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Vince Russo
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Vincent James Russo is an American professional wrestling writer, booker and pundit. He is notable for his tenures with WWE, World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) in creative roles. He also occasionally made appearances as an on-screen authority figure, and professional wrestler, in WCW and TNA.
Russo's writing style often blurred the lines between reality and fiction, while also favoring elements such as shock twists, grand moments and larger-than-life characters over in-ring action, which made him a controversial figure amongst certain wrestling fans. Russo was head of the WWE's creative department during the widely acclaimed 'Attitude Era', during which the company achieved record high television ratings.
During a self-booked in-ring career in WCW, Russo became a one-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion, and scored televised singles victories over future WWE Hall of Famers Ric Flair and Booker T (the latter to win his world title).
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Xavier Marc
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Xavier Marc (Guadalajara, Jalisco, México, 16 de enero de 1948) es un actor, director y docentemexicano. Sus padres fueron Jesús Rivera y María Marc. Sus hermanos son: Guadalupe, Sara, Eloísa, Blanca Esthela, José, Rodolfo, José Luis, Jorge y Hugo. Estudió actuación en la Escuela de Artes Teatrales del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, en el Estudio de Dimitrio Sarrás, en la Academia de Uta Hagen y Bergboff en Nueva York. Sus producciones mas resaltadas de su trayectoria son: Amor sin maquillaje, Barrera de amor,Barata de primavera, María Belén, El alma no tiene color y El niño que vino del mar. Está casado con Claudia Obregón, con quien tuvo un hijo llamado Julio Cesar.
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Béatrice Arnac
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Béatrice Arnac (23 April 1931 – 5 October 2020) was a French actress, singer, and composer.
The daughter of the cartoonist Marcel Arnac,[Béatrice was also the niece of explorer Marie Gallaud.
In 1962, she received the Grand Prize of the Académie Charles Cros. She performed 22 songs that were written by songwriters such as Paul Éluard, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Robert Desnos, and Bertolt Brecht. She also performed in the second act of the play Le Bel indifférent. She performed at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and on the television show La Chance aux chansons. She was part of the cast of La Traversée de Paris, released in 1956.
Béatrice Arnac died in Castels et Bézenac on 5 October 2020.
Source: Article "Béatrice Arnac" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Annie Wersching
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Anne Wersching (March 28, 1977 – January 29, 2023) was an American actress. She was known for her television roles as Renee Walker in 24, Julia Brasher in Bosch, Emma Whitmore in Timeless, Dr. Kelly Neiman in Castle, Leslie Dean in Runaways, Lily Salvatore in The Vampire Diaries and Rosalind Dyer in The Rookie, as well as the voice and performance-capture for Tess in the video game The Last of Us. Description above from the Wikipedia article Annie Wersching, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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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Luis Contreras
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Tall, lean, and wiry, 6-foot-4 Euro-Indigenous Latino American character actor. The son of Euro-Indigenous Latino American character actor, Roberto Contreras. Luis Contreras was born on September 18, 1950. Lean and wiry, often sporting a mass of curly hair and drooping mustache, with his piercing dark eyes and angular face Contreras ranged between portraying various criminals and police officers. Contreras made his film debut as a Federale in Steven Spielberg's wonderful science fiction classic "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." He also popped up as a zoot suiter in Spielberg's hilarious all-star comedy "1941." Contreras frequently acted in movies for director Walter Hill: "The Long Riders," "48 HRS.,""Extreme Prejudice," "Red Heat," "Geronimo: An American Legend," and "Last Man Standing." Contreras was especially memorable as a grocery store security guard in the cult classic sci-fi black comedy "Repo Man," the vicious ringleader of a gang of cocaine cowboys in "Stand Alone," a hostile eye-patched biker in the delightfully madcap "Pee-wee's Big Adventure," and a deranged homeless man who terrorizes a trio of teenage girls in the "A Night on the Town" episode of the hugely enjoyable horror anthology "After Midnight." Contreras also did guest appearances on the TV shows "CHiPs," "Quincy M.E.," "T.J. Hooker," "Knight Rider," "Riptide," "Hill Street Blues," "Simon & Simon," "Night Court," "Hunter," "Matlock," and "Carnivale", regularly working through the 1970s and 1980s. Luis Contreras died of cancer at the tragically young age of 53 on June 20, 2004.
