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Aleksander Fogiel
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Aleksander Fogiel urodził się w 1910 roku w Siedlcach. Na dużym ekranie debiutował dopiero w 1958 roku rolą Apostoła w "Bazie ludzi umarłych". Debiut Fogla uważany jest za jeden z najwybitniejszych sukcesów polskiego aktorstwa filmowego. Aktor rozwiązał tutaj problem ekspresji filmowej, zdołał stworzyć mocną, sugestywną postać, nie wyrzekając się dyskrecji i umiaru. Debiut filmowy poprzedziła wieloletnia wędrówka przez sceny Wrocławia, Jeleniej Góry, Częstochowy, Poznania, Szczecina. Po znakomitym przyjęciu gry Fogla w "Bazie ludzi umarłych", pojawiał się w kolejnych, niejednokrotnie wybitnych filmach. Zagrał m.in. włóczęgę w "Nikt nie woła" Kutza, szlachcica hiszpańskiego w "Rękopisie znalezionym w Saragossie" Hasa czy Jóźwiaka w "Jak rozpętałem II wojnę światową". Aleksander Fogiel zmarł w wieku 86 lat, zapisując się na stałe w historii polskiej kinematografii.
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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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Nino de Angelo
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Domenico Gerhard Gorgoglione (born 18 December 1963), known professionally as Nino de Angelo, is a German singer of Italian descent known for his 1983 chart-topper "Jenseits von Eden", and who participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 1989 with the song, "Flieger", written by Dieter Bohlen and Joachim Horn-Bernges.
He had a minor hit in 1984 in the UK Singles Chart with "Guardian Angel". Originally the song was recorded in German and written by Drafi Deutscher. Titled "Jenseits von Eden", it remained number one for ten weeks on the German chart in 1983, while an Italian version was number one in France for five weeks. He collaborated with German band Mr. President, performing a song called "Olympic Dreams" from their "We See the Same Sun" album. He participated in Eurovision Song Contest in 1989 with the song "Flieger", performed 21st in the night and finished 14th with 46 points. German punk band Die Ärzte covered the song "Jenseits Von Eden" on their self-titled album, released in 1986.
Source: Article "Nino de Angelo" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Freda Jackson
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Freda Maud Jackson (29 December 1907 – 20 October 1990) was an English stage actress who also worked in film and TV. Born in Nottingham, she was famous for her stage role as the cruel landlady Mrs. Voray in the play No Room at the Inn in the mid-1940s; she appeared in the film adaptation of 1948. Her later screen roles were mostly on TV, including a role on the first episode of Adam Adamant Lives and on Blake's 7. Her final film appearance was in 1981; she died nine years later in Northampton, aged 82.
She was married to the artist Henry Bird. She "was reputed to have had a relationship" with Errol Flynn while both were at the Northampton Repertory Theatre.
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Michael Bolton
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Michael Bolotin, known professionally as Michael Bolton, is an American singer and songwriter. Bolton originally performed in the hard rock and heavy metal genres from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, both on his early solo albums and those he recorded as the frontman of the band Blackjack.
He has sold more than 75 million records, and recorded eight top 10 albums and two number-one singles on the Billboard charts, as well as winning six American Music Awards and two Grammy Awards.
He was married to Maureen McGuire from 1975 to 1990. They are the parents of three daughters. He was introduced to actress Nicollette Sheridan in 1992 by saxophonist Kenny G. He and Sheridan dated until 1995, stopped dating, then reunited in 2005 and became engaged in March 2006; however, it was confirmed in August 2008 that they had broken off their engagement.
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Sigge Fürst
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Karl Sigurd Tore "Sigge" Fürst was a Swedish stage and screen actor, entertainer and presenter. He graduated from the the Police Academy in 1927, and worked as a Police Constable for 3 years. In the early 30's he was offered stage and film parts, sometimes as a policeman. His film debut was in Victor Sjöström's "Markurells i Wadköping" (1931). From 1946 he hosted "The Breakfast Club" a popular radio-show that was broadcasted till 1978. Ingmar Bergman engaged him at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in the 60's. Sigge Fürst appeared in more 150 feature films, and numerous radio and television productions.
