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Alexander Korda

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Sir Alexander Korda (/ˈkɔːrdə/; born Sándor László Kellner, 16 September 1893 – 23 January 1956) was a British film producer and director and screenwriter, who founded his own film production studios and film distribution company. Born in Hungary, where he began his career, he worked briefly in the Austrian and German film industries during the era of silent films, before being based in Hollywood from 1926 to 1930 for the first of his two brief periods there (the other was during World War II). The change led to the divorce from his first wife, the Hungarian film actress María Corda, who could not make the transition because of her strong accent. From 1930, Korda was active in the British film industry, and soon became one of the leading figures in the industry. He was the founder of London Films and, post-war, the owner of British Lion Films, a film distribution company. Korda was the first filmmaker to have been officially knighted.
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Francesco Renga

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Pierfrancesco Renga (born 12 June 1968 in Udine, Italy) is an Italian singer-songwriter. He won the Sanremo Music Festival in 2005 with the song Angelo. In 2001 he won the Mia Martini critics award at Sanremo Festival. He also took part in the Sanremo Music Festival in 2009 with Uomo senza età and in 2012 with La tua bellezza. In 2010 he dedicated to his ex-longtime girlfriend Ambra Angiolini (2004 - 2015), the song "Stai con me" written by Emilio Munda. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Roddy Maude-Roxby

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Roderick A. Maude-Roxby (born 2 April 1930) is a retired English actor. He has appeared in numerous films, such as Walt Disney's The Aristocats, where he voiced the greedy butler Edgar Balthazar (his only voice role); Unconditional Love; and Clint Eastwood's White Hunter Black Heart, playing Thompson. An early innovator at the Royal College of Art, RCA, alongside David Hockney and Peter Blake, he was one of the UK's first performance artists, before it was a recognized art form. At the RCA he edited ARK magazine in 1958 and was president of the college's Theatre Group. He had a joint exhibition with Blake at the Portal Gallery in 1960. He also collaborated in a pre-Monty Python series with Michael Palin and Terry Jones, called The Complete and Utter History of Britain. He also made theatrical and television appearances in, among other shows, The Goodies, Rowan and Martin's Laugh In, Not Only... But Also and The Establishment. He won the Theatre of the Year Award for Best Comic New York in 1968 for his work as a stand-up comedian. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nicolas Moreau

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Nicolas Moreau (born 28 June 1969) is a French actor and a theatre director. Moreau debuted in 1995 in four roles: as Marc, the son of Claude Jade and Georges Claisse in Jacques Richards' television movie Porté disparu; as Andreï in the adaption of Eduard von Keyserling's novel Été Brûlant with Claude Rich and Hélène de Fougerolles; in Denys de La Patellière's last film Maigret et l'affaire Saint-Fiacre (with Bruner Cremer and Claude Winter); and as Luc Béraud in Denys de La Patelliére's Pasteur, cinq années de rage with Bernard Fresson. After many roles in television movies, he played the role of Émile Bernard in Roger Planchon's film Lautrec. His television career was followed by, among others, Le Bois du Pardoux (2000) with Annie Girardot and Thierry Chabert's Des jours et des nuits (2005). Moreau returned to cinema in 2005 in Patrice Chéreau's Gabrielle. In 2011 he played the role of Louis Eggenberger in Thierry Binisti's Marthe Richard aired on France 3 TV, and the role of Pierre Giacometti in Denis Podalydès's biopic on Sarkozy's rise to power: La conquête. Source: Article "Nicolas Moreau" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Gisèle Halimi

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Gisèle Halimi (born Zeiza Gisèle Élise Taïeb; 27 July 1927 – 28 July 2020) was a Tunisian-French lawyer, politician, essayist and feminist activist. Zeiza Gisèle Élise Taïeb was born in La Goulette, Tunisia, on 27 July 1927 to a modest, practicing Jewish Berber family (to Edouard and Fortunée "Fritna" Taïeb). She was educated at a French lycée in Tunis, and then attended the University of Paris, graduating in law and philosophy. Her childhood and the ways in which she blends a Jewish-Muslim identity are discussed in her memoir, Le lait de l'oranger. She was first married to Paul Halimi and then to Claude Faux. She died the day after her 93rd birthday, on 28 July 2020. In 1948, Halimi qualified as a lawyer and, after eight years at the Tunis bar, moved to practise at the Paris bar in 1956. She acted as a counsel for the Algerian National Liberation Front, most notably for the activist Djamila Boupacha in 1960, who had been raped and tortured by French soldiers, and wrote a book in 1961 (with an introduction by Simone de Beauvoir) to plead her case. She also defended Basque individuals accused of crimes committed during the conflict in Basque Country, and was counsel in many cases related to women's issues, such as the 1972 Bobigny abortion trial (of a 17-year-old accused of procuring an abortion after having been raped), which attracted national attention. In 1967, she chaired the Russell Tribunal, which was initiated by Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre to investigate and evaluate American military action in Vietnam. In 1971, she founded the feminist group Choisir (transl. To Choose) to protect the women who had signed the Manifesto of the 343 admitting to having illegal abortions, of which she was one. In 1972 Choisir formed itself into a clearly reformist body, and the campaign greatly influenced the passing of the law allowing contraception and abortion carried through by Simone Veil in 1974. In 1981, she was elected to the French National Assembly, as an independent Socialist, and was Deputy for Isère until 1984. Between 1985 and 1987 she was a French legate to UNESCO. In 1998, she was a founding member of ATTAC. Source: Article "Gisèle Halimi" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Sidney Gilliat

