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Walter Kingsford

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Walter Kingsford (born Walter Pearce, 20 September 1882 – 7 February 1958) was a British stage, film and television actor. Kingsford began his acting career on the London stage. He also had a long Broadway career, appearing in plays from the 1912 original American production of George Bernard Shaw's Fanny's First Play to 1944's Song of Norway. In the early 1920s, Kingford was active with the Henry Jewett Players. Kingsford moved to Hollywood, California, for a prolific film career in supporting parts. On screen, he specialised in portraying authority figures such as noblemen, heads of state, doctors, police inspectors and lawyers. He is best known for his recurring role as the snobbish hospital head Dr. P. Walter Carew in the popular Dr. Kildare (and Dr. Gillespie) film series. Kingsford had numerous television appearances in the 1950s. They included TV Reader's Digest, Command Performance and Science Fiction Theatre.
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Jessica Lange

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Jessica Phyllis Lange (born April 20, 1949) is an American actress. She is the 13th actress to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting, having won two Academy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award, along with a Screen Actors Guild Award and five Golden Globe Awards. Lange made her professional film debut in Dino De Laurentiis's 1976 remake of the 1933 action-adventure classic King Kong, for which she also won her first Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year. In 1979, she starred in the acclaimed musical film All That Jazz. In 1983, she won her second Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as a soap opera star in Tootsie (1982) and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of the troubled actress Frances Farmer in Frances (1982). Lange received three more nominations for Country (1984), Sweet Dreams (1985) and Music Box (1989), before winning her third Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as a bipolar housewife in Blue Sky (1994). In 2010, Lange won her first Primetime Emmy Award for her portrayal of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's aunt Big Edie in HBO's Grey Gardens (2009). Between 2011 and 2014, she won her first Screen Actors Guild Award, first Critics Choice Award, fifth Golden Globe Award, three Dorian Awards and her second and third Emmy Awards for her performances in the first, second and third seasons of FX's horror anthology series American Horror Story (2011–2015, 2018). In 2016, Lange won her first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play, an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play for her performance in the Broadway revival of Long Day's Journey into Night. She also had a supporting role in Louis C.K.'s Peabody Award-winning web series Horace and Pete. In 2017, for her portrayal of actress Joan Crawford in the miniseries Feud, Lange received her eighth Emmy, 16th Golden Globe, sixth Screen Actors Guild Award and second TCA Award nominations. In 2019, she received a tenth Emmy nomination for her performance in American Horror Story: Apocalypse. Lange is also a photographer with four published books of photography. She has been a foster parent and holds a Goodwill Ambassador position for UNICEF, specializing in HIV/AIDS in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Russia. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jessica Lange, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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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Zevi Wolmark

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Born on August 19, 1962 in San Francisco, Zevi Wolmark is an American actor and producer. He has appeared in a number of classic film comedies and has earned an Academy Award Nomination as well as multiple Tony awards. For more than three decades, this talented artist has been entertaining the American audience, winning over their hearts with his touching performances and natural charisma.  Staring off his career as a young and promising talent, Wolmark had his first acting experience on a hit television show in the late 80’s. The series that debuted in 1989 was well received by the viewers and went on air for three whole seasons.  After working on a television series he was determined to follow his passion and appear on the big screens. His feature-length film debut role launched his career and helped him establish valuable contacts with prominent Hollywood names. In 1993 Zevi Wolmark worked on an animated adaptation of a musical, and later that year he had his first appearance in a parody of western film. The film turned out to be a huge success, winning over great reviews from both critics and viewers, and earning over $100 million domestically, pushing the comic envelope with its satire. 
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Dušan Janićijević

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Dusan Janićijević was a Serbian actor. Acting finished the Theatre Academy in Belgrade. For the first time as a student in 1954. he appeared with her role in Stojan Mutikasa for the debut role was given to the first Golden Arena in Pula Film Festival. Since then he has played in almost 400 films and television series, and the last role was in the movie Dragan Bjelogrlic "Montevideo, God Bless You". He made a documentary about his human and artistic dilemmas, published a book about Russian immigrants, about life on the river and fishing.
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Frank Ellis

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Frank has been an actor for over forty years, during which time he has done seasons with most of the major repertory companies in Britain, including Birmingham, Swansea. Salisbury, Hornchurch, Dundee, Worcester, York, Liverpool, Leatherhead, Watford. He has also appeared in ten World Premieres at the Warehouse Theatre, Croydon. In the West End, he appeared in Treasure Island and Trafford Tanzi at the Mermaid, Jeanne at Sadlers Wells, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Westminster and Little Shop of Horrors at the Comedy. He toured the Middle and Far East with Derek Nimmo’s Company, in Key for Two by John Chapman, and Japan and the Philippines with Ken Hill’s Phantom of the Opera. Frank has made numerous television appearances including Nicholas Nickleby, The Professionals, The Famous Five, Mitch, Boon, Pressgang, Old Flames, Square Deal, Camomile Lawn, Resnick, The Chief, Finney, See-Saw, Michael Winner’s True Crimes, Undercover Heart, Holby City, EastEnders, Doctors (6 episodes), and The Bill (five times). His films include Buster and Stardust. Frank is married to ex-actress Jenny, and has two grown-up sons and a wonderful eight-year-old grandson.
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Al Lettieri

