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Akiho Yoshizawa
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Akiho Yoshizawa (吉沢明歩), often known simply as Acky (あっきー), is a Japanese former adult video actress (AV), who also appeared in pink film and mainstream (non-erotic) film, as well as television. With a career spanning over more than 15 years and over 1000 adult film appearances, Yoshizawa was widely renowned as one of the most famous and recognizable faces in Japanese adult entertainment, with an appeal that managed to cross over into mainstream entertainment as well. She started her AV career in 2003 with the companies Alice Japan and Max-A, and in 2007 she transitioned to studios Maxing and S1 No. 1 Style appearing alongside with other famous AV actresses like Yuma Asami, Mihiro, Sola Aoi or Megu Fujiura. She was also a member of the idol group Ebisu Muscats between 2008 and 2013. Yoshizawa announced her retirement from AV in late 2018, and her final adult films were released in March 2019.
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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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Léonide Moguy
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Léonide Moguy (14 July 1899 – 21 April 1976) was a Ukrainian, French and Italian film director, screenwriter and film editor.
Moguy was born Leonid Mohylevskyi (Леонід Могилевський) in Odesa, Russian Empire in 1899 in a Jewish family. He lived in Soviet Ukraine until 1929, in the United States in the 1940s, and in Italy from 1949 until his death. He was active in film between 1927 and 1961. His work has influenced American director Quentin Tarantino, who discovered him while writing the script for Inglourious Basterds, and named a character after him in Django Unchained.
Mohylevskyi was born in Odesa in a family of a merchandise worker. During World War I, he was a soldier of the 51st Lithuanian infantry regiment of the Imperial Russian Army in Simferopol. After the war, he was a medical student and worked part-time at the film studio of Dmytro Kharytonov who came from Moscow to Odesa.
Mohylevskyi did not become a doctor, however, graduating from Odesa Institute of National Economy in 1924, he became a lawyer. Soon, he was invited to work as a VUFKU legal advisor at Odesa Film Studio. Mohylevskyi showed interest not only in the letter of the law, but also in laws and principles of film editing as he assisted the director Mykola Saltykov.
In 1927, Mohylevskyi was the head of the Newsreel Department VUFKU, was a colleague of Dziga Vertov and Mikhail Kaufman. Together with Oleksandr Dovzhenko he initiated the creation of the first library of Ukrainian films. The department headed by Mohylevskyi began to issue Kinotyzhden, and later, Kinozhurnal VUFKU, a collection of fresh newsreels, “timely and urgent,” that became nearly the only source of news at that time.
Then, Mohylevskyi made two mashup films, How It Was (1927) and Documents of the Era (1928), in collaboration with the director Ya. Habovych. The latter was the most popular VUFKU mashup film based on 150,000 meters of newsreels dating back to 1917-1922.
Leonid Mohylevskyi used archive materials (“some positive fragments” and pre-revolutionary “rubbish”) stored in VUFKU archives or bought from other film studios or private persons as the basis for his film.
An active member of the society Friends of Soviet Cinema, Mohylevskyi edited 16 short films for them, such as Now! and Peak ticket (Піковий квиток) filmed by amateur Experimental Film Studio headed by Hlib Zatvornytskyi.
He moved to France and developed a reputation as a "play doctor" of films. He started directing and had a hit with 40 Little Mothers.
Moguy moved to Hollywood in 1940. He made the film The Night is Ending (1943) at 20th Century Fox. He stayed at Fox to make Paris After Dark then went to RKO to make Action in Arabia.
He was meant to follow Action in Arabia with Experiment Perilous with Paul Henreid at RKO but the film was not made. Instead he made Whistle Stop for United Artists.
"I didn't do the pictures I wanted to", he later said of this time.
Moguy returned to France where he made Bethsabee (1947). In 1947 he announced he would direct the first Belgian-Hollywood co production, New York's Origin, a story of the Belgian refugees who established New York. The film was not made. ...
Source: Article "Léonide Moguy" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Roland Winters
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Roland Winters (born Roland Winternitz) was an American actor who played many character parts in films and television but today is best remembered for portraying Charlie Chan in six films in the late 1940s.
Monogram Pictures eventually selected Winters to replace Sidney Toler in the Charlie Chan film series. Winters was 44 when he made the first of his six Chan films, The Chinese Ring in 1947 and ending with Charlie Chan and the Sky Dragon (also known as Sky Dragon) in 1949. His other Chan films were "Docks of New Orleans", "Shanghai Chest", "The Golden Eye" and "The Feathered Serpent". He also had character roles in three other feature films while he worked on the Chan series.
