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K.T. Stevens
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Stevens, born Gloria Wood, was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of film producer and director Sam Wood. She made her first film appearance when she was just two years old in her father's second silent film, Peck's Bad Boy.
As an adult, she changed her name to K. T. Stevens to distance herself from her father's fame. She initially called herself Katherine Stevens, which people often shorted to "Katie," leading to the final version with the initials "K.T."
Stevens appeared in a number of films in the 1940s and 1950s, including Kitty Foyle, (directed by her father) with Ginger Rogers, The Great Man's Lady with Barbara Stanwyck, Address Unknown, Port of New York with Yul Brynner, Harriet Craig with Joan Crawford and Vice Squad with Edward G. Robinson. She also appeared as Phyllis in the 1969 hit movie Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice. Her last film role before her death from lung cancer was in the 1994 Whoopi Goldberg film Corrina, Corrina.
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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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James Milord
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James Ricardo Milord is a Boston native and Haitian American actor. The Huntington: K-I-S-S-I-N-G, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Common Ground Revisited. Regional: King Hedley II (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); Paradise Blue, The Agitators, Cyrano (Gloucester Stage); Young Nerds of Color (Central Square Theater); Pipeline (WAM, Front Porch, Central Square Theater); A Christmas Carol (Underground Railway); The Handmaid’s Tale (Boston Lyric Opera); Anna Christie, Barbecue (Lyric Stage); Akeelah and the Bee (Wheelock Family Theatre); The Good Negro, Splendor, and The Brother/Sister Plays (Company One). Film: Salem’s Lot (Warner Bros. Pictures), Honest Thief (Solution Entertainment Group), Proud Mary (Screen Gems), The Brotherhood (Showtime), and a multitude of independent films.
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Bill Dean
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Bill Dean was a British actor who was born in Everton, Liverpool, Lancashire. He was born Patrick Anthony Connolly, but took his stage name in honour of Everton football legend William 'Dixie' Dean. After a atring of jobs, it was his work as a Lancashire club comedian that saw him spotted by Ken Loach who gave him his breakthrough role in his TV play The Golden Vision. Famous for his flat but penetrating Scouse tones, Dean went on to star as miserable pensioner Harry Cross in the long running Channel 4 soap Brookside from its inception in 1983 to 1990. He briefly returned to the series in 1999 for three episodes, when his character re-appeared in Brookside Close suffering from Alzheimer's disease and wrongly believing that he still lived there. The same character was the inspiration behind the 1980s group 'Jegsy Dodd and the sons of Harry Cross' who hailed from the Wirral and Dean himself appeared in the video of the Liverpudlian band The Farm's Groovy Train as Cross, who was a former train driver. He did of a heart attack aged 78 in 2000.
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Rebecca Lim
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Rebecca Lim is one of the most sought after actresses in Singapore. The former Miss Photogenic, and top five in the Miss Singapore Universe Pageant when she was 18, Rebecca has demonstrated her versatility and maturity as an actress in several prominent English and Chinese drama serials. Effectively bilingual, she has played a diverse range of characters, including trainee lawyer Wendy Lim on The Pupil, the highly-acclaimed legal drama that won her the Best Actress Award at the Asian Television Award in 2010. Rebecca's charming and intelligent disposition won her the hearts of many, as she was awarded the "Top 10 Most Popular Female Artiste" title for 7 consecutive years since 2012. In 2016, she was the first artiste from Singapore to be awarded the Asian Star Prize at the Seoul International Drama Award. Rebecca was back on Channel 5 with a highly acclaimed drama Missing in 2018. In April, she won her 2nd Best Actress in Star Awards 2018 for her role in The Lead which commemorate Mediacorp 25 years of producing Chinese Dramas. In November, the 10-episode The Bridge, an adaption of global phenomenon, also premiere in Viu & HBO Asia. Due to overwhelming response, the second season was shot end 2019 and telecast in June 2020. Rebecca's latest Chinese drama Jungle Survivor will be telecast in 4th quarter of 2020. An accomplished young actress with elegance, poise and musically talented to boot, she is in high demand for endorsements.
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Karen X. Gaylord
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She was born Karen Xandra Gaylord on January 4, 1921, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to a working class family (she was also the oldest sibling out of a family that had four children; all of which were girls). Her father was employed as an engineer with the Northern Pacific Railway. Following her 1939 graduation from North Community High School she had intentions of going to college to study music and art however a school friend of her's noticed an announcement in the then published magazine, Movie Mirror, saying that the studios in California were accepting photographs with names and addresses in order to help recruit 'fresh' faces for films. Unknown, to Karen, her friend mailed in her picture and not long after she recieved a letter informing her that she had been selected to come to California for screen testing.
Feeling this would be a good oppurtunity for herself, and the family, they all moved out to California and young Karen began floating around all of Tinsel Town's major studios doing several screen and wardrobe tests. In 1941, she made her film debut, uncredited, in The Chocolate Soldier with Nelson Eddy. Between 1941 and 1949, she appeared in approximatley 36 films and only recieved on screen billing once for her appearance in the 1944 Rita Hayworth feature Cover Girl.
