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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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Saeed Saleh
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One of the most famous comedy stars in the history of Egyptian cinema and theater, he was born in Menoufia Governorate in 1938. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts at Cairo University in 1960. Hassan Youssef discovered him and introduced him to the theater, where he played in one of his first plays (Hello Shalaby). After that, he presented the play that was a huge success (The School of Rioters), which was shown for 6 years. That was followed by the play (No Longer Kids) with the same crew, which many believe exceeded the success of its predecessor. Saeed Saleh practiced singing and composing in some plays, and starred in many films and tv shows. He is considered a companion of the actor Adel Imam, as he participated in most of his works. One of the things that he is most famous for on stage is his deviation from the script often. He passed away on August 1, 2014 after a long illness.
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Ahmed Khalil
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Ahmad Muhammad Ibraheem Khaleel joined “Al-habeeb” Institute after finishing his studies at the High Institute of Cinema in 1965.
Played stage roles like ”Khaadem sayyedayn i.e. A servant for two masters”, “Yasseen we Baheyya i.e. Yasseen and Baheyya” and “Hobb taht al-heraassa i.e. An under guard love”.
In 1970’s, Khaleel travelled to a Gulf country and did not show as an actor then returned heavily to TV in “Yamout al-zammar i.e. Piper dies”, “Hadeeth al-sabaah wal-massaa i.e. Morning and night talk”, “Zaman Alaa al-Deen i.e. The time of Alaa al-Deen”, “Bawwaabet al-Halawaany i.e. Halawaany’s gate” and “Al-forsaan i.e. The knights”.
Participated in Haany Lasheen’s film “Al-aragoz i.e. The puppeteer” along with superstar Omar Sharif and among his important roles in cinema; Shaady Abdul Salaam’s “Al-momiaa i.e. The mummy”, Aatef al-Tayyeb’s “Katibat al-e’daam i.e. Execution troop” & “Dedd al-hokouma i.e. Anti-government” and Muhammad Faadel’s “Naaser 56” and “Kawkab al-shark i.e. Orient Star”.
Ahmad Khaleel played different successful roles in TV yet he did not make the same success in cinema.
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Vic Morrow
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Victor "Vic" Morrow (February 14, 1929 – July 23, 1982) was an American actor, whose credits include a starring role in the 1960s TV series Combat!, prominent roles in a handful of other television and cinema dramas, and numerous guest roles on television. He and two children died when a stunt helicopter crashed on them during the filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie. He was married to screenwriter and actress Barbara Turner from 1957 - 1964, with whom he had two daughters, including actress Jennifer Jason Leigh.
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Friedrich Torberg
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Friedrich Torberg (16 September 1908, Vienna, Alsergrund – 10 November 1979, Vienna) is the pen-name of Friedrich Kantor, an Austrian writer. He worked as a critic and journalist in Vienna and Prague until 1938, when his Jewish heritage compelled him to emigrate to France and, later, after being invited by the New York PEN-Club as one of "Ten outstanding German Anti-Nazi-Writers" (along with Heinrich Mann, Franz Werfel, Alfred Döblin, Leonhard Frank, Alfred Polgar, and others) to the United States, where he worked as a scriptwriter in Hollywood and then for Time magazine in New York City. In 1951 he returned to Vienna, where he remained for the rest of his life.
Torberg is known best for his satirical writings in fiction and nonfiction, as well as his translations into German of the stories of Ephraim Kishon, which remain the standard German language version of Kishon's work.
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John Aboud
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John Aboud III (born March 7, 1973) is an American screenwriter, producer, comedian, and former journalist. He was an editor of the Harvard Lampoon and served as president in 1994 and graduated from Harvard University in 1995. Aboud worked as a freelance writer for magazines and websites. In 1996, he was among the first copywriters at Grey Advertising's online department, where he won a One Show Interactive Merit award. He wrote for Mother Jones, Wired, GQ, and TV Guide.
Before moving to Los Angeles, fellow writer Michael Colton and Aboud founded and ran Modern Humorist (2000-2003), an award-winning online magazine and comedy collective based in Brooklyn. In addition to a daily magazine, Modern Humorist published three books with Crown Publishing, including the best-selling My First Presidentiary: A Scrapbook by George W. Bush. Modern Humorist also helped develop ad campaigns for Microsoft, Time Warner Cable and Amazon.
For most of the ’00s, Colton and Aboud appeared regularly as panelists on Best Week Ever and other VH1 shows. They also appeared on I Love the 70s/80s/90s/00s etc. They have been panelists, separately and together, on CNN, Fox News, ABC News, CMT, NPR, The Today Show, and the DVD releases of Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place.
During the Writers Guild of America strike of 2007-8, Colton and Aboud created AMPTP.com, a parody of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers' official website, AMPTP.org.
He is half of the writing and production team Colton & Aboud; their production cards are designed like record album covers and can also be seen on their website.
