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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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Catharina Dahlin
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Swedish actress, born in Sundsvall on July 31, 1944. She always dreamed of being an actress and after landing a small role in an Italian film, she ended up living and working in Italy, playing uncredited roles in many films during the 1970s and 80s.
For many years, she lived with a director named Roberto Carnicci, who was friends with Fellini, and Catharina was able to get small roles in four of Fellini's films: Satyricon (1969), Roma (1972), Amarcord (1973) and La città delle donne (1980). Amidst her many small roles, she also had quite a few speaking parts, such as in Delitto sull'autostrada (1982), where she's jokingly seduced by Tomas Milian who asks her: «Do you have a license for these pair of eyes?».
Catharina moved back to Sweden in 1983 and began to work with astrology. She also studied to be a healer and has continued her acting career by appearing in some films by Swedish director Lars Mohlin.
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Chen Tang
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Born in Kobe, Japan, and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Chen Tang has taken a professional acting and modeling career from Miami, Boston, New York and finally Los Angeles where he has become recognized as an actor whose commitment enables him to transform into a wide range of characters.
Chen has had guest starring and reoccurring roles in "30 Rock" and "Delocated," as well as numerous lead and supporting roles in studio and independent films including the hit comedy "Let's Be Cops." He has also graced the stage in theatrical productions like David Henry Hwang's Broadway hit "Chinglish" and has numerous print and commercial campaigns for brands such as Starbucks, Apple, Old Navy, Costco, Muscletech, and Underarmour. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Scott Eriksson
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Ken Osborne
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Kent Osborne has been in show business since early youth, beginning as a song and dance kid in theatre stage circuits. In his early teens he entered "The American Academy of Theatre Arts" as an actor/director in New York City. At sixteen, he was signed to a 7-year actor contract with "Twentieth Century Fox Studios."
While under contract he owned and operated his own Playhouse Theatre, directing, acting and producing plays. At nineteen he wrote, directed and produced his first film - "It Could Happen to You." He wrote and directed the television shows "Meet Milie" and "Tales of Turf and Live by a Star." Osborne was also instrumental in starting the Board of N.A.B.I.T. and the Independent Screen Producers Association, in which he was voted the First official President.
In his fifty-four theatrical years, Mr. Osborne has written several novels, many plays and more than 90 screenplays - 40 were sold to other Producers and companies. He has produced and directed more than 26 of his own screenplays into major motion pictures. He has written and directed over 200 commercials, documentaries, industrial and armed forces training films throughout the world. Mr. Osborne was head of production for such production companies as Lee Lacey and Associates, Skylark Productions, Ubang Productions and his own.
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Lena Horne
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Lena Horne (June 30, 1917 - May 9, 2010) was a singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist.
Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood, where she had small parts in numerous movies, and more substantial parts in the films Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather.
Due to the Red Scare and her left-leaning political views, Horne found herself blacklisted and unable to get work in Hollywood. Returning to her roots as a nightclub performer, Horne took part in the March on Washington in August 1963, and continued to work as a performer, both in nightclubs and on television, while releasing well-received record albums.
She announced her retirement in March 1980, but the next year starred in a one-woman show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, which ran for more than three hundred performances on Broadway and earned her numerous awards and accolades. She continued recording and performing sporadically into the 1990s, disappearing from the public eye in 2000. Horne died on May 9, 2010 in New York City.
During her lifetime, Horne was awarded four Grammys, a Tony, and a NAACP Image Award . She also received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1984.
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Yohei Komatsu
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Yohei Komatsu (小松 洋平 Komatsu Yōhei) is a Japanese professional wrestler signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he currently performs under the ring name Yoh (stylized in all capital letters). As part of the tag team Roppongi 3K, he and Sho are former IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. He has previously also worked for the American Ring of Honor (ROH) and Mexican Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), where he was known under the ring name Fujin (風神 Fūjin), named after the Japanese God of the wind, and was part of La Ola Amarilla ("the Yellow Wave") alongside Okumura, Kamaitachi and Raijin.
