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Sheila Nevins

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Nevins previously ran MTV Documentary Films from 2019 to 2024, and was the President of HBO's Documentary and Family Programming from 2005 - 2018. She earned a bachelor of the arts degree from Barnard Collegeand a master of fine arts degree from Yale University. Nevins produced documentaries before joining HBO in 1979. Nevins has overseen production of nearly 500 documentaries, earning eleven Oscars, 31 Primetime Emmys, 19 Academy Awards, 22 News and Documentary Emmys and 18 George Foster Peabody awards for HBO and one personal George Foster Peabody award. She also received a 2005 News and Documentary Emmy for Lifetime Achievement. She received the 1998 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Documentary Association. Nevins was inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame in 2000. She began her career with the United States Information Service in Washington, DC, which produced and distributed documentary programs around the world. Nevins was a producer for National Education Television's Great Dream Machine, a field producer for an ABC television documentary unit, a writer for Time-Life Films, a producer-writer for the Children's Television Workshop, a producer for CBS-TV's Who's Who program, and president of Spinning Reels, a production company. She joined HBO in 1979 as director of documentary programming. Nevins was named executive vice president, original programming, for HBO and Cinemax in 1999 and President of Documentary and Family in 2005.
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Alain Sarde

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Alain Sarde, born March 28, 1952, in Boulogne-Billancourt, has been one of the most prolific French film and television producers since the 1970s. He has notably produced films by Andrzej Zulawski, Roman Polanski, Bertrand Tavernier, Diane Kurys, and Anne Fontaine. In the 1990s, he was accused of sexual assault and rape against several women and implicated in the Brumark-Bourgeois Affair. In May 2024, nine women testified against him regarding these acts. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alain Sarde, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Steve Cardenas

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Stephen Antonio Cardenas (born May 29, 1974) is a former Mexican-American actor and martial artist, perhaps most noted for playing Rocky DeSantos in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers TV series. Cardenas was born at Langley Air Force Base, in Hampton, Virginia, U.S. and is of half Mexican descent.[1] His character, Rocky, replaced Jason Lee Scott (played by Austin St. John) as the Red Ranger in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers TV series, and he later became the Blue Ranger for Power Rangers Zeo. Cardenas left the Power Rangers series at the beginning of the Turbo season, after he was really injured while filming the last episode of Power Rangers Zeo. Cardenas started training in martial arts when he was about 12 years old. He appeared at the 2007 Power Morphicon convention along with other veteran cast members, including Austin St. John, Walter Jones, Johnny Yong Bosch, and Daniel Southworth.[2] He also appeared at Anime Expo 2009 along with fellow veteran Power Rangers actors, Walter Emanuel Jones, Karan Ashley, Blake Foster, Barbara Goodson, and Robert Axelrod, who are best known for their voice actor roles as Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd, Catherine Sutherland, Selwyn Ward, Patricia Ja Lee, Nakia Burrise, and Daniel Southworth. Description above from the Wikipedia article Steve Cardenas, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Keye Luke

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Keye Luke (Chinese: 陸錫麒, Cantonese: Luk Shek Kee; June 18, 1904 – January 12, 1991) was a Chinese-American actor. He was known for playing Lee Chan, the "Number One Son" in the Charlie Chan films, the original Kato in the 1939–1941 Green Hornet film serials, Brak in the 1960s Space Ghost cartoons, Master Po in the television series Kung Fu, and Mr. Wing in the Gremlins films. He was the first Chinese-American contract player signed by RKO, Universal Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was one of the most prominent Asian actors of American cinema in the mid-twentieth century.
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Charlie Hall

