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Nick Moran
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Nicholas James "Nick" Moran is an English actor, writer, producer and director, best known for his role as Eddy the card shark in Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. He also appeared as Scabior in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Moran first hit the big screen in 1990 alongside Roger Daltrey and Chesney Hawkes, in Buddy's Song (1990). Moran co-starred with John Hurt in New Blood (1999), and also starred with Joseph Fiennes, Sadie Frost and Tara FitzGerald in Rancid Aluminium (2000). In 2001, he played the role of Aramis in The Musketeer, a film loosely based on Alexandre Dumas, père's classic novel, The Three Musketeers. The film co-starred Catherine Deneuve, Tim Roth, Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea, and Bill Treacher, with Justin Chambers in the role of D'Artagnan.
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Samantha Phillips
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Samantha "Sam" Phillips (born February 25, 1966) is an American actress, talk-show host, reality TV host, radio DJ, producer, and model. She had an early role in the 1988 action-horror film Phantasm II. Currently she is the host of a radio show called The Single Life.
She has appeared in movies such as Love Potion (1987), Deceit (1989), Phantasm II (1988), Angel 4: Undercover (1993), Sexual Malice (1994) and Fallen Angel (1997), Weekend at Bernie's II (1993), Spy Hard (1996) and Rescue Me (1993) and the N.Y. Independent Film Festival award winner Just for the Time Being (2000) among other films. Phillips is also the producer of the Busty Cops series of movies (Busty Cops 1, Busty Cops 2, Alabama Jones and The Busty Crusade, Busty Cops Protect and Serve), and starred in Showtime's Hot Springs Hotel.
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Vladimir Herzog
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Vladimir Herzog, known as Vlado, was a Brazilian journalist, professor, and filmmaker. He was born on June 27, 1937, in Osijek, Croatia (then part of Yugoslavia). After spending some time in Italy, he emigrated to Brazil with his parents in 1942. Raised in São Paulo, he later became a naturalized Brazilian citizen. Herzog studied Philosophy at the University of São Paulo (USP) and began his journalism career in 1959 at the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo. At the time, he felt that his birth name, Vlado, didn’t sound natural in Portuguese, so he adopted the name Vladimir. In the early 1960s, he married Clarice Herzog.
Herzog began working in television in 1963, and two years later he was hired by the BBC’s Brazilian Service, moving to London, where his two sons, Ivo and André, were born. In 1968, he returned to Brazil. He worked for the magazine Visão for five years and later taught broadcast journalism at the Armando Álvares Penteado Foundation (FAAP) and at USP’s School of Communications and Arts (ECA-USP). In 1975, he was appointed Director of Journalism at TV Cultura by São Paulo’s Secretary of Culture, José Mindlin.
On October 24, 1975, Herzog was summoned to appear at the DOI-CODI, a military intelligence and repression center, to give testimony about his alleged ties to the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB). He was tortured and, the following day, killed. The official version given by the military regime claimed that Herzog had hanged himself with a belt, and a staged photo of the supposed suicide was released. However, testimonies from journalists detained at the site confirmed that he was murdered under torture. In 1978, the coroner Harry Shibata admitted that he had signed the autopsy report without examining or even seeing the body.
That same year, Brazilian courts found the federal government guilty of Herzog’s illegal imprisonment, torture, and death — a landmark decision during the dictatorship. In 1996, the Special Commission on Political Deaths and Disappearances officially recognized that Herzog had been murdered and granted compensation to his family, which they refused, arguing that the State should continue investigations rather than close the case.
It wasn’t until March 2013, more than 15 years later, that his death certificate was officially amended: the cause of death was changed from “mechanical asphyxia (hanging)” to “injuries and mistreatment sustained during interrogation at the facilities of the 2nd Army – São Paulo (DOI-CODI).”
