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Tommy Tune is possibly the tallest dancer in the country. He was in the New York Company of "How Now Dow Jones" when Ernest Lehman engaged him to play Ambrose Kemper in the film, "Hello, Dolly!". His father is a Texas restaurateur. Tommy acted in, directed and choreographed school productions, arrived in New York St. Patricks day, 1964 and, 24 hours later, had a role in the road company of "Irma La Douce". For a year, he was featured dancer in "Baker Street" on Broadway. He has his Masters Degree in Fine Arts which he received at the University of Houston.- Production Manager
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As Chief Creative Officer, Disney Studios Content, Alan Horn is focused on the creative endeavors of The Walt Disney Company's renowned Studios division, which encompasses a collection of world-class entertainment studios that produce high-quality cinematic storytelling for both theatrical and streaming release. Among these globally respected studios are Disney, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Studios, Searchlight Pictures, and Blue Sky Studios. It is also home to Disney Theatrical Productions, producer of popular stage shows on Broadway and around the world.
Horn was named Chairman of The Walt Disney Studios in 2012, becoming Co-Chairman and Chief Creative Officer in 2019 before shifting to the Chief Creative Officer role in 2021. In these roles, he presided over a time of significant growth including the integrations of Lucasfilm and the Fox film studios, as well as the Studios' expansion into the production of content for Disney's streaming services. Under Horn's leadership, The Walt Disney Studios set numerous records at the box office, surpassing $7 billion globally in 2016 and 2018 and $11 billion in 2019, the only studio ever to have reached these thresholds. Among the global hits released during his tenure are Disney's live-action "Beauty and the Beast," "Aladdin," and "The Lion King"; Walt Disney Animation Studios' "Frozen," "Zootopia," "Moana," and "Frozen 2"; Pixar's "Coco," "Incredibles 2," and "Toy Story 4"; Lucasfilm's "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," "Star Wars: The Last Jedi," and "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker"; and Marvel Studios' "Black Panther," "Captain Marvel," "Avengers: Infinity War," and "Avengers: Endgame," the latter of which is the highest grossing global release of all time.
Prior to joining Disney, Horn served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Warner Bros., leading the studio's theatrical and home entertainment operations, including the Warner Bros. Pictures Group, Warner Bros. Theatrical Ventures, and Warner Home Video. During Horn's tenure from 1999 to 2011, Warner Bros. was the top-performing studio at the global box office seven times and released numerous critically acclaimed films and box office hits including the eight-film Harry Potter series, "Batman Begins," "The Dark Knight," "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," "Happy Feet," "Sherlock Holmes," "The Departed," "Million Dollar Baby," the second and third Matrix films and the Ocean's Eleven trilogy. He was an executive producer on "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey."
In 1987, Horn co-founded Castle Rock Entertainment, where as Chairman he oversaw a diverse collection of popular, acclaimed film and TV properties including "A Few Good Men," "The Shawshank Redemption," "The Green Mile," "When Harry Met Sally," "City Slickers," "In the Line of Fire," and "Seinfeld," the most successful show in television history. Horn previously served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Embassy Communications.
A passionate environmental advocate, Horn served as chair of the Natural Resources Defense Council from 2018 to 2020. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He serves on the American Film Institute Board of Directors and previously served on the Harvard Business School Board of Dean's Advisors. He is the recipient of the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation's 2004 Pioneer of the Year Award, Harvard Business School's 2007 Leadership Award and 2016 Alumni Achievement Award, the Producers Guild of America's 2008 Milestone Award, and the Geffen Playhouse's 2014 Distinction in Service Award.
Horn earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and served as a captain in the U.S. Air Force. In 2010, he received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from New York's Union College, his alma mater.- Writer
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Aldo Cammarota was born in 1930 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a writer and actor, known for Tato por ciento (1981), La chacota (1962) and Dígale sí a Tato (1973). He died on 28 February 2002 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Director
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Although trained for the stage in his native Sweden, Alf Kjellin appeared in only a few stage productions before entering films. His work in Torment (1944) resulted in his being noticed by Hollywood, and he made his American film debut in 1949 under the name Christopher Kent. He soon went back to using his real name, and though he made several more Hollywood films, he worked mainly out of Sweden, both as an actor and director. In the early 1960s he finally settled in Hollywood. Although he acted in and directed a few feature films, the main body of his work consisted of directing made-for-TV movies (one of his better ones being the clever psychological thriller The Deadly Dream (1971)) and appearing as a guest star--often as a villain--in TV series.- Actor
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He was born in Peckham, South London after his family arrived from Cork, in Ireland, He was educated in Leo Street School, Peckham then Walworth Central. At 15 he left school and became an office boy with a railway wagon repair firm then a year later he became a steward in a business mens club in Bishopsgate which ended abruptly when he quarrelled with a barmaid and she squirted soda in his face, Too frightened to tell his parents he ran away to Brighton but being just after Winter there were no jobs and he was forced to return home to a job in a silk warehouse in Cheapside. At 17 he left home and went into lodgings in New Cross,, For the first time he started going to the cinema and the theatre and finding it exciting took up amateur dramatics with a local group and went to Morley College where he won a scholarship to RADA in 1937, He eventually met and married Barbara, an actress, who was originally training to be a singer and they had 2 sets of twins, Jacob and Harriet and Kelly and Louisa, all musically inclined. Alfred became well known when he played private eye Frank Marker in the TV series Public Eye,- Actress
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Born in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, Ali began modeling at age thirteen, and traveled the world before moving to Los Angeles to study acting. Her first professional acting job was a role on the television series Chicago Sons (1997). She received her breakthrough in the high school football drama Varsity Blues (1999) which included her infamous whipped cream bikini scene. Roles in the horror films House on Haunted Hill (1999) and Final Destination (2000) further transitioned her career as an actress.
Acting alongside Colin Farrell, Larter starred in the Western comedy, American Outlaws (2001) which performed poorly at the box office. That year, she also starred as "Brooke Taylor Windham" in the comedy Legally Blonde (2001) with Reese Witherspoon.
Not happy with how things were going, Larter moved to New York in 2002 to reassess her life and career. She reprized her role as "Clear Rivers" in the sequel Final Destination 2 (2003) for which she received star billing. A year later, she made a cameo appearance as herself on the pilot to the HBO comedy drama Entourage (2004) and starred in Three Way (2004) as "Isobel Delano". She had a role in A Lot Like Love (2005) as "Gina."
Larter moved back to Los Angeles in 2006 where she auditioned for a role in the NBC sci-fi drama Heroes (2006). The pilot premiered on September 25, 2006 to successful ratings and many critics declaring it "the new Lost (2004)". The series ran for a total of 77 episodes in 4 Seasons when it was canceled due to diminishing ratings and high production costs. There has been interest in a mini-series or a movie to wrap up story lines.
During her time on Heroes (2006), Larter made several appearances on film. The first was the Bollywood film Marigold (2007) where she received a seven-figure salary. The movie was met with primarily negative reviews. She also starred in Resident Evil: Extinction (2007), part 3 of the popular film franchise based on the Capcom video games. She played "Claire Redfield", based on the video game character of the same name. The movie was a box office success tripling its production budget, albeit being a critical flop. Larter also appeared in the caveman comedy Homo Erectus (2007) which was released direct-to-DVD. The film co-starred Hayes MacArthur, an actor whom she was engaged to marry in December 2007.
In 2009, Larter starred opposite Beyoncé and Idris Elba in the thriller Obsessed (2009). The film opened at number one at the box office but was met with negative reviews, with some critics comparing it to Fatal Attraction (1987). It was also this year that Larter and MacArthur married in a small ceremony in Maine, among the guests was Larter's close friend, Amy Smart. The couple has two children.
She reprised her role as Claire Redfield in Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010) and Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016), directed by Paul W.S. Anderson.- Actress
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Alice Kremelberg is a film, television and theater actor born and raised in New York. Alice has most recently starred in the final season of The Sinner as Percy Muldoon, and played Bernadine in Aaron Sorkin's Oscar nominated The Trial of the Chicago 7 for Netflix/Dreamworks. She recurred as Nicole Eckelcamp on the last two seasons of Jenji Kohan's Orange is the New Black for Netflix. Alice was nominated for an Emmy for their performance as Kat in The Feels, which they both co-wrote and acted in. Upcoming, Alice will be playing Abby in Monsterland for Hulu/Annapurna, and Duff in the independent film Bleecker. They can also be seen as Sorrell in Doomsday (ITV Fest, Brooklyn Web Fest + HollyWeb Fest winner). Her other film and television credits include New Amsterdam, The Taking of Pelham 123, NCIS, Nurse Jackie, Blue Bloods, The Big C, Smash, Law and Order: SVU, and 30 Rock.
On stage she originated the role of Reba in Ruby Rae Spiegel's breakout play Dry Land (NYSAF+HERE, Adrienne Campbell-Holt of Colt Coeur). Alice had the pleasure of playing 'Cassandra' opposite Austin Pendleton in Dress of Fire (The Abingdon). Other theater credits include 'Catherine' in Suddenly Last Summer (ATNYC), 'Missy' in Road Veins, 'Maggie' in Lend Me a Tenor and 'Beth' in A Lie of the Mind. Alice has trained at The Atlantic Acting Conservatory, Fordham University, UCB, The Professional Performing Arts School and studied with Tanya Berezin, Ted Sluberski, Larry Moss and Bob Krakower among others.- Amanda Abbington was born on 28 February 1974 in North London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Sherlock (2010), Crooked House (2017) and After You've Gone (2007).
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Amat Escalante was born on 28 February 1979 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He is a director and producer, known for The Untamed (2016), Heli (2013) and The Bastards (2008).- Actress
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Anabelle Acosta is an American film and television actress. She was born in Havana, Cuba to Cuban-American parents and has a younger brother named Jason Acosta. Anabelle is both a Meisner and Method trained actress. Her extensive training also includes dance and stage. She started her early acting and modeling career in New York City appearing in a series of national commercials and print ads. Her first big break into the acting world came in 2010 when after a long and arduous casting process across LA and NY Rob Burnett and Jon Beckerman finally discovered and cast Anabelle for the lead role of Kelly in their independent film "We Made This Movie".- Actress
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Angela Yeung Wing, also known by her stage name Angelababy, has made a career in Hong Kong as an actress and a model. Born in Shanghai to her half-Chinese, half-German father and Chinese mother, she moved to Hong Kong at thirteen years old and took her stage name Angelababy as a composition of her legal given name Angela and her family given nickname "Baby".- Ania Pieroni was born on 28 February 1957 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is an actress, known for Tenebrae (1982), The House by the Cemetery (1981) and Stay as You Are (1978).
