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Laurence Naismith

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Laurence Naismith (14 December 1908 – 5 June 1992) was an English actor. Naismith appeared in films such as Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Richard III (1955), Jason and the Argonauts (1963), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), Carrington VC (1954) and as Captain Edward Smith of the RMS Titanic in A Night to Remember (1958). He appeared on Broadway in the musical Here's Love in 1963 and played the non-singing role of Merlin in the 1967 film version of the musical Camelot. In 1965 he guest-starred as barber Gilly Bright in episode 25, "The Threat" of 12 O-Clock High (TV series). He was Judge Fulton in the TV series The Persuaders! (1971), with Tony Curtis and Roger Moore. He also starred in a children's ghost film The Amazing Mr Blunden (1972). He portrayed Emperor of Austria Franz Joseph in the BBC production Fall of Eagles (1974). Naismith played the Prince of Verona in the BBC Television Shakespeare version of Romeo & Juliet. Outside of acting he was the landlord of the Rowbarge pub at Woolhampton, Berkshire and a keen cricket fan. Naismith married, in 1939, Vera Bocca of Horden, County Durham. Description above from the Wikipedia article Laurence Naismith, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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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George Psarras

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George Psarras is an actor, musician, composer and sound designer from the San Francisco Bay Area. Mr. Psarras was just seen on General Hospital and recently wrapped the film Tapawingo along with his twin brother Paul Psarras, where they play the eccentric Glenn and Ben Gratton respectively. The film stars Jon Heder, Kim Matula, Billy Zane, Gina Gershon and others. Look out for it in 2022! On the stage, recent credits include The Humans (Richard Saad) at San Jose Stage Company and Silent Sky (Peter Shaw) at City Lights Theater Company, Between Riverside and Crazy (Lt. Caro) at San Jose Stage Company, and Finks (Sgt at Arms, Piano Player) at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. Mr. Psarras recently made his feature film debut in Disney Pixar's Onward, in March of 2020. He recently made his television debut as a co-star in the TNT show The Last Ship directed by Peter Weller. He was also in the video game NBA2K16 directed by Spike Lee. Other recent roles include Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice, Brock in Ideation and Merrick in The Elephant Man, all at City Lights Theater Company in San Jose, California. He was also seen at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley in Water By The Spoonful (Prof Aman, Ghost, swing-Elliot), and Anna in the Tropics. He has worked with Crowded Fire Theatre, Golden Thread Productions, and Dragon Productions. Other City Lights credits include Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Dr. Jekyll), Build (Kip), Amadeus (Mozart), Spacebar: A Broadway Play by Kyle Sugarman (Playboy/Fancee Magee), Aphrodisiac (Avery), August: Osage County (Little Charles), Compleat Female Stage Beauty (Charles II), The Three Musketeers (Aramis), and First Person Shooter (Tommy/Billy). In 2013, he was a co-creative director and performer at El Capitan Theater in Hollywood for The Gabby Awards, an awards ceremony celebrating the talents and achievements of notable Greek Americans. He also participated in the 2017 Gabby Awards at Carnegie Hall. Mr. Psarras has also been playing Greek music with his former band Fotia and with his twin brother Paul Psarras since 1998 in cities around the country including San Francisco, San Jose, Las Vegas, Honolulu, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York as well as others. Mr. Psarras is the resident sound designer/composer at City Lights Theater Company of San Jose where he has designed over fifty shows. He is a winner of four Theatre Bay Area Awards for Outstanding Sound Design for Eurydice, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Truce: A Christmas Wish From The Great War, and Amadeus. Mr. Psarras also works in film, television (The Last Ship), voice over (Pixar) and commercials (Toyota).
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Keiko Awaji

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Keiko Awaji (1933) is a Japanese film actress. Notable highlights of her career were an appearance in Akira Kurosawa's Stray Dog, and a role as Kimiko in The Bridges at Toko-Ri, where she appeared alongside William Holden and Mickey Rooney. Her first husband was Filipino musician and actor Rodrigo "Bimbo" Danao; they had two children together. Their eldest is actor Etsuo Shima. Her second husband was Japanese actor Yorozuya Kinnosuke, but they divorced in 1987. Their eldest son Akihiro died in a car crash in 1990. In 2004, their youngest son Kichinosuke Yorozuya (Satoshi Ida) was arrested for breaking into her home and served six months in prison. On June 16, 2010, Kichinosuke committed suicide by jumping off his apartment in Shinjuku. The actress is apparently a big fan of the Dragon Quest games, even going so far as to say it is her dream to play one last game before she dies. She died of esophageal cancer in Tokyo on 11 January 2014, aged 80 Description above from the Wikipedia article Keiko Awaji, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Dan Sallitt

