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Stanisław Bareja

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Stanisław Sylwester Bareja (5 December 1929 – 14 June 1987) was a Polish filmmaker. Some of his films (mostly comedies) have reached cult status in Poland. His most famous film is Teddy Bear (Miś), filmed in 1980. His last work was Zmiennicy, a TV series completed in 1986 and aired in 1987. On 21 September 2006 Bareja was posthumously awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta by President Lech Kaczyński and in 2005, a street in Warsaw was named after Stanisław Bareja.
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Lindsay Mullan

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Lindsay Mullan, a multi-talented artist from Canada, boasts a diverse career spanning theatre, film, television, web, and podcasting. Her extensive experience includes nominations for the Canadian Comedy Award and wins at the Canadian Podcasting Awards. As an alumnus of Second City Toronto Mainstage and the renowned Loose Moose improvisation theatre, as well as a graduate from Mount Royal University Theatre Arts Acting Program, Mullan brings a wealth of training to her craft. She focuses on crafting authentic and humorous content that resonates emotionally, aiming to entertain and evoke heartfelt responses. Currently residing in Toronto, she continues to explore and create original, engaging work across various artistic mediums.
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Alastair Ralphs

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Alastair Charles Ralphs is a Canadian professional wrestler and former bodybuilder, better known by his ring name, A-1. He is best known for his appearances with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) from 2004 to 2007 as part of Team Canada. On July 16, 2004, Ralphs appeared in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, losing to Sabu. He reappeared on March 13, 2005 as a member of Team Canada, replacing the injured Johnny Devine at Destination X 2005 to face AMW & 3 Live Kru. At Hard Justice on May 15, Ralphs took part in the Gauntlet for the Gold. He entered at number six and was eliminated by The Outlaw and B.G. James. at No Surrender 2005, Team Canada defeated The Naturals and Lance Hoyt in a six-man tag team match. at Sacrifice 2005, Team Canada defeated America's Most Wanted and The Naturals in an Eight-man tag team match. At Unbreakable, Team Canada competed in a Four-way elimination tag team match for the NWA World Tag Team Championship which was won by The Naturals. at Bound for Glory 2005, Team Canada defeated 3Live Kru. at Genesis 2005, Team Canada lost to 3Live Kru in a 6-Sided Stick Fight. at Turning Point 2005, Team Canada defeated 3Live Kru and Kip James. on the December 31 episode of Impact, A-1 lost to Rhino. on the Final Resolution 2006 Preshow, Team Canada defeated Jay Lethal, Kenny King, and Lance Hoyt. on the January 21 episode of Impact, Team Canada defeated Ron Killings, Lance Hoyt and Shark Boy. on the Against All Odds (2006) preshow, A-1 lost to Ron Killings. on the February 18 episode of Impact, A-1, Petey Williams and Bobby Roode lost to Ron Killings and Team 3-D in a six-man tag team match. on the February 25 episode of Impact, A-1 and Bobby Roode defeated The James Gang. at Lockdown 2006, Team Canada lost to Team 3D in a Six Sides of Steel Anthem match. On the June 29, 2006, episode of Impact!, TNA Management Director Jim Cornette disbanded Team Canada. A-1 soon began wrestling sporadically, facing Ron Killings in the pre-show of the Hard Justice pay-per-view and against Eric Young at the No Surrender pay-per-view, losing both times. He also took part in the Kevin Nash Open Invitational X-Division Gauntlet Battle Royale at Bound for Glory 2006, despite not being a part of the X-Division. He was eliminated by both Maverick Matt and Kazarian. A1 was released by TNA on February 23, 2007. After being inactive from 2009 to 2015, A1 quietly returned to a Border City Wrestling show in January 2015. He has since been an active member of their roster. Since returning, A-1 has also made appearances for UCW in Michigan and Greektown Pro Wrestling in Toronto. On October 14, 2017, A1 unsuccessfully challenged Eli Drake for the Impact Global Championship in a match for Border City Wrestling. The match later aired as part of an Impact One Night Only special Canadian Clash. He returned to Impact Wrestling on March 3, 2018, at the Impact One Night Only special March Breakdown pay-per view, where he teamed with Allie defeating the team of Braxton Sutter and KC Spinelli. On June 1, 2018, A1 returned making appearances on Xplosion tapings in a tag team match teaming with El Reverso losing to the team of Kongo Kong & Matt Sydal and A1 teamed with Moose defeating Austin Aries & Phil Atlas.
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Dorothy Short

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dorothy Short (1915 - 1963) was an American film actress mainly in low-budget westerns and serials in the 1930s and 1940s. A native of Philadelphia, she married actor Dave O'Brien in 1936, the same year they appeared together in the low-budget exploitation cheapie Reefer Madness, which in modern times has become a well-known cult film. She also appeared in another anti-marijuana film Assassin of Youth in 1937. She often appeared alongside her husband in various 'B' pictures and the Pete Smith series of comedy shorts, in which O'Brien played the lead on many occasions during the 1940s. After their divorce in 1954, Short retired from film acting, and died nine years later at age 47. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dorothy Short, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Steve Garfanti

