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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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Filip Čapka

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Filip Čapka se k hereckému povolání dostal tak nějak přirozeně. Jako dítě, pocházející z rodiny kde hráli všichni včetně prarodičů, na jevišti vyrostl a rozhodl se pokračovat v tradici i přesto, že mu to všichni kromě dědečka, který si na své profesi velice zakládá, rozmlouvali. Nakonec se rozhodl jít za svým cílem a zakotvil na JAMU, po jejímž vystudování začal hrát divadlo v Olomouci a poté, co prošel i jevišti brněnskými a ostravskými, se usadil v Praze. Velkou roli zde hrála kromě talentu i náhoda. V roce 2002 přijel na krátké natáčení a šel se podívat na Pražský hrad, kde se odehrávaly Letní shakespearovské slavnosti. Divadlo pod Palmovkou hrálo představení KRÁL LEAR a Alexej Pyško za ním přišel s nabídkou, jestli by nechtěl alternovat roli Jiřího Langmajera. Souhlasil, osvědčil se a na základě tohoto výkonu byl pozván na konkurz do Divadla Bez zábradlí. Od té chvíle už působí v Praze a sklízí jeden úspěch za druhým (mimo jiné je nositelem ceny Thálie 2004 pro mladého činoherce do 33 let). Co se usadil v hlavním městě, dostává také více příležitostí být viděn před kamerou. V seriálu z hokejového prostředí POSLEDNÍ SEZONA ztvárnil postavu umělce Michelangela, jinak se objevoval spíše v televizních filmech. Kromě filmových rolí přijal v České televizi také místo moderátora dětského pořadu HŘIŠTĚ 7 a věnuje se i dabingu (např. postava Owain Yeoman v seriálu MENTALISTA či postavička v novém Svěrákově loutkovém filmu KUKY SE VRACÍ). Příležitost zazářit na velkém plátně přichází v roce 2010 v podobě snímku MAMAS & PAPAS režisérky Alice Nellis a tragikomické adaptace románu Michala Viewegha ROMÁN PRO MUŽE. Ve volném čase, kterého prý kvůli hraní moc nezbývá, si rád přečte klasickou sci-fi literaturu od autora Isaaca Asimova a za nejlepší možnou relaxaci považuje jízdu na motorce.
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Talia Shire

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Talia Shire, born on April 25, 1946, in Lake Success, New York, is an American actress. She gained widespread recognition for her role as Adrian Pennino, the wife of Rocky Balboa, in the iconic "Rocky" film series. Shire's portrayal of the timid but resilient Adrian earned her acclaim and a place in cinematic history. Beyond "Rocky," she also starred as Connie Corleone in "The Godfather" films, further establishing her as a versatile and talented actress. With a career spanning several decades, Shire's contributions to film have solidified her as a respected figure in Hollywood.
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Steve Thomas Rooney

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Steve Thomas is an American TV personality, author and former sailor. He was born in Pomona, California, in 1952. He was the oldest of six children. Steve developed interest in construction from his father and grandfather. His father who worked in a paint manufacturing company used to buy and fix old houses. The grandfather of Steve Thomas, Rooney was also a do-it-yourself guy and Episcopal missionary in Arctic Alaska. Steve Thomas Rooney earned a bachelor degree in philosophy from the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. During his stay at the college, Thomas used to work as a painting contractor and carpenter in order to support his stay. After graduating he moved from Olympia back to California where started his own home renovation projects. There Steve worked on renovations of old houses until 1980 when he got married with his wife Evelyn Blum and they both moved to Massachusetts. The couple continued with this business and has renovated a number of old houses. Some of those include the 1836 Imperial Revival, a house in which Steve and his wife lived prior their move to Rockport, Maine. Thomas was always combining his love of woodworking with his passion for sailing. At one time in his life, Thomas worked as a carpenter in Antibes, France. During the 70s and 80s, he spent months sailing on open sea and traveled more than 30,000 miles. In 1987 Steve Thomas Rooney wrote the book "The Last Navigator" following the time he spent  on the Micronesian island of Satawal, talking to Mau Piailug about ancient techniques of navigating on open sea. Later on, this book served him as a basis for documentary film which was produced for PBS's Adventure series. Several years later, in 1989 Steve Thomas Rooney was invited by the same producers to be the next host of their TV renovation show "This Old House"  Since becoming host of This Old House Steve managed to make the show one of the best TV series of all time and the highest-rated home improvement series in television history. For that reason, in 1998 Thomas was awarded with DayTime Emmy Award. He made appearances on shows such as The Oprah Winfrey Show, Today, Entertainment Tonight, Good Morning America and others. Other than the "The Last Navigator" Steve Thomas Rooney has written several books including "This Old House Kitchens," "This Old House Bathrooms," "This Old House Guide to American Houses."
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Jack Weston

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Jack Weston (born Jack Weinstein; August 21, 1924 – May 3, 1996) was an American film, stage, and television actor. Weston usually played comic roles in films such as Cactus Flower and Please Don't Eat the Daisies, but also occasionally essayed heavier parts, such as the scheming crook and stalker who, along with Alan Arkin and Richard Crenna, attempts to terrorize and rob a blind Audrey Hepburn in the 1967 film Wait Until Dark. Weston had countless character roles in major films such as The Cincinnati Kid and The Thomas Crown Affair. In 1981, Weston appeared on Broadway in Woody Allen's comedy The Floating Light Bulb, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award as Best Actor. Other stage appearances included Bells are Ringing (with Judy Holliday), The Ritz, One Night Stand, and Neil Simon's California Suite. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Weston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia​
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Morton Downey

