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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.
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John Lennon
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John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Along with fellow Beatle Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.
Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved as a teenager in the skiffle craze; his first band, The Quarrymen, evolved into The Beatles in 1960. As the group disintegrated towards the end of the decade, Lennon embarked on a solo career that produced the critically acclaimed albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and iconic songs such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine". Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to devote time to his family, but re-emerged in 1980 with a new album, Double Fantasy. He was murdered by Mark Chapman three weeks after its release.
Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, his writing, his drawings, on film, and in interviews, and he became controversial through his political and peace activism. He moved to New York City in 1971, where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by Richard Nixon's administration to deport him, while his songs were adopted as anthems by the anti-war movement.
As of 2010, Lennon's solo album sales in the United States exceed 14 million units, and as writer, co-writer or performer, he is responsible for 27 number-one singles on the US Hot 100 chart. In 2002, a BBC poll on the 100 Greatest Britons voted him eighth, and in 2008, Rolling Stone ranked him the fifth-greatest singer of all-time. He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
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Jason Winer
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Jason Winer is an American director, producer, writer, actor and comedian. He is best known for being one of the directors on the award-winning series Modern Family on ABC.
Winer was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. He attended Northwestern University and was an alumnus of the Improv Olympic Theatre.
After college, Winer acted in television commercials for companies such as Budweiser, Nike and Dr. Pepper. He also did stand-up on channels such as HBO and was one of the stars on the TV game show The Blame Game on MTV. He eventually got into behind the camera work, directing The Adventures of Big Handsome Guy and His Little Friend in 2005.
Since then, Winer has directed episodes of TV shows such as Kath & Kim, Samantha Who? and Carpoolers. He is a co-executive producer of Modern Family as well as a director. In 2010, Winer won the DGA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Directing Comedy Series for Modern Family.
Winer directed the 2011 remake of Arthur, his first job as a motion picture director.
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Demetra Hampton
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Demetra Lisa Ann Hampton (born June 15, 1968) is an American actress and model. She is best known for portraying the character of Valentina in the eponymous Italian television series. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she first began her career as a model in New York City, before being chosen for the character and moving to Italy. She went on to appear in films such as Three Columns in the News (1990), Kreola (1993), National Lampoon's Last Resort (1994) and Chicken Park (1994). In 2001, after working on the film, Gabriel, Hampton went on a hiatus from acting until 2012 when she appeared in the Italian comedy, Good as You.
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MacKenzie Porter
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MacKenzie Porter was raised on a cattle and bison ranch near Medicine Hat, Alberta. She began studying piano, violin and voice at age four. Growing up, she toured in a family band with her brother, 2004 Canadian Idol winner Kalan Porter.
Porter has appeared in numerous films and television productions, including the TV series Dinosapien in 2007. She earned a Best Actress in Alberta award for her role in the TV movie The Other Woman. She was also named as one of the Top 11 Hottest Vancouver Actors to Watch for 2011 by BC Living magazine.
After moving to Vancouver to pursue acting, Porter teamed up with musician and actor Andrew Jenkins to form the band The Black Boots. In 2010, she launched a solo career. Porter was the winner of the 2011 Nashville North Star competition. She has opened for Kenny Chesney, Doc Walker and Trooper, among others, and has performed for Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Gene Simmons.
In October 2012, Porter released her debut single, "I Wish I'd Known". Her second single, "Never Gonna Let You", was co-written and produced by Carolyn Dawn Johnson. Porter was chosen as one of six acts for the inaugural Canadian Country Music Association Discovery Program in 2013. She is also nominated for the Rising Star Award at the 2013 Canadian Country Music Association Awards. Her debut album will be released in 2014.
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Tatyana Lioznova
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Tatyana Mikhailovna (Moiseyevna) Lioznova was born on 20 July, 1924 in Moscow. Her father, an engineer and economist, volunteered to the army in the very beginning of the war and was killed in the same horrible year of 1941. Her mother, a representative of intelligentsia in the highest sense of the word, with whom Tatyana lived all her life, undoubtedly, had a great impact on her daughter and her creative interests. After school Tanya entered the Moscow Aviation Institute but soon left it. In the thick of the war, in 1945, she entered VGIK (The All-Russian State Institute for Cinematography) but after a trial semester was sent down. Her teachers decided her life experience was not rich enough for such an all-embracing profession as film-director. But Tanya did not give in: she stepped in the doorway of the institute in the way of her teachers and begged them into watching her study films. Thus she was allowed to continue studying. In VGIK Tatyana studied at the workshop of Sergei Gerasimov and Tamara Makarova. For some years she worked as assistant of film-director in the filming of ‘Molodaya gvardiya / The Young Guard’ by Sergei Gerasimov (1948), ‘Tainstvennaya nahodka’/Mysterious Finding (1953) by Boris Buneyev, and ‘Zemlya i lyudi’/The Land and the People by Stanislav Rostotsky (1955). The first independent work of Lioznova was released in 1958: it was ‘Pamyat serdtsa’ / ‘The Memory of the Heart’ after the script by Sergei Gerasimov and Tamara Makarova.
