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Sergio Leone
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Sergio Leone (January 3, 1929 – April 30, 1989) was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter most associated with the "Spaghetti Western" genre. Leone's film-making style includes juxtaposing extreme close-up shots with lengthy long shots. His movies include The Colossus of Rhodes, the Dollars Trilogy (A Fistful of Dollars; For a Few Dollars More; and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly), Once Upon a Time in the West; Duck, You Sucker!; and Once Upon a Time in America.
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Carolina Hoyos
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Carolina's 1st language is music. Since the age of 2, Carolina has been communicating through her piano. Her parents encouraged her curiosity and put her in lessons at 3, prompting her to study classical music for 10 years. She soon became the featured accompanist and vocalist of her elementary school chorus, earning several vocal and choral awards in competition. She then branched out into community theatre, commercials and local television as a child actor. High school proved to be dull, so she graduated a year early and soon after moved to New York City. Fresh into her 1st year studying at Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, she booked and spent 3 seasons on "MTV Hits" presenting music videos and interviewing celebrities with upcoming releases, completing 34 episodes of the talk show. During that time, her band Morgan Ave appeared in the films "13 Going on 30" with Jennifer Garner and "Shooting Livien" with Dominic Monhagan. Since moving to Los Angeles, she has appeared on "Gene Simmons Family Jewels" and starred in "Black & Blue" as a homeless teen street musician. She performs her original music in the film. "Black & Blue" and "Safehouse" (opposite Thomas Calabro) are available worldwide on DVD and "Roses of April" continues to play the festival circuit. "Rapture," and "Through Different Eyes" are expected late 2011. Along with acting, Carolina is also a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. One of her projects, Two Birds, was scouted at their 1st show to be featured in a Motorola Music campaign. Prior to Two Birds, Carolina shared the stage with Eddie Van Halen, Ryan Adams, INXS' Andrew Farris, Jesse Malin and members of GNR, Motley Crue and Jellyfish. As a solo artist, she sings "Darlin" live in the CBS series "Big Shot Live," created by Maverick Entertainment. 20th Century Fox's New Regency Division produced the accompanying music video. Ford Fusion named her Artist of the Month and "Waiting For You" is featured on their Studio D compilation as well as the films "Through Different Eyes," and "Right out of the Relationship Rulebook for Girls on Guys." "The Difference" a hip-hop collaboration with MC Ra and DJ Caspr, is featured alongside Justin Timberlake and 50 Cent on the "Zoo York - E.S.T 4.0" skate video soundtrack. Carolina wrote the theme music for Two Birds bandmate Ken Franklin's short film "Wanderlust." Ken co-produced her debut solo album, out Spring 2012. Carolina also makes time for her favorite charities. Through music or acting, she has performed to benefit Hollywood Media Arts Youth programs, Women's Rights, Multiple Sclerosis, LIFEbeat's Hearts & Voices Program (Music Industry fights AIDS,) Pediatric AIDS, The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and Breast Cancer Race for the Cure. As a teenager, along with her Mother, a breast cancer victim, she would co-host and perform at fundraisers for the Beatriz Mujica Scholarship Fund, named after her late Grandmother, who worked tirelessly with inner-city youth at The Latin American Youth Center in Washington, DC.
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Bud Flanagan
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Bud Flanagan OBE (14 October 1896 – 20 October 1968) was a popular English music hall and vaudeville entertainer from the 1930s until the 1960s. Flanagan was famous as a wartime entertainer and his achievements were recognised when he was awarded the Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1959.
Bud Flanagan is best remembered as part of a double act with Chesney Allen, Flanagan and Allen. They had first met on active service in Flanders, but did not work together until 1926, touring with a Florrie Forde show. They established a reputation and were booked by Val Parnell at the Holborn Empire. As music hall comedians, they would often feature a mixture of comedy and music in their act and this led to a successful recording career as a duo and roles in film and television. Flanagan and Allen were both members of The Crazy Gang, appearing in the first show at the London Palladium in 1931, and continued to work with the group, concurrently with their double-act career.
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Linda Fiorentino
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Clorinda 'Linda' Fiorentino (born March 9, 1958) is a retired American actress known for her roles in films such as Dogma, Vision Quest, Men in Black, After Hours, and The Last Seduction. Growing up in an artistic family, Fiorentino's love for acting led her to pursue a career in the entertainment industry. She has played a variety of roles throughout her career, showcasing her versatility and skill as an actress. Her most iconic role came in the character of the cunning and enigmatic scam artist Bridget Gregory in "The Last Seduction" (1994), which brought Fiorentino accolades and awards, establishing Fiorentino as a formidable presence in the industry. Despite her success, Fiorentino has maintained a level of privacy in her personal life, allowing her work to speak for itself. Her contributions to American film have left a lasting impact, solidifying her as a respected figure in the industry.
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
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Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist and conductor of the late Romantic period, some of whose works are among the most popular in the Romantic repertoire.
Born into a musical family, Rachmaninoff took up the piano at age four. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1892, having already composed several piano and orchestral pieces. In 1897, following the negative critical reaction to his Symphony No. 1, Rachmaninoff entered a four-year depression and composed little until successful therapy allowed him to complete his enthusiastically received Piano Concerto No. 2 in 1901. For the next sixteen years, Rachmaninoff conducted at the Bolshoi Theatre, relocated to Dresden, Germany, and toured the United States for the first time.
