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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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Bill Dean

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Bill Dean was a British actor who was born in Everton, Liverpool, Lancashire. He was born Patrick Anthony Connolly, but took his stage name in honour of Everton football legend William 'Dixie' Dean. After a atring of jobs, it was his work as a Lancashire club comedian that saw him spotted by Ken Loach who gave him his breakthrough role in his TV play The Golden Vision. Famous for his flat but penetrating Scouse tones, Dean went on to star as miserable pensioner Harry Cross in the long running Channel 4 soap Brookside from its inception in 1983 to 1990. He briefly returned to the series in 1999 for three episodes, when his character re-appeared in Brookside Close suffering from Alzheimer's disease and wrongly believing that he still lived there. The same character was the inspiration behind the 1980s group 'Jegsy Dodd and the sons of Harry Cross' who hailed from the Wirral and Dean himself appeared in the video of the Liverpudlian band The Farm's Groovy Train as Cross, who was a former train driver. He did of a heart attack aged 78 in 2000.
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Edmund Breon

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Edmund Breon (12 December 1882 – 24 June 1953) was a Scottish film and stage actor. He appeared in 131 films between 1907 and 1952. Born Iver Edmund de Breon MacLaverty in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, he began in John Hare's touring company and later played on the West End stage and in Glasgow, gaining prominence. According to his grandson, Breon "started out at the turn of the century doing silent pictures in France. Vampire movies", so it is reasonably certain that MacLaverty is indeed the actor who appeared under the name Edmond Bréon in many Gaumont films 1907-1922 including, most famously, playing the part of Inspector Juve for Louis Feuillade in the ground-breaking Fantômas series. He did also appear in a small part in the 1915-1916 Feuillade series Les vampires, although this is not, as his grandson supposes, a horror film. He returned to Britain where he made the film A Little Bit of Fluff (1928), then went to Canada in 1929 and worked on the land. A year later he emigrated to the United States and gained his first big American film part in The Dawn Patrol (1930). Breon appeared in a mixture of British and American films over the following two decades. He also appeared on stage in the West End production of the comedy Spring Meeting in 1938. A 1949 newspaper article noted that Breon's "career has been interrupted by serious illness and an accident which kept him idle for two years." Breon died in his native Scotland on June 24, 1953.
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Manabi Bandyopadhyay

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Manabi Bandyopadhyay is the professor and first transgender person in India who has completed Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). Bandyopadhyay was associate professor in Bengali at Vivekananda Satobarshiki Mahavidyalaya and took charge as principal of Krishnagar Women's College on 7 June 2015. She is India's first openly transgender college principal, and began work as such in 2015 at the Krishnagar Women's College in Nadia district. Before being Manabi her name was Somnath Bandapadhya. Manabi is a devotee of Sarada Devi and she was initiated in spiritual life by Swami Atmasthananda.
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Davorka Tovilo

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Tovilo emigrated to Germany at the age of twelve as the daughter of Croatian workers and lived first in Flörsheim am Main near Frankfurt am Main and later in Munich. After graduating from high school, Tovilo studied communication science and political science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and later also dubbing, moderation, singing and acting at the Deutsche POP Academy in Munich. In 2008 she was a European activist for the animal rights organization PETA and protested against bullfighting in front of the Spanish embassy in Berlin that same year. Tovilo describes American political and cultural history as her areas of expertise. Tovilo speaks Croatian, German, English and Italian. Tovilo appeared in German and Austrian television entertainment programs such as in the tabloids taff by Pro Sieben (2004-2006, 2008-2011) on the Niels Ruf Show (2008) and Das Sat.1- Magazine (2008) of the VOX - Program on reality TV The Perfect Celebrity Dinner (2009, 2011) and in the 4-star PINK magazine in the section Die Promicamper (2010). After small guest roles in German films, Davorka Tovilo was in the Hollywood film War Inc. - You order the war: We deliver 2008 in a short shot as John Cusack's partner. Tovilo was given an additional role in the film biography of Uwe Boll, Max Schmeling - Eine deutsche Legende (2010).
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Jeremiah S. Chechik

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Jeremiah S. Chechik is the director of such films as National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Benny & Joon, Diabolique and The Avengers. Chechik was nominated for Worst Director at the 1998 Golden Raspberry Awards for The Avengers but lost to Gus Van Sant for his remake of Psycho. In 2007, Chechik directed all eight episodes of The Bronx is Burning. He and producer Michael Birnbaum purchased the screen rights to House of Night from authors P. C. Cast and her daughter Kristin Cast on November 17, 2008.
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Jeff Woolnough

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Jeffrey W. Woolnough is a television and movie director, with an active career beginning in the late 1980s. Woolnough has directed multiple episodes of a variety of highly rated series, including: Silk Stalkings, Sliders, Taken, The Outer Limits (Modern Series), Dark Angel, NCIS, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Bones, Battlestar Galactica (2004 series), African Skies, Las Vegas, Supernatural, Being Erica and Dead Like Me. His non-episodic television work has included the four hour miniseries, Keep Your Head Up, Kid: The Don Cherry Story, and the made-for-TV Céline Dion biopic, Céline. Woolnough also directed two direct-to-video sequels to Universal Soldier, entitled Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms' and Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business.
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Jayme Periard

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Jayme Guimarães Periard is a Brazilian actor. Before 1981, he was already doing amateur theater, having joined the Martins Pena theater school and had classes with famous names such as José Wilker, Mona Lazar, Denise Stoklos and others. In 1983, he began to act professionally in television and theater. In 1991, he starred in the first teledramaturgy program on Brazilian television that dealt with HIV, the miniseries O Pordor, on Rede Globo; in 1995, he starred in the telenovela Sangue do Meu Sano, by SBT. He produced and directed As Guerreiras do Amor, by Domingos de Oliveira, on stage, and worked as assistant director in other plays. In 2004, together with his sister Izabela Periard, he inaugurated a cultural space in Barra da Tijuca, the Yanperi space, where he teaches courses in interpretation. In 2010, he was honored at the Trianon Municipal Theater Foundation, for participating in the 12th anniversary program of the house as director of the theatrical production "Pedaços de Mim". In 2017, he acted in Apocalypse, as the psychopath Nicanor Duarte. In 2018, he is in the cast of Netflix's The Mechanism Series.
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Maria Padilha

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Maria Padilha Gonçalves, (Rio de Janeiro, May 8, 1960), is a Brazilian actress. She is an actress, theatrical producer and founder of the Personal Awakening group. She began her career as an actress acting in children's plays. He made numerous works in the theater, cinema and television and was cover of the magazine Playboy in March of 1994. In the TV stood out in novels of Globe Network like Water Viva, Mico Preto, The Owner of the World, Bad Angel, The Cravo and the Rose , Women in Love and Side by Side. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Rajiv Menon

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Rajiv Menon is an Indian advertising director, cinematographer, actor and film maker known for his works predominantly in Tamil cinema. He is known for directing critically acclaimed Tamil films like Minsara Kanavu and Kandukondain Kandukondain. As a cinematographer his accomplishments include works such as, Bombay, Morning Raga, Guru, Kadal, and Cheluvi. Menon's first directorial venture Minsara Kanavu was not only a commercial success but also received four National Film Awards. His second directorial venture was the multi-starrer Kandukondain Kandukondain. In addition to directing the film, he also wrote the story and screenplay for the film. The film fetched him the Filmfare Award for Best Tamil Director award. Menon has also set up Rajiv Menon Productions and Mindscreen Film Institute, which supplies equipment for documentaries, advertising films and cinema. He has acted in a Malayalam film called Harikrishnans and has given a cameo in Minsara Kanavu.
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