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Ruby Mathers
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After assisting production designer Fiona Crombie on Garth Davis’ MARY MAGDALENE shot on location in Italy for See Saw Films, Ruby has forged an impressive trajectory into long-form production design, including the first season of Nash Edgerton’s celebrated series MR INBETWEEN for FX and Foxtel; the Australian box office hit THE DRY, adapted from Jane Harper’s best-selling novel for writer/director Robert Connolly and produced by Made Up Stories; and the fourth season of TOP BOY for Cowboy Films and Netflix, shot in London. In 2022, Ruby Associate Production designed Garth Davis’ feature film FOE, production designed by Patrice Vermette, starring Paul Mescal and Saoirse Ronan for See Saw Films, Anonymous Content, and Amazon Studios.
In 2024, Ruby is in production on WOLF MAN for writer/director Leigh Whannell, starring Christopher Abbott and Julia Garner, produced by Blumhouse Productions and Universal Studios.
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Julie K. Smith
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Julie K. Smith (born August 18, 1967) is a German actress. She was the Penthouse Pet of the Month for February 1993.
Smith appeared in a number of mainstream Hollywood films and B-movies before settling into the world of softcore pornography. She had an early starring role in the 1987 sex comedy Pretty Smart, alongside Patricia Arquette, as a rich sexpot at a private school in Greece, but her other roles in mainstream films of the late 1980s and early 1990s (such as The Last Boy Scout and Disorderlies) were minor. She had an uncredited role in the 1976 Alan Parker film Bugsy Malone.
With her entry into softcore films came more leading roles. She became a staple of the softcore scene in the late 1990s, appearing in three episodes of Erotic Confessions in 1996-97, The Bare Wench Project series, and several Andy Sidaris films, such as L.E.T.H.A.L. Ladies: Return to Savage Beach.
Smith had a long-running professional relationship with director Jim Wynorski, having appeared in numerous films of his during the 1990s and 2000s. According to the documentary Popatopolis, Smith announced her retirement from acting in 2005, after the completion of The Witches of Breastwick. However, in 2007, she came out of retirement and resumed making films with Wynorski.
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José Greco
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José Greco (né Costanzo Greco; December 23, 1918 – December 31, 2000) was an Italian-born American flamenco dancer and choreographer known for popularizing Spanish dance on the stage and screen in America mostly in the 1950s and 1960s.
José Greco was born as Costanzo Greco in Montorio nei Frentani to Paolo Emilio and Maria Carmela (née Bucci) Greco. He would later legally change his name. When he was 10 years old, Greco and his family moved to New York City. He began dancing in Brooklyn with his sister Norina at a young age.
Greco made his professional dancing debut in 1937 at the Hippodrome Theatre in Manhattan. His most famous partners were La Argentinita (Encarnación López Júlvez) and, after her death, her sister Pilar López. In 1949, he formed the José Greco Dance Company, with which he toured extensively.
He also appeared in a number of films, including Sombrero (1953), Around the World in 80 Days (1956), Holiday for Lovers (1959), Ship of Fools (1965), and The Proud and the Damned (1972).
In 1951 Greco made his first appearance in the UK at the Sadler's Wells Theatre. Later in the decade in 1954 and again in 1957 his troupe collaborated with Alfredo Antonini and members of the New York Philharmonic while performing during open air concerts at Lewisohn Stadium in New York City.
Greco received many honors and awards including being knighted by the Spanish government (Cruz Laureada del Caballero del Mérito Civil) and receiving four honorary doctorates.
José Greco started the José Greco Foundation for Hispanic Dance in 1972 and retired from the stage for the first time in 1974. He published an autobiography, Gypsy in My Soul: The Autobiography of José Greco, in 1977. He had six children, three boys and three girls. His sons José Luis and Paolo are composers; his son José Greco II is a dancer as are his three daughters, Alessandra, Carmela and Lola.
He came out of retirement in the late 1980s to form a company featuring his children. He appeared on stage for the last time in 1995, at the age of 77. Until his death he was Visiting professor of Dance at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
José Greco died of heart failure in his home in Lancaster, on the last day of the 20th century. In an obituary in the Los Angeles Times, dance critic Lewis Segal noted that Greco had been characterized as "the undisputed Spanish dance star of the '50s and '60s" and "the greatest of all dance stars until the advent of Rudolf Nureyev" in terms of box-office power.
Source: Article "José Greco" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Yuanqing Cai
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CAI Yuanqing, born in 1995, from Henan, Xuchang, now lives in Hangzhou.
Graduated from China Academy of Art and Gobelins l’École de l’Image respectively.
Main work including "COFFIN" which been nominated for the 48th Annie Awards, won Feinaki Award at the 3rd Feinaki Beijing Animation Week, Best Short Film at the 15th Xining FIRST Film Festival, Grand Prize in Tokyo Anime Award Festival, etc. At the same time, he was awarded by MARUYAMA MASO to win the Min Kim Award in TOPU Internation Animation Festival.
