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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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Ugo Broussot

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Ugo Broussot débute sa formation au Conservatoire Régional d'Art Dramatique d'Orléans sous le regard de Nicole Mérouze, Jean-Claude Cotillard et Niseema Theillaud. Il obtient une Licence d'Etudes Théâtrales à l'UFR Théâtre de Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle). Il commence sa carrière d'acteur au théâtre dans: L'Enfant Chance 1999-J.Louis Levasseur / Femmes de Demain 2000- Cie du 13 Mars / La Belle au Bois 2002-Francis Lalanne / C'est Bien 2003-Philippe Delerm & Véronique Lesergent / AllonsZ'Enfants 2004-Jean-Louis Levasseur / Y'a Quelqu'un 2007-Bernard Friot & Véronique Lesergent / Fantaisies pour Alice 2008-Richard Demarcy / L'Epopée des Gabariers 2009-Véronique Lesergent / Le Journal de Jack L'Eventreur  2010-Jérôme Marin / Le Petit Prince 2011-Fol de Andia / Les Conférences Gesticulées de Gabriel Darromant 2014-Gwenaëlle Ory. Parallèlement, il joue au cinéma dans: Poids Léger 2004-J.Pierre Améris / Gigolo 2005-Bastian Schweitzer / Frère & Soeur 2006-Frédéric Fonteyne / La Gardeuse d'oies à la fontaine 2007-Patrick Bittar / Souvenirs de K. 2009-J.Marc Moutout / Eh bien! Dansez Maintenant (dont les sketchs "Escal'Amor", "Bandent à Part", "Supernature") 2010-Laurence Ferreira Barbosa / La Souris est sous la Table 2011-Cristi Puiu / Un sauvage honnête homme 2012-Maria Pinto / Les Scénaristes 2013-René Féret / Trois Exercices d'Interprétation 2013-Cristi Puiu / Moi qui duperais le Bon Dieu...2014-Maria Pinto / Anton Tchékov1890-2015-René Féret
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Andrea Shreeman

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Andrea Shreeman is an American director, writer, and executive producer. She is a Founding Executive for Mobile Magic Studios, a one minute movie studio that sold five series into distribution. She started in network television, with two years on The Nanny, two years on Daddy Dearest and one season on Rockstar INXS for CBS. She has written and directed films, campaigns, commercials, music videos and live streams all revolving around relevant themes for social growth including; domestic violence, addiction, climate change and mental health awareness. She is co-host with Jennifer Morrison of The Hero Maker Podcast.
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Laura Harling

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Laura Harling (born 21 March 1986) in England, is a British actress. In 1995, aged nine, she played the granddaughter of Belle, Scrooge's former fiancée, in an adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol with the Royal Shakespeare Company. After appearing in several television advertisements, Harling played her first television acting role in 1996 as Young Betsy in Catherine Cookson's The Girl which starred Jonathan Cake and Siobhan Flynn, and played Young Jane in Jane Eyre in 1997. Other appearances include The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1997), Invasion: Earth (1998), Nightworld: Lost Souls (1998), Casualty (1999), and Little Em'ly in David Copperfield (1999), which starred Daniel Radcliffe, Bob Hoskins and Maggie Smith. More recently, Harling has appeared in the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film and Oscar winning film Gosford Park (2001), and, for the BBC, in My Family (2004), and Silent Witness in 2006. In 2007 Harling took a BA in Fine Art at Kingston University. Description above from the Wikipedia article Laura Harling, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. ​
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Art Linkletter

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Arthur Gordon Linkletter (born Gordon Arthur Kelly or Arthur Gordon Kelly [sources differ]; July 17, 1912 – May 26, 2010) was a Canadian-born American radio and television personality. He was the host of House Party, which ran on CBS radio and television for 25 years, and People Are Funny, which aired on NBC radio and television for 19 years. He became a naturalized United States citizen in 1942. Old clips from Linkletter's House Party program were later featured as segments on the first incarnation of Kids Say the Darndest Things. A series of books followed which contained the humorous comments made on-air by children. He appeared in four films.
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Mike Krahulik

