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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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William W. Barbour

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William W Barbour is a Wilmington, North Carolina based actor with experience on over 200 movie and TV sets. He was a core teacher on the Netflix show 13 Reasons Why and performed on all episodes over the 4 year run. He worked on both Venom 1 and 2, Ant Man and the Wasp, Bumblebee, Sorry to Bother You, Matrix 4, as well as Ballers and Sense8 among many others. Bills most significant roles have been as Mayor Pilgrim in the recently released Maverick Films production Snow Black and as bad guy Drag in the soon to be released SOS. Barbour has experience not only as an actor but also with stunts, precision driver and as a stand in. In back of the camera he has served as an AD, script supervisor, producer and other crew positions. He is a highly decorated Air Force Lt. Col. and pilot with experience in Desert Storm, Iraqi Freedom, Somalia and numerous additional military conflicts. Bill has educational degrees including a Masters in Management as well as Political Science and Psychology degrees. He lettered in football at the University of Colorado, Boulder (CU) at linebacker playing for legendary coach Bill McCartney. William W. Barbour is married to the beautiful Brazilian actress/model Marcella Bragio. The couple have two children and live outside of Wilmington, North Carolina.
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Steve Bannon

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Stephen Kevin Bannon (born November 27, 1953) is an American media executive, political strategist, and former investment banker. He served as the White House's chief strategist in the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump during the first seven months of Trump's term. He is a former executive chairman of Breitbart News and previously served on the board of the now-defunct data-analytics firm Cambridge Analytica. In August 2020, Bannon and three others were arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and money laundering in connection with the We Build the Wall campaign. The defendants allegedly enriched themselves, despite promising that all contributions would go to building a wall. Bannon pleaded not guilty and was pardoned by Trump before his trial date. Bannon was held in contempt of Congress in October 2021 after he refused to comply with a subpoena issued by the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack, the House of Representatives committee investigating the 2021 United States Capitol attack. He was indicted by a federal grand jury on two criminal charges of contempt of Congress. In July 2022, he was convicted on both counts in a jury trial. The two counts each carry a minimum of 30 days to a maximum of one year of incarceration as well as a $100–100,000 fine. On September 8, 2022, Steve Bannon was charged with state-level money laundering and conspiracy counts in New York related to a "We Build The Wall" fundraising campaign to build a wall on the US-Mexico border. On the same day, Bannon turned himself in to the authorities. He had previously been spared from federal prosecution in that case because of a pardon by former president Donald Trump on the last day of his presidency in 2021. Description above from the Wikipedia article Steve Bannon, licensed under CC BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Dmitry Davydov

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Dmitry Leonidovich Davydov (Russian: Дмитрий Леонидович Давыдов; born 22 February 1983, Amga, Sakha/Yakutia) is a Russian filmmaker and actor. He graduated from the Pedagogical Institute and worked as a psychologist, teacher, organizer of the children's movement and school director before turning to filmmaking. In 2014, he made the feature film «The Bonfire» on his own. The film was in post-production for more than two years. The film had its world premiere at the 21st Busan international film festival in 2016. (2016) Member of the Asia Pacific screen Academy. (2020) Film "Scarecrow" was a participant of Sochi Open Russian Film Festival "Kinotavr".
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Frank Pettingell

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Frank Pettingell (1 January 1891 – 17 February 1966) was an English actor. Pettingell was born in Liverpool, and educated at Manchester University. During the First World War he served with the King's Liverpool Regiment. He appeared in such films as the original 1940 Gaslight (as the former detective who solves the case), Kipps (1941 - as Old Kipps), and Becket (1964 - as the Duke of York). His collection of printed and manuscript playscripts - mostly acquired from the son of the comedian Arthur Williams (1844–1915) - is held at the Templeman Library, University of Kent. Description above from the Wikipedia article Frank Pettingell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Götz Burger