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David Palamaro
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In 2014 Writer/Director Dave Palamaro made In Heaven There Is No Beer, a feature-length music documentary that Film Threat called, "One of the Best Films of the year". Murder Made Easy, Dave's second feature film, is a one location murder/mystery. Murder Made Easy had a successful festival run in 2018 and was released by Terror Films and Scream Team Releasing in 2019. Horror Society called Murder Made Easy, "American Psycho meet Clue". And Indie Horror Online said that Murder Made Easy "Would make Agatha Christie proud". Dave Palamaro's short film, Grandfather, was nominated for a Student Academy Award.
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Rocco Urbisci
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Rocco Urbisci is an American director, producer and film and television writer.
Urbisci is best known for writing such films and television shows as Richard Pryor's Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling, The Richard Pryor Show and the made for television sequel to The Jerk entitled The Jerk, Too with Mark Blankfield replacing Steve Martin in the lead.
Urbisci worked frequently with comedian George Carlin and produced and directed many of Carlin's comedy specials.
He won an Emmy for producing the 1981 Lily Tomlin comedy special Lily: Sold Out.
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Bernard Soustrot
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Bernard Soustrot (born 3 September 1945) is a French classical trumpeter. He is the brother of conductor Marc Soustrot.
Born in Lyon, Soustrot entered the Conservatoire de Lyon at the age of 9, in classes of trumpet and cornet; four years later, he obtained a gold medal of trumpet, cornet and solfeggio. In 1970, he became a student of Maurice André at the Conservatoire de Paris. He was awarded various prizes, including in 1975 the first Trumpet Prize and won several renowned competitions, including Prague in 1974 and Geneva in 1975. In 1976 he won the first prize in the Maurice André contest.
He began his career in 1975 as a solo trumpeter in the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Sergiu Celibidache, then in 1976 at the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France under the direction of Gilbert Amy.
1981 marks the beginning of his career as an international soloist, often associated with a pipe organ. He has been regularly working with Jean Dekyndt, director of the Conservatoire de Toulouse since 1979, and François-Henri Houbart. He has collaborated with notable conductors such as Karl Münchinger, Seiji Ozawa and Karl Richter.
Happy in his art, he tries to share it through master classes. He created competitions like Prestige de la trompette de Guebwiller, or Concours international de quintettes de cuivres de Narbonne. He was a professor at the Conservatoire de Boulogne-Billancourt and that of Perpignan from 1998 to 2016.
Since 2015, he has been artistic director of the Occitania chamber Orchestra.
He was made a chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2011.
Source: Article "Bernard Soustrot" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Phylicia Rashād
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Phylicia Rashad (née Ayers-Allen; born June 19, 1948) is an American actress. She was most recently dean of the College of Fine Arts at Howard University before her three-year contract ended in May 2024. Known for her roles on stage and screen, she has received two Tony Awards as well as nominations for six Primetime Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
She is best known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the NBC sitcom The Cosby Show (1984–1992) which earned her two Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series nominations in 1985 and 1986. She also played Ruth Lucas on Cosby (1996–2000), and Brenda Glover in Little Bill (1999–2004). She was also Emmy-nominated for her roles in A Raisin in the Sun (2008) and This Is Us (2019–2021).
On stage, Rashad became the first Black actress to win the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, for a revival of A Raisin in the Sun (2004). She won her second Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for Dominique Morisseau's Skeleton Crew (2022). Her other Broadway credits include Into the Woods (1988), Jelly's Last Jam (1993), Gem of the Ocean (2004), and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2008).
She has appeared in various films such as For Colored Girls (2010), Good Deeds (2012), Creed (2015), Creed II (2018), Creed III (2023), and The Beekeeper (2024). She lent her voice to the Disney-Pixar animated film Soul (2020).
In the 21st century, she has directed revivals of three plays by August Wilson, in major theaters in Seattle, Princeton, New Jersey; and Los Angeles. She also directed Purpose (play) in its 2024-2025 run at the Helen Hayes Theater on Broadway.
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James Wong Howe
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James Wong Howe, ASC, was a Chinese American cinematographer who worked on over 130 films. A master at the use of shadow, he was one of the first to use deep-focus cinematography, photography in which both foreground and distant planes remain in focus. During the 1930s and 1940s he was one of the most sought after cinematographers in Hollywood. He was nominated for ten Academy Awards for cinematography, winning twice. Howe was judged to be one of history's ten most influential cinematographers in a survey of the members of the International Cinematographers Guild.
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Ahmed Salah ElSaadany
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Ahmed is a young Egyptian actor. His father, Salah Elsaadany, provided him with his first opportunity to act alongside him in a television series entitled "A Man from the Globalization Era." Ahmed proved successful as an actor, but was restricted to television roles as the series "Who fired the Shot at Hind Allam?" and "Words of Truth" until he was given his first role on the silver screen alongside Adel Imam in the film “Morgan Ahmed Morgan”. Since then, Ahmed's career has taken off and his been in several other films including "Best of Friends"
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