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Severn Darden
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Severn Teakle Darden Jr. (November 9, 1929 – May 27, 1995) was an American comedian and actor, and a founding member of The Second City Chicago-based comedy troupe as well as its predecessor, the Compass Players. He is known from his film appearances for playing the human leader Kolp in the fourth and fifth Planet of the Apes films. His live comedy improv skit under the character of "Walther von der Vogelweide" was influential with two generations of comic performers.
Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, he attended the University of Chicago, where he was a "campus legend" according to poet Paul Carroll. Darden’s offbeat and intellectual sense of humor was a major element in the style of The Second City at that time, and is evident throughout his work. Carroll described him as a combination of surrealistic New Orleans and tough, caustic "Chicago Style" comedy. An example of his offbeat humor is the way he squeezed the phrase "Know thyself" into the seven-character limitation of a New Mexico license plate: NOYOSEF.
Darden was a core comedian in Paul Sills' Compass Players, the first improvisation theater in the US; it performed around the Chicago area during the mid-1950s. Sills went on to found The Second City in 1959 and brought in many of the comedians from Compass Players, including Darden.
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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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Bryan Jordan
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Bryan Jordan is an Actor residing in the beautiful city of Los Angeles, in Southern California.
Born in Pasadena, California. Bryan got his start in life as a Soccer Player. Growing up watching the Los Angeles Galaxy soccer team play at the Rose Bowl, right in his very own backyard. Years later, after becoming a professional soccer player, his lifelong dream of playing for the Los Angeles Galaxy would come true. When the Galaxy bought him from the Portland Timbers in March of 2008. He would go on to win 2 MLS Cup Championships back to back (2011, 2012) in his 5 years with the Club, 3 Western Conference Championships, and take home the supporters shield 2 years in a row (2010, 2011). Playing alongside the likes of David Beckham, Landon Donovan, & Robbie Keane. He also had the great honor of representing the USA's Men's National Soccer Team as he played for the U-23 Team in the Toulon International Tournament in France, along with living and playing in Germany.
His soccer career has taken him all over the world and introduced him to many amazing people. During his time in LA, with the entertainment industry right around the corner he would eventually met and befriend Liz Hernandez who would give him a push towards looking into the industry. In 2010 while the Major League Soccer Union was thinking of going on strike he started to learn the craft of acting and had a few short stints in the entertainment industry. Eventually, leading to a Nickelodeon TV Show, _Figure It Out_ in 2012 but ultimately he would decide to continue to focus on soccer. After getting back from playing in Germany in 2014 his talents and likeness would re-introduce him to acting where he is also making strides for success. Upon being home he would also get back into classes with working actress/acting coach Sara Mornell.
In 2015, he was cast in his first Feature Film Quarries (2016), where he would make his debut playing the role of 'Wilson'. He also became a season regular in a new media TV series #TheAssignment (2013) - Season 2. Where you can watch him in three hilarious episodes. He also made quite a few more appearances in the new media scene. And when you combine his acting talents along with his look, and athletic prowess he's an absolute no-brainer when it comes to commercial spots and branding.
A humble and hard working guy Bryan Jordan continues to bring his athlete's mentality of hard work and dedication to his craft of acting.
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Rory Scovel
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Rory J. Scovel is an American comedian, actor, and writer. He released his first stand-up comedy album Dilation in 2011. He has since released the stand-up specials The Charleston Special (2015), Rory Scovel Tries Stand-Up for the First Time (2017), Live Without Fear (2021), and Religion, Sex, and a Few Things in Between (2024).
As an actor, he began his career as part of the main cast on the sitcoms Ground Floor (2013–2015) and Those Who Can't (2016–2019), co-starred in the romantic comedy film I Feel Pretty (2018), and also appeared in and wrote for the comedy series The Eric Andre Show (2012–2016). In the 2020s, he created and starred in his Comedy Central series Robbie (2020) and starred in the Apple TV+ series Physical (2021–2023).
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Bonita Granville
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Daughter of Bernard 'Bunny' Granville and Rosina Timponi, Bonita Granville was born into an acting family on 2 Febuary 1923, in New York, New York. It's not surprising that she herself became a child actor, first on the stage and, at the age of 9, debuting in movies in Westward Passage (1932). She was regularly cast as a naughty little girl, as in These Three (1936) where she played Mary, an obnoxious girl spreading lies about her teachers. Her performance left an impression on the audience, and she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress award.
In 1938-39 came the movies she is now best remembered for -- playing the bright and feisty detective/reporter Nancy Drew in the Nancy Drew series. She also appeared with Mickey Rooney in a few Andy Hardy movies. She never really had a movie breakthrough, and after marrying oil millionaire and later producer Jack Wrather, she retired from acting in the middle of the 1950s, although she went on to produce the Lassie (1954) TV series.
After her marriage to oil millionaire Jack Wrather in 1947, she appeared in only three more movies. She became an executive in the Wrather Corp., and first associate producer, then executive producer of the Lassie (1954) TV series. After Wrather's death in 1984, she took over as chairman of the board. She was also involved in many civic and cultural groups, and she was chair of American Film Institute, trustee of John F. Kennedy Center, as well as other well known organizations and charities.
