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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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Virginia Field
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Margaret St. John Field (4 November 1917 – 2 January 1992), known professionally as Virginia Field, was a British-born film actress. The niece of stage actress and director Auriol Lee, she took her first film role as a teenager in the 1934 British mystery-comedy The Lady Is Willing before signing a Hollywood contract.
Field first went to the US to appear in David O. Selznick's Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936). In the late 1930s, she appeared in various parts in 20th Century Fox's Mr. Moto film series. Field then played a ballerina alongside Vivien Leigh in Waterloo Bridge (1940), an estranged wife in Dorothy Arzner's Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) and Stuart-era performer Nell Gwyn in the historical Western Hudson's Bay (1941). She also performed in the noir genre, with films like Repeat Performance (1947), Dial 1119 (1950) and Appointment with a Shadow (1957). She made frequent appearances on television in the 1950s and '60s.
Field married three times. Her spouses included actors Willard Parker and Paul Douglas, with whom she had a daughter, as well as composer and musician Howard Grode. She died of cancer on 2 January 1992 and was cremated, with her ashes scattered at sea. Field has a star at 1751 Vine Street on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, dedicated 8 February 1960.
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John A. Robinson
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John Alexander Robinson carved out his legacy not as a player but as one of college football's most successful coaches, winning national championships and Rose Bowls across multiple decades while mastering both the collegiate and professional ranks. Born on July 25, 1935, in Chicago, Robinson grew up in Daly City, California, attending Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic school with future Hall of Fame coach John Madden, his lifelong friend. At Junípero Serra High School, he excelled before heading to the University of Oregon, where he played reserve tight end on the Ducks' 1958 Rose Bowl team. Robinson saw minimal playing time, entering only for the final play of Oregon's heartbreaking 10-7 loss to top-ranked Ohio State, yet he called the experience "like a dream for me" that ignited his passion for the game.
Robinson's coaching odyssey began at Oregon as an assistant under Len Casanova and Jerry Frei (1960-1971) before becoming USC's offensive coordinator (1972-1974) under John McKay. The Trojans went 31-3-2 with two national championships and two Rose Bowl victories. After one season with the Oakland Raiders as running backs coach (1975), Robinson succeeded McKay at USC (1976-1982), posting a remarkable 67-14-2 record with three Rose Bowl victories and a 1978 national championship. His trademark power running game produced Heisman winners Charles White (1979) and Marcus Allen (1981).
As the Los Angeles Rams head coach (1983-1991), Robinson reached the playoffs in six of his first seven seasons, advancing to the NFC Championship Games in 1985 and 1989. He selected Eric Dickerson second overall in 1983, who rushed for an NFL-record 2,105 yards in 1984 while leading the league in rushing three times. Robinson's 79 career wins stood as the franchise record until Sean McVay surpassed him in 2024.
Returning to USC (1993-1997), Robinson won three consecutive bowls, including the 1996 Rose Bowl, before his dismissal via an answering machine message. At UNLV (1999-2004), where he inherited a 16-game losing streak, Robinson led the Rebels to a 2000 Las Vegas Bowl victory and served as athletic director (2002-2003). In 2010, Robinson became the defensive coordinator at San Marcos High School, his only high school coaching position.
Following his retirement, Robinson worked for three decades with the Sports USA Radio Network as a color analyst and served on the Lott IMPACT Trophy board. He joined LSU as a senior consultant (2019-2021) under Ed Orgeron. Inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2009 and the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame in 2003, Robinson died on November 11, 2024, in Baton Rouge from pneumonia complications at age 89.
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Richard Roxburgh
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Richard Roxburgh (born 23 January 1962) is an Australian actor and filmmaker. He has received several accolades across film, television, and theatre, including AFI and AACTA Awards, Logie Awards, and Helpmann Awards.
He began his career working with the Sydney Theatre Company. He went on to appear in Australian and international productions such as Baz Luhrmann's films Moulin Rouge! (2001) and Elvis(2022), the ABC series Rake (2010–2018), and the action films Mission: Impossible 2 (2000), The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003), and Van Helsing (2004).
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Yono Bakrie
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Yono Bakrie is an Indonesian stand-up comedian and actor (Born in Samarinda, East Kalimantan, on June 22, 1992). Yono graduated from Muhammadiyah University of East Kalimantan with a degree in Management.
Before becoming a comedian, Yono worked as an employee at a pharmaceutical company. He then joined the Stand Up Indo Samarinda community and began developing his comedy skills.
Yono gained fame after winning the Stand Up Comedy Indonesia (SUCI) X competition. He successfully defeated Gautama with a narrow score and became the champion of SUCI X.
