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Dylan Nicole Gelula is an American actress who is best known for her role of Xanthippe on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, as well as her work in independent film. In 2016, Gelula made her film debut as the lead actress with romantic drama film First Girl I Loved, directed by Kerem Sanga. The film premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and won the audience award for Best Of NEXT. Gelula's performance in the film as Anne received rave reviews from various critics. She has since appeared in the films Flower, Support the Girls, Under the Eiffel Tower, Her Smell, and had the lead role of "Maggie" in Cooper Raiff's 2020 debut feature Shithouse, which won the Best Narrative Film prize at SXSW Film Festival.- Actress
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Maya Erskine was born on 7 May 1987 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for PEN15 (2019), Wine Country (2019) and Blue Eye Samurai (2023).- Actor
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After starring in the hugely successful blockbuster The Hunger Games (2012) (for which he received two awards), Alexander has gone on to work in films such as Lone Survivor (2013), The Final Girls (2015), and Bad Boys for Life (2020), and received critical acclaim for his performance as Bjorn Ironside in the global hit television series Vikings (2013).
Alexander Richard Ludwig was born in Vancouver, Canada, on May 7, 1992. He has three siblings: Nicholas, Natalie and Sophia, and a cat named Puss in Boots. His mother, Sharlene Martin, is a former actress and assists in managing his career. His father, Harald Ludwig, is a board member of Lions Gate Entertainment and president of Macluan Capital Corporation. As one of the stars of History Channel's top rated show "Vikings", Alexander's Bjorn Ironside is the eldest son to the king and the successor to the crown. Completing its third season, Vikings has been experiencing overwhelming success: "New York, NY - February 24, 2015 -The season three premiere of History's hit scripted series Vikings raided 4.6 million total viewers, 2.4 million Adults 25-54 and 2.3 million Adults 18-49 in Live +3 delivery, ranking it as the #1 show on cable in Live +3 in all key demos and total viewers on Thursday, February 19." Additionally, Alexander co-starred in Sony's dark comedy The Final Girls (2015) co-starring Malin Akerman, Nina Dobrev, Taissa Farmiga and Adam Devine. This film premiered at SXSW on Friday, March 13, 2015 at 10 pm and received rave reviews. Alexander just completed filming the independent picture "Go With Me", co-starring Anthony Hopkins, Julia Stiles and Ray Liotta. The producers of this film are anticipating a 2015 release date. Alexander is an ambassador to the Bvlgari Brand, as well as being an independent fashion consultant to the sport line RYU.
He is a passionate musician, an undeniable adrenaline junkie and a gifted spokesman. Those who work with him speak of his dedication to his craft, coupled with his humility and charm and his work on Vikings (2013) has made him one of the most promising and sought after stars of his generation. When he isn't acting, Alexander can be found writing for film and television as well as surfing, extreme skiing, skydiving, traveling the world, and working with a variety of philanthropic organizations.- Jake Bongiovi was born on 7 May 2002 in Palm Beach, Florida, USA. He is an actor, known for Sweethearts, Rockbottom (2024) and PeopleTV (2005).
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Breckin Meyer was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Dorothy, a travel agent, and Christopher Meyer, a management consultant. He was raised in Los Angeles, went to grade school with Drew Barrymore, and attended Beverly Hills High School with Joshua John Miller and Branden Williams. It was Barrymore who introduced Breckin to her agent, after which he started doing commercials and the game show Child's Play (1982).
After being accepted to California State University at Northridge, Breckin decided to put school on hold and pursue acting. He has always wanted to be a kindergarten teacher and may still do that in the future. Breckin was the drummer in the Streetwalking Cheetahs with his brother, Frank, which recorded a demo in 1995. He was the lead vocal on two songs, "Carnival" and "Dave". During 1995-1996, the band played about 10 gigs around Los Angeles. The Streetwalking Cheetahs' second album, "Overdrive" and their new album, "Live on KXLU", feature songs written when Breckin was still in the band. These songs include "None of Your Business", "All I Want", "Peppermint", "Thought that Crosses My Mind" and "Turn Me Down". After the Streetwalking Cheetahs, he started his own band, Bellyroom, with Seth Green and Alexander Martin, Dean Martin's grandson. They played a few gigs around Los Angeles in 1996.
Breckin's friends include Ryan Phillippe, Josh Holland (USA High (1997)) and Seth Green. His best friend is Ryan Phillippe, with whom he starred in 54 (1998). Breckin was married to Deborah Kaplan, who wrote and directed Can't Hardly Wait (1998), in which Breckin had a cameo.
Breckin's hobbies include playing drums, video games and sometimes sports. He's a big fan of Sean Penn, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Richard Dreyfuss.- Actress
Carrie Henn is a former American child actress, who rose to prominence at the age of ten (10) after co-starring with Sigourney Weaver in the movie "Aliens", the 1986 sequel to the 1979 hit, "Alien". She has been married to her husband Nathan Kutcher since July 2, 2005. They have one child together.- He is an actor known for Leo's room (2009), O Tempo e o Vento (2012) and Zanahoria (2013).
He is well known for his versatility, he has played a variety of parts and he particularly stands out interpreting complex and realistic characters.
His film debut was in 2009, playing the leading role in Enrique Buchichio's El Cuarto DE Leo (Leo's Room), released during the San Sebastián International Film Festival. Martín portrayed the character of Leo, a young man who is going through a process of identification with a sexual orientation and self-acceptance. For this work he received several awards including the Uruguayan Film Critics Association award for Best Actor and Best Male Revelation, Best Actor at the Festival Del Mar - Ibiza, Spain and Best Actor at the Festival DE la Luna, Spain.
In 2014, the Enrique Buchichio's film Zanahoria was awarded the Colón DE Oro, the highest award, in the fortieth edition of the Festival DE Cine Iberoamericano DE Huelva, Spain. - Actress
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Anne Baxter was born in Michigan City, Indiana, on May 7, 1923. She was the daughter of a salesman, Kenneth Stuart Baxter, and his wife, Catherine Dorothy (Wright), who herself was the daughter of Frank Lloyd Wright, the world-renowned architect. Anne was a young girl of 11 when her parents moved to New York City, which at that time was still the hub of the entertainment industry even though the film colony was moving west. The move there encouraged her to consider acting as a vocation. By the time she was 13 she had already appeared in a stage production of 'Seen but Not Heard'", and had garnered rave reviews from the tough Broadway critics. The play helped her gain entrance to an exclusive acting school.
