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Mahnaz Afshar
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Mahnaz Afshar (مهناز افشار) was born on 11 June 1977 in Tehran. Having studied video editing, Mahnaz Afshar participated in an assembly of training materials for Ketabe Avval directed by Dariush Mehrjui. Her first official appearance as a film actress was in a work called Shoure Eshgh. Having gained substantial fame, she later appeared in such films as Atashbas and Salade Fasl. Mahnaz Afshar also acted in a TV series Gomshodeh by Mr. Masud Navaii, and a movie called Doostam directed by Mr. Abdollah Eskandari.
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Miwa Kawagoe
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Miwa Kawagoe (川越美和) is a former Japanese pop singer, actress, and member 1950 of the gravure group Momoco Club.
Kawagoe Miwa first debuted as a idol singer on October 1988 with the single "Looking at You". Her fourth single, "Yume Dake Miteru", won her the Rookie of the Year award at the 31st Annual Nihon Record Taishou. At the same she debut as a singer, she debut as a variety show talent and an actress with her first drama being Jiken desu yo Heisei Gannen.
In the 1990s, Kawagoe Miwa briefly appeared under the name Hatause Kaoru. She continued to work in many doramas and movies until 2007 when she quit her agency and retired from the world of show business.
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Fathy Abdel Wahab
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Fathi is a bit of a rebel and a dreamer. He has succeeded in securing celebrity status for himself within the short span of a few years despite the fact that he does not place great value on being famous nor on assuming leading roles in performances. His journey as an artist began in his college where he was enrolled in the faculty of commerce. At that point, Fathi used to perform on an amateur level. (This was until a friend of his applied on his behalf for a television production.) Thereafter, Fathi took part in three back-to-back seasons of the television show “Bilarabi Al Faseeh”. Following that stint, Fathi’s career in cinema took off.
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Jude Ciccolella
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Richard Jude Ciccolella (born November 30, 1947), better known as Jude Ciccolella, is an American character actor.
Ciccolella was born in Nassau County, New York. He graduated from Brown University, class of 1969 where he acted in student productions. He studied at Temple University with a Master of Fine Arts degree in theatre. His film roles include parts in The Shawshank Redemption as Mert, Boys on the Side as Jerry, Night Falls on Manhattan as Lieutenant Wilson, Star Trek Nemesis as Romulan Commander Suran, Down With Love as the private eye, The Terminal as Karl Iverson, the 2004 Director's Cut DVD of Daredevil, the 2004 remake of The Manchurian Candidate as David Donovan, and the 2005 Sin City movie adaptation as Liebowitz. After guest starring roles in Law & Order, NYPD Blue, CSI: NY and ER, Ciccolella took a recurring guest role on 24. During the show's first and second seasons (2001–2003), he played Mike Novick, Chief of Staff to President David Palmer (Dennis Haysbert). He has also guest starred as Principal Raymond on Everybody Hates Chris; however, he was replaced upon reprising his role as Mike Novick in the last eight episodes of Season 4 of 24. He appeared in the 1992 James Foley and David Mamet film Glengarry Glen Ross as the Detective. He appeared in the scene where Al Pacino was having an argument with Kevin Spacey about the "six-thousand dollars" owed to him. Ciccolella was also seen in the episode of Nickelodeon's The Adventures of Pete & Pete titled "Tool and Die," where he plays the shop class teacher Mr Slurm, whose missing left hand stirred nothing but hearsay and rumors. Mr. Ciccolella did not reprise his role as Mr. Slurm in the season 3 episode, "Road Warrior." In 24's fourth season (2005), Ciccolella returned for the last 8 episodes. Mike had become an advisor to Acting President Charles Logan (Gregory Itzin), who had taken over after the downing of Air Force One critically injured President John Keeler (Geoff Pierson). He had continued this role in the show's fifth season (2006). However, he did not appear in the sixth season. In 2007, he guest-starred on NBC freshman drama Life. He also appeared in the 2007 film, The Wager. In 2008, he portrayed Phillip Davenport, a fictional Secretary of the Navy on the 6th season of the CBS show NCIS. Two years later, he appeared one more time for the last episode of the 8th season. In the "Supporting Players" featurette on the 24 season 5 DVD, actress Jean Smart reveals that Ciccolella is a folk singer.
