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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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Steven Hoban

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Steven Hoban was born in Ottawa, Ontario in 1964 to Kenneth and Francoise Hoban. He grew up living in a number of countries due to his father's employment with the Canadian Foreign Service. Prior to becoming a film producer his career included being VP business affairs at a completion bond company followed by co-founding and running an animation studio and R&D facility for Imax Corporation. He has produced Imax(R)3D films, feature films, short films, and animated films. Steven Hoban is also the founder of the Toronto-based film and television production company Copperheart Entertainment. He has produced numerous successful feature films, the Academy Award® winning computer animated short, RYAN, The cult hit trilogy GINGER SNAPS, the Vincenzo Natali directed HAUNTER starring Abigail Breslin as well as SPLICE starring Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley, His recent features include action thriller WOLVES starring Jason Momoa and Lucas Till, written and directed by David Hayter (X-MEN, WATCHMEN), science fiction horror DEBUG written and directed by David Hewlett (Stagate Atlantis) and most recently A CHRISTMAS HORROR STORY, which Hoban also co-directed, starring William Shatner. On the Television side, Hoban's most recent production is the urban chiller DARKNET created by Hoban and Vincenzo Natali, along with several other projects in active development including the HBO dramatic television series SHAKEDOWN with James Ellroy and David Fincher, INCARNATE, a supernatural horror series executive produced by Clive Barker. Hoban continues to produce films at his Toronto-based company Copperheart Entertainment.
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Julien Guiomar

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Julien Guiomar (3 May 1928 in Morlaix, Finistère, Brittany – 22 November 2010 in Agen, Lot-et-Garonne, Aquitaine), was a French film actor. The actor had retired to the Dordogne at Monpazier. The person who incarnated Colonel Vincent in "Papy fait de la resistance", Jacques Tricatel in "L'Aile ou la cuisse", who had donned the police colonel's uniform in "Z", of Costa-Gavras, Who died at the age of 82 from heart disease in the night of 21–22 November at the Saint-Hilaire clinic where he had been hospitalized. The man, born in Morlaix, was also very fond of the south-west. "It was an exceptional being, simple, a very easy approach," says an Agenais of the world of the spectacle who had participated in a show organized for the 80 years of the comedian in Dordogne Périgord. Source: Article "Julien Guiomar" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Lela Bliss

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lela Bliss (May 11, 1896 – May 15, 1980) was an American actress. She made her first silent film, Pretty Mrs. Smith, in 1915 and appeared in at least over 40 movies until the 1960s. Bliss appeared in supporting roles and bit parts in Hollywood films such as The Dark Mirror (1946), Miracle on 34th Street (1947) and Intruder in the Dust (1949). She often played mothers, neighbours or society women. Since the 1950s, Bliss also appeared frequently on popular television shows including "My Little Margie" as Trixie Wilson, the mother of Margie's boyfriend in the 1952 episode "Vern's Chums", The Twilight Zone, Maverick, Mister Ed and The Addams Family. She ended her acting career with a guest role in That Girl in 1967.
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Hugh Laurie

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James Hugh Calum Laurie CBE is an English actor, director, singer, musician, comedian, and author. He is known for portraying the title character on the Fox medical drama series House (2004–2012), for which he received two Golden Globe Awards and nominations for numerous other awards. He was listed in the 2011 Guinness World Records as the most watched leading man on television and was one of the highest-paid actors in a television drama, earning £250,000 ($409,000) per episode of House. His other television credits include arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper in the miniseries The Night Manager (2016), for which he won his third Golden Globe Award, and Senator Tom James in the HBO sitcom Veep (2012–2019), for which he received his 10th Emmy Award nomination. Forced to abandon rowing during a bout of glandular fever, he joined the Cambridge Footlights, a university dramatic club that has produced many well-known actors and comedians. There he met Emma Thompson, with whom he had a romantic relationship, which later ended yet they remain good friends. She introduced him to his future comedy partner, Stephen Fry. Laurie, Fry and Thompson later parodied themselves as the University Challenge representatives of "Footlights College, Oxbridge" in "Bambi", an episode of The Young Ones, with the series' co-writer Ben Elton completing their team.
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Mark Redfield

