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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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Clockwise, from top: Midtown Manhattan, Times Square, the Unisphere in Queens, the Brooklyn Bridge, Lower Manhattan with One World Trade Center, Central Park, the headquarters of the United Nations, and the Statue of Liberty
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New Amsterdam, centered in the eventual Lower Manhattan, in 1664, the year England took control and renamed it "New York".
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The Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the American Revolution, took place in Brooklyn in 1776.
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Broadway follows the Native American Wickquasgeck Trail through Manhattan.
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New York (state)
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New York is a state in the northeastern United States, and is the 27th-most extensive, fourth-most populous, and seventh-most densely populated U. S. state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east. With an estimated population of 8.55 million in 2015, New York City is the most populous city in the United States, the New York Metropolitan Area is one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. New York City makes up over 40% of the population of New York State, two-thirds of the states population lives in the New York City Metropolitan Area, and nearly 40% lives on Long Island. Both the state and New York City were named for the 17th-century Duke of York, the next four most populous cities in the state are Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, and Syracuse, while the state capital is Albany. New York has a diverse geography and these more mountainous regions are bisected by two major river valleys—the north-south Hudson River Valley and the east-west Mohawk River Valley, which forms the core of the Erie Canal. Western New York is considered part of the Great Lakes Region and straddles Lake Ontario, between the two lakes lies Niagara Falls. The central part of the state is dominated by the Finger Lakes, New York had been inhabited by tribes of Algonquian and Iroquoian-speaking Native Americans for several hundred years by the time the earliest Europeans came to New York. The first Europeans to arrive were French colonists and Jesuit missionaries who arrived southward from settlements at Montreal for trade, the British annexed the colony from the Dutch in 1664. The borders of the British colony, the Province of New York, were similar to those of the present-day state, New York is home to the Statue of Liberty, a symbol of the United States and its ideals of freedom, democracy, and opportunity. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. On April 17,1524 Verrazanno entered New York Bay, by way of the now called the Narrows into the northern bay which he named Santa Margherita. Verrazzano described it as a vast coastline with a delta in which every kind of ship could pass and he adds. This vast sheet of water swarmed with native boats and he landed on the tip of Manhattan and possibly on the furthest point of Long Island. Verrazannos stay was interrupted by a storm which pushed him north towards Marthas Vineyard, in 1540 French traders from New France built a chateau on Castle Island, within present-day Albany, due to flooding, it was abandoned the next year. In 1614, the Dutch under the command of Hendrick Corstiaensen, rebuilt the French chateau, Fort Nassau was the first Dutch settlement in North America, and was located along the Hudson River, also within present-day Albany. The small fort served as a trading post and warehouse, located on the Hudson River flood plain, the rudimentary fort was washed away by flooding in 1617, and abandoned for good after Fort Orange was built nearby in 1623. Henry Hudsons 1609 voyage marked the beginning of European involvement with the area, sailing for the Dutch East India Company and looking for a passage to Asia, he entered the Upper New York Bay on September 11 of that year
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British general John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga in 1777.
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The Erie Canal at Lockport, New York in 1839
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California
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California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western coast of the U. S, California is bordered by the other U. S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. Los Angeles is Californias most populous city, and the second largest after New York City. The Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nations second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, California also has the nations most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The Central Valley, an agricultural area, dominates the states center. What is now California was first settled by various Native American tribes before being explored by a number of European expeditions during the 16th and 17th centuries, the Spanish Empire then claimed it as part of Alta California in their New Spain colony. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its war for independence. The western portion of Alta California then was organized as the State of California, the California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led to dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale emigration from the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom. If it were a country, California would be the 6th largest economy in the world, fifty-eight percent of the states economy is centered on finance, government, real estate services, technology, and professional, scientific and technical business services. Although it accounts for only 1.5 percent of the states economy, the story of Calafia is recorded in a 1510 work The Adventures of Esplandián, written as a sequel to Amadis de Gaula by Spanish adventure writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. The kingdom of Queen Calafia, according to Montalvo, was said to be a land inhabited by griffins and other strange beasts. This conventional wisdom that California was an island, with maps drawn to reflect this belief, shortened forms of the states name include CA, Cal. Calif. and US-CA. Settled by successive waves of arrivals during the last 10,000 years, various estimates of the native population range from 100,000 to 300,000. The Indigenous peoples of California included more than 70 distinct groups of Native Americans, ranging from large, settled populations living on the coast to groups in the interior. California groups also were diverse in their organization with bands, tribes, villages. Trade, intermarriage and military alliances fostered many social and economic relationships among the diverse groups, the first European effort to explore the coast as far north as the Russian River was a Spanish sailing expedition, led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, in 1542. Some 37 years later English explorer Francis Drake also explored and claimed a portion of the California coast in 1579. Spanish traders made unintended visits with the Manila galleons on their trips from the Philippines beginning in 1565
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Anyone who meets the eligibility requirements may apply for aid, which could vary from medical assistance, paying rent, or finding employment. Heros benefits are not meant to be a permanent crutch for needy creators, any granted aid is kept confidential. The Hero Initiative has two boards of directors, the Executive Board and the Fund Disbursement Board, former board members include founders Pat McCallum, editor-in-chief of Wizard Magazine, and Mike Richardson, publisher and founder of Dark Horse Comics. They are George Pérez, Roy Thomas, Charlie Novinskie, Dennis ONeil, John Romita Sr. the charity is currently supported by Dark Horse Comics, Dynamic Forces, Image Comics, Marvel Entertainment, Top Cow Productions, and Wizard Entertainment. The Hero Initiative utilizes many methods of fundraising, foremost is their annual art auction, auctioning donated original comics art-work at fan conventions. Year-long, they sell donated art and special edition comics at conventions, artists, writers, and publishers are invited to donate work, and fans are invited to donate money directly to the fund. ACTOR also sells a green Excelsior, wrist-band similar in design to the Livestrong wristband. The Hero Initiative was formerly known as A Commitment to Our Roots, or ACTOR, while the original name of the organization reflected the charitys goal, the acronym that resulted, ACTOR, more often confused people unfamiliar with the organization. 2006, George Pérez, John Romita, Sr.2007, Joe Kubert 2008, Nick Cardy 2009, Neal Adams 2010, Walt Simonson 2011, Stan Lee 2012, John Romita, Jr. The award recognizes one person in each year who demonstrates particular generosity and integrity in support of the overall comic book community. It debuted at the 2010 Harvey Awards ceremony held at the Baltimore Comic-Con
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Native Americans meeting with Europeans, 1764
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The signing of the Mayflower Compact, 1620.
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The Declaration of Independence: the Committee of Five presenting their draft to the Second Continental Congress in 1776
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Love Story (1970 film)
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Love Story is a 1970 American romantic drama film written by Erich Segal, who was also the author of the best-selling novel of the same name. It was directed by Arthur Hiller and starred Ali MacGraw and Ryan ONeal, alongside John Marley, Ray Milland, and Tommy Lee Jones in his film debut in a minor role. A tragedy, the film is considered one of the most romantic by the American Film Institute and is #37 in the list of highest-grossing films in Canada and it was followed by a sequel, Olivers Story, starring ONeal with Candice Bergen. Oliver Barrett IV comes from an American upper-class East Coast family and is heir to the Barrett fortune and he attends Harvard University, where he is very active in ice hockey. At the library, Oliver meets Jennifer Jenny Cavalleri, a quick-witted and she mocks him, calling him preppy and jock. Oliver finds charm and truth in her comments and they quickly fall in love, despite their differences. Jenny reveals her plans for the future, which include studying in Paris, Oliver is upset that he does not figure in those plans. He wants to marry Jenny and proposes, after she accepts, she is driven to the Barrett mansion to meet the old guard parents. Oliver reassures her that their class differences wont matter, however, his parents are clearly not impressed and are judgmental. Later, at the Harvard club Olivers father tells him that he cut him off financially if he marries Jenny. Oliver storms out of the dining hall, upon graduation from college, the two students decide to marry against the wishes of Olivers father, who severs ties with his son. The wedding is modern and contains no religious denomination, Jennys widowed father attends, although he also has concerns about their social differences. Without his fathers support, the couple struggle to pay Olivers way through Harvard Law School. Jenny gets work as a private-school teacher and they rent the top floor of a triple decker near the Law School. Oliver graduates third in his class, winning $500, and takes a position at a respectable New York law firm and they eventually move into a doorman building, which contrasts greatly with their Cambridge digs. The 24-year-olds are ready to start a family, but when they fail to conceive they consult a medical specialist, after many tests, Oliver is informed that Jenny is terminally ill. Her exact condition is never stated explicitly, but she appears to have leukemia, as instructed by his doctor, Oliver attempts to live a normal life without telling Jenny of her condition, but she finds out after confronting her doctor about her recent illness. Oliver buys tickets to Paris but she declines, wanting only time with him, soon after she begins costly cancer therapy, Oliver is desperate enough over the mounting expenses to seek financial relief from his father
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The Godfather
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The Godfather is a 1972 American crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Albert S. Ruddy, based on Mario Puzos best-selling novel of the same name. It stars Marlon Brando and Al Pacino as the leaders of a fictional New York crime family, the story, spanning 1945 to 1955, chronicles the family under the patriarch Vito Corleone, focusing on the transformation of Michael Corleone from reluctant family outsider to ruthless mafia boss. Paramount Pictures obtained the rights to the novel for the price of $80,000, Studio executives had trouble finding a director, as their first few candidates turned down the position. They and Coppola disagreed over who would play characters, in particular Vito. Filming was done on location and completed earlier than scheduled, the musical score was composed primarily by Nino Rota with additional pieces by Carmine Coppola. The film was the film of 1972 and was for a time the highest-grossing film ever made. It won the Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay and its seven other Oscar nominations included Pacino, James Caan, and Robert Duvall for Best Supporting Actor and Coppola for Best Director. It was followed by sequels The Godfather Part II and The Godfather Part III, the Godfather is widely regarded as one of the greatest films in world cinema and one of the most influential, especially in the gangster genre. It was selected for preservation in the U. S, in 1945, at his daughter Connies wedding, Vito Corleone hears requests in his role as the Godfather, the Don of a New York crime family. Vitos youngest son, Michael, who was a Marine during World War II, introduces his girlfriend, Kay Adams, Woltz refuses until he wakes up in bed with the severed head of his prized stallion. Wary of involvement in a new trade that risks alienating political insiders. Suspicious, Vito sends his enforcer, Luca Brasi, to spy on them, however, a Tattaglia button man garrotes Brasi during Brasis first meeting with Bruno Tattaglia and Sollozzo. Later Sollozzo has Vito gunned down in the street, then kidnaps Hagen, with Corleone first-born Sonny in command, Hagen is pressured to persuade Sonny to accept Sollozzos deal, then released. The family receives fish wrapped in Brasis bullet-proof vest, indicating that Luca sleeps with the fishes, Vito survives, and at the hospital Michael thwarts another attempt on his father, Michaels jaw is broken by NYPD Captain Marc McCluskey, Sollozzos bodyguard. Sonny retaliates with a hit on Tattaglias son, Michael plots to murder Sollozzo and McCluskey, on the pretext of settling the dispute, Michael agrees to meet them in a Bronx restaurant. There, retrieving a planted handgun, he kills both men, despite a clampdown by the authorities, the Five Families erupt in open warfare and Vitos sons fear for their safety. Michael takes refuge in Sicily, and his brother, Fredo, is sheltered by the Corleones Las Vegas casino partner, Sonny attacks his brother-in-law Carlo on the street for abusing his sister and threatens to kill him if it happens again. When it does, Sonny speeds to their home, but is ambushed at a toll booth
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Al Pacino (left) as Michael Corleone, Vito Corleone portrayed by Marlon Brando.
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Paramount executive Peter Bart wanted Francis Ford Coppola (pictured) to direct the film because he would accept a low salary and work with a low budget.
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Al Pacino (pictured in 1971 during Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel) was chosen to play Michael Corleone.
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The Glitter Dome (film)
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The Glitter Dome is a 1984 made-for-HBO film starring James Garner, Margot Kidder and John Lithgow. The film, based on the 1981 Joseph Wambaugh Hollywood-set homicide novel, was directed by Stuart Margolin, the movie was filmed in Victoria, British Columbia and co-starred Colleen Dewhurst. It was subsequently released on video in 1985, the film was also the last film for John Marley. The Glitter Dome is a bar frequented by the Hollywood police detective division, when the investigation of a high-profile studio president is going nowhere, the case is handed over to two experienced detectives, Al Mackey and Marty Welborn. The Glitter Dome at the Internet Movie Database
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Character actor
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A character actor or character actress is a supporting actor who plays unusual, interesting, or eccentric characters. The term, often contrasted with that of leading actor, is somewhat abstract, in a literal sense, all actors can be considered character actors since they all play characters, but in the usual sense it is an actor who plays a distinctive and important supporting role. In either case, character actor roles are more substantial than bit parts or non-speaking extras, the term is used primarily to describe television and film actors, and is less used to describe theater actors. An early use of the term was in the 1883 edition of The Stage, Actors with a long career history of playing character roles may be difficult for audiences to recognize as being the same actor, if they play such roles convincingly and memorably. Unlike leading actors, they are seen as less glamorous. Generally, the names of actors are not featured prominently in movie and television advertising on the marquee. Some character actors have distinctive voices or accents, or they develop memorable mannerisms, a character actor with a long career may not have a well-known name, yet may be instantly recognizable. During the course of a career, an actor can sometimes shift between leading roles and secondary roles. Some leading actors, as they get older, find that access to leading roles is limited by their increasing age, in the past, actors of color, who were often barred from roles for which they were otherwise suited, found work performing ethnic stereotypes. Sometimes character actors have developed based on specific talents needed in genre films, such as dancing, horsemanship, acrobatics, swimming ability. Some character actors develop a following with a particular audience. Ed Lauter usually portrayed a menacing figure because of his long, angular face which was recognized in public. Character actors can play a variety of types, such as the femme fatale, gunslinger, sidekick, town drunk, villain, whore with a heart of gold, Character actors subsume themselves into the characters they portray, such that their off-screen acting persona is practically unrecognizable. According to one view, great actors are rarely out of work. They are also highly regarded by fellow actors. Stock character Commedia dellarte Quinlan, David, quinlans Illustrated Directory of Film Character Actors. Character Kings, Hollywoods Familiar Faces Discuss the Art & Business of Acting
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Actor Claude Rains (right) was sometimes a leading actor, sometimes a character actor, often cast as a sophisticated, sometimes "ambiguously moral" man.
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Character actor Margaret Hamilton (left) in real life was a "sweet, gentle woman" who even taught kindergarten prior to working on Broadway and Hollywood, which was radically different from her scary on-screen persona of the Wicked Witch in the famous 1939 film.
