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Earle Hodgins

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Earle Hodgins (October 6, 1893 – April 14, 1964) was an American actor. Early in his career, Hodgins was active in stock theater, including working in the Ralph Cloninger troupe of Salt Lake City, Utah, and the Siegel Stock company of Seattle, Washington. He appeared in over 330 films and television shows between 1932 and 1963. He specialized in playing fast-talking con men—often in westerns, such as The Lone Ranger, Judge Roy Bean, The Cisco Kid, The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, Rawhide, Maverick, Lawman, The Rifleman, Cheyenne, Have Gun – Will Travel, Gunsmoke and Hopalong Cassidy. In the 1960-1961 season, he appeared in three episodes of Joanne Dru's ABC sitcom, Guestward, Ho! as the aging ranch wrangler known as "Lonesome." In one of those episodes, "Lonesome's Gal", he was cast opposite ZaSu Pitts. Thereafter, the two died within a year of each other. Hodgins' other television roles were as carnival barkers, medicine-show salesmen, and the like. He was known for shooing away obstreporous children from his stage, snapping at them, "Get away, son, ya bother me". Hodgins married Sue Hanley, who was described in a newspaper item as "a Seattle society girl."
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Cliff Edwards

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Clifton Avon "Cliff" Edwards (June 14, 1895 – July 17, 1971), nicknamed "Ukulele Ike", was an American musician, singer, actor and voice actor, who enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s, specializing in jazzy renditions of pop standards and novelty tunes. He had a number-one hit with "Singin' in the Rain" in 1929. He also did voices for animated cartoons later in his career, and is best known as the voice of Jiminy Cricket in Walt Disney's Pinocchio (1940) and Fun and Fancy Free (1947). His rendition of "When You Wish Upon a Star" in Pinocchio is probably his most familiar recorded legacy.
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Landry Allbright

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Landry Alexandra Allbright began acting professionally at age 2, starting off in commercials. She continued acting throughout her childhood and landed many roles in film and television. Her most notable roles include Nicolas Cage's daughter Casey Poe in the beloved 90s action hit Con Air, and as young Christine Baranski in Dr. Suess' How the Grinch Stole Christmas. She went on to receive a Bachelor in Fine Arts from Emerson College in Boston. As an adult, she has expanded her career to include writing and producing in addition to continuing her work as an actor in film and television. IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
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Ger Ryan

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ger Ryan is an Irish film and television actress, whose credits include Queer as Folk, The War of the Buttons, The Van, Moll Flanders, Driftwood, A Love Divided and Intermission. Ryan has worked extensively in theatre, television and film. She has been twice nominated for a Royal Television Society Award for Family and Amongst Women, and three times nominated by IFTA for Amongst Women, Intermission and The Return. She is also a recipient of a Belfast Telegraph EMA Award in for her work on A Place with the Pigs and Song of the Yellow Bittern. In 2007, she received an IFTA for her work on the two-part docu-drama, Stardust, by RTÉ. She also played Margie McEvoy in all three series of the award-winning BBC drama series, The Street, with Timothy Spall. Most recently, she has played the role of Maeve Harte in RTÉ's popular drama series, Raw. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ger Ryan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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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Christopher Lee

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Lee joined TCS on a contract in 1995 after emerging as 1st runner-up in the male category of the Star Search programme in 1995. He worked as a factory worker, salesman and part-time model before joining star search in 1995. Lee first started acting in Chinese-language television dramas produced by Channel 8. Lee rose to prominence in his career after winning the Best Actor award at the Star Awards 1997 for his role as a hanjian in the television drama The Price of Peace, set in Japanese-occupied Singapore during World War II. In 1998, he starred as Yang Guo in The Return of the Condor Heroes, an adaptation of Louis Cha's novel of the same title. He was voted in as Taiwan's Most Popular MediaCorp Male Artiste at the Star Awards 1998 for his performance. Since then, Lee has acted in many television series jointly produced by Singapore and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region, co-starring with actors from Hong Kong and Taiwan, such as Nadia Chan, Vincent Chiao, Jimmy Lin and Jordan Chan. Apart from acting, Lee also recorded the theme songs of MediaCorp's television dramas. He released his first solo album in 1999 and another one in 2002. At the 2010 Star Awards, Lee was awarded the coveted All-Time Favourite Artiste Award after winning the Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes award from 1997–1998, 2000, 2002-2009 respectively with long-time colleague Mark Lee. He became the first non-Singaporean artiste to win the award. More recently, Lee has also ventured into hosting and has hosted several travel and food programmes. He was nominated for the Best Info-Ed Show Host award at the Star Awards 2012.
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Erra Fazira

