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Roberto Benzi
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Roberto Benzi (born 1937) is a French conductor and former child actor.
Roberto Benzi was born on December 12, 1937, in Marseille, France. His parents discovered his musicality when he was very young, and taught him solfège and piano. As a teenager he acted in two films. When he was about ten years old he received instruction from André Cluytens.
In 1960, at age 22, he made his first recordings with the Lamoureux Orchestra of works by Liszt, Beethoven, Bizet, Rossini, Respighi, and many more, for the Philips label, all released in the famous Hi-Fi Stereo series. He also made recordings with the Hague Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra. At age 27 he conducted "La Boutique Fantasque" (Rossini) for the Louis de Funes film The Sucker (1965). Benzi was the conductor of the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine from 1973 to 1987. He was the conductor of the Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra in Arnhem, The Netherlands from the 1989/1990 season till 1998. He later conducted orchestras in Russia and Japan.
Benzi resides in Paris. He was married to opera singer Jane Rhodes, who died in 2011.
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Tofig Bakikhanov
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Tofig Ahmed-agha oglu Bakikhanov (Azerbaijani: Tofiq Əhmədağa oğlu Bakıxanov) is a composer. He was awarded the title People's Artiste of the Azerbaijan SSR (1990).
Tofig Bakikhanov, a descendant of Baku khans, was born on 8 December 1930 in Baku, in the family of Ahmed–agha Bakikhanov, People's Artist of Azerbaijan. He began his musical activity as a violinist. In 1953, Bakikhanov graduated from the Azerbaijan State Conservatory specializing in violin, where Fikret Amirov was his teacher. In 1957, he majored in music composing, where his teacher was another prominent Azerbaijani composer Gara Garayev.
In 1950–1953, Bakikhanov worked as a violinist in the trio of the Azerbaijan Philharmonic Society. In 1953, he was the teacher and head of the string department of the Zeynally Baku College of Music. In 1966, he managed the department of arts edition and from 1968, the department of note-music literature of the Azernashr publishing house. From 1970, Bakikhanov began to work as the senior teacher of the department of chamber music and as the dean of the performing program of the Azerbaijan Conservatory.
Bakikhanov is the author of concerts for violin, violoncello, flute, oboe, dual concerts, musical comedies. Now the composer is the professor of Baku Academy of Music. Starting from 1969 till now, Bakikhanov performed recitals in Paris, Moscow, Tbilisi, Istanbul, İzmir, Tehran and in other cities.
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Sarunchana Apisamaimongkol
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Aye Sarunchana Apisamaimongkol is an actress and singer. She graduated from Assumption College Thonburi and, in 2022, received her bachelor's degree in communication arts (Communication Management) from Chulalongkorn University.
Aye started working in the entertainment business in 2013 when she participated in Channel 7's Young Model Contest 2013, ending in the first runner-up place. Since the network only signed the contest winner, Aye went to castings until finally debuting as an actor in the lakorn "Sut Khaen Saen Rak". Today, she's an artist under GMMTV.
With regard to her discography, Aye has sung numerous OSTs. She was the main vocalist of the project girl group SIZZY (ซิสซี่) formed by GMMTV in 2019. In 2023, they signed with Riser Music although they never released music under the label, ultimately disbanding on October 16, 2024.
Aside her acting and singing career, Aye co-owns the clothing brand 'Madly Dizzy', along with the other SIZZY members.
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Jon Sorensen
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Jon Sorensen was born and raised in rural Scotland. He had two parents. His grandmother and the cinema. He was sponsored in the film industry by such luminary Directors of Photography as Peter Suschitzky, Alex Thomson, Alan Hume, and Oscar-winning Visual Effects Supervisor 'Brian Johnson'. His first permanent address on joining the industry to work on Alien (1979) was a sleeping bag in Peter Cushing's former studio dressing room for which he is eternally grateful. During this time he took advantage of advice kindly offered him by Ray Harryhausen, Lindsay Anderson, and 'Sir Alec Guinness', and went on to work on a dozen mainstream features in visual effects and camera capacities before branching off into DP work in television drama and commercials. He also directed many commercials, most notably in Europe, and acted on many as visual effects director/DP. During this time he wrote his own screenplays. The first to be produced was a British television drama which he wrote, produced and directed, a supernatural story called 'A Return to Love'. He also operates his own camera, music edits and sound designs. He designed and directed the 35 visual effects shots for this project. He is the only person presently alive in the United Kingdom, in ten years, to have produced, written and directed the sole independent science-fiction feature film to have been subsequently given distribution in the United States. This was his debut feature Alien Blood (1999). He currently lives in the stunningly beautiful English Lake District with his wife and keeps one eye on the majesty of his native landscape and the other on Hollywood.