Her other screen appearances included Miss Annie Rooney (1942), Thrill of a Romance (1945), Night in Paradise (1946), Three Little Girls in Blue (1946), Linda Be Good (1947), A Song is Born (1948), and The Girl from Jones Beach (1949). In 1942, the Chamber of Commerce of Minneapolis, Minnesota, selected Karen as they're 1942 'Miss Minnesota' and later covered the cost of her airfare and keep to have her return to her hometown to accept the award. Not long after this, film producer Samuel Goldwyn hand picked Karen to become one of his six new Goldywn Girls. She was also in high demand as a stand-in and stood in place for such leading ladies as Linda Darnell, Barbara Stanwyck, Laraine Day, Evelyn Keyes, Gene Tierney, and Jeanne Crain.
In 1949, she left the entertainment industry believing that she succeded in her spotlight time and moved to Clearwater, Florida, to finally begin her lifelong dream of teaching music and art. In 1950, she legally changed her name from Karen Xandra Gaylord to Jane Goerner and up until the 1990s she gave private lessons out of her suburban home. Afflicted with poor health in the last years of her life, she sold her home and moved to Ocala, Florida, to live with her sister and brother-in-law, where she later died in her sleep at the age of 93 on August 1, 2014. There were no funeral services or memorials, and her remains were donated to medical science via the body donation program at the College of Medicine at the University of Florida.
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Gustavo Sorola
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Gustavo Raul "Gus" Sorola IIIis best known for his role with Rooster Teeth and his part in Red vs. Blue as Simmons. Gus also stars in other productions by Rooster Teeth such as Immersion, host of Drunk Tank Podcasts, special appearances with Achievement Hunter, and the new game show The Gauntlet as coach of the Red Team. His team did superbly in the competition and ultimately failed in the end. Gus is not shy to pose naked in long-time friend and co-work Geoff Lazer Ramsey's home and has posed nude in several episodes. Gus is one of the technicians that keep Rooster Teeth running, with the help of others. Gus does not take personal days after vacations and enjoys buffalo chicken pizza when he is under the influence of twilight gas.
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Ray Bolger
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Ray Bolger began his career in vaudeville. He was half of a team called "Sanford and Bolger" and also did numerous Broadway shows on his own. He, like Gene Kelly, was a song-and-dance man as well as an actor. He was signed to a contract with MGM in 1936 and his first role was as himself in The Great Ziegfeld (1936). This was soon followed by a role opposite Eleanor Powell in Rosalie (1937). His first dancing and singing role was in Sweethearts (1938), where he did the "wooden shoes" number with red-headed soprano/actress Jeanette MacDonald. This got him noticed by MGM producers and resulted in his being cast in his most famous role, that of the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz (1939). Surprisingly, even though the film was a success, Bolger's contract with MGM ended. He went to RKO to make Four Jacks and a Jill (1942). After this, Bolger went to Broadway, where he received his greatest satisfaction. In 1953 he turned to television and got his own sitcom, Where's Raymond? (1953), later changed to "The Ray Bolger Show". After his series ended, Bolger made frequent guest appearances on TV and had some small roles in movies. In 1985 he co-hosted That's Dancing! (1985) with Liza Minnelli. Bolger died in 1987 at the age of 83. Interred at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California, USA, in the Mausoleum, Crypt F2, Block 35.
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Idzi Dutkiewicz
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He began his career more than 20 years ago. He is a dubbing actor, radio host and commercial host, in addition to collaborating with Grupo Radio Centro in Mexico City as host of the stations Alfa, Radio Red FM and Universal Stereo, as well as Exa FM on MVS Radio. As an institutional announcer, he has recorded for various brands, for example, he has been the institutional voice of Banco Santander, Cementos Apasco, Discovery Channel Latin America among others.
He is also recognized for being the actor who plays A.D. Núñez in the Once TV program Ciencia en evident, during the 15 episodes that were made; as well as in the program Fonda Susilla, on the same channel. He has lent his voice to dub characters; Among his best-known appearances are the voices of Robert Downey Jr. and Sam Worthington in several films, as well as Kowalski in Madagascar and Jake Sully in Avatar.
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John Sencio
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John Sencio is a producer,actor and journalist. He was a popular VJ on MTV for four years during the mid-1990s and interviewed hundreds of celebrities for MTV News. He hosted a number of shows on MTV including Rude Awakening, which aired music videos from 6 am to 7 am.
He hosted 5 seasons of Cash in the Attic and was anchor of the NBC Universal program Home Delivery. He also starred in The Army Show, a prime-time network sitcom produced by Castle Rock Entertainment for the Warner Brothers Network. He also had hosting stints on Simplify Your Life for the Fine Living Network, 48 Hour Wedding for PAX television network, and Movie Buzz for the Fox Entertainment Group. According to IMDb, he had bit parts in motion pictures as well.
He is a two-time cancer survivor and motivational speaker. He's known for directing the documentary THRYVOR, about cancer survival. He makes frequent national radio appearances covering a unique combination of current events, healthy living, and pop culture.
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