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John Nash Ott
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Dr. John Nash Ott (October 23, 1909 – April 12, 2000) was a photographer and cinematographer who developed many modern photographic practices, including time-lapse photography and full-spectrum lighting.
Initially, Ott's interest in time-lapse movie photography, mostly of plants, was just a hobby. Starting in the 1930s, Ott bought and built more and more time-lapse equipment, eventually building a large greenhouse full of plants, cameras, and even self-built automated electric moving camera systems (the first movie camera motion control systems ever built) for moving the cameras to follow the growth of plants as they developed. He even time-lapsed his entire greenhouse of plants and cameras as they all worked, a virtual symphony of time-lapse movement. His work was featured on an episode of the second incarnation of the request TV show, You Asked For It, in the late 1950s.
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Fatiha Berber
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Fatiha Berber (in Arabic: فتيحة بربار), real name Fatiha Belal (in Arabic: فتيحة بلال), born February 11, 1945 in the Casbah of Algiers in Algeria and died January 16, 2015 in Noisy-le-Sec, is an Algerian actress of theater, cinema and television.
She began her artistic career very young with singing and dancing. Fascinated by the shows of Mahieddine Bachtarzi which she often followed with her parents, which led her on the path to the Algiers conservatory towards the end of the 1950s. In 1959, she began in the orchestra of Meriem Fekkaï before to join, a few months later, the Algiers Conservatory in the Dramatic Art section. The actress will also participate in the national liberation struggle. At independence Fatiha Berber returned to art and played in Les Femmes savantes, by director Mustapha Gribi, in 1959, an adaptation of Molière's work. We will next see her in “Ah Ya Hassen” and “Les Concierges” by Rouiched as well as “Diwan El Garagouz” (Les Chiens) by Ould Abderrahmane Kaki. Fatiha Berber has also played numerous leading roles in, among others, "Fait Divers" and "Hassen Taxi"... as well as in several TV films and serials including "El-Bedra" (The Seed) and "El-La'Ib "(The Player)... Fatiha Berber was also president of the Friends of Rouiched association.
Iconic actress of Algerian cinema, she died in Paris following a cardiac arrest on Friday January 16, 2015, at the age of 76.
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Austin Westbay
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AUSTIN WESTBAY is a professional dancer who resides in Los Angeles. For the past six years he has toured internationally with the pop singer Kesha. As a back-up dancer he has done numerous television appearances and performed in front of thousands. Austin has worked for leading choreographers, including Ryan Heffington and Fatima Robinson. He has also had the pleasure of being a part of film projects directed by Hype Williams and Alma Har’el. Some of his more recent credits include music videos for Pharrell Williams, Daft Punk, Sigur Rós, and Arcade Fire, as well as being featured in the second season of the hit show Transparent. Throughout the years, dance has gracefully lead Austin onto the path of yoga and the healing arts. He is a registered yoga instructor and has been teaching and assisting for two years. Currently, he is in the process of applying to Five Branches University, a traditional Chinese medicine program in Santa Cruz, CA.
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Chantal Ladesou
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Chantal Ladesou (born 5 May 1948) is a French actress and comedian.
She was revealed to the public when participating in the TV Show La Classe in 1987. After the show, she started her career with several one-woman shows.
She is a big name in theater, being best known for her comic timing and her recognizable voice.
On the radio, she is a recurring member of the daily comedy programme Les Grosses Têtes, hosted by Laurent Ruquier.
Since 2016, she also has had more important on-screen roles, especially due to the success of the movie We Are Family (2016) and its two sequels: C'est quoi cette mamie?! (2019) and C'est quoi ce papy?! (2021). She also frequently works with the younger generation of directors like Philippe Lacheau and Tarek Boudali.
In 2022, she was a judge on the fourth season of Mask Singer.
In June 2023, the press announced that she will play the lead in the TF1 series “Le fil d'Ariane”, where she will play a court reporter.
Ladesou met her husband Michel Ansault and with whom she had three children, two boys, Alix (who died in a car accident), Julien and a daughter, the actress Clémence Ansault. Her son Julien Ansault is married to Pauline Lefèvre. She has five grandchildren.
Source: Article "Chantal Ladesou" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Leonard Peltier
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Leonard Peltier is a Native American activist and a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) who, following a controversial trial, was convicted of two counts of first degree murder in the deaths of two FBI agents in a shooting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He was sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment and was imprisoned since 1977. On January 19, 2025, the last full day of his presidency, Joe Biden commuted Peltier's life sentence to indefinite home confinement beginning on February 18, 2025. Peltier was released on that date.