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John Morton Downey was an American singer and entertainer popular in the United States in the first half of the 20th century, enjoying his greatest success in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Downey was nicknamed "The Irish Nightingale". Downey began his singing career as a member of the choir of Most Holy Trinity Church in Wallingford. Downey's signature sound was a very creamy and very high-timbred Irish tenor, which an uninformed listener can easily mistake for a female voice. The popularity of such highly artificial and "heady" male pop vocals peaked in the late 1920s and early 1930s. By the mid-1930s, the style was out of fashion, and Downey reduced some of his broader mannerisms and made a transition to a somewhat more "chesty" vocal timbre. For a time in the 1920s, Downey sang with Paul Whiteman's Orchestra. He first recorded in 1923 for Edison Records under the pseudonym Morton James; the following year he recorded for Victor with the S.S. Leviathan Orchestra. In 1925, he began four years of recording for Brunswick Records. In 1926, he had a hit in the show Palm Beach Nights. Downey toured London, Paris, Berlin, New York City and Hollywood]. He also began appearing in movies, including Syncopation, the first film released by RKO Radio Pictures. Downey was also a songwriter whose most successful numbers include "All I Need Is Someone Like You", "California Skies", "In the Valley of the Roses", "Now You're in My Arms", "Sweeten Up Your Smile", "That's How I Spell Ireland", "There's Nothing New", and "Wabash Moon". He joined ASCAP in 1949. Famous tenor vocalist, Bill Kenny, idolized Downey, and it is believed that he was Kenny's biggest influence. The similarities in style can be heard in Kenny's earliest recordings with The Ink Spots. In 1930, Downey began making national radio broadcasts after opening his own nightclub (The Delmonico) in New York. He was voted America's "Radio Singer of the Year" in 1932. At the time, Downey was featured nightly on the Camel Quarter Hour radio broadcast. On February 5, 1945, his transcribed program Songs by Morton Downey moved from the NBC Blue Network to the Mutual Broadcasting System. The move came after Blue Network officials adopted a policy "against the use of transcriptions for network originated programs, except where technical difficulties void live broadcasts." As a result of the shift, the number of stations carrying the program more than doubled. In the 1930s, he recorded for ARC, Hit of the Week, and Decca Records, and in the 1940s, he made records for Columbia Records. Starting in 1949, Morton Downey began appearing on television. From 1950 to1951, he co-hosted Star of the Family.
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Rokuro Naya

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Rokuro Naya (納谷 六朗, Naya Rokurō, October 20, 1932 – November 17, 2014), real name: 納屋 六朗 (same reading), was a Japanese voice actor, actor and narrator. He was a lifelong resident of Tokyo and was affiliated with Mausu Promotion at the time of his death. His brother was the voice actor Gorō Naya (1929–2013) and his sister-in-law is an actress and voice actor Kachiko Hino. His wife is Mitsue Naya, the former president of Mausu Promotion, and his eldest son is Ryosuke Naya, also former president of Mausu Promotion.
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Felipe Cazals

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Felipe Cazals (July 28th, 1937 - October 16th, 2021) was a Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer. Along with Arturo Ripstein, Jaime Humberto Hermosillo and Jorfe Fons, he is considered one of the most representative film directors of his generation. His masterworks The Humilliated (Las inocentes, 1986), Las Poquianchis (1976), The Heist (El Apando, 1976) and Canoa (1976), make him to be considered as one of the most creative and bitter-critic filmmaker in the history of Latin-American movies. Canoa was entered into the26th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize. His 1973 film Thoe Years (Aquellos Años, 1974) was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Prize.
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Oldřich Nový

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Oldřich Nový was a Czech film and theatre actor, director, composer, dramaturge and singer. He is considered one of the greatest actors of the Czech cinema in the first half of the 20th century.  At the encouragement of his uncle, Miloš Nový, a well-known actor of the National Theatre in Prague, Oldřich joined amateur theatre group "Řemeslnická beseda" and appeared in numerous plays before moving to Brno to direct in 1918.   Following his fifteen year stay, Oldřich  co-founded the "Nové divadlo" (The New Theatre) together with his wife Alice Valentová-Nová.  There he explored new and modern expressions of theatre by combining spoken word with operetta stylings to develop the "musical comedy" genre. In 1937 he met and began collaborating with renowned pre-war director Mac Frič. Their first success came in 1939, with the comedy Kristián, the first of many popular comedies starring Nový. During the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, Oldřich Nový became a target of the Nazi party, both for his celebrity, and his wife’s Jewish ancestry.  In 1944, after refusing to divorce, the couple was imprisoned in the the German concentration camp in Osterode. Following the liberation, Nový worked a dramaturge of Czechoslovakian film until the 1960s, when he began appearing on Czech television in the popular television series, "Taková normální rodinka" (1967-1971). His last theatre role was a title character of the play "Hodinový hoteliér" by Pavel Landovský, directed by Evald Schorm. During this time, Nový again collaborated with Mac Frič to create successful comedies, both conformist and parody, but these films are of minor note to his career. In his later years, Nový lived a life of isolation to avoid his celebrity status, almost never leaving his home.  
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Dmitriy Maryanov

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First appeared on the screen in the movie "Above the Rainbow". Soon he reappeared on the screen - in the school drama "Dear Elena Sergeevna." The next film with his participation - “Love” - secured the status of a “star” of a new generation for the actor. He started at the eccentric student’s theater “The Monkey Monkey”, which the audience knew more from participating in the television program “Directing Yourself,” where the guys snookled in small television reprisals. He graduated from the Moscow Theater School. Shchukin (1992, workshop of Yu. Avsharov). In 1992-2003 - actor of the Lenkom Theater. Actor of the Independent Theater Project. He was buried on October 18 at the Khimki cemetery in Moscow.
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