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Kay Johnson
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Catherine Townsend "Kay" Johnson (November 29, 1904 – November 17, 1975) was an American stage and film actress. Johnson was signed to a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by Cecil B. DeMille following a performance of The Silver Cord at the Repertory Theater in Los Angeles, California. The play was produced by Simeon Gest of the Figueroa Playhouse. Her film debut came in Dynamite (1929), written by Jeanie Macpherson and featuring Charles Bickford and Conrad Nagel. Production was delayed while Johnson recovered from an appendectomy.
She went on to appear in The Ship from Shanghai (1930), This Mad World (1930), Billy the Kid (1930), The Spoilers (1930) with Gary Cooper and Betty Compson, DeMille's Madam Satan (1930), Passion Flower (1930), Capra's American Madness (1932), Thirteen Women (1932), Of Human Bondage (which starred Leslie Howard and Bette Davis), Jalna (1935) and Mr. Lucky (1943). Johnson was cast opposite Warner Baxter in a screen adaptation of Such Men Are Dangerous by Elinor Glyn. The story was adapted to the screen by Fox Film.
Johnson's final film appearance came in the 1954 British film Jivaro (also known as Lost Treasure of the Amazon).
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Sara N. Salazar
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Actor, Stunt performer, martial artist and fitness enthusiast, Sara grew up swinging a stick for a sword and knowing she wanted to entertain and inspire people through television and movies.
While attending the Colorado Film School she met Mark Grove, and began training with his Stunt Team. Around the same time she began her journey as a martial artist, training in Ninjutsu, the art she had been searching for. Through both of these disciplines she discovered she had a knack for weaponry and unarmed fighting.
Through the Film School she developed a deeper interest in editing and producing. Skills she has put to good use by Production Coordinating several indie feature films, as well as assisting in editing for two features.
In training with the Rocky Mountain Stunt Team she has starred in three major Indie Films, performed as a stunt double, assisted in special effects, makeup FX, and prop building for many films, shorts and television shows.
When not playing strong female leads in action films, she also plays one in real life. The highest ranking female practitioner of Kurai Kotori Ninjutsu, she spends much of her time training students in the Ninja arts along with coaching up and coming stunt performers how to do fight choreography, wire effects, falls and other stunt related skills. Currently she is set to star in an upcoming web series "Shadow War", a cliffhanger-style episodic where Modern Ninja use their skills to face the hidden evils of the world
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Boone Smith
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Conservationist and wildlife tracker Boone Smith has traveled the world helping scientists study big cats. He has developed some of the best and safest techniques for attaching radio collars to large mammals so we can learn more about their lives and work to reduce human-predator conflict. Boone is a host on National Geographic WILD and has assisted National Geographic magazine photographers in the field. Currently, he is searching for lynx dens in Alaska’s back-country to study the population and health of lynx kittens.
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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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Eric Weinstock
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Eric Weinstock is an American screenwriter and producer of feature films. Eric's recent credits include Lifetime's Amish Abduction (2019) and A Dangerous Date (2017), his gritty fight action Blood Circus (2016, Marvista) and his family friendly Arlo the Burping Pig (2016, Lionsgate). Eric is also an award-winning (WriteMovies) screenwriter for his dark dental dramedy Perfect Smile, about a womanizing dentist on the run. Outside of filmmaking, Eric Weinstock is a board-certified Endodontist with a solo practice in Canton, MA (Cobb Corner Endodontics, PC) and serves as course director for the Ethics, Professionalism and Law in Dentistry course at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine.
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Peter Ferdinando
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Peter Ferdinando is a British character actor, known for his varied performances.
He has collaborated extensively with director and cousin Gerard Johnson, playing the title role in the critically acclaimed Tony and the lead role in their more recent film together, the award-winning Hyena.
He played the King Pin Spencer in David Mackenzie's prison drama Starred Up.
He also regularly collaborates with British filmmaker Ben Wheatley, having played Jacob in A Field in England, The Half-Face Man in "Deep Breath", the first episode of series 8 of Doctor Who, and Paul in Wheatley's High-Rise.
More recent work includes Tommy's Honour with Peter Mullan, directed by Jason Connery, Ghost in the Shell, with Scarlett Johansson and Juliet Binoche, directed by Rupert Sanders, and Guy Ritchie's King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, with Jude Law. In 2017, he starred in Woody Harrelson's experimental, live film directorial debut Lost In London alongside Owen Wilson, Willie Nelson and Woody Harrelson.
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Selena Quintanilla
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Selena Quintanilla-Pérez (April 16, 1971 – March 31, 1995) was an American singer, songwriter, spokesperson, model, actress, and fashion designer. Called the "Queen of Tejano music", her contributions to music and fashion made her one of the most celebrated Mexican-American entertainers of the late 20th century. Billboard magazine named her the top-selling Latin artist of the 1990s decade, while her posthumous collaboration with MAC cosmetics became the best-selling celebrity collection in cosmetics history. She also ranks among the most influential Latin artists of all time and is credited for catapulting a music genre into the mainstream market.
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Chris Pérez
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Chris Pérez is an American guitarist, songwriter and author best known as lead guitarist for the Tejano band Selena y Los Dinos. He married the frontwoman of the group, "Queen of Tejano Music" Selena Quintanilla, on April 2, 1992. Pérez grew up in San Antonio, Texas as one of two children of Gilbert Pérez and Carmen Medina. In 1986, he joined Shelly Lares' band. By the late 1980s, Pérez was respected among Tejano musicians for his guitar skills. This caught A.B. Quintanilla's attention; at the time, Quintanilla was seeking another guitarist for the band he produced, Selena y Los Dinos. Following Selena's death in 1995, Pérez took time off from his career and moved back in with his parents. In 1998, he formed a band with his friend John Garza, named The Chris Pérez Band. The band's debut album went on to win a Grammy in 2000 for 'Best Latin Rock, Urban, or Alternative Album.'
In 2012, Pérez published 'To Selena, With Love,' that storied their relationship and struggles. The book was met with praise by critics and fans.
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Leon Alton
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Leon Alton enjoyed a career on stage, screen, and television starting in the 1920s and lasting until the late 1970s.
In the 1930s he started out on the Broadway stage appearing in various musicals which lasted until the early 1940s. Then like many Broadway actors and dancers, he seemingly drifted his way to Hollywood where he was able to use his talents as a dancer to appear in many party scenes in a suit dancing in some of the most well known films.
Like many dancers though, that was only part of their work as they could not survive on musicals alone and by the mid 1950s musicals started to lose their popularity so he had to find work elsewhere He was never unemployed long.
Alton's appearance was ideal for bankers, or distinguished townsman, or whatever was needed. By the late 1950s, he was able to secure some roles in which he received screen credit in shows like Bat Masterson, Tombstone Territory, and Lock-Up all while still appearing at the usual party scenes or the social gatherings.
By the 1960s his career was still going strong as he still found work in the usual places and managed to appear in several well known movies like True Grit, The Cheyenne Social Club, and Airport and appearing in most of the well known television shows of the time.
His career wound down by the 1970s and while his name won't garner the attention or recognition to film audiences of today, most casting directors could tell you it was a name that should be respected and could be depended on.
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Max Mittelman
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Maxwell Braden "Max" Mittelman (born September 5, 1990) is an American voice actor who has provided voices for English-language versions of anime, as well as in video games and animated shows. Some of his major roles include Saitama in One-Punch Man, Kousei Arima in Your Lie in April, King in The Seven Deadly Sins, Ritsu Kageyama in Mob Psycho 100, Inaho Kaizuka in Aldnoah.Zero and Ryuji Sakamoto in Persona 5.
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