They were executive producers on the HBO Max show Close Enough for seasons two and three. We wrote for Comedy Central’s The Fake News with Ted Nelms, which won a 2019 Writers Guild Award for Best Variety Special. Other credits include the DreamWorks Animation film Penguins of Madagascar; TNT’s Leverage; Adult Swim’s Childrens Hospital and Newsreaders; and Fox’s animated shows Allen Gregory and Sit Down Shut Up.
Colton and Aboud wrote and produced A Futile and Stupid Gesture, a biopic about Doug Kenney and the origins of the National Lampoon. They wrote and produced an animated Zoolander series that’s streaming on Paramount+; co-wrote the film The Comebacks; and have written pilots and specials for ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, Comedy Central, TBS, VH1 and Adult Swim. Their writing has also appeared in Esquire, Cosmopolitan, Fortune, New York and Time.
They are the creators and showrunners of ABC’s Home Economics which debuted in April 2021.
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Amal Dabbas
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Born in Amman, she was born to a Jordanian family from the city of Salt whose parents encouraged her to enter art and opposed her cousins. [2] She started with the Jordanian Radio Children's Choir, and she is in the basic stage, she worked for several years in radio dramas and almost thirty radio dramas. She began acting in 1979 and performed in the theater with the participation of Hisham Yans and Nabil Sawalha in a performance entitled "A New World Order". "I discovered that I was able to make people laugh through situation comedy, and I was delighted to be able to put a smile on other people's faces," she says.
Her actual breakthrough came through cartoons, where she dubbed multiple characters, most notably the character of «Cedric», the brave boy knight, achieved her fame through the famous educational program Al-Manahil, which constituted her first meeting with her partner, the famous comedy star Hisham Yans, with whom she presented many theatrical works and participated in many series, programs and festivals of several festivals, including the Jerash Festival, the Carthage Festival, the Baghdad Festival, the Qatar Festival, and the Gulf Festival, [3]
She was absent from the theater for about twenty months, after the trio disintegrated with the withdrawal of Nabil and Hisham's illness after a career of fifteen years, to return with a trial
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John Westbrook
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John Westbrook (1 November 1922 - 16 June 1989) was an English actor.
Born in Teignmouth, Devon, John Westbrook worked mainly in theatre and in radio. He also made occasional film and television appearances. His most famous role was as Christopher Gough in Roger Corman's The Tomb of Ligeia. Noted for his deep, mellifluous voice, he also recorded radio plays and audio books, and provided the role of Treebeard in the 1978 animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. Westbrook also recorded the spoken vocal parts for the orchestral pieces An Oxford Elegy by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Morning Heroes by Arthur Bliss.
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Catalina Sandino Moreno
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Catalina Sandino Moreno (born 19 April 1981) is a Colombian actress. She is most notable for receiving the Academy Award for Best Actress nomination and sharing the Silver Bear with Charlize Theron for her performance as the lead role in Maria Full of Grace (2004).
Other credits include Fast Food Nation (2006), Love in the Time of Cholera (2007), Che (2008), The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010), Roa (2013), A Most Violent Year (2014), Falling Skies (2014), American Gothic (2016), Custody (2016), The Affair (2015–2019), The Quarry (2020, Barbarians (2021), From (2022), Silent Night (2023), and Ballerina (2024).
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Amber Rivera
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Amber Rivera was born on August 26, 1983 in Tampa, Florida to Edith Morales and Martin Rivera, both from Bayamón, Puerto Rico. She grew up between Florida and Puerto Rico where at a young age she began performing in local stage productions, dance recitals, and commercials. At the age of 13 she competed in the Miss Pre-Teen Florida Pageant and won Miss Photogenic. At 15, Amber represented Puerto Rico at the IMTA competition in New York and was scouted by several talent and modeling agencies from Tokyo, Milan and Los Angeles; she ultimately did not accept any of the contracts as she opted to finish high school. That same year she filmed her first commercial and began studying voice at the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico. In 2003, Amber was named "La Cara de Avon" (The Face of Avon) by Caras Magazine in Puerto Rico. Amber would go on to study drama at The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City and Improv at The Groundlings in Los Angeles. Amber can be seen in Plane (Lionsgate), starring Gerard Butler, as well as in NBC Peacock's The Resort. She has worked alongside Keaunu Reeves in Replicas (Lionsgate) and Martin Freeman in Start Up (Crackle). Amber starred in the short film Esta es Tu Cuba by award-winning up-and-coming director, Brian Robau, which received numerous accolades including a Student Academy Award, Cine Odessey's Best Actress Award, Cannes American Film Pavilion Award and the HBO Ibero-American Short Film Award. Other credits include The Baker and The Beauty (ABC), The Oath (Crackle), Driven (Universal Pictures), and Speed Kills (Saban Films).
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