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Hans Weingartner

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Hans Weingartner is an Austrian filmmaker known for his work as a director, screenwriter, and producer. He studied neuroscience at the University of Vienna and graduated from the neurosurgical department at the Free University of Berlin's Steglitz Clinic. Later, he pursued film studies at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, Germany. Weingartner's notable films include The White Sound (Das weiße Rauschen, 2001), The Edukators (Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei, 2004), and 303 (2018). His work often explores social and political themes, earning critical acclaim and several awards, including a nomination for the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival for The Edukators.
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Becky Fischer

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Becky Fischer (born 1951) is a Pentecostal children's pastor best known for her role in the 2006 documentary Jesus Camp. Fischer is a third-generation Pentecostal on her father's side and a fourth-generation Pentecostal on her mother's side. Her grandfather was an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God for 75 years. Fischer was a businesswoman in her native Bismarck, North Dakota for 23 years, the last eight as part-time children's pastor of her church. In 1999, she moved to North Wilkesboro, North Carolina to join Tasch Ministries International, a ministry that specializes in mission trips for children. After serving as a children's pastor for Rick Joyner's MorningStar Ministries in Wilkesboro, she returned to North Dakota to begin her own ministry, Kids in Ministry International. She is the author of several Sunday School curricula for churches and the book Redefining Children's Ministry in the 21st Century. Fischer rented facilities for the "Kids on Fire" summer camp in Devils Lake, North Dakota for four years. She also ran an FM radio station and a motel before going into her ministry. Description above from the Wikipedia article Becky Fischer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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John Leguizamo

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John Alberto Leguizamo Peláez (born July 22, 1960) is a Colombian-American stand-up comedian, actor, and film producer. He has appeared in over 100 films, produced over 20 films and documentaries, made over 30 television appearances, and has produced various television projects. He has also written and performed for the Broadway stage receiving four Tony Award nominations for Freak in 1998, Sexaholix in 2002, and Latin History for Moronsin in 2018. He received a Special Tony Award in 2018. Leguizamo began his career as a stand-up comedian in New York City. After several years of doing supporting roles in film and television, he rose to fame with significant roles in the fantasy adventure Super Mario Bros. portraying Luigi Mario and the crime drama Carlito's Way portraying Benny Blanco (both from 1993), followed by a role as drag queen Chi-Chi Rodriguez in the road comedy To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995), for which he received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination. Other films Leguizamo has since appeared in include Romeo + Juliet (1996), The Pest (1997), Summer of Sam (1999), Moulin Rouge! (2001), Empire (2002), Love in the Time of Cholera (2007), Righteous Kill (2008), The Lincoln Lawyer (2011), The Counselor (2013), John Wick (2014), John Wick 2 (2017), and The Menu (2022). As a voice actor, he narrated the sitcom The Brothers García (2000–2004). He played Sid the Sloth in the Ice Age franchise and Bruno Madrigal in Encanto (2021). Leguizamo is also known for his television roles including Freak (1998) for which he received the 1999 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program. This historic win made Leguizamo the first Latino to win this award in Emmy history. He received further Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the miniseries Waco (2018) and the Netflix limited series When They See Us (2019). He has also appeared on ER, The Kill Point, Bloodline, and The Mandalorian. In 2023, he hosted the MSNBC series Leguizamo Does America.
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Mel Blanc

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Mel Blanc (May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor and comedian. Although he began his nearly six-decade-long career performing in radio commercials, Blanc is best remembered for his work with Warner Bros. during the "Golden Age of American animation" (and later for Hanna-Barbera television productions) as the voice of such well-known characters as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester the Cat, Tweety Bird, Foghorn Leghorn, Yosemite Sam, Wile E. Coyote, Woody Woodpecker, Barney Rubble, Mr. Spacely, Speed Buggy, Captain Caveman, Heathcliff, Speedy Gonzales, Elmer Fudd and hundreds of others. Having earned the nickname “The Man of a Thousand Voices,” Blanc is regarded as one of the most influential people in the voice-acting industry. At the time of his death, it was estimated that 20 million people heard his voice every day.
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Adam Bhala Lough

