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Jennifer Plotzke
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Jennifer Plotzke is an actress and producer, appearing on television in The Blacklist, Blue Bloods, FBI: Most Wanted and The Sex Lives of College Girls. She can be seen in the film Fizzle with Peter Friedman and Geoffrey Owens and also appears in Ezra, directed by Tony Goldwyn, starring Bobby Cannavale and Robert DeNiro. She starred as Satan in the Paradise Lost adaptation, Lost + Found, which aired on PBS as well as the horror anthology, Return to the Theatre of Terror. Jennifer is the founder of Poor Monster Productions and has served in various producer positions on Don't Pick Up starring Keith David and Kathryn Erbe, Love Music Shelter with Laurissa Romain and Esther McGregor and Window Shopping, streaming on Revry.
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Arthur Rosson
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Arthur Rosson (August 24, 1886 – June 17, 1960) was an English film director. He directed 61 films between 1917 and 1948.
He was born in London and died in Los Angeles, California. Rosson came from a film-making family. His brother, Harold Rosson, was an Academy Award-nominated cinematographer and several other family members were involved in the early film industry. He was also the brother of silent film actress Helene Rosson and actor and director Richard Rosson.
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Mino Guerrini
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Mino Guerrini was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor active from the 1950s to the 1980s. Born in Rome, he began his career as a screenwriter, contributing to films such as The Counterfeiters (1953) and The White Angel (1955). Guerrini made his directorial debut with Omicidio per appuntamento (1966), a giallo film that showcased his ability to blend suspense with stylistic elements. He directed several films across various genres, including The Beast Kills in Cold Blood (1971) and The Devil Has Seven Faces (1971). Guerrini's work is characterized by its versatility and engagement with popular Italian cinema trends of his time.
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Benny Carter
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Bennett Lester Carter (August 8, 1907 – July 12, 2003) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. With Johnny Hodges, he was a pioneer on the alto saxophone. From the beginning of his career in the 1920s, he worked as an arranger including written charts for Fletcher Henderson's big band that shaped the swing style. He had an unusually long career that lasted into the 1990s. During the 1980s and 1990s, he was nominated for eight Grammy Awards, which included receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Carter was born in New York City in 1907. He was given piano lessons by his mother and others in the neighborhood. He played trumpet and experimented briefly with C-melody saxophone before settling on alto saxophone. In the 1920s, he performed with June Clark, Billy Paige, and Earl Hines, then toured as a member of the Wilberforce Collegians led by Horace Henderson. He appeared on record for the first time in 1927 as a member of the Paradise Ten led by Charlie Johnson. He returned to the Collegians and became their bandleader through 1929, including a performance at the Savoy Ballroom in New York City.
In his early 1920s, Carter worked as arranger for Fletcher Henderson after that position was vacated by Don Redman. He had no formal education in arranging, learning by trial and error, getting on his knees and looking at the existing charts, "writing the lead trumpet first and the lead saxophone first—which, of course, is the hard way. It was quite some time that I did that before I knew what a score was."
He left Henderson to take Redman's former job as leader of McKinney's Cotton Pickers in Detroit. In 1932, he formed a band in New York City that included Chu Berry, Sid Catlett, Cozy Cole, Bill Coleman, Ben Webster, Dicky Wells, and Teddy Wilson. Carter's arrangements were complex. Among the most significant were "Keep a Song in Your Soul", written for Henderson in 1930, and "Lonesome Nights" and "Symphony in Riffs" from 1933, both of which show Carter's writing for saxophones.
By the early 1930s, Carter and Johnny Hodges were considered the leading alto saxophonists. Carter also became a leading trumpet soloist, having rediscovered the instrument. He recorded extensively on trumpet in the 1930s. Carter's short-lived Orchestra played the Harlem Club in New York but only recorded a handful of records for Columbia, OKeh and Vocalion. The OKeh sides were issued under the name The Chocolate Dandies.
In 1933, Carter participated in sessions with British composer/musician Spike Hughes, who visited New York City to organize recordings with prominent African American musicians. These 14 sides plus four by Carter's big band, titled at the time Spike Hughes and His Negro Orchestra, were initially only issued in England. The musicians were from Carter's band and included Red Allen, Dicky Wells, Wayman Carver, Coleman Hawkins, J. C. Higginbotham, and Chu Berry. ...
