was as Virgil on Xena: Warrior Princess. He is perhaps still best known for his role as Zack on the series Dark Angel (2000–2001). Lee has appeared in a number of other roles, including the 2002 horror film Wolves of Wall Street and his current starring role as "Ambrosius Vallin" in the here! original series Dante's Cove. He has also appeared as Sven in the 2003 film Beauty and the Beast.
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Ezgi Mola

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Ezgi Mola was born on March 29, 1983 in Istanbul. She is originally from Malatya. Ezgi Mola, who received her primary and high school education in Istanbul, started to study acting at Müjdat Gezen Art Center while she was still in high school, as she was interested in acting from a young age. Mola, who continued her education at the same art center after graduating from high school, graduated from Müjdat Gezen Art Center with the first place in the department. When she was only 17 years old, she got her first television experience in 2000 with the TV series Karate Can, directed by Kartal Tibet. After completing her 4-year education at Müjdat Art Center, she received theater training from Aydogan Temel for 2 years. She also had her first stage experience with the play Çürük Elma in the theater group led by Aydogan Temel. Ezgi Mola, who joined BKM Mutfak in November 2005, became known and loved by a wide audience by playing a naive hairdresser in the TV series Hirsiz Polis in the same year. But she achieved her real success in 2006 with the movie "You Are the Woman of My Life", in which she starred with Türkan Soray. She won the Sadri Alisik Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2007 in this film, in which she had the chance to portray a role in which she could show herself and where she acted with Türkan Soray, whom she was a personal fan of. In 2008, she starred in the improvised sit-com directed by Ugur Yücel, which was a first in Turkey. Later, she started to take her career to its peak with many commercials and projects. She entered our lives permanently as a person known and loved by everyone from 7 to 70, especially in the entertainment program called Arkadasim Hosgeldin, together with Tolga Çevik. She currently plays Safiye Derenoglu, one of the leading characters in the TV series Masumlar Apartment, which is broadcast on TRT and started broadcasting on September 15, 2020. She received the Female TV Actress of the Year award in 2021 for her acting in this series. Apart from these, she took part in dozens of different TV series, movies, theater and commercial projects. - IMDb Mini Biography By: yusufpiskin
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Dimitris Koutsiambasakos

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Dimitris Koutsiabasakos studied Film and TV Direction at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography ( VGIK), Moscow. He has directed documentaries, TV series, short and feature films for cinema and television. He directed his first short film Hill 33 in 1998. In 2006 he directed the fiction film The Guardian’s Son. Among his documentaries are The Grocer, Silent Witness, Yannis Kastritsis - The Man and his Shadow; Heracles, Acheloos and Mesochora and . Dimitris has received national and international awards for his work.
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