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Carsten Byhring

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Carsten Byhring (born December 8, 1918 in Christiania, died April 6, 1990) was a Norwegian actor on stage, in television and in film. His career started in high school, when he performed a small pantomimer with comedic content. The cabaret scene he debuted in 1941, by Søilen Theatre in Oslo. In the period 1947-1959 he was employed at the cabaret scene Chat Noir, but made many guest appearances at the Central Theatre, The Norwegian Theatre, the Norwegian Opera and Oslo Nye Teater. Byhring appeared often in dramatic roles but was best known for his comedic talent, and he focused in particular monologue genre. He has released several classic character performances, his interpretation of Doolittle in George Bernard Shaw play Pygmalion is among his most famous. He had many film roles, but especially he is remembered as Kjell in the first 13 "Olsenbanden" films. He also produced and directed two films for children - Bear Patrol (1956) and On cruises with Terna (1958). Byhring was the older brother of Svein Byhring. In his last interview - which was made by See and Hear the spring of 1990 - said a parent with cancer Carsten Byhring that he had been a large consumer of cigarettes since he was 14. Yet he was unable to put away South State-cigarettes. "But I have at least begun to smoke filter cigarettes," he said humorously to See and Hear the interview. Shortly thereafter, Carsten Byhring away - he died of cancer 6 April 1990, aged 72. (Wikipedia)
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Gene Lyons

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gene Lyons (February 9, 1921 – July 8, 1974) was an American television actor from Pittsburgh, best known for his role as police commissioner Dennis Randall on the NBC detective series Ironside starring Raymond Burr. A life member of The Actors Studio, Lyons was in the Broadway production of Witness for the Prosecution for two years. His other Broadway credits include Masquerade (1958), The Trip to Bountiful (1953), Harriet (1942), and This Rock (1942). In 1953, Lyons played a police detective on the CBS drama series Pentagon U.S.A.. He appeared in 1954 as Steve Rockwell on the CBS daytime drama Woman with a Past. Before joining Raymond Burr as a regular on Ironside, he appeared on Perry Mason in 1965 as murderer Ralph Balfour in "The Case of the Wrathful Wraith." He also made guest appearances on nearly two dozen other series including The Dick Van Dyke Show, Gunsmoke, Have Gun, Will Travel, The Fugitive, Ben Casey, Star Trek ("A Taste of Armageddon"), The Twilight Zone ("King Nine Will Not Return"), The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and The Untouchables. He also appeared in films including Kiss Her Goodbye and The Young Don't Cry. Lyons died in Los Angeles, California on July 8, 1974 and is buried at Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Pittsburgh.
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Callee Wilkerson

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is an American independent professional wrestler better known as Barbi Hayden and Abilene Maverick in Women of Wrestling (WOW). Professional wrestling career NWA & Affiliate Promotions (2010–2017) Barbi first wrestled at WOW Let's Roll on September 10, 2010. She competed in a losing title match against WOW Women's Champion Jen-Alise. On October 8 at WOW WarZone 3, Barbi faced Alise and Lillie Mae in a three-way match for the WOW Women's Title still held by Alise. Both Barbi and Mae lost to Alise during this match. On November 12 at WOW Breakdown, Barbi wrestled Alise again for the WOW Women's Championship, resulting in a time limit draw. In the spirit of receiving gifts during the holdiday month of December, Barbi finally won the WOW Women's title from Alise at WOW Christmas Carnage on December 10. On February 12, 2011, Barbi wrestled her first successful title defense against Simply Luscious at WOW Valentine's Vengeance. At WOW Spring Slampede on March 11, Barbi successfully defended her title against Jen-Alise and Simply Luscious in a three-way match. On April 8, at NWA Houston April's Fools, Barbi won the vacant NWA Houston Women's Championship, defeating Lillie Mae. On May 13, at NWA Houston Shut Up & Wrestle Barbi defended the NWA Houston Women's title against Jen-Alise and Simply Luscious, winning another three-way match, with a count-out victory. On May 21 at NWA Southwest Free Rules, Barbi suffered her first defeat of the year after meeting Starr in singles competition. At NWA Houston Showdown Tennessee Vs Texas, she lost a title match to NWA World Women's Champion Tasha Simone. During the July 6th edition of NWA Houston, Barbi lost to Mr. B. On August 12, at NWA Houston Back To Old School, Barbi lost the NWA Houston Women's Championship to Jen-Alise. These two would meet in the following month on September 9, in a title match at NWA Houston Lets Roll in a match in which Barbi won NWA Lone Star Women's Championship. She only kept the title for a month, losing it to Alise on October 14, at NWA Houston Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil. Barbi finished out 2011 in NWA Houston with a victory over Angel Blue on December 9 at NWA Houston Christmas Carnage.
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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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Matthew Gittelson

