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George Kirby
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George Kirby is a British stunt performer, fight coordinator, and filmmaker. Based in the United Kingdom, he has contributed to high-profile projects such as Star Wars, Game of Thrones, Doctor Strange, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, and The Batman, where he served in various capacities, including stunt performer and fight coordinator. In addition to his stunt work, Kirby co-directed the action-comedy film Accident Man: Hitman's Holiday (2022) with his brother, Harry Kirby, under their production company, The Kirby Brothers. Together, they have made over 15 short films.
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Eric Braeden
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Eric Braeden (born Hans-Jörg Gudegast; April 3, 1941) is a German-born film and television actor. The internationally-acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning and People’s Choice Award-winning film and television actor ERIC BRAEDEN is a television icon and arguably the most popular character in daytime history. For over 37 plus years, he has portrayed “Victor Newman” on the #1 rated daytime drama series The Young and the Restless, which has over 120,000,000 daily viewers around the world. The show is syndicated in over 30 foreign countries including Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, the Middle East, New Zealand, Romania, Slovenia, South Africa, Switzerland and Turkey.
Braeden recently wrote his critically acclaimed autobiography I’ll Be Damned: How My Young and Restless Life Led Me to America’s #1 Daytime Drama from HarperCollins, which appeared on the Publishers Weekly and Canadian bestseller list. Additionally, according to A.C. Nielsen, Braeden has one of the highest TVQ’s on television, and is one of the most recognized actors in the world. On July 20 2007, he was the recipient of a star on The Hollywood Walk Of Fame and become the first German born actor since Marlene Dietrich to receive such an honor.
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Arthur M. Mercante
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Arthur Mercante Sr. (January 26, 1920 – April 10, 2010) was an American boxing referee. His career lasted from the 1960s until 2001. Mercante's son also became a noted referee. In his youth, Arthur Mercante Sr. was a member of the Merchant Marines.
His first title bout was the second fight between Floyd Patterson and Ingemar Johansson. Johansson had won the world heavyweight title in the first fight. In the second fight, Patterson became the first fighter to regain the heavyweight title.
Mercante was also the referee for many notable bouts, including the first Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier fight on March 8, 1971, the first bout between George Foreman and Joe Frazier, the fight between Jerry Quarry and Earnie Shavers, the first bout between Alexis Arguello and Alfredo Escalera, the Wilfredo Gomez-Lupe Pintor fight, the first bout between Edwin Rosario and Jose Luis Ramirez and Rosario's bout with Hector Camacho Sr.
Mercante was born in Brockton, Massachusetts, and moved with his family to Brooklyn at age 7. During his teenage years, he fought in the Golden Gloves as a welterweight and graduated from Boys High School in 1938. He earned Bachelor's and Master of Science degrees from New York University in 1942 and 1947 respectively, the latter after serving in the United States Navy during World War II as a boxing instructor as part of a physical training program headed by heavyweight champion Gene Tunney. After the war, he refereed Golden Gloves and college bouts and became a varsity boxing coach at the United States Merchant Marine Academy until the sport was phased out at the intercollegiate level.
His refereeing career began professionally in 1956 and ended in 2001 at the age of 81. In 1995 he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, New York.
He was the first contestant on the June 26, 1960 edition of the television game show What's My Line? Refereeing was his avocation and the line the panel looked for was his vocation; that of beer salesman. He worked with Rheingold at the time and later moved to Schaefer in a similar capacity.
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William Calhoun
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William Dee Calhoun (August 3, 1934 – December 7, 1989) was an American professional wrestler, who used the professional name "Haystack" or "Haystacks" Calhoun.
Born on August 3, 1934, William Dee Calhoun grew up on a farm in McKinney, Texas; a rural suburb located in Collin County about 30 miles (48 kilometers) north of Dallas. By age 14, he already weighed 300 pounds (140 kilograms), as he routinely ate a dozen eggs for breakfast. By the time he was in his early 20s, Calhoun weighed over 600 pounds (270 kg). Legend has it that Calhoun was discovered by a traveling wrestling promoter that saw him pick up and move cows across a field. Calhoun first broke into wrestling in 1955 and he began competing for local promoter Orville Brown.
Initially performing under the name "Country Boy Calhoun", he performed in various regional territories, including Houston, Kansas City, and Canada. However, he first appeared nationally on Art Linkletter's House Party, a televised variety show where Calhoun tossed full bales of hay into a high loft. As a result of this feat, he adopted the name "Haystacks Calhoun." Recognizing the show business potential of such a gimmick, Calhoun decided to exaggerate his hillbilly persona by adopting the fictional birthplace of Morgan's Corner, Arkansas, while sporting a bushy beard, white t-shirt, blue overalls, and a genuine horseshoe around his neck on a chain. Moreover, while promoters typically did not book him for championships, he seldom lost a match. He was often booked in handicap matches and battle royals. He was matched up against fellow wrestling giant Happy Humphrey (who was billed as the heaviest wrestler in the world) in a series of highly promoted altercations at Madison Square Garden during the early 1960s. On April 14, 1961, in the Chicago International Amphitheater, he challenged Capitol Wrestling NWA United States heavyweight champion "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers in a second attempt to take the U.S. title. This bout ended in failure when Rogers dropkicked Calhoun to the ropes and the middle rope broke and Calhoun tumbled to the concrete floor and was counted out. Calhoun had also lost his first championship bout with Rogers in New York's Sunnyside Garden Arena on January 28, 1961. He also wrestled for NWA: All-Star Wrestling in Vancouver, where he twice won the NWA Canadian Tag Team Championship with Don Leo Jonathan. In 1966 he won both the NWA Tri-State Tag Team Championship and the NWA Canadian Tag Team Championship while teaming with a young Jack Brisco and Don Leo Jonathan, respectively. Moreover, he then helped attract fans to the fledgling Northeast promotion World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF). On May 30, 1973, Calhoun paired with Tony Garea to defeat the Japanese duo of Mr. Fuji and Prof. Toru Tanaka for the WWF Tag Team Title. He continued working for WWWF until 1979. Calhoun's weight and declining health eventually forced him into retirement, and he was ultimately confined to a double-wide trailer after losing his left leg to diabetes in 1986. He died at age 55 on December 7, 1989.
