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Born on the 12th January 1974 in Merseyside, England, Melanie Chisholm became a member of Spice Girls in 1994. Their three albums sold more than 40 million copies worldwide and they had nine singles at number 1 in the UK.
"Northern Star" was her first solo album. On the back of the first single "Goin' Down", the album initially went to #10 in the UK charts after being released on 18th October 1999, before going down the chart rapidly. In the US, it peaked at a disappointing #208 after being released on 2nd November 1999. After 5 singles - two of which were UK #1s, three tours, and 18 months of constant promotion, the album went triple platinum in the UK, peaking at #4 on its re-release in August 2000. Sales for the album currently stand at around 3 million copies worldwide (around 900,000 in the UK). The album continues to sell well, and in 2004, re-entered the UK Top 100 for yet another time, as a result of being low-priced in some stores. "Northern Star" has a remarkable Top 75 chart run, which demonstrates its sheer success as Melanie C established herself slowly as a solo artist. "Reason" was her second album, which took 18 months to complete. Released on 10th March 2003, it reached #5 in the UK chart - selling 30,500 copies in its first week. Although it didn't perform as well as "Northern Star", "Reason" has a Gold certification in the UK, with 80,000 copies sold. January 2004 saw the album reduced to £2.99 in all major record shops, but even then, "Northern Star" at the same price outsold it greatly. After the failure of "Melt/Yeh Yeh Yeh", the album is now truly a closed chapter. Although sales stalled after "On The Horizon", it managed to sell 500,000 copies worldwide.
The release of Melanie C's last album, "Reason" in March 2003 meant many changes for her career later in the year. Following the disaster of "Melt/Yeh Yeh Yeh", she parted from her record label, Virgin Records, and decided to go it alone, releasing her third solo album, "Beautiful Intentions", on her own label, Red Girl Records. Following the release of the single "Next Best Superstar" (#10 in the UK singles chart), Melanie will release "Better Alone" in July.- Writer
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Aaron Seltzer was born on 12 January 1974 in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. He is a writer and director, known for Disaster Movie (2008), Date Movie (2006) and Epic Movie (2007).- Actor
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He began his career at a young age in theater, was born in 2000 January in Iraq, and later participated in films Including a film El clásico, His performance in the film earned him widespread fame, Although he was born and raised in Iraq, Ahmed enrolled at the University of Baghdad and graduated with a BA degree in theater, He has worked in a series of roles assisting in film and television, including Tight Dress.- Ajita Wilson was a transsexual actress who started out as an entertainer in the red-light district of New York. Wilson had sex reassignment surgery in the mid-1970s. After the operation she started appearing in adult films in New York. Then she was discovered by a European hardcore film producer who got her roles in various French and Italian films of hardcore nature. In 1978 she made a crossover into softcore European films. She worked in a series of softcore and hardcore films over the years. In 1987 Wilson was in an automobile accident and died of a brain hemorrhage.
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Alexandra Wentworth was born on 12 January 1965 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for It's Complicated (2009), Jerry Maguire (1996) and Office Space (1999). She has been married to George Stephanopoulos since 20 November 2001. They have two children.- Amalia Sánchez Ariño was born in 1883 in Spain. She was an actress, known for Die Göttin vom Rio Beni (1950), La muerte camina en la lluvia (1948) and Nacha Regules (1950). She died in 1969 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Introduced to most of the world in 2005 with the smash single "1 Thing," triple-threat actress / dancer / singer-songwriter-producer Ameriie continues to evolve.
Amerie was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, to Mi Suk, a Korean-born artist, and Charles Rogers, an African-American military man. As a young girl, she lived in a variety of places, including South Korea, Germany, Texas and Alaska due to her father's US military career. Having to constantly adapt to new environments, she developed a very strong sense of self early on. She excelled in school, but also found a creative outlet in writing fiction and music.
Ameriie went on to Georgetown University, where she earned a bachelors degree in English and Fine Arts/Design. After securing a record deal shortly after graduation, she released her debut album "All I Have" and, together with Richard A. Harrison, helped steer contemporary R&B away from synthetic sounds through the use of live, aggressive instrumentation and vocalization. Three years later she turned out "Touch", which solidified her as one of music's most exciting artists, thanks to the overwhelming success of the go-go-inspired track "1 Thing." In 2007 she released "Because I Love It", which featured the hip-hop electro sound that is still prevalent in pop music today.
After releasing three critically acclaimed albums, Ameriie decided it was time to reposition herself. In 2008 she parted ways with Sony and co-founded entertainment company Feeniix Rising Entertainment with business partner Lennie Nicholson. "In Love & War", an aggressive mix of trunk rattling hip-hop, raw soul reminiscent of James Brown and classic Led Zeppelin-era rock-'n-roll, quickly followed. The singer managed to turn the tumultuous times of past relationships into a moving collection of songs which resonate with anyone who has ever been on the wrong side of love.
Ameriie is in the process of recording her latest project, "Cymatika", which she describes as an album that speaks to "the things that drive us." Always fusing different musical elements, this time she picks up where 2007's "Because I Love It" left off, and adds a heavier dose of New Wave, trance and electronica. Ameriie is also working on three books: her first fiction novel, a guide book for young girls and teens, and a wedding planning book with celebrity wedding planner Tiffany Nieves-Cook, with whom she's been planning her wedding for the past year.- Actor
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André De Shields was born on 12 January 1946 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He is an actor, known for tick, tick... BOOM! (2021), Extreme Measures (1996) and The Wiz (1983).- Actor
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Andrew Lawrence, affectionately called Andy, was born the youngest son of Donna and Joe Lawrence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on January 12, 1988. Starting in show business at age 3, he proved to fit right into star-filled family. People everywhere love Andy for his charming smile, accurate impressions, good attitude, sweet countenance, and many other talents.- Director
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Anne Sewitsky was born on 12 January 1978 in Stavern, Norway. She is a director and producer, known for Happy, Happy (2010), Totally True Love (2011) and Homesick (2015).- Actor
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Anthony Andrews made his West End theater debut at the Apollo Theatre as one of twenty young schoolboys in Alan Bennett's "Forty Years On" with John Gielgud. He began his career at the Chichester Festival Theatre in the UK. His theater credits include spells with the New Shakespeare Company - "Romeo and Juliet" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The Royal National Theatre production of Stephen Poliakoff's "Coming in to Land" with Maggie Smith, directed by Peter Hall, the much-acclaimed Greenwich Theatre production of Robin Chapman's "One of Us" and, as "Pastor Manders", in Robin Phillips's highly acclaimed production of Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts" at the Comedy Theatre in London, produced by Bill Kenwright.
Anthony's first television appearance was in A Beast with Two Backs (1968) by Dennis Potter, which was part of The Wednesday Play (1964) series. His first leading role in a series was as the title character in the BBC's The Fortunes of Nigel (1974) by Walter Scott. Subsequently, he distinguished himself in various television classics playing "Mercutio" in Romeo & Juliet (1978) and starred in three different plays in the "Play of the Month" (1976) series, including playing "Charles Harcourt" in "London Assurance". He also starred in Danger UXB (1979), in which he played bomb disposal hero "Brian Ash".
Most famously, he received worldwide recognition for his portrayal of the doomed "Sebastian Flyte" in Brideshead Revisited (1981) for which he won a BAFTA in the UK, the Golden Globe award in the USA and an Emmy nomination for Best Actor.
Anthony's since gone on to star in Jewels (1992), for which he received another Golden Globe nomination.
Most recently, Anthony has received tremendous acclaim for his outstanding portrayal of "Count Fosco" in "The Woman In White" at the Palace Theatre in London's West End.
As a producer, he co-produced Lost in Siberia (1991), which translates as "Lost in Siberia", filmed entirely in Russia, which received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Film and Haunted (1995), produced by his own production company, Double 'A' Films.- Actress
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Barbara Scolaro was born in the Bronx and spent her childhood between New York and Florida performing at the Asolo Rep & Van Wezel Arts Hall. She moved to Atlanta to study and perform at the opulent Fox Theater then to San Diego to study at The Old Globe Theatre. She has extensive voiceover / narration experience and loves dubbing foreign language programs into English.
Barbara has three sisters; is of Italian / Irish decent. Her mother is from Sicily and her father's family from Ireland.- Brooklyn born US actor who attained minor cult status through his portrayal of troubled teenager "Cotton" leading a group of other teen misfits to release caged buffaloes earmarked for shooting in the film Bless the Beasts & Children (1971) based upon the Glendon Swarthout novel of the same name.
