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Steven Cantor

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Steven Cantor is an American film/television director and film/television producer. Notable works include the films “What Remains”(2006), “loudQUIETloud”(2006), "Devil's Playground (film)" and “Blood Ties”(1994). Cantor has also directed and executive produced the HBO series “Family Bonds”(2003), and has executive produced "Amish in the City" (2005 UPN), “#1 Single”(2006 E! Network), and “Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane”(2007 Style Channel). He is a founding partner in Stick Figure Productions. Description above from the Wikipedia article Steven Cantor, 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 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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Christopher Benjamin

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Christopher Benjamin was a British actor, born 27 December 1934 in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England. He died on January 15th 2025, aged 90. He was well known for his roles in some of the UK's biggest cult television programmes. This included playing the same character in two Patrick McGoohan dramas, Danger Man and The Prisoner, fuelling speculation that they are possibly linked. He was also a regular in The Avengers and Doctor Who, playing in three episodes of each, mostly in comedy roles. He also played recurring roles in several period dramas. He was Sir John Glutton, the regular adversary in the period family adventure series Dick Turpin, Channing in several episodes of the third series of When The Boat Comes In, and Prosper Profound in the acclaimed 1967 adaptation of The Forsyte Saga . He reprised the role of Henry Gordon Jago, from the Doctor Who serial The Talons of Weng-Chiang in four series of Jago and Litefoot audio plays, after a well received episode of the Big Finish Productions audio C.D. series Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles entitled The Mahogany Murderers. He acted alongside Trevor Baxter who played Professor George Litefoot. Predominantly a theatre actor, he performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He appeared at Shakespeare's Globe from 17 June to 5 October 2008 as Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christopher Benjamin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia .
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Serge Reggiani

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Serge Reggiani (2 May 1922 – 23 July 2004) was an Italian-born French singer and actor. He was born in Reggio Emilia, Italy and moved to France with his parents at the age of eight. For many years, he struggled with alcoholism, caused in part by the 1980 suicide of his son Stephan. After acting school (Conservatoire des arts cinématographiques) he was discovered by Jean Cocteau and appeared in a wartime production of Les Parents terribles ("The Terrible Parents"). During World War II, he left Paris to join the French resistance. His first feature film came in 1946 with his role in Les portes de la nuit ("The Doors of the Night"). He later went on to perform in 80 films including Casque d'or, Les Misérables (1958),Tutti a casa, Le Doulos, Il Gattopardo, La terrazza, The Pianist (1998). In spite of never quite reaching the peak with his acting career, he did triumph in the theatre in 1959 with his performance in Jean-Paul Sartre’s play Les Séquestrés d'Altona. In the meantime, though, in 1965 he began a second career, that of a singer (at the age of 43), with the help of Simone Signoret and her husband Yves Montand and later with great assistance of the French diva Barbara. Reggiani became one of the most acclaimed performers of French "Chanson" ("song") and although he was in his 40s, his bad-boy rugged image made him popular with both young and older listeners. His best known songs include Les loups sont entrés dans Paris ("The Wolves Have Entered Paris") and Sarah (La femme qui est dans mon lit) ("The Woman Who Is In My Bed"), the latter written by Georges Moustaki. However, one of his regular songwriters throughout his career was Boris Vian (Le Déserteur, Arthur où t'as mis le corps, La Java des bombes atomiques). His new young fans identified with his left-wing ideals and antimilitarism, most notably during the 1968 student revolts in France. With age he became more and more acclaimed as one of the best interpreters of the French chanson also bringing the poetry of Rimbaud, Apollinaire and Prévert closer to his audience. In 1995, he made a comeback to the singing stage, giving a few concerts despite his deteriorated health and personal distress, the last one being held as late as in the year of his death, in spring of 2004. In later life he became a painter and gave a number of exhibitions of his artwork. Serge Reggiani died in Paris of a heart attack at the age of 82, one day after the death of another well known French singer Sacha Distel. He is interred in Montparnasse Cemetery.
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Patricia Anne Isgate-Hayward

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Patricia Anne Isgate-Hayward a former restaurateur and Director of Income who moved into film production in the late 1980s, has given audiences visually stunning and entertaining movies. Her first independent feature film "together and alone" debuted in the 1997 Sundance Festival marked the founding of Texas Trouble Entertainment with former partner Duane Whitaker. The company made "Camp Utopia" a campy teen horror featuring rock legend Stephen Pearcy of the group 'Ratt" before disbanding in 2006. Isgate-Hayward ventured out on her own to produced the Drama "Cold Ones" aka "Dead Letters" starring Thomas C. Howell and Kim Darby in 2007. Isgate-Hayward met filmmaker Tammi Sutton on the 4th of July in 2005 and formed Southern Belle Pictures an all female powerhouse production company. Patricia was born on May 13, 1966 in Landstuhl, Germany on an American Air force base. She is the 3rd and youngest child of Billy Ed and Ruby Nell Isgate - after moving to Texas her father ran Houston Lighting and Power for GE and her mother ran the Isgate home. Due to being highly hyper active and imaginative child she never could stand still for long and had to find ways to amuse herself. Patricia would wash cars in the neighborhood, gather her friends and sisters, rehearse and put on plays for the neighborhood kids charging a quarter per person to entertain them and herself. In 1974 her beloved father passed away and after living for a year on the family sailboat her mother moved the family to Florida. A solid B-student, Isgate opened her first restaurant at age 16 before she moved on to the University of Texas, Austin where she started studying business, and quickly started modeling to pay the bills. Her first job out of college was as an assistant to a phone-sales-closer in an office that was raided by the feds on January 28 1986. "As we waited to see the fate of our jobs we watched in horror as the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded". Seeing just how short life could be she didn't waste time and landed the Director of Income position at Survival Insurance in Los Angeles. Isgate-Hayward left Survival for "The Foundry", the commercial, television and music video division of Propaganda Films where she worked as Julian Lennon's assistant on his "Salt Water" video, a first A.D. and directed a commercial for the Virginia State Lottery. She realized her love for all aspects of filmmaking, landed acting roles in several films and when asked by Director Sam Raimi "to pay more attention to her role in the film "The Army of Darkness", than his, (behind the camera)" she realized that she needed to make her mark as a producer. Patricia soon developed a gift for hands on production and connections with named actors and distributors. She has an eye for interesting material and cast and works close to her directors in hand picking their cast. With her combined experience, talent for filmmaking and being known for delivering on her word Isgate-Hayward never stands still.
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Jack Mullaney

