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Jaron Ennis
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The 25-year-old Jaron “Boots” Ennis is one of the most talented and feared fighters in all of boxing. The latest in the pantheon of outstanding Philadelphia fighters, Ennis combines sublime boxing skills with natural power in both hands. A graduate of the prospect development series SHOBOX: The New Generation, Ennis became the first fighter to stop former world champion Sergey Lipinets in April 2021. He followed up that performance with an impressive first-round stoppage of veteran contender Thomas Dulorme in October 2021 and a second-round KO of then-unbeaten Custio Clayton in May 2022. That KO gave Ennis 19 KOs in his last 20 fights, with the only blemish being a no-decision after Chris van Heerden suffered a cut in the first round of their December 2020 match from a clash of heads. Ennis is trained by his father Bozy, and is the younger brother of retired pro boxers Derek and Farah Ennis. [Showtime]
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Laura Gemser
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Laurette Marcia "Laura" Gemser (born October 5, 1950, Java, Indonesia) is a Dutch-based actress of Indo descent. She is known for her work with director Joe D'Amato and Bruno Mattei, in particular, for doing a set of exploitation-style and Black Emmanuelle films. Gemser has also been credited as Moira Chen, most notably in Love Is Forever (1983).
Gemser left Indonesia in 1955, at the age of four, and moved with her parents to the Netherlands. She grew up in the Dutch city of Utrecht, where she attended the MULO Regentesseschool high school. After that, she attended the Artibus Art School in Utrecht, where she specialized in fashion design. In 1975 she moved to Italy.
After modelling in various magazines in the Netherlands and Belgium, Gemser began to take part in some soft erotic films. She became internationally recognised after starring in a number of Black Emanuelle films in the 1970s.
Her most mainstream and well-received role was as Laotian refugee Keo Sirisomphone in Michael Landon's 1983 American television movie, Love Is Forever, in which she was credited as Moira Chen.[citation needed] Gemser continued to do films: at times, she worked with her actor husband, Gabriele Tinti. In the 1990s, she left the movies to do costume designing for film. In addition, she lost her husband, who died of cancer in 1991. Today she lives in retirement and low profile in Rome, but she is still remembered as one of the many beautiful women who played the sensual adventuress Emmanuelle.
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Ayberk Pekcan
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Ayberk Pekcan (22 May 1970 – 24 January 2022) was a Turkish actor and former civil servant, politician and labourer.
Born on 22 May 1970 in Mersin, Ayberk Pekcan spent his childhood and youth in Adana and his birthplace. After studying his primary and secondary education in Adana and high school in Mersin, he graduated from Mersin University Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Theater. Pekcan was a labourer, a civil servant, and a teacher. He was a political member of the Social Democratic Populist Party in 1991 for local governments. In 2001, he resigned as a civil servant, settled in Istanbul and became a TV and film actor.
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Maurice Genevoix
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Maurice Genevoix (29 November 1890 – 8 September 1980) was a French author.
Born on 29 November 1890 at Decize, Nièvre as Maurice-Charles-Louis-Genevoix, Genevoix spent his childhood in Châteauneuf-sur-Loire. After attending the local school, he studied at the lycée of Orléans and the Lycée Lakanal. Genevoix was accepted to the Ecole Normale Supérieure, being first in his class, but was soon mobilized into World War I in 1914. He was quickly promoted to a lieutenant. He participated in the bloody battles of the Les Éparges hill as well as along the road of Tranchée de Calonne to the south east of Verdun-sur-Meuse in late 1914 and early 1915. On the 25 April 1915 he was severely wounded in action in his left arm and side in the Tranchée de Calonne sector and returned to Paris. The battle in the Meuse in which he participated, especially those at Les Éparges left a profound influence on him, and he wrote the tetralogy Ceux de 14 (The Men of 1914), which brought him recognition among the public.