His other work was restricted to a handful of appearances in several TV shows and telemovies.
Died from AIDS related illness on April 1, 1986. - Bentong was born on 12 January 1964 in Tabaco, Albay, Philippines. He was an actor, known for Ikaw lamang hanggang ngayon (2002), Jologs (2002) and Yes, It's Loved If Loved (1999). He was married to Cecille Bernal. He died on 9 February 2019 in Quezon City, Philippines.
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Bill Burrud was born on 12 January 1925 in Hollywood, California, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Idol of the Crowds (1937), Girl Overboard (1937) and Devil's Squadron (1936). He died on 12 July 1990 in Sunset Beach, California, USA.- Actor
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Björn Thors was born on 12 January 1978 in Reykjavik, Iceland. He is an actor and producer, known for Reykjavik Guesthouse: Rent a Bike (2002), A Letter from Helga (2022) and Frost (2012).- Born Susan Blanchard Ryan, she uses her middle name because Susan Ryan was already taken in SAG. Graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a BA in Political Philosophy. After graduating from college, she worked at MTV in the special effects department, and took acting and improv classes. Eventually, she left MTV to pursue her career, supporting herself doing commercials.
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Bob Dishy was born on 12 January 1934 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Along Came Polly (2004), The Wackness (2008) and Don Juan DeMarco (1994). He has been married to Judy Graubart since 1986. They have two children.- Director
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Bolotbek Shamshiyev was born on 12 January 1941 in Frunze, Kirghiz SSR, USSR [now Bishkek, Chuy, Kyrgyzstan]. He was a director and writer, known for Belyy parokhod (1976), Volchya yama (1984) and Snaypery (1986). He died on 21 December 2019 in Bishkek, Kirgiziya.- Producer
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Bruce Lansbury was best known as the producer of cult science fiction TV shows of the 1960s and 1970s. He made his science fiction mark in the 1960s with The Wild Wild West (1965). In 1971, he produced the highly regarded Assault on the Wayne (1971), which, while not science fiction related, captured the imagination of science fiction fans as Star Trek (1966)'s Leonard Nimoy played a troubled sub captain with just a hint of Mr Spock in his performance.
Lansbury also produced the short lived lost-island science fiction series, The Fantastic Journey (1977), which may have only lasted ten episodes but holds an iconic status for some people even today. Lansbury worked on the third season of Wonder Woman (1975) and gave the series a much needed burst of sci-fi storylines which greatly improved the series as a whole. He also worked on the first and best season of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979).- Actor
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Bruno Arena was born on 12 January 1957 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He was an actor, known for Pinocchio (2002), La fidanzata di papà (2008) and Amici ahrarara (2001). He was married to Rosaria Marrone. He died on 27 September 2022 in Barasso, Lombardy, Italy.- Actor
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Carlos Villagrán was born on 12 January 1944 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is an actor and director, known for ¡Ah qué Kiko! (1987), Las nuevas aventuras de Fredericco (1983) and Chespirito (1970).- Actor
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Charles Richman was born on 12 January 1865 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Man from Home (1914), The Battle Cry of Peace (1915) and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938). He was married to Jane Grey. He died on 1 December 1940 in The Bronx, New York, USA.- Actor
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Chasen Hampton was born on 12 January 1975 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. He is an actor and director, known for The Rules of Attraction (2002), The X-Files (1993) and The All New Mickey Mouse Club (1989).- Actor
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Chris Gartin was born in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Black Swan (2010), Mother! (2017) and True Blood (2008). He was previously married to Joanne Ahlfield.- Writer
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Christiane Amanpour was born on 12 January 1958 in London, England, UK. She is a writer and actress, known for Zoolander 2 (2016), Iron Man 2 (2010) and Trash (2014). She was previously married to James Rubin.- Actress
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Clare Holman was born on 12 January 1964 in London, England, UK. She is an actress and director, known for Blood Diamond (2006), Suite Française (2014) and Inspector Lewis (2006). She was previously married to Howard Davies.- Claudia's entertainment arts career began as a country music artist performing at the famed, "Louisiana Hayride" and various Opry's around Texas. Upon graduating from Bauder College, Claudia began working with top modeling agencies in Dallas, Miami, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Tokyo and Paris. After being cast in numerous commercials, Claudia was cast in her first acting role on the popular CBS drama, "Dallas." She also landed a starring role as Katrin in the play, "The Marriage Go Round." With dreams of a career in country music still pulling at her, Claudia moved to Nashville. The move paid off when she was signed to Warner Brothers/Reprise Records. Still paying the bills with her modeling and acting gigs, she was cast in a music video for Grammy award winning artist, Rodney Crowell, which not only led him to produce her self-titled CD, but they also married soon after. While signed with Warner/Reprise, Claudia achieved "Billboard" and "R and R" chart success and performed around the globe, including numerous USO shows around Bosnia-Herzegovina. When her music career ran its course, Claudia resumed her acting career and moved to Los Angeles to study with acting coach, Ivana Chubbuck. Some of her most noteworthy roles include playing a recovering methamphetamine addict in the film, "Captive" working alongside David Oyelowo and Kate Mara; a Bohemian islander in the thriller, "Isolation" working with Stephen Lang, Tricia Helfer and Dominic Purcell; and a doctor on the ABC-TV drama, "Nashville" working alongside Kimberly Williams-Paisley.
- Cynthia Addai-Robinson is an English-born actress. She was born in London; her mother is from Ghana and her father is an United States citizen. She moved to US when she was four, and was raised by her mother in a suburb of Washington, DC. She is a graduate of Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, MD, and studied at the Tisch School of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater. In addition, she trained at Lee Strasberg Theater Institute and in dance forms ballet, jazz, tap. She received Navy Seal and New Zealand Special Forces training during the filming of Spartacus: War of the Damned.
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- Daniel Osvaldo was born on 12 January 1986 in Lanús, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. He was previously married to Nina Oertlinger.Daniel Osvaldo
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Danielle Judovits was born on 12 January 1985 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Toy Story (1995), The Batman (2004) and Sailor Moon Crystal (2014).- Darel Glaser was born on 12 January 1957 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Bless the Beasts & Children (1971), An Enemy of the People (1978) and Shazam! (1974). He died on 7 December 2022 in Berwyn, Illinois, USA.
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David Mitchell was born on 12 January 1969 in Southport, Lancashire, England, UK. He is a writer and actor, known for Cloud Atlas (2012), The Matrix Resurrections (2021) and Sense8 (2015). He is married to Keiko Yoshida. They have two children.- Debra Feuer was born on 12 January 1959 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. She is an actress, known for To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), Homeboy (1988) and Miami Vice (1984). She is married to Scott Fuller. They have one child. She was previously married to Mickey Rourke.
- Deena Nicole Cortese was born on 12 January 1987 in New Egypt, New Jersey, USA. She is an actress, known for Mike on Much in Conversation With... (2018), Jersey Shore (2009) and Fear Factor (2017). She has been married to Chris Buckner since 28 October 2017. They have two children.
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Brought up on Northampton where he had his first job and played football for Northampton Town. He joined the RAF and on completing his service became a Butlin Redcoat and began to learn the rudiments of comedy which led him to become a professional. After 6 years he got his first big television break as host of 'Spot That Tune' then compere on 'Sunday Night at the London Palladium' In 1966 he compered the Royal Variety Show. His first record, 'Careless Hands' got to number 3 in the top ten, his second, 'I Pretend' also got into the top ten.- Dick Kulpa was an actor, known for Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV (2000). He died on 3 January 2021 in Boynton Beach, Florida, USA.
- Dorothy Green was born on 12 January 1920 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for The Big Heat (1953), Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963) and Tammy (1965). She was married to Dr. Arthur Leo Heller, Sidney Miller, Dr. Sidney Green and William Wade Woodson. She died on 8 May 2008 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Eric Callero was born in Santa Cruz, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Let Us In (2021), Feud (2017) and Deadly Daughter Switch (2020).- Actress
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Erinn Westbrook was born in Long Island, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Riverdale (2017), The Resident (2018) and 10 Days (2021).- Director
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Ernesto Arancibia was born on 12 January 1904 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a director and production designer, known for Romance musical (1947), La calle del pecado (1954) and Pájaros de cristal (1955). He died on 27 August 1963 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.- Actress
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Farrah Forke was born on 12 January 1968 in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA. She was an actress and producer, known for Heat (1995), Wings (1990) and Disclosure (1994). She died on 25 February 2022 in Texas, USA.- Felipe Rose Is the original co-founder and original Native American Taino / Lakota member of the world renowned Village People from 1977 - 2017. Now, a solo artist out with a new international dance single Dance Again: Life After Lock Down written by Rose during the global pandemic. As an actor you have seen him on Married with Children, Love Boat, Down Periscope and of course the camp classic Can't Stop The Music with Valerie Perrine, Steve Guttenberg, and Bruce Jenner AKA Caitlyn Jenner and directed by the late Nancy Walker. With prior recordings with 4 Native American Music Awards, written and produced by Felipe Rose himself. There are few entertainers who have enjoyed a successful 40+ year career in the music, television and film industry. As a producer, Felipe continues to stay relevant with speaking engagements, as an ordained minister, visual/artist/painter and his own podcast series the Disco Chronicles.
