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Clyde Kusatsu
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Clyde Kusatsu (born September 13, 1948) is a U.S. actor.
Kusatsu was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he attended ʻIolani School. Kusatsu began acting in Honolulu summer stock, and after studying theatre at Northwestern University, started to make his mark on the small screen in the mid-1970s. Usually mustachioed, with a dapper, professional air, he has most often played doctors, but his repertoire has included a generous sampling of teachers (usually college professors), businessmen, detectives, church ministers and other intelligent, middle-class types. With his quiet, wry line delivery, Kusatsu made a memorably clever and hilarious sparring partner for Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor) on several episodes of All in the Family as the Reverend Chong, refusing to baptize Archie's grandson without the permission of the boy's parents. During this period Kusatsu also worked with the Asian American theatre group East West Players in Los Angeles.
Kusatsu was subsequently a regular on several series, but neither the adventure Bring 'Em Back Alive (1982–83) nor the Hawaiian-set medical drama Island Son (1989–90) (in which he played one of Richard Chamberlain's colleagues) lasted very long. His many television movies have included the film adaptation of Farewell to Manzanar (1976), about Japanese American internment during World War II. Other M.O.W.s and mini-series have been "And The Sea Will Tell", and "American Tragedy" playing Judge Lance Ito. He had a memorable role in the "Baa Baa Black Sheep" episode "Prisoners of War" as a downed Japanese fighter pilot in the Pacific (1976). (Kusatsu also guest-starred on an episode of Lou Grant on Japanese internment in the U.S.); Golden Land (1988), a Hollywood-set drama based on a William Faulkner story; and the AIDS drama And the Band Played On (1993). He appeared in four M*A*S*H episodes and later starred in the short-lived A.B.C. series All American Girl (1994–1995), the first East Asian familiar sitcom in the U.S.
Feature roles, beginning with Midway (1976), have generally been small, but in the 1990s Kusatsu had roles in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993, as a history teacher) and In the Line of Fire (1993, as a Secret Service agent). He appeared as a high school English teacher in American Pie (1999). Other recent films have been "ShopGirl" as Mr. Agasa, and in Sydney Pollack's The Interpreter (2005) as Lee Wu, head of security for the United Nations Headquarters. He currently plays the recurring role of Dr. Dennis Okamura on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless. Kusatsu starred in Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) as Mr. Lee.
Kusatsu is married to Gayle Kusatsu; they have two sons, Kevin and Andrew.
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Monia Chokri
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Monia Chokri (born June 27, 1982) is a Canadian actress and film director.
Born in Quebec City in 1982, she began her acting career after she completed her studies at Montreal's Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in 2005. Her mother is of Scottish origin through Scandinavian ancestors, while her father is descended from Tunisian Berber roots. In addition to having played in several theatre productions in Montreal, she has received notable roles in films presented at the Cannes Film Festival directed by Québécois filmmakers who are better known outside of Canada, namely Denys Arcand and Xavier Dolan. In Heartbeats, she played Marie, a young woman who falls in love with the same man as her gay male best friend Francis, played by Dolan, who also directed. The quality of her acting has been noted by critics, notably in Les Inrockuptibles and Le Monde.
At the end of 2010, the readers of Les Inrockuptibles named her #4 on their list of the top actresses of the year for her performance in Heartbeats. Her debut as a director, the short film An Extraordinary Person (Quelqu'un d'extraordinaire), was released in 2013 and won the Prix Jutra for Best Short Film at the 16th Jutra Awards. Her feature debut, A Brother's Love (La femme de mon frère), premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. Babysitter, in which she was both the director and an actor, was released in 2022. She received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Lead Performance in a Film at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023.
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David Holechek
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David Holechek is a filmmaker and television editor from Los Angeles, CA. He has either produced, directed or edited six feature-length releases and over a dozen short films. His 2012 short film, 'A Finger, Two Dots Then Me' has screened at over 80 film festivals around the world and won over 35 awards including the CINE Master's Series Award and the Heartland Film Festival's Crystal Heart Award. He also produced and edited the feature film 'Ragamuffin' - based on the life of renowned singer/songwriter Rich Mullins which was released in 2014 through Millennium Entertainment. He has edited over 50 hours of broadcast television shows including Fox Sports' 'Replay', Lifetime's 'Killer Kids' and as lead editor of Animal Planet's 'Pit Bulls and Parolees'. He owns and operates Duality Filmworks with twin brother Daniel. Company editorial and VFX credits include 'The League' on FX, 'Family Tree' on HBO, 'Deadliest Warrior' on Spike TV and the return of the mock rock band Spinal Tap in the DVD release 'Spinal Tap: Back From The Dead'.
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Athichart Chumnanon
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He is a second child with one older sister and one younger sister. His first breakthrough role was in Tarn Chai Nai Sai Moug, on channel TV3. He enjoys sports, reading books, listening to music and looking after his dog. He's a very simple and straightforward person. He's also a fun and outgoing person.
