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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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Mircea Monroe
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Mircea Monroe is an American actress and model. Monroe was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Her apparently exotic "Mircea", is in fact a typical and common Romanian male surname. She moved to the South Pacific when she was 2 months old with her family when her father, a United Nations employee, was transferred. She attended high school in Virginia and shortly after graduation, headed out west to Los Angeles. Monroe's first professional acting job was in the New Line film, Cellular. Since then, she has appeared in various films, and pilots for The WB and Fox, starred in the Fox show Drive, and guest starred on TV shows, including Freddie, Scrubs, and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Monroe appeared in the starring role of the film The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It, playing Sarah Marshall. She also starred as Veronique in the horror film The Black Waters of Echo's Pond.
She was on the cover of the September 2004 issue of Maxim. She now has a starring role on the Showtime series, Episodes.
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Roy Black
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Roy Black (January 25, 1943 – October 9, 1991) was a German schlager singer and actor, who appeared in several musical comedies and starred in the 1989 TV series, Ein Schloß am Wörthersee. Born Gerhard Höllerich in Bobingen, Bavarian Swabia, Germany, Black attended the gymnasium in Augsburg and, aged 20, founded the rock and roll band Roy Black and His Cannons. His stage name derived from his black hair and his idol, Roy Orbison. Roy Black and His Cannons achieved some local fame and were offered a recording contract with Polydor Records. However, his record producer Hans Bertram decided on a solo career for Black, and a switch to romantic songs for his protegé, a decision which soon led to nationwide fame. In 1966, his single "Ganz in Weiß" — a romantic song about marrying in white — sold in excess of one million copies by the end of 1967. His 1969 song "Dein schönstes Geschenk", sold one million copies by May 1970, having spent nine weeks at number one in the German chart. From 1967, Black also took on roles in several musical comedy films, for example in the 1969 movie Hilfe, ich liebe Zwillinge (Help, I Love Twins) opposite Uschi Glas. In 1974 Black announced his engagement to model Silke Vagts (1945-2002), and the couple got married in Munich the same year. In 1976 their son Torsten was born. They divorced in 1985. Six years later Black died of heart failure, in Heldenstein near Mühldorf am Inn, which was assumed to be a result of his addiction to alcohol and pharmaceuticals. The punk band Wizo wrote a song disparaging Black after his death, changing the lyrics of a children's song to "Roy Black ist tot" ("Roy Black is dead").
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Ryan White
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Ryan White was born in Kokomo, Indiana in 1971. A hemophiliac, Ryan regularly needed injections of blood products to survive. In 1985 at the age of 13, it was discovered that Ryan contracted the AIDS virus sometime during the previous year from tainted blood. His case got national attention when his school expelled him when they learned about his disease. Not wanting to lie down and die that easily, Ryan and his parents took the school to court where they won the right for him to return to class. As a result of Ryan's courage and outspokeness to take on his own school board, be became one of the USA's most visible spokesperson on the AIDS crisis. During 1985-1989 he appeared at schools and AIDS fundraisers throught the country and gave moving testimony before the President's Commission on AIDS. He was befriended by many celebrities including Michael Jackson, Elton John, Phil Donahue and Elizabeth Taylor, AIDS activists themselves. Despite overwhelming international attention, Ryan never lost his sense of priorites with his schoolwork or life in general. AIDS finally claimed Ryan's life on April 8, 1990 at the age of 18.
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Sidney Grigg
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Sidney asked to act from age seven after her brother briefly gave acting a try. At 10, her persistence paid off and her parents agreed. Sidney booked back to back commercials at age 12. A Barbie commercial for Mattel and a Back to School commercial for Famous Footwear. Sidney followed up these bookings with a small part in the 2014 Hallmark Christmas Movie, The Christmas Shepherd. From there, she was very fortunate to book a small role playing the younger version of Kate Bosworth's character in the Feature Film, Life On The Line. She had the privilege of acting with John Travolta, and being directed by David Hackl. In 2016, Sidney can be seen in Rufus, a TV Movie for Nickelodeon. Outside of acting Sidney enjoys spending time with her friends and family, dance classes and travel. Sidney is lucky to surround herself with a great team and looks forward to what comes next!