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François Girard was born in Quebec in 1963. Best known for his movie writing and directing (Thirty-two Short Films About Glenn Gould, The red Violin, Silk...), Girard also directed a number of plays and operas including PARSIFAL at the Metropolitan Opera. He also wrote and directed two Cirque du Soleil shows; Zed and Zarkana.
In 1993, his feature film Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould would go on to garner international success including four top Genie Awards. Five years later he directed The Red Violin which received an Academy Award for best original score and enshrined Girard as an important player on the international movie scene. The film also won eight Genie Awards and nine Jutra Awards. SILK, which he directed, was adapted from Alessandro Baricco's best-selling book, and was released worldwide in 2007 and received four Jutra Awards.
Girard's 1994 concert film Peter Gabriel's Secret World became a best selling film and earned him a Grammy Award. A few years later he directed one of the six episodes of the internationally acclaimed series Yo-yo Ma Inspired by Bach.
In 1997, François Girard made his opera directorial debut with Oedipus rex / Symphony of Psalms by Stravinsky and Cocteau which received numerous awards and was named by The Guardian "the best theatrical show of the year. Other opera works include Lost Objects for the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Wagner's Siegfried; the Flight of Lindbergh / Seven deadly Sins from Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht; as well as Kaija Saariaho's Émilie. His most recent opera work is Parsifal which earned him and the Metropolitan Opera Company a remarkable critical success.
For the stage, Girard also directed Alessandro Barrico's Novecento; Kafka's Trial and Yasushi Inoue's Hunting Gun. He is currently working on a new production of Waiting for Godot.
Girard is a three-time winner of the much-coveted Herald Angel Award for Best Production at the Edinburgh Festival.
In recent years, Cirque du Soleil's commissioned Girard to write and direct ZED, their first permanent show in Tokyo; and Zarkana which opened at Radio City Music Hall, played at the Kremlin Theatre and has become a resident show in Las Vegas.- Music Department
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George Duke is an American keyboardist, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer.
He worked with numerous artists as arranger, music director, writer and co-writer, record producer and as a professor of music. He first made a name for himself with the album The Jean-Luc Ponty Experience with the George Duke Trio. He was known primarily for thirty-odd solo albums, of which A Brazilian Love Affair from 1979 was his most popular, as well as for his collaborations with other musicians, particularly Frank Zappa.- Actress
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Actress, singer, comedienne and dancer. Gladys Blake left home at age 14 to join a stock company in Reading, Pennsylvania, and after two years she had developed her own vaudeville act, Gresham and Blake, with Lee Gresham. Coming to California, they were booked into the Orpheum Theatre in downtown Los Angeles where she was spotted by film agent Edward Small. Her first small film roles were mostly for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Director Richard Thorpe personally offered Gladys her small role in "The Earl of Chicago" in which only her legs were seen.- Music Department
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Glenn Yarbrough was born on 12 January 1930 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965), The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969) and The Christmas That Almost Wasn't (1966). He was married to Laurie Ann Poole, Ann Graves, Margaret (Peggy) Ellen Goodhart and Kathleen Pommer. He died on 11 August 2016 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.- Writer
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Hannah Gadsby was born on 12 January 1978 in Smithton, Tasmania, Australia. Hannah is a writer and actor, known for Hannah Gadsby: Douglas (2020), Hannah Gadsby: Nanette (2018) and Please Like Me (2013). Hannah has been married to Jenney Shamash since January 2021.- Haruki Murakami graduated from Waseda University, Tokyo, in 1975. Widely considered one of Japan's most important 20th-century novelists. His often solitary, withdrawn, and world-weary protagonists are generally stripped of Japanese tradition. Frequently called postmodern, his fiction, which often includes elements of surreal fantasy and is sprinkled with references to American popular culture, is cool and contemporary; his distinctive style is often characterized as "hard-boiled." His first novel was Hear the Wind Sing (1979). Since then he has published such novels as Pinball 1973 (1980), A Wild Sheep Chase (1982), Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Norwegian Wood (1987), Dance, Dance, Dance (1988), The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (1995), The Sputnik Sweetheart (1999), and Kafka on the Shore (2002). He has also written short stories, e.g., those collected in The Elephant Vanishes (1993) and After the Quake (2002), and done translations. His first nonfiction book, Underground (2001), is an oral history of the 1995 gas attack by religious extremists in the Tokyo subway and its relation to the Japanese psyche.
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Heather Mills was born on 12 January 1968 in Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for Comic Relief 2005: Is This the Way to Amarillo (2005), Days of Our Lives (1965) and Streetlife (2000). She was previously married to Paul McCartney and Alfie Karmal.- Actor
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Héctor Ortega was born on 21 July 1936 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was an actor and writer, known for The Holy Mountain (1973), El águila descalza (1971) and Cuartelazo (1977). He died on 3 June 2020 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico.- House Peters Jr. spent over 32 years in Hollywood as a well-respected, journeyman character actor and occasional star of B-movies. Beginning his career in 1935's Hot Tip (1935), he went on to portray mostly supporting characters and a host of baddies in a large number of stage roles, films, serials, TV shows and commercials.
House was born into an acting family, the son of silent screen star House Peters and actress Mae King Peters. Affectionately known as "Junior" or "Juny" by friends and relatives, he grew up in Beverly Hills, attended local schools with many children of Hollywood's elite and dove into the acting business upon graduation from Beverly Hills High, with modest success. With his new career put on hold because of WWII, House served in the U.S. Army Air Corps' Air Sea Rescue section as a small-boat operator. Meeting and subsequently marrying Lucy Pickett during his tour in the Phillipines, he returned home after the war and resumed his career. During the late 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s, House found a lot of work in both movies and television, playing such roles as soldiers, police detectives, western outlaws and even as the original Mr. Clean in a popular string of TV commercials. Peters had set himself a goal when he began his acting career that if he didn't achieve star status by age 50, he would leave show business for good. Being true to his word after remaining typed as a perennial supporting player, he left the set after finishing a Lassie (1954) episode in 1965 in which he played a recurring role as county sheriff Jim Simmons, and ended his career. From that day forward House went into the real estate business in the San Fernando Valley and never turned back. When he finally retired from this profession, he and Lucy toured the entire country many times over in their van and travel trailer, fishing, gold prospecting, site seeing and attending every swap meet they could find. He was the recipient of the coveted Golden Boot Award and penned an autobiography, "Another Side of Hollywood," House makes occasional appearances at western film festivals, including the ever-popular gathering at Iverson Ranch in Chatsworth, California. If he had anything to do over again in his entire life, Peters emphatically proclaims that it would be to "change my name!" - Producer
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Howard Allan Stern was born on January 12, 1954, in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York, to Rae (Schiffman), an inhalation therapist, and Bernard Stern, who co-owned a cartoon/commercial production studio. His grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Poland and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Stern's first radio experience was at Boston University, where he volunteered at the college radio station. Along with several other students, he created an on-air show called the King Schmaltz Bagel Hour, a takeoff on the popular King Biscuit Flour Hour. Predicting his penchant for controversy, the show was canceled after its first broadcast, which included the comedy sketch "Name That Sin," a game show where contestants confessed their worst sins. Stern graduated in 1976 with a 3.8 grade-point average and a bachelor's degree in communications. During his first paying radio gig, at an understaffed 3,000-watt station in Briarcliff Manor, New York, "It dawned on me that I would never make it as a straight deejay," Stern told James S. Kunen in an interview for People (10/22/84), "so I started to mess around. It was unheard-of to mix talking on the phone with playing music. It was outrageous, It was blasphemy."- Irene Kane was born on 12 January 1924 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Killer's Kiss (1955), All That Jazz (1979) and The Doctors (1963). She was married to Michael Chase. She died on 31 October 2013 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Ismael Lotz was born in 1975. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Emily or Oscar (2022), Who Is Alice (2017) and Fokking Short (2015). He died on 12 January 2022 in Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.- Producer
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Jo-Issa Rae Diop credited professionally as Issa Rae, is an American actress, writer, producer, and comedian. Rae first garnered attention for her work on the YouTube web series Awkward Black Girl. Since 2011, Rae has continued to develop her YouTube channel, which features various short films, web series, and other content created by black people.- Jack London was the best-selling, highest paid and most popular American author of his time.