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Peter Gunn
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Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series which aired on the NBC and ABC television networks from 1958 to 1961. The series was created by Blake Edwards, episodes were also directed by Boris Sagal, Robert Gist, Jack Arnold, Lamont Johnson, Robert Altman and several others. A total of 114 thirty-minute episodes were produced by Spartan Productions, Season one was filmed at Universal Studios, while seasons two and three were filmed at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Philip H. Lathrop and William W. Spencer were cinematographers on many episodes, Craig Stevens wardrobe was tailored by Don Richards and Lola Albrights fashions by Jax. The series was No.17 in the Nielsen ratings for the 1958–1959 TV season, the title character, played by Craig Stevens, is a well-dressed private investigator whose hair is always in place and who loves cool jazz. Where other gumshoes might be coarse, Peter Gunn is a sophisticate with expensive tastes and he operates in a nameless, fictional riverfront city and can usually be found at Mothers, a smoky wharfside jazz club that he uses as his office, often meeting clients there. He has a reputation of being one of the best investigators and he sometimes works cases out of the state and on at least one occasion out of country, with one case occurring in Mexico and another involving a tour of Western Europe. Gunn drives a 1958 two-tone DeSoto two door hardtop in the first few episodes of the first season, then a 1959 Plymouth Fury convertible with a white top, in the third season Gunn drives a 1961 white Plymouth Fury convertible with a car phone. Gunns girlfriend, Edie Hart, is a sultry singer employed at Mothers and his pet name for Edie is Silly. Herschel Bernardi costarred as Lieutenant Charles Chuck Jacoby, a police detective. Occasionally he refers people to Gunn as clients, Bernardi received his only Emmy nomination for the role. Hope Emerson appeared as Mother, who had been a singer and she received an Emmy nomination for the role. For the second season, Mother was played by Minerva Urecal, associate producer Byron Kane portrayed Barney, the bartender, Kane was never credited for playing this role. Bill Chadney appeared as Emmett, the player at Mothers. Both Billy Barty as pool hustler Babby and Herbert Ellis as Beat bistro owner, painter, Capri Candela played Wilburs girlfriend Capri. Frequent director Robert Gist appeared as an actor in different roles in three episodes, Edie opened her own night club Edies with James Lanphier as Leslie the maitre d in Season 3. Peter Gunn ran for three seasons starting in late 1958, a total of 114 episodes were produced during the three season run. Peter Gunn premiered on September 22,1958 with the episode The Kill, the first season ran from September 1958 through June 1959 and contained 38 episodes
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Bourbon Street Beat
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The series was one of several Warner Bros. detective shows which aired on ABC during this era, but Bourbon Street Beat was not as successful as the others. Andrew Duggans character, Cal Calhoun, immediately disappeared from the screen upon the shows cancellation, richard Long went on to play the lead in the western series The Big Valley and the sitcom Nanny and the Professor. Van Williams eventually played The Green Hornet opposite Bruce Lee, jay OHanlon (seven episodesNita Talbot. com Bourbon Street Beat at TV. com
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Main Cast: Andrew Duggan, Arlene Howell, Van Williams and Richard Long in Bourbon Street Beat
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The Untouchables (1959 TV series)
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The Untouchables is an American crime drama that ran from 1959 to 1963 on the ABC Television Network, produced by Desilu Productions. The book was made into a film in 1987 by Brian De Palma, with a script by David Mamet. A powerful, dynamic, hard-hitting action drama, and a crime series. This squad was nicknamed The Untouchables, because of their courage and honesty, Eliot Ness himself had died suddenly in May 1957, shortly before his memoir and the subsequent TV adaptation were to bring him fame beyond any he experienced in his lifetime. The pilot for the series was an episode entitled The Untouchables originally aired on Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse on April 20 and 27,1959. CBS, which had broadcast most of Desilus television output since 1951 beginning with I Love Lucy, was offered the new series following the success of the pilot film, chairman William S. Paley rejected it on the advice of network vice president Hubbell Robinson. ABC agreed to air the series, and The Untouchables premiered on October 15,1959, in the pilot movie, the mobsters generally spoke with unrealistic pseudo-Italian accents, but this idiosyncratic pronunciation was dropped when the series debuted. The weekly series first followed the premise of a struggle to establish a new boss in Capones absence. The show drew criticism from some Italian-Americans, including Frank Sinatra. The Capone family unsuccessfully sued CBS, Desilu Productions, and Westinghouse Electric Corporation for their depiction of the Capone family. In the first episode of the first season, the character of Agent Rossi and they expressed displeasure with the program, which to them vilified Italian-Americans, stereotyping them as the singular criminal element. The boycott and the attendant firestorm of publicity had the effect Anastasio, there will be more stress on the law-enforcement role of Rico Rossi, Nesss right-hand man on the show. The second episode of the series, for example, depicted Ness and his crew involved in the capture of the Ma Barker gang, the producers agreed to insert a spoken disclaimer on future broadcasts of the episode stating that the FBI had primary responsibility for the Barker case. The series had 118 episodes which ran 50 minutes each, the television episodes were broadcast in no chronological timeline, but were set mostly in the early 1930s. The gripping theme music was by Nelson Riddle, quinn Martin produced the shows first season, which contained elements that could be found in future TV series produced by Martin. ** The character of Untouchable William Youngfellow, portrayed by Abel Fernandez, has been referred to by Saturday Night Live actor Dan Aykroyd as Youngblood. The Untouchables was notable for the number of past and future motion picture and television stars, and cult actors. Johnsons wife and manager rejected the deal, and demanded double the salary offer, Arnaz refused and signed Stack, instead
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Photo of the cast for The Untouchables as seen on Desilu Playhouse: Only Robert Stack (third from left) and Abel Fernandez (second from right) were used in the actual television series. Keenan Wynn is seen here at the right of Robert Stack, Peter Leeds is to the right of Wynn, and TV's Kit Carson, Bill Williams, is on the far right. Actor Paul Dubov,who played Jack Rossman (replaced in the series by Steve London), is missing from this photo.
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The cast from left: Abel Fernandez, Nicholas Georgiade, Paul Picerni, (seated) Robert Stack (not shown: Steve London)
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77 Sunset Strip
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77 Sunset Strip is an American television private detective series created by Roy Huggins and starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. Roger Smith, and Edd Byrnes. Each episode was one hour long, the show was the subject of an ownership battle between Roy Huggins and Warner Bros. which was the proximate cause of Huggins departure from the studio. The show ran from 1958 to 1964, Roger Smith played Jeff Spencer, also a former government agent, and a nonpracticing attorney. The duo worked out of an office at 77 Sunset Boulevard, between La Cienega Boulevard and Alta Loma Road on the south side of the strip next door to Dean Martins real-life lounge. Suzanne, the beautiful French switchboard operator played by Jacqueline Beer, Byrnes had originally been cast as a contract killer in the series pilot, but proved so popular that he was brought back in a new role for the series. Despite Huggins hopes for a drama, the tone of the series was much lighter. Many of the episodes were named capers, the catchy theme song, written by the accomplished team of Mack David and Jerry Livingston, typified the shows breezy, jazzed atmosphere. The song became the centerpiece of an album of the music in Warren Barker-led orchestrations, which was released in 1959. The Kookie character became a phenomenon, with his slang expressions such as ginchy. Kookie was also used to provide product placement for Harley-Davidson, appearing on their Topper motor scooter in the show and in Harley-Davidson advertisements. When Byrnes demands for money and an expanded role were not met, he left the show. In 1961, Robert Logan became the new parking lot attendant, J. R. Hale, in 1960, Richard Long moved from the recently canceled detective series Bourbon Street Beat with his role of Rex Randolph, but he left the program in 1962. One of the more unusual episodes was the 1960 The Silent Caper, written by Smith, it presented its story completely without dialogue. Another off-beat entry was 1961s Reserved For Mr. Bailey, which finds Zimbalist alone in a ghost town and he is the only actor on-screen for the entire hour. The shows popularity was such that rising young actors clamored for guest spots, the show occasionally featured sports stars such as Sandy Koufax in guest roles. In 1963, as the popularity waned, the entire cast except for Zimbalist was let go. Jack Webb was brought in as producer and William Conrad as director. The character of Stuart Bailey became a private investigator
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Louis Quinn and Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., 1962.
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Roger Smith with guest stars Biff Elliot and Maureen Leeds, 1961.
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"Kookie" and Sue Randall, 1964.
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Andra Martin as a guest star on 77 Sunset Strip with Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., 1960.
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The Lloyd Bridges Show is an American anthology drama series produced by Aaron Spelling, which aired on CBS from September 11,1962 to May 28,1963, starring and hosted by Lloyd Bridges. In the first fourteen episodes, from September to January, Bridges played the author Adam Shepherd who was transformed into the character of each episode. The program featured Bridgess sons, Jeff and Beau Bridges, in occasional guest-starring roles, the premiere episode is entitled Wheresoever I Enter. A Pair of Boots casts Bridges as a Confederate whose truce with the Union Army is threatened by a southern soldiers desire to reclaim a pair of shoes stolen by a northerner, co-stars in the episode are son Beau Bridges. In the episode My Daddy Can Beat Your Daddy, authored by Robert Towne, co-stars in the segment are son Jeff Bridges, Gary Lockwood, and Mary Murphy. The Lloyd Bridges Show, a Four Star production, aired on Tuesday at 8 p. m. Eastern time, the series aired opposite the first season of ABCs military drama Combat. Starring Rick Jason and Vic Morrow, and the last season of NBCs western series Laramie starring John Smith, Robert Fuller and it followed rebroadcasts of the half-hour version of CBSs Gunsmoke under the title Marshal Dillon, starring James Arness. Other guest stars included, The Lloyd Bridges Show at the Internet Movie Database The Lloyd Bridges Show at TV. com at CVTA with episode list
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Lloyd Bridges and Mary Murphy in episode "My Daddy Can Beat Your Daddy" (1963)
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Dr. Kildare (TV series)
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Dr. Kildare is an NBC medical drama television series which originally ran from September 28,1961 until August 30,1966, for a total of 191 episodes over five seasons. Produced by MGM Television, it was based on fictional doctor characters originally created by author Max Brand in the 1930s and previously used by MGM in a film series. The TV series quickly achieved success and made a star of Richard Chamberlain, Dr. Kildare inspired or influenced many later TV shows dealing with the medical field. In the series first episode, Gillespie tells the earnest Kildare, Our job is to keep people alive, Kildare ignores the advice, which provides the basis for stories over the next four seasons, many with a soap opera touch. By the third season, Dr. Kildare was promoted to resident and episodes began to focus less on him and his medical colleagues, and more on the stories of individual patients and their families. In order to create realistic scripts, the series first writer, E. Jack Neuman, episodes frequently highlighted diseases or medical conditions that had not been widely discussed on television, including drug addiction, sickle cell anemia and epilepsy. Episodes about venereal disease and the birth control pill were written, technical advice was provided by the American Medical Association, whose name appeared in the end credits of each episode. The series was initially formatted as self-contained one-hour episodes, aired once per week, an unsold and unaired pilot was shot in 1960 featuring Joseph Cronin as Dr. Kildare and Lew Ayres as Dr. Gillespie. As a younger man, Ayres had played the role of Kildare for many years in the earlier MGM film, later, a second, successful pilot was made with Richard Chamberlain as Kildare and Raymond Massey as Gillespie. Before the little-known Chamberlain was cast, the Kildare role was offered to William Shatner and James Franciscus, the role catapulted Chamberlain to fame. In 2006, Chamberlain reprised the Kildare role in a parody of Greys Anatomy on the 2006 TV Land Awards, Massey accepted the role of Dr. Gillespie thinking that it would last only one season, leaving him time to accept feature film roles. Instead, the demands of appearing in a multiple-season hit series prevented Massey from appearing in any films for the duration of the series run. Chamberlain had a hit single, Theme from Dr. Kildare, largely as a result of the show, Chamberlain became a teen idol during the 1960s. The shows influence was so great that viewers would sometimes write to Chamberlain asking Dr. Kildare for medical advice, in the later seasons of the series, a decline in ratings led to the series cancellation in 1966. Despite its cancellation, the Dr. Kildare series continued to many later television medical dramas. Warner Bros. has released all five seasons on DVD-R in Region 1 via their Warner Archive Collection and these are Manufacture-on-Demand releases, available via WBShop. com & Amazon. com. The episode was meant to air as an episode of Dr. The series theme was composed by Jerry Goldsmith, a second television series, titled Young Dr. Kildare, premiered in first-run syndication in 1972
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Publicity photo from "Rome Will Never Leave You". Both doctors travel to Rome, where Kildare finds romance with Italian actress Daniela Bianchi.
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The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)
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The Twilight Zone is an American science-fiction, fantasy, psychological-supernatural horror anthology television series created by Rod Serling, which ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964. Each story typically features a moral and a surprise ending, the series is notable for featuring both established stars and younger actors who would become more famous later on. Serling served as producer and head writer, he wrote or co-wrote 92 of the shows 156 episodes. He was also the shows host and narrator, delivering monologues at the beginning, Serlings opening and closing narrations usually summarize the episodes events encapsulating how and why the main character had entered the Twilight Zone. In 2016, it was ranked No.8 on Rolling Stones list of the 100 greatest shows of all time, in 2002, The Twilight Zone was ranked No.26 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. In 2013, the Writers Guild of America ranked it as the third best-written TV series ever, by the late 1950s, Rod Serling was a regular name in television. His successful teleplays included Patterns and Requiem for a Heavyweight, but constant changes and edits made by the networks, in Requiem for a Heavyweight, the line Got a match. But according to comments in his 1957 anthology Patterns, Serling had been trying to delve into more controversial than his works of the early 1950s. Despite bad reviews, activists sent numerous letters and wires protesting the production, the script, however, was rejected and shelved for a year until Bert Granet discovered and produced it as an episode of Desilu Playhouse in 1958. The show was a success and enabled Serling to finally begin production on his anthology series. There is a dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity and it is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of mans fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination and it is an area which we call The Twilight Zone. The Twilight Zone premiered the night of October 2,1959 and its the one series that I will let interfere with other plans, said Terry Turner for the Chicago Daily News. Even as the show proved popular to televisions critics, it struggled to find an audience of television viewers. CBS was banking on a rating of at least 21 or 22, the series future was jeopardized when its third episode, Mr. Denton on Doomsday earned a 16.3 rating. With one exception, the first season featured scripts written only by Rod Serling and these three were responsible for 127 of the 156 episodes in the series. Additionally, with one exception, Serling never appeared on camera during any first-season episode, Serling did appear on screen in Twilight Zone promotional spots plugging the following weeks episode – just not in the episodes themselves
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Serling working on his script with a dictating machine, 1959
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Rod Serling models an airplane with actress Inger Stevens, who appeared in " The Hitch-Hiker " and " The Lateness of the Hour "
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Julie Newmar and Albert Salmi in " Of Late I Think of Cliffordville "
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Gunsmoke
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Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, the central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television. When aired in the UK, the series was initially titled Gun Law. The radio series ran from 1952 to 1961, John Dunning wrote that among radio drama enthusiasts, Gunsmoke is routinely placed among the best shows of any kind and any time. The television series ran for 20 seasons from 1955 to 1975, at the end of its run in 1975, Los Angeles Times columnist Cecil Smith wrote, Gunsmoke was the dramatization of the American epic legend of the west. Our own Iliad and Odyssey, created from elements of the dime novel and the pulp western as romanticized by Buntline, Harte. It was ever the stuff of legend, robinson instructed his West Coast CBS Vice President, Harry Ackerman, who had developed the Philip Marlowe series, to take on the task. Ackerman and his scriptwriters, Mort Fine and David Friedkin, created a script called Mark Dillon Goes to Gouge Eye based on one of their Michael Shayne radio scripts. Two auditions were created in 1949, CBS liked the Culver version better, and Ackerman was told to proceed. A complication arose, though, Culvers contract as the star of Straight Arrow would not allow him to do another Western series, the project was shelved for three years, when producer Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston discovered it while creating an adult Western series of their own. Macdonnell and Meston wanted to create a radio Western for adults, in contrast to the prevailing juvenile fare such as The Lone Ranger, Gunsmoke was set in Dodge City, Kansas, during the thriving cattle days of the 1870s. Dunning notes, The show drew critical acclaim for unprecedented realism, the radio series first aired on CBS on April 26,1952 with the episode Billy the Kid, written by Walter Newman, and ended on June 18,1961. The show stars William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon, Howard McNear as Doc Charles Adams, Georgia Ellis as Kitty Russell, Dillon was played on radio by William Conrad and on TV by James Arness. Conrad was one of the last actors to audition for the role of Marshal Dillon, with a resonantly powerful and distinctive voice, Conrad was already one of radios busiest actors. Though Meston championed him, Macdonnell thought Conrad might be overexposed, during his audition, however, Conrad won over Macdonnell after reading only a few lines. Dillon as portrayed by Conrad was a lonely, isolated man, Macdonnell later claimed, Much of Matt Dillons character grew out of Bill Conrad. Meston relished the upending of cherished Western fiction clichés and felt that few Westerns gave any inkling of how brutal the Old West was in reality. Many episodes were based on mans cruelty to man and woman, inasmuch as the womans life
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James Arness as Matt Dillon in the television version of Gunsmoke (1956)
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William Conrad in 1952, when Matt Dillon was created on radio.
