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Frankie Darro
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Frankie Darro (December 22, 1917 – December 25, 1976) was an American actor. Born into a show-business family - his parents were circus aerialists - Darro appeared in his first film at age six. Due to his small size and youthful appearance, he played teenagers well into his 20s. Always a physical performer, Darro often did his own stunts, many times out of necessity - his small stature made it difficult to find stunt doubles his size. He was an accomplished horseman and, in addition to westerns, made several films where he played jockeys. In 1933 he played the lead as a troubled teen in a major film for Warner Brothers, "Wild Boys Of The Road." It is a pre-code film with a realistic look at "The Great Depression," from the point of view of the youth of the time. This film seems to have been rediscovered only recently and has received critical acclaim.That same year, he played a troubled youth in the James Cagney classic, "The Mayor Of Hell". Later in 1935, he had a key role in the cult serial classic "The Phantom Empire"(1935). As Darro got older, however, he found it increasingly difficult to secure employment, and by the late 1940s was doing uncredited stunt work and bit parts. He had a recurring role on The Red Skelton Hour (1951), unrecognized by his fans, he played "Robby The Robot" in the groundbreaking sci-fi film "The Forbidden Planet" (1956), though Marvin Miller, best remembered as Michael Anthony of TVs "Millionaire"(1955-60), was the robot's voice. After that Frankie appeared sporadically in films and on TV .
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Javier McIntosh
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Javier McIntosh is a celebrated actor, director, and executive producer known for his incredible range and impressive body of work. Born into a family of creatives, he was drawn to the performing arts at an early age and has since become one of the most respected talents in his industry. Javier's dedication to his craft have earned him numerous accolades, including the Best Lead Actor award at the International 72 Hour Horror Film Competition. With over a decade of experience in the industry, he has worked on hundreds of films and has become a household name in parts of the world. You can catch Javier's work on various streaming platforms, including Hulu, BET+, Peacock, Tubi, and Prime Video, among others. He has amassed a massive following on social media, with over a million followers across all platforms. Javier's passion for acting led him to study at some of the best studios in the business, including Ches Studios, Your Act Studios, and Stockbridge Thespians. He also won the Most Distinguished Actor Award for the Henry County Thespians, cementing his status as one of the most talented actors in Georgia. In addition to his acting work, Javier has also directed and executive produced a respectable amount of films. He continues to inspire and entertain audiences around the world with his incredible performances and dedication to his craft.
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Guy Mitchell
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Guy Mitchell (born Albert George Cernik; February 22, 1927 – July 1, 1999) was an American pop singer, successful in his homeland, the U.K. and Australia. As an international recording star of the 1950s he achieved record sales in excess of 44 million units and this included six million-selling singles. In the fall of 1957, Mitchell starred in his own ABC variety show, The Guy Mitchell Show. He further appeared as George Romack on the 1961 NBC western detective series Whispering Smith, with World War II hero Audie Murphy in the leading role.
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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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Rob Ager
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Rob Ager is a British independent filmmaker, writer, and internet film analyst renowned for his detailed psychological and thematic dissections of cinema, particularly in the horror and science fiction genres.
Based in Liverpool, England, where he was raised amid the socioeconomic challenges of the 1980s, Ager transitioned from a 17-year career in social care, supporting individuals with mental health issues, homelessness, and youth in care, to full-time creative work, leveraging his self-taught expertise in psychology and filmmaking.
He launched his website, Collative Learning, in 2007 as a platform for promoting independent filmmaking and psychological insights, which unexpectedly evolved into a global hub for video essays that have garnered 20-40 million views across his YouTube channels as of 2021. Ager's analyses emphasize symbolic and subconscious elements in films, drawing on his background in mental health to explore dark human themes, and he has been credited with originating influential interpretations, such as the theory of child sexual abuse subtext in Danny Torrance's storyline in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980).
His work has gained recognition in mainstream media, including features in The New York Times, Time Entertainment, and The Irish Times, though it has also faced academic criticism, such as a 2011 review by University of Toronto scholar Dan Leberg accusing it of pseudo-intellectualism and unoriginality. It has been incorporated into academic contexts, such as undergraduate courses on Kubrick at Ohio State University and consultations for scholarly books like Diana Walsh Pasulka's American Cosmic. Notable video essays cover films like 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) where he interprets the monolith as a metaphor for the cinema screen, The Thing (1982), Eyes Wide Shut (1999), and Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) and Frenzy (1972), often addressing broader issues like Cold War anxieties, criminal psychology, and conspiracy theories in Kubrick's oeuvre.
In addition to analysis, Ager has practical filmmaking experience, directing short films such as The Victim in his late 20s and his debut feature, the horror film Turn in Your Grave, in 2012, produced on a low budget amid financial hardships. He has authored digital books, including Lessons from Stanley Kubrick on the director's techniques, How to Make Great Films on Rock Bottom Budgets, and Collative Learning.
Operating independently through Patreon, digital sales, and commissions, Ager prioritizes substantive content over sensationalism, critiquing modern cinema trends like excessive CGI, politicization, and "Easter egg" overload in essays such as "26 Reasons Why Modern Movies Are So Awful." Despite lacking formal academic credentials, his self-education has positioned him as a pioneering figure in online film criticism since the early days of YouTube.