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Graham Guit
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Graham Guit is a French director and scriptwriter. He has already directed four feature films: Le ciel est à nous (1997), a high-octane crime thriller starring Romane Bohringer, Melvil Poupaud and Élodie Bouchez; Les Kidnappeurs (1998) starring Melvil Poupaud, Élodie Bouchez and Romain Duris; Le Pacte du silence (2003) with Gérard Depardieu, Élodie Bouchez and Carmen Maura; Hello Goodbye (2008) with Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant and Manu Payet. Plus forts que le diable (2025) marks his return in a delirious hybrid film.
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Mary Marquet
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Mary Marquet (born Micheline Marguerite Delphine Marquet; 14 April 1895 – 29 August 1979) was a French stage and film actress.
Marquet came from a family of artists: her parents were actors, an aunt was a star dancer at the Paris Opera, and another was an official at the Comédie-Française. She entered the National Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art in 1913 and studied under Paul Mounet. She failed her final exams, but was immediately engaged in the company of Sarah Bernhardt, who was a great friend of the family. She went on play alongside her in The Eugene Morand cathedral.
She became established with her role in L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand, whose mistress she became from 1915 to his death in 1918. She made her film debut in 1914 in a silent film, Les Frères ennemis, which was never finished. Her first major film role was in Sappho, produced by Léonce Perret in 1932. After World War I, she joined the Comédie-Française in 1923 where she stayed for over twenty years, before moving to the boulevard Theatre.
During the World War II, throughout the occupation, she sought the protection of German officers to protect her son who had told her of his intention to join the Resistance. The response was his arrest and deportation to Buchenwald concentration camp where he died aged 21. This was possibly the cause of her problems at the time of the Liberation when, due to her alleged relations with the enemy, Marquet was arrested and sent to Drancy and then to Fresnes. She was later released for lack of evidence.
In the 1950s, she turned to poetry recital, while continuing her career in theater on the boulevards. She worked for ORTF in the Maigret episodes of Les Cinq Dernières Minutes and Les Saintes Chéries and in the television adaptation of Lucien Leuwen, the novel by Stendhal.
Parallel to her acting career, as an antiquarian she ran a stand for many years at the Swiss Village, an important antique market in Paris where she demonstrated her skills as a saleswoman, mixing theatrical memorabilia with commercial interests.
Among her most successful parts in over forty films, were her roles in, Landru in 1962, Claude Chabrol, La Grande Vadrouille in 1966 by Gérard Oury, and Casanova in 1975 by Federico Fellini. After these three minor parts she played important roles in La vie de château (1966) the mother of Philippe Noiret and the stepmother of Catherine Deneuve and the Le malin plaisir (1975) with Claude Jade and Anny Duperey.
Mary Marquet and Victor Francen on their wedding day in 1934.
Her first lover was Edmond Rostand around 1915, living together for three years. In 1920 she married Maurice Escande, the future director of the house of Molière, ending in divorce in 1921, before meeting Firmin Gémier, the director of the new Théâtre National Populaire, who was still married but whose wife was barren. In 1922, Marquet gave birth to their son.
Before the death of Gémier in 1933, Marquet became the mistress of the president of the then Council, André Tardieu, in a semi-official liaison. Having broken up with Tardieu, she married Victor Francen. The couple separated after seven years together. Marquet died of heart attack at the age of 84 in her apartment in the Rue Carpeaux, She is buried in Montmartre Cemetery.
Source: Article "Mary Marquet" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Fred Savage
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Fred Savage (born July 9, 1976) is an American actor, director and producer of television and film.
He is best known for his role as Kevin Arnold in the American television series The Wonder Years and as the grandson in The Princess Bride.
In later years, he has directed and produced numerous episodes of television series, such as Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, Hannah Montana, and Phil of the Future, as well as the primetime series Ugly Betty and It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.
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Sasson Gabai
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Sasson Gabai (also Sasson Gabay) - is an Israeli actor, Jewish and originally from Iraq. He works in Israeli cinema. He has won Award of the Israeli Film Academy, Asia Pacific Screen Award, European Film Awards and Jerusalem Film Festival in 2007 as Best Actor in a highly acclaimed Israeli film "The Band's Visit".
He is leading and prolific actors in Israel.
