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Emilie Sannom
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A Danish silent film actress and aerial acrobat. Throwing herself into the castle moat in Nordisk Film's Hamlet (1911), she became the first stunt woman in Danish cinema. She went on to play dangerous roles in numerous films, sometimes as the leading actress. Sannon retired from the cinema in 1923 but continued to perform on the stage, in circuses or making risky parachute jumps. In 1931, at an air show in Grenaa, some 8,000 spectators saw her fall to her death when her parachute failed to open. - Wikipedia
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Sigrún Edda Björnsdóttir
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Sigrún Edda Björnsdóttir (born 30 August 1958) is an Icelandic actress and author.
Björnsdóttir was born in Reykjavik, Iceland to parents Guðrún Ásmundsdóttir, actress and Björn Björnsson, flight mechanic.
Björnsdóttir graduated from the Icelandic Theater School in 1981. She has played in numerous productions for the National Theater of Iceland as well as other theaters. She has played roles including Pippi Longstocking to Ophelia in Hamlet.
Björnsdóttir has two children and is married to set designer Axel Hallkell Jóhannesson.
In 2001 Björnsdóttir released her first book. The book is about a young troll girl Bóla and her friend Hnútur on their adventures from their home in Þingvellir to a 17 June (Iceland's Independence Day) celebration in Reykjavik. Bóla is a character Björnsdóttir created and played for children's television in 1990 and is still very much adored by Icelandic children and adults.
Filmography: Morðsaga (1977) as Frú B, Óðal feðranna (1980) as Stelpa á útimóti, Atómstöðin (1984) as Guðný Árland, Fastir liðir eins og venjulega (TV-series) (1985) as Erla, SSL-25 (Short) (1990), Einkalíf (1995) as Sísí, Alexanders mother, Réttur (TV-series) (2010) as Eva, Svartur á leik (2012) as Sævar K's Mother, Metalhead (2013) as Anna, Afinn (2014) as Erla, Ófærð (TV-series) (2015-2016) as Kolbrún
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Daniel Defoe
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Daniel Defoe (/dɪˈfoʊ/; c. 1660 – 24 April 1731), born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. He has been seen as one of the earliest proponents of the English novel, and helped to popularize the form in Britain with others such as Aphra Behn and Samuel Richardson. Defoe wrote many political tracts and was often in trouble with the authorities, and spent a period in prison. Intellectuals and political leaders paid attention to his fresh ideas and sometimes consulted with him.
Defoe was a prolific and versatile writer, producing more than three hundred works—books, pamphlets, and journals—on diverse topics, including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology, and the supernatural. He was also a pioneer of business journalism and economic journalism.
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Tonmoy Sujon
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Tonmoy Sujon is a Bangladeshi music composer and artist. He began his journey in the music industry at an early age, creating unique compositions that blend modern soundscapes with emotional depth. Known for his creativity and dedication, Tonmoy has steadily built his presence in the digital music world, releasing tracks across platforms like Spotify, YouTube, and SoundCloud.
Besides music, he is also recognized for his passion toward storytelling through melodies, which has made him one of the promising young talents from Bangladesh.
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Luigi Capuano
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Luigi Capuano was an Italian film director and screenwriter known for his work in the adventure and peplum (sword-and-sandal) genres. Born in Naples, he served as a pilot during World War II, an experience that influenced his future work in cinema. After the war, Capuano transitioned into filmmaking, directing 43 films between 1947 and 1971. He often used the pseudonym Lewis King. His notable works include The Two Orphans (1954), The Last of the Vikings (1961), and Zorro and the Three Musketeers (1963). Capuano's films are characterized by their dynamic storytelling and engaging action sequences, contributing significantly to Italian popular cinema during his active years.
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Wayne Groom
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Wayne Groom is the principal of the independent film production company Australian International Pictures Pty Ltd. He is the Producer/Writer/Director of the feature film Maslin Beach (1996), the telemovie Summer of Love (2001) and the television documentaries Tomorrow's Sun (1999) and Runnning on Sunshine (2004). Wayne is based in Adelaide, South Australia. He graduated from the University of Adelaide in 1972 with a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) and was the co-winner of the Institute of Engineers prestigious Parson's Prize. He entered the film industry in 1979 and formed his own production company soon after, financing and producing South Australia's first independent feature film Centrespread in conjunction with Greg Lynch Film Distributors. This film was one of the first Australian films shot on Super 16. The cinematographer was Geoff Simpson (Fried Green Tomatoes, Oscar & Lucinda). Other feature films and television dramas produced by Groom include The Dreaming (Dir: Mario Andreacchio), Strangers (Dir: Craig Lahiff), Pals (Dir: Mario Andreacchio), Point of Departure (Dir: Kathryn Millard).
