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Charles H. Schneer
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Born in Norfolk, Virginia, he graduated from Columbia University in 1940. Serving in the US Army's Signal Corps Photographic Unit during the war, and moved to Hollywood following demobilisation. After joining Columbia Pictures, he was introduced to Harryhausen by a mutual friend from Schneer's time in the Army.[1]
Together they made It Came From Beneath The Sea (1955), about a giant octopus that wreaks havoc on the Golden Gate Bridge. The octopus had only six tentacles, which Schneer is reported to have been correct in claiming no one would notice.[2] This film made use of stop-motion photography which the two men were to use to greater effect in later films including Jason and the Argonauts (1963), The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973), and Clash of the Titans (1981).
In 1960, he moved his base of operations to London, where he remained for 45 years. Beside the fantasy films, he also produced the film version of the stage musical Half a Sixpence (1967) starring Tommy Steele and Hellcats of the Navy (1957), the only film starring both Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan (as Nancy Davis).[3]
Schneer died in Boca Raton, Florida, aged 88.
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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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Brock Peters
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Brock Peters or Brock G. Peters (born George Fisher; July 2, 1927 – August 23, 2005) was an American actor, best known for playing the role of Tom Robinson in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird and for his role as "Crown" in the 1959 film version of Porgy and Bess. In later years, he gained recognition among Star Trek fans for his portrayals of Fleet Admiral Cartwright in two of the Star Trek feature films and Joseph Sisko, father of Benjamin Sisko, in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He was also notable for his role as Hatcher in Soylent Green.
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Nadia Charbel
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Nadia Charbel is a Lebanese actress who began her career as a child on the TV show Aayle Aa Fared Mayle, playing alongside her parents, Carine Rizcallah and Fady Charbel. She later featured in TV series such as Helwe W Kezzebe, Albi Dak, and W Msheet. In 2021, she was part of the main cast of the award-winning film Costa Brava, Lebanon, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, portraying Tala, the teenage daughter of Soraya (Nadine Labaki) and Walid (Saleh Bakri). She most recently appeared in Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano (2023).
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Jacques Dutronc
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Jacques Dutronc (born 28 April 1943) is a French singer, songwriter, guitarist, composer, and actor. Some of Dutronc's best-known hits include "Il est cinq heures, Paris s'éveille" (which AllMusic has called "his finest hour"), "Le Responsable", and "Les Cactus".
Dutronc played guitar in the rock group El Toro et les Cyclones. He wrote successful songs for singer Françoise Hardy in the 1960s before moving on to pursue a successful solo career. His music incorporated traditional French pop and French rock as well as styles such as psychedelic and garage rock. He was also very important in the yéyé music movement and has been a longtime songwriting collaborator with Jacques Lanzmann. According to AllMusic, Dutronc is "one of the most popular performers in the French-speaking world", although he "remains little known in English speaking territories" aside from a cult following in the UK.
Dutronc later branched out into film acting, starting in 1973. He earned a César Award for Best Actor for the leading role in Van Gogh (1991), which was directed by Maurice Pialat. He married Hardy in 1981 and together they have a son, guitarist Thomas Dutronc (born 1973); the couple separated in 1988, but never divorced.
Jacques Dutronc was born on 28 April 1943 at 67 Rue de Provence in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, the home of his parents, Pierre and Madeleine. His father was a manager for the state-run Office of Coal Distribution. Jacques was educated at Rocroy-Saint-Léon elementary school (now a lycée), the École de la Rue Blanche (now a drama school), and then at the École Professionnelle de Dessin Industriel, where he studied graphic design from 1959.
In 1960, Dutronc formed a band with himself as guitarist, schoolfriend Hadi Kalafate as bassist, Charlot Bénaroch as drummer (later replaced with André Crudot), and Daniel Dray as singer. They auditioned in 1961 for Jacques Wolfsohn, an artistic director at Disques Vogue, who signed them and gave them the name El Toro et les Cyclones. The group released two singles, "L'Oncle John" and "Le Vagabond", but disbanded when Dutronc was obliged to undertake military service.
After being discharged from the army in 1963, Dutronc briefly played guitar in Eddy Mitchell's backing band and was also given a job at Vogue as Jacques Wolfsohn's assistant. In this capacity, he co-wrote songs for artists such as ZouZou, Cléo, and Françoise Hardy.
Wolfsohn asked Dutronc to work with Jacques Lanzmann, a novelist and editor of Lui magazine, to create songs for a beatnik singer called Benjamin. Benjamin released an EP in 1966, featuring songs written with Dutronc and a Lanzmann–Dutronc composition, "Cheveux longs" ("Long Hair"). However, Wolfsohn was disappointed by Benjamin's recording of a song titled "Et moi, et moi, et moi". A second version was recorded, with Dutronc's former bandmate Hadi Kalafate on vocals. Wolfsohn then asked Dutronc if he would be interested in recording his own version. The single reached number 2 in the French charts in September 1966. ...