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Alfred Lettieri (February 24, 1928–October 18, 1975) was an American actor, known for his portrayal of Virgil Sollozzo, in The Godfather. Lettieri projected an aura of menace and ruthlessness in his film roles, which he attributed to his acquaintance with real-life gangsters, including Joey Gallo. At the age of 36, he made his screen debut in the television film The Hanged Man. Lettieri acted with some of Hollywood's biggest screen names including Steve McQueen in The Getaway, Charles Bronson in Mr. Majestyk, John Wayne in McQ and both Marlon Brando and Al Pacino in The Godfather. Lettieri died of a heart attack in 1975, at the age of 47, leaving two children. Description above from the Wikipedia article  Al Lettieri, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Nicholas Crovetti

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Born and raised in Southern California, Nicholas Crovetti began his acting career at 7 years-old appearing as 'Max Wright' in HBO's Emmy Award-winning drama series Big Little Lies, playing one of the twin sons (alongside his real-life twin brother Cameron) of Nicole Kidman and Alexander Skarsgård. Nominated for a Screen Actor's Guild Award for Best Ensemble Drama, Nicholas went on to appear in the show's critically-acclaimed 2nd season with the opportunity to act alongside multiple Academy Award-winning actress Meryl Streep. Nicholas can next be seen as 'Danny Glick' in the New Line/Warner Bros' adaptation of Stephen King's best-selling novel Salem's Lot directed by Gary Dauberman. Produced by horror maestro James Wan, the film features an ensemble cast which includes Lewis Pullman, Pilou Asbaek, Makenzie Leigh, Bill Camp and Alfre Woodard. Nicholas can also soon be seen starring opposite Academy Award-nominated actress Naomi Watts and his twin brother Cameron in Prime Video's English-language adaptation of the cult horror film Goodnight Mommy directed by Matt Sobel. Nicholas recently completed filming the highly-anticipated action-thriller Boy Kills World in South Africa, in which he and his brother Cameron portray a young version of Bill Skarsgård's 'Boy' character (in yet another acting turn with the Skarsgård family). Directed by Moritz Mohr and produced by Sam Raimi and Roy Lee, the film also stars Jessica Rothe, Michelle Dockery, Sharlto Copley, Andrew Koji, Famke Janssen and legendary martial arts master Yayan Ruhian. Nicholas' previous credits include co-starring in the dramatic crime thriller Brothers By Blood with Maika Monroe, Joel Kinnaman and Ryan Philippe, Universal's horror-thriller Oracle with Heather Graham, the horror-fantasy Witch Hunt with Elizabeth Mitchell, indie French drama Anywhere With You with Betsy Brandt and Lorelei Linklater, as well as appearing in a guest starring role on the hit ABC comedy Black-ish. Nicholas also lends his voice and singing talents to the character of 'Iggy Peck' in Netflix's animated series Ada Twist, Scientist which was recently nominated for a 38th annual Television Critics Association Award.
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Zack Snyder

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Zachary Edward Snyder (born March 1, 1966) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and cinematographer. He made his feature film debut in 2004 with Dawn of the Dead, a remake of the 1978 horror film of the same name. Since then, he has directed or produced a number of comic book and superhero films, including 300 (2007) and Watchmen (2009), as well as the Superman film that started the DC Extended Universe, Man of Steel (2013), and its follow-ups, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and Justice League (2017). A director's cut for Justice League was released in 2021. He also directed the computer-animated film Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010), the psychological action film Sucker Punch (2011), and the zombie heist film Army of the Dead (2021). In 2004, he founded the production company The Stone Quarry (formerly known as Cruel and Unusual Films) alongside his wife Deborah Snyder and producing partner Wesley Coller.
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Balaji Patturaj

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Balaji Patturaj, popularly known as RJ Balaji, is an Indian radio jockey based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He is best known as the host of the BIG FM 92.7 show Take it Easy and its now defunct segment Cross Talk, where he made prank calls to unsuspecting victims. Although mainly a radio jockey, Balaji is also active in other fields; he is known for his association with the television shows Ungalil Yaar Adutha Prabhu Dheva and Why This Kolaveri, and for his performance in the films Theeya Velai Seiyyanum Kumaru (2013), Vadacurry (2014) Naanum Rowdy Dhaan (2015) and Pugazh (2016). He has also been a presenter at many inter-school cultural events in Chennai, and has contributed to many social causes, such as providing relief support to the victims of the 2015 South Indian floods. Balaji was married at the age of 21 years, and has a son named Mahanth who, as of 2015, is three years old
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