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Luc Jacquet
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Luc Jacquet (5 December 1967 in Bourg-en-Bresse) is a French film director from Paris. He wrote and directed the movie March of the Penguins, which won an Oscar for best documentary feature in 2005. His current film is called The Fox And the Child. It has been released in Britain and Ireland in slightly re-edited dubbed English-language version with narration by Kate Winslet, and was released in the United States on 29 February 2008.
Before his film directing career, Jacquet was a biologist.
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David Kagen
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David Kagen (born September 27, 1948) is an American film and television actor, best known for playing Sheriff Michael Garris in Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives.
Kagen was born and raised in Somers Point, New Jersey. He is a Carnegie-Mellon graduate and runs his own acting school, David Kagen's School of Film Acting, situated in Studio City, California. Kagen also attended the Juilliard Preparatory School where he studied piano.
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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 who 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, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.
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David Chase
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David Henry Chase (born August 22, 1945) is an American writer, producer, and director. He is best known for being the creator, head writer, and executive producer of the HBO drama The Sopranos, which aired for six seasons between 1999 and 2007. Chase has also produced and written for shows such as The Rockford Files, I'll Fly Away, and Northern Exposure. He created the original series Almost Grown which aired for 10 episodes in 1988 and 1989. He has won seven Emmy Awards. Chase's film debut came in 2012 with Not Fade Away, followed by The Many Saints of Newark (2021), a prequel film to the TV series The Sopranos.
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Candi Milo
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Candyce Anne Rose Milo (born January 1961) is an American voice actress and singer. She has voiced various characters on many animated series including Tiny Toon Adventures, SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron, Dexter's Laboratory (from season 3 onwards), Cow and Chicken, ChalkZone, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Codename: Kids Next Door, My Life as a Teenage Robot, Loonatics Unleashed, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Maya & Miguel, W.I.T.C.H., The Life and Times of Juniper Lee, The Replacements, and The Adventures of Puss in Boots. Description above from the Wikipedia article Candi Milo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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F. Scott Frazier
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F. Scott Frazier is an American screenwriter who first embarked on his career in the video game industry. After completing high school, he began working for a video game company, where he advanced to the role of producer. During this time, he contributed to titles such as Tetris Evolution (2007), Fairly OddParents: Breakin’ da Rules (2004), Hot Wheels: Stunt Track Challenge (2004), and The Granstream Saga (1997).
Driven by his passion for storytelling, Frazier took a bold leap: he quit his full-time day job around 2009 to pursue screenwriting full-time. Within eight to nine months, through networking and persistence, one of his scripts—The Numbers Station—caught the attention of a manager at H2F Entertainment, ultimately leading to the sale of the project.
His breakout script, The Numbers Station (2013), was his first to be produced, marking his transition from video games to film. Frazier went on to contribute the story for Collide (2016) and co-executive produced it. He also wrote the screenplay for xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017).
His earlier writing career was marked by rapid success; he was recognised on The Black List for his script Line of Sight, and by late 2012 had sold six scripts in about two years.
Frazier’s writing process has been described as disciplined and rigorous: he typically writes four or five hours in the morning, pauses for lunch and a walk, then spends another three to four hours rewriting. He emphasises starting with a rough draft quickly, then meticulously refining each scene and line of dialogue.
He comes from a creative background—his father was a television writer in the 1970s and 1980s. He is married.
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Mona May
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Mona May exploded onto the scene with the release of CLUELESS, a film that raised the status of fashion in film. The New York Times, Vogue Magazine, and Women's Wear Daily proclaimed CLUELESS & "the fashion movie of the year” and introduced a bold new Costume Designer to the world.
Capturing the rich-girl prep style with plaid skirts, knee-high socks, platform Mary Janes and feather-trim coats, Cher’s (Alicia Silverstone) more than 60 costume changes were fresh, new and unusual, and created a vibrant style to emulate for a generation of girls learning how to dress.
May’s trademark joie de vivre is clearly evident in her work, and it injects bold, sexy confidence into her designs. She is a master at designing costumes that flatter her actors’ body types, while simultaneously hitting pitch-perfect visual notes for the character they are portraying. May’s deep understanding of both design and anatomy combine to render the actor and the character inseparable, including many roles played by such Hollywood luminaries as Nicole Kidman, Emma Stone, Jennifer Aniston, Eva Mendez, Nicolas Cage, Eddie Murphy, Demi Moore, Anna Farris, Will Ferrell and many more. May’s dedication to the art of creating characters with fabric, textures, and color goes far beyond simply dressing the actors. It is an art that spans genres, time periods, and even media - ranging from live-action to CGI to classic cel animation - and creating a costume that moves believably from the real world to a virtual world is an intricate process.