He was born John Griffith Chaney, on January 12, 1876, in San Francisco. He was raised by his mother Flora Wellman and his stepfather John London (he didn't know who his father was until his adulthood). After graduation from a grammar school he worked 12 to 18 hours a day at a cannery. Jack had a special relationship with his black foster mother, Virginia (Jenny) Prentiss. She loaned him some money and in 1891 he bought a sloop and became an oyster pirate. A few months later he joined the California Fish Patrol. In 1893 he joined the crew of a sealing schooner, bound for Japan. His first story, "Typhoon off the Coast of Japan", based on his sailing experiences, was published in November of 1893. Still unemployed, he became a tramp and hoboed around the country. In 1894 he was arrested for vagrancy and spent a month in jail, where he was a witness to "awful abysses of human degradation." His entire life, after these events, became a race to erase the traumatizing memories of his childhood and youth.
He continued his self-education at the Oakland Public Library. Among his readings were works by Gustave Flaubert and Lev Tolstoy. In 1896 he was admitted to the University of California, but after a year was forced to leave due to financial reasons. In 1897 he went to the Canadian Yukon and joined the Klondike Gold Rush. There he experienced all the hardships of uncivilized life and suffered from--among other things--severe frostbite, scurvy, malaria and dysentery. This left his health seriously impaired. London's struggles for survival inspired "To Build a Fire" (1902), which is considered his best short story. Writing became his ticket out of poverty; a way, in his words, to "sell his brains". His first marriage to Bess Maddern began as a friendship, not love, and ended 3 years later, leaving her with two daughters. His second marriage to Charmian Kittrdge, an editor, lasted until his death.
"The Call of the Wild" (1903) was his biggest success. "The Sea-Wolf" (1904) was turned into the first full-length American movie. Later came "The Iron Heel" (1908), a premonition of the Orwellian world, and the autobiographical "Martin Eden" (1909). The highest-paid writer of his time, he earned over $2 million yet he was always broke. In 1905 he bought a ranch in California, where he designed the first concrete silo in the state. His books provided operating income. He once said, "I would write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate." His ecological approach and effort to adapt the ideas of Asian sustainable agriculture was ahead of his time. In 1913 his Big House was ruined by a devastating fire and Jack was financially and mentally hurt. He built a small cottage and made big plans, but he lived only 3 more years. His 1400-acre ranch is now a National Historic Landmark, named Jack London State Historic Park. The writer's cottage was preserved by his wife Charmian, who lived there until her death in 1955.
His changing views and philosophy were often misunderstood as he grew out of his own mistakes. At one time he wrote, "I have been more stimulated by [Friedrich Nietzsche] than by any other writer in the world." Later London disregarded the "superman" theory of Nietzsche, calling himself Nietschze's "intellectual enemy." His readings of Carl Jung contributed to his complex philosophy. His other influences ranged from Rudyard Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson to Charles Darwin, Aldous Huxley and Karl Marx. While sympathizing with the Mexican revolution in "The Mexican", he wrote differently about it when he was sent to Mexico as a reporter in 1914. By age 40, somewhat disillusioned, he resigned from the Socialist party and from various clubs. During his last years London was in extreme pain, caused by complications from kidney failure (uremia is recorded on his death certificate). He was laid to rest at his ranch according to his will: "And roll over me a red boulder from the ruins of the Big House." - Jakob Oftebro (Born 1986, Oslo, Norway) is a charismatic Scandinavian Actor.
Oftebro started his education in acting at the reputable Norwegian Academy of Performing Arts in 2008. While studying, he also played a small role in Max Manus: Man of War (2008). He later worked with the same directors of Max Manus in the Oscar-nominated epic Kon-Tiki. (2012).
Oftebro received even bigger parts after Kon-Tiki, playing the Lead of Johannes in the Knut Hamsun adaptation Victoria (2013). He later played the Leading role in the Swedish film The Hidden Child (2013). This too was an adaptation based on the works of a best-selling author.
In 2014, Oftebro stars in the Danish epic war series, 1864. The TV series has one of the biggest budgets in Danish television history. - Janet Paisley was born on 12 January 1948 in Ilford, Essex, England, UK. She was a writer, known for Long Haul (2000) and No Hope for Men Below (2014). She was married to Bill Paisley,. She died on 9 November 2018 in Denny, Scotland, UK.
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Jason Sklar was born on 12 January 1972 in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Wild Hogs (2007), Bubble Boy (2001) and The Comebacks (2007).- Jed Mills was born on 12 January 1941 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Casino (1995), Twin Peaks (1990) and Quantum Leap (1989).
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Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994. Amazon's mission is to be Earth's most customer-centric company. Amazon offers low prices and fast delivery on millions of items, provides thousands of movies and TV shows through Prime Video, designs and builds the bestselling Kindle, Fire and Echo devices and Alexa voice recognition service, and empowers companies and governments in over 190 countries around the world with the leading cloud computing infrastructure through Amazon Web Services. Bezos is also the founder of aerospace company Blue Origin, which is working to lower the cost and increase the safety of spaceflight, and he is owner of the Washington Post. Bezos has launched two philanthropic organizations. The Bezos Earth Fund helps fund nonprofits preserving and protecting the natural world, and The Bezos Day One Fund provides grants to nonprofits to help homeless families and is creating a network of preschools in low-income communities. Bezos graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University in 1986, and was named TIME Magazine's Person of the Year in 1999.- Music Artist
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Jeremy Camp was born on 12 January 1978 in Lafayette, Indiana, USA. He is a music artist and actor, known for I Still Believe (2020), Jeremy Camp: I Still Believe (2009) and I'm Not Ashamed (2016). He has been married to Adrienne Camp since 15 December 2003. They have three children. He was previously married to Melissa Henning.- Stunts
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One of the top competitors on American Ninja Warriors, Jessie Graff is quickly becoming known as a modern day Wonder Woman, breaking stereotypes as she continues to break records. Graff made national headlines in June 2016 during the Los Angeles qualifier when she became the first woman to make it up the new, higher 14-and-a-half-foot Warped Wall, while donning a Wonder Woman costume. She returned to the Los Angeles Finals just weeks later, and in the same iconic outfit, once again conquered the Warped Wall and continued to go on to be one of only two ninjas to make it through the eighth obstacle to punch her ticket back to the Las Vegas finals for the second year in a row.
Graff made her first appearance on American Ninja Warrior [NBC] in season five in 2013. She was quickly a fan favorite as she tackled the course in a chicken dress, in honor of her "Epic Chick Fight" video, and became the first woman to qualify for the city finals. Graff then had a history-making season seven, becoming the second woman to qualify outright for the Las Vegas finals, and placing higher in city finals than a woman had ever placed. She broke that record again in season 8, when she placed second in city finals and became the only woman to qualify for Las Vegas twice.
Graff attributes much of her success on the seemingly impossible obstacles of American Ninja Warrior to her decade long career in stunts. Awarded the Action Icon Award for "Stuntwoman of the Year," her credits include: G.I. Joe, Transformers, Die Hard, The Dark Knight as well as being a recurring double on Supergirl, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, Leverage and many more. Graff has a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, a black sash in Kung Fu and is trained in five other styles of martial arts, high falls, wipeouts, sky diving, motorcycles, stunt driving, fire, wirework and of course, flying trapeze. Graff also broke the pole-vault record at Georgia Tech (where she majored in Aerospace Engineering) and the University of Nebraska (where she earned her degree in Theatre) and was 1.5 inches away from qualifying for the 2004 Olympic trials in the sport.
The journey for Graff was ignited at the age of 3, when she attended the Big Apple Circus and begged the ringmaster to let her try. Although her attempt to join the circus was unsuccessful that day, the experience immediately sparked a passion to fly high and push herself beyond what others said she was capable of. Her mother enrolled her in circus gymnastics classes, which began her training and led her to other specialties in various acrobatic and fitness disciplines, helping her develop her range of core strength, power and agility.
