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Pete Docter

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Peter Hans "Pete" Docter is an American film director, animator, and screenwriter from Bloomington, Minnesota. He is best known for directing the films Monsters, Inc. and Up, and as a key figure and collaborator in Pixar Animation Studios. The A. V. Club has called him "almost universally successful". He has been nominated for eight Oscars (two wins thus far for Up & Inside Out -- Best Animated Feature), seven Annie Awards (winning five), a BAFTA Children's Film Award (which he won), and a Hochi Film Award (which he won). He has described himself as a "geeky kid from Minnesota who likes to draw cartoons."
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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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Cyril Ritchard

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Legendary for his preening, prancing, delightfully playful villain Captain Hook on the award-winning stage (as well as TV) opposite America's musical treasure Mary Martin, beloved musical star Cyril Ritchard had a vast career that would last six decades, but "Peter Pan" would become his prime legacy. Born in Australia just before the turn of the century, he was educated at St. Aloysius College and Sydney University wherein he slyly sidestepped a parental-guided career in medicine for entertainment, participating in numerous college productions that quickly got him "hooked." He began professionally in the chorus line of The Royal Comic Opera Company and quickly progressed to juvenile leads. A subsequent pairing with the already-established theatre actress Madge Elliott in 1918 proved successful, and the musical twosome eventually married in 1935. Together they would go on to become known as "The Musical Lunts" by their acting peers performing in scores of plays and revues together. Ritchard specialized in playing slick, dandified villains in musical comedy and developed a potent reputation of being a man of many talents. Not only directing and staging Broadway's finest, he became a renown performer of various operas and led many productions as such. Shortly before his wife's death of bone cancer in 1955, Ritchard ventured into TV infamy by repeating his Tony and Donaldson award-winning portrayal of Hook in Peter Pan (1955). He continued to earn acclaim and/or honors with such classic stage productions as "Visit to a Small Planet" (Tony-nominated), "The Pleasure of His Company" (Drama League award, Tony-nominated), "The Roar of the Greasepaint...the Smell of the Crowd" (Tony-nominated), "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Sugar," the musical version of the classic Billy Wilder film Some Like It Hot (1959) in which Ritchard played the Joe E. Brown role. Lesser regarded when it comes to film, he performed in the early Hitchcock classic Blackmail (1929) and made his last movie with the musical Half a Sixpence (1967) with Tommy Steele. While performing as the Narrator in a stage production of "Side by Side by Sondheim" in November 1977, Ritchard suffered a heart attack and died one month later. A one-of-a-kind talent, his nefarious, narcissistic humor was a career trademark that culminated in the role of a lifetime -- one that will certainly be enjoyed by children young and old for eons to come.
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Mohammadreza Sharifinia

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Mohammadreza Sharifinia is an actor and assistant director who was born in 1955 in Tehran, Iran. We can say that "Snow Man" by Davoud Mirbagheri was his first professional activity. He also appeared for the first time on television as an actor in the "Imam Ali" series. Some of his activities in the cinema are Parsisa Bakhtevar's "Tambourine", Fereydoun Jeyrani's "The Salad of Season", "Leila" by Dariush Mehrjui and "Thirteen Cats on the Roof" by Ali Abdolalizade.
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Marge Redmond

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Marjorie "Marge" Redmond (December 14, 1924 – February 10, 2020) was an American actress and singer. Redmond may be best known as Sister Jacqueline in The Flying Nun, which aired on ABC from 1967-70. She was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Sister Jacqueline during the 1967-68 season. She made guest appearances on numerous television programs. Redmond was also well known for her portrayal of sage innkeeper Sarah Tucker in a series of television commercials for Cool Whip during the 1970s. Films in which Redmond appeared include The Trouble with Angels (1966), Billy Wilder's Fortune Cookie (1966), Alfred Hitchcock's Family Plot (1976) and Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993). Redmond's theatrical experience included understudying both Angela Lansbury in the original Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd and Judy Holliday in Bells Are Ringing. She played a supporting role in the 1981 Broadway production of Ronald Harwood's The Dresser. In 1999, she appeared Off-Broadway in playwright Joan Vail Thorne's comedy The Exact Center of the Universe. Redmond died in February 2020 at the age of 95. Her death was not publicly announced until May.
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Michael Socha

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Michael Socha (born December 13, 1987) is an English actor, best known for his role in the Channel 4 drama television series This Is England '86, and a role in the Channel 4 drama The Unloved. He attended Burton College, Saint Benedict Catholic School, Derby and he trained with the Chellaston Youth Players. He was also seen in the BBC Three horror-drama series Being Human in 2011. He is the older brother of actress Lauren Socha who stars in Channel 4 comedy-drama, Misfits. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Socha, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Tim McCoy