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sidney Gilliat (15 February 1908 – 31 May 1994) was an English film director, producer and writer. He was born in the district of Edgeley in Stockport, Cheshire. In the 1930s he worked as a scriptwriter, most notably with Frank Launder on The Lady Vanishes (1938) for Alfred Hitchcock, and its sequel Night Train to Munich (1940), directed by Carol Reed. He and Launder made their directorial debut co-directing the home front drama Millions Like Us (1943). From 1945 he also worked as a producer, starting with The Rake's Progress, which he also wrote and directed. He and Launder made over 40 films together, founding their own production company Individual Pictures. While Launder concentrated on directing their comedies, most famously the four St Trinian's School films, Gilliat showed a preference for comedy-thrillers and dramas, including Green for Danger (1946), London Belongs to Me (1948) and State Secret (1950). He wrote the libretto for Malcolm Williamson's opera Our Man in Havana, based on the novel by Graham Greene. He had also worked on the film. He married Beryl Brewer in the early 30s. He had two children: Joanna Gilliat, who is a journalist and is married to Edward Russell, a pilot and Caroline Gilliat, who was an opera singer and teacher, who was married to Anthony Cave Brown (journalist). He had 3 grand children, Amanda Eliasch, Toby Brown and Camilla Horn. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sidney Gilliat, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Türkü Turan

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Türkü Turan was born in Bodrum, Mugla. Studied sociology at Mimar Sinan University. (Fine Arts) She first appeared as Pinar in the Turkish TV series "Annem" (2007). -which means "My Mother- Later, she was discovered by the director, Reha Erdem and acted in his feature-film Kosmos (2009). For her performance of Neptune, she has nominated for awards such as Yesilcam and Siyad Awards. In 2010, she has seen in TV series "Cakil Taslari" and "Gonul Ferman Dinlemiyor." Followed by "Adini Feriha Koydum", "Nuri" and "Oyle Bir Gecer Zaman Ki." She was a guest star in the film "Gise Memuru/Toll Booth". Turan, starred in "Musallat 2" (2011), "Celal Tan ve Ailesinin Acikli Asiri Hikayesi/The Tragedic Story of Celal Tan and His Family" (2011) and "Topragin Cocuklari"(2012). Currently she is starring in the "Dolunay" (2017). Mini Biography By: Su Yilmaz
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Mandeep Dhillon

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Mandeep Dhillon (born 21 December 1990) is a British actress who has appeared in stage, television, film and radio productions, including the BBC Three comedy series Some Girls and Fried. She was featured in the British romantic comedy Finding Fatimah in 2017 and as Constable Lizbyet Corwi in The City and the City in 2018. She also appears as Sandy in the Netflix Original dark-comedy After Life, having previously worked with Ricky Gervais in David Brent: Life on the Road. Since 2021, she has starred in the American crime television series CSI: Vegas. Dhillon performed in plays at the Bush Theatre. Her first television appearance was in the TV movie Some Dogs Bite (2011), which was followed by roles in The Mimic and The Thick of It. In 2012, she had a leading role as Saz Kaur in Some Girls, and in 2015, she portrayed Amara in Fried. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mandeep Dhillon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Arpita Chatterjee

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Arpita Chatterjee (née Pal; born 1 October 1979) is an Indian film actress, who mostly appears in the Odia and Bengali film industry in India. She is married to actor Prosenjit Chatterjee. She made her film debut in 1999 with the film Tumi Ele Tai, directed by Prabhat Roy. Some of the other films in which she has starred include Deva, Devdas, Inquilaab, Prem Shakti, Pratarok, Dada Thakur, Pratibad, Utsab and Anupama. Post-marriage, she took a break from her film career to focus on family life. In 2009, she returned to acting in Ekti Tarar Khonje, directed by Abhik Mukhopadhyay. She has acted in films of renowned directors like Shakti Samanta and Rituporno Ghosh and has also appeared in commercials for ITC and Saffola. In 2014, she signed for her first Bollywood film Shab, directed by Onir.
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Angga Dwimas Sasongko

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Angga Dwimas Sasongko (born in Jakarta, January 11, 1985) is an award-winning Indonesian film director. His career began when he was 19 years old. In 2008, he founded Visinema Pictures, an award-winning Film Production Company based in Jakarta, Indonesia. He had created dozens of TV commercial videos, hundreds of Music Videos, one feature documentary and five feature films. Angga won his first award when Cahaya Dari Timur: Beta Maluku (We Are Moluccans) received the Best Picture award at the 2014 Indonesian Film Festival (FFI). In 2014, Angga directed and produced Filosofi Kopi, an adaptation of Dewi "Dee" Lestari's eponymous short story. The movie also received both national and international award, as well as two Citra Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay (Jenny Jusuf) and Best Editing (Ahsan Andrian) at the 2016 Indonesian Film Festival. Filosofi Kopi has been screened in many international film festivals, including Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and BiFan.
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