Jessie currently lives in Los Angeles. She hopes that she can be a positive influence and show girls and women all over the world that strong is beautiful.- Sound Department
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Jim Emswiller was born on 12 January 1957. He is known for Jack Reacher (2012), Abduction (2011) and The Avengers (2012). He was married to Beth Amber. He died on 11 October 2018 in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, USA.- Actor
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Joseph William Frazier, nicknamed "Smokin' Joe", was an American professional boxer who competed from 1965 to 1981. He was known for his strength, durability, formidable punching power, and relentless pressure fighting style and was the first boxer to defeat Muhammad Ali. Frazier reigned as the undisputed heavyweight champion from 1970 to 1973 and as an amateur won a gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics.- Born in Tasmania and an only child, Gregg was set to take over running the family farm but instead wound up scoring an audition at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Hobart.
He had a season with the Melbourne Theatre Company and in 1964, made his television debut in an episode of Consider Your Verdict.
Later that year, he starred in ABC's production of the Shakespeare play Othello.
Further television credits included Australian Playhouse, Wandjina!, The Adventures Of The Seaspray, Hunter, Riptide and Dynasty.
He had an ongoing role in the ABC drama Contrabandits in 1967-68, and the lead role of Jeff Mallow in the 1969 series Delta.
He appear on various British television series during the 1970s, returning in Australia towards the end of the decade. He had a guest role in Chopper Squad before playing the lead role of radio talk-back host Steve Black in The Oracle.
He continued to alternate between the UK and Australia, with further local credits including A Country Practice, Bodyline, Homicide Squad, Tusitala, Captain James Cook, Rafferty's Rules, Cluedo, GP, Heartbreak High, Grass Roots, Home And Away, Rake, Crownies, Power Games: The Packer-Murdoch Story, House Of Bond and Operation Buffalo.
Gregg was also a prolific commercial voiceover artist and recorded five novels for ABC radio.
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Although born in Hollywood, John and his twin sister Johanna were raised in Whittier near Los Angeles. His parents were Jewell Mae (Risley), an art teacher, and Paul Eual Lasseter, a parts manager at a Chevrolet dealership. His mother's profession contributed to his interest in animation and particularly the Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck cartoons which he would watch on television. It was when he was in High School that he realized that he could have a career in animation and he wrote to the Walt Disney Studios but nothing happened then In 1975 the Disney company started an animation course at Calarts - The California Institute of the Arts- and John, with encouragement from his mother, was one of the first to sign up. He and his class mates, who included the future animators and directors Brad Bird, and Tim Burton were taught by some of Disney's veteran animators such as Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas. During his time there John produced two animated shorts - Lady and the Lamp (1979) and Nitemare (1980) - which both won the Student Academy Award for Animation. On graduating in 1979 John was taken on as an animator at the Disney Studios. In 1983, while working on Mickey's Christmas Carol some friends invited him to see some footage of Tron that they were working on using CGI and he immediately saw the potential of it to enhance animated films. John and a colleague made a short test film and satisfied with the result and full of enthusiasm started work on a feature without consulting their superiors who when they found out about it canceled it and sacked John. Having made contacts in the computer industry he was quickly taken on by Lucasfilm which was bought by Steve Jobs for $5 million with a further $5 million invested as working capital and the company renamed Pixar. John soon convinced Steve that the future lay in computer animation by bringing his desk lamp to life in the short 'Luxor Jr' which was shown at a computer graphics conference and got a standing ovation. The first computer animated feature soon followed in the form of 'Toy Story' winning John an Oscar for Special Achievement to go with one he got for Animated Short Film - Tin Toy. He's also had Oscar nominations for Animated Feature - Monster Inc and Cars, Original Screenplay -Toy Story, Animated Short Story - Luxor Jr while the short Knick Knack was selected by Terry Gilliam as one of the best 10 animated films of all time. In 2008, he was honored with the Winsor McCay Award, - the lifetime achievement award for animators. He oversees 3 animation studios - Pixar, Disney Animation and DisneyToon He spent 9 year (2005 - 2014) on the board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, only relinquishing his seat due to term limits. He was presented with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood in November 2011.- Actor
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John Leddy was born on 12 January 1930 in The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. He was an actor, known for Zeg 'ns Aaa (1981), Bijltjesdag (2017) and Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979). He was married to Jannig Greydanis and Helen van Meurs. He died on 25 December 2022 in Den Bosch, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands.- Actor
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A native of Douglas, Cork City, Ireland. Graduated from the 2 year full-time comprehensive training programme in acting at Kinsale College, Co.Cork. John also trained under Hollywood's top acting coach, Margie Haber of Margie Haber Studios, Los Angeles, in Screen Acting. Most recently he studied under IFTA award winning director Terry McMahon in Dublin.
John has performed leading roles in over 30 short films ranging from horror to comedy. Most recently he played the lead role of 'Breffni' in the horror short 'Moonshine' directed by award-winning film-maker Jason Keane.
Theatre highlights include Oscar Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray', directed by Cal Duggan, for Kinsale Arts Week. John played the leading role of 'Lord Henry' for which he received critical acclaim. Alannah Hopkin, theatre critic for The Irish Times, said, ''the talent and subtlety of John Ryan Howard was especially impressive.''
In 2016 John won the leading role of 'Ger' in the feature length horror movie 'Beyond The Woods' directed by award-winning director Sean Breathnach. After screening at some of the world's biggest film festivals 'Beyond The Woods' won two best feature awards and picked up a National Film Award nomination in London. Following general release 'Beyond The Woods' was recommended in Empire magazine by legendary film critic Kim Newman who said ''Beyond The Woods really works. An excellent cast of unfamiliar (but plainly professional) Irish actors manage to convey a complicated set of interrelationships in the group which keep everyone off-balance even before the scare stuff starts.'' John was also singled out for his performance in 'Beyond The Woods' by film critics. Philip Rogers said ''John Ryan Howard stood out for me.'' Starburst magazine's Rich Cross said ''John Ryan Howard as the emotionally wounded Ger stands out.''
In 2021, John's second feature film - Gateway - directed by IFTA nominated director Niall Owens will be released. .- John Seru was born on 12 January 1964 in Fiji. He is an actor, known for The World Is Not Enough (1999), Underbelly (2008) and Fat Pizza (2003).
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Since he was eighteen years old, Johnny Martin has been solely working in the film and television industry. He began his career as a stuntman, and within a relatively short period of time graduated to being a stunt coordinator and second-unit director. In those capacities, Johnny has worked on over 260 films, TV shows, and commercials, and even won the award for Best Stunt Coordinator of the Year for the film "Gone in 60 Seconds" and later receiving two nominations for an Emmy and one Screen Actors Guild award.
In 2003, Johnny launched his own production company, MARTINI FILMS. In just the first year he produced three films under his banner and two of the films received SYFY Channel's "Premiere of the Year". In 2012 Martini Films was one of the first US companies to partner with China Film Group ("CFG") for the feature film "Urban Games", which was entirely shot in China and Korea. Since, Martini Films has produced 20 films for Lionsgate, Sony, Paramount, and Saban.
In 2014 Johnny began his Directing debut on the horror film "Delirium" after winning three film festivals and receiving a theatrical, he was then hired in 2016 to direct "Vengeance: A Love Story", starring Nicholas Cage and Don Johnson and then following up with "Hangman", starring Al Pacino, Karl Urban and Brittany Snow and is now in post-production on "Alone" starring Donald Sutherland and Tyler Posey. On each of these films he has credited the late great Tony Scott for the many years of preparing him for his new venture. 2018 Johnny was invited to be a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science.- Producer
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Joseph M. Smith was born on 12 January 1973 in Pomona, California, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for See This Movie (2004), Falling Up (2009) and Waiting for Anna (2002). He was previously married to Jessica Paré.- Actor
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Kaius (KY-us) Harrison is an award-winning actor, comedian, and voiceover artist whose character range of ROY G. BIV is the result of having been raised in the wild by the very chameleons who first suckled him.
Within days of being discovered by his first agent, Kaius was directed by Cannes Jury Grand Prize-winning and Oscar-nominated German filmmaker Wim Wenders in 8 (2008) for the Festival de Cannes. A few weeks later, Harrison auditioned in nothing but a bikini, cowboy boots, and bowler hat for Kate Caldwell who Taft-Hartleyed him into SAG-AFTRA by virtue of appearing one-on-one with Eddie Murphy in A Thousand Words (2012). Several years later, fans at Comic Cons and on social media flatter him with requests for autographs and cameos thanks to his world-renowned turn as Mr. Irish in the iconic Red Dead Redemption (2010). His salacious performance has even inspired a seemingly endless amount of NSFW Fan Art... which he gratefully frames and blows kisses to on a daily basis.
