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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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Pearl White
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Pearl Fay White (March 4, 1889 – August 4, 1938) was an American stage and film actress. White began her career on the stage at the age of six, and later moved on to silent films appearing in a number of popular serials. Dubbed the "Queen of the serials", White was noted for doing the majority of her own stunts in several film serials, most notably in The Perils of Pauline.
In 1910, White was offered a role by Pathé Frères in The Girl From Arizona, the French company's first American film produced at their new studio in Bound Brook, New Jersey. She then worked at Lubin Studios in 1911 and several other of the independents, until the Crystal Film Company in Manhattan gave her top billing in a number of slapstick comedy shorts from 1912 to 1914. White then took a vacation in Europe. Upon her return, she signed with Eclectic Film Company, a subsidiary of Pathé in 1914. Pathé director Louis J. Gasnier offered her the starring role in film serial The Perils of Pauline. By 1919, White had grown tired of film serials and signed with Fox Film Corporation with the ambition to appear in dramatic roles. Over the next two years, White appeared in ten drama films for Fox but her popularity had begun to wane.
Pearl White's place in film history is important in both the evolution of cinema genres and the role of women. Like many silent film actors, many of White's films are now considered lost. The Perils of Pauline is only known to exist in a reduced nine-reel version released in Europe in 1916, but The Exploits of Elaine survives and was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. All of her films were made at East Coast studios as White reportedly never visited Hollywood.
For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Pearl White has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6838 Hollywood Blvd. The 1947 Paramount Pictures film The Perils of Pauline, starring Betty Hutton, is a fictionalized biography of Pearl White.
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Qin Hailu
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Actress Qin Hailu (Chinese: 秦海璐, born 11 August 1978) is a graduate of the Chinese Central Drama School; there she attended classes with fellow actress Zhang Ziyi. In 2000 she was awarded Best Actress at the 6th Hong Kong Film Awards and was nominated at the 57th Cannes Film Festival for her role in Fruit Chan's movie Durian Durian. Since then, the relatively unknown actress, who had never appeared in any other film or television productions, began gaining a reputation. On today's People, we look at the career of rising star Qin Hailu.
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Les Weldon
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Les Weldon (Producer) is a writer/producer whose portfolio includes action films, thrillers, comedies, science fiction, fantasy and family movies.
His writing and producing credits include more than 70 films starring such actors as Robert De Niro, Harrison Ford, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mel Gibson, Bruce Willis, Gerard Butler, John Travolta, Jason Statham, Chuck Norris, Sir Ben Kingsley, Morgan Freeman, John Cusack, Antonio Banderas, Dolph Lundgren, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Jet Li, among others.
Born and raised in Brazil, Les came to America when he was 15 and graduated from Laguna Beach High School in Southern California.
Les attended the University of Southern California, majoring in business administration, with electives in film.
He has produced multiple hit movies and franchises, including the $275-million worldwide box office hit The Expendables with Stallone, Statham, Jet Li and Mickey Rourke, as well as the $305-million worldwide hit sequel The Expendables 2, The Expendables 3, and London Has Fallen, starring Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman.
Les also produced The Hitman's Bodyguard, starring Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson, which was #1 at the box office three weekends in a row. He followed that up with "Angel Has Fallen" starring Gerard Butler which also reached number #1 at the box office.
Les is currently in post on Hitman's Bodyguard 2, and Jolt, starring Kate Beckinsale.
Les lives in Sofia, Bulgaria.
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Devin Fromer
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Devin Fromer is a writer, director, producer, actor, and editor from San Rafael, California. Since high school, he has produced six independent feature films, three of which he wrote and directed, as well as various short films and other multimedia projects. His debut feature, Bus 233, received positive reviews and a limited theatrical release in the San Francisco Bay Area when he was just 18 years old. He followed it with his second feature, I Happy, I Lover, continuing to build a body of character-driven, independent work. His films often blend drama and comedy, focusing on intimate, personal stories that explore the complexities of human relationships and everyday experience.
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Danny McBride
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Danny McBride is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer known for his sharp, offbeat humor and collaborations with filmmaker Jody Hill. He rose to fame with Eastbound & Down (2009–2013), where he starred as disgraced pitcher Kenny Powers, and went on to co-create and star in acclaimed HBO series like Vice Principals (2016–2017) and The Righteous Gemstones (2019–present). McBride has also appeared in films including Pineapple Express (2008), Tropic Thunder (2008), and This Is the End (2013), solidifying his reputation for bold, irreverent comedy.
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No Min-woo
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No Min-Woo (Hangul: 노민우; born May 29, 1986) is a South Korean actor, singer and musician. As a musician No Min-woo was a member of "TRAX", "ICON" and "24/7". Now uses the stage name MINUE. He plays drums, guitar, piano and regularly contributes to movie and drama soundtracks. From 2020 he is the leader of the band "The midnight romance". Min-Woo played in various television series and movies, such as Pasta, My Girlfriend is a Nine-Tailed Fox, Full House Take 2, and Best Wedding. For the role in "Partners for Justice" (Season 2) he won 2019 MBC Drama Awards - Scene Stealer Award.
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Biz Lyon
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Biz Lyon is an actor and director based in Central London. She was born in Kentucky and has trained at The Juilliard School in New York and received her MFA in acting from East 15 Acting School in London.
Biz's recent acting work in London includes the title role and multiple roles in Yaga, an Arts Council–funded play at The Drayton Arms. Other recent work: a role on the Showtime series The Man Who Fell to Earth and a role in George Clooney's film The Boys in the Boat. Biz toured as Lady Jane Wilde in Vengeance: The Demise of Oscar Wilde, a new musical, and played Olivia in Twelfth Night at the Tea House Theatre in Vauxhall. She has also played Hovstad in An Enemy of the People at the Bridewell Theatre, May in The Things That Were There at The Hen & Chickens, Marlene in Top Girls, and starred in the one-woman Civil War–era show A World Kicked to Pieces, which is based on the memoirs of Mary Boykin Chesnut. Biz's most recent directing projects were for Little Lion's Stories from the Past and Stories from Home series in which she directed Mrs. Kray, The Florrons' Cake, and Across the Causeway, all new plays from Canadian writers. Her other directing credits include Love's Labours Lost, Crimes of the Heart, and Tobacco Road.
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Zakes Mokae
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Zakes Makgona Mokae (August 5, 1934 – September 11, 2009) was a South African stage and screen actor. For his role in playwright Athol Fugard's "Master Harold"...and the Boys, Mokae won the 1982 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. His major films include Cry Freedom (1987), A Dry White Season (1989), The Island (1980), Vampire in Brooklyn (1995), Outbreak (1995), and Waterworld (1995). He also had memorable guest appearances on many television series such as The X-Files, The West Wing, and Monk.
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Jean Saadeh
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Lebanese actor and wrestler, born in 1940. He had a career full of local and international championships as he and his brother Andriyya (The Saadeh Brothers) were among the most well-known figures in Lebanon. Their love and passion for sports made them turn their home into a sports club. At age 16, Jean started to win awards and titles. To name a few, he gained the title of the champion of Arabs in 1957, and the world champion in 1970. He participated in 125 wrestling events in nine months, which put Lebanon on the map of world freestyle wrestling. When Andriyya died in 1999, Jean remained alone, preserving a history of championships. The Saadeh Brothers also acted in Arabic movies and they worked as stuntmen in French movies.
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