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Jodi Forrest
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Jodie "Jody" Forrest (February 8, 1956 - December 2017) was an American voice actress who lived in Paris, France.
Trained as a dancer and actor, she is best known for voicing Elisabeth "Sissi" Delmas and other characters in the French animated series "Code Lyoko", from seasons 1 through 4, and other TV-series: Chris Colorado, Funky Cops, Corto Maltese. She also voices Mrs. Pepper in "Blues Clues", Agatha in "Indigo Prophecy", Fasha in "History of Bardock", and Jade in "Beyond Good & Evil", the key role.
Besides voice-acting, Jodie also did live acting, directing, lighting, dancing, opera singing, and teaching drama.
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Casey Brown
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How cool is Casey Brown? Off the charts cool. Casey Brown is a true child of the woods, growing up in really really rural New Zealand, and then coming of age in British Columbia. Casey tackles every season with passion and enthusiasm. When the snow melts and the sun stays up longer, Casey absolutely rips on a bike, and the world is taking notice. A stalwart of the Crankworx scene, Casey is frequently winning events, and always challenging for the Queen of Crankworx title. She's also creating more opportunities within the sport as the founder of Dark Horse, her all-women freeride event. Casey's escapes in video are well known, bringing an effortless style that is addictive to watch.
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Hugh O'Brian
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Hugh O'Brian (born Hugh Charles Krampe; April 19, 1925 – September 5, 2016) was an American actor and humanitarian, best known for his starring roles in the ABC western television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955–1961) and the NBC action television series Search (1972–1973), as well as films including the Agatha Christie adaptation Ten Little Indians (1965); he also had a notable supporting role in John Wayne's last film, The Shootist (1976).
He was highly regarded for creating the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Foundation, a non-profit youth leadership development program, founded in 1958, for high school scholars.
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Mark Humphrey
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Mark Adrian Humphrey (born December 27, 1960 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian actor best known for the role of Jake Antonelli in the Canadian television series E.N.G. In 1988 he made his feature film debut in the film Iron Eagle II as Captain Matt Cooper, Doug Masters' (Jason Gedrick) surviving best friend. Humphrey has been featured in other films and in several television movies. In 2005 he starred in Living With the Enemy with Sarah Lancaster. In 2006 he starred in The Wives He Forgot with Molly Ringwald as a handsome amnesiac. In 2007 he appeared in Still Small Voices with Catherine Bell. Humphrey has also appeared in numerous television series.
In 2009 Humphrey appeared in the Canadian dramatic series Paradise Falls, and the television movies Encounter with Danger with Shannen Doherty, and Hostile Makeover with Maggie Lawson. He will also appear in the feature film Summer Eleven due to be released in 2010.
Humphrey appeared in the 2005 independent film Cruel But Necessary with his ex-wife Wendel Meldrum and their son Luke Humphrey.
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Irene Manning
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Irene Manning (born Inez Harvuot, July 17, 1912 – May 28, 2004) was an American actress and singer.
Manning was born on July 17, 1912 in Cincinnati, Ohio, in a family of five siblings. Both of her parents were singers. Her family loved to go on outdoor picnics where the featured activity was group singing. This family environment helped Irene to develop a keen interest in singing at a very early age. Her sisters later complained that little Irene would sing in her sleep, keeping them awake. Manning trained as an opera singer at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester.
While performing with an all-girl USO show in England, Irene was asked to perform with band leader Glenn Miller in 1944. Miller was involved in making swing records to be broadcast into Nazi Germany as part of the American Broadcasting System in Europe. Because she had been a light opera star prior to World War II and was fluent in singing in German, she was asked to sing some American pop tunes which had been translated into German vocals.
She was briefly credited as Hope Manning in her first films, as she broke in with the Republic Studios system in 1936. Her first film placed her as the lead actress in a western, The Old Corral, opposite Gene Autry. Irene once said in jest that "she had left light opera for a horse opera."
By the early 1940s, Irene was employed in the Warner Bros. studio system as a contract actress and singer. She is probably best remembered as diva "Fay Templeton" in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), opposite James Cagney. In this film, she had a scene in which she had to simultaneously act, sing the song "Mary", and play the piano. She starred with Humphrey Bogart in The Big Shot (1942) and with Dennis Morgan in both The Desert Song (1943) and Shine On, Harvest Moon (1944).
Her contract was picked up by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) to place her singing skills as a threat to Jeanette MacDonald, who was giving MGM fits with her difficult demands. In private, Manning claimed that she was a better singer. The problem between MacDonald and MGM subsided, and Manning's contract was dropped without any appearances in an MGM film. In all, Irene Manning made a dozen films.
