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Neil Gresham
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Neil Gresham is one of Britain's most well known all-round climbers. He is equally at home on rock or ice and is one of the few climbers in the world to have climbed the coveted grade of E10, with his second ascent of the notorious Equilibrium on Derbyshire gritstone. His enthusiasm for climbing spans between Deep Water Soloing and 'sport-style' chalk climbing, and his recent exploits have taken him to destinations such as Sweden, Brazil, Mongolia, Cuba, Vietnam, China and Colombia in search of new rock. Neil is also the UK's most experienced climbing coach. He is the training columnist for Climber magazine and Rock & Ice magazine, and has been involved in regular coaching and personalised training since 1993.
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Winston Sterzel
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Winston grew up in South Africa, and moved to China is his twenties. He started his career by uploading Youtube videos of China, and became a full-time vlogger in 2016. His videos primarily focus on introducing Westerners to China and helping them with visiting and living there.
Sterzel has also made videos about motorcycle trips through China. With Matthew Tye (C-Milk, Laowhy86) and other friends, he has taken extended journeys and produced documentary series titled Conquering Southern China and Conquering Northern China, for which he and Tye raised money on Kickstarter so that the trip and the episodes could be longer.
He operates the YouTube channel ADVChina with Tye and as of January 2015 he was also the head engineer of a custom motorcycle business, Churchill Custom Motorcycles, which he started with Tye and another friend.
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Cees Nooteboom
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Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria 'Cees' Nooteboom (born July 31, 1933) is a Dutch novelist, poet and journalist. He has won numerous literary awards and has been mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature.
Nooteboom's first novel, Philip en de anderen (Philip and the Others, 1988 English translation), was published in 1954 and won the Anne Frank Prize. His second novel, De ridder is gestorven (1963) (The Knight Has Died, English edition, 1990) was his last for 17 years. During that period, he mainly wrote poetry and travel books, establishing his name as a renowned travel writer. The anthology of his writings on Spain, De omweg naar Santiago (Roads to Santiago, 1997), inspired several Spanish and Dutch composers.
In 1980, his third novel Rituelen (Rituals, 1983) brought him wide acclaim in the Netherlands, winning the Pegasus Prize as well as the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prize. It was his first novel to be translated into English and was published by Louisiana State University Press, which published two of his earlier novels in English, as well as others through 1990. His best-known work to English-speaking audiences might be The Following Story (Het volgende verhaal, 1991), which was written for the Dutch Boekenweek in 1991. It won the Aristeion Prize in 1993.
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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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Nieves Yankovic
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Born in Antofagasta, Nieves Yankovic lived in Europe from 1928 to 1942. She was one of the founders of the University of Chile Experimental Theatre. A film actress under the name Nieves Yanko, she made her debut in Luis Moglia Barth's Romance de medio sieglo (Romance of half a century, 1944). She also acted in Carlos Borcosque's Amarga verdad (1945), Roberto de Ribón's El Padre Pitillo (1946), Carlos Hugo Christensen's La dama de la muerte (1946), Fred Matter's El paso maldito (1949), Pierre Chenal's El ídolo (1952) and Pierre Chenal's Confesiones al amanecer (1954).
Yankovic worked as assistant director under Carlos Hugo Christensen and Pierre Chenal. In 1946 she married Jorge di Lauro, a sound engineer at Chile Films. From 1958 until 1972 the pair directed documentaries together.
After the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, Yankovic and her husband worked as teachers.
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Matthew Garber
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Matthew Adam Garber was a British child actor born March 25, 1956 in Stepney, London, England, UK. Both of his parents were theatrical actors, but neither was particularly famous.
In 1963, Garbet came to the attention of actor Roy Dotrice (father of Karen Dotrice) who was seeking potential child actors. Roy recommended Garber to the casting department of the Disney company, where young Garber's "artful dodges, like squinting, screwing up his nose, and brushing his hair back with one hand" were thought likely to make him stand out. He was cast in the film "The Three Lives of Thomasina" (1963), as the character Geordie McNab, a playmate to the Scottish girl Mary MacDhui (played by Karen Dotrice).
Garber next received a bigger role as the character Michael Banks in "Mary Poppins" (1964), one of the two charges of the protagonist nanny. Jane Banks, Michael's sister, was played by Karen Dotrice. The film was the greatest hit of Garber's career, and is the role for which he is most remembered.