Walt Disney personally convinced the Wrathers to build the Disneyland Hotel when Disney could not raise the money to do so -- his credit was all tied up in building the theme park itself. After the phenomenal success of Disneyland, Disney attempted to buy the hotel; but the Wrathers steadfastly refused to sell. Long after Jack and Bonita Wrather's and Walt Disney's deaths, the Disney Company bought the Wrather Corporation. The Disney Company thus acquired the Disneyland Hotel, the Queen Mary and Spruce Goose attractions in Long Beach, California, the rights to The Lone Ranger (1949) TV series, as well as other properties.
Bonita Granville Rather died of cancer on 11 October 1988, in Santa Monica, California. She and Wrather had four children (two from Wrather's first marriage).
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Jon Hamm
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Jonathan Daniel Hamm (born March 10, 1971) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Don Draper in the period drama series Mad Men (2007–2015), for which he won numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards.
Hamm also acted in lead roles in the films Stolen (2010), Million Dollar Arm (2014), Keeping Up with the Joneses (2016), Beirut (2018), and Confess, Fletch (2022), as well as his supporting roles in The Town (2010), Sucker Punch (2011), Bridesmaids (2011), Baby Driver (2017), Tag (2018), Bad Times at the El Royale (2018), The Report (2019), Richard Jewell (2019), No Sudden Move (2021), and Top Gun: Maverick (2022). He also provided voice acting roles in the animated films Shrek Forever After (2010), Minions (2015), and Transformers One (2024).
He has appeared in the Sky Arts series A Young Doctor's Notebook, the Channel 4 dystopian anthology series Black Mirror, the Amazon Prime fantasy series Good Omens, the FX superhero series Legion (2018), and the FX crime anthology series Fargo. He was Emmy-nominated for his roles in 30 Rock, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and The Morning Show. He has also acted in Parks and Recreation and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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Jazzmun
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Originally from San Diego, California, Jazzmun made her first national television appearance on the 1980s talent variety show Puttin' on the Hits (1984), in which she split her body half in male drag and half in female drag, lip-synching as a "duet". Finding work immediately after that appearance for her theatrical and modeling talents, she moved to Los Angeles and secured an agent. Since then Jazzmun has performed all over the world as her stage character "Jazzmun", her trademark "Whitney Houston", "Grace Jones", or any number of other characters. Drag icon RuPaul hired Jazzmun to perform in his music video "A Little Bit Of Love", which spoofed drag queens as aliens out to conquer the world. Jazzmun has proven to be a consummate performer and, when not appearing on television or stage, can be seen in a variety of Los Angeles nightclubs promoting her talents in a variety of ways.
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Nora Ephron
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Nora Ephron (born May 19, 1941 – June 26, 2012) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, novelist, journalist, author, and blogger.
She was best known for her romantic comedies and was a triple nominee for the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay; for Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally... and Sleepless in Seattle. She sometimes wrote with her sister Delia Ephron. Her final film was Julie & Julia.
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Adi Jahić
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Adi Jahić, the son of Bosnian refugees, is a filmmaker known for ‘Things We Like’, which won awards at several film festivals and played in several theaters in the US and abroad. His work has been praised by the likes of Andrew Bujalski, Frank V. Ross, Michael Glover Smith, and more, calling him one of today’s exciting young filmmakers. As put by critics Brett Wright, Adi "focuses on the small details: tuning in to the tics and the hesitations, and what lurks beneath the characters' stammers and 'neverminds,'" and "shows an ambition to explore messy emotions while refusing to define his characters in any narrow fashion and accepts them, foibles and all." He believes that art isn't replication of the world but transformation of it. Thus, he strives not to replicate the world but rather to express the intricacies of the world in a thoughtful manner and with a careful, dedicated eye.
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David Lama
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David Lama Portillo, born December 23, 1923, in Mexico City, and died of lung cancer on May 5, 1985, is a Mexican singer and composer. He is the son of a singer of the same name, David Lama.
David Lama Jr. composed songs such as "Beso chiquito," "Quédate," "Regalo de reyes," and the Spanish lyrics for "Candilejas." He began singing in 1947, performing songs by Rafael Hernández Marín. David Lama premiered the bolero "Yo vivo mi vida" by Federico Baena. For a time, he was part of Agustín Lara's orchestra as a singer, gaining great popularity during the 1950s. He also sang with Antonio Escobar's orchestra. On an artistic tour of Cuba, he recorded traditional songs such as "Quiéreme mucho" and "Tu qué has hizo" by renowned composers Gonzalo Roig and Eusebio Delfín, respectively.
In their book "My Girlfriend, Sadness," Guadalupe Loaeza and Pavel Granados point out that David Lama was a fleeting interpreter of Agustín Lara's work, and it was he who premiered the song "Luna, Luna, Luna" for him in 1954, which Linda Arce later also recorded. David Lama lived for some time in the city of Chilpancingo, Guerrero, and even regularly performed on radio station XELI back in the 1960s. Lama composed the song "Quédate," which was performed and recorded by "Los Santos," a trio from Guerrero.
We also remember him for his musical contributions to films such as "The Automata of Death" (1962), "Dynamite Kid" (1962), "Neutrón, the Black Masked Man" (1960)," and "The Mummies of Guanajuato" (1972).
David Lama Portillo died of lung cancer on May 5, 1985.
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