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Adrian Lewis Morgan
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Adrian Lewis Morgan is a Welsh actor best known for his role as Dr Jimmi Clay in the long-running BBC daytime soap Doctors from 2005 to its cancellation in 2024, making him the show's longest-serving character. In 2020, his portrayal saw him win the RTS Midlands Award for Best Actor. Prior to starring in Doctors, Morgan had played nurse Liam Evans in Holby City from 2001 to 2002 and had starred in numerous West End shows including Sweeney Todd (as Tobias Ragg), Rent (as Roger), Les Miserables (as Marius), and Jesus Christ Superstar (as Judas/Annas).
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Albert Brooks
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Albert Brooks (born Albert Lawrence Einstein; July 22, 1947) is an American actor and filmmaker. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for 1987's Broadcast News and was widely praised for his performance as a ruthless Jewish mobster in the 2011 action drama film Drive. Brooks has also played in Taxi Driver (1976), Private Benjamin (1980), Unfaithfully Yours (1984), and My First Mister (2001). He has written, directed, and starred in several comedy films, such as Modern Romance (1981), Lost in America (1985), and Defending Your Life (1991). He is also the author of 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America (2011).
His voice acting credits include Marlin in Finding Nemo (2003) and Finding Dory (2016), Tiberius in The Secret Life of Pets (2016), and several one-time characters in The Simpsons, including Hank Scorpio in "You Only Move Twice" (1996) and Russ Cargill in The Simpsons Movie (2007).
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James Hayden
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James Hayden was an American actor from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Apart from starring on Broadway, he is best known for playing Patrick "Patsy" Goldberg in the 1984 film Once Upon a Time in America. Hayden trained and served as a medic in the United States Army during the Vietnam War. On his discharge, he returned to New York, attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and began working as an actor. In 1983, the year of his death, he portrayed a heroin addict in the critically acclaimed Broadway play American Buffalo, co-starring with his close friend Al Pacino. At 4:30 AM, he was speaking to his estranged wife, on the telephone, when his voice suddenly ceased. Mrs. Hayden immediately called Hayden's physician, and the physician called the 911 emergency number over to Hayden's Manhattan apartment at 69th Street and Broadway. Police discovered James Hayden slumped over the kitchen sink, telephone still in hand. On the floor of the kitchen, police had found a hypodermic needle and several glassine envelopes believed to contain heroin. He was pronounced dead at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center. Just six hours before his death, he had received a standing ovation for his performance. In 1984, during the making of The Pope of Greenwich Village, Mickey Rourke dedicated his performance to the memory of Hayden.
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Joe Hisaishi
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Mamoru Fujisawa (藤澤 守, Fujisawa Mamoru, born December 6, 1950), known professionally as Joe Hisaishi (久石 譲, Hisaishi Jō), is a Japanese composer, musical director, conductor and pianist, known for over 100 film scores and solo albums dating back to 1981. Hisaishi's music has been known to explore and incorporate different genres, including minimalist, experimental electronic, Western classical, and Japanese classical. He has also worked as a music engraver and arranger. He has been associated with director and animator Hayao Miyazaki since 1984, having written scores for all but one of Miyazaki's films.
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John McIntire
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John Herrick McIntire (June 27, 1907 – January 30, 1991) was an American character actor who appeared in 65 theatrical films and many more television series. McIntire is well known for having replaced Ward Bond, upon Bond's sudden death in November 1960, as the star of NBC's Wagon Train. He played Christopher Hale, the leader of the wagon train (and successor to Bond's character, Seth Adams) from early 1961 to the series' end in 1965. He also replaced Charles Bickford, upon Bickford's death in 1967, as ranch owner Clay Grainger (brother of Bickford's character) on NBC's The Virginian for four seasons.
McIntire died on January 30, 1991 (aged 83) from emphysema and lung cancer in Pasadena in Los Angeles County. Aside from Nolan, he was also survived by their daughter, Holly McIntire-Wright and a grandson Luke Wright. McIntire and Nolan's son, actor/musician Tim McIntire, predeceased his parents, having died in 1986 from heart problems. CLR
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Bianca Lawson
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Bianca Lawson (born March 20, 1979) is an American actress. Lawson is known for her regular roles in the television series Saved by the Bell: The New Class, Goode Behavior, Pretty Little Liars, and Rogue. She has also had recurring roles in the series Sister, Sister, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Steve Harvey Show, Dawson's Creek, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, The Vampire Diaries, Teen Wolf, and Witches of East End. In 2016, Lawson began starring in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama series Queen Sugar.