In 1991 and 1992, Groom studied comedy and screenwriting in Los Angeles at UCLA Ext. He also took acting classes with renown dramatist Jeff Corey. Maslin Beach was the first feature he wrote and directed. It was made on the famous South Australian nude beach. It has subsequently been screened on the Nine Network in Australia and Channel 5 in the UK. It gained cult status in Australia after being released on video and is now available on DVD in the USA.The New York Times called it a 'tender romantic comedy'. His next film, Tomorrow's Sun, a television documentary on the 1999 World Solar Challenge, made in conjunction with Panorama Australia, was screened on the Ten Network in Australia and Discovery Channel Asia-Pacific. It was purchased for world distribution by ZDF in Germany. The following project, the moody art film Summer of Love was the first Australian telemovie shot on High Definition. It was screened in 2001 on the Nine Network. In 2004, he completed a new international television documentary, Running on Sunshine, with investment from the Film Finance Corporation, the South Australian Film Corporation, Australian Major Events and the Seven Network.
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Mohanlal
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Mohanlal Vishwanathan Nair known mononymously as Mohanlal is an Indian actor, producer and singer who is well known for his versatile and natural acting in Indian cinema. He made his acting debut in the unreleased movie Thiranottam (1978), which was followed by a role as the lead antagonist in his first release Manjil Virinja Pookkal in 1980, his onscreen debut.
Antagonistic parts in several movies followed before Mohanlal established himself as a lead actor playing a wide variety of character types in comedy and action films amongst others. He was labelled a superstar of Malayalam cinema in 1986 after the success of Rajavinte Makan, in which he played an underworld don. Mohanlal became a film producer with the 1990 musical hit His Highness Abdullah and has also acted in a number of Tamil and Bollywood films. Of these, his notable roles were in Iruvar, directed by Mani Ratnam, and Company, directed by Ram Gopal Varma. As well as being an actor and producer, Mohanlal also owns businesses involved in film distribution, restaurants and packaged spices.
Mohanlal is regarded as one of the finest actors in Indian cinema and is a cultural icon in the Indian state of Kerala, where he was elected its most popular individual in a 2006 online poll conducted by CNN-IBN on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Kerala's formation. In 2001, the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian honour, for his contributions to Indian cinema. He has won four Indian National Film Awards — two Best Actor Awards, one Special Jury Award for acting, and one Award for Best Film as producer along with six Kerala State Film Awards for Best Actor. In 2009, he became the first actor to be given the honorary rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Territorial Army of India and in 2010 received an honorary doctorate from Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kerala.
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Leonardo Pérez
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Leonardo Pérez (August 15th, 2006) is a writer, director, and actor. He started writing his first novel titled Veneno at just 13 years old, which eventually turned into a trilogy that concluded in 2019. In 2022, he published Destellos Naranjas, his most acclaimed book. He is also passionate about movies since a young age. In 2021, he started the creation of Tenue, which he wrote, directed, produced, edited, and starred in. Inspired by nostalgia and conceived as an ode to forgetting melancholy, Tenue premiered in 2024.
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Leon Armando Zalvidea
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León Armando Zalvidea Fernández (Tabaco, Philippines: 1882 / Plentzia: 1944) was a photographer and one of the first documentary filmmakers of Bizkaia (Basque Country). Settled in the town around 1920, he founded the Cinema Casino Plencia in 1928 and presided over the Casino Aurrera. In the context of the belle époque of the cinema in Bizkaia, he made documentaries and reports such as Plencia 1927 or Fiestas en Plencia, Sanatorio de Górliz and Castillo de Buñoliz, Sanatorium of Górliz and Butrón Castle, to mention only the shootings related to his closest geographical environment.
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Jan Miner
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Janice Miner (October 15, 1917 – February 15, 2004) was an American actress best known as the character Madge the manicurist in Palmolive dish-washing detergent television commercials from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Janice Miner was the daughter of a dentist and a painter, and had three brothers, Sheldon, Donald and Lyndsey. She studied at the Vesper George School of Art in her native Boston, then studied acting under Lee Strasberg and others. She made her stage debut in 1945 in a Boston production of Elmer Rice's Street Scene.
Miner then became established on radio, and worked through the 1950s in several series simultaneously. Among other roles, she was one of three actresses who played secretary Della Street on Perry Mason and one of five to play girlfriend Ann Williams on Casey, Crime Photographer. She also appeared as Mary Wesley on Boston Blackie.
Miner played featured roles in the anthology series Radio City Playhouse, in "Soundless", "Portrait of Lenore" and other episodes. Her appearance in the premiere broadcast of the series "created a minor sensation in the play Long Distance"; the episode proved so popular that she repeated her performance later in the season.
From circa 1948 through some time before the series ended in 1957, Miner starred as Julie Erickson, head of the titular orphanage in the soap opera Hilltop House, during most of the show's revival beginning in 1948. The series was sponsored by the Colgate-Palmolive Company, for which she later appeared in a famous, long-running series of television commercials.
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