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AJ Jefferies
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Alex James Jefferies is an animator, director and illustrator based in Norwich in the UK. He has been producing commercial artwork and animations for advertising, entertainment, video games and broadcast since 2001.
AJ studied illustration art the Arts University Bournemouth but has always had a passion for character driven animation and comedy.
He began directing and producing his own animated short films in 2012. Initially releasing them online, from 2018 he began screening his shorts at various film festivals. His 2020 animated short film 'H O R S E' has been screened all over the world, winning awards and garnering positive coverage for its unique style and humour. His new short 'DUCKS' is was completed in 2025 and is currently touring festivals internationally.
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Jehanne d'Alcy
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A performer at the Théâtre Robert-Houdin from 1888, when it was re-opened by Georges Méliès, Jehanne d'Alcy (also known as Fanny Manieux) later became Méliès's mistress and appeared in a number of his films, including the first of his risqué productions Après le bal - le tub (1897). Méliès's first wife Eugenie died in May 1913, and in 1925 he married d'Alcy. Her concession of a toy stall at the Gare Montparnasse, Paris, manned by Georges, provided their only income for several years. In 1932 they moved into an apartment at a home for cinema veterans. After Méliès's death, d'Alcy appeared in the poignant framing sequences of Georges Franju's short dramatisation of his life, Le Grand Méliès (1952), with Méliès's son André playing his father. Jehanne d'Alcy died on 14 October 1956 at Versailles, aged ninety-two.
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Jean Louise O'Sullivan
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Jean Louise O'Sullivan is an actress, writer, and producer from West Chester, Pennsylvania. She is a graduate of The University of the Arts in Philadelphia and The National Theater Institute. Dubbed a 'Scream Queen' for her starring roles in horror films she has also become known for comedy, having appeared in television shows and web series. Natural auburn hair, fair skin, green eyes, and freckles make Jean Louise instantly recognizable. She has modeled for major cosmetic, fashion, and lifestyle brands and appeared in dozens of commercials.
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Kenneth Hawks
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Kenneth Hawks, younger brother of director Howard Hawks by two years, and producer William Hawks by one year, was born in 1898 in Goshen, Indiana. A veteran of World War I in the United States Army Air Service and, later, graduating from Yale University, he began directing films for Fox Film Corporation in 1929, three years after older brother Howard began his directorial career. Kenneth Hawks married actress and future Oscar-winner Mary Astor in 1928. Astor was widowed upon his death. On January 2, 1930, with two films to his credit, Hawks and nine other crew members died in the collision of two camera planes over the Pacific Ocean off Southern California while he was directing the film Such Men are Dangerous.
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André Bazin
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André Bazin (18 April 1918 – 11 November 1958) was a renowned and influential French film critic and film theorist.
Bazin started to write about film in 1943 and was a co-founder of the renowned film magazine Cahiers du cinéma in 1951, with Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca.
He is notable for arguing that realism is the most important function of cinema. His call for objective reality, deep focus, and lack of montage are linked to his belief that the interpretation of a film or scene should be left to the spectator. This placed him in opposition to film theory of the 1920s and 1930s, which emphasized how the cinema could manipulate reality.
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François Rollin
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François Rollin (born 31 May 1953) is a French actor, comedian, author and screenwriter.
He is known for his role as King Loth of Orkney in Kaamelott, Professor Rollin in Palace, and for writing the satirical news programme Les Guignols de l'info. He is also known for one-man-shows, in which he embodies the role of a whimsical and very articulate professor, alternating surreal and absurd humour with social satire.
Source: Article "François Rollin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Simon Bamford
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Simon Bamford Simon is best known for playing the ‘Butterball Cenobite’ in the original 'Hellraiser' and its first sequel 'Hellbound', as well as ‘Ohnaka’ in Clive Barker's 'Nightbreed'. However it was The Who’s 'Quadrophenia' which gave Simon his first film experience at the age of 16.
Discovered playing 'The Fool' in a London production of King Lear by film director Clive Barker, he was invited to join 'The Dog Company' where he worked with Doug Bradley (Pinhead) and Oliver Parker (Film director of 'Johnny English Reborn', 'St Trinians', 'Dad's Army', 'Dorian Gray' & Swimming with Men’). 'Hellraiser' and 'Nightbreed' followed shortly afterwards.
Simon was reunited with Clive whilst playing Derek in 'The Book of Blood' for Matador films. He was reunited with Candyman Tony Todd whilst playing ‘Gary’ in 'Dead of the Nite', and can be heard as the voice of ‘Commander Elgin’ in the animation 'The 11th Hour - Jericho'.
