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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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Nicette Bruno
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Nicete Xavier Miessa, better known by her stage name Nicette Bruno (Niterói, January 7, 1933 — Rio de Janeiro, December 20, 2020), was a Brazilian actress. Nicette made her professional debut in 1945, in the play Romeo and Juliet, based on the literary work of the same name by William Shakespeare.
Daughter of actress Eleonor Bruno, Nicette was married to actor Paulo Goulart, with whom she had three children, actors Beth Goulart, Bárbara Bruno and Paulo Goulart Filho. Her television work includes Rosa dos Ventos (1973), Éramos Seis (1977), Selva de Pedra (1986), Bebê a Bordo (1988), Rainha da Sulcata (1990), Mulheres de Areia (1993), A Próxima Vítima ( 1995), Sítio do Picapau Amarelo (2001–04), Alma Gêmea (2005), Sete Pecados (2007), A Vida da Gente (2011), and other television works, being a pioneer of Brazilian television and one of the references in the history of teledramaturgy in the country.
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Kenneth Anger
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Kenneth Anger (born Kenneth Wilbur Anglemeyer; February 3, 1927 - May 11, 2023) was an American underground experimental filmmaker, actor and author. Working exclusively in short films, he produced almost forty works since 1937, nine of which in particular have been grouped together as the "Magick Lantern Cycle," and form the basis of Anger's reputation as one of the most influential independent filmmakers in cinema history. His films variously merge surrealism with homoeroticism and the occult, and have been described as containing "elements of erotica, documentary, psychodrama, and spectacle." Anger himself has been described as "one of America's first openly gay filmmakers, and certainly the first whose work addressed homosexuality in an undisguised, self-implicating manner," and his "role in rendering gay culture visible within American cinema, commercial or otherwise, is impossible to overestimate." Some of his particularly homoerotic works, such as Fireworks (1947) and Scorpio Rising (1964), were produced prior to the legalisation of homosexuality in the United States. He has also focused upon occult themes in many of his films, being fascinated by the notorious English occultist Aleister Crowley, and is a follower of Crowley's religion, Thelema. This influence is evident from films like Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954), Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969) and Lucifer Rising (1972).
Anger has described filmmakers such as Auguste and Louis Lumière and Georges Méliès as influences, and has been cited as an important influence on later film directors like Martin Scorsese, David Lynch and John Waters.He has also been described as having "a profound impact on the work of many other filmmakers and artists, as well as on music video as an emergent art form using dream sequence, dance, fantasy, and narrative." During the 1960s and 70s he associated and worked with a number of different figures in popular culture and the occult, including Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey, sexologist Alfred Kinsey, artist Jean Cocteau, playwright Tennessee Williams and musicians Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Jimmy Page and Marianne Faithfull. He is also the author of the controversial best seller Hollywood Babylon (1959) and its sequel Hollywood Babylon II (1986), in which he claims to expose many of the rumours and secrets of Hollywood celebrities.
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Thordis Brandt
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Thordis Brandt is a German-born American actress.
Thordis Brandt was born in Germany of Norwegian and German parents. She moved to Canada as a young girl and was raised initially at a farm in St. Norbert, Winnipeg, then moved to a mink ranch in Bella Coola, British Columbia, then to Vancouver in 1958. In 1963, Thordis graduated as a registered nurse from St. Paul's Hospital School of Nursing.
She moved to Santa Monica, California where she continued to practice her nursing in private duty. One of her jobs in private duty was serving actress Patricia Neal. Ms. Neal recommended Thordis to other actors and actresses and Thordis became known as the "actor's nurse". Thordis began her career as a nurse advisor in Ben Casey where she made appearances on the show.
After retiring from acting, she continued nursing in Beverly Hills.
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Tom Beechcroft
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Tom Beechcroft (born Tom George Bateman) is a British actor from London, UK. He began acting after achieving a drama scholarship to Wellington College, Crowthorne and subsequently began to quickly garner a passion for both acting and filmmaking.
Upon finishing school, Tom began his career on stage at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival playing the titular character in Shakespeares Hamlet, however with an eagerness to learn more about the world of film and television, began his university degree in Film Production for Film and Television at the New York Film Academy in Los Angeles. During his time in Los Angeles, Tom wrote and directed a multitude of different projects including a project for NASA and the James Webb Telescope program.
Upon returning to the UK, Tom continued his studies into acting, and completed a course at the London Actors Workshop. He quickly made waves in the commercial space, leading campaigns for Lidl, Shell and Smyths toy store before moving to television with Amazon and Discovery's Love, Honor and Betray, a music video for the band Lovejoy and two feature films (Freddy's Fridays, Island of the Dolls 2) since his return from Los Angeles.
Tom is also in pre-production for his own project War Cares Little in which he'll direct and star in.
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Pepe Soriano
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Pepe Soriano (born José Carlos Soriano, on September 25, 1929) is a prominent Argentine actor, director, and playwright.
Soriano was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Enrolling at the prestigious University of Buenos Aires Law School, he entered one of the university's numerous theatre groups and, leaving law school to devote himself to the theatre, he produced his first work, El chaleco encantado ("The Enchanted Sweater") in 1950, among four other works he completed and staged while in school. Soriano debuted professionally in a production of A Midsummernight's Dream at the renowned Colón Theatre, in 1953.
