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Akira Nagoya

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Akira Nagoya was a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator who specialized in playing comical roles. He's well know for playing Yūtarō Asahina in the Tokusatsu superhero series Ultraman Taro. After graduating from junior high school in 1949, he entered the Tokyo Broadcasting Company (NHK) training school as a third-year student. His classmates included Hisashi Katsuta and Kazue Takahashi, who later became active as voice actors. In 1959, he joined the Bungakuza theatre company; in 1963, he participated in the founding of the theatre company Kumo. When Kumo disbanded in 1975, he moved on to work as a freelance theatre artist, appearing on stages such as Jijinkai and Komatsuza.
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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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Richard Warwick

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Richard Warwick (born Richard Carey Winter) was an English actor, on screen, stage and television. He made his film debut in Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet" and went on to star in such films as Lindsay Anderson's "If..."; "Nicholas and Alexandra" and "Sebastiane". On television, he played prominent roles in the sitcom "Please Sir!" and "A Fine Romance", opposite Dame Judi Dench. In his obituary for The Daily Telegraph, director Lindsay Anderson was quoted as remarking, "I never met a young actor like Richard! Without a touch of vanity, completely natural yet always concentrated, he illumines every frame of the film in which he appears."
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Joey Snyder

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Joey Snyder is an American director, screenwriter, and actor based in York, Pennsylvania. He is the head of Humedia Studios, and takes a special interest in genre-fluid films that feature experimental formal and narrative characteristics. A lifelong storyteller, he began writing comic books as a child, which progressed to short stories as a teenager and eventually screenplays as a young adult. He won the Bob Hoffman Award for screenwriting in 2023 for his debut narrative short film, Hurry Up & Wait (2023). He is attending York College of Pennsylvania with a major in Film & Media Arts, and a minor in Theatre.
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Sanaa Younes

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Sanaa Ali Younis is an Egyptian actress. She was born in 1942 in Zagazig, and studied sociology at the faculty of arts, before starting her career as an actress in several theatrical hits led by Fouad El Mohandes, including "Sok Ala Banatak" (Lose Your Daughters),ers), "Hala Habebty" (Hala My Love) and "El Arnab El Eswed" (The Black Rabbit). She appeared in numerous films, including "Ahlam Omrena" (Dreams of Our Lives) and "Harb Atalia" (The War of Italy), and television series including "Alzawga Akher Man Yaalam" (The Wife is Last to Know).
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Martha Sleeper

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Martha Sleeper (June 24, 1910 – March 25, 1983) was a film actress of the 1920s–1930s and, later, a Broadway stage actress. She studied dancing for five years with Russian ballet master, Louis H. Chalif, at his New York dancing studio. Her first public exhibitions were at Carnegie Hall at his class exhibitions. Sleeper's film career began in 1923 and continued until 1945. Her first screen appearance, at the age of 13, was in The Mailman (1923), an independent production. After appearing in several kiddie comedies at the Christie studio she was signed by the Hal Roach studio for the Our Gang" series but she quickly outgrew that role. From 1925-27 she appeared in comedies playing opposite the studio's most popular male stars. She left the Roach studio in late 1927 and moved to the FBO studio where she starred in six silent features during 1928–29. With the coming of sound she was signed by MGM and placed in their training program. From 1930 to 1936 she played supporting roles in many melodramas her role typically that of a well-bred somewhat snobbish society woman who ends up losing her man to the film's leading lady. Frustrated by the types of roles she was being offered, Martha began playing onstage in and about Los Angeles, at one point drawing raves as Eliza Doolittle in a performance of Pygmalion in 1932. After appearing in some low budget melodramas for the poverty row Monogram studio Martha and her husband, actor Hardie Albright, left Hollywood for New York in 1936 where Martha began a long run in both on- and off-Broadway plays. In 1945, as a favor to director Leo McCarey, Martha played the role of Patsy's mother in The Bells of St. Mary's. It was her last screen role.
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Laurence Naismith

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Laurence Naismith (14 December 1908 – 5 June 1992) was an English actor. Naismith appeared in films such as Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Richard III (1955), Jason and the Argonauts (1963), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), Carrington VC (1954) and as Captain Edward Smith of the RMS Titanic in A Night to Remember (1958). He appeared on Broadway in the musical Here's Love in 1963 and played the non-singing role of Merlin in the 1967 film version of the musical Camelot. In 1965 he guest-starred as barber Gilly Bright in episode 25, "The Threat" of 12 O-Clock High (TV series). He was Judge Fulton in the TV series The Persuaders! (1971), with Tony Curtis and Roger Moore. He also starred in a children's ghost film The Amazing Mr Blunden (1972). He portrayed Emperor of Austria Franz Joseph in the BBC production Fall of Eagles (1974). Naismith played the Prince of Verona in the BBC Television Shakespeare version of Romeo & Juliet. Outside of acting he was the landlord of the Rowbarge pub at Woolhampton, Berkshire and a keen cricket fan. Naismith married, in 1939, Vera Bocca of Horden, County Durham. Description above from the Wikipedia article Laurence Naismith, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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George Psarras

