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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. He 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, Connery died at the age of 90.
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Dana Delany
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Dana Welles Delany (born March 13, 1956) is a multi-award winning American film, stage, and television actress. She is known for her role sas Colleen McMurphy on the ABC's China Beach (1988–1991), Katherine Mayfair on Desperate Housewives (2007–2010), Megan Hunt on Body of Proof (2011–present) and, as a voice-actress, Lois Lane in the DC Animated Universe as well as the television series The Batman. In an interview, she said she loves to play "complicated characters". Delany has been active in film, television, and stage since the late 1970s.
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Kevin Grant Spencer
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Kevin was born in Milford, CT and grew up in Cheshire, CT. He started acting in various high school and summerstage plays and musicals, and went to New York City at age 18 to get his BFA from Marymount Manhattan College. After college he appeared in various off-broadway productions and national tours, including a role as the Professor in the first national tour of Gilligan's Island: The Musical. In 2011 he moved from NYC to Los Angeles.
Kevin is a self-described political junky, and is active in local politics.
Kevin is an avid painter.
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Ewan McGregor
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Ewan Gordon McGregor (born March 31, 1971) is a Scottish actor. His accolades include a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. In 2013, he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his services to drama and charity.
While studying drama at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, McGregor began his career with a leading role in the British series Lipstick on Your Collar (1993). He gained international recognition for starring as drug addict Mark Renton in Trainspotting (1996) and as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999–2005). His career progressed with starring roles in the musical Moulin Rouge! (2001), action film Black Hawk Down (2001), fantasy film Big Fish (2003), and thriller Angels and Demons (2009). He gained praise for his performances in the thriller The Ghost Writer (2010) and romantic comedy Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011).
McGregor made his directorial debut with the crime film American Pastoral (2016), in which he also starred. For his dual role as brothers Ray and Emmit Stussy in the third season of the anthology series Fargo (2017), he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film. He voiced Lumière in Beauty and the Beast (2017), and played the title role in Christopher Robin (2018), Dan Torrance in Doctor Sleep (2019), and Black Mask in Birds of Prey (2020). He reprised his role as Kenobi in the 2022 miniseries Obi-Wan Kenobi, and won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor for his portrayal of fashion designer Halston in the miniseries Halston (2021).
McGregor has also starred in theatre productions of Guys and Dolls (2005–2007) and Othello (2007–2008). He has been involved in charity work and has served as an ambassador for UNICEF UK since 2004.
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Robert Livingston
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Robert Livingston (December 9, 1904 – March 7, 1988) was an American film actor. He appeared in 135 films between 1921 and 1975.
Often billed as "Bob Livingston," he was the original "Stony Brooke" in the "Three Mesquiteers" Western B-movie series, a role later played by John Wayne for eight films. He also portrayed the Lone Ranger in a mysterious 1939 serial directed by William Witney and co-starring Chief Thundercloud as Tonto, most of which is currently believed to be lost.
Livingston was born in Quincy, Illinois and died in Tarzana, California from emphysema. He was buried in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Tatiana Papamoschou
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Tatiana Papamoschou (Greek: Τατιάνα Παπαμόσχου, born 1964 in Athens, Greece) is a Greek actress who has starred in numerous Greek theatrical, film and television productions. She is best known for her role as the title character in the 1977 Oscar-nominated film Iphigenia (her first film role), for which she earned the Best Leading Actress Award at the 1977 Thessaloniki Film Festival.
Tatiana was only 13 years old when she was cast as Iphigenia. In addition to Greek, she speaks fluent English and French.
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Vladimir Andreyev
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Honored Artist of the RSFSR (10/14/1963). People's Artist of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1978). People's Artist of the RSFSR (07.27.1972). People's Artist of the USSR (1985). In 1952 he graduated from the State Institute of Theater Arts. A.V. Lunacharskiy (teachers - A.A. Goncharov, A.M. Lobanov). Since 1952, in the Theater. Ermolova (in 1970-1985 - the main director, in 1990-2012 - artistic director). In 1985-1988 - the main director of the Maly Theater. In the cinema since 1954 (film "True Friends"). Member of the CPSU since 1962. He teaches at GITIS, professor (since 1978), head of the department of acting. His students were actors: Kristina Orbakaite, Victor Evgrafov, Nikolai Tokarev, Elena Yakovleva, Viktor Rakov, Boris Mironov, Boris Dergun, Sergey Biryulin, Arseny Kovalskiy, Evgeniy Kamenkovich. Full member of the International Theater Academy (2000). Academician of the Academy of Humanities (1995). Wife - People's Artist of Russia Natalya Seleznyova.