Following the Russian Revolution, Rachmaninoff and his family left Russia; in 1918, they settled in the United States, first in New York City. With his main source of income coming from piano and conducting performances, demanding tour schedules led to a reduction in his time for composition; between 1918 and 1943, he completed just six works, including Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Symphony No. 3, and Symphonic Dances. By 1942, his failing health led to his relocation to Beverly Hills, California. One month before his death from advanced melanoma, Rachmaninoff was granted American citizenship.
In Rachmaninoff's work, early influences of Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Balakirev, Mussorgsky, and other Russian composers gave way to a personal style notable for its song-like melodicism, expressiveness and rich orchestral colors.[3] Rachmaninoff often featured the piano in his compositions, and he explored the expressive possibilities of the instrument through his own skills as a pianist.
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Steve Jackson
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Steve Jackson was born in 1970 in Doncaster, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Stanton Blues (1998), A Thing Called Love (2004) and Ackley Bridge (2017). Steve attended Town Moor Junior School and then Armthorpe Comprehensive in the Eighties. He briefly changed his name for a time to Steven Fury but eventually reverted back to his original name after being offered a few bit-parts. On Coronation Street he first played the Stranger who was befriended by Mike Baldwin at a train station when a confused Mike went to track down his son Mark Redman in, of all places, Doncaster. Then in January 2010, he began playing the more regular role of Trevor Dean; bin-man and lodger of Janice Battersby and then unlikely boyfriend of Carla Connor. He was axed by new producer Phil Collinson in May 2010 and left the series towards the end of the year, however the character was brought back for a week's stint in March 2011. Then in January 2010, he began playing the more regular role of Trevor Dean; bin-man and lodger of Janice Battersby and then unlikely boyfriend of Carla Connor. He was axed by new producer Phil Collinson in May 2010 and left the series towards the end of the year, however the character was brought back for a week's stint in March 2011
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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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Aras Bulut Iynemli
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Aras Bulut Iynemli is a Turkish actor. Iynemli has won numerous accolades for his acting since the beginning of his career. He is best known for his performances in the television series Oyle Bir Gecer Zaman ki (English: As Time Goes by), Muhtesem Yuzyil (English: Magnificent Century), Maral, Icerde (English: Inside) and Cukur (English: The Pit).
He has an older brother, actor Orcun Iynemli and an older sister, television host and singer Yesim Iynemli. Other relatives who are actors are Miray Daner (cousin), Cengiz Daner (uncle) and Ilhan Daner (great uncle).
After playing a role in 2-3 commercials, he got a role in the drama series Oyle Bir Gecer Zaman ki in 2010. This drama gained international success and Iynemli received a reward as well. Before this he had also worked in the drama Back Street, but he took a hiatus after the first part as he had to complete his education of aircraft engineering. He won OSS (SAT exam in Turkey) as one of first 100 students. He continued his studies at the Istanbul Technical University. In 2011, while he was 20 he received the Antalya Television Award for Best Supporting Actor.
In 2013 he appeared in the Azerbaijani-Turkish movie Mahmut and Meryem, based on a novel by Elcin Efendiyev. He played a disabled boy in Tamam miyiz? and portrayed Sehzade Bayezid on Muhtesem Yuzyil in the same year.
In 2015, Iynemli was selected to play the main male character in the series Maral: En Guzel Hikayem together with the actress Hazal Kaya. In 2016-17, he played the role of Umut Yilmaz / Mert Karadag in Icerde. In 2017, he began playing the role of Yamac Kocovali in Cukur.
In 2019, Iynemli portrayed a mentally ill father who was wrongly imprisoned for murder in 7. Kogustaki Mucize, which broke viewing records in Turkey within a short period. After the movie was broadcast on Netflix, it was well received by audience in France and Latin America.
In addition to his acting career, Iynemli has appeared in many advertising films and is the face of numerous brands.
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Gary Coleman
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Gary Wayne Coleman (February 8, 1968 — May 28, 2010) was an American actor, known for his childhood role as Arnold Jackson in the American sitcom Diff'rent Strokes (1978–1986) and for his small stature as an adult. He was described in the 1980s as "one of television's most promising stars". After a successful childhood acting career, Coleman struggled financially later in life. In 1989, he successfully sued his parents and business advisor over misappropriation of his assets, only to declare bankruptcy a decade later.
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May McAvoy
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May McAvoy (September 8, 1899 – April 26, 1984) was an American actress who worked mainly during the silent film era. Some of her major roles are Laura Pennington in The Enchanted Cottage, Esther in Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, and Mary Dale in The Jazz Singer.
McAvoy appeared in her first film, entitled Hate, in 1917. After appearing in more than three dozen films, she co-starred with Ramón Novarro and Francis X. Bushman in director Fred Niblo's 1925 production of Ben-Hur, released by MGM. The feature-length film was one of the most lavish and spectacular productions of the silent movie era.
Although her voice was not heard in The Jazz Singer, McAvoy did speak in several other films, including the second "all-talkie" released by Warner Brothers, The Terror, which was directed by Roy Del Ruth and co-starred Conrad Nagel.
For years a rumor circulated that McAvoy retired from the screen at the transition to sound films because of a lisp or speech impediment. In truth, she married the treasurer of United Artists, who asked her not to work.
Later, she returned to films and played small roles during the 1940s and 1950s, making her final film appearance in a small part in the 1959 version of Ben-Hur.
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