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A classically trained actor, Anil Kumar was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and raised in Kent Ohio. He holds a BA in Psychology from Kent State University and earned an MFA from the Professional Actor Training Program at Rutgers University under the tutelage of William Esper, Maggie Flanningan, Leonard Petit, Pierre Lefevre, and Lloyd Williamson. Kumar has numerous television credits including leading, recurring and guest starring roles on The Cape as Ruvi the Mesmerist, Life, Nip/Tuck, K-Ville, E-ring, Inconceivable, Six Feet Under, 24 as the sinister Khalil Hasan, JAG, ER, Miss Match, The Agency, Traffic, Law & Order: SVU and Oz. Film credits include The 5 written and directed by Ravi Kapoor, The Ode written by Ghalib Dhalla and produced by Bharat Shah, Pride and Glory written and directed by Gavin O'Connor, The Two Faces of Janus, Westbank Brooklyn, Marmalade, Story of a Bad Boy, The Karaoke King and the cult hit American Desi. Anil is currently guest starring this season of Revenge for ABC. Kumar has performed on stage in almost every major city in the United States. His NYC stage debut was alongside Alec Baldwin, Angela Basset and Liev Schreiber in the Public Theater's production of Macbeth directed by George C. Wolfe. While in New York he collaborated with the likes of Terrance McNally, Joseph Chaikin, Joe Mantello and Lynne Meadow. Anil originated the role of Mohamed and enjoyed an over two-and-a-half year run in Manhattan Theater Club's production of Charles Busch's smash Broadway hit The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, alongside Valerie Harper, Linda Lavin, Michele Lee and Tony Roberts. Anil also originated the role of Vincent in the world premiere of Harry Kondolean's Saved or Destroyed at the Cleveland Public. He co-starred in the US premiere of Tom Stoppard's Indian Ink at ACT in San Francisco directed by Carey Perloff. Anil originated leading roles and produced several critically acclaimed world premier plays in NYC and LA as a founding member of East 4th Street Productions: Backseats and Bathroom Stalls (Love Sucks), What's Wrong with Getting Laid?, as well as co-creating and writing The Dairy Farm: Land of Milk and Hunnies. In 2011 Love Sucks enjoyed an over 16 week run playing to sold out houses at The Coast Playhouse in West Hollywood. Anil is currently working on his first solo play: Rise and Shine: a semi-autobiographical cautionary tale. It will soon premiere in Los Angeles directed by Reena Dutt with musical direction by Samrat Chakrabarti. Anil also serves on the Board of Directors for the elementary school dance program Ballroom Madness. An organization that implements a dynamic dance program that develops creative potential, sets a foundation of respect, teamwork, confidence, and a sense of accomplishment for every student one step at a time, Ballroom Madness teaches thousands of students every year throughout Los Angeles. He has written three children's books (My Dog Fred, I Had a Dog Named Mac and The Grateful DOODS) with his sister-in-law, illustrator and collaborator Heather Valenzuela. Anil is also an avid snowboarder, a Pisces and plays the guitar very poorly.- Anne Tremko was born in Urbana, Illinois, USA. She is an actress, known for Saved by the Bell: The College Years (1993), The District (2000) and The Member of the Wedding (1997).
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Annika Boras was born on 28 February 1981 in New Jersey, USA. She is an actress and assistant director, known for The Post (2017), Law & Order (1990) and Royal Pains (2009).- Director
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Arne Weise was born on 28 February 1930 in Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden. He was a director and producer, known for Natural World (1983), Unga emigranter (1964) and Stockholm 12 timmar (1965). He was married to Agneta Malmberg, Kicki Christensson and Else-Marie Sundin. He died on 25 September 2019 in Stockholm, Sweden.- Actress
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Avaah Blackwell is a multilingual actress and versatile stunt performer. Classically trained in Europe, Blackwell began her career as a performer after graduating Prague Film School's "Acting for Film" program at the top of her class. One of ten actors globally selected for PFS's innovative program, Avaah is equally captivating performing for stage and screen. Blackwell is the co-founder of a series of industry related events entitled "Behind the Camera" at Soho House Toronto. Avaah utilizes her international training & experience to infuse her work with unique physical, emotional, and mental discipline. Versatile in her character choices, Blackwell is known best for playing strong female leads, as well as interesting supporting characters. Blackwell's performances are described as "magnetic, electric and enchanting" by producers and audiences across Europe ( Cannes Film Festival, The Bear Theatre Company), Asia (Pi Fan) and North America (TIFF, Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, New York City International Film Festival, Calgary International Film Festival, Golden Panda, Studio 35 Festival, et al.). Blackwell's exceptional comedic performance in the Winnipeg Fringe Festival earned her recognition from CBC. Blackwell's love for improvisation and comedy allows her amiable personality to shine both on and off camera. When not working on screen, Avaah can be found supporting her love for film by working for TIFF and Sundance Film Festival. She also spends her time training in acrobatics, martial arts, learning new languages and loves riding horses with her sister Mick in Alberta.- Composer
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Barbara Acklin was born on 28 February 1943 in Oakland, California, USA. She was a composer, known for A Brother's Kiss (1997), Sparkle (2012) and The Beiderbecke Tapes (1987). She was married to Eugene Record. She died on 27 November 1998 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.- Actor
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Barry Duffield was born in 1962, Billingham, UK. He immigrated to Australia with his family in 1969 and they eventually settled in the Bauxite mining town of Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory.
His first foray into film was when he "borrowed" his fathers super-8mm-camera and created the all singing, all dancing, stop-motion Salt'N'Pepper shaker show. There was a guest appearance by a partially consumed milkshake in a frosty glass, which still remains uncredited to this day.
He was taught to run the projection booth of the Gove cinema after being caught stealing movie posters from the foyer and given a choice, police, parents, or honest work.It wasn't long before Barry was splicing film, changing out carbon rods, and managing reel changes like a pro.
His passion for all things film grew and he eventually went to South Seas Film and Television School in Auckland, New Zealand, where he majored in screenwriting and directing.
Barry began his acting career in Darwin with a Kawasaki TVC, and then Brisbane with work on Australia's Most Wanted, and Escape From Absolom. He followed this up with a move to New Zealand where he appeared on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Xena, Young Hercules, Jack of all Trades, Shortland Street, Street Legal, Field Punishment #1, The Monster of Treasure Island, and Spartacus playing Lugo.
Barry has two successful graphic novels on Amazon and is moving into producing.- Writer
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Ben Hecht, one of Hollywood's and Broadway's greatest writers, won an Oscar for best original story for Underworld (1927) at the first Academy Awards in 1929 and had a hand in the writing of many classic films. He was nominated five more times for the best writing Oscar, winning (along with writing partner and friend Charles MacArthur, with whom he wrote the classic play "The Front Page") for The Scoundrel (1935) (the other nominations were for Viva Villa! (1934) in 1935, Wuthering Heights (1939) (shared with MacArthur), Angels Over Broadway (1940) and Notorious (1946), the latter two for best original screenplay). Hecht wrote fast and wrote well, and he was called upon by many producers as a highly paid script doctor. He was paid $10,000 by producer David O. Selznick for a fast doctoring of the Gone with the Wind (1939) script, for which he received no credit and for which Sidney Howard won an Oscar, beating out Hecht and MacArthur's Wuthering Heights (1939) script.
Born on February 28, 1894, Hecht made his name as a Chicago newspaperman during the heady days of cutthroat competition among newspapers and journalists. As a reporter for the Chicago Daily News, he wrote the column "1001 Afternoons in Chicago" and broke the "Ragged Stranger Murder Case" story, which led to the conviction and execution of Army war hero Carl Wanderer for the murder of his pregnant wife in 1921. The newspaper business, which he and MacArthur famously parodied in "The Front Page", was a good training ground for a screenwriter, as he had to write vivid prose and had to write quickly.
While in New York in 1926 he received a telegram from friend Herman J. Mankiewicz, who had recently arrived in Hollywood. The telegram read: "Millions are to be grabbed out here and your only competition is idiots. Don't let this get around." Hecht moved to Hollywood, winding up at Paramount, working uncredited on the script for Lewis Milestone's adaptation of Ring Lardner's story The New Klondike (1926), starring silent superstar Thomas Meighan. However, it was his script for Josef von Sternberg's seminal gangster picture Underworld (1927) that got him noticed. From then until the 1960s, he was arguably the most famous, if not the highest paid, screenwriter of his time.
As a playwright, novelist and short-story writer, Hecht always denigrated writing for the movies, but it is for such films as Scarface (1932) and Nothing Sacred (1937) as well The Front Page (1931), based on his play of the same name, for which he is best remembered.
He died on April 18, 1964, in New York City from thrombosis. He was 70 years old.- Actress
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Throughout her illustrious career, Bernadette Peters has dazzled audiences and critics with her performances on stage and television, in concert, and on recordings. She is one of the most critically-acclaimed Broadway performers, having received nominations for seven Tony Awards, winning two, and eight Drama Desk Awards, winning three. Four of the Broadway cast albums on which she has starred have won Grammy Awards. Recently, she has been starring on Broadway as Dolly Gallagher Levi in the hit musical, Hello, Dolly!
Bernadette was born Bernadette Lazzara on February 28, 1948 in Queens, New York City, to Marguerite (Maltese) and Peter Lazzara, a bread delivery truck driver. She is of Sicilian descent.
Bernadette first performed on the stage as a child and then a teenage actor in the 1960s, and in film and television in the 1970s. She was praised for this early work and for appearances on The Muppet Show (1976), The Carol Burnett Show (1991) and in other television work, and for her roles in films like Silent Movie (1976), The Jerk (1979), Pennies from Heaven (1981) and Annie (1982). In the 1980s, she returned to the theatre, where she became one of the best-known Broadway stars over the next three decades. She also has recorded six solo albums and several singles, as well as many cast albums, and performs regularly in her own solo concert act. Peters is particularly noted for her starring roles in stage musicals, including "Song and Dance", "Sunday in the Park with George", "Into the Woods", "Annie Get Your Gun" and "Gypsy", becoming closely associated with composer Stephen Sondheim.
