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Kim Bo-mi
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Kim Bo Mi is a South Korean actress. She was born in Suwon, South Korea, and began training as a ballerina at age 11, later going on to study dance at Seoul’s Sejong University. After appearing on a TV audition show, she caught the eye of drama producers and made her drama debut in “Painter of the Wind” (2008). She has gone on to feature in a number of drama series, including “My Husband, Mr. Oh!” (2018), “I Hate You Juliet” (2019), and “Dan, Only Love” (2019).
Kim is dating Ballet dancer Yoon Jeon Il who appeared on Mnet’s “Dancing 9” series. They have known each other since the late 2000s.
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Ismail Tara
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Ismail Tara (Urdu: اسماعیل تارا) is a Pakistani actor and comedian. He has worked in many stage plays, television and Lollywoodfilms. He is five times Nigar Awards winner for best comedian in Haathi Mere Saathi, Aakhri Mujra, Munda Bigra Jaye, Chief Sahiband Deewarein. He is well known for his best work in Fifty Fifty aired on PTV. Tara is working in the film and television industry from 1980s.He also has worked in stage plays and dramas.He wrote some scripts of the show Fifty Fifty along with Majid Jehangir.
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Bob Simmons
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Bob Simmons (Fulham, London, England, 31 March 1923 – 21 October 1987) was an English actor and stunt man who worked in many British-made films, most notably the James Bond series.
Simmons was a former Army Physical Training Instructor at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst who had initially planned to be an actor but thought a career in performing stunts would be more lucrative and interesting. Simmons first worked for Albert R. Broccoli and Irving Allen's Warwick Films on the film The Red Beret, which included future Bond film regulars director Terence Young, screenwriter Richard Maibaum and cameraman, later director of photography Ted Moore. Simmons later worked in many other Warwick Films and worked for Allen in his The Long Ships and Genghis Khan, where he had his eye injured when kicked by a horse.
When Albert R. Broccoli began to produce the James Bond films, Simmons tested as an actor for the Bond role, but until his death in 1987, he became the stunt coordinator for every Bond film except From Russia with Love, which he joined later in the production, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and The Man with the Golden Gun. He appeared in the gun barrel sequence for Sean Connery in three James Bond films: Dr. No, From Russia with Love, and Goldfinger. Simmons is the only person to officially perform the scene, while not starring in the main role of James Bond. Simmons was also Connery's stunt double. Simmons also had a role as SPECTRE agent Jacques Bouvar in the pre-title sequence of the fourth film, Thunderball.
Simmons developed a stunt technique involving trampolines, first used in You Only Live Twice, whereby stuntmen would bounce off a trampoline in concert with a triggered explosion so as to simulate being blown into the air. This was used in many other films, including by Simmons again in The Wild Geese, where Simmons also doubled for Richard Burton.
Upon retirement, Simmons wrote an autobiography entitled Nobody Does It Better titled after the theme song for the 1977 Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me. He died on 21 October 1987.
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Anny Rosario
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Anny Rosario is a multi cultural actress known for her portrayal of complex, fearless, and vivacious women. She was born in Dominican Republic and came to the US at the age of 9, and had a rich and dual upbringing that has given her a great perspective that she uses to build her characters. After spending most of her life in a little witch city called Salem, in MA, she finally made the leap to the City of Angels in 2012. Since then, she has forged a niche for herself playing strong women who aren't afraid of showing vulnerability.
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Bella Straughn
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Bella Straughn is a British director, writer and actress with a Barbadian heritage.
Bella Straughn is best known as a content creator known for Bella and the Boogeyman where she attempts to debunk paranormal stories. The online content and behind the scenes footage is compiled as her debut feature film exploring the toll the paranormal investigations has on Bella's psyche and the extremity caused.
Bella co-directed her first short film, the Method, in January 2025 and starred as the lead. She also helped develop a feature film, Method, that is in market. She has predominantly starred in short films (Frisson Between Us, How Are You?, Straight) with her first feature extra role in the film Grey Matter. Bella is the partner and co-founder of DBD Films, which is in development and pre-production on several films (Blue Calypso, Emerald House, Ouija, Safari, Copy That, Caveman, Apocalypse When, First Gen & Soggy Chips) and TV shows (Come Again, Rise, Museum and Old Tavern).
Bella Straughn attended Drama Studio London where she studied Professional Acting. She now dedicates herself to full-time directing, writing and acting where all her passions can be exercised to their fullest
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J.P. McGowan
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John Paterson McGowan (February 24, 1880 – March 26, 1952) was a pioneering Hollywood actor and director and occasionally a screenwriter and producer. J. P. McGowan, as he was usually known, remains the only Australian to have been made a life member of the Screen Directors Guild (now Directors Guild of America).
Born in the then-bustling railway centre of Terowie in South Australia, McGowan grew up in Adelaide (Islington) and Sydney. He was a capable horseman and served in the Second Boer War with Montmorency's Scouts as a special dispatch rider.
McGowan directed and often acted in the first 33 episodes of Kalem's 1914 adventure film series, The Hazards of Helen, which eventually ran to 54 episodes, some still with McGowan's participation. While filming he began a relationship with Helen Holmes, the film's star, and the two married. They left Kalem to set up their own production company, Signal Films, which successfully made a series of railroad melodramas but lost out when their distributor (Mutual) failed. The collaboration ended when they divorced in 1925. There was an adopted daughter, Kaye.