In 2003 WWE listed him as one of the 50 greatest WWE superstars of all time. On March 31, 2017, Calhoun was posthumously inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as a part of the Legacy Wing.
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Red West
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Red West (born 1936) is an American actor, film stuntman and songwriter.
West was born Robert Gene West in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of Lois and Newton Thomas West. He was a close high school friend of rock and roll singer Elvis Presley. An excellent athlete and former U.S. Marine, West played football for his high school and junior college teams and was a boxer in the Golden Gloves championships.
Today, he is probably best known to American film audiences for his role as Red in Road House, alongside Patrick Swayze.
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Chris Yeschenko
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Chris Yeschenko is a California native actor who is best known for his work in the "The Pale Red Dot" and "Your Colours Kiss My Eyes." A graduate of the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music at CSULB with a BM in Vocal Performance and a minor in Theatre Arts, he has performed on the stage as well as the screen, having participated in musicals throughout the LA and OC areas as well as multiple choirs during his time at CSULB. Chris has studied multiple disciplines of acting technique including Chekhov, Meisner, and Viewpoints, with a few highlights being the 2014 Steppenwolf Classes West Summer Intensive Program and studying Chekhov and its applications to on-camera work under the guidance of Marjo-Riika Makela. Currently, Chris is continuing to build his skills in Will Wallace's Master Class and training at UCB while seeking out more opportunities in the LA film and television scene. A lover of all areas of the performing arts, he has also studied classical, contemporary, and jazz music, as well as ballet, tap and jazz dance styles.
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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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James Spader
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James Todd Spader (born February 7, 1960) is an American actor. He is known for often portraying eccentric and morally ambiguous characters. He started his career in critically acclaimed independent films before transitioning into television, for which he received numerous awards and acclaim, including three Primetime Emmy Awards as well as nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and ten Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Spader started his career acting in youth-orientated films such as Tuff Turf (1985), Pretty in Pink (1986), and Mannequin (1987). His breakthrough role came with the Steven Soderbergh drama Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), for which he received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor. He then starred in films such as White Palace (1990), True Colours (1991), Stargate (1994), 2 Days in the Valley (1996), and Secretary (2002). Spader took supporting roles in Bob Roberts (1992), Wolf (1994), Lincoln (2012), and The Homesman (2014). He also played the role of Ultron in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015).
His television roles include the attorney Alan Shore in the last season of The Practice (2003–2004) and its spin-off Boston Legal (2004–2008), which earned him three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. He portrayed Robert California in the sitcom The Office (2011–2012). Spader is also known for starring as Raymond Reddington in the NBC crime thriller series The Blacklist (2013–2023), for which he received two Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actor—TV Series Drama.
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Kati Salowsky
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Originally from Boston, Kati finds her home in Los Angeles where she practices yoga and continues to root for the New England Patriots.
After singing Disney songs over and over on the fireplace mantle at the ripe age of 3, it was inevitable to Kati's family that she was born to be a performer. She was introduced to both dance and figure skating (thanks mom and dad) where she continued to compete in national and world competitions for the following 12 years.
Upon entering middle school, Kati quickly realized she wanted to get involved in her school's theater program. Her first performance was in the McCarthy School's rendition of "Bye Bye Birdie." Boom. The spark was ignited.
After years of community stage work, Kati became involved in the Boston film scene by working her way up on many great films such as Ted, Grown Ups 2, the Judge, and numerous independent and short films.
Since moving to Hollywood two years ago, Kati has booked work in numerous network shows such as CBS' "Code Black," "Love" on Netflix, "Survivors Remorse" on Starz, and supporting roles in Lifetime movies "The Spirit of Christmas" and "His Double Life."
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Anick Wiget
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Anick was born in the French side of Switzerland on February 8, 1969.
Her father was an engraver and her mother is an accountant. Her younger sister is a radio journalist.
Anick was educated at la Chaux-de-Fonds where she also studied architecture for four years before graduating as an architectural technician. She worked in that profession for over 15 years.
At the age of 19, she started working with a theatre company. First season, backstage, dealing with sets, props and costumes before she left the wings to move to the stage.
She lived in Berlin for a short period of time.
She came to England to study theatre design and briefly worked as wardrobe assistant at the Royal Court Theatre and Pimlico Opera, where she worked on a production of West Side Story with the inmates of Wandsworth Prison.
Anick began to work as a supporting actress after meeting with Mark Jones, a southern England based film director. She was first featured in Holy Flying Circus directed by Owen Harris. She appeared in Hacks, directed by Guy Jenkins then in New Tricks and Midsomer Murders.
She recently worked on the new Edgar Wright's film The World's End.
When she is not filming, Anick teaches French to primary school children.
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