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Michael Krahulik is an American artist for the webcomic Penny Arcade and co-founder with Jerry Holkins of Child's Play, a charity that organizes toy drives for children's hospitals. He goes by the online moniker "Jonathan Gabriel" or "Gabe". Krahulik does not physically resemble his comic strip counterpart, as the character was not originally meant to represent him. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mike Krahulik, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Milton Glaser

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Milton Glaser (June 26, 1929 – June 26, 2020) was an American graphic designer. His most notable designs include the I Love New York logo, a 1966 poster for Bob Dylan, and the logos for DC Comics, Stony Brook University and Brooklyn Brewery. In 1954, he also co-founded Push Pin Studios, co-founded New York magazine with Clay Felker, and established Milton Glaser, Inc. In 1969, he produced and designed "Short Subject", commonly known as "Mickey Mouse in Vietnam", a short 16mm antiwar film directed by Whitney Lee Savage (father of Adam Savage). His artwork has been featured in exhibits, and placed in permanent collections in many museums worldwide. Throughout his long career, he designed many posters, publications and architectural designs. He received many awards for his work, including the National Medal of the Arts award from President Barack Obama in 2009 and was the first graphic designer to receive this award. Glaser was born in The Bronx, New York City. His parents, Eugene and Eleanor (née Bergman), were Hungarian Jewish immigrants. The family resided in the South Bronx. His father owned a dry-cleaning and tailoring shop; his mother was a homemaker. Glaser took drawing classes with artists Raphael and Moses Soyer before attending the High School of Music & Art in Manhattan. After graduating from the Cooper Union in New York City, Reynold Ruffins, Seymour Chwast, Edward Sorel and Glaser founded Push Pin Studios in 1954. Glaser joined after his return from Italy. In 1957, the Push Pin Monthly Graphic was sent out to friends and clients. The studio's work rejected tradition and favored "reinvigorated interpretations of historical styles". Glaser and Seymour Chwast directed Push Pin Studios for twenty years, while it became a guiding reference in the world of graphic design. The studio "redefined and expanded the imprimatur of the designer, illustrator, and visual culture at large". Glaser started his own design firm, Milton Glaser Inc., in 1974 and left Push Pin Studios the following year. In 1983, Glaser formed a partnership with Walter Bernard and established a publication design firm called WBMG in New York City. WBMG has designed more than 50 magazines, newspapers and periodicals around the world. Over his career, Glaser personally designed and illustrated more than 400 posters. Milton drew heavily from early 20th century artists to create his own signature style that consisted of playful, psychedelic graphics with controlled blasts of colors along with silhouettes and bold geometric outlines. His work is displayed in the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. His work has also been featured in exhibits internationally. He had one-man shows at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In 1988, Glaser designed the New York City Shelly Fireman-owned Italianate eatery Trattoria Dell'Arte across from Carnegie Hall. Glaser was the subject of the 2008 documentary film To Inform and Delight: The World of Milton Glaser. A tribute to Glaser, still working in his 90th year, was published in The New York Times in 2019. Glaser died of a stroke and renal failure in New York City on his 91st birthday. ... Source: Article "Milton Glaser" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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West Buchanan

