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Jake Van Wagoner
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Jake has been working in film for over 10 years and started as a production assistant. After working as a producer and production manager in Utah for many years, Jake was brought on as a staff writer and comedy producer for truTV’s “Impractical Jokers.” He has produced a bunch of feature films, including “The Saratov Approach,” shot in 14 days, in two countries, along with the cult hit “Once I Was A Beehive.” He wrote, directed and starred in “My Brother the Time Traveler” aka “Christmas Time.”
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Deana Horváthová
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Deana Horváthová, married Deana Jakubisková (* March 11, 1958 Banská Bystrica) is a Slovak actress and film producer, the wife of director Juraj Jakubisek.
After studying at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (1981), she was engaged in the Slovak National Theater. Over the course of twelve seasons, she has created more than 20 main roles here, and she has also starred in ten television films and series. After moving to Prague in 1993–1994, she performed at the Bez zábradlí Theater in Prague, and since 1994 she has been mainly engaged in production activities. She and her husband live in Prague, and they have a son, Jorik.
In October 2011, she knocked down pedestrians at a crossing in Prague, who died on the spot. In 2013, she was sentenced to a 30-month suspended sentence and a four-year driving ban. Her appeal was rejected in May 2014 by the Prague City Court.
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Fay Wray
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Fay Wray (born Vina Fay Wray; September 15, 1907 – August 8, 2004) was a Canadian-American actress. Through an acting career that spanned 57 years, Wray attained international stardom as an actress in horror film roles, leading to many considering her as the first "scream queen".
After appearing in minor film roles, Wray gained media attention being selected as one of the "WAMPAS Baby Stars". This led to Wray being signed to Paramount Pictures as a teenager, where she made more than a dozen films. After leaving Paramount, she signed deals with various film companies, being cast in her first horror film roles. For RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., she starred in the film with which she is most identified, King Kong (1933). After the success of King Kong, Wray appeared in more minor film roles and on television, leading to her final role in 1980.
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Michael Shamus Wiles
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Michael Shamus Wiles (born October 27, 1955) is an American character actor of film and television onscreen since the 1980s who has appeared in over 100 films and television shows.
He portrayed Marc Mitscher in Pearl Harbor and Mr. Parmagi in Hellraiser: Inferno. He is also known for recurring roles as ASAC George Merkert on Breaking Bad and as Jury on Sons of Anarchy. Other notable appearances include Puppet Master 4, Lost Highway, Fight Club, Rock Star and Transformers. In 2011, he appeared in Rockstar Games hit detective game L.A. Noire as Fire Chief Albert Lynch. He appeared in a 2015 production of the Hydrogen Jukebox.
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Joe Koons
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Joe Koons was born in Louisville, Kentucky and was raised on a mini-farm/Ranch in the City. Only child of Joseph W Koons Sr. and Karen M Koons. Attended Butler Traditional High School and played football and basketball for all four years and Baseball for the first 3 years of high school there. He was one of few to Letter in all three sports. He Majored in Auto CAD and was an Architectuaral designer for Home Depot his first year out of High School, and helped design a Bridge crossing the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky to New Albany, Indiana. Decided to start acting in college. His theatrical Professor, Dr. Judy Truitt assured him he was very talented and had future as an actor. " I just needed to take the first step toward my career, which was move all the way across the country and try. "
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Vivian Wu
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Vivian Wu (born February 5, 1966 in Shanghai), is a Chinese actress, known for her roles in The Last Emperor (1987), Heaven & Earth (1993), The Joy Luck Club (1993), and The Pillow Book (1996) and as the historical figure of Soong May-ling, commonly referred to as Madam Chiang Kai-shek, in two major Chinese motion pictures The Soong Sisters (1997) and The Founding of a Republic (2009)
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Mel Baker
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Dr Mel Baker is not your ordinary educator. She is a storyteller, a filmmaker, a podcaster, and a survivor. She has a doctorate in adult education, but she also has a wealth of life experiences that have shaped her into who she is today. She has faced childhood abuse, homelessness, domestic violence, adult trauma, mental health challenges, and identity crises, but she has also found healing, resilience, and hope. Mel's five published books and her film Say My Name tells her story through the lens of trauma leading to hope.
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Jerry Scheff
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Bass player Jerry Scheff grew up in the San Francisco Bay area, started playing tuba in grammar school and, by seventh grade, got into playing string bass. His musical bent was toward jazz and R&B. By age fifteen he was playing in clubs in his new hometown of Sacramento and back in San Francisco. As a high school senior Scheff joined the U.S. Navy and wound up in the Navy's school of music in Washington, D.C. taking a nine-month course studying theory and harmony and getting to play with some great musicians. After the course ended he stayed on to teach, moonlighting as a player in jazz clubs, then the Navy transferred him to San Diego. Some time after his service discharge Scheff moved to Los Angeles and played regularly at a club called The Sands in Watts, where a teen-aged Billy Preston often appeared doing James Brown covers. Oddly enough, bass player Scheff began his work in the L.A. recording session scene playing valve trombone.