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Erra Fazira (born Fazira Wan Chek) is a Malaysian actress, singer, fashion model, TV Host, film producer, as well as former beauty queen. She rose to fame in the early/mid 1990s following her roles in Sembilu ("Torn", Sembilu 2 ("Torn 2"), Maria Mariana and Pasrah (Surrender). She received critical acclaim and a Best Actress In a Leading Role trophy at Malaysia Film Festival twice for her portrayal of inspiring young sales girl and part time student "Nurul Ain" in "Soal Hati ("About The Heart")" (2001) and as "Nora", an old lady with dark past in the film Hingga Hujung Nyawa (" Until The End of Life" (2005). She received another three Malaysia Film Festival's Best Actress award nomination for her performance in Soalnya Siapa? ""Who is it?" (2003), Persona Non Grata (2006), and Anak "The Child" (2008).
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April Walker

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April Walker is a British actress and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art between 1960 and 1962. She worked extensively in repertory and touring theatre before appearing on television in BBC TV comedy series such as The Two Ronnies, Fawlty Towers (as Jean Wilson, in an early episode in which a hotel proprietor, Basil Fawlty, played by John Cleese, seeks to stamp out suspected extra-marital liaisons on his premises), Yes Minister (as a journalist, who discovers that a Government Minister, whose wife is a friend of hers, has retained for himself a valuable vase presented during an overseas visit), Dad's Army (as a Second World War “land girl”), Morecambe and Wise, The Dick Emery Show, Terry and June, Sykes, and The Les Dawson Show. Interspersed with the comedy were drama series which included appearances in Inspector Wycliffe, Anna Karenina, Minor Complications, Father Brown, The Prince and the Pauper, Judge John Deed and Waking The Dead. She has also performed on radio, including the last series of The Navy Lark, and in films such as The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Rhubarb Rhubarb and Shadow in a Landscape. Walker's experience of touring took her to Canada and South Africa in 1979, with Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques, and to the Middle East and Far East in 1990 with Tim Brooke Taylor in a Derek Nimmo production of Alan Ayckbourn's Table Manners. She has appeared in West End productions: Oh Clarence at the Lyric Theatre in 1968 (in which she played Jon Pertwee's niece), in Key For Two at the Vaudeville in 1982, Present Laughter at both the Aldwych Theatre and the Wyndham Theatre in 1996, and Brief Encounter at the Lyric Theatre in 2000. In 1973, a new companion was being sought to star opposite Jon Pertwee in the long-running television series Doctor Who. After auditioning many women, producer Barry Letts selected Walker for the role of Sarah Jane Smith. Pertwee, who had been playing the Doctor for some time, had not been consulted and totally disagreed with the casting although he and Walker had worked harmoniously together in Oh Clarence. He was not comfortable with playing opposite his female co-star, who was tall and blonde. Already contractually protected, Walker was paid for the entire season but any monies earned at the BBC during the period of the contract were deducted. The role was re-cast with Elisabeth Sladen, who was not as tall as Walker and had dark hair. Although committed to not talking about the issue in her release agreement, Walker began to discuss the circumstances surrounding her casting decades later. After giving some written interviews to fanzines, in May 2020 Walker gave an on-screen interview to 'Time Space Visualiser' giving much further detail about the circumstances, including revealing later work alongside Pertwee in the last series of radio comedy, The Navy Lark. Walker stated that they "were perfectly civil to each other, but I could never quite forgive him"
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May Myat Noe

