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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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Clu Gulager
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William Martin Gulager (November 16, 1928 - August 6, 2022), known professionally as Clu Gulager, was an American television and film actor. He is particularly noted for his co-starring role as William H. Bonney (Billy The Kid) in the 1960–62 NBC TV series The Tall Man and for his role in the later NBC series The Virginian. He also appeared in the racing film Winning (1969), with Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, and was the protagonist, Burt, in the horror movie The Return of the Living Dead (1985). His final on-screen role was in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019).
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Can Huang
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Chinese film director and screenwriter Yan Huang (1911-1994) In 1926, 15-year teen Yan take part in the Hunan Peasant Movement and served as the propaganda officer of the Provincial Farmers Association and the chairman of the Provincial Rural Children's League. Participated in the Autumn Harvest Uprising in 1927 and went to Shanghai to do underground work for the Communist Youth League. In 1929 he entered the Music Department of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts. He joined Xinhua University of the Arts the following year, and also participated in the Nanguo News Agency and the left-wing drama movement, and adapted and directed the play "Maliu Tega". In 1931, he returned to Hunan and served as a middle school teacher. After 1932, he initiated the organization of a large-scale academic research society. In 1936, he went to Hangzhou to set up a children's theater, created a children's play "Children without Mothers", and participated in the organization of Zhejiang Mobile Theater. In 1938, he participated in the Youth Battlefield Service Team in the Fifth Theater of Dabie Mountain and served as an art instructor. In 1939, he participated in the New Fourth Army and served as the artistic director of the Anti-enemy Drama Troupe of the Jiangbei headquarters of the New Fourth Army. In 1941, he served as the head of the literature and art section of the Political Promotion Department of the Second Division of the New Fourth Army. In 1942, he served as the head of the Second Division of the Cultural Regiment. In 1945 he was re-designated as the head of the Military Art Corps. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, he wrote plays "Sisters of Righteousness", "Nanjing Dream", "Empty Room", "Broken Body", "Fisher Girl", and opera "Gaojiazhuang". Director of the opera "White Haired Girl", "Rural Music", drama "Lee Chuang", "The Last Order", "Don't Kill Him", etc. During the Liberation War, he served as the head of the Cultural Regiment of the Political Department of the East China Field Army, and wrote plays "Zaozhuang Battle" and "On the Canal Bridge". At the end of 1948, he was transferred to the Beiping Military Management Committee and served as the chief of the secretariat of the Culture and Education Committee. In May 1949, he was transferred to the Nanjing Military Management Committee as the director of the arts and culture committee of the Culture and Education Committee. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was transferred to the director of the Film Bureau of the Ministry of Culture. Soon he was engaged in film director work and served as an assistant director of "Long Xu Gou" and other films. In 1955, he was the director of the long shadow, and successively directed the feature films "Tiger Hole Tracking", "Mom Wants Me to Get Married", "Blue Cloud Song", adapted and directed "The Son of the Militia", wrote and directed "Shen Yangshou", and cooperated with Zhang Qi. He resigned in 1983.
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Ian McCulloch
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Ian McCulloch (born 18 November 1939) is a Scottish actor of stage, film, and television.
McCulloch is perhaps best known for his role as Greg Preston in the post-apocalyptic 1975–77 TV series Survivors and for his work in European genre cinema.
McCulloch debuted in the second episode, "Genesis", of Survivors and went on to appear regularly throughout the series. He also starred in the Italian horror films Zombie Flesh Eaters also known as Zombi II (1979) by Lucio Fulci, Zombi Holocaust (1980) by Marino Girolami, and Contamination (1980) by Luigi Cozzi.
Zombie Flesh Eaters was originally banned in the United Kingdom as part of the 1980s campaign against "video nasties". McCulloch stated that he did not see the film in its entirety, or on a big screen, until years later.
Over the years, McCulloch has had supporting roles in studio films like Where Eagles Dare (1968) with Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood, and Cromwell (1970) with Alec Guinness and Richard Harris. In addition, he has appeared in successful independent films, most notably The Ghoul (1975) with Peter Cushing and John Hurt.
He has also guest starred in many TV series, including: Manhunt (1969); Colditz (1974), as the mysterious Larry Page in "Odd Man In"; Secret Army (1977); Return of the Saint (1978); Hammer House of Horror (1980); The Professionals (1980), episode "Mixed Doubles", in which he played the physical fitness and close quarters combat instructor of Bodie and Doyle; and the Doctor Who serial Warriors of the Deep (1984).
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Periyar Dasan
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Periyar Dasan was an eminent speaker and activist from Tamil Nadu. He was a Tamil Scholar and thinker. He propagated Atheism and Rationalist ideologies for most part of his life. He has also appeared in Tamil-language films. He had acted in around 15 films, starting with Karuthamma.
Born in a shaivite family he was attracted towards the rationalist ideals of Periyar E. V. Ramasamy founder of the Dravidian movement. During his days in Pachaiyappa’s college, he changed his original name Seshachalam to Periyar Dasan ('Ardent follower of Periyar'). He well versed in Tamil literature, various religious studies and English and he has authored around 120 books. He was served as a professor in his alma mater, Pachaiyappa’s college, for 34 years.
