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Pat Roach
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Proud and passionate Angle, Pat Roach, was born and raised in Birmingham, England and grew to be a mountain of a man standing at six feet, five inches tall, with doorway-wide shoulders and a barrel chest.
Pat wrestled competitively under the name of "Bomber" Roach, and at one time held both the British and European Heavyweight Wrestling Championships. While still in the wrestling game, Roach broke into acting with a bit part in the Stanley Kubrick film Barry Lyndon (1975). He quickly became popular as an enforcer or warrior figure and appeared on-screen with some of Hollywood's biggest names. Many people would remember him as the muscle-bound, bald German guard who hands out a beating toHarrison Ford in Les aventuriers de l'arche perdue (1981), before being cut down by a spinning plane propeller.
In other film roles, Roach nearly eliminates 007 Sean Connery in the Bond film Never Say Never Again (1983), in dual roles as a resurrected demon and as a fierce warrior, he fought Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Conan sequel Conan the Destroyer (1984), and was back as a ferocious Indian guard pummeling poor Harrison Ford once again in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), before falling into a rock crusher.
He also appeared in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Red Sonja (1985) and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991). Apart from his film activity, Pat ran a gymnasium in Birmingham, operated a used appliance business in the local markets and was known as a warm-hearted and genial man who was happy to chat with admiring fanatics, sign autographs and pose for photographs.
Roach was also very popular with English television audiences for his portrayal of gentle giant "Brian 'Bomber' Busbridge" in the series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1983) and was scheduled to appear in the fifth series of the show, when he died of cancer on July 17, 2004. He was 67 years old. - IMDb Mini Biography
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Jimmy Ortega
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He was born and raised in El Paso Texas. Miguel Ortega (father) was a cross country truck driver and Paulina Ortega (mother) a housewife. Began career doing summer stock theater for 2 years - El Paso Del Norte. Moved to Los Angeles in 1978. Shortly after arriving, he started to work as a stuntman on a picture by the name of Hooper (1978). His first acting job was in a guest starring role on a TV show by the name of CHiPs (1977). He has won a Stuntman's Award - Most Spectacular Sequence - "North & South" miniseries. He also won a Screen Actors Guild Award - Outstanding Performance By Cast - Traffic (2000).
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Tina Tamashiro
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Tina Tamashiro (玉城 ティナ Tamashiro Tina, born October 8, 1997) is a Japanese model and actress who is represented by the talent agency, Dine and Indy.
Tamashiro is born to an American father and a Japanese mother. She met the president of her office when she was walking home with her friends.
In July 2012, Tamashiro won the Kodansha sponsored Miss iD 2013 Grand Prix. The organizer said "You find Tina Tamashio" which is said by Kodansha editor Tsukasa Kobayashi who is also playing a producer. Tamashiro later appeared in fashion magazines and served as an exclusive model for Vivi.
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Xu Jiaqi
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Xu Jiaqi was a member of SNH48's Team SII as well as its international sub-unit 7senses. She is born in Taizhou, Zhejiang, China in the year 1995. She has 7 years of experience in ballet and is also known for her supporting role in the historical drama "Legend of Yunxi," playing Chu Qingge. She is a rapper, dancer, and singer.
In 2020, she joined iQiyi's survival show "Youth with You" and finished in 3rd place with 9,086,752 votes.
On May 30, 2020, she debuted with the final debut line of Youth With You girl group "THE9."
Her fandom name is "Blackis" and is under Shanghai Star 48 Culture Media.
She graduated from SNH48 Team SII on October 14, 2020.
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Peter England
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Peter Thomas England is an English professional wrestler and promoter, currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) under the ring name Pete Dunne, where he is a former WWE United Kingdom Champion and NXT Tag Team Champion. Dunne also competed on the independent circuit in Europe, most notably in Progress Wrestling, where he is a former Progress World Champion.
Dunne began training for a career in professional wrestling at the age of 12 in 2005 and made his professional debut in 2007. Since then, he has worked extensively across the United Kingdom for promotions such as Progress Wrestling, Revolution Pro Wrestling (RPW), Insane Championship Wrestling (ICW), and Attack! Pro Wrestling, a promotion he co-founded. In addition to the United Kingdom, Dunne has worked internationally in Germany with Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw), the United States with Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG), and Japan with Michinoku Pro Wrestling.
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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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Peter Vogt
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Peter Vogt started his acting career in the 1970s with appearances in the television drama They've Killed President Lincoln! (1971) and The Goodbye Girl (1977, with Robert Costanzo and Paul Willson).
In the 1980s, he appeared in Hot Dog...The Movie (1984, with James Saito), the television movie Stark (1985, with Nicolas Surovy, Denise Crosby, Barry Gordon, Mike Genovese, Michael Champion and John Bloom), The Deliberate Stranger (1986, with Lawrence Pressman, Jeannetta Arnette, William Boyett, Terry Farrell, Cecile Callan, Chip Heller, Lee Brooks and Willie Garson), and in episodes of Remington Steele (1983, starring Pierce Brosnan, with James Read and Phil Rubenstein), Fatal Vision (1984, starring Gary Cole, with Joel Polis, Mitchell Ryan, Wendy Schaal, Alexandra Johnson, Paddi Edwards, Kenneth Tigar, Matthew Faison, Richard Lineback and Brian Thompson), Blue Thunder (1984, with Ray Wise), Newhart (1984, with Tony Papenfuss), Cagney & Lacey (1984, with Tina Lifford, Jonathan Banks and Michael Cavanaugh), Dragnet (1989, with Branscombe Richmond), and Knots Landing (1989, with Melinda Culea, Jack Axelrod, Joseph Campanella, Liam Sullivan and directed by Robert Scheerer).