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Franjo Tuđman
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Franjo Tuđman (14 May 1922 – 10 December 1999) was a Croatian politician and historian who became the first president of Croatia, from 1990 until his death in 1999. He served following the country's independence from Yugoslavia. Tuđman also was the ninth and last president of the Presidency of SR Croatia from May to July 1990.
Tuđman was born in Veliko Trgovišće. In his youth, he fought during World War II as a member of the Yugoslav Partisans. After the war, he took a post in the Ministry of Defence, later attaining the rank of major general of the Yugoslav People's Army in 1960. After his military career, he dedicated himself to the study of geopolitics. In 1963, he became a professor at the Zagreb Faculty of Political Sciences. He received a doctorate in history in 1965 and worked as a historian until coming into conflict with the regime. Tuđman participated in the Croatian Spring movement that called for reforms in the country and was imprisoned for his activities in 1972. He lived relatively anonymously in the following years until the end of communism, whereupon he began his political career by founding the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) in 1989.
HDZ won the first Croatian parliamentary elections in 1990 and Tuđman became the President of the Presidency of SR Croatia. As president, Tuđman introduced a new constitution and pressed for the creation of an independent Croatia. On 19 May 1991, an independence referendum was held, which was approved by 93 percent of voters. Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia on 25 June 1991. Areas with a Serb majority revolted, backed by the Yugoslav Army, and Tuđman led Croatia during its War of Independence. A ceasefire was signed in 1992, but the war had spread into Bosnia and Herzegovina, where Croats fought in an alliance with Bosniaks. Their cooperation fell apart in late 1992 and Tuđman's government sided with Herzeg-Bosnia during the Croat-Bosniak War, a move that brought criticism from the international community. In a final verdict of war crimes trial of former high-ranking officials of Herceg-Bosnia, the ICTY stated that Tuđman shared in their joint criminal enterprise goal of establishing an entity to reunite the Croatian people which was to be implemented through the ethnic cleansing of Bosnian Muslims. However, it did not find him guilty of any specific crimes.
In March 1994, he signed the Washington Agreement with Bosnian President Alija Izetbegović that re-allied Croats and Bosniaks. In August 1995, he authorized a major offensive known as Operation Storm which effectively ended the war in Croatia. In the same year, he was one of the signatories of the Dayton Agreement that put an end to the Bosnian War. He was re-elected president in 1992 and 1997 and remained in power until his death in 1999. While supporters point out his role in achieving Croatian independence, critics have described his presidency as authoritarian. Surveys after Tuđman's death have generally shown a high favorability rating among the Croatian public.
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Anders Randolf
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Anders Randolf (18 December 1870 – 2 July 1930) was a Danish American actor in American films from 1913 to 1931.
Anders was born in Viborg, Denmark where he became a professional soldier in the Danish army and a world-class swordsman. He emigrated to the United States in March 1890, quickly giving in to a lifelong passion for the theater. After briefly heading his own production company, Frontier Features, Inc., Randolf settled into a career as one of Hollywood's best screen villains.
Often billed as Anders Randolph, he appeared in character roles opposite such stars as John Barrymore (Sherlock Holmes 1922), Mary Pickford (Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall 1924) Douglas Fairbanks (The Black Pirate 1926), and Greta Garbo (The Kiss 1929). He also appeared in several comedy short films for Hal Roach alongside Charley Chase and Laurel and Hardy before his death in 1930 following a relapse after a kidney operation. He was later interred at Fredericksburg Cemetery in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Marc Macaulay
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Marc Macaulay is an American character actor and occasional stuntman with nearly 160 credits to his name. He was born in Millinocket, Maine, in 1957. He graduated with a BFA in theater from the University of Maine. Macaulay began his acting career in the early 1980s. He has appeared in numerous films and television shows, including Edward Scissorhands (1990), Passenger 57 (1992), Cop and a Half (1993), The Real McCoy (1993), and Burn Notice (2007-2013). Macaulay is also a skilled stuntman. He has performed stunts in films such as The Punisher (2004), Monster (2003), and The Jacket (2005). In addition to his work in film and television, Macaulay has also appeared in several stage productions. He has won numerous awards for his work, including a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in the 1997 production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot. Macaulay is a versatile actor who is known for his strong presence and his ability to bring complex characters to life. He is a respected member of the acting community and continues to work in film, television, and theater.
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