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Peemapol Panichtamrong
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Peak Peemapol Panichtamrong is a Thai actor managed by Starlatiz. His younger brother is actor Vic Vittawin Panichtamrong. After graduating from Assumption College in March 2018 , he went on to study industrial engineering at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang's international programme.
In 2016, Peak made his first foray into the entertainement industry when he was chosen via Instagram to play the protagonist in "Make It Right". In 2018, he and his costar Boom Krittapak competed in the third edition of the Chinese reality TV show "Thai Famous."
A drummer and guitarist, Peak contributed to the soundtrack of "Make It Right" under the group name Music Camp Project with the other cast members. On his YouTube channel CheekyDude, he uploads music covers with his colleague and friend Beam Boonyakorn Ratanaumnuayshai.
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Richard Ng Yiu-Hon
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Richard Ng Yiu-Hon (17 December 1939 – 9 April 2023), also known as Richard Woo, was a Hong Kong actor known for playing comedic roles, particularly in Hong Kong films of the 1980s and 1990s.
Ng appeared in 80 films to date. He was twice nominated for the Best Actor Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards, for his roles in Winners and Sinners and Beyond the Sunset. He worked alongside some of the biggest names in Hong Kong action cinema including Jackie Chan, Michelle Yeoh, Andy Lau, and Jet Li.
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Casey J. Adler
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Actor, Writer, Musician.
As an actor, Adler has appeared as a recurring guest star on Freeform’s critically acclaimed show Bunheads, played a hilarious chicken mascot on the FOX show Grandfathered, and filmed a gritty supporting role in Juveniles.
As a writer, Casey co-wrote the SoCal hit children's book Yorkietown with his sister and writing partner Kari Adler. Yorkietown has been featured in Gelson’s Markets, Bristol Farms, the Ryan Seacrest Foundation at Children’s Hospital of Orange County, Ritz Carlton Marina Del Rey, and many more. Currently, Yorkietown is being turned into a series! www.BoychickandBear.com
As a musician, Adler is one-half of the superduo PurpleJacket. He is in a league of his own as a guitarist, blending the warmth of his classical nylon with the attack of an electric guitarist. Along with Dave Matthews Band, Darius Rucker, and Evanescence, PurpleJacket is pleased to announce they were recently endorsed as a Fishman Artist. www.PurpleJacketMusic.com
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Alex Lemke
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Alex Lemke started his career in traditional optical effects work before moving into the digital world in 1994. Since 2000 he has been working as a freelance Compositor and VFX Supervisor at some of the most respected international facilities such as Weta, Double Negative and Framestore, as well as his in own VFX office in germany. His credits include “Dark City”, the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, “Sweeney Todd”, “2012”, “Inside Llewyn Davis” and the “Hobbit” trilogy. From 2009 to 2012, we was also teaching the course “Digital Arts and Compositing” at the Vienna Film Academy, Austria. Since 2011 he has been living and working in New York.
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Jesse Mattson
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Jesse Mattson is an Author and an Actor from the North East Tundra. Jesse likes sports, dogs, and action figures collections. Jesse also is the author of book, "Into the Den" which he wrote when he was 21. Jesse began working in Shipping in the Sony Pictures Post Production Department in 2011. He got his start in acting when Game Changing Films gave him an opportunity to be a Lacrosse Player in the film Crooked Arrows. Jesse then went on to do more movies in sports and has now broken out into main stream roles.
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Tom Livingstone
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Tom Livingstone, born in 1990, is an English climber and writer. Originally from the south of England, he now lives in Chamonix. He has a predilection for trad, winter, and alpine climbing: the harder the better!
Tom is also a renowned outdoor sports writer, and you can read some of his published articles in his website. His writing has been published in the United States and internationally, in print and online. Sir Chris Bonington said: "Tom Livingstone, one of the world's finest climbers, always uses the purest techniques. » His favorite routes include Cracking Up (IX, 9), The Fourth Dimension (E7 6c), Fun or Fear (ED), The Secret (IX, 9), Rare Lichen (E9 6c), Conan the Librarian (E6 6b), Divine Providence (ED), a winter ascent of the Walker Spur on the Grandes Jorasses, The Great Game on Koyo Zom (ED+), and the North Ridge variation on Latok I (ED+), but he's still eager to do more.
