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Rudy Zamora
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"I was born in Mexico City. My dreams were to become a respectable dope fiend, but I could not accomplish this so I lost all self respect and became a cartoonist. I lived at the expense of Pat Sullivan and now Walt Disney carries the burden.” -From the June 20, 1931 edition of The Motion Picture Daily
Zamora worked for a short time in the early 1950s with director Gene Deitch at the Detroit Jam Handy Organization's animation studio, where he animated the film, "Roger Windsock" for the US Air Force, and on an industrial information film for the Otis Elevator company. Deitch claimed that Rudy was easily the best animator the conservative Jam Handy Studio ever had!
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Yuanting (Tina) Luo
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Tina is a 22 year old young filmmaker and storyteller. She was born in Liuzhou, China, went to New Zealand for high school, and is currently studying at Chapman University, Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. She has written, directed and edited a few short films (The Anniversary, Ellie, Back To You, etc), and her film "The Anniversary" has won and selected by several film festivals such as Carmarthen Bay Film Festival, Silent River Film Festival, Chicago Indie Film Awards, Independent Shorts Awards, etc.
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Patrick Huard
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Patrick Huard (born January 2, 1969) is a Québec actor, comedian, filmmaker, author, emcee, director and producer. He has appeared in 15 feature films, including La Vie après l'Amour, Nez Rouge, Sur le Seuil, Maman Last Call, Monica la Mitraille, Cadavres, Bon Cop Bad Cop (for which he co-wrote the screenplay and which became one of biggest box office successes of all time in Canada), Funkytown, Starbuck (Quebec's most popular film in 2011, distributed in more than 20 countries) and Omertà, from screenwriter and director Luc Dionne. This film revisits the cult TV series 11 years after the end of its third season. In March 2012, he made an eagerly anticipated return to the stage with his third one-man show entitled Le Bonheur, nearly 12 years after his last solo effort. Patrick is currently touring the province with this show. Previously, he presented two highly successful two comedy shows, 18 ans et plus and Face à Face. As well, he appeared in several Juste pour rire galas and in Eric Bogosian's play Talk Radio, doing some 1,200 shows and selling hundreds of thousands of tickets across Quebec.
On television, Patrick has played all kinds of characters-guy guys, bad guys and even a drag queen-in such series as Music Hall, Cover Girl, Fortier, Au Nom de la Loi and Taxi 0-22 where he spent four seasons as Rogatien, his famous irascible taxi driver. For this role, he was honoured with the Artis trophy in 2008 and 2009 in the "actor in a comedy program" category. The public also showed their affection for Patrick, twice selecting him for the Male Personality of the Year trophy, in 2009 and 2010. In 2012, after his return to the stage, Patrick took part in TVA's hit show Star Académie. After making his mark in the 2009 edition for his amazing ability to share his knowledge, he was pleased to reprise his role as a performance teacher on the popular program.
Patrick Huard has also hosted several Juste pour rire galas, the Gala de l'ADISQ, the Soirée des Jutra, a comedy series on Radio-Canada as well as several daily radio shows.
Increasingly, Patrick Huard can also be found behind the camera. He produced and directed Taxi 0-22 (four seasons on TVA), in addition to videos, commercials, a documentary for Canal D, his first feature film, Les 3 P'tits Cochons [The Three Little Pigs], the biggest box office hit in Quebec in 2007, and Filière 13.
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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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Daniel Robinson
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Daniel Robinson is a multi-talented actor, singer, dancer, director, choreographer, cinematographer, video editor, photographer, web designer and graphic designer.
Daniel made his Broadway debut in HAIRSPRAY (2006-2009). Closing its run, playing the role of Fender while understudying both Link Larkin & Corny Collins for Ashley Parker Angel & Lance Bass. On film, Daniel starred in THE BIG GAY MUSICAL as the lead Paul/Adam. Daniel starred as Will Parker in the 1st National Tour of OKLAHOMA!, HAPPY DAYS, as Potsie (understudy for The Fonz), and the European Tour of GREASE DAS MUSICAL. He was also privileged enough to work side by side with Madonna in her video "Give Me All Your Luvin".
