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Ravi Vallathol
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Ravi Vallathol ( 25 November 1952-25 April 2020) was a Malayalam actor, mainly noted for his acting in many famous serials, including the first serial in Malayalam. He was born as the son of famous Drama legend TN Gopinathan Nair and Soudamini. He was the nephew of the famous Malayalam poet Vallathol Narayana Menon. He has acted in more than 100 TV series and more than 50 Movies. He has written 25 short stories and a few plays. His play 'Revathikkoru Pavakkutty' was remade as a movie in the same name. He played some noted roles in famous Malayalam movies like Nee Varuvolam and Godfather.
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José Antonio Romero
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José Antonio Romero is a Spanish producer, director, and screenwriter with an extensive career across all areas of the film industry.
He began as a production assistant working with Luis García Berlanga, progressing through every level of the profession until he established his own production company, with which he made several notable films. These include Se buscan Fulmontis (1999), winner of the Audience Award at the Málaga Film Festival; Buñuel y la mesa del Rey Salomón (2001), directed by Carlos Saura and selected for the Cannes and San Sebastián Film Festivals; and La flaqueza del bolchevique (2003). The latter two were recognized with Goya Awards.
In 2019, he wrote and directed Flores en la basura (2019), a feature-length documentary nominated for eight Goya Awards and selected for the Málaga and San Sebastián Film Festivals.
In recent years, through his production company ChinaRioja, he has continued producing documentaries and is currently developing new television fiction series projects.
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Simon Gallup
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Simon Johnathon Gallup (born 1 June 1960) is an English musician and bassist with the alternative rock band The Cure. He is the second longest-serving member of the band after lead vocalist/guitarist Robert Smith.
Born in Duxhurst, Surrey, Simon's family moved to Horley in 1961 where he attended Horley Infants and Junior Schools until 1971, followed by Horley Comprehensive School (now Oakwood secondary school) to 1976. Between 1976 and 1978 he worked in a plastics factory and became the bass player for local punk band Lockjaw, who later evolved into the Magazine Spies (1979–1980), also known as the Mag/Spys. Lockjaw and the Mag/Spys played regular live shows with Easy Cure and later the Cure between 1977 and 1979, and after collaborating in the studio on the Cult Hero recording sessions in October 1979, both Gallup and keyboardist Matthieu Hartley left the Mag/Spys to join the Cure. Former Mag/Spys Gallup, Hartley and Stuart Curran later performed together under the name of the Cry and later Fools Dance during Gallup's hiatus from the Cure between 1982 and 1984.
Gallup first joined the Cure in 1979, replacing Michael Dempsey on bass guitar. He also has been credited for occasionally playing the keyboards, particularly after Matthieu Hartley's departure in 1980. He took over keyboard lines for many of the songs that Hartley played. Examples of songs he played keyboard on live include "At Night", "A Forest", "A Strange Day" and "Pornography". During "Cold" he multi-tasked playing bass guitar and bass pedals.
On the Swing Tour in 1996, he played twelve-string acoustic guitar on "This Is a Lie". On the Dream Tour in 2000 he played a Fender Bass VI on "There Is No If".
Gallup is also credited with singing lead vocals for a demo for "Violin Song". Gallup first performed on the Cure albums that make up "The Dark Trilogy": Seventeen Seconds, Faith, and Pornography.
During the Pornography Tour in 1982, a series of incidents prompted Gallup to leave the Cure, including an incident on 27 May 1982 after a live performance at Hall Tivoli, Strasbourg, France when he got into a fist fight with Robert Smith at a nightclub in Strasbourg reportedly over a bar tab.
Gallup has said that "I was about to leave when some guy came up and told me I hadn't paid for my drinks. He thought I was Robert. I was knackered but the bloke took me up to the bar and Robert appeared to see what was going on. I hit him, he responded and we had a fight". ...
Source: Article "Simon Gallup" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Ariel Martin
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Ariel Rebecca Martin (born November 22, 2000), known professionally as Baby Ariel, is an American social media personality known for her videos on the social media platform musical.ly (now known as TikTok). She was recognized as one of the most influential people on the Internet by Time magazine in 2017, and she was featured on Forbes 2017 list of top entertainment influencers.
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Churni Ganguly
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Churni Ganguly is an Indian TV and film actress who mainly works in Bengali cinema and TV series. The actress who spent most of her childhood in Kolkata started acting while she was studying at the Jadavpur University; she joined a local theater group and after gaining experience in acting, she later moved to Mumbai to pursue a full-time career in acting. She started her journey with her roles in TV serials like Debi, a Bengali series, Chhoti Si Asha and Umeed, Hindi series, which was aired on Zee TV. She got her first break on the silver screen in 2004 as she was roped in by spouse and director Kaushik Ganguly to play one of the lead roles in Waarish. After her debut, she eventually starred in films like Shunyo E Buke (2005), Sakaler Rang (2009), Laptop (2012), Shabdo (2013), Chaya O Chobi (2017), and Lokkhi Chhele (2022). Apart from acting, the actress has also directed a couple films titled Nirabshito (2014) and Tarikh (2019). Her 2023 release includes Ardhangini and Kaberi Antardhan.
