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Xander Jeanneret

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Xander Jeanneret is a reality personality, actor, and YouTube producer. You may recognize him from Seasons 2 and 3 of the hit TBS show KING OF THE NERDS, where he was a fan-favorite contestant and invited back as the host of Behind the Scenes content. Xander also produced and starred in the youtube series Under The Table, which garnered over 100,000 views in a short amount of time. He also created and starred in the series Super Anime Smackdown, an Anime-based debate show with G4's Courtney Kraft. Xander also performs and writes for the nerd parody band Library Bards with Bonnie Gordon (ABC's The Quest) and performs with the fantasy theatre troupe Dungeon Master, which has been producing shows for over 30 years. A representative of the LGBTQ community, Xander also works with World of Wonder (the production company behind RuPaul's Drag Race) to produce dynamic online content. Xander has spoken at over 30 conventions in 2014 on equality in Nerd Media, including San Diego Comic Con, New York Comic Con, and Los Angeles Pride. You can hear Xander's voice in the hit indie fighting game Divekick (as The Announcer) and the MMORPG Dragon Nest. Xander is fluent in Japanese and provides a unique experience when giving talks about living and going to University in Japan.
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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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Thomas Gansch

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He is one of the founding members of the band, at the time having been a mere 17 years old, but nevertheless already having successfully substituted at the Vienna State Opera. However, his love for jazz proved to be the stronger force with the result that Thomas became one of the style-defining trumpet players of the younger generation of Austria musicians. This guy can play everything on his trumpet: jazz, classical music, crossover tunes and of course everything in between. Furthermore he’s a real whirlwind on stage, always good for a punch line with perfect timing in true stand-up comedian style. In his tranquil moments he’s composing for us, at the same time preparing his own, independent music projects.
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Eryk Rocha

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Erik Aruak Gaítán Rocha is a Brazilian film director, producer, editor, and cinematographer. He is the son of film director Glauber Rocha. "He studied cinema at the San Antonio de Los Baños School in Cuba, where he produced Rocha que voa (2002)." It won best film in the É Tudo Verdade International Festival, the CineSul Festival, and the Saul Yelín Choir at the New Latin American Cinema Festival in Havana in 2002. The film also won the title of Best Masterpiece at the Rosário Festival in Argentina in 2003
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Tara Merenda Nelson

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Tara Merenda Nelson is a filmmaker, curator, programmer and lecturer working between the conceptual and perceptual realms with small gauge film and digital media. Her films, videos and installations have been exhibited nationally and internationally, including the Museum of Modern Art (NY and Miami), Mono No Aware (Brooklyn), The 8Fest (Canada), VideoEx (Switzerland) and the Sydney Underground Film Festival (AUS). She has taught digital media and film production courses at Montserrat, Ithaca College, Cornell University, University of Rochester and SUNY Brockport. Currently she is the Curator of Moving Image Collections at Visual Studies Workshop, where she teaches 16mm film production and oversees a collection of over 9,000 16mm films magnetic media titles. She holds an MFA in Film/Video from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
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Dorothy Page

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Dorothy Page was born March 4, 1904, in Northampton, Pennsylvania. As a college student in Pennsylvania she was picked by the Curtis Publishing Co. to be a cover model for the "Saturday Evening Post". She married a medical student in 1925, and after he became a doctor they moved to Detroit, his hometown, to start his medical practice. The Depression hit the US in the 1930s, and many families needed extra income to survive, so Dorothy--who had majored in music in college--auditioned for a singing spot in the Paul Whiteman band. She got the job, and was soon singing with Whiteman's band on his NBC Radio show. She became quite popular with audiences. In 1935 she was a regular on the "Paducah Plantation" radio program of Irvin S. Cobb. That same year she was signed to a contract by Universal Pictures, which put her in a lower-budget musical with Ricardo Cortez called Manhattan Moon (1935), which clicked with audiences. Her next film, though, King Solomon of Broadway (1935), was less successful, and she was dropped by Universal. A few years later she tried her luck in films again with a film for Republic Pictures, Mama Runs Wild (1937), a Charles Ruggles - Mary Boland comedy, but in this film Dorothy didn't sing, and the picture didn't do well critically or financially. However, "B" studio Grand National Pictures thought that Dorothy could save their studio, which was on the financial ropes due to the disastrous Something to Sing About (1937), a million-dollar James Cagney musical that flopped big-time and cost Grand National a fortune. The studio signed Dorothy for a series of medium-budgeted musical westerns, with the gimmick of her being a singing cowgirl. However, "medium budgeted" for Grand National was "very low budgeted" anywhere else, and the films--three in all--were not particularly successful, as audiences didn't take to the idea of a singing cowgirl the way they had to a singing cowboy. After the third film Grand National dropped the series, and Dorothy as well, and the studio soon went out of business. Dorothy retired from acting to devote her time to her family. Her first marriage having ended in a divorce, she remarried again in 1939, to an attorney, but he died of a heart attack in 1941. She soon remarried a third time, to a rancher in Fresno, California, and moved there to help him run his ranching business for many years. The 1950s were not good for her, however, Her marriage broke up and later she was diagnosed with cancer. She moved to Florida after the divorce to be nearer to the hospital where she was receiving treatment for her disease, but she succumbed to it in 1961.
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Catherine Waller

