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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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Oliver Reed
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Robert Oliver Reed (February 13, 1938 – May 2, 1999) was an English actor known for his "hellraiser" lifestyle. After making his first significant screen appearances in Hammer Horror films in the early 1960s, his notable films include The Trap (1966), playing Bill Sikes in the 1968 Best Picture Oscar winner Oliver! (a film directed by his uncle Carol Reed), Women in Love (1969), Hannibal Brooks (1969), The Devils (1971), portraying Athos in The Three Musketeers (1973) and The Four Musketeers (1974); the lover and stepfather in Tommy (1975), Funny Bones (1995) and Gladiator (2000).
For playing Antonius Proximo, the old, gruff gladiator trainer in Ridley Scott's Gladiator, in what was his final film, Reed was posthumously nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 2000. At the peak of his career, in 1971, British exhibitors voted Reed fifth most popular star at the box office. The British Film Institute (BFI) stated that "partnerships with Michael Winner and Ken Russell in the mid-60s saw Reed become an emblematic Brit-flick icon", but from the mid-1970s his alcoholism began affecting his career, with the BFI adding "Reed had assumed Robert Newton's mantle as Britain's thirstiest thespian".
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Kathryn Kane
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Kathryn Kane, born Katherine Kane, was an American actress and singer, who was, literally, the Midwest farm girl. After moving to New York, Kathryn soon found work as a model and nightclub singer. She first signed with Warner Brothers, making appearances in both their films, and for Universal. She had perhaps her biggest moment in Swing, Sister, Swing, and also appeared in The Spirit of Culver. A few years after the end of World War II, she left Hollywood and spent the next 40 years doing live theater.
She passed away at the age of 100 years Brentwood, California.
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Marysia Nikitiuk
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Marysia Nikitiuk (Ukranian: Марися Нікітюк; born in 1986; Kyiv) is a Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and fiction writer. She wrote and directed When the Trees Fall (2018) and co-wrote Homeward (2019), both of which have drawn recognition as among the best Ukrainian films. Nikitiuk also directed Lucky Girl (2021) and published a collection of short fiction, The Abyss (2016), which won the Oles Ulianenko International Literary Prize.
Nikitiuk was born in 1986. She attended Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv's Institute of Journalism, graduating in 2007. She then earned a master's degree in theater studies at Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University, focusing on Japanese theater.
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Daniel Wu
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Daniel Wu Neh-Tsu (Chinese: 吳彥祖; born September 30, 1974) is a Hong Kong actor and filmmaker. He is known as a "flexible and distinctive" leading actor in the Chinese language film industry. Since his film debut in 1998, he has been featured in over 60 films. A three-time Golden Horse Award winner, he starred in the AMC martial arts drama series Into the Badlands and the Disney+ wuxia action comedy American Born Chinese.
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Noli De Castro
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Manuel Leuterio de Castro, Jr. (born ), better known as Noli de Castro or "Kabayan" Noli de Castro, is a former Vice President of the Philippines (2004-2010). A radio and TV newsreader and commentator by profession, De Castro was elected Senator in 2001 and Vice President in 2004. He is the first independent candidate to receive the highest number of votes in a Philippine senatorial election and the first elected Vice President of the Philippines to run independently, although he campaigned in both elections under an alliance that supported the candidacy and administration of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. De Castro currently anchors his radio program Kabayan on DZMM and TV Patrol.
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Loretta Sanchez
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Loretta Lorna Sanchez (born January 7, 1960) is an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1997 to 2017, representing parts of central Orange County, California. A member of the Democratic Party, she was first elected in 1996, when she defeated long-serving Republican U.S. Representative Bob Dornan by fewer than 1,000 votes. During her time in the House of Representatives, Sanchez was a member of the Blue Dog Coalition of moderate-to-conservative Democrats.
Sanchez chose not to run for re-election to the House in 2016, instead opting to run in the state's U.S. Senate race. She was defeated in the general election by fellow Democrat, California Attorney General and future U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, 61.6% to 38.4%.
She is the sister of Linda Sánchez, who currently represents California's 38th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Arthur Max
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Arthur Max (born May 1, 1946) is an American production designer.
The native New Yorker began his career as a stage lighting designer in the music industry following graduation from New York University in the late 1960s. Those assignments included work at Bill Graham's famous music venue The Fillmore East in New York's East Village, and the historic Woodstock Festival of 1969. During the following decade, he designed concert lighting and festival stages for many rock and jazz artists. He was Pink Floyd's lighting designer during the bands' tours in the US and worldwide in the early-1970s. After studying architecture in England (earning degrees in the early-1980s from the Polytechnic of Central London and the Royal College of Art), Max went on to do several architectural design projects in London including an award-winning lighting design for the stage of St John's Concert Hall, a former 18th Century church in the centre of Smith Square, Westminster, London.
He entered the British film industry as an assistant to several English production designers. First for Stuart Craig on Hugh Hudson's "Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes" and "Cal" (both 1984), then for Ashetton Gorton on Hudson's "Revolution" the following year. He commenced his own production design career in TV commercials for ten years from 1985 to 1995 (for such clients as Pepsi, Nike, Jeep, Coke and Levi's), which led to his ongoing associations with directors Scott and Fincher.
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Benny Brunner
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Benny Brunner is an iconoclastic Dutch-Israeli filmmaker known for his critical political documentaries that defend the rights of marginalized and underrepresented groups. Since the 1990s, he has been creating films that explore a range of important issues including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Jewish and Israeli culture and history, European culture and politics, and inspiring individuals. In his work, Brunner seeks to challenge dominant historical narratives and promote democratic values such as human rights and freedoms. He has also made it a focus to address themes of nationalism and racism.
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D. A. Edwards
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D. A. Edwards (*1997) grew up in a musical family, both parents being professional musicians. First experiences with the piano at the early age of three, followed by studies on other instruments, lead to a great fascination with music. The strong interest in creating original compositions, combined with the experiencing of images and colors through music, has naturally brought forth a very special handling of musical ideas and concepts.
During teenage years, filmmaking became the primary interest, leading to an internship at a local TV studio. The opportunity to work in many different departments, resulted in great passion for the craft. Not neglecting musical development however, this was also the time in which first attempts at programming music electronically were made, which quickly evolved into the creation of digitally produced orchestral music.
Although the wish of becoming a Cinematographer in the motion picture industry grew during this time, writing music finally turned out to be the preferred way of painting pictures.
The passion for film, the experiences with many technical and artistic aspects of filmmaking, and the strong link between music and the perception of images, have formed a deep understanding of the requirements and needs a musical score must meet to effectively contribute to the story and carry emotions.
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