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Kirk Douglas

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Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch; December 9, 1916 – February 5, 2020) was an American actor, producer, director and author. He grew up as Izzy Demsky and legally changed his name to Kirk Douglas before entering the United States Navy during World War II. During his career, Douglas appeared in more than 90 movies and was known for his explosive acting style. He became an international star for his leading role as an unscrupulous boxing hero in Champion (1949), which brought him his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Other early films include Young Man with a Horn (1950), Ace in the Hole (1951), and Detective Story (1951), a film for which he received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actor in a Drama. He received a second Oscar nomination for his role in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), and his third nomination for portraying Vincent van Gogh in Lust for Life (1956), which landed him a second Golden Globe nomination. In 1955, Douglas established Bryna Productions, which produced films as varied as Paths of Glory (1957) and Spartacus (1960). He took the lead roles in both films. Douglas has been praised for helping to break the Hollywood blacklist by having Dalton Trumbo write Spartacus with an official on-screen credit. In 1963 Douglas starred in the Broadway play One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, a story that he purchased and later gave to his son Michael Douglas, who turned it into an Oscar-winning film. As an actor and philanthropist, Douglas received an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. As an author, he wrote ten novels and memoirs. He is No. 17 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male screen legends of classic Hollywood cinema. Kirk Douglas died at age 103.
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Peter Capell

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Peter Capell (3 September 1912 - 3 March 1985) was a German actor who was active on screen from 1945 until 1985. His first role was in Winterset, shortly after the end of the Second World War. His final role came a year before his death, when he appeared in Mamas Geburtstag. Both of these were television productions. He also appeared in many films, including Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), in which he played a "tinker" who spoke to Charlie Bucket (Peter Ostrum) at the gates of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. Capell died, aged 72, in March 1985. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Capell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​
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Robbi Chong

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Robbi Lynn Chong (born May 28, 1965) is a Canadian actress and former model. Chong was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, the daughter of Maxine Sneed and Tommy Chong, a comedian, actor, writer and director.[1] Chong's father is of Chinese and Scots-Irish ancestry and her mother is of African and Cherokee descent.[2] Her sister Rae Dawn Chong is an actress. Chong studied acting in Los Angeles, California for two years and began appearing frequently on stage and television, working full-time. She was an international covergirl who joined the Click Modeling Agency at age 19 and was a Paris model from 1983 to 1988. Source http://www.in.com/robbi-chong/biography-235713.html.
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Miguel Tanfelix

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Miguel Tanfelix is a multi-awarded actor who has graced the screen in many memorable projects such as "Niño," "Mulawin Vs. Ravena," "Kambal, Karibal," "Sahaya," and more. He got his start in showbiz when he competed in "StarStruck Kids." This 2022, he starred in the romance series "What We Could Be" opposite Kapuso actress Ysabel Ortega. He is also set to top bill the much-awaited live action adaptation "Voltes V: Legacy" where he will play the lead role, Steve Armstrong. Being a great dancer and performer, he is one of the mainstays of Kapuso variety show "All-Out Sundays" and he also has quite the following on TikTok as well.
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Subbu Panchu

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Subramaniam Panchu Arunachalam, credited as Subbu Panchu or P. Ar. Subramaniam, is an Indian actor and film producer. Son of noted writer-producer Panchu Arunachalam, Subbu first appeared as a child artist in the Malayalam film Daisy, before working in the production department of his father's P. A. Art Productions. He returned to acting with the television series Arasi and shot to fame following his performance in the 2010 comedy film Boss Engira Bhaskaran. Subbu occasionally had worked as a voice actor and choreographer as well.
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Lars von Trier

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Lars von Trier (born Lars Trier; 30 April 1956) is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He is closely associated with the Dogme 95 collective, although his own films have taken a variety of different approaches. He is known for his female-centric parables and his exploration of controversial subject matter. Von Trier began making his own films at the age of 11 after receiving a Super-8 camera as a gift, and his first publicly released film was an experimental short called The Orchid Gardener, in 1977. His first feature film came seven years later, The Element of Crime, in 1984. As of 2010, he has directed a further 10 feature films, 5 short films and 4 television productions. He has been married twice and is currently married to Bente Frøge. Von Trier suffers periodically from depression, as well as various fears and phobias, including an intense fear of flying. As he himself once put it, "Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking".
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Yuriy Shevchuk

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Yuri Shevchuk (Russian: Юрий Юлиа́нович Шевчу́к; born 16 May 1957) is a Soviet and Russian rock musician, songwriter, poet, actor, artist, producer and public figure. Founder, leader and the only permanent member of DDT band. Founder and leader of LLP "DDT Theatre". He is best known for his distinctive gravelly voice. His lyrics detail aspects of Russian life with a wry, humanistic sense of humor. He is also famous for opposing pop music culture (especially playback performances) for many years. He is often accredited with being the greatest songwriter in present-day Russia.
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Igor Kovalyov

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Igor Adolfovich Kovalyov is a Soviet, Russian-Ukrainian and American animator, director and educator, co-founder of “Pilot” — the first private animation studio in the Soviet Union. From 1991 to 2005 he worked at Klasky Csupo where he co-created “Aaahh!!! Real Monsters” and co-directed “The Rugrats Movie”. He currently serves as a creative producer at “Soyuzmultfilm”. Kovalyov is also known for his auteur films for which received multiple international awards, including three Grand Prizes at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.
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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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Vitória Fallavena

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Vitória Fallavena is a director, assistant director, actress and screenwriter from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. With a degree in acting from UNIRIO and a drama teacher certification, she has worked as an assistant director in O Tablado theatre from 2015 to 2019. Since then, she has starred in several plays and in short films such as "Eva" (2021), directed by Magno Pinheiro and "Christmas" (2022), directed by Isabella Secchin. Fallavena has also participated in telenovelas and played the character of Mércia in Globo’s famous “Além da Ilusão" (2022). In 2023 she worked as an assistant director in the TV show "Bookaboo", produced by Conspiração Filmes, and started her career as a director with the short film "I don't know if I will have to say everything again”.
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