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Catherine Waller is theatre maker, television writer, stage and screen actress and a passionate storyteller. She was born in New Zealander born to American parents and moved to the States in 2011 after graduating with a BFA in Acting at Toi Whakaari: New Zealand National Drama School. She has won awards for her one woman show "The Creeps" which she performed Off-Broadway in 2016, and is currently touring to Film Festivals with her award winning short film "The Luring," which is being pitched as a series to Netflix. Most recent credits include LOVE on Netflix (producer Judd Apatow), "The Luring", "Creep" (Best Actress AIFF), and "Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk" directed by Eric Stoltz.
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Shams El-Barudy

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Egyptian actress of Syrian origins, born in 1945, she studied at the Higher Institute for Dramatic Arts for only two and a half years, then began her artistic career in the early sixties, and at that time she was still using her real name (Shams al-Muluk), but soon she changed her nickname To be (Shams Al-Baroudi) after her family name. After that, she had many roles in the cinema, which made her an icon of temptation in the history of Egyptian cinema, and among the films in which she participated: (The Malatilian Bath, Pleasure and Agony, El Amusement Street) Shams Al-Baroudi has also been a mainstay in the films directed by her husband, actor Hassan Youssef, including (Cowardly and Love, Fat Cats, Two On the Road). Shams Al-Baroudi decided in the mid-eighties to retire and wear the hijab after the trip that she made with her father to perform the Umrah rituals, and she disavowed all the works that she participated in.
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Bill Elliott

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Wild Bill Elliott (October 16, 1904 – November 26, 1965) was an American film actor. He specialized in playing the rugged heroes of B Westerns, particularly the Red Ryder series of films. By 1925, he was getting occasional extra work in films. He took classes at the Pasadena Playhouse and appeared in a few stage roles there. By 1927, he had made his first Western, The Arizona Wildcat, playing his first featured role. Several co-starring roles followed, and he renamed himself Gordon Elliott. But as the studios made the transition to sound films, he slipped back into roles as an extra and bit parts, as in Broadway Scandals, in 1929. For the next eight years, he appeared in over a hundred films for various studios, but almost always in unbilled parts as an extra. Elliott began to be noticed in some minor B Westerns, enough so that Columbia Pictures offered him the title role in a serial, The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1938). The serial was so successful, and Elliott so personable, that Columbia promoted him to starring in his own series of Western features, replacing Columbia's number-two cowboy star Robert "Tex" Allen. Henceforth Gordon Elliott would be known as Bill Elliott. Within two years, he was among the Motion Picture Herald's Top Ten Western Stars, where he would remain for the next 15 years. In 1943, Elliott signed with Republic Pictures, which cast him in a series of Westerns alongside George "Gabby" Hayes. The first of these, Calling Wild Bill Elliott, gave Elliott the name by which he would be best known and by which he would be billed almost exclusively for the rest of his career. Following several films in which both actor and character shared the name Wild Bill Elliott, he took the role for which he would be best remembered, that of Red Ryder in a series of sixteen movies about the famous comic strip cowboy and his young Indian companion, Little Beaver (played in Elliott's films by Bobby Blake). Elliott played the role for only two years but would forever be associated with it. Elliott's trademark was a pair of six guns worn butt-forward in their holsters. Elliott's career thrived during and after the Red Ryder films, and he continued making B Westerns into the early 1950s. He also had his own radio show during the late 1940s. His final contract as a Western star was with Monogram Pictures, where budgets declined as the B Western lost its audience to television. When Monogram became Allied Artists Pictures Corporation in 1953, it phased out its Western productions, and Elliott finished out his contract playing a homicide detective in a series of five modern police dramas, his first non-Westerns since 1938. Elliott retired from films (except for a couple of TV Western pilots which were not picked up). He worked for a time as a spokesman for Viceroy cigarettes and hosted a local TV program in Las Vegas, Nevada, which featured many of his Western films.
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Leonard Terfelt

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Leonard Daniel Andreas Terfelt, originally Jonson, born 20 August 1976 in Hägersten, is a Swedish actor. Terfelt made his film debut in 2000 in Jalla! Jalla!. In 2007, he had the recurring role of Niillas Kimmel in the TV series Hook. The same year, he starred in the film Leo. He was nominated for a Guldbagge in 2008 for this role. In 2008-2009 he served the role of Roger Andersson in the TV series Innocently Convicted. In 2013 he played the role of Hans von Enke in five films about Kurt Wallander. In 2014, he starred in the film Flugparken against, among others, Sverrir Gudnason. He also appeared in The Bridge (the 2011 TV series) in the 4th and last season, as William (Leonora's father), in 2018.
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