Peters continues to act in films and on television, where she has been nominated for three Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards, winning once. Her career boasts an impressive list of television credits, which includes Amazon Prime's highly popular, Mozart in the Jungle, which won the 2016 Golden Globe for Best TV Comedy or Musical series. She also co-stars in the new CBS All Access series, The Good Fight, a spin-off of the network's popular series, The Good Wife. One of Broadway's most critically acclaimed performers, Peters has won numerous accolades including being the recipient of three Tony Awards, a Golden Globe, three Grammy nominations, three Emmy nominations and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Peters' albums include the Grammy nominated I'll Be Your Baby Tonight, Sondheim, Etc.: Bernadette Peters Live at Carnegie Hall, and Bernadette Peters Loves Rodgers & Hammerstein, in addition to numerous Grammy Award winning Broadway Cast recordings. Peters devotes her time and talents to numerous events that benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Her "pet project" Broadway Barks, co-founded with Mary Tyler Moore, is an annual, star-studded dog and cat adoption event that benefits shelter animals throughout the New York City area. She is a New York Times bestselling author who has penned three children's books, Broadway Barks, Stella Is a Star and Stella and Charlie: Friends Forever. All of her proceeds from the sale of these books benefit Broadway Barks.
She had a four-year romantic relationship with comedian Steve Martin and was married to investment adviser Michael Wittenberg for over nine years until he was killed in a helicopter crash on September 26, 2005. Peters is known for her charitable work, including as a founder of the Broadway Barks animal charity. Peters resides in New York with her rescue dogs, Charlie and Rosalia.- Bettye Ackerman was born on 28 February 1924 in Cottageville, South Carolina, USA. She was an actress, known for Ben Casey (1961), Studio One (1948) and Return to Peyton Place (1972). She was married to Sam Jaffe. She died on 1 November 2006 in Columbia, South Carolina, USA.
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Vaudeville comedienne Billie Bird Sellen was discovered at an orphanage at the age of eight years and hired to tour theater circuits with a vaudeville troupe. During the Vietnam War she accompanied 12 USO tours entertaining the troops in the war zone in the 1960s and 1970s. She had worked as recently as 1995 when she appeared in Jury Duty (1995), starring Pauly Shore. Other notable performances were in Dennis the Menace (1993) and Home Alone (1990).
One of her best-known film appearances was in the 1968 movie The Odd Couple (1968). Her last appearance was a cameo in 1997 in the short-lived television comedy George & Leo (1997) with Judd Hirsch and Bob Newhart. She had also been a regular from 1988-1992 in the sitcom Dear John (1988), and in a series of performances as a cheerful and sassy senior citizen in such productions as Ernest Saves Christmas (1988) and Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987).- Actor
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Kicking off an impressive career in front of the camera at the tender age of five, Bobb'e J. Thompson rose to fame as a child actor well before his teens, initially with a small but colorful and energetic supporting role as the pint-sized Tupac in My Baby's Daddy (2003). He subsequently appeared in television and film efforts such as "The Tracy Morgan Show" (2004), Shark Tale (2004), "That's So Raven" (2004), and "Joey" (2005). Thompson contributed to OutKast mainstay Bryan Barber's offbeat, inventive musical drama Idlewild (2006), before teaming up with Vince Vaughn in the holiday comedy Fred Claus (2007). Thompson then starred in the acerbic farce hit comedy Role Models as the hilarious, wisecracking Ronnie Shields, for which he was nominated for Best Breakthrough Performance - Male at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards.
2009 is proving to be a break out year for Thompson. He appeared in Land of the Lost with Will Ferrell and the family comedy Imagine That, in which he plays a junior extortionist that hazes Eddie Murphy. Thompson is also a semi-regular on NBC's "30 Rock," stealing scenes and showing perfect comic timing in his role as Tracy Jr., the son of Tracy Morgan's character. Not stopping, Nike recruited Thompson for multiple commercials as the fast-talking Lil Dez, who gives NBA greats Kobe Bryant and LeBron James a run for their money while babysitting.
Alongside his film work, Thompson culled favorable attention for his prominent contributions to the youth-oriented urban dance video JammX Kids: Can't Dance Don't Want To, which afforded him the opportunity to show off his flair for urban music and footwork.
Up next for Thompson is Snowmen with Ray Liotta and a hosting gig on the Cartoon Network show Bobb'e Says.
Additionally, Reveille has entered into a talent holding deal with the 13-year-old. Reveille's first project with Thompson will be a half-hour scripted comedy. Reveille is a leading independent television studio with a major presence in scripted and unscripted television and digital entertainment. Reveille's scripted entertainment programming includes "The Office" (NBC), "Ugly Betty" (ABC), "The Tudors" (Showtime), and many more.- Stunts
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Brett Smrz was born on 28 February 1991. He is an actor, known for 6 Underground (2019), Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023) and Ferrari (2023).- Music Department
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Jones was born on 28 February, 1942, to Lewis and Louise Jones. He had two sisters, Pamela and Barbara. Pamela died when Brian was still a child. He fathered his first of several children in high school and was subsequently made to leave. In the early 1960s, Brian formed the legendary group, The Rolling Stones. He even gave the group their name and booked their first gigs, working also as their manager for a short time. In 1965, Brian met and fell for stunning model Anita Pallenberg. They began a torrid affair. He composed the music to her film debut, A Degree of Murder (1967) ("Degree of Murder"). He also began drinking and experimenting with drugs. In 1967, Anita left Brian for his bandmate, Keith Richards. Brian fell deeper into drugs and depression. Brian was slowly withdrawing from his social life and his band into isolation. In November 1968, Brian purchased "Cotchford Farm", the house was formerly occupied by A.A. Milne, author of the "Winnie-the-Pooh" tales. The following month, he made his last public appearance with the Stones for their "Rock and Roll Circus" special. In June of 1969, Brian and the Stones parted ways. By then, Brian had started to clean up and was planning on forming another group. But on the 3rd of July, Brian was dragged unconscious from his swimming pool and later pronounced dead. He was 27. Mystery still surrounds his untimely death. Some believe it was drugs, some believe an asthma attack, and some even believe he was murdered. In 1999, Brian's ex-girlfriend, Anna Wohlin, who was with him on the night he died, wrote a book stating that Brian was murdered by a friend who had been doing some work to his property. In 1996, some of Brian's fans and friends collaborated and founded the "Brian Jones Fan Club".- Writer
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Brian Urquhart was born on 28 February 1919 in Bridport, Dorset, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Tomorrow Man (2002), Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey (2001) and The 20th Century Remembered (1981). He was married to Sidney Damrosch Howard Canfield and Alfreda Huntington. He died on 2 January 2021 in Tyringham, Massachusetts, USA.- Actor
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The athletically gifted 6' 7" Charles Aaron "Bubba" Smith played defensive end / defensive tackle for the National Football League's Baltimore Colts (1967-1971), Oakland Raiders (1973-1974), and Houston Oilers (1975-1976). After the conclusion of his football career, Smith moved into a TV & film career, with initial guest appearances on prime time TV shows including Wonder Woman (1975), Charlie's Angels (1976) and Eight Is Enough (1977).
Smith is best known to international film audiences as the softly spoken police officer "Moses Hightower" from the Police Academy (1984) series of comedies, in which he has appeared in all but one of the numerous sequels.- Bugsy Siegel (born Benjamin Siegelbaum) came out of the tough Williamsburgh section of Brooklyn, and was involved in criminal activities from an early age. As a teenager he struck up a friendship with another local gangster, Meyer Lansky, that would last the rest of their lives, and in fact one of their first business dealings together was the formation of a gang of local toughs called the "Bugs and Meyer Mob". Siegel, unlike many of his contemporaries, didn't fit the stereotype of a typical gangster. He was tall, had thick wavy hair, movie-star good looks and clear, piercing blue eyes. While Lansky - as always - was the brains and financial genius behind the mob, Siegel was the brawn, always preferring to use his fists, his knife or his gun whenever an obstacle appeared, and soon got a reputation as a vicious and fearless killer. It was during this period that he acquired the nickname "Bugsy". While that name often was used as a term of respect or honor, in Siegel's case it was used as a synonym for "crazy" in recognition of his penchant for explosive, senseless violence (he hated the nickname and was known to physically assault anyone unwise enough to use it in his presence).
Siegel is most famous for his transformation of Las Vegas, Nevada, into a gambling mecca, although in reality that isn't quite true. Gambling had been legal in Nevada for quite some time and there were already gambling establishments in Las Vegas when Siegel got there. A Los Angeles businessman was trying to build a huge luxury hotel and casino to which he was hoping to attract wealthy film-industry and businesspeople from Los Angeles, but he was running into financial problems. Siegel, who had been unsuccessfully trying to gain a foothold in the gambling business in Las Vegas, seized the opportunity and bought a controlling interest in the project. He renamed the hotel "The Flamingo", after his nickname for his girlfriend, actress Virginia Hill. Siegel convinced many of his organized-crime friends and associates to put both the mob's money and their own into the venture, and he soon had more than a million dollars to work with. Unfortunately, Siegel's lack of business experience and his unfamiliarity with Las Vegas and the construction industry in general resulted in huge overruns as costs escalated, much of it due to theft, double-billing and other fraudulent business practices by many of the resort's contractors and suppliers. Soon the estimated price tag of the complex had ballooned from $1 million to $6 million, with no end in sight and no revenue coming in. The casino finally opened at the end of 1946, but opening night was a disaster. The weather was awful and kept many potential customers away, few of the locals showed up, and since the hotel wasn't finished yet, the customers who did gamble there took their lodgings at several of the other downtown casinos, thereby cutting into the hotel's profits on food and services. A few days after it opened the Flamingo was basically empty, and shortly thereafter Siegel closed it in order to finish up the hotel.
Siegel's mob "friends" were furious and wanted to put out a contract on his life, but were persuaded by Siegel's friend Lansky to let him have more time to finish the complex. In March the hotel was finally finished and the casino opened up again, and since gamblers were now able to stay in the hotel and avail themselves of food and entertainment in addition to the gambling, the casino began to make money, By the middle of 1947 it was showing a $250,000 profit for the year.
