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Rance Howard

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Rance Howard (born Harold Engle Beckenholdt; November 17, 1928 – November 25, 2017) was an American actor who starred in film and on television. He was the father of actor and filmmaker Ron Howard and actor Clint Howard, and grandfather of actresses Bryce Dallas Howard and Paige Howard. Howard appeared in films such as Cool Hand Luke (1967), Chinatown (1974), Splash (1984), Ed Wood (1994), Apollo 13 (1995), Independence Day (1996), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Cinderella Man (2005), Frost/Nixon (2008), Nebraska (2013), and Max Rose (2016). He received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program for co-producing the television film The Time Crystal (1981).
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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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Valérie Karsenti

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Valérie Karsenti (born 26 August 1968) is a French television, film, stage and voice actress. She is best known for her role as Liliane in the sitcom Scènes de ménages. Valérie Karsenti was born in Pantin in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis. She started at the age of 15 taking acting classes before joining the National School of Arts and Theater (ENSATT). She was still a student when Jean-Louis Thamin hired her to play in L'Étourdi with Roland Blanche and Jean-Pierre Lorit. After leaving the ENSATT in 1988, she later portrayed important roles in television films such as Sniper and Édouard et ses filles. Since 1990, her career began to focus on theater, with her taking roles in Camus, Sartre et les autres, Colombe with Geneviève Page and Jean-Paul Roussillon, and Accalmies passagères, which received the Molière Award for best comedy show in 1997. She later played in Un fil à la patte and Un petit jeu sans conséquence, 5 Molière Awards and best private show in 2003. At that time, she appeared again on television and cinema, especially with Bertrand Blier and Lisa Azuelos. She continued doing theatre work like Comme en 14, 3 Molière Awards and one for best public show in 2004, Le Prince travesti, Exit the King with Michel Bouquet, 2 Molière Awards and one for best private show in 2005, and Adultères with Pascale Arbillot. Since 2009, she plays the role of Liliane in the sitcom Scènes de ménages, broadcast every day on channel M6. That year, she was chosen by Mabrouk El Mechri to play one of the leading roles in Maison Close, the new TV Series broadcast on Canal+. Source: Article "Valérie Karsenti" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Jill Jones

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Jones was born in Lebanon, Ohio on July 11, 1962. Her mother, a fashion model, is of African American and Native American heritage, and her father, a jazz drummer, is Italian.[1] Jones was raised mostly by her grandparents, until relocating to Los Angeles when her mother remarried.[1] She began a singing career at age 15 as a backup vocalist for Teena Marie, whom her mother managed. Today, she maintains her own fan pages on Myspace and Facebook. Highlights from her early career include various collaborative works with Prince in the 1980s and 1990s, including a collaborative debut released under her own name. Since 2001, she has released three acoustic and dance albums, with 2009's "Living for the Weekend" being her most recent album.
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Winfried Junge

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Winfried Junge was born July 19, 1935, in Berlin. After finishing schol in 1953, he started to study German philology at the college of education at Berlin's Humboldt university. In 1954, he was one of the first students to enroll at the new Deutsche Hochschule für Filmkunst in Potsdam-Babelsberg. Furthermore, he published film reviews from 1951 to 1955. After receiving his diploma, he started to work for the DEFA studio of popular science films, at first as a dramaturgy assistant, then three years as the assistant director to Karl Gass.
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Massimo Reale