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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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Giorgos Pappas
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Georgios Pappas (Athens, 6 January 1903 - Athens, 3 May 1958) was a Greek dramatic actor.
In 1933 he made his first appearance in cinema in the film "The Bad Road" directed by the Turk Muthshin Ertrogul and written by Grigor Xenopoulos, alongside Marika Kotopouli and Kyveli, to devote the next 13 years exclusively to theatre. During the occupation, he served as a conductor with Vasso Manolidou, Nikos Dendramis and Emilios Veakis. After the liberation, he collaborated with Katerina, but a turning point in his career was the period 1953-1959, with the troupe he co-organized with Lampeti and Horn – a troupe of stars as it was characterized – which was also the last theatrical collaboration of his short life.
Some of his exceptional theatrical successes were in “Crime and Punishment”, “Don Juan”, “Caesar and Cleopatra”, “Saint Joan”, “Annunciation” and others. He also served as a professor of acting at the Drama School of the National Theater.
He appeared in cinema again in 1946, starring in the film “Forgotten Faces” by Giorgos Tzavellas, and in 1948 in “Madame Sousou” by Takis Mouzenidis. In 1952 he also starred in Alekos Sakellarios' film, "The Other" and in Michael Cacoyannis' "Sunday Awakening". From then on, although he knew that he was suffering from cancer and was doomed, he continued to act in theater and cinema, giving his best. His next films were: "The Unknown" by Orestis Laskos in 1956, "The Last Lie" by Michael Cacoyannis in 1957 and finally "The Train Man" by Dinos Dimopoulos in 1958, a film whose filming ended shortly before his death.
He translated many plays, several of which he directed himself, while at the same time contributing to French theater, for which he was honored with the bronze medal of the Legion of Honor.
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Sandra Vidal
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Sandra Vidal, ( born September 17, 1966) is an Argentine model and actress, gained prominence for her role as Sofia Alonso in "The Bold and the Beautiful" (1987). Prior to her acting career, she achieved success as an international model after winning Miss Punta del Este at 17, working in major fashion capitals. Her acting talent earned her an ALMA Award in 2002 and nominations for her soap opera performance. She has also appeared in films like "White Rush 2003" and most recently starred in the reality series "Rica, Famosa, Latina."
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P. Padmarajan
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P. Padmarajan was an Indian author, screenwriter, and film director who was known for his landmark works in Malayalam literature and Malayalam cinema. Padmarajan was the founder of a new school of film making in Malayalam, along with Bharathan, in the 1980s, which created films that were widely received while also being critically acclaimed.
Padmarajan was noted for his fine and detailed screenwriting and expressive direction style. Padmarajan made some of the landmark motion pictures in Malayalam cinema, including masterpieces like Oridathoru Phayalvaan (1981), Koodevide (1983), Arappatta Kettiya Gramathil (1986), Namukku Parkkan Munthiri Thoppukal (1986), Thoovanathumbikal (1987), Moonnam Pakkam (1988), Innale (1989), Season (1989) and Njan Gandharvan (1991).
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Helen Thomas
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Helen Thomas is an American author and former news service reporter, member of the White House Press Corps and opinion columnist of Lebanese Greek Orthodox/Melkite descent.[1] She worked for the United Press and post-1958 successor United Press International (UPI) for 57 years, first as a correspondent, and later as White House bureau manager. She was a columnist for Hearst Newspapers from 2000 to 2010, writing on national affairs and the White House. She covered every President of the United States from the last years of the Eisenhower administration until the second year of the Obama administration. She was the first female officer of the National Press Club, the first female member and president of the White House Correspondents' Association, and the first female member of the Gridiron Club.
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Hervey Bracken
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Hervey Bracken (2002-) is a filmmaker from North West England. He focused primarily upon cinematography within his studies in film, yet has branched out into directing with short debut Nova 1885, quickly followed by short documentary GG & NM. Now a graduate in film studies he collaborates with artists in the Liverpool arts scene, whilst studying an MA in Film Production, at University of Salford. Where he directed his newest film, An Itch To Scratch.
Also known for: Flatmates (2022), Square Eyes (2022), Bluesman: The Ballad of Al Peters (2022), Midnite Cruiser (2022), Bedbug (2022),Beauty and the Bin (2022), BC SFF doc (2022), The Ship (2023)...and more.
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