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Mark Redfield is an actor, voice actor, writer, director, filmmaker and artist. Redfield Arts Audio produces audio books and original audio dramas. Titles available on Audible worldwide, and other platforms, include "Frankenstein Mobster" with Daniel Roebuck and Debbie Rochon, "Nevermore: An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe" starring Jeffrey Combs, "Sinbad and the Pirate Princess" starring Caroline Munro and Martine Beswicke, and many others. The Redfield Arts Audio Podcast can be heard weekly on all podcast platforms. Film and TV work include "Fall of the House of Usher" (Netflix 2023), "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (2002), Larry Blamire's "Dark and Stormy Night", and many other indie films and television programs. In theatre, Redfield has acted in or directed over 200 plays professionally. He studied at Towson University, and UNESCO's Theatre of Nations. Redfield has been a voice actor for many years, narrating audio books, voicing commercials, video games, and narrating documentaries. As an illustrator and painter, his drawings, paintings and cartoons have been shown and collected around the world. With Stuart Voytilla, Redfield is the co-author of "Cult of the Nosferatu", the first novel in the Vampire Hunters Incorporated series.
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Ekin Cheng Yee-Kin

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ekin Cheng (Chinese: 鄭伊健, born 4 October 1967) is a Hong Kong actor and Cantopop singer. Early in his career he used the name Dior (because that was what it sounded like when his younger sister tried to call him ) as a first name. He has also been referred to as Noodle Cheng, after a popular noodle product with a similar name. Currently Ekin is the name used. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ekin Cheng, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Ry Armstrong

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Ry Armstrong grew up singing with the Seattle Symphony and performed on the Grammy-nominated album "The Shoe Bird." They have been seen in Off-Broadway productions of How the Westons Won, Pete the Cat, and Orphans & Outsiders. After finishing the National Tour of Teacher from the Black Lagoon, Armstrong released their charity album (Crossroads) that benefits Broadway Cares / Equity Fights Aids; available for purchase or stream with Broadway Records. The experience prompted Armstrong to start their own record label, Indie Chameleon, and produce new, original indie music. Along with being a singer-songwriter, they have appeared in both A24's Uncut Gems, HBO's The Plot Against America, and most recently HBO's The Gilded Age.
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Elizabeth Purchell

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Elizabeth Purchell is a Brooklyn-based queer film historian, programmer, filmmaker, and the creator of Ask Any Buddy. She’s also the Print Traffic and Special Projects Manager at the American Genre Film Archive. Recently, she has appeared on over a dozen home video releases for various boutique labels and both programs and hosts the monthly Queer Cinema: Lost and Found screening series at Austin Film Society. Her work has been featured in publications such as Hyperallergic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times.
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John Malkovich

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An American actor, producer, director, and fashion designer. Over the last 30 years of his career, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures. For his roles in Places in the Heart and In the Line of Fire, he received Academy Award nominations. He has also appeared in well-received films such as Empire of the Sun, The Killing Fields, Dangerous Liaisons, Of Mice and Men, Being John Malkovich, Burn After Reading, RED, and Warm Bodies, as well as producing numerous films, including Juno and The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Malkovich attended exclusively Illinois schools throughout his childhood and into adulthood, building a community of like-minded performers such as Joan Allen, Gary Sinise and Glenne Headly, all of whom co-founded the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 1976.  After appearing in numerous stage productions, Malkovich began acting in feature films in the late 1970s, garnering critical acclaim for his numerous dramatic and comedic roles in films such as Dangerous Liasions, Of Mice and Men, Being John Malkovich, and Burn After Reading.   In keeping with his renaissance-man image, he created his own fashion company, Mrs. Mudd, in 2002.  Malkovich continues to act, direct and produce numerous movies per year, and is considered one of the most influential voices in modern cinema.  
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