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Carroll Clark
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Carroll Clark (February 6, 1894 – May 17, 1968) was an American art director. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He worked on 173 films between 1927 and 1968. He was born in Mountain View, California and died in Glendale, California.
The seven films for which Clark was Academy Award nominated: The Gay Divorcee (1934), Top Hat (1935), A Damsel in Distress (1937), Flight for Freedom (1943), Step Lively (1944), The Absent-Minded Professor (1961), and Mary Poppins (1964).
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Savitree Suttichanond
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Beau Savitree Suttichanond was born in Thailand but has lived in the United States for the past decade. After graduating with a double major in Political Science and International Studies from the University of California, Irvine, she was offered a job at a prestigious law firm, where she worked for less than one year before moving back to Thailand to pursue her dream of becoming a pop star. While attending the University of California, Irvine, Savitree was a member of the Delta Delta Delta Sorority, was a SPOP staffer, and actively participated in the university's Thai Club. Savitree was also active in ITSA (Intercollegiate Thai Student Association) in helping organize events put on by Thai clubs from other universities such as University of California, Riverside,California State Polytechnic University, Pomona]], the University of California, Los Angeles, the University of Southern California, California State University, Long Beach, the University of California, San Diego, and California State University, Fullerton. She always performed in the ITSA Karaoke and Singing contests with stellar performances.
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Apichet Kittikorncharoen
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Apichet Kittikorncharoen was a Thai singer and actor known under the stage name Big and was part of RS Promotion's trio boy band D2B.
In 2003 his car crashed into a polluted canal, resulting in a severe brain infection. Unfortunately, efforts to treat him, including medication from Australia, as well as four brain operations, caused heavy damage to his brain. He remained in coma for four years before finally succumbing to the illness. Apichet's case, which saw throngs of fans hoping and praying for him at the hospital as well as intense media attention, helped raised awareness about the hazardous nature of Bangkok's water pollution. His funeral was held for 100 days from the end of 2007 to March of the next year, and was patronised by Queen Sirikit.
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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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Masha Vasilkovsky
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Masha Vasilkovsky is an Experimental Animation Artist, internationally known for her animated films, made in direct techniques, ‘Fur and Feathers’ (2000) and ‘Eyes of the Azure’ (2016). Her films screened at Pompidou Museum, Annecy Animation Festival, and Museum of Modern Art New York, among other venues. Masha’s animation is featured in such productions as, "Il Doctor", Suzan Pitt (2005) and "Lo Azul Del Cielo", Juan Uribe (2012). In 2012 Masha co-founded Lumen Animae, an Amity of Creative Partnerships, presenting work at US Open, Sundance, and Tribeca Film Festivals, National TV of China, and other venues. Masha has directed and created over 25 productions, such as: ‘Mysterium Georgicus’, animated installation, permanent exhibit, Virginia (2017) and 'Ashe '68’, VR Sand animation, Emmy nomination (2019). Since 2014, at College of the Canyons, Masha brought together Holocaust survivors and students to create animated documentaries based on stories of survival, such as: 'My Angel of God’ (2019) and 'The Promise’ (2018). Masha holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design (1995) and an MFA in Experimental Animation from CalArts (1998). Masha teaches animation production at CalArts since 2007.
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Gordan Kičić
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Gordan Kičić is a Serbian actor, comedian and director.
Acclaimed for both his comedic and dramatic roles, he is prominent for his starring role in the acclaimed television series Balkan Shadows, and for his roles in praised Serbian films War Live (2000), Sky Hook (2000), Mala noćna muzika (2002), Kad porastem biću Kengur (2004), Seven and a Half (2006) and Redemption Street (2012).
He is also known for his supporting role as foolish Rajko in the popular television comedy Otvorena vrata. In November 2019, he made his directorial debut with the successful film Realna priča.
He is a permanent member of the Atelje 212 theatre. In 2010, he won the Zoran Radmilović Award for his performance in the cult theatre's production of Hair.
