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Alexey Uchitel
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Aleksei Yefimovich Uchitel (Russian: Алексей Ефимович Учитель; born 31 August 1951; Leningrad) is a Russian film director, screenwriter and producer. In 2002, he received the title People's Artist of Russia.
Uchitel was born on 31 August 1951 in Leningrad to the family of documentary filmmaker Yefim Uchitel. In 1975, he graduated from VGIK, worked at the Leningrad studio of documentary films. In 1990, he founded his film studio "Rock". Uchitel's directorial debut was the film Gisele's Mania. In 2000, he received the Nika Award, the Kinotavr Grand Prix and the Crystal Globe nomination for His Wife's Diary. The film was about the last love affair of Ivan Bunin. His 2003 film The Stroll was entered into the 25th Moscow International Film Festival. His 2005 film Dreaming of Space won the Golden George at the 27th Moscow International Film Festival. In 2006, he was a member of the jury at the 28th Moscow International Film Festival. His 2010 film The Edge was selected as the Russian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards but it did not make the final shortlist. His film Break Loose was selected to be screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. The romantic drama Matilda directed by Uchitel about the relationship between ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya and Nicholas II was released on 23 October 2017. The picture became controversial after State Duma deputy Natalia Poklonskaya led a campaign to ban the film on religious grounds.
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Gérard Patris
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Gérard Patris is a French film and television director born March 5, 1931 in Bouresse (Vienne) and died February 28, 1990 in Chailles (Loir-et-Cher) during a traffic accident. He was also responsible for a lithography workshop. After secondary studies in Poitiers, Gérard Patris enrolled in an art school in Paris. At the start of his professional career, he founded a lithography workshop in Paris. This job allowed him to meet many major post-war artists for the creation of prints such as Dubuffet, Pignon, Manessier, Sonderborg, Arman, Hayter, Hartung and Matta. Dado worked there for a while. Gérard Patris married several times, including his first marriage to Marie-Claire Schaeffer, daughter of the composer Pierre Schaeffer, often presented as the father of musique concrete. This meeting will allow him to participate, under the direction of Pierre Schaeffer, in the ORTF research department in creation relating to Sound/Text/Image relationships. Gérard Patris, with Gilbert Delcros, director of the La Chesnaie clinic, is the founder of “La Chesnaie Films”, a television production unit whose workshops were based in the carriages of the Chailles clinic. His various encounters with artists from the world of music, painting and sculpture formed the basis of his film work.
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Amanda Zuzartee
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Amanda Zuzartee is a director/producer.
Her love for stories got her into filmmaking. She draws inspiration from many things around her and aspires to become a storyteller.
Amanda has directed a few projects, and has even won the BEST SHORT FILM award for her P.S.A short film entitled 'If'. Throughout the years, her college production team recognised her unique capabilities as a producer, having produced a few other projects. With her organisational and critical thinking skills, Amanda is reliable in any given situation.
Amanda's quote: "I envision, hence I create."
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Candi Milo
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Candyce Anne Rose Milo (born January 1961) is an American voice actress and singer. She has voiced various characters on many animated series including Tiny Toon Adventures, SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron, Dexter's Laboratory (from season 3 onwards), Cow and Chicken, ChalkZone, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Codename: Kids Next Door, My Life as a Teenage Robot, Loonatics Unleashed, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Maya & Miguel, W.I.T.C.H., The Life and Times of Juniper Lee, The Replacements, and The Adventures of Puss in Boots. Description above from the Wikipedia article Candi Milo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Georges de Beauregard
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Georges de Beauregard (23 December 1920 Marseille – 10 September 1984 Paris) was a French film producer who produced works by many of the French New Wave directors. In 1968, he was a member of the jury at the 18th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1983 he was awarded a Special César Award, the French national film prize. The second place prize at the annual FIDMarseille film festival is named for de Beauregard.
Source: Article "Georges de Beauregard" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Rezaur Rahman Rizvi
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Rezaur Rahman Rizvi is a multifaceted talent, excelling as a poet, writer, lyricist, playwright, and actor. Although born in Dhaka, his ancestral home is in Kushtia. A Gemini by zodiac, Rizvi was born on May 23, 1984. He completed his secondary and higher secondary education in the science stream from Dhaka Residential Model College. He then pursued both his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Anthropology from Jahangirnagar University. For the past decade and a half, Rizvi has been regularly acting in television serials and single-episode dramas, as well as writing plays. Some of his notable acting works include the serials Traffic Signal (RTV), Three Comrades (Ekushey TV), DB (ATN Bangla), and Samrat (NTV). Among his significant written works are the serial Makorsha: The Spider (RTV), the serial Natai Ghuri (Ekushey TV), the one-episode drama Jamai Porikkha (RTV), and the six-episode Eid serial Shesh Oddhay (Ekushey TV).
Rizvi has penned numerous songs released across various albums and digital platforms, with over a hundred artists from both Bengals lending their voices to his lyrics.
