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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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Claire Chazal

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Claire Chazal (born 1 December 1956) is a French journalist, romance writer, and former director of news at a national television station, TF1. She had been the weekend news anchor at TF1 beginning in 1991, and gave her final broadcast at the station on September 13, 2015; Anne-Claire Coudray, who had often substituted for her when she was absent, was announced as her replacement. Between 2010 and 2015, she had also been the host of Reportage at 1.30pm, after the news. She used to host Je/nous de Claire a talk-show on the gay television channel Pink TV that she helped start in 2004. (The title of this show puns on Le Genou de Claire, a French film known in English as Claire's Knee.) Chazal obtained an HEC School of Management diploma. Source: Article "Claire Chazal" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Wilt Chamberlain

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Wilton Norman Chamberlain (August 21, 1936 – October 12, 1999) was an American basketball player. A 7'1" center, Chamberlain played for the Kansas Jayhawks, Harlem Globetrotters, Philadelphia/San Francisco Warriors, Philadelphia 76ers, and Los Angeles Lakers. He holds numerous NBA records such as averaging 50 points per game in a season and scoring 100 points in a single game. Chamberlain is widely considered the most dominant player of his era (alongside rival Bill Russell) and among the greatest players in basketball history.
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Greg Bronson

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Greg Bronson (September 2, 1954, in Tuba City, Arizona, USA – † January 7, 2017, in Arizona, USA) was an American actor. He appeared in numerous films and TV series, including Apollo 13 (1995), Species (1995), Virtuosity (1995), Independence Day (1996), Liar Liar (1997), Starship Troopers (1997), and Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000). On television, he appeared in The X-Files, 3rd Rock from the Sun, NYPD Blue, Angel, and JAG. In addition to his acting career, he worked with the local film industry in Arizona and supported the theater program at Scottsdale Community College.
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Branko Janković

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Branko Jankovic (Valjevo, 1984) is a Serbian actor. He spent his childhood in Gunjaci village in the municipality of Osečina. He finished elementary school in Pecka, and high school in Belgrade. He graduated from the Academy of Arts in Banja Luka in 2008. He is an actor of the National Theater of Republika Srpska. Jankovic owns a goat farm in his hometown and deals with the production of milk and cheese. His hobby was inspired by scriptwriters of the Military Academy series for several episodes in which his pet character has this animal. From Wikipedia (sr), the free encyclopedia
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Gavin Richards

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After training at the Bristol Old Vic, Gavin Richards worked at the Liverpool Everyman and then with radical playwright John McGrath, in 7:84. Joining the Ken Campbell Roadshow in the early 70s he got performance experience working outdoors, in pubs and clubs. A lucrative German tour gave him and a group of colleagues the financial security to set up Belt and Braces Roadshow Company, formed with Eugene Geasley, Marcel Steiner and Jeni Barnett. Their leftist political and musical roadshows were taken to trade union meetings, working-men’s clubs, colleges and schools as well as traditional theatres and arts centres. Richards was Artistic Director, writer and performer for this collective inspired by the work of Alan Dosser at the Everyman and Ken Campbell and John McGrath of 7:84 Theatre Company. With 7:84 Richards had also directed Arden/D’Arcy’s Ballygoimbeen Bequest and Adrian Mitchell’s Man Friday and worked with both Richard Eyre and Trevor Griffiths. Many B&B members had worked for one or more of those companies and over the course of its 12 years on the road some of its members went on to form other companies like Monstrous Regiment. John Fiske, B&B’s musical director and Paul Kessel formed their own company in Sweden, still working today. B&B also collaborated on joint productions with both 7:84 and Roland Muldoon’s CAST. Others involved in the early years included Shane Connoughton, Sylvester McCoy, Vari Sylvestre, Andy Andrews, Gillian Hanna, David Bradford, Derek Thompson, Jim Carter and Colm Meaney. As well as writing original scripts with the company, Richards directed and adapted other political plays, most famously Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist based on a translation by Gillian Hanna which ran in the West-End for two years after an extensive tour starring Alfred Molina. He also oversaw the Belt and Braces production of Steve’ Gooch’s version of Brecht’s The Mother directed by Paul Hellyer which helped to launch the career of Maggie Steed. In the 80s and 90s Richards was a successful television and film actor (again working with Trevor Griffiths on Central TV’s Oi For England and with Paula Milne on the BBC series Driving Ambition). Assisted by Paula Milne and other ex members of B&B Richards produced A Night For A Nuclear Free Europe for the Labour Party at Wembley Arena in 1984 at the height of the miner’s strike. In the 90’s he also worked with Jack Shepherd on Comic Cuts, Griff Rhys Jones onThe Alchemist and Richard Sparks on The Crimson Lizard. His work on BBC’s ‘Allo ‘Allo and EastEnders is something he would rather forget. More recently, with Tamara Henry, he formed a theatre company in New Zealand called Theatre South whose youth production for the child soldier’s charity War Child won several awards. His recent book of poetry entitled 200 Weeks was published by Muswell Press in North London in 2015.
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Kirsi Alm-Siira

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Kirsi Maria Alm-Siira (born September 2, 1974, in Noormarkku) is a Finnish news journalist. She previously worked for Nelonen as a sports news reader but moved to MTV3 as a news anchor in the summer of 2005. Alm-Siira briefly worked as channel manager at HSTV from spring 2015 to autumn 2015 before returning to MTV in January 2016. In spring 2017, Alm-Siira competed in the tenth season of Dancing with the Stars, finishing second. On March 12, she fainted during a live Dancing with the Stars broadcast.
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Vera Bergman

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Vera Bergman was born on February 16, 1920 in Berlin, Germany. She was the daughter of the banker and diplomat Carl Bergmann. Vera was trained at the theater school of Max Reinhardt and became a member of the ensemble Deutsches Theater Berlin. After appearing in a feature film in Germany, "Es leuchten die Sterne" (1938), Vera Bergman left Berlin for Rome, Italy. In 1939 she auditioned for Vittorio De Sica, and despite her young age she was chosen for the part of L'insegnate Elisa Malgari in the film "Maddalena... zero in condotta" (1940). Vera Bergman stayed in Italy and performed in another 15 feature films till 1954.
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Mark Kempner

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Mark was born in Horne, Surrey to farmer and amateur entertainer Bernard Kempner, and former land-girl Mary Kempner. He went to Michael Hall school, and excelled in particular, in the many drama classes. Mark worked on the family farm until meeting wife Anna at 18. They married in 1982. They have two children, both of whom are also professional actors. Soon after leaving school, Mark worked on a Kibbutz in Israel for a year and in that time, started up a touring comedy drama group. The group toured other Kibbutz's performing comedy sketches.
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Ti West

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Titus C. West (born October 5, 1980) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, cinematographer, and actor, best known for his work in horror films. He directed the horror films The Roost (2005), Trigger Man (2007), The House of the Devil (2009), The Innkeepers (2011), the Western In a Valley of Violence (2016), as well as the X film series. He has also acted in a number of films, mostly in those directed by either himself or Joe Swanberg. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ti West, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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