Yunte Huang, in Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History, noted differences in the actors' appearances, especially that Winters' "tall nose simply could not be made to look Chinese." Huang also cited the actor's age, writing, "at the age of forty-four, he also looked too young to resemble a seasoned Chinese sage."
In contrast to Huang, Ken Hanke wrote in his book, Charlie Chan at the Movies: History, Filmography, and Criticism, "Roland Winters has never received his due ... Winters brought with him a badly needed breath of fresh air to the series." He cited "the richness of the approach and the verve with which the series was being tackled" during the Winters era." Similarly, Howard M. Berlin, in his book, Charlie Chan's Words of Wisdom, commented that "Winters brought a much needed breath of fresh air to the flagging film series with his self-mocking, semi-satirical interpretation of Charlie, which is very close to the Charlie Chan in Biggers' novels."
After the series finished, Winters continued to work in film and television until 1982. He was in the movies So Big and Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff, played Elvis' father in Blue Hawaii and a judge in the Elvis film Follow That Dream. He made appearances as the boss on the early TV series Meet Millie as the boss and the courtroom drama Perry Mason. In one episode of the Bewitched TV series, he played the normally unseen McMann of McMann and Tate. He also portrayed Mr. Gimbel in Miracle on 34th Street in 1973.
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Naicho Petrov
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Naicho Petrov was born on October 17, 1920 in the village Djinchovtsi, Bulgaria . He did not complete secondary education, but visited theater courses in Varna in 1946 and Sofia in 1949. In 1939, he debuted as an actor on the stage of the Plovdiv Municipal Theatre , in which he played in 1939 - 1941, 1945 - 1954 and 1957 - 1960. He has worked consistently in Varna Drama Theater , "Boyana" Film Studios, National Theatre "Ivan Vazov" , Youth Theatre , Kardzhali Drama Theater . Naicho Petrov has many roles in the theater, the most significant are: Margalaka in "Gerac Family" by Elin Pelin; Maslarski in "Millionaire" by Yordan Yovkov; Zhelyu in "Vampire" by Anton Strashimirov; Waller in "Tartuffe" by Moliere; Frank in "The profession of Mrs. Warren" by George Bernard Shaw; Malvolio in "Twelfth Night" by William Shakespeare. He debuted in cinema in 1957 in the film "Earth". He has taken participation in more than 100 movies. His characters - Captain Stanev in "On the Small Island"; an ordinary policeman; a district chief, an agent, a general, a Gypsy, a black market swindler, a firefighter, a barber, a waiter, a mayor and Salvador Allende - all carry a bit of his insight on the wealth of human emotions. He died on January 20, 2016 in Sofia.
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Mounir ElTony
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Mounir ElTony (منير التوني) was an Egyptian actor and director. Born on February 21, 1935, he attended the Khedivial School in Cairo before pursuing a degree in Law. His artistic journey began in 1960, initially as an actor in numerous productions. His foray into directing commenced in the theater scene in 1968, serving as an assistant director to Youssef Wahbi in the production of "La Dame aux Camélias." Throughout his career, he amassed a significant body of work, marking his legacy in the field.
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Nina Williams
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Nina Williams (born August 21, 1990) is an American professional rock climber based in Boulder, Colorado, known primarily for her practice of highball bouldering.
Nina Williams was born and raised in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. She began rock climbing in New Hampshire in 2002 after testing ballet, football and horseback riding. In 2017, Nina wrote a personal essay for Rock and Ice magazine. She talks about the events that occurred during her adolescence, in fact, she cheated by falsifying the results during a qualifying regional competition of the USA Climbing. This incident earned him a ban from competitions for the season. In 2016, she gave an interview to Chris Weidner in which she said that the high pressure she was under and the lack of self-confidence had pushed her to cheat. To return to competition, Nina had to find a new mental approach. She writes that rather than climbing for the approval of others, she “would climb because she loved it. »
In 2015, she climbed her first boulder rated 8B (V13) in Rocklands, South Africa while achieving the first female ascent of Ray of Light. Nina is known for her practice of highball bouldering, which consists of climbing very high blocks without a rope, thus combining the physical side of bouldering and the mental side of free soloing. In 2017, she made the first female ascent of Ambrosia at Buttermilks, which Climbing Magazine called "the hardest free solo ever by a woman". Nina also climbs two other difficult routes on the same boulder: Evilution Direct (8A) and Footprints (7C+). Achieving these three paths, allows her to complete what is called the "Grandpa Peabody Trifecta", she is the first woman to do so.