However, if Siegel thought he was off the hook, he was mistaken. On June 20, 1947, he was sitting on the couch at his home in Beverly Hills when gunmen standing outside his living room window opened fire on him. He was killed instantly. Although it has never been established who had ordered the hit, conventional wisdom is that his mob associates, even though they were now making money from the casino, were still angry with him for the financial losses they incurred during the construction phase, especially since much of the money came out of their own pockets. - Actress
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Caroline Henderson was born in Stockholm (Sweden) but has lived in Copenhagen (Denmark) since 1983. She is known for her work on Always Yours (2007), Max Pinlig (2008) and Gooseboy (2019).
Caroline Henderson is starring as a series regular in 'Vikings: Valhalla' - the new Netflix Original spin-off series to 'Vikings'. Caroline portrays the role of JARL HAAKON, a great warrior and tolerant leader, who rules Kattegat with a steady hand. She's a powerful mentor to Freydis, who is drawn to her wisdom. She has appeared in several feature films, including 'Max Pinglig', in the role of the car mechanic SNEHVIDE, and 'Der var engang en dreng (som fik en lillesøster med vinger)', and in the Spanish feature film 'Tuya Siempre' who won three awards at the Malaga Film Festival.
In theater, she has both composed and performed on stage. In the early '90s, Caroline was associated with Dr. Dante and participated in among others the first Gasolin theater concert in 1994. Caroline starred in the Howard Barker play 'Død, død, meget død' under the direction of Jacob Schokking and to the great excitement of the critics, in Peter Langdal's production of Don Juan at the Betty Nansen Theater and in the Reumert-nominated dance performance 'Love Songs'.
In 2012, she made her own theater concert performance 'Jazz, Love & Henderson' at Østre Gasværk, which was seen by 20,000 spectators.
On television, Caroline Henderson has, among other things hosted the program series 'Midnatsjazz' on DR2, and participated in 'Smagsdommerne'. In 2012, she played the role of the mechanic Kim in 'Julestjerner, Wikke & Rasmussen's acclaimed Christmas calendar on DR.
Caroline Henderson was born in Stockholm, grew up in Philadelphia, New York, and Paris, and moved to Denmark in 1983. Already as a teenager, she sang in various jazz bands, and in 1989 she had her breakthrough in Denmark when she and Maria Bramsen formed the band RayDeeOh.
In 1995, Caroline Henderson's first solo album Cinemataztic was released. In 2013, she releases her 12th album in the year 2020. The records have also been released abroad, and over the years Caroline Henderson has received several nominations and won eight Danish Music Awards. Caroline Henderson tours both at home and abroad and has acted as a representative of Denmark on several official occasions, among others. a. during the Queen's state visit to Tanzania.
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Talented, prolific and versatile film composer Charles Bernstein was born on February 28, 1943 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He conducted his own orchestral music at age sixteen and studied composition with Vitorio Giannini and Vincent Persichetti at Juilliard. Bernstein also attended the University of California; he received an Outstanding Graduate of the College Award, a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship and a Chancellor's Doctoral Teaching Fellowship while working with American composer Roy Harris. His impressively eclectic musical style ranges from comedy to drama to action to horror. Bernstein has supplied the scores for a bunch of enjoyably down'n'dirty 70's drive-in exploitation features: he turned up the funk with "That Man Bolt," went all-out groovy for the "Invasion of the Bee Girls," and kicked out the tuneful swinging country jams on "White Lightning" (a snippet of this score was used in the "Kill Bill Vol. 1" soundtrack), "Gator," "A Small Town in Texas," and "Nightmare in Badham County." Bernstein's scores in the horror genre are especially chilling and effective: Among his finest fright film scores are "Hex," "Sweet Kill," "The Entity" (this is one of Bernstein's most inspired, inventive and underrated scores; it was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Music), "Cujo," Wes Craven's terrifying classic "A Nightmare on Elm Street," and "April Fool's Day." Moreover, Bernstein has done scores for a large number of made-for-TV movies. He won an Emmy Award for his score for the "Little Miss Perfect" episode of the "CBS Schoolbreak Special." His scores for "Enslavement" and "The Sea Wolf" were nominated for Emmy Awards while his score for "The Man Who Broke A 1,000 Chains" received a Cable ACE Award nomination for Original Score. Outside of his substantial film and television work, Bernstein has also done music for Off-Broadway theater, modern dance, and the World Festival of Sacred Music, played jazz in the cellars of Paris, and danced and played folk music with the Greeks and gypsies from the Balkans. Moreover, Bernstein has written the acclaimed books "Film Music and Everything Else - Volume 1: Limitations" and "Movie Music: An Insider's View." He won an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for his writing on music. Bernstein is a member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Board of Directors of the Society of Composers and Lyricists, and the Board of Directors of the ASCAP Foundation. In addition, Charles Bernstein has taught on the graduate film scoring faculty at USC and holds an annual film scoring seminar in the summer at UCLA Extension.- Actor
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WWII veteran, dance instructor and diversely talented stage & screen actor were all inclusions on the resume of this perpetually busy US actor who didn't get in front of the cameras until around the time of his fortieth birthday. The stockily built Charles Durning was one of Hollywood's most dependable and sought after supporting actors.
Durning was born in Highland Falls, New York, to Louise Marie (Leonard), a laundress, and James Gerald Durning. His father was an Irish immigrant and his mother was of Irish descent. Durning first got his start in guest appearances in early 1960's TV shows. He scored minor roles over the next decade until he really got noticed by film fans as the sneering, corrupt cop "Lt. Snyder" hassling street grifter 'Robert Redford' in the multi award winning mega-hit The Sting (1973). Durning was equally entertaining in the Billy Wilder production of The Front Page (1974), he supported screen tough guy Charles Bronson in the suspenseful western Breakheart Pass (1975) and featured as "Spermwhale Whalen" in the story of unorthodox police behavior in The Choirboys (1977).
The versatile Durning is equally adept at comedic roles and demonstrated his skills as "Doc Hopper" in The Muppet Movie (1979), a feisty football coach in North Dallas Forty (1979), a highly strung police officer berating maverick cop Burt Reynolds in Sharky's Machine (1981), and a light footed, dancing Governor (alongside Burt Reynolds once more) in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982). Durning continued a regular on screen association with Burt Reynolds appearing in several more feature films together and as "Dr. Harlan Elldridge" in the highly popular TV series Evening Shade (1990). On par with his multitude of feature film roles, Durning has always been in high demand on television and has guest starred in Everybody Loves Raymond (1996), Monk (2002) and Rescue Me (2004). Plus, he has appeared in the role of "Santa Claus" in five different television movies.- Actor
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Charles Halford was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is an actor, known for his work as the unsettling red herring Reggie Ledoux in season one of the HBO's award winning crime drama True Detective (2014), as Chas the hard-to-keep-down cabby, and wing-man to John Constantine (2014) on NBC's short-lived horror series, and for his diverse yet crucial supporting roles in Steven Soderbergh's Logan Lucky (2017) and [link+tt14128670]. He is also known to many as Big John, the catalyst, and father to protagonist John B, of Netflix's popular sun-soaked, multi-generational, treasure-hunting adventure Outer Banks (2020), among many other outstanding roles in much beloved projects, from network shows, to streamers, to cinemas. As a voice actor he is known for Reign of the Supermen (2019), Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure (2017), and Rise of the Tomb Raider (2015) among many other video game and animation titles. He has lived and worked in between Los Angeles and the Southeast markets since 2009. He began working professionally in film and television in 1999.
Charles credits working as a local (stock) cast member for The Sundance Institute Directing Lab over the course of about five years in the early 2000s as his most profound and relevant professional training. It was at these labs where Charles would meet and work with some of the most established industry creative professionals as mentors, as well as hottest up-and-coming directors of the 21st century, some of whom have collaborated with Charles professionally since working together at the labs. One of these instances culminated in the small but outstanding, and deeply unsettling, role of Reggie Ledoux, in Season One of True Detective (2014) the gas-mask wearing, machete carrying boogeyman of "black stars, "flat circles," and "Carcosa,' dialogue and infamy. This character and Halford's embodiment of him, received instant industry attention, and would help establish Charles as a bold and noteworthy character actor at the forefront of "The Golden Age of Television." Charles was subsequently cast as a series regular on network television, in the straight role, the right-hand-man-and-muscle to the titular character of NBC's Constantine, a short-lived but well-received adaptation of the cult-classic DC/Vertigo horror comic "John Constantine: Hellblazer." He has also brought to life, and very often died for, pivotal and dynamic characters within some of the most buzzed-about, beloved, and iconic shows of the 21st century such as NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), Sundance/AMC's critically-acclaimed original series Rectify (2013), and AMC's behemoth The Walking Dead (2010).- Actress
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Cynthia Leigh Wilson is a vocalist, songwriter, instrumentalist, and founding member of the dance-rock new wave band the B-52s. The band formed in 1976 in Athens, GA, and released their first single "Rock Lobster". The song featured on their self-titled album in 1979. The song became one of their signature tracks and the album received positive reviews.
In 1985, Wilson married Keith Bennett, a successful advertiser and designer of the B-52s official band logo. That year Cindy's brother-Ricky devastatingly succumbed to complications related to AIDS. The B-52s took hiatus for a few years but reunited for the recording and release of the successfully received, 'Cosmic Thing' (1989), which featured the singles "Love Shack" and "Roam".
In 1990, Cindy took sabbatical from the B-52s but rejoined the band in 1994, and has remained intact with the band ever since. In 2016, Wilson self-released an EP of new material, and a second in early 2017. Later that year, she released her debut solo record titled 'Change'.- Actor
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Corey Fischer is an actor, writer, director and teacher who has been creating and performing theatre for five decades with a focus on collaborative creation, performance and improvisation. His work has often included mask, puppetry and music. Most recently, he played Shimon Peres in Marin Theatre Company's acclaimed west-coast premiere of "Oslo." In 2016, performed his own solo play with music, "Lightning in the Brain," developed with and directed by Naomi Newman. Lightning ran for eight weeks at The Marsh, San Francisco's celebrated solo performance venue.
In 1978, with Albert Greenberg and Naomi Newman, Fischer co-founded Traveling Jewish Theatre, with whom he worked for 34 years until it closed in May, 2012. He collaborated on more than two dozen works for TJT. His solo show, "Sometimes We Need a Story More Than Food" was one of the Los Angeles Times' ten best productions of 1993 and won a Marin county playwriting fellowship. In 1999 he received a Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays award for his play, "See Under: Love." (Since then it was published in Nine Contemporary Jewish Plays, University of Texas Press) Recent playwriting commissions include,"I'm Calling the Police," inspired by a story by psychiatrist and author Irvin Yalom and Robert Berger and "In the Maze of Our Own Lives," based on the history of the Group Theater. In 2007, Corey played Willy Loman in TJT's groundbreaking production of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," directed by Aaron Davidman. The company's first production of a classic American play received glowing reviews and was on several "best productions" of the year lists.
