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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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Nino D'Angelo

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Originario di San Pietro a Patierno, quartiere della periferia nordorientale di Napoli, ebbe un'infanzia molto difficile e, a causa delle condizioni economiche della sua famiglia, lasciò presto la scuola e cominciò a lavorare saltuariamente come cantante ai matrimoni e come gelataio alla Stazione di Napoli Centrale. Dopo una breve gavetta musicale, giunse ad un immediato successo in ambito regionale con il suo primo album, 'A storia mia (1976), pubblicato grazie a fondi familiari. L'album ebbe notorietà anche nelle altre regioni meridionali. Si sposò in giovane età nel 1979 con Annamaria (con cui si era fidanzato ventenne quando lei aveva appena 13 anni) dalla quale ebbe due figli: Antonio e Vincenzo. In questo periodo cominciò anche a lavorare in teatro nelle cosiddette sceneggiate, tipica forma teatrale napoletana. Già nel 1980, al debutto, trovò subito il successo con "Esposito Teresa", tre atti e due quadri di Alberto Sciotti, tratta dalla sua stessa omonima canzone. Il successo fu confermato l'anno seguente da "'A discoteca", anch'essa di Alberto Sciotti e tratta da una sua canzone. Nel 1981 debuttò nel cinema, con Celebrità. Nel 1982 Interpreta Tradimento e Giuramento in coppia con il grande Mario Merola. Si realizzò l'abbinamento disco e film con 'Nu jeans e 'na maglietta. Il film, di cui gli autori e produttori avevano aspettative molto basse, tenne testa negli incassi a Flashdance. Da questo momento cominciò il "fenomeno Nino D'Angelo". Nel 1983 pubblica in successione due album che lo proiettano verso il successo nazionale: "Sotto 'e stelle" e "Forza campione" rafforzando la collaborazione nei testi con il paroliere Antonio Casaburi, già precedentemente presente negli album "Nu jeans e 'na maglietta" e "Le due facce di Nino D'Angelo" e con Antonio Casaburi nascono canzoni come: 'Na muntagna 'e Poesie-T'amo-Aggio scigliuto a tte-Compagna di Viaggio-Vedrai- Fra cinquant'anni- Racconto d'amore. Gli arrangiamenti sono curati da Franco Chiaravalle. Nel 1985 raggiunse la Top Ten delle classifiche nazionali con l'album Eccomi qua, che creò le premesse per il suo debutto al Festival di Sanremo nel 1986, dove presentò Vai. Fu totalmente ignorato dai critici ma il suo album Cantautore fu uno dei più venduti tra quelli del festival. Il successo su vasta scala gli permise di ottenere il passaggio dalla casa discografica Vis Radio alla Dischi Ricordi, per la quale pubblicò, nell'autunno di quell'anno l'album Fotografando l'amore. In questi anni cominciò a girare il mondo con i suoi concerti: Belgio, Francia, Svizzera, Germania, Stati Uniti. Una sua canzone, "Napoli" tratta dal film Quel ragazzo della curva B, divenne un inno per i tifosi di calcio napoletani.
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Sarah Harding

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Sarah Nicole Harding (17 November 1981 – 5 September 2021) was an English singer, model, and actress who rose to fame in late 2002 when she successfully auditioned for the ITV reality series Popstars: The Rivals, during which Harding won a place in girl group, Girls Aloud. The group achieved twenty consecutive top ten singles (including four number ones) in the UK, six studio albums that were certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), two of which went to number one in the UK, and accumulated a total of five BRIT Award nominations. In 2009, Girls Aloud won "Best Single" with their song "The Promise". During the group's break, Harding began acting, appearing in Bad Day, the BBC television film Freefall, Run for Your Wife, and St. Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold. Harding contributed three solo songs to the soundtrack of St. Trinian's 2. She also modelled for Ultimo lingerie. In late 2012, she reunited with Girls Aloud to celebrate their tenth anniversary. In early 2013, they announced that they had split up. In 2015, the singer briefly appeared in Coronation Street, and released her first extended play record, Threads. She won Celebrity Big Brother 20 in 2017. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sarah Harding, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Valéry Inkijinoff

