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River Phoenix
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River Jude Phoenix (né Bottom; August 23, 1970 – October 31, 1993) was an American actor and musician.
Phoenix grew up in an itinerant family, as the older brother of Rain Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix, Liberty Phoenix, and Summer Phoenix. He had no formal schooling, but showed an instinctive talent for the guitar. He began his acting career at age 10 in television commercials. He starred in the science fiction adventure film Explorers (1985) and had his first notable role in 1986's Stand by Me, a coming-of-age film based on the novella The Body by Stephen King.
Phoenix made a transition into more adult-oriented roles with Running on Empty (1988), playing Danny Pope, the son of fugitive parents in a well-received performance that earned him a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (at age 18, he became the sixth-youngest nominee in the category), and My Own Private Idaho (1991), playing Michael Waters, a gay hustler in search of his estranged mother. For his performance in the latter, Phoenix garnered enormous praise and won a Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 1991 Venice Film Festival as well as Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead and National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor, becoming the second-youngest winner of the former.
Phoenix died at age 23 from combined drug intoxication in West Hollywood in the early hours of Halloween, 1993, having overdosed on cocaine and heroin (a mixture commonly known as speedball) at The Viper Room.
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Sanaa Shafea
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An Egyptian actor, theater director and academic professor. He was born in Assiut in Upper Egypt, then to Cairo with his father, who was a scholar of Al-Azhar. He discovered his passion toward art and joined the amateur companies on Emad Eddin Street until he enrolled in the Higher Institute of Theatrical Arts. He worked as a teacher and became the dean of the Institute, and worked on television, cinema and theater, where he directed the play Don Quixote in 1975. Some of his most important roles are in the film So That the Smoke Won't Dissipate, and the TV movie The Bourgeoisie Fawzia. He participated in several series, such as The Accused Is My Father, and Bab Al Khalq.
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Howard Freeman
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Howard Freeman (December 9, 1899 – December 11, 1967) was an American stage actor of the early 20th century, and film and television actor of the 1940s through the 1960s.
Freeman was born in Helena, Montana, and began working as a stage actor in his 20s. He entered the film industry in 1942, when he played a small uncredited role in Inflation. Despite his late start in film acting, Freeman would build himself a fairly substantial career in that field that would last over twenty-three years. From 1943 onward he worked on a regular basis, sometimes in uncredited roles, but more often than not in small but credited bit or supporting parts.
In 1951 he began appearing on numerous television series, which would be his main acting roles for the remainder of his career, lasting into 1965.
He retired from film and television acting in 1965, and settled into retirement in New York City, where he was living at the time of his death.
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Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince
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Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince was an inventor who shot the first moving pictures on paper film using a single lens camera. He has been heralded as the "Father of Cinematography" since 1930.
A Frenchman who also worked in the United Kingdom and the United States, Le Prince conducted his ground-breaking work in 1888 in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
In October 1888, Le Prince filmed moving picture sequences, Roundhay Garden Scene and Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge, using his single-lens camera and Eastman's paper film. These were several years before the work of competing inventors such as Auguste and Louis Lumière or Thomas Edison.
He was never able to perform a planned public demonstration in the United States because he mysteriously vanished from a train on 16 September 1890. His body and luggage were never found, but, over a century later, a police archive was found to contain a photograph of a drowned man who could have been him.
Not long after Le Prince's disappearance, Thomas Edison tried to take credit for the invention. But Le Prince’s widow and son, Adolphe, were keen to advance his cause as the inventor of cinematography. In 1898, Adolphe appeared as a witness for the defense in a court case brought by Edison against the American Mutoscope Company, claiming that Edison was the first and sole inventor of cinematography (and thus entitled to royalties for the use of the process). He was not allowed to present the two cameras as evidence (and so establish Le Prince’s prior claim as inventor) and eventually the court ruled in favor of Edison. A year later that ruling was overturned.