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Camilla Horn
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The daughter of a railroad official, Camilla Horn was educated in Germany and Switzerland. She initially trained as a dressmaker and received her first job experience in a fashion salon in Erfurt. This was merely a stepping stone for a performing career which began with dance lessons in Berlin and subsequent acting studies under Lucie Höflich. The lithe, blond and strikingly beautiful Camilla soon appeared in cabaret revues staged by Rudolf Nelson. By 1926, she was employed as an extra at Ufa, where she was spotted by the director F.W. Murnau, who found in her the ideal representation of Gretchen for his seminal production of Fausto (1926) . The role catapulted Camilla to instant stardom. Within a year, she was signed by United Artists in Hollywood, befriending Charles Chaplin and, more importantly, studio chairman Joseph M. Schenck. The friendship with Schenck may, or may not, have led to an affair -- depending on which story one is to believe -- but it did result in two high profile starring roles opposite John Barrymore in the torrid melodramas Tempestad (1928) and Amor eterno (1929), both produced by Schenck. Neither film was a commercial success.
With the coming of sound, Camilla returned to Europe, briefly appearing on stage in London and Paris, before resuming her screen career in Germany. As the 1930's went on, she rarely turned down a role, playing anything from baronesses and fashion models, to vamps and 'fallen women'. The quality of her films was variable, but there were several noteworthy standouts, such as Hans in allen Gassen (1930) (opposite Hans Albers), Fiesta en palacio (1934) and Payasos (1938) (as a circus artiste, again with Albers).
During this tumultuous decade, Camilla conducted a lengthy affair with the singer Louis Graveure, fifteen years her senior. This came to an end in 1938, when Graveure was suspected of espionage by the Gestapo and fled to England, via the Cote d'Azure. After her luxury villa in Berlin was ransacked in search for non-existent clues, Camilla's outspoken criticism of the Nazi regime reached a point where it got her into serious trouble. She saw out the first half of her career with a trio of long forgotten films made in Italy. Having failed in an attempt to flee to Switzerland, she kept a low profile and even tried her hand at farming. After the war, she had a stint as an interpreter for the occupying U.S. forces in Germany. Camilla made a successful return to the stage in a 1948 Frankfurt production of Jean Cocteau's "L'Aigle a Deux Tetes" (aka 'The Eagle Has Two Heads'). She spent the latter half of her acting career playing grand dames, matriarchs and worldly ladies with colourful backgrounds, in both films and on television. In 1974, she was awarded the 'Filmband in Gold' (also known as 'Lola') for lifetime achievement in the German film industry. In her 1985 autobiography, "Verliebt in die Liebe" ('In Love with Love'), she happily recounted her marriages and liaisons.
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Eric Kot Man-Fai
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Eric Kot Man-Fai, Chinese: 葛民輝, born on December 30, 1966, is a renowned Hong Kong radio presenter, film actor, and director. He played the role of "Soft Taoist Priest" in the music group Soft Hard, a name that is well known in Hong Kong. Since March 1988, he embarked on his radio broadcasting career at the commercial station and co-founded Soft Hard with Jan Lamb in the same year. His unique and entertaining traffic reports on the "Street Angel" programme made him instantly popular. He started participating in film acting in 1989, further expanding his career to television broadcasting, during which he launched a variety of programmes such as "Peculiar DJs Peculiar Show" and "Peculiar DJs Peculiar Show 2". To date, Eric Kot has participated in the production of more than sixty films. He ended his eight-year radio program career in 1996 and segued into the film industry. He collaborated closely with Wong Kar-wai, the producer of "First Love: The Litter on the Breeze", and successfully directed the films "Four Faces of Eve" and "First Love: The Litter on the Breeze".
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Sala Baker
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Sala Baker is an actor and stuntman from Wellington, New Zealand. Originally hired as one of several stunt performers for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, he ended up landing the part of the Dark Lord Sauron. In addition, he also played several Orcs, a Gondorian, and one of the Rohirrim. Outside of the trilogy, Baker has performed in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and two Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Baker was also a part of the miscellaneous crew in the making of The Last Samurai in 2003.
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