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Kevin Clash
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Kevin Jeffrey Clash (born September 17, 1960) is an American voice actor and puppeteer whose characters include Elmo, Baby Sinclair, Clifford, Splinter and Hoots the Owl. He currently serves as Sesame Street Muppet Captain and co-executive producer.
In the fall of 2006, Clash released an autobiography titled My Life as a Furry Red Monster: What Being Elmo Has Taught Me About Life, Love and Laughing Out Loud.
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James Glickenhaus
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James Glickenhaus is an American investment professional at Glickenhaus Co., the finance firm started by his father, Seth Glickenhaus. He was formerly a movie director before entering the finance world.
Glickenhaus wrote, directed and produced a number of films in the 1980s and 1990s including the controversial film The Exterminator and the Jackie Chan vehicle, The Protector. Having left the movie business several years ago, he returns with a cameo in Frank Henenlotter's upcoming film Bad Biology. Glickenhaus is also an avid collector of former racing vehicles, especially Ferraris. His coachbuilt Ferrari P4/5 by Pininfarina has been covered in national publications like Car and Driver.
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Bumper Robinson
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Bumper Robinson (born Larry Clarence Robinson II; June 19, 1974) is an American actor and voice actor known for his extensive work in television, film, and animation. He began his career as a child actor, earning the nickname "Bumper" from bumping into things while learning to walk. Robinson's notable live-action roles include Clarence on the sitcom "Amen" and appearances in films like "Enemy Mine" (1985) and "White Man's Burden" (1995).
He is perhaps best known for his voice acting roles, such as Bumblebee and Blitzwing on "Transformers: Animated," Dwight Conrad on "Futurama," Rook Blonko in "Ben 10: Omniverse," and Falcon in various Marvel productions. His voice work also extends to video games and other animated series, including "Justice League: Doom" and "Brother Bear." Over his career, Robinson has garnered acclaim for his versatility and distinctive voice talent across multiple entertainment media. He is married to Katherine Penton and they have two children.
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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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Vivian Maier
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Vivian Dorothy Maier (February 1, 1926 – April 21, 2009) was an American street photographer whose work was discovered and recognized after her death. She took more than 150,000 photographs during her lifetime, primarily of the people and architecture of Chicago, New York City, and Los Angeles, although she also traveled and photographed around the world.
During her lifetime, Maier's photographs were unknown and unpublished; many of her negatives were never developed. A Chicago collector, John Maloof, acquired some of Maier's photos in 2007, while two other Chicago-based collectors, Ron Slattery and Randy Prow, also found some of Maier's prints and negatives in her boxes and suitcases around the same time. Maier's photographs were first published on the Internet in July 2008, by Slattery, but the work received little response. In October 2009, Maloof linked his blog to a selection of Maier's photographs on the image-sharing website Flickr, and the results went viral, with thousands of people expressing interest. Maier's work subsequently attracted critical acclaim, and since then, Maier's photographs have been exhibited around the world.
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Constance Ford
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Constance Ford (July 1, 1923 – February 26, 1993) was an American actress and model. She began her career in television in the 1950s, performing in live television dramas on "Studio One in Hollywood" (1948),"Armstrong Circle Theatre" (1950), "Goodyear Playhouse" (1951), and other acclaimed series, and playing recurring characters in four afternoon serials; "Rose Peabody" in "Search for Tomorrow" (1951), "Lynn Sherwood" in "Woman with a Past" (1954), "Eve Morris" in "The Edge of Night"(1956) and "Ada Davis Downs Hobson" in "Another World" (1964). Ford's assertive style made her a favorite of TV casting directors, and she was often featured in episodes of "Ponds Theater" (1953), "Bat Masterson" (1958), "Rawhide" (1959), "Gunsmoke" (1955), "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (1955), "Twilight Zone" (1959), and other series, as tough but sensible career women.
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Nikolay Atanasov
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Niki Atanasov is visual effects producer and drone pilot with more than 20 years of experience in various areas of 2D and 3D VFX for TV and Film.
Niki is responsible for the producing of complete VFX/CGI projects for the film industry as well on set CGI Supervising.
He started learning 3D back in 1996 with 3D Studio for DOS and his first job was in 1998 as video editor on Premiere and 3D animator on 3DS Max for local advertising company.
In 2001 shortly after his 1 year service in the army he started learning 2D compositing techniques on Maya Fusion and Aftereffects and got a job at the local music television channel (MMTV) as Motion Graphics designer and Virtual Studio online operator and supervisor.
Niki's first film work started back in 2003 as 3D generalist at Nu Boyana's WorldWide VFX. At that time he have developed strong skills in modeling, texturing, rigging and animating including character animation as well very good compositing skills and basic understanding of the whole process.
Through the years Niki mastered the whole process of the VFX creation, technically and conceptually as well added more skills in his arsenal like matte painting, lighting design, learned several render engines, basic scripting for automation, dynamic simulations of rigid, soft bodies as well fluids.
In 2013 Niki moved to the next level and started producing Visual Effects by managing the whole VFX department at UFO that had 20 full time artists at the time. He build more efficient pipeline which improved the quality and reduced the costs by finishing the shows for short time than producers anticipated based on their previous way of work.
