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Petr Čepek
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Petr Čepek was a Czech actor associated with The Drama Club in Prague. His final film was Faust, directed by Czech surrealist Jan Švankmajer. Cepek attended the Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU) along with many notable Czech actors of the time, before appearing in Ostrava’s first theater, DPB until 1965. After joining with fellow colleagues in Prague’s Činoherní Klub, where he contributed to the formation of numerous famous theatre productions such as Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and Gogo’s Revizor (The Government Inspector). Čepek turned to politics in the late 1980s, participating in political rallies and negotiations before returning to the Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU) to teach until his death in 1994. Čepek was honored posthumously for his double role in the Švankmajers film Faust.
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Joseph Cawthorn
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Joseph Cawthorn (March 29, 1868, New York City, New York – January 21, 1949, Beverly Hills, California) was an American stage and film comic actor. Cawthorn started out in show business as a child, debuting at Robinson's Music Hall in his hometown of New York in 1872. He appeared in minstrel shows and vaudeville as a "Dutch" comic, employing a thick German dialect. He later worked in British music halls and American touring companies.
Cawthorn made his Broadway debut in 1895, 1897 or 1898, and embarked on a long career lasting over two decades. His first success was playing Boris in Victor Herbert's 1898 operetta The Fortune Teller. Other notable Broadway roles included the title character in Mother Goose (1903) and inventor Dr. Pill in the fantasy musical Little Nemo (1908). In the latter, he was called upon to ad lib to buy time during one performance. As "the scene called for him to describe imaginary animals he had hunted", he invented the "whiffenpoof" on the spot. Yale students in the audience appropriated it for the name of their glee club.
When his Broadway stardom waned, Cawthorn moved to Hollywood in 1927 and started a second prolific career, appearing in over 50 films, the last in 1942. He played Gremio in the first sound adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew in 1929, starring Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks; Schultz in Gold Diggers of 1935; and Florenz Ziegfeld's father in The Great Ziegfeld (1936).
Cawthorn died peacefully on January 21, 1949. He was survived by his wife, actress Queenie Vassar.
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Chris Richards
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Chris Richards was born and raised in North Canton, Ohio. He is known for his appearances on Bull (CBS) and The Russo Brothers' film, Cherry. He is primarily of German, Italian, and Welsh descent.
Richards studied acting at Kent State University. Upon graduation, he immediately began working as a local professional actor in the Cleveland area until he moved to New York City to continue the pursuit of his acting career. Since then, he has continued to earn a variety of roles in notable Theatre, TV, and Film projects. He also studied improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York under Anthony Atamanuik (creator of "The President Show" on Comedy Central).
Chris Richards has been cast in numerous productions at several significant Off-Broadway and regional theatres, including the Tony-Award-Winning Cleveland Play House and Pearl Theatre Company in New York City. He has also been fortunate to act opposite of many highly celebrated actors, including Emmy-Award-Winner Maile Flanagan and Marvel superstar Tom Holland. Richards' work has been acclaimed in The New York Times, and critics have also published reviews comparing him and his work to Tom Hanks.
He lives with his wife and two children in New York City.
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Vincenzo Amato
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Vincenzo Amato (born 30 March 1966) is an Italian actor and sculptor. He has two daughters (11 and 12) Born in Palermo as the son of the stage director and folk musician Emma Muzzi Loffredo, after high school Amato moved to Rome, where his mother lived.
Always dedicated to painting, he finished university focused on iron sculpting. After a couple of exhibitions at the art gallery Il Gabbiano in Rome, he moved to Manhattan, New York and began to exhibit with some success at the Earl McGrath Gallery in New York. In the US, Amato became friends with the director Emanuele Crialese, who directed his debut as an actor in the film Once We Were Strangers. His career as an actor had a breakthrough with the role of the fisherman Pietro in Crialise's next film, Respiro.
In 2007, he was nominated for David di Donatello for Best Actor for his performance in Nuovomondo.
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Mawar Eva De Jongh
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Mawar Eva de Jongh (born September 26, 2001, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands) is a popular Indonesian actress, singer, and model. She rose to prominence through her portrayal of Annelies Mellema in the 2019 film adaptation Bumi Manusia (This Earth of Mankind), based on the acclaimed novel by Pramoedya Ananta Toer. Her career in the entertainment industry began at an early age—as a child model—and continued through numerous TV movies (FTV), soap operas, and her musical debut with the singles “Heartbeat” (2018) and “Lebih Dari Egoku” (2019), the latter of which reached number two on the Billboard Indonesia Top 100.
