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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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Maria Clara Escobar
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Maria Clara is a diretor, screenwriter, casting director, and a poet.
In January 2026, Maria Clara released the tv series “Paloma” (Canal Brasil, Globoplay), which she wrote and directed. A four-episode series that tells the story of a transgender woman's struggle to gain custody of her biological daughter. In 2025, she premiered her second feature film, Dolores, written and directed alongside Marcelo Gomes, at Horizontes Latinos in San Sebastián. The film was also screened at the Rotterdam film festiva, Rio Festival, São Paulo Film Festival, Janela Internacional and Havana Film Festival.
Also in 2025, Maria Clara won the award for best director at the Olhar de Cinema festival in Brazil for her hybrid film “Explode São Paulo, Gil,” which she wrote and directed. The film also won the award for best film and SPA honorable mention at Doc.Lisboa. The film was screened at the Laceno D'oro festival and the São Paulo International Film Festival. Maria Clara wrote and directed the feature film “Desterro,” which premiered in January 2020 as part of the Tiger Competition at the Rotterdam International Film Festival. The film was also screened at festivals such as Viennale, Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Taipei Film Festival, among others. It was released in Portugal, Brazil, Germany, Iceland, and Greece, won the Netflix Portugal award for Portuguese female directors, and was licensed to Netflix worldwide. In December 2022, it was named by the NY Times as one of six films to watch.
Maria Clara also wrote and directed the feature-length documentary “Os dias com ele” (The Days with Him). The film won the award for best film at Doc.Lisboa in 2013, in the national competition. It won awards at the Havana and IBAFF (Spain) festivals. In Brazil, it won awards at the 16th Tiradentes Film Festival (youth jury, official jury, and Itamaraty Award) and at the IV CachoeiraDOC (youth jury and official jury). In 2014, the film premiered in theaters and on DVD by the Moreira Salles Institute. In addition to feature films, Maria Clara has written and directed three short films, “Domingo,” selected for the school cycle of the San Sebastián Film Festival (2004), “Passeio de Família” (2010) and “Onde Habito” (2021). As a screenwriter, Maria Clara wrote Lírio Ferreira's new film, “Serra das Almas,” which won the Netflix award at the Rio Festival in 2024; was screenwriter and assistant director of Julia Murat's feature film “Histórias Que Só Existem Quando Lembradas” (Found Memories; and wrote Bruno Risas' feature film "Ontem Havia Coisas Estranhas no Céu" currently available on Netflix.
Maria Clara is also a casting director and casting coach, having worked on Marcelo Gomes' “Paloma,” Lírio Ferreira's “Serra das Almas,” Matias Mariani's “Cidade Pássaro,” Julia Murat's “Pendular,” Marcelo Gomes' “Joaquim,” Caetano Gotardo's “O Que se Move,” the series O Nó do Diabo by Ramon Porto Mota, Gabriel Martins, Ian Abé, and Jhésus Triuzi, and the short film A Terra Treme by Walter Salles, which is part of the feature film "Where Has the Time Gone?" organized by Jia Zhang-Ke. Maria Clara has three published books: "Medo Medo Medo" (2019), Um Novo Mar Dentro de Mim (2020) and Zonas de Guerra (2021).
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Willie Morgan
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William Alix "Willie" Morgan is a Scottish former professional association footballer who played predominatly as a winger. In the English Football League he played for Burnley (twice), Manchester United, Bolton Wanderers and Blackpool. Whilst at Bolton Wanderers he was loaned out to Chicago Sting and Minnesota Kicks who were both in the now dissolved North American Soccer League. He was also capped twenty four times at full international level for Scotland, scoring four goals between 1967 and 1974.
In the 2023 Birthday Honours, he was appointed Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to charity.
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Michael York
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Michael York OBE (born Michael Hugh Johnson; March 27, 1942) is an English actor. After performing on-stage with the Royal National Theatre, he had a breakthrough in films by playing Tybalt in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (1968). His blond, blue-eyed boyish looks and English upper social class demeanor saw him play leading roles in several major British and Hollywood films of the 1970s. His best known roles include Konrad Ludwig in Something for Everyone (1970), Geoffrey Richter-Douglas in Zeppelin (1971), Brian Roberts in Cabaret (1972), George Conway in Lost Horizon (1973), D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers (also 1973) and its two sequels, Count Andrenyi in Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Logan 5 in Logan's Run (1976).
In his later career he found success as Basil Exposition in the Austin Powers film series (1997–2002). He is a two-time Emmy Award nominee, for the ABC Afterschool Special: Are You My Mother? (1986) and the AMC series The Lot (2001).
In 2002, he received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to motion pictures.
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Peter Fonda
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Peter Henry Fonda (February 23, 1940 – August 16, 2019) was an American actor. He was the son of Henry Fonda, younger brother of Jane Fonda, and father of Bridget and Justin Fonda. Fonda was a part of the counterculture of the 1960s.
He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Easy Rider (1969), and the Academy Award for Best Actor for Ulee's Gold (1997). For the latter, he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. Fonda also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999).
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Agnieszka Polska
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Video Artist and photographer. Born in 1985 in Lublin, Poland, Lives and works in Kraków and Berlin. Agnieszka Polska creates video works employing mainly found material, such as archive photography and illustrations, which she subjects to subtle interventions, whether animating them or working them into the existing image. In the process, the artist changes their primary context, simultaneously creating illusions of documentation. She investigates the impact of documentation on its future reception. Her visually powerful explorations of lost times or half-forgotten figures of the Polish avant-garde, turn to how the past is fictionalised and re-worked. Her animated videos evoke a sense of melancholia, and a longing for something that perhaps never was, but which she makes real at least on film. In an interview with Art Review, Polska said that, 'Slow, unnaturally calm movements are present in most of my videos. I mainly work with animated film so a meditative, contemplative quality is present also in the process of production, which is very important for me. Each project needs a lot of time and concentration (for viewer and maker)'.
