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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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Grey Damon

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Damon was born in Bloomington, Indiana and raised in Boulder, Colorado. He discovered his passion for acting at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts when he landed his first professional job in a production of "A Christmas Carol." When Damon is not acting, he spends his time on other artistic endeavors including writing, drawing, sculpting, photography and music. Grey Damon stars on the hit ABC series, "Station 19," an immediately successful spin-off of "Grey's Anatomy" that focuses on the lives of the men and women at Seattle Fire Station 19. Damon stars as the passionate and fearless Lieutenant Jack Gibson who, when the station's captain must step down, becomes Acting Captain of the station. Damon's breakout television role came in 2010 when he joined the cast of the critically-acclaimed series "Friday Night Lights," playing Hastings Ruckle in the final season of the show. He has since had starring roles on NBC's Charles Manson drama, "Aquarius," opposite David Duchovny; The CW's science-fiction drama "Star-Crossed," with Matt Lanter and his "Friday Night Lights" co-star, Aimee Teegarden; and ABC Family's "The Nine Lives of Chloe King." Damon's other television credits include recurring roles on HBO's "True Blood, ABC Family's "Twisted" and The CW's "The Secret Circle." His guest starring roles include "American Horror Story: Coven," "10 Things I Hate About You," "Greek" and "Lincoln Heights." On the big screen, Damon can next be seen starring in the Screen Gems thriller, Cadaver, opposite Shay Mitchell. The film, set to premiere this summer, follows a woman who takes the graveyard shift a hospital morgue and experiences a series of bizarre and violent events caused by an evil entity in one of the corpses. Damon recently starred in the independent dramedy Sex Guaranteed, alongside Bella Dayne and Stephen Dorff, directed by Brad and Todd Barnes. His additional film credits include roles in Spike Lee's Oldboy, playing the younger version of James Brolin's character, and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, opposite Logan Lerman.
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Meosha Bean

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Meosha Bean is a award winning actress, filmmaker. Started filming and acting since age of 7 years old. After attending acting and modeling school Meosha went to do feature films, music videos and promotional work. Meosha is the owner of M.V.B Films which was established in 2003. Her projects includes Dark Rises that has all star cast. Miss Pepper short film 2013, that has gained almost 30,000 views in 1 week upon release. Too Close To Home her first documentary project, that is based on true events, which is available on amazon. Meosha has work with many people in the business and indie talents. Among them she worked with the legendary pro boxer Roy Jones Jr, legend in the game singer Keyshia Cole, Dale Resteghini music video/director, Designer and artist Ron Bass who has made clothes worn by Beyoncé and Jay Z. Music sensation Chris Brown. The king of rock Billy Idol and many more. Meosha also has a hand in television.
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Farid Shawqi

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Farid Muhammad Shawqi Abdo was born in Sheikha al-Bagghala in Sayyida Zainab district .. He obtained a diploma of the Institute of Applied Engineering and a diploma in the Institute of Acting and worked in small roles with the artist (Anwar Wagdy), then he began writing cinematic stories for his films and achieved stardom and became known as the King of the Tarso, the monster of the screen, the King . He wrote many film stories, and worked on stage in many of Rihani's plays, such as (Al-Daloua, The Story of Every Day), and he worked in Lebanese, Syrian and Turkish films, including (The Devil of the Bosphorus, Othman Al-Jabbar). And among the series he worked with, (Curmudgeon and Me, the only witness, Saber, Uncle Saber). He married artist Hoda Sultan and they separated in 1969, then he married Suheir Turk later on. He founded the Union of Artists in 1986. He won the State Prize for the story (They Made Me a Criminals) in 1955 and the Production Prize at the Berlin Festival in 1956 for the film (The Fatwa). He won the State Prize for Production in 1962, the Medal of Flag in 1964, and was honored by the Cairo Festival in 1994. He deservedly deserved the title of King of Tiers or King of Cinema, as he is the star who always renewed himself and got rid of stereotypes.
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Peter Watkins

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Peter Watkins (born 29 October 1935) is an English film and television director. He was born in Norbiton, Surrey, lived in Sweden, Canada and Lithuania for many years, and now lives in France. He is one of the pioneers of docudrama. His movies, pacifist and radical, strongly review the limit of classic documentary and movies. He mainly concentrates his works and ideas around the mass media and our relation/participation to a movie or television documentary. Nearly all of Watkins' films have used a combination of dramatic and documentary elements to dissect historical occurrences or possible near future events. The first of these, Culloden, portrayed the Jacobite uprising of 1745 in a documentary style, as if television reporters were interviewing the participants and accompanying them into battle; a similar device was used in his biographical film Edvard Munch. La Commune (Paris, 1871) reenacts the Paris Commune days using a large cast of French non-actors. In 2004 he also wrote a book, Media Crisis, an engaged essay about the media crisis, the monoform and, foremost, the lack of debate around the construction of new forms of audiovisual media. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Watkins, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Martine Beswick

