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Allie Grant
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Allie Grant (born February 14, 1994, height 5' 2½" (1,59 m)) is an American film and television actress. She is best known for her role as Isabelle Hodes on the Showtime television series Weeds appearing in the series from 2005 to 2009. She currently co-stars as Lisa Shay on the ABC sitcom Suburgatory.
Grant was born in Tupelo, Mississippi to Angie Grant and her husband, Bob. When she was three years old, she went to the Model and Talent Expo in Dallas, Texas. She got many callbacks and was invited to New York. From 2005 to 2007, she guest starred on the Disney Channel series, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and That's So Raven. In 2005, she was cast in Weeds. Although she originally began as a recurring character, Grant's role was promoted and by season three she became a regular part of the cast. Her role as Isabelle Hodes, the lesbian daughter of Celia and Dean Hodes, earned her a SAG nomination as a part of the Weeds cast.
Grant has also appeared in the films Fanboys (2009), The Runaways (2010) and Struck by Lightning (2012).Grant was the valedictorian of her 2011 high school graduating class. She attended Harvard University's Summer Program before shooting Suburgatory in 2011. She currently resides in Los Angeles.
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Olga Georges-Picot
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Olga Georges-Picot (6 January 1940 – 19 June 1997) was a French actress. She was a great-niece of François Georges-Picot.
Born in Shanghai, in Japanese-occupied China, she was the daughter of Guillaume Georges-Picot, the French Ambassador to China, and a Russian mother, Anastasia Mironovich. She attended the International School in Geneva in the early fifties with her sister. She also attended the Lycée français de New York (Class of 1958). She studied acting at the Actors Studio in Paris.
Her acting career included roles in French and English films, and on television. She was featured in Playboy Magazine’s "Sex in Cinema" column, and also on the front cover of the periodical Adam.
She appeared in three mainstream films: Denise, the OAS mole, in The Day of the Jackal (1973); Countess Alexandrovna in Woody Allen’s Love and Death (1975); and Julie Anderson in Basil Dearden’s The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970). Her break-through role in the movies was as Catrine in the Alain Resnais’s film Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968). Earlier that year, she had appeared in the French television movie Thibaud the Crusader (1968).
On Thursday 19 June 1997, she jumped to her death from the 5th floor of an apartment building in Paris, France.
Source: Article "Olga Georges-Picot" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Joanne Kelly
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Joanne Kelly is a Canadian actress, known for her appearances in films such as Going the Distance and in TV series such as Warehouse 13, in which she plays Secret Service agent Myka Bering.Joanne Kelly was born in Bay d'Espoir, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. She studied at Acadia University. Her first movie role was the 2002 drama film The Bay of Love and Sorrows. She played alongside actors such as Paul Gross in Slings and Arrows and Gordon Pinsent in Heyday. From 2003 to 2004 she played Libby on the J. Michael Straczynski series Jeremiah on Showtime. She also played the role of Sara Collins in Fox's Vanished and the vampire Bianca in SciFi's The Dresden Files. She also appeared in the film Going the Distance. Since 2009 she has played the role of Secret Service agent Myka Bering on the Syfy series Warehouse 13. She also stars in the independent film, "Cantuckee."
Kelly was nominated in 2006 for a Gemini at the Gemini Awards/2006 Gemini Awards for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series for Playing House (2006) (TV).
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Thomas A. Wise
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English-born American stage actor who appeared in a few films. Wise began acting with a stock company in Dixon, California, and spent the next 45 years onstage. In 1875, he joined the William Gillette company and toured for twelve years, having a resounding success particularly in "The Private Secretary." His New York stage debut in 1888 was in "Lost in New York." He had a very successful run (two years) on Broadway in "Are You a Mason?". He was known as one of the most successful Falstaffs of his time. During his run in "Behold the Dreamer" in Chicago, he was taken ill and left the show to return to New York, where he died a month later from complications of asthma and heart disease. A long-time member of the actors club The Lambs, he was Shepherd of that organization at the time of his death.
- IMDb mini biography by: Jim Beaver
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Nat M. Wills
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Nat M. Wills (born Louis McGrath Wills) was a popular stage star, vaudeville entertainer, and recording artist at the beginning of the 20th century. He is best known for his "Happy Tramp" persona and for performing humorous or satirical musical numbers, including parodies of popular songs of the day.
Wills' family moved to Washington, D.C. when he was a child and he and began his theatrical career there. One of his first stage appearances was with Minnie Palmer, a popular actress and operetta star of the day.
As a young man, Wills appeared in melodramas and stage shows all over the United States, including three years in a repertory company in San Francisco. He alternated between theatrical stage shows and vaudeville performances throughout his life. He was one of the first entertainers to perform at the famous Palace Theater, and he appeared in the 1913 edition of the Ziegfeld Follies.
Wills originated the humorous monologue routine "No News, or What Killed the Dog?" A recording of this routine was one of the best-selling records of its day. The routine was identified as one of 25 "cultural, artistic and historical treasures to be preserved for future generations" by the Library of Congress in 2008 under the terms of the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000.
He married four times, and all of his wives were fellow performers. His first two wives died. His third wife, whom he married in 1910, performed under the name La Belle Titcomb. In 1914 Wills and Titcomb divorced and an ugly alimony battle ensued. Wills married May Day, whom he had met while performing in the Ziegfeld Follies, in 1914 and they had a daughter, Natalie.
