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Tom Morga

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Stuntman, stunt coordinator, and actor Thomas Alvin Morga was born on November 27, 1941 in Burbank, California. While in college, Morga worked as a smoke jumper stationed in Missoula, Montana between 1969 and 1974. It was Tom's work as a smoke jumper that led to his first television appearance as himself in the documentary series Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom (1963) in which he saved a wild buffalo herd from a forest fire. Morga first began performing stunts in films and TV shows in the mid-1970's. Among the notable actors who Tom has doubled for throughout his career are Jeff Goldblum, James Coburn, John Travolta, Leonard Nimoy, James Keach, Patrick Duffy, Jonathan Frakes, Tim Robbins, Robert Urich, Bruce Boxleitner, Keith Carradine, Harold Ramis, and Steve Railsback. A member of the Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures since 1982, Tom was the recipient of a well-earned Lifetime Membership Award from the Stuntmen's Association in 2012.
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Didier Bienaimé

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Didier Bienaimé, real name Didier Jean-Michel Serge Bienaimé, is a French actor born in Troyes (Aube) on June 9, 1961 and died on August 7, 2004 in Laguépie (Tarn-et-Garonne), of a heart attack in the age of 43. Originally from Champagne, Didier Bienaimé was an educator of young children, manager of a group of singers, before embarking on the stages of cabarets on the left bank. He played in French television films, notably Entre terre et mer in 1998 where he made a name for himself, or in La Kiné alongside Charlotte Kady. He was resident at the Comédie-Française from 1992 to 1994. He also interpreted Christ in Marie de Nazareth by Jean Delannoy. He died at the age of 43 of a heart attack on August 7, 2004, while spending his holidays in the south of France.
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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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Omri Katz

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Omri Haim Katz (born May 30, 1976) is an American actor. His TV and film credits include Eerie, Indiana; Matinee; Adventures in Dinosaur City; Hocus Pocus; and the CBS prime time soap opera Dallas, in which he played the role of John Ross Ewing III, the son of J.R. Ewing (played by series star Larry Hagman) and Sue Ellen Ewing (Linda Gray) from 1983 to 1991. Katz was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, the son of Israeli Jewish immigrants Rina and Yoram Katz. Katz has an older brother named Michael and an older sister named Lali. Katz lived in Israel for a year during his childhood. Description above from the Wikipedia article Omri Katz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Dagmara Dominczyk

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Dagmara Domińczyk (doh-MEEN-chik, born July 17, 1976) is a Polish-American actress and author. She's best known for her roles as Mercedès Iguanada in The Count of Monte Cristo (2002), Tania Asher in Rock Star (2001), Agnes Gebhard in Kinsey (2004), Marguerite in The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2004), Katrina on WB's The Bedford Diaries, Suzanne in Running with Scissors (2006), Belva in The Immigrant (2013), Elizabeth Taylor in Big Stone Gap (2013), Stacy in Let's Kill Ward's Wife (2014), Karolina Novotney on HBO's Succession, Ellen in The Assistant (2020), Erika Jensen on HBO's We Own This City (2022), and Elle Sellwyn on AppleTV's Hello Tomorrow! (2023). In 2013, she released her novel The Lullaby of Polish Girls. She has been married to actor Patrick Wilson since 2005 and they have two sons. Her sisters are actress Marika Domińczyk and actress Veronika Domińczyk.
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Alfie Boe

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Alfred Giovanni Roncalli Boe OBE (born 29 September 1973) is an English tenor and actor, notably performing in musical theatre. He is best known for his performances as Jean Valjean in the musical Les Misérables at the Queen's Theatre in London, the 25th Anniversary Concert, the 2014 Broadway revival and the All-Star Staged Concert. He played the lead role in Finding Neverland on Broadway beginning 29 March 2016. As well, Boe shared a Tony Award with the other members of the ensemble cast of Baz Luhrmann's 2002 revival of La bohème in 2003. He has sold more than one million albums in the United Kingdom. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alfie Boe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Judith Roberts

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Judith Anna Roberts (born December 1, 1934) is an American actress, best known for her roles as Mary Shaw in James Wan's horror film Dead Silence (2007), and as Taslitz, one of "The Golden Girls", in the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black. Her first film role was 1977 in Eraserhead. In the following years she appeared in a few other small roles in films and TV series, including Law & Order and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Her most notable role was Mary Shaw in James Wan's horror film Dead Silence in 2007. That same year, Roberts collaborated with Wan again in his film Death Sentence, playing Judge Shaw. In 2014, she had the recurring role in the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black. Along with the cast, Roberts received the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.
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Larry Kenney

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Larry is an American voice actor and radio personality. In 1963, Kenney began his radio career at the age of 15 as a disc jockey at WIRL in Peoria, Illinois. After WIRL, he worked at WOWO, Fort Wayne, Indiana; WKYC (AM, now WTAM), Cleveland, Ohio (1970–1973); WHN, New York City; WYNY, New York City; WJJD (now WYLL), Chicago, Illinois; and WKHK (now WLTW), New York City until 1972. He is also known for his voice work as Lion-O on the 1980s Rankin/Bass cartoon ThunderCats, and Karate Kat, a martial arts blackbelt cat featured as part of The Comic Strip. He was also the voice of Bluegrass in SilverHawks and Dolph in TigerSharks. Kenney also did voice work for several breakfast cereal characters, including Count Chocula and Sonny the Cuckoo Bird. In recent years, he has reprised this role for humorous ThunderCats references on the animated series Family Guy. In the 2011 ThunderCats animated series on Cartoon Network, Kenney returned to the series, but as Claudus, Lion-O's and Tygra's father. He was the announcer for The Beat 102.7 in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV and K.T.I. Radio in the L.A. Noire. He also gives the voice to JB Cripps in Red Dead Online, the online component of Red Dead Redemption 2. In 2008, he was hired to do an impersonation of Mark Twain for a gala held by the Mark Twain House and Museum.
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Pusit Dittapisit

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Fluke Pusit Dittapisit is a Thai actor under The Growing 8 Entertainment. In 2022, he graduated with a bachelor's degree from the Faculty of Political Science at Thammasat University, majoring in Politics and Government. Fluke started in the entertainment industry in 2019 when he was the runner-up in the Clean & Clear's and GMMTV's star search competition "Go On Girl & Guy Star Search 2019". He made his acting debut in 2020 with a guest role in the series "Wake Up Ladies 2: Very Complicated".
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Dimitri Logothetis

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Since his early days as director of acclaimed feature films, television and documentaries, award winning filmmaker, Dimitri Logothetis has excelled in all genres ranging from dramas to action and thrillers. In addition to his artistic endeavors, Dimitri Logothetis has run three companies, including Kings Road Entertainment, which produced such films as Slapshot with Paul Newman, Kickboxer with Van Damme, All of Me with Steve Martin and Lilly Tomlin, The Best of Times with Robin Williams and Kurt Russell, and The Big Easy with Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin. Dimitri has been a showrunner/Executive Producer for Warner Brothers, and managed over one thousand employees around the world, implementing over one hundred fifty million dollars of production financing in the last fifteen years. Dimitri recently wrote, directed, and produced Kickboxer Retaliation, a sequel to Kickboxer Vengeance, which he wrote and produced last year. Before that, he produced and wrote an award-winning documentary on infamous 50′s Chicago mobster Sam Giancana. Last year, Dimitri set up and will Executive produce, along with Todd Garner, a remake of “All of Me” with Universal. Previously, Dimitri sold a six-hour mini-series to Warner Brothers and Turner called Momo, which he wrote, on Sam Giancana, former head of the Chicago Outfit.
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