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Dan Sallitt is an American critic, screenwriter and film director known for his microbudget filmmaking and "cinephile" film criticism. Born on 27 July 1955 in Pennsylvania, Sallitt moved to Los Angeles in 1976 where he became first-string film critic of the Los Angeles Reader from 1983 to 1985. He has written film criticism for many outlets, including Slate, the Chicago Reader, MUBI.com, Masters of Cinema, and the Toronto Film Festival. He maintains the film blog Thanks for the Use of the Hall.
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Taylor Blackwell

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Taylor Blackwell has been acting since she was 5 years old and has appeared in more than 40 commercials, 10 films, numerous theater productions and several network TV programs. She is best known for her role as Lauren Evans on the Starz original series "Magic City." She has also done hundreds of national print campaigns, catalogs, and voice over work. She was nominated for a Young Artist Award for her work on Magic City and Army Wives. Born in West Palm Beach, Florida, she is a theater major at a performing arts high school, and loves anything to do with acting, singing, dancing and performing. In her spare time, she also loves to play the piano, sew, knit, swim, do arts and crafts, and play with her dog, Maggie. - IMDb Mini Biography By: M. Blackwell
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Joe Matthews

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Joe Matthews is an award-winning director, editor, actor, and singer. He took an early interest in film at eight years old, making short films on Super 8. He has been involved in the film industry for most of his life, working in front of the camera with credits including “Splitting Up Together”, “Bizaardvark”, and “Jimmy Kimmel Live”. He has worked as a session singer on projects including “The Book of Life”, “Sing”, and The Weeknd’s song “Angel”. More recently, Joe has worked on concept trailers for Netflix, Paramount Pictures, and Sony Pictures and produced and edited Lionsgate’s “The Duel” starring Dylan Sprouse, Callan McAuliffe, and Patrick Warburton.
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Akhil Akkineni

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Akhil Akkineni  is an Indian film actor who works in the Telugu film industry. The son of actors Nagarjuna and Amala, Akhil made his acting debut as a baby who leaves his home in the comedy film Sisindri (1994), aged one. After completing his education, Akhil made a return to the film industry as a cricketer in celebrity tournaments and then in a cameo appearance in Vikram Kumar's Manam (2014) alongside several of his family members. He then appeared in his first film in a leading role with Akhil (2015), an action fantasy film.
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Bruce Tong Yim-Chaan

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Originally from Hong Kong, Bruce Tong Yim-Chaan began his career as an actor with the 1970 Hong Kong action film "Kung Fu Vengeance". He then teamed up with Jackie Chan, acting as his personal stunt man and action director in the films The "Young Master" (1980), "Dragon Strike "(1982), and Jackie Chan's "Project A" (1983). More recently, he decided to come to Los Angeles to pursue Hollywood filmmaking. He has attended the UCLA Extension Entertainment Studies program in order to do this, as well as becoming 2nd Unit Director in 2004 on Russ Emanuel's GWG: Girl With Gun, a Russem Productions film.
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Michel Drucker

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Michel Drucker (born 12 September 1942 in Vire) is a popular French journalist and TV host. He has been on screen for so long and so permanently (in various shows and on different networks, both public and private), that he once said that some people consider that he was included in the price of their TV sets. His younger brother, Jacques, is a doctor, and his older brother, Jean, was a television executive. He started a journalistic career in 1965 at the ORTF as sports reporter and commentator. Although he kept doing live coverage of major soccer matches until 1986, he soon turned to hosting variety shows, such as Champs-Élysées on Antenne 2 in the 1980s, then Stars 90 on TF1 in the 1990s, then finally Vivement dimanche on France 2 every Sunday afternoon since 1998. Drucker is known for his polite and toned-down attitude towards show-business stars, and best known outside France for the incident between Serge Gainsbourg and American singer Whitney Houston on the television programme, Champs-Élysées. Drucker is Jewish. His father, Abraham Drucker, was a Jewish immigrant who arrived in France in 1925 to study medicine. Drucker is married to French actress Dany Saval and is an uncle of Léa Drucker, an actress, and Marie Drucker, a television journalist on France 2. Source: Article "Michel Drucker" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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