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Steve Brodie

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Steve Brodie (November 21, 1919 — January 9, 1992) was an American movie and television actor. Born as John Stevenson in El Dorado, Kansas, he reportedly selected his screen name in tribute to Steve Brodie, who jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge in 1886 and survived. Most of his acting work was from the mid 1940s to the early 1950s working at MGM, RKO and Republic Pictures appearing mostly in westerns and B-movies. He mainly played supporting roles in films such as the film noir classic Out of the Past (1947) and the classic crime film Armored Car Robbery (1950), although he did have the starring role in Desperate (1947). He later appeared with Elvis Presley in Blue Hawaii (1961) and Roustabout (1964). Beginning in the mid-1950s he appeared largely on television, including, for instance, The Public Defender, three episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and in the episode "Vendetta" of the syndicated western series Pony Express. He and Sterling Holloway appeared in the 1960 episode "Love Me, Love My Dog" of the syndicated crime drama The Brothers Brannagan. Description above from the Wikipedia articleSteve Brodie (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Endpoint

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Endpoint, being inspired by several directors, began making films in early 2010 under the account TheFallen123. He then he made his first film, Infected. It was a 14 minute film. Later on, as Endpoint progressed, he started a series known as Planetary Conquest. In the middle of 2010, Endpoint met mikki, a director with his own company who focused on creating comedy sketches and short movies. With his help, Endpoint started Stopmotion101 Studios (which at the time only had 5-10 actors), and together the two worked on many projects. Endpoint, for a while balanced between comedy sketches and films. With mikki and a couple of his friends, Endpoint released Fire V.S Ice. After Fire V.S Ice, with the help of his group, Endpoint released his first film: Moon Wars, which opened to mainly positive reception.They soon released Moon Wars: Revenge Of The Zombie King. It was around then that mikki, his guide and mentor, quit. Stopmotion101 Studios soon released Moon Wars: The Evolved, Moon Wars: Return of The Zombie Prince, and Moon Wars: Zombie Planet. It was during Moon Wars: Zombie Planet that Endpoint began set in motion the Time Heroes Cinematic Universe. After releasing many more productions, his main account, TheFallen123, was banned on December 6, 2015 due to uploading decal images that were deemed inappropriate. He soon returned that same day on his alt, Endpoint. He has continued to make films since, finishing his career with the blockbuster film Time Heroes, the culmination of his cinematic universe. As of February 2024, Endpoint remains the only director to have ever released a cinematic universe in its entirety. The Rescind Cinematic Universe was reduced to screenplays only, and all other cinematic universes have been cancelled. Thus, the Time Heroes Cinematic Universe remains the only one to have been completed. Since the release of Time Heroes, Endpoint has retired from directing films. He has remained active in the Stopmotion101 Discord server, egging on other creators, such as new directions, animators, and set designers. Spinoffs of the Time Heroes Cinematic Universe remain in production.
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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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Charles Burnett

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Charles Burnett is an American film director, producer, writer, editor, actor, photographer, and cinematographer. His most popular films include Killer of Sheep (1977), My Brother’s Wedding (1983), To Sleep with Anger (1990), The Glass Shield (1994), and Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (2007). He has been involved in other types of motion pictures including shorts, documentaries, and a TV series. Considered by the Chicago Tribune as “one of America’s very best filmmakers”, and by the New York Times as “the nation’s least-known great filmmaker and most gifted black director”, Charles Burnett has had a long and diverse filmmaking career.
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Darren Aronofsky

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Darren Aronofsky (born February 12, 1969) is an American filmmaker. His films are noted for their surreal, melodramatic, and often disturbing elements, frequently in the form of psychological fiction. Over his career, he has received a Primetime Emmy Award. He has been nominated for several awards including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award. Aronofsky studied film and social anthropology at Harvard University before studying directing at the AFI Conservatory. After completing his senior thesis film, Supermarket Sweep, he won several film awards, becoming a National Student Academy Award finalist. In 1997, he founded the film and TV production company Protozoa Pictures. His feature film debut, the surrealist psychological thriller Pi (1998), earned him the Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival and an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay. Aronofsky then directed the psychological drama Requiem for a Dream (2000), the romantic fantasy sci-fi drama The Fountain (2006), and the sports drama The Wrestler (2008), the latter of which earned the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. He directed the psychological drama Black Swan(2010), earning him the Best Director. His later films include the biblical epic Noah (2014), the psychological horror film Mother! (2017) and the drama The Whale (2022). Aronofsky's film Postcard from Earth (2023) was produced and filmed exclusively for the Sphere in the Las Vegas Valley on its 16K resolution screen. Description above from the Wikipedia article Darren Aronofsky, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Hwang Jeong-min

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Actress Hwang Jeong-min, not to be confused with male actor of the same name, will be recognizable to many as Shin Ha-kyun’s tight-rope walking girlfriend in Jang Joon-hwan’s cult phenomenon Save the Green Planet (2003). She later took on small roles in films such as Jang Jin’s thriller Murder, Take One (2005) and the erotic comedy A Good Day to Have an Affair (2007), she also performed in Im Sang-soo’s The Housemaid (2010) and The Taste of Money (2012). In late 2011 she appeared in her first lead role in the independent film Jesus Hospital, for which she was nominated as Best Actress at the 2012 Grand Bell Awards.
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Mary Gordon