On April 14, 2014, he married his girlfriend singer/actress Nat Myria who is 6 years his senior.
Education: Bachelor in Communication Arts, Bangkok University
He has left Thai TV3 after his last TV drama with the channel ‘Plerng Naka’ (2019). He's now a free agent.
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Üllar Saaremäe
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Üllar Saaremäe (born November 23, 1969) is an Estonian actor, director, politician, and punk band singer.
He has two children from his relationship with actress Tiina Mälberg: Karl Robert and Marii Ingriin.
He was the creator and producer of the Estonian Punk Song Festival in 2008, for which he received the Estonian Volunteer of the Year national award.
Saaremäe is also involved in politics; he is a member of the conservative Pro Patria party and from 2009–2013 was a member of the Rakvere City Council. From 2017–2018, he was a member of the Kadrina Rural Municipality Council, and is a Lääne-Viru County electoral district member of the 14th Riigikogu since 2019.
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Piero Basso
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Born and raised in northern Italy, Piero Basso graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from the University of Turin, with a specialization in Cinema Studies. While writing his thesis on the works of David Lynch, he already knew that Cinematography would be his ultimate pursuit.
Piero began building a career as a director of photography while also specializing as a Steadicam operator. He built his first years collaborating with some of the most talented director of his generation, including Gianluca and Massimiliano de Serio and Susanna Nicchiarelli. In 2008 he moved to the United States of America, to New York, where he still lives today, while keeping a strong professional connection with Europe and Italy.
In 2009, after being invited to join the AIC (Italian Association of Cinematographers), he was in competition at the 29th Turin Film Festival with Santina directed by Gioberto Pignatelli, and in 2011 he was the cinematographer for Sette Opere di Misericordia, debut feature film for Gianluca and Massimiliano de Serio, presented in Competition at the 64th Locarno Film Festival.
The following years saw him mainly active in the USA shooting, between others, on Lanre Olabisi's Somewhere in the Middle, Meredith Edwards' Imagine I'm Beautiful and Rick Lopez's American Genius for National Geographic. In 2014 Piero comes back to Italy to light the first feature of Sebastiano Riso Più Buio di Mezzanotte, for a world premiere at the Semaine of the Critique during the 67th Cannes Film Festival the following year.
In the latest years, Piero has been active on multiple fronts. He shot Min Alesh?, a feature film in Ethiopia with local creative team and talents, while working as well on The Independents with director Greg Naughton, Teresa Costantini on Here and Now, Marco Risi in L'Aquila Grandi Speranze, a television series on the aftermath of the 2009 Earthquake. He has teamed again with Sebastiano Riso for Una Famiglia, in competition at the 74th Venice Film Festival, and worked for the first time with Federico Bondi on Dafne, presented in the Panorama Section at the 69th Berlin Film Festival and winner of the Fipresci award as Best Feature Film of the section. In the USA he worked with director Robert Jury on Working Man, with Peter Gerety, Talia Shire and Billy Brown as lead actors and recently lensed the first feature film of screenwriter Daniel Talbott and actress Samantha Soule, Midday Black Midnight Blue
In 2018 he became the Chair of the Cinematography Program for New York Film Academy at the New York Campus.
Piero Basso is based in NYC, where he lives with his wife, daughter and son. He is bilingual and holds permanent residency in the U.S and European Citizenship.
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George White
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Born Eassy White in New York City (other sources claim his birth name as "George Weitz" and his birthplace as Toronto, Canada; he performed under all three names), White started his career as part of a dance team with partner Benny Ryan, performing in the burlesque circuit. He appeared in supporting roles in many Broadway shows, but it was his appearance in Florenz Ziegfeld's Ziegfeld Follies that would provide the impetus for his own career as a theatrical impresario on Broadway. White appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1911 and 1915; in the latter show, he popularized the Turkey Trot dance.
He launched his Ziegfeld Follies imitation, the George White's Scandals, in 1919. Scandals provided audiences with popular songs, comic sketches, eccentric dancers and his own version of the Ziegfeld girls. Though not as grand as the Ziegfeld Follies, his Scandals were quite successful. The shows, which were micromanaged by White and reflected his tastes, were fast-paced and featured a lot of dancing.
White reached the apogee of his Broadway career with the 1926 edition of Scandals, which ran for 424 performances. The Black Bottom, danced by Ziegfeld Follies star Ann Pennington and Tom Patricola, touched off a national dance craze. However, by the time he produced his last staging of Scandals in 1939, the show was derided by critics as being old-fashioned. In addition to his Scandals and George White's Music Hall Varieties (essentially Scandals under a different name), White also produced several book musicals and legitimate plays on Broadway.