The musical stage took priority in the second half of the 1940s with The Day Before Spring on Broadway and both DuBarry Was a Lady and Serenade in London. She remained in England and appeared on her own BBC TV show, An American in England until 1951, when she returned to the United States for television and nightclub work. Eventually she retired to teach acting and voice.
Manning died on May 28, 2004, from congestive heart failure at her home in San Carlos, California, at the age of 91.
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Robbie Fowler
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Robert Bernard Fowler is an English football manager and former player, including for Liverpool F.C. He was born in Toxteth, Liverpool, and grew up in the inner city area of Liverpool.
As a player, he was a striker, and is the eighth-highest goalscorer in the history of the Premier League. He is best known for his time at Liverpool, initially from 1993 to 2001. He scored 183 goals in total for Liverpool, earning the nickname "God" from the Anfield fans. He subsequently played for Leeds United and Manchester City, before returning to Liverpool in January 2006. He moved to Cardiff City eighteen months later. He played there for a year before transferring to Blackburn Rovers on a short-term deal. In December 2008, he departed Blackburn and played in Australia with North Queensland Fury and Perth Glory. In 2011, he joined Thai side Muangthong United as a player, but later was appointed player-manager, which he remained until his retirement in 2012.
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Balz Raz
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BALZ RAZ, born September 11, 1943 in Basel, Structural draftsman, lighting technician at the Stadttheater Basel, studied at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin (1967-1970), scripts, night work at the post office, Collaboration on various films, including "TransAtlantique" by Hans-Ulrich Schlumpf, since 1972 Super 8 film diary (meanwhile approx. 24 hours of film material), own films, since 1976 single sets, postcards, since 1982 exhibitions with pictures and objects in Basel and surroundings, 1984/85 anthroposophical study year, co-founder of the "Edition 350" (so far 18 titles, among others by Peter Handke and Antonio Porchia), three books of short stories, readings in Switzerland and abroad, various articles for the Basler Magazin about architecture and photography, many book and exhibition reviews for different reviews for various newspapers, lives in Basel.
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Soni Razdan
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Mother of Bollywood actress Alia Bhatt, Indian actress Soni Razdan started her career in English theatre with John Fowler`s The Collector and her Hindi stage career with Bund Darvaze, an adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre`s No Exit. She later went on to star in Sulochana in the hit Doordarshan TV series Buniyaad. She also acted in the Hindi TV serials Saahil and Gaatha.
She has also acted in Bollywood movies, including 36 Chowringhee Lane (1981), Ahista Ahista (1981), Mandi (1983), Saaransh (1984), Trikaal (1985), Khamosh (1985), Such a Long Journey (1988), Sadak (1991), Saathi (1991), Monsoon Wedding (2001), Page 3 (2005), Jaan-E-Mann (2006), Patiala House (2011), Love Breakups Zindagi (2011), Shootout at Wadala (2013), Love Affair (2016). Her other projects include Meghna Gulzar`s Raazi (2018) starring her daughter Alia Bhatt in the lead. Her 2019 releases include No Fathers in Kashmir, Noblemen, and War, an action-thriller movie starring Hrithik Roshan and Tiger Shroff in central roles. In 2021, she acted in the Netflix movie Sardar Ka Grandson.
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Craig Keener
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Professor of New Testament – Author ‘Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts’
Keener is the F. M. and Ada Thompson Professor of Biblical Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary. He is especially known for his award-winning, popular-level IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament (1993) and many other commentaries that place the New Testament in its early Jewish and Greco-Roman settings. Keener has authored 25 books, more than a million of which are in circulation. He has published more than 70 academic articles and over 170 popular ones.
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Angelo Novi
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Angelo Novi (9 June 1930 – 6 May 1997) worked for thirty years as the exclusive photographer with some of the most known Italian film directors of his time, such as Bernardo Bertolucci, Sergio Leone, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. He studied at the Brera Academy in Milan, and from 1952 on, started to work as a photojournalist. The ability to capture the decisive moment, inspired by idols like Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa, is an important gist for his photographic style, which later honed in his work as a set photographer.
Novi told his own story through the scenic action captured by his photographs. Emphasis on the decisive moment, the contrast of proximity and distance, and the black and whites, are all attributes of Novi's work. With his photographs, Novi has made a comprehensive contribution to the cultural memory of the golden era of the Italian cinema. As a silent observer, he captured the moments at the film sets both behind the scenes and in action, revealing intimate aspects that cannot be found on the screen.
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