In 1937, Anne made her first foray into Hollywood to test the waters there in the film industry. As she was thought to be too young for a film career, she packed her bags and returned to the New York stage with her mother, where she continued to act on Broadway and summer stock up and down the East Coast. Undaunted by the failure of her previous effort to crack Hollywood, Anne returned to California two years later to try again. This time her luck was somewhat better. She took a screen test which was ultimately seen by the moguls of Twentieth Century-Fox, and she was signed to a seven-year contract. However, before she could make a movie with Fox, Anne was loaned out to MGM to make 20 Mule Team (1940). At only 17 years of age, she was already in the kind of pictures that other starlets would have had to slave for years as an extra before landing a meaty role. Back at Fox, that same year, Anne played Mary Maxwell in The Great Profile (1940), which was a box-office dud. The following year she played Amy Spettigue in the remake of Charley's Aunt (1941). It still wasn't a great role, but it was better than a bit part. The only other film job Anne appeared in that year was in Swamp Water (1941). It was the first role that was really worth anything, but critics weren't that impressed with Anne, her role nor the movie. In 1942 Anne played Joseph Cotten's daughter, Lucy Morgan, in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942). The following year she appeared in The North Star (1943), the first film where she received top billing. The film was a critical and financial success and Anne came in for her share of critical plaudits. Guest in the House (1944) the next year was a dismal failure, but Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944) was received much better by the public, though it was ripped apart by the critics. Anne starred with John Hodiak, who would become her first husband in 1947 (Anne was to divorce Hodiak in 1954. Her other two husbands were Randolph Galt and David Klee).
In 1946 Anne portrayed Sophie MacDonald in The Razor's Edge (1946), a film that would land her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She had come a long way in so short a time, but for her next two films she was just the narrator: Mother Wore Tights (1947) and Blaze of Noon (1947). It would be 1950 before she landed another decent role--the part of Eve Harrington in All About Eve (1950). This film garnered Anne her second nomination, but she lost the Oscar to Judy Holliday for Born Yesterday (1950). After several films through the 1950s, Anne landed what many considered a plum role--Queen Nefretiri in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956). Never in her Hollywood career did Anne look as beautiful as she did as the Egyptian queen, opposite Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner. After that epic, job offers got fewer because she wasn't tied to a studio, instead opting to freelance her talents. After no appearances in 1958, she made one film in 1959 Season of Passion (1959) and one in 1960 Cimarron (1960).
After Walk on the Wild Side (1962), she took a hiatus from filming for the next four years. She was hardly idle, though. She appeared often on stage and on television. She wasn't particularly concerned with being a celebrity or a personality; she was more concerned with being just an actress and trying hard to produce the best performance she was capable of. After several notable TV appearances, Anne became a staple of two television series, East of Eden (1981) and Hotel (1983). Her final moment before the public eye was as Irene Adler in the TV film Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death (1984). On December 12, 1985, Anne died of a stroke in New York. She was 62.- Actor
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Born to Alice Cooper and Charles Cooper. Gary
attended school at Dunstable school England, Helena Montana and Grinnell
College, Grinnell, Iowa (then called Iowa College). His first stage experience was during high
school and college. Afterwards, he worked as an extra for one year
before getting a part in a two-reeler by the independent producer Hans Tiesler . Eileen Sedgwick was his first leading lady. He then appeared in
The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926) for United Artists before moving to Paramount. While there he
appeared in a small part in Wings (1927), It (1927), and other
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Andrew Barth Feldman was born on 7 May 2002 in Manhasset, New York, USA. Andrew Barth is an actor and producer, known for No Hard Feelings (2023), Foul Play (2023) and High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (2019).- Actor
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Mr. Beast was born on 7 May 1998 in Wichita, Kansas, USA. He is an actor and director, known for MrBeast (2012), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023) and Ultimate crown (MrBeast VS Ninja).- Lela Loren was born on 7 May 1980 in San Bernardino County, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Power (2014), Snitch (2013) and Reign Over Me (2007).
- Former Heavyweight boxing contender Randall "Tex" Cobb has had 3 highly colorful careers; kickboxer, pro boxer, and movie actor. Born in Bridge City, Texas on May 7, 1950, the 6'3", 225 pound Cobb excelled in high school football and martial arts. Enjoying "extreme" sports to the max, Cobb launched a professional kickboxing career and racked up 9 straight knockout victories.
Realizing the big money was in boxing, he switched sports and launched a professional boxing career. Known for a "cast-iron" chin, a sledge-hammer punch, and a "gift for gab", Cobb quickly established himself as one of the top heavyweight contenders in the world. Cobb's brutal, one-sided beating by heavyweight King Larry Holmes over 15 rounds (although Cobb was reportedly never off his feet) caused world-famous boxing announcer Howard Cosell to "swear-off" boxing for the rest of his life. Cobb took the beating with a grin and a wide smirk. His antics captured the Hollywood's attention and he was cast as Jon Voight's opponent in the remake of The Champ (1979).
Cobb went on to appear in action roles requiring muscles and physical heft in films and television. He later launched a highly successful ring comeback in the early 1990s stretching his winning streak to 20 straight. However, he retired unexpectedly with a 43-7 log with 36 knockouts, never to box again. He continues to act and has been the subject of a highly-controversial Sport's Illustrated article which resulted in numerous law-suits. - Actor
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A remarkably seasoned actor of stage, screen and television, Darren
McGavin has notched in excess of 200 performances; however, he is most
fondly remembered by cult TV fans as heroic newspaper reporter Carl
Kolchak in the classic but short-lived horror TV series Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974). In a
long and varied career, McGavin has often turned up as authority
figures including policemen, military officers, stern-faced business
executives or father figures; however, he is equally adept at
light-hearted comedic performances.