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Kavita Kaushik
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Kavita Kaushik (born 15 February 1981) is an Indian television actress who is known for her roles of Manya Doshi in Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii (2000), Naina Kulkarni / Naina Rahul Wadhwa in Kumkum: Ek Pyara Sa Bandhan (2002), Pallavi in Remix (2004), Parineeta in Tumhari Disha (2004), Inspector Anushka in C.I.D. (1998), Senior Inspector Chandramukhi Chautala in F.I.R. (2006), Vanshika in Ghar Ek Sapnaa (2007), Maina in Tota Weds Maina (2013) and Dr. Bhanumati in Dr. Bhanumati On Duty (2016). Kavita Kaushik is best known for her portrayal of Chandramukhi Chautala on SAB TV sitcom F.I.R., a role that established her career in the Indian television industry, and made her a household name.
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Spalding Gray
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Spalding Gray (June 5, 1941 – January 11, 2004) was an American actor, novelist, playwright, screenwriter and performance artist. He is best known for the autobiographical monologues that he wrote and performed for the theater in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as for his film adaptations of these works, beginning in 1987. He wrote and starred in several, working with different directors.
Theater critics John Willis and Ben Hodges called Gray's monologues "trenchant, personal narratives delivered on sparse, unadorned sets with a dry, WASP, quiet mania." Gray achieved renown for his monologue Swimming to Cambodia, which he adapted as a 1987 film in which he starred; it was directed by Jonathan Demme. Other of his monologues that he adapted for film were Monster in a Box (1991), directed by Nick Broomfield, and Gray's Anatomy (1996), directed by Steven Soderbergh.
Gray died by suicide at the age of 62 after jumping into New York Harbor on January 11, 2004. He had been struggling with depression and severe injuries following a car accident. Soderbergh made a documentary film about Gray's life, And Everything Is Going Fine (2010). An unfinished monologue and a selection from his journals were published in 2005 and 2011, respectively.
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Tony Aitken
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Tony Aitken is an English actor, known for playing a variety of parts in popular television programmes.
He attended Belmont Abbey School, Hereford, 1959–64. He was active in the amateur dramatic society, appearing in many revues, plays and Gilbert and Sullivan productions. He acted with Neville Buswell another student at the school. Trained as a Drama and Art Teacher at St. Mary's University College, London 1964–67.
Over a forty five year career in theatre and TV, he has appeared regularly in series such as The Sweeney, Porridge, The Mistress, Agatha Christie's Poirot, Holby City, Casualty, End of Part One and No. 73, in films such as Robin Hood Junior, Jabberwocky, Quincy's Quest and The Remains of the Day in which he played the Postmaster. Sharpe (sharpe’s revenge) as a clark in the war office who hands sharpe his orders posting him to Yorkshire.
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George Stults
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George Sheehy Stults (born August 16, 1975) is an American actor and former fashion model. Stults grew up in Green Mountain Falls, Colorado but was born in Detroit, Michigan
Stults was interested in acting and wrestling in high school. He got his career start in life as a model. A commercial agent spotted Stults eating lunch one day and stopped to give him her card and he then entered into the world of acting. At the time, Stults seriously considered joining the U.S. Navy. George auditioned for a role on 7th Heaven where his younger brother Geoff already had a recurring role as Mary Camden's love interest Ben Kinkirk. Originally auditioning for the role of a kid who forces people to drink, George was later cast in the role of Ben's older brother Kevin.
He also starred as Kevin Kinkirk on the long-running television show, 7th Heaven. For the show, he auditioned for a guest role, but a week later the producers asked him to play Ben Kinkirk's older brother Kevin, realizing that he was the real-life brother of the actor who played Ben, Geoff Stults.
In 2001, George made a guest appearance on a season 7 episode of Friends, The One With Joey's New Brain as Jessica Lockhart's daughter's boyfriend. He previously had appeared in Everybody Loves Raymond for a much less conspicuous appearance.
Stults has signed on to do television and print ads for Liz Claiborne's new fragrance "Bora Bora," and he plans on leaving the modeling world after that. He has appeared in the "Spirit of a Boy, Wisdom of a Man" music video by Randy Travis. He appeared in K-Mart commercials with many other WB stars (2004). He received a wrestling scholarship at the University of Southern Colorado, but he transferred to Whittier College in his junior year to be closer to his brother. He starred in the film Night Skies in 2007.
He will star in the upcoming psychological thriller Necrosis alongside James Kyson Lee and Tiffany.
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