Later in 2009, Corey played the inscrutable Rabbi Saunders in "The Chosen" at the South Bay's TheatreWorks/Silicon Valley. At the end of 2012, he directed Brecht's "The Good Person of Setzuan" at California State University, East Bay.
Before founding TJT, Corey worked in film, television and theatre in Los Angeles, New York and Vancouver, B.C.. Along the way, he worked with the legendary acting teacher, Jeff Corey, improvisational innovator Del Close and visionary directors Robert Altman (Corey had featured roles in Altman's M*A*S*H, "Brewster McCloud" and "McCabe and Mrs Miller") and Joseph Chaikin.
Robert Hurwitt, senior drama critic (retired) for the San Francisco Chronicle, wrote that Fischer is "One of the Bay Area's acting treasures." Fischer also teaches, coaches and consults with individuals and groups.- Actress
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While at high school she wanted to be a vet. She moved to New York to earn money for medical school by modeling and was soon appearing in magazines and advertisements. An agency sent her for a film audition resulting in her getting a role in 'Grasslands' filmed in South Dakota in 1971. The title was changed to 'Hex' but wasn't released. She fell in love with her Grassland co star Keith Carradine in 1972, moved to Los Angeles to pursue her career and to be with Keith.- Writer
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Daniel Handler was born on 28 February 1970 in San Francisco, California, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017), A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) and Why We Broke Up. He is married to Lisa Brown. They have one child.- Soundtrack
David Harris was born on 28 February 1946 in Fresno, California, USA. He was married to Cheri Forrester, Lacey Fosburgh and Joan Baez. He died on 6 February 2023 in Mill Valley, California, USA.- Diane Holland lived in Surrey. She was unmarried, and trained as a dancer before being given the part of snobbish Yvonne Stuart-Hargreaves in Hi-de-Hi! (1980) by her brother-in-law, Jimmy Perry. Jimmy, who co-wrote the holiday camp sitcom, married Diane's sister Gilda, and recognised her talent. At the peak of Hi-de-Hi! (1980)'s success in the '80s, Diane received a letter from a troop in the Falklands and it "just snowballed": she became a forces sweetheart! Her later appearances included "The Nutcracker" in Covent Garden.
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Diego Reinhold was born on 28 February 1973 in Argentina. He is an actor and writer, known for Los exitosos Pells (2008), Miss Tacuarembó (2010) and Botineras (2009).- Dilan Çiçek Deniz is a Turkish actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe Turkey 2014 and represented her country at the Miss Universe 2014 pageant. She is known for her role as Sena Koçovali in Çukur TV show.
She was born in Sivas. Her parents are teachers. Her mother is Hale Temizyürek and her father is Orhan Deniz. She got three years of theater education from her high school. At the age of 15 she wrote a poem book named I taught sun is my mother in Turkish language. When she was 17 she joined the theater competition of her school and won an action prize. She started with tourism major in Ege university. But she soon changed her major to literature.
Dilan participated in 2014 Elidor Miss Turkey beauty competition and won the 2. place. In 2015 Miss universe that took place in Miami she represented Turkey. In 2015 she acted as 'Ebru' character in "Tatli Küçük Yalancilar". In that TV show She acted with Bensu Soral, Sükrü Özyildiz, Alperen Duymaz, Beste Kökdemir, Büsra Develi, Burak Deniz.
In 2015 she also acted as 'Elif' in "Günesin Kizlari" TV show with Hande Erçel and Tolga Saritas.
Dilan was crowned as Miss Universe Turkey. At the same pageant with three other winners of Miss Turkey 2014. Dilan and three queens who were crowned as Miss World Turkey as the official winner of the pageant, Miss Earth Turkey as the third place and the last place as Miss International Turkey. The Miss Turkey pageant for 2014 was held at the Star TV Studios in Istanbul on May 27. - Dino Zoff was born on 28 February 1942 in Mariano del Friuli, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. He is an actor, known for Paolo Rossi, The Heart of a Champion, Il profeta del gol (1976) and 1982 FIFA World Cup Spain (1982).
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A man who has many irons in the entertainment fire, hirsutely handsome Canadian actor, vocalist and jazz musician Don Francks (also known as "Iron Buffalo") was born Donald Harvey Francks on February 28, 1932, in Vancouver, British Columbia. One can, with confidence, add drummer, poet, motorcyclist, author and peace activist to his many lists of accomplishments. He grew up quite adept at athletics (soccer, lacrosse and rugby) and performed in vaudeville and in summer stock shows before relocating to Toronto. On stage from age 11, he landed an early job singing on the radio, then moved into television in 1954. While acting in both variety shows and dramas, he was also a writer and penned several documentaries and public affairs specials in both Toronto and Montreal. On the nightclub scene, Don was featured as a jazz vocalist, a DJ, a trombonist in a country western band and a member of a barbershop quartet called "Model-T Four".
In the mid-1960s, he focused on small screen acting and racked up a number of rugged, adventurous guest-star turns on TV episodes of The Wild Wild West (1965), Mannix (1967), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964) and Mission: Impossible (1966). A promising lead that could have led to stardom in the NBC series, Jericho (1966), was cut short when the show was bowled over by its ABC competition -- Batman (1966) -- and quickly canceled. He also appeared on- and off-Broadway, which included a stint with the musical, "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever".
Don contributed one strapping co-starring turn in a big-budgeted musical film during his less-than-a-decade stay in Hollywood. As the robust "Woody Mahoney", he dallied with the likes of beguiling Petula Clark, who played his lady love in Finian's Rainbow (1968). Their enchanting and sensuous duet on "That Old Devil Moon" is only one of the film's highlights. The film was not successful, however, in launching Don's movie career.
Afterwards, he moved his family to the Red Pheasant Indian Reserve, near North Battleford, Saskatchewan, and is an honorary Cree and named "Iron Buffalo". Since 1974, he has been living in Toronto with his wife, Lili Francks (Red Eagle), a member of the Plains Cree First Nation and also a dancer. Their children are voice artist and actress Cree Summer, best-known for her regular role on the TV sitcom, A Different World (1987), and actor/songwriter Rainbow Sun Francks.
In later years, Don gained some attention after being cast as "Walter", an arms expert, on the hit TV series, La Femme Nikita (1997). More recently, he traveled to Montreal for a part in the film, I'm Not There (2007), filmmaker Todd Haynes' meditative take on the famous singer-songwriter, Bob Dylan.
Don continued to perform in Canada in both films (He Never Died (2015) and The Second Time Around (2016)) and as a recurring presence of series TV (Hemlock Grove (2013) and Gangland Undercover (2015)) until the end. He passed away at age 84 on April 3, 2016, in Toronto, Ontario.- Writer
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American screenwriter and director Don McGuire was was born Don Rose in Chicago on February 28, 1919. He was a former Warner Brothers contract player and Hollywood press agent during the 1940s. He had a background in journalism, having begun his professional life as a reporter for the Hearst press. After four years of military service, he acted on screen in small roles as interns, barmen or drivers. After leaving Warners in 1948, he found good roles hard to come by and ended up being relegated to appearances in second features. Therefore, he decided on becoming a writer of film scripts instead.
During the 1950s, he became best known for adapting Howard Breslin's story "Bad Time at Hondo" into the highly regarded drama Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), with Spencer Tracy. McGuire later worked extensively in television and was writer and co-producer, with Jackie Cooper, of Cooper's series Hennesey (1959). He also had one more big success on the big screen with Tootsie (1982), for which he co-wrote the original story with Larry Gelbart. However, he was not entirely happy with several changes made to his original concept.- Dorothy Stratten's story was brief, glorious and tragic. She was born Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten on February 28, 1960 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She grew up in a rough neighborhood in Vancouver, but kept out of trouble and went through the motions of school. While not a beauty as a child, nor early teen, Stratten came into her own out of high school and attracted the attention of Paul Snider, a promoter and wannabe star. He started dating her and after seeing an advertisement for Playboy's 25th Anniversary Playmate search in 1978, convinced her to pose for photos. Playboy saw the potential in Stratten and flew her out to Los Angeles, California, where she became a candidate. Although she lost out to Candy Loving, Stratten was made a Playmate in the August 1979 issue of Playboy. Soon after, she was pressured into marrying Snider, who had a Svengali-like influence on her.
After her centerfold came out, Stratten found work in a few movies, notably Americathon (1979) and Skatetown U.S.A. (1979), as well as being the object of Richard Dawson's affection in an ABC-TV special shot at the Playboy mansion. Clearly, her star was on the rise. In 1980, it was revealed that Stratten would be tabbed as the Playmate of the Year by Playboy publisher and founder Hugh Hefner. While this was one of the crowning achievements of her career, things were not going well in her marriage to Snider. He bothered her on the set of the movie Galaxina (1980) and when Snider found out she was developing more than a friendly relationship with director Peter Bogdanovich, Snider grew increasingly frustrated.