Darren McGavin was born William Lyle Richardson on May 7, 1922, in Spokane, Washington, to Grace Mitton (Bogart) and Reed D. Richardson. His mother was from Ontario, Canada. He received his dramatic arts training at New York's Neighborhood
Playhouse and the Actors Studio, and debuted on screen in an uncredited
role in A Song to Remember (1945). Several standard roles followed over the next decade
before he landed the key role of Louie the drug pusher in The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) and
Capt. Russ Peters in The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955), both directed by Otto Preminger. Each of these
performances showcased McGavin's versatility, and his virile looks
scored him the role of Mickey Spillane's hard-boiled private eye in Mike Hammer (1958).
McGavin stayed continually employed throughout the 1960s, appearing in
such films as The Great Sioux Massacre (1965), The Outsider (1967), The Challengers (1970) and The Tribe (1970). In addition, he
was regularly guest-starring in dozens of TV shows, including Gunsmoke (1955),
Dr. Kildare (1961), Mission: Impossible (1966) and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964). In 1971 he landed the role of cynical
reporter Carl Kolchak in the low-budget horror thriller The Night Stalker (1972), about
a vampire running amok in Las Vegas. The film was a monster ratings
winner (pun intended!) and the highest-rated telemovie of 1972, and
original scriptwriters were soon hard at work on a punchier sequel.
The Night Strangler (1973) saw Kolchak in Seattle (after being booted out of Las Vegas by
the police), and this time on the trail of a serial killer seeking the
elixir of eternal youth. The second movie was equally successful, and
spawned the short-lived TV series Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974) with Simon Oakland as McGavin's
long-suffering editor and a host of weekly guest stars including
Jim Backus, Phil Silvers, Richard Kiel, Tom Skerritt, Scatman Crothers and Larry Storch.
"Kolchak" only lasted one season, but it became a bona-fide cult
classic, and many years later its premise of "the unknown amongst us"
inspired writer Chris Carter to create the phenomenally successful
long-running TV series The X-Files (1993), which saw McGavin guest-star in several
episodes.
McGavin remained busy throughout the rest of the 1970s and into the
1980s, appearing in Airport '77 (1977), as Gen. George S. Patton in the TV miniseries
Ike: The War Years (1979), alongside Rock Hudson in the uneven sci-fi miniseries The Martian Chronicles (1980) and
a few years later endeared himself to to a whole new generation of fans
with his superb performance as the vitriolic, yet buffoonish, father in
the delightful Christmas classic A Christmas Story (1983). The always versatile McGavin
also popped up as a detective in Turk 182 (1985), assisted Arnold Schwarzenegger in cleaning
up the mob in Raw Deal (1986) and was a doctor in the bizarre zombie/cop/zombie
cop film Dead Heat (1988).
At this point it's worth mentioning that, along with his film and TV
work, McGavin has also enjoyed an illustrious career on the stage, with
appearances in dozens of critically acclaimed productions across the
length and breadth of the US. He has appeared in stage presentations of
"Death of a Salesman", "The Rainmaker", "The King and I" and "Blood
Sweat & Stanley Poole", to name a few.
In 1990 the opportunity arose for McGavin to play another somewhat
stern, yet comedic, father figure, this time as "Bill Brown" to Candice Bergen
in the much loved sitcom Murphy Brown (1988). McGavin was again wonderful, and his
entertaining performances resulted in an Emmy Award nomination in 1990. Several
other film roles followed in the 1990s, in such films as Adam Sandler's hit
Billy Madison (1995). He died on 25th February 2006 at the age of 83.- Actress
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Morgana Robinson is an award-winning television and film actress, best known for her comic portrayals of eccentric, nuanced characters. In 2012, she was awarded Best Breakthrough Artist at the British Comedy Awards for her sketch show, Very Important People and in 2018, she won a BAFTA for Dreamland, a short film she creatively conceived and starred in, written by Sharon Horgan.
Morgana's breakthrough came in 2009, with her eponymous comedy sketch show, which aired as a six-part series on Channel 4. The Morgana Show, co-written by and starring Morgana, featured a host of original and surreal comic characters, including Gilbert, a confused teenage boy, who gained cult status on YouTube and has remained one of her most beloved characters.
In 2011, Morgana played Carol Caplin, Tony Blair's romantic brief encounter in The Comic Strip Presents...The Hunt for Tony Blair on Channel 4 alongside Jennifer Saunders, Rik Mayall, Robbie Coltrane, Harry Enfield and Stephen Mangan.
Morgana's exceptional ability for mimicry resulted in two specially commissioned shows. Very Important People was a six-part satirical impressions show in which she starred alongside Terry Mynott on Channel 4. Her impersonations included Cheryl Cole, Fearne Cotton, Russell Brand, Amy Childs and Danny Dyer and was aired in 2012. The series won her the Best British Breakthrough Act at the British Comedy Awards. Morgana Robinson's The Agency aired as a seven-part series in 2016 on BBC2, in which Morgana played all the famous clients at a talent agency. These included Miranda Hart, Natalie Cassidy, Mel and Sue and Joanna Lumley.
In 2013, Morgana made her first of several appearances in Toast of London as Jemima Gina, the unhinged, electronically tagged love interest of Matt Berry's Stephen Toast. In series two, she played Lorna Wynde, a daytime TV soap star with a wonky eye and in series three, she played Emma, the girlfriend of Peter Davidson and partner in his illegal alcohol sideline.
Vic and Bob's House of Fools aired on BBC2 in 2014, a sitcom written by Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, in which Morgana played Julie, an unpredictable, camera-obsessed landlady, a role she reprised in the second series a year later.
In the BAFTA winning comedy, Inside No. 9, Morgana played an alcoholic, former Big Brother contestant alongside Rhys Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, Fiona Shaw, Felicity Kendall and Peter Kaye.
Dreamland, a short film conceived by Morgana and written by Sharon Horgan, saw Morgana co-star as the down-trodden sister to Sheridan Smith's character, nervously guarding an explosive secret. It won the BAFTA for Best Short Film in 2018.
Since 2016, Morgana has played the vindictive, dangerous Pippa Middleton in Channel 4's The Windsors, a critically acclaimed comedy about the royal family, alongside Harry Enfield, Hadyn Gwynne, Hugh Skinner and Louise Ford. The series was nominated for the Rose d'Or for best British comedy series in 2018.
