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Lee Kwang-soo
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Lee Kwang-soo (Korean: 이광수; born 14 July 1985) is a South Korean actor, entertainer, and model. He made his acting debut in the sitcom Here He Comes (2008). He then received further recognition for his roles in medical melodrama It's Okay, That's Love (2014), neo-noir film Confession (2014), black comedy film Collective Invention (2015), one-act play Puck! (2016), sitcom The Sound of Your Heart (2016) and drama Live (2018), drama comedy film Inseparable Bros (2019).
Besides acting, Lee is also known for being one of the regular cast members of the South Korean variety show Running Man since 2010.
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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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Willard Robertson
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Willard Robertson (January 1, 1886 – April 5, 1948) was an American actor and writer. He appeared in 147 films between 1924 and 1948. He was born in Runnels, Texas and died in Hollywood, California.
Willard Robertson first worked as a lawyer in Texas, but he left his profession for a sudden interest in acting. He appeared on Broadway in 16 plays between 1907 and 1930. Robertson played supporting roles in many Hollywood films from 1930 until the year he died, typically portraying men of authority such as doctors, elected officials, military officers, and also lawyers. He played Jackie Cooper's stern but loving father in the oscar-winning drama Skippy (1931) and its sequel Sooky (1931). Robertson also portrayed a flamboyant lawyer in Remember the Night (1940) and the straight sheriff in The Ox-Bow Incident (1943).
Willard Robertson was also a notable writer of numerous plays, two of them were adapted into films. He also wrote the novel Moon Tide (1940) which was turned into Archie Mayo's drama thriller Moontide (1942) starring Jean Gabin and Ida Lupino.
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Émile Charles Baillargeon-Laberge
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Émile Charles Baillargeon-Laberge, better known by his ring name “Speedball” Mike Bailey, is a Canadian professional wrestler who debuted in 2006 with International Wrestling Syndicate (IWS) in Montreal. He wrestled for Impact Wrestling, where he became a three-time X Division Champion, Pro Wrestling Guerrilla where he won the 2023 Battle of Los Angeles, DDT Pro-Wrestling where he became a two-time KO-D Tag Team Champion, and New Japan Pro-Wrestling before signing with All Elite Wrestling in February 2025, where he teams with Kevin Knight as JetSpeed.
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Robert Greenhut
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Robert "Bob" Greenhut (born December 18, 1942) is an American film producer.
Born in New York City, Greenhut studied music at the University of Miami. He began his film career as a production assistant on Arthur Hiller's 1967 comedy The Tiger Makes Out. During the next seven years, he worked in various production capacities, rising through the ranks to become a production manager, assistant director, and associate producer. Greenhut served in that last capacity on The Front, a 1976 Hollywood blacklist drama starring Woody Allen. It was the first of many collaborations with the writer/director. Greenhut served as the executive producer and production manager of Annie Hall and went on to produce or executive produce every Allen-directed film through to the period musical comedy Everyone Says I Love You in 1996.
Greenhut also has worked extensively with Mike Nichols on Heartburn (1986), Working Girl (1988), Postcards from the Edge (1990), Regarding Henry (1991), and Wolf (1994). His additional credits include Miloš Forman's Hair (1979), Arthur (1981), Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy (1983), and Penny Marshall's Big (1988), A League of Their Own (1992) and Renaissance Man (1994).
Greenhut received a 1989 Crystal Apple Award from the NYC Mayor's Film Office for his contribution to the city's film industry. That same year, he was honored with the Eastman Kodak Award for lifetime achievement.
Robert "Bob" Greenhut (born December 18, 1942) is an American film producer.[1]
Born in New York City, Greenhut studied music at the University of Miami. He began his film career as a production assistant on Arthur Hiller's 1967 comedy The Tiger Makes Out. During the next seven years, he worked in various production capacities, rising through the ranks to become a production manager, assistant director, and associate producer. Greenhut served in that last capacity on The Front, a 1976 Hollywood blacklist drama starring Woody Allen. It was the first of many collaborations with the writer/director. Greenhut served as the executive producer and production manager of Annie Hall and went on to produce or executive produce every Allen-directed film through to the period musical comedy Everyone Says I Love You in 1996.
Greenhut also has worked extensively with Mike Nichols on Heartburn (1986), Working Girl (1988), Postcards from the Edge (1990), Regarding Henry (1991), and Wolf (1994). His additional credits include Miloš Forman's Hair (1979), Arthur (1981), Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy (1983), and Penny Marshall's Big (1988), A League of Their Own (1992) and Renaissance Man (1994).
Greenhut received a 1989 Crystal Apple Award from the NYC Mayor's Film Office for his contribution to the city's film industry. That same year, he was honored with the Eastman Kodak Award for lifetime achievement.
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Shahul Hameed
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Shahul Hameed (Born 24/12/1958 - Died 03/03/1997) was an Indian playback singer who sang predominantly in Tamil cinema under the music direction of the Academy winner A. R. Rahman. His association with the composer dates back to the TV jingles in the 1980s. He is most known for songs, Rasaathi En Usuru from Thiruda Thiruda (1993), Usilampatti Penkutty from Gentleman [1993], Edhuku Pondaati from Kilaku cheemaiyile [1993], Maari Mazha Peyyadho from Uzhavan [1993], Senthamizh Naatu Thamizhachiye from Vandicholai Chinraasu (1994), Urvasi Urvasi , Petta Rap from Kadhalan (1994), Madrasa Suthi kaata Poren from May maadham [1994], Pachakili paadum Ooru from Karuthamma [1994], Aathaadi Enna Udambu from Sindhu nadhi poo [1994], Aval Varuvaala from Neruku Ner [1997], Vaarayo Thozhi from Jeans (1998) and More.