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Gerald McRaney
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Gerald Lee McRaney (born August 19, 1947) is an American television and film actor. McRaney is best known as one of the stars of the television shows Simon & Simon, Major Dad, Promised Land and House of Cards. He most recently starred as Admiral Hollace Kilbride on NCIS: Los Angeles. He was a series regular in the first season of Jericho and the final season of Deadwood. He appeared in a recurring role as main antagonist Mason Wood in season eight of Castle. Recently, he played Barlow Connally in the A&E series Longmire and had a recurring role in the NBC series This Is Us as Dr. Nathan Katowski, a role which earned him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series.
McRaney has been married to actress Delta Burke since 1989.
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Kenny Barr
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Born Kenneth Michael Barr in Edison, New Jersey. He is the middle child of three boys. Brother Michael lives in Los Angeles and brother Jeffrey still lives in New Jersey.
Growing up, Kenny showed early interest music, playing the guitar to the songs of the Beach Boys, Led Zepplin and Kiss. In the late 80's Kenny began playing in bands and hit the Rutgers College bar scene in New Brunswick. After several gigs on the Jersey club circuit, Kenny was invited to play the famous bars of Bleeker St in Greenwich Village, NYC. A chance meeting with famous record producer Russ Titleman in NY lead to negotiations with several record labels including Arista and Columbia Records. In 1999, Kenny Barr released 2 songs for the feature film "Some Fish Can Fly" to positive critical acclaim.
Kenny Barr began his acting career on a bet with a friend to appear at a casting call for Karate Kid III. That meeting introduced Kenny to his long time Agent and began landing acting, commercial and print work.
Moving to Atlanta in 1998 Kenny was a Bounty Hunter and Private Detective tracking and apprehending fugitives traveling across the US.
Kenny has been acting in television and film projects since 2015 and producing several feature films.
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Marcy Page
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Marcy Page (born c. 1950) is an American animator, film producer and educator. Page was born and raised in California. She animated her own projects and for several companies, and she taught courses at both San Francisco State University and the California College of Arts before she emigrated to Canada. Her own film Paradisia won awards at many international festivals.
In 1990, Page joined the National Film Board of Canada, where she produced a number of animated films. Most notably, she co-produced the Academy Award-winning films Ryan (2004) and The Danish Poet (2006).[2] She also produced the Academy Award-nominated Madame Tutli-Putli (which won the Le Grand Prix Canal + du meilleur court-métrage at 2007 Cannes Film Festival and co-produced Me and My Moulton (2014) and My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts (1999), both nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. During her time at the National Film Board, she has worked on films that have earned over 250 international awards.
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Herbert Wise
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Herbert Wise (31 August 1924 – 5 August 2015) was an Austrian-born film and television producer and director.
Herbert Wise was born as Herbert Weisz in Vienna, Austria, and began his career as a director at Shrewsbury Repertory Company in 1950. He was at Hull Rep and then as Director of Productions at Dundee Rep (1952–55). He directed So what about Love in the West End at the Criterion Theatre in a 1970 production with Sheila Hancock in the lead.
Wise began his television career in 1956 and directed adaptations of I, Claudius (1976) and Alan Ayckbourn's play cycle The Norman Conquests (1977), the BBC Television Shakespeare production of Julius Caesar (1979), Tales of the Unexpected, The 10th Kingdom, The Woman in Black (1989), and episodes of Cadfael and Inspector Morse. He also directed several episodes of the Thames Television series Rumpole of the Bailey. He directed several made-for-TV films, including Skokie (1981) and Breaking the Code (1996), the latter adapted from the Hugh Whitemore play about Alan Turing.
Wise directed two theatrically released films: an entry in the Edgar Wallace Mysteries second feature series titled To Have and to Hold (1963), and the film version of the 1970–1971 television sit-com The Lovers titled The Lovers! (1973).
He was married twice, firstly to the actress Moira Redmond (1963–1972) and, after he and Redmond divorced, to actress Fiona Walker in 1988.[1] Wise and Fiona Walker had two children; Susannah Wise and Charlie Walker-Wise.
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Vicellous Shannon
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Vicellous Reon Shannon is a native of Memphis, Tennessee. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Lesra Martin in the 1999 film The Hurricane, and Keith Palmer, the son of presidential candidate David Palmer in the Fox television series 24. Vicellous also played in the 2006 film Annapolis.
Raised in Orange County, California, Shannon was a promising high school baseball player until being sidelined by a severely injured hamstring. He took an interest in acting and began taking the two-hour bus ride to Laguna Hills where he studied acting with R.J. Adams at The Actors Workshop, performing chores at the facility in lieu of tuition. His breakthrough role came a few years later in the television series Dangerous Minds.
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