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Bobby Barber

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bobby Barber (December 18, 1894 – May 24, 1976) was an American actor who appeared in over 100 films. Barber is notable for his work as a foil for Abbott and Costello on and off screen. Barber was often used by Bud Abbott and Lou Costello as a form of "court jester" on the set of their films. It was his job to keep the energy level up with pranks and practical jokes. Sometimes, he even suddenly appeared on camera during a take to break up the cast and crew. In Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), Costello answers a knock at the door expecting to see large actor Lon Chaney Jr. Instead, the very short Barber walks in wearing a funny hat with a feather. In another outtake from that film, Bela Lugosi, in full Dracula regalia, is solemnly descending a staircase to meet Abbott and Costello when all of a sudden the actors and crew burst out laughing. Lugosi, annoyed, turns around to see Barber following right behind him, mimicking his steps. Barber also appeared in bit parts, such as a delivery boy, waiter, bellhop, or man on the street, often uncredited in movies, and in many of Abbott and Costello's films and about half their television shows. Sometimes his likeness was in a picture on a wall or a "wanted" poster in a post office. His final film appearance was in Lou Costello's last movie, The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock (1959). His film career included bit parts in over 100 (known) feature films.
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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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Chuck Wepner

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Charles Wepner (born February 26, 1939) is an American former professional boxer. He fell just nineteen seconds short of a full fifteen rounds against world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali in a 1975 championship fight. Wepner also scored notable wins over Randy Neumann and former world heavyweight champion Ernie Terrell. He was also the last man to fight former undisputed world heavyweight champion Sonny Liston. Wepner's boxing career, and fight with Ali after, inspired the 1976 film Rocky, and other life events were chronicled in the 2016 film, Chuck. He was also the subject of the 2019 film The Brawler.
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Luke Judy

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Luke Judy is a Los Angeles based child actor. He has appeared on several TV shows since 2014 - Mighty Med (2013) Disney XD (2013), TLC Presents (2013), Angie Tribeca (2016), Upírí deníky (2009) Young Stepan, Twin Peaks (2017), Myslenky zlocince (2005) and more in production. His Film credits are Special Unit (2016) with Christopher Titus, Guys Reading Poems (2016) with Alexander Dreymon, Lead in A Woman Deceived (2017) Lifetime (2016), Christmas with the Andersons (2016) Lead, in production. Luke continues to develop his craft by taking weekly acting classes, dance, voice and Piano. He can be seen on commercials for Hasbro, Panda Express, Cadillac, Toys R Us and more! Source: IMDb
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Blake Sheldon

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Blake was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio and lived there until he graduated from High School. He was voted Homecoming King and Most Likely to become a star by his classmates. Blake's love of acting began when he was age 15. He credits his drama teacher for helping him embrace his love of theater and acting. Blake's work ethic and dedication to each role he encompasses makes him wise beyond his years. Blake has an older sister named Brittany. He resides in Los Angeles. - IMDb Mini Biography
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Nicole Elizabeth Berger

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Nicole Elizabeth Berger, (born November 27, 2003) is an American actress, musician and model. Shortly after starting to work in the modeling industry, Nicole began her acting career; performing in local theater where she starred in productions as Miss Honey in Matilda, Maria in West Side Story and in renditions of The Nutcracker. Nicole had her first film debut in the 2011 film Goldberg- P.I. and within the next three years, she was cast as Young Beatrice in the 2014 comedy-drama The Longest Week, which earned the Breakthrough Award at the Georgia Film Critics Association Festival. Berger then landed the lead role of Grace Clarke in the 2016 drama All at Once which premiered at that year’s Napa Valley Film Festival and then screened at the Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival. The actress then appeared in the fantasy-reality film The Place of No Words in 2019, where Nicole is featured as the enchanted-fairy Esmeralda. The film debuted in 2019 at the Tribeca Film Festival and then again at the Philadelphia Film Festival. Nicole next starred in the short-film, Ali’s Realm, as Ali; a role for which Nicole won both Best Actress at the 2020 Seattle International Film Festival, and the Lead Actress Award at the 2020 Best Shorts Competition. During that same year, Nicole appeared in the short-film Five Teenagers Walk into a Bar, as well as the 2020 comedic crime-drama Clover; a role for which Nicole was nominated for Best Teen Actress in a Streaming Film Role by the 42nd Young Artist Academy Awards. Nicole stars also alongside the late Cameron Boyce in the 2020 award-winning indie-thriller Runt as Cecily. The film premiered at the 2020 Mammoth Film Festival where it received Best Director and the Audience Award for Best Film. Most recently, Nicole finished filming Black Spines, an upcoming horror-thriller film currently in post-production for 2023. Nicole is currently a Theater, Dance and Media concentrator at Harvard University and will be graduating in 2027. In addition, she has recently joined The Harvard Callbacks (a university a cappella group). Keep up with the latest about Nicole on Instagram (@OfficialNicoleBerger), Facebook (Nicole Elizabeth Berger), LinkedIn (Nicole Elizabeth Berger) and Twitter (@NicoleEBerger).
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Miskow Makwarth