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John Sarkisian
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John Paul Sarkisian is a man whose legacy is often overshadowed by the worldwide fame of his daughter Cherilyn Sarkisian, better known as Cher. John Paul Sarkisian was born to Armenian-American parents Giragos "George" Sarkisian and Siranoush "Blanche" Dilkian. John grew up in a culturally rich Armenian family, and his early years were influenced by his ancestral heritage. In 1945, John Paul married Jackie Jean Crouch, later known as Georgia Holt. They were married in Reno, Nevada, and their daughter Cherilyn Sarkisian was born on May 20, 1946.
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Jagdeep
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Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed Jaffry, better known as Jagdeep, is an Indian film actor known for his comic roles. He played Soorma Bhopali in Sholay (1975), Gabbar in Purana Mandir (1984), Chief Zabardast in Tahkhana (1986), Hotel Receptionist in Veerana (1988), Salman Khan's father In Andaaz Apna Apna (1994) and later directed a movie Soorma Bhopali with this character as the protagonist[2]. Jagdeep started his film career as a child artist extra in films like B. R. Chopra's Afsana, then to a child artist in Ab Dilli Door Nahin, K A Abbas's Munna and AVM's Hum Panchi Ek Dal Ke. Then came Bimal Roy's Do Bigha Zameen with which he started playing comic roles. He is also known for his appearances in many horror Movies, especially in projects of "Ramsay Brothers". He appeared in famous hits like Veerana, Tehkhana and Purana Mandir. Jagdeep is the father of Naved Jaffery & Jaaved Jaffrey who host the popular show Boogie Woogie. According to rumours, Jagdeep will be playing a role in the sequel of Andaz Apna Apna. He last appeared in a flop movie- Journey Bombay to Goa.
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Kostas Koklas
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Kostas Koklas (Greek: Κώστας Κόκλας, Zakynthos, 7 June 1966) is a Greek comedian, who became widely known due to his participation in the successful series Crimes. He was born on 7 June 1966 in Zakynthos. He studied at the Drama School of the National Theatre. He became widely known through his role in the legendary series Crimes which aired on ANT1 from 1998-2000 and achieved huge success. He then participated in television series such as My Beloved Neighbors, Playground, The Kings, The Classmates, Some Divorced Guys, As Long as I Have You, Mom's Cake and many others.
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Andy Sidaris
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Andrew W. "Andy" Sidaris (February 20, 1931 – March 7, 2007) was an American television and film director, film producer, actor, and screenwriter.
Sidaris was best known for his Bullets, Bombs, and Babes or Bullets, Bombs, and Boobs (BBB for short) series of B-movies produced between 1985 and 1998. These films featured a rotating "stock company" of actors mostly made up of Playboy Playmates and Penthouse "Pets", including Julie Strain, Dona Speir, Hope Marie Carlton, Cynthia Brimhall, Roberta Vasquez, Julie K. Smith, Shae Marks, and Wendy Hamilton. Several of his films were done wholly or largely in Shreveport using many local actors or actors with local ties.
Before the B-movies, Sidaris was a pioneer in sports television. He directed coverage of hundreds of football and basketball games, Olympic events, and special programs and won seven Emmy awards for his work in the field. His best known work was with ABC's Wide World of Sports; he was the show's first director, and continued in that post for 25 years.
Sidaris pioneered what he called the "honey shot", close-ups of cheerleaders and pretty girls in the stands at sporting events. He won an Emmy Award in 1969 for directing the Summer Olympics. He expanded into dramatic television in the 1970s, directing episodes of programs like Gemini Man (1976), CBS's Kojak (mid-1970s), ABC's The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (late-1970s) and ABC's Monday Night Football.
He expanded into film, specializing in action flicks featuring buxom gun-toting Playboy Playmates and Penthouse Pets with titles like Fit to Kill and Savage Beach. Most of Sidaris' "Triple B" series (later given the title L.E.T.H.A.L. Ladies) focused on the adventures of a team of secret agents and were mostly filmed in Hawaii. Several entries in the series were merely produced by him and were written and directed by others. Although the series featured recurring characters, continuity between films was not a priority and it was common for an actress who played a villain (and was killed off) in one film to re-appear in a subsequent film as a hero.
With his wife, Arlene T. Sidaris (born ca. 1942) as his production partner, Sidaris made twelve films. After Sidaris' death, she runs the official websites of his twelve films.
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Bridey Elliott
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Bridey Elliott is an actress, comedian, writer and director. After graduating from the National Theater Institute at Eugene O'Neill Center, she began performing stand-up, appearing on shows with John Mulaney, Todd Barry, Janeane Garafalo, and Abby Elliott. She is a regular at Upright Citizens Brigade, performing in sketch teams Fambly and Absolutely. Elliott starred in the SXSW Grand Jury Prize winner Fort Tilden, which was released by Orion Pictures in 2015. She is the daughter of comedian Chris Elliott.
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