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Jang Ha-eun

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Jang Ha-eun is a South Korean musician and actress. She graduated at Korea National University of Arts with a major in classical guitar. She made her big screen debut as a lead actress in the music film Da Capo in 2020. In 2021, she participated as a classical guitarist in the JTBC audition program Super Band 2 and made it to the finals with her band POCO a POCO (later renamed POCO) which placed fifth overall. In 2022, she debuted as a theater actress in musical Love Trilogy and as a singer-songwriter with her first solo mini album Once Again.
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Qianying Li

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Li Qianying is an actress of Kunqu opera. She used to be named Li Lianzhu and Li Yongyin. At the age of nine, she entered the Chinese Opera Academy, where he studied art from Ruxiang, playing Huadan and Guimendan. Later, due to the disbandment of the theater school, she and his peers organized troupes to perform Peking Opera and modern dramas in Beijing and Tianjin. In 1949, she participated in the opera workshop sponsored by the Literature and Art Department of the Beijing Military Control Commission, and did publicity and performance work in the Federation of Literature and Art, and concurrently served as the deputy head of the Beijing Peking Opera Troupe.
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Robert Wahlberg

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Robert G. Wahlberg (born December 18, 1967) is an American actor who has appeared in films such as Southie, Mystic River, and The Departed. Born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, Robert is the older brother of actors/musicians Mark and Donnie Wahlberg. His mother, Alma Elaine (née Donnelly), was a bank clerk and nurse's aid, and his father, Donald Edmond Wahlberg, Sr., was a teamster who worked as a delivery driver; the two divorced in 1982. His father, a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War, died on February 14, 2008. His father was of Swedish and Irish descent, while his maternal ancestry is Irish, French Canadian, and English. Wahlberg has appeared in such films as Southie, Orphan, Scenes of the Crime, Moonlight Mile, Mystic River, The Departed, Gone Baby Gone, and Don McKay.
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Deborah L. Scott

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Deborah Lynn Scott (born 1954), also known as Deborah Scott, is a costume designer and set designer best known for her work in James Cameron's directorial venture Titanic, which won her the Academy Award for Best Costume Design. Her first movie as a costume designer was Don't Answer the Phone (1979). Some of her other movies are E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Back to the Future (1985), Legends of the Fall(1994), Wild Wild West (1999), The Patriot (2000), Transformers (2007), Avatar (2009), and Love & Other Drugs (2010). Description above from the Wikipedia article Deborah Lynn Scott, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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William Bowers

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William Bowers (Las Cruces, 1916 - Woodland Hills, California, 1987) was a reporter in Long Beach, California before becoming a screenwriter and specializing in writing comedy westerns and also turned out several thrillers. His first credited screenplay was My Favorite Spy in 1942. His career noticeably picked up after his Oscar nomination for the gritty Gregory Peck Western The Gunfighter in 1950, leading to such assignments as the remake of My Man Godfrey in 1957 and The Sheepman in 1958 (a second Oscar nomination). Bowers produced the last film that he wrote, the superior Western parody Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969). He also had a bit part as an actor in The Godfather Part II (1974).
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Buck Houghton

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Archible Ernest "Buck" Houghton Jr. is chiefly remembered as producer of The Twilight Zone (1959) during its first three seasons (more than a hundred episodes in total), his influence palpable in all facets of production, from script selection to renting production facilities, to casting, scoring and editing. Houghton had graduated from UCLA with majors in English and economics. He was at that time known as 'Arch'. The origin of his nickname 'Buck' may have been the result of buck teeth as a child. His career began in Hollywood as back stage help on films by Cecil B. DeMille, then as reader for Val Lewton and story editor to David O. Selznick. Via subsequent stints at Paramount's casting and budget departments, the Office of War Information (where he worked on short propaganda films) and four years as executive assistant at RKO, Houghton worked his way up to television producer by the early 1950's. He served as associate producer on an excellent early action series, Yancy Derringer (1958), which is, sadly, almost forgotten today. William Self, who preferred to remain in his executive position with CBS, offered Houghton the job of producing "The Twilight Zone" and Houghton enthusiastically accepted, having perused the first two scripts. He became popular with many of the directors, for example Douglas Heyes (usually put in charge of more character-driven assignments like "The Invaders"), who regarded him as the best producer he ever worked with. Most importantly, Houghton complemented the creative genius of Rod Serling by his expertise in all minutiae of production. Houghton left "Twilight Zone" at the end of season three, having raised objections about extending the show to the -- as it turned out, much less suitable -- one-hour format. Few of his subsequent appointments proved entirely satisfactory: Houghton more often found his style cramped, clashing with stars he regarded as 'autocratic' (The Richard Boone Show (1963), Hawaii Five-O (1968)) or executive producers he disliked (Lost in Space (1965)). There were several more production credits to his name in the 80's -- mostly B-grade made-for-TV films -- before his retirement in 1994.
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Robert Rodat

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Robert Rodat (born c. 1960) is an American screenwriter and producer of film and television. He is known for writing the films Saving Private Ryan (1998), which earned him Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay; Fly Away Home (1996); The Patriot (2000); and The Catcher Was a Spy (2018). He is also the creator of the television series Falling Skies (2011–15) and Those About to Die (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Rodat, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Ian Graham

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ian James Alastair Graham (born 12 November 1923) is a British Mayanist whose explorations of Maya ruins in the jungles of Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize helped establish the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions published by the Peabody Museum of Harvard University. Among his related works is a biography of an early predecessor, the 19th-century British Maya explorer Alfred Maudslay. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian Graham, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Jerzy Kawalerowicz

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From Wikipedia Jerzy Kawalerowicz (19 January 1922 – 27 December 2007) was a Polish film director and politician, having been a member of Polish United Workers' Party from 1954 until its dissolution in 1990 and a deputy in Polish parliament since 1985 until 1989. Jerzy Kawalerowicz was noted for his powerful, detail-oriented imagery and the depth of ideas in his films. After working as an assistant director, he made his directorial debut with the 1951 film The Village Mill (Gromada). He was a leading figure in the Polish Film School, and his films Shadow (Cień, 1956) and Night Train (Pociąg, 1959) constitute some of that movement's best work. Other noted works by Kawalerowicz include Mother Joan of the Angels (Matka Joanna od Aniołów, 1961) and a 1966 adaptation of Bolesław Prus' historical novel, Pharaoh (Faraon), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film He died on 27 December 2007 in Warsaw, Poland. He was 85.
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Andrey Sokolov

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Theater and film actor, director, screenwriter, producer. Born on August 13, 1962 in Moscow. In 1986 he graduated from the Moscow Aviation Technological Institute, in 1991 - the evening department of the Institute of Foreign Languages. In 1990 he graduated from the acting department of the Higher Theater School named after B.V. Shchukin (course of Lyudmila Stavskaya). Since 1990 he has been an actor at the Lenkom Theater. Since 1999 - the artistic director of the theater "Monologue XXI century". People's Artist of Russia (20.12.2005).
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