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Martine Beswick (born 26 September 1941) is an English-Jamaican actress and model perhaps best known for her roles in two James Bond films, From Russia with Love (1963) and Thunderball (1965), who went on to appear in several other notable films in the 1960s. From 1980 through 1993 she altered the spelling of her last name as Beswicke. In 2019, she was inducted into the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards' Monster Kid Hall of Fame. Description above from the Wikipedia article Martine Beswick, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Martin Ransohoff

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Martin Ransohoff (born November 30, 1926) is a cinema and television producer, and member of the Ransohoff family. He graduated from Colgate University in 1949 and is on a list of Distinguished Alumni. He founded the film production company Filmways, Inc. in 1960 and remained with the company until 1972. Filmways started making TV commercials, moved into documentaries then sitcoms; by 1963 Filmways were making $13 million a year. In 1972 he became an independent producer. He attempted to "create" female movie stars during the 1960s; the actresses who achieved the greatest success under his tutelage were Ann-Margret, Tuesday Weld and Sharon Tate, who featured in several of his films from 1964 until her death in 1969. He is a cousin of neurosurgeonJoseph Ransohoff. The Beverly Hillbillies brought Ransohoff his first success in 1962 and thereafter he turned his attention to films. Ransohoff went on to produce such films as American Pop.
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Samantha Boscarino

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Samantha Joann Boscarino (born December 26, 1994 in Ventura County, California) is an American actress. Her first notable role was in the Tyra Banks-produced film The Clique. She also appeared on The Tyra Banks Show with her other co-stars Elizabeth McLaughlin, Ellen Marlow, Sophie Anna Everhard and Bridgit Mendler. Boscarino also has a recurring role in Good Luck Charlie as Skyler reuniting with Mendler. Her other television credits are JONAS, True Jackson, VP, Parenthood, Wizards of Waverly Place and appearing in the film The Perfect Game. In 2011, she was cast as Molly in the upcoming Nickelodeon series How to Rock scheduled to premiere in 2012. Description above from the Wikipedia article Samantha Boscarino, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Nikolay Valuev

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Nikolai Valuev is a Russian political and sports figure. Member of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the VI, VII and VIII convocations, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Tourism and Tourism Infrastructure Development since October 13, 2021. During his boxing career, he competed in the heavyweight category. Honored Master of Sports of Russia (2020), WBA world heavyweight champion (2005-2007, 2009), interim WBA heavyweight world champion (2008-2009), heavyweight champion according to the Pan-Asian Boxing Association ( 2000), Russian heavyweight champion among professionals (1999). Vice-President of the Bandy Federation of Russia, since August 9, 2016 - the host of the children's program "Good night, kids!", Chairman of the public council of the ANO "Public Forum "Ecology"" since 2017.
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Johann Vexo

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Johann Vexo (born 1978) is a French organist. He is the organist for both the choir organ at Notre Dame de Paris (as deputy) and the great organ of Nancy Cathedral (as titular). Born in Nancy, Johann Vexo first studied organ with Christophe Mantoux, as well as early music and harpsichord at the Conservatory of Strasbourg, where he was awarded Premier Prix in organ. He continued his studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique of Paris where his teachers included Michel Bouvard and Olivier Latry for organ, Thierry Escaich and Philippe Lefebvre for improvisation. He earned Premier Prix in both organ and basso continuo and additional prizes in harmony and counterpoint. At the age of 25, he was appointed Choir Organist of Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris. Soon thereafter he was also appointed Organist of the Cavaillé-Coll great organ of the Cathedral in Nancy. After teaching at the Angers Conservatory for 10 years, he is now Professor of Organ at the Conservatory and at the Superior Music Academy in Strasbourg. Vexo has performed extensively throughout Europe, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Russia. He has appeared as a featured artist in numerous international music festivals and organ series in cities such as Atlanta, Auckland, Dallas, Düsseldorf, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Montreal, Moscow, New York, Porto, Riga and Vienna. His performances have also included notable venues such as the Basilica of the National Shrine in Washington DC, the Wanamaker Grand Court in Philadelphia, the KKL in Lucerne, the St. Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney and the Yekaterinburg Philharmonic Hall. He has also performed with various orchestras and musical ensembles. He has been invited to teach organ master classes for the American Guild of Organists and at prestigious institutions including Rice University in Houston, the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Westminster Choir College in Princeton and Aveiro University (Portugal). He has recorded several CDs on historical French organs, especially one for JAV recordings on the great organ of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Vexo is represented by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, LLC. Source: Article "Johann Vexo" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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