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Toheeb Jimoh
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Toheeb Gbolabo O. Jimoh (born 15 April 1997) is an English actor. He earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his performance as Sam Obisanya in the Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso (2020–2023). He is also known for his roles in the BBC One biographical film Anthony (2020) and the Amazon Prime series The Power (2023). Jimoh was born on 15 April 1997 in Brixton, South London to parents of Nigerian descent. He moved to Nigeria as a toddler and returned to London when he was seven. He attended The Norwood School before going on to train at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, graduating in 2018.
Jimoh was a relative newcomer to acting when he was cast to play Anthony Walker, the victim of a 2005 racist attack, in BBC One's Anthony, which imagines Walker's life if he had not been killed. His portrayal was called "utterly magnetic". He then portrayed Marcus in the Amazon series The Feed.
Jimoh was in a stage production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Sheffield Crucible and in 2020, was one of six performers in the Almeida Theatre's Christmas Play Nine Lessons and Carols, the theatre's first production post London's COVID-19 lockdown.
When Jimoh auditioned for Ted Lasso, the character of Sam Obisanya was written as Ghanaian, but his background was changed to Nigerian to match Jimoh's own. His performance has received praise, with his character called the "heartbeat" of the show.
Jimoh portrays another Nigerian character, journalist Tunde, in the Amazon thriller series The Power, based on Naomi Alderman's novel of the same name. He also has a small part in the Wes Anderson film The French Dispatch. Jimoh played Romeo in a summer 2023 production of Romeo and Juliet at the Almeida Theatre in London. In 2024, Jimoh played Hal in Player Kings, an adaption of Shakespeare's Henry IV part 1 and 2 by Robert Icke which also co-stars Ian McKellen and Richard Coyle.
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John Haley
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John Haley is a visual effects supervisor. He studied mathematics at Vassar College, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree, and later shifted into the visual effects field.
Early in his career he worked as a technical director and in look development and lighting for films such as Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005) and Bewitched (2005). He then moved up through senior CG supervisory roles, including on The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), in which he oversaw effects sequences including Spider-Man’s swinging through New York and the climactic battle, and on Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), before progressing to more senior visual effects supervision roles.
He has also been an additional visual effects supervisor on several high-profile film and streaming projects. On The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021) he served as Additional VFX Supervisor, part of the team nominated for a 2021 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Season or a Movie (shared with Eric Leven, Mike May, Daniel Mellitz, Chris Waegner, Charles Tait, Sébastien Francoeur, Chris Morley, and Mark LeDoux). He has also been credited with supervisory or senior roles on productions such as Hellboy (2019) and The Boys (2019) in visual effects capacities.
His work on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was part of a larger collaboration among multiple VFX studios, including Wētā Digital, to deliver complex aerial, canyon chase, and digital environment sequences.
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Roberto Ramírez Garza
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Roberto Ramírez Garza (Monterrey, Nuevo León, August 19, 1931 - Mexico City, July 28, 2009) was a Mexican actor and comedian known as "Beto El Boticario", known for his participation in the television program "La carabina de Ambrosio".
He began his career in 1948 and 6 years later he received an Ariel Award for Best New Actor for the film The Good Thief, in 1957 he belonged to the so-called Golden Age of Mexican cinema. He died in a hospital in Mexico City where he stayed in hospital for more than 20 days in intensive care due to pulmonary complications on July 28, 2009.
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Marc Webb
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Marc Preston Webb (born August 31, 1974) is an American filmmaker and music video director. Webb made his feature film directorial debut in 2009 with the romantic comedy “500 Days of Summer” and went on to direct “The Amazing Spider-Man” (2012) and “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” (2014), which were later dubbed the "Webb-Verse" by Marvel Studios in 2021. He also directed the drama films “Gifted” and “The Only Living Boy in New York” (both 2017) and the Disney remake of “Snow White” (2025).
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