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Larry Taylor
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Samuel Lawrence Taylor (June 26, 1942 – August 19, 2019) was an American bass guitarist, best known for his work as a member of the blues rock band Canned Heat. Before joining Canned Heat, he had been a session bassist for The Monkees and Jerry Lee Lewis. He was the younger brother of Mel Taylor, longtime drummer of The Ventures.
Taylor played bass guitar in The Gamblers, one of the first rock groups to play instrumental surf music. Its personnel also included Elliot Ingber, a future member of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, Fraternity of Man and Captain Beefheart's The Magic Band; Bruce Johnston, half of the Bruce and Terry duo with Terry Melcher from 1962–66 and longtime "sixth" member of The Beach Boys, for a time brother Mel Taylor, and guitarist-songwriter-bandleader Derry Weaver, who would record and perform in several capacities during the early 1960s. The Gamblers had a local hit in the Los Angeles area with "Moon Dawg" and Taylor played on the recording.
Taylor played bass for Jerry Lee Lewis in 1961:
Taylor played bass on the majority of the albums produced by The Monkees including; The Monkees (1966), More of the Monkees (1967), The Monkees Present (1969), Instant Replay (1969), and Changes (1970). He would play bass on their hit "Last Train to Clarksville."
Taylor was asked to join Canned Heat in 1967 after receiving a phone call from member Henry Vestine to join on bass. Taylor played with Canned Heat from 1967 to 1970, and appeared with them at various festivals including the Monterey International Pop Festival and Woodstock.
The band's manager, Skip Taylor, gave each member of the band a nickname connected to an animal. Larry's band nickname was "The Mole." In addition to playing bass, he also played lead guitar on occasion. An example can be heard on the track "Down in the Gutter, But Free", on the album Hallelujah.
In 1970, when John Mayall moved to Los Angeles, Taylor and Mandel quit Canned Heat to join him in the Bluesbreakers. Taylor served the longest tenure as a member of the Bluesbreakers in the 1970s (1970–1977). After the Bluesbreakers tours in 1977, Taylor played briefly with the Sugarcane Harris Band (later called Pure Food and Drug Act)
When he left John Mayall in 1977, Taylor started studying playing upright bass. Taylor became a leading exponent and practitioner of the acoustic upright bass in the contemporary blues scene. He was quite prominently seen with his upright bass in the live blues film, Lightning in a Bottle. He started playing upright bass with Rod Piazza, eventually cutting ties with him when Honey Piazza started getting involved as he thought that "she couldn't play" and "she was horrible"
Larry Taylor died at his home in Lake Balboa, Los Angeles on 19 August 2019 at the age of 77 after a 12-year long battle with cancer. He was survived by his wife Andrea and their three children.
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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. He 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, Connery died at the age of 90.
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Beverly D'Angelo
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Beverly Heather D'Angelo (born November 15, 1951) is an American actress who starred as Ellen Griswold in the National Lampoon's Vacation films (1983–2015) and is a musician. She has appeared in over 60 films and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her role as Patsy Cline in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), and for an Emmy Award for her role as Stella Kowalski in the TV film A Streetcar Named Desire (1984). D'Angelo's other film roles include Sheila Franklin in Hair (1979) and Doris Vinyard in American History X (1998).
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Jennifer Holland
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Jennifer Holland is an American actress best known for her role as Emilia Harcourt in James Gunn’s HBO television series Peacemaker (2022–2024), where she emerged as a key part of the show’s core ensemble. Her performance helped establish Harcourt as one of the more grounded and serious presences within Gunn’s DC projects, balancing action-driven storytelling with character-focused moments.
Holland’s most prominent later work has been tied to DC Comics projects under Gunn, beginning with her debut as Harcourt in The Suicide Squad (2021), followed by appearances in Black Adam (2022) and Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023). She later carried the role into animation with Creature Commandos (2024–), making her one of the few performers to portray the same character across DC’s live-action and animated continuities.
Earlier in her career, Holland appeared in a range of film and television projects, including a recurring role as Becky Phillips on CMT’s Sun Records (2017), the comedy American Pie Presents: The Book of Love (2009), and guest roles on established network series American Horror Story (2011–), Bones (2005–2017), Rush Hour (2016), and CSI: Miami (2002–2012). Her appearance in James Gunn’s Brightburn (2019) marked a clear turning point toward higher-profile genre projects.
In her personal life, Holland began a relationship with filmmaker James Gunn in 2015, and the couple married in 2022.
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Emily Sweet
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Emily Sweet is an American actress, model, and producer. She began her acting career by appearing in plays, musicals, and short films before being cast in a variety of full-length independent films. Emily was born in Baltimore, Maryland, which explains her love of everything Baltimore, but grew up in upstate New York. Emily attended the State University of New York at Fredonia and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts and Spanish.
