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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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Mahmoud Saad

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Mahmoud Saad (محمود سعد) is an Egyptian television host and journalist born in January 1954. He married his colleague the journalist Naglaa Bedair, and has a daughter named May. In 1978, he started his career in journalism through the “Good Morning” magazine. Eventually, he became head of the art section in the magazine, and later on he became a member of the board of directors. Then he worked as chief editor for the “Kawakeb” magazine from 2001 until 2006, added to that, he was the director of the Kuwaiti office of the “Wafd” newspaper located in Egypt for 10 years. Mahmoud also appeared in some movies, including The Third Man (1995), and Amir of the Seas (2009) with comedian Mohamed Henedy. His first experience as a TV presenter was through his program “On Paper” in 2001 which was broadcasted on Dream channel. He then joined MBC , following that the Egyptian national television presenting his famous program “Make Yourself at Home”. He also presented “The Experiment” on MBC, and presented “Egypt Today” on the national television channel. He was also director of “Azhari” channel owned by sheikh Khaled El Guindy.
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Saima Noor

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Saima (born May 5, 1967) is a Pakistani actress who has appeared in Punjabi and Urdu films and Pakistani dramas. She became a prominent film figure after starring in the film Choorian, which is considered as one of the highest grossing Pakistani films of all time.[1] Some of her other significant work includes Sher-e-Lahore (2001), Buddha Gujjar (2002), Majajan (2006), and Bhai Log (2011), all of which were commercial successes. She was one of the most popular leading actresses of Lollywood during 1990s, and early 2000s. Saima has acted in over 200 movies and is known for her work in multiple film genres, including action, romance, and comedy. She also did a supernatural film Naag aur Nagin in 2005. She has appeared in Shahzad Rafique's biographical film Salute.[2] She is currently active in Pakistani television industry, where she has established herself as one of the most acclaimed and highest-paid actresses of television in recent years.[3] In 2005, she married director Syed Noor with whom she had worked in a number of films.
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Peter Outerbridge

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Peter Outerbridge (born June 30th, 1966) is a Canadian film and television actor best known for his role as Ari Tasarov in the CW action series Nikita, Dr. David Sandström in the TMN series ReGenesis, Henrik "Hank" Johanssen in Orphan Black, Bob Corbett in Bomb Girls, William Easton in Saw VI, George Brown in the television film John A.: Birth of a Country, and Black Mask in Batwoman. He also played the lead role of Detective William Murdoch in a three-episode mini-series, The Murdoch Mysteries, in its initial run on Canadian television, with two episodes shown in 2004 and a third in 2005. Outerbridge was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, the son of a lawyer and youngest of five siblings. After high school Outerbridge enrolled at the University of Victoria to study acting. Afterwards he toured Canada for four years with the theatre group Way Off Broadway. In 1997 and 2002 he was nominated in the Canadian Genie Awards as the best actor in the films Kissed and Marine Life, respectively. He was also nominated in the Gemini Awards for his achievements. Outerbridge won a 2013 Canadian Screen Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or Series for his role in John A.: Birth of a Country. Outerbridge had a recurring role in the second season of Orphan Black, portraying the character Henrik "Hank" Johanssen, a Prolethean religious leader who is against the scientific processes that created the clones. In 2021, Outerbridge recurred in the second season of Batwoman as Black Mask.
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Eddie Acuff

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Eddie Acuff (June 3, 1908 – December 17, 1956) was an American actor. His best-known recurring role is that of Mr. Beasley, the postman, in the Blondie movie series that starred Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake. Acuff was born Edward DeKalb Acuff in Caruthersville, Missouri. His maternal uncle was a performer on 19th century showboats along the Mississippi River. Before beginning his Hollywood film career in 1934, Acuff performed in Broadway theatre in the early-1930s. His Broadway credits include Jayhawker (1934), Yellow Jack (1934), John Brown (1934), Growing Pains (1933), Heat Lightning (1933), and The Dark Hours (1932). He was seen in three film serials — as Curly in Jungle Girl, as Red Kelly, in Daredevils of the West, and as Spud Warner in Chick Carter Detective. On December 17, 1956, Acuff died of a heart attack in Hollywood, California. He is buried in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Oliver Reed