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Matt grew up in Bethesda, Maryland and Potomac, Maryland until the age of 18. Despite having trouble with school work, and struggling with parental confrontations, he found his first interest in acting reading Julius Ceasar in the 10th grade. To expand his interest, he took a Theatre class during his senior year, while auditioning for his school plays.After his High School graduation, he enrolled in an acting school in North Hollywood, California. Shortly after, he got his first paid acting job as an extra for a short film Prism (2010)) back at his own High School
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Bret Anthony

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Versatile actor Bret Anthony is best known for his physical comedy and emotional range in his breakout role as the late actor John Ritter in the Joyce DeWitt produced NBC-TV film docudrama "Behind The Scenes: The Unauthorized Story Of Three's Company" (2003). Bret Anthony, born Bret Anthony Dieball in Newport Beach CA, sharpened his swords in Hollywood through various national commercials as well as guest starring roles on the hit shows "Seinfeld", "The Wonder Years","Beverly Hills 90210", ,"Diagnosis Murder" and "Andy Barker P.I." Anthony is presently scheduled to appear as "Bram Seton" on the Lifetime TV miniseries "Chasing The Devil", the true story of the Green River serial killer Gary Ridgeway.
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Anthony Powers

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Howard Stanley Puris (born 1938), known as Tony Powers or Anthony Powers, is an American songwriter, recording artist, music video artist, and actor. He was responsible for writing or co-writing the hit songs "Remember Then", "Why Do Lovers Break Each Other's Heart", "98.6", "Lazy Day", and many others including "We're The Banana Splits", the Kiss song "Odyssey", and Powers' own "Don't Nobody Move (This is a Heist)". He had a minor role in GoodFellas (1990), where he played Jimmy Two Times, who got that nickname because he said everything twice, like, “I’m gonna go get the papers, get the papers.”
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Laura Mulvey

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Laura Mulvey is a British feminist film theorist. She was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is currently professor of film and media studies at Birkbeck, University of London. She previously taught at Bulmershe College, the London College of Printing, the University of East Anglia, and the British Film Institute. Mulvey is best known for her essay, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema", written in 1973 and published in 1975 in the influential British film theory journal Screen. Mulvey also was prominent as an avant-garde filmmaker in the 1970s and 1980s.
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João Viana

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João Viana graduated in law at the university of Coimbra and studied cinema in Porto (1988/1994). He worked in the areas of production, sound, story-board, direction e script-writing. In 2007 he wrote the script Olhos Vermelhos for film-director Paulo Rocha, obtaining the first prize in the contest for feature films of the ICA. He worked with film director like Oliveira, Biette, César Monteiro, Schroeter, José Alvaro, Seixas Santos and technicians like Bonfanti and Joaquim Pinto… He was one of the authors (2005/2007) of the Dicionario de cinema Iberoamericano, in 10 volumes, published by the SGAE, Madrid, and edited by Bénard da Costa of the Cinemateca Portuguesa. He started to direct his own films, with Iana, in 2004 with the film A Piscina (in competition at the Venice Film Festival) “the Portuguese fictional short film that won the most awards ever” (Central de Informação).
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Josh Pais

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Josh Pais (born June 21, 1964) is an American actor of film and television. He has appeared in many Hollywood films, including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (in which he both was in the costume and was the voice) as Raphael, Music of the Heart, Scream 3, It Runs in the Family, Little Manhattan and Find Me Guilty. He played Assistant M.E. Borak in 15 episodes of the series Law & Order, between 1990 and 2002. He also played the Spanish teacher in the film Assassination of a High School President. Pais is the son of Lila Lee (née Atwill) and Abraham Pais, a Dutch-American Jewish physicist, professor and writer. Pais married actress Lisa Emery on August 27, 1990; the two have a son, actor Zane Pais. ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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