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Ken Curtis as Festus and Arness as Dillon, 1968
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Bonanza
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Bonanza is an NBC television western series that ran from 1959 to 1973. The show continues to air in syndication, the show is set around the 1860s and it centers on the wealthy Cartwright family, who live in the area of Virginia City, Nevada, bordering Lake Tahoe. The series stars Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Pernell Roberts, the show is known for presenting moral dilemmas. The shows theme song itself, called Bonanza, became a hit song in its own right, only instrumental renditions, absent Ray Evans words, were ever used during the series long run. In 2002, Bonanza was ranked No.43 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, the time period for the television series is roughly between 1861 to 1867 during and shortly after the American Civil War. During the summer of 1972, NBC aired reruns of episodes from the 1967–1970 period in time on Tuesday evening under the title Ponderosa. The show chronicles the adventures of the Cartwright family, headed by the thrice-widowed patriarch Ben Cartwright. Via exposition and flashback episodes, each wife was accorded a different ancestry, English, Swedish, the familys cook was the Chinese immigrant Hop Sing. Greene, Roberts, Blocker, and Landon were billed equally, the opening credits would alternate the order among the four stars. The family lived on a 600, 000+ acre ranch called the Ponderosa on the shore of Lake Tahoe in Nevada. The vast size of the Cartwrights land was quietly revised to half a million acres on Lorne Greenes 1964 song, the ranch name refers to the Ponderosa Pine, common in the West. The nearest town to the Ponderosa was Virginia City, where the Cartwrights would go to converse with Sheriff Roy Coffee, or his deputy Clem Foster. You always saw stories about family on comedies or on an anthology, but Bonanza was the first series that was week-to-week about a family, Bonanza was a period drama that attempted to confront contemporary social issues. That was very difficult to do on television, most shows that tried to do it failed because the sponsors didnt like it, and the networks were nervous about getting letters, explains Stephen Battaglio, a senior editor for TV Guide magazine. Episodes ranged from high drama, to comedy, and addressed issues such as the environment, substance abuse, domestic violence, anti-war sentiment. The series sought to illustrate the cruelty of bigotry against, Asians, African-Americans, Native Americans, Jews, Mormons, originally, the Cartwrights tended to be depicted as put-off by outsiders. Lorne Greene objected to this, pointing out that as the areas largest timber and livestock producer, the producers agreed with this observation and changed the Cartwrights to be more amiable. Though not familiar stars in 1959, the cast quickly became favorites of the first television generation, the order of billing at the beginning of the broadcast appeared to be shuffled randomly each week, with no relation whatsoever to the current episode featured that week
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Pernell Roberts as Adam Cartwright (1959)
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Original cast: Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Lorne Greene and Pernell Roberts (1959)
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Lorne Greene as Ben Cartwright
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Ironside (1967 TV series)
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Ironside is an American television crime drama that aired on NBC over 8 seasons from 1967 to 1975. The show starred Raymond Burr as Robert T Ironside, a consultant for the San Francisco police, the character debuted on March 28,1967, in a TV movie entitled Ironside. When the series was broadcast in the United Kingdom, in the 1970s, the show earned Burr six Emmy and two Golden Globe nominations. Ironside was a production of Burrs Harbour Productions Unlimited in association with Universal Television, the show revolved around former San Francisco Police Department Chief of Detectives Robert T. In the pilot episode, a TV movie, Ironside shows his strength of character and gets himself appointed a special department consultant by his good friend and he does this by calling a press conference and then tricking Commissioner Randall into meeting his terms. In the pilot, Ironside eventually solves the mystery of the ambush and he requests Ed Brown and Eve Whitfield be assigned to him. Ironside uses a room in the Old San Francisco Hall Of Justice building. He uses a specially equipped, former fleet-modified 1940 1½ ton Ford police paddy wagon van and this is replaced in the episode entitled Pooles Paradise after the van is destroyed by Sergeant Brown as part of a way to trick a corrupt sheriff. At the end of the episode the paddy wagon is replaced by a fully custom modified 19691 ton Ford Econoline Window Van. He later recruits the angst-filled black ex-con Mark Sanger to be his assistant after Sanger is brought in as a suspect who wanted to kill Ironside. The show became a success as Ironside depended on brains and initiative in handling cases, although Ironside was good-hearted and honest, he maintained a gruff persona. Supporting characters on Ironside included Det, edward Ed Brown and a young socialite-turned-plainclothes officer, Eve Whitfield. Commissioner Randall was played by Gene Lyons, the series enjoyed a seven and a half-season run on NBC, drawing respectable, if not always high, ratings. After NBCs mid-season cancellation, however, the syndicated episodes reverted to the Ironside title, Raymond Burr as Chief Robert T. The shows contained stock footage of San Francisco, with pan shots of Coit Tower or clips of traffic scenes. Ironside and his team used a large open space on the fourth floor of the Old Hall of Justice in San Francisco at 750 Kearny Street between Washington and Merchant Streets. The Old Hall had already been demolished while Ironside was still in production and it had been abandoned in 1961 and demolished in late 1967. The SFPD had begun using their new home by January 1962, in December 1967 demolition finally began
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Raymond Burr as "Ironside"
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The F.B.I. (TV series)
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The F. B. I. is an American television series broadcast on ABC from 1965–74. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series, alcoa and American Tobacco Company co-sponsored the first season only with Ford. Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. played Inspector Lewis Erskine, a widower whose wife died as a result of an ambush that was meant for him, philip Abbott played Arthur Ward, assistant director to F. B. I. chief J. Edgar Hoover. Although Hoover served as consultant until his death in 1972. Stephen Brooks played Inspector Erskines assistant, Special Agent Jim Rhodes, lynn Loring played Inspector Erskines daughter and Rhodes love interest, Barbara, in the first few episodes of the show. Although the couple was engaged on the show, that romantic angle was soon dropped. In 1967, Brooks was replaced by veteran actor William Reynolds, the series would enjoy its highest ratings during this time, peaking at No.10 in the 1970–1971 season. For the final season, Shelly Novack played Special Agent Chris Daniels, some episodes ended with a most wanted segment hosted by Zimbalist, noting the F. B. I. s most wanted criminals of the day. The series aired on ABC at 8 p. m. Sunday from 1965 to 1973, the series was a co-production of Quinn Martin Productions and Warner Bros. Television, as Warner Bros. held the television and theatrical rights to any project based on The FBI Story and it was the longest running of all of Quinn Martins television series, having aired nine seasons. Season 1, Not in Top 30 Season 2, #29,20.2 Season 3, #22,21.2 Season 4, #18,21.7 Season 5, #24,20.6 Season 6, #10,23.0 Season 7, #17,22.4 Season 8, #29,19. m. A remake of the series, produced by Ron Howards Imagine Entertainment for Fox, was set for air in Fall 2008, however. Warner Bros. has released all nine seasons of The F. B. I. on DVD in region 1 via their Warner Archive Collection and these are Manufacture-on-Demand releases and are available through Warners online store and Amazon. com. The ninth and final season was released on September 23,2014. The F. B. I. at the Internet Movie Database The F. B. I. at TV. com Todays F. B. I. at the Internet Movie Database Todays F. B. I. at TV. com The 1965 F. B. I
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From left: Stephen Brooks, Lynn Loring and Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., 1965.
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A 1969 "Ten Most Wanted List" segment; these were seen at the close of some episodes.
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Cannon (TV series)
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Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from 1971 to 1976. The primary protagonist is the character, private detective Frank Cannon. He also appeared on two episodes of Barnaby Jones. Cannon is the first Quinn Martin-produced series to be aired on an other than ABC. A revival television film, The Return of Frank Cannon, was aired on November 1,1980, in total, there were 124 episodes. Frank Cannon was a detective with the Los Angeles Police Department, however he retired after the deaths of his wife and son in a car accident, the series begins at the point where Cannon is just beginning this new career. The cause of death of Cannons wife and child was not clear through the first four seasons of the show, however, the first episode of the fifth and final season revolves around Cannons investigation of the deaths, and he finally finds out the reason they were killed. The noticeably overweight Frank Cannon had expensive tastes, especially in food, Cannons investigations were mostly for clients in the Southern California area, although on occasion he was called in for investigations much farther away. Cannon occasionally would get hurt and knocked unconscious and he carried a gun for self-defense, usually a snub-nosed.38 Special revolver. He was known to subdue suspects with karate chops, judo holds, in the first two seasons Cannon was a pipe smoker. In the third season, the pipe was seen occasionally, it was dropped altogether. Frank Cannon had his first meeting with Barnaby Jones, an aging veteran private investigator who had retired and turned over his agency to his son, with the aid of Cannon and Hals widow, Betty Jones, they hunt down Hals killer. Afterward, Jones decides to out of retirement. William Conrad appeared as Cannon in the guise of a special guest star, there was a second crossover between the series. In an episode of his Thames Television series, British comedian Benny Hill parodied 1970s American detective shows, a female cast member played the role of Pepper Anderson. The comedian Franklyn Ajaye does a routine where he mentions that it takes Frank Cannon so long to get out of his car 2-3 times a show there is hardly time for anything else. In Mystery Science Theater 3000, one of the more absurd inventions displayed by the Mad Scientists was a William Conrad Refrigerator Alert, impressionist Billy Howard included Cannon as one of the detectives parodied in his novelty hit record King of the Cops. In an era before cell phone use, Cannon was using a phone in his car
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Conrad as Frank Cannon.
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Baretta
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Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a 1973–74 ABC series, Toma, starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like. When Musante left the series after a season, the concept was retooled as Baretta. Like his model David Toma, Tony Baretta wore many disguises on the job, when not in disguise, Baretta usually wore a short-sleeve sweatshirt, casual slacks, a brown suede jacket and a newsboy cap. He often carried an unlit cigarette in his lips or behind his ear and his catchphrases included You can take dat to da bank and And dat‘s the name of dat tune. When exasperated he would speak in asides to his late father. Baretta drove a rusted-out Mist Blue 1966 Chevrolet Impala four-door sport sedan nicknamed The Blue Ghost and he hung out at Ross’s Billiard Academy and referred to his numerous girlfriends as his cousins. The music for the show was done by the Latin influenced rock group El Chicano from Los Angeles, who also released the song as a 45 and also a track on one of their albums. The Baretta theme song by El Chicano was a hit in many countries including Turkey, Malaysia, Singapore, France. Billy Truman, retired cop who used to work with Barettas father Louie at the 53rd Precinct, rooster, a streetwise pimp and Barettas favorite informant. Inspector Shiller and Lieutenant Hal Brubaker, Barettas supervisors, little Moe, a shoeshine man and informant. Mr. Muncie, the owner of a store at 52nd. The theme song, Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow, was written by Dave Grusin and Morgan Ames, initially an instrumental, lyrics were added in later seasons that were sung by Sammy Davis, Jr. Every episode of Baretta began with the song, which contained the motto, the song was released as a single in Europe in 1976, reaching number one in the Dutch Top 40 as Barettas Theme. The music for the song was performed by Los Angeles-based Latin influenced Rock band El Chicano from Los Angeles. El Chicano also released the song as a 45 and also as a track on one of their albums, the Baretta theme song by El Chicano was a huge hit in many countries including Turkey, Malaysia, Singapore, France and The Philippines. After its initial run in syndication beginning in 1979, the series later re-appeared on TV Land in 1999 as part of a package of series licensed from Universal, me-TV aired reruns of Baretta on Saturday afternoons in 2007. On October 29,2002, Universal Studios Home Entertainment released the first season of Baretta on Region 1 DVD in the United States and it is unknown if the remaining three seasons will be released
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Baretta with Fred.
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Barnaby Jones
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Barnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as a father and daughter-in-law who run a private detective firm in Los Angeles, California. The show was introduced as a replacement on the CBS network. Halfway through the run, Mark Shera was added to the cast as the cousin of Ebsens character. William Conrad guest-starred as Frank Cannon of Cannon on the first Barnaby Jones episode, Requiem for a Son, the series was produced by QM Productions. It had the second longest QM series run following the eight years of The FBI, the series bore the Quinn Martin trademark where commercial breaks divided each episode into 4 Acts concluding with an epilogue. The opening credits were narrated by Hank Simms, after Barnaby Jones had worked as a private eye for many years, he decided to retire and left the business to his son Hal. When Hal was murdered while working on a case, Barnaby came out of retirement to find the killer and his widowed daughter-in-law, Betty Jones, joined forces with him to solve the case. The two decided that they worked so well together, they would continue to keep the detective agency open, Jones was unusual, ordering milk in restaurants and bars, counter to the stereotypical hard-drinking detective. Until the cancellation of Cannon, the characters of both moved back and forth between the two shows. In 1976, the character of J. R. the son of Barnabys cousin and he had come to try to solve the murder of his father, but stayed around to help Barnaby and Betty, while also attending law school. During the first year of the series, a theme would be where Jones would make an astute observation or collect a sample. The show was cancelled in 1980 due to declining ratings, Ebsen had also had enough of playing the role, after the series cancellation, reruns could be seen in syndication. During the mid-1990s, Meriwether and Shera expressed interest in a Barnaby Jones reunion television movie, however, in 1993, Ebsen reprised the role of Barnaby Jones in the big-screen remake of his most famous television series, The Beverly Hillbillies. It would be his final theatrical appearance, among the guest stars who appeared over the years were Conlan Carter and Gary Lockwood, who appeared together in the third episode of the series entitled Sunday, Doomsday on February 25,1973. Marshall Colt, later cast with James Arness on McClains Law, donald May played the role of Curt Phillips in the 1978 episode Blind Jeopardy. Character actress Lurene Tuttle played Emily Carter in the 1980 episode The Killin Cousin, future Trapper John, M. D. stars Pernell Roberts, Gregory Harrison, and Charles Siebert all made guest appearances on one episode. Future WKRP in Cincinnati stars Loni Anderson and Gary Sandy made guest appearances, on February 16,2010, CBS DVD released season one of Barnaby Jones on DVD in Region 1 for the first time. The episodes on the DVD include their broadcast trailers, as of September 2014, this release has been discontinued and is out of print
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Hawaii Five-O
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Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980. At the airing of its very last episode, it was the longest running cop show in history at that time. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Captain Steve McGarrett, the head of a state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular, many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to Book em, Danno. sometimes specifying a charge such as murder one. The CBS television network produced Hawaii Five-O, which aired from September 20,1968, the program continues to be broadcast in syndication worldwide. Hawaii Five-O was named in honor of Hawaiis being the 50th state, although the shows name has always ended with the numeral 0, the soundtrack album, released in the late 1960s, used the letter O instead of the numeral zero. The letter O is sometimes used to differentiate the series and the remake which premiered in 2010. The show centers on a state police force led by former US naval officer Steve McGarrett, a detective captain. In the show, McGarrett oversees state police officers – the young Danny Williams, veteran Chin Ho Kelly, Honolulu Police Department Officer Duke Lukela joined the team as a regular, as did Ben Kokua, who replaced Kono beginning with season five. Occasionally, McGarretts Five-O team is assisted by officers as needed, medical examiner Doc Bergman, forensic specialist Che Fong. The first secretary was May, then Jenny, and later Malia, Lani, for 12 seasons, McGarrett and his team hounded international secret agents, criminals, and organized crime syndicates plaguing the Hawaiian Islands. With the aid of District Attorney and later Hawaiis Attorney General John Manicote, One such crime syndicate was led by crime family patriarch Honore Vashon, a character introduced in the fifth season. Most episodes of Hawaii Five-O ended with the arrest of criminals and McGarrett snapping, the offense occasionally was added after this phrase, for example, Book em, murder one. In many episodes, this was directed to Danny Williams and became McGarretts catchphrase, Book em, other criminals and organized crime bosses on the islands were played by actors such as Ricardo Montalbán, Gavin MacLeod, and Ross Martin as Tony Alika. By the 12th and final season, series regular James MacArthur had left the show, New characters Jim Kimo Carew, Lori Wilson, and Truck were introduced in season 12 alongside returning regular character Duke Lukela. The Five-O team consists of three to five members, and is portrayed as occupying a suite of offices in the Iolani Palace, Five-O lacks its own radio network, necessitating frequent requests by McGarrett to the Honolulu Police Department dispatchers. McGarretts tousled yet immaculate hairstyle, as well as his proclivity for wearing a suit and tie on all possible occasions
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Jack Lord played Steve McGarrett.
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Kam Fong Chun played Chin Ho Kelly.