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Valéry Inkijinoff (Russian: Валерьян (Валерий) Иванович Инкижинов; 25 March 1895 – 26 September 1973) was a French actor of Russian-Buryat origin. His strong facial features made him a favourite villain of French cinema for exotic adventure films and crime movies. Inkijinoff was born to a Christian Buryat father and a Russian mother in Irkutsk gubernia. He studied at the Polytechnical Institute of Saint Petersburg and was for a time one of the resident actors of an imperial theater of this city. At the beginning of his career in Russia, he appeared first as stuntman in a few movies and then as director and as actor. His major lead role during the Russian part of his career is The Son in Storm Over Asia by Vsevolod Pudovkin in 1928, a major Soviet propaganda film about a fictional British consolidation of Mongolia. He was also an actor in the troop of Vsevolod Meyerhold and was then appointed as director of the movie and theater school of Kiev in Ukraine. In 1930, while in France on a European tour, he refused to return to the USSR. According to Boris Shumyatsky, after Stalin learned Inkijinoff had never returned in 1934, said: "Too bad that the man escaped. Now he, probably, is dying to come back but, alas, too late." He starred in 2 movies while living in the Soviet Union, and contrary to Stalin's assumption, Inkijinoff became immensely popular in Europe, arguably the most successful Soviet actor abroad, starring in a total of 44 French, British, German, and Italian films. In France he frequently played the part of Asian villains. His most active period was in the thirties, when he appeared in Les Bateliers de la Volga and the G. W. Pabst film Le drame de Shanghai. He played for Fritz Lang in 1959, in Der Tiger von Eschnapur and its sequel Das indische Grabmal, in which he played the role of the high priest Yama. In 1965, Philippe de Broca cast him as Monsieur Goh, the wise but scary Chinese who guarantees to the Jean-Paul Belmondo character a certain death in Les tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine. His last movie was with Brigitte Bardot and Claudia Cardinale, where he played the role of Indian chief Spitting Bull in Les pétroleuses. He was a great friend of Charles Dullin and Louis Jouvet, and had a long career in French theater, appearing for instance in Marie Galante by Jacques Deval. He died at his home in Brunoy, Essonne, France, aged 78. Source: Article "Valéry Inkijinoff" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Dany Carrel

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Yvonne Suzanne Chazelles de Chaxel, better known as Dany Carrel, (born 20 September 1932 or 20 September 1935) is a French actress. She was born in Vietnam - then French Indochina - to French father Aimé Chazelles de Chaxel and his Vietnamese mistress, Kim. She gradually retired starting from the eighties due to two bouts of cancer. In 2021, she was hospitalized for three weeks after contracting COVID-19. Source: Article "Dany Carrel" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Rasri Balenciaga

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Margie Rasri Balenciaga is a Thai-Spanish actor and model under Channel 3. She married Thai singer, actor, and heir to a multi-billion business, "Pok" Patsarakorn Chirathivat in 2017. They have twins, a boy, and a girl, Mika and Mia. Margie's Spanish father, Daniel Balenciaga, passed away from colon cancer in October 2011. Furthermore, her mother is a Thai former model Orasri Poonkwan and her little sister, "Marina" Sadanun Balenciaga, is also a model and actor. Rasri studied at Assumption University (ABAC) where she graduated in 2011 with a business degree. Rasri is known for playing Thichakorn "Kati" in the 4 in a 1 series called 4 Hua Jai Haeng Koon Kao (4 Hearts of the Mountains) with Pakorn Chatborirak.
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Henry B. Walthall