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Mary Aroni
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Mary Aroni was born in 1914, in Athens, Greece. She studied at the Drama School of the National Theater of Greece and made her stage debut in 1935, opposite legendary Greek actress Marika Kotopouli. She was soon hailed as a major actress, created personal groups and collaborated with the National Theater of Greece, excelling in, among others, Aristophanes' "Lysistrata" (title role), Schiller's "Mary Stewart" (as Elizabeth), O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Electra" (as Christine Mannon) and Chekhov's "The Seagull" (as Arkadina). She starred in only a handful of movies, but two of them have been extremely successful:Mikroi kai megaloi en drasei (1963),as a middle-aged widow in love with a businessman, and A Crazy Family (1965), as Jenny Karezi's crazy mama. She died in 1992.
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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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Frankie Montero
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Frankie Montero is an American filmmaker and Actor from Yonkers, New York. He is best known for writing and directing personal, independent films in New York City, "The Operation" (2023) and "Beggarman" (2025). His unorthodox, "run and gun" style of filmmaking has become a trademark. He studied acting at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, in the evening conservatory. This experience has lead him to be an "Actor's Director". He is not one for rules when it comes to filmmaking and believes in humanizing the art form.
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Roger C. Carmel
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Roger Charles Carmel (September 27, 1932, Brooklyn, New York – November 11, 1986, Hollywood, California) was an American actor.
Of his hundreds of roles, he is best remembered for playing the flamboyant and hapless criminal Harry Mudd on the original Star Trek. Other memorable roles include the accountant Doug Wesley on The Dick Van Dyke Show and Colonel Gumm on Batman. He also appeared in roles on Patty Duke Show, I Spy, Hogan's Heroes, Banacek. The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Munsters, Hawaii Five-O, and many other shows. He also appeared in such movie classics as Alfred Hitchcock"s North by Northwest. Carmel was also the voice of Smokey Bear in fire safety advertisements, as well as Decepticon Lieutenant Cyclonus, amongst others in the second and third seasons of the popular Transformers animated series. In the TV commercials for the Naugles chain of Mexican fast-food restaurants, he played the character of Señor Naugles. He also appeared in Jerry Lewis's comeback 1981 film, Hardly Working.
Carmel starred as Roger Buell in the 1967 NBC sitcom The Mothers-in-Law, but was replaced by Richard Deacon. Officially, Carmel had a salary dispute with producer Desi Arnaz, although, according to rumors, he was fired because his drug use interfered with production.
Carmel was slated to reprise his role as Harry Mudd in the Star Trek: The Next Generation first season finale episode, The Neutral Zone, but died before filming could commence. He died in Hollywood, California, of congestive heart failure due to an enlarged heart muscle. Carmel is interred in New Mount Carmel Cemetery in Glendale, Queens, New York.
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Peter Hutton
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Peter Hutton (born 1944 in Detroit, Michigan) was an experimental filmmaker, known primarily for his silent cinematic portraits of cities and landscapes around the world. He also worked as a professional cinematographer, most notably for his former student Ken Burns. Hutton studied painting, sculpture and film at the San Francisco Art Institute. He taught filmmaking at CalArts, Hampshire College, Harvard University, SUNY Purchase, and Bard College, where he served as the director of the Film and Electronic Arts Program from 1989 to 2016. Hutton's films are distributed by Canyon Cinema in San Francisco. In May 2008 the Museum of Modern Art in New York held a full retrospective of Hutton's films.
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Greg Smith
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Greg is currently the Bassist / Vocalist for Ted Nugent. Greg has also been the bassist, and backing vocals for such artists as Billy Joel, Alice Cooper, Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, Alan Parsons Project, Crystal Bowersox, Blue Oyster Cult, Dokken, Graham Bonnett, Over the Rainbow, Tommy James & the Shondells, The Turtles, Chuck Negron, Felix Cavaliere, Mitch Ryder, Denny Laine, Joey Molland, Vinnie Moore, Joe Lynn Turner, Van Helsing's Curse, O2'L and Wendy O. Williams. Greg was also the principal bassist and backing vocals for the Tony Award winning Billy Joel and Twyla Tharp musical "Movin Out" for it's entire 3 year run on Broadway and 1 year on the road.
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