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Western (genre)
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Cowboys and gunslingers typically wear Stetson hats, bandannas, spurs, cowboy boots and buckskins. Other characters include Native Americans, bandits, lawmen, bounty hunters, outlaws, mounted cavalry, settlers, Westerns often stress the harshness of the wilderness and frequently set the action in an arid, desolate landscape of deserts and mountains. Often, the vast landscape plays an important role, presenting a. mythic vision of the plains, specific settings include ranches, small frontier towns, saloons, railways and isolated military forts of the Wild West. Many Westerns use a plot of depicting a crime, then showing the pursuit of the wrongdoer, ending in revenge and retribution. The Western was the most popular Hollywood genre, from the early 20th century to the 1960s, Western films first became well-attended in the 1930s. John Fords landmark Western adventure Stagecoach became one of the biggest hits in 1939, Westerns were very popular throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Many of the most acclaimed Westerns were released during this time – including High Noon, Shane, The Searchers, the Western depicts a society organized around codes of honor and personal, direct or private justice–frontier justice–dispensed by gunfights. These honor codes are played out through depictions of feuds or individuals seeking personal revenge or retribution against someone who has wronged them. The popular perception of the Western is a story that centers on the life of a semi-nomadic wanderer, a showdown or duel at high noon featuring two or more gunfighters is a stereotypical scene in the popular conception of Westerns. In some ways, such protagonists may be considered the descendants of the knight errant which stood at the center of earlier extensive genres such as the Arthurian Romances. And like knights errant, the heroes of Westerns frequently rescue damsels in distress, similarly, the wandering protagonists of Westerns share many characteristics with the ronin in modern Japanese culture. The Western typically takes these elements and uses them to tell simple morality tales, Westerns often stress the harshness and isolation of the wilderness and frequently set the action in an arid, desolate landscape. Apart from the wilderness, it is usually the saloon that emphasizes that this is the Wild West, it is the place to go for music, women, gambling, drinking, brawling and shooting. The American Film Institute defines western films as those set in the American West that embodies the spirit, the struggle, the term Western, used to describe a narrative film genre, appears to have originated with a July 1912 article in Motion Picture World Magazine. Most of the characteristics of Western films were part of 19th century popular Western fiction and were firmly in place before film became an art form. Protagonists ride between dusty towns and cattle ranches on their trusty steeds, Western films were enormously popular in the silent film era. With the advent of sound in 1927-28, the major Hollywood studios rapidly abandoned Westerns, leaving the genre to smaller studios and these smaller organizations churned out countless low-budget features and serials in the 1930s. Released through United Artists, Stagecoach made John Wayne a mainstream star in the wake of a decade of headlining B westerns
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Perry Mason
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Perry Mason is a fictional character, a criminal defense lawyer who is the main character in works of detective fiction written by Erle Stanley Gardner. Perry Mason is featured in more than 80 novels and short stories, typically, Mason establishes his clients innocence by implicating another character, who then confesses. The character of Perry Mason was adapted for motion pictures and a radio series. These were followed by its adaptation, the CBS television series Perry Mason starring Raymond Burr. The Perry Mason series ranks third in the top ten best selling book series, in 2015 the American Bar Associations publishing imprint, Ankerwycke, began reissuing Gardners Perry Mason books, which had been out of print in the United States. The name Perry Mason dates to creator Gardners childhood, as a child, Gardner was a reader of the magazine Youths Companion. The magazine was published in Boston, Massachusetts, by the Perry Mason Company, when Gardner created his fictional attorney, he borrowed the name of the company which published his favorite childhood magazine. Gardner provided more information about Masons character in the novels, knowledge of his character is largely taken for granted in the later works. In the first novel, Mason describes himself, Youll find that Im a lawyer who has specialized in trial work, and in a lot of criminal work. Im a specialist on getting people out of trouble. They come to me when theyre in all sorts of trouble, If you look me up through some chap in the District Attorneys office, hell tell you that Im a dangerous antagonist but he doesnt know very much about me. Gardner depicts Mason as a lawyer who fights hard on behalf of his clients and he frequently accepts clients on a whim based on his curiosity about their problem, for a minimal retainer, and finances the investigation of their cases himself if necessary. In The Case of the Caretakers Cat, his principal antagonist, District Attorney Hamilton Burger, says, when you turn your mind to the solution of a crime, you ferret out the truth. The Court feels you are capable of looking after your own as well as your clients interests. Another frequent antagonist, Lieutenant Arthur Tragg of the squad, has a discussion with Mason about his approach to the law. Mason is recovering from having been poisoned, and Tragg is investigating and he says, How does it feel to be the victim for once. … Youve been sticking up for criminals and now you can see the side of the picture. Not sticking up for criminals, protested indignantly, I have never stuck up for any criminal. I have merely asked for the administration of an impartial justice … Due legal process is my own safeguard against being convicted unjustly
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Robert W. Douglas illustrated "The Case of the Crying Swallow" for the August 1947 issue of The American Magazine
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Donald Woods portrayed Perry Mason in the Warner Bros. film, " The Case of the Stuttering Bishop " (1937)
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William Hopper and Raymond Burr in the CBS -TV series, Perry Mason (1957–66)
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The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname Oscar. The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS, the awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953. It is now live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Academy Awards ceremony is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music and recording – are modeled after the Academy Awards. The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2016, were held on February 26,2017, at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, the ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was broadcast on ABC. A total of 3,048 Oscars have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 88th, the first Academy Awards presentation was held on May 16,1929, at a private dinner function at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people. The post-awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel, the cost of guest tickets for that nights ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other participants in the industry of the time. The ceremony ran for 15 minutes, winners were announced to media three months earlier, however, that was changed for the second ceremony in 1930. Since then, for the rest of the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11,00 pm on the night of the awards. The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and he had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier, this made him the first Academy Award winner in history. With the fourth ceremony, however, the system changed, for the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27,1957, until then, foreign-language films had been honored with the Special Achievement Award. The 74th Academy Awards, held in 2002, presented the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, since 1973, all Academy Awards ceremonies always end with the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Academy also awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, see also § Awards of Merit categories The best known award is the Academy Award of Merit, more popularly known as the Oscar statuette. The five spokes represent the branches of the Academy, Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers. The model for the statuette is said to be Mexican actor Emilio El Indio Fernández, sculptor George Stanley sculpted Cedric Gibbons design. The statuettes presented at the ceremonies were gold-plated solid bronze
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31st Academy Awards Presentations, Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, 1959
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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered a performance in a supporting role while working within the film industry. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony held in 1937, Walter Brennan was the first winner of award for his role in Come. Initially, winners in both supporting acting categories were awarded instead of statuettes. Beginning with the 16th ceremony held in 1944, however, winners received full-sized statuettes, currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS, winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy. Since its inception, the award has given to 72 actors. Brennan has received the most awards in this category with three awards, Brennan, Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Nicholson, and Claude Rains were nominated on four occasions, more than any other actor. As of the 2017 ceremony, Mahershala Ali is the most recent winner in category for his role as Juan in Moonlight. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, University of Toronto Press, ISBN 978-1-55002-574-3. org The Academy Awards Database Oscar. com Complete Downloadable List of Academy Award Nominees
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Walter Brennan was the first winner in this category for 1936's Come and Get It; He would also win for his roles in Kentucky (1938) and The Westerner (1940).
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Van Heflin won in 1942 for his performance in Johnny Eager.
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George Sanders won for his role in 1950's All About Eve.
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Karl Malden won in 1951 for A Streetcar Named Desire.
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John Mills
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Sir John Mills, CBE was an English actor who appeared in more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades. On screen, he often played people who are not at all exceptional and he received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in Ryans Daughter. Mills was born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills in Norfolk but grew up in Felixstowe, Suffolk, the son of Edith, a box office manager, and Lewis Mills. His spent his years in the village of Belton where his father was the headmaster of the village school. He first felt the thrill of performing at a concert in the hall when six years old. He lived in a modest house in Gainsborough Road Felixstowe until 1929 and his older sister was Annette Mills, remembered as presenter of BBC Televisions Muffin the Mule. Upon leaving school he worked as a clerk at a corn merchants in Ipswich before finding employment in London as a traveller for the Sanitas Disinfectant Company. In September 1939, at the start of the Second World War and he was later commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, but in 1942 he received a medical discharge because of a stomach ulcer. Mills took an early interest in acting, making his professional début at the London Hippodrome in The Five OClock Girl in 1929 and he also starred in the Noël Coward revue Words and Music. He made his film début in The Midshipmaid, and appeared as Colley in the 1939 film version of Goodbye, Mr Chips, in 1942, he starred in Noël Cowards In Which We Serve. Mills took the lead in Great Expectations in 1946, and subsequently made his career playing traditionally British heroes such as Captain Scott in Scott of the Antarctic. After Morning Departure he made a series of films but bounced back with war dramas, such as The Colditz Story, Above Us the Waves. From 1959 through the mid-1960s, Mills starred in films alongside his daughter Hayley. Their first film together was the 1959 crime drama Tiger Bay, as Colonel Barrow in Tunes of Glory, Mills won the best Actor Award at the 1960 Venice Film Festival. For his role as the village idiot in Ryans Daughter — a complete departure from his usual style – Mills won an Best Supporting Actor Oscar and his most famous television role was probably as the title character in Quatermass for ITV in 1979. Mills also starred as Gus, The Theatre Cat in the version of the musical Cats in 1998. The film was produced and written by Jonathan Mills, directed and edited by Marcus Dillistone, millss last cinema appearance was playing a tramp in Lights 2, the cinematographer was Jack Cardiff. They had last worked together on Scott of the Antarctic in 1948 and their combined age was 186 years, a cinema record
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The Wick on Richmond Hill in Richmond, Greater London, was the family home for many years
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The Incredible Hulk (1978 TV series)
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The Incredible Hulk is an American television series based on the Marvel Comics character The Hulk. The series aired on the CBS television network and starred Bill Bixby as David Banner, Lou Ferrigno as the Hulk, in his travels, Banner earns money by working temporary jobs while searching for a way to control his condition. All the while, he is pursued by a tabloid newspaper reporter, Jack McGee. The series was originally broadcast by CBS from 1978 to 1982, the two-hour pilot movie, which established the Hulks origins, aired on November 4,1977. It was developed and produced by Kenneth Johnson, who wrote or directed some episodes. After the series ended, the fate of David Banner was a cliffhanger until 1988, the filming rights were purchased from CBS by rival NBC. They produced three films, The Incredible Hulk Returns, The Trial of the Incredible Hulk and The Death of the Incredible Hulk. Since its debut, The Incredible Hulk series has garnered a fan base. D. Ph. D. is a physician and scientist employed at the Culver Institute who is traumatized by the car accident that killed his beloved wife, Laura. Banner has even higher levels of adenine/thymine than any of the subjects, working late one night, Banner hypothesizes that high levels of gamma radiation from sunspots contribute to the subjects increase in strength. Impatient to test his theory, Dr. Banner conducts an experiment in the lab. Unknown to Dr. Banner, the equipment has been upgraded, despite this, he exhibits no immediate increase in strength, and leaves the lab in frustration. Driving home in a rainstorm, Dr. Banners frustration peaks when his car has a flat tire. This triggers his transformation into the Incredible Hulk, a 7-foot-tall, 330-pound, green-skinned savage creature, with a sub-human mind, the Hulk destroys Banners car and wanders off into the nearby woods. As the sun rises, the Hulk stumbles upon a girl, in the ensuing confusion, the Hulk is shot by the girls father, and responds by breaking his rifle and throwing him into the pond. Leaving the area, the Hulk eventually transforms back into Dr. Banner, with no memory of his time as the Hulk, wounded and confused, he visits Dr. Marks. Her amazement at Dr. Banners healing powers is replaced by shock, drs. Banner and Marks relocate to a laboratory isolated from the rest of the Culver Institute but still on its grounds. Marks locks him in a pressure chamber designed for deep underwater usage in an attempt to simulate the conditions which preceded the hole in his memory
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James Coburn
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James Harrison Coburn III was an American actor. and Cross of Iron. Coburn provided the voice of Henry Waternoose in the Pixar film Monsters, Coburn was born on August 31,1928 in Laurel, Nebraska, the son of James Harrison Coburn II and Mylet Coburn. His father was of Scottish-Irish ancestry and his mother was an immigrant from Sweden, the elder Coburn had a garage business that was destroyed by the Great Depression. Coburn himself was raised in Compton, California, where he attended Compton Junior College, in 1950, he enlisted in the United States Army, in which he served as a truck driver and an occasionally disc jockey on an Army radio station in Texas. Coburn also narrated Army training films in Mainz, Germany, Coburn attended Los Angeles City College, where he studied acting alongside Jeff Corey and Stella Adler, and later made his stage debut at the La Jolla Playhouse in Herman Melvilles Billy Budd. Coburns film debut came in 1959 as the sidekick of Pernell Roberts in the Randolph Scott western Ride Lonesome, Coburn also appeared in dozens of television roles including, with Roberts, several episodes of NBCs Bonanza. During the 1960 to 1961 season, Coburn co-starred with Ralph Taeger and Joi Lansing in the NBC adventure/drama series, Klondike, when Klondike was cancelled, Taeger and Coburn were regrouped as detectives in Mexico in NBCs equally short-lived Acapulco. Coburn also made two guest appearances on CBSs Perry Mason, both times as the victim in The Case of the Envious Editor and The Case of the Angry Astronaut. In 1962, he portrayed the role of Col. Briscoe in the episode Hostage Child on CBSs Rawhide, Coburn became well known in the 1960s and the 1970s for his tough-guy roles in numerous action and western films. Coburn played the part of a villainous Texan in the successful Charade and he was then cast as a glib naval officer in Paddy Chayefskys The Americanization of Emily. Coburn was signed to a contract with 20th Century Fox. His performance as a one-armed Indian tracker in Major Dundee gained him much notice, in 1966, Coburn became a genuine star following the release of the James Bond parody film Our Man Flint. The following year, he was voted the twelfth biggest star in Hollywood, Coburn teamed with director Sam Peckinpah for the 1973 film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, in which he played Pat Garrett. The two had worked together in 1965 on Major Dundee, in 1973 Coburn was voted the 23rd most popular star in Hollywood. Peckinpah and Coburn turned next to Cross of Iron, a critically acclaimed war epic that performed poorly in the United States but was a hit in Europe. Peckinpah and Coburn remained close friends until Peckinpahs death in 1984, in 1973, Coburn was among the featured celebrities dressed in prison gear on the cover of the album Band on the Run made by Paul McCartney and his band Wings. During that same year as a spokesman for the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company, in Japan his masculine appearance was so appealing he became an icon for its leading cigarette brand. He also supported himself in later years by exporting rare automobiles to Japan and he was deeply interested in Zen and Tibetan Buddhism, and collected sacred Buddhist artwork
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Coburn as Anthony Wayne in The Californians (1959)
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Emerson, New Jersey
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Emerson is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, a suburb in the New York City metropolitan area. Emerson is the most southern town in an area of the county referred to as the Pascack Valley. What is now Emerson was originally formed on April 8,1903, from portions of Washington Township as the Borough of Etna, the name was changed to Emerson as of March 9,1909. The name came from author Ralph Waldo Emerson, according to the United States Census Bureau, the borough had a total area of 2.399 square miles, including 2.203 square miles of land and 0.196 square miles of water. Unincorporated communities, localities and place names located partially or completely within the borough include Old Hook, the borough borders the Bergen County municipalities of Closter, Harrington Park, Haworth, Oradell, Paramus, River Vale, Washington Township and Westwood. As of the census of 2010, there were 7,401 people,2,480 households, the population density was 3,358.9 per square mile. There were 2,552 housing units at a density of 1,158.2 per square mile. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 8. 36% of the population,18. 1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11. 5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.89 and the family size was 3.29. In the borough, the population was out with 23. 9% under the age of 18,6. 0% from 18 to 24,21. 3% from 25 to 44,29. 0% from 45 to 64. The median age was 44.3 years, for every 100 females there were 92.1 males. For every 100 females ages 18 and old there were 86.0 males, the Census Bureaus 2006-2010 American Community Survey showed that median household income was $99,292 and the median family income was $108,300. Males had an income of $71,868 versus $69,271 for females. The per capita income for the borough was $39,501, about 0. 7% of families and 1. 1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 0. 0% of those under age 18 and 4. 5% of those age 65 or over. Same-sex couples headed 17 households in 2010, an increase from the 14 counted in 2000, as of the 2000 United States Census there were 7,197 people,2,373 households, and 1,964 families residing in the borough. The population density was 3,216.3 people per square mile, there were 2,398 housing units at an average density of 1,071.7 per square mile. The racial makeup of the borough was 89. 62% White,0. 85% African American,0. 06% Native American,7. 89% Asian,0. 88% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 4. 61% of the population. As of the 2000 Census,2. 2% of Emersons residents identified themselves as being of Armenian-American ancestry and this was the 20th highest percentage of Armenian American people in any place in the United States with 1,000 or more residents identifying their ancestry
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The Naked City
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The Naked City is a 1948 film noir directed by Jules Dassin. Based on a story by Malvin Wald, the film depicts the investigation that follows the murder of a young model. A veteran cop is placed in charge of the case and he sets about, with the help of other beat cops and detectives, the film received two Academy Awards, one for cinematography for William H. Daniels, and another for film editing to Paul Weatherwax. In 2007, The Naked City was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. In the late hours of a hot New York summer night, a pair of men subdue and kill Jean Dexter, an ex-model, by knocking her out with chloroform and drowning her in her bathtub. When one of the murderers, conscience-stricken, gets drunk, the other kills him, then lifts his body into the air and throws it into the East River. Homicide Detective Lt. Dan Muldoon and his associate, Jimmy Halloran, are assigned to Jeans case. Muldoon has been a cop for 22 years, Halloran for three months. At the scene, the police interrogate Martha Swenson, Jeans housekeeper, about Jeans friends and they also discover a bottle of sleeping pills and her address book. Halloran questions the doctor who prescribed the pills, Lawrence Stoneman, back at the police station, Muldoon questions Frank Niles, who lies about everything, claiming only a business relationship with Jean and denying knowing Ruth, to whom he is engaged. The police quickly discover the truth behind many of his lies, later, Muldoon deduces from the bruises on Jeans neck that she was killed by at least two men. That evening, Mr. and Mrs. Batory, Jeans estranged parents, arrive in New York to formally identify the body, the next morning, the detectives learn that Frank sold a gold cigarette case stolen from Stoneman, then purchased a one-way airline ticket to Mexico. They also discover that Jeans ring was stolen from the home of a wealthy Mrs. Hylton, at Mrs. Hyltons Park Avenue apartment, the police learn that the ring actually belonged to her daughter, who, to their surprise, turns out to be Ruth. Learning that Ruths engagement ring is stolen property, Muldoon and Halloran take Ruth to Franks apartment. The killer takes a shot at the cops and escapes onto the elevated train. When questioned about the jewelry, Frank claims that they were all presents from Jean. Frank is then arrested for the thefts, but the murder case remains open. Halloran learns that a body recovered from the East River, that of Peter Backalis, Muldoon, although skeptical, lets him pursue the lead and assigns two veteran detectives on the squad to help Halloran with the legwork
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The Mob (film)
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The actor Charles Bronson makes one of his first film appearances as a longshoreman and was uncredited. After following one blind alley involving a federal agent Thomas Clancy working as a longshoreman, Film Noir, The Encyclopedia Reference to the American Style notes Crawford takes the simple role of Johnny Damico and converts it into a noir characterization of toughness and vulgarity. Film critic Dennis Schwartz liked the acting and wrote, The Mob covers the territory as On the Waterfront. It is adapted from the novel Waterfront by Ferguson Findley and directed with a flair for lively action scenes by Robert Parrish and this ordinary minor film noir holds together until one twist too many turns it into one of those old movie theater chapter serial-like endings. Ernest Borgnine has the look of a shady individual to give his role a sinister force. Neville Brand as an enforcer for Borgnine adds to the violent atmosphere. The film has fistfights, tough talking thugs and cops, the brutality of both the criminals and the police is what gives the film its shock value and special feel. Otherwise its your ordinary violent crime film, to trace the mob car, they use a fluorescent dye that drips on the road, so the police can spot where they are going, yet they have the car wired for sound. The Mob at the Internet Movie Database The Mob at AllMovie The Mob at the TCM Movie Database The Mob at the American Film Institute Catalog The Mob film clip on YouTube
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My Six Convicts
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My Six Convicts is an American 1952 comedy-drama film adapted from the autobiographical book written by Donald Powell Wilson. The film was adapted for the screen by Michael Blankfort and directed by Hugo Fregonese, while vintage prints of Wilsons text can be found online, the film adaptation has never seen a home video release. As such, it has almost faded into obscurity, primarily remembered for Millard Mitchell having won a Golden Globe Award for his performance as Connie and my Six Convicts is the true story of a prison psychologist and his attempts to get through to his incarcerated patients. While dealing with issues, the film was created in comedic form. While the film is true to the spirit of the book, dramatic license was taken with the adaptation
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I Want to Live!