After a separation, Snider bought a shotgun and talked Stratten into coming to the apartment they used to share in West Los Angeles. Snider tied her up, sexually assaulted her and put the shotgun next to her face and pulled the trigger. Snider then turned the shotgun on himself to complete the murder-suicide. Since her death, Stratten has become something of a minor cult fixture, and has had two (one a television) movies, a song, and a couple of books written about her. The last movie she was in, They All Laughed (1981), was released after her death. - Actor
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Doru Ana is a Romanian film and theater actor .He was born on February 28, 1954 in Bucharest, Romania. He graduated from Institute of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography in 1980.In 1977, he plays first role in the movie Egmont. Other notable roles in Terminus paradis (1998),Marfa si banii (2001) ,Umbre (2019) . Play on the stage of the theater ''Bulandra'' in Bucharest. Professor univ.dr. at the Actor's Art department of the Theater Faculty of UNATC.- Actor
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Blanco started as a theater actor, most notably under the direction of Norma Aleandro in Cyrano de Bergerac as well as having roles in Shakespeare plays like A Midsummer Night's Dream and Macbeth. His screen debut was in Victoria 392, where he met and befriended director Juan José Campanella and fellow screenwriter Fernando Castets. Campanella and Castets would later on write roles specifically for him in a trilogy of movies that starred Ricardo Darín as the protagonist and Blanco as his friend: El Mismo Amor, la Misma Lluvia (1999), El Hijo de la Novia (2001) and Luna de Avellaneda (2004). Blanco went on to collaborate a fifth time with Campanella in the TV series, Vientos de agua (2006).- Actress
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Emmelie de Forest was born on 28 February 1993 in Randers, Denmark. She is an actress, known for Solo Project (2016), Blodsuger and Symbolicus Vol 1 (2021).- Producer
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Ernesto Alonso was born on 28 February 1917 in Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico. He was a producer and director, known for Cita con la muerte (1963), Casa de vecindad (1964) and El derecho de nacer (1966). He died on 7 August 2007 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.- Actress
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Fanny Cano was born on 28 February 1944 in Huetamo, Michoacan, Mexico. She was an actress and producer, known for Yesenia (1970), Rubi (1968) and Frente al destino (1964). She was married to Sergio Luis Cano. She died on 7 December 1983 in Madrid, Spain.- Actress
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Fefe Dobson was born on 28 February 1985 in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress and composer, known for Raising Helen (2004), It's a Boy Girl Thing (2006) and Fefe Dobson: Stuttering (2010). She has been married to Yelawolf since 27 September 2019.- Actor
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Frank Bonner was born on 28 February 1942 in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. He was an actor and director, known for WKRP in Cincinnati (1978), Equinox (1970) and The New WKRP in Cincinnati (1991). He was married to Gayle Hardage, Catherine Sherwood, Lillian Garrett, Mary Alice Rings and Sharon Gray. He died on 16 June 2021 in Laguna Niguel, California, USA.- Actor
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Gavin MacLeod's pleasing, agreeable manner on two hit TV series in the 1970s and '80s belied a number of shady villains he portrayed in his early career. Born Allan George See in Mt. Kisco, New York, on February 28, 1931, and raised in Pleasantville, he was the son of Margaret (Shea) and George See, a gas station owner who was part Chippewa Indian (Ojibwa). He followed his 1952 graduation from Ithaca College (Fine Arts major) with Air Force military duty, then moved to New York City and worked for a while as an usher and elevator operator at Radio City Music Hall. Focusing on acting, he changed his stage name to "Gavin McLeod."
A solid break on Broadway in "A Hatful of Rain" in 1956 led to a move to Los Angeles in an attempt to break into film and TV. MacLeod began to earn a minor reputation as a second-string heavy in such crime shows as "The Thin Man," "Steve Canyon," "Manhunt," "Mr. Lucky," "Peter Gunn," "Michael Shayne," "The Untouchables" and "Perry Mason." This led to a regular comedy role as part of the McHale's Navy (1962) TV series. He also managed several film roles, although far down the credits, with I Want to Live! (1958), Compulsion (1959), Pork Chop Hill (1959), Operation Petticoat (1959), Twelve Hours to Kill (1960), High Time (1960), War Hunt (1962) and McHale's Navy (1964). He was a member of the superb supporting cast of The Sand Pebbles (1966). He returned to Broadway in "The Captains and the Kings" in 1962.
MacLeod's career more or less flowed and ebbed until 1972, when his shiftless typecast was shattered forever. As Murray Slaughter, the balding, beaming, wisecracking, gleaming-toothed news writer on The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970), MacLeod became a happy household name. From then on, he could only be envisaged as a lovable schmuck and nice guy. From there he went on to another benign starring role with the TV series, The Love Boat (1977), as the ingratiating Captain Stubing.
On the down side, "Love Boat" marred MacLeod's chances to be considered for more challenging work, and his inability to cope with success led to alcoholism and divorce from second wife Patti. However, he later turned his life around, remarried his wife, and they both wrote a book called "Back on Course" (1987). MacLeod continued sporadically on the musical stage ("Gypsy," "Annie Get Your Gun," "Gigi"), in TV reunions ("Love Boat" specials) and as a TV guest ("Murder, She Wrote," "Touched by an Angel," "The King of Queens," "Oz," "That 70s Show," "JAG" and "The Comeback Kid").- Additional Crew
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Gemze De Lappe was born on 28 February 1922 in Portsmouth, Virginia, USA. She was an actress, known for Justine (1969), The Seven Lively Arts (1957) and Variety (1936). She was married to John Carisi. She died on 11 November 2017 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.- Actor
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A look at Black Sabbath's photo shoots and live concerts would easily lead one to believe that the band consists of only four members. But make no mistake, they do in fact have a 5th member: their behind-the-stage keyboard player Geoff Nicholls. Before joining Black Sabbath in 1979, Nicholls played for Quartz, a band whose 1977 album was produced by Tony Iommi. Nicholls has played on every Black Sabbath album since 1980's "Heaven And Hell". He has made very significant writing contributions to Black Sabbath, most predominantly on the album "Seventh Star". He is the only member other than Tony Iommi to have played with every other past and present member of Black Sabbath, playing keyboards with every single reunion or other line-up change over the years. Whether he's credited on the albums as an equal member or an "additional musician", this invisible 5th member of Black Sabbath has seen it all. His interviews are constantly quoted throughout Gary Sharpe-Young's "Never Say Die!", an incredibly revealing book about Black Sabbath's turbulent 1979-1997 history.- Actor
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Geoffrey Arend was born on 28 February 1978 in Manhattan, New York, USA. He is an actor and director, known for 500 Days of Summer (2009), Garden State (2004) and Super Troopers (2001). He was previously married to Christina Hendricks.- Georgina Leonidas was born on 28 February 1990 in London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), Nine (2009) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010).
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At the tender age of 15, Gilbert Gottfried began doing stand-up at open mike nights in New York City and, after a few short years, became known around town as "the comedian's comedian". After spending several years mastering the art of stand-up comedy, producers of the legendary NBC late-night comedy show Saturday Night Live (1975) became aware of Gottfried and, in 1980, hired him as a cast member. It was not until a few years later that his notoriety began after MTV hired him for a series of improvised and hilarious promos for the newly formed channel. This led to several television appearances on The Cosby Show (1984).
Gottfried's work in television soon led to roles in film. Most notable was his improvised scene as business manager "Sidney Bernstein" in Beverly Hills Cop II (1987). The New York Daily News critic wrote that "Gilbert Gottfried steals the picture with a single scene". Aside from his glowing reputation in comedy clubs, Gottfried gained a reputation as the king of quirky roles in both movies and television. He appeared in such movies as Problem Child (1990), Problem Child 2 (1991), Look Who's Talking Too (1990), and The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990). He was also the host of the very popular late night movie series Up All Night (1989).
After his performance as the wise cracking parrot "Iago" in the Disney classic Aladdin (1992), Gottfried became one of the most recognizable voice-over talents. His signature voice was heard in several commercials, cartoons and movies, including the frustrated duck in the AFLAC Insurance commercials. Gottfried was the voice of Digit in the long-running PBS series Cyberchase (2002).
Gottfried was a regular on the new Hollywood Squares (1998) and was a frequent guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992) and Howard Stern on Demand (2005). He appeared in the hit comedy documentary The Aristocrats (2005), with Entertainment Weekly opining that, "out of the 101 comedians who appear on screen, no one is funnier - or more disgusting - than Gilbert Gottfried".
"Gilbert Gottfried Dirty Jokes" was recently released on both DVD and CD, featuring 50 non-stop minutes of Gottfried telling the funniest and filthiest jokes, ever. The show was filmed live at the Gotham Comedy Club in New York City. Also featured on the DVD are some of the funniest bonus features ever, including wild stories, indignant ranting and celebrity impressions. For this live performance, Gottfried put aside political correctness and fires an onslaught of jokes that know no boundaries. At the end of the show, Gottfried told what is known among comedians as the "Dirtiest Joke of All Time", the basis for The Aristocrats (2005). He was one of the most sought-after comedians, and regularly performed live to sold-out audiences across North America.
Gottfried died of ventricular tachycardia at the age of 67, leaving behind his wife, his two children, and his sister, Karen.- José María Safigueroa was born on 28 February 1938 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was an actor, known for Camarero nocturno en Mar del Plata (1986), Johnny Tolengo, el majestuoso (1987) and Semana Nueve (1981). He died on 7 November 2008 in Mar del Plata, Argentina.Gogó Safigueroa
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Guy Maddin was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, to Herdis Maddin (a hair-dresser) and Charles "Chas" Maddin (grain clerk and general manager of the Maroons, a Winnipeg hockey team). Maddin studied economics at the University of Winnipeg, working as a bank manager, house painter, and photographic archivist before becoming a film-maker. Maddin produced his first film in 1985, and since then his distinctive style of recreating and renovating silent film conventions and international critical acclaim have made him one of Canada's most celebrated directors. In 2003, Maddin also expanded his career to become an author and an installation artist.- Actor
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Harry H Corbett (he added the "H" to avoid being confused with Sooty's friend) was born in Burma in 1925. His father was an officer in the army. His mother died when he was very young and he moved to England as a child and was brought up in Manchester by an aunt.
After his war service, he joined a repertory company and during the 1950s appeared in many stage productions. At the end of this period he made the move to the big screen and appeared in about twenty movies (mostly 'B' pictures) during the years from 1959 to 1980, including the starring role of Detective Sergeant Bung in Carry on Screaming! (1966), Rattle of a Simple Man (1964) and the two "Steptoe and Son" movies in the early 1970s. He suffered a series of heart attacks between 1979 and 1982, before his premature death aged 57.- Hayden Fry was born on 28 February 1929 in Eastland, Texas, USA. He was married to Shirley Griffin and Hueleita. He died on 17 December 2019 in Texas, USA.
- Herbert Tennigkeit was born on 28 February 1937 in Gröszpelken, East Prussia, Germany [now Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor, known for Sonderdezernat K1 (1972), Tatort (1970) and Spider's Web (1989). He died on 10 October 2022 in Hamburg, Germany.
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Hisham Suliman was born on 28 February 1978 in Nazareth, Israel. He is an actor and director, known for Munich (2005), Fauda (2015) and Medinah (2020).- Actress
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Ilene Graff was born on 28 February 1949 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Remington Steele (1982), Mr. Belvedere (1985) and Loving Annabelle (2006). She was previously married to Ben Lanzarone.- Ingo Hoffmann is known for Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany (1984), Os Trombadinhas (1980) and Die Gäste der Mathilde Lautenschläger (1981).