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Charlie Hall (19 August 1899 – 7 December 1959) was an English film actor. He is best known as the "Little Nemesis" of Laurel and Hardy and appeared in nearly 50 films with them, so that Hall was the most frequent supporting actor of their films. Hall was born in Ward End, Birmingham, Warwickshire, and learned carpentry as a trade, but as a teenager, he became a member of the Fred Karno troupe of stage comedians. In his late teens, he visited his sister in New York and stayed there, finding employment as a stagehand. While working behind the scenes, he met the comic actor Bobby Dunn and they became friends; Dunn convinced Hall to take a stab again at acting, which he did. By the mid-1920s, Hall was working for Hal Roach. Stan Laurel, one of Roach's comedy stars, was also a graduate of the Karno troupe. As an actor, Hall worked with such comedians as Buster Keaton and Charley Chase, but is best remembered as a comic foil for Laurel and Hardy. He appeared in nearly 50 of their films, sometimes in bit parts, but often as a mean landlord or opponent in many of their memorable tit-for-tat sequences. Unlike the usual villains in Laurel and Hardy films, who were big and burly, Charlie Hall (billed as "Charley" Hall in the Roach comedies) was of short stature, standing 5 ft 5 in tall. His height and slight English accent allowed him to be convincingly cast as a college student, despite being 40 years old, in Laurel and Hardy's A Chump at Oxford. Hall almost never played starring roles; the exception was in 1941, when he was teamed with character comedian Frank Faylen by Monogram Pictures. Hall continued to play bits and supporting roles in short subjects and features through the 1940s and 1950s, occasionally on TV, appearing very briefly in Charlie Chaplin's final American film, Limelight (1952). In 1956 he played a small but important part in the TV show Cheyenne, season 1, episode 11, "Quicksand", starring Clint Walker, with Dennis Hopper, John Alderson, Wright King and Peggy Webber. His last role was in a Joe McDoakes short film starring George O'Hanlon, So You Want to Play the Piano, in 1956. Hall died in North Hollywood, California, on 7 December 1959. A J D Wetherspoon's public house in Erdington, is named The Charlie Hall as a tribute to him.
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Marina Foïs

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Marina Sylvie Foïs (born 21 January 1970) is a French actress. Born in Boulogne-Billancourt in the department of Hauts-de-Seine in a family from Russian, Jewish Egyptian, German and Italian ancestry, Marina Foïs was discovered in 1986 for her comedy work in The School for Wives, at the age of 16. She decided to take classes by correspondence and obtained her high school final exam two years later. She then joined The Royal Imperial Green Rabbit Company, which later became Les Robins des Bois, composed of students from the Cours Florent taught by Isabelle Nanty. The troupe caught the attention of Dominique Farrugia in 1996 and went on to act and direct in the Comédie+ show La Grosse Émission for two years. During that period, Foïs co-wrote sketches with Pierre-François Martin-Laval, playing a number of various characters, like the dim-witted Sophie Pétoncule and the pedantic director Marie-Mûre. The show continued the next year on Canal+ and had a bigger audience. In June 2001, Foïs and the troupe parted ways to focus on their individual film careers. Marina Foïs became a prolific actress, with two to five films released every year. On 25 November 2020, it was announced that she will be the host for the 46th César Awards. Marina Foïs has two sisters. Giulia Foïs is a journalist at Libération and a former columnist in the program Arrêt sur images presented by Daniel Schneidermann on France 5, and a current news anchor on I-Télé. Her second sister Elena is a doctor. Their brother, Fabio, died of an airplane crash while participating in an aerobatic demonstration. Marina was in a partnership with fellow "Robins des Bois" actor Maurice Barthélémy. She also dated Maxime Lefrançois, Mister Univers 2010. She started dating the director Éric Lartigau in 1999. On December 3, 2004, she gave birth to a boy, Lazare at the Hôpital Saint-Antoine in Paris. They had a second son, Georges, born on 25 September 2008. Source: Article "Marina Foïs" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Amy Jo Johnson

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Amy Jo Johnson (born October 6, 1970) is an American actress, singer, songwriter, and musician. She is best known for her roles as Kimberly Ann Hart, the first Pink Ranger of the Power Rangers franchise in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Further known roles include Julie Emrick on the WB's college drama Felicity and Julianna “Jules” Callaghan in the Canadian CTV television series Flashpoint. She got nominated for the 2009 Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role for Flashpoint. She also played Stacy Reynolds on the Lifetime police drama The Division, and in 2005 she joined the cast of the TV drama Wildfire as famous jockey Tina Sharp.
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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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Ken Steadman

