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Russell Simpson
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Russell McCaskill Simpson (June 17, 1880, Danville, California – December 12, 1959, Woodland Hills, California) was an American character actor who appeared in over 500 movies. He is best known for his "grizzled old man" appearances. Gaunt, lanky, and rustic-sounding, Simpson was a familiar character actor for almost forty-five years, particularly as a member of the John Ford Stock Company.
At age 18 Simpson prospected for gold in Alaska. He began taking acting classes in Seattle, Washington. In 1910 he married Gertrude Alter from New York City.
By 1909, he had gone into the theatre. He appeared in at least two plays on Broadway between 1909 and 1912, and made his motion picture debut in Cecil B. DeMille's 1914 original film version of The Virginian in a bit part. By 1923, when the film was remade, Simpson had progressed to playing the lead villain.
Throughout his career, Simpson worked for 12 years in road shows, stock companies, and on Broadway. He didn't usually perform lead roles, but he did star in many movies throughout the silent movie era. He performed a lead role as the grandfather in Out of the Dust (1920).
Simpson is best known for his work in the films of John Ford and, in particular, for his portrayal of Pa Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940). His final film was The Horse Soldiers, his tenth film for Ford. Simpson worked up to 1959, the year of his death.
He was the president of the Overseas Phonograph Accessories Corporation.
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Roy Richard Grinker
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Roy Richard Grinker (born 1961) is an author and Professor of Anthropology, International Affairs, and Human Sciences at The George Washington University.
Grinker is an authority on North and South Korean relations. He also spent two years living with the Lese farmers and the Efé pygmies in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo as a Fulbright scholar, and has conducted epidemiological research on autism in Korea.
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Germán Valdés
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Better known as Tin Tan, was an actor,singer and comedian who was born in Mexico City but was raised and began his career in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. He often displayed the pachuco dress and employed pachuco slang in many of his movies, some with his brothers Manuel "El Loco" Valdésand Ramón Valdés. He made the language of the Mexican American pachucos famous in Mexico. A "caló" based in Spanglish, it was a mixture of Spanish and English in speech based on that of Mexican immigrants.
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Ömer Seyfettin
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Ömer Seyfettin, a Turkish writer from the late 19th to early 20th century, is regarded as one of the greatest modern Turkish authors. His work is highly acclaimed for simplifying the Turkish language by moving away from the prevalent use of Persian and Arabic words and phrases of that time.
Born in Gönen, a town in Balikesir Province, in 1884, Ömer Seyfettin was the son of a military official. His early life was spent traveling around the coast of the Marmara Sea. He also embarked on a military career, graduating from the Military Academy (Harp Okulu) in 1903. Commissioned as a Lieutenant, he was assigned to the Western Border units of the Ottoman Empire Army, including Kusadasi. It was in Izmir that he first became acquainted with writing. In 1909, he served as an officer in the Hareket Ordusu (Action Army), which suppressed the Istanbul Irtica uprising, a movement of religious groups opposing the newly formed constitutional monarchy in Istanbul. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was also an officer in the Hareket Ordusu.
Promoted to First Lieutenant, Seyfettin was then posted as an instructor at a military school in Izmir. This position provided him with the opportunity to improve his French and interact with other like-minded writers. In 1911, he co-founded a literary and cultural magazine entitled Genç Kalemler (Young Pens) with Ziya Gökalp and Ali Canip in Salonica. Seyfettin pioneered the use of colloquial Turkish in his literary works, as opposed to the formal Ottoman Turkish, as outlined in a letter to Ali Canip.
Recalled to the army at the onset of the Balkan War, his units were defeated in Yanina in January 1913, leading to him spending approximately 12 months in Greece as a prisoner of war. Upon his release at the end of 1913, he returned to Constantinople and was appointed the executive editor of Türk Sözü, a publication associated with the ruling Committee for Union and Progress.
In 1914, after leaving the army for the second time, Ömer Seyfettin became a literature teacher in an Istanbul high school. That same year, he also assumed the role of chief author (basyazar) for the magazine Türk Yurdu. Between 1914 and 1917, he primarily wrote Turanist poems, which were published in various outlets such as Tanin, Türk Yurdu, and Halka Dogru. In 1917, he published the majority of his literary work, including a wide array of short stories. From 1919 to 1920, he contributed articles to Büyük Mecmua, a publication that supported the Turkish independence war. He passed away due to diabetes in 1920 at the young age of 36.
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María Gandiaga
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María Gandiaga began her career at the age of seven with the musical “Sonrisas y Lágrimas” by the production company SOM Produce. In 2017, she began her audiovisual career, participating in short films such as “Como si con la comida se pudiera repartir cariño,” “La Pared de Gotelé Más Bonita del Mundo,” and “Epílogo,” among others, while continuing her training in Performing and Cinematic Arts.
In 2026, she made her debut in her first feature film, “Ruega por nosotras,” directed by Daniel Monzón.
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Henry Stephenson
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Henry Stephenson Garraway (16 April 1871 – 24 April 1956), sometimes credited as Harry Stephenson, was a British stage and film actor. He portrayed friendly and wise Gentleman in many films of the 1930s and 1940s. Among his roles was Sir Joseph Banks in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Mr. Brownlow in Oliver Twist.
Stephenson was educated in Rugby in Warwickshire and started acting in his twenties. He appeared on British and American stages and made his Broadway debut in 1901, playing the messenger in A Message from Mars. In the following decades, he appeared in over 30 Broadway plays. Henry Stephenson made his film debut in 1917 and appeared in a few silent films, but made his mark mostly as an elder man in sound films. Between 1931 and 1932, he appeared in the successful Broadway play Cyanara with over 200 performances. He came to Hollywood for the film version of Cyanara, starring Ronald Colman and with Henry Stephenson in a supporting role.