A mountaineering instructor and holder of both mountaineering and single-pitch certifications, he is also an IRATA Level 2 rope access technician. Tom also gives lectures and presentations (more information below). In 2019, Tom was awarded the Piolet d'Or for his ascent of Latok 1 with Aleš Česen and Luka Stražar.
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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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Dorival Caymmi
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Dorival Caymmi (Salvador, April 30, 1914 – Rio de Janeiro, August 16, 2008) was a Brazilian singer, composer, instrumentalist, poet, painter and actor, active for more than 70 years, beginning in 1933. He contributed to the birth of Brazil's bossa nova movement, and several of his samba pieces, such as "Samba da Minha Terra", "Doralice" and "Saudade da Bahia", have become staples of música popular brasileira. Equally notable are his ballads celebrating the fishermen and women of Bahia, including "Promessa de Pescador", "O Que É Que a Baiana Tem?", and "Milagre". Caymmi composed about 100 songs in his lifetime, and many of his works are now considered to be Brazilian classics. Both Brazilian and non-Brazilian musicians have covered his songs.
Ben Ratliff of The New York Times wrote that Caymmi was "perhaps second only to Antônio Carlos Jobim in 'establishing a songbook of [the 20th] century's Brazilian identity." Throughout his career, his music about the people and culture of Bahia influenced Brazil's image in the eyes of both Brazilians and foreigners. Caymmi was married to Brazilian singer Stella Maris for 68 years, and the couple's children, Dori, Danilo, and Nana, are also prominent musicians. Each debuted professionally by accompanying Caymmi onstage and in recordings. In 2014, Caymmi's granddaughter Alice also began a musical career.
Caymmi was born in Salvador, Bahia, to Durval Henrique Caymmi, the great-grandson of an Italian immigrant, and Aurelina Soares Caymmi, a native Bahian. He had two younger sisters, Dinahir and Dinah, and a younger brother, Deraldo. His father, a civil servant, often played the piano, guitar, and mandolin at home, and his mother, a housewife, sang regularly. He participated in his church's choir for much of his childhood. At age 13, he left school to work as a journalist at Bahian newspaper O Imparcial. When O Imparcial went out of business two years later, he took up work as a street vendor.
Although he never formally studied music, Caymmi taught himself to play guitar in the late 1920s and began to compose, sing, and play his own songs on Bahian radio programs around 1930. He first achieved widespread recognition in 1933, when he composed the song "O Que É Que a Baiana Tem?" ("What Is It About Bahian Women?") for singer Carmen Miranda. In 1936, at age 22, he won a songwriting contest at Salvador's annual Carnaval celebration. His prize was a pink satin lampshade. Despite his early musical success, he moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1938 with intentions to pursue a law degree and to return to working as a journalist. While employed there by the newspaper Diários Associados, he spent his spare time composing and singing songs on the radio show Dragão da Rua Larga. His popularity began to grow with the show's audience. ...
Source: Article "Dorival Caymmi" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Marc Craste
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Marc Craste is an award-winning animation director operating out of british animation company STUDIO AKA.
He has designed & directed three short films in the series PICA TOWERS which each inspired his 12 minute short film JOJO IN THE STARS (2003) which has won awards world-wide, including both the 2004 BAFTA for Best Animated Short Film & the 2005 Cartoon D'or!
His most recent film is a half hour short entitled VARMINTS (2008). Adapted from the childrens novel he co-wrote and illustrated, he collaborated on this project with icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson.
In 2020 he directed animated sequences for the Disney+ feature film, GODMOTHERED (2020).
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Charles Cullen
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Charles Edmund Cullen (born February 22, 1960) is an American serial killer. While working as a nurse, Cullen murdered dozens—possibly hundreds—of patients during a 16-year career spanning several New Jersey and Pennsylvania medical centers until finally being arrested in 2003. He confessed to committing as many as 40 murders at least 29 of which have been confirmed, though interviews with police, psychiatrists and journalists suggest he committed many more. Researchers have suggested that Cullen may have murdered as many as 400 people. However, most murders cannot be confirmed due to lack of records.
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