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Paul Pape

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Paul Pape began his professional career as an actor in New York when he was invited to be one of the original members of the Collonades Theater Lab (a repertory company). He did his apprenticeship with this acting company, that featured future notables Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Jeff Goldblum, Kathleen Noone and Michael O'Keefe. After going Off-Broadway to appear with Kim Hunter in "The Cherry Orchard", he got his break when he was cast to co-star as 'Double J' opposite John Travolta in "Saturday Night Fever".
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Rosha Washington

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Rosha Washington is an actor from New Orleans, LA. He is known for playing the Texas legend DJ Screw in a visual tribute entitled All Screwed Up, which is currently being developed by Sony Pictures into a feature film. His other recent projects include Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon (2022), starring Kate Hudson and Craig Robinson; Renfield (2023), starring Nicholas Cage, Awkwafina, and Nicholas Hoult; and Ann Rice's new AMC adaptation of Interview With a Vampire, which will be his TV debut. He also performs regularly in theatrical productions.
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Jon Watts

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Jonathan Watts (born June 28, 1981) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the Spider-Man films within the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU): Homecoming (2017), Far From Home (2019), and No Way Home (2021). He also directed and co-wrote the films Clown (2014), Cop Car (2015), and Wolfs (2024), as well as directing many episodes of the parody television news series Onion News Network. Watts has also directed music videos for electronic music artists such as Fatboy Slim and Swedish House Mafia. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jon Watts, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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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Joel Gallen

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Joel Gallen is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He has produced the MTV Movie Awards between 1995 and 2006,  as well as many of the Comedy Central Roasts. Gallen directed the film Not Another Teen Movie. He received a Prime Time Emmy and a Peabody for his work on America: A Tribute to Heroes. He has his own production company called Tenth Planet Productions. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joel Gallen, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Tad Griffith

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Screen Actors Guild Awards Nominee: 2008 Outstanding Performance By A Stunt Ensemble In A Motion Picture: The Kingdom 2008 Outstanding Performance By A Stunt Ensemble In A Motion Picture: 300 2010 World Stunt Awards Winner — Best Work With A Vehicle: Fast And Furious 4 World Stunt Awards Nominee: 2005 Best Work With A Vehicle: Spiderman II 2004 Best Stunt By A Stuntman: Seabiscuit 2004 Best Specialty Stunt: Seabiscuit 2004 Best Stunt By A Stuntman: Cradle 2 The Grave 2004 Best Work With A Vehicle: Cradle 2 The Grave 2002 Best Fire Stunt: Last Castle 2002 Best Work With An Animal: American Outlaws Other Awards & Achievements: — World Champion Trick Rider — Third Generation Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association Contestant & Performer
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Luella Gear

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New York-born comedienne, whose acerbic wit enlivened Broadway musical comedy and revue for fifty years, while making few forays into motion pictures. After attending Spencer School, Louella took acting classes and made her theatrical debut in 1917. Her many successes on stage included the parody "Life Begins at 8:40" (1934-35) and "Streets of Paris" (1939-40), in both of which she played multiple parts. Her typical screen persona was as an acid-tongued, worldly socialite, or wisecracking friend of the heroine. During World War II, Louella toured with the wartime comedy play "Count Me In" as part of the USO, entertaining troops in the South Pacific. Her last major post-war role was that of Julia Ward McKinlock in the hit romantic comedy "Sabrina Fair" on Broadway (1953-54). From the early 1950's, she also made occasional guest appearances on television.
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Brewster Kahle

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Brewster Lurton Kahle, born in New York City, USA, is an American digital librarian, computer engineer, and Internet entrepreneur, renowned for pioneering web archiving and digital information access. He is the founder of the Internet Archive, co-founder of Alexa Internet, and a key developer of WAIS (Wide Area Information Servers), receiving 16 awards from 2004 to 2024. Raised in Scarsdale, New York, he is the son of Margaret Mary (Lurton) and Robert Vinton Kahle. Kahle studied at Scarsdale High School and earned a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering from MIT in 1982, learning artificial intelligence under Marvin Minsky and W. Daniel Hillis. After graduation, he worked at Thinking Machines Corporation as Lead engineer on the Connection Machine project and co-developed WAIS, an early distributed search and document retrieval system. In 1992, he co-founded WAIS, Inc., later sold to AOL in 1995. In 1996, he and Bruce Gilliat co-founded Alexa Internet, acquired by Amazon in 1999. That same year, Kahle founded the Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library, and launched the Wayback Machine in 2001, providing access to archived web pages dating back to 1996. A strong advocate for universal access to information, library digitization, and preservation of media, Kahle and his wife Mary Austin run the Kahle/Austin Foundation, supporting open access, free software, and long-term preservation of books and documents in climate-controlled facilities. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the Internet Hall of Fame, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and holds an honorary doctorate from Simmons University. Throughout his career, Kahle has emphasized preserving digital information with proper metadata and creating affordable digital libraries to make knowledge widely accessible. TMDB mini biography by: Ashvin Borad
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Chris Rosati

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Christopher Rosati is the Vice President of Development and Production across Film & Television at Monkeypaw Productions. Since joining the company in 2017, Rosati has seen through development as well as produced the series "The Last O.G." (2018), "Weird City" (2019), "Lorena" (2019) and "Hunters" (2020). In addition, Rosati is currently helping shepherd Monkeypaw’s new iteration of Wes Craven’s "The People Under The Stairs," while having multiple television projects in development across animation and live action. Prior to joining Monkeypaw Chris worked in management at Principato-Young Entertainment where he was able to help guide creative voices and discovered a passion for storytelling steeped in mirth and fantastical allegory. He is a graduate of the University of Iowa and Depaul University in his hometown of Chicago, Illinois.
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Denise Pence

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Denise Pence is an American actress, who began her career on Broadway as a gypsy dancer in the Michael Kidd production of The Rothschilds and Pippin, directed by Bob Fosse. She and her husband, Director, Steve Boockvor, were immortalized in A Chorus Line as "Al" and "Kristine" Pence went on to appear in the film, Jesus Christ Superstar directed by Norman Jewison, appeared briefly in Threesome, a movie of the week for CBS. Born in Texas, Pence moved to New York to pursue a career as an actress and dancer. She moved into the Rehearsal Club and lived there for a number of years before receiving her first big break. Pence is probably best known for her role as "Katie Parker," R.N., on the soap opera Guiding Light appearing as a contract player from June 1977 through April 1985. She subsequently went on to appear in Irma La Douce at the now defunct Darien Dinner Theater. Other roles include: "Connie" in Come Blow Your Horn opposite Lyle Waggoner, "Lina Lamont" in Singing in the Rain at Theater by the Sea, RI, and "Ms Cratchett" and "Tesse Tura" in Gypsy, directed by Stephen Schwartz at Candlewood Playhouse, CT.
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