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It stars Susan Hayward as Graham, and also features Simon Oakland, Stafford Repp, and Theodore Bikel. The movie was adapted from letters written by Graham and newspaper articles written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ed Montgomery and it presents a somewhat fictionalized version of the case showing a possibility of innocence concerning Graham. Today, the charge would be known as felony murder, the film earned six Oscar nominations, with Hayward winning a Best Actress Oscar at the 31st Academy Awards. The film tells the story of the life and execution of Barbara Graham, Graham is the product of a broken home, and works luring men into fixed card games. At one point, she attempts to go straight but marries the wrong man and he is a drug addict and she ends their relationship. When her life falls apart, she returns to her former professions, the police arrest them, and her companions accuse her of the murder to reduce their own chances of going to the gas chamber. She claims her innocence, but is convicted and executed, a prologue and epilogue contributed to the film by Montgomery characterize the films content — which largely portrays Graham as innocent of the murder — as factual. But there was evidence of Grahams complicity in the crime which included her taped confession to an undercover officer. Hollywood writer Robert Osborne, who became the host of Turner Classic Movies, interviewed Hayward. The film earned a net profit of $2,455,570 and she had no hesitation about indulging in any form of crime or vice that promised excitement on her own, rather mean, terms. Hayward brings off this complex characterization, Simon Oakland, as Montgomery, who first crucified Barbara Graham in print and then attempted to undo what he had done, underplays his role with assurance. From a loose and wise-cracking B-girl she moves onto levels of disdain and then plunges down to depths of terror. Except that the role does not present us a precisely pretty character, gene Blake, the reporter who covered the actual murder trial for the Los Angeles Daily Mirror, called the movie a dramatic and eloquent piece of propaganda for the abolition of the death penalty. In 2009, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that out of eleven reviews of the film were positive. Wins New York Film Critics Circle Awards, NYFCC Award, Best Actress, Academy Awards, Oscar, Best Actress in a Leading Role, Susan Hayward,1958. Golden Globes, Golden Globe, Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama, Susan Hayward,1959 Mar del Plata Film Festival, Best Actress, nominations Directors Guild of America, DGA Award, Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures, Robert Wise,1959. Nelson Gidding and Don Mankiewicz,1958, Golden Globes, Golden Globe, Best Motion Picture - Drama, Best Motion Picture Director, Robert Wise,1959. Grammy Awards, Grammy, Best Soundtrack Album, Dramatic Picture Score or Original Cast, writers Guild of America, WGA Award, Best Written American Drama, Nelson Gidding and Don Mankiewicz,1959
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A Child Is Waiting
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A Child Is Waiting is a 1963 American drama film written by Abby Mann based on his 1957 Westinghouse Studio One teleplay of the same name. The film was produced by Stanley Kramer and directed by John Cassavetes, Burt Lancaster portrays the director of a state institution for mentally handicapped and emotionally disturbed children, and Judy Garland is a new teacher who challenges his methods. Jean Hansen, a Juilliard graduate, joins the staff of the Crawthorne State Mental Hospital and immediately clashes with the director, Dr. Matthew Clark, about his strict training methods. She becomes emotionally involved with 12-year-old Reuben Widdicombe, and is certain his attitude will improve if he is reunited with the parents who abandoned him. She sends for Mrs. Widdicombe, who agrees with the opinion that it would be best if Reuben doesnt see her. Distraught, he runs away from the school, Dr. Clark finds him and brings him back the following morning, and Jean offers to resign. Clark asks her to stay and continue her rehearsals for the Thanksgiving pageant, on the day of the show, Reubens father Ted arrives, having decided to enroll him in a private school. When he hears Reuben recite a poem and positively react to the applause, he decides to leave him in the care of Jean. Producer Stanley Kramer modeled the school on the Vineland Training School in New Jersey. He wanted to cast Burt Lancaster because the actor had a child of his own. She was experiencing personal problems at the time and the director felt a supportive work environment would help her get through them. Cassavetes was fond of improvisation and his approach to filmmaking clashed with those of Kramer, most of the students in the film were portrayed by actual mentally-challenged children from Pacific State Hospital in Pomona, California. After the films release, Kramer recalled, They surprised us every day in reaction, Lancaster said, We have to ad-lib around the periphery of a scene and I have to attune and adjust myself to the unexpected things they do. But they are better than child actors for the parts. They have certain gestures that are characteristic, very difficult for even an experienced actor, problems arose between Kramer and Cassavetes during post-production. Editor Gene Fowler, Jr. recalled, It was a fight of technique, Stanley is a more traditional picture-maker, and Cassavetes was, I guess, called Nouvelle Vague. He was trying some things, which frankly I disagreed with, Cassavetes felt his personal feelings about the subject matter added to the disagreements between himself and Kramer, who eventually fired the director. The philosophy of his film was that children are separate and alone
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The Wheeler Dealers
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The Wheeler Dealers is a 1963 romantic comedy film from MGM, produced by Martin Ransohoff, directed by Arthur Hiller, that stars James Garner and Lee Remick and features Chill Wills and Jim Backus. The film was written by George Goodman and Ira Wallach, based on Goodmans novel, Molly Thatcher is a stockbroker languishing in a company run by sexist Bullard Bear. When the company does poorly, he will have to fire somebody, Molly meets Henry Tyroon, an aggressive wheeler dealer who dresses, talks, and acts like a stereotypical Texas millionaire. Hes more interested in her than in Universal Widgets, but decides to be of help in order to get closer to her. As they spend together, Molly watches Henry make complicated business deals, often in partnership with his Texan cronies, Jay Ray, Ray Jay. One such deal is a venture into dealing modern art, with the aid of Stanislas, Molly and Henry have trouble figuring out Universal Widgets reason for existence, its only factory burned down around the time of the Civil War. It manufactures nothing and provides no service and its just a corporation on paper whose sole asset is a huge block of shares in AT&T, bought long, long ago when the stock was ridiculously cheap. Now it pays hefty, regular dividends to its complacent shareholders, when Henry makes an attempt to take control of the undervalued company by questionable methods, over-enthusiastic government regulator Hector Vanson takes him to court. Further complications arise when Jay Ray, Ray Jay, and J. R. get Molly fired so she can spend time with Henry. The case is dismissed when it is determined that all the shares are in the hands of a few people, not the general public, once the Texas trio confess that they had Molly fired, she and Henry make up. She discovers that he is really an Easterner and an Ivy League university graduate, what might be brightly satiric simply isnt because it lacks wit. Too much double entry and too little double entendre and he did, however, like Garner and Remick. Glenn Erickson characterized it as a trifle that, if I read it right. Nobody on either side of the camera seems to know that the joke is really on them, and us and he thought both stars gave outstanding performances and rated the film Good +. The Wheeler Dealers was released by Warner Home Video on June 27,2011 to DVD via its Warner Archive DVD-on-demand service as a Region 1 widescreen DVD. List of American films of 1963 The Wheeler Dealers at the Internet Movie Database The Wheeler Dealers at the TCM Movie Database The Wheeler Dealers at AllMovie
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Nightmare in the Sun
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Nightmare in the Sun is a film drama directed by John Derek and Marc Lawrence, and written by George Fass and Fanya Foss, about a murderous affair. Derek starred along with Ursula Andress and Aldo Ray, smaller roles in the film featured Sammy Davis, Jr. and Robert Duvall. Beautiful young Marsha Wilson is married to a wealthy, jealous and she picks up a handsome hitch-hiker one day, brings him back to husband Sam Wilsons ranch and falls for him. Marsha wants to run off with the hitch-hiker, but he, too, is married, Sam returns home in a jealous rage, discovers what happened and kills Marsha with a rifle in a drunken rage. The towns sheriff concocts a scheme to blackmail Sam, promising to frame the hitch-hiker for Marshas murder provided Sam in exchange for a hefty payment, the hitch-hiker is caught and jailed, escapes and then is recaptured. By then, a remorseful Sam has had enough and he kills the sheriff, then confesses to committing both murders. Ursula Andress as Marsha Wilson John Derek as The Hitch-Hiker Aldo Ray as The Sheriff Arthur OConnell as Sam Wilson Sammy Davis Jr
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Deathdream
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Deathdream is a 1974 Canadian horror film directed by Bob Clark and written by Alan Ormsby. Filmed in Brooksville, Florida, it was inspired by the W. W, jacobs short story The Monkeys Paw. In Vietnam, US soldier Andy Brooks is shot by a sniper, as he dies, he hears his mothers voice calling out, Andy, youll come back. The voice becomes sinister and muffled as Andys eyes close, sometime later, his family receives notice of his death in combat. Back home, Andys father, Charles, and sister, Cathy, begin to grieve, over the next few days, Andy displays strange and erratic behavior, dressing in an unusually concealing manner and spending his days sitting around the house listless and anemic. Charles attempts to confront Christine about Andys erratic behavior, which causes tension between the couple, Christine insists that Charles was too withdrawn and authoritarian toward Andy, Charles counters that Christine made Andy too sensitive by smothering him. Andy continues to display behavior, he attacks a neighborhood boy who attempts to demonstrate his karate skills. At night, Andy becomes inexplicably lively and animated, wandering the town, on a double date at the drive-in with his high school sweetheart, Joanne, his sister and his best friend, Andy begins to decay due to lack of blood. He attacks and kills Joanne and his friend, the other drive-in patrons witness the attack and panic. Andy flees before he can inject his victims blood, the police pursue Andy, and the chase ends at the graveyard where Andy had been spending his free time. They discover Andys decayed corpse in a shallow grave beneath a crudely fashioned tombstone, Christine, looking at her sons body, tells the police, Andys home. Deathdream was shown in Tampa, Florida on August 30,1974, blue Underground DVD released a special edition of Deathdream in 2004. Glenn Erickson of DVD Talk wrote, The reason Deathdream works is its superior dramatic staging, the actors are excellent, especially John Marley and Lynn Carlin, both honored for their roles in John Cassavetes Faces. Clark stages the domestic scenes with a simplicity and what we remember the most is the looks of bewilderment on nicely-framed faces. Glenn Kay wrote in Zombie Movies, The Ultimate Guide that Deathdream is one of creepiest and most thought-provoking works, Deathdream at the Internet Movie Database Deathdream at Rotten Tomatoes Deathdream at AllMovie
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W.C. Fields and Me
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Fields and Me is a 1976 American biographical film directed by Arthur Hiller and starring Rod Steiger and Valerie Perrine. The screenplay by Bob Merrill is based on a memoir by Carlotta Monti, Fields for the last 14 years of his life. The story begins in 1924 in New York City, where W. C, Fields is a Ziegfeld Follies headliner, and ends with his 1946 death in California at age 66. He quickly becomes a major presence and a notorious drinker. While at a party with his friends John Barrymore, Gene Fowler and restaurant owner Dave Chasen, Fields is introduced to starlet Carlotta Monti, in order to stifle her theatrical aspirations, he arranges a screen test. The studio boss Harry Bannerman decides she has talent. When she learns the truth, Carlotta leaves him and goes to New York, when Barrymore passes away, she returns to Hollywood to comfort Fields. On the set of My Little Chickadee, she learns why her efforts to get him to marry her have routinely been rebuffed, the comic is hospitalized and, after enduring great physical pain, dies on Christmas Day, a holiday he had despised with a passion. Edgar Bergen Karen Black was offered the role of Carlotta, however, she turned it down in order to work with Alfred Hitchcock on his final feature-film Family Plot. In 2001 it was refurbished to operate on a line serving San Pedro. He called the home Villa Ardaree and it was known before that as Dryborough, the movie neednt have been quite as brainless as it is. Has supplied a screenplay that originally may have meant as the outline for a musical. It exhibits a disregard for facts and the compulsion to make a dramatically shapeless life fit into a two-act form. Then theres Arthur Hiller, a director who makes intelligent films when the material is right, and terrible ones when the writers fail. Most prominent in the mess is Rod Steiger, who, reads all of his lines with the monotonous sing-song manner used by third-rate nightclub comics doing Fields imitations. He also speaks most of out of the corner of his mouth as if hed had a stroke. Time Out London calls it a witless biopic leaps through pseudo-history with cretinous inaccuracy, Steiger makes a brave stab at the part, but the reality and genius of Fields never get a look in. However, TV Guide awarded it three out of a four stars with the comment, Though the great comedian would have hated this film
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The Greatest (1977 film)
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The Greatest is a 1977 film about the life of boxer Muhammad Ali, in which Ali plays himself. It was directed by Tom Gries and Monte Hellman, the film follows Alis life from the 1960 Olympics to his regaining the heavyweight crown from George Foreman in their famous Rumble in the Jungle fight in 1974. The footage of the matches themselves are largely the actual footage from the time involved. The movie is based on the book The Greatest, My Own Story written by Muhammad Ali and Richard Durham, the song The Greatest Love of All was written for this film and sung by George Benson, it was later covered by Whitney Houston. All music composed and produced by Michael Masser, and arranged by Masser, the Greatest at the Internet Movie Database The Greatest at the TCM Movie Database The Greatest at AllMovie
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Tribute (1980 film)
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Tribute is a 1980 Canadian comedy film directed by Bob Clark and based on the play of the same name by Bernard Slade. Both the stage and cinema versions starred Jack Lemmon, Scottie Templeton is a show-business veteran, based in New York and well-known in the theatrical community there. He has many acquaintances, but is divorced from his wife, Scottie learns that he has contracted leukemia and is dying. His ex-wife Maggie, in town for a reunion, comes to visit. Scottie makes an effort to reconnect with his son, Jud, a young actress Scottie once dated, Sally Haines, strikes Scottie as someone who might be a good romantic match for his son. As a testimonial dinner is organized in Scotties honor, he attempts to repair some of his past relationships in the time he has left, Lemmon was also nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for his performance. He won the Canadian Genie Award for Best Performance by a Foreign Actor, Tribute at the Internet Movie Database Tribute at Rotten Tomatoes
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Utilities (film)
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Utilities is a 1983 Canadian comedy film starring Robert Hays and Brooke Adams. It was directed by Harvey Hart, one of Bob Hunts neighbours electricity is cut off because she cannot pay the bill. She is assisted by contributions, and the bill is entirely in pennies. Unfortunately, the company fails to reconnect the power due to a communications snafu. Hunt sets off on a vendetta of revenge, sabotaging assorted support systems. Attempting to evade detection at one site, he flattens himself against the wall with wet paint, with a finger sticking up, the news media find out this detail and the unknown saboteur is nicknamed The Finger. When the phone company is hit, it issues a statement denying that, due to the sabotage to its billing records. Promptly, the movie depicts people making use of long distance. One girl calls overseas and plays a musical composition over the phone, in a long, climactic courtroom hearing, a rate-hike proposal by Kenneth Knight and his utility company, Eastern Gas & Electric, is to be voted on by a public commission. But first a number of protesting citizens are given an opportunity to speak, followed by Hunt, at that point, many others in the courtroom, Spartacus-style, rise to claim they are The Finger. Just as the commission is about to approve E, G & Es rate increase, police officer Marion Edwards bursts in, Hunt expects to be placed in handcuffs, but she reveals that Knight has been destroying his own substations in an effort to achieve public sympathy. The lights of the city go dark as spectators in the courthouse celebrate, Robert Hays as Bob Hunt Brooke Adams as Marion Edwards John Marley as Roy Blue James Blendick as Kenneth Knight Utilities at the Internet Movie Database Utilities at Rotten Tomatoes
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The New York Times
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The New York Times is an American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18,1851, by The New York Times Company. The New York Times has won 119 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper, the papers print version in 2013 had the second-largest circulation, behind The Wall Street Journal, and the largest circulation among the metropolitan newspapers in the US. The New York Times is ranked 18th in the world by circulation, following industry trends, its weekday circulation had fallen in 2009 to fewer than one million. Nicknamed The Gray Lady, The New York Times has long been regarded within the industry as a newspaper of record. The New York Times international version, formerly the International Herald Tribune, is now called the New York Times International Edition, the papers motto, All the News Thats Fit to Print, appears in the upper left-hand corner of the front page. On Sunday, The New York Times is supplemented by the Sunday Review, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine and T, some other early investors of the company were Edwin B. Morgan and Edward B. We do not believe that everything in Society is either right or exactly wrong, —what is good we desire to preserve and improve, —what is evil, to exterminate. In 1852, the started a western division, The Times of California that arrived whenever a mail boat got to California. However, when local California newspapers came into prominence, the effort failed, the newspaper shortened its name to The New-York Times in 1857. It dropped the hyphen in the city name in the 1890s, One of the earliest public controversies it was involved with was the Mortara Affair, the subject of twenty editorials it published alone. At Newspaper Row, across from City Hall, Henry Raymond, owner and editor of The New York Times, averted the rioters with Gatling guns, in 1869, Raymond died, and George Jones took over as publisher. Tweed offered The New York Times five million dollars to not publish the story, in the 1880s, The New York Times transitioned gradually from editorially supporting Republican Party candidates to becoming more politically independent and analytical. In 1884, the paper supported Democrat Grover Cleveland in his first presidential campaign, while this move cost The New York Times readership among its more progressive and Republican readers, the paper eventually regained most of its lost ground within a few years. However, the newspaper was financially crippled by the Panic of 1893, the paper slowly acquired a reputation for even-handedness and accurate modern reporting, especially by the 1890s under the guidance of Ochs. Under Ochs guidance, continuing and expanding upon the Henry Raymond tradition, The New York Times achieved international scope, circulation, in 1910, the first air delivery of The New York Times to Philadelphia began. The New York Times first trans-Atlantic delivery by air to London occurred in 1919 by dirigible, airplane Edition was sent by plane to Chicago so it could be in the hands of Republican convention delegates by evening. In the 1940s, the extended its breadth and reach. The crossword began appearing regularly in 1942, and the section in 1946
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Cover of The New York Times (November 15, 2012), with the headline story reporting on Operation Pillar of Defense.