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May Myat Noe is a Burmese actress, fashion model and beauty pageant titleholder. She is best known for winning Miss Asia Pacific World in 2014, as well as being a finalist in the fourth season of Asia’s Next Top Model in 2016, becoming the first representative from Myanmar to participate in the series. Noe began her music career in 2011, before winning Miss Asia Pacific World 2014. She competed in the sixth season of Eain Met Sone Yar, and became the seventh runner-up. She started her acting career in 2014. She made her acting debut with multiple Burmese movies and videos, namely Ti Kyat, Pawa Ma Shu Yay Ma Ku Kyay, Professor Dr. Seik Phwar, Charm Series, Motor and Fan, Achit Pincin Essay, Palat Kywat Thwar Tat Achit, A Phyu Htal Lu Mike Gyi, Akhar Taw and Khyay Kyi Tal. She was also in two American films, Invincible (2020) by Daniel Zirilli and The Haunting of Hell Hole Mine (2023) by Paul Collett. – Wikipedia
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Arturo Valls

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Nació en el barrio de La Punta (Valencia). Estudió en el instituto San Vicente Ferrer. Comenzó la carrera de Periodismo en Valencia, la cual abandonó cuando empezó como reportero en una televisión local de Valencia (Valencia Te Ve), un magacine presentado por Laura Pérez Vehí llamado "La luna de Valencia", y teniendo como compañera de programa a Carmen Alcayde. Su debut en una televisión nacional fue en 1996, como reportero en la primera etapa de Caiga Quien Caiga, que presentaba Wyoming. Una vez que finalizó el programa en 2002, fue fichado por la FORTA, donde presentó el programa X cuánto?, que se emitió en varias cadenas autonómicas españolas como Telemadrid o Canal 9 y posteriormente presentó el espacio de zapping Licencia para mirar, donde protagonizó monólogos y sketches. Más tarde colaboraría con Florentino Fernández y Nuria Roca en el programa de humor UHF de Antena 3. Después presentó durante un corto espacio de tiempo Los Más, junto a Silvia Jato. Finalmente, recaló de nuevo en Telecinco, sustituyendo durante unos meses a Jesús Vázquez como presentador del concurso Allá tú. También participó en la serie Gominolas, que solo duró 7 capítulos en antena. Ha intervenido ocasionalmente en capítulos de varias series televisivas como Un paso adelante, 7 vidas y Aída. Por otra parte, ha desarrollado su faceta de actor en la gran pantalla en las películas El corazón del guerrero y Torrente 2: Misión en Marbella. Fue Jesús Quesada en Camera Café y posteriormente interpretó al mismo personaje en ¡Fibrilando! También colaboró esporádicamente en Muchachada Nui. En 2008 filmó la película 8 citas junto a Fernando Tejero entre otros. En diciembre de 2009 estrena el programa Vaya tropa en Cuatro, que es retirado poco después por sus bajos índices de audiencia. En julio de 2010 protagoniza la parodia La isla de los nominados y en el verano de 2011 ficha por Antena 3 para presentar el concurso ¡Ahora caigo!, concurso que en su primera emisión se hizo con el liderato de la noche y con el minuto de oro, siendo un gran triunfo.1 Tras aparecer como invitado especial en la primera edición del programa Tu cara me suena, desde el 1 de octubre de 2012 hasta el 11 de febrero de 2013 formó parte de la segunda edición, donde se clasificó como tercer finalista. El 23 de octubre de 2012 Arturo Valls presentó junto a Patricia Conde la gala de los Neox Fan Awards en Neox.2 El 18 de enero de 2013, Arturo Valls fue confirmado como presentador de Splash: famosos al agua, programa emitido por Antena 3. El 24 de septiembre de 2013 Arturo Valls volvió a presentar la segunda edición de los Neox Fan Awards en Neox junto a Anna Simon. Desde el 15 de noviembre de 2013 presenta en el prime time de los viernes de Antena 3 el concurso de cómicos Me resbala. El 28 de noviembre de 2013 volvió como invitado al programa Tu cara me suena imitando a Miley Cyrus.
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