Around 1919, Genevoix contracted Spanish influenza, causing him to move back to the Loire. He was quite prolific during his time in the Loire area, earning a Prix Blumenthal grant from the Florence Blumenthal Foundation to support him as a professional writer. It was this grant that allowed him to continue with some of his most celebrated works, Rémi des Rauches and Raboliot, the latter of which earned him the Prix Goncourt.
In 1928, his father died, and Genevoix moved to Vernelles in Loiret. At around this time, Genevoix started to travel abroad to Canada, Scandinavia, Mexico, and Africa. Canada and Africa were both admired by the writer, the latter of which he dedicated a 1949 essay to it, Afrique blanche, Afrique noire. He was elected to the Académie française on 24 October 1946 and was formally inducted the following year. In 1950, he returned to Paris and became secretary of the Académie française in 1958. In 1970, Genevoix, who was president of the program committee of French state radio, started a television series on French writers. He was also offered the Grand prix national des Lettres. He died on 8 September 1980 and was buried in Passy Cemetery.
Genevoix presided over the Friends of the Natural History Museum Paris society for ten years from 1970 to 1980. The Académie française literary Prix Maurice Genevoix is named for him.
On 11 November 2020, Genevoix' remains were transferred to the Panthéon.
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Ottaviano Dell'Acqua
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Born to a family of other actors and stunt performers, Ottaviano Dell'Acqua started acting in Italian Spaghetti Western productions as a child. Due to his boyish looks and enthusiasm for taking risks, he found himself more and more in demand as both a stunt performer and character actor throughout the 1970's, often appearing alongside one or more of his siblings (Roberto, Alberto, and Arnoldo). In the 1980's he turned to stunt coordinating and has worked steadily on both major Hollywood productions, as well as smaller European films, ever since. He may be best remembered by horror fans as the man behind the worm-eyed zombie mask on the poster for Lucio Fulci's ZOMBIE (aka ZOMBI 2) though has possibly the most mainstream exposure in GANGS OF NEW YORK as one of Bill the Butcher's lead henchmen. His only leading roles have been under the name "Richard Raymond" for director Bruno Mattei, particularly in 1983's RATS: THE NIGHTS OF TERROR in which he is top-billed. Curiously the same year he appeared in numerous other post-apocalyptic films (RAGE and AFTER THE FALL OF NEW YORK) in which he isn't billed at all.
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Sabine Bach
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Sabine Bach studierte nach dem Abitur an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main zunächst Geschichte, Literaturwissenschaft und Psychologie. Aus privaten Gründen ging sie Ende der 1970er Jahre nach Paris. Dort besuchte sie die Schauspielschule Jacques Lecoq, absolvierte eine Ausbildung in Improvisation und Maske bei Guy Sheeley und nahm bei Carlo Basso Unterricht im Theaterspiel der Commedia dell’Arte. Nach Abschluss ihrer Schauspielausbildung spielte sie am Theater in Montpellier und im Kabarett Safari in Marseille.