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José Luis Madrid
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José Luis Madrid is rather a man of cinema than a filmmaker, because apart from director, producer and screenwriter, he also was a member of the boards of producing American Films, SL, Andorra Films, SA, Cinefilms, SL, Theatrical Production Ufesa, SA, Servifilms, SL, Kfilms, SA, José Luis Madrid, PC, Film Cooperative Collects and Tilman Films, in positions ranging from owner to chairperson, and also owner of the Madrid theaters Picasso and Lumière, as well as the studios of Apolo Films in Villalba (Madrid),film producer formerly owned by his uncle, the also director Antonio del Amo, under whose orders began to take his first steps in the profession. Law school graduate and enrolled in the QFII, which would not get to finish his studies, his official filmography of more than twenty films thrives mostly genre films,from thrillers to euroespías, españoladas, lurid dramas or the typical post-Franco movies or horror movies, style where most of their raids would be perpetrated by the emblem of this movement in Spain, the actor, screenwriter and director Jacinto Molina - Paul Naschy, the result of whose collaboration are 'Jack the Ripper of London / Sette Cadaveri per Scotland Yard' (1971) and crimes of 'Petiot' (1972). In 1960 he signed his debut as a director with 'Adieu, Ninon'. As for his contribution to the Mediterranean western, closer to the European American classic running style, it consists of three titles concentrated in the mid-60: 'Tomb for Desperado' (1965), 'Revenge of Clark Harrison / the colt spietata of Ringo' (1965) and 'The ballad of Johnny Ringo / Wer Johnny R. Kent?' (1966), Spanish-German co-production starring the former Hollywood star Lex Barker and 'Seven Jackals' (1974), starring Anthony Steffen and Gianni Giarko. Also the Iquino production of 'A dollar fire / A dolaro di fuoco' (1965). Madrid would direct such unaccredited two dozen feature films in Germany for local producer Artur Brauner, most of whom were Krimis, German police clearly and very popular genre in the country, usually consisting of adaptations of novels of Edgar Wallace. Already in the 70s he followed the same modus operandi, this time in British low-budget productions. Artisan of limited skills and without overly relevant in his curriculum title, throughout his career he also showed a sense of opportunism with productions such as 'The Vampire motorway' (1969), horror film inspired by a series of real murders occurred in the Spain of the time, and 'The hyena' (1973); 'Last Tango in Madrid' (1975), comic byproduct trying to bring revenues to the success of 'Last Tango in Paris' (1972) by Bernardo Bertolucci; or 'Command Txiquia - Death of a President' (1977), reconstruction of the terrorist attack that would end the life of Admiral Carrero Blanco, filmed without permission in the same places where the events occurred, with which anticipated the celebrated 'Operation Ogre' (1979) by Gillo Pontecorvo.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: jsanchez
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Sarah Brightman
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Sarah Brightman (born 14 August 1960) is an English classical crossover soprano, actress, songwriter and dancer.
She began her career as a member of the dance troupe Hot Gossip and released several disco singles as a solo performer. In 1981, she made her musical theatre debut in Cats and met composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, whom she married. She went on to star in several Broadway musicals, including The Phantom of the Opera, where she originated the role of Christine Daaé. The Original London Cast Album of the musical was released in CD format in 1987 and sold over 40 million copies worldwide, making it the biggest-selling cast album of all time.
After retiring from the stage and divorcing Lloyd Webber, Brightman resumed her music career with former Enigma producer Frank Peterson, this time as a classical crossover artist. She is among the most prominent performers in the genre, with worldwide sales of more than 30 million records and 2 million DVDs. Her duet with the Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, "Time To Say Goodbye", topped charts all over Europe and became the highest and fastest selling single of all times in Germany, where it stayed at the top of the charts for fourteen consecutive weeks breaking the all-time sales record, with over 3 million copies sold in the country and subsequently became an international success with 12 million copies worldwide. She has now collected over 180 gold and platinum sales awards in 38 different countries.
Brightman is the only artist to have been invited twice to perform at the Olympic Games, first at the 1992' Barcelona Olympic Games where she sang "Amigos Para Siempre" with the Spanish tenor Jose Carreras with an estimated global audience of a billion people, and sixteen years later in Beijing, this time with Chinese singer Liu Huan and performing the song "You and Me" to an estimated 4 billion people worldwide.
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Jackie Torres
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Jackie Torres is a Puerto Rican actress, writer, director and producer who gained notoriety while producing the top shows Marcano...El Show and Con lo que cuenta este pais in her native Puerto Rico and La Hora Lunatica in Los Angeles California, all for the Telemundo Television Network. Her move to Los Angeles introduced her to the cinema world. She directed the urban films The Price of the American Dream & East LA King for Laguna Productions and Crossing Frontiers for her own company Jakmar Entertainment. As an actress she has acted in over 20 films and TV series including Domino: Battle of the Bones, After Words, Black Monday, Bosch, ER, The District, Miss Cast Away and the Island Girls, Blood Relatives, and El Güero Estrada. She obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications at the University of Maryland, College Park. After that, she got a Master’s Degree from the University of Puerto Rico.
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Miss Kumari
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Miss Kumari, whose real name was Thresiamma, was a Malayalam film actress of the early years of 1940–1960s . Miss Kumari debuted in Malayalam with the 1949 fi1m Vellinakshatram. She got her break through the 1950 box office hit film Nalla Thanka.[4] Sathyan and Miss Kumari were elevated to stardom after the huge success of the film Neelakuyil (1954). She acted in more than 50 films, in a career spanning about two decades. She has acted in few Tamil movies as well. Pettravel kanda vazhvu was one among them. She also received Madras State award for best actress in 1956. She died on 9 June 1969.
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