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Massimo Reale nasce a Firenze il 29 giugno 1966 comincia a recitare a soli nove anni con il maestro Dino Parretti che realizza spettacoli per ragazzi con attori giovanissimi. Nel 1986, dopo aver frequentato il gruppo MiM diretto da Orazio Costa Giovangigli si trasferisce a Roma ed entra all’Accademia d’Arte Drammatica “Silvio d’Amico”  che frequenta per due anni.   Nel 1987 prende parte alla sua prima serie televisiva e nel  1989 e comincia a girare “Classe di Ferro” che vincerà il telegatto 1990 come migliore serie tv italiana. Negli anni successivi porta avanti in parallelo l’attività teatrale e quella cinematografica e televisiva prendendo parte  a molte fiction e lavorando accanto ad attori come: Renzo Montagnani (Don Fumino), Nino Manfredi ( Le Ragioni del Cuore), Lino Banfi (Un posto tranquillo 1 e 2), Beppe Fiorello ( Salvo D’acquisto), Paolo Ferrari (Orgoglio), Terence Hill (Don Matteo 7).   Nel 1983 avvia con il regista Walter Pagliaro una lunga collaborazione che porta alla realizzazione di  11 spettacoli accanto ad attori come Micaela Esdra, Lucilla Morlacchi, Roberto Herlitzka, Luca Lazzareschi, Piero di Iorio. Nel 1994 lavora con Luca Zingaretti allo spettacolo “Prigionieri di Guerra” con il quale recita nuovamente nel 2000 nello spettacolo di David Mamet “Perversioni Sessuali a Chicago” insieme a Valentina Cervi. Nel 1995 collabora con Ninni Bruschetta negli spettacoli “I Carabinieri” di Beniamino Joppolo e “Brutus” tratto dal Giulio Cesare di Shakespeare. In ambito cinematografico nel 2001 prende parte al film “Nemmeno in un sogno” di Gianluca Greco  con  Roberto De Francesco e Giuseppe Battiston    e nel 2002 a “4 4 2” di Roan  Johnson con Valerio Mastandrea. Nell’anno 2000 comincia a studiare canto con la Maestra Adriana Giunta  e nel 2003 partecipa, come protagonista maschile, allo spettacolo  sulla grande cantante nera Billie Holyday “Lady Day” di Massimo Romeo Piparo con Amii Stewart. Nello stesso periodo realizza con il fotografo Marco Delogu sei libri nei quali alterna il ruolo di curatore di testi a quello di autore.  Nel 2006 vince il premio per il miglior soggetto per documentario al Festival  “HAIVISTO MAI?”  e nel 2007 lo realizza, cedendolo all’emittente La7, nello stesso anno prende parte alle rappresentazioni tragiche del Teatro Greco di Siracusa recitando nelle “Trachinie” al fianco di Micaela Esdra e Paolo Graziosi con la regia di Walter Pagliaro e in “Eracle” con la regia di Luca De Fusco  recitando con Ugo Pagliai. Nel settembre 2007 Luca De Fusco lo coinvolge nuovamente nella realizzazione di “Elettra” con Lina Sastri per il Teatro Stabile del Veneto.  Alla fine del 2007 fonda, con il drammaturgo Sergio Pierattini, l’Associazione Culturale Valdez Essedi Arte, per la quale produce e interpreta  lo spettacolo “Il caso K” con la regia di Sergio Pierattini e il documentario sul lavoro dell’attore “L’Arte del Comico” nel quale è produttore esecutivo e regista.  Nel 2008 recita al teatro di  Tindari nel “Giulio Cesare” di Shakespeare con Edoardo Siravo, Leandro Amato, Renato Campese con la regia di Maurizio Panici. Nel 2009 recita nell’Elettra di Euripide con Manuela Mandracchia e la regia di Walter Manfrè e ne “Le Troiane” di Euripide con Ivana Monti con la regia di Federico San Lio.
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Ralph Bellamy

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ralph Rexford Bellamy (June 17, 1904 – November 29, 1991) was an American actor whose career spanned 62 years on stage, screen and television. During his career, he played leading roles as well as supporting roles, garnering acclaim and awards, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for The Awful Truth (1937). His film career began with The Secret Six (1931) starring Wallace Beery and featuring Jean Harlow and Clark Gable. By the end of 1933, he had already appeared in 22 movies, most notably Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1932) and the second lead in the action film Picture Snatcher with James Cagney (1933). He played in seven more films in 1934 alone, including Woman in the Dark, based on a Dashiell Hammett story, in which Bellamy played the lead, second-billed under Fay Wray. Bellamy kept up the pace through the decade, receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Awful Truth (1937) with Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, and played a similar part, that of a naive boyfriend competing with the sophisticated Grant character, in His Girl Friday (1940). He portrayed detective Ellery Queen in a few films during the 1940s, but as his film career did not progress, he returned to the stage, where he continued to perform throughout the 1950s. Bellamy appeared in other movies during this time, including Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) with Maureen O'Hara and Lucille Ball, and the horror classic The Wolf Man (1941) with Lon Chaney, Jr. and Evelyn Ankers. He also appeared in The Ghost of Frankenstein in 1942 with Chaney and Bela Lugosi. Bellamy appeared in numerous television series. In 1949, Bellamy starred in the television noir private eye series Man Against Crime (also known as Follow That Man) on the DuMont Television Network; initially telecast live in its earliest seasons, the program lasted until 1956 and was simulcast for a season on Dumont and NBC, and ran on CBS during a different year. The lead role was taken by Frank Lovejoy in 1956, who subsequently starred in NBC's Meet McGraw detective series. An Emmy Award nomination for the mini-series The Winds of War (1983) – in which Bellamy reprised his Sunrise at Campobello role of Franklin D. Roosevelt – brought him back into the spotlight. Highly regarded within the industry, Bellamy served as a four-term President of Actors' Equity from 1952–1964. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ralph Bellamy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Mary Marquet