In February 2018, she made the fourth ascent (and first female) of Window Shopper 8A+ (V12) in Boulder, Colorado7. In March 2019, she made the seventh ascent (and first female) of Too Big to Flail 7C+ (V10), a highball of more than 15 meters at Buttermilks. She makes an appearance in the short film The High Road (2019), selected for the Banff Mountain Film Festival and shown on the Reelrock 14 film tour. The film focused on Nina's rope preparation in anticipation of climbing a highball. It ends with his ascent of Too Big to Flail 7C+ (V10), a highball over 15m at Buttermilks. In 2016, she released Final Frontier, a multi-pitch route rated 5.13b in Yosemite, as well as Father Time (5.13b) in 2018.
Notable climbs:
2015: Speed of Life V10, Farley, Massachusetts
2015: Footprints V9, Bishop, CA
2015: Ray of Light V13, Rocklands, South Africa — First female ascent
2016: Final Frontier 5.13b, Yosemite, CA10
2016: Evilution Direct V11, Bishop, California — First female ascent
2017: Ambrosia V11, Bishop, CA - First female ascent, first female to complete the Grandpa Peabody trifecta
2018: Father Time 5.13b, Yosemite, CA
2018: Window Shopper V12, Boulder, Colorado — First female ascent
2019: Too Big To Flail V10, Bishop, California — Seventh ascent, first female ascent
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Glen Cavender
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Glen Cavender (September 19, 1883 – February 9, 1962) was an American film actor. He appeared in 259 films between 1914 and 1949.
The Spanish–American War soldier was born in Tucson, Arizona, and died in Hollywood, California. He started his acting career in vaudeville shows. Cavender belonged to the original Keystone Cops and was a regular in numerous Mack Sennett comedies. He also worked as a director for three Mack Sennett films between 1914 and 1916. During the 1920s, Cavender worked for the film studios Educational and Christie and appeared in Buster Keaton's film classic The General (1926) as the antagonistic Union Captain Anderson. The advance of sound film in the late 1920s damaged his career and, formerly a well-known actor, Cavender only played minor roles until his retirement in 1949.
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Matt Lasky
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Matt was born in Waco, Texas and raised in the Oklahoma City area. His reckless teen years culminated with him spending his twentieth birthday in state prison over a series of group brawls. Exactly a year after his release, at the end a long day of high rise window washing, he found himself involved in a road rage incident in which his coworker was murdered directly in front of him. Matt then made his way to Hollywood where he graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and went on to be a member of their theater company ('06).. He supported his early years bouncing and working as an autism behavioral therapist. Matt rowed a boat from Monterey, CA to Oahu, HI over the summer of 2014 in 57 days 5 hours 45 minutes. Matt shares the world record with his 3 crew mates for the first ever mixed sex team of 4 to row across the Pacific ocean unsupported.
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Tony Leung Chiu-wai
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Tony Leung Chiu-Wai (Chinese: 梁朝偉, born 27 June 1962) is a Hong Kong actor and singer. He is considered one of Asia's most successful and internationally recognised actors and was named as "Small Tiger" among the Five Tiger Generals of TVB. He has won many international acting prizes, including the Cannes Film Festival award for Best Actor for his performance in Wong Kar-wai's film In the Mood for Love. Leung is widely considered the best native Hong Kong actor of his generation. He was named by CNN as one of "Asia's 25 Greatest Actors of All Time".
Leung is known for his collaborations with director Wong Kar-wai, with whom he has worked in seven films including Chungking Express (1994), Happy Together (1997), In the Mood for Love (2000), and The Grandmaster (2013). He also appeared in three Venice Film Festival Golden Lion-winning films, including A City of Sadness (1989), Cyclo (1995) and Lust, Caution (2007), directed by Ang Lee. Leung also stars in the Academy Award-nominated film Hero, and the box office hits Hard Boiled (1992) and Infernal Affairs (2002). Leung was cast as the Mandarin in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021).
Leung has a comprehensive set of awards that he has won in a career that began in the 1980s. For In the Mood for Love, Leung earned the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival. He is also a six-time winner at the Hong Kong Film Awards and three-time winner at the Golden Horse Film Awards, holding the record for most awards in the Best Actor category. The 2002 book East Asian Film Stars describes Leung as "undoubtedly one of the most successful and widely-acclaimed Hong Kong actors of his generation, with a broad and diverse filmography."
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