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John Wells
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Wells started in cabaret at Oxford and began his television career as a writer on That Was The Week That Was, the 1960s weekly satire show that launched the careers of David Frost and Millicent Martin, among others, and also appeared in the television programme Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life, as well as in The Secret Policeman's Other Ball. Besides making cameo appearances in films such as Casino Royale (1967) and Rentadick (1972), television dramas like Casanova (1987), an episode of Lovejoy (1991) and comedy shows like Yes Minister, he also wrote television scripts and screenplays, such as Princess Caraboo (1994).
In 1971, with John Fortune, he published the comedy classic A Melon for Ecstasy, about a man who consummates his love affair with a tree. Wells played the headmaster of Thursgood's Preparatory School in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979).
Wells was one of the original contributors to the satirical magazine Private Eye and contributed to Mrs Wilson's Diary, the long-running spoof journal of the wife of Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
From 1979 he repeated that success with Dear Bill, a series of letters (co-written with Richard Ingrams) supposedly sent by Denis Thatcher, husband of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, to Bill Deedes. Wells developed the feature into a stage farce, Anyone for Denis?, first performed in 1981, in which he played Denis Thatcher. Co-starring Angela Thorne as Mrs. Thatcher, the play was a major West End hit, toured the UK and was adapted for television.He co-wrote Alice in Wonderland, a musical adaptation of Lewis Carrol’s novel with Carl Davis, which debuted at The Lyric Theatre in the West End, London.[3]
Wells also played Denis Thatcher in the Bond movie For Your Eyes Only (1981). In 1991, he and Thorne again played the Thatchers in Dunrulin, a one-off TV sitcom-like satirical look at the couple in retirement.[4] He also voiced Arnold the Elephant, Edward the Monkey and Bert in the children's TV series Charlie Chalk.
In 1988, Leonard Bernstein started working on a new version of his much-revised operetta Candide. The author of the original book, Hugh Wheeler, had died, and John Wells was asked to help revise the text.[5] The first production of this "final version", by Scottish Opera, was followed by a "final revised version" in 1989, performances of which have been released on CD and DVD. An insert in the DVD ("Bernstein and Voltaire"), written by Wells, explained what Bernstein had wanted in this final revised version.
Wells authored Rude Words in 1991, a history of the London Library, for the institution's 150th anniversary.
In 1997, Wells appeared in the BBC situation comedy Chalk as ineffectual headmaster Richard Nixon.[6] His fellow cast members do not recall him being ill on set, but he was too unwell to participate in the second series.[7]
Wells' last book, House of Lords, was a best-seller and published a year before his death in 1998. The book is a historical and humorous study of the British peerage system.
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Nance O'Neil
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Nance O'Neil, born Gertrude Lamson, was an American stage and screen actress. When she decided to become an actress, her religious father, George Lamson, an auctioneer, denounced his daughter in church for going on the stage and asked the congregation to pray for her. O'Neil's first performance in a professional production was in the role of a nun in Sarah at the Alcazar Theatre in San Francisco on October 16, 1893. At the height of her career, she was promoted on theatre bills and in period trade publications and newspapers as the "American Sarah Bernhardt".
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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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Nicholas Irons
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Nicholas Irons is a British actor and producer. He is mainly known for his roles in the movies like “The Madness of King George” (1994), “A Kid in Aladdin’s Palace”(1997), and ‘Backwaters’ (2006). He was born in 1970 in Hampshire, England, United Kinkdom. He trained at the Guildhall School. Nicholas Irons is known by his nickname, Nick. Many people think that Nicholas Irons and Jeremy Irons are related, this confusion was cleared by Nick’s college friend, he said that Nick was asked this question several times and Nick confirmed that there’s no family connection between him and Jeremy Irons. He acted in some TV series, Videos, a TV Series Documentary, and some TV Movies. Nick’s journey as an actor in TV movies started in 1997.
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Fritz Manes
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Fred George "Fritz" Manes was born on April 22, 1932 in Oakland, California. He met Clint Eastwood when both were attending Piedmont Junior High School. Manes served in the Marines during the Korean War and studied acting at the University of California, Los Angeles. He held a variety of jobs in radio and television before being hired by Clint Eastwood's production company, Malpaso, in 1973. During the 1970s and 1980s, Manes worked on a long list of Eastwood films as an associate producer, producer, or executive producer. He also occasionally played small roles or did stunt work. During the filming of Heartbreak Ridge, Manes and Eastwood had a falling out and Manes was unceremoniously fired from Malpaso. He later formed his own production company, Sundancer, and served on the California Film Commission.
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