Vogt had recurring roles as Mr. Dorfman in Head of the Class (1987-1993, starring Jeannetta Arnette) and as Brigadier General Jack Elliot in Tour of Duty (1989-1990, with Dan Gauthier and Alan Scarfe). Other television guest roles in the 1990s are in episodes of Paradise (1991, with Patrick Kilpatrick, Ben Scott and Walker Edmiston), L.A. Law (1991, starring Corbin Bernsen, with Jennifer Hetrick, Andrew Robinson and Diana Muldaur), MacGyver (1991, starring Richard Dean Anderson, with Time Winters, Colm Meaney and Christopher Neame), Billy (1992, with Marie Marshall and Clara Bryant), Cheers (1992-1993, with Kirstie Alley, Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth, Keene Curtis and Paul Willson), Murphy Brown (1994, with Charles Esten, James W. Jansen and Richard Penn), Diagnosis: Murder (1996, with Dennis Creaghan and Michelle C. Bonilla), Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1997, starring Teri Hatcher, with Barry Wiggins), Tracey Takes On... (1998, with René Auberjonois and Olivia Hack), DiResta (1998, with Julianne Christie), L.A. Doctors (1999, starring Sheryl Lee, with Jeff Allin, John Gegenhuber and John Carroll Lynch), and Arliss (2000, with Keone Young and Bill Blair).
He also appeared in the television thriller Deadly Medicine (1991, with Marnie McPhail, Joel Polis and John D. Gowans), the television drama Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story (1992, with Dakin Matthews, Angelo Tiffe, Amanda Foreman and Dennis Howard), Mr. Jones (1993, with Thomas Kopache and Irene Tsu), the comedy Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys (1995, with Joe Piscopo, Kate Mulgrew and Don Pugsley), the science fiction film The Silencers (1996, with Dennis Christopher, Clarence Williams III, Stephen Rowe and Vinny Argiro), and later the short film Treat, Not Trick (2016).
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Owen Kline
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Owen Kline is an American director, screenwriter and actor based in New York City. His short Jazzy for Joe starred the late broadcasting legend Joe Franklin in a rare comic performance paired alongside an orphaned toddler. His prior short, Fowl Play, a Queens-based comedy about low-rent aspiring cockfighters and their chicken, was presented on Le Cinéma Club in 2017 as part of the Safdie brothers’ carte blanche. Kline’s acting credits include Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and the Whale, the Safdies’ John’s Gone and the Michael M. Bilandic comedies Hellaware and Jobe’z World. Kline wrote and directed Funny Pages, his feature debut.
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Charles Whitman
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Charles Joseph Whitman (June 24, 1941 – August 1, 1966) was an American mass murderer and Marine veteran who became known as the 'Texas Tower Sniper'. On August 1, 1966, Whitman used knives to kill his mother and his wife in their respective homes, then went to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) with multiple firearms and began indiscriminately shooting at people. He fatally shot three people inside UT Austin's Main Building, then accessed the 28th-floor observation deck on the building's clock tower. There, he fired at random people for 96 minutes, killing an additional eleven people and wounding 31 others before he was shot dead by the Austin Police Department.
Whitman killed a total of seventeen people; the seventeenth victim died 35 years later from injuries sustained in the attack. He had developed several disturbing symptoms in the months preceding his rampage, including intense headaches, emotional turmoil and intrusive thoughts. In a confession-suicide note written the night before the violence, he requested an autopsy be conducted to determine whether there 'is any visible physical disorder'. The procedure was performed on August 2, where the neuropathologist found a small tumor deep in Whitman’s brain.
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Jennifer Hilary
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Jennifer Mary Hilary (14 December 1942 – 6 August 2008) was a British actress of stage, film and television. Her first acclaimed stage performance was as "Milly" in Henry James' The Wings of the Dove, which marked her debut on the West End. Born at Frimley, Surrey, she trained at RADA, and began her acting career with the Liverpool Playhouse in April 1961, aged 18. Her first role was as Nina in The Seagull. She would go on to play such characters as Lady Teazle (The School for Scandal), Isabel (The Enchanted), Cilla Curtis (Amateur Means Lover) and Cecily Cardew (The Importance of Being Earnest). She went on to act with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. She debuted across the pond in 1963, performing in Jean Anouilh's The Rehearsal. In 1964, she played "Zoe" in the West End production of James Saunders' A Scent of Flowers. Sir Michael Redgrave included her in the cast of Turgenev's A Month in the Country in 1965. She returned to New York to play the doomed "Sasha" in Chekhov's Ivanov at the Shubert Theatre in 1966. Back in London, she played "Ginny" in the hit 1967 production of Alan Ayckbourn's Relatively Speaking.
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