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Juliette Hawk
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Juliette began acting in school plays in elementary school and after her very first screen audition, she was lucky enough to be cast in a supporting role in Snowed In For Christmas. She was a natural on set and has quickly become a young actress to watch.
Since then, she has had roles in numerous Hallmark movies, including Mystery On Mistletoe Lane, Christmas at the Golden Dragon, and A Winning Team. She also has a role in the highly anticipated Hallmark series, Holidazed, set to air in the fall of 2024.
Juliette's favorite movies are from the horror & thriller genres and she loves to be scared. Her dream is to one day star in a very scary movie so she can show off her bloodcurdling scream. She is thrilled to have been cast in a supporting role in a trilogy of Lifetime thrillers airing later in 2024.
Growing up with very musical parents and a grandma who was a singing teacher, Juliette started singing almost before she talked. She took voice and piano lessons for many years and loves to compose & write lyrics for her own songs and accompany herself while singing on guitar and piano. Juliette has also been dancing since the age of 3 and is a competitive dancer in ballet, tap, jazz and contemporary. She has completed her RAD Intermediate ballet exam and she loves nothing more than to perform on stage with her dance friends.
She attends French Immersion school in British Columbia, Canada and when she's not acting, she loves to travel, spend time at the lake with her family, and of course, sing all day long.
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L.Q. Jones
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L. Q. Jones (August 19, 1927 – July 9, 2022) was an American character actor and film director, known for his work in the films of Sam Peckinpah.
Jones was born in Beaumont in southeastern Texas, the son of Jessie Paralee (née Stephens) and Justus Ellis McQueen Sr., a railroad worker. After serving in the United States Navy from 1945 to 1946, Jones attended Lamar Junior College (now Lamar University) and then studied law at the University of Texas at Austin from 1950 to 1951. He worked as a stand-up comic, briefly played professional baseball and football, and even tried ranching in Nicaragua before turning to acting after corresponding with his former college roommate, Fess Parker. At the time, in 1954, Parker was already in Hollywood working in films and on television. Jones is a practicing Methodist and a registered Republican.
Jones made his film debut in 1955 in Battle Cry, credited under his birth name Justus McQueen. His character's name in that film, however, was "L. Q. Jones", a name he liked and decided to adopt as his stage name for all of his future roles as an actor. In 1955, he was cast as "Smitty Smith" in three episodes of Clint Walker's ABC/Warner Brothers western series, Cheyenne, the first hour-long western on network television.
Jones appeared in numerous films in the 1960s and 1970s. He became a member of Sam Peckinpah's stock company of actors, appearing in his Klondike series (1960–1961), Ride the High Country (1962), Major Dundee (1965), The Wild Bunch (1969), The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), and Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid (1973).
Jones was frequently cast alongside his close friend Strother Martin, most memorably as the posse member and bounty hunter "T. C." in The Wild Bunch. Jones also appeared as recurring characters on such western series as Cheyenne (1955), Gunsmoke (1955), Laramie, Two Faces West (1960–1961), and as ranch hand Andy Belden in The Virginian (1962). That same year (1962) Jones appeared as Ollie Earnshaw, a rich rancher looking for a bride on Lawman in the episode titled The Bride.
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Burt Bacharach
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Burt Freeman Bacharach (May 12, 1928 – February 8, 2023) was an American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist who is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential figures of 20th-century popular music. Starting in the 1950s, he composed hundreds of pop songs, many in collaboration with lyricist Hal David. Bacharach's music is characterized by unusual chord progressions and time signature changes, influenced by his background in jazz, and uncommon selections of instruments for small orchestras. He arranged, conducted, and produced much of his recorded output.
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Barbara Williams
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Barbara Williams (born 1953) is a Canadian-born American actress. Williams starred in the 1984 Paramount film Thief of Hearts and in the 1992 film Oh, What a Night. Williams was born in Vancouver Island, British Columbia, the daughter of Simone and Jack Williams, a tugboat skipper and logger. She is the wife of Tom Hayden.
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Stanley Ridges
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Stanley Ridges (17 July 1890 – 22 April 1951) was a British-born actor who made his mark in films by playing a wide assortment of character parts.
