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S.Z. Sakall

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Szőke Szakáll, known as S.Z. Sakall, was a Hungarian film character actor. He was in many films including In the Good Old Summertime, Lullaby of Broadway, Christmas in Connecticut and Casablanca in which he played Carl, the head waiter. Chubby-jowled Sakall played numerous supporting roles in Hollywood musicals and comedies in the 1940s and 1950s. His rotund cuteness earned Sakall the nickname "Cuddles," and he was often billed as S.Z. "Cuddles" Sakall in his later films, though he was never happy with the name. He was famous for using the phrase "everything is hunky dunky." Description above from the Wikipedia article S. Z. Sakall, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Rodney Bell

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Rodney Bell (19 March 1966 - 27 November 2005) was an Australian television actor. He attended the prestigious NIDA (National Institute for Dramatic Arts) and followed an acting course for people who were already active in the business. He graduated in 1988. Bell's debut on stage was in a Shakespeare play when he was eight years old. Rodney's television debut was in the children`s television series, The Lost Islands, in 1976. His international breakthrough was his role as the arrogant Frank Blackwood in the television series, The Man from Snowy River (aka Snowy River: The McGregor Saga). Bell died on 27 November 2005 at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, from cancer at aged 39.
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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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Meghan Tonjes

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Meghan Tonjes is a singer / songwriter from Detroit, Michigan. She is known in the YouTube community mostly for putting up a weekly series on YouTube, called "Request Tuesday" where she takes popular and music and makes her own acoustic versions of them. Her debut album Be In Want hit #8 on the Singer-Songwriter iTunes charts after appearing on Ellen. In the spring of 2011, she joined the Digitour, a Youtube-centric tour. In the summer of 2011 she released her second full-length album, This Year, with DFTBA, an indie label that works with YouTube musicians.
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Kyōko Kagawa

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Kyōko Kagawa (香川 京子 Kagawa Kyōko, born 5 December 1931) is a Japanese actress. She has appeared in leading and supporting roles in such films as Akira Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well and High and Low, Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story, and Kenji Mizoguchi's Sansho the Bailiff. She won the "New Face Nomination" sponsored by the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper out of about 6,000 applicants and joined Shintoho. She was also taking entrance exams for a regular company at the same time, and her final interview and the final exam for the New Faces camera test overlapped, but with her mother's advice, she decided to pursue acting. After appearing in Red Beard in 1965 , she gave birth to a child and accompanied her husband to New York where he was posted overseas, leaving the film industry for about three years. She returned to Japan in 1968. As film began to decline, she expanded her field of work to include television dramas and stage productions. She was awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 1998 and the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette in 2004 .
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Edythe Chapman

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From Wikipedia Edythe Chapman (October 8, 1863 - October 15, 1948), was an American stage and silent film actress from Rochester, New York. As early as 1898 she appeared in New York, New York in the Charity Ball. Edythe performed at the Shubert Theater in Brooklyn, New York in a production of The Light Eternal in 1907. Mrs. Chapman played maternal roles in numerous silent motion pictures and became known in the 1920s as Hollywood's Mother. She played Ma Jones in the film version of Lightnin' (1925), a screen production which featured Will Rogers. Edythe was Grandmother Janeway in Man Crazy (1927). Miss Chapman came to Hollywood around 1909 with her husband, screen and stage actor, James Neill. The couple met in Cincinnati, Ohio when Miss Chapman was working in Mr. Neill's stock company. They were married in 1897. The two began making movies with Cecil B. Demille and other noteworthy directors and producers. They had leading roles in The Ten Commandments (1923), Manslaughter (1922), The Little American (1917), and other silent motion pictures. Mr. Neill died in 1931. The final movie in which Edythe appeared was Double Crossroads in 1930. Prior to this, she had a large role in Navy Blues (1929). Edythe Chapman Neill died in Glendale, California in 1948 after a brief illness.
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AMMAN

