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David Hayter
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David Hayter is a Canadian-American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer. He is well known as the English-language voice actor for Solid Snake and Naked Snake in the Metal Gear video game series. He wrote the film X-Men and co-wrote X2 and Watchmen and was awarded the Saturn Award for Best Writing in 2000 for his work on X-Men. Hayter voiced King Shark on The Flash.
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Mariko Honda
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Mariko Honda (本多 真梨子, Honda Mariko, October 3) is a Japanese seiyū (voice actress) from Kanagawa Prefecture. She is affiliated with Amuleto.
After graduating from Amusement Media Academy in 2008, she joined Production Ace. On May 10, 2013 she left the agency and, after a few months as a freelancer, she joined Amuleto on December 1. On October 3, 2020, her birthday, she opened a YouTube channel where she posts her daily life with her dog Kokoa. She also irregularly provides game commentary during her live shows.
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John Eppler
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Johannes Eppler (1914–1999), also known as Hans Eppler, John Eppler, and Hussein Gaafer, was a World War II Abwehr spy, a German who had been raised in Egypt by his Egyptian stepfather. One of Rommel's spies during the North African campaign in World War II, Operation Salaam led by László Almásy spirited Eppler and Hans-Gerd Sandstede into Cairo although they were both arrested soon after arrival in July 1942. Eppler is the subject of MI5 file KV 2/1467.
After World War II, Eppler told dramatic stories about his spy exploits during the war, but historians have shown that his actual work was ineffective and amateurish.
Eppler and a colleague, disguised as British officers, infiltrated Cairo and made contact with the Free Officers movement, who were attempting to defect to the Axis. Their plans ultimately fell through and Eppler and future Egyptian president Anwar Sadat were imprisoned together. According to Sadat, Eppler was visited in his cell by Winston Churchill in 1942 and offered leniency in exchange for a full confession.
Eppler is the subject of a book by Leonard Mosley, The Cat and the Mice, and is again referenced in Mosley's The Druid. Eppler and his radio operator Sandstede are played by Adrian Hoven and Neil McCallum in the British film of The Cat and the Mice, retitled Foxhole in Cairo (1960) (although Sandstede is renamed Sandy).
Another depiction of Eppler's exploits is in the German film Rommel Calls Cairo (1959) based upon Eppler's book of the same name. In this film, Eppler is again portrayed by Adrian Hoven.
Eppler portrayed Rommel in the French film Le Mur de l'Atlantique (1970).
The film and novel The English Patient also reference Operation Salaam and Eppler's activities.
Eppler's history is the same as that of the character Alexander (Achmed) Wolff, the Cairo spy in Ken Follett's "The Key to Rebecca" (1980).
Source: Article "Johannes Eppler" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Caleb McLaughlin
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Caleb Reginald McLaughlin (born October 13, 2001) is an American actor. He gained international recognition playing Lucas Sinclair in the Netflix series Stranger Things (2016–2025). He began his career playing young Simba in the Broadway musical The Lion King, and then had small roles in television. After finding success in Stranger Things, he appeared in the drama films High Flying Bird (2019) and Concrete Cowboy (2020), the latter being his first lead role in a feature film. He was also in the miniseries The New Edition Story (2017) and has had several television voice-over roles.
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Bud Spencer
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Bud Spencer was an Italian actor, filmmaker and a former professional swimmer. He was known for past roles in action-comedy films together with his long-time film partner Terence Hill. Growing from a successful swimmer in his youth, he got a degree in law, and has registered several patents. Bud also became a certified commercial airline and helicopter pilot, Bud Spencer also supported and funded many children's charities, including the Spencer Scholarship Fund.
Bud Spencer and Terence Hill both appeared, produced and directed over 20 films together and thus became and remain best friends until he passed away.
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Will Smith
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William James Smith (born 8 June 1971) is an English stand-up comedian, screenwriter, novelist, actor and producer. He is the Emmy-winning creator and showrunner of the Apple TV+ drama thriller Slow Horses (2022–). He is also known for being part of the writing team of the BBC sitcom The Thick of It (2007–2012) and its American HBO counterpart Veep (2012–16). Additionally, he starred as Phil Smith in the former.
As co-writer and co-producer of the HBO sitcom Veep, he was among the recipients of two Emmys and two Writers Guild of America Awards, and has received nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy and the Producers Guild of America Award for Best Episodic Comedy.
