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Bette Davis

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Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television and theater. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres; from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies, though her greatest successes were her roles in romantic dramas. After appearing in Broadway plays, Davis moved to Hollywood in 1930, but her early films for Universal Studios were unsuccessful. She joined Warner Bros. in 1932 and established her career with several critically acclaimed performances. In 1937, she attempted to free herself from her contract and although she lost a well-publicized legal case, it marked the beginning of the most successful period of her career. Until the late 1940s, she was one of American cinema's most celebrated leading ladies, known for her forceful and intense style. Davis gained a reputation as a perfectionist who could be highly combative, and confrontations with studio executives, film directors and costars were often reported. Her forthright manner, clipped vocal style and ubiquitous cigarette contributed to a public persona which has often been imitated and satirized. Davis was the co-founder of the Hollywood Canteen, and was the first female president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, was the first person to accrue 10 Academy Award nominations for acting, and was the first woman to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute. Her career went through several periods of eclipse, and she admitted that her success had often been at the expense of her personal relationships. Married four times, she was once widowed and thrice divorced, and raised her children as a single parent. Her final years were marred by a long period of ill health, but she continued acting until shortly before her death from breast cancer, with more than 100 films, television and theater roles to her credit. In 1999, Davis was placed second, after Katharine Hepburn, on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest female stars of all time.
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Brad Abrell

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Brad Abrell is a Los Angeles based actor whose talents are incredibly diverse; he is an on-camera actor, voice-over actor, radio host and puppeteer. Brad grew up in Miami, FL where as a kid he used a tape recorder and Mad magazines as scripts to make his own radio shows. He graduated from the University of Florida and while in his home state, his radio resume' included mornings on 94.9 Zeta 4, WAOA 107.1 and WMMO 98.9. He moved to Los Angeles where the trail of his credits is as varied as his roles; from Mannix in all three Men in Black films, to his loveable shark character, Mr. Chomp, in Disney's Doc McStuffins, to Bubble Buddy in SpongeBob SquarePants, to his black-suited Agent Trigger on Gravity Falls. The list of his on camera commercials is equally as broad including Tide, FedEx, Lowe's, McDonald's, Voya, Kia and many more. Brad has performed as a puppeteer for the Muppets, Muppets Tonight, and Spider-Man 2 and even hosted a game show on Nickelodeon. In addition to his voice-over and on-camera career, Brad is currently co-hosting the nationally syndicated "Ashley & Brad" radio show. He is married to his wife of 19 years and has 2 sons.
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Burt Lancaster

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Burton Stephen "Burt" Lancaster (November 2, 1913 – October 20, 1994) was an American film actor noted for his athletic physique and distinctive smile (which he called "The Grin"). Later he took roles that went against his initial "tough guy" image. In the late 1950s Lancaster abandoned his "all-American" image and came to be regarded as one of the best actors of his generation. Lancaster was nominated four times for Academy Awards and won once — for his work in Elmer Gantry in 1960. He also won a Golden Globe for that performance and BAFTA Awards for The Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) and Atlantic City (1980). His production company, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, was the most successful and innovative star-driven independent production company in Hollywood of the 1950s, making movies such as Marty (1955), Trapeze (1956), and Sweet Smell of Success (1957). Lancaster also directed two films: The Kentuckian (1955) and The Midnight Man (1974). In 1999, the American Film Institute named Lancaster nineteenth among the greatest male stars of all time. Description above from the Wikipedia article Burt Lancaster, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Sybil Jason

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sybil Jacon was a South African-born, American child film actress who, in the late 1930s, was presented as a rival to Shirley Temple. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, she began playing the piano at age two and, a year later, began making public appearances doing impersonations of Maurice Chevalier. She was introduced to the theatre-going public of London by way of her uncle, Harry Jacobson, a then-popular London orchestra leader and also pianist for Gracie Fields. The apex of her career came with a concert performance with Frances Day at London's Palace Theatre. Her theatre work led to appearances on radio and phonograph records as well as a supporting role in the film Barnacle Bill. Irving Asher, the head of Warner Bros.' London studio, saw Jason's performance in Barnacle Bill and arranged for her to make a screen test for the studio. The test was a success, resulting in Warner Bros. signing her to a contract. Her American film debut came as the lead in Little Big Shot, directed by Michael Curtiz and co-starring Glenda Farrell, Robert Armstrong, and Edward Everett Horton. Jason followed this with supporting roles opposite some of Warner Bros. most popular stars, including Kay Francis in I Found Stella Parish, Al Jolson in The Singing Kid, Pat O'Brien and Humphrey Bogart in The Great O'Malley, and again with Kay Francis in Comet Over Broadway. Warners also starred her in The Captain's Kid, and four Vitaphone two-reelers filmed in Technicolor: Changing of the Guard, A Day at Santa Anita, Little Pioneer, and The Littlest Diplomat. Jason never became the major rival to Shirley Temple that Warner Bros. had hoped, and her film career ended after playing two supporting roles at 20th-Century Fox. These films — The Little Princess and The Blue Bird — were supported Temple, who became her lifelong friend.
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Rhatha Phongam