Mischievous young Harrison's earliest years surrounded by harsh badlands, winding canyons, and lush forests in the Rock Mountains were filled with re-enacting various Western, Fantasy, and Science Fiction scenarios; he and his buddies could start the day pretending to be local outlaw legends like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) pulling off hilariously daring heists... or gallivanting like dwarves and wizards out of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001). An afternoon playing outside could lead to assuming roles a' la Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) to protect sacred relics from Nazis while swinging from tree limbs with jump ropes in lieu of bull whips... and by evening Kaius & his cohorts would re-imagine Rebellions against Galactic Empires on backwater planets in a galaxy far, far away. It didn't take long before seeing Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) repeatedly (along with anything starring Robin Williams, Bill Murray, Jack Nicholson, or Michael Keaton) for him to realize he wanted to make a career out of entertaining onscreen.
Never falling entirely into any one category, the perpetual Class Clown became involved with student government on top of excelling in baseball, football, art, theatre, English, and history. He eventually graduated as Valedictorian with a perfect 4.0 GPA as the starting Center Fielder, Fullback & Linebacker, Homecoming King, Student Body President, All-State Drama, 2-time consecutive National Forensics Qualifier, National Forensics Semi-Finalist, 3-time consecutive State Champion in Speech & Debate for Dramatic Interpretation, American Legion Wyoming Boys' State Governor, and American Legion Boys' Nation Delegate... where Harrison made President Bill Clinton belly laugh himself to tears with his impression of a Cro-Magnon Congressman.
Kaius subsequently put full-ride Academic, Honors, and Theatre scholarships to stellar use by performing in nearly 40 seasonal main stage and/or regional American College Theatre Festival productions over the course of four years while earning his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre & Dance with an emphasis in Voice, Dialects, and Movement at the University of London and University of Wyoming. There's also a semester each of Jazz, Tap, & Modern Dance in those toes.
Leading improv and sketch comedy troupes from Orlando to Anchorage, Harrison then found spiritual peace while briefly teaching English in South Korea before finally moving to Los Angeles in August of 2004. It didn't take long for award-winning casting director Danielle Eskinazi to hurl him into the national spotlight with several Foster's Beer commercials ("GPS," "Social Networking," and "Hybrid") playing at high volume during two years of World Series and NFL regular seasons. Soon after appearing with Richard Simmons and Sam Elliott in the 1000th episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003), he found himself sharing Prime Time screens with the likes of Sasha Alexander and Angie Harmon in TNT's hit syndicated series Rizzoli & Isles (2010).
While his work in Red Dead Redemption (2010) thoroughly elevated Harrison's career to the next level, Headlining at South-by-Southwest in Blumhouse's In a Valley of Violence (2016) further thrust his career's focus on Westerns. Featuring an all-star ensemble cast that includes Karen Gillan, John Travolta, Ethan Hawke, James Ransone, Taissa Farmiga, and Toby Huss, the side-splitting revenge Western won the SXSW Audience Award and was granted an additional screening. His performance as the mustachioed traveling salesman William T. Baxter led writer/director Ti West to declare that Kaius is "a true Chameleon with an encyclopedia knowledge of dialects."
K.H. subsequently appeared in Billy the Kid: New Evidence (2015) as Frank "Windy" Cahill, the Irish blacksmith who bullied the young infamous outlaw and was the first to ever be killed by him. Harrison would again make his mark as Scottish henchman "Buckshot" Tommy in Any Bullet Will Do (2018) filmed entirely in Montana with Kevin Makely and Oscar-nominated Bruce Davison, followed soon as the Yosemite Sam-like curmudgeon in Rhett and Link's Buddy System (2016) opposite Rhett McLaughlin, Link Neal, and legendary SNL alum Garrett Morris.
Portraying the Cockney arms dealer, Micky, with UK heavies Stephen Marcus & Vinnie Jones in NCIS: Los Angeles (2009) allowed Kaius to cross off two more Bucket List items with one stone right before the COVID Pandemic of 2020 hit; Harrison also partnered with Victoria Mojica Monroe of Monroe Talent Management just before Lockdowns, so now that studios have re-opened the future is looking brighter than ever for this fully Vaccinated Cowboy.- Best known for her performance as the nasty, gossiping, greedy and arrogant Mrs. Harriet Oleson on the TV series Little House on the Prairie (1974). Katherine (Scottie) MacGregor could not appear in the final feature length episode "The Last Farewell" because she was on a pilgrimage in India.
Before moving to Los Angeles in 1970 Ms. Mac Gregor worked as a stage actress on Broadway, off Broadway and in regional theatre in and around New York City. - Actor
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Kenneth Danziger was born on 12 January 1945 in Essex, UK. He was an actor, known for Stargate (1994), Flushed Away (2006) and Shrek (2001). He died on 12 December 2021.- Actress
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Kirstie Louise Alley was an American actress. Her breakout role was as Rebecca Howe in the NBC sitcom Cheers (1987-1993), receiving an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe in 1991 for the role. From 1997 to 2000, she starred in the sitcom Veronica's Closet, earning additional Emmy and Golden Globe nominations.- Soundtrack
Leah Adler was born on 12 January 1920 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. She was married to Bernard Adler and Arnold Spielberg. She died on 21 February 2017 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Lee Bo-young was born on 12 January 1979 in South Korea. She is an actress, known for I Hear Your Voice (2013), A Dirty Carnival (2006) and Once Upon a Time (2008). She has been married to Ji Sung since 27 September 2013. They have two children.
- Leopold Ahlsen was born on 12 January 1927 in Munich, Germany. He was a writer, known for Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplicissimus (1975), The Woman from Sarajevo (1980) and ...und nichts als die Wahrheit (1958). He was married to Ruth Gehwald. He died on 10 January 2018 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
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Leopoldo Federico was born on 12 January 1927 in Balvanera, Buenos Aires City, Distrito Federal, Argentina. He was an actor and composer, known for Buenos Aires tango (1982), Long Live Freedom (2013) and Tango y Goles (1981). He was married to Norma. He died on 28 December 2014 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.- Australian stage, screen and TV actor Lewis Fiander was educated at Trinity Grammar School and made his acting debut at the National Theatre in Melbourne in 1954. At the age of 18 he moved to Sydney to broaden his skills as a radio actor and in due course perfected a varied gallery of dialects and accents. On the stage, he specialized in Shakespearean comedy, including "Twelfth Night" and "The Merchant of Venice", though in later years taking on diverse roles in musical plays, works by Ibsen and O'Neill, even as Professor Higgins in a Victorian Arts Centre production of "My Fair Lady".
Fiander moved to London with the Elizabethan Theatre Trust in the early 60's and spent the next two decades in the U.K., often side by side with some of the giants of his profession, including Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud. In 1966, he toured New Zealand with the Royal Shakespeare Company. The following year he landed the prized role of Mr. Darcy in a BBC production of Pride and Prejudice (1967). A break in his stage and TV work permitted him to act on the big screen in two back-to-back horror films: Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde (1971) and as one of the victims in Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972). He is also remembered by fans of Doctor Who (1963) as the drug smuggling scientist Professor Tryst in the notorious Tom Baker serial Nightmare of Eden: Part One (1979). Tryst's strange Germanic accent (Fiander's own idea) - combined with the square spectacles and histrionics - seems somehow reminiscent of Peter Sellers's Dr. Strangelove. Either that or something from Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969).
Back on the stage, Fiander enjoyed perhaps his greatest success starring as John Adams in the 1970 London New Theatre production of "1776", a play with music about the signing of the American Declaration of Independence. He had another palpable hit as actor-singer in 1986, teaming up with Patricia Hodge for "Noël and Gertie", a compilation of musical numbers originally written by Noël Coward and performed in tandem with Gertrude Lawrence. In the late 80's, Fiander returned to Australia and appeared several times on television, notably in the mini-series Tanamera - Lion of Singapore (1989) and Bangkok Hilton (1989). - Director
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Liliana Cavani was born on 12 January 1933 in Carpi, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She is a director and writer, known for L'ospite (1971), Dove siete? Io sono qui (1993) and The Night Porter (1974).- Actress
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Lisa Rieffel was born on 12 January 1975 in Denville, New Jersey, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Women of the House (1995), Girltrash: All Night Long (2014) and Drowning Mona (2000). She has been married to Johnny Dunn since 30 September 2007. They have one child.- Born in Durango, Durango, Mexico. After finishing high school, Lorena made the move to Los Angeles in 2010 to study at the Stella Adler-LA acting conservatory. Before finishing the two year program, Lorena was called to read for the part of Sylvia in the Film "Cesar Chavez and American Hero" directed by Diego Luna. She was offered the job to play the daughter of Cesar Chavez opposite Michael Peña and America Ferrera as her parents.