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Ranon Herman
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Originally from Johns Creek, Georgia, I am currently finishing the thesis for my masters in music education at UIUC and have been teaching in Illinois since 2017, including in Chicago Public School (CPS) for three years. While working in CPS, the Marine Leadership Academy Band received straight superiors at competition under my direction. From 2018 to 2020 I performed in several community music ensembles throughout Chicago including at DePaul University, Horner Park, and in several improv and musical improv shows at the IO Theater in Chicago. I also worked as the Assistant Director at Anshe Emet in Chicago for its Annual Youth Play in 2016. I won the IFV 48 hour film competition award for best Director and Best Film for the film The Witness. I also have a book of poetry published called an Ice Cube Down My Back and music on all streaming platforms under the artist name Ranonomous.
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Freddy Silva
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Freddy Silva is a bestselling author, and leading researcher of ancient civilizations, restricted history, sacred sites and their interaction with consciousness. He is also the leading expert on crop circles.
He has published eight books in six languages, and produced fourteen documentaries.
Described by one CEO as "perhaps the best metaphysical speaker in the world right now,” for two decades he has been an international keynote speaker, with notable appearances at the International Science and Consciousness Conference, the International Society For The Study Of Subtle Energies & Energy Medicine, and the Association for Research and Enlightenment, in addition to appearances on Gaia TV, History Channel, BBC, and radio shows such as Earth Ancients, Fade To Black and Coast To Coast. He is also an art photographer and a documentary filmmaker with 14 published titles. and leads private tours to sacred sites worldwide.
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Sam Riley
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He is best known for playing the lead role of Ian Curtis in the movie Control, a biopic about the lead singer of the 1970s post-punk band Joy Division. His performance in the role won him the British Independent Film Award for "Most Promising Newcomer".[1]. He also won a Kermode for Best Actor 2007 for the film. Prior to his portrayal of Ian Curtis, Riley played The Fall frontman Mark E. Smith in the Michael Winterbottom film 24 Hour Party People, which details the Factory Records era. His scenes, however, were omitted from the final cut. In September 2007, Riley was cast in Gerald McMorrow's British science fiction film Franklyn. He will play a lead role in 13, an English-language remake of the French thriller 13 Tzameti. He is currently playing the role of Pinkie Brown in a remake of Brighton Rock alongside Helen Mirren.
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Colin Davis
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Sir Colin Rex Davis CH CBE (25 September 1927 – 14 April 2013) was an English conductor, known for his association with the London Symphony Orchestra, having first conducted it in 1959. His repertoire was broad, but among the composers with whom he was particularly associated were Mozart, Berlioz, Elgar, Sibelius, Stravinsky and Tippett.
Davis studied as a clarinetist, but was intent on becoming a conductor. After struggling as a freelance conductor from 1949 to 1957, he gained a series of appointments with orchestras including the BBC Scottish Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. He also held the musical directorships of Sadler's Wells Opera and the Royal Opera House, where he was principal conductor for over fifteen years. His guest conductorships included the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic and the Staatskapelle Dresden, among many others.
As a teacher, Davis held posts at the Royal Academy of Music, London, and the Landesgymnasium für Musik "Carl Maria von Weber" (preparatory school for music) in Dresden. He made his first gramophone recordings in 1958, and his discography over the next five decades was extensive, with many studio recordings for Philips Records and a substantial catalogue of live recordings for the London Symphony Orchestra's own label.
Davis was born in Weybridge, Surrey, the fifth of seven children, to Reginald George Davis (a bank clerk) and Lillian Constance (Colbran) Davis. The family was musical, and he was exposed to music from an early age. He recalled: "I can still see Sargent conducting the first concert I ever attended. I can still hear Melchior in the final scene of Siegfried – an old 78 playing on my father's gramophone. … I can also remember the moment I decided to make music my life. I was 13 or 14 at the time and the performance was of Beethoven's Eighth. Doors were suddenly opened. I became totally involved, even obsessed by music, although I was frightfully enclosed by my likes and dislikes. Today I'm game for anything."
With financial assistance from his great-uncle, Davis was educated at Christ's Hospital in Sussex and then won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London, where he studied the clarinet with Frederick Thurston. His fellow-students included Gervase de Peyer, but Davis developed a greater interest in conducting. He was, however, not eligible for the conducting class at the college, because he could not play the piano. ...
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Bill Kopp
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Bill Kopp (born in Rockford, Illinois on April 17, 1962) is an American animator and voice actor who animated the Whammy on the 1980s game show Press Your Luck, and voiced the title character on Nelvana's Eek! The Cat and Kutter in The Terrible Thunderlizards, which he created with Savage Steve Holland. He also voices Tom in the Tom and Jerry movies Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars and Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry.
He was also an animator for The Simpsons Tracey Ullman Shorts, but left after the first season.
He also created The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show and Mad Jack the Pirate, worked as an executive producer and writer for Toonsylvania, produced and directed the current Tom and Jerry cartoons, wrote Hare and Loathing in Las Vegas and The Incredible Crash Dummies and did the story on two Roger Rabbit Shorts; Tummy Trouble and Roller Coaster Rabbit. Was the writer/director/co-producer on HBO's Tales from the Crypt: The Third Pig.
In 1984, he won an Academy Award-Student Film/Animation for Mr. Gloom and in 1985, he won his second Academy Award for Observational Hazard.
He studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts.
He is also the director of most of The Twisted Whiskers Show episodes.
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