Forthcoming projects include Truth Seekers, starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost and written by James Serafinowicz and Nat Saunders for Amazon, where Morgana plays Janey Feathers, an old glamour model turned psychic healer.
Morgana plays Mrs Jenkins in the Robert Zemeckis remake of The Witches, starring Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer and Stanley Tucci, a Warner Brothers production that will go on general release in 2020.
Morgana will also star in the Emmy Nominated series Urban Myths as Tracey Emin, covering the week in her life that lead up to her creating the famous bed.- Scheana Marie (born May 7, 1985) is an American television personality, actress, podcast host and singer.. She is best known for her role as one of the lead cast members of the hit Bravo reality series, Vanderpump Rules (2013). She graduated with the class of 2002 from Bishop Amat High School in La Puente, California. In 2006, she graduated with a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism from Azusa Pacific University. She is best known for her role as one of the lead cast members of the hit Bravo reality series, Vanderpump Rules (2013). She is best known for being one of the many mistresses of D-List actor Eddie Cibrian, as well as being unceremoniously dumped by an embarrassed John Mayer, after publicly claiming to be his girlfriend, while he was merely sleeping with her.
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Debut as an actor in Japanese TV series "The Kindaichi Case Files" (1995). Gained success with the performance in "Ikebukuro West Gate Park" (2000). Awarded Japan Academy Prize for both Best Newcomer and Best Actor in 2001, youngest ever at the time. First Hollywood film appearance in Martin Scorsese's "Silence" and played a role as "Kichijiro" which was one of the key character of the story. In 2019 co-starred in BBC/Netflix series "Giri/Haji" which was filmed in in both Japan and UK. In 2023, made appearance in Japan-Korea produced film "Knuckle Girl" and "Tokyo Vice - Season 2" airing on MAX from February 2024.
Many appearances in both domestic and International films as well as many more to be released. Critically acclaimed stage performance for theater director Yukio Ninagawa and Toshiaki Toyoda. Well-known for his multiple talent as a Fashion Model and Writer. Also known to produces his own YouTube Channel and Golf Apparel brand.- Brandon William Jones is an American actor born in the central Piedmont
region of North Carolina. He was raised as an only child in the town of
McLeansville by parents, Kimberly and Reid Jones. At Northeast Guilford
High School, Jones was involved in sports as a member of the football,
track, and wrestling teams. In early 2009, Jones drove cross country
from his east coast home to move to Los Angeles and began acting soon
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Amy Heckerling studied Film and TV at New York University and got a
Masters Degree in Film from The American Film Institute. Despite this
education she couldn't get a break in Hollywood. However, in 1982, she
made Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), and people started to take notice. In 1985, while Amy was
pregnant, she got the idea for Look Who's Talking (1989). In 1994, Amy wrote Clueless (1995). Amy
is a liberal and also an environmentalist and helps environmental
charities whenever she can.- Actress
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Aliyah O'Brien is a Canadian born actress of Irish, Welsh and Spanish decent.
Best known for her recurring roles in Legends of Tomorrow, Rookie Blue, Bates Motel, You Me Her, and her series regular role on Take Two. As well as numerous Hallmark movies.
Aliyah is passionate about spreading love in the world and seeks to let her light shine and inspire others to do the same.
When not acting she can be found getting sweaty, spending time with friends and family, or dancing among the trees.- Actress
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Mhairi Calvey was born in Scotland and grew up on the Isle of Arran.
At the age of 5 she made her acting debut playing the role of 'Young Murron' in Mel Gibson's film 'Braveheart', which went on to win five Oscars. Shortly after filming Mhairi returned to school and focused on her education. She later studied her BA (Hons) in Acting at the Guildford School of Acting.
Mhairi has since played roles in feature films 'Fear the Invisible Man', 'The Eastern Front' and 'Robert the Bruce' for which she won Best Newcomer at The National Film Awards. Mhairi's TV credits include BBC drama 'Boat Story' directed by Jack and Harry Williams.
Mhairi started production company Dream Reel Entertainment and she went on to direct, write and produce her debut short film 'Gaslight' about the effects of domestic abuse.- Actor
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David Tomlinson is best known for his role as George Banks in Walt Disney's
Mary Poppins (1964). As a youth he spent a short spell in the guards. He joined the RAF in WW2 where he
survived the trauma of a plane crash on his first solo flight due to engine failure, then becoming a flying instructor for the remainder of the war. He began his film career in the
pre-war British film Quiet Wedding (1941) and followed that with Leslie Howard's 'Pimpernel' Smith (1941).
Altogether he has made over 50 films and on stage he has had
long-running successes in many plays including "The Little Hut" with
Robert Morley and Roger Moore as his understudy. During the 1930s he understudied
Alec Guinness. By the time he went to Hollywood to make Mary Poppins (1964) he was a veteran film and stage actor. David returned to Disney to great success in The Love Bug (1969) and Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971). David was close friends with Errol Flynn, Robert Morley and Peter Sellers. He
also spent time with Walt Disney whilst they discussed his role in Mary Poppins (1964).