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Luise Rainer, the first thespian to win back-to-back Oscars, was born on January 12, 1910 in Dusseldorf, Germany, into a prosperous Jewish family. Her parents were Emilie (Königsberger) and Heinrich Rainer, a businessman. She took to the stage, and plied her craft on the boards in Germany. As a young actress, she was discovered by the legendary theater director Max Reinhardt and became part of his company in Vienna, Austria. "I was supposed to be very gifted, and he heard about me. He wanted me to be part of his theater," Rainer recounted in a 1997 interview. She joined Reinhardt's theatrical company in Vienna and spent years developing as an actress under his tutelage. As part of Reinhardt's company, Rainer became a popular stage actress in Berlin and Vienna in the early 1930s. Rainer was a natural talent for Reinhardt's type of staging, which required an impressionistic acting style.
Rainer, who made her screen debut as a teenager and appeared in three other German-language films in the early 1930s, terminated her European career when the Austrian Adolf Hitler consolidated his power in Germany. With his vicious anti-Semitism bringing about the Draconian Nuremberg Laws severely curtailing the rights of Germany's Jews, and efforts to expand that regime into the Sudetenland and Austria, Hitler and his Nazi government was proving a looming threat to European Jewry. Rainer had been spotted by a talent scout, who offered her a seven-year contract with the American studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The 25-year-old Rainer took the deal and emigrated to the United States.
She made her American debut in the movie Escapade (1935), replacing Myrna Loy, who was originally slated for the part. It was her luck to have William Powell as her co-star in her first Hollywood film, as he mentored her, teaching her how to act in front of the camera. Powell, whom Rainer remembers as "a dear man" and "a very fine person," lobbied MGM. boss Louis B. Mayer, reportedly telling him, "You've got to star this girl, or I'll look like an idiot."
During the making of "Escapade", Rainer met, and fell in love with, the left-wing playwright Clifford Odets, then at the height of his fame. They were married in 1937. It was not a happy union. MGM cast Rainer in support of Powell in the title role of the The Great Ziegfeld (1936), its spectacular bio-epic featuring musical numbers that recreated his "Follies" shows on Broadway. As Anna Held, Ziegfeld's common-law wife, Rainer excelled in the musical numbers, but it is for her telephone scene that she is most remembered. "The Great Ziegfeld" was a big hit and went on to win the Academy Award as Best Picture of 1936. Rainer received her first of two successive Best Actress Oscars for playing Held. The award was highly controversial at the time as she was a relative unknown and it was only her first nomination, but also because her role was so short and relatively minor that it better qualified for a supporting nomination. (While 1936 was the first year that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences honored supporting players, her studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, listed her as a lead player, then got out its block vote for her.) Compounding the controversy was the fact that Rainer beat out such better known and more respected actresses as Carole Lombard (her sole Oscar nomination) in My Man Godfrey (1936), previous Best Actress winner Norma Shearer (her fifth nomination) in Romeo and Juliet (1936), and Irene Dunne (her second of five unsuccessful nominations) in Theodora Goes Wild (1936). Some of the bitchery was directed toward Louis B. Mayer, whom non-MGM Academy members resented for his ability to manipulate Academy votes. Other critics of her first Oscar win claimed it was the result of voters being unduly impressed with the great budget ($2 million) of "The Great Ziegfeld" rather than great acting. Most observers agree that Rainer won her Oscar as the result of her moving and poignant performance in just one single scene in the picture, the famous telephone scene in which the broken-hearted Held congratulates Ziegfeld over the telephone on his upcoming marriage to Billie Burke while trying to retain her composure and her dignity. During the scene, the camera is entirely focused on Rainer, and she delivers a tour-de-force performance. Seventy years later, it remains one of the most famous scenes in movie history. With another actress playing Held, the scene could have been mawkish, but Rainer brought the pathos of the scene out and onto film. She based her interpretation of the scene on Jean Cocteau's play "La Voix Humaine". "Cocteau's play is just a telephone conversation about a woman who has lost her beloved to another woman", Rainer remembered. "That is the comparison. As it fit into the Ziegfeld story, that's how I wrote it. It's a daily happening, not just in Cocteau." In an interview held 60 years after the film's release, Rainer was dismissive of the performance. "I was never proud of anything", she said. "I just did it like everything else. To do a film - let me explain to you - it's like having a baby. You labor, you labor, you labor, and then you have it. And then it grows up and it grows away from you. But to be proud of giving birth to a baby? Proud? No, every cow can do that."
Rainer would allay any back-biting from Hollywood's bovines over her first Oscar with her performance as O-Lan in MGM producer Irving Thalberg's spectacular adaptation of Pearl S. Buck's "The Good Earth", the former Boy Wonder's final picture before his untimely death. The role won Rainer her second Best Actress Award. The success of The Good Earth (1937) was rooted in its realism, and its realism was enhanced by Rainer's acting opposite the legendary Paul Muni as her husband. When Thalberg cast Muni in the role of Wang Lung, he had to abandon any thought of casting the Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong as O-Lan as the Hays Office would not allow the hint of miscegenation, even between an actual Chinese woman and a Caucuasian actor in yellow-face drag. So, Thalberg gave Rainer the part, and she made O-Lan her own. She refused to wear a heavy makeup, and her elfin look helped her to assay a Chinese woman with results far superior to those of Myrna Loy in her Oriental vamp phase or Katharine Hepburn in Dragon Seed (1944). In the late 1990s, Rainer praised her director, Sidney Franklin, as "wonderful", and explained that she used an acting technique similar to "The Method" being pioneered by her husband's Group Theatre comrades back in New York. "I worked from inside out", she said. "It's not for me, putting on a face, or putting on makeup, or making masquerade. It has to come from inside out. I knew what I wanted to do and he let me do it." The win made Rainer the first two-time Oscar winner in an acting category and the first to win consecutive acting awards (Spencer Tracy, her distaff honoree for Captains Courageous (1937) would follow her as a consecutive acting Oscar winner the next year, and Walter Brennan, Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner for Come and Get It (1936) the year Rainer won her first, would tie them both in 1937 with his win for Kentucky (1938) and trump them with his third win for The Westerner (1940), a record subsequently tied by Ingrid Bergman, Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Daniel Day-Lewis, and surpassed by Katharine Hepburn.)
Rainer's career soon went into free-fall and collapsed, as she became the first notable victim of the "Oscar curse", the phenomenon that has seem many a performer's career take a nose-dive after winning an Academy Award. "For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me", Rainer said. A non-conformist, Rainer rejected Hollywood's values of Hollywood. In the late 1990s, she said, "I came from Europe where I was with a wonderful theater group, and I worked. The only thing on my mind was to do good work. I didn't know what an Academy Award was." MGM boss Mayer, the founding force behind the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, had to force her to attend the Awards banquet to receive her Oscar. She rebelled against the studio due to the movies that MGM forced her into after "The Good Earth".
In one case, director Dorothy Arzner had been assigned by MGM producer Joseph M. Mankiewicz (whose wife, Rose Stradner had been Rainer's understudy in the Vienna State Theater) in 1937 to direct Rainer in "The Girl from Trieste", an unproduced Ferenc Molnár play about a prostitute trying to go reform herself who discovers the hypocrisies of the respectable class which she aspires to. After Thalberg's death in 1936, Mayer's lighter aesthetic began to rule the roost at MGM. Mayer genuinely believed in the goodness of women and motherhood and put women on a pedestal; he once told screenwriter Frances Marion that he never wanted to see anything produced by MGM that would embarrass his wife and two daughters.
Without the more sophisticated Thalberg at the studio to run interference, Molnar's play was rewritten so that it was no longer about a prostitute, but a slightly bitter Cinderella story with a happy ending. Retitled by Mankiewicz as The Bride Wore Red (1937), Rainer withdrew and was replaced by Joan Crawford. In a 1976 interview in "The New York Times", Arzner claimed that Rainer "had been suspended for marrying a Communist" (Clifford Odets). This is unlikely as MGM, like all Hollywood studios, had known or suspected communists on its payroll, most of whose affiliations were known by MGM vice president E.J. Mannix. (Mannix, one of whose functions was responsibility for security at the studio, once said it would have been impossible to fire them all, as "the communists" were the studio's best writers.) The studio never took action against alleged communists until an industry-wide agreement to do so was sealed at the Waldorf Conference of 1947, which was held in reaction to the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) launching a Hollywood witch hunt.
