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Tomoyuki Tanaka

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Born in Osaka Prefecture, Tomoyuki Tanaka was head man at Toho Studios and one of its most prolific producers. Throughout his career he would produce the films of notable filmmakers such as Akira Kurosawa, Senkichi Taniguchi, Kon Ichikawa, and Mikio Naruse. However, he is probably best remembered as the creator of Godzilla. After graduating from the Economic Department at Kansai University, Tanaka joined Toho in 1940. In 1954 Tanaka would spearhead the original Godzilla film with director Ishiro Honda. After Godzilla's monumental success, Tanaka was instructed to "make another one". Tanaka would produce every Toho monster film up until Godzilla vs Destoroyah. Tanaka was also a heavy supporter of Toshiro Mifune, producing his films with Kurosawa as well as Mifune's own production company and sole directorial effort in Legacy of the 500,000. Tanaka would champion Godzilla's return in 1984 and be heavily involved in the series until his death in 1997. In his near 60 year career Tanaka would go on to produce over 200 films.
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Bolen High

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Bolen High, a native of Houston, Texas, grew up in Oak Park, Illinois in the home Ernest Hemmingway was born in (now a museum) and graduated with a BFA in Acting from Chicago's renowned Goodman School of Drama. In New York, he studied acting with the legendary actress and acting teacher, Uta Hagen. As Producing Director of Charleston, South Carolina's Dock Street Theatre and Queen Street Playhouse he produced and directed three seasons of 24 plays and musicals, a film series and a concert series of American jazz. Additional producing and management credits include: the Brooklyn Academy of Music's The Gershwin Celebration starring Leonard Bernstein, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Rosemary Clooney, Bob Dylan, Madeline Kahn, Chita Rivera, Michael Tilson Thomas and Tommy Tune and its videotaping for PBS's Great Performances along with the world premiere concert presentation of the George and Ira Gershwin Pulitzer Prize winning musical Of Thee I Sing and its restored and re-orchestrated sequel Let Em Eat Cake starring Jack Gilford, Larry Kert and Maureen McGovern; The Bridge - a Festival of American Musical Theatre in Beziers, France, starring Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Honey Coles; the American tour, off-Broadway presentation and two European tours of Robert Wilson's play I Was Sitting On My Patio starring Robert Wilson and Lucinda Childs; the original European tour and Metropolitan Opera presentation of Robert Wilson and Philip Glass's acclaimed opera, Einstein On The Beach; and a U.S. State Department Tour to Portugal, Denmark, England, Yugoslavia, Egypt, Israel and Jordan of The Martha Graham Dance Company. As a director, he has directed everything from Shakespeare at the Tribecca Bar and Grill to La Boheme for Opera Theatre of St. Louis. He was instrumental in helping launch the careers of actors John Goodman, J.T. Walsh, Dan Florek, Ernie Sabella and Nathan Lane in productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Robber Bridegroom, The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Workers and with the comedy act of "Pat Stack and Nathan Lane". He recently starred as Jack Hill, Director of N.Y. City's Office of Emergency Management, in the highly acclaimed FX/BBC docudrama, Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon (2002). Virginia Heffernan's review in The New York Times stated, "The performances - especially Bolen High as Jack Hill - are perfect - have never seemed so convincing." He will be starring on the Women's Entertainment Channel (WE) as series regular, Charles Bumble, in the soon to be aired four-part comedy series, The Tinsley Bumble Show. In addition to his work in television, he has starred in three independent features, on and off-Broadway, in regional theater and in numerous television commercials and industrials. His voice can be heard on national commercials, television promos, corporate narration and books on tape.
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Morgan Fisher

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Morgan Fisher is an American experimental filmmaker and artist best known for his structuralist and minimalist films referencing the material processes of celluloid film and the means and methods of producing moving images, including the camera, the director and crew, and the editing process. Fisher's work has been noted for its relationship to the Southern California landscape and its architecture during a time when the region was staking an aesthetic and intellectual claim in the larger art world. Since the 1990s, Fisher has also been producing paintings and installation works. His work has been included in three Whitney Biennial exhibitions, 1985, 2004 and 2014. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1987.
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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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Sharmila Thapa

