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Katherine Helmond
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Katherine Marie Helmond (July 5, 1929 – February 23, 2019) was an American film, theater, and television actress, and director.
Over her five decades of television acting, she was known for her starring role as ditzy matriarch Jessica Tate on the ABC prime time soap opera sitcom Soap (1977–1981) and her co-starring role as feisty mother Mona Robinson on Who's the Boss? (1984–1992). She also played Doris Sherman on Coach and Lois Whelan, the mother of Debra Barone, on Everybody Loves Raymond. She guest starred on a number of TV shows including True Blood, Strong Medicine, Providence, The Love Boat, The Bionic Woman (1976), The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bob New hart Show, Mannix, and Gunsmoke.
She had supporting roles in films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Family Plot (1976), Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985), and Overboard (1987). She also voiced Lizzie in the Cars trilogy by Disney/Pixar.
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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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Julian Wells
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Born in San Francisco, California and raised in the suburban town of Birmingham, Michigan. She attended Marian High School, an all-girls Catholic prep school. After graduating, she majored in drama at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and graduated in 1998.
Her career started with commercials and bit parts on TV shows such as The Sopranos and Entourage. She also worked as a body double for stars such as Kim Cattrall, Kate Moss, and Ashley Judd. Between 2001 and 2010 she appeared in many B movies and soft erotic films, most notably for the New Jersey-based Seduction Cinema production company under the name Julian Wells. Afterward (and using the name Suzy McCoppin) she's covered nightlife for celebrity magazines such as Life & Style, In Touch, and served as an Los Angeles correspondent for British publications such as The Daily Mail, and The Sun. In 2008, she became a nightlife and sex columnist for Playboy Magazine, as well as a comedic online personality. She is a regular contributor on Playboy radio on Sirius. She has also written articles for pop culture website, Popdust and hosted the Under Cover With Suzy McCoppin podcast for twenty-three episodes through July 2014.
In 2014, McCoppin and co-author Allison Swan wrote a book titled KissnTell, a work of fiction released digitally through publisher Full Fathom Five. The television rights to the book were purchased by E! with the intention of adapting it into a scripted television series.
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Juan Antonio Bardem
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Juan Antonio Bardem (2 June 1922 – 30 October 2002) was a Spanish film directorand screen writer. He was best known for “Muerte de un ciclista” (1955) which won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, and “El puente” (1977) which won the Golden Prize at the 10th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1979 film “Seven Days in January” won the Golden Prize at the 11th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1981 he was a member of the jury at the 12th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1993 he was a member of the jury at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival. Bardem is the uncle of actor Javier Bardem.
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Barbara Cartland
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Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland, DBE, DStJ (9 July 1901 – 21 May 2000) was an English writer, known as the Queen of Romance, who published both contemporary and historical romance novels, the latter set primarily during the Victorian or Edwardian period. Cartland is one of the best-selling authors worldwide of the 20th century.
Many of her novels have been adapted into films for television including A Hazard of Hearts, A Ghost in Monte Carlo and Duel of Hearts.
Her novels have been translated from English into numerous languages, making Cartland the fifth most translated author worldwide (note: not including biblical works). Her prolific output totals some 723 novels.
Although best known for her romantic novels, she also wrote non-fiction titles including biographies, plays, music, verse, drama, operettas, and several health and cook books. She also contributed advice to TV audiences and newspaper magazine articles.
She sold more than 750 million copies of her books, though other sources estimate her total sales at more than two billion. The covers of her novels featured portrait-style artwork, usually designed by Francis Marshall (1901–1980).
Cartland was also a businesswoman who was head of Cartland Promotions. She was a London society figure, often dressed in a pink chiffon gown, a plumed hat, blonde wig, and heavy make-up.
Born at 31 Augustus Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Cartland was the only daughter and eldest child of an Officer of the British Army, Major James Bertram "Bertie" Falkner Cartland (1876–1918), and his wife, Mary Hamilton Scobell, known as "Polly" (1877–1976). Cartland had two brothers: Major Ronald Cartland, a Member of Parliament (MP) who served as a Army Major in World War II (1907–1940), and James Anthony "Tony" Hamilton Cartland (1912–1940). Both were killed in action in Flanders.
Though she was born into upper middle-class comfort, the Cartland family's finances rapidly deteriorated shortly after her birth. Cartland would later attribute this downturn to the suicide of her paternal grandfather, James Cartland, who, she stated, was a financier who shot himself in the wake of bankruptcy. However, according to the entry in the probate registry, James Cartland, the proprietor of the brass foundry firm James Cartland & Son Ltd, left an estate of £92,000. This was followed soon afterwards by her father's death in Berry-au-Bac in World War I. Cartland's mother opened a London dry goods store to make ends meet, and to raise Cartland and her two brothers.
Cartland was educated at private girls' schools: The Alice Ottley School, Malvern Girls' College, and Abbey House, an educational institution in Hampshire. She became successful as a society reporter after 1922, and a writer of romantic fiction; she stated she was inspired in her early work by the novels of the Edwardian author Elinor Glyn, whom she idolised and eventually befriended. ...