Born 17 July 1890 in Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK, Stanley Ridges became a protégé of Beatrice Lillie, a star of musical stage comedies, and spent many years learning and honing his craft on the stage. Eventually making his way to America, Ridges began as a song-and-dance man on Broadway, but later turned to dramatic roles onstage, appearing in such plays as Maxwell Anderson's Mary of Scotland (as Lord Morton) and Valley Forge (as Lieutenant Colonel Lucifer Tench), becoming a romantic leading man.
Ridges' silent film debut was in Success (1923). With his excellent diction and rich speaking voice, he easily made the transition into sound films, with his career taking off at age 43, in Crime Without Passion (1934), with Claude Rains. Ridges found himself cast in character roles, as his greying hair put his romantic leading man days at an end. His most best known roles were probably two different characters in one film, one of them the kindly Professor Kingsley and the other the murderous Red Cannon in the thriller Black Friday (1940). The Jekyll and Hyde transformations gave Ridges a chance to display his acting ability.
Ridges was often cast in supporting roles in many classic films, and played the lead only once, in the B-picture False Faces (1943).
Among Ridges's other film roles were as the Scotland Yard inspector who is shadowing Charles Laughton in the film The Suspect (1944), as Major Buxton (Gary Cooper's commanding officer) in Sergeant York (1942), as Professor Siletsky in To Be or Not to Be (also 1942), and as Cary Travers Grayson, the official White House physician in Wilson (1944).
By 1950, he had just begun appearing in television anthologies such as Studio One and Philco Television Playhouse. His last feature film, the Ginger Rogers comedy The Groom Wore Spurs, in which he played a mobster, was released a month before he died.
Stanley Ridges died 22 April 1951, in Westbrook, Connecticut, aged 60.
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Rue McClanahan
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A veteran television actress and Broadway star of the 50s, Rue McClanahan was an actress noticed by television executive, Norman Lear. Lear cast her in a number of television shows, including "All in the Family" (1971) with 'Carroll OConnor' and "Maude" (1972) with Bea Arthur. McClanahan next co-starred with Vicki Lawrence, Ken Berry, Betty White and Carol Burnett in "Mama's Family" (1983) for three years, and after it was canceled by NBC, McClanahan was probably best known for her role as the saucy, sharp southern belle, Blanche, in "The Golden Girls" (1985). She once again worked with Bea Arthur and Betty White, and with relative newcomer Estelle Getty. All four of the women won Emmy Awards for their roles. After Bea Arthur left the show after eight seasons, McClanahan, White and Getty returned for a brief spin-off in "The Golden Palace" (1992). In the mid-nineties, McClanahan was diagnosed with cancer, but was able to fight it successfully. In addition to lending her talents to a number of made for TV films, McClanahan has also appeared on the big screen in recent years co-starring with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau in the comedy Out to Sea (1997) and with Casper Van Dien in Starship Troopers (1997). McClanahan also spends her time joining and helping organizations against cancer, AIDS, and cruelty against animals.
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Bachir Hadj Ali
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Bachir Hadj Ali, Algerian poet and political activist, was born in the Casbah of Algiers on December 10, 1920 to a family from Aït Hammad (Azeffoun) in Kabylia. He attended the Koranic school and the French school but, to help his family, in 1937 decided not to enter the Normal School for Teachers. After his demobilization, in 1945 he joined the Algerian Communist Party (PCA). In 1948 he became editor-in-chief of the newspaper Liberté, the central organ of the PCA, joined its secretariat in 1951 and was in 1953 sentenced to two years in prison by the colonial courts for endangering state security.
Remaining in hiding throughout the war of national liberation, Bachir Hadj Ali negotiated in 1956 with Sadek Hadjerès the individual integration into the ALN of the “Liberation Fighters”, a military organization of Algerian communists, created in 1954, including he is responsible. He then took over the management of the PCA. After Independence, President Ben Bella banned the PCA in November 1962. Bachir Hadj Ali is, alongside Mouloud Mammeri, Jean Sénac, Mourad Bourboune, one of the founders of the Union of Algerian Writers, from which he resigned in 1963.