In the same year year, he played the tycoon C.B. Gaerste in Red-Headed Woman and Doctor Alliott in A Bill of Divorcement. The following year, the English-born actor appeared as the intimidating yet warm-hearted Mr. Laurence in Little Women. The tall, white-haired actor specialized in portraying wise, dignified and friendly British gentlemans in supporting roles. He could be "both imposing and benevolent in his patrician portrayals, usually expounding words of wisdom or offering gentlemanly aid." He appeared overall in 90 films from 1917 to 1951, often as a doctor or professor, general, judge or aristocrat. He often played historical figures like Sir Joseph Banks in the oscar-winnig adventure film Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau in Marie Antoinette (1938).
Stephenson worked with film star Errol Flynn in the films Captain Blood, The Charge of the Light Brigade, The Prince and the Pauper, and The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex; often as Flynn's paternal friend and superior.
He portrayed Sir Thomas Lancing in Tarzan Finds a Son! in 1939 and playing an entirely different role as Sir Guy Henderson in Tarzan and the Amazons in 1945. He seldom played dark figures, among the exceptions was the snobbish Mr. Bryant in Mr. Lucky in 1943. Stephenson also appeared in literature adaptions, for example as the friendly lawyer Havisham in Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936) and as Mr. Brownlow in David Lean's literature adaption Oliver Twist (1948). He made his last film in 1949, but appeared in two TV-series in 1951 before the end of his career. In 1950, after finishing his role of Cardinal Gaspar de Quiroga in the drama play, That Lady, Stephenson retired from the stage.
He married actress Ann Shoemaker. They had one daughter.
Henry Stephenson died in 1956 at the age of 85 years. He was survived by Ann and his daughter.
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Fritz McIntyre
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Fritz Gerald McIntyre (2 September 1958 – 23 August 2021) was a British musician, most famous for his tenure as keyboard player in the original line-up of Simply Red.
McIntyre was born in Birmingham in 1958. His father was not only a church pastor, but also a choirmaster and gifted musician. As a boy he learnt a lot about music through him, and also learned trumpet and double bass at school, to accompany his self-taught skills in piano and guitar. The family moved to Canada, although McIntyre returned to Manchester in his twenties, hoping for a career in music.
McIntyre successfully auditioned for Simply Red in 1984. He co-wrote several of Simply Red's songs with frontman Mick Hucknall and sang background vocals. He also sang the lead vocals in the song "Wonderland" from the Stars album. He was a founder member of the band, and played from their debut album Picture Book in 1985 until their 1995 album Life. He was the last of the founder members to quit the band, though with their growing success, he saw decisions being made on the "big bucks" rather than "artistic progress and merit". The former camaraderie had gone, and so he decided he'd had enough.
After leaving Simply Red, McIntyre released an eponymous debut solo album. He then moved to Ontario, Canada where he released a Christian worship album First Fruits. He later resided in the United States where he was the music director of a large Florida church.
McIntyre died on 23 August 2021, at the age of 62.
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Chris Joyce
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Chris Joyce (born 11 October 1957 in Manchester, England) is an English musician, known for being the drummer with various groups and with Simply Red in the 1980s.
Coming from Chorlton, Manchester, he adopted the hippie lifestyle. His most remote band was Fast Breeder, a short-lived late 1970s punk group from Manchester formed by him on drums and Dave Rowbotham on guitar and managed by Tony Wilson. Wilson called Joyce and Rowbotham to form a band alongside guitarist Vini Reilly and bass guitarist Tony Bowers, The Durutti Column. That line-up released only two songs from Factory's first EP, A Factory Sample, before Joyce, Rowbotham and Bowers quit the band to form another post-punk band around 1979, The Mothmen.
The Mothmen released only two studio albums and a number of singles, before disbanding in the 1980s. During his time with The Mothmen, Joyce worked with Pink Military, London Underground and Judy Nylon. By the mid-1980s, he was working with Suns of Arqa, playing drums on their second LP Wadada Magic. He later formed Simply Red, alongside his bandmate Tony Bowers and singer Mick Hucknall.
Joyce shares further details of his life and career, up to and beyond his work with Simply Red, in his biography on Chris Joyce School of Drums.
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Simon Baron-Cohen
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Simon Baron-Cohen FBA (born 15 August 1958) is professor of Developmental Psychopathology in the Departments of Psychiatry and Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He is the Director of the University's Autism Research Centre, and a Fellow of Trinity College. He is best known for his work on autism, including his early theory that autism involves degrees of "mind-blindness" (or delays in the development of theory of mind); and his later theory that autism is an extreme form of the "male brain", which involved a re-conceptualisation of typical psychological sex differences in terms of empathizing–systemizing theory.
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David Brooks
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David Worthen Brooks is an American filmmaker and the founder of WorthenBrooks.
Brooks founded and led 20th Digital Studio (previously Fox Digital Studio), a division of Walt Disney Television, creating and distributing content via a wide array of both new and traditional media platforms, such as Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, and iTunes – as well as content for linear television, FOX, FX, Freeform, Fox Sports. The Digital Studio produced scores of features, several series and hundreds of shorts receiving top tier recognition from Cannes, Sundance, Tribeca and SXSW. While under Brooks' leadership, the Digital Studio revolutionized the approach to branded content by cultivating new and unique story-based partnerships with top industry leaders, such as MARS Candy, National Geographic, and NASA. Following the dissolution of 20th Digital Studio in April 2023, Brooks transitioned into a first-look deal with Hulu as an independent producer via his newly-formed production company, WorthenBrooks,
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