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Robert Grubb
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Robert Grubb (b. 31 January 1950, Hobart, Tasmania) is an Australian actor. He studied acting at National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), where he graduated in 1978.
Grubb played the role of Dr. Geoffrey Standish in the popular series The Flying Doctors. He starred in the Australian production of the Queen musical, We Will Rock You, playing "Pop".
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Kristýna Badinková Nováková
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Kristýna Badinková Nováková, née Kristýna Nováková (* April 24, 1983, Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech film actress. Her most famous role is Jindřiška from the film Pelíšky.
She graduated from a specialized secondary school in the field of tourism and DAMU, Department of Alternative and Puppet Theater. From 1994 to 1998 she was a member of the White Network Theater Ensemble, since 2005 she has been organizing her own theater projects (in 2005 she premiered the author's performance ADORE in the NoD theater space in Prague). She became known to the audience thanks to the film Education of Girls in the Czech Republic, where she drew attention to herself in the role of the schoolgirl Agatha. There, she was also noticed by director Jan Hřebejk, who invited her to an audition for the role of Jindřiška in the film Pelíšky. She also starred in the TV series Pool, Surgery in the Rose Garden, Airport and in the films Ro (c) to Subversives, Catch the Doctor, Children of the Night, etc. She also appeared in the documentary My House, My Castle by director Pavel Fojtík and also starred in How we shot with Tom directed by Moris Issa - the winning film at the CIAK Junior international show, where short films made according to children's themes compete. He also performs in the theater, eg in Studio Two Women's Locker Room, Healthy Sick, Graduate.
She was married to director Jaroslav Fuit. On November 25, 2009, their daughter Rozárie was born and in 2013 their daughter Mariana. In 2016, she divorced him. In 2018, she married for the second time.
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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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Joe Dolan
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Joseph Francis Robert Dolan (16 October 1939 – 26 December 2007) was an Irish entertainer, recording artist, and pop singer. Chiefly known in Ireland for his association with showbands and for his innovative style and high pitched singing voice, he had a wide appeal with many international fans. His energetic and charismatic stage performances influenced his long standing advertising slogan: "There's no show like the Joe show”.
The only Irish singer to reach number one in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, Dolan was a persistent presence in the music charts in Ireland and overseas.
Dolan was born at the County Hospital, now known as the Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar, County Westmeath on 16 October 1939, the youngest of nine children in a Roman Catholic family. He was orphaned at a young age – his father, a bicycle shop proprietor, died when Joe was ten; his mother when he was nineteen. He sang in school, and his mother had encouraged him to take up the piano. He made his first stage appearance at a talent show held in a marquee on the Fair Green in his native Mullingar.
Dolan's voice was high with a comprehensive range without the use of falsetto and he made comprehensive use of a technique known as melisma. Vocal ranges such as this were not common in the 1960s and 1970s but were later made popular by artists such as Mariah Carey, Stevie Wonder and Whitney Houston, among others. The Irish chat show legend Gay Byrne famously described Dolan’s voice as “butter mixed with honey”.
In 1958, as well as securing his first (and last) "real" job as a compositor in the local Westmeath Examiner newspaper, Dolan got his first guitar. After learning some skills on the instrument, he and his saxophone-playing brother Ben started to play in local bands. They soon formed a band of their own – The Drifters. Not long afterward, the band was renamed Joe Dolan and the Drifters and finally Joe Dolan and His Drifters to avoid legal action from the American band of the same name.
The Irish musical landscape in the 1960s was dominated by the showbands. The first single "The Answer to Everything", (previously released as a B side by Del Shannon) was released in September 1964, reaching number 4 in the Irish charts. Dolan and his band were managed by Seamus Casey. In the summer of 1968, however, some of the band left, with Dolan and Casey citing "musical differences" as the reason, although in the official biography by Ronan Casey (Seamus Casey's son) further elaboration includes references to unhappiness about financial issues.
Dolan's first US tour was in 1965 and followed an offer, which he refused, to play in Las Vegas. Instead, he decided to play a whistle-stop tour of Irish-American venues in places such as Chicago, New York and Boston. An added benefit to this string of engagements was the opportunity to hear American music which hadn't yet been played in the UK and Ireland. The first song gleaned in this fashion was the Jim Reeves song, (That's When I see the Blue in Your) Pretty Brown Eyes which Dolan released on the Pye label in 1966. ...
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