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David Butler

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia David Butler (December 17, 1894 – June 14, 1979) was an American actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, and television director. Butler was born in San Francisco, California. His mother was an actress and his father was a theater stage manager. His first acting roles were playing extras in stage plays. He later appeared in two D. W. Griffith films, The Girl Who Stayed Home and The Greatest Thing in Life. He also appeared in the 1927 Academy-Award winning film 7th Heaven. The same year, Butler made his directorial debut with High School Hero, a comedy for Fox. During Butler's nine-year tenure at Fox, he directed over thirty films, including four Shirley Temple vehicles. Butler's last film for Fox, Kentucky, won Walter Brennan an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Butler worked with Bing Crosby in Road to Morocco and If I Had My Way. He directed many films starring Doris Day, among them It's a Great Feeling, Tea for Two, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Lullaby of Broadway, April in Paris, and Calamity Jane. During the late '50s and 1960s, Butler directed primarily television episodes, mainly for Leave It to Beaver and Wagon Train. For his contributions to the film industry, Butler was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 with a motion pictures star located at 6561 Hollywood Boulevard.
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Kolya Neukoelln

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Kolya was born in Czechoslovakia and raised as native in Mother Russia. At the age of seven, Kolya began interested in playing the piano and singing and later participated in a school and university theatre, at the same time doing her first master diploma as an engineer. So she completely moved into an acting career in her middle 30th doing butoh-dance performances and video art movies with PoemaTheatre since 2013. Kolya graduated from the Moscow School of New Cinema in 2016 and since when has made around 25 characters and leading roles in shorts movies and feature films, video art and music videos working and living internationally. Aside from an acting job for films and movies Kolya is playing in such theatre groups as Impresario and Meyerhold Centre. Also directing choreography, site-specific and physical performances and post-contemporary dance. Basically standing for human rights and spreading healthy lifestyle methods of extending boundaries for people behind the camera and even further - in a real life.
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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 who 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 31 October 2020, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sean Connery, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Lori Sutton

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Lori Sutton was a sexy, shapely and attractive blonde actress who popped up in a handful of movies and TV shows made throughout the 80's. Lori began her film career in the early 80's with small parts in History of the World: Part I (1981), Looker (1981), perfectly cast as a "Playboy" playmate in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) and Los albóndigas en remojo (1984). Sutton graduated to more substantial roles in the mid-80's: she was very funny as the stuck-up "Edith Hutton" in the uproariously raunchy Night Patrol (1984), memorably feisty as lusty police detective "Beverly McAfee" in Malibu Express (1985), and quite engaging as sweet health spa instructor "Delores Lane" in the charming A Polish Vampire in Burbank (1985). Moreover, she made guest appearances on the TV shows Chips (1977), Matt Houston (1982), Falcon Crest (1981) and Hunter (1984). Alas, Lori Sutton abruptly stopped acting in 1990.
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Kerri Randles

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For several years, Kerri Randles has been acting, writing and developing projects for Film, Stage and Television. Kerri started her career as an actress in Chicago, Illinois. Her first break into films came working with directors Oliver Stone (Heaven and Earth) and William Friedkin (Jailbreakers), respectively. Subsequent roles after that included Marilyn Monroe, in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge for HBO, directed by Martha Coolidge, Poor White Trash, and Scenes of the Crime. She most recently worked with Angelina Jolie on Clint Eastwood's, Changeling. In June 2010, Kerri brought her one-woman show Can't You Hear Me Knockin? to the stage, opening the first ever Hollywood Fringe Festival to rave reviews. The show went on to New York for a successful limited engagement, and will play the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, August 2011. A memoir, Can't You Hear Me Knockin?, will follow in 2012. In 2005 Kerri founded her own production company, Littlecommando Productions. In 2007 she helped to bring Alison Eastwood's directorial debut film, Rails & Ties to the big screen, shepherding a successful tour of the festival circuit. Kerri was also instrumentally involved in the Exit Through the Gift Shop debut at Sundance and the subsequent L.A. premiere and 2011 Oscar campaign for the film. Kerri currently resides in Los Angeles. She is an avid art collector and is known to produce shows for artists. She collaborated on Banksy's Los Angeles show, Barely Legal, in 2006, and also produced The Sex Lives of Mannequins in Chicago and Los Angeles for producer Charles Evans Jr. (Aviator).
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Paul McGillion