He retired in the early 1980s after an exemplary career on film and
stage, and will always be remembered as one of the centuries greatest
character actors.- Actor
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Ivan Sergei was born on 7 May 1971 in Hawthorne, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor and director, known for The Opposite of Sex (1998), Jack & Jill (1999) and Crossing Jordan (2001). He was previously married to Tanya Gaudio.- Writer
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Asghar Farhadi was born in 1972 in Iran. He became interested in cinema in his teenage years and started his filmmaking education by joining the Youth Cinema Society of Esfahan in 1986 where he made 8mm and 16mm short films. He received his Bachelors in Theater from University of Tehran's School of Dramatic Arts in 1998 and his Masters in Stage Direction from Tarbiat Modarres University a few years later. During these formative years, Farhadi made six shorts and two TV series for Iran's National Broadcasting Corporation (IRIB) of which Story of a City (2000) is most noteworthy. In 2001, he debuted in professional cinema by co-writing the script for Low Heights (2002), a post-9/11 political chronicle of Southwest Iran, with famed war film director, Ebrahim Hatamikia. The film was met with both critical and public success. The following year, Farhadi made his directorial debut, Dancing in the Dust (2003), about a man forced to divorce his wife and go hunting snakes in the desert in order to repay his debts to his in-laws. The film earned recognition at Fajr and Moscow International Film Festivals and a year later, Beautiful City (2004), a grave work about a young man condemned to death at the age of sixteen, received awards from Fajr and Warsaw International Film Festivals. His third film, Fireworks Wednesday (2006), won the Gold Hugo at the 2006 Chicago International Film Festival. His fourth film, About Elly (2009), was called "a masterpiece" by film critic David Bordwell and won the Silver Bear for Best Director at 59th Berlin International Film Festival as well as Best Picture at Tribeca Film Festival. It was also Iran's official submission for the Foreign Language Film competition of Academy Awards in 2009. His more recent film, A Separation (2011), became a sensation. It got critical acclaim inside and outside of Iran; Roger Ebert called it "the best picture of the year," and it was awarded the Crystal Simorgh from Fajr Film Festival, Golden Bear and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury from Berlin International Film Festival, and also won Best Foreign Language Film from The Boston Society of Film Critics, Chicago and Los Angeles Film Critics Association, New York Film Critics Circle, National Board of Review, Golden Globes, César Award, Independent Spirit Award, and ultimately the Academy Award in the "Best Foreign Language Film of the Year," making him the first Iranian filmmaker ever to win an Oscar. His Oscar acceptance speech at the 84th Academy Awards, a message of peace in tens political times in his country, made him an instant hero among st Iranians. His film also received nomination for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award in the "Best. Film Not in the English Language" category and for an Academy Award in the "Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen" category. A few days after receiving an Oscar, Farhadi signed with the United Talent Agency (UTA). While A Separation (2011) was being screened in different festivals and countries, Asghar Farhadi and his family moved to Paris so he could start work on the screenplay of The Past (2013), a story that takes place outside of Iran. The main character, Ahmad, returns to Paris after a four-year absence to finalize the legal aspects of his divorce from Marie. Ahmad's presence in Marie's life after all this time creates a complicated situation for them, and forces them to dig into their common past. The Past (2013) was released in 2013 in France during the Cannes Film Festival and again it had around one million admissions. It won the Best Actress Award at Cannes Festival and was nominated for the Golden Globes and the César. Farhadi returned to Iran in 2015 to shoot The Salesman (2016). The film was completed in 2016 and selected in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, where Farhadi won Best Screenplay while Shahab Hosseini, the lead actor, took home Best Actor. The Salesman (2016) was released in France that fall as well as in Iran where it became Farhadi's biggest success. In February 2017, he won his second Oscar for Best Film in a Foreign Language, making him one of the few directors worldwide who have won the category twice. A few months after, Farhadi kicked off his following project for which he reunites on screen Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem. All shot in Spain and in Spanish, Everybody Knows (2018) also stars the Argentinean actor Ricardo Darín. The film is selected as the 71st Cannes Film Festival's opening film while also being in competition. Then at the 74th Cannes Film Festival, for his fourth appearance on the Official Competition, he presented A Hero (2021), which won the Grand Prix.- Marina Mazepa was born in Konotop, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. She is an actress, known for The Continental (2023), Malignant (2021) and Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021).
- This husky, instantly identifiable American character actor was born Italo Valentino Bisoglio on May 7, 1926, in New York City. His parents were emigrants who hailed from an area near Casale Monferrato, a region noted for its viticulture, in Piedmont, Italy. Val studied acting under the renowned drama coach Jeff Corey. He made his first entry onto the New York stage in 1964 and debuted on Broadway two years later as Sergeant Carlino in Frederick Knott's thriller Wait until Dark, opposite Lee Remick and Robert Duvall (his role was played by Jack Weston in the 1967 film version). By the late '60s, Val had become an established actor on TV, often cast as tough, Bronx-accented cops or minor gangland figures. He is perhaps best remembered as the sympathetic restaurateur Danny Tovo, close friend and sometime confidante of Jack Klugman's Quincy M.E. (1976), and as the blissfully insouciant cook Sgt. Sal Pernelli on M*A*S*H (1972). Among infrequent movie appearances were an iconic turn as John Travolta's brash father in Saturday Night Fever (1977) and as the wry Indian chief Gray Cloud in The Frisco Kid (1979). Val retired from screen acting after his final role as the elderly capo Murf Lupo in three episodes of The Sopranos (1999).
Early on in his career, Val was involved in the Kennedy Administration's Mobilization for Youth Program. Launched on the Lower East Side in New York in 1961, it was designed to help fight poverty and juvenile delinquency, as well as aiding disadvantaged youths by the provision of counseling, education and job training. - Actor
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Fresh-faced, blue-eyed all-American looking Roger Perry was discovered by Lucille Ball and signed as a Desilu contract player, beginning his screen career in anthology television. An early chance for stardom came his way as the junior half of a father-and-son lawyer firm (the other half of the duo was played by Pat O'Brien) in Harrigan and Son (1960). A busy and versatile actor who had more talent than he was perhaps given credit for, Perry popped up in diverse genres throughout the 1960s. He notably had a guest role as the involuntarily time-travelling Air Force pilot John Christopher in Tomorrow Is Yesterday (1967). Prior to his acting career in the early 50s, Perry had served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force.
His characters could be sized up on the odd occasion as shifty types, dopers or nervous weaklings, but more often as down-to-earth cops, doctors or middle echelon military types. No stranger to science fiction and horror, his better known roles included a devious alien masquerading as a magazine writer in The Prophet (1967) and a sympathetic physician in Count Yorga, Vampire (1970). The doctor tag stuck and Perry went on to play medicos in a couple of camp cult favorites: The Return of Count Yorga (1971) (in which his character hurls a vampire off a balcony to his doom) and The Thing with Two Heads (1972) (as a collaborator of the demented scientist in residence, played tongue-in-cheek by Ray Milland). He also enjoyed frequent guest spots on crime time TV (notably Ironside (1967) and The F.B.I. (1965)) and soap opera (Falcon Crest (1981)).