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Henry Brazeale Walthall (March 16, 1878 – June 17, 1936) was an American stage and film actor. He appeared as the Little Colonel in D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915). In New York in 1901, Walthall won a role in Under Southern Skies by Charlotte Blair Parker. He performed in the play for three years, in New York and on tour. With the company of Henry Miller he gained recognition on Broadway in plays including Pippa Passes, The Only Way and William Vaughn Moody's The Great Divide (1906–08). His fellow cast member James Kirkwood introduced Walthall to D. W. Griffith, and at the conclusion of that engagement, Walthall joined the Biograph Company. His career in movies began in 1909 at Biograph Studios in New York with a leading role in the film A Convict's Sacrifice. This film also featured James Kirkwood, and was directed by D. W. Griffith, a director that played a huge part in Walthall's rise to stardom. As the industry grew in size and popularity, Griffith emerged as a director and Walthall found himself a mainstay of the Griffith company, frequently working alongside such Griffith regulars as Owen Moore, Kate Bruce, Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Mae Marsh, Bobby Harron and Jack and Mary Pickford. He followed Griffith's departure from New York's Biograph to California's Reliance-Majestic Studios in 1913. After a few months with Reliance, he joined Pathé for a short period. He decided to go into the producing business and formed The Union Feature Film Company, the first to be devoted entirely to full-length films. The venture was not successful, however, and he again became associated with Griffith's company. Given the relatively short length of films in the early years, Walthall frequently found himself cast in dozens of films each year. He gained national attention in 1915 for his role as Colonel Ben Cameron in Griffith's highly influential and controversial epic, The Birth of a Nation. Walthall's portrayal of a Confederate veteran rounding up the Ku Klux Klan won him large-scale fame, and Walthall was soon able to emerge as a leading actor in the years leading up to the 1920s, parting ways with Griffith. Walthall continued working in films through the 1920s, appearing in The Plastic Age with Gilbert Roland and Clara Bow. He portrayed Roger Chillingworth in Victor Seastrom's 1926 adaptation of The Scarlet Letter opposite Lillian Gish. Walthall continued his career into the 1930s. After his performance in director John Ford's 1934 film Judge Priest starring Will Rogers he enjoyed a golden period of his career. He portrayed Dr. Manette in A Tale of Two Cities (1935), starring Ronald Colman. In 1936 he appeared as Marcel in The Devil-Doll. He was gravely ill during his final film, China Clipper. Frank Capra wanted Walthall to portray the High Lama in his 1937 film, Lost Horizon. "Frail and failing, he died before we could test him," Capra wrote. Walthall has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6201 Hollywood Boulevard.
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Kom Akkadej

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Thai director Kom Akadej shot around 12 movies from 1975 to 1987. He was also an actor in around 10 movies from 1971 to 1975. He was a famous action movie director. Khom was working with Hong Kong stars like David Chiang (in 1982's Phet Tad Yok) and making action films like The Mountain Lion - เสือภูเขา (1979) and พยัคฆ์ยี่เก (1983). Kom Akadej reached his peak in late 1970s and early 1980s. The Mountain Lion - เสือภูเขา (1979) movie remains famous for its kung fu scenes. This film was one of the first to mix elaborate stunt work and well choreographed fight scenes. He then switched to Thai TV serie direction. Kom Akadej was president of The committee of The Federation of National Film Association of Thailand in 1999-2002. Kom Akadej movies are difficult to find officially. Movies rights in Thailand belongs to Coliseum film (บริษัท โคลีเซี่ยมฟีล์ม), company of Kom Akadej. Up to now no VCD / DVD was released in Thailand with correct legal rights according to Thai law. Coliseum film company would sell the rights for all Kom Akadej’s movies and not only for a single movie. Some companies were only interested in one or a few titles but not the whole catalog, preventing any Kom Akadej movies releases to this day
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Luke Wilson

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Luke Cunningham Wilson (born September 21, 1971) is an American actor, director and writer. He is the younger brother of actors Owen Wilson and Andrew Wilson. He is known for his roles in films such as Bottle Rocket, Idiocracy, The Royal Tenenbaums, Blue Streak, My Dog Skip, Old School, Alex & Emma, Legally Blonde 1 & 2, Charlie's Angels 1 & 2, The Family Stone, Hoot, Vacancy, 3:10 to Yuma, The Goldfinch, and All the Bright Places. His television credits include the series Enlightened, Roadies and DC's Stargirl as well as hosting the reality docuseries Emergency Call.
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Niti Chaichitathorn

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Niti Chaichitathorn, nicknamed Pompam, is an television host, creative, producer and actor best known for co-hosting the lifestyle travel show 'Toey Tiew Thai' and hosting the late-night 'Talk with Toey'. Niti graduated from Chulalongkorn University's Faculty of Arts, majoring in Pali and Sanskrit. He was the only student in the entire class who studied under this major. Previously, worked as a creative producer of 'Five Live' and is currently working as a producer and MC of TV programs 'Toey Tiew Thai' and 'Talk Ka Toey'. Apart from that, he is also an assistant manager of TV show productions at GMM TV, such as also an actor under the company. As a writer, Pompam published a pocket book called 'MaNgumMaNgaRha'. He is openly gay, and both 'Toey Tiew Thai' and 'Talk with Toey' heavily feature queer-related themes (the titles are a play on the word kathoey 'ladyboy'). He has also had various acting roles in films and television series. Furthermore, he won Best Entertainment Presenter/Host at the 22nd Asian Television Awards, for 'Talk with Toey', in 2017.
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