In 1991, Periyar Dasan embraced Buddhism and added Siddartha as a prefix to his name. He translated the Dhammapada, a compilation of Buddhist virtues, authored by BR Ambedkar, into Tamil. This took him to learn Pali and Sanskrit.
Taking everyone by surprise, he embraced Islam as his way of life on 11 March 2010 during a visit to Mecca and rechristened his name as ‘Abdulla Periyardasan’. Thereafter, he started giving a series of lectures on Islam. Before embracing Islam, he spent 10 years in knowing the key aspects of that religion and learning the Holy Quran and the Arabic language. Since 2004, he stopped his propagation of atheism.
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Eugene Redmond
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Eugene B. Redmond (born December 1, 1937, St. Louis) is an American poet, and academic. His poetry is closely connected to the Black Arts Movement and the city of East St. Louis, Illinois.
Eugene B. Redmond was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He earned his bachelor's degree from Southern Illinois University (SIU) in 1964, and his master's degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1966, both in English Literature. He became a teacher-counselor at Southern Illinois University's Experiment in Higher Education, in East St. Louis, where he worked under the direction of Dr. Edward W. Crosby, his mentor, until 1969. He left SIU to teach at Oberlin College for a year, and then joined the faculty at California State University, Sacramento as a professor of English. In 1985 he returned to East St. Louis as the special assistant to the superintendent for cultural and language arts at the East St. Louis School District until 1989. He taught at Wayne State University (1989–90), before joining the faculty at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE), where he is currently an emeritus professor of English.
Redmond’s published works include a pamphlet poem and six poetry collections, as well as numerous contributions to journals and anthologies. He has edited two anthologies of African-American poetry and eight works by Henry Dumas. Dumas had taught at nearby Hiram College before he was shot down in a New York subway, in a case of mistaken identity. It was Dr Crosby who pushed to have SIU put Dumas's writings into publication and urged Redmond to edit the works, which Redmond continues to do to this day.
In 1976, Redmond was named Poet Laureate of East St. Louis.
Redmond published his survey and analysis of 200 years of African-American poetry, Drumvoices: The Mission of Afro-American Poetry, A Critical History, in 1976. He is the founding editor of Drumvoices Revue, a multicultural literary journal jointly published by the English Department of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and the Eugene B. Redmond Writers Club.
Redmond has donated his collection, comprising his personal library, manuscripts, photographs, posters, and other ephemera, to SIUE Lovejoy Library. Selections from the collection have been made available in the online collection EBR African American Cultural Life. Other papers are held at the University of Illinois at Springfield
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Nihal Nizam
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Nihal Nizam(born January 26, 2003) is an Indian actor and digital content creator known for his work in Malayalam cinema and YouTube, particularly through the popular channel 'Kudos Media'. He gained recognition for his role in the film Detective Ujjwalan (2025) and Vaazha II: Biopic of a Billion Bros (2026). Alongside his film work, Nihal has gained popularity through his engaging appearances in online sketches and entertainment content, establishing a presence in both digital media and cinema.
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Adam Richman
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Growing up in New York City Adam had the opportunity to try food from around the world and was instantly hooked on cuisine. To pursue his food passion Adam attended Emory University in Atlanta Georgia. Upon completing their undergraduate program Adam began a food journal to document the food establishments he was discovering throughout the Southeastern U.S. He coupled his education with purposely working almost every type of restaurant job and in various part of America to gain the full culinary experience of the country. After graduating from Yale Adam pursued acting with guest roles on tv shows "Law and Order", "Joan of Arcadia", "Guiding Light", and "All My Children".
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Fabianne Therese
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Fabianne Therese Gstottenmayr is a Sri Lankan American actress and director known for starring in several successful independent films including Netflix's Teenage Cocktail (2016), John Dies at the End (2012), Anchor Bay's The Aggression Scale (2012), A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2013), and the AMC web series The Trivial Pursuits of Arthur Banks (2011).
Therese's family often moved when she was growing up, including to Austria, Sri Lanka, Abu Dhabi, and Palm Springs. She originally focused on becoming a track runner before getting involved in acting. She is a great-great-granddaughter of Ceylonese newspaper editor and democratic activist Armand de Souza.
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Isabel Sarli
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Hilda Isabel Gorrindo Sarli, nicknamed Coca, (9 July 1935 - 25 June 2019) was a retired Argentine actress and glamour model, known for starring in several sexploitation films by Armando Bó, especially in the 1960s and 1970s. She began her career as a model and beauty queen, becoming Miss Argentina and reaching the semi-finalis of Miss Universe 1955. She was discovered by Bó in 1956 and made her acting debut the following year with Thunder Among the Leaves, in which a controversial nude scene featuring Sarli made it the first film to feature full frontal nudity in Argentine cinema.
As the muse and protagonist of Bó's films, Sarli became the quintessential sex symbol of her country and a popular figure worldwide. With Bó's death in 1981, Sarli virtually retired from acting. Since the 1990s, her films have been revalued for its camp and kitsch content and are recognised as cult classics.
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