Source: Article "Jacques Dutronc" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Philippe Eidel
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Philippe Eidel (22 December 1956 – 6 September 2018) was a French music producer, writer and film music composer.
Philippe Eidel began his career working with groups like Taxi Girl and especially Indochine, in the middle of the new wave/synthpop period.
He moved towards world music and then collaborated with various artists such as the singer Khaled or the director Peter Brook, with whom he produced the album The Mahabharata, which is not the soundtrack of the film of the same name. Philippe Eidel then became passionate about old and traditional instruments.
He also composed numerous film scores such as that of Les Randonneurs. He is also the author of the original on-air credits for Canal+ and M6 with Arnaud Devos.
Source: Article "Philippe Eidel" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Monky Boy
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Born April 23rd, 2001, Josué Figueroa Márquez, known artistically as Monky Boy, is a Puerto Rican filmmaker and artist from Carolina, Puerto Rico. First known in the Puerto Rican art scene through a meme page called: "Comedia Epica", Josué had a lot to show creatively through the many memes, skits and short films posted on the page since 2019. When the COVID-19 pandemic stroke and nowhere else to go, Josue directed, edited and acted in his first short film under the indie film company; Guineo Video. Using only puppets and an iPhone, "ATASCAU" was born, a short film about doing film with only the resources you have around you and the struggles of the creative block. Years later, what was once going to be a low budget buddy cop short for Comedia Epica, he started developing a web series called: "Biombo".
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Vince Gilligan
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George Vincent Gilligan Jr. (born February 10, 1967) is an American screenwriter and filmmaker. He is best known as the creator, primary writer, executive producer, and occasional director of the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad (2008–2013) and its spin-off prequel series Better Call Saul (2015–2022). He also wrote, directed, and produced the Breaking Bad sequel film El Camino (2019).
Gilligan's other work includes writing, directing, and producing some episodes of the Fox science fiction series The X-Files (1993–2002) and co-creating its spin-off series The Lone Gunmen (2001), as well as co-writing the screenplay for the superhero film Hancock (2008). His numerous accolades include four Primetime Emmy Awards, six Writers Guild of America Awards, two Critics' Choice Television Awards, two Producers Guild of America Awards, a Directors Guild of America Award, and a BAFTA Television Award.
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Mark Rowe
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Mark Rowe was born in Charlotte, North Carolina and grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee. He studied Theatre and Graphic Design at the University of Tennessee and spent a few years after graduation performing in regional theatre, before moving to NYC. He studied at the Ensemble Studio Theatre and performed in and around the city.
He took a break from the business while exploring the world of Entertainment Marketing and Design, which brought him to Los Angeles. He later returned to acting when he was asked by a producer friend to attend a commercial callback. He booked what turned out to be a Budweiser Super Bowl commercial which brought him back into the business. Soon after, he landed his first recurring Co-Star role opposite Liev Schreiber on Ray Donovan.
In the Summer of 2019 he returned to NYC. Mark is a proud member of SAG-Aftra and Actor's Equity Association. He splits his time between NY, Atlanta and LA.
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Kris Mochrie
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Kristopher Ian Mochrie (born 24 October 1984) is an English actor. He is known for portraying the roles of Lee Posner in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale, Jez in the BBC drama series Ordinary Lies, and Ali Gordon in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside. Kristopher studied Business at St Edward's College in Liverpool and trained at Manchester School of Acting. Mochrie has been acting since the age of seven.
In 2002, Mochrie was cast as Ali Gordon in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside, a member of the newly introduced Gordon family. His departure from the soap aired in July 2003. In 2004, he appeared in an episode of Heartbeat. Throughout 2005, he made appearances in Ideal, Doctors and Girls in Love. In 2006, he appeared in Life on Mars and Waterloo Road. In 2007, Mochrie appeared as Richard Brandon in an episode of The Bill. In 2008, he made an appearance in the medical soap opera The Royal Today.
Following Mochrie's release from prison, he rebooted his acting career in 2010, making an appearance as Niall in an episode of the ITV soap opera Emmerdale, before appearing as D.C. Furber in an episode of Coronation Street the following year. In 2015, Mochrie appeared in the BBC drama series Ordinary Lies as Jez, the husband of Emma and an employee at JS Motors. He also made another appearance in Emmerdale as an instructor. In 2016, Mochrie appeared in the short film Rapscallions, before appearing as Captain Ross in the television film To Walk Invisible based on the Brontë family. In 2017, Mochrie played Scott in three episodes of The League of Gentlemen. In 2018, he appeared in the CBBC series' 4 O'Clock Club and Katy and in an episode of Bulletproof as Daley.
In 2019, Mochrie returned to Emmerdale for a third stint, this time on a regular basis as Lee Posner. He made his first appearance in April and departed in October of that year. In 2022, he appeared as Mr Webster in the BBC series Rebel Cheer Squad,[13] followed by an appearance in an episode of the ITV drama Vera as Adam Michaels in 2023.[14]
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