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Andrew V. McLaglen

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Andrew Victor McLaglen ((July 28, 1920 – August 30, 2014) was a British-American film and television director and former actor. Andrew McLaglen was born in London, the son of British actor Victor McLaglen and Enid Lamont. He was from a film family that included eight uncles and an aunt, and he grew up on movie sets with his parents as well as John Wayne and John Ford. After working as an assistant director on a few smaller films, Ford gave him the assistant director job on the film The Quiet Man (1952). After a few more assistant or second director jobs, McLaglen directed his first film Gun The Man Down in 1956 - a western B-movie with James Arness, Angie Dickinson and Harry Carey, Jr.. He went on to work extensively in television directing, directing episodes of Perry Mason (7), Gunslinger (5), Rawhide (6), and then 99 episodes of Have Gun – Will Travel, The Lieutenant (4), The Virginian (2), and 96 episodes of Gunsmoke. Returning to films - directing Shenandoah (1965) and The Rare Breed (1966), both with James Stewart; The Devil's Brigade (1968), Mitchell (1975), The Wild Geese (1978), North Sea Hijack (1979), and The Sea Wolves (1980), mostly westerns, but later specializing in war or action films, his last being Return from the River Kwai (1989). He also worked many times with John Wayne in such films as McLintock! (1963), Hellfighters (1968), The Undefeated (1969), Chisum (1970), and Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973). He also directed The Last Hard Men (1976) which starred Charlton Heston and James Coburn. McLaglen directed films in an assortment of categories, including crime, war, historical and comedy, but he was most frequently a director of Westerns, and would be among the last of the American film directors to specialize in the Western genre.
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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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Cliff Martinez

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Cliff Martinez (born February 5, 1954) is an American musician and composer. Early in his career, Martinez was known as a drummer notably with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Captain Beefheart. Since the 1990s, he has worked primarily as a film score composer, writing music for Spring Breakers, The Foreigner, and multiple films by Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Solaris, Contagion, and Traffic) and Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives, The Neon Demon and the miniseries Too Old to Die Young).
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Stefania Cella

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Stefania Cella is an Italian production designer. Born and raised in Milan, Italy, and educated in theatre and art history, Cella developed a design style highly influenced by the interplay of light, shadow, and color. The emotion of the lighting and the aesthetic package in which it is presented provide a subtle context that alters reality to enhance a story. These elements also exist in everyday life, but instead of enhancing stories, they impact the emotional and aesthetic quality of spaces. It is Cella’s sunny studio library, tucked away in the Hollywood Hills, where she researched, prepared, and found inspiration for more than 20 films. Some of those include works with Nick Cassavetes (John Q), Barry Levinson (Man of the Year, What Just Happened), and Paolo Sorrentino (This Must Be the Place, The Great Beauty, and Loro). The Great Beauty brought her the highest award in Italy as best designer in 2014, the David di Donatello. In 2015, she collaborated with director Scott Cooper on the Boston-based period film Black Mass. She followed this achievement with her designs for Downsizing, directed by Alexander Payne, and White Boy Rick, directed by Yann Demage. After her third collaboration with Paolo Sorrentino for the epic four-hour feature on Tycoon Silvio Berlusconi’s Loro, she worked with Noah Hawley for the astronaut’s based story, Lucy in the Sky. She collaborated with Sony on Morbius, followed by Moon Knight, directed by Mohamed Diab. Returning to her theatrical education and sensibility, she collaborates once again with Scott Cooper in The Pale Blue Eye, a gothic tale set in 1820 West Point with controlled colours and tones and a language very familiar to her style. She developed, designed, and built sets for Blade in 2023, a relaunch of the franchise set in 1920.
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Sissy Sheridan