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Miskow Makwarth, der var søn af komponist og dirigent Ludwig Makwarth, havde Henrik Malberg og Holger Gabrielsen som lærere og blev uddannet på Dansk Skolescene i 1926 og debuterede som skuespiller på Aarhus Teater i 1925, hvortil han var knyttet i sæsonerne 1926-27 - 1927-28. Han tog endvidere en instruktøruddannelse, der gav ham debut med Kaj Munk stykket "Smeltediglen". Efter nogle år ved københavnske scener, - Dagmarteatret, Alléscenen, Det ny Teater og turnéer bl.a. som gæst på Den Nationale Scene i Bergen kom han tilbage til Aarhus Teater 1938 til 1944 som instruktør, bl.a. af friluftsspillene 1941-43. Han iscenesatte endvidere festspil bl.a. i Kalundborg og Viborg. Han dramatiserede og iscenesatte "Den lille havfrue" for Pingklubben på Nørrebros Teater i 1943 og et bibelsk julespil, hvori han også spillede Slangen og Djævelen, på Alléscenen i 44. Dèr var han direktør i 1944/45. I 1959 var han på Aveny Teatret som Izo i "Tante Mamie", og i 60 spillede han hovedrollen Manufakturhandler Sort i "Syndebukken" på Landsskolescenen. I 1961 dublerede han som Vanderbilt i "Knickerbocker Holiday" på Folketeatret, og dér var han Brighella i Een tjener og to herrer" i 63. Han spillede Jeronimus i "Abracadabra" i Den Gamle By i Århus og turnerede med Dansk Folkescene som Andreas Blegnæb i "Helligtrekongersaften" i 62. På Omegnsteatret i Gladsaxe spillede han Apollion i "Romulus den Store" og Kongen i "Drømmen". Han fungerede som leder af festspil ved byjubilæer, men skuespillerkarrieren medførte også store roller på talrige scener, fx. som Henrik i "Den politiske kandestøber", Per Degn i "Erasmus Montanus", Fagin i "Oliver Twist" og Vielgeschrei i "Den stundesløse". Miskow Makwarth havde de fleste engagementer på Århus Teater, Dagmar Teatret, Det ny Teater og på Nationalscenen i Bergen. I de seneste år havde han mindre roller i det lette repertoire på københavnske teatre, bl.a. på Amager Scenen.
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Ajay Naidu

