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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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Jerry Garcia

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Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead. Though he vehemently disavowed the role, Garcia was viewed by many as the leader or "spokesman" of the group. As one of its founders, Garcia performed with the Grateful Dead for their entire three-decade career (1965–1995). Garcia also founded and participated in a variety of side projects, including the Saunders-Garcia Band (with longtime friend Merl Saunders), Jerry Garcia Band, Old and in the Way, the Garcia/Grisman acoustic duo, Legion of Mary, and the New Riders of the Purple Sage (which Garcia co-founded with John Dawson and David Nelson).  He also released several solo albums, and contributed to a number of albums by other artists over the years as a session musician. He was well known by many for his distinctive guitar playing and was ranked 13th in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" cover story. Later in life, Garcia was sometimes ill because of his unstable weight, and in 1986 went into a diabetic coma that nearly cost him his life. Although his overall health improved somewhat after that, he also struggled with heroin addiction,  and was staying in a California drug rehabilitation facility when he died of a heart  attack in August 1995. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jerry Garcia, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.    
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Mohammadali Keshavarz

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Mohammadali Keshavarz is an actor of cinema, theater, and television who was born in 1930 in Isfahan, Iran. After graduating from the dramatic arts academy, his first movie was "Shabe Quzi" by Farokh Ghaffari. Among the most enduring works of Mohammad Ali Keshavarz, Ali Hatami's "Mother", Ali Hatami's "Kamal-ol-Molk", Mohsen Makhmalbaf's "Once Upon a Time, Cinema", Dariush Mehrjui's "Mr. Hallo", and " "Through the Olive Trees" directed by Abbas Kiarostami can be named. He has also been featured in television series such as "Pedar Salar", "John Uncle Napoleon", "Sarbedaran" and "Khane be Khane".
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Braden Lynch

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After receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Vocal Jazz and Studio Music from the University of Miami, Braden moved to Los Angeles and began his formal acting training. He has played a spectrum of characters from a creepy rapist on CRIMINAL MINDS to a motion-captured Spartan soldier in HALO 4’s weekly episodes to a put-upon Russian Techie on NCIS: LA, has been directed by Werner Herzog and Peter Farrelly, and has lent his countless character voices and accents to such video games as BIOSCHOCK II and THE PRINCESS BRIDE.
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Robby Krieger

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Robert Alan "Robby" Krieger (born January 8, 1946) is an American rock guitarist and songwriter. He was the guitarist in The Doors, and wrote some of the band's best known songs, including "Light My Fire," "Love Me Two Times," "Touch Me," and "Love Her Madly." He is listed as number 91 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robby Krieger, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Michael Gordon Shapiro

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Los Angeles-based Michael Gordon Shapiro composes for film, games, television, theater, and the concert hall. Classically trained, he delivers a romantic sound that blends the acoustic orchestra, evocative soloists, and organic-sounding electronics. Michael’s background spans both film/television scoring and the more technical discipline of music for games. He entered the game world as audio director of Boston-based Zoesis Studios, where he composed live orchestral scores and designed the studio’s adaptive music system. His feature film credits include Home Room (starring Erika Christensen, Victor Garber, and Busy Phillips), Against Time (starring Robert Loggia and with Craig T. Nelson), and a catalog of projects ranging from intimate documentary to over-the-top thriller. He contributes to top-tier production libraries such as APM and Extreme Music. His music has been used on such television shows as Nip/Tuck, Spongebob Squarepants, The Joe Schmo Show, Undercover Boss, and many others. He devotes as much attention and creativity to his interactive media scores as he does to traditional media. Some credits include Star Trek Conquest (Bethesda), Day of Defeat (Valve), Jane’s Attack Squadron (XiCat), Empire Earth 2 (Activison) and Empire Earth 3 (Vivendi), the Wizard Ops series of iOS games (Phyken Media), the retro-RTS Empires Apart (DESTINYbit/Slitherine) and the award-winning children’s title The Living Letters (Zoesis Studios). He’s also worked with composer Inon Zur as orchestrator and score supervisor on the groundbreaking Fantasia: Music Evolved (Disney Interactive). Michael’s music has been recorded by Los Angeles ensembles at studios such as Warner Brothers, O Henry, and Martinsound, as well as by orchestras in Budapest, Beijing, Toronto, and Prague. Michael is also an active composer for musical theatre; his children’s show Super Sidekick: The Musical is published by Samuel French / Concord Theatricals and has been performed in front of young audiences throughout the United States, including Off-Broadway in 2012. His family musical The Bully Problem was nominated for numerous awards at the 2019 Hollywood Fringe Festival, including Best Musical and Top of the Fringe. Michael is a graduate of the acclaimed film scoring program at the University of Southern California. He also studied at the ASCAP Film Scoring Seminar, and with Hollywood veteran Jack Smalley and Larry Bell of the Boston Conservatory. He is a four-time ASCAP Plus award winner.
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Dora Doll