His poems and stories are regularly published in various national newspapers and magazines. He is also a frequent participant in talk shows on different TV channels.
In recognition of his work, Rizvi has received several awards, including the Human Rights Award (2017), Star Award (2017), Banglar Sangeet Swadhinata Smarak (2017), and Banglar Sangeet Performance Award (2017), among many others.
He is a member of several cultural and social organizations, including the Actors’ Association, Television Playwrights’ Association, and Shilpi Oikko Jot.
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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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Andy Sidaris
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Andrew W. "Andy" Sidaris (February 20, 1931 – March 7, 2007) was an American television and film director, film producer, actor, and screenwriter.
Sidaris was best known for his Bullets, Bombs, and Babes or Bullets, Bombs, and Boobs (BBB for short) series of B-movies produced between 1985 and 1998. These films featured a rotating "stock company" of actors mostly made up of Playboy Playmates and Penthouse "Pets", including Julie Strain, Dona Speir, Hope Marie Carlton, Cynthia Brimhall, Roberta Vasquez, Julie K. Smith, Shae Marks, and Wendy Hamilton. Several of his films were done wholly or largely in Shreveport using many local actors or actors with local ties.
Before the B-movies, Sidaris was a pioneer in sports television. He directed coverage of hundreds of football and basketball games, Olympic events, and special programs and won seven Emmy awards for his work in the field. His best known work was with ABC's Wide World of Sports; he was the show's first director, and continued in that post for 25 years.
Sidaris pioneered what he called the "honey shot", close-ups of cheerleaders and pretty girls in the stands at sporting events. He won an Emmy Award in 1969 for directing the Summer Olympics. He expanded into dramatic television in the 1970s, directing episodes of programs like Gemini Man (1976), CBS's Kojak (mid-1970s), ABC's The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (late-1970s) and ABC's Monday Night Football.
He expanded into film, specializing in action flicks featuring buxom gun-toting Playboy Playmates and Penthouse Pets with titles like Fit to Kill and Savage Beach. Most of Sidaris' "Triple B" series (later given the title L.E.T.H.A.L. Ladies) focused on the adventures of a team of secret agents and were mostly filmed in Hawaii. Several entries in the series were merely produced by him and were written and directed by others. Although the series featured recurring characters, continuity between films was not a priority and it was common for an actress who played a villain (and was killed off) in one film to re-appear in a subsequent film as a hero.
With his wife, Arlene T. Sidaris (born ca. 1942) as his production partner, Sidaris made twelve films. After Sidaris' death, she runs the official websites of his twelve films.
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Marianna Komlos
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was a Canadian bodybuilder, fitness model and Valet. She is perhaps best known for her stint in World Wrestling Federation in 1999 as Marianna and "Mrs. Cleavage", where she was the Manager and "mother" for a wrestler known as "Beaver Cleavage" a parody of the TV show Leave It To Beaver. Following the termination of the Beaver Cleavage gimmick in a scripted 'storm out' by Charles Warrington due to the absurdity of the gimmick, Marianna was portrayed as the girlfriend of Warrington (now with no gimmick), going by the name of 'Chaz'. Before she started bodybuilding, Komlos weighed as much as 197 pounds (89 kg). Komlos started competing in provincial contests in 1993, and eventually won the middleweight class at the British Columbia Championships in 1997. Jerry Kindela, editor-in-chief of Flex, said, "Marianna's one of the most beautiful bodybuilders I've ever seen." (Wennerstrom, 2004)
Komlos appeared on the covers of many fitness magazines including Muscle & Fitness (September, 1997), Flex (November, 1997), Women's Physique World (December, 1997), and Natural Bodybuilding & Fitness.
Contest history
1996 Gators Classic (Vancouver, BC) - 1st (LW and Overall)
1997 British Columbia Championship - 1st (MW) and Best Poser
1997 Women's Extravaganza - 1st (MW)
Personal life
She married mixed martial artist and stunt performer Paul Lazenby in 2004.[2]
Death
Komlos died on September 26, 2004 from breast cancer. She was 35.
See also
icon Professional wrestling portal
List of premature professional wrestling deaths
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Jesús Padilla
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Remembered by many for his active participation in the GRACET (CETYS Artistic Group), in the direction and performance of the works: Mexican Pastorela, Godspell, Las Cosas Simples, among others, and for his performance in several feature films, as "Workers", by Director José Luis Valle, in which he was nominated to the Ariel Prize as Best Actor in 2014 by the Mexican Film Academy. Lalo Dir. Omar Ynigo, Production By Jane Arapawe, is Mexican short film selected at San Diego Latino Film Festival , Buenas Noches Dia de Michelle Monarca Films (2016), Recien Cazado del Dir. Rene Bueno (2009), La Ciega Revolucion de Alvaro Zendejas (2008), Sin Pecado de Jorge Siqueiros (2011), Un Buen Hijo de Juan Gil Garcia y David Hauslen (2011).
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