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Joe Hisaishi

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Mamoru Fujisawa (藤澤 守, Fujisawa Mamoru, born December 6, 1950), known professionally as Joe Hisaishi (久石 譲, Hisaishi Jō), is a Japanese composer, musical director, conductor and pianist, known for over 100 film scores and solo albums dating back to 1981. Hisaishi's music has been known to explore and incorporate different genres, including minimalist, experimental electronic, Western classical, and Japanese classical. He has also worked as a music engraver and arranger. He has been associated with director and animator Hayao Miyazaki since 1984, having written scores for all but one of Miyazaki's films.
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Marianne Gaba

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Cute and sexy blonde Marianne Gaba was born Mary Ann Gaba on November 13, 1939 in Chicago, Illinois. Gaba was crowned Miss Illinois in a local beauty pageant in 1957 and was one of fifteen finalists in the Miss Universe contest held in Long Beach, California in July of that same year. Marianne attended USC for two years and wrote a gossip column for "TV and Movie Screen" magazine. She was the Playmate of the Month in the September, 1959 issue of "Playboy." Gaba went on to act in a handful of films and television shows in the wake of her Playmate stint.
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Yermek Shinarbayev

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Yermek Bektasuly Shinarbayev (Kazakh: Ермек Бектасұлы Шынарбаев; born 24 January, 1953; Alma-Ata) is a Soviet and Kazakh film director. Shinarbaev is sometimes categorized as a member of the Kazakh New Wave. He is the only Kazakh director who is the owner of the Golden Leopard (winner of the Locarno Film Festival) for the film "The Place on a Grey Tricorne" (1993). He is especially well known for his collaboration with the Korean-Russian writer, Anatoli Kim, resulting to three films. The last of Shinarbaev-Kim film "Revenge" (1990), was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival and won the grand prize at Sochi Open Russian Film Festival in 1990.
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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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Tatiana Pauhofová

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Tatiana Pauhofová is a Slovak film and theatre actress. After graduating from high school in 2001 she studied acting at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. She also works in dubbing and advertising. She is currently acting in the Slovak National Theatre, where she has a permanent engagement. She first appeared on television at the age of ten in the series Škriatok. In 2006 she won the Slovak Theatre Award of the Season - DOSKY for the best female performance. She received the award for her performance in Manon Lescaut. In 2007, she was included in the list of Shooting Stars 2007 by the European Film Promotion (EFP), a European film promotion and export organization. Description above from the Wikipedia article Táňa Pauhofová, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Diana Ferreti

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Diana Ferreti is a former model and Mexican actress who has participated in both film, television and videohomes. She began as a model in the 80s and then ventured as an actress in movies about thugs and drug trafficking. Diana Ferreti has acted in films such as "Siete en la mira" (1984), "Los ases del contrabando" (1985), "Rosa de la frontera" (1986), "El hijo de Pedro Navajas" (1986), "El last escape "(1990)," La Cumbia asesina "(1991)," A sangre fría "(2002) and recently in" Canon: Fidelidad al límite "(2013), to mention some of his long filmography. In television she has acted in telenovelas of both Televisa and Aztec TV, her first telenovela was Seducción in 1986, later she was followed by the successful Mi segunda madre in 1989. In 1997 she returned to television when she joined the cast of the telenovela Al north of the heart. In 2003 he starred in the telenovela El alma herida, as well as participating in several episodes of the television series What We Shut Up Women. In 2013 he made his most recent performance in a telenovela, this being Prohibited to love. (Wikipedia translate)
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Laurent Voulzy