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Mary Marquet (born Micheline Marguerite Delphine Marquet; 14 April 1895 – 29 August 1979) was a French stage and film actress. Marquet came from a family of artists: her parents were actors, an aunt was a star dancer at the Paris Opera, and another was an official at the Comédie-Française. She entered the National Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art in 1913 and studied under Paul Mounet. She failed her final exams, but was immediately engaged in the company of Sarah Bernhardt, who was a great friend of the family. She went on play alongside her in The Eugene Morand cathedral. She became established with her role in L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand, whose mistress she became from 1915 to his death in 1918. She made her film debut in 1914 in a silent film, Les Frères ennemis, which was never finished. Her first major film role was in Sappho, produced by Léonce Perret in 1932. After World War I, she joined the Comédie-Française in 1923 where she stayed for over twenty years, before moving to the boulevard Theatre. During the World War II, throughout the occupation, she sought the protection of German officers to protect her son who had told her of his intention to join the Resistance. The response was his arrest and deportation to Buchenwald concentration camp where he died aged 21. This was possibly the cause of her problems at the time of the Liberation when, due to her alleged relations with the enemy, Marquet was arrested and sent to Drancy and then to Fresnes. She was later released for lack of evidence. In the 1950s, she turned to poetry recital, while continuing her career in theater on the boulevards. She worked for ORTF in the Maigret episodes of Les Cinq Dernières Minutes and Les Saintes Chéries and in the television adaptation of Lucien Leuwen, the novel by Stendhal. Parallel to her acting career, as an antiquarian she ran a stand for many years at the Swiss Village, an important antique market in Paris where she demonstrated her skills as a saleswoman, mixing theatrical memorabilia with commercial interests. Among her most successful parts in over forty films, were her roles in, Landru in 1962, Claude Chabrol, La Grande Vadrouille in 1966 by Gérard Oury, and Casanova in 1975 by Federico Fellini. After these three minor parts she played important roles in La vie de château (1966) the mother of Philippe Noiret and the stepmother of Catherine Deneuve and the Le malin plaisir (1975) with Claude Jade and Anny Duperey. Mary Marquet and Victor Francen on their wedding day in 1934. Her first lover was Edmond Rostand around 1915, living together for three years. In 1920 she married Maurice Escande, the future director of the house of Molière, ending in divorce in 1921, before meeting Firmin Gémier, the director of the new Théâtre National Populaire, who was still married but whose wife was barren. In 1922, Marquet gave birth to their son. Before the death of Gémier in 1933, Marquet became the mistress of the president of the then Council, André Tardieu, in a semi-official liaison. Having broken up with Tardieu, she married Victor Francen. The couple separated after seven years together. Marquet died of heart attack at the age of 84 in her apartment in the Rue Carpeaux, She is buried in Montmartre Cemetery. Source: Article "Mary Marquet" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Chen Si-Si

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Chen Si-si, is an actress from Mainland China. She graduated from the Acting Department of the Central Academy of Drama. In 1993, she participated in the first TV series "Blue Yearning" as a child star; in 2005, she appeared in "If the Moon Has Eyes" and made her official debut; in 2011, she was well-known by the audience for his role in "The Legend of Zhen Huan" and the profound "Cao Guiren" ; In 2012, starred in the first movie "Flying Like a Dream"; in 2013, starred in the TV series "Under Zhengyangmen" and the movie "Children's Heart". In 2014, she participated in the costume drama "Wu Zetian". In 2015, she starred in the urban strong emotional high IQ TV series "Intimate Partner". In the alternative spy war drama "My Dad is Undercover", she played the female agent Feng Aoxue of the Republic of China. In 2016, he participated in the modern urban emotional drama "Huang Dani". In 2019 she played IQ TV series "Waiting For You In The Future".
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Tiffani Thiessen

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Tiffani Thiessen (born Tiffani-Amber Thiessen; January 23, 1974) is an American actress best known for her roles as Kelly Kapowski in Saved by the Bell and as Valerie Malone in Beverly Hills, 90210. She is also known for her role on Fastlane as Wilhelmina 'Billie' Chambers. As of 2009, she plays the role of Elizabeth Burke, in White Collar. After many years of going by her full name, Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, she is now credited as simply Tiffani Thiessen. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tiffani Thiessen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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