Shahul used to be a regular TV show [Doordharsan] singer in the 1980s. He has sung more than 30 songs in Ilamthendral and other shows. He was highly noticed on the television in the year 1982. During this time, he met A. R. Rahman who was also popular in composing TV jingles. Their first association was for the album Deen Isai Maalai, a Muslim Devotional album in 1989. There were some songs from this combination in the early 1990s and they became close friends.
Shahul Hameed died in a car crash in the year 1997 near Ulundurpet, Vilupuram District.
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Sachin Tendulkar
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Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (born 24 April 1973) is an Indian former international cricketer and a former captain of the Indian national team. He is often regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. He is the highest run scorer of all time in International cricket. Tendulkar took up cricket at the age of eleven, made his Test debut on 15 November 1989 against Pakistan in Karachi at the age of sixteen, and went on to represent Mumbai domestically and India internationally for close to twenty-four years. He is the only player to have scored one hundred international centuries, the first batsman to score a double century in an ODI, the holder of the record for the most number of runs in both Test and ODI, and the only player to complete more than 30,000 runs in international cricket.
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Rob Halford
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Robert John Arthur Halford is an English singer-songwriter, and is the lead vocalist for the Grammy Award-winning English heavy metal band Judas Priest.
He is considered one of the most consistently powerful singers in rock, possessing a wide vocal range, and is particularly known for his trademark high-pitched, operatic, soaring screams. His vocal range currently spans nearly four octaves. In addition to his work with Judas Priest, he has been involved with several side projects, including Fight, 2wo and Halford.
AllMusic said of Halford, "There have been few vocalists in the history of heavy metal whose singing style has been as influential and instantly recognizable... able to effortlessly alternate between a throaty growl and an ear-splitting falsetto."
He has also been nicknamed "Metal God" by fans. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Judas Priest in 2022, via the Award for Musical Excellence.
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Sanaa Gamil
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Born to a Coptic Orthodox family in Minya Governorate, she moved to Cairo to pursue her acting career and changed her name to Sanaa Gamil.
One of her most notable roles was Nefisah in front of Omar Sharif in the movie Bidaya wa nihaya (A Beginning and an End) directed by Salah Abouseif in 1960. The movie was based on a novel with the same name by the Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz. Sanaa Gamil won the best supporting actress award at the Moscow Film Festival in 1961 for her role in this movie.
Not only a movie actress, but more importantly one of the best Egyptian theater actresses. She has also played a number of roles on the French Stage for La Comedie Francaise.
She was married to the famous Egyptian journalist Louis Greiss and had no children.
She also acted in a number of TV series like Oyoun (Eyes) with Fuad Al Mohandes, and in a number of plays such as The Visit with Gamil Rateb
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Cheikh El Hasnaoui
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Cheikh El Hasnaoui, born July 23, 1910 in Taâzibt, a village in Kabylie in Algeria, is a singer, musician and singer-songwriter.
Orphaned by his mother at two years old, Mohamed Khelouat was raised by his family. The child grew up in the culture of the Zaouias where he attended Timaâmrin, where he learned the Koran and the Arabic language, the script of which he would later use to transcribe his songs. He left his native village around 1930 for the capital Algiers. He then lived on rue Mogador in the Casbah of Algiers and was even part of the Hadj M'hamed El Anka orchestra.
In 1937, on the eve of the Second World War, El Hasnaoui left Algeria for Paris, in the 15th arrondissement. The orphanage, the hunger, the poverty that Cheikh El Hasnaoui experienced during his childhood, marked him for life. Dreaming of impossible, but beautiful things, to escape a most atrocious and unbearable reality... He therefore took off and, like many of his colleagues, began his artistic career in Parisian North African cafes, transformed every Saturday evening and Sunday morning into Chaâbi performance halls. He became friends with certain great figures of the Algerian artistic scene and song based in France (Mohamed Iguerbouchène, Kaddour Cherchalli, Dahmane El Harrachi, etc.). In 1946, El Hasnaoui recorded for Odéon Yemma, Yemma (mother, give me your blessing), Ijah Errayis (the dissolute life) and Ayatwakal Aberkane (vibrant homage to the native land).
The second theme of El Hasnaoui's work, unlike that of the legend of the spurned lover, is inspired by his experience of exile. He sang of his own torments as a man exiled and deprived of his native land which nevertheless never left him in his heart and his mind. Everything that El Hasnaoui sang about Tamurt (the native land), this affliction and these setbacks of exile, we find them in legendary songs like La Maison Blanche, Ad Ruhegh, Aqlagh Nesbek, Ya Noudjoum Elil... The El Hasnaoui's specificity also lies in the fact that he sang in both languages, Amazigh and Arabic. His songs are very short in duration, an unprecedented detail in Algerian and Kabyle song in particular. El Hasnaoui was also the first to address themes considered taboo in his songs in the sentimental register.
From 1939 until the beginning of the 1950s, before the outbreak of the Algerian War, he produced most of his repertoire composed of 29 Kabyle songs and 17 in Algerian Arabic. In 1968, he recorded his last songs: Cheïkh Amokrane, Haïla hop, Mrebḥa, Ya Noudjoum Ellil and Rod Balek.
In 1968, he left the music scene for good. He first lived in Nice, in a small retirement, before settling for the last twelve years of his life in Saint-Pierre (Reunion), where he died on July 6, 2002. He is buried in the cemetery landscaper alongside his wife (Denise Khelouat, born Denis).
Rediscovered in the 1970s by Kabyle intellectuals, it has since been broadcast regularly on Algiers Channel 2; From Lounès Matoub to Lounis Ait Menguellet or later Kamel Messaoudi, El Meskoud, Hamidou, DuOudet and many others are inspired by or evoke the musical work of Cheikh El Hasnaoui, by honoring some of his successes .
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