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One of the great stars of early American Westerns. McCoy was the son of an Irish soldier who later became police chief of Saginaw, Michigan, where McCoy was born. He attended St. Ignatius College in Chicago and after seeing a Wild West show there, left school and found work on a Wyoming ranch. He became an expert horseman and roper and developed a keen knowledge of the ways and languages of the Indian tribes in the area. He competed in numerous rodeos, then enlisted in the U.S. Army when America entered the First World War. He was commissioned and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. At the end of World War I, he returned to his ranch in Wyoming, only to be called by Governor Bob Carry to the post of Adjutant General of Wyoming, a position he held until 1921. The position carried with it the rank of Brigadier General (a brevet promotion) and it has been reported that this made him the youngest general officer in the U.S. Army. His reputation as a friend to the Wind River Reservation Indians, both Arapahoe and Shoshone, preceded him and in 1922, he was asked by the head of Famous Players-Lasky, Jesse L. Lasky, to provide Indian extras for the Western extravaganza, The Covered Wagon (1923). He resigned from the state position and recruited several hundred Indians to the Utah movie location. When the film wrapped, he was asked to choose several Indians to accompany him to Hollywood. There the production company developed a live 'prologue' to be presented just prior to the movie showing. The idea was a success and McCoy and his Indian group toured the U.S. and eventually, Europe as well. After touring this country and Europe with the Indians as publicity, McCoy returned to Hollywood and used his connections to obtain further work in the movies, both as a technical advisor and eventually as an actor. MGM speedily signed him to a contract to star in a series of Westerns and McCoy rapidly rose to stardom, making scores of Westerns and occasional non-Westerns. He retired from the army and from films after the war, but emerged in the late 1940s for a few more films and some television work. In 1942 he ran for the Republican Nomination for the U.S. Senate in Wyoming. He was defeated and returned to Hollywood and an uncertain future. In 1946 he sold his Wyoming ranch and moved to Bucks County, Pennsylvania and the life of the gentleman farmer. While living there, he met and married Danish writer Inga Arvad. He later built a home in Nogales, Arizona where Inga subsequently died in 1973. He spent his later years as a retired rancher. He died at the U.A. Army hospital at Ft. Hauchuca, Arizona on January 29 1978 at the age of 86. Inducted into the Cowboy Hall of Fame in 1974. During World War I, he served as an artillery officer in the US Army in France. Spouse Inga Arvad (1945 - 1973) (her death) Alice Miller (? - 1931) (divorced) (3 children)
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Edie Mirman

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Edie Mirman (born July 26, 1957) is an American voice actress. She's best known as the voice of Gatomon and Angewomon in the Digimon series. She revoiced hundreds of episodes of series work in the United States and abroad. Also for many animated characters including the voice of Fujiko Mine from Tales of the Wolf, and also for both Miriya Parina Sterling and Nova Satori from Robotech. She is credited alternately as Penny Sweet and Edie S. Mirman. She is the owner of Edie's Gourmet Looping, specializing in ADR/Looping for Film and Television. Wrote The Dibbledab Tale, It's a Girl Thing, Homer and Althea. Mirman was born in Chicago, Illinois. Source: Article "Edie Mirman" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Dehl Berti

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Dehl Berti had a prosperous Hollywood career, starring in TV movies like "Ritual of Evil," "Sweet Hostage," and "Scott Free." He appeared in films such as "Toughest Man Alive" and "Seven Alone." Berti's TV roles included "Last of the Mohicans," "The Legend of Walks Far Woman," "Born to the Wind," and "Buck James." He contributed music to "Cattle Annie and Little Britches" and acted in "Wolfen," "Second Thoughts," "Laguna Heat," "Invasion U.S.A.," "Bullies," and voiced characters in "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo." Later, he appeared on "Guns of Paradise."
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Anthony W. Johnson

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Anthony W Johnson is the creator of Ballet Magique (registered trademark) https://trademark.trademarkia.com/ballet-magique-87875120.html, an entertainment company in Los Angeles, California that fuses dance, magic, music, theatre, and "Wushu" (Chinese Martial Arts) into dynamic performances, and has received accolades from around the globe, and also gained Lester Horton Award nominations for "Outstanding Achievement in Choreography," Costume and Lighting Design" for Ballet Magique's "Ring of the Rose and most recently, performed at both the World Dance & Choreography Awards and a performed "The "C" Diaries at the Alex Theater in Glendale, California. Anthony began writing at nine, and several anthologies published his poetry. In addition, he has won several awards for poetry. Johnson was nominated for Best Actor for his role as "Tommy Gomez in "Me and Ms. D" (the story of Tommy Gomez and the legendary Katherine Dunham) at The Black Ensemble Theatre of Chicago. Other lead roles included "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "The Amen Corner," as well as numerous Children's Theater works at Ebony Talent Association in Chicago. Television and film appearances include "Son of the Beach," "Hoodlum," "Skin Walker," "The World Magic Awards," "Jackson's: An American Dream," and "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," and "Black Limousine." Johnson's parlay into Producing independent feature films includes his dual role as a screenplay writer and several movies with Samaco Films. Anthony is a Creative producer for Samaco Films. He is currently directing the motion picture musical Alexis Colette and will follow with the thriller "Vodun."
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