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Jimmie Walker
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James Carter Walker Jr. (born June 25, 1947), known professionally as Jimmie Walker, is an American actor and comedian. Walker is best known for portraying James Evans Jr. (J. J.), the oldest son of Florida and James Evans Sr. on the CBS television series Good Times which originally ran from 1974–1979. Walker was nominated for Golden Globe awards Best Supporting Actor In A Television Series in 1975 and 1976 for his role. While on the show, Walker's character was known for the catchphrase "Dy-no-mite!" which he also used in his mid–1970s TV commercial for a Panasonic line of cassette and 8-track tape players. He also starred in Let's Do It Again with John Amos, and The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened with James Earl Jones. Walker continues to tour the country with his stand-up comedy routine.
In 1967, Walker began working full-time with WRVR, the radio station of the Riverside Church. In 1969, Walker began performing as a stand-up comedian and was eventually discovered by the casting director for Good Times, after making appearances on Rowan & Martin's Laugh In and on the Jack Paar Show. He eventually released one stand-up comedy album during the height of his Good Times popularity: Dyn-o-mite on Buddah Records (5635). During Good Times' 1974–75 season, Walker was 26 years old, though his character was much younger. John Amos, the actor who portrayed Walker's father on Good Times, was actually just eight years older than Walker. Walker credits producer/director John Rich for inventing "Dy-no-mite!" which Rich insisted Walker say on every episode. Both Walker and executive producer Norman Lear were skeptical of the idea, but the phrase and Walker's character caught on with the audience. Also, off- and on-camera, Walker did not get along with series' lead, Esther Rolle, who played Florida Evans, in the series, because she and Amos disapproved of Walker's increasingly buffoonish character and his popularity, and Walker felt hurt by their disdain. Dissatisfaction led Amos (before Rolle), to leave the show, making Walker the star of the show. Walker was the only Good Times star to not attend Rolle's funeral.
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Eric St. John
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Eric St. John is an American actor and martial artist residing in Los Angeles. A Graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts New York, he has an extensive resume including work in Film, Television and Stage. His acting work includes a starring role in the film “Ride the Thunder”, based on the best selling novel by Richard Botkin. Eric made the first round of selections by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his portrayal of real life war hero Col. John Ripley. His extensive list of Television and Film credits also include General Hospital, Passions, It's a Miracle, True Beauty This Night, Troubled Child (The Boarder original title), Being American, Bullet, with Danny Trejo, Jonathan Banks, and John Savage, Isle of the Dead, Four Horsemen: Apocalypse, Rebels of PT-218, and many more. As a model Eric has worked for clients including Nike, Chrysler, Men's Fitness, Roar Clothing, IndyMac/OneWest Bank, and Corbis. He is a highly skilled Martial Artist. His involvement in martial arts began early winning the Gold Medal in the Junior Olympics, Black Belt Division in Taekwondo., at age 12. He has continued to pursue multiple martial arts disciplines; including training with internationally known Dan Inosanto, at the Inosanto Academy, in Marina Del Rey, CA and he is trained in Muay Thai, Taekwondo, Jeet Kune Do, Kali, Boxing, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He is also highly skilled in Japanese and Filipino based weapons.
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Nick Palatas
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Nicholas Edward Palatas (born January 22, 1988) is an American actor. Palatas has appeared in two short films, titled The Erogenous Zone and Love. In 2009, he played Norville "Shaggy" Rogers in the film, Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins and reprised the role in Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster which aired in October 2010. A newcomer to the Scooby-Doo series, Palatas replaced Matthew Lillard.
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Michael Chapman
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Michael Chapman is a British Actor and was born in Eltham South East London. He attended drama classes at Eltham Green secondary school. His first appearance was as an (extra) in keeping up appearances (Season 5, Episode 1) The Senior Citizen's Outing. He made his first cinema debut movie: The Hooligan Factory. Since then Michael has attended the The Actors Centre drama school (LAFF) Actors Masterclass - session assignments/ workshops Trained by Tailor Goodman. Since acting for 2 years has worked with many top talent and directors.
Has acted in over 50+ productions most are slowly coming outright up to 2015. Has recently wrote a memoir book titled The Journey about his involvement in acting and hopes to get it published.
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