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Lucien Voulzy (born 18 December 1948), better known as Laurent Voulzy, is a French singer-songwriter, composer and musician. Voulzy was born in Paris, France. He originally led the English-pop-influenced Le Temple de Vénus before joining Pascal Danel as guitarist from 1969 to 1974. However, he is best known for his collaborative songwriting efforts with singer-songwriter Alain Souchon and his solo singing career, which spanned several successful singles and albums. Voulzy had an international hit with the song Rockollection. The French lyrics were interspersed with some lines from classic rock hits after the chorus. His major hits also include the singles "Paradoxal Système" (which reached the French Top 10), "Le Soleil Donne" – sung in French, English and Spanish – and the double "Belle-Île-en-Mer, Marie-Galante"/"Les Nuits Sans Kim Wilde" ("Nights without Kim Wilde"; a song inspired by the chart-topping English singer). Other songs entered the French charts ("Bopper en larmes", "Le coeur Grenadine", "Désir, désir", etc.). Voulzy also enjoys success in Belgium, Switzerland and Québec; and although being a French artist, his songs often contain multiple languages (including lyrics in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, etc.). In 2005, Voulzy co-produced and co-composed Nolwenn Leroy's second album Histoires Naturelles. Voulzy had a huge hit with his album La Septième Vague which reached number one in 2006. Featured on the album is a cover of the Everly Brothers hit "All I Have to Do Is Dream", recorded as a duet with Irish singer Andrea Corr. The song was released as a single and was also included on The Corrs' greatest hits album Dreams: The Ultimate Corrs Collection. Voulzy recorded in 2007 a duet with the French guitarist Jean-Pierre Danel on his hit album Guitar Connection 2. The song hit the French charts at No. 7 in 2008. For his 2011 album, Lys and Love, Voulzy recorded a duet on the song "Ma seule amour" with English singer Roger Daltrey of The Who. In 2007, Voulzy toured France. Source: Article "Laurent Voulzy" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Käte Kühl

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Käte Kühl was born on December 16, 1899 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She was an actress, known for Capriccio (1938), Das Geheimnis um Betty Bonn (1938) and Morgenrot (1933). She died on January 29, 1970 in West Berlin, West Germany. She associated in the 1920's with the satirist and author Kurt Tucholsky. Prolific on stage in Berlin, she was especially noted for being in the cast of the original production of Brecht's "Threepenny Opera" in August 1928. Her career diminished during the NS period, though she made a comeback after World War II as member and co-founder of the Berlin cabaret 'Außenseitern' (Outsiders). She left the communist party "SED" in 1950. She has terminated her position at the zone transmitter East without notice. The masculine artist, who has been regarded as a dreaded propagandist for 27 years, has changed from red Saul to white Paul. At the best broadcasting time at 8 pm, the 60-year-old in the American Rias broadcaster declared her own de-siding: She had suddenly realized that her artistic intentions were exploited politically.
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Saori Sugimoto

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Saori Sugimoto (杉本 沙織, Sugimoto Saori, November 17, 1964) is a Japanese voice actress and narrator Fujisawa City, Kanagawa Prefecture. She is affiliated with Aoni Production. She used to work under the name of Saori Suzuki (鈴木 砂織, Suzuki Saori). She replaced Tomiko Suzuki in the role of Kisanta Yamamura in Nintama Rantarō since the season 12. She also played the role of Ramurin in the Shima Shima Tora no Shimajirō series for many years, and also voiced Nyakkii, who appeared after Ramurin's departure. The films she voiced include Shimajiro and Fufu's Big Adventure (2013), Shimajiro and the Whale's Song (2014), Shimajiro and the Mother Tree (2015), Shimajiro in Bookend (2016), Shimajiro and the Rainbow Oasis (2017), Shimajiro the Movie: Adventures on Magic Island (2018), Shimajiro and Ururu's Hero Island (2019), Shimajiro Sky and Bone (2021), Her final voice role was Shimajiro and The Prince of Glittering Kingdom (2022) which was released one year after her death in 2021. She died on October 21, 2021 from anorexia-induced heart failure.
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Werner Segtrop

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Werner Segtrop (17 Juli 1905 in Dortmund;  6 August 1961 in Ost-Berlin) war ein deutscher Schauspieler undSynchronsprecher. Werner Segtrop, geboren 1905 in Dortmund, war vor allem als Theaterschauspieler zwischen den 1930 er und 1950er Jahren aktiv. So spielte Segtrop unter anderem in Thomas Langhoffs Egmont-Inzsenierung den Buyck. Nach dem Krieg spielte er auch als Schauspieler regelmäßig in verschiedenen deutschen Kinoproduktionen mit, unter anderem in Peter Pewas Film Straßenbekanntschaft, in Gustav von Wangenheims Filmdrama Und wieder 48, 1949 in Die blauen Schwerter unter der Regie von Wolfgang Schleif, 1951 in Falk Harnacks Das Beil von Wandsbek oder 1956 in Martin Hellbergs Produktion Thomas Müntzer – Ein Film deutscher Geschichte. Darüber hinaus arbeitete Werner Segtrop auch gelegentlich als Synchronsprecher, so lieh er zum Beispiel seine Stimme Rex Ingram, der den Dschinn spielte, in dem Fantasy-Klassiker Der Dieb von Bagdad.
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