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First published issue of New-York Daily Times, on September 18, 1851.
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The Times Square Building, The New York Times ' publishing headquarters, 1913–2007
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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Wallace Beery
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Wallace Fitzgerald Beery was an American film actor. Beery appeared in some 250 movies during a 36-year career and his contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stipulated in 1932 that he would be paid $1 more than any other contract player at the studio, making him the highest paid actor in the world. He was the brother of actor Noah Beery Sr. and uncle of actor Noah Beery Jr. Beery was born in Clay County, Missouri, the youngest of three sons born to Noah Webster Beery and Frances Margaret Fitzgerald, he and his brothers William C. Beery and Noah Beery became Hollywood actors, the Beery family left the farm in the 1890s and moved to nearby Kansas City, Missouri, where the father was a police officer. Wallace Beery attended the Chase School in Kansas City and took lessons as well. He ran away from home twice, the first time returning after a time, quitting school. Beery ran away from home a second time at age 16 and he left two years later, after being clawed by a leopard. Wallace Beery joined his brother Noah in New York City in 1904, finding work in opera as a baritone. His most notable role came in 1907 when he starred in The Yankee Tourist to good reviews. In 1913, he moved to Chicago to work for Essanay Studios, cast as Sweedie, later, he worked for the Essanay Studios location in Niles, California. In 1915, Beery starred with Gloria Swanson, whom he married the following year, Beery began playing villains, and in 1917 portrayed Pancho Villa in Patria at a time when Villa was still active in Mexico. Beery reprised the role seventeen years later in Viva Villa, the same year, he made Min and Bill, the movie that vaulted him into the box office first rank. In 1931 he starred in The Champ, and shared the Best Actor Oscar with Fredric March, though March received one vote more than Beery, Academy rules at the time—since rescinded—defined results within one vote of each other as ties. He starred in several comedies with Marie Dressler and later, after Dresslers death, Marjorie Main, in 1943 his brother Noah Beery Sr. appeared with him in the war-time propaganda film Salute to the Marines, followed by Bad Bascomb and The Mighty McGurk. Beerys first wife was teenaged actress Gloria Swanson, the two had co-starred in Sweedie Goes to College and married in 1916. Although Beery had enjoyed popularity with his Sweedie shorts, his career had taken a dip, according to Swansons autobiography, Beery raped her on their wedding night, and later tricked her into swallowing an abortifacient when she was pregnant, which caused her to lose their child. In 1924, Beery married actress Rita Gilman, the couple adopted Carol Ann, daughter of Rita Beerys cousin. In December 1937, A few days before he passed away, in December 1939, the unmarried Beery adopted a seven-month-old infant girl Phyllis Ann
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As Bavu (1923)
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Ermete Zacconi
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Ermete Zacconi was an Italian stage and film actor and a representative of naturalism and verism in acting. His leading ladies on stage were his wife Ines Cristina Bagni and he had lead roles in plays by William Shakespeare, Carlo Goldoni, Alfred de Musset, Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg. His most notable roles include Lemigrante, Summer Rain, Processo e morte di Socrate. Ermete Zacconi at the Internet Movie Database
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Fosco Giachetti
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Fosco Giachetti was an Italian actor. Fosco Giachetti was the protagonist of Lo squadrone bianco, directed by Augusto Genina, in 1942, he also co-starred in Goffredo Alessandrinis two part Noi Vivi and Addio Kira. Un colpo di pistola by Renato Castellani and Fari nella nebbia by Gianni Franciolini were not as successful as his earlier films, after the war, he returned to the stage. He worked in Spain with Edgar Neville in Nada and in Carne de horca and he had a supporting role in 1959 Dino Risis successful comedy Il mattatore. In 1964, he appeared in an adaptation of A. J. Cronins novel, in 2003, the Galleria Fosco Giachetti in Sesto Fiorentino was opened in his honor. Venice Film Festival Best Actor for Bengasi,1942 Fosco Giachetti at the Internet Movie Database
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Giachetti with Vera Carmi in Labbra serrate (1942)
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Jean Gabin
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Jean Gabin was a French actor and sometime singer. Considered a key figure in French cinema, he starred in classic films including Pépé le Moko, La grande illusion, Le Quai des brumes, La bête humaine, Le jour se lève. Gabin was made a member of the Légion dhonneur in recognition of the important role he played in French cinema, Gabin was born Jean-Alexis Moncorgé in Paris, the son of Madeleine Petit and Ferdinand Moncorgé, a cafe entertainer whose stage name was Gabin. He grew up in the village of Mériel in the Seine-et-Oise département, the son of cabaret entertainers, he attended the Lycée Janson de Sailly. Gabin left school early, and worked as a laborer until the age of 19 when he entered business with a bit part in a Folies Bergères production. He continued performing in a variety of roles before going into the military. He was part of a troupe that toured South America, and his performances started getting noticed, and better stage roles came along that led to parts in two silent films in 1928. Two years later Gabin easily made the transition to talkies, in a 1930 Pathé Frères production titled Chacun sa Chance, playing secondary roles, he made more than a dozen films over the next four years, including films directed by Maurice and Jacques Tourneur. However, he only gained recognition for his performance in Maria Chapdelaine. He was then cast as a hero in a 1936 war drama titled La Bandera. The following year he teamed up with Duvivier again, this time in the highly successful Pépé le Moko and that same year he starred in the Jean Renoir film La Grande Illusion, an anti-war film that ran at a New York City theatre for an unprecedented six months. He was divorced from his wife in 1939. In the late 1930s Gabin was flooded with offers from Hollywood, for a time he turned them all down, after the German occupation of France in 1940, he joined Jean Renoir and Julien Duvivier in the United States. During his time in Hollywood, Gabin began a romance with actress Marlene Dietrich which lasted until 1948. However, his films in America – Moontide and The Impostor, Gabin was a difficult personality, he did serious damage to his Hollywood career while working for RKO Pictures. Scheduled to star in an RKO film, at the last minute he demanded Dietrich be given the co-starring role, after Gabin remained steadfast in his demand, he was fired, and the film project was shelved. Undaunted, he joined General Charles de Gaulles Free French Forces and earned the Médaille militaire, following D-Day, Gabin was part of the military contingent that entered a liberated Paris. He was hired by Marcel Carné in 1946 to star in the film, Les Portes de la Nuit, but his conduct got him fired again
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Gabin and Jacques Prévert in 1961.
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The Musée Jean Gabin.
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Fredric March
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Fredric March was a distinguished stage actor and one of Hollywoods most celebrated, versatile stars of the 1930s and 40s. March is the actor to have won both the Academy Award and the Tony Award twice. March was born in Racine, Wisconsin, the son of Cora Brown Marcher, a schoolteacher, and John F. Bickel, March attended the Winslow Elementary School, Racine High School, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. He appeared on Broadway in 1926, and by the end of the decade, March served in the United States Army during World War I as an artillery lieutenant. March received an Oscar nomination for the 4th Academy Awards in 1930 for The Royal Family of Broadway and he returned to Broadway after a ten-year absence in 1937 with a notable flop Yr. Obedient Husband, but after the success of Thornton Wilders The Skin of Our Teeth he focused as much on Broadway theatre as Hollywood. He also had successes in A Bell for Adano in 1944 and Gideon in 1961. He also starred in films as I Married a Witch and Another Part of the Forest during this period. On March 25,1954, March co-hosted the 26th Annual Academy Awards ceremony from New York City, marchs neighbor in Connecticut, playwright Arthur Miller, was thought to favor March to inaugurate the part of Willy Loman in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Death of a Salesman. In 1957, March was awarded The George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film. March co-starred with Spencer Tracy in the 1960 Stanley Kramer film Inherit the Wind, in which he played a version of famous orator. Marchs Bible-thumping character provided a rival for Tracys Clarence Darrow-inspired character, the recordings were narrated by Charles Collingwood, with March and his wife Florence Eldridge performing dramatic readings from historical documents and literature. Following surgery for cancer in 1970, it seemed his career was over, yet he managed to give one last performance in The Iceman Cometh, as the complicated Irish saloon keeper. March was married to actress Florence Eldridge from 1927 until his death in 1975 and he died from prostate cancer, at age 77, in Los Angeles, California, he was buried at his estate in New Milford, Connecticut. Throughout his life, he and his wife were supporters of the Democratic Party, biographies of March include Fredric March, Craftsman First, Star Second by Deborah C. Peterson, and Fredric March, A Consummate Actor by Charles Tranberg, Fredric March at the Internet Movie Database Fredric March at the Internet Broadway Database Photographs of Fredric March
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Warner Baxter, June Lang and March in The Road to Glory (1936)
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March with Janet Gaynor in A Star is Born (1937)
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Henry Drummond (Tracy, left) and Matthew Harrison Brady (March), right) in Inherit the Wind. Previously, March had taken the role in The Desperate Hours originally offered to Tracy. Both men had also played Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde.
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Alec Guinness
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Sir Alec Guinness CH CBE was an English actor. After an early career on the stage, he was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including The Ladykillers and he is also known for his portrayal of Obi-Wan Kenobi in George Lucass original Star Wars trilogy, receiving a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He also won a BAFTA Award, Golden Globe and a Tony Award, in 1959, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the arts. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960, the Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievement in 1980, Guinness was born at 155 Lauderdale Mansions South, Lauderdale Road, Maida Vale, as Alec Guinness de Cuffe. His mothers maiden name was Agnes Cuff and she was born 8 December 1890 to Edward Cuff and Mary Ann Benfield. On Guinnesss birth certificate, the space for the name shows Agnes de Cuffe. The space for the name says Alec Guinness. The column for name and surname of father is blank, the identity of Guinnesss father has never been officially confirmed. From 1875, under English law, when the birth of a child was registered. Guinness himself believed that his father was a Scottish banker, Andrew Geddes, Geddes occasionally visited Guinness and his mother, posing as an uncle. Guinnesss mother later had a marriage to a British soldier who had survived the Irish War of Independence. His behaviour was erratic or even violent. Guinness first worked writing advertising copy and he appeared at the Albery Theatre in 1936 at the age of 22, playing the role of Osric in John Gielguds successful production of Hamlet. Also in 1936, Guinness signed on with the Old Vic, in 1939, he took over for Michael Redgrave as Charleston in a road-show production of Robert Ardreys Thunder Rock. An early influence from afar was Stan Laurel, whom Guinness admired, Guinness continued playing Shakespearean roles throughout his career. In 1937, he played Aumerle in Richard II and Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice under the direction of John Gielgud and he starred in a 1938 production of Hamlet which won him acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1939, he adapted Great Expectations for the stage, playing Herbert Pocket, one of its viewers was a young British film editor, David Lean, who would later have Guinness reprise his role in Leans 1946 film adaptation of the play. Guinness served in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve in the Second World War, initially as a seaman in 1941 and he commanded a landing craft at the Allied invasion of Sicily, and later ferried supplies and agents to the Yugoslav partisans in the eastern Mediterranean theatre
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Sir Alec Guinness in 1973 by Allan Warren
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The graves of Sir Alec Guinness and his wife in Petersfield, Hampshire
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James Stewart
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James Maitland Stewart, also known as Jimmy Stewart, was an American actor and military officer who is among the most honored and popular stars in film history. A major Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player, Stewart was known for his distinctive drawl and down-to-earth persona, many of the films he starred in have become enduring classics. Stewart was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one in competition for The Philadelphia Story, in 1999, Stewart was named the third greatest male screen legend of the Golden Age of Hollywood by the American Film Institute, behind Humphrey Bogart and Cary Grant. The American Film Institute has also named five of Stewarts films to its list of the 100 best American films ever made. Stewart was born on May 20,1908, in Indiana, Pennsylvania, the son of Elizabeth Ruth Jackson and Alexander Maitland Stewart, Stewart was mainly of Scottish ancestry and was raised as a Presbyterian. He was descended from veterans of the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the eldest of three children, he was expected to continue his fathers business, which had been in the family for three generations. His mother was an excellent pianist but his father discouraged Stewarts request for lessons, when his father accepted a gift of an accordion from a guest, young Stewart quickly learned to play the instrument, which became a fixture offstage during his acting career. As the family grew, music continued to be an important part of family life, Stewart attended Mercersburg Academy prep school, graduating in 1928. He was active in a variety of activities and he played on the football and track teams, was art editor of the KARUX yearbook, and a member of the choir club, glee club, and John Marshall Literary Society. Over the following two summers, he took a job as an assistant with a professional magician and he made his first appearance onstage at Mercersburg, as Buquet in the play The Wolves. A shy child, Stewart spent much of his time in the basement working on model airplanes, mechanical drawing. However, he abandoned visions of being a pilot when his father insisted that instead of the United States Naval Academy he attend Princeton University, Stewart enrolled at Princeton in 1928 as a member of the class of 1932. His acting and accordion talents at Princeton led him to be invited to the University Players, the company had been organized in 1928 and would run until 1932, with Joshua Logan, Bretaigne Windust and Charles Leatherbee as directors. Stewart performed in bit parts in the Players productions in Cape Cod during the summer of 1932, the troupe had previously included Henry Fonda and Margaret Sullavan. Stewart and Fonda became close friends over the summer of 1932 when they shared an apartment with Joshua Logan, the New Yorker commented, Mr. James Stewarts chauffeur. Comes on for three minutes and walks off to a round of spontaneous applause, the play was a moderate success, but times were hard. Many Broadway theaters had been converted to houses and the Depression was reaching bottom. From 1932 through 1934, Stewart later recalled, Id only worked three months, every play I got into folded
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Publicity photo for Call Northside 777, 1948
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After the Thin Man (1936)
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Al Hirschfeld drawing from Yellow Jack (Stewart, upper-left)
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Stewart made four features with Margaret Sullavan, the second of which was The Shopworn Angel (1938)
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Burt Lancaster