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Adam Bhala Lough is an American film director and screenwriter from Virginia. In 2002 he directed and wrote his first film Bomb the System, which was nominated for a 2004 Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature. His follow-up film, WEAPONS, starred Paul Dano and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Lough also directed the highly controversial Lil Wayne documentary The Carter. Lough's next film Splatter Sisters was announced at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010 as a retro Slasher comedy starring Marilyn Manson and Evan Rachel Wood. It is to be produced by David Gordon Green. Description above from the Wikipedia article Adam Bhala Lough, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Christopher Priest

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Christopher Priest (born July 14, 1943 in Cheadle, Greater Manchester) was an English novelist and science fiction writer. His works include Fugue for a Darkening Island, Inverted World, The Affirmation, The Glamour, The Prestige and The Separation. Priest has been strongly influenced by the science fiction of H. G. Wells and in 2006 was appointed to the position of Vice-President of the international H. G. Wells Society. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christopher Priest(novelist), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Ally Walker

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Allene Damian "Ally" Walker (born August 25, 1961) is an American actress. She made her television debut in the NBC daytime soap opera, Santa Barbara (1988), before landing the leading roles on the short-lived dramas True Blue (1989–90), and Moon Over Miami (1993). During 1990s, Walker had roles in films such as Universal Soldier (1992), Singles (1992), When the Bough Breaks (1994), While You Were Sleeping (1995), Kazaam (1996), and Happy, Texas (1999). From 1996 to 1999, she played the leading role as Doctor Samantha Waters on the NBC crime drama series Profiler, for which she received Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television nomination. She returned to television with role in the HBO drama series, Tell Me You Love Me (2007), and later played villainous Agent June Stahl in the FX crime drama, Sons of Anarchy, (2008–10). Walker also had the leading role in the short-lived Lifetime police drama series, The Protector in 2011. Her latest directing debut is Far More starring Adrian Grenier and Selma Blair.
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Bruno Davézé

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Après avoir suivi une formation au Conservatoire d'art dramatique d'Orléans en 1991 avec Nicole Mérouze et Jean-Claude Cotillard, une formation sur paris à l'école technique expérimentale du spectacle avec Hélene Hily, Bruno Davézé suit des études supérieures en faculté de théâtre à Paris III et mène en parallèle une carrière solo de mime. en 2000, il commence sa carrière théâtrale en interprétant en solo un personnage dans un spectacle Musical en hommage a Bourvil. Au théâtre, Bruno Davézé joue notamment dans "Les naufragés" de Michel Declercq, "Osceola" de Michel Denneliou, "La nuit des exclus "de Joel Chalude, "La tour de babeth" de Karim Houfaid, "Suivez le guide" de Michel Beatrix et part pour une tournée internationale en Roumanie, au Portugal... avec "Le songe d'une nuit d'été" de Richard Demarcy où il joue le rôle de Bottom. Au cinéma et à la télévision, Bruno Davézé joue sous la direction de Christian de Challonge dans le "Malade Imaginaire", dans "Un flic" de Fréderic Tellier, dans la série "palizzi" de Jean Dujardin avec Arsène Mosca, "Mes amis, mes amours" de Lorraine Levy.  De 2013 à 2014, Bruno Davézé joue le Proviseur Stanislavski dans La chronique du jeu vidéo d’Edward Ez et joue le rôle de Iegor dans le dernier film de René Féret Anton Tchekhov 1890.
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Kevin Williamson

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Kevin Meade Williamson (born March 14, 1965) is an American screenwriter and director, best known for creating the Scream franchise. In 1995, and unhappy with his futile attempts to get an acting career off the ground, Williamson wrote a self-referential comedy horror script titled Scary Movie, which was subsequently bought by Miramax Films and put into production under filmmaker Wes Craven. Retitled Scream, the movie was a sleeper smash upon release in 1996 and was credited with reviving the horror genre as a commercial money-maker. It has, as of 2026, spawned six sequels and a TV spin-off series. The success of Scream led to Williamson becoming one of the most in-demand screenwriters of the era, with some of his biggest hits including the thriller I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), the alien invasion film The Faculty (1998), and the TV drama Dawson’s Creek (1998), which was loosely inspired by his own coming-of-age and ran for six seasons. He also made his directorial debut with the black comedy Teaching Mrs Tingle in 1999. Williamson’s other credits include the TV series The Vampire Diaries (2009) and The Following (2013), as well as the werewolf horror film Cursed (2005). In 2026, Williamson returned to the world of Scream – having only served as a producer on the third, fifth and sixth entries in the franchise – as the co-writer and director of Scream 7.
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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 who 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, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.
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