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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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Gerald Flood
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Gerald Flood was born in Portsmouth, son of a Naval family. He was a wireless operator during the War and worked as a filing clerk after the War ended until he landed a job with the Farnham Repertory Company. It was there that he met his future wife, Anne. He toured in rep, and appeared in productions including "Hamlet," "Power and Glory" and "Charley's Aunt." In 1960 he performed in "The Complaisant Lover" at the Globe Theatre and went on to appear in "The Formation Dancers," "Children's Day" and "There's A Girl In My Soup." In the 1960's he appeared in a science fiction series called "Pathfinders in Space" (1960), and its sequels "Pathfinders to Mars" (1960-1961) and "Pathfinders to Venus" (1961). Other television roles followed, including "The Ratcatchers" (1966/67), "A Sharp Intake of Breath," "Third Time Lucky" and "Bleak House." He also guested on shows like "Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): A Disturbing Case" (1969), "Strange Report" (1969), "Steptoe and Son: What Prejudice" (1970) and "Return of the Saint" (1979). His films included "Black Beauty" (1946), "Patton" (1970), "Smokescreen" and "Frightmare" (1974). He died in April 1989.
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Lynn 'Red' Williams
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Lynn "Red" Williams is an American actor. He is known for playing Jax in the film Mortal Kombat: Annihilation.
He appeared as "Sabre" in the television show American Gladiators from 1992 to 1996, and also appeared as a contestant on the comedy game show Street Smarts. He played the superhero Black Knight (Marvel's Ultraverse Version) in the TV Series Nightman (1999) in the episodes "The Black Knight" (Ep.24) and "Knight Life" (Ep.29).
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Hwang Jang-Lee
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Hwang Jang Lee (born 21 December 1944) is a Korean martial artist and actor. Hwang is perhaps best known as Sheng Kuan in 1978 film Snake in the Eagle's Shadow and Wong Chin in 1981 film Hitman in the Hand of Buddha. Variations of his name are often written as Wong Cheng Lee or Wong Cheng Li, in their Cantonese-Chinese equivalents. He is also nicknamed Silver fox (the name of his most popular movie character), as well as "Thunderleg" or "Thunderfoot" (from his role in 1978 film Drunken Master). Born in Korea, but moved to Osaka, Japan at a very young age. He and his family later returned to Korea when he was as a teenager.
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Anthony Read
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Anthony Read (21 April 1935 – 21 November 2015) was an English television producer, screenwriter, script editor and author. He was principally active in British television from the 1960s to the mid-1980s, which included a period as a script editor and writer of Doctor Who from 1977 to 1979, although he occasionally contributed to televised productions until 1999.
Beginning in the 1980s, he launched a second career as a print author, concentrating largely on World War II histories. He was also a chair of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain. From 2004 he regularly wrote prose fiction, mainly in the form of a revival of his television series The Baker Street Boys (1983).
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Jayamalini
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She acted in more than 500 Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi movies.
Jayamalini was born in Chennai on 22 December 1958 into a Tamil family. She was the youngest of 8 siblings.
She was introduced to Tollywood in 1974 by Vittalacharya in the movie he produced, Aadadani Adrustam. She acted in several Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam movies. She learned dancing from Heeralal master. She acted in Hindi movies too. She had a dance number in Shalimar (1978), starring Rex Harrison, Dharmendra and Zeenat Aman, which were in both English and Hindi versions. She also had a raunchy dance number, which was provocatively titled "Maamalu Maamalu Baavalu Baavulu", in the movie Maha Shaktimaan. Her sister Jyothi Lakshmi was also a cabaret dancer in films.
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Walker Scobell
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Walker Scobell (born January 5, 2009) is an American actor. Born in Virginia, he made his professional acting debut at age 13. He gained immediate recognition for his lead roles in the science fiction streaming films The Adam Project and Secret Headquarters (both 2022). Scobell received continued recognition with his leading titular role in the Disney+ fantasy series Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2023–present).
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Malek Bensmaïl
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Malek Bensmaïl (in Arabic: مالك بن اسماعيل), born in 1966 in Constantine, Algeria, is an Algerian director and screenwriter.
In the 1980s, in Algeria, he made essay films in super 8. After studying cinema in Paris followed by an internship in the Lenfilm studios in Saint Petersburg, he devoted his filmography to documentaries, entirely committed to Algeria. Through his films of reality, he draws the contours of a complex humanity: democracy, modernity-tradition, language, identity, society.
In 1996, he released Territoire(s), a documentary essay on archaic violence in the Arab world and post-modern violence in the West, the film won the Loupbar, the prize for best documentary discovery at the Festival du nouveau cinéma in Montreal and the Television prize at Avança/Porto. The same year, for Canal+, he made a short docu-fiction film that tells the story of the self-mockery of viewers towards the unique television: Algerian TV Show, he also made one of the cult programs Culture Pub on Algeria.
