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Carlos Savage
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Carlos Savage Suárez (Mexico City, May 20, 1919 - September 29, 2000) was a Mexican film editor and actor.
Carlos Savage entered the México Films studios as an assistant to his uncle José Marino, who was an editor. Later at the Estudios Nacional he was head of the synchronic court and by 1938 with the film La rosa de Xochimilco he became editor. From now on, and until 1995, he would participate in the editing of more than a thousand feature films, short films and documentaries. He was an active collaborator of Luis Buñuel.
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Amanda Krieg Thomas
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Amanda Krieg Thomas has been working tirelessly in the field of music supervision for over a decade, collaborating with top-level creators on a wide range of projects from unscripted docu-series to critically-acclaimed cable dramas and everything in between.
Current projects include new seasons of white-hot dramedy Claws (TNT), break out ballroom drama Pose (FX) and thrilling network drama, 9-1-1 (Fox), as well as Ryan Murphy’s first two projects for Netflix, feminist horror series, Ratched and satirical comedy, The Politician. Most recently Amanda worked on the award-winning espionage drama, The Americans (FX), celebrated limited series, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (FX), American Horror Story: Apocalypse (FX), family comedy, Life In Pieces (CBS) and legal thriller, Proven Innocent (Fox). Last year she also served as music supervisor on the emotional thriller Reverie (NBC) and Sundance darling Madeline’s Madeline (Oscilloscope). Additional credits include Feud: Bette and Joan (FX), Scream Queens (Fox), indie features Billy Boy and Girl Flu, and The People vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story (FX).
Amanda began her career in the music department at Lionsgate, before moving to Reveille (now Endemol Shine North America). There she music supervised unscripted series Commercial Kings (IFC) and One Born Every Minute (Lifetime) in addition to serving as Music Manager on the long running hits, MasterChef (Fox) and The Biggest Loser (NBC). In early 2012 she joined Format Entertainment as Music Coordinator on projects such as Pitch Perfect 1 and 2 (Gold Circle Films/Universal), The Other Woman (Fox), Beyond The Lights (Relativity) and ABC comedy, Trophy Wife, before transitioning to a Music Supervisor role at the company. Highlights there include performance competition show, Fake Off (truTV), the 2015 American Girl “Girl Of The Year™ film, Grace Stirs Up Success (American Girl/Mattel), and indie film French Dirty (Homegrown Pictures). In 2015 Amanda dove back into the world of scripted television at Neophonic Music & Media, and in early 2019 she launched her own music supervision company, Yay Team Productions, Inc.
Amanda regularly shares her knowledge at conferences and events around the world, including South By Southwest, MUSEXPO, BIGSOUND Australia and the Durango Songwriters Expo, in addition to authoring the e-book Thinking In Sync: A Primer on the Mind of a Music Supervisor. She is a proud member of the Television Academy and a Board Member for the Guild of Music Supervisors.
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Sergey Debizhev
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Sergey Gennadevich Debizhev (born Aug. 1, 1957, Yessentuki) is a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, and actor.
He graduated from the Leningrad Art College named after VA Serov (1977, specialty "Design - Graphics"), Leningrad Higher School of Industrial Art named after VI Mukhina (1982, Faculty of System Design). Taught the composition in the school. Serov.
Participated in numerous art exhibitions (design, graphics, painting). The director and scriptwriter of documentary and feature films, the author of video clips, the author and the director of television programs.
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Ruth Bratt
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Ruth Bratt is an English actress and comedian. Bratt has made appearances on several TV shows including FAQ U (2005) and Man Down (2017) on Channel 4, and Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive on BBC Three (2006). She was intended to have a larger role in the latter but most of the scenes where she had dialogue were cut.
In 2007 she appeared in Touch Me, I'm Karen Taylor as Dutch "climatologist" Yolanda van der Landavan. She played a number of different roles in several episodes of BBC Three's Mongrels and in 2013 appeared in Ricky Gervais' show Derek. She went on to play Roche, girlfriend of DJ Beats (aka Kev) in BBC3's People Just Do Nothing.
She co-wrote and co-starred with Lucy Trodd in the BBC radio comedy series Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' in 2014. Bratt has appeared in the BAFTA award winning BBC2 series People Just Do Nothing. In 2022, she was at the Edinburgh Festival in "Starship Improvise" with the Mischief Theatre.
She has also appeared in TV advertisements for products such as Kellogg's Nutrigrain bars.
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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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Markus Robam
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Markus Robam (born February 11, 1991) is an Estonian composer and singer songwriter. He has released three studio albums "Astir", "Monogram" and "In Crowds". Robam has been featured on festivals "Fundamento", Tallinn Music Week, Estonian Music Days, festival Pulsar in Copenhagen, festival "Segnali" in Perugia and “Nuova Consonanza” Festival in Rome, Italy.
Robam has written original music for TV series, theatre and movies.
