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José Luis Sáenz de Heredia
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José Luis Sáenz de Heredia, Spanish filmmaker, was born on April 10, 1911 in Madrid.
He debuted as a filmmaker with Patricio miró una estrella (1935), later signed La hija de Juan Simón (id), and ¿Quién me quiere a mí? (1936), under the orders of Luis Buñuel, who saved his life during the Civil War.
Very important in Franco's cinema, he became the official filmmaker of the regime; he made Raza, 1941, El escándalo, 1943, El destino se disculpa, 1945, Bambú, id., Mariona Rebull, 1947), La mies es mucha, 1949, Don Juan, 1950, Historias de la radio, 1955, Franco, ese hombre, 1964, La verbena de la paloma, 1963; Historias de la televisión, 1965.
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Osmani Rodriguez
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Osmani Rodriguez is one of seven siblings and was born in Camaguey, Cuba. He is of Lebanese and Italian descent, speaks Spanish fluently, and was blessed to become an American citizen.
He and his family immigrated to the Untied States in 1971 and they settled in Boston Massachusetts.
Osmani's earliest roles began in theatre where he played "Chino" in West Side Story. Later he went on to play some of his favorite roles as "Nicky Arnstien" in Funny Girl, "Mr. Fagin" in Oliver, and "Max" in Lend Me a Tenor.
He and his wife, Rena, have produced and starred opposite each other in shows such as "Michael" in I Do, I Do! And the Miracle Worker.
He began to find interest and now loves to perform in print, commercial, and film work. To date he has played Principal roles in over eight national commercials. Some of which include the Principal Role as the "Security Guard" in the national commercial for American Express and the honor of playing opposite one of his favorite directors, Mr. Martin Scorsese (a dream come true), playing the "Pharmacist" for CVS, Principal in "Jenny O", and playing the "Pepsi Worker" for Pepsi Cola's national commercial, "The Machine".
Another dream come true, was playing the featured role of "Carlos" in the film, The Maiden Heist directed by Peter Hewitt and playing opposite some of his most favorite legend veteran actors: Morgan Freeman, Christopher Walken, William H. Macey, and Marcia Gay Harden.
Among some of his TV series experience was in the CBS Series "Waterfront" playing "FBI Agent Ramirez" with Billy Baldwin and filling in, two years in a row for George Lopez and Freddie Prince Jr. to help set up the NFL Opening Kick off games with White Cherry Entertainment.
On occasions, he may still be seen hosting the nationally televised eleven minute public service announcement for paternity acknowledgment.
Osmani loves to spend his spare time with his beautiful wife Rena and his two blessings, his sons Osmani Jr. and Nathaniel. IMDb Mini Biography By: Manager
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Kamel Djebara
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Kamel Djebara (كمال جبارة) is an Algerian photographer. He is a set photographer for the Casbah Film company, the first post-independence Algerian film production company, created specifically to co-produce the legendary film "The Battle of Algiers" in 1966. The film takes place in 1957, in Algeria, the people, supported by the FLN, revolted against the French occupiers. On both sides, extreme methods are used: torture by the French army and terrorism by the Algerians revolting against the power in place. The war will spare no one. In the Casbah district of Algiers, a former delinquent, Ali La Pointe, refuses to stop the fight, even when the situation seems desperate. For his part, Colonel Mathieu tries as best he can to carry out his mission, even if it means using drastic means... The film was nominated 3 times for the Oscars and was awarded the Golden Lion at the Mostra de Venice 1966.
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Harry Saltzman
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Herschel "Harry" Saltzman (October 27, 1915 – September 28, 1994) was a Canadian theatre and film producer. He is best remembered for co-producing the first nine of the James Bond film series with Albert R. Broccoli. He lived most of his life in Denham, Buckinghamshire, England.
Saltzman was born in a hospital in Sherbrooke, Quebec, the son of Jewish immigrants Abraham Saltzman and Dora Horstein. He was raised in Saint John, New Brunswick for the first seven years of his life. His father, a horticulturalist, immigrated to the US in 1905 from Kozienice, Poland (then the Russian Empire), marrying Dora in 1909. The couple moved to Canada in 1910 where their four oldest children (Minnie, Florence, Harry and Isadore) were born, before moving the family to Cleveland, Ohio where their youngest son, David, was born. Harry ran away from home at the age of 15. Saltzman was 30 when he learned where he had actually been born.
At about age 17, Saltzman joined a circus and travelled with them for some years.
In 1932, Saltzman moved to Paris to study political science and economics. However within a year, he was "hand-picking talent for 40 two-a-day vaudeville houses all over Europe." Saltzman claimed that he had worked as an assistant for French film director René Clair, who came to the United States in 1940 to make the film The Flame of New Orleans.