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Grew up in Split, Croatia. She started acting when she was a child, joining a youth drama group "Tito's sailors" After finishing high school "Vladimir Nazor" in Split moved to London to study acting. Ivana is animal lover and active in animal rights movement. She has been vegan for the past 7 years.- Ivo Karlovic was born on 28 February 1979 in Zagreb, Croatia.
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Jason Aldean was born on 28 February 1977 in Macon, Georgia, USA. He is a music artist and actor, known for Patriots Day (2016), Jason Aldean: Amarillo Sky (2006) and Jason Aldean - Tattoos on This Town (2011). He has been married to Brittany Kerr Aldean since 21 March 2015. They have two children. He was previously married to Jessica Ussery.- Actress
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All this shapely character "broad" had to do was open her mouth to induce laughter--and so she did, primarily on TV during the '50s and '60s. And although she milked that unmistakable rasp for all its worth, she also showed great comedy sense. Born Jean Leete on February 23, 1923, in Charleston, West Virginia, actress Jean Carson (not to be confused with pert British actress Jeannie Carson of Hey, Jeannie! (1956) TV fame) was trained in music and dance and started performing by age 12. With high aspirations of becoming an actress, she subsequently studied at Carnegie-Mellon University.
She was first discovered appearing on Broadway in 1948 in George S. Kaufman's "Bravo!" with a cast including Kevin McCarthy and Oscar Homolka. Set in New York, the show was a bust (running only 44 performances), but Jean made a wonderful comic impression and earned a Theatre World award in the process. She followed this with another Kaufman-staged play, "Metropole," in 1949 as well as "The Bird Cage" (1950) with Melvyn Douglas and Maureen Stapleton and "Men of Distinction" (1953) with Robert Preston, but these shows fared just as badly. A hit Broadway comedy finally came her way with "Anniversary Waltz" in 1954, which ran 544 performances. Jean stood out among the cast just for those inimitable deep tones alone.
She was typically on display throughout the '50s and '60s, gracing many of the popular shows of the day, including "The Red Buttons Show," "The Tom Ewell Show," "Wagon Train," "Sugarfoot," "Perry Mason," "The Untouchables" and "Gomer Pyle." Surprisingly, she never had her own TV sitcom, although she did appear as a regular on the short-lived The Betty Hutton Show (1959) playing a girlfriend to the star. A single standout episode of "The Twilight Zone" had Jean and Fred Clark as a pair of thieves who discover that a camera they've stolen takes pictures of the future. Jean essayed a number of bleached blonde floozies, jailbirds, party girls and gold diggers over the course of her career but was never better than as both convict Jalene Naomi and good time girl Daphne on The Andy Griffith Show (1960). In one classic episode, her character Jalene was partnered up with cohorts Jane Dulo and Reta Shaw as three dames hiding out from the law who hold both Deputy Barney and Floyd hostage while putting designs on them at the same time.
An unfortunate alcohol problem dogged Jean's career for many years. Active with Alcoholics Anonymous, she eventually retired from Hollywood in the early 1980s and moved to the Palm Springs area to be closer to family. There she appeared occasionally in such local theater productions as "The Elephant Man" and "Steel Magnolias." Jean had been in spiraling health since suffering a paralytic stroke in September of 2005. She died in a Palm Desert convalescent home on November 2, 2005, at age 82. Two sons survive.- Soundtrack
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Jeannie Coyne was a talented dancer who was a long time assistant of Gene Kelly and appeared in a few of his films. Her biggest role would be to dance with Bobby Van in the "From this moment on" number from Kiss Me Kate (1953). Coyne would later become Kelly's second wife and bear him two children, but unfortunately died in 1973 of leukemia.- Jennie Jacques is an English actress. Her first major role was as Annie Miller in Desperate Romantics (2009), a six-part BBC Two television drama serial about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood that was broadcast in July and August 2009. From 2013-2014 she played the lead role of WPC Gina Dawson on the BBC television series WPC 56. From 2015 to 2019 Jacques has played the recurring role of Saxon Queen Judith on the television series Vikings.
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Jimmy Safechuck was born on 28 February 1978 in Simi Valley, California, USA. He is a writer, known for Smooth Criminal, Interruptions (1997) and Leaving Neverland (2019). He is married to Laura Primack. They have two children.- He began his acting career when Argentine producers found him, at the age of eleven, playing soccer on one of Copacabana's sidewalks. He was invited to join the cast of Tercer Mundo (1962), a Brazilian-Argentine co-production shot on Rio's hill slums, only released in 1973. Right after this role, he was invited to act in Luigi Pirandello's play "O Homem Besta e a Virtude", for which he received several theatrical revelation awards in 1962. This play led to several successful appearances as a child-actor on Grande Teatro Tupi (1951) over the next two years, launching his 55-year career on TV.
in 1965, he made his debut on Globo TV, Brazil's largest TV production company, in the telenovela Rua da Matriz (1965), the network's first serial drama production. Over the next few decades, among his most popular interpretations are 'Tavico' on Estúpido Cupido (1976) and 'Toninho Jiló' on Roque Santeiro (1985), the latter, perhaps his most memorable character. - Actor
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Excellent and acclaimed singer/songwriter/guitarist Joe South was born as Joseph Alfred Souter on February 28, 1940 in Atlanta, Georgia. South built his own radio station as a little boy and received his first guitar as a Christmas present at age eleven. At age twelve, Joe had his own weekly radio show, playing guitar and singing country songs on WGST radio station. In 1962, South went to Nashville and established himself as an expert session musician in both Nashville and Muscle Shoals. Among the artists Joe played guitar for were Marty Robbins, Aretha Franklin ("Chain of Fools"), Eddy Arnold, Simon & Garfunkel ("I Am A Rock"), Fats Domino, Wilson Pickett and even Bob Dylan (the "Blonde on Blonde" album). South further demonstrated his versatility as a songwriter, penning hit songs for The Tams ("Untie Me"), Billy Joe Royal ("Down in the Boondocks") and Deep Purple ("Hush"). Lynn Anderson, in particular, scored a massive smash hit with her catchy and spirited rendition of "(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden". In addition, Joe produced and arranged "What Kind of Fool" and "Be Young Be Foolish Be Happy" for The Tams. Other artists who have recorded South's songs included Johnny Rivers, Harry Belafonte, Petula Clark, Ernest Tubb, The Osmonds, Linda Ronstadt, Kenny Loggins, Della Reese and Elvis Presley. South, himself, had a huge hit with the terrifically reflective "Games People Play", which was featured on his extraordinary album "Introspect" and went on to win two well-deserved Grammy Awards. "Birds of a Feather" was a sizable country hit. The follow-up songs, "Walk A Mile in My Shoes" and "Don't It Make You Want To Go Home", were likewise pretty successful. South was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1979. On September 13, 2003, Joe was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. His songs have appeared on the soundtracks for such movies as Zodiac (2007), Children of Men (2006), Monster's Ball (2001), Simpatico (1999) and The Gospel Road: A Story of Jesus (1973). South died at age 72 at his home in Buford, Georgia after having a heart attack on September 5, 2012.- John Carson was a hugely prolific actor who appeared constantly on UK screens throughout the mid-50s until the mid-80s. He has appeared alongside many of the UK's stars and became hugely popular as a villain or hero. The secret of John's success was his versatility and his wonderful silky voice. He appeared in 3 Hammer films which led to an ever-increased popularity amongst film fans. John moved to South Africa from England in the 80s and, sadly, his appearances became far more sporadic although he always kept working, even producing and filming his own short documentary, "African Spirit". He returned to England in 2007 and has been involved in a few films, such as The Deal (2008). He attended a John Carson Celebration Day in London (July 2009). This was the first time he had talked publicly about his long career in television, film and stage. The day was a huge success and, aside from a showing of two of his films, John gave an interview on stage and then signed autographs. The day was a huge success and this was proved so by a large attendance and the queues for his autograph and photos. John returned to South Africa in 2014 where he spent time with his family and got to relax a little. He sadly passed away on November 5th, 2016, a few weeks before his 90th birthday. He was a fine actor and leaves behind a legacy of his versatility on screen.
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Highly talented, lightly built American actor who always looks unsettled and jumpy has become a favourite of cult/arthouse film aficionados with his compelling performances in a broad range of cinematic vehicles.
Turturro was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Italian-American parents, Katherine (Incerella), a jazz singer, and Nicholas Turturro, a construction worker and carpenter, who was born in Giovinazzo. His brother, also named Nicholas Turturro, is an actor, and actress Aida Turturro is his cousin.
Turturro has become a regular in the thought provoking films of Spike Lee and the off the wall comedies of Joel Coen & Ethan Coen. His wonderful performances include as the highly agitated "Pino" in Do the Right Thing (1989), as an intellectual playwright in Barton Fink (1991), a pedophile tenpin bowler in The Big Lebowski (1998), a confused boyfriend in Jungle Fever (1991) and as the voice of Harvey the dog in Summer of Sam (1999).
Turturro has continued to appeal to audiences despite his unconventional looks and the often annoying onscreen mannerisms of his characters which he used to great effect in films such as his blue collar tale of warring brothers in the construction business, Mac (1992), as the irate, dumped game show contestant, Herbie Stempel, in Robert Redford's dynamic Quiz Show (1994). One of modern American cinema's gems of acting, Turturro remains in strong demand for his high calibre thespian talents.- Actor
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J.D. was born on 28 February 2000 in Conroe, Texas, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Do Revenge (2022), Revolution (2012) and Outer Banks (2020).Jonathan Daviss- Actor
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Jorge Donn was born on 28 February 1947 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was an actor, known for Bhakti (1970), Couleur chair (1978) and Romeo e Giulietta (1972). He died on 30 November 1992 in Lausanne, Switzerland.- Jorge Enrique Abello Moreno (Bogotá, Cundinamarca, February 28, 1968) is a Colombian actor known for his leading roles in soap operas such as En los tacones de Eva; Yo soy Betty la fea; La Costeña y el cachaco; among other.
Jorge Enrique Abello Moreno was born at the Clínica del Country in Bogotá. His parents, Alberto Abello de Sucre and Heidi Moreno, did not expect it since there is a difference of ten years between the last of his four siblings and him.
