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Vladimir Andreyev
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Honored Artist of the RSFSR (10/14/1963). People's Artist of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1978). People's Artist of the RSFSR (07.27.1972). People's Artist of the USSR (1985). In 1952 he graduated from the State Institute of Theater Arts. A.V. Lunacharskiy (teachers - A.A. Goncharov, A.M. Lobanov). Since 1952, in the Theater. Ermolova (in 1970-1985 - the main director, in 1990-2012 - artistic director). In 1985-1988 - the main director of the Maly Theater. In the cinema since 1954 (film "True Friends"). Member of the CPSU since 1962. He teaches at GITIS, professor (since 1978), head of the department of acting. His students were actors: Kristina Orbakaite, Victor Evgrafov, Nikolai Tokarev, Elena Yakovleva, Viktor Rakov, Boris Mironov, Boris Dergun, Sergey Biryulin, Arseny Kovalskiy, Evgeniy Kamenkovich. Full member of the International Theater Academy (2000). Academician of the Academy of Humanities (1995). Wife - People's Artist of Russia Natalya Seleznyova.
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Hattie Jacques
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Josephine Edwina Jaques (7 February 1922 – 6 October 1980) was an English comedy actress, known as Hattie Jacques.
Starting her career in the 1940s, Jacques first gained attention through her radio appearances with Tommy Handley on ITMA and later with Tony Hancock on Hancock's Half Hour. From 1958 to 1974 she appeared in fourteen Carry On films, playing roles such as a hospital matron. She had a long professional partnership with Eric Sykes, with whom she co-starred in his long running television series Sykes. She also starred in two Norman Wisdom films, The Square Peg and Follow a Star.
Jacques was married to John Le Mesurier from 1949 until their divorce in 1965.
Her final appearance on television was in an advertisement for Asda in 1980. She died later that year from a heart attack.
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Dave Holmes
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David Robert "Dave" Holmes (born March 14, 1971) is a television personality who gained national attention as the runner-up on MTV's first Wanna Be a VJ contest in 1998. From the beginning, he distinguished himself from other candidates with an encyclopedic knowledge of music trivia.
Despite his loss to Jesse Camp, MTV hired Holmes to conduct celebrity interviews. He went on to host several other MTV shows, including 120 Minutes, a Real World reunion special, and the popular Say What? Karaoke until 2001. His MTV career lasted about two years longer than Camp's.
Post-MTV, Holmes co-hosts Court TV's Saturday Night Solution programming block, and FX's DVD on TV. In 2005 he hosted the CBS summer series Fire Me...Please. Holmes has also appeared on numerous programs on VH1, including Best Week Ever, Super Secret Movie Rules and 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 80s. He has also appeared on The Andy Dick Show, Comedy Central's Reno 911!, The Hughleys, and he appeared as a reporter in the 2005 film Fantastic Four.
On July 7, 2007, he co-hosted Bravo's coverage of the Live Earth Concerts with Karen Duffy. He also recently appeared on Most Annoying People of 2008 on BBC.
Holmes came out as a gay man in Out magazine in 2002 and is in a relationship with singer-songwriter Ben Wise.
On September 23, 2010, Holmes contributed a video to the "It Gets Better" project, spearheaded by advice columnist and gay rights activist Dan Savage.
Currently, he works on-air at FX, and hosts the daily video podcast A Drink With Dave.
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Chris Casamassa
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Chris Casamassa (born January 17, 1965) is an American martial artist, actor and stuntman who is best known for his role as Scorpion in the movie Mortal Kombat and the related TV show, Mortal Kombat: Conquest. He is the son of martial arts guru and Red Dragon Karate founder Louis D. Casamassa. (Chris co-starred on the TV series WMAC Masters under the call-sign "Red Dragon".)
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Rainer M. Ehrhardt
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Rainer Maria Ehrhardt began his career as Radio DJ for Radio Luxembourg and "Hessischer Rundfunk", Frankfurt. It didn´t take much time and you could hear him in a lot of commercials. With the foundation of his "MultiMedia-Studios" he had all possibilities to do his own audio-recordings. Later he started video production business as well. More than 600 Point-of-sale-videos were made by him and his company. As a former musician and production assistent of Frank Farian (Boney M., Milli Vanilli etc.) he also produced the music for these corporate videos.
