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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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Kiichi Nakai
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Kiichi Nakai (born 18 September 1961) is a Japanese actor. His father, Keiji Sada, also a movie actor, died when Nakai was only two years old. Nakai started his acting career while he was still in university and was awarded the Rookie of the Year of Japan Academy Awards in 1981.
He won the Japan Academy Best Supporting Actor award in 1994 (for 47 Ronin) and Best Actor award in 2003 (for Mibu gishi den (When the Last Sword is Drawn). He also won the award for best supporting actor at the 19th Hochi Film Award for 47 Ronin.
In 2003 he played a Japanese delegate to a Chinese emperor of the Tang dynasty in Warriors of Heaven and Earth. Though a few of his lines are in Japanese, most are in Mandarin.
His older sister, Kie Nakai, is also an actress.
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Mel Archer
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Born in 1910, Spokane Washington. He worked in the oil fields as a rough neck. Competed in the 1932 Olympics in race walking. Worked as an extra in several movies. Joined the US Marines in 1942? where he eventually rose to the rank of Commissioned Warrent Officer. Instituted swimming programs at Camp Pendleton prior to shipping in the Pacific Theater of WW2. Fought in hand to hand combat on Iwo Jima and several other Japanese held islands. After the war Mel came back to the LA area where he worked as an illustrator for the Westmore Bros make up artists. Eventually he moved on to working as the head of the art dept for Pacific Title and Art Studio, supervising the creation of backgrounds and titles for many epic movies, among them: The Alamo, How the West was Won and many others. Mel worked at Pacific Title until his untimely and early death at the age of 53. Struck down in the prime of his life by pulmonary embolisms (blood clots in his lungs) Mel left his beloved wife Leatrice and 3 children, Melanie, Kim (Mel) and Jennifer. It was long suspected that his blood clots were caused by the numerous bayonet wounds to his legs from the combat.
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Koji Shima
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Born as Takehiko Kagoshima in Nagasaki, Shima left for Tokyo after graduating from high school. He was in the first class of the Nihon Eiga Haiyū Gakkō and joined the Nikkatsu studio as an actor in 1925. Playing mostly romantic leads, he appeared in films directed by such masters as Tomu Uchida and Kenji Mizoguchi. He turned to directing in 1939, and quickly came to prominence with films such as Kaze no Matasaburō, an adaption of a Kenji Miyazawa story, and Jirō Monogatari. After the war, he directed such films as Ginza Kankan Musume and Jūdai no Seiten at Shintoho and Daiei Studios. He won a prize at the 1st Moscow International Film Festival for Unforgettable Trail. Some of his last films were made in Hong Kong for Shaw Brothers.
He directed over 90 films as a director and appeared in over 90 films as an actor. He was once married to the actress Yukiko Todoroki.
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Nontanun Anchuleepradit
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Nontanun Anchuleepradit, nicknamed Kacha, is a Thai singer, actor, presenter born in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand. He graduated at at the Faculty of Communication Arts from Rangsit University, major in Integrated Marketing Communication.
He became famous after appearing on the reality program "True Academy Fantasia: Season 8", in which he finished as 2nd runner-up. After that, he debuted as a singer and also actor. Nowadays, he is an artist under GMM GRAMMY.
Anchuleepradit used to be the vocalist and keyboardist of the now-defunct boy rock band SLEEP RUNWAY from 2015 to 2016. After that, he became an independient musician under GMM GRAMMY. Since 2020, he is one of the members of the boy band project called BOYFRIENDS
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Song Hye-kyo
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Song Hye-kyo (born November 22, 1981) is a South Korean actress. She was born with a grave illness and doctors did not believe she would survive. She did however recover and her parents registered her birthdate as February 26, 1982.
She gained popularity through her leading roles in television dramas Autumn in My Heart (2000), All In (2003), Full House (2004), That Winter, the Wind Blows (2013) and Descendants of the Sun (2016) which achieved pan-Asia success. The success of Song's television dramas internationally established her as a top Hallyu star. She has also starred in films Hwang Jin Yi (2007), The Grandmaster (2013), My Brilliant Life (2014) and The Queens (2015).
In 2017, she ranked 7th in Forbes magazine's Korea Power Celebrity list. The success of Song's television dramas internationally established her as a top Hallyu star.
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Jack Osbourne
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Jack Joseph Osbourne (born 8 November 1985) is an English TV personality and actor, living in the US. The son of heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne and TV personality Sharon Osbourne.
He is known for being on MTV's reality series The Osbournes (2002–2005), along with his parents and sister. Osbourne has since pursued a career as a fitness and travel reporter, presenting shows such as Jack Osbourne: Adrenaline Junkie (2005–2009) and BBC's Saving Planet Earth (2007). In 2016, he and his father Ozzy travelled the world in the History Channel's reality series Ozzy & Jack's World Detour. He has also appeared in movies.
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Kasidej Hongladaromp
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Karn Kasidej Hongladaromp is a Thai actor, singer, and songwriter. He went to Suankularb Wittayalai School. He is currently studying at the Faculty of Music at Rangsit University. Furthermore, he was the winner of the 24th KPN singing contest. Kasidej is known for the series “The School” (2015) and “Views of Love: Grey Rainbow” (2016).
In 2021, he and his long-lost friend, Alyn Wee, formed a musical duo group called HYBS under JUICEY. They debuted with the song “Ride” and since then produced singles like “Dancing with my Phone” and “Go Higher” to name a few.
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Burr McIntosh
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William Burr McIntosh (21 August 1862 – 28 April 1942) had an eclectic career. He was known, at different points in his life, to be a lecturer, photographer, movie studio owner, silent film actor, author, publisher of Burr McIntosh Monthly , reporter and a pioneer in the early movie and radio business.
He was born in Wellsville, Ohio, the son of William Ambrose and Minerva McIntosh. His father was the president of a public utility, New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company, and a member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club. The club's activities were blamed (but the members were not held legally responsible) for the failure of the South Fork Dam, which caused the Johnstown Flood in 1889 that resulted in the loss of over 2,200 lives in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. His sister Nancy McIntosh, an operatic soprano, was the protégée, adopted daughter and heiress to the estate and royalties of W. S. Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan.
McIntosh graduated from Lafayette College in 1884, where he became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.
He began as a stage actor and then moved into silent films. His most enduring role was Squire Bartlett, who banished the character played by Lillian Gish from his home and into the cold Maine winter in D.W. Griffith's classic film, Way Down East (1920). Miss Gish described McIntosh as a gentle giant, "always apologizing for having to treat me so cruelly…". He appeared in 53 films between 1914 and 1934.
He died in Hollywood, California from a heart attack.
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Natsuki Kato
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Natsuki Katō (加藤 夏希 Katō Natsuki, born July 26, 1985 in Yurihonjo, Akita Prefecture) is a Japanese actress and former fashion model, regularly appearing on television in various roles.
In November 2010, Akita Prefecture chose her as one of the two official PR-Ambassadors, along with Nozomi Sasaki, with the purpose of creating a better image for the prefecture.
Katō is known for being a fan of anime and manga. On June 6, 2014, she announced on her blog that she was married to a man from non-celebrity industry. Their wedding ceremony was held on March 16, 2015. On March 12, 2016, during Kobe Collection 2016 SPRING/SUMMER fashion event, she announced she was pregnant. On July 7, she gave birth to a healthy baby girl.
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