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Burton Stephen Burt Lancaster was an American film actor. Initially known for playing tough guys, Lancaster went on to success with more complex. He was nominated four times for Academy Awards and won once for his work in Elmer Gantry in 1960 and he also won a Golden Globe for that performance and BAFTA Awards for The Birdman of Alcatraz and Atlantic City. During the 1950s his production company Hecht-Hill-Lancaster was highly successful, making such as Marty, Trapeze, Sweet Smell of Success, Run Silent, Run Deep. The American Film Institute ranks Lancaster as #19 of the greatest male stars of classic Hollywood cinema, Lancaster was born in Manhattan, New York City, at his parents home at 209 East 106th Street, between Second and Third Avenues, today the site of Benjamin Franklin Plaza. Lancaster was the son of Elizabeth and James Henry Lancaster, who was a mailman, both of his parents were Protestants of working class origin. All of Lancasters grandparents were Ulster immigrants to the United States, the family believed themselves to be related to Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts. Before he graduated from DeWitt Clinton, his mother died of a cerebral hemorrhage, Lancaster was accepted by New York University with an athletic scholarship, but subsequently dropped out. At the age of 19, Lancaster met Nick Cravat, with whom he developed a lifelong partnership, together they learned to act in local theatre productions and circus arts at Union Settlement, one of the citys oldest settlement houses. They formed the acrobat duo Lang and Cravat in the 1930s, however, in 1939, an injury forced Lancaster to give up the profession, with great regret. He then found work, first as a salesman for Marshall Fields. He served with General Mark Clarks Fifth Army in Italy from 1943–45, although initially unenthusiastic about acting, after returning to New York from his Army service, Lancaster auditioned for a Broadway play and was offered a role. Wallis, who signed him to an eight-movie contract, Lancasters first filmed movie was Desert Fury. Fortunately for Lancaster, producer Mark Hellinger approached him to star in The Killers, in 1946, the tall, muscular actor won significant acclaim and appeared in two more films the following year. Subsequently, he played in a variety of films, especially in dramas, thrillers, and military and adventure films. In two, The Flame and the Arrow and The Crimson Pirate, a friend from his circus years, Nick Cravat, played a key supporting role, in 1953, Lancaster played one of his best-remembered roles with Deborah Kerr in From Here to Eternity. The American Film Institute acknowledged the iconic status of the scene from film in which Deborah Kerr. The organization named it one of AFIs top 100 Most Romantic Films of all time, Lancaster won the 1960 Academy Award for Best Actor, a Golden Globe Award, and the New York Film Critics Award for his performance in Elmer Gantry
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Lancaster and Nick Cravat, performing with the Federal Theatre Project Circus (1935–38)
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With Deborah Kerr in From Here to Eternity (1953)
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Albert Finney
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Albert Finney is an English actor. Beginning in the theatre, Finney was especially successful in plays by William Shakespeare before he switched to films and he achieved prominence in films in the early 1960s, his debut being The Entertainer, directed by Tony Richardson, who had directed him in theatre plays various times before. He became a leading Free Cinema figure, and has maintained a career in theatre, film. Finney was born in the Charlestown area of Pendleton, Salford, Lancashire, England and he was educated at Tootal Drive Primary School, Salford Grammar School and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. In February 1956 John Fernald, principal of RADA, gave Finney his first major role as Shakespeares Troilus in the Vanbrugh Theatres student production of Ian Dallas play The Face of Love. Finney graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, then in 1959 he appeared at Stratford in Coriolanus, replacing a sick Laurence Olivier. This led to a series of Angry Young Man roles in kitchen sink dramas, before he starred in the Academy Award-winning 1963 film Tom Jones. Prior to this, Finney had been chosen to play T. E. Lawrence in David Leans production of Lawrence of Arabia after a successful, however, Finney baulked at signing a multi-year contract for producer Sam Spiegel and chose not to accept the role. The success of Tom Jones saw British exhibitors vote Finney the ninth most popular star at the box office in 1963, after Charlie Bubbles, which he also directed, his film appearances became less frequent as he focused more on acting on stage. During this period, one of his film roles was as Agatha Christies Belgian master detective Hercule Poirot in the 1974 film Murder On The Orient Express. Finney became so known for the role that he complained that it typecast him for a number of years. People really do think I am 300 pounds with a French accent he said and he also sings in Tim Burtons Corpse Bride. In the latter he played a frozen, disembodied head, Finney also made an appearance at Roger Waters The Wall Concert in Berlin, where he played The Judge during the performance of The Trial. Even with his success on the big screen, Finney never abandoned his stage performances and he continued his association with the National Theatre Company at the Old Vic in London, where he performed in the mid-1960s in Shakespeares Much Ado About Nothing and Chekovs The Cherry Orchard. He won an Olivier Award for Orphans in 1986 and has won three Evening Standard Theatre Awards for Best Actor, in 2002 his critically acclaimed portrayal of Winston Churchill in The Gathering Storm won him BAFTA and Emmy awards as Best Actor. He also played the role in the television series My Uncle Silas, based on the short stories by H. E. Bates, about a roguish. The show ran for two series from 2000 until 2003, by his first wife, Jane Wenham, he has a son, Simon, who works in the film industry as a camera operator. From 1970 to 1978, he was married to French actress Anouk Aimée, in May 2011, Finney disclosed that he had been receiving treatment for kidney cancer
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Albert Finney in 1966
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Tom Courtenay
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He received a knighthood in February 2001 for his service to cinema and theatre. Courtenay was born in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, the son of Annie Eliza and Thomas Henry Courtenay and he attended Kingston High School and studied drama at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. In 1963, he played that same role in the film version. He said of Albert Finney, We both have the problem, overcoming the flat harsh speech of the North. Courtenays film debut was in 1962 with Private Potter, directed by Finnish-born director Caspar Wrede, for these performances Courtenay was awarded the 1962 BAFTA Award for most promising newcomer and the 1963 BAFTA Award for best actor respectively. For his role as the revolutionary leader Pasha Antipov in Doctor Zhivago, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Despite being catapulted to fame by the films, Courtenay has said that he has not particularly enjoyed film acting. In 1968 Courtenay began an association with Manchester when he played in The Playboy of the Western World for the Century Theatre at Manchester University directed by Michael Elliott. His first roles for the Royal Exchange were as Faulkland in Richard Brinsley Sheridans The Rivals, since then he has played a variety of roles, including in 1999 the leading role in the theatres production of King Lear, and in 2001 Uncle Vanya. Courtenays working relationship with Wrede returned to film when he played the role in the latters 1970 production of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. His best known film role since then was in The Dresser, both Courtenay and Finney received nominations for Best Actor in the 1984 Academy Awards for their roles, losing to Robert Duvall. He played the father of Derek Bentley in the 1991 film Let Him Have It, Courtenays television and radio appearances have been relatively few, but have included She Stoops to Conquer in 1971 on BBC and several Ayckbourn plays. He appeared in I Heard the Owl Call My Name on US television in 1973, in 1994 he starred as Quilp opposite Peter Ustinov in a Disney Channel made for television version of The Old Curiosity Shop. Rather unexpectedly, he had a role as the anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski in the 1995 US TV film Young Indiana Jones. In 1998 he teamed with Albert Finney again for the acclaimed BBC drama A Rather English Marriage and he played the role of God, opposite Sebastian Graham-Jones, in Ben Steiners radio play A Brief Interruption, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004. In the same year, he played the role of Stanley Laurel in Neil Brands radio play Stan, also for Radio 4, he played the title role in Nick Leathers The Domino Man of Lancashire and Maurice in Richard Lumsdens Man in the Moon, both broadcast in 2007. Courtenay also appeared in the 2008 Christmas special of the BBC show The Royle Family, playing the role of Daves father and it later transferred to the Comedy Theatre in the West End in London. In 2008 he appeared in the BBC adaptation of Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens, playing William Dorrit, in March 2011, he joined the cast of Gambit, a film starring fellow RADA alumnus Alan Rickman that began filming in May
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Courtenay at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival, February 2015
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Courtenay in Paris at a premiere of Quartet, March 2013.
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Naseeruddin Shah
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Naseeruddin Shah is an Indian film and stage actor and director, and a prominent figure in Indian parallel cinema. Shah has won awards in his career, including three National Film Awards, three Filmfare Awards and an award at the Venice Film Festival. The Government of India has honoured him with the Padma Shri, Shah has also appeared in the Pakistani Film Industry, Lollywood, through the films Khuda Kay Liye and Zinda Bhaag. Shah was born into a Muslim family in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, India and he is a descendant of a 19th-century Sayyid Afghan warlord Jan-Fishan Khan, who participated in the First Anglo-Afghan War and helped the British in the subsequent Indian Rebellion of 1857. Shah did his schooling at St. Anselms Ajmer and St Josephs College and he graduated in arts from Aligarh Muslim University in 1971 and attended National School of Drama in Delhi. He has been successful in mainstream Bollywood cinema as well as in Parallel Cinema and he has appeared in international films, notably playing Captain Nemo in the Hollywood adaptation The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. His elder brother, Lt. General Zameerud-din Shah PVSM, SM, VSM, is current Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University, shahs nephew Salim Shah is also a TV and film actor. Shah has acted in such as Nishant, Aakrosh, Sparsh, Mirch Masala, Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Ata Hai, Trikal, Bhavni Bhavai, Junoon, Mandi. Ardh Satya, Katha, and Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro, to name a few, Shah became active in mainstream Bollywood cinema with the 1980 film Hum Paanch. In 1982, he acted in the film Dil Aakhir Dil Hai directed by Ismail Shroff, One of his most important films, Masoom, was released in 1983 and was shot at St Josephs College, Nainital. His next major success in films was the 1986 multi-starrer film Karma where he acted alongside veteran Dilip Kumar. Starring roles for such as Ijaazat, Jalwa and Hero Hiralal followed. In 1988 he played opposite his wife Ratna Pathak as Inspector Ghote and he acted with Aditya Pancholi in films like Maalamaal and Game. He has acted in several multi-starrer Bollywood films as well, such as Ghulami, Tridev, in 1994, he acted as the villain in Mohra, his 100th film as an actor. He forayed into Malayalam cinema the same year, through T. V. Chandrans critically well acclaimed drama Ponthan Mada, the film portrayed the irrational bonding of a feudal serf and a colonial landlord. He strongly believed that the distinction between art and commercial films had largely reduced, especially with the directors of the former also making commercial films. Shah won critical acclaim by playing the role of Mohit, the coach to a deaf and mute boy in Iqbal. His portrayal of Nemo was very close to the design of the graphic novel and he worked in Vishal Bhardwajs Indian adaptation of Shakespeares Macbeth, titled Maqbool, in 2003, and Rajiv Rais Asambhav opposite Arjun Rampal and Priyanka Chopra in 2004
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Naseeruddin Shah in 2011
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Naseeruddin Shah playing Pozzo in Motley's production of Waiting for Godot at The Doon School, 2009.
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Naseeruddin Shah with wife Ratna Pathak Shah, 2010 at Lahore.
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Carlo Delle Piane
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Carlo Delle Piane is an Italian film actor. He has appeared in more than 100 films since 1948, in 1984 he won the Nastro dArgento for Best Actor for his performance in Una gita scolastica. For his role in Regalo di Natale he won the Volpi Cup at the 43rd Venice International Film Festival, Carlo Delle Piane at the Internet Movie Database Carlo Delle Piane at AllMovie
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Delle Piane in Teresa the Thief (1972)
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Hugh Grant
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Hugh John Mungo Grant is an English actor and film producer. Grant has received a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, and an Honorary César for his work and his films have earned more than US$2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide. Grant used this role as a frequent cinematic persona during the 1990s, delivering comic performances in films such as Mickey Blue Eyes. By the turn of the 21st century, Grant had established himself as a leading man, Grant has expanded his oeuvre with critically acclaimed turns as a cad in Bridget Joness Diary, About a Boy, and American Dreamz. Grant later played against type with multiple roles in the epic sci-fi drama film. Hes also known for appearing in period pieces such as The Remains of the Day, Sense and Sensibility, within the film industry, Grant is cited as an anti-star who approaches his roles like a character actor, and attempts to make his acting appear spontaneous. Hallmarks of his skills include a nonchalant touch of irony/sarcasm and studied physical mannerisms, as well as his precisely-timed dialogue delivery. The entertainment medias coverage of Grants life off the big screen has often overshadowed his work as an actor, Grant has been outspoken about his antipathy towards the profession of acting, and in his disdain towards the culture of celebrity and hostility towards the media. In a career spanning 30 years, Grant has repeatedly claimed that acting was not his true calling, Grant was born at Charing Cross Hospital in Hammersmith, London, the second son of Fynvola Susan MacLean and Captain James Murray Grant. Grants grandfather, Colonel James Murray Grant, DSO was decorated for bravery, genealogist Antony Adolph has described Grants family history as a colourful Anglo-Scottish tapestry of warriors, empire-builders and aristocracy. Grants father was trained at Sandhurst and served with the Seaforth Highlanders for eight years in Malaya, Germany and Scotland. He ran a firm, pursued hobbies such as golf and painting watercolours, and raised his family in Chiswick, west London. In September 2006, a collection of Capt, Grants paintings was hosted by the John Martin Gallery in a charity exhibition, organised by his famous son, called James Grant,30 Years of Watercolours. His mother worked as a schoolteacher and taught Latin, French and she died at the age of 65,18 months after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Grants accent is an inheritance from his mother, and, on Inside the Actors Studio in 2002, both his parents were children of military families, but, despite his parents backgrounds, Grant has stated that his family was not always affluent while he was growing up. Grant spent his childhood summers shooting and hunting with his grandfather in Scotland, Grant has an older brother, James, living in Portugal. Grant started his education at Hogarth Primary School in Chiswick but then moved to St Peters Primary School in Hammersmith, from 1969 to 1978, he attended the independent Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith on a scholarship and played 1st XV rugby, cricket and football for the school. He also represented Latymer on the quiz show, Top of the Form
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Grant during his Wetten, dass..? appearance in November 2014
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Grant at the Cannes film festival, 1997
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Grant in his breakthrough performance as Richard Curtis 's alter ego, Charles, in Four Weddings and a Funeral
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Giving his most critically acclaimed performance to date, Grant plays pool as Will Freeman in About a Boy.
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Joe Mantegna
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Joseph Anthony Joe Mantegna, Jr. is an American actor, producer, writer, director, and voice actor. Mantegna began his career on the stage in 1969 with the musical Hair, expanding to film and television, Mantegna is best known for his roles in box office hits including Three Amigos, The Godfather Part III, Forget Paris and Up Close & Personal. As of the 2015–2016 TV season, he stars in the CBS television series Criminal Minds as FBI Supervisory Special Agent David Rossi. Since the 1991 episode Bart the Murderer, Mantegna has had a role on the animated series The Simpsons as mob boss Fat Tony. Mantegna has starred in the series First Monday and Joan of Arcadia and he earned Emmy Award nominations for his roles in three different miniseries, The Last Don, The Rat Pack, and The Starter Wife. He has also served as producer for various movies and television movies, including Corduroy, Hoods. Parkers fictional detective Spenser in three movies between 1999 and 2001, and has narrated several audiobook readings of the Spenser novels. An avid firearm enthusiast, he is the host of MidwayUSAs Gun Stories on the cable television Outdoor Channel and his daughter Gia Mantegna is also an actor. Mantegna was raised Catholic and attended J. Sterling Morton High School East in Cicero and he studied acting at the Goodman School of Drama at DePaul University from 1967 to 1969. While still a man in Chicago, he played bass in a band called The Apocryphals, which later played with another local group, The Missing Links. Mantegna is still close to the original members of Chicago. Mantegna made his debut in the 1969 stage production of Hair. He co-wrote Bleacher Bums, a play which was first performed at Chicagos Organic Theater Company. In the movie Xanadu, he had a role which was cut, although since his name is in the films credits. Mantegna won a Tony award for his portrayal of Richard Roma in David Mamets play Glengarry Glen Ross and he has had a long and successful association with Mamet, appearing in a number of his works. Mantegna made his film debut in Medusa Challenger. He played womanizing dentist Bruce Fleckstein in Compromising Positions and he starred in an episode of The Twilight Zone in 1985 called Shelter Skelter. His other early roles were supporting performances in The Money Pit, Weeds
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Mantegna at an Evening Parade reception at Marine Barracks Washington, Washington, D.C., May 23, 2014.