In 1967, Garber had his third and last film role, as the character Rodney Winthrop in "The Gnome-Mobile". In the film, Rodney and his sister Elizabeth Winthrop (played by Karen Dotrice) are trying to prolong the life of a 943-year-old gnome, who has lost the will to survive.
Following his brief film career, Garber returned to his school studies. He attended first St Paul's Primary School in Winchmore Hill, and then Highgate School in Highgate, North London. He graduated in 1972.
In 1976-1977, Garber was in India and contacted hepatitis. He returned to London in June, 1977, seeking better medical treatment. It was too late as the disease had infected his pancreas. He died soon after, June 13, 1977 in Hampstead, London, England, UK, the official cause being hemorrhagic necrotizing pancreatitis. He was only 21-years-old. He was single, and had no known children.
Garber's remains were cremated at St. Marylebone Crematorium, in East Finchley, London. Both of his parents died within a decade following his death. Fergus Garber, a surviving younger brother of Matthew, was never informed whether there was any memorial erected for his brother. Garber was posthumously named a Disney Legend in 2004.
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Franco Nero
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Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero (born 23 November 1941), known professionally as Franco Nero, is an Italian actor, producer, and director. His breakthrough role was as the title character in the Spaghetti Western film Django (1966), which made him a pop culture icon and launched an international career that includes over 200 leading and supporting roles in a wide variety of films and television programmes.
During the 1960s and 1970s, Nero was actively involved in many popular Italian "genre trends", including poliziotteschi, gialli, and Spaghetti Westerns. His best-known films include The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966), Camelot (1967), The Day of the Owl (1968), The Mercenary (1968), Battle of Neretva (1969), Tristana (1970), Compañeros (1970), Confessions of a Police Captain (1971), The Fifth Cord (1971), High Crime (1973), Street Law (1974), Keoma (1976), Hitch-Hike (1977), Force 10 from Navarone (1978), Enter the Ninja (1981), Die Hard 2 (1990), Letters to Juliet (2010), Cars 2 (2011), and John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017).
Nero has had a long relationship with Vanessa Redgrave, which began during the filming of Camelot. They were married in 2006, and are the parents of the actor Carlo Gabriel Nero.
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Karl Bernhard
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The actor Karl Bernhard (also credited as Carl Bernhardt) joined the film business in 1916 when he appeared in the production "Jenseits der Hürde" with Lotte Neumann and Max Ruhbeck.
Afterwards Karl Bernhard acted in "Phantome des Lebens" with Lil Dagover, Sascha Gura, Werner Krauss and Maria Forescu, Otto Rippert's "Totentanz" at the side of Werner Krauss, Fred Selva-Goebel and Sascha Gura, again for Otto Rippert as salesman Lorenzo "Die Pest in Florenz" with Theodor Becker, Juliette Brandt and Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg as well as playing the title role in "Kord Kamphues" directed by Richard Kirsch with Kurt Middendorf, Clementine Plessner, Max Kaufmann and Richard Senius.
At the beginning of the 20s came his last cinematical works into being with "Der Kampf um die Ehe" (20) mit Thea Sandten, Rolf Randolf, Hermann Vallentin, Paul Bildt, Hugo Flink, Käthe Haack, Olga Engl, Erich Walter, Ernst Pittschau and Albert Paul. Regie führte Willy Zeyn, "Maulwürfe", Mysterium", "Tingeltangel" and "Das Gespensterschloss" as Doctor Heinsius.
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Ann Mitchell
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Ann Mitchell (born 22 April 1939) is a British stage and television actress. She came to prominence in the 1980s when she starred as Dolly Rawlins in the crime series Widows as well as the sequels Widows 2 and She's Out, all written by Lynda La Plante. In 2011, she was cast as Cora Cross in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, the mother of Tanya Branning and Rainie Cross. Mitchell has appeared in many roles in film, theatre, and television and has played a significant number of major roles such as Mrs. Warren in Mrs. Warren's Profession and her Laurence Olivier Award-nominated performance in Through the Leaves.
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René Desmaison
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René Desmaison (April 14, 1930, in Bourdeilles, Dordogne – September 28, 2007) was a veteran French mountaineer, climber and alpinist.
Desmaison had climbed more than 1,000 mountains since the 1950s. He made the first ascent of 114 previously unclimbed mountains throughout the Andes, Alps and Himalayas in his 40-year climbing career. He is also credited with creating several new winter routes in the Alps.
René Desmaison died on September 28, 2007, at La Timone Hospital in Marseille, France. He was 77 years old.
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