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Jack Mullaney (September 18, 1929 – June 27, 1982) was an American actor, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Mullaney acted in several television series and films throughout his career. He appeared regularly as Johnny Wallace, the bellhop, in CBS's The Ann Sothern Show (1958-1961). In addition to Ann Sothern, his co-stars included Don Porter, Ann Tyrrell, Louis Nye, and Jesse White. He also portrayed Navy Lieutenant Rex St. John in NBC's Ensign O'Toole (1962-1963), starring Dean Jones. In the 1958 film South Pacific, based on the Rodgers and Hammerstein hit musical, he played a character affectionately known as the "Professor". He also appeared as murderer Bert Rockwood on episode #227 of Lee Marvin's M-SQUAD titled The Vanishing Lady which first aired 4/3/1959. His death, due to stroke, occurred in Hollywood, June 27, 1982 -- he left no reported survivors. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Mullaney, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Allan Edwall

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Johan Allan Edwall (25 August 1924 – 7 February 1997) was a Swedish actor, director, author, composer and singer, best-known outside Sweden for the small roles he played in some of Ingmar Bergman's films, such as Fanny and Alexander (1982). He found his largest audience in the Scandinavian countries for playing lovable characters in several of the film and TV adaptations of the children's stories by Astrid Lindgren. He attended Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Training Academy from 1949 to 1952. During his long career he appeared in over 400 works. At the 10th Guldbagge Awards in 1974, he won the award for Best Actor for his role as Emil's short-tempered father Anton Svensson in Emil and the Piglet. His 1984 film Åke and His World was entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival. In his self-written songs, he frequently attacked the injustices of society. The music is similar to folk music often using violin and accordion. He won a Swedish Grammy posthumously in 2006. Edwall also owned a theatre, Teater Brunnsgatan Fyra in Stockholm, which he bought in 1986 and operated until his death in 1997 of prostate cancer (it is now managed by Kristina Lugn’s daughter Martina Montelius). [citation needed]He was the father of photographer Mattias Edwall and stage director, actor and musician Måns Edwall (1960–2016). Acting colleague Erland Josephson wrote about him in Expressen after his death: "He was odd. But, damn it, he managed to be odd in a universal way!"
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Barry Aird

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Barry Aird Birmingham born and RADA alumni who worked on stages around the world being fortunate to have worked with some of the most prolific Shakespearean performers and directors alike. He is perhaps best know for his movies such as BAFTA award winning Beast (2017), Avengers Age of Ultron, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, and Morbius as well as British films City Of Tiny Lights and TV dramas such as Line Aof Duty, Brassic, Dalgliesh, Angela Black and Berlin He is also productive in voicing both adverts and video games such as Total War: Warhammer 3, Battlefield 2042, Age of Empires & Assassins Creed. Barry has a wealth of new dramatic roles due for release in 2023
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Sam Hardy

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sam B. Hardy (March 21, 1883 – October 16, 1935) was an American stage and film actor who appeared in feature films during the silent and early sound eras. He died of intestinal problems. He was also known as Samuel Hardy. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Hardy attended Yale but left there to become an actor on stage. He entered the world of film with Biograph Studios. Hardy became ill while he was working in the film Shoot the Chutes, starring Eddie Cantor. He did not survive emergency surgery at a hospital.
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Amanda Anka

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Amanda Katherine Anka-Bateman (born December 10, 1968 in New York City, USA) is an American movie, television, and voice actress. Amanda Katherine Anka was born on December 10, 1968 in New York City. She was born to musician and actor Paul Anka and model Anne de Zogheb, who were married from 1963 until their divorce in 2000. Amanda is the second of five daughters. Her sisters are Alicia Anka (b.1970), Amelia Anka (b.1977), Anthea Anka (b.1971) and Alexandra Anka (b.1966). She also has a younger half- brother, Ethan Anka (b.2004). Amanda married her boyfriend of two years, actor Jason Bateman (b.1969), on July 3, 2001. They have two daughters together - Francesca Nora Bateman (b.October 28, 2006) and Maple Sylvie Bateman (b.February 10, 2012).
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