Not only in commercials, but also in many German TV-stations. He was the German voice for the BBC-series "Wonderful World" and spoke the News at the 3SAT-show "Kulturzeit" for fourteen years! His voice can cover many moods and helps many productions to become really successful. Since 2003 Ehrhardt runs an own voice over agency ("WorldWIdeVoices") with more than 4500 professional voice artists from all over the world. And that´s not all: Rainer leads the theater "Volksbühne Bad Homburg" or he acts and directs in their plays. He was also the co-founder and leader of the German Voice over society "Verband Deutscher Sprecher", VDS, for many years.
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Susan Elle
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Susan Elle was born and raised in Los Angeles and grew up with a passion for art, playing piano and learning dance from a very young age. She attended the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio earning a Bachelor of Music degree in classical piano. Suffering from severe tendinitis, she discontinued her piano studies after college in order to recover and decided to compete in beauty pageants that led to her being crowned Miss Asia USA in 2013. This encouraged her to start modeling and in 2015 she turned her attention to commercials and focusing on an acting career, starring in her first film in 2016.
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Jurij Zrnec
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Kot osnovnošolec je treniral latinskoameriške in standardne plese. Na svetovnem prvenstvu v športnih plesih je osvojil tretje mesto. Po končani srednji šoli za oblikovanje se je vpisal na AGRFT, kjer pa mu v prvo ni uspelo opraviti sprejemnih izpitov. Naslednje leto jih je opravil, zato je diplomant Akademije za gledališče, radio, film in televizijo v Ljubljani, ki je postal znan po vodenju podelitve Viktorjev leta 2003 in 2006 ter z vlogo doktorja Muca v nanizanki Naša mala klinika. Posodil pa je glas tudi animiranim likom kot je zagotovo Garfield in Grafield 2. Pozneje, jeseni 2007, je z Ladom Bizovičarjem začel voditi razvedrilno oddajo As ti tud not padu?! na POP TV, ki je bila na sporedu do decembra 2009 in mu je prinesla prve štiri viktorje. Kot režiser je soustvaril gledališko predstavo 5moških.com. 4. novembra 2010 je izšel mladinski celovečerni film Gremo mi po svoje (2010), kjer ima glavno moško vlogo, vlogo starešine. Za to vlogo je na 13. Festivalu slovenskega filma oktobra istega leta prejel tudi vesno za najboljšo glavno moško vlogo. Poročen je s Sabino Kogovšek, 28. julija 2008 pa se jima je rodila prvorojenka Leni.
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Huntley Gordon
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Huntley Ashworth Gordon (October 8, 1879 – December 7, 1956) was a Canadian actor who began his career in the Silent Film era. Gordon was born in Montreal, Quebec educated in both Canada and England. He had various jobs including working in a bank, in a silver mine, contracting, as a commercial traveller, and being a cigarette factory owner before settling on the stage and at one time acted with Ethel Barrymore. He began his screen career in 1916 when given a chance by Thomas Ince. Gordon was once a model for Arrow Collars; he was once painted by American commercial illustrator J. C. Leyendecker.
He served in the Canadian Army during World War I and began a career in motion pictures in England where he had been stationed during the war. With his suave manner and classic good looks he was sought out in Hollywood, California where he acted in both silent and talking films.
In Hollywood, he appeared in numerous films including starring opposite Gloria Swanson in the 1923 film Bluebeard's 8th Wife. That same year he starred in The Wanters with Norma Shearer and Marie Prevost.
For most of his career, Gordon traveled between America and Britain, making films in both countries, appearing in more than 120 films. He was with MGM studios when he retired from film in 1940 and invested in the manufacture of silk stockings, a lucrative business at a time when Canadian and British women could not get them due to the rationing brought on by the Second World War. Although he no longer made motion pictures, Huntley Gordon remained active in the world of network radio.
Huntley Gordon died in Van Nuys, California and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
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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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Craig Ferguson
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Craig Ferguson (born May 17, 1962) is a Scottish-born, naturalized American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, and producer. He is the host of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, an Emmy Award-nominated, Peabody Award-winning late-night talk show that airs on CBS. In addition to hosting that program and performing stand-up comedy, Ferguson has written two books: Between the Bridge and the River, a novel, and American on Purpose, an autobiography. He became a citizen of the United States in 2008.
Before his career as a late-night television host, Ferguson was best known in the United States for his role as the office boss, Nigel Wick, on The Drew Carey Show from 1996 to 2003. After that, he wrote and starred in three films, directing one of them.
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