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Rhatha Phongam, nicknamed Yayaying or Ying, is a Thai actress and singer. She is the daughter of famed comedic actor Noi Phongam. Yayaying had recorded with some of Thailand's top talents and released her debut album when she was only 16. She is also an excellent dancer and has studied ballet since she was 6 years old. She attended the fifth grade at St. Joseph Bangna School and graduated Mathayom 6 from Phraharuthai Convent School and tertiary bachelor's degree Faculty of Humanities English major Bangkok University and master's degree, Faculty of Economics Department of Business Economics Bangkok University. She learned English in Australia for one year. An international talent- fluent in both Thai and English, Yayaying has starred in productions in Thailand, Germany, and most notably in acclaimed director Nicolas Winding Refn's "Only God Forgives", along with Hollywood star Ryan Gosling. After entering the industry for a while, she changed her real name from "Weerawun" and her stage name "Yayaying" to "Ratha" from a fortune teller's greetings .
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Brigitte Auber

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Brigitte Auber (born 27 April 1928, Paris, France) is a French actress who has worked extensively on film and TV in Europe, but is little-known in the United States. Her best known role, and a rare English-speaking part, was opposite Cary Grant in Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief, released in 1955. Ms. Auber had a small role in the 1998 remake of The Man in the Iron Mask (which starred Leonardo DiCaprio). Description above from the Wikipedia article Brigitte Auber, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Jozef Kroner

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Pochádza z dvanástich detí. Začínal ako robotník v Trenčíne, neskôr ako vedúci dielne v Považskej Bystrici. Popri práci sa venoval ochotníckemu divadlu. Začínal v Armádnom divadle v Martine (1948 - 1956). Od roku 1956 pôsobil v činohre SND v Bratislave až do roku 1984, keď odišiel do dôchodku. Účinkoval v mnohých televíznych filmoch a seriáloch - Kubo (1965), Živý bič (1966), Rysavá jalovica (1970), Ruže a sneh, Vôňa remesla, Slovácko sa nesúdi (1978, 1984), Sváko Ragan (1975), Nech žije deduško (1978). Je autorom kníh: Herec na udici (1970), Herec nielen na udici (1974), S kamerou a s udicou (1979),Neobyčajný testament (1982) a O rybke Beličke (1983). O jeho živote a tvorbe nakrútil režisér Fero Fenič tv. film Trate Jozefa Kronera (1987). Na základe hlasovania slovenských filmových novinárov v Ankete 2000 sa Jozef Kroner stal slovenským hercom 20. storočia. Keď bol na dôchodku, rád hubárčil. Nesmierne miloval Liptov, rád sa prechádzal na Podbánskom. Bol ubytovaný, väčšinou, u svojho veľmi dobrého priateľa Milana Lehotského v Liptovskom Hrádku na ulici Hradnej ( v tej dobe Leninova ulica ). Spolu chodili aj na dobré slovenské pivo do krčmy Svieženka ( dnes Esspresso Svieženka ). Naposledy tam bol v roku 1995.
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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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Armelle Deutsch

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Armelle Deutsch (born 22 February 1979) is a French actress. Armelle was born in the Bouches-du-Rhône. At the age of 13, Deutsch started acting classes and joined her first theatre group within Le Théâtre d'Astroméla. She then, plays a few plays, directed by Akel Akian in Marseille. At the age of 18, she decides to finish her acting training in Paris and enrolls at the famous Cours Florent. She then conducts the auditions in the hopes of landing a role on the big screen. One of her first appearances that made her known was in Francis Veber's comedy Le Placard, in which she plays Michèle Laroque. Following the success of the movie, Armelle increases her appearances and becomes a well-known actress in France. Since, she has appeared in more than sixty films since 2000. Armelle met actor Thomas Jouannet, a Swiss actor on the set of the TV drama "L'Affaire Dominici" in 2003. The two actors fall in love at first sight and never leave each other. On June 26, 2010, they got married. They have two kids. The pair lives in a quiet village in Loir-et-Cher. She made her first appearances in 2000 with a few small television roles - Vérité oblige, Navarro, One and one make six, Le Grand Patron. In the year 2001, she stood out in the role of Michèle Laroque's secretary in Francis Veber's successful comedy, Le Placard (2001). The same year, she played in the comedy La Boîte, directed by Claude Zidi. In 2003, she played a small role in the comedy-drama "Laisse tes mains sur mes hanches" , directed by Chantal Lauby, and made an appearance in Francis Veber's new film, "Tais-toi!". In 2004, she played roles in "Nos Amis les flics", by Bob Swaim, and "Le Carton", by Charles Nemes. She, then, lands a TV role in a detective series, playing Élodie Bradford, a French television series with 5 90 minutes- episodes, created by Lionel Bailliu and broadcast between October 20, 2004, and February 9, 2007, on M6. At the same time, she plays roles in comedies; in 2007, "Fracassés", by Franck Llopis, "La différence, c'est que c'est pas pareil", by Pascal Laëthier, and "Aime-Moi" (Short Film), by David Courtil. Source: Article "Armelle Deutsch" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Fred Scott

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Fred Leedon Scott (February 14, 1902 - December 16, 1991) was an American actor best known as a singing cowboy star in Westerns during the 1930s and 1940s. Scott was born on February 14, 1902 in Fresno, California, United States. He took voice lessons as a child and started acting in community theater at sixteen followed by working with a traveling troupe. Scott's family moved to Llano del Rio. He found work as acowboy on a cattle ranch and tried to parlay the skills into film roles on horseback. He spent three years at Pathé as Helen Twelvetrees leading man. He broke into Westerns with a singing part in a Harry Carey film. For a while, Scott did opera and stage performances before returning to Hollywood and becoming a leading man in many musical Westerns produced by Spectrum Pictures earning him the nickname "The Silvery-Voiced Buckaroo." He made nearly two dozen films with comedy sidekick Al St. John, and some of his films were produced by Stan Laurel. Scott retired from film in the late 1940s and managed his own rental properties. He died on December 16, 1991 in Riverside, California.
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