In 1998, Malek Bensmaïl released the film Décibled, on the daily life of five Algerian musicians in exile. In 1999, he co-directed a film on Mohammed Boudiaf, the Algerian president who was assassinated, six months after his return from 30 years of exile. In 2000, he made Des Vacances Malgré Tout, which won the Heritage Prize at the Festival du Cinéma du réel. In 2001, he made a short fiction film Dêmokratia broadcast on Arte and the BBC. In 2002, he directed Plaisirs d'Eau, then in 2003, he co-directed with the journalist Thierry Leclere Algérie(s), an investigative documentary film in two parts on the Algerian black decade and the descent into hell of the Algerian people.
In 2004, he paid tribute to his father, one of the founders of Algerian psychiatry, by directing Aliénations, which won the Grand Prix des Bibliothèques at the Festival du Cinéma du Réel in Paris, the Grand Prix du documentaire at the Biennale des Cinémas Arabes in Paris, the Magnolia Award for best documentary at the Shanghai International Festival and received the special jury prize at Fespaco. In 2005, he directed the film Le Grand Jeu, on the Algerian presidential campaign of 2004 which re-elected Abdelaziz Bouteflika with 85%. The film is censored to this day in France and Algeria. In 2008, he released the documentary China Is Still Far Away.
In 2009, he was awarded the Villa Kujoyama Prize in Kyoto and participated in the Cinéfondations at the Cannes Film Festival with his fictional screenplay Odysseys. In 2010, he directed the documentary Guerres Secrètes du FLN en France for France 2. In 2012, he co-directed with M. Colonna a documentary for France 3 and RTBF, 1962, from French Algeria to Algerian Algeria. In 2013, he directed Ulysses, Le Brûleur De Frontières Et La Mer Blanche Du Milieu for the inaugural exhibition Méditerranées/Marseille, Capitale Culturel de l'Europe 2013. In 2014, Malek Bensmail directed the documentary workshop at La FEMIS. In 2015, he directed Contre-Pouvoirs for the cinema, a dive into the editorial staff of the daily El Watan in Algiers, during the last presidential elections that validated Bouteflika's 4th term. World premiere at Locarno Film Festival. In 2017, he released the film The Battle of Algiers, A Film in History.
Since 2020, named Member of the Academy of Oscars.
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Fahadh Faasil
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Fahadh Faasil (born August 8, 1982) is an Indian actor and film producer, who predominantly works in the Malayalam film industry. He has acted in more than 40 films and has received several awards, including a National Film Award, four Kerala State Film Awards and three Filmfare Awards South. Fahadh is the son of filmmaker Fazil. Fahadh began his film career at the age of 19 by starring in the leading role in his father Fazil's 2002 romantic film Kaiyethum Doorath, which was a critical and commercial failure. After a gap of 7 years, Fahadh made his comeback with the anthology film Kerala Cafe (2009), in the short film Mrityunjayam. He attained public attention for his role as Arjun in the thriller film Chaappa Kurishu (2011). Fahad won his first Kerala State Film Award, the Best Supporting Actor Award for his performance in Chaappa Kurishu along with his performance in Akam. He achieved critical acclaim and recognition for his roles as Cyril in 22 Female Kottayam (2012) and Dr Arun Kumar in Diamond Necklace (2012). He won his first Filmfare Award for Best Actor for his role in 22 Female Kottayam.
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Alexis Ramirez
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Alexis Ramirez is a passionate and independent filmmaker from New York who is very dedicated towards his profession. He is also the founder of Exiram Productions and believes that filmmaking is the only career where he can actually portray his talent. He was interested in this profession since he was a kid as he started shooting mini videos as well as feature length films when he was just 13 years old. Keeping in mind that he wants to be a successful filmmaker, he studied at Lehman College for video production class as a Saturday program in 2005.
The kind of content he mainly produces is quite unique & overwhelming as he is more into retro style films, electronica, new wave, disco and the retro posters and vhs artworks. Going through all his work can surely make anyone think about his ultimate passion. His hard work can clearly be seen in his number of films which he directed, produced and edited such as Werewolves of Stayville, Wolf Mother: Hunted and Cycle. Along with owning his own company, he is also a producer and webmaster on a sister company Were-Creature Videos, a streaming video on demand website of fangtastic video clips and short films which feature a wide variety of female creature transformations.
Alexis believes that filmmaking is one of the most beautiful and unbeatable way which can put soul into any story or script. Directing, editing and producing films is what actually loved by him and he always try to be consistent in his profession.
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