In 1942, Saltzman signed a booking contract with Fanchon & Marco Enterprises. Saltzman went to the West Coast to sign big picture names. Saltzman sought the Ritz Brothers, but due to film commitments, they could not sign. In 1943, Saltzman was managing The Gilbert Brothers' Combined Circus. According to an advert, the 1943 season began 26 May in Clifton, New Jersey, and was booked solid through the Eastern American states until mid-October.
Shortly after World War II began, he enlisted with the Royal Canadian Air Force in Vancouver. He received a medical discharge in Trenton, Ontario in 1943, and joined the U.S. Psychological Warfare Bureau, because he wanted to get back to Europe. Saltzmann was initially stationed at the North African theatre in 1943 before being reassigned to London.
In 1945, Saltzman helped Lin Yutang establish UNESCO's film division, which was initially focused on trying to mediate the Chinese Civil War between the Communist Party and the Kuomintang. He eventually quit due to "east-west differences" which to him seemed "so hopeless". Saltzman spent a year with the French government's Ministry of Reconstruction. At that point, he decided he wanted back in show business. ...
Source: Article "Harry Saltzman" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Olivia Hallinan
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Olivia Hallinan is a British actress best known for her role as Laura Timmins in the BBC TV series Lark Rise to Candleford and also as Kim in the Channel 4 drama Sugar Rush. She also starred as Ellie in Girls in Love.
Hallinan is from Twickenham, West London, and is the second youngest of four sisters. Olivia Hallinan began training at her mother's Saturday drama school All Expressions in Teddington when she was 11, and then went on to professional acting. After attending St Catherine's School in Twickenham, and Notting Hill & Ealing High School, in Ealing, Hallinan went on to study English and Drama at the University of Manchester.
In 2020 Olivia Hallinan confirmed she was in a relationship with Charlie Smith. They live in Windsor, Berkshire and have a child together (born May 2021). In July 2024, they announced they were expecting a second child, a son.
Hallinan has appeared in over 100 productions since the age of seven. Her first professional role was playing alongside Cilla Black in a 1991 production of Jack and the Beanstalk. Since then, she has appeared in theatre, radio, film and on television shows including The Bill, Holby City, My Family, Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde and Granada TV's, Girls in Love. At the end of her first year at the University of Manchester, Hallinan appeared in the first of two series of the cult TV drama Sugar Rush for Channel 4, based on the Julie Burchill novel. On 9 June 2007, Hallinan was a speaker at the Stonewall Gay Youth Conference, talking about playing a lesbian character in Sugar Rush.
While at Manchester, Hallinan was actively involved in student drama. In 2006, her final year of her degree, she starred in Nicola Schofield's new play, Wake Me Later. That same year she played Emma in the Torchwood episode Out of Time, appeared in an episode of Trial and Retribution, and played a character in Radio 4's dramatisation of Marguerite Duras's erotic novel The Lover, broadcast between 3 and 7 September 2007. She starred as Laura Timmins in the BBC production Lark Rise to Candleford which first aired on Sunday 13 January 2008, appearing in all four series.
Hallinan was named one of the 2008 UK Stars of Tomorrow in Screen International, a prestigious industry publication that highlights the hottest up and coming actors and filmmakers. A-List actors Tom Hiddleston, Michelle Dockery, Dev Patel, Claire Foy, Carey Mulligan, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Gugu Mbatha-Raw were among this coveted list alongside Hallinan this same year. 2011 saw her film debut as she starred in the British film noir Jack Falls as Natasha.
In 2011 Hallinan starred in Precious Little Talent written by Ella Hickson and directed by James Dacre at Trafalgar Studios theatre in London's West End. In December 2011 Hallinan played the role of Justine in Lucinda Coxon's play "Herding Cats" at the Hampstead Theatre, London, a role she previously played at the Ustinov Studio, Bath in December 2010. In 2013, she starred as Marianne Dashwood in Helen Edmundson's BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. In 2014 Hallinan appeared in Lotty's War (written by Giuliano Crispini and directed by Bruce Guthrie) at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, before touring the UK.
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Peter Scanavino
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Peter Scanavino (born February 29, 1980) is an American actor.
Since 2005, Scanavino has had dozens of minor roles in films and on television, most notably Deception (2008), The Good Wife, and The Blacklist.
In 2005, Scanavino guest-starred on the NBC crime-drama series Law & Order: Criminal Intent in the fifth-season episode "Diamond Dogs" as petty criminal Johnny Feist. He was also a guest on Law & Order as a suspect who was a graphic designer in the 2009 episode "Just A Girl in the World".
In 2013, Scanavino guest-starred on the long-running NBC crime-drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in Season 14, Episode 13, "Monster's Legacy", as Johnny Dubcek. The same year, he starred in the independent romantic-comedy film Mutual Friends, directed by Matthew Watts.
