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Dwayne Hickman

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Dwayne Bernard Hickman (May 18, 1934-January 9, 2022) was an American actor and television executive at CBS. He is known primarily for his "teenage" actor roles on television sitcoms. The naturally brown-headed Hickman is best known for playing Chuck MacDonald, Bob Collins's (played by Bob Cummings) crazy teenaged nephew, on the popular 1950s series, The Bob Cummings Show (a.k.a. Love That Bob), and the blond title character in The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. Description above from the Wikipedia article  Dwayne Hickman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Dan van Husen

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Dan van Husen (30 April 1945 – 31 May 2020) was a German actor. He started his career in the 1960s, playing in a number of Spaghetti Westerns (usually he was cast as the bad guy), and also performed in Italian and German films by renowned directors including Frederico Fellini and Werner Herzog and in German TV series. Starting in the 2000s he performed in Hollywood films, and in 2008 had a role in a Dutch World War 2 movie, Winter in Wartime. Dan van Husen died from COVID-19 in Ilminster, Somerset, England in May 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in England at age 75. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dan van Husen, 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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Rhiannon Morgan

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Rhiannon Morgan is a Canadian actor based in St. John's, Newfoundland. Preceding her most recent role in Melanie Oates' Sweet Angel Baby (2024), she had principal roles on both SurrealEstate (2021) and Hudson & Rex (2019). Rhiannon can be seen in Jeffrey St. Jules' The Silent Planet (2024) this year as well as leading in two 2023 short films, Poster Child (2023) and The Selkie Project. She was also featured in the 2023 series, Only the Night Knows (2024). Following her supporting role in the 2019 feature length film, Black Conflux (2019), Rhiannon went on to play the role of Kay in the award winning feature film, Little Orphans (2020), co-starring Emily Bridger and Marthe Bernard. She has had leading roles in numerous short films as well, including her starring role in the 2018 short film, New Woman (2019), for which she received three Best Actress nominations and two Best Actress awards. Rhiannon also starred in the multiple award winning 2022 short film, Mother's Skin (2022), by Leah Johnston and Jason Buxton. In addition to her film experience, she can be heard narrating the 2022 audiobook, We Jane, a novel by Aimee Wall. Rhiannon currently resides in Port Rexton with her family.
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Richard Goulis

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Richard Goulis is a prominent multi-disciplinary and performance artist, actor, director, and a central figure in the Providence, Rhode Island art scene. Known for his eclectic style, he works fluidly across video production, multimedia art, puppetry, and found-object assemblages. Goulis arrived in Providence in 1980 and graduated from the Film, Video, and Animation Department at the Rhode Island School of Design. His creative philosophy centers heavily on spontaneity, finding inspiration everywhere, and experimenting with materials. A significant portion of his multimedia art incorporates found or discarded items, which he recontextualizes into loose, poetic narratives. Over his decades-long career, he has also explored large-scale installations, durational performances, and organic sculpture.
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Simon Baker

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Simon Baker (born July 30, 1969) is an Australian actor and director. In his television acting career, he is best known for his lead role in the CBS television series The Mentalist as Patrick Jane and as Nicholas Fallin in The Guardian. In his film acting career, he is best known for the lead role of Riley Denbo in Land of the Dead and Christian Thompson in the film adaptation of The Devil Wears Prada, based on the 2003 novel of the same name. Simon Baker was born to a high school English teacher, Elizabeth Labberton, and a groundskeeper/mechanic, Barry Baker, on 30 July 1969, in Launceston, Tasmania. He was raised as a Roman Catholic. His parents divorced while he was still young. His mother later married Tom Denny, a butcher. Simon Baker also has a sister, currently a doctor in Australia, and three younger half brothers. By 1972, the family had moved from Launceston to Ballina, New South Wales, where Baker's parents hoped to secure better paying jobs. In 1986, he graduated from Ballina High School as Simon Baker-Denny, after completing his primary school education at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Primary School, also in Ballina.
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Rattanawadee Wongthong

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Mim Rattanawadee Wongthong is an actress under GMMTV. After graduating from Nawamintrachinuthit Satriwittaya 2 School, she went on to study at Sripatum University's School of Law for one year before moving on to study acting and directing at Srinakharinwirot University's Faculty of Fine Arts. In 2014, she made her acting debut with a role in the series "Full House". It wasn't until 2023 that she made her film debut with her first main role in "Death Whisperer" (​ธี่หยด).
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Little Milton

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James Milton Campbell Jr. (September 7, 1934 – August 4, 2005), better known as Little Milton, was an American blues singer and guitarist, best known for his number-one R&B single "We're Gonna Make It". His other hits include "Baby, I Love You", "Who's Cheating Who?", and "Grits Ain't Groceries (All Around The World)". A native of the Mississippi Delta, Milton began his recording career in 1953 at Sun Records before relocating to St. Louis and co-founding Bobbin Records in 1958. It was not until Milton signed to Checker Records that he achieved success on the charts. Other labels Milton recorded for included Meteor, Stax, Glades, Golden Ear, MCA, and Malaco. Milton was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1988.
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Harry Macqueen

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Harry Macqueen is an English actor, writer, and director. He trained at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. His professional acting debut was in Richard Linklater's 2008 film Me and Orson Welles, where he played 1930s Broadway star John Willard. Other credits include Jed Quinn in EastEnders and Peter in the feature film Provenance, for which he won Best Supporting Actor at the 2017 Madrid Film Festival. Hinterland was his debut feature film as a writer and director. It was nominated for Best British Feature at Raindance Film Festival 2014 and in three categories including Best Debut Film at the Beijing International Film Festival 2015. Hinterland was the UK's first fully carbon-neutral feature film. His second feature as writer and director titled Supernova, starred Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci. It had its world premiere at the San Sebastian Film Festival in 2020 and played as one of only 12 physical screenings at the 2020 London Film Festival. It gained rave reviews on its release. The film was long-listed for two BAFTA Awards including Outstanding British Film in 2021, and short-listed for Best Feature Film at the European Film Awards in the same year. In 2022, Supernova appeared on the 'Best British Films of the 21st Century' list - a poll by UK film critics. Description above from the Wikipedia article Harry Macqueen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Zhang Yixing

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Zhang Yixing (张艺兴; born 7 October 1991), known professionally as Lay (레이) and known internationally as Lay Zhang , is a Chinese rapper, singer-songwriter, dancer, actor, producer under Zhang Yixing Studio. He is a member of the South Korean boy group EXO and its sub-group EXO-M. In 2015, Zhang founded a personal agency for his solo activities and music releases and released an autobiography titled Standing Firm at 24. In 2016, Zhang released his first mini album, Lose Control. The EP peaked at number one on the Gaon Album Chart and number four on Billboard's US World Albums chart. Since his debut as a solo artist, Zhang has produced and released over 100 songs including 4 studio albums and 5 mini albums. In 2020, Zhang founded the Chromosome Entertainment Group and serves as CEO. He has also ventured into acting and starred in films and television shows such as Ex-Files 2 (2015), The Mystic Nine (2016), Kung Fu Yoga (2017), The Island (2018), The Golden Eyes (2019), Empress of the Ming (2019), Crime Crackdown (2021) and No More Bets (2023).
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