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Saul Rubinek
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Saul Rubinek is a German-born Canadian actor, director, producer, and playwright. He is widely known for his television roles, notably Artie Nielsen on Warehouse 13, Donny Douglas on Frasier, Lon Cohen on A Nero Wolfe Mystery, and Louis B. Mayer on The Last Tycoon. He also starred in the films Against All Odds (1984), Wall Street (1987), The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), Unforgiven (1992), Nixon (1995), True Romance (1993), The Express (2008), Barney's Version (2010), and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018).
Rubinek was born in Föhrenwald, Germany, in 1948. His parents were Polish Jews who had been hidden by Polish farmers during World War II. They immigrated to Canada after the war.
Rubinek began his acting career in theater, appearing in several productions with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and Theatre Passe Muraille. He made his television debut in 1977, with a guest appearance on the series Baretta.
In 1984, Rubinek starred in the film Against All Odds. He followed that up with roles in the films Wall Street (1987), The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), and Unforgiven (1992).
In 1995, Rubinek starred in the film Nixon. He received critical acclaim for his performance, and he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture.
In 1998, Rubinek directed his first feature film, Jerry and Tom. The film was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
From 2009 to 2014, Rubinek starred as Artie Nielsen on the Syfy series Warehouse 13. The series was a critical and commercial success, and it ran for five seasons.
In 2013, Rubinek starred as Louis B. Mayer on the Amazon Prime series The Last Tycoon. The series was based on the novel of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Rubinek is a five-time Genie Award nominee, winning Best Supporting Actor for Ticket to Heaven (1981). He is also a two-time Gemini Award nominee.
Rubinek is married to Elinor Reid, a playwright and producer. They have two children.
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Jean-Claude Charlet
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Jean-Claude Charlet (1953-2017) is the son of Armand Charlet, a large family of mountain dwellers from Argentière (Chamonix valley). He follows the traditional steps in the training of high mountain guides: aspiring guide (1978) then official guide (1981). A member of the Compagnie des guides de Chamonix, he was its president twice, from 1990 to 1994 and then from 2015 to 2016.
With his many loyal customers, he has traveled on foot or on skis through the Mont-Blanc massif, the Swiss Alps as well as more distant mountains such as Aconcagua, Kilimanjaro or the peaks of Colombia. He is the author of "Fils en aiguille", where it is as much about mountaineering as about filiation: himself the son of the famous Armand Charlet, his son Zian is also a guide. Jean-Claude Charlet had also invested in politics: in addition to local campaigns, he had climbed the Aiguille de la République – with his son precisely – to invite the Front National to be blocked in the second round of the presidential elections.
Saturday December 2, 2017, Jean-Claude Charlet, high mountain guide and former president of the Compagnie des guides de Chamonix died at the age of 64, following a long illness. His funeral was celebrated on Tuesday, December 5, 2017 at the Argentière church.
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Harry M. Woods
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Henry MacGregor "Harry" Woods (November 4, 1896 – January 14, 1970) was a Tin Pan Alley songwriter and pianist. Woods's first songwriting success came in 1923 with the song "I'm Goin' South", written with Abner Silver, which became a hit song in 1924 for Al Jolson. The same year, "Paddlin' Madelin Home" was published, with words & music by Woods.
By 1926, Woods was an established songwriter on Tin Pan Alley and would become legendary with his new song "When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along)". The song was an instant hit for singers such as "Whispering" Jack Smith and Cliff Edwards. It was Al Jolson, though, who had the most success with his recording of the song. The song was recorded in 1953 by Doris Day and again achieved considerable success on the charts.
In 1929, Woods began contributing songs to Hollywood musicals such as The Vagabond Lover, A Lady's Morals, Artistic Temper, Aunt Sally, Twentieth Century, Road House, Limelight, It's Love Again, Merry Go Round of 1938, and She's For Me. In 1934, he moved to London, where he lived for three years and worked for the British film studio Gaumont British, contributing to the films Jack Ahoy and Evergreen.
While Woods usually wrote both words and music for his songs, he also collaborated with Mort Dixon, Al Sherman, Howard Johnson, Arthur Freed, Rube Bloom and Gus Kahn.
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Emin Hüseynov
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Emin Hüseynov (born December 1997, Baku) is Azerbaijani self-taught filmmaker. He graduated from Azerbaijan State University of Economics. His first short film, Obsession Kills. (2022), was shot in a car wash garage using money he saved from his first job as sales.
His filmography includes Obsession Kills. (2022) and no-budget short films: Miss (2024), TSTS: The Comics (2024), Nostalgia of Everything (2024), Days, Months, Years and Nothing Else (2024). His films often focus on building atmosphere and aim to convey a lot within a short runtime through different storytelling.
Hüseynov is influenced by Gaspar Noé, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Nuri Bilge Ceylan. He was introduced to cinema through Hollow Man. For many years, he only watched horror movies, until his mother recommended Léon, which opened the door to other genres.
He has written four feature-length scripts so far. All of his short films are made to gain experience and build a reputation in order to eventually make "Holy Lamb", his latest feature-length script, written specifically to be made on a low budget.
He is currently working as an accountant to save money for his next short film "The Heart of the Warlord". (01.02.2025)
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