In 2015 he completed four shoots: 'Arcade', 'Roots', 'The Pub Launch' and the auto-cannibalism horror short 'Hunger'. More recently he played the ‘Witchfinder General’ in ‘The Haunting of Margam Castle’ shot in Wales, and in LA, played art gallery owner ‘Mr Peindre’ in ‘14 Ghosts’.
Outside of the horror genre, Simon played the senior consultant in the feature film 'Starfish' starring Tom Riley from 'Da Vinci's Demons' and Golden Globe winner Joanne Froggatt from 'Downton Abbey'. In 2021 he completed production on the award winning feature film ‘You are my Sunshine’ a LGBTQ love story set across several decades.
He has worked in theatre worldwide from Kuala Lumpur to Stockholm, Ohio to Karachi. and has become a much sought after horror convention guest with USA shows in Atlantic City, Florida, Boston, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Indianapolis and LA as well as European shows in Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium and the UK. Simon was invited to play horror legend ‘Peter Vincent’ in the ‘Fright Night’ documentary 'You're so cool Brewster' which won ‘Best Documentary’ at the Top Indie film awards in 2017
He won ‘Best Actor’ for his portrayal of ‘Pip’ in a stage production of ‘Great Expectations’. For the 2022 Sci-Fi movie, ‘Project Skyquake’, he won Best Ensemble at the Las Vegas Movie Awards, and was nominated for Best Supporting actor at the Tietê International Film Awards.
He was awarded the ‘Lifetime of Torment Award’ at Texas Frightmare in 2018
and Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020 at the ‘Russian International Horror Film Festival.
In 2017 Simon shot the first episode of the ‘Dark Ditties’ series ‘The Offer’, bringing to life the role of smarmy investment banker, ‘Jonathon Brook Davies’.
To date he has appeared in five of the ‘Dark Ditties Presents’ series.
All episodes are available now on Amazon & Amazon Prime in both the UK and USA.
In 2024, the long awaited Horror anthology ‘Mosaic’ is due for release. Simon plays ‘Elliot Foley’, a Detective Inspector, trying to make sense of an increasingly brutal series of bizarre murders. The Hungarian movie ‘Aftermath’ is also due for release this year. Simon plays the voice of ‘Alpha’, a squad leader, in a strange, mysterious world.
He is currently in pre-production for two new films shooting in 2024.
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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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John Wayne
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Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison) (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), known professionally as John Wayne and nicknamed Duke, was an American actor and filmmaker. An Academy Award-winner for True Grit (1969), Wayne was among the top box office draws for three decades.
Born in Winterset, Iowa, Wayne grew up in Southern California. He was president of Glendale High class of 1925. He found work at local film studios when he lost his football scholarship to the University of Southern California as a result of a bodysurfing accident. Initially working for the Fox Film Corporation, he appeared mostly in small bit parts. His first leading role came in Raoul Walsh's The Big Trail (1930), which led to leading roles in numerous B movies throughout the 1930s, many of them in the Western genre.
Wayne's career took off in 1939, with John Ford's Stagecoach making him an instant star. He went on to star in 142 pictures. Biographer Ronald Davis said, "John Wayne personified for millions the nation's frontier heritage. Eighty-three of his movies were Westerns, and in them, he played cowboys, cavalrymen, and unconquerable loners extracted from the Republic's central creation myth."
Wayne's other well-known Western roles include a cattleman driving his herd north on the Chisholm Trail in Red River (1948), a Civil War veteran whose young niece is abducted by a tribe of Comanches in The Searchers (1956), and a troubled rancher competing with a lawyer for a woman's hand in marriage in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962). He is also remembered for his roles in The Quiet Man (1952), Rio Bravo (1959), and The Longest Day (1962). In his final screen performance, he starred as an aging gunfighter battling cancer in The Shootist (1976). He appeared with many important Hollywood stars of his era, and his last public appearance was at the Academy Awards ceremony on April 9, 1979.
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Mateo Herrera
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Mateo Herrera (Quito,1973) is an Ecuadorian director. His career is divided between his film and musical projects. With his two first fiction features "Alegría de una vez" (2001) and "Jaque" (2003) he toured many film festivals. His documentary "Comité" (2005) won several international awards such as the Prix George Beauregard from the Fid Marseille festival; his third fiction feature "Impulso" (2009) won the Grande Prix Coup de Cœur from the Rencontres Cinémas d'Amérique Latine de Toulouse. From 2013 to 2016 he directed and premiered three films: The feature "Tinta Sangre" (2013), the documentaries "Resonancia (2013) and "El "Panóptico Ciego" (2015), and feature"Chuquiragua" (2016).
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