In 2014, Scanavino joined SVU in its sixteenth season, this time as Dominick Carisi Jr., nicknamed Sonny, a new SVU detective. Initially in a recurring capacity, Scanavino was promoted to the main cast in the fifth episode of the same season. According to SVU Executive Producer Warren Leight, Carisi "comes in and shakes things up" and is "a guy who maybe needs a little bit of refining." Scanavino noted that Carisi is "a total outsider. He's brusque and he doesn't really get the nuances and he's not very experienced so he puts his foot in his mouth a lot of times. But he's learning. He's picking it up. I think he's a good detective, but he's got a lot to learn on how to approach cases."
Scanavino starred in an episode of Netflix's 2020 anthology series Social Distance as the father of his real-life son Leo Bai-Scanavino.
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Pauline Melville
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Pauline Melville was born in Guyana in 1948 of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry. She has worked as an actress, appearing in films such as Mona Lisa and British television programmes including the BBC Television comedy series 'The Young Ones', before turning her hand to writing in 1990. Her short stories and novels have been critically acclaimed, earning her numerous awards including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and the Guyana Prize for Literature
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Nicole Bass-Fuchs
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was an American bodybuilder, actress, professional wrestler, and professional wrestling valet. She worked for companies such as Extreme Championship Wrestling, World Wrestling Federation and XPW. From 1993 until her death, she made numerous appearances on The Howard Stern Show and took part as a contestant in Stern's 1993 pay-per-view television event The Miss Howard Stern New Year's Eve Pageant. She then became a member of the show's Wack Pack.
She made guest appearances on four soap operas: The Bold and the Beautiful and Days of Our Lives in 1991, and General Hospital and Guiding Light in 1992. Bass debuted in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) during the first half of 1998. She aligned herself with Justin Credible, Chastity and Jason. She participated in feuds with Tommy Dreamer, Mikey Whipwreck and Beulah McGillicutty.
Bass soon joined the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), debuting as Sable's villainous bodyguard at WrestleMania XV on March 28, 1999.[3] She became involved in an extended feud with Debra McMichael, which culminated in a mixed tag match pitting Bass and Val Venis against Jeff Jarrett and Debra at the 1999 WWF Over the Edge, which took place directly after the tragic death of Owen Hart at that pay-per-view. Bass was then aligned with Venis until she accidentally whacked him with Jarrett's guitar after losing a bikini contest to Debra. The following week, she interfered in a match between Debra and Ivory, with Debra losing her Women's Championship due to Nicole's interference.
This led to a brief alliance between Bass and Ivory, which ended abruptly when Bass left the WWF and filed a lawsuit against the organization for sexual harassment, claiming she was sexually assaulted backstage by Steve Lombardi. In 2003 the case went to court and was ultimately dismissed.
Bass continued to wrestle on the independent wrestling circuit and did bookings for public events and for personal training.
Personal life
In 2006, Bass was hospitalized due to steroid-influenced pancreatitis.
Bass married Richard "Bob" Fuchs in 1985. Fuchs died in his sleep in 2013 at age 64.At the time of her death, Bass was in a relationship with her business partner, Kristen Marrone.
Death
On February 16, 2017, a statement was posted on Bass' official Facebook page by her girlfriend Kristen Marrone, where she stated that Bass had been hospitalized after being found unconscious at her apartment. The post said everything possible was being done to help her. Later that day, she was declared to be medically brain dead following a stroke. Her family and friends were with her that evening as she was taken off life support. Bass died a day later on February 17 at the age of 52
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Darin F. Earl II
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Darin F. Earl II is a first-generation Jamaican-American artist from America. Humble beginnings started us out as a writer and singer, receiving a BA in Theatre & Journalism at Rider University in 2016. He studied physical theatre, commedia del arte, and devised theatre at St. Mary's University of Twickenham in England. Additionally, he explored Bio-mechanical & Carpet Theatre at the International Student Theatre Festival in Dakovo, Croatia.
In addition to those, previous explorations include clowning, stage combat (unarmed, staff, kali), basic gymnastics, and other avenues of stage performance. He is exploring voice-over work, acting for the screen, writing for the screen, as well as producing for both (stage/screen). His first short with Reinhard, The Dennis Boys (2022) was selected as part of the NY Shorts International Film Festival & is a recipient of the Oscar Micheaux Award (2017) for excellence in screenwriting (Greater Philadelphia Film Office). The Devil's Playground (2022) has been selected for the Block Island and Jersey Shore Horror Film Festivals. It won Best Short Thriller at Block Island, and the Best Short Jersey Horror Film award. He moonlights as the Director of Programming for a queer service organisation, Beta Gamma Chi Fraternity, Inc.
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Maxime Tetzner
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20 year old Canadian filmmaker from Ottawa Ontario who has an intense passion for filmmaking. Anything from post production to cinematography, Max will pour his all into his craft and deliver the best he can. Before attending his year at Vancouver Film School, Max worked on multiple hallmark films such as The Christmas Detective and Ice Palace Romance as a location personal assistant in Ottawa. He also was the 2nd ac and had a small role on a short film named This Isn’t The End. Throughout his year at VFS Max has been a remarkable student pouring his hard efforts into the short films he has made as a Cinematographer and Editor.
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