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Robert Oliver Reed (February 13, 1938 – May 2, 1999) was an English actor known for his "hellraiser" lifestyle. After making his first significant screen appearances in Hammer Horror films in the early 1960s, his notable films include The Trap (1966), playing Bill Sikes in the 1968 Best Picture Oscar winner Oliver! (a film directed by his uncle Carol Reed), Women in Love (1969), Hannibal Brooks (1969), The Devils (1971), portraying Athos in The Three Musketeers (1973) and The Four Musketeers (1974); the lover and stepfather in Tommy (1975), Funny Bones (1995) and Gladiator (2000). For playing Antonius Proximo, the old, gruff gladiator trainer in Ridley Scott's Gladiator, in what was his final film, Reed was posthumously nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 2000. At the peak of his career, in 1971, British exhibitors voted Reed fifth most popular star at the box office. The British Film Institute (BFI) stated that "partnerships with Michael Winner and Ken Russell in the mid-60s saw Reed become an emblematic Brit-flick icon", but from the mid-1970s his alcoholism began affecting his career, with the BFI adding "Reed had assumed Robert Newton's mantle as Britain's thirstiest thespian".
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Jake Weber

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Jake T. Weber (born 12 March 1963) is an English actor. He's best known for his role as Joe DuBois on the drama series Medium. He's also known for his roles as Owen Casserly in Those Who Wish Me Dead, Rear Admiral Raymond Spruance in Midway, Barry Walker on Netflix's 13 Reasons Why, Agent Hope in White House Down, John Campbell on AMC's Hell on Wheels, Brett O'Keefe on Showtime's Homeland, Michael in Dawn of the Dead, Jake Berman on HBO's The Mind of the Married Man, Gordon Ramsey in The Cell, Lt. Hirsh in U-571, Drew in Meet Joe Black, Mr. Wright in Amistad, Dr. Matt Crowe on CBS's American Gothic, Richie Wainwright on NBC's sitcom Something Wilder (starring Gene Wilder), and Curtis Morgan in The Pelican Brief. He's had recurring roles on Peacock's series Departure, Star Trek: Discovery, FOX's The Following, FOX's The $Street, and the PBS series Liberty!. He has had guest roles on NCIS: Hawai'i, The Blacklist, Elementary, House, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and Law & Order: SVU. Some info from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Darren Shahlavi

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Darren Majian Shahlavi (5 August 1972 – 14 January 2015), sometimes credited as Shahlavi, was an English actor, martial artist and stuntman. His surname is of Persian origin. He may be best known for his role as Taylor "The Twister" Milos in the 2010 film Ip Man 2. Shahlavi was known primarily for playing bad guys in martial arts films such as Bloodmoon and Tai Chi Boxer. He had starred in the Asian film series The Techno Warriors, and American films Hostile Environment, Sometimes a Hero, Legion of the Dead and the cult classic Beyond the Limits for German horror master Olaf Ittenbach. In recent years, Shahlavi appeared in big-budget films such as 300 and Watchmen, independent features such as The Final Cut with Robin Williams, and as an actor and stuntman in several of Uwe Boll's films, including BloodRayne and In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale.
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Wallace Ford

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Wallace Ford (12 February 1898 – 11 June 1966) was an English-born naturalized American stage and screen actor. Usually playing wise-cracking characters, he combined a tough but friendly-faced demeanor with a small but powerful, stocky physique. Born Samuel Jones Grundy in Bolton, Lancashire, England, he spent his childhood in a Dr. Barnardo's home. At an early age he was adopted by a farmer from Manitoba, Canada, where he was ill treated. About age eleven, Ford ran away and did odd jobs, later becoming an usher in a theatre. Following his discharge from the Army after WWI, he became a vaudeville actor in a stock company before performing on Broadway. He started on a film career when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer gave him a part in the film Possessed (1931) and went on to appear in over 200 films, including 13 directed by John Ford. Wallace Ford is buried in an unmarked grave in Culver City, California's Holy Cross Cemetery. From Wikipedia.
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Tico Torres

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Hector Samuel Juan "Tico" Torres (born October 7, 1953) is an American drummer and percussionist for Bon Jovi. He also has taken lead vocals on a song on the box set 100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong, as well as backing vocals on a couple of the early Bon Jovi tracks, notably "Born to Be My Baby" and "Love for Sale". Description above from the Wikipedia article Tico Torres, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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