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Steve Garfanti is an actor who works in film, TV, Streaming, and Theater. Born in New York City and lives in Manhattan with and is available to work on various film and television projects. Upon request he will travel. He works on both dramatic and comedic projects. He firmly believes in the power of story telling through the various acting mediums. Above all, he is committed to a life of acting as a means of participating in the artistic dialog that is so vital to the global entertainment business and to society. Steve is a team player and will do what it takes to contribute and deliver value to all projects he works on, he is both a collaborator and a creator.
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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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Eva Renzi

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Tall, blonde, busty and radiant, Eva Renzi created a sensation when she rose to stardom in her native West Germany in the mid-60s. Born to a 17-year-old French mother and a 49-year-old Danish father, Eva's childhood was everything but happy. Her parents got divorced when she was three, and her mother put her into an orphanage run by nuns. Eva was 14 when she returned to live with her abusive father. She later claimed that "he beat the daylights out of me on a daily basis". Living with her father proved to be so difficult that Eva tried to kill herself twice before she eventually left home at the tender age of 17 to pursue a career in acting. Famous drama coach Else Bongers took her under her wing, and the beautiful teenager supported herself as a model, a phone operator, and a waitress before making her debut on stage in late 1961. She became a member of the Freie Volksbühne Berlin in 1964 when renowned director Erwin Piscator hired her as "Electra".
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Nina Danino

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Nina Danino was born in Gibraltar and studied Foundation and Painting at St. Martin’s School of Art (1973-1977) and Environmental Media at the Royal College of Art (1979-1981) London, where she used slide/tape and 16mm film. In the multi-media, two screen work, First Memory (1980-1981) she combined the subjective voice and narrative with formal and structural approaches to the moving and still image as a means of enabling a feminine perspective. She made 16mm experimental films in the ambit of the London Filmmakers’ Co-op. Her films 1981-1987 combined elliptical and observational narrative to inscribe and defer the representation of the woman. Her films 1990-1997 mix religious iconography with psychoanalysis as a discourse and the use of performative voice and song. Stabat Mater (1990) is considered a seminal film of the British avant-garde. Her films “lead us on journeys through altered states, religious experiences and emotional landscapes,sometimes to the edge of the representable” (Helen De Witt). In her film soundtracks she has collaborated with singers including New York experimental vocalist Shelley Hirsch in “Now I am yours” (1993) with Tuvan vocalist Sainkho Namtchylak and English soprano Catherine Bott in the landscape feature film Temenos (1997). Her work also returns to the ephemeral aspects of place and the Mediterranean geography. Meteorologies (2013) is a small book and audio work about weather and the memory of a disappeared place. Her recent works 2010-2016 are Communion (2010), a silent film portrait, shot on 35mm, black and white photographed by Billy Williams BSC. Jennifer (2015) is a feature-length documentary of an enclosed Carmelite nun in Spain and Sorelle Povere di Santa Chiara (2015-16) is single-channel video, 6-channel sound installation and a silent 16mm film made in collaboration with the enclosed monastic community of Sorelle Povere in Italy. Her films have been broadcast and screened at cinemas, festivals and museums worldwide. Visionary Landscapes, is an illustrated volume on her work by Black Dog Publishing (2005). “..and the figtrees in the Alameda gardens” is an essay on place and her films published by Mousse Publishing (2013). Her body of work is in the collection of the British Film Institute National Film Archive. Nina Danino has taken part in many conferences and talks on experimental film. She was a member of the editorial collective of the journal Undercut (1982-1998) and is Co-editor of the Undercut Reader (2002). Her current research is in women’s experimental narrative film and on the material practices and the context of women’s experimental narrative film at the London Filmmakers’ Co-op. Nina Danino lives and works in London. She is Reader in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London.
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Dixie Lee

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Wilma Winifred Wyatt (November 4, 1911 – November 1, 1952) better known as Dixie Lee was an American actress, dancer, and singer. She was the first wife of singer Bing Crosby. Born Wilma Winifred Wyatt in Harriman, Tennessee on November 4, 1911 to Evan Wyatt and the former Nora Scarborough. She adopted the professional name "Dixie Carroll" to enter an amateur singing contest in Chicago in May, 1928. She won the contest and the prize was a job as a singer at a roadhouse called College Inn. Whilst working there, she was spotted by a talent scout and given a part in the traveling company of Good News. A film contract was subsequently offered and Winfield Sheehan of the Fox film studio changed her name to Dixie Lee, to avoid confusion with actresses Nancy Carroll and Sue Carol. She appeared in at least 16 films from 1929 to 1935.
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Lisa Kreuzer

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Lisa Kreuzer (born Elisabeth Kreuzer; December 2, 1945) is a German television and film actress with credits for appearances in over 120 films and television series. Kreuzer featured with Dennis Hopper in Wim Wenders' film The American Friend (1977), a German-French co-production. Other Wenders' films featuring Kreuzer include Alice in the Cities (1974) and Kings of the Road (1976). She additionally features in Christopher Petit's Wenders-influenced Radio On (1979) which was shot in the UK and is predominantly in English.. She performed in the German TV series Derrick from 1977 to 1990 on nearly a dozen occasions.
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