Perry sidelined as a composer and songwriter for Los Angeles theatre productions, including a mid-1980s musical version of George Bernard Shaw's 'You Never Can Tell', which featured his future wife, Joyce Bulifant.- Actor
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Mark O'Brien is an award-winning actor and filmmaker. He is an English major with a Bachelor of Arts from Memorial University of Newfoundland. His mother was a nurse and his father a truck driver. Mark also has three older sisters. He married actress Georgina Reilly on January 6, 2013 after meeting on the set of the hit show Republic of Doyle.- Actor
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Richard O'Sullivan was born on 7 May 1944 in Chiswick, London, England, UK. He is an actor and composer, known for Cleopatra (1963), Man About the House (1973) and Robin's Nest (1977). He was previously married to Diana Terry.- Actor
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Ned was born in Dayton, Ohio to Bill and Nelle Bellamy. After spending
his childhood in Joplin, Missouri, the family moved to La Jolla,
California. Mark, his brother, is the U.S. Ambassador to Kenya. Anne,
his sister, is president of African Travel in Los Angeles. After
graduating from UCLA, Ned and classmates, founded the Los Angeles based
theater company, "The Actors Gang". He has appeared in numerous film
and television productions and continues to reside in Los Angeles.- Actress
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Aidy Bryant was born on 7 May 1987 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Saturday Night Live (1975), Shrill (2019) and Human Resources (2022). She has been married to Conner O'Malley since 28 April 2018.- Actress
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Totie Fields was born on 7 May 1927 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. She was an actress, known for That's Life (1968), Medical Center (1969) and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967). She was married to George William Johnston. She died on 2 August 1978 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
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Robert Hegyes was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, to an
Hungarian-American father, Stephen, and an Italian-American mother,
Marie Dominica (Cocozza). He is the eldest of their children. The
others are: Mark Hegyes, MD - Billings, Montana, Ms. Stephanie Hegyes -
Princeton, New Jersey, and Ms. Elizabeth Cocozza - Los Angeles,
California.
Robert began studying acting in earnest at Metuchen High School under
the direction of Dr. Barton Shepard, Ph.D, in the mid-1960s. He was
accepted into the Theater Program at Rown University of New Jersey
(formerly Glassboro State College) and, in the early 1970s, graduated
with a BA in Theater & Secondary Education. Hegyes then ventured into
New York City to practice his trade, immediately taking up with the
"Greenwich Village Children's Repertory Companies", "Theater in a
Trunk", and "The NYC Children's Puppet Ensemble". In short order Robert
hooked up with his third Greenwhich Village troupe, "Jack LaRumpa's
Flying Drum & Kazoo Band", performing improvisational anti-war comedy
in Washington Square and the Provincetown Playhouse.
Within a year of graduating from Rowan, Hegyes was cast to co-star in
the Manhattan Theater Club Emsmble's highly-acclaimed drama, "Naomi
Court", which starred another young actor,
Brad Davis (of
Midnight Express (1978)). After
completing that successful engagement Robert was tapped to co-star for
Tony Award-winning actor/director Len Cariou,
A Little Night Music (1977)
&
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1982),
in the Broadway drama, "Don't Call Back", starring
Arlene Francis at the
Helen Hayes Theater. It was during
the run of that Broadway drama that he was cast by producer
James Komack to star in the award-winning
comedy series,
Welcome Back, Kotter (1975)
and, at the age of twenty-five, became one of the show's directors.
Robert has guest-starred in over thirty episodic series, including
Saturday Night Live (1975)
with host Quentin Tarantino,
Diagnosis Murder (1993) with
Dick Van Dyke and
The Drew Carey Show (1995).
He has starred in the award-nominated "Passat" commercial, "The Chase",
for director Kinka Usher and in the feature
films,
Honeymoon Hotel (2004)
opposite Jane Kaczmarek,
Underground Aces (1981) with
Melanie Griffith,
Bob Roberts (1992) for director
Tim Robbins,
Purpose (2002) starring
Mia Farrow, and
Bar Hopping (2000)
alongside Kevin Nealon.
Hegyes made his Los Angeles stage debut to rave notices as
Chico Marx in
Arthur Marx's play, "An Evening with
Groucho", and was shortly thereafter cast as a series regular starring
in the award-winning drama,
Cagney & Lacey (1981). Robert
has been awarded a lifetime artist-in-residence status at his alma
mater and has taught there and continues to guest lecture regularly. He
is also a California Certified Secondary Education Teacher and teaches
for the Los Angeles Unified School District at Venice High School.
As a long-time resident of Venice, California, Robert and partner
Craig Titley,
(Cheaper by the Dozen (2003))
developed the original Internet series, "The Venice Walk".- Actor
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Simon Phillips is an award winning British actor, probably best known Netflix show FUBAR with Arnold Schwarzenegger and The Witcher Season 3. He has also cited and won awards for his gruesome portrayal of Santa Claus in Christmas Horror features Once Upon A Time At Christmas and The Nights Before Christmas. His Feature film Butchers, garnered high praise from The Guardian Newspaper stating "It's Phillips' performance that keeps the film's pulse going. His Owen is exhilarating unpredictable, alternating between moments of meticulous villainy and sheer lunacy - one moment he will be refitting a spooky music box while eyeing his oblivious prey, next he will be whacking his victim bloodily, channeling a kind of biblical righteousness that makes him slippery, fascinating and, most importantly, terrifying to watch."
He has appeared in feature films with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Mark Hamill, Robert Englund, Rutger Hauer, Richard E. Grant, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, John Malkovich and Mel Gibson.- Actress
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Marilyn Burns was born Mary Lynn Ann Burns on May 7, 1949 in Erie, Pennsylvania, and raised in Houston, Texas. She attended the University of Texas at Austin where she graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Drama. Marilyn was one of the original scream queens, remembered primarily for her role in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). She played Sally Hardesty, a teenager who travels with her brother and some friends to the cemetery where her grandfather was buried to investigate reports of grave vandalism, and then encounters an insane, murderous family, including the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface.
Her follow-up appearance was in Eaten Alive (1976), where she played a vacationer who unwittingly stumbles upon a hotel managed by a maniac who feeds his guests to his crocodile. Marilyn earned her scream queen status by starring in other horror movies; Kiss Daddy Goodbye (1981) and Future-Kill (1985). She appeared in the television miniseries Helter Skelter (1976) about the real-life trial of Charles Manson and his family. She played Linda Kasabian, a member of the Manson Family whose testimony helped lead to the convictions of the cult leader and many of his followers.