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Lord Frederick Roberts
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Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (30 September 1832 – 14 November 1914), was a British Victorian era general who became one of the most successful British military commanders of his time. Born in India to an Anglo-Irish family, He joined the East India Company Army and served as a young officer in the Indian Rebellion during which he was awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry. He was then transferred to the British Army and fought in the Expedition to Abyssinia and the Second Anglo-Afghan War, in which his exploits earned him widespread fame. He would go on to serve as the Commander-in-Chief, India, before leading British Forces for a year during the Second Boer War. He also became the last Commander-in-Chief of the Forces before the post was abolished in 1904.
A man of small stature, he was affectionately known to his troops and the wider British public as "Bobs" and revered as one of Britain's leading military figures at a time when the British Empire reached the height of its power. He became a symbol for the British Army and in later life became an influential proponent of stronger defence in response to the increasing threat that the German Empire posed to Britain in the lead up to the First World War.
He was born in what was known as Cawnpore, Ceded and Conquered Provinces, British India, and later known as Kanpur, India.
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Stas Vasilyev
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Stanislav Alexandrovich Vasilyev (known as Stas "Ai, Kak Prosto!") was born on October 24, 1989, in Krasnogorsk, grew up in a low-income family, worked as a tech vendor at the Mitino radio market in his youth, and graduated from university only on his fifth attempt before launching the "Ai, Kak Prosto!" YouTube channel in 2013, where he published emotional gadget reviews but later shifted to political commentary and documentaries from a leftist perspective, which led to the permanent termination of all his channels by YouTube in December 2022, prompting him to move his content to VK and Rutube, work as a host on the "Solovyov Live" TV channel and "Komsomolskaya Pravda" radio, and in his personal life, he is married to Ksenia Vasilyeva and performs as the lead vocalist for his own rock band "The Vepri".
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Kelci C. Magel
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Kelci C. Magel has been an actress from a very young age, and transitioned to film in 2010. Before discovering her passion for film she studied and received a BA in Performing Arts, with a concentration in classical music. After college Kelci had the opportunity to work for casting agencies and talent studios on the East Coast and throughout the Midwest. For the past three years she have been perusing a career full time in acting and producing in California. Kelci has experience in working in the independent world as well as major motion pictures, music videos, television, and commercials. Kelci has produced three independent horror films, and in 2014 won the Most Anticipated Film of 2014 award for "Midsummer Nightmares 2: Summer's End." Kelci has been featured in numerous horror magazines, and with her film credits always growing, is poised to be a force within the genre.
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Jez Butterworth
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Jeremy Butterworth (born March 4, 1969) is a British playwright, screenwriter, and film director. He has gained recognition for his unique voice in contemporary theatre, often blending myth, folklore, and realism themes. He has received a Tony Award and two Laurence Olivier Awards.
Butterworth started his career with his play, a comedic dark crime drama, Mojo (1995), which earned the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. He found acclaim with his play Jerusalem, which has been described as "the greatest British play of the 21st century". He wrote the play The Ferryman (2017) about a former IRA volunteer set in The Troubles, which won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play and the Tony Award for Best Play. His latest play, The Hills of California (2024), debuted in London and made its Broadway transfer in the same year.
He made his directorial film debut with Mojo (1997), based on his play of the same name. He has since written the screenplays for films such as the erotic thriller Birthday Girl (2001), the political drama Fair Game (2010), the science fiction action film Edge of Tomorrow (2014), the James Brown biopic Get On Up (2014), the Whitey Bulger crime drama Black Mass (2015), and sports drama Ford v Ferrari (2019). He has also co-written screenplays for the James Bond film Spectre (2015) and the Indiana Jones franchise film Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny(2023).
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Josh Lucas
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Josh Lucas (born June 20, 1971) is an American actor. He has starred alongside Jon Voight in Jerry Bruckheimer's Glory Road (2006), Kurt Russell and Richard Dreyfuss in Wolfgang Petersen's Poseidon (2006), Morgan Freeman and Robert Redford in Lasse Hallström's An Unfinished Life (2005), Jamie Bell in David Gordon Green's Undertow (2004), which was also produced by Terrence Malick.
Other credits include Ford v Ferrari (2019), The Lincoln Lawyer (2011), Hulk (2003), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Wonderland (2003), The Deep End (2001), American Psycho (2000), Session 9 (2001), and You Can Count on Me (2000).
Lucas' theater credits include the recent off-Broadway run of "Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell"; Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie," which appeared on Broadway in 2005; Terrence McNally's "Corpus Christi" at the Manhattan Theater Club; Christopher Shinn's "What Didn't Happen"; and "The Picture of Dorian Gray."
Lucas recently completed his second collaboration with documentary filmmaker Ken Burns on "The War" (2007). Lucas' other documentary work includes the upcoming Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience (2007), Trumbo (2007), and Resolved (2007). Lucas recently completed his first venture into production with Stolen Lives (2009), in which he plays the single father of a mentally challenged boy. This film is the first project to be produced through Lucas' production company, Two Bridges.
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