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Götz Burger (born June 4, 1947 in Munich) is a German actor. Burger made his debut as a newspaper boy in Our Little Town in 1961 (with Cordula Trantow). As a result, he was seen in several television series (including Die Höhlenkinder (1962), Wildbach, Komödienstadel and Um Himmels Willen), but above all in numerous films. In 1972 he starred alongside Klaus Maria Brandauer in Oscar Wilde, and in 1986 alongside Christopher Lee in Der Verräter. The actor regularly takes part in French productions.
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Adel Emam

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Adel Imam is an Egyptian comedic actor, and one of the most iconic figures in Arab cinema. He's starred in over 100 movies and 10 plays, earning the adoration of audiences and critics alike. He was born in Mansoura on May 17, 1940, but at an early aged moved with his family to Sayyed Zeinab where he grew up. The actor got his bachelor's degree in agriculture from the University of Cairo, where he became passionately involved in college theatre productions. He joined a television troupe in 1962 while still a student, and began starring in TV plays like "Ana wa Howa wa Heya" (He, She and I) and "Al Nassabin" (The Swindlers) which was performed at the Al Hakim Theater. In the following years he acted in several well received plays like "Al Bijamma Al Hamra" (The Red Pajamas), "Fardet Shamal" (Left Shoe) and "Gharammiyat A'feefy" (A'feefy's Love Affairs). In the 1970s, he starred in the hit play "Madrassat Al Mashaghbeen" (Mischief at School), which screened from 1971 to 1975. He then did "Shahid Mashafsh Hagga" (The Witness Didn't See Anything) which was screened over a period of seven years. Afterwards, he did "Al Wadd Sayyid Al Shaghal," which screened from 1985 to 1993. Imam has had one of the longest acting careers. More recently, he starred in "The Yacoubian Building," adapted from Alaa Al-Aswany's celebrated novel. The film, a poignant piece of social commentary, is known to be the highest-budgeted film in Egyptian cinema history. In 2012, an Egyptian court convicted Imam for defamation of Islam (not the first time this has happened). The films targeted in this particular case were "Al Irhabi" (The Terrorist) and "Al Zaeem" (The Leader) in which he satirizes Arab autocratic rulers. Imam, however, won his appeal against the conviction. In 2000, the United Nations named him a Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR.
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Hinako Ashihara

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Hinako Ashihara (芦原 妃名子, Ashihara Hinako, born January 25, 1974 in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan) was a Japanese manga artist. She wrote and illustrated various manga series, including, Homemade Home, Forbidden Dance, Sand Chronicles, Piece: Kanojo no Kioku, Tennen Bitter Chocolate, SOS, and Chouchou Kumo. Ashihara won the 50th Shogakukan Manga Award for her manga series Sand Chronicles, as well as the 58th Shogakukan Manga Award for Piece: Kanojo no Kioku. Her first published work, "Sono hanashi okotowari shimasu" (lit. "That Sweet Organ Song"), premiered in Bessatsu Shōjo Comic in 1994 and is featured in SOS.
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Marion Aye

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From Wikipedia Marion Aye (April 5, 1903 – July 21, 1951) was an American actress of screen and stage who starred in several films during the 1920s, mostly comedies. She is sometimes credited as Maryon Aye. Born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of James H. Aye, she was "discovered" by legendary moviemaker Mack Sennett. She was selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1922. She was a capable dancer, a talent she exhibited in several films. She also appeared in eighteen western shorts opposite Bob Reeves. Following retirement, she suffered isolation from the film industry, which had virtually forgotten her. In 1935 she attempted suicide. There were several more attempts, ending with her successful suicide attempt in 1951 in Hollywood, California.
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Jack Lee

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Jack Lee was born in London, England in 1956. He attended the Webber Douglas Acadamy of Dramatic Art in 1979 and worked in theatre and TV in the UK before moving to the US in 1997 with just a suitcase and guitar and $350 in cash. He worked as a chimney sweep in Santa Fe, New Mexico, before moving to Austin, Texas, where he picked up his acting career again. Apart from appearing in various films, he's also working on screenplays of his own, as well as writing about his experiences surviving in America, and producing the documentaries "Conversations with Sara Jane" and "Real Men". He now divides his time between his home in Santa Fe with his wife, 2 cats, 2 dogs and 60 chickens, and Los Angeles.
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