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Sissy Sheridan is a professional screen and stage actress from Washington, D.C. She is most known for playing Angie in the hit children's web series, "Chicken Girls" and hosting Nickelodeon's, "DIY with Me." She also has appeared on Netflix's "Maniac," starring Emma Stone and Jonah Hill. Sissy has been in a variety of independent films, including "For Hope," "Homeless Bound," "The Catcher," and "Paper Airplanes," as well as performed Off-Broadway and in regional theaters.
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Francis McDonald

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Francis McDonald (August 22, 1891 – September 18, 1968) was an American actor whose career spanned 52 years. McDonald's started acting professionally in stock theater with the Forepaugh Stock Company in Cincinnati. Following eight months with it, he worked one season with a stock company in Seattle, after which he performed for three seasons with a troupe in San Diego and Honolulu. He concluded his tenure in stock theater as juvenile leading man with the American Stock Company in Spokane, Washington. By 1913 McDonald began to perform in the rapidly expanding film industry, initially working for Marion Leonard's Monopole Company in Hollywood. He was cast in over 280 films between 1913 and 1965, including The Temptress in 1926 with Greta Garbo. After he was designated "Hollywood's Prettiest Man," McDonald sought a tougher image by shaving his mustache and seeking roles of villains. McDonald was one of Cecil B. DeMille's favorite character actors.[citation needed] DeMille gave him credited supporting roles in six of his films: The Plainsman (1936), The Buccaneer (1938), Union Pacific (1939), North West Mounted Police (1940), Samson and Delilah (1949), and The Ten Commandments (1956).
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Franklin Ruehl

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Franklin Ruehl is an American ufologist and cryptozoologist. He holds a Ph.D. in theoretical nuclear physics from UCLA. He has appeared on such shows as Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Roseanne Show and Tom Green Live among others. Ruehl's own show, Mysteries from Beyond the Other Dominion, started on a public-access television cable TV channel in the Los Angeles area in the late 1980s, and then the Sci Fi Channel in the early '90s. In 2006, He hosted several new episodes of the show on TomGreen.com. Ruehl was rejected on an America's Got Talent audition with an act that encompassed sticking straws into a potato. In 2010, he appeared on several episodes of 1000 Ways to Die, as an expert, portraying a Cryptozoologist, a Conspiracy Expert and a Deathologist/Thanatologist. His show Professor Weird debuted at 9pm on August 18, 2012 on the Science Channel. Ruehl has a series of videos entitled The Realm of Bizarre News, which can be viewed here.
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Fahadh Faasil

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Fahadh Faasil (born August 8, 1982) is an Indian actor and film producer, who predominantly works in the Malayalam film industry. He has acted in more than 40 films and has received several awards, including a National Film Award, four Kerala State Film Awards and three Filmfare Awards South. Fahadh is the son of filmmaker Fazil. Fahadh began his film career at the age of 19 by starring in the leading role in his father Fazil's 2002 romantic film Kaiyethum Doorath, which was a critical and commercial failure. After a gap of 7 years, Fahadh made his comeback with the anthology film Kerala Cafe (2009), in the short film Mrityunjayam. He attained public attention for his role as Arjun in the thriller film Chaappa Kurishu (2011). Fahad won his first Kerala State Film Award, the Best Supporting Actor Award for his performance in Chaappa Kurishu along with his performance in Akam. He achieved critical acclaim and recognition for his roles as Cyril in 22 Female Kottayam (2012) and Dr Arun Kumar in Diamond Necklace (2012). He won his first Filmfare Award for Best Actor for his role in 22 Female Kottayam.
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Fasha Sandha