Although she comes from a Dutch–Karo heritage and was raised in Medan and Bekasi, Mawar has achieved success across multiple creative fields: as an actress, singer, and model. She is currently pursuing a distance-learning program in Communication Studies at Pelita Harapan University, all while continuing to thrive in film, television, and music to this day.
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Kevin O'Morrison
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Kevin O'Morrison (25 May 1916, St. Louis, Missouri) is an American playwright and actor. He started his career working as an actor in theatre, radio, television, and film in the 1940s. He began writing plays in the 1960s, most of which have been performed Off-Broadway and in theatres throughout the United States, and two of which have been performed in Europe. He is a Creative Art Public Service (CAPS) Playwriting Fellow, a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)Playwriting Fellow, Winner of the National Repertory Theatre's First Prize for Playwriting (for his play "A Party For Lovers),was awarded The Pinter Review Gold Medal for Drama (for his play "The Nighgatherers"), two of his plays were chosen to be staged at The O'Neil National Playwrights Conference ("The Morgan Yard" and "Ladyhouse Blues"), and when "The Morgan Yard" was chosen to open The Dublin Play Festival Siobhan McKenna won Irland's "Best Actress" Award in the lead role.
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Jim Ward
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James Kevin Ward (born May 19, 1959) is a retired American voice actor, radio personality, and camera operator.
From 2004 to 2014, and again from 2015 to 2017, Ward was the co-host of The Stephanie Miller Show, a nationally syndicated liberal radio talk show that features a number of his impersonations of political figures and other celebrities and news makers.
Ward played several roles in animation and video games, most notably Captain Qwark in the Ratchet & Clank franchise. In 2006, Ward played Eyemore, Crusher, and Stoker in Biker Mice from Mars, a remake of the 1990s series of the same name. Ward inherited the role of Stoker from Peter Strauss. In 2009, for his roles on the show, he was nominated and won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program.
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Frank Reicher
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Frank Reicher (December 2, 1875 – January 19, 1965) was a German-born American stage and film actor, director and producer. He is best known for playing Captain Englehorn in the 1933 film King Kong.
Reicher made his Broadway debut the year he came to America playing Lord Tarquin in Harrison Fiske's production of Becky Sharp, a comedy by Langdon Mitchell based on William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair. His early career was spent in legitimate theater on and off Broadway. He was head of the Brooklyn Stock Company when Jacob P. Adler performed The Merchant of Venice in Yiddish while the rest of the cast remained in English. Reicher was for a number of years affiliated with the Little Theatre on West Forty-Fourth Street as an actor and manager and would remain active on Broadway as actor, director or producer well into the 1920s. On stage, Reicher starred in such plays as the first Broadway production of Georg Kaiser's From Morning to Midnight (as the cashier), and the original production of Percy MacKaye's The Scarecrow (in the title role).
Frank Reicher is probably more familiar to modern audiences as a supporting character actor in films. He began his cinema career with an uncredited role in the 1915 film The Case for Becky and would go on to work in over two hundred motion pictures. He is probably best remembered for playing the character of Captain Englehorn in King Kong and The Son of Kong, and for his work in such films as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) and Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950). His last Hollywood role was in the very first theatrical Superman movie, Superman and the Mole Men, in 1951.
Frank Reicher died at a hospital in Inglewood, California, aged 89. He was survived by his sister and a brother. His interment was at Inglewood Park Cemetery.
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Mussafir Abdullkarim
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An Iraqi actor. He was born in Kuwait on April 23, 1952. He is the half-brother of the artist Najm Abdul Karim and the uncle of the artist Nabil Abdul Karim. His artistic career began with simple roles in 1972 through the Gulf Arab Theater Troupe. He presented many Kuwaiti works in the seventies and eighties, including educational series and programs such as: (Stop - Our Children Are Our Livers), and dubbed cartoon films such as (Adnan and Lina - Lady Oscar - Lucy) and others. He was considered the winning card in the history of dubbing in the Joint Program Production Institution of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries. He also worked as an assistant director in the play (Bye Bye London). He died in February 1991.
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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 October 31, 2020, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.
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