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Betty Francisco
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Betty Francisco (September 26, 1900 – November 25, 1950) was
an American silent-film actress, appearing mainly in dramatic/romantic films.
Her sister, Evelyn Francisco, was also an actress.
Born Elizabeth Barton (or Bartman) in Little Rock, Arkansas,
Betty acted in many credited roles from the period between 1920 and 1934, after
which it appears she left the movies for good. Her first film credit was in the
1920 film A Broadway Cowboy. However, the film did little to improve her
popularity.
In 1923, she was selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars,
although studios still preferred to cast her in roles opposite major female
leading ladies. However, she managed to have her own share of leading roles,
co-starring with Norma Talmadge, Wallace Beery and Conway Tearle in First
National's 1923 costume picture Ashes of Vengeance. She appeared in Maytime
that same year.The actress was still working after the transition of sound, but
her name was now virtually unnoticed and Betty, who had mostly done "B
movies" in her career, found herself almost forgotten by the film industry.
Her last film was Romance in the Rain (1934).
Betty Francisco died of a heart attack on her ranch in El
Cerrito, Riverside, California in 1950, aged 50, and was interred at the Forest
Lawn Memorial Park cemetery in Glendale, California, United States.
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Manuel Michel
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Manuel Michel (December 23th, 1928 – July 1st, 1983) was a Mexican film director, documentarian, screenwriter, and critic. He trained in cinema at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC) and, after returning to Mexico in 1960, worked in newsreel production before directing award-winning shorts such as Un millón de niños (1961) and UNAM-produced documentaries.
He directed the segment “Tarde de agosto” for the anthology feature Viento distante (Los niños) (1965) and made his only feature, Patsy, mi amor (released 1969), adapted from a story by Gabriel García Márquez and noted for introducing Ofelia Medina.
In 1969 he also directed the “Yvonne” episode of Trampas de amor. From the late 1960s he focused on documentary and commissioned work—authoring, directing, and producing about 43 documentaries and more than 300 commercials—and co-founded the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, later teaching film language and screenwriting at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
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Boti Bliss
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Boti Ann Bliss (born October 23, 1975) is an American film and television actress. Notable roles include her semi-recurring role as Maxine Valera in the television crime drama CSI: Miami. Her other roles include the 2002 film Ted Bundy and 2003 film National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze.
Born in Aspen, Colorado, she had an unusual childhood growing up, along with her brother and three sisters, in a teepee outside of Aspen with her stepfather and her mother, who knitted and sold custom sweaters.
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Joaquín Cordero
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Joaquín Cordero (August 16, 1923 – February 19, 2013) was a Mexican actor of the cinema, theatre and telenovelas.
Shortly after his birth, Cordero’s family moved to Mexico City, and in the following years he studied in a seminary and even considered becoming a priest, but eventually he decided to pursue a law career. After three years of law classes, against his family’s wishes he decided to become an actor. He initially appeared in small roles but by his early fifties he was getting much larger roles. Eventually he became one of the most popular actors in Mexican cinema. Cordero also shown appeared in theatre and on television and in the latter medium in numerous telenovelas and winning numerous awards. His most recent telenovelas included La Madrastra and Destilando Amor. February 19, 2013, Lamb died in a clinic in the city of Mexico, victim of heart problems that ended his life at the age of 89 years. According to his family, the Mexican actor died of love, facing a deep depression over the death of his beloved wife, Alma Guzman, which occurred on July 18, 2012.
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Hunter Dillon
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Born and raised in Vancouver BC, Hunter is most recognizable from his lead role in HOLLY HOBBIE on Hulu/Family Channel/Universal Kids, as well as his major series recurring role on season 2 of Fox's THE EXORCIST. In 2017 he had a recurring role in AMC/Netflix's DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY, appeared in Fox's WAYWARD PINES and played Joey Panther, in the title episode "Who is Joey Panther" in GABBY DURAN & THE UNSITTABLES. Notably, Hunter has also portrayed a young Sam Winchester on The CW's SUPERNATURAL in addition to playing a young Peter Kavinsky on Netflix's smash hit TO ALL THE BOYS I'VE LOVED BEFORE. He is the voice of Boa Alcazaba in the popular animated series BEYBLADE BURST and is currently looking forward to the release of HOLLY HOBBIE's Season 2, which completed filming this summer 2019. When not in school or working Hunter can be found playing guitar and song writing.