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India Allen
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Daughter of an Anglican minister of British lineage and a full-blooded Native American / Algonquin mother, this 5'11" former model (born: India Juliana Orban) became Playboy Playmate of the Month December 1987 and then was selected for Playboy Playmate of the Year 1988. As usual, some acting opportunities followed shortly thereafter. Aside from taking on several lead roles in B movies, Allen also branched out to other film-related jobs. She produced the comedy Almost Hollywood (1994) and wrote and produced the western The Rowdy Girls (1999). She also directed and produced several schlock horror films for Troma Entertainment, which were deemed unreleasable by co-financier Lloyd Kaufman. Instead, they ended up being folded into the anthology Tales from the Crapper (2004).
In her personal life, Allen was married to sportscaster Bill Macatee for a number of years but the two are now divorced.
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Tony Mason
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Tony Mason is a British former rally co-driver and television presenter. In 1972, he navigated Roger Clark to victory in the RAC Rally and the team also finished second in the event twice in 1974 and 1975, the only British crew to do so in a period spanning 35 years. He has also competed as a driver himself, and was recently co-driver for Finnish driver Hannu Mikkola with whom he competed for Ford in a recent Classic Rally in New Zealand. Following his retirement from rallying, he became a presenter on the BBC Two motoring programme Top Gear between 1986 and 1998, where he commented on motorsport, as well as presenting general interest items about items such as fire engines, Leyland buses, vintage Rolls-Royces and high-performance Jaguars through to Eddie Stobart trucks and Volvo's £15 million concept bus – the most expensive vehicle that he, or anyone else on Top Gear, has ever driven. A particularly memorable report was when Mason teamed up again with Roger Clark to test an exact replica of his Ford Escort RS1600 on the programme at full speed through a forest. He was also regularly seen on Top Gear Motorsport where his co presenters gave him the nickname "Perry". and the BBC's coverage of the World Rally Championship, particularly the RAC Rally, as well as coverage of the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Mason is currently appearing in two ten-part series on the Sky Discovery Channel entitled Off the Road and Classic Car Club. Mason has also written four books and occasionally writes articles for newspapers and magazines, such as the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Express. He is often seen as both a compere and after-dinner speaker. Mason also ran a company, known as Tony Mason, selling car accessories to the trade for resale to the general public. The company's most notable products were door guards, which, at one time, were big business and two companies were selling them.
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Javanshir Guliyev
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Javanshir Rahim oglu Guliyev (November 22, 1950, Nukha) — Azerbaijani composer, Honored Artist of the Republic of Azerbaijan (1992).
Javanshir Rahim oglu Guliyev was born on November 22, 1950 in Sheki. He graduated from the secondary Russian school in 1967 and from the Shaki Music Technical College in 1968. In the same year, he entered the Tar Department of the Faculty of Folk Musical Instruments of the Azerbaijan State Conservatory named after Uzeyir Hajibeyov. After two years, he transferred to the Faculty of Composition of the Conservatory and in 1975 he graduated from the class of the outstanding composer, professor Covdat Hajiyev.
The diploma work was "First Symphony" for a large symphony orchestra. While still a student, C. Guliyev started experiments in composition. In the "First Quartet" he wrote while studying in the 2nd year, he succeeded in creating a new style of music by synthesizing national music, which is the main creative principle in the future, with modern compositional techniques. The work was received with great interest by the listeners, it was liked and for a long time it was the cause of creative debates in terms of "nationality and modernity". It was played at a number of inter-conservatory conferences, at the then Union of Composers of the USSR (Moscow), and aroused great interest. Later, a number of other works composed by J. Guliyev in this style were performed in various countries of Europe and America and received great appreciation.
Javanshir Guliyev is the author of the first military march of modern Azerbaijan. For the first time, J. Guliyev used the instrument in chamber music equally with the bow, cello, and flute. For the first time, J. Guliyev included the lute and the trumpet in the composition of symphonic and symphonic-jazz orchestras and used them as the main instruments. Since his student years, i.e. since 1973, he started working as a sound director at the Azerbaijan State Television and Radio Broadcasting Committee and worked in that position for 17 years.
In 1990-1993, he was the artistic director of the Azerbaijan State Concert Union. In 1980-1998, he worked as a teacher at Uzeyir Hajibeyov Azerbaijan State Conservatory — Baku Academy of Music, in 1994-2003 at Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts. From September 1, 1992 to 2005, he worked as the head of the music department at the Academic National Drama Theater. Since 2003, he has been an associate professor at the National Conservatory of Azerbaijan, since 2005 he has been a professor, since 2005 he has been a professor at the Faculty of Performing Arts of the Near East University of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
He returned to Azerbaijan after living in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus for 19 years.
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Lee Montague
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lee Montague was an English actor noted for his roles on film and television, usually playing tough guys.
Film credits include: Moulin Rouge, The Camp on Blood Island, The Savage Innocents, Billy Budd, The Secret of Blood Island, Deadlier Than the Male, The Legacy and Brother Sun, Sister Moon.
Television credits include: Danger Man, The Baron, The Troubleshooters, Department S, Dixon of Dock Green, The Sweeney, Space: 1999, Minder, The Chinese Detective, Bergerac, Bird of Prey, Dempsey and Makepeace, Casualty and Waking the Dead. In the sitcom Seconds Out he had a regular part as the manager of a boxer played by Robert Lindsay.
He also holds the distinction of being the first storyteller on the BBC children's programme Jackanory in 1965. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lee Montague, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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