In 2016 was Niki's first job as drone pilot which came coincidentally as his hobbies was flying RC planes, helicopters and drones as well his love toward photography were he had to shoot various subjects related to the VFX work for Crystal Inferno. After that he did his next drone job again for VFX needs for Death Race: Beyond Anarchy. Then several films followed with drone work and recently Niki's drone company Golden Sky Birds LLC was part of several Hallmark productions as well they shoot two scenes for For All Man Kind Season 4.
For the last 10 years Niki have supervised and produced the VFX for more than 20 films and delivered more than 7000 shots. Meeting with producers, directors and heads of various departments, designing and estimating VFX approaches and their costs, from script to their final delivery.Nikolay Atanasov is known for his work on Pandora (2019), Firequake (2014) and Lake Placid vs. Anaconda (2015).
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Dea Kulumbegashvili
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Dea Kulumbegashvili is a Georgian film director and writer. She studied film directing at Columbia University School of the Arts and media studies at The New School in New York. Dea’s filmmaking has been informed by her experience of growing up in a place with such a mix of ethnicities and nationalities. Dea was born in Oriol, Russia and raised in a small town called Lagodekhi at the foot of the Caucasus Mountains in Georgia, a former Soviet Union republic. In 2016, she became the first Georgian director to have a film accepted in Cannes — her stunning minimalist short Invisible Spaces. In 2020, her feature debut BEGINNING became the first Georgian film to win the Golden Shell for best film as well as picked up the best director, best actress and best screenplay honors.
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Jean Topart
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ean Topart (13 April 1922 – 29 December 2012) was a French actor. He was considered one of the best known voices on French television for decades. In addition to providing the voices and narration for television series and animated films, Topart often dubbed American and other foreign films into French.
Topart was born in Paris, on 13 April 1922. His sister, actress Lise Topart, died in a plane crash in Nice, France, on 3 March 1952.
In 1973, Topart starred in the French science fiction animated film, Fantastic Planet, which was directed by René Laloux. Best known for his voice work, Topart co-starred in the 1981 Franco-Japanese animated television series, Ulysses 31, and The Mysterious Cities of Gold in 1982. He narrated the 2000 French animated series, Argai: The Prophecy.
Topart was cast in the French version of numerous foreign language films, including DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp for Disney in 1990. He was cast as narrator for the French-language release of the 2002 Walt Disney Animation Studios film, Treasure Planet, known as La Planète au trésor, un nouvel univers in French. Topart also dubbed the French-language voices for many foreign live-action films, including The Elephant Man in 1980, Birdy in 1984, and Amadeus in 1984.
Outside of animation, Topart was a member of the Théâtre national populaire (TNP), a French theater troupe, from 1950 to 1960 before entering film and television. His live-action film credits included Angélique, Marquise des Anges by Bernard Borderie in 1964 and Claude Chabrol's Chicken with Vinegar in 1985. His last on-screen film was the 2000 comedy, Les Acteurs, directed by Bertrand Blier.
Topart died in Le Port-Marly, Yvelines department, France, on 29 December 2012, at the age of 90. He was survived by his two daughters and five grandchildren. French Minister of Culture Aurélie Filippetti released a statement following Topart's death calling him, "one of the inimitable voices of French cinema."
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Stanley Kubrick
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Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, writer, producer, and photographer who lived in England during most of the last four decades of his career. Kubrick was noted for the scrupulous care with which he chose his subjects, his slow method of working, the variety of genres he worked in, his technical perfectionism, and his reclusiveness about his films and personal life. He maintained almost complete artistic control, making movies according to his own whims and time constraints, but with the rare advantage of big-studio financial support for all his endeavors. Kubrick's films are characterized by a formal visual style and meticulous attention to detail—his later films often have elements of surrealism and expressionism that eschews structured linear narrative. His films are repeatedly described as slow and methodical, and are often perceived as a reflection of his obsessive and perfectionist nature. A recurring theme in his films is man's inhumanity to man. While often viewed as expressing an ironic pessimism, a few critics feel his films contain a cautious optimism when viewed more carefully.
The film that first brought him attention to many critics was Paths of Glory (1957), the first of three films of his about the dehumanizing effects of war. Many of his films at first got a lukewarm reception, only to be years later acclaimed as masterpieces that had a seminal influence on many later generations of film-makers. Considered especially groundbreaking was 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) noted for being both one of the most scientifically realistic and visually innovative science-fiction films ever made while maintaining an enigmatic non-linear storyline. He voluntarily withdrew his film A Clockwork Orange (1971) from England, after it was accused of inspiring copycat crimes which in turn resulted in threats against Kubrick's family. His films were largely successful at the box-office, although Barry Lyndon (1975) performed poorly in the United States. Living authors Anthony Burgess and Stephen King were both unhappy with Kubrick's adaptations of their novels A Clockwork Orange and The Shining (1980) respectively, and both authors were engaged with subsequent adaptations. All of Kubrick's films from the mid-1950s to his death except for The Shining were nominated for Oscars, Golden Globes, or BAFTAs. Although he was nominated for an Academy Award as a screenwriter and director on several occasions, his only personal win was for the special effects in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Even though all of his films, apart from the first two, were adapted from novels or short stories, his works have been described by Jason Ankeny and others as "original and visionary". Although some critics, notably Andrew Sarris and Pauline Kael, frequently disparaged Kubrick's work, Ankeny describes Kubrick as one of the most "universally acclaimed and influential directors of the postwar era" with a "standing unique among the filmmakers of his day."
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