Marilyn had an uncredited cameo as Sally Hardesty in Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994), and made a cameo appearance as Verna Carlson in Texas Chainsaw (2013). However, aside from these roles and occasional appearances at horror conventions, she lived a relatively quiet life out of the spotlight in the Houston area in her later years. Marilyn Burns died at age 65 in her sleep on August 5, 2014 and was found in her Houston, Texas home by family members, the cause was an apparent heart attack, although not specified.- Melissa Tang was born on 7 May 1985 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Beginners (2010), A Good Day to Die Hard (2013) and The Kominsky Method (2018).
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American character actor, the most famous of Western-movie sidekicks of
the 1930s and 1940s. He was born May 7, 1885, the third of seven
children, in the Hayes Hotel (owned by his father) in the tiny hamlet
of Stannards, New York, on the outskirts of Wellsville, New York. Hayes
was the son of hotelier and oil-production manager Clark Hayes, and
grew up in Stannards. As a young man, George Hayes worked in a circus
and played semi-pro baseball while a teenager. He ran away from home at
17, in 1902, and joined a touring stock company. He married Olive
Ireland in 1914 and the pair became quite successful on the vaudeville
circuit. Retired in his 40s, he lost much of his money in the 1929
stock market crash and was forced to return to work. Although he had
made his film debut in a single appearance prior to the crash, it was
not until his wife convinced him to move to California and he met
producer Trem Carr that he began working
steadily in the medium. He played scores of roles in Westerns and
non-Westerns alike, finally in the mid-1930s settling in to an almost
exclusively Western career. He gained fame as Hopalong Cassidy's
sidekick Windy Halliday in many films between 1936-39. Leaving the
Cassidy films in a salary dispute, he was legally precluded from using
the "Windy" nickname, and so took on the sobriquet "Gabby", and was so
billed from about 1940. One of the few sidekicks to land on the annual
list of Top Ten Western Boxoffice Stars, he did so repeatedly. In his
early films, he alternated between whiskered comic-relief sidekicks and
clean-shaven bad guys, but by the later 1930s, he worked almost
exclusively as a Western sidekick to stars such as
John Wayne,
Roy Rogers, and
Randolph Scott. After his last
film, in 1950, he starred as the host of a network television show
devoted to stories of the Old West for children,
The Gabby Hayes Show (1950).
Offstage an elegant and well-appointed connoisseur and man-about-town,
Hayes devoted the final years of his life to his investments. He died
of cardiovascular disease in Burbank, California, on February 9, 1969.- Johannes Lassen graduated from The Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, 2007 in Odense where after he immediately landed very good roles on various theatre stages in Denmark.
He portrayed Wilhelm Dinesen in Ole Bornedal's highly anticipated drama-series "1864" on DR1 in autumn 2014 and a film version was released in Danish cinemas early 2015. His other film credits include Nicolo Donato's critically acclaimed "Brotherhood" from 2010 and the award winning youth drama "Rebounce" by Heidi Maria Faist from 2011.
He portrayed the lead in the Danish TV-drama - "Below the Surface", shown all around the world and this performance got him The Golden Nymph Award 2018 as the best male lead in a TV-series. Johannes was nominated for his role in the 2rd season for C21 International Performance Award.
Johannes did a role alongside his friend Pilou Asbæk and Josh Lucas in the feature film "The Guardian Angel" (2018) by the award winning Finnish Director Arto Halonen. In 2017 he landed a great role in the Swedish Viaplay TV-drama - "The Lawyer", a role he carried over with him to the second season of this show, which will air in early 2020. Johannes can be seen in the Danish TV show "ALFA" which aired mid 2020 on TV2.
Johannes Lassen's stage work includes roles in both classical and contemporary plays, such as "Jesus & Josefine" (2007) and "Treasure Island" (2008) at Odense Theatre, "Kærlighed og menneskerester" at Theatre Momentum (2007) and "Otto er et Næsehorn" (2008), "Odysseus" (2009) at Folketeatret in Copenhagen and furthermore in "BCNU" (Be seeing You) at Theatre Grob (2011).
In 2020 his stage work will provide us with his take on Frank Farmer in the internationally acclaimed musical "The Bodyguard". - Actress
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Lynsey Baxter was born on 7 May 1959 in West Ham, London, England, UK. She is an actress and director, known for The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1978) and Real Life (1984).- Art Department
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Jennifer Yuh Nelson was born on 7 May 1972 in South Korea. She is a director, known for Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011), Love, Death & Robots (2019) and Kung Fu Panda (2008).- Actress
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Minor league singer/actress Gale Robbins was a knockout-looking
hazel-eyed redhead who made a modest dent in post-war Hollywood films. Born
Betty Gale Robbins in Chicago, Illinois (some say Mitchell, Indiana) on
May 7, 1921, she was the eldest of five daughters of Arthur E., a doctor, and Blanche Robbins, and
educated at Chicago's Jennings Seminary at Aurora, Illinois and Flower
Tech. Gale had a natural flair for music and appeared in glee clubs and
church choirs in the early days. She graduated from her Chicago high
school in 1939.
She started out in entertainment as a model for the Vera Jones Modeling
School in Chicago, but her singing talents soon took over. Signed by a
talent agency, she sang with Phil Levant's outfit in 1940 and later
teamed with some male singers for a swing band that called themselves
"The Duchess and Her Dukes." She went on to work with some of the top
radio and live 'big bands' of that era including the
Jan Garber and
Hal Kemp orchestras, her best showcase was working for Art Jarrett in 1941 when he took over Kemp's band.
20th Century-Fox caught sight of this slim looker while she was singing for 'Ben Bernie (I)'s outfit and was quickly signed
her up, her first film being the pleasant time-filler
In the Meantime, Darling (1944).
A semi-popular cheesecake pin-up, Gale appeared on the cover of "Yank,
The Army Weekly" in 1944, was heard on radio, and toured with Bob Hope in Europe the next
year. Her post-war parts, mostly sultry second leads, were typically
lightweight in nature. She was often lent out to other studios and not
always in a singing mode. Gale's better known film work includes
Race Street (1948),
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949),
Three Little Words (1950),
The Fuller Brush Girl (1950)
and Calamity Jane (1953).