McGowan successfully made the transition from silent film to talkies. While never a major star, in a busy career that spanned four decades he is credited with acting in 232 films—mostly strong roles like sheriff or villain—writing 26 screenplays and directing 242 productions. In 1932 he directed a young John Wayne in the 12-episode rail vs airplane serial The Hurricane Express for the independent Mascot Pictures. From 1938 to 1951, as Executive Secretary of the Screen Directors Guild, he fought to secure recognition for the director within the studio systems of the film and emerging television industry.
J.P. McGowan died in 1952 in Hollywood and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
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Mario Fantin
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Mario Fantin (Bologna, 9 May 1921 – Bologna, 23 July 1980) was an Italian mountaineer and film director. Born to Friulian parents, he graduated in accounting in 1940.
In February 1941 he went into military service and took part in the fighting of the Second World War in Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro with the rank of second lieutenant. He returned to Italy at the end of 1944, severely affected by the immense tragedy of the "Division of Venice". At the end of 1946 he enrolled in the Bologna section of the Italian Alpine Club and, after taking a mountaineering course, he began to frequent the Alps, documenting his ascents with his camera: this would be the beginning of a long adventure as a mountaineer, photographer and filmmaker.
In the late 1940s he began his career as a nature documentary filmmaker. In 1954 he took part in the Italian expedition to conquer K2, led by Ardito Desio, as a photographer and director of photography to produce photographic and cinematographic documentation of the undertaking. He reached an altitude of about 6,000 metres. From the documentation collected with Achille Compagnoni, the director Marcello Baldi made the film Italia K2. During the expedition he also wrote the diary “K2 Sogno vivere”, published about three years later.
After returning from this undertaking, he devoted himself full-time to the mountains and ethnography: he took part in 33 extra-European expeditions, including 20 mountaineering expeditions, including in the Andes, the Sahara, equatorial Africa and Greenland; On these occasions he made 47 documentary films, with soundtracks in five languages, on the mountains and on the ethnography of the peoples and peoples he met during his travels. He also took several thousand photographs and published over 20 monographic works and a hundred publications on Italian mountaineering in the world, on the exploration and ethnography of all continents.
His passion for documentary led him in 1967 to found in Bologna the Centro Italiano Studio Documentazione Alpinismo Extraeuropeo (CISDAE), today based in Turin at the Italian Alpine Club, with the declared objective of "collecting, preserving, processing, enhancing, studying and publishing 'what refers to Italian mountaineering in the world and to foreign mountaineering'; it constitutes the most important Italian and world collection of documents on what has been achieved in the field of extra-European mountaineering. Using the vast archives of the CISDAE, which he continually fed with new documentation (at his death they contained tens of thousands of photographs, documents, data, maps, testimonies), Mario Fantin devoted himself to writing bibliographical works on Italian mountaineering in the world, on the mountains and glaciers of Africa and Greenland, on the indigenous populations of various parts of the world, etc. The Center was acquired in 1973 by the Italian Alpine Club, which left it under Fantin's management.
Tormented by personal and health problems, as well as by depression, Mario Fantin committed suicide on July 23, 1980.
After his death, the Bologna section of the CAI was dedicated to him.
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Dieter Augustin
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After high school, Augustin first did a commercial apprenticeship in Erlangen. He then completed an apprenticeship at the Film and Television University in Munich. He played on stages in Munich, Detmold and numerous touring theaters. In 1966 he made his film acting debut in a short film directed by Marran Gosov, under which he starred several more times. Augustin appeared in numerous light comedies such as Engelchen or Die Jungfrau von Bamberg (with Gila von Weitershausen) and Helgalein (alongside Anita Kupsch), often playing stiff and awkward characters. He became known to a wide audience in 1973 as a comedian in the comedy series Klimbim. In the first season of Michael Pfleghar's entertainment series, Augustin acted in various skits and disguises and as the father of the "Klimbim family". After a year Augustin left the production. In the years that followed, he played in Alfred Vohrer's adaptation of Erich Kästner's Three Men in the Snow, in Werner Herzog's Woyzeck adaptation (with Klaus Kinski in the title role), in the Gottschalk comedy Tender Chaos and made guest appearances in numerous television series such as Der Kommissar, Police Inspection 1, The Fast Gerdi and Claude Chabrol's Histoires Insolites. His final resting place is in Erlangen
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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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Vijay Raaz
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Vijay Raaz is an Indian film actor. His breakthrough hit came when he played the role of Dubeyji in the movie Monsoon Wedding. Since then, Raaz has been cast in small, often comedic roles, in many Hindi movies, often depicting the character of a common man.
Raaz was born and raised in Delhi where he attended Kirori Mal College. While at college he was a part of the dramatic society The Players. He also appeared in plays at the National School of Drama. He decided to focus on a film career and moved to Mumbai where he received a role in Ram Gopal Varma's Jungle. Naseeruddin Shah had seen him perform at the NSD and recommended him to Mahesh Mathai for Bhopal Express and to Mira Nair for Monsoon Wedding. After the success of Monsoon Wedding Raaz received many roles. His first mainstream film cast as the leading actor was Raghu Romeo, a box office success where Raaz depicts the life of a confused lower-class Indian fellow.
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