White also was a movie director, producer and screenwriter. He produced the movies Flying HIgh (1931), George White's Scandals (1934) George White's 1935 Scandals (1935) and George White's Scandals (1945), and directed the 1934 and 1935 celluloid versions of his Scandals. He also appeared in and took screenwriting credit for the 1934 and 1935 pictures. he also received screenwriting credits for the movies Ziegfeld Follies (1945) and Duffy's Tavern (1945).
In 1946, White was involved in a hit-and-run automobile accident in which two people died. He was sentenced to nine months in prison. Freed from jail, White tried to turn Scandals into a show that would tour the nightclub circuit. The venture failed and he went bankrupt. His attempt to open a nightclub in Las Vegas also failed.
White died aged 77 from leukemia in 1968 in Hollywood, California and was interred in Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park in North Hollywood.
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Perry Millward
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Perry Millward (born 24 October 1992) is an English actor primarily known for his work on stage (especially in London's West End), and with a number of film and television credits. Millward was born in Sidcup, London. Thanks to an Emma Priest Scholarship he received for his singing, Millward became a full-time pupil with the Sylvia Young Theatre School. He was one of the students featured in the 2004 television series "When Will I Be Famous?", which gave a behind-the-scenes look at the famous theatre school.
Millward starred as Jeremy Potts in the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, as Michael Banks in Mary Poppins, and as Gavroche in Les Misérables.
In 2006 he performed the role of Noah in the musical Caroline, or Change at the National Theatre, London, He played the role of David in Menier Chocolate Factory's production of Torch Song Trilogy in 2012.
Millward's first television appearance was playing a character, Warren, in an episode of The Bill in 2003; he returned to the long-running series in 2008, playing the character Joey Tomlinson. He also portrayed The Artful Dodger in a televised stage production hosted by Shane Ritchie called Celebrate 'Oliver!' on 26 December 2005 alongside Ron Moody (Fagin) and Joseph McManners (Oliver) in which the cast sang the biggest hits from the West End production.
On 7 July 2006 he starred as Mike in the one-hour television film drama That Summer Day broadcast on CBBC, about the bombings of the London public transport system that occurred a year earlier. In the same year he achieved a small role (Marcel) in his first feature film, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer.
In 2008, he played Jacob West in The Sarah Jane Adventures story The Mark of the Berserker. In 2009 he appeared in an episode of the British drama Ashes to Ashes, and also appeared as Nathan Harris in two episodes of television series Casualty, in which he had portrayed a minor character three years previously. Although his role was a minor one, he was cast as a newspaper delivery boy in the highly successful 2010 ITV television series Downton Abbey.
In 2011 Millward began appearances in the role of Nick Monroe in the television series Monroe; his character is a family member of the lead character of the series.
Following his minor parts in the 2006 films That Summer Day and Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Millward was cast in a significant supporting role in the 2011 television film Christopher and His Kind, produced by the BBC, and based on the autobiographical novel by Christopher Isherwood. Millward played Richard Isherwood, younger brother of Christopher, against Matt Smith's lead role. During 2011 Millward also completed filming of a supporting role in the science-fiction feature film John Carter of Mars
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Calion Maston
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Calion Maston is an actor, model, host, and public speaker who resides in Los Angeles, CA, and Phoenix, AZ. In 2014, Calion became an internationally known actor with his debut as lead actor in the feature film “Fathers and Daughters”. Calion is most well known for his work in Travel Europe (2017, TV), the Talk Around Town Show (2016, TV), The Coldest Kiss (2014, Film), Cowboy Zombies (2013, Film), and The Detective’s Lover (2012, Film). Other film appearances include several dramatic roles in western and action films like feature film Cowboy Zombies.
Over the years, Calion Maston has captivated theater audiences with poignant performances in such works as Radio Golf, Dark of the Moon, and The Soul of Broadway. Known in the acting community for his masterful improvisational skills, comedic timing and meticulous dedication, Calion continues to relentlessly pursue his passion for stage acting. Some of Calion’s first paid work as an actor was in musicals which utilized his talents as a singer, writer, and performer.
Calion’s acting and modeling led to developing a sense of entrepreneurship, and resulted in Calion starting public speaking to at-risk youth, foster families, and even the creation of his own men’s cologne called “Handsome Perfection”. In 2014 Calion was asked to co-host the TV show "Talk Around Town," which now has viewership in over 150 countries and has had two very successful seasons.
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Michael Baden
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Michael M. Baden (born July 27, 1934) is an American physician and board-certified forensic pathologist known for his work investigating high-profile deaths and as the host of HBO's Autopsy. He is the Forensic Science Contributor for FOX News Channel and was a frequent guest on Fox News's late-night satire program Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld where he was known as the Death Correspondent. Baden has been author or co-author of more than 80 professional articles and books on aspects of forensic medicine and two popular non-fiction books “Unnatural Death, Confessions of a Medical Examiner” and “Dead Reckoning, the New Science of Catching Killers.” He is also the author, with his wife, attorney Linda Kenney Baden, of two recent forensic thrillers, “Remains Silent” and “Skeleton Justice.”
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