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Haing S. Ngor
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Dr. Haing Somnang Ngor (March 22, 1940 – February 25, 1996) was a Cambodian-born American physician, actor, and author who is best known for winning the 1985 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his debut performance in the movie The Killing Fields, in which he portrayed Cambodian journalist and refugee Dith Pran. His mother was Khmer and his father was of Chinese descent. Ngor and Harold Russell are the only two non-professional actors to win an Academy Award in an acting category.
Ngor and his close friend Jack Ong established the Dr. Haing S. Ngor Foundation to assist in raising funds for Cambodian aid. As part of his humanitarian efforts, Ngor built an elementary school and operated a small sawmill that provided jobs and an income for local families.
On February 25, 1996, he was shot and killed outside his home in Chinatown, Los Angeles. Three alleged members of the "Oriental Lazy Boyz" street gang, who had prior arrests for snatching purses and jewelry, were charged with the murder. They were tried together in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, though their cases were heard by three separate juries. Prosecutors argued that they killed Ngor because, after handing over his gold Rolex watch willingly, he refused to give them a locket that contained a photo of his late wife, My-Huoy.
All of the defendants were found guilty on April 16, 1998, the same day Pol Pot's death was confirmed in Cambodia. Tak Sun Tan was sentenced to 56 years to life; Indra Lim to 26 years to life; and Jason Chan to life sentence without parole.
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Gérard Majax
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Maurice Faier, known as Gérard Majax (born 28 April 1943), is a French illusionist. He has appeared in many television programmes, magic demonstrations, and movies.
From 1987 until 2002 he, along with Jacques Théodor and Henri Broch of the Laboratoire de Zététique at the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, oversaw the International Zetetic Challenge.
During the 1990s, on a late-night television show hosted by Thierry Ardisson Majax gave a demonstration of the "rotating table" so-called supernatural phenomenon: a group of "randomly" selected people from the audience stood around a round table, put their hands on it, and the table went up and started rotating. Observation of a video recording made of this event showed that some participants had metal hacks hidden in the sleeves of their jackets. When the participants put the hands on the table, the hacks "pinched" the table underneath, allowing it to be lifted.
In 2000, he created The Hallucinoscope, a virtual reality system that works without electronics and gives the user the impression of walking above ground.
Source: Article "Gérard Majax" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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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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Paul Kandel
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Paul Kandel (born February 15, 1951 in Queens, New York, USA) is an American musical theatre actor and tenor singer best known for his only film role in Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) as the voice of Clopin. He also has appeared on Broadway a number of times, having appeared in Jesus Christ Superstar as King Herod, Titanic, The Who's Tommy, and The Visit. Kandel received a nomination for the 1993 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of Uncle Ernie in The Who's Tommy.
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Jessica Amlee
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Jessica Kelsey Amlee (born July 17, 1994) is a Canadian television and film actress known for playing Mallory on the television series Heartland.[2] She also appeared as Amy in the thriller-horror film Beneath and Jackie Sanders in Greenhouse Academy on Netflix.
After more than sixteen years in the industry Jessica has compiled an impressive list of professional credits. With over 50 commercials (Visa, Coca Cola, French's, Mattel, Hasbro, etc.) Jessica moved into TV (Dark Angel, Jeremiah, Smallville, Outer Limits etc.) and then into film (My Life Without Me, Juliana and the Medicine Fish, They, Beneath etc.).
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Matt Porter
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Matt Porter is a writer, director, and sometimes actor. He is the co-director/co-writer/co-star of the Webby Award-winning Comedy Central web series NEW TIMERS, and was featured as part of the "New Faces: Creators" category at the Just For Laughs comedy festival. Matt was the Field Director for The Chris Gethard Show on TruTV, and has written and directed content for Funny or Die, TBS, Adult Swim, MTV, Sony, and others. His web series Good Cop Great Cop, a collaboration with writer/cartoonist Charlie Hankin, has been screened at SXSW and was an official selection at the New York Television Festival. His narrative short films have screened at Tribeca, Santa Barbara, Palm Springs, Frameline, Hollyshorts, Short of the Week, and others. His short film DAMAGE won Best Narrative Short at the Riverrun International Film Festival in North Carolina, and his first feature film 5 DOCTORS, which he co-directed, co-wrote, and co-stars in, premiered at the Austin Film Festival in 2016 and was distributed by Gravitas Ventures. He is currently writing for Family Guy, as well as for an upcoming show for Peacock. He graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 2010.
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Luis Spota
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Luis Mario Cayetano Spota Saavedra Ruotti Castañares (13 July 1925, Mexico City — 20 January 1985) was a Mexican writer, journalist, boxing official and film director.
Although he never finished primary school, Spota became a highly successful author and journalist in his lifetime, appearing frequently on TV and radio. He was also a busy screenwriter for the Mexican film industry. He was a close friend of the Mexican president Miguel Aleman Valdes.
He was the first President of the World Boxing Council (WBC) (February 1963 - September 1968).
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John Seabrook
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John Seabrook is an American writer. He graduated from St. Andrew's School (DE) in 1976, Princeton University in 1981 and received an M.A. in English Literature from Oxford. He began his career writing about business and published in a wide variety of magazines and newspapers, including Harper's, Vanity Fair, GQ, The Nation, The Village Voice, and the Christian Science Monitor. To date, he has published four books besides contributing numerous articles to The New Yorker. A feature film based on his 2008 book Flash of Genius was released on October 3, 2008. His new book, The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory was published in October, 2015. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Seabrook, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Nic Prior
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Nic Prior is an actor and performance artist training in Los Angeles at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). They have been training since a young age and are passionate about all aspects of their diverse artistic practice.
Nic has experience in many different kinds of performance with training in contemporary/devised performance, Suzuki Actor Training, Viewpoints, Absurdist Theatre, Brecht's Epic Theatre, Shakespeare and Butoh. They are currently working towards obtaining their BFA in Acting at CalArts and will graduate in 2020.
Nic has been involved in many theatrical productions in Australia and the United States. Roles for Nic include Artist in Portrait of a Young Man (a one-person Butoh piece, dir. Coleman Grehan), The Players in Hamlet (dir. Scarlett Kim), Achilles in Our Iliad (dir. Jessica Hanna) and Boy in The Persistence of Men on Me (dir. Coleman Grehan), which earned them the award for Best New Talent at the 2016 Short+Sweet Festival Gala Finals in Brisbane, Australia. Nic also recently worked with internationally renown theatre troupe, Gob Squad, in their LA premiere of Creation (Pictures for Dorian) at REDCAT.
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Dudley Foster
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Dudley Foster is an American mechanical engineer and deep‑sea submersible pilot who became one of the longest‑serving pilots of the manned submersible DSV Alvin at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. A former U.S. Navy pilot with a degree in mechanical engineering from California State Polytechnic University, he joined WHOI in the early 1970s, trained to operate Alvin, and went on to lead hundreds of deep‑sea dives, contributing to major scientific discoveries including hydrothermal vents and undersea explorations like the wreck of the RMS Titanic. Foster also served as expedition leader, overseeing logistics and training for Alvin operations throughout his multi‑decade career.
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