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Ken Steadman (June 26, 1969 – September 20, 1996) was an American film and television actor. He tragically died in an accident while filming "Desert Storm (S03E06)," an episode of the Fox television series Sliders (1995), in the desert near Victorville. On September 20, 1996, while transporting a dune buggy between scenes, the vehicle overturned, crushing him instantly. His passenger, Christopher Maleki, was seriously injured. Born in Aberdeen, Washington, Ken had a happy childhood despite his parents' divorce. He maintained strong relationships with both his natural parents and their remarried spouses, giving him a solid foundation. Though school was challenging, he maintained a B average and excelled in skiing, football, and track, still holding his high school's pole vault record. He was an active and determined teenager. Growing up, his stepfather managed a saltwater park, fostering Ken's love for the outdoors and the Orcas that frequented the area. His determination was remarkable; at 15, he declared his goal of becoming an astronaut and earning his pilot's license. Despite his parents' initial skepticism about his ability to fund it, Ken, at 16, had his pilot's license, having paid for 90% of it himself through sacrifice and hard work. After a year in the Navy ROTC program at college, Ken took a break and moved to Bullhead City, Nevada, to work in a casino and spend time with his father. Here, he met people from the entertainment industry, sparking his desire to become an actor. Despite having no prior acting experience, drama involvement, or even speech classes, he set his sights on Hollywood. His family expected him to fail and return to college, but Ken was resolute. He visited home only to share his experiences in the demanding world of acting. He worked various jobs—waiter, bouncer, carpenter—to fund acting lessons, headshots, and representation. He even learned to ride horses and performed as a jouster. A small-town kid, Ken faced overwhelming odds, but his unwavering determination propelled him through the initial years. He refused to give up, gradually honing his skills, building confidence, and working tirelessly on his craft. He possessed a special spark that carried him through difficult times. In Hollywood, Ken built a new "family" of friends, managers, actors, a girlfriend, and a cat named Perry. He found managers, Susan, Daniel, and Adam, who believed in his talent. He began securing guest star appearances on TV series, and his managers noted he "had broken away from the pack and was ready for the big time." His promising career was tragically cut short on September 20, 1996. His death, a preventable accident, ended a life that profoundly impacted many.
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Mårten Hagström

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mårten Hagström, (born 27 April 1971), is the rhythm guitarist for the Swedish experimental metal band Meshuggah. He joined the band after the release of their first album, which allowed Jens Kidman to focus on his vocal performances. He is known for his strong and complex rhythm guitar playing. Hagström has cited Rush, James Hetfield, Squarepusher, Autechre, Strapping Young Lad and GISM as influences. In a Metal Injection interview he has said, "You can't play an instrument for the technicality of it. It's a tool you use it to get what's in here and here [heart and mind] out there." He has also said when he was growing up, everybody in Sweden was trying to be a guitar virtuoso. This made him want to be solely a rhythm guitarist. Although fellow Meshuggah guitarist Fredrik Thordendal plays most of Meshuggah's guitar solos, the two of them share songwriting duties more or less equally, with Hagström notably contributing "Nebulous" from Nothing, "Acrid Placidity" from Destroy Erase Improve, and "Neurotica" from Chaosphere. Hagström has also stepped out of his role of playing rhythm guitar with the release of Meshuggah's obZen album by playing the slower, melodic leads on the songs that he wrote, such as "Electric Red" and "Pravus". In addition to this, he has contributed lyrics to some of the bands later releases, co-writing Catch 33 with Meshuggah drummer Tomas Haake and penning the entirety of the words for their abstract EP I. Hagström and Haake have been playing music together since they were nine years old. Hagström, along with Fredrik Thordendal, were rated #35 by Guitar World as the top 100 greatest heavy metal guitarist of all-time. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mårten Hagström, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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