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Pippa Black
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Pippa Black (born 16 October 1982) is an Australian actress. From 2005 to 2009, Black played Elle Robinson in the soap opera Neighbours. Currently, Black plays Tonya in the NBC series Outsourced.
Black made small appearances in Australian television shows, student films and children's theatre before playing Elle Robinson in soap opera Neighbours for four years. Black has not ruled out a return to Neighbours in the future. Recent projects include Gemma Lee's short film The Wake, which premiered in June at the Palm Springs International ShortFest, and independent film Emergence, written and directed by, and starring Anthony Furlong. She is set to appear alongside Eloise Mignon (Neighbours' Bridget Parker) in City Homicide, an Australian television drama, as new mother Emily Rigby. She and Sweeney Young, also of Neighbours fame, portray a young couple in The John Butler Project's music video, "Coma". Black can be seen in an eye makeup advertisement for Australis Cosmetics. In it, she poses as a nurse who is so taken by one patient's eyeshadow that she applies it to her own eyes using her finger.
Black attended St Patrick's Primary School in Mentone, Victoria and she later became a Vice Ca Black moved to Los Angeles in 2011 and shared an apartment with fellow Australian actor Tim Campbell.
Black is a vegetarian and she starred in an ad campaign for PETA Asia Pacific in 2007. Black donned a gown made entirely of lettuce leaves. She said "[Vegetarianism] is a positive step to help stop animal suffering; it's also great for your health and the environment." Black has supported various charities including the Narre Warren Lighthouse Foundation and the Australian Childhood Foundation.
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Meilee Condron
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Meilee Condron is an American actor of mixed Caucasian and Taiwanese descent who is fluent in English and Mandarin, and performs professionally in both languages. She works in television, movies, commercials and also has voiceover and commercial modeling experience.
Born in Connecticut, Meilee moved to Los Angeles at age five. She began studying acting formally at age six, and, following her first theatrical play, she knew she wanted to be an actor. At age seven, Meilee landed a role in her first of several Sesame Street (1969) segments, instantly falling in love with on-camera acting, and began pursuing her career in the entertainment industry.
Meilee continuously studies acting, singing, dancing, and golf, and always brings her enthusiasm and love of learning to everything she does.
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Dermot Morgan
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Dermot went to University College Dublin, where he studied English and Philosopy. In 1974 he took up a teaching post, but left 2 years later to persue the comedy career that he had started at university. In 1979 his first introduction to TV came with an appearance on "Live Mike" on RTE television as Fr. Trendy, a catholic priest who was religiously hip. He became a regular for the next 4 years. His career took a slump in the mid-eighties, when his humour didn't fit in with the views of RTE who controlled the media in Ireland at the time. In 1988 he set up his own production company, Cue Productions and began work on a radio show called "Scrap Saturday". This show lampooned Irish politicians, and allowed him to use his wonderful talent for mimicry. In 1991, at the height of it's success the show was cancelled by RTE. He remained angry about the cancellation of the show for many years. He returned to doing stand up comedy. In 1995 he started his most popular show, "Father Ted" which won him several awards. He had just completed the third series of "Father Ted" when he died.
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Franco Zeffirelli
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Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli KBE, Grande Ufficiale OMRI (12 February 1923 – 15 June 2019), commonly known as Franco Zeffirelli (Italian pronunciation: [ˈfraŋko dzeffiˈrɛlli]), was an Italian director and producer of operas, films and television. He was also a senator from 1994 until 2001 for the Italian centre-right Forza Italia party.
Some of his operatic designs and productions have become worldwide classics.
He was also known for several of the movies he directed, especially the 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet, for which he received an Academy Award nomination. His 1967 version of The Taming of the Shrew with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton remains the best-known film adaptation of that play as well. His miniseries Jesus of Nazareth (1977) won both national and international acclaim and is still frequently shown on Christmas and Easter in many countries.
A Grande Ufficiale OMRI of the Italian Republic since 1977, Zeffirelli also received an honorary British knighthood in 2004 when he was created a KBE. He was awarded the Premio Colosseo in 2009 by the city of Rome.
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