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Sharmila Thapa is an Indian actress and anchor, who is working in Tamil film and television industry. She was born in Nepal. Thapa made her acting debut in the Tamil television serial “Thendral” along with Deepak Dinkar, directed by S.Kumaran and produced by Vikatan Televistas Pvt Ltd. She also acted with well known actors like Ajith Kumar, Soori, Robo Shankar, Rajendran and Prabhu. She has appeared in some well known films such Tea Kadai Raja, Vedalam and Kappal. Her performances in many films were lauded especially in “Vedalam” which was one of the Best films of the year 2015. She worked with some of the top names of that time like Thapa in “Sakalakala Vallavan” along with Jayam Ravi, Trisha, Anjali and Vivek. Thapa currently Anchoring in Adithya TV. List of movies acted ; Konjam Konjam, Tea Kadai Raja, Vedalam, Kappal, Sakalakala Vallavan.
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Michael Bland

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Michael Bland (born March 14, 1969) is best known as a drummer for Prince starting in 1989. He was with Prince during The New Power Generation era and played with him live and on albums for seven years. From 1995 to 1997, Bland, along with Sonny Thompson, recorded and played live with French pop star France Gall—they appear on one studio album and two live albums. In 2010, Bland became a member of Nick Jonas and the Administration (a side project of Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers) along with other former members of The New Power Generation, bass player Sonny T. and keyboardist Tommy Barbarella.
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Sylvia Sidney

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Sylvia Sidney (born Sophia Kosow, August 8, 1910 – July 1, 1999) was an American stage, screen and film actress whose career spanned over 70 years. She rose to prominence in dozens of leading roles in the 1930s. She later gained attention for her role as Juno, a case worker in the afterlife, in Tim Burton's film Beetlejuice, for which she won a Saturn Award as Best Supporting Actress. She also was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973).
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Mick Ferry

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Mick Ferry is renowned as a fine purveyor of lugubrious surrealism and has quickly established himself as one of the most sought after comics on the British and International comedy circuit. One of the finest comperes around, Mick Ferry performs regularly at The Comedy Store in London and Manchester as well as headlining at comedy venues nationwide. He is also a regular member of the prestigious topical Cutting Edge Team at the Comedy Store. On our TV screens, Mick has recently starred in BBC One`s Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow as well as Comedy Blue and The Comedy Store for Comedy Central. He made his big screen debut in 2009 in Ken Loach’s Looking For Eric – a hit feature film at the Cannes film festival where it was nominated for the prestigious Palm D’Or. A prolific writer, Mick was a writer on John Bishop’s Britain for BBC One and has also previously written for BBC3`s Smalltime. Mick made his debut at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival in 2009 performing The Comedy Final at the Gilded Balloon. He returned in 2010 with a brand new show The Missing Chippendale (Body Issues) to great critical acclaim.
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Nirup Bhandari

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An engineering and a dancer Nirup Bhandari is the son of director Sudhakar Bhandari. Nirup, who has learned dancing under Sridharan Pillai, had appeared in the movie Jolly Picnic as a child artist. It was in 2015 that he made his debut as an actor with the critically acclaimed Kannada movie RangiTaranga, which was directed by his elder brother Anup Bhandari. Nirup has also starred on the TV show Advocate Arjun, wherein he essayed the role of a psychopath. He is associated with the bilingual movies Rajaratha and Rajaratham, directed by Anup Bhandari. His 2019 release includes Aadi Lakshmi Puraana, directed by Priya V.
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Ian Cognito

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Ian Cognito (real name Paul John Barbieri) was a British alternative comedian of Italian Irish descent. He won the Time Out Award for Stand-up Comedy in 1999 but famously never appeared on TV, nor did he ever want to. Cognito had an aggressive stage persona and a reputation as Britain’s "most banned" comic, again another reason for never appearing on TV. Nevertheless, he was widely rated as a masterful performer with an innate grasp of stagecraft, inviting comparisons to iconoclasts like Lenny Bruce, Bill Hicks, and Jerry Sadowitz. He died on stage of a heart attack on 11 April 2019 at the Lone Wolf comedy club in Bicester, aged just 60.
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