Gale went on to host the
Hollywood House (1949) and
also appeared on
The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950)
in 1951. In the late 50s the gal with the smooth and sexy vocal style
released an easy-listening album ("I'm a Dreamer") for the Vik Label
backed by Eddie Cano & His Orchestra. She
covered such standards as "Them There Eyes" and "What Is This Thing
Called Love." After her final film appearance in
Quantrill's Raiders (1958)
and a few additional TV parts on such programs as "Bourbon Street Beat," "77 Sunset Strip," "The Untouchables," "Perry Mason" and "Mister Ed," Gale phased out her career to focus
full-time on raising her family.
Married to her high school sweetheart Robert Olson in November of 1943
while he was serving in the Air Force, her husband turned to
construction engineering as a career and they had two children. After
her 47-year-old husband was tragically killed on February 4, 1967, in a building accident, a distraught Gale, left the States for a time with her
two daughters, and decided to make a transatlantic comeback of sorts appearing in nightclubs in Japan and the Orient. She later was glimpsed in the film
Stand Up and Be Counted (1972)
and appeared on stage in
Stephen Sondheim's musical "Company" in
1975. She also made ends meet as an interior decorator. Gale died of lung cancer in February of 1980, and interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery.- Jon Lormer was born on 7 May 1906 in Canton, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Creepshow (1982), The Twilight Zone (1959) and Getting Straight (1970). He died on 19 March 1986 in Burbank, California, USA.
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Dariusz Wolski is a Polish film and music video cinematographer. He is best known for Crimson Tide (1995), Dark City (1998), the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), The Martian (2015) and All the Money in the World (2017).
Many of his collaborations include working with film directors like Ridley Scott, Rob Marshall, Tony Scott, Gore Verbinski and Tim Burton.
Wolski has also worked on several music videos with artists such as Elton John, Eminem, David Bowie, Sting, Aerosmith, and Neil Young.- Director
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Influential Japanese film director born May 7th, 1911, often credited
as being the father of Godzilla. His name is a combination of "I" (or
Ino), meaning "boar", and "shirô," meaning fourth son in the family.
Originally, the young Honda had aspirations of becoming an artist;
however, as he entered into his teens, it was cinema that became his
number 1 interest.
He attended Nippon University studying art, but was drafted by the
Japanese military and spent nearly eight years in uniform. After a
period of imprisonment in China as a P.O.W., he returned to Japan to join
Toho Studios, where, soon afterward, he became acquainted with its special
effects director, Eiji Tsuburaya. The two worked on a handful of films before
collaborating on the ground-breaking epic monster film Godzilla (1954). Honda was also at the director's helm for such films as Rodan (1956), The Mysterians (1957) and its loose sequel Battle in Outer Space (1959), Mothra (1961), Matango (1963), and Destroy All Monsters (1968). Although the Japanese monster films had been derided by some U.S. critics, Honda was
especially proud of his contribution to this rather unique aspect of the fantasy and science fiction genres.
Honda was a life-long friend of fellow Japanese director Akira Kurosawa and worked on several
of his landmark films, including Stray Dog (1949), Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior (1980) (a.k.a. "Kagemusha the Shadow
Warrior"), and Ran (1985).
Honda died at the age of 81 on February 28th, 1993, with Kurosawa
delivering the eulogy at his funeral.- Actress
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Rada Rassimov was born on 7 May 1938 in Trieste, Italy. She is an actress and producer, known for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), Tosca: In the Settings and at the Times of Tosca (1992) and Michel Strogoff (1975).- Director
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Ruggero Deodato was born on May 7, 1939, in Potenza, Italy, and grew up
outside Rome. One of his close friends at the time was
Renzo Rossellini, the son of
famed Italian director
Roberto Rossellini. Knowing
Ruggerio's love for the movies, Renzo persuaded him to work as a second
unit director on some of his father's productions. From 1958-67 Deodato
worked as a second unit director for several cult film directors such
as Anthony M. Dawson
(Antonio Margheriti),
Riccardo Freda and
Joseph Losey. Deodato's directorial debut
was the action-fantasy
Hercules, Prisoner of Evil (1964),
replacing Margheriti who quit the production. Deodato's claim to fame
was the spaghetti western Django (1966).
His career took off in 1968 when he directed a number of films based on
comic-book characters and musicals. It was while shooting one of these
films that Deodato met, and later married,
Silvia Dionisio.
From 1971-75 Deodato worked in television, directing the series
All'ultimo minuto (1971) as
well as TV commercials, including ones for Esso Oil, Band-Aid and
Fanta. Deodato returned to filmmaking with an erotic melodrama and a
police thriller. At the same time his marriage fell apart. In 1977
Deodato directed the notorious
Last Cannibal World (1977)
and later
Cannibal Holocaust (1980).
Deodato traveled to New York City and directed the disturbing thriller
House on the Edge of the Park (1980),
a semi-follow-up to Wes Craven's
The Last House on the Left (1972).
Deodato made
House on the Edge of the Park (1980)
in just 19 days on a tiny budget. He then returned to directing action
and horror flicks.
Deodato lives in Rome with his current partner, Micaela Rocco, and
still works in movies and occasional TV series. He is rumored to be
planning a sequel to "Cannibal Holocaust".- Tommy Fury was born on 7 May 1999 in Manchester, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The Debt Inherited, BT Sport No Filter Boxing (2017) and Children in Need (2023).
- Julia Antonelli was born on 7 May 2003 in Virginia, USA. She is an actress, known for Beau Is Afraid (2023), Every Witch Way (2014) and Outer Banks (2020).
- Robin Vee Strasser was born on May 7, 1945 in New York City. the daughter of Martin and Anne Strasser. She attended and graduated from the High School of Performing Arts, and later attended the Yale School of Drama on a full scholarship. She is a founding member of the American Conservatory Theatre, and began her extensive daytime career in 1967. She is best known for her role as Dorian Lord on the soap opera One Life to Live (1968), and as 300-year-old witch Hecuba on the soap opera Passions (1999). She announced in late 1999 that she will leave her Emmy-winning role of Dorian Lord in January 2000, in order to devote her energies to promoting women's health issues, namely menopause awareness.