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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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Dennis Storhøi

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Jahn Dennis Storhøi (born July 15, 1960 in Fredrikstad, Norway) is a Norwegian actor. He is an acclaimed theatre actor in Norway, having won several awards. However, he is best known for his role asHerger the Joyous in John McTiernan's The 13th Warrior. To younger crowds he is better known for playing in several Norwegian TV shows and giving voices to cartoons. On 17 March 2010, he and several other Norwegian actors were cast in The Thing prequel. The film is supposedly going to be about the Norwegian expedition who found the alien creature.[2] Storhøi later dropped out of the project due to personal reasons and was replaced by Ulrich Thomsen.
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Gabriel Bateman

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Gabriel Michael Bateman (born September 10, 2004) is an American actor. He is best known for starring in numerous horror films, including as Robert in Annabelle (2014), Martin Wells in Lights Out (2016), Andy Barclay in Child's Play (2019), and Kyle Hunter in Unhinged (2020). Bateman made his acting debut in 2012, appearing in the film George Biddle, CPA. In 2014, he had a supporting role as Robert in the supernatural horror film Annabelle, a spin-off of the acclaimed horror film The Conjuring. From 2014 to 2015, he starred as Ethan Taylor in the CBS drama thriller series Stalker. In November 2014, he was cast in Robert Kirkman's Cinemax horror drama series Outcast. He appeared in the series as Joshua Austin from 2016 to 2017. In 2015, he had guest roles in various television series, including Your Family or Mine, Wicked City, and Code Black. In 2016, Bateman played a leading role, alongside Teresa Palmer, in the supernatural horror film Lights Out, which was produced by James Wan. Also that year, he starred as Jack Hawthorne in the CBS mystery drama series American Gothic, which ran for one season. In 2018, he starred as Carter Hughes in the Netflix family comedy film Benji. He also starred as Wyatt McKenna in the Prime Video comedy drama series The Dangerous Book for Boys. Bateman starred in commercials for Staples, Frigidaire, Energizer EcoAdvanced Recycled Batteries, Iams, and the Cadillac CTS Sedan. He also appeared in two music videos ("It's a Job" and "A New Beginning") for the album I Remembered But Then I Forgot by Wolfie's Just Fine, a folk music side project of Jon Lajoie. In 2019, Bateman received further recognition for starring as Andy Barclay in the horror film Child's Play, alongside Aubrey Plaza. The film was a critical and commercial success. Also that year, he starred as Charlie Brenner in the musical adventure film Playmobil: The Movie and as Scott in the historical war film Robert the Bruce. In 2020, he starred as Oliver Reed in the family film Think Like a Dog and as Kyle Hunter in the thriller film Unhinged, alongside Russell Crowe.
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Michael Bates

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Michael Hammond Bates was an Indian-born English actor. He was educated at Uppingham School in Rutland and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Bates served as a Major serving with the Brigade of Gurkhas in Burma before his discharge at the end of World War II. In 1953, while an ensemble member with the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario, he appeared in Richard III and All's Well That End's Well. In 1956 he appeared in Hotel Paradiso which starred Alec Guinness, at the Winter Garden Theatre in London. He appeared in many UK television series including Last of the Summer Wine from 1973 to 1975 as Cyril Blamire and It Ain't Half Hot Mum from 1974 to 1977 as Rangi Ram, as well as many others. His role as Rangi Ram caused some controversy as it required Bates to be made-up with fake tan to look like an Indian, which he took to naturally as he was born in India and spoke the Hindi language fluently. On radio he played a variety of characters in the BBC's long-running comedy series The Navy Lark. These were: Able Seaman Ginger, Lt. Bates, Rear Admiral Ironbridge, the Padre and Captain Ignatius Aloysius Atchison. Bates' film roles include Battle of Britain (1969) as Warrant Officer Warwick, Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) as a Lance-corporal, Patton (1970) as Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery (to whom he bore a striking resemblance), Frenzy (1972) by Alfred Hitchcock, and the Stanley Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange (1971). On stage, he did Shakespeare at Stratford and the Old Vic and made a big impression as Inspector Truscott in the West End production of Loot by Joe Orton in 1966. He died of cancer in Cambridge, aged 57. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Bates (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Judy Gringer

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Judy Gringer er datter af en jødisk skrædder i Bagsværd. Hun startede som balletelev på Det Kgl. Teater 1950-1955, men blev kasseret og drog i stedet på turné til Italien med Rita Clair-Balletten. Senere deltog hun som danserinde i Tivoli-revyen og efter medvirken i film kom hun i 1957 til ABC-Teatret, hvor hun var Lommer-pige i årene 1957-1964 og samtidig spillede på Aveny-Teatret. Her fik hun et gennembrud i samspil med Dirch Passer i succes-sketchen om "Babs og Nutte". Judy Gringer var fra 1964 freelance-skuespiller og spillede på de fleste københavnske teatre, bl.a. Fiolteatret og i provinsen. I sammenlagt tre år levede Judy Gringer som hippie i New York, hvor hun havde forskellige småjobs som babysitter og statist. Hun medvirkede også på revyscener bl.a. i Holstebro-Revyen. Hun sluttede sin scenekarriere i 1984 på Aveny Teatret i "Amalie Skram". Judy Gringer traf som 17-årig skuespilleren Dirch Passer som hun levede sammen med i fem år og senere i ti år med filminstruktøren Knud Leif Thomsen (2/9-1924 - 14/10-2003), med hvem hun har datteren Julie Gringer. Hun har også været gift med psykolog Bent Tage Truelsen, men dette ægteskab varede kun eet år. Hun medvirkede i en lang række populære spillefilm, bl.a. "Pigen og pressefotografen", "Fem mand og Rosa", "Gift", "Sådan er de alle", "Den gale dansker", "Lenin, din gavtyv" og "Julefrokosten" fra 1976 samt i TV-spillet "Farfar til hest".
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Antoni Corone

