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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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Cheng Chu-Fung
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Cheng Chu-Fung (Chinese: 鄭恕峰) is a Hong Kong actor. His roles as vicious characters such as triad bosses have earned him the award of "King of Alternative Drama - King of Villains" in the variety show "Sunday King". In 2015 Cheng joined TVB as a basic artist in 2015, and before joining as a featured actor in TVB's dramas between 2010 and 2015. Cheng was born in Macau and had three siblings. At the age of 16, Cheng settled in Hong Kong completely for one year in order to obtain a Hong Kong Adult Identity Card. At that time, Cheng's father had planned to arrange for Zheng to work as a bookmaker in a casino but young Cheng prefer work as a clerk in Central. A few years later, he was introduced by a friend to work as a security guard at the Hyatt Regency Hong Kong in Tsim Sha Tsui. In 1976, he enrolled in the TVB Artist Training Course No. 5 and was accepted. However, he had to return to Macau to take care of his father, who was ill, and gave up the training. After graduating from the class in 1979, he became a contracted artist with Lai Television. In 1979, he signed up as a contract artiste with Lai's TV. His first TV drama was "The Day Silkworm" in 1979.
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Thomas Rosales Jr.
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Thomas Rosales Jr. (born 3 February 1948) is an American stunt man who has appeared in more than one hundred and fifty movies. His first known appearance as a stuntman was in Battle for the Planet of the Apes in 1973. Rosales is arguably one of Hollywood's most recognizable stunt performers due to speaking roles, including ones where a film's protagonist wounds or kills him. His filmography includes RoboCop 2, The Crow, Tremors 2: Aftershocks, Universal Soldier, Predator 2, L. A. Confidential, Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment, U. S. Marshals, Deep Impact, The Running Man, The Hunter, Beverly Hills Cop III, Jurassic Park: The Lost World, Speed, and NCIS.
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Joseph Culp
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Joseph Culp (born January 9, 1963) is an American actor and director. He is the son of actor Robert Culp and his second wife, Nancy Ashe. He received his acting training at HB Studio in New York City.
Culp appeared in a recurring role as Archie Whitman, the depression-era father of Jon Hamm's character Don Draper in the AMC series Mad Men. He was the first actor ever to play Doctor Doom in the first film version of Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four in the unreleased film, The Fantastic Four. He also narrated the film September 11—The New Pearl Harbour by Massimo Mazzucco.
Culp also featured in the neo-noir detective video game L.A. Noire as Walter Robbins in the homicide case "The Studio Secretary Murder".
He co-founded the Walking-In-Your-Shoes technique with Joseph Cogswell, a body-mind approach. In 1992, he and Cogswell founded the Walking Theatre Group, based in Los Angeles.
He is the uncle of American rapper Bones.
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Tifani Winkfield
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Tifani Winkfield, also known as Tifani Ahren Davis, is most well known for her award-winning performance in the psychological thriller indie series "Clever Girl" and her well received performance in the poignant film "75" depicting the current opioid crisis. Her portrayal of dark, daunting persona contrasts her genuinely sweet disposition.
She was born in Singapore and began acting at 15 in Oklahoma. In college she studied theater but graduated with a bachelors in International Relations with a focus in Middle Eastern studies. Following school, she was drawn to costume design but luck had other plans for her when she was pulled in front of the camera while on set. This indirect path brought her back to acting, allowing her to use her world experiences to further her depth for her character persona's.
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Jan Rubeš
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Jan Ladislav Rubeš CM (6 June 1920 – 29 June 2009) was a Czech-Canadian bass opera singer and actor. Born in Czechoslovakia, he graduated in 1945 from the Conservatory of Music in Prague. Rubes went on to join the Prague Opera House as their youngest basso singer. He also performed at the Pilsen Opera House in leading roles in his early years. By 1948, he was chosen to represent Czechoslovakia at the International Music Festival held in Geneva and won first prize in his category. He emigrated to Canada on New Year's Eve 1948 with hopes of creating a greater musical career. As a member of the Canadian Opera Company, he achieved recognition for his roles, as Boris in "Boris Godunov", Schigolch in "Lulu" and as Mephisto in "Faust". As well, he served as the company's director of touring and program development. Branching out into radio and, eventually, TV, he wrote and hosted from 1975-83 TVOntario's "Guess What?" and acted in many TV dramas, later receiving the Earle Grey Award for lifetime work in Canadian television.
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Emir Skalonja
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Emir Skalonja was born on august 30th, 1987, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (then Yugoslavia). He moved to United States in 2002. His first film was in 1992, titled Psalm where he played the main character, named Slavko. It was a short film based on a short story by Mikhaila Bulgakova, about a boy's relationship to his neighbor at the start of a war.
He started producing his own short films in 2012 and completed his first horror feature, Veronika, in 2014. He followed that with a short horror titled Man That You Fear.
He lives in Buffalo, New York, with his wife Nicole and their two dogs and two cats. He attended University at Buffalo.
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Ali Mosaffa
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Ali Mosaffa (علی مصفا) was born in Tehran, Iran. His father, Mozaher Mosaffa is a renowned Persian poet and professor of Persian literature at the University of Tehran (UT). Mosaffa mother, Amir Banoo Karimi is also a leading scholar and professor of Persian literature at the University of Tehran (UT) and the eldest daughter of the legendary Persian poet, Amiri Firuzkuhi. As a child, Ali Mosaffa discovered his interest in story writing and english, contributing to his fluency in the language. He is a graduate of Civil Engineering from the University of Tehran (UT) where he showed an interest in acting; making his debut in the 1991 film, Omid. Mosaffa went on to win the prize for best male actor the following year at the Fajr International Film Festival for his role in Darius Mehrjui's film, Pari. Mosaffa met his future wife, Iranian actress Leila Hatami on the set of Dariush Mehrjui's 1996 film, Leila. The two married in 1999 and have two children, a son named Mani (born February 2007) and a daughter named Asal (born October 2008). Ali Mosaffa is also known for The Mix, Pari, The Tower of Minoo, The Last Step, Beloved Sky, There Are Things You Don't Know, The Past, What's the Time in Your World, Death of the Fish, Duet.
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Yōko Tsukasa
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Yōko Aizawa (相澤 葉子, Aizawa Yōko, born August 20, 1934) is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best actress at the 17th Blue Ribbon Awards for Kinokawa. She is a professor at Tokyo University of Social Welfare and serves as the 2nd head of Nihon Taishōmura theme park.
Born as Yōko Shōji (庄司 葉子) in Tottori Prefecture, to a family of cotton merchants who had settled in Yumihama. Her family is a branch of the Shōji family, the landed magnate of Watari.
She married politician and attorney Hideyuki Aizawa. Their son Hiromitsu married singer and actress Shoko Aida. She's been awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon (2003) and the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (2010).
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Michel Galabru
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Michel Louis Edmond Galabru (27 October 1922 – 4 January 2016) was a French actor.
Galabru appeared in more than 250 films and worked with directors such as Bertrand Blier, Costa-Gavras, Luc Besson (for Subway), and Jean-Luc Godard.
He is also well known for his collaborations with Louis de Funès in Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez, Le gendarme se marie, Le gendarme et les extra-terrestres, Le gendarme en balade, Le gendarme à New York, Le gendarme et les gendarmettes, Le petit baigneur, L'avare, Jo (film) and Nous irons a Deauville (with Michel Serrault).
He worked with the actors Ugo Tognazzi and Michel Serrault in La Cage aux Folles, La Cage aux Folles II, and La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding; and Le viager.
Source: Article "Michel Galabru" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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