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Gilberto Forero
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Chilean actor and stagehand based in Cali. He started in the world of theater as a vagabond and spontaneous that got into everywhere. He did not tread the boards as an actor, but he did help to place them, as he worked as a painter during the construction of the Municipal Theater of Cali. A theater company that visited the city, in which he worked, served to initiate him as a stagehand and over the years he was the best in the trade. Thus he became an expert at lowering and raising the curtain.
In 1921 he participated as a stagehand during the filming of María, the first feature film made in Colombia directed by Máximo Calvo and Alfredo del Diestro, a film based on the novel of the same name by Jorge Isaacs. In 1941 he participated in the film Flores del Valle, by Spanish filmmaker Máximo Calvo. The film was the first feature film with sound produced in Colombia. More than 40 years would pass and it would be during the 80's that Mr. Fly would have his golden age, venturing again into cinema when he was rediscovered by directors Luis Ospina and Carlos Mayolo. In this way he filmed three more movies, Pura sangre, by Ospina, in 1982; Carne de tu carne, by Mayolo, in 1983; and El secuestro de Lupe. Of all of them, his most outstanding work was in Pura sangre, which was Luis Ospina's first feature film and perhaps the director's most important work, where Mr. Fly played the leading role representing 'Roberto Hurtado', a millionaire landowner from Valle del Cauca who had to receive blood transfusions from victims trapped by his son and who generated the urban myth of the 'Monster of the mangons'. The character was based on a popular businessman from Cali at the time, Don Adolfo Aristizábal, a role that so marked Mr. Fly that much later the stagehand kept one of his characteristic features of the character, the five-centimeter long fingernail on the thumb of the right hand, just as the old sick man exhibited it in the film.
In 1985 Forero participated along with the pioneer actresses of Colombian cinema Stella López Pomareda and Esperanza Calvo Cadavid, in the documentary short film En busca de María, by Luis Ospina and Jorge Nieto. This new appearance of Mr. Fly on the scene came 64 years after he had worked as a stagehand and López Pomareda as the protagonist in the shooting of María, the first feature film made in Colombia in 1921, directed by Máximo Calvo, Esperanza Calvo's father. Ospina and Nieto's documentary brought together historical research techniques, interviews and scenic reconstruction to rescue the memory of María, the first Colombian feature film.
Gilberto 'Fly' Forero died in Cali after a long period of illness at the Hospital Universitario del Valle, on March 24, 1997.
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Jon Bardin
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Jon Bardin is an Emmy-winning producer renowned for his impactful work in documentary filmmaking. He currently serves as the Head of Documentary and Nonfiction at Story Syndicate, a production company founded by award-winning filmmakers Liz Garbus and Dan Cogan.
Bardin earned his PhD in neuroscience from Weill Cornell Medical College, focusing on recovery from severe brain injury and disorders of consciousness. He has published research in several scientific journals, including Brain and Archives of Neurology.
He obtained his A.B. from Harvard College, concentrating in Visual and Environmental Studies.
Before joining Story Syndicate, Bardin was the Director of Development and Production for Documentaries and Specials at Discovery Channel. In this role, he was responsible for bringing new documentaries and specials to the network, managing projects from development through production, and identifying talent for new programming.
Bardin co-founded this non-profit production company, producing media to elucidate complex health issues. He served as a producer for Sleepless in America, a documentary co-produced with the National Institutes of Health that explored the critical importance of sleep and the consequences of its deprivation. The film premiered on National Geographic Channel in 2014.
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Chen Tang
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Born in Kobe, Japan, and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Chen Tang has taken a professional acting and modeling career from Miami, Boston, New York and finally Los Angeles where he has become recognized as an actor whose commitment enables him to transform into a wide range of characters.
Chen has had guest starring and reoccurring roles in "30 Rock" and "Delocated," as well as numerous lead and supporting roles in studio and independent films including the hit comedy "Let's Be Cops." He has also graced the stage in theatrical productions like David Henry Hwang's Broadway hit "Chinglish" and has numerous print and commercial campaigns for brands such as Starbucks, Apple, Old Navy, Costco, Muscletech, and Underarmour. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Scott Eriksson
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Lee Phelps
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Lee Phelps (May 15, 1893 – March 19, 1953) was an American film actor. He appeared in over 600 films between 1917 and 1953, mainly in uncredited roles. He also appeared in three films - Grand Hotel, You Can't Take It with You, and Gone with the Wind - that won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Phelps appeared in the 1952 episode "Outlaw's Paradise" as a judge in the syndicated western television series The Adventures of Kit Carson, starring Bill Williams in the title role. He also appeared in a 1952 TV episode (#90) of The Lone Ranger.
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