His brothers are: Alberto, Eduardo (who died in a plane crash in 1992), Juan Manuel and Mª Inés. He is a descendant of Antonio José de Sucre a Venezuelan hero, hero of the Independence of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia
He studied his baccalaureate at the Gimnasio Moderno, and his university degree at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana - Faculty of Communication and Language (Social Communication Career) / Faculty of Social Sciences (Literary Studies Career), of which he has a degree, and what else He was attracted to the production of Educational Television. - Actor
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Joseph Rouleau was born on 28 February 1929 in Matane, Québec, Canada. He was an actor, known for Marathon Man (1976), Folio (1955) and Au pays de Zom (1983). He was married to Renee. He died on 12 July 2019 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.- Josh Green was born on 28 February 1992. He is an actor and writer, known for Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015), Viral (2014) and The Girl in the Book (2015).
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Born in London, England on February 28, 1922, the very lovely and light-haired British actress Joyce Howard left school at age 17 and initially studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). One of her first professional starring roles was in the play "Temporary Residence" at the Embassy Theatre in London.
Howard's first film was as a second female lead opposite Derek Farr in the propaganda war drama The Voice in the Night (1941) (aka A Voice in the Night) directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Clive Brook and Diana Wynyard. She then went on to appear in a number of WWII-era films, including noteworthy supports in the working class drama Love on the Dole (1941), The Common Touch (1941) (as another love interest), and the Arthur Askey comedy Back-Room Boy (1942), before co-starring opposite James Mason in the mystery thriller Terror House (1942) (aka Terror House). Their pairing proved so compatible that they were signed up again to co-star in another effective mystery thriller They Met in the Dark (1943).
During WWII, Joyce continued to co-star in a host of London stage plays, including "Romeo and Juliet" at the Old Vic. Following the war, Joyce made a return to films with lead and second lead roles in They Knew Mr. Knight (1946), Woman to Woman (1947) opposite Douglass Montgomery, Mrs. Fitzherbert (1947) (in the title role with Peter Graves starring as the Prince of Wales), and her final movie Shadow of the Past (1950) earning top billing as the "Lady in Black."
Save for a few TV roles in the late 1950s, Howard pretty much abandoned her acting career following her marriage to actor Basil Sydney and the raising of their three children. Instead she extended her talents off camera to that of author, novelist and playwright. She first worked in the writing field with such plays as the BBC-produced "Broken Silence" and the novels "Two Persons Singular" and "A Private View."
Following her divorce from Basil Sydney , who would subsequently die from pleurisy in 1968 at the age of 73, Howard remarried in 1962 and made a transcontinental move with her family to the U.S.A. She worked as a story analyst in Burbank, then was hired as executive assistant at Paramount. She moved up the ladder with a position as executive story editor for Paramount TV and was also responsible for property acquisition and development.
Howard would continue to write for TV from time to time. She died in Santa Monica, California of natural causes at age 88 and was survived by her three children by Sydney.- Actor
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Judd Douglas Hamilton was born in Republic, WA., graduated from Eastmont High in East Wenatchee, WA., and attended Wenatchee Valley College before heading to Hollywood, Calif. in the Spring of 1961. During his early years in LA Judd worked as a studio musician, nightclub entertainer and record producer. During this time he had the good fortune to know and work with some of the great 60's music artists including The Ventures, The Beach Boys, Crazy Horse (Neil Young's band), Leon Russell, David Gates (Bread), Pat and Lolly Vegas (Redbone), and Darrel Dragon (Captain and Tenielle).
In the Fall of 1965 Liberty Records asked Judd to form a touring band called The T-Bones to promote a session musician (The Wrecking Crew) recorded instrumental, "No Matter What Shape'. He asked his brother Dan to play lead guitar in a line up that eventually included Joe Frank Carollo on bass, Tommy Reynolds on keyboards and Gene Pello on drums. Not really expecting much to come of this studio inspired gig, to the Hamilton Brothers' amazement this TV jingle inspired single reached No. 3 in Billboard's Top 100 in March of 1966.
The T-Bones' third album, 'Everyone's Gone to the Moon', included the vocal/harmony sound they had polished on the road. While their 1967 Autumn tour of Japan marked the end of The T-Bones, the vocal harmony sound they had created on the road went on (with brother Dan on lead vocals) to have more hit singles as Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds, including 'Don't Pull Your Love' in 1971 and 'Fallin' in Love Again' in 1975.
In the meantime, in the summer of 1968 director Richard Quine had asked Judd to co-star alongside Richard Widmark, Cesar Romero, Topol and Caroline Munro in a film called "A Talent For Loving". That unexpected turn of event's sent his showbiz career spinning in a new direction. By the time the H, JF & R heyday began in 1970 Judd had moved to London, England to pursue a solo recording career with United Artists Records while also doing a few more film and television projects in France, Italy, and eventually back in the U.S. Judd's acting, writing, production credits include "A Talent For Loving", "Starcrash", executive producing the indie film "Maniac", writing and producing the 7th Annual Sci-Fi Awards television special, and writing, producing and co-starring in "The Last Horror Film".
More recently Judd's creative efforts shifted to inventing and globally patenting a unique radiation shielding concrete/coating material called X-Rok. X-Rok has been extensively tested at Idaho National Labs with the purpose of repairing the Hanford, Chernobyl, Fukushima nuclear radiation disasters, securing leaking radiated waste sites, replacing the carcinogenic lead in x-ray facilities, and protecting data centers. Judd currently serves as the Chairman of Co-Operations, Inc., the Ceramic Cement Corporation, and the founder of E.F.F.O.R.T.S, a non-profit research organization.- Actress
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Karissa Tynes is a Canadian Actress located in Vancouver, British Columbia. Born in Ontario, Karissa moved to Vancouver Island as a small child, and spent her youth growing up in Sooke B.C. At the age of 17 she relocated to Vancouver to pursue her passion for performing arts. To date she has performed in many television series', feature films and commercials.- Karolina Kurkova is a supermodel best known for her work as a Victoria's Secrets lingerie model. She has appeared in nine Victoria's Secret Fashion shows between 2000 and 2010 and was named a Victoria's Secret Angel in 2005. She has graced the covers of such notable fashion magazines as Vogue, Elle, Vanity Fair, and Esquire among others. In 2002, she was named Model of the Year at the VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards. She also has worked as an actress in movies such as G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and TV series, Chuck, 30 Rock and Person of Interest. She was born on February 28, 1984 in Deçín Czech Republic. She married Archie Drury in 2009 and the couple have two children together. She was discovered at age fifteen when a friend sent picture of her to a Prague modeling agency.
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Kelly Bishop was born on 28 February 1944 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. She is an actress, known for Gilmore Girls (2000), Dirty Dancing (1987) and Friends with Kids (2011).- Sugai Kin was born Susai Kimiko in Tokyo in 1926. She died in August 2018. Upon graduation from high school she worked in the public sector as an office worker around the end of World War II. However, she always wanted to become an actress and did not want to give up on her dream despite the steady and stable work. She joined the Haiyuza Theatre company despite her father's objection. He explained that actresses are beautiful women, which precludes her. She picked Sugai Kin as her alias as it bore a similarity to her birth name in Japanese. Her father died in 1971 and never saw her act. She began acting in 1947 and her film debut came in January 1951 when she appeared in Kaze Ni Soyogu Ashi ('Reeds That Rustle in the Wind'). In just the next decade she appeared in masterpieces of cinema like The Bad Sleep Well, Ikiru and The Human Condition. She went on to appear in over one hundred and fifty films, as well as on stage in the theatre. Her cross mother-in-law character in the 1973 TV serial Hissatsu Shiokinin ('Person Who Wants To Get Revenge') became so well-known that she wanted to quit the role fearing that, based on her image, her daughter in real life would not find a husband. She went on to accumulate multiple maternal roles. Sugai won the 1985 Japan Academy Prize for Best Supporting Actress for her role in 1984's The Funeral, which was directed by Juzo Itami. Sugai was awarded the Purple Ribbon Medal by the Japanese government in 1990. She was in big and small screen films in 2010, but fell and broke her leg in that year and finding it difficult to walk, despite rehabilitation, decided to retire. She had married Sugai Kin and remained with him until his death in 1996. Sugai obtained a spot in the Guinness Book Of Records as the oldest actress in a main role for her participation in the film My Grandma in 2008. She was eighty-two years old at the time. She liked to play the shamisen. She was never a good cook. Sugai spent the last five years of her life in an old people's home.
- Lena Cardwell is a success story in the making. At only nine years old, she was singing for money to afford singing and acting lessons. Her mother recognized her talent and took her to New York, but the family ran out of money, and for a time they supported themselves by Cardwell singing on subway platforms and in Times Square. She hit it lucky one day when she was "discovered". She has a number of guest appearances to her credit, as well as a small part in the recent film "The Object of My Affection". "Passions" is her first TV contract -- the producers thought she was perfect for the role after seeing her audition. Her "passions" are singing, dancing (ballet, jazz, hip hop), gymnastics, and martial arts.
- Lorand Gaspar was born on 28 February 1925 in Targu Mures, Romania. He was a writer, known for 4 Days in France (2016), Aires 06 (2006) and L'invité (2000). He was married to Francine. He died on 9 October 2019 in France.
- Louise Erickson was born on 28 February 1928 in Oakland, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Rosie the Riveter (1944), Three Husbands (1950) and Meet Miss Bobby Socks (1944). She was married to Ben Gazzara. She died on 18 March 2019.
- Lyn Peters was born on 28 February 1941 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was an actress, known for Get Smart (1965), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964) and The Rat Patrol (1966). She was married to Paul Burke, Horacio Fernando Castro Escalada and Lars Erik Steiner. She died on 10 September 2013 in Palm Springs, California, USA.
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Madisen Beaty was born in Centennial, Colorado, USA. She is an actress and music artist, known for Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019), The Master (2012) and The Clovehitch Killer (2018).- Actress
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Mag Ruffman was born on 28 February 1957 in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress and director, known for Avocado Toast the series (2020), Alias Grace (2017) and Avonlea (1990). She has been married to Daniel Hunter since 1989.- Malin Persson was born on 28 February 1992 in Stockholm, Sweden. She is an actress, known for The Sandhamn Murders (2010), Midnight Sun (2016) and Thunder in My Heart (2021).