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Ajay Kalahastri Naidu (born 12 February 1972) is an American actor. Naidu was born in Evanston, Illinois and raised in Chicago, the son of Indian immigrants from Chittor District, Andhra Pradesh to the U.S. He attended Evanston Township High School. As an actor, he trained with the American Repertory Theater's Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University. His first professional acting job was the film Touch and Go (released in 1986) which he won from an open call, this in turn led to television jobs.He starred in the TV-movie, Lady Blue (1985) as "Paquito". This was followed by an ABC Afterschool Special episode, "No Greater Gift" (1985), where he played "Nick Santana", a 12-year old boy with a terminal illness. He then appeared in an uncredited role as "Ahmed" in the "MacGyver" TV series, during the first season, in episode, "To Be a Man" in 1986. Other film credits when younger include Where the River Runs Black (1986) and Vice Versa (1988). Between 1988 and 1995 he worked extensively in classical theatre. He returned to film acting in SubUrbia (1996), where he was praised for his role as the convenience store owner, "Nazeer Choudhury" and for which he was nominated for an independent spirit award for best supporting actor. On screen, Naidu has appeared in the film Office Space, as well as K-Pax, π, Requiem for a Dream, Bad Santa, The War Within, American Chai, The Guru, Waterborne and Loins of Punjab Presents and many more. He co-starred in the sitcom LateLine and had guest starring roles on the television dramas The Sopranos, in the episode entitled Big Girls Don't Cry, as well as The West Wing. In 1997, Naidu was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for his role in the independent film subUrbia. Naidu has been working extensively with musicians from the Asian underground music movement for many years and his vocals have appeared on many records most notably Talvin Singh's mercury award winner "OK". In 2006 he directed his first feature film Ashes which came out in 2010. His most recent Theatre credits include A world tour of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure with Simon McBurney's Theatre Complicite, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui alongside Al Pacino, and The Little Flower of East Orange at New York's Public Theater. He is currently engaged to actress Heather Burns. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ajay Naidu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Raphaël de Casabianca

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Raphaël de Casabianca, born July 29, 1980 in Paris, is a French photographer, documentary filmmaker, globetrotter and television host. Born to a Corsican father and a mother from Béarnaise, Raphaël de Casabianca developed a passion for photography from the age of 16. After taking courses at EICAR, he obtained a BTS in audiovisual editing. In 1996, when he made his first documentaries in France and abroad, he won second prize in the Audiovisual Competition of the city of Paris, with his stop-motion short film, entitled The Adventures of Burk. From 2005 to 2008, he joined the creative department of Disney Télévision France, before becoming a producer for the National Geographic Channel and Voyage channels. During the summer of 2009, alongside Antoine Delaplace, he presented the docu-fiction Funny Trip, broadcast every Saturday at 11:35 a.m. on France 2. He then directed the documentary Expédition Grand Rift for France 5. In November 2011, he won the photographic competition organized by the beGlob travel network and A/R magazine; a series of black and white photos on Women of the World. From 2012 to 2013, he was a “geography expert” columnist on the game show Are you a good expert? by Julien Courbet on France 2. At the same time, he was also editorial manager of the weekly magazine Ô Feminine on the France Ô channel. At the start of the 2013 school year, he joined as a globetrotter the France 5 program entitled Échappées Belles, alongside Sophie Jovillard and Jérôme Pitorin, broadcast every Saturday evening at 8:35 p.m. He left the show in September 2018. Ismaël Khelifa succeeded him. At the same time, from September 2015 to June 2017, he was a columnist on the program La Quotidienne on France 5, hosted by Maya Lauqué and Thomas Isle. He shares the “weekend ideas” section with Sophie Jovillard, Jérôme Pitorin and Ngiraan Fall. In June 2018, he was asked by Stéphane Bern to introduce The Favorite Village of the French on France 2 with the host Tiga. In September 2018, Frédéric Lopez announces that he is stopping the presentation of Rendez-vous in unknown land on France 25. Raphaël de Casabianca takes over the reins of the program. Its first guest is director and actor Franck Gastambide, who has gone to meet the Van Gujjar nomads from Uttarakhand to the foothills of the Himalayas in India; the episode is broadcast on March 19, 2019 in the first part of the evening. He then co-presents on set with Églantine Éméyé Return from unknown land where the guest confides in his adventure. Since April 2019, he has hosted, also replacing Frédéric Lopez, the program Our unknown lands in which he takes celebrities to a place in France.
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Jinkx Monsoon

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Jerick Roman Lamar Hoffer, best known under the stage name Jinkx Monsoon, is an American drag queen, actor, singer and comedian. Named the "Queen of All Queens", they have been noted for their celebrity impersonations and quick wit. In 2013, they won the fifth season of RuPaul's Drag Race. In 2022, with an all-winners cast, they later won the seventh season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, becoming the first two-time winner of the show across its iterations. They made their Broadway debut in 2023.
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