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Caspar Phillipson
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Caspar Phillipson (born 13 January 1971) is a Danish actor who has performed onscreen, onstage, and as a voice actor, predominantly in Scandinavian productions. Phillipson is best known in the English-speaking world for his portrayal of John F. Kennedy in the 2016 film Jackie. Although Phillipson appears in Jackie for only ten minutes, his resemblance to Kennedy has been considered unusually striking. Phillipson has subsequently portrayed Kennedy in a short film, in live performances of Kennedy's speeches, in the TV series Project Blue Book, the 2022 film Blonde and in the 2024 biopic Maria.
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Sofia Essaïdi
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Sofia Essaïdi (Arabic: صوفيا السعيدي, born 6 August 1984) is a French-Moroccan singer and actress. She was born in Casablanca, to a Moroccan father, Lhabib Essaïdi, and a French mother, Martine Adeline Gardelle.
From 30 August to 13 December 2003, she participated in the show Star Academy France's third season, becoming a semi-finalist. She eventually finished second to Elodie Frégé.
From 12 March to 7 August 2004, she participated in the Star Academy tour, going to Morocco, and Papeete, Tahiti, where she celebrated her 20th birthday. She released her first album called Mon cabaret. Later, she starred in the musical Cléopâtre, la dernière reine d'Égypte choreographed by Kamel Ouali which opened in "le Palais des Sports" in Paris on 29 January 2009.
In 2011, She appeared in the first season of the French version of Dancing with the Stars. She placed as the runners up with her partner, Maxime Dereymez with 38% of the public votes. This table shows the route of Sofia Essaïdi and Maxime Dereymez in Danse Avec Les Stars. In the final, the freestyle wasn't rated.
Source: Article "Sofia Essaïdi" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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F. Scott Frazier
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F. Scott Frazier is an American screenwriter who first embarked on his career in the video game industry. After completing high school, he began working for a video game company, where he advanced to the role of producer. During this time, he contributed to titles such as Tetris Evolution (2007), Fairly OddParents: Breakin’ da Rules (2004), Hot Wheels: Stunt Track Challenge (2004), and The Granstream Saga (1997).
Driven by his passion for storytelling, Frazier took a bold leap: he quit his full-time day job around 2009 to pursue screenwriting full-time. Within eight to nine months, through networking and persistence, one of his scripts—The Numbers Station—caught the attention of a manager at H2F Entertainment, ultimately leading to the sale of the project.
His breakout script, The Numbers Station (2013), was his first to be produced, marking his transition from video games to film. Frazier went on to contribute the story for Collide (2016) and co-executive produced it. He also wrote the screenplay for xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017).
His earlier writing career was marked by rapid success; he was recognised on The Black List for his script Line of Sight, and by late 2012 had sold six scripts in about two years.
Frazier’s writing process has been described as disciplined and rigorous: he typically writes four or five hours in the morning, pauses for lunch and a walk, then spends another three to four hours rewriting. He emphasises starting with a rough draft quickly, then meticulously refining each scene and line of dialogue.
He comes from a creative background—his father was a television writer in the 1970s and 1980s. He is married.
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Camille Degeye
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Camille Degeye is born in 1990 in France. She lives and works in Paris.
She’s graduated from a professional master in cinematographic creation and she’s a member of Etna and L’Abominable, both artists collectives where she developed her practice of artisanal filmmaking.
Camille's cinema focuses on the switch between narrative and dreamlike, surrendering to reality in often ghostly and obscure dimensions. Her work on film contributes to highlighting this fragility, in a quest for a collective and political memory.
In 2022, Camille Degeye joined the collective La Clef Revival which - through the fight to save the cinema La Clef in Paris - fights for the programming and the production of a free, an independent and an outsider cinema.
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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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