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Robert Gates
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Robert Michael Gates (born September 25, 1943) is an American intelligence analyst, and university president who served as the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2011. He was originally appointed by President George W. Bush and was retained for service by President Barack Obama. Gates began his career serving as an officer in the United States Air Force but was quickly recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Gates served for 26 years in the CIA and the National Security Council, and was Director of Central Intelligence under President George H. W. Bush. After leaving the CIA, Gates became president of Texas A&M University and was a member of several corporate boards. Gates served as a member of the Iraq Study Group, the bipartisan commission co-chaired by James A. Baker III and Lee H. Hamilton, that studied the lessons of the Iraq War.
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Roxanna Bina
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Roxanna Bina is an actress that appeared in Scarecrow, a horror movie with a cult following.
She is the fashion editor at Buzzine.com and also has a fashion blog called 'Teacups and Couture' on Twolia.com, which focuses on unusual fashion from emerging designers and artists. In addition to being a writer, she also covers movie junkets as an international television journalist for the French territory on a regular basis.
Her entrepreneurial ventures include a Bed & Breakfast in historic Providence, Rhode Island and a frozen, organic baby food company called Fifibear’s. She also acts as the head of Acquisitions at Wonderland Entertainment and an associate producer on the Emmanuel Itier film, ‘The Invocation’.
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Alfredo Mayo
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Abandonó los estudios de Medicina para ingresar a los 18 años en la compañía teatral de Ernesto Vilches. Tras finalizar la Guerra Civil Española, donde llegó a ser teniente de Aviación. Inicia su carrera profesional siendo uno de los galanes favoritos de los directores del régimen franquista. Alcanzó una gran fama en la posguerra por encarnar el prototipo de galán militar y heroico y del franquismo. Debutó en 1935, pero su consagración llegó en 1941 con Raza, de José Luis Sáenz de Heredia. Tras ésta llegó A mí la legión (1942), de Juan de Orduña, con el que protagonizó también La leona de Castilla (1951), junto a Amparo Rivelles. Otras de sus películas son la extraordinaria La caza (1965), de Carlos Saura, Peppermint Frappé (1967), también de Saura, o Los desafíos (1969), dirigida por Víctor Erice. Participó en más de 250 películas.
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Danae Reynaud
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Franco-Mexican actress born in 1995. She started acting when she was 5 years old in live performances of Enriqueta Ochoa's poems and radio novels. At the age of 10 he debuted in the theater in the adaptation of the play The Doll House by José Antonio Cordero entitled Videodrome in the Julio Castillo Theater.
At age 11 she began her work in student and professional short films. In 2012 she debuted in the feature film Club Sandwich by Fernando Eimbcke.
Since then he has participated in 13 feature films, including the North Pacific by Valentina Sachetti, Allá en el Rancho de Rafael Montero and Julián de Izrael Moreno. She is currently studying film at the Cinematographic Training Center (CCC) where in the specialty of Direction.
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Armando Trovajoli
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Armando Trovajoli (also Trovaioli, 2 September 1917 – 28 February 2013) was an Italian film composer and pianist with over 300 credits as composer and/or conductor, many of them jazz scores for exploitation films of the Commedia all'italiana genre. He collaborated with Vittorio De Sica on a number of projects, including one segment of Boccaccio '70. Trovajoli was also the author of several Italian musicals: among them, Rugantino and Aggiungi un posto a tavola.
Trovajoli was the husband of actress Pier Angeli. He died in Rome at the age of 95 on 28 February 2013.
After graduating from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome (1948), Trovajoli was entrusted by RAI with the direction of a pop music orchestra, set with 12 violins, 4 violas, 4 cellos, 1 flute, 1 oboe, 1 clarinet, 1 horn, harp, vibraphone, electric guitar, bass, drums and the piano (played by Trovajoli himself). In 1952–53 he collaborated with Piero Piccioni in Eclipse, a weekly musical broadcast in which the orchestra is directed alternately by the two composers, in a style extremely refined and sophisticated, very different from the music of radio orchestras at that time.
Together with Goffredo Petrassi, Trovajoli composed the score of Giuseppe De Santis' Bitter Rice (1949). In 1951, Trovajoli was invited by Dino De Laurentiis to write music for Anna, a film directed by Alberto Lattuada: particularly the song El Negro Zumbón became an international success: inspired by tropical rhythms, is sung in playback and danced by Silvana Mangano, but actually performed by Flo Sandon's. Since then, Trovajoli wrote soundtracks for directors as Dino Risi, Vittorio De Sica, Ettore Scola and others, for a total of over 300 scores.
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