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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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Hamish Blake

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Hamish Donald Blake is an Australian Gold Logie Award winning comedian, actor, and author from Melbourne. Since 2003, he has worked with Andy Lee as part of the comedy duo Hamish and Andy. The pair have performed live and on television and radio, most notably with their drive-time radio program Hamish & Andy. As a solo performer, Blake has appeared on various Australian television programs, including the Melbourne International Comedy Festival's televised 2008 Great Debate, and has been a regular guest on Spicks and Specks, Rove and Thank God You're Here. In April 2012, Blake and co-star Andy Lee won a Logie Award for their television program Hamish and Andy's Gap Year. Individually, Blake also won the Gold Logie for "Most Popular Personality on Television".
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Sharon Case

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Sharon Case is an American actress and former model. At the age of 17, Case began working as a model, relocating briefly to Japan, before pursuing an acting career. She is best known for her roles on daytime television soap operas, scoring parts in the serials General Hospital and As the World Turns during the early stages of her career. In 1994, she stepped into the role of Sharon Newman on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless, which she still plays. Case, who is considered a leading actress in the series, won the 1999 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her performance.
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Amit Goswami

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Amit Goswami is a theoretical nuclear physicist and member of The University of Oregon Institute for Theoretical Physics since 1968, teaching physics for 32 years. After a period of distress and frustration in his private and professional life starting at the age 38, his research interests shifted to quantum cosmology, quantum measurement theory, and applications of quantum mechanics to the mind-body problem. He became best known as one of the interviewed scientists featured in the 2004 film What the Bleep Do We Know!?. Goswami is also featured in the recent documentary about the Dalai Lama entitled Dalai Lama Renaissance, and stars in the 2009 documentary "The Quantum Activist" Description above from the Wikipedia article Amit Goswami, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.       
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Ljubomir 'Kiki' Kapor

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Kiki Kapor rođen je na Korčuli 1932., a na daske teatra u Frankopanskoj stao je već kao student zagrebačke Akademije kazališne umjetnosti, u prvoj premijeri novoosnovanog Zagrebačkog dramskog kazališta - "Golgoti" Miroslava Krleže u režiji dr. Branka Gavelle. Od tada niže uloge koje su obilježile hrvatsko glumište. Njegova dugogodišnja karijera započela je 1958. godine u TV seriji "Svemirska Patrola". Slijede uloge u poznatim serijama: "Prosjaci i sinovi" (1972) redatelja Antuna Vrdoljaka, "U Registraturi" (1974) redatelja Joakima Marušića te u seriji "Velo Misto" (1980) istoga redatelja. Te u filmovima: "San o Ruži" (1986) Zorana Tadića, "Život sa Stricem" (1988) Krste Papića, "Treća žena" (1997) Zorana Tadića, 'Maršal" (1999) Vinka Brešana. Ljubomir Kiki Kapor posljednjih godina aktivan je u kazalištu i brojnim televizijskim serijama.
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Phil Rosen

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Phil Rosen (8 May 1888 – 22 October 1951) was an American film director and cinematographer. He directed 142 films between 1915 and 1949. He was born in Marienburg, West Prussia (now Malbork, Poland) and died in Hollywood, California. He was one of the founders of the American Society of Cinematographers. Rosen was married to model/actress/interpretive dancer supreme, Joyzelle Joyner. Description above from the Wikipedia article Phil Rosen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Lena Headey

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Lena Kathren Headey (born 3 October 1973) is a British actress. She gained international recognition and acclaim for her portrayal of Cersei Lannister on the HBO epic fantasy drama series Game of Thrones (2011–2019), for which she received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations and a Golden Globe Award nomination. Headey made her film debut in the mystery drama Waterland (1992). She continued to work steadily in British and American films and on television, before gaining further recognition with her lead performances in the films The Brothers Grimm (2005) and 300 (2007). Her other film credits include The Remains of the Day (1993), The Jungle Book (1994), Mrs Dalloway (1997), Ripley's Game (2002), Imagine Me & You (2005), Dredd (2012), The Purge (2013), 300: Rise of an Empire (2014), Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016), and Fighting with My Family (2019). Outside of film, Headey starred as Sarah Connor in the science fiction television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008–2009) and had a recurring role as Amelia Hughes in the animated web series Infinity Train (2019–2021). She provided voices for the role-playing video game Risen (2009) and the video game tie-in film Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (2016), as well as the animated series Danger Mouse (2015–2017) and Trollhunters (2017–2018), and puppet-animated series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2019).
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Hermann Seldeneck

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The actor Hermann Seldeneck was a very busy movie actor of the 10s whose film career limited nearly exclusively to this decade. He began his acting career at the theater in Regensburg in 1882, it followed other engagements in different cities in Germany and Switzerland. Finally he also appeared on stage in the Russia metropolises St. Petersburg and Moscow for a while. When he returned to Germany he managed his path till to the German theater center in Berlin. In Berlin he soon got in touch with the new arising film business and he appeared already in "Schuld und Sühne" in front of the camera for the first time. From 1915 his activities in film continued to expand and his mostly formidable roles entertained large audiences. In 1920 he acted in his last films, he then acted again in the theater before he died in 1922 at the age of only 57. One of Hermann Seldeneck's ancestors was the famous natural scientist Alexander von Humboldt.
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Ulrich Matthes

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Ulrich Matthes was born in Berlin. He studied acting in the early 1980's in Berlin under Else Bongers. Ulrich Matthes studied German and English, because he really wanted to become a teacher, so he also took private acting lessons during his studies. His first engagement brought him to the Vereinigte Bühnen in Krefeld, where he played the title role in "Prinz Friedrich von Homburg". Later he came to Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus, the Bavarian State Theatre, the Munich Studio Theater and the Schaubühne place. Since the 2004/2005 season, he is member of the ensemble at Deutsches Theater in Berlin. In the 2004 movieThe Ninth Day, he plays Fr. Henri Kremer, a Catholic priest imprisoned at Dachau. In 2005 he was voted "Actor of the Year" by 'Theater heute' magazine for his performance in Edward Albees' "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?". Ulrich Matthes has also dubbed many American actors such as Kenneth Braga, Malcom McDowell, Charlie Sheen, Ralph Fiennes, and Richard Thomas. Description above from the Wikia site Hitler Parody, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikia.
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Elizabeth Bradley

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Elizabeth Bradley (20 May 1922 - 29 October 2000) was an English actress, perhaps most famous for playing battle-axe Maud Grimes in the fictional soap Coronation Street. Bradley was born Joan Abraham in Hampstead, London, and took her mother's maiden name as her stage surname. She started acting professionally at the age of 23. She married actor Garth Adams in 1950, and was so until his death in 1977 - they had three children. Bradley's most famous role was as Maud Grimes in Coronation Street in old age, from 1993-1999. She filmed 476 episodes during this time. She has also made appearances in The Bill, Casualty, Bad Girls and The Sweeney. Description above from the Wikipedia article Elizabeth Bradley, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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