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Christian Ravier

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Christian Ravier, born in 1964 at Sarlat-la-Canéda in France, is a mountaineer and high mountain guide. Born in 1964, Christian Ravier grew up in Bordeaux. His father Jean and his uncle Pierre have a ritual of their own: leaving the city to climb the most challenging routes one can dare, for example at Ossau. Living legends of Pyrenees, the twin brothers sometimes take their sons. An icy bivouac at the age of fifteen at the Cirque de Barroude leaves its mark on Christian. "It's the race where they passed on their passion to me." From 1982, he settled between Pau and the Aspe valley. Years of climbing later, he climbs with the same flame. A free electron in the mountain planet of the Berlioz district, he lives in Pau. "I like life in the city because you meet other people there." City dweller, but not just anywhere: Berlioz cultivates the non-urban particularity of playing on the direct connection between men and peaks, with associations (1) marking the way like so many cairns. This dynamic offers him more time to experience the mountain in sharing. For example, he organizes the Verticualidad evenings at the Maison de la Montagne, or is currently participating in the creation of a future guides' office at the Cité des Pyrénées. Community life only suits him if he remains free but has been familiar to him since the Goutte d'eau, which he co-founded with Eric Pétetin and other climbers. The Cette-Eygun lodge accommodates children on training courses and in 1985 hosted an international gathering organized by the French Alpine Club of Pau. "It was a fantastic place for mixing between valley dwellers and young people from elsewhere. Some still talk about it with a tremor in their voices." Before being swallowed up by the Somport tunnel project and the ecological struggles associated with it, the valley lived its vertical epic. At La Mature, a tribe fueled by the taste of emptiness explored the rock in the wake of Erick Boileau. Christian Ravier was not yet 20 when he migrated to Aspe. He knew he would become a guide. "I like to pass on the mountain. A climb has three stages that are all intense. Before, the dream is a source of motivation. During, it is the committed time of action. After, the memory prolongs the story and makes it rich". His playground spontaneously expanded towards Spain and the far South, leaving the Alps and their too many ski lifts far away. "For a mountain, I need an approach". Guided by a taste for elsewhere and the sun, he travels in nomadic roped teams, with his friends or clients, unceremoniously combining the pleasures of stone and emptiness with those of the desert and mint tea. These wanderings in Morocco, Algeria or Jordan are passages for him, borrowed and shared. "I don't climb with someone to hold the rope for them or for them to hold the rope for me, but to experience a roped team story". Refractory to any label and sometimes embarrassed by the high-level image associated with him - a reputation linked to his talent for opening difficult routes - he doesn't shun the normal route of Ossau with a client. "I like initiation and my job, introducing someone to climbing is giving them pleasure."
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Austin Pendleton

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Austin Campbell Pendleton (born March 27, 1940) is an American actor, playwright, theatre director, and instructor. Pendleton is known as a prolific character actor on the stage and screen, whose six-decade career has included roles in films including Catch-22 (1970); What's Up, Doc? (1972); The Front Page (1974); The Muppet Movie (1979), Short Circuit (1986); Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990); My Cousin Vinny (1992); Amistad (1997); A Beautiful Mind (2001), which earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture nomination; and Finding Nemo (2003). Pendleton received a Tony Award nomination for Best Direction of a Play for the Broadway revival of The Little Foxes in 1981. He has received two Drama Desk Award nominations and the recipient of a Special Drama Desk Award in 2007. He also received a Obie Award for Best Director for the 2011 off-Broadway revival of Three Sisters. Recent Broadway credits include Choir Boy in 2016 and The Minutes in 2022. Description above from the Wikipedia article Austin Pendleton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Per-Axel Arosenius

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Per Axel Daniel Rank Arosenius (November 7, 1920 – March 21, 1981) was a Swedish actor of mostly supporting parts. His most prominent film role was that of Soviet defector Boris Kusenov in Alfred Hitchcock's 1969 film Topaz. After a dispute with the Swedish taxation authorities on March 21 1981, Arosenius protested by setting himself on fire outside their office in Nacka. He died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. He was 60 years old. Description above from the Wikipedia article Per-Axel Arosenius, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Marge Redmond

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Marjorie "Marge" Redmond (December 14, 1924 – February 10, 2020) was an American actress and singer. Redmond may be best known as Sister Jacqueline in The Flying Nun, which aired on ABC from 1967-70. She was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Sister Jacqueline during the 1967-68 season. She made guest appearances on numerous television programs. Redmond was also well known for her portrayal of sage innkeeper Sarah Tucker in a series of television commercials for Cool Whip during the 1970s. Films in which Redmond appeared include The Trouble with Angels (1966), Billy Wilder's Fortune Cookie (1966), Alfred Hitchcock's Family Plot (1976) and Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993). Redmond's theatrical experience included understudying both Angela Lansbury in the original Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd and Judy Holliday in Bells Are Ringing. She played a supporting role in the 1981 Broadway production of Ronald Harwood's The Dresser. In 1999, she appeared Off-Broadway in playwright Joan Vail Thorne's comedy The Exact Center of the Universe. Redmond died in February 2020 at the age of 95. Her death was not publicly announced until May.
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Kentaro Ito