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Jurij Zrnec
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Kot osnovnošolec je treniral latinskoameriške in standardne plese. Na svetovnem prvenstvu v športnih plesih je osvojil tretje mesto. Po končani srednji šoli za oblikovanje se je vpisal na AGRFT, kjer pa mu v prvo ni uspelo opraviti sprejemnih izpitov. Naslednje leto jih je opravil, zato je diplomant Akademije za gledališče, radio, film in televizijo v Ljubljani, ki je postal znan po vodenju podelitve Viktorjev leta 2003 in 2006 ter z vlogo doktorja Muca v nanizanki Naša mala klinika. Posodil pa je glas tudi animiranim likom kot je zagotovo Garfield in Grafield 2. Pozneje, jeseni 2007, je z Ladom Bizovičarjem začel voditi razvedrilno oddajo As ti tud not padu?! na POP TV, ki je bila na sporedu do decembra 2009 in mu je prinesla prve štiri viktorje. Kot režiser je soustvaril gledališko predstavo 5moških.com. 4. novembra 2010 je izšel mladinski celovečerni film Gremo mi po svoje (2010), kjer ima glavno moško vlogo, vlogo starešine. Za to vlogo je na 13. Festivalu slovenskega filma oktobra istega leta prejel tudi vesno za najboljšo glavno moško vlogo. Poročen je s Sabino Kogovšek, 28. julija 2008 pa se jima je rodila prvorojenka Leni.
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Andrew Bown
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Andrew Steven Bown (born 27 March 1946) is an English musician, who has specialised in keyboards and bass guitar. He is a member of the rock band Status Quo.
Bown's first major band was The Herd, along with Peter Frampton. After The Herd dissolved he spent two years with Judas Jump who were the opening act of the Isle of Wight Festival 1970. He played [keyboards at first] for Frampton in the 1970s then switched to bass briefly when Rick Wills departed the Peter Frampton band in early 1975. Bown himself left the Frampton entourage less than a year later, just as Frampton was on the verge of achieving worldwide success. He went back to England where he first dabbled with a solo career (recording two solo albums for Bill Gaff's GM label, US Mercury), then resumed work with Status Quo whom he started playing keyboards for in 1973 as a session musician, including sessions with Jerry Lee Lewis on the London Sessions Album. Andy first appeared on Quo's Hello! album in that year; performing on every album by the band from 1977's Rockin' All Over the World onwards, and supporting them in concert. He joined Status Quo as a full member in 1982, and has been with them ever since.
Bown released a number of singles in the 1970s, including "New York Satyricon Zany" and "Another Shipwreck", none of which charted. His most well-known song however was the theme tune to the children's series Ace of Wands, "Tarot". He also released five albums, the first of which, Gone to My Head, was released in 1972.
His latest solo album Unfinished Business was released on 5 September 2011. The album was produced by Mike Paxman and recorded by Chris West, it features contributions from Henry Spinetti on drums, Mick Rogers on guitars, Trevor Bolder and Brad Lang on basses as well as vocalists Juliet Roberts and Sylvia Mason-James. It was recorded at State of the Ark Studios in Richmond, Surrey in 2010.
He was the bass player in the "Surrogate Band" during Pink Floyd's The Wall tour in 1980 and 1981 and can be heard on the live album Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980–81. He also did some keyboards for Pink Floyd's The Final Cut album. and on Jack the Lad's last album Jackpot in 1976. In addition he played Hammond organ and 12-string guitar during the recording of Roger Waters' solo album The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking in 1984, but did not take part in Waters' subsequent tours.
He still plays keyboards, guitar and harmonica with Status Quo, and is an integral part of the band, having co-written many well known Quo songs on various studio albums, most prominently collaborating with Rick Parfitt on the group's 1979 hit "Whatever You Want".
Source: Article "Andy Bown" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Josef Mach
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Josef Mach (25 February 1909, in Prostějov – 7 July 1987, in Prague) was a Czech actor, screenwriter and film director.
Josef Mach worked as a journalist and stage performer at the beginning of his career, then in 1938 was appointed assistant director of short films at Grafo Film Studio working with director Václav Kubásek. From 1946 Mach directed many feature films for Barrandov Studios in Prague. He is best known for The Sons of Great Bear, a 1966 Red Western film that he directed for the East German DEFA film studio.
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