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Antoni Corone is an American actor and producer who lives in Hollywood, Florida. He was raised in Willoughby and Wickliffe, Ohio. When character player Corone launched his screen career in the mid-1980s, producers immediately foresaw a perfect niche for him, and started casting him as rugged, slightly imposing and domineering types - including club bouncers, security personnel, military men, and officers of the law. He bowed with a slate of roles in 1986, including the telemovie Charley Hannah, and eventually graduated to big-screen character actor with bit parts in such A-list Hollywood features as Blood and Wine, Striptease, Bad Boys II, and Out of Time. Corone rose to higher billing with a supporting turn in the Joaquin Phoenix/Mark Wahlberg crime saga We Own the Night. More recently, he can be seen in Reservation Road, 2008's Recount and the Paul Greengrass war drama, Green Zone. Description above from the Wikipedia article Antoni Corone, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Ana Valeria Becerril

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Ana Valeria, a young Mexican actress, began her acting career at the age of 15, dabbling in theater with the Macramé Collective. At the end of 2016 she filmed her first movie, "Las Hijas de Abril" by the multi-award winning director, Michel Franco, where she shared the screen with Emma Suérez (Julieta, 2016). Her participation took her to the Cannes Film Festival, where the film was awarded the Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section. For her performance she was recognized with the Female Promise Award at the CANACINE Awards and Best Female Revelation at the 60th Ariel Award Ceremony 2018. We can also see her in the feature film "Muerte al verano" and soon in "Los días que no estuve" and "Mi novia es la revolución"; as well as the series "Control Z" produced by Netflix.
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Neil Simon

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Marvin Neil Simon (July 4, 1927 – August 26, 2018) was an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly film adaptations of his plays. He has received three Tony Awards, and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for four Academy Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards. He was awarded a Special Tony Award in 1975, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1995 and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2006. Simon grew up in New York City during the Great Depression. His parents' financial difficulties affected their marriage, giving him a mostly unhappy and unstable childhood. He often took refuge in movie theaters, where he enjoyed watching early comedians like Charlie Chaplin. After graduating from high school and serving a few years in the Army Air Force Reserve, he began writing comedy scripts for radio programs and popular early television shows. Among the latter were Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows (where in 1950 he worked alongside other young writers including Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Larry Gelbart and Selma Diamond), and The Phil Silvers Show, which ran from 1955 to 1959. His first produced play was Come Blow Your Horn (1961). It took him three years to complete and ran for 678 performances on Broadway. It was followed by two more successes, Barefoot in the Park (1963) and The Odd Couple (1965). He won a Tony Award for the latter. It made him a national celebrity and "the hottest new playwright on Broadway". From the 1960s to the 1980s he wrote for stage and screen; some of his screenplays were based on his own works for the stage. His style ranged from farce to romantic comedy to more serious dramatic comedy. Overall, he garnered 17 Tony nominations and won three awards. In 1966, he had four successful productions running on Broadway at the same time, and in 1983 he became the only living playwright to have a New York theatre, the Neil Simon Theatre, named in his honor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Neil Simon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Patrick Van Horn

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Patrick Van Horn (born 19 August 1969) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Sue in the 1996 film Swingers, starring alongside real-life friends Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn and Ron Livingston. He had previously appeared in the Dirty Harry film The Dead Pool (1988), in the Pauly Shore comedy Encino Man (1992), and on the TV series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in 1990. After Swingers he had roles in the Neve Campbell/Matthew Perry comedy Three To Tango (1999), the 2002 film Devious Beings, and 2008's Four Christmases which reuinted him with his Swingers co-stars Vaughn and Favreau. Description above from the Wikipedia article Patrick Van Horn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Gu Shang-Wei

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Gu Shangwei, singer and kung fu star. Kung Fu Star Global Champion'2006. Lead singer of Xuanwu Dongfang Group, is currently a contract artist of CTV Shangying Agency. Gu Shangwei was the champion of the International Traditional Martial Arts Championships. He has an excellent talent for martial arts. He won the Beijing Traditional Martial Arts Championships in 2006 and won the championship of boxing and double weapons for three consecutive years. He was also the "Chinese Kung Fu" in 2006. Winner of the "Star Global TV Contest" Finals. He has served as a martial arts director for many works of art, including the movie "The Gate of Fine Dance" and the large-scale live performance of Chen Kaige's work "Dali of Xiyi".
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