Wills died on December 9, 1917, of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning while working on his car in a closed garage.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anja Kasap
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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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Toni Schumacher
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Harald Anton "Toni" Schumacher (born 6 March 1954) is a German former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. At club level, he won a Bundesliga title and three DFB-Pokal titles with 1. FC Köln. At international level, he represented West Germany. Schumacher won the 1980 European Championship and lost two World Cup finals, in 1982 and 1986. In the 1982 FIFA World Cup semi-final, he controversially collided with and seriously injured French defender Patrick Battiston. Schumacher was voted German Footballer of the Year in 1984 and 1986. Since April 2012, he has served as vice president at 1. FC Köln.
Schumacher made his first-team debut with 1. FC Köln at the age of 19. He played for the club from 1972 to 1987, including in 213 consecutive Bundesliga matches from 1977 to 1983. For most of those years, until well into the mid-1980s, he was widely considered one of the world's top goalkeepers, and he was the automatic first-choice goalkeeper for his country. He backstopped Köln to the double in 1978, winning the Bundesliga title (ahead of Borussia Mönchengladbach on goal difference) and the DFB-Pokal (defeated Fortuna Düsseldorf). The year before he had led Köln to a DFB-Pokal victory (against Hertha BSC in the final), the club's first major trophy win in nine years. He appeared in two other DFB-Pokal finals, in 1980 (lost to Fortuna Düsseldorf) and 1983 (defeated Fortuna Köln). Schumacher was voted German Footballer of the Year twice, in 1984 and 1986, by the nation's football journalists.
Schumacher played 76 international matches for West Germany between 1979 and 1986, including 15 World Cup qualifying matches and 14 World Cup matches. He won the 1980 European Championship (defeated Belgium 2–1 in the final) and lost two World Cup finals, in 1982 (to Italy, 3–1) and 1986 (to Argentina, 3–2). In the 1982 tournament, in the controversial semi-final against France, he saved two penalty kicks in the post-extra time shootout, which West Germany ultimately won. In the 1986 quarter-final against tournament hosts, Mexico, he saved two of the three shootout penalties he faced, enabling West Germany to advance. ...
Source: Article "Toni Schumacher" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Claude Jager
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Claude Jager, born in 1940 in Elvange, Moselle, is a French mountaineer and guide. He discovered the mountains during his studies at the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Lyon, where he befriended climbers such as Marc Martinetti, Jean-Paul Paris, and Yannick Seigneur, with whom he completed his first mountaineering expeditions. An aspiring guide since 1964, he opened numerous new routes in the following years. Appointed a teacher at the Lycée du Fayet, he met Walter Cecchinel, with whom he completed a series of remarkable winter ascents.
His career is marked by major achievements, including the first ascent of the northeast couloir of Les Drus, made with Walter Cecchinel from December 28 to 31, 1973. This route, considered one of the most difficult in the Alps, is a steep ice couloir, exposed to avalanches and framed by vertical slabs. The feat was hailed at the time as a technical achievement and a pinnacle of winter mountaineering. Claude Jager also participated in the French expedition to the west pillar of Makalu (8,481 m) in 1971, led by Robert Paragot. This expedition marked the history of Himalayan mountaineering by opening a new route on one of the world's highest peaks, in extreme weather conditions and at the cost of total physical and mental dedication.
Alongside his guiding activities, Claude Jager worked as a high school teacher, passing on his passion for the mountains to many young people. After a rich and committed career, he settled in Chamonix, where, at over 80 years old, he continues to explore the trails and contemplate the peaks that have marked his life as a mountaineer.
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Richard C. Currier
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CURRIER, RICHARD (Richard Carlton Currier), Currier began editing films in 1911 at the Selig studios in Edendale, California. He worked with writer-director Herbert Brenon, edited comedies starring Gale Henry, Milburn Morante, and Billy Franey, and also worked on serials starring Ruth Roland. He was at the Roach studios from about 1921, hired by the head of the editorial department, Thomas J. Crizer. When Crizer left the Roach lot in 1925, Currier was promoted to his spot, and received credit for editing virtually every picture produced by the studio through mid-1933, although in later years he freely admitted that he was more of a supervisor. He worked at Paramount in the ’30s, often on W.C. Fields and Burns and Allen films. Currier returned briefly to the Roach lot in the early ’40s and later worked for Monogram and edited TV shows, among them The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok and The Whistler. He ran his own editorial service in Hollywood before retiring. Died December 14, 1984, Lake Forest, California, age 92; after a series of strokes.
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Richard Carlton "Dick" Currier (August 26, 1892 – December 14, 1984) was an American film editor known principally for his work at Hal Roach Studios.
Currier was born in Denver, Colorado. From 1920 to 1932 he was the head of the editing department at Hal Roach Studios. His contract ensured that his name appeared as editor on nearly every Hal Roach film released while he was head of the department, though the actual work was often done by other people. Most of the Laurel and Hardy films released by the company during this period were actually edited by Bert Jordan.[citation needed] After his work at Roach, Currier worked at Paramount Pictures and Monogram Pictures. He worked at Hal Roach Studios again for a short while before starting his own editing company. He died in Lake Forest, California.
Currier had been elected to membership in American Cinema Editors.
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Silje Reinamo
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Silje Reinåmo (born 25 August 1982 in Mosjøen) is a Norwegian actress, dancer and musical performer. She was educated at Bårdar Danseinstitutt in Oslo, and at the prestigious Guildford School of Acting in Surrey, England. Reinåmo is best known for her portrayal of Solveig in Bentein Baardson's production of Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt in Cairo in 2006. She has performed in several productions for television, film and the teatre, notably with a leading role in the short film In Chambers (Norwegian title: Bak lukkede dører), which received an award for Best Short Film at the WT Os international film festival in 2008, as well as awards for Best film and NIFA best film at the Minimalen short film festival in Trondheim in 2009. Silje Reinåmo has also had experience from doing instructional features, commercials and dubbing of animated films.
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