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Nur Fasha Sandha binti Hassan or commercially known as Fasha Sandha is a Malaysian actress who has appeared in movies, television shows, and commercials. She was born in Johor Bahru, Johor, but moved to Penang, She then transferred to Kuala Lumpur, and later to Perlis due to her father's work. She was married to Rizal Ashram. They have two children together. Since graduating from the Kuala Lumpur-based Institut Kebudayaan Negara in 2002, she has appeared in movies Black Maria, Bujang Senang, Gong and Cicak-Man. Sandha was named most popular new actress in the 2005 Anugerah Bintang Popular for her performance on television drama Natasya. She won again 2011 Anugerah Bintang Popular for her outstanding acting in Chinta (TV Series) beating the other nominees, Tiz Zaqyah and Lisa Surihani. She is also famous for her best-selling novel, Sumpahan Fasha (Fasha's Curse). In 2007, she was appointed as the Maybelline ambassador, succeeding Siti Nurhaliza.
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Christiane Tricerri

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Christiane Tricerri (São Paulo, August 19, 1961) is Brazilian actress. At the age of 16, Christiane Tricerri premiered "Equus", by Peter Shaffer, at the Ruth Escobar Theater, still in school, but since then she has never stopped dedicating herself to theater. In 1981, she makes her professional debut in "Mal Secreto", directed by Roberto Lage and, in 1982, she debuts in "Bella Ciao", a show that won all the critics' awards, including the APCA for best performance for the actress. In 1985, she joined the Teatro do Ornitorrinco and participated for ten years in a row in productions such as: "Ubu, O Doente Imaginário", "A Velha Dama Indigna", "Sonho de uma Noite de Verão" and "A Comédia dos Erros", all under the direction of Cacá Rosset. Shows — all of them — of great success in Brazil and abroad with careers of at least two years. It was with A Midsummer Night's Dream that the actress became known in Brazil and in the US for her nude scene in Central Park. With "A Comédia dos Erros" she was nominated for the 1994 Shell Award for Best Actress. Also in 1994 she worked with José Celso Martinez Corrêa starring in "Mistérios Gozozos". As director, she made Medea with Maria Alice Vergueiro. In 2001 she made one of King Lear's daughters, Regana, with Raul Cortez. In 2002 she made "Patty Diphusa", by Pedro Almodóvar and in 2004 she premiered "Pagu Que.", both with her own direction. In television, she participated in the miniseries "Anarquistas Graças a Deus", Walter Avancini, from TV Globo, and "A Casa das Sete Mulheres", Jayme Mojardim. In cinema, she debuted her first feature film as a protagonist, "Olhos de Vampa", by Walter Rogério, and the short film "Cobrindo o Céu de Sombra", which plays Maria Rosa, leader of the sertanejos in the Contestado War. In cinema, she also participated in the feature "País dos Tenentes", by João Baptista de Andrade, "Erra Uma Vez", by Leopoldo Nunes, and "Amor que Fica", by Alon Fresnot, and "Nanoidições", by Francisco Garcia and José Wagner Garcia. In 2006, she returned with Teatro do Ornitorrinco, with the production of Georges Feydeau, "O Marido vai à Caça". In 2007, she filmed the short film "A Cauda do Dinossauro", with a screenplay by her and Angeli, under the direction of Francisco Garcia. In 2008, she plays Catarina, in "A Megera Domada", alongside Cacá Rosset and a great cast, at the Sérgio Cardoso Theater, in São Paulo. In 2010 she directed "As Pagus". She participated in the series "9 mm São Paulo" on Fox. In 2012, she directed "A Saga da Bruxa Morgana e a Família Real", with Rosi Campos and a large cast. In 2013, she played Vega in the telenovela "Amor à vida", by Walcyr Carrasco, on Globo. In 2014, she made a cultural circuit with "A mais forte", by August Strindberg. In 2015 and 2016 she did the solo "A Merda-La Merda", by Cristian Ceresoli. In 2017 and 2018, she made a cultural circuit with "Vestida de Shakespeare", her text with characters she played from Shakespeare. In 2018, she debuted in "Nem Princesas Nem Escravas", by Humberto Robles, translated and directed by Cacá Rosset. In 2019, she debuts "Frida Kahlo-Viva la Vida", by Humberto Robles, translated and directed by Cacá Rosset.
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