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The sixth of seven children, Paul's family emigrated to Canada from Paisley, Scotland when he was just 2 years old. He returned to Scotland during his early teens for a few years before heading back to Canada . Paul has a degree in Teaching and while studying at University, got involved in various sports including wrestling. After graduating the actor began his career teaching theatre in Toronto, squeezing in time to attend auditions, finally making the move to Vancouver. Paul has worked extensively in film, TV and the theatre for the last 12 years, as well as teaching scene study in 1998 & 1999 at the respected Vancouver Film School. ((Source: IMDB))
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Abbey DiGregorio

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Abbey DiGregorio (née McBride) is an American voice actress who is best known for portraying the voice of Ling-Ling on Drawn Together. She is a member of the sketch comedy group The Mechanicals. also appears in Richard Kelly's film Southland Tales. In the Drawn Together episode "Foxxy and the Gang Bang", Abbey not only provides the voice of Ling-Ling, but also does a live cameo as a white lady getting robbed by the Bill Cosby parody (DeWayne Jessie of Otis Day). Abbey provided a voice of a penguin in Bob Saget's movie Farce of the Penguins. In 2008, she married Drawn Together writer, Craig DiGregorio. Description above from the Wikipedia article Abbey DiGregorio, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Georges Renavent

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From Wikipedia Georges Renavent (April 23, 1894 – January 2, 1969) was an American actor in film, Broadway plays and operator of American Grand Guignol. He was born in Paris, France. His first American film appearance was in The Seven Sisters (1915). Fourteen years later he played an impressive starring role as the Kinkajou in the musical spectacular Rio Rita (1929). Renavent also starred in East of Borneo (1931), a film that went on to achieve latter-day fame when avant-garde filmmaker Joseph Cornell spliced together all of the leading lady's close-ups and came up with a surrealistic exercise titled Rose Hobart (1936). Renavent's final film, Mara Maru, was made in 1952.
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Zoey Skye

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Angel Dust is a female American professional wrestler. Finishers and signature moves Acid Drop Championships and accomplishments Absolute Intense Wrestling AIW Women's Championship (1 time) Diamond Championship Wrestling DCW Women's Championship (1 time) Pro Wrestling Rampage PWR Tag Team Championship (1 time) (with Sassy Stephie) RISE Wrestling Phoenix Of RISE Championship (1 time, inaugural) Guardians of RISE Championship (1 time, Current) with Raven's Ash SHIMMER Women Athletes Heart of Shimmer Championship (1 time, Current) Height 5 ft 0 in (1.52 m) Weight 99 lb (45 kg) Trainer Johnny Gargano JT Lightning Debut 2007
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Katalin Karády

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Katalin Karády (December 8, 1910, Budapest - February 8, 1990, New York) was a Hungarian actress and singer. A leading actress in Hungarian movies made between 1939–1945, she is best known outside Hungary as an awardee of the Righteous among the Nations honorific for rescuing a number of Hungarian Jews. She started acting in 1936, taking classes from Ernő Tarnay, and Artúr Bárdos. After gaining the attention of journalist Zoltán Egyed in a bar in Buda (who also proposed the name Karády) she was introduced to Ilona Aczél, a former actress, in whose acting school she learned the basics of the profession in the following three years, including singing. Karády's first performance was at the end of the 30s, in the Joób Dániel theatre. Between 1931 and 1941, she appeared in the Pesti and Vígszínház theatre in various roles. Her first movie role, Halálos Tavasz (Deadly Spring) gave her instant fame as a diva and sex-symbol, supported by her unusual, humming voice, and "femme fatale" character. In the next nine years, she appeared in 20 movies. Zoltán Egyed became her manager, and successfully created a Hollywood-like image around her, as a result, thousands of fans tried to mimic her clothing, hairstyle and behavior throughout the country. Karády's personal life was a constant topic of gossip, conflicting rumors came and gone about she being a man-eater, or lesbian. The theories were stirred up even more as she had intimate relationship with Regent Miklós Horthy's chief of secret service, István Ujszászy, who also proposed her, and bought her a villa. The 2001 film Hamvadó Cigarettavég by Péter Bacsó is dedicated to her memory. In 2004, for her courageous acts during World War II, she received the posthumous Righteous medal from the Yad Vashem Institute. Description above from the Wikipedia article Katalin Karády, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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