After Houari Boumediène took power on June 19, 1965, he created the “Organization of Popular Resistance” (ORP) with the left of the FLN, Hocine Zahouane and Mohammed Harbi. In September he was arrested and tortured in the premises of Military Security in Algiers. Transferred in November to Lambèse prison, he wrote L'Arbitraire on sheets of toilet paper which he managed to transmit, hidden in hollowed-out cigarettes, to his wife Lucette Larribère during her visits. The text which describes the torture he suffered, and from which he will have serious after-effects, was published in 1966 by Éditions de Minuit. Under censorship and therefore not including any political remarks, his letters from prison (Letters to Lucette, op. cit.) reflect his literary and musical sensitivity by showing even more the internalization of the communist formation which was attached to the progressive ideal of an Algerian Algeria. The readings and cultural references are those shared by communist intellectuals, from Nâzım Hikmet to Pablo Neruda, but even more so under the French horizon: Paul Éluard and, first of all, Louis Aragon, as well as the songs of Jean Ferrat. Malouf's passion is the North African touch, but which is projected into Algerian Andalusian music. Patriotism and socialism are a sentiment in the exaltation of the permanence of the people.
Released in 1968, Bachir Hadj Ali was placed under house arrest in Saïda then Ain Sefra. Banned from staying in major Algerian cities, he did not return to Algiers until 1974.
Officially released in 1974, Bachir Hadj Ali reduced his activities to the field of poetry and musical knowledge: he gave conferences, participated in conferences and seminars, supported the theatrical experience of Abdelkader Alloula. Writing poems and essays, Bachir Hadj Ali, founder in 1966 of the Socialist Avant-Garde Party (PAGS). The suffering endured and the after-effects of the abuse, the increasing physical deterioration, brought him, after 1980, “into an increasingly opaque night”. He died in Algiers on May 9, 1991.
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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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Andrea Parker
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Andrea Parker (born March 8, 1970), a native Californian, is an American film and television actress. She began ballet study at age 6, trained with youth programs around the country and, at age 15, joined the San Francisco Ballet. After three years of touring, she switched to contemporary dance and began studying acting while working as a bartender. Shortly thereafter, she landed her first speaking part on an episode of Married with Children (1987). Parker likes to ride horses, spend time with family and friends and drive hot wheels. She even attended the Motion Picture Stunt Driving Course in San Bernardino, California.
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Walter Gotell
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Walter Gotell (15 March 1926 – 5 May 1997) was a German actor, known for his role as General Gogol, head of the KGB, in the James Bond film series.
Gotell was born in Bonn, Germany; his family emigrated to the United Kingdom after the Nazis came to power. A fluent English speaker, he started in films as early as 1943, usually playing German henchmen, such as in We Dive at Dawn (1943).
He began to have more established roles by the early fifties, starring in The African Queen (1951), Ice-Cold in Alex (1958), The Guns of Navarone (1961), 55 Days At Peking (1963), Lancelot and Guinevere (1963), The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1965), Lord Jim (1965), Black Sunday (1977), The Boys From Brazil (1978), and Cuba (1979).
Gotell won the role of KGB General Anatol Gogol in The Spy Who Loved Me for being a look-alike of the former head of Soviet secret police Lavrentiy Pavlovitch Beria. His first role in the James Bond films came in 1963, when he played the henchman Morzeny in From Russia with Love. Starting in the late 1970s, he played the recurring role of General Gogol in the James Bond series, beginning with The Spy Who Loved Me in 1977. The character returned in Moonraker (1979), For Your Eyes Only (1981), Octopussy (1983), A View to a Kill (1985) and The Living Daylights (1987). As the Cold War developed, the role of leader of the KGB was seen to change attitudes to the West - from direct competitor to collaborator. His final appearance, as the Cold War began to become less imminent, sees him transferred to a different, more diplomatic role. Gotell is one of a few actors to have played a villain and a Bond ally in the film series (others being Joe Don Baker, Charles Gray and Richard Kiel).
Throughout his career, Gotell also made numerous guest appearances in a wide array of television series. He played Chief Constable Cullen in Softly, Softly: Taskforce between 1969 and 1975. He guested in many series including Danger Man, Knight Rider, The A-Team, Airwolf, The X-Files, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, MacGyver, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Miami Vice, Cagney and Lacey, The Saint, and many others.
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