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André Morell
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André Morell (20 August 1909 – 28 November 1978; sometimes credited as Andre Morell) was a British actor. He appeared frequently in theatre, film and on television from the 1930s to the 1970s. His best known screen roles were as Professor Bernard Quatermass in the BBC Television serial Quatermass and the Pit (1958–59), and as Doctor Watson in the Hammer Film Productions version of The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959). He also appeared in the Academy Award-winning films The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and Ben-Hur (1959), in several of Hammer's well-known horror films throughout the 1960s and in the acclaimed ITV historical drama The Caesars (1968).
His obituary in The Times newspaper described him as possessing a "commanding presence with a rich, responsive voice... whether in the classical or modern theatre he was authoritative and dependable."
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Robyn Bernard
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Born on May 26, 1959, in Gladewater, Texas, Bernard made her debut with a small role in Diva. She portrayed bit roles in Simon & Simon, Whiz Kids, and The Facts of Life. From 1984 to 1990, Bernard portrayed Terry Brock on General Hospital. Bernard's last credit was in Voices from the High School (2002). She also acted in Betty Blue. Bernard was a dropout of Baylor University. Her credits also include Tour of Duty, Maigret, Roselyne and the Lions (1989) and Kings for a Day (1997). She portrayed herself in The New Hollywood Squares, Hour Magazine, and Win, Lose or Draw.
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Elsa Wagner
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Elsa Wagner (January 24, 1881 – August 17, 1975) was a German actress who appeared in numerous theatrical productions and feature films during the 20th century, including 1920's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
Born as Elisabeth Karoline Auguste Wagner on 24 January 1881 in Reval, in what is now Tallinn, Estonia, Elsa Wagner pursued training with Maria Spettini in Saint Petersburg, Russia prior to making her acting debut in Berlin, Germany in 1901. In addition to her performances on tour with multiple theater productions, including Faust and Peer Gynt, she went on to secure roles in more than 140 feature films, including Robert Wiene's Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) and Karl Heinz Martin's Von Morgens bis Mitternachts (From Morn to Midnight) in 1920, F. W. Murnau's 1922 Das Brennende Acker (The Burning Earth), Gerhard Lamprecht's Die Buddenbrooks and Wiene's I.N.R.I. in 1923, and E. R. Dupont's 1929 Atlantik.
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Chris Marrone
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Former University of Georgia Football player turned actor, Chris Marrone is known for work on Westworld, Vampire Diaries, The Internship and The Girl in the Backseat. Based out of Los Angeles. Chris was born in Tallahassee, Florida. His parents first met on an off Broadway play in New York. His father a stage, television and film actor and his mother a musical theater actor. Chris has always had a love for filmmaking and storytelling. The idea of working in the entertainment industry was cultivated in him at a young age from hearing the stories from his parents about their experiences in the business. Chris played football all throughout high school and into College, he finished his career at the University of Georgia 2008-2010. After the conclusion of his football pursuit, he was contacted by Coach Van Halanger informing him of Casting Director searching for real football players who could act. Taking the leap of faith, Chris headed to Atlanta to make the audition. Being his first audition, casting director Shay Griffin insisted he pursuit being an actor due to his raw talent. After booking that role in the NBC film "Field of Vision" he knew this is what he wanted to do with the rest of his life. Over the past decade he’s worked on a multitude of features and television shows. And has just completed his first feature film that he wrote, produced and started in titled "The Girl in the Backseat"
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Lee Montague
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lee Montague was an English actor noted for his roles on film and television, usually playing tough guys.
Film credits include: Moulin Rouge, The Camp on Blood Island, The Savage Innocents, Billy Budd, The Secret of Blood Island, Deadlier Than the Male, The Legacy and Brother Sun, Sister Moon.
Television credits include: Danger Man, The Baron, The Troubleshooters, Department S, Dixon of Dock Green, The Sweeney, Space: 1999, Minder, The Chinese Detective, Bergerac, Bird of Prey, Dempsey and Makepeace, Casualty and Waking the Dead. In the sitcom Seconds Out he had a regular part as the manager of a boxer played by Robert Lindsay.
He also holds the distinction of being the first storyteller on the BBC children's programme Jackanory in 1965. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lee Montague, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Dewi Persik
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Dewi Murya Agung, professionally known as Dewi Perssik (born December 16, 1985), is an Indonesian dangdut singer, actress, and presenter. She rose to fame for her signature performance style known as "Goyang Gergaji" (Saw Dance). Throughout her career, she has released hit songs such as "Bintang Pentas" and "Mimpi Manis". In addition to her music career, she has starred in numerous films, particularly in the horror genre, including Tali Pocong Perawan (2008) and Paku Kuntilanak (2009), as well as popular television series like Mimpi Manis (2006).
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