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Bud Spencer

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Bud Spencer was an Italian actor, filmmaker and a former professional swimmer. He was known for past roles in action-comedy films together with his long-time film partner Terence Hill. Growing from a successful swimmer in his youth, he got a degree in law, and has registered several patents. Bud also became a certified commercial airline and helicopter pilot, Bud Spencer also supported and funded many children's charities, including the Spencer Scholarship Fund. Bud Spencer and Terence Hill both appeared, produced and directed over 20 films together and thus became and remain best friends until he passed away.
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Daniel Cockburn

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Daniel Cockburn is a Canadian moving-image artist based in Glasgow. His work deals with rhythm, language, and thought experiments, drawing on sources spanning video games, literature, power ballads, and sci-fi/fantasy/horror. His 2010 feature film You Are Here has been described as “a new kind of narrative for a new technological era” (Mark Peranson, Cinema Scope), “a major discovery” (Olivier Père, Locarno Film Festival), and “a whatsit” (Gavin Smith, Film Comment). He’s currently working on a live performance about medieval music and a movie adaptation of Mark Vonnegut’s memoir The Eden Express.
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Herman Rarebell

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Herman Rarebell (born 18 November 1949 as Hermann Josef Erbel) is a German musician, best known as the drummer for the band Scorpions from 1977 to 1995, during which time he played on eight studio albums. Aside from playing drums, Rarebell wrote or co-wrote several songs for the group such as "Another Piece of Meat", "Falling in Love" and "Passion Rules the Game". He composed the lyrics for some of the band's most well known songs such as "Rock You Like a Hurricane", "Make It Real", "Dynamite", "Blackout", "Arizona", "Bad Boys Running Wild", "Don't Stop at the Top", and "Tease Me Please Me". Description above from the Wikipedia article Herman Rarebell licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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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Shawn Levy

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Shawn Adam Levy (born July 23, 1968) is a Canadian and American filmmaker and actor. He is the founder of 21 Laps Entertainment. His work has spanned numerous genres, and his films as a director have grossed a collective $3.5 billion worldwide. Following early work as a television director, most notably for The Famous Jett Jackson, Levy gained recognition in the 2000s for directing comedy films such as Big Fat Liar (2002), Just Married (2003), Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), and The Pink Panther (2006). He then found further success as the director of the first three films in the Night at the Museum film franchise (2006–14). In the early 2010s, he directed films including Date Night (2010), Real Steel (2011), and The Internship (2013), developed several comedy television pilots, and executive produced the first five seasons of the ABC sitcom Last Man Standing. Levy was a producer on the 2016 sci-fi film Arrival, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. Levy was an executive producer through the entire run of the Netflix original series Stranger Things. He directed the third and fourth episodes of each of the show's first four seasons, as well as the sixth and seventh episodes of the final season. He also directed the Netflix limited series All the Light We Cannot See (2023). Levy has collaborated with Ryan Reynolds by directing Free Guy (2021), The Adam Project (2022), and Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), with the latter emerging as his highest-grossing film and the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time. Description above from the Wikipedia article Shawn Levy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Nancy Wu Ting-Yan

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Nancy Wu Ting-Yan (Chinese: 胡定欣), born on 9 September 1981, is a Hong Kong actress under contract with TVB. She began her entertainment career in 1999 by placing fourth in TVB’s 18th Annual New Talent Singing Awards. In 2001, she competed in TVB’s 3rd Annual Cover Girl Competition, where she swept several titles, including Most Photogenic, Most Fit, Most Attractive, and Overall Winner. Following her success, she joined the 18th TVB Acting Class, officially launching her acting career. In November 2012, Nancy was honored with a Long Service Award from TVB for her contributions to the company. That same year, she received multiple accolades for her performances, including My Favourite Supporting Actress at the TVB Star Awards Malaysia, recognition at the Asian Television Awards, and Best Supporting Actress at the TVB Anniversary Awards.
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Ezgi Dalgiç

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Ezgi Dalgıç is a rising Turkish actress known for her natural screen presence and performances in television dramas. Born on January 26, 2001, in Çanakkale, Turkey, she graduated with a degree in Economics from Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University. Following her university studies, she pursued extensive professional training in acting, attending workshops at the Müjdat Gezen Art Center alongside advanced camera-front acting masterclasses. Dalgıç first gained television industry attention with her role as Asu in the drama series Rüzgarlı Tepe (2024), followed by her performance as Aslı Taner in Arafta (2025). She achieved a significant career breakthrough after joining the main cast of the Kanal D youth drama series Daha 17 (2026). Portraying Sıla—a popular, ambitious, and status-conscious high schooler dreaming of a career in the fashion world—her performance quickly earned widespread social media praise and established her as a standout young talent of her generation.
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Stephanie Spray

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Stephanie Spray is a filmmaker and anthropologist whose work explores the confluence of social aesthetics and art in everyday life. She has been working at the Sensory Ethnography Laboratory at Harvard University since 2006 and she received a Master’s degree in the study of world religions from Harvard Divinity School as well as a Bachelor of Arts from Smith College. In 1999 she began studying music, religion and languages in Nepal, where she has made several video works, including Kāle and Kāle (2007), Monsoon-Reflections (2008), Untitled (bed) (2009), As Long as There’s Breath (2010) and Untitled (2010). Her work has been screened internationally including at the Anthology Film Archives (2010) in New York and the Sehsüchte International Film Festival in Postdam.
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Lee Tockar

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lee Tockar (born February 11, 1969) is a famous Canadian voice actor who works for several studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is also a writer of children's literature, a musician, sculptor, illustrator and collected painter. Lee was born with cone dystrophy and is a member of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lee Tockar, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Kostas Styliaris

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Kostas Styliaris was born in 1940 in Orchomenos, Boeotia. He studied at the Drama School of the National Theatre. His first appearance was in 1963 with the "Theatre of Art", in O'Neill's play "The Iceman is Coming". From 1963 to 1966, he participated in performances of the "Theatre of Art". Subsequently, he had notable theatrical collaborations: A. Minotis, K. Paxinou, E. Lampeti, S. Linaios, N. Kourkoulos, with whose troupe he made his last appearance in the 1974-1975 season in Brecht's play "Tabourla in the Night", E. Photiou and others. He appeared in the films "The Cannon and the Nightingale" and "The Travelling Players" (by Th. Angelopoulos). He developed intense resistance activity during the dictatorship and was organized in the PAK. He died prematurely in 1975. His wife was the popular actress Nena Menti
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