She began her acting career by auditioning her way into the professional theatre company, The Bunbury Theatre. Once Emily moved to Indianapolis, she sang vocals with a band that opened for acts such as Rob Base, Naughty By Nature, SWV, and Digital Underground. Emily is a signed model with LModelz and starred in a plethora of other shorts and feature films. She won a 'Best Actress' award in 2017.
Emily continues to dedicate herself to her acting, modeling, and music careers.
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Bert Belasco
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Bert Belasco III (c. 1982 - November 9, 2020)was an American actor. He was known for his role as Charles Whitmore in the BET television series Let's Stay Together (2011-2014).He also had recurring roles as Sonny Evers in the Fox series Pitch (2016-2016) and Rene Marson in the Showtime series I'm Dying Up Here (2017-2018).
Belasco was raised in New York City and Allentown, Pennsylvania before moving to Naperville, Illinois. He graduated from Waubsonie Valley High School in Aurora, Illinois. In 2005, he earned a theater degree from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. At the time of his death, Belasco was residing in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles.
On November 8, 2020, Belasco's body was found in his hotel room in Richmond, Virginia. Belasco was in Richmond because he was preparing to act in a feature film there. He was pronounced dead at 2:52 am on November 9. It was announced in January 2021 that Belasco died of natural causes.
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Christopher H. Bidmead
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Christopher H. Bidmead (born 18 January 1941) was an English screenwriter, script editor and journalist. He wrote three Doctor Who TV serials, all of which he also novelised and was also script editor for season 18.
He was contracted to write several serials that were ultimately cancelled. They were In the Hollows of Time, a two-part (forty-five minute) story for the cancelled season 23, and a four-parter, Pinacotheca (a.k.a. The Last Adventure), which would have been the third part of The Trial of a Time Lord.
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Sofia Helin
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Sofia Margareta Götschenhjelm Helin (born April 25, 1972 in Hovsta in Närke, Örebro) is a Swedish actress best known for the Guldbagge nomination she got for her role in Dalecarlians (Swedish: Masjävlar).
Sofia Helin graduated from the Theater Academy in Stockholm in 2001. In 1994-1996 she went to Calle Flygares theater school. She has lived in Linghem outside Linköping.
She has played in several films, including At Point Blank (Rånarna) where she had the leading role of chief inspector Klara. In 2004 she had another leading role as Mia in Masjävlar. It was in that movie she made her breakthrough. In 2007 she got a further leading role as Cecilia Algottsdotter in Jan Guillou's The Knight Templar (Crusades trilogy) about Arn Magnusson. She is also included in the new Swedish animated movie Metropia, which was released in the cinema in October 2009.
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Brent Hill
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Training: Curtin University, Bachelor of Arts (Performing Arts), 2004; Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (Acting), 2008; École Philippe Gaulier (Le Jeu), 2013. Theatre: Dewey Finn in School of Rock (GWB Entertainment/Really Useful Group); The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Mel Stanwick in Chimerica (Sydney Theatre Company); Lord Goring in An Ideal Husband, Ben in Vivid White, Chip in The Speechmaker (Melbourne Theatre Company); Matt/Homer in Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play (Belvoir Street Theatre); simultaneously Seymour/Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors (Luckiest Productions/Tinderbox Productions); Once – Seoul Tour (Once UK); A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Svec in Once (Gordon Frost Organisation); The Director in Jerry’s Girls, Sergeant of Police in The Pirates of Penzance, Leo Bloom in The Producers (The Production Company); Jesus Christ in Dreamsong (MICF); Bernard (x3) in A Number (Perth Theatre Company); Maria in Twelfth Night (Bell Shakespeare Company); Cassius in Julius Caesar (Cry Havoc); Lonny in Rock of Ages (New Theatricals); The Distance From Here (Griffin Theatre Company); Composer for Risky Lunar Love (504 Productions); The Happy Ending (Cry Havoc); Improviser with The Big HooHaa (Cut Snake Comedy). Television: Leslie in Donnatelegrams (ABC), Laid (ABC), It’s a Date (ABC). Film: Doug in Your Call is Important to Us (Riley Nottingham/ T.J. Power). Awards: Helpmann Award® for Best Male Actor in a Musical – School of Rock, 2019; Green Room Award for Male Artist in a Leading Role – School of Rock, 2018; Sydney Theatre Award: Judith Johnson Award for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Musical – Little Shop of Horrors, 2016; Green Room Award for Male Artist in a Leading Role – Rock of Ages, 2011; National Theatresports Champion, 2009; Cranston Cup Theatresports Champion, 2010; Actors Equity Guild Award for Best Newcomer, 2005.
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Parvesh Cheena
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Parvesh Singh Cheena (born July 22, 1979 in Elk Grove, Illinois) is an American character actor. He currently plays Gupta in the NBC Universal TV series Outsourced. Cheena grew up in Naperville, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, and went to Waubonsie Valley High School. He studied musical theatre at the Chicago College of Performing Arts. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Parvesh Cheena, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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