Ihre erste Filmrolle erhielt Sabine Bach 1980 von dem Regisseur Rudolf Thome, der sie in seinem Film Berlin Chamissoplatz in der Rolle der Anna besetzte. Mit Thome arbeitete Bach später noch mehrmals zusammen, so 1999 bei dem Film Paradiso – Sieben Tage mit sieben Frauen und 2000 in der Titelrolle der Venus in dem Film Venus Talking. 1984 spielte sie unter der Regie von Erwin Keusch in dessen Fernsehspiel Das leise Gift. Ab Mitte der 1990er Jahre begann dann auch ihre dauerhafte Karriere
im deutschen Fernsehen. Bach übernahm hierbei mehrere durchgehende
Serienrollen, Episodenrollen und auch Gastrollen. Bach war in durchgehenden Serienrollen unter anderem als Katharina Wagenfeld in der Sat1-Fernsehserie So ist das Leben! Die Wagenfelds, als Hannah Fink in der Serie CityExpress und als Karen Blumenberg in der SAT1-Serie Wahnsinnsweiber zu sehen. Bekanntheit erlangte Bach insbesondere durch die durchgehende Serienrolle der Maria Claasen in der ZDF-Fernsehserie Forsthaus Falkenau, wo sie von 2005 bis 2006 gemeinsam mit Volkert Kraeft spielte. Sie stellt darin eine Malerin dar, die sich in Dr. Fabritius, den weltmännischen Schulfreund des Försters, verliebt. Im Jahre 2006 übernahm Bach dann an der Seite von Walter Plathe die Rolle der sportlichen und lebensfrohen Lehrerin Anne Helligpeter in der ZDF-Fernsehserie Der Landarzt, die sie bis 2009 spielte. In der ARD-Telenovela Sturm der Liebe übernahm sie 2007 für einige Folgen die Rolle der Frau Dr. Padberg. Vom 22. Februar 2010 bis zum 24. Februar 2010 spielte sie in der Telenovela Alisa – Folge deinem Herzen die Rolle der Edith Castellhoff. Nach der Titeländerung auf Hanna – Folge deinem Herzen
mit neuer Hauptdarstellerin ab Folge 241 ist sie in der Telenovela seit
dem 25. Februar 2010 weiterhin in derselben Rolle zu sehen.
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Satish Kaushik
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Satish Kaushik is an Indian film director and actor in Hindi films and theatre. As a film actor his most remembered for his role as 'Calendar' in Mr. India, and as 'Chanu Ahmed' in Sarah Gavron's English film Brick Lane (2007). He also won Filmfare Best Comedian Award twice in 1990 for film Ram Lakhan and 1997 for Saajan Chale Sasural.
As theatre actor his most known role is that of 'Willy Loman' in Hindi play 'Salesman Ramlal, an adaptation of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.
As a dialogue writer he wrote dialogues for Kundan Shah's comedy classic Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron (1983).
His film Teree Sang starring Ruslaan Mumtaz and Sheena Shahabadi is based on teen pregnancy.
His latest film Milenge Milenge, starring Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor once again which has been delayed a few times.
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Cathy DeBuono
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Cathy DeBuono (born March 20, 1970) is an American actress and former athlete. As an athlete, she started a career as a successful volleyball player and received several awards and medals, such as two gold medals at the United States Olympic Festival in 1991 and 1992. Between 1988 and 1991 she attended the University of Kentucky on a full athletic scholarship for volleyball, played middle blocker and broke several records during her active playing days.
She was forced to end her career as a volleyball player due to a knee injury. After this, DeBuono started her acting career, and she performed in a stage play directed by a former student, Ashley Judd. She studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and graduated in 1994. In 2003 she earned a master degree in clinical psychology.
She appeared in the last three seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as M'Pella. She has worked as a stand-in, photo double, and body double for Terry Farrell. DeBuono received no on-screen credits until her final appearance in the episode The Dogs of War. DeBuono also appeared as a background regular in several episodes of the television series Chicago Hope as a paramedic. DeBuono was involved in the comedy series Jenny, The Pretender, Pacific Blue, Martial Law, Becker and Exes and Oh's.
She has also appeared in a few films, including the short project Gay Propaganda (2002) and the award-winning Out at the Wedding (2007), the romantic comedy And Then Came Lola (2008), and the short drama Tremble & Spark (2008). For the short film The Touch, by Jane Clark, she worked as associate producer and still photographer.
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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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Andreas Marschall
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Andreas Marschall is a German film director, screenwriter, and illustrator renowned for his contributions to the horror genre. He began his career as a record cover artist for rock and metal bands, creating iconic artwork for groups like Kreator, King Diamond, and Blind Guardian. Transitioning into filmmaking, Marschall directed notable films such as Tears of Kali (2004), Masks (2011), and co-directed the anthology German Angst (2015). His work is characterized by atmospheric storytelling and a deep understanding of horror aesthetics, solidifying his status in contemporary German cinema.
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