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Ito Kentarō, formerly known only by his given name, "Kentaro", is a Japanese actor and model. He was born in Tokyo and began his early career as a model in 2012 at age 14. In 2014, he joined Bonn Image, a modeling agency, at first for advertising jobs. Then, he landed a supporting role in the highly rated nighttime drama "Hirugao: Heijitsu Gogo 3 Ji no Koibito Tachi". He's acting as a young high school student garnered attention, and in 2015, he appeared for the first time on the big screen with the movie "My Story!" and was well-regarded for his TV drama roles that year and through 2016, notably in "Gakko no Kaidan and Aogeba Toutoshi". He won his first leading roles in 2017 with the movie "Demekin" as a leader of a motorcycle gang and later, in the romantic time-travel TV comedy-drama "Ashi Girl", as the young Warring States era samurai lord Tadakiyo Kuhachiro Hagi. In 2018, he landed many more film and TV roles. On his 21st birthday, he announced a change from his stage name "Kentaro" to his full birth name, Ito Kentaro. He is also known by his fans as "Icchan" (いっちゃん). Currently, he is managed by the agency Aoao. Ito's car crashed into a motorcycle while driving in Shibuya Ward on the evening of October 28, 2020. Both the driver and the passenger of the motorcycle, a 26-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman, were transported to the nearest hospital. The woman suffered serious injuries including a broken leg, while the man had a bruised arm and a sprained neck. He was arrested for an alleged hit-and-run accident. The prosecutors suspended the investigation in March of 2021 after a settlement was reached with the two victims, and the prosecutors could not find enough evidence to prove intent since Ito had returned to the scene at the insistence of a witness after driving a bit over a hundred meters.
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Ken Marino

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Ken Marino is an American actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter. He was born on December 19, 1968, in Long Island, New York, to an Italian-American family. He attended West Islip High School in West Islip, New York, and then studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute and Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in New York City. Marino began his career as a cast member on MTV's sketch comedy series The State from 1993 to 1995. He has since starred in a number of television shows, including Party Down (2009-2010), Marry Me (2014-2015), Burning Love (2012-2013), and Childrens Hospital (2008-2016). He has also appeared in films such as Wet Hot American Summer (2001), The Ten (2007), Wanderlust (2012), and Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013-2021). Marino is married to actress Erica Oyama, and they have two children together. He is a frequent collaborator with his friend and fellow actor David Wain, and they have worked together on a number of projects, including The State, Wet Hot American Summer, and Childrens Hospital.
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Charlie Hall

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Charlie Hall (19 August 1899 – 7 December 1959) was an English film actor. He is best known as the "Little Nemesis" of Laurel and Hardy and appeared in nearly 50 films with them, so that Hall was the most frequent supporting actor of their films. Hall was born in Ward End, Birmingham, Warwickshire, and learned carpentry as a trade, but as a teenager, he became a member of the Fred Karno troupe of stage comedians. In his late teens, he visited his sister in New York and stayed there, finding employment as a stagehand. While working behind the scenes, he met the comic actor Bobby Dunn and they became friends; Dunn convinced Hall to take a stab again at acting, which he did. By the mid-1920s, Hall was working for Hal Roach. Stan Laurel, one of Roach's comedy stars, was also a graduate of the Karno troupe. As an actor, Hall worked with such comedians as Buster Keaton and Charley Chase, but is best remembered as a comic foil for Laurel and Hardy. He appeared in nearly 50 of their films, sometimes in bit parts, but often as a mean landlord or opponent in many of their memorable tit-for-tat sequences. Unlike the usual villains in Laurel and Hardy films, who were big and burly, Charlie Hall (billed as "Charley" Hall in the Roach comedies) was of short stature, standing 5 ft 5 in tall. His height and slight English accent allowed him to be convincingly cast as a college student, despite being 40 years old, in Laurel and Hardy's A Chump at Oxford. Hall almost never played starring roles; the exception was in 1941, when he was teamed with character comedian Frank Faylen by Monogram Pictures. Hall continued to play bits and supporting roles in short subjects and features through the 1940s and 1950s, occasionally on TV, appearing very briefly in Charlie Chaplin's final American film, Limelight (1952). In 1956 he played a small but important part in the TV show Cheyenne, season 1, episode 11, "Quicksand", starring Clint Walker, with Dennis Hopper, John Alderson, Wright King and Peggy Webber. His last role was in a Joe McDoakes short film starring George O'Hanlon, So You Want to Play the Piano, in 1956. Hall died in North Hollywood, California, on 7 December 1959. A J D Wetherspoon's public house in Erdington, is named The Charlie Hall as a tribute to him.
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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 Platt

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Oliver Platt (born January 12, 1960) is a Canadian-born American actor. He is known for his starring roles in many films such as Flatliners (1990), Beethoven (1992), Indecent Proposal, The Three Musketeers (both 1993), Executive Decision, A Time to Kill (both 1996), Dangerous Beauty, Bulworth, The Impostors, Dr. Dolittle (all 1998), Ready to Rumble, Gun Shy (both 2000), Don't Say a Word (2001), Zig Zag (2002), Pieces of April (2003), The Ice Harvest (2005), Martian Child (2007), Frost/Nixon (2008), Year One, 2012 (both 2009), Please Give, Love & Other Drugs (both 2010), X-Men: First Class, The Oranges (both 2011), Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return (2013), Frank and Cindy and One More Time (both 2015).
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Hal Sparks

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Harry Magee 'Hal' Sparks III (born September 25, 1969) is an American actor, comedian, musician, political commentator, and television personality. He is known for his contributions to VH1, hosting E!'s Talk Soup, and his roles as Michael Novotny on the American TV series Queer as Folk, Donald Davenport in Lab Rats, and as the voice of Tak in Tak and the Power of Juju television series and video games. After a successful run with Second City, he began performing at numerous comedy clubs including The Improv, The Comedy Store, The Laugh Factory and at Comic Relief's American Comedy Festival. For five seasons, he co-starred as Michael on the hit series Queer as Folk. His numerous television appearances include VH1s hit pop culture series I Love the 70s/80s/90s, The Tonight Show, Larry King Live, Charlie Rose, Good Morning America, The View, Politically Incorrect, The Late, Late Show and Hollywood Squares.
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