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Amman (born Aman Shaw) is an Indian actor known for his work in theatre, web, and independent film. A dedicated performer since 2017, Amman began his artistic journey through mime and musical drama, debuting at the 40th Padaboli Mime Festival by Jogesh Mime Academy. He has since appeared in a range of powerful stage performances, including: Bon-Geyo in Gajna Chorer Bajna (Thealovers) Paran Karta in Bodhodhoy (Swarupnagar Institute of Performing Arts) Ray Saheb in Tinti Prosno adapted from Leo Tolstoy And, Ghost of the Past in A Christmas Carol (Drishti Ekhon) Amman is classically trained through workshops and masterclasses at esteemed institutions such as Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute, including: Masterclass with Anurag Kashyap and Theatre on Screen. Naba-Rasa from Bibhaban The Experimental Theatre Group. Stop Acting, Be Natural from an Alumni of Lee Strasberg. Voice & Body Movement intensive workshops. Eat the Script and Inner Monologue from Rudra Bharadwaj. Erric Morris Acting System by Saurabh Sachdeva In addition to his acting craft. Amman is a rare practitioner of K.S.Hsiung Southern Praying Mantis Kung-Fu, originating from Moiy-Yearn village, Guangdong, Southern China - bringing a unique physical discipline to his performances. Born to a multicultural heritage - Bengali mother and Kashmiri Hindu father of the Kesarwani (Bania) lineage - Amman embodies a blend of cultural identities. He completed his schooling from The Scottish Church Collegiate School (2017) and later pursued a degree in English Honours at Sir Gurudas Mahavidyalaya under Calcutta University. Amman now expands into web series and film work, known for his layered intensity, improvisation, poetic stillness, and physical presence - a compelling new face in India's evolving screen landscape.
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Ashwanth Ashokkumar

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Ashwanth Ashok Kumar, best known as Junior Super Star Ashwanth, is a Tamil Television child artist and performer. He became famous after winning Zee Tamil’s Junior Super Star Season 1 title, which is a Tamil reality show for the little talents. He has won the title in December 2016. The reality show had Keerthi Lishee as host and K Bhagyaraj, Kushboo and Archana as Judges. He is the only son of Ashok Kumar and Akila. Although he was just five years old, he was robust and active and apparently mischievous by nature. He has been too busy involving himself with the studies and acting in the right proportion. His parents pull off the offers that he gets because he was too young to get involved in all the things. He has been involved in some advertisements as well apart from the mainstream serials.
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Kiran Shah

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Kiran Jethalal Shah MBE (born 28 September 1956) is a Kenyan actor and stunt double. Shah was born in Nairobi, Kenya to an Indian family. He lived in Kenya until he was twelve years old, when he moved to India with his family. While living in India, he became interested in films, and when his family moved to Feltham, he became involved in show business. His first film was Candleshoe (1977), as a stand-in. When stunt coordinator Bob Anderson asked him to do stunts as well, his career was started. Shah played the part of Bolum in The People That Time Forgot (1977). Shah is often confused with Deep Roy; they are both dwarf Nairobi-born Kenyan actors of Indian descent who got their starts in film and television in the late 1970s. He is the world's shortest stuntman according to the Guinness World Records. He has appeared as an actor in 31 films; and 37 as stuntman or body double.
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Aedy Moward

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Edy Muwardi Abdul Aziz bin Abbid (29 November 1929 – 6 November 1980) was an Indonesian actor who is widely known as Aedy Moward. Aedy usually often played with Benjamin S and Ateng and also played in the very popular film in the 1970s, Inem Pelayan Sexy. In Inem Pelayan Sexy, Aedy plays the husband of Titiek Puspa who has a beautiful maid Doris Callebaute. In addition, Aedy also had a major role in the film Aku Tak Berdosa in 1972 and Bundaku Tersayang in 1973 with a famous actor at that time, Rahayu Effendi.
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