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Born in October 1934, Buchanan made his first listed appearance late, at the age of 31 in the 1975 film C.I.A. Secret Story, directed by the arch provocateur Giuseppe Ferrara. Before this, however, he had already been active in Italian cinema for almost half a decade – much like many anonymous American adventurers – as a stuntman and extra, sometimes using the name Buck West. His part in C.I.A. Secret Story was largely insignificant, and although he played a named character in Edward Dmytryk’s big-budget spy film The Human Factor he was just one of a number of jobbing Americans buried deep in the credits (including a very young Danny Huston, who was only thirteen at the time). More fleeting appearances followed – in Pupi Avati’s Bordella, Dino Risi’s Telefoni bianchi – before he secured his first major role in Mino Guerrini’s comedy Vinella e Don Pezzotta, based on a successful radio play and starring Giorgio Bracardi. A religious parody, the third billed Buchanan played Padre Splendid, a modernizing priest sent to Italy from the States. Next came his best known roles, internationally at least: three appearances in the series of cheapskate Star Wars rip offs directed by Alfonso Brescia. In War of the Planets he was again third billed, playing space captain John Richardson’s engineer and right hand man as he battles a giant, malevolent robot. It’s not a good film by any means, but with his stocky build and shocking blonde hair Buchanan made an impression. He was back for Battle of the Stars, although this time round only in a cameo role as a pilot and friend of space captain John Richardson, again battling a (different) giant, malevolent robot. Finally came another guest spot in War of the Robots, this time as an associate of space captain Antonio Sabato as he battles several malevolent if not particularly giant robots. Around this time there were other films as well. He popped up in Lina Wertmuller’s A Night Full of Rain (78), Pier Carpi’s gothic horror film Ring of Darkness, in which he played the husband of the protagonist Anne Heywood, Nino Manfredi’s Nudo di donna and the Giorgio Bontempi’s ambitious espionage thriller Spy Connection (83), which was made for TV but also released on video in a shorter theatrical version. In the early eighties he moved back to America, where he starred in David Hess’s slasher movie To All a Goodnight (80) and well down the credits in Walter Hill’s epic western The Long Riders. A handful of small roles followed in low budget films before he made his bow in Rex Pickett’s obscure 1988 production From Hollywood to Deadwood. Buchanan died aged 61 in 1995.
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Latha Sethupathi

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Latha, also known as M.G.R. Latha or Latha Sethupathy, is an Indian actress, who played leading roles in South Indian films from 1973 to 1982. She is also known for her roles in various megaserials in Tamil and Telugu and continues to be popular in the industry. Her photogenic looks and dancing skills attracted attention from the Tamil film industry. She entered films when she was fifteen and was encouraged by her aunt, actress Kamala Kotnis. Her first film was Ulagam Sutrum Valiban (1973), whose star and producer was M. G. Ramachandran. She is from the Sethupathy clan, the Royal family of Ramnad, and her father was Shanmugha Rajeswara Sethupathi and her mother is Leelarani. Actor Rajkumar Sethupathy is her brother.
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Rena Murakami

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Rena Murakami is a Japanese actress and former AV idol. After beginning her career as a gravure idol, Murakami made her adult video (AV) debut in the March 1988 h.m.p. Miss Christine release, Hatsujō Kansen (発情感染). In December of her debut year she also had a role in Toei's mainstream drama release, Koiko no mainichi (恋子の毎日). In addition to continuing her AV career, Murakami had another role in a mainstream drama, appearing in Bandai Visual's Shin dōtei monogatari: Hong Kong virgin boy (新・童貞物語 ホンコンバージンボーイ) in March 1990. Also in 1990 she appeared in pioneering pink film director/producer Kan Mukai's Code Name 348: Onna keiji sashiba (コードネーム348 女刑事 サシバ). She also had roles in a number of V-Cinema films. Her work became popular in Hong Kong, and led to her getting roles in several Category III films of Hong Kong cinema, starting around 1991. Her most significant film there was the 1991 cult favorite, Sex and Zen. In a review of the DVD release of Sex and Zen, a reviewer described her as one of "Asian cinema's most beautiful actresses". Her last film in Hong Kong, 1/3 Lover, was released in 1993. There was a minor scandal when news leaked that she might have had sex with the Sultan of Brunei during his visit to Japan in 1993. For several years starting in the late 1990s, she toured various strip theaters around Japan, such as the famous Asakusa Rokku-za (ロック座). In 1997, she produced and starred in the pink film Murakami Rena: kyūkyoku meigizuma (村上麗奈 究極名器妻), through Runa Films. The film was distributed theatrically by XCes, scripted by pink film actress Kiyomi Itō, and directed by Satoru Kobayashi, director of the first pink film, Flesh Market (1962). The film was re-issued in June 2003 as 村上麗奈 極上けいれん妻. Later, Murakami had a small part in the 2008 Japanese comedy, Serial Dad. Since 2018, Rena Murakami has been a radio personality on a talk radio program in Osaka.
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