The first hit record Scheff played bass on was an album by the group The Association, including the singles Along Comes Mary and Cherish. On Mary, Scheff made a bass mistake that got left in, so the thrill of hearing his work on a radio hit was counterbalanced by his cringing every time he heard the mistake. However, a couple of years later, it was gratifying to hear an 'elevator music' cover of it that had the bass player copying Scheff's part, bad note and all. A special career highlight was playing on The Doors' album LA Woman. Over the years Scheff recorded with Bobby Sherman, Tiny Tim, Johnny Mathis, Nancy Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Bobby Vinton, The Everly Brothers, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Dionne Warwick, Barbra Streisand, Linda Rondstat and many others.
By the late sixties he crossed paths with guitarist James Burton, who remembered Scheff's work and called him when putting together the band for Elvis in 1969. Scheff worked with Elvis from 1969 to 1973 and 1975 to 1977, on stage and on a number of recordings. He can be seen performing in the documentary films Elvis: That's The Way It Is (1970) and Elvis On Tour (1972) as well as the first ever show broadcast via satellite, Aloha From Hawaii (1973). Reflecting on those years, Scheff says 'Elvis had a big impact on my career. It was like going to school'. In the '80s and '90s, he toured with Elvis Costello, Sam Phillips and John Denver. Jerry also appeared with Roy Orbison and friends on the TV concert, A Black and White Night (1987). Today, he continues to work as a session musician with a wide array of artists. A passion in recent years has been song writing. Although much of his career has been working with rock and pop greats, he still enjoys sitting in to play a little jazz every once in a while, as he says 'to keep the cobwebs clear.' Both of Scheff's sons, Darin and Jason, are musicians. Jason Scheff took over Pete Cetera's spot in the band Chicago. He also travels the world with Elvis The Concert.
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Eva Pallarés
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She began in the world of theater and, at just fifteen years old, wrote and directed her first play. She studied Humanities in Madrid, but soon discovered that her future lay in the world of acting.
The bulk of her career as an actress, writer or director has been focused on short films and, as an actress, she has participated in several highly relevant short films, such as "Gris" (2003) by Álex Montoya, "¿Y si hacemos un trío?" (2004) by Álex Montoya or "La culpa del alpinista" (2004), directed by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo. In 2006, she managed to perform her first leading role in the film "AzulOscuroCasiNegro", by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo.
Her debut as a film director came with the short film "Tutoría"; while as a screenwriter she is responsible for the scripts of short films such as the aforementioned "Tutoría", "Amiguísimas" or "Cuando diga papá".
Recently, the play "eNBlanco" was performed, of which she is its producer, protagonist, director and screenwriter.
On February 19, 2010, the film "Amores locos" by Beda Docampo Feijoó was released, where she plays a secondary role.
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Henry Daniell
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Charles Henry Daniell (5 March 1894 – 31 October 1963) was an English actor who had a long and prestigious career on stage as well as in films. He is perhaps best known for his villainous roles in films like The Great Dictator, The Philadelphia Story and The Sea Hawk. Daniell was given few opportunities to play a 'good guy', including a supporting part as Franz Liszt in the biographical film Song of Love (1947). His last name is sometimes spelled "Daniel".
Daniell's film debut came in 1929 in Jealousy. He appeared as Professor Moriarty in the Basil Rathbone-Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes film The Woman in Green (1945). He appeared in other films such as Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator (1940) (playing Garbitsch, to sound like "garbage", a parody of Joseph Goebbels), and The Body Snatcher (1945, with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi) – as well as two other films in the Sherlock Holmes/Basil Rathbone series: The Voice of Terror (1942) and Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943) with fellow Moriarty George Zucco.
Daniell played the sleazy Baron de Varville opposite Greta Garbo in Camille (1936). Another early triumph was his portrayal of Cecil in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939). He also played the treacherous Lord Wolfingham (no relation to Francis Walsingham) in The Sea Hawk (1940), fighting Errol Flynn in what is often considered one of the most spectacular sword fighting duels ever filmed. When Michael Curtiz cast him in this film, Henry Daniell initially refused because he couldn't fence. Curtiz accomplished the climactic duel through the use of shadows and over-shoulder shots, with a double fencing Flynn with ingenious inter-cutting of their faces.
Towards the end of the Second World War, he appeared in one of his most memorable film roles, as the cruel Mr. Brocklehurst in Jane Eyre (1944), opposite Joan Fontaine who played Eyre. That same year he appeared in The Suspect as Charles Laughton's blackmailing next-door neighbour. In the 1950s and 1960s, he did much television, and also appeared as the malevolent Dr. Emil Zurich in Edward L. Cahn's The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959), and in an episode of Maverick, "Pappy" opposite James Garner the same year. An absolute professional, he was always on the set when needed, and impatient when delays in filming took place. Much in demand for his dry, sardonic delivery, Daniell moved easily from big-budget films, such as (uncredited) Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), to television without difficulty. In 1957, Daniell appeared as King Charles II of England in the NBC anthology series The Joseph Cotten Show in the episode "The Trial of Colonel Blood", with Michael Wilding in the title role. In the same year he played the instructing solicitor to Charles Laughton's leading counsel barrister in Witness for the Prosecution (1957).
The actor claimed one of his favourite roles was as Tony Curtis' supervisor in the acclaimed Blake Edwards film Mister Cory (1957) at a time when the actor's career was clearly slowing down, but Daniell retained some of the best and most memorable lines in the movie, "A gentleman never grabs. Manners, Mister Cory. I find them a prerequisite in any circumstance."
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