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mary Gordon (born Mary Gilmour, 16 May 1882 – 23 August 1963) was a Scottish actress, long in the United States, who mainly played housekeepers and mothers, most notably the landlady Mrs. Hudson in the Sherlock Holmes series of movies of the 1940s starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. Her body of work included nearly 300 films between 1925 and 1950. With her mother and daughter (both also named Mary), she arrived in Los Angeles in the mid-1920s and began playing variations on the roles she would spend her career on. She became friends with John Ford while making Hangman's House in 1928 and made seven more films with him. In 1939, she took on her best-remembered role as Sherlock Holmes' landlady and played the role in ten films and numerous radio plays. She was a charter member of the Hollywood Canteen, entertaining servicemen throughout the Second World War. On the radio show Those We Love, she played the regular role of Mrs. Emmett. She entered retirement just as television reshaped the entertainment industry, making only a single appearance in that medium. She was active in the Daughters of Scotia auxiliary of the Order of Scottish Clans. She lived out her final years in Pasadena, California with her daughter and grandson. She died at age 81 on 23 August 1963 in Pasadena, California after a long illness.
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Chantal Herman

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Chantal Herman was a South African actress best known for her role as Lorn in the SABC3 sitcom Shado's. She was also known for her roles as Sylvia Hiscock on both seasons of the SABC3 sitcom Those Who Can't and as Liz Isaacs on the SABC2 comedy-drama The Riviera. Born and raised in Cape Town, Chantal attended the Waterfront Theatre School. She made numerous other television appearances. She played On!TV reporter Irene Bunton on the SABC3 soapie Isidingo and the role of Bernice on the SABC1 drama series Molo Fish II. Other television series she acted in include Jozi Streets, Saints, Sinners and Settlers, Meeulanders, Arendsvlei, Die Sentrum, Projek Dina and Generations. She directed two television pilots, as well as a docu-drama called Christmas in the City for SABC1, which aired on Christmas Day, 2007. She was also creative director on the kid's show Thabang Thabong, on SABC2. In theatre, Herman played the role of Mimi Marquez - an HIV-positive exotic dancer and methamphetamine junkie - in the musical Rent, which ran at the Artscape Theatre in Cape Town from November - December, 2007. In 2017 she won the SAFTA Award in the category Best Achievement by a Lead Actress - TV Comedy for her role as Sylvia in Those Who Can't. Chantal died on 18 May, 2023, at the age of 44, due to breast cancer.
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Rob Letterman

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Robert Thomas Letterman (born October 31, 1970) is an American film director and screenwriter. He made his directorial debut as co-director of the animated comedy film Shark Tale(2004), for which he received a nomination for the Annie Award for Writing in a Feature Production. He co-directed the animated science fiction comedy  Monsters vs. Aliens (2009). Letterman has since transitioned into live-action filmmaking, directing the fantasy comedy film Gulliver's Travels (2010), the horror comedy film Goosebumps (2015), and the fantasy mystery film Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019). Letterman was born in Hawaii and attended Mid-Pacific Institute and USC. Before joining DreamWorks Animation, Letterman directed the short film Los Gringos, which was accepted at 2000's Sundance Film Festival. In 2002, Vicky Jenson and Eric "Bibo" Bergeron invited him as a screenwriter (then as co-director) in the making of Shark Tale. In 2010, Letterman directed the live-action film Gulliver's Travels, starring Jack Black in the lead role. He also directed the live-action/CGI film Pokémon Detective Pikachu, based on the Pokémon videogame franchise. The film was released on May 10, 2019. It grossed $433 million at the box office. It attained the highest percentage of positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes for a film adaptation of a video game at the time. In 2020, Netflix announced Letterman as director for an upcoming live-action animated film adaptation of Ubisoft's Beyond Good & Evil video game. Since then, no further updates have been given for the film since the announcement. Letterman is in a relationship with Beth Pontrelli and has two children, Jack and Eva. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rob Letterman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Bella Akhmadulina

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Izabella Akhatovna Akhmadulina (Russian: Бе́лла (Изабе́лла) Аха́товна Ахмаду́лина, Tatar: Белла Әхәт кызы Әхмәдуллина; 10 April 1937 – 29 November 2010) was a Soviet and Russian poet, short story writer, and translator, known for her apolitical writing stance. She was part of the Russian New Wave literary movement. She was cited by Joseph Brodsky as the best living poet in the Russian language. She is known in Russia as "the voice of the epoch". Despite the aforementioned apolitical stance of her writing, Akhmadulina was often critical of authorities in the Soviet Union, and spoke out in favour of others, including Nobel laureates Boris Pasternak, Andrei Sakharov, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. She was known to international audiences via her travels abroad during the Khrushchev Thaw, during which she made appearances in sold-out stadiums. Upon her death in 2010 at the age of 73, President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev hailed her poetry as a "classic of Russian literature." The New York Times said Akhmadulina was "always recognized as one of the Soviet Union's literary treasures and a classic poet in the long line extending from Lermontov and Pushkin." Sonia I. Ketchian, writing in The Poetic Craft of Bella Akhmadulina, called her "one of the great poets of the 20th century. There's Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Mandelstam, and Pasternak – and she's the fifth".
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