He was the lead singer and principal songwriter of the alternative pop band MID and participated in the Estonian Song Contest 2011 with their debut single "Smile". Robam has taken part in composing competitions in Austria and the United States. Robam has performed as a solo artist Tojj.
He studied audiovisual composition in the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and is a member of Estonian Composers Union since 2015.
In 2012, Markus starred as Melchior Gabor in the Estonian original production of the musical Spring Awakening. He has co-starred as Markus Moorits in "Kutsar koputab kolm korda" by Elo Selirand in 2010 and as Ingmar in TV Series "Class: Life after".
Robam has written original music for short movie productions in Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School.
He was the author of sound and music design and wrote original music for the opening ceremony of Estonian National Museum in 2016.
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Joe Pasternak
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Joseph Herman "Joe" Pasternak (September 19, 1901 – September 13, 1991) was an Hungarian-born American film producer in Hollywood.
He was born to a Jewish family in Szilágysomlyó, Austria-Hungary (now Șimleu Silvaniei, Romania). His father was a town clerk and Pasternak was one of eleven children.
In 1920 he emigrated to the US as a teenager and went to stay with an uncle in Philadelphia. He worked in a factory, punching holes in leather belts, and did a variety of other jobs. He also studied acting in New York.
Pasternak became an assistant director at Paramount on The Phantom of the Opera (1925). Several years later he was directing at Universal. In 1928 Universal sent him as an associate producer to Germany. Upon return from Europe he produced a number of hits with new talent such as Deanna Durbin and Gloria Jean, reputedly saving Universal from Bankruptcy.
Pasternak also had careers at MGM, Fox and Euterpe. He made mostly musicals.
In 1968 he was stricken with Parkinson's Disease. He recovered slightly two years later but made no more films. He said at the time "I am proud that I have produced 105 pictures and not one of them is adults only."
In 1980 he estimated his films had earned $400 million. "If I had a percentage I'd be the richest man in town," he said.
His career as a film producer spanned 40 years and earned him two Oscar nominations and three Golden Globe Award nominations. He retired in 1968, having produced more than ninety feature-length films as well as three Academy Award shows.
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John Haley
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John Haley is a visual effects supervisor. He studied mathematics at Vassar College, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree, and later shifted into the visual effects field.
Early in his career he worked as a technical director and in look development and lighting for films such as Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005) and Bewitched (2005). He then moved up through senior CG supervisory roles, including on The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), in which he oversaw effects sequences including Spider-Man’s swinging through New York and the climactic battle, and on Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), before progressing to more senior visual effects supervision roles.
He has also been an additional visual effects supervisor on several high-profile film and streaming projects. On The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021) he served as Additional VFX Supervisor, part of the team nominated for a 2021 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Season or a Movie (shared with Eric Leven, Mike May, Daniel Mellitz, Chris Waegner, Charles Tait, Sébastien Francoeur, Chris Morley, and Mark LeDoux). He has also been credited with supervisory or senior roles on productions such as Hellboy (2019) and The Boys (2019) in visual effects capacities.
His work on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was part of a larger collaboration among multiple VFX studios, including Wētā Digital, to deliver complex aerial, canyon chase, and digital environment sequences.
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Skyler Shelley
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Skyler Shelley was born in Phoenix, Arizona, but grew up mostly in Littleton, Colorado. She lived in California for a brief period as a preteen and it was there that she began her acting career. She started off performing in community theatre productions such as "The Emperor's New Clothes" and taking acting classes in her spare time. Moving from state to state, growing up proved to be very difficult for her, but her passion and the pursuit of acting never stopped. In high school she instantly became involved in the theatre program. Performing such roles as Cecile Leroux in Mark Twain's "Is He Dead?" and Magda Svensen in Ayn Rand's "The Night of January 16th". Even a chorus girl in a couple of musicals. As much as she loves theatre, filmmaking has always had a special place in her heart. After graduating high school she spent a bit of time at The Colorado Film School for Acting for the Screen. There she was able to be a part of multiple film projects with an impressive amount of aspiring filmmakers. She immersed herself even more; involving herself in sketch comedy, an independent feature film and even a principal role on Investigation Discovery. However, Los Angeles was calling to her and she finally made the move in 2015. Skyler has worked at The Taylor Studio with long-time professional coach Alex Taylor. She is with Talents Hunters Agency with Deborah Graci. She was seen in Season 6 of Ryan Murphy's Award-winning hit show American Horror Story opposite Evan Peters.
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Shantilal Mukherjee
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Shantilal Mukherjee (born July 8) is an Indian actor associated with Bengali-language stage and films. Mukherjee was born in Kolkata. He lost his father in an early age. He was admitted in Sarsuna High School from where he passed Madhyamik examination. He passed Higher Secondary Examination from New Alipore Multipurpose High School. He graduated from the Asutosh College, a University of Calcutta affiliate. Mukherjee is mainly known as a stage actor. Ramaprasad Banik and Chandan Sen taught him acting. His son's name is Rwitobroto Mukherjee who is also an actor.
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