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George Psarras is an actor, musician, composer and sound designer from the San Francisco Bay Area. Mr. Psarras was just seen on General Hospital and recently wrapped the film Tapawingo along with his twin brother Paul Psarras, where they play the eccentric Glenn and Ben Gratton respectively. The film stars Jon Heder, Kim Matula, Billy Zane, Gina Gershon and others. Look out for it in 2022! On the stage, recent credits include The Humans (Richard Saad) at San Jose Stage Company and Silent Sky (Peter Shaw) at City Lights Theater Company, Between Riverside and Crazy (Lt. Caro) at San Jose Stage Company, and Finks (Sgt at Arms, Piano Player) at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. Mr. Psarras recently made his feature film debut in Disney Pixar's Onward, in March of 2020. He recently made his television debut as a co-star in the TNT show The Last Ship directed by Peter Weller. He was also in the video game NBA2K16 directed by Spike Lee. Other recent roles include Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice, Brock in Ideation and Merrick in The Elephant Man, all at City Lights Theater Company in San Jose, California. He was also seen at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley in Water By The Spoonful (Prof Aman, Ghost, swing-Elliot), and Anna in the Tropics. He has worked with Crowded Fire Theatre, Golden Thread Productions, and Dragon Productions. Other City Lights credits include Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Dr. Jekyll), Build (Kip), Amadeus (Mozart), Spacebar: A Broadway Play by Kyle Sugarman (Playboy/Fancee Magee), Aphrodisiac (Avery), August: Osage County (Little Charles), Compleat Female Stage Beauty (Charles II), The Three Musketeers (Aramis), and First Person Shooter (Tommy/Billy). In 2013, he was a co-creative director and performer at El Capitan Theater in Hollywood for The Gabby Awards, an awards ceremony celebrating the talents and achievements of notable Greek Americans. He also participated in the 2017 Gabby Awards at Carnegie Hall. Mr. Psarras has also been playing Greek music with his former band Fotia and with his twin brother Paul Psarras since 1998 in cities around the country including San Francisco, San Jose, Las Vegas, Honolulu, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York as well as others. Mr. Psarras is the resident sound designer/composer at City Lights Theater Company of San Jose where he has designed over fifty shows. He is a winner of four Theatre Bay Area Awards for Outstanding Sound Design for Eurydice, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Truce: A Christmas Wish From The Great War, and Amadeus. Mr. Psarras also works in film, television (The Last Ship), voice over (Pixar) and commercials (Toyota).
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Keiko Awaji

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Keiko Awaji (1933) is a Japanese film actress. Notable highlights of her career were an appearance in Akira Kurosawa's Stray Dog, and a role as Kimiko in The Bridges at Toko-Ri, where she appeared alongside William Holden and Mickey Rooney. Her first husband was Filipino musician and actor Rodrigo "Bimbo" Danao; they had two children together. Their eldest is actor Etsuo Shima. Her second husband was Japanese actor Yorozuya Kinnosuke, but they divorced in 1987. Their eldest son Akihiro died in a car crash in 1990. In 2004, their youngest son Kichinosuke Yorozuya (Satoshi Ida) was arrested for breaking into her home and served six months in prison. On June 16, 2010, Kichinosuke committed suicide by jumping off his apartment in Shinjuku. The actress is apparently a big fan of the Dragon Quest games, even going so far as to say it is her dream to play one last game before she dies. She died of esophageal cancer in Tokyo on 11 January 2014, aged 80 Description above from the Wikipedia article Keiko Awaji, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Dan Sallitt

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Dan Sallitt is an American critic, screenwriter and film director known for his microbudget filmmaking and "cinephile" film criticism. Born on 27 July 1955 in Pennsylvania, Sallitt moved to Los Angeles in 1976 where he became first-string film critic of the Los Angeles Reader from 1983 to 1985. He has written film criticism for many outlets, including Slate, the Chicago Reader, MUBI.com, Masters of Cinema, and the Toronto Film Festival. He maintains the film blog Thanks for the Use of the Hall.
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