It was more likely that Rainer, fussy over her projects and wanting to use her Academy Award prominence to ensure herself better roles, withdrew on her own due to her lack of enthusiasm for the reformulated product. In the late 1990s, Rainer recalled the satisfaction of being a European stage actress. "One day we were on a big tour", she told an interviewer in the late 1990s. "We did a play by Pirandello, and Reinhardt was in the theater. I shall never forget, it was the greatest compliment I ever got, better than any Academy Award. He came to me, looked at me and said - we were never called by first names - 'Rainer, how did you do this?' It was so wonderful. 'How did you create this?' I was so startled and happy. That was my Academy Award." Rainer still is dismissive of the Academy Awards. "I can't watch the Oscars," she said. "Everybody thanking their mother, their father, their grandparents, their nurse - it's a crazy, horrible." She blames the studio and Mayer for the rapid decline in her career. "What they did with me upset me very much", she said in a 1997 interview. "I was dreaming naturally like anyone to do something very good, but after I got the two Academy Awards the studio thought, it doesn't matter what she gets. They threw all kinds of stuff on me, and I thought, no, I didn't want to be an actress."
Mayer pulled his famous emotional routines when Rainer, whom he wanted to turn into a glamorous star, would demand meatier roles. "He would cry phony tears", she recalled. Mayer had opposed her being cast as O-Lan in "The Good Earth", but Thalberg, who had a connection with MGM capo di tutti capi Nicholas Schenck, the president of MGM corporate parent Loew's, Inc., appealed to Schenck, who overrode Mayer's veto. (Mayer, who was involved in a power struggle with Thalberg before the latter's death, had opposed his filming Pearl Buck's novel. Mayer's reasoning was that American audiences wouldn't patronize movies about American farmers, so what made anyone think they'd flock to see a film about Chinese farmers, especially one with such a big budget, estimated at $2.8 million. (Upon release, the film barely broke even.) Thalberg died during the filming of "The Good Earth" (the only film of his released by MGM whose title credits bore his name, in the form of a posthumous tribute).
Rainer felt lost without her protector. She recalled that Mayer "didn't know what to do with me, and that made me so unhappy. I was on the stage with great artists, and everything was so wonderful. I was in a repertory theater, and every night I played something else." Rainer asked to play Nora in a film of Ibsen's "A Doll's House" or portray Madame Curie, but instead, Mayer - now in complete control of the studio - had her cast in The Toy Wife (1938), a movie she actually wound up liking, as she was charmed by her co-star, the urbane, intellectually and politically enlightened Melvyn Douglas. She recalls Douglas, ultimately a double-Oscar winner like herself, as her favorite leading man. "He was intelligent, and he was interested also in other things than acting."
Her problems with the culture of Hollywood, or the lack thereof, were worsening. The lack of intellectual conversation or concern with ideas by the denizens of the movie colony she was forced to work with was depressing. Hollywood was an unsophisticated place where materialism, such as the stars' preoccupation with clothes, was paramount. As she tells it, "Soon after I was there in Hollywood, for some reason I was at a luncheon with Robert Taylor sitting next to me, and I asked him, 'Now, what are your ideas or what do you want to do', and his answer was that he wanted to have 10 good suits to wear, elegant suits of all kinds, that was his idea. I practically fell under the table."
MGM teamed her with fellow Oscar-winner Tracy in Big City (1937), a movie about conflict between rival taxi drivers. The memory of the movie disgusted her. "Supposedly it wasn't a bad film, but I thought it was a bad film!" She was also cast in The Emperor's Candlesticks (1937), reteaming her with "Ziegfeld" co-star Powell, a movie she didn't like, as she couldn't understand its story. A detective tale, the script thoroughly confused Rainer, who was expected to soldier on like a good employee. Instead, she resisted.
After appearing in The Great Waltz (1938) and Dramatic School (1938), her career was virtually over by 1938. She never made another film for MGM. "I just had to get away", she said about Hollywood. "I couldn't bear this total concentration and interviews on oneself, oneself, oneself. I wanted to learn, and to live, to go all over the world, to learn by seeing things and experiencing things, and Hollywood seemed very narrow." When World War II broke out in Europe, Rainer was joined by her family, as her German-born father was also an American citizen, allowing them all to escape Hitler and the Holocaust. Even before the outbreak of war, Rainer had been very worried about the state of affairs of the world, and she could not abide the escapist trifles that MGM wanted to cast her in. When she protested, Mayer told Rainer that if she defied him, he would blackball her in Hollywood.
Disturbed by Hollywood's apathy over fascism in Europe and Asia and by labor unrest and poverty in the U.S., she decided to walk out on her contract. She and Odets returned to New York. They were divorced in 1940. "Hollywood was a very strange place", she remembered. "To me, it was like a huge hotel with a huge door, one of those rotunda doors. On one side people went in, heads high, and very soon they came out on the other side, heads hanging." Her frustration with Hollywood was so complete, she abandoned movie acting in the early 1940s, after making the World War II drama Hostages (1943) for Paramount.
She made her Broadway debut in the play "A Kiss for Cinderella", which was staged by Lee Strasberg, which opened at the Music Box Theatre on March 10, 1942 and closed April 18th after 48 performances. Rainer then worked for the war effort during World War II, appearing at war bond rallies. She went on a tour of North Africa and Italy for the Army Special Service, socializing with soldiers to build their morale, and supplying them with books. The experience changed her life, allowing her to get over the shyness she'd had all her life. It also broadened her experience, forcing her to deal with the obvious fact that there were more important things than movie acting, which had proven unfulfilling to her.
Fortunately, Rainer found happiness in a long-lived marriage with the publisher Robert Knittel, a wealthy man whom she married in 1945. The couple had a daughter and made their home mostly in Switzerland and England as Rainer essentially left acting behind, although she did do some television in the 1940s, '50s, and '60s. Her retirement from the movies lasted for 53 years, until her brief comeback in The Gambler (1997), a movie based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's eponymous story. In the film, Rainer played the role of the matriarch of an aristocratic Russian family in the 1860s who is in hock due to the family members' obsession with gambling.
Toward the end of her life, Rainer lived in a luxurious flat in Eaton Square in London's Belgravia district, in a building where Vivien Leigh once lived. Blessed with a good memory, she claimed she could not remember the 1937 Academy Awards ceremony, when she won her first Oscar. She says the glamour of the event was out of sync with her life at the time, which was one of great sadness. "I married Clifford Odets. The marriage was for both of us a failure. He wanted me to be his little wife and a great actress at the same time. Somehow I could not live up to all of that."
She had intriguing offers during her long retirement. Federico Fellini had wanted Rainer for a role in La Dolce Vita (1960), but though she admired the director, she didn't like the script and turned it down. Rainer occasionally plied her craft as an actress on the stage. She made one more stab at Broadway, appearing in a 1950 production of Ibsen's "The Lady from the Sea", which was staged by Sam Wanamaker and Terese Hayden and co-starred Steven Hill, one of the founding members of Lee Strasberg's Actor's Studio. The play was a flop, running just 16 performances. "I was living in America and was on the stage there - sporadically. I always lived more than I worked. Which doesn't mean that I do not love my profession, and every moment I was in it gave me great satisfaction and happiness."
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American leading man of silent pictures. Born into affluence in Chicago, he attended the University of Chicago on scholarship and remained there as a professor of psychology and philosophy. A chance visit to the school by actor- manager Donald Robertson led to Sills abandoning his career and joining Robertson's stock company as an actor in 1905. Three years later he went to New York and was an immediate Broadway success. After nearly twenty productions, he was wooed into films by producer William A. Brady. Sills debuted in The Pit (1914) and was just as immediately a success in movies. His stalwart personality and handsome looks brought him a following, and his talent extended to a wide variety of roles in an equally wide variety of genres. Although he free-lanced for many years, working at almost every studio, he signed with First National in 1924 and made a couple dozen films there. Still popular at the advent of sound, he seemed assured of a continued career, but physical, emotional, and financial difficulties disrupted his life in the late 1920s. He died suddenly of a heart attack while playing tennis in 1930 at the age of 48. He was survived by his second wife, actress Doris Kenyon, and his two children.