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Emory Parnell
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Emory Parnell (December 29, 1892 – June 22, 1979) was an American vaudeville performer and actor who appeared in over 250 films in his 36-year career. He was nicknamed "The Big Swede" and was sometimes credited as "Emery" or "Parnel".
Seeking better opportunities in Hollywood, Parnell and his wife moved to Los Angeles, California, where, helped by his red-faced Irish look of frustration, he immediately began to appear in films in a variety of role, such as policemen, doormen, landlords, and small town businessmen. One of his first films was Doctor Rhythm (1938).
Although his appearances were often in "B" films, such as the Ma and Pa Kettle series, he also made credible showings in "A" films as well. One notable part was as a Paramount studio executive who sang about avoiding libel suits to open 1941's Louisiana Purchase. Parnell was also part of writer-director Preston Sturges' unofficial "stock company" of character actors in the 1940s, appearing in five of Sturges' films, including The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, where he played the crooked banker, "Mr. Tuerck", the chief antagonist of William Demarest's "Constable Kockenlocker". He also made a memorable appearance as grumpy socialite Ajax Bullion in the Three Stooges short subject All the World's a Stooge.
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Mehdi Dehbi
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Mehdi Dehbi (born December 5, 1985, Liège) is a Belgian actor, of Moroccan origin, most known for his roles in the 2012 film The Other Sonand the 2014 film A Most Wanted Man.
Mehdi Dehbi was born in Liège in a family whose father, of Moroccan origin, is a worker and a homemaker mother. He showed an early inclination for the arts, takes acting classes, singing, music theory, of dance ... and at twelve years he began his secondary education at the Académie Grétry in Liege. He was recruited at a cast of the production house Dardenne Brothers (Les Films du Fleuve)in which his drama teacher has registered him, it was his first feature film, The murdered Sun directed by Abdelkrim Bahloul, where he shared the lead with Charles Berling, a feature that earned him a selection for the Joseph Plateau award for Best actor.
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Ingrid Libera
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Born and raised in Vancouver, Canada, Ingrid was introduced to the set life early on with her father being a Picture Car Coordinator. She started acting with Premiere Talent at age 7 and continued on-camera work until age 11, landing roles in Space Channel's "The Collector" and Evolution Picture's "11:11" and some commercial work. Although her film and TV work was put on hold, she remained active in the theater world attending Langley Fine Arts School where she practiced stage theater, improvisation, and musical theater daily. Taking a complete 180, Ingrid attended the University of Victoria to complete her civil engineering degree with honors in mathematics and statistics. Even during this time, she collaborated with her friends in the arts program, filming shorts and developing her acting skills.
Shortly after completing her degree, Ingrid re-signed with Trudy Aronson of Premiere Talent. Fresh back in the business, she continues to expand her range with the acting coaches of Jeb Beach & Associates and private coaching with David Allan Pearson.
In addition to acting, Ingrid plays competitive soccer weekly, is a world champion horse-back rider, and works as a project manager in high-rise construction. In her spare time she enjoys time spent on the water wake-surfing, in the gym working out, or on a good golf green.
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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.
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Michael Greene
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Michael Greene (born November 4, 1933 in San Francisco, California) was an actor active from the 1960s through the 1990s.
Early in his career, Greene was frequently featured in westerns, but was credited with over 100 television films appearances, including the 1962 film This is Not a Test (as Mike Green), as well as a leading role in the 1973 film The Clones.
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Cloris Leachman
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Cloris Leachman (April 30, 1926 – January 26, 2021) was an American actress and comedian, whose career spanned over seven decades. She won various accolades, including eight Primetime Emmy Awards from 22 nominations, making her the most nominated and, along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, most awarded actress in Emmy history. In addition, she won an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Daytime Emmy Award.
Leachman's breakthrough role was the nosy and cunning landlady Phyllis Lindstrom in the landmark CBS sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–75), for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 1974 and 1975; its spin-off, Phyllis (1975–77), earned her the Golden Globe Award for Best TV Actress – Musical or Comedy.
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