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Dora Doll (born Dorothea Hermina Feinberg; 19 May 1922 – 15 November 2015) was a French actress. One of her first screen appearances was as Juliette in Henri-Georges Clouzot's Manon (1949). She appeared as Lola in Jacques Becker's Touchez pas au grisbi (1954) and as Genisse in Jean Renoir's French Cancan (1955). In 1976, she appeared on television in the French series Hôtel Baltimore in the role of Suzy. In 1977, she appeared in Fred Zinnemann's Julia as the woman passenger accompanying Lillian Hellman (Jane Fonda) when Lily smuggled $50,000 through Nazi Germany for her friend Julia (Vanessa Redgrave). In 1982, she played in Ettore Scola's That Night in Varennes. In the late 1990s, she played the grandmother Louise Chantreuil in the TV series Tide of Life. She was married twice. Her first husband was the actor Raymond Pellegrin, and they had a daughter, Danielle. She was later married to François Deguelt. In 1993, Dora Doll was awarded the Prix "Reconnaissance des cinéphiles" from Puget-Théniers in honour of her life's work. She was made Knight of France's National Order of Merit in 2000. Dora Doll died on 15 November 2015 at her home in Gard, France, at the age of 93. Source: Article "Dora Doll" de Wikipédia en français, soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Victor Rasuk

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​Victor Rasuk (born January 15, 1984) is an American actor. Rasuk was born in Harlem, New York to Dominican parents. He has one brother, Silvestre, with whom he starred in Raising Victor Vargas. Rasuk attended performing arts school as a teenager, and began acting at 14. He garnered his first movie role at 16 in Five Feet High and Rising. The film—less than 30 minutes long—was a hit at the Independent Spirit Film Festival. Two years later, the same director, Peter Sollett, suggested expanding the short film into a feature-length movie: Raising Victor Vargas, which went on to win Rasuk an Independent Spirit Award for his work. In his next film, Rock Steady, Rasuk played a character named Roc. Two years later, he took a leading role in Haven with Orlando Bloom. In 2005, Lords of Dogtown was released, with Victor playing Tony Alva, one of the leading roles. The part included surfing and performing skateboarding tricks. Although the more complicated maneuvers were performed by stunt men (including the scenes of surfing at Pacific Ocean Park pier and skating in empty swimming pools), Rasuk is a method actor and worked on remaining in character both on and off screen. Believing he had mastered skating a huge ramp in only his second week of training, Rasuk fractured one of his orbital bones. Rasuk says the accident likely earned him more respect from serious skaters within the cast and crew. Victor can now be seen on the HBO television series How To Make It In America (2010), co-starring alongside Bryan Greenberg and rapper Kid Cudi. Marjorie Ballentine is his acting coach. Description above from the Wikipedia article Victor Rasuk , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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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Sid Silvers

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sid Silvers (January 16, 1901 in Brooklyn, New York – August 20, 1976 in Brooklyn) was an American actor, comedian, lyricist, and writer. Silvers began his career in vaudeville in the early 1920s as a comedy partner of Phil Baker. As part of their act, Silvers would heckle Baker from the audience. The Baker/Silvers act was later used as the basis for the 1951 Martin and Lewis film The Stooge. The duo continued to perform together up through 1928. In 1925 Silvers made his Broadway debut in the review Artists and Models. He also appeared in the review A Night in Spain in 1927 and contributed lyrics to the musicals The Song Writer (1928) and Pleasure Bound (1929). He wrote the book for the 1931 musical You Said It. He returned to the Broadway stage in 1932 to portray Louie Webb in the musical Take a Chance. He later wrote the music and lyrics to the review New Faces of 1936. Silvers made his film debut in the 1929 feature The Show of Shows and then went on to play supporting roles in such films as Dancing Sweeties (1930), Bottoms Up (1934), Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round (1934), Born to Dance (1936), and Broadway Melody of 1936, notably also serving as a scriptwriter on the latter two films. He often contributed special comedy material to some of the larger MGM productions, including The Wizard of Oz in 1939. In the 1940s Silvers was mainly active as a performer on the stage and on radio. He made one final film appearance in 1946, playing a featured comic role in Mr. Ace. In the 1960s he was a writer for The Mickey Rooney Show.
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