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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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Ken Howard
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Ken Howard was an English songwriter, lyricist, author and television director. In the 1960s and 1970s, in collaboration with Alan Blaikley, Ken Howard composed the music and words for many international top 10 hits, including two UK number ones, "Have I the Right?" (The Honeycombs)[17] and "The Legend of Xanadu" (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich). Among other performers for whom they wrote were The Herd, Petula Clark, Phil Collins, Sacha Distel, Rolf Harris, Frankie Howerd (the theme song for his film Up Pompeii), Engelbert Humperdinck, Horst Jankowski, Eartha Kitt, Little Eva, Lulu and Matthews Southern Comfort. They were also the first British composers to write for Elvis Presley, including the hit "I've Lost You". Howard and Blaikley were responsible for theme and incidental music for several television drama series including The Flame Trees of Thika (1981) and By the Sword Divided (1983–1985),and the BBC's long-running series of Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple (1984–1992). Howard also scored BBC TV's BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning Shadowlands with Claire Bloom and Joss Ackland in 1985, Mervyn Peake's Mr Pye with Derek Jacobi and Judy Parfitt, and Ronald Neame's last film, Foreign Body in 1986, plus BBC TV's The Black and Blue Lamp and The Angry Earth in 1989.
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Amanda Bourne
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Amanda Bourne is a professional actress who has been working on screen, stage and voice over since graduating in 2020.
Amanda is known for recently playing the role of ‘Alice’ in the action film ‘Sunray: Fallen Soldier’ (on Netflix [currently in Australia & New Zealand] Apple TV, Amazon Prime and Sky worldwide) and her first leading role of ‘Caroline’ in the slasher horror ‘Terror At Black Tree Forest’ (available on Amazon Prime).
Amanda has most recently starred in the feature ‘Amelia’ for Macroverse Films and is excited to be starring in this film as the character Rose.
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Aurélie Meriel
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Aurelie Meriel was born on June 24 in Vernon, France (an hour from Paris) and made her debut in 1996 as Sarah in the tv-series “Papa Revient Demain”. In 1997 she had a role in the tv-movie ‘Nini’ and in 1999 she starred as Loulou in the Dutch movie ‘The Delivery’. Aurelie made her theater debut in 2000 with a role in the show Le Grain De Sable, in Paris. Aurelie had roles in the tv-movie ‘L’affaire Kergalen’ from 2001 and the movie ‘Le Papillon’ in 2002. In 2004, Aurelie acted in the play La Revue Genevoise, in Switzerland. In 2005 she had a role in the film ‘L'empire des loups’, she also started studying painting that same year. In 2006 Aurelie performed in the play Toutes les Couleurs in France, while she garnered attention in the play Love's Labor Lost in 2007 in France, Italy and Portugal. In 2011 Aurelie could be admired in the movie ‘Le diable dans la peau’. Aurelie made numerous guest appearances in several television series including, “Studio sud”, “Un homme en colere”, “Femmes de loi”, “Les Cordier, juge et flic”, “R.I.S. Police scientifique”, “Cellule identite”, “Brigade Navarro” and “Section de recherches”.
In 2011 Aurelie moved to Los Angeles in America. That same year she worked on the movie ‘Sick’. Aurelie further had guestappearances in that time in the France tv-series “Le juge est une femme”, “Falco” and “The Elisabeth Show” and had roles in the short France movies ‘La cage de Faraday’ and ‘Sick’. In 2014 Aurelie could be seen as Zoe Jelani in the American movie ‘Seal Team Eight: Behind Enemy Lines’. She shared the screen with Hollywoodstars like Jean Reno (‘Leon’) and Tom Sizemore (‘Saving Private Ryan’). Perry of Moov.nl was given the opportunity to interview the very sympathetic and friendly Aurelie Meriel for the website during her lightning visit to the Netherlands.
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Claude Renoir
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Claude Renoir (December 4, 1913 – September 5, 1993) was a French cinematographer. He was the son of actor Pierre Renoir, the nephew of director Jean Renoir, and the grandson of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
He was born in Paris, his mother being actress Véra Sergine. He was apprenticed to Boris Kaufman, a brother of Dziga Vertov, who much later worked in the United States on such films as On the Waterfront (1954). Renoir was the lighting cameraman on numerous pictures such as Monsieur Vincent (1947), Jean Renoir's The River (1951), Cleopatra (1963), Roger Vadim's Barbarella (1968), and the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). At the time of Claude Renoir's death, The Times of London wrote of The River that "its exquisite evocation of the Indian scene, helped to inaugurate a new era in the cinema, one in which color was finally accepted as a medium fit for great film makers to work in."
He also participated in the making of The Mystery of Picasso (1956), the documentary on painter Pablo Picasso directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. He was the cinematographer for The Crucible (1957) and lived in East Germany during filming. Renoir's career came to a close in the late 1970s, as he was rapidly losing sight. In his final years he was largely blind.
He married twice and had two children, a son and a daughter, actress Sophie Renoir. Claude Renoir died at age 79 in Troyes, 55 miles east of Paris, near the village of Essoyes, where he had a home.
Source: Article "Claude Renoir" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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