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Mantegna in May 2008
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Marcello Mastroianni
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Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni, Knight Grand Cross was an Italian film actor. His honours included British Film Academy Awards, Best Actor awards at the Cannes Film Festival, Mastroianni was born in Fontana Liri, a small village in the Apennines in the province of Frosinone, Lazio, and grew up in Turin and Rome. He was the son of Ida and Ottone Mastroianni, who ran a shop. During World War II, after the division into Axis and Allied Italy, he was interned in a loosely guarded German prison camp, from which he escaped to hide in Venice. Mastroianni made his debut as an uncredited extra in Marionette when he was fourteen. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor three times, for Divorce Italian Style, A Special Day and Dark Eyes, Mastroianni, Dean Stockwell and Jack Lemmon are the only actors to have been twice awarded the Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival. Mastroianni won it in 1970 for The Pizza Triangle and in 1987 for Dark Eyes, Mastroianni starred alongside his daughter, Chiara Mastroianni, in Raúl Ruizs Three Lives and Only One Death in 1996. For this performance he won the Silver Wave Award at the Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival and his final film, Voyage to the Beginning of the World, was released posthumously. Mastroianni married Flora Carabella on August 12,1950 and they had one daughter together, Barbara, but eventually separated because of his affairs with younger women. Mastroiannis first serious relationship after the separation was with Faye Dunaway, Dunaway wanted to marry and have children, but Mastroianni, a Catholic, refused to divorce Carabella. In 1971, after three years of waiting for Mastroianni to change his mind, Dunaway left him, Mastroianni had a daughter, Chiara Mastroianni, with French actress Catherine Deneuve, who was nearly 20 years his junior and lived with him for four years in the 1970s. During that time, the couple made four movies together, It Only Happens to Others, La cagna, A Slightly Pregnant Man, according to People magazine, Mastroiannis other lovers included actresses Anouk Aimee, Ursula Andress, Claudia Cardinale and Lauren Hutton. Around 1976, he involved with Anna Maria Tatò, an author. They remained together until his death, Mastroianni died of pancreatic cancer on 19 December 1996 at the age of 72. Both of his daughters, as well as Deneuve and Tatò, were at his bedside, the Trevi Fountain in Rome, associated with his role in Fellinis La Dolce Vita, was symbolically turned off and draped in black as a tribute. At the 1997 Venice Film Festival, Chiara, Carabella and Deneuve tried to block the screening of Tatòs four-hour documentary, Marcello Mastroianni, the festival refused and the movie was shown. The three women reportedly tried to do the thing at Cannes. Tatò said Mastroianni had willed her all rights to his image. com
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Mastroianni in 1991
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River Phoenix
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River Jude Phoenix was an American actor, musician, and activist. He was the brother of Rain Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix, Liberty Phoenix. Phoenixs work encompassed 24 films and television appearances, and his rise to fame led to his status as a teen idol and he began his acting career at age 10, in television commercials. He starred in the science fiction adventure film Explorers, and had his first notable role in 1986s Stand By Me, a coming-of-age film based on the novella The Body by Stephen King. For his performance in the latter, Phoenix garnered enormous praise and won a Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival, along with Best Actor from the National Society of Film Critics. On October 31,1993, Phoenix collapsed and died of combined drug intoxication following an overdose on the sidewalk outside the West Hollywood nightclub The Viper Room at the age of 23. At the time of his death, Phoenix had been in the middle of filming Dark Blood, Phoenix was born on August 23,1970 in Madras, Oregon, the first child of Arlyn Dunetz and John Lee Bottom. Phoenixs parents named him after the river of life from the Hermann Hesse novel Siddhartha, in an interview with People, Phoenix described his parents as hippieish. His mother was born in the Bronx, New York to Jewish parents whose families had emigrated from Russia and his father was a lapsed Catholic from Fontana, California, of English, German, and French ancestry. In 1968, Phoenixs mother left her family in New York City, while hitchhiking in northern California she met John Lee Bottom. They married on September 13,1969, less than a year after meeting, Phoenixs family moved cross country when he was very young. Phoenix was raised in Micanopy, Florida, a suburb of Gainesville. Phoenix has stated that they lived in a desperate situation, Phoenix often played guitar while he and his sister sang on street corners for money and food to support their ever-growing family. Screenwriter Naomi Foner later commented, He was totally, totally without education, I mean, he could read and write, and he had an appetite for it, but he had no deep roots into any kind of sense of history or literature. In 1973 the family joined a controversial Christian new religious movement, called the Children of God, the family had settled in Caracas, Venezuela where the Children of God had stationed them to work as missionaries and fruit gatherers. Although Phoenix rarely talked about the cult, he was quoted by Arlyn Phoenix in a 1994 Esquire article as having said Theyre disgusting, theyre ruining peoples lives. In an interview with Details magazine in November 1991, Phoenix stated he lost his virginity at age four while in the Children of God and he sought to attract rich disciples through sex. In the late 1970s, Rivers family moved in with Arlyns parents in Florida, the family officially changed their name to Phoenix, after the mythical bird that rises from its own ashes, symbolizing a new beginning
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Phoenix at the 61st Academy Awards in March 1989
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Phoenix as young Indiana Jones
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Phoenix and Martha Plimpton on the red carpet at the 61st Academy Awards, 1989
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The Viper Room on Sunset Strip, where Phoenix collapsed on the sidewalk
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Xia Yu (actor)
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Xia Yu is a Chinese actor. Xia Yu was born on October 28,1976 in Qingdao and he was initially discovered by Jiang Wen during his semi-autobiographical film In the Heat of the Sun. Jiang Wen is an actor, director and screenwriter in China. Xia was chosen partly because of resemblance to a young Jiang. Xia wanted to study drama after his first film, he was accepted into the Central Academy of Drama, after completing his studies there, Xia remained an active force in Chinese cinema as well as television, appearing in many films and television series. The second movie of Xia was “Shadow Magic” and this movie proof the strength of Xia and he also appeared in the Hong Kong action film Meng Long. Xia also appeared in two Hollywood movies The Panda Adventure and The Painted Veil, the title of those five Best Actor at international film festivals, Xia Yu has been named one of the top four hottest young actors in China. Xia Yu married actress Yuan Quan in 2009, a decade after their first date as students in Central Academy of Drama and they have appeared in 4 films together, The Law of Romance, Waiting Alone, Shanghai Rumba and Breakup Buddies. Their daughter was born on March 31,2010 and he fell in love with skateboarding after watching it in Gleaming the Cube, a popular movie when he was young. He finds time to board whenever he is between sets shooting a film, in 2003, Xia began to ski and loved it. In 2006, Xia won the championship of a game in amateur group in Lucerne. In the Heat of the Sun - Ma Xiaojun Shadow Magic - Liu Jinglun Roots and Branches China, The Panda Adventure - Quentin Young Where Have All the Flowers Gone - Gao Ju Cala, My Dog
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At the 2007 Shanghai International Film Festival
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Liam Neeson
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Liam John Neeson, OBE, is an actor from Northern Ireland. In 1976, he joined the Lyric Players Theatre in Belfast for two years and he then acted in the Arthurian film, Excalibur. Between 1982 and 1987, Neeson starred in five films, most notably alongside Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins in The Bounty and Robert De Niro and he landed a leading role alongside Patrick Swayze in Next of Kin. He rose to prominence when he starred in the role in Steven Spielbergs 1993 Oscar winner Schindlers List. Empire magazine ranked Neeson among both the 100 Sexiest Stars in Film History and The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time. Neeson was born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, the son of Katherine Kitty Neeson, a cook, and Bernard Barney Neeson and he was raised as a Roman Catholic and was named Liam after the local priest. He said growing up as a Catholic in a predominately Protestant town made him cautious, the third of four siblings, he has three sisters, Elizabeth, Bernadette and Rosaleen. At age nine, Neeson began boxing lessons at the All Saints Youth Club, Neeson first stepped on stage at age 11 after his English teacher offered him the lead role in a school play, which he accepted because the girl he was attracted to was starring in it. He continued to act in school productions over the following years, Neesons interest in acting and decision to become an actor was also influenced by minister Ian Paisley, into whose Free Presbyterian church Neeson would sneak. Neeson has said of Paisley, He had a magnificent presence and it was acting, but it was also great acting and stirring too. In 1971, Neeson was enrolled as a physics and computer science student at Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland, at Queens, he discovered a talent for football and was spotted by Seán Thomas at Bohemian F. C. There was a trial in Dublin and Neeson played one game as a substitute against Shamrock Rovers F. C. After leaving the university, Neeson returned to Ballymena where he worked in a variety of casual jobs and he also attended teacher training college for two years in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, before again returning to his hometown. In 1976, Neeson joined the Lyric Players Theatre in Belfast where he performed for two years and he got his first film experience in 1977, playing Jesus Christ and Evangelist in the religious film Pilgrims Progress. Neeson moved to Dublin in 1978 after he was offered a part in Ron Hutchinsons Says I, Says He and he acted in several other Project productions and joined the Abbey Theatre. In 1980, filmmaker John Boorman saw him on stage as Lennie Small in Of Mice and Men and offered him the role of Sir Gawain in the Arthurian film, Excalibur. After Excalibur, Neeson moved to London, where he continued working on stage, in small budget films and he lived with the actress Helen Mirren at this time, whom he met working on Excalibur. Between 1982 and 1987, Neeson starred in five films, most notably alongside Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins in 1984s The Bounty and Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons in 1986s The Mission
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Neeson at the 2012 Deauville American Film Festival
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Neeson talking to Ralph Fiennes at the Madison Square Garden U2 concert, 1 October 2005
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Neeson attending the TIFF premiere of The Other Man, on 7 September 2008.
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Chris Penn
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Christopher Shannon Chris Penn was an American film and television actor. Penn was found dead in his condominium on January 24,2006, an autopsy revealed the primary cause for his death was nonspecific cardiomyopathy. Penn was born in Los Angeles, California, the youngest of three born to Leo Penn, an actor and director, and Eileen Ryan, an actress. His paternal grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Lithuania and Russia, and his mother was a Roman Catholic of Italian, according to Penns mother, Leo Penn may have had distant Sephardic ancestry, as the familys surname was originally Piñón. His brothers are actor Sean Penn and musician Michael Penn, Penn started acting at the age of 12 at the Loft Studio and made his film debut in 1979’s Charlie and the Talking Buzzard, starring Christopher Hanks. In 1983, he was featured in Francis Ford Coppola’s youth drama Rumble Fish and appeared in the high school football drama All the Right Moves as the best friend of Tom Cruises character. Penn, who had a belt in karate, appeared in the 1989 motion picture Best of the Best as Travis Brickley. The film also starred James Earl Jones, Sally Kirkland, Eric Roberts, Phillip Rhee, Penn reprised his role in 1993s Best of the Best 2. Two of his memorable performances were in Reservoir Dogs as Nice Guy Eddie. In 1996 he won the award for Best Supporting Actor at the Venice Film Festival for The Funeral, in 1990, Chris was cast in a season one episode of The Young Riders. He appeared as a villain and was killed by Josh Brolins character William Hickok, in Robert Altmans 1993 ensemble film Short Cuts, Penn played a troubled swimming pool cleaner who is disturbed by his wifes profession to which Penns character is sometimes obliged to listen. He also appeared as a guy in a criminal conspiracy in Murder by Numbers. Penn appears in Jay-Zs Can I Get A.1998 music video as a bartender who mixes drinks and dances. In 2001, Penn was meant to appear in American Pie 2 as Steve Stiflers father, however, they appeared on the deleted scene reel from the movies DVD. Penn then went on to co-star opposite Peter Berg as the brothers of Corky in Corky Romano. In 2003, he appeared on the Will & Grace episode, Fanilow, as Barry Manilows tour director, Penn was featured in an episode of the television crime drama Law & Order, Criminal Intent during the 2004–2005 season. He was also featured on the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto, Penn played himself on a 2005 episode of the HBO series Entourage. He appeared in The Darwin Awards, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival one day after his death, Penn was found dead in his Santa Monica condominium on January 24,2006, aged 40
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Chris Penn in Corky Romano (2001)
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Wesley Snipes
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Wesley Trent Snipes is an American actor, film producer and martial artist. His prominent film roles include New Jack City, White Men Cant Jump and he formed a production company, Amen-Ra Films, in 1991, and a subsidiary, Black Dot Media, to develop projects for film and television. He has been training in martial arts since the age of 12, earning a 5th dan black belt in Shotokan Karate, Snipes was born in Orlando, Florida, the son of Maryann, a teachers assistant, and Wesley Rudolph Snipes, an aircraft engineer. He grew up in the Bronx, New York and he attended the High School of Performing Arts of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts but moved back to Florida before he could graduate. After graduating from Jones High School in Orlando, Snipes returned to New York and he also attended Southwest College in Los Angeles, California. At the age of 23, Snipes was discovered by an agent while performing in a competition and he made his film debut in the 1986 Goldie Hawn vehicle Wildcats. Later that year, he appeared on the TV show Miami Vice as a pimp in the episode Streetwise. In 1987, he appeared as Michael Jacksons nemesis in the Martin Scorsese–directed music video Bad and that same year, Snipes was also considered for the role of Geordi La Forge in the TV series Star Trek, The Next Generation, but the role eventually went to LeVar Burton. Snipes performance in the music video Bad caught the eye of director Spike Lee, Snipes turned down a small role in Lees Do the Right Thing for the larger part of Willie Mays Hayes in Major League, beginning a succession of box-office hits for Snipes. Lee would later cast Snipes as the jazz saxophonist Shadow Henderson in Mo Better Blues and he then played Thomas Flanagan in King of New York opposite Christopher Walken. He played the drug lord Nino Brown in New Jack City and he also played a drug dealer in the 1994 film Sugar Hill. Julie Newmar where he played a drag queen, Snipes has appeared in dramas like The Waterdance and Disappearing Acts. In 1997, he won the Best Actor Volpi Cup at the 54th Venice Film Festival for his performance in New Line Cinemas One Night Stand, in 1998, Snipes had his largest commercial success with Blade, which has grossed over $150 million worldwide. The film turned into a series and he also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, SUNY/Purchase. In 2005, Snipes sued New Line Cinema, and David S. Goyer, director of Blade, Trinity, the suit was later settled, but no details were released. He has discussed reprising the role of Blade as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and he later appeared in The Contractor, filmed in Bulgaria and the UK, Gallowwalkers, released in 2012, and Game Of Death. Snipes was originally slated to play one of the four leads in Spike Lees 2008 war film Miracle at St. Anna but had to leave the film due to tax problems, his role eventually went to Derek Luke. Snipes made a performance in Brooklyns Finest as Casanova Caz Phillips
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Snipes in September 2009
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Snipes signing autographs at Comic Con International in 2010
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Snipes with Ethan Hawke in 2009.
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Snipes with wife Nakyung Park in 2009.
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Sean Penn
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Sean Justin Penn is an American actor, filmmaker, and political activist. He has won two Academy Awards, for his roles in the mystery drama Mystic River and the biopic Milk, Penn began his acting career in television with a brief appearance in episode 112 of Little House on the Prairie, directed by his father Leo Penn. He became known as a prominent leading actor with the drama Dead Man Walking, for which he earned his first Academy Award nomination, Penn made his feature film directorial debut with The Indian Runner, followed by the drama film The Crossing Guard and the mystery film The Pledge. Penn directed one of the 11 segments of 110901 September 11 and his fourth feature film, the biographical drama survival movie Into the Wild, garnered critical acclaim and two Academy Award nominations. In January 2016, Penn published an interview with Mexican drug lord Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán in Rolling Stone, Penn was born in Los Angeles County, California, to actor and director Leo Penn, and actress Eileen Ryan. His older brother is musician Michael Penn and his younger brother, actor Chris Penn, died in 2006. His paternal grandparents were Ashkenazi Jewish emigrants from Lithuania and Russia, while his mother is a Catholic of Irish, Penn was raised in a secular home and attended Santa Monica High School. He began making films with some of his childhood friends, including actors Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen. Penn appeared in a 1974 episode of the Little House on the Prairie television series as an extra when his father, Leo, Penn launched his film career with the action-drama Taps, where he played a military high school cadet. A year later, he appeared in the hit comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High, in the role of surfer-stoner Jeff Spicoli, next, Penn appeared as Mick OBrien, a troubled youth, in the drama Bad Boys. The role earned Penn favorable reviews and jump-started his career as a serious actor, Penn played Andrew Daulton Lee in the film The Falcon and the Snowman, which closely followed an actual criminal case. Lee was a drug dealer by trade, convicted of espionage for the Soviet Union and originally sentenced to life in prison. Penn starred in the drama At Close Range which received critical acclaim and he stopped acting for a few years in the early 1990s, having been dissatisfied with the industry, and focused on making his directing debut. The Academy Awards first recognized his work in nominating him for playing a racist murderer on death row in the drama film Dead Man Walking and he was nominated again for his comedic performance as an egotistical jazz guitarist in the film Sweet and Lowdown. He received his nomination after portraying a mentally handicapped father in I am Sam. Penn finally won for his role in the Boston crime-drama Mystic River, in 2004, Penn played Samuel Bicke, a character based on Samuel Byck, who in 1974 attempted and failed to assassinate President Richard Nixon, in The Assassination of Richard Nixon. The same year, he was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts, next, Penn portrayed governor Willie Stark in an adaptation of Robert Penn Warrens classic 1946 American novel All the Kings Men. The film was a critical and commercial failure, named by a 2010 Forbes article as the biggest flop in the last five years, the film also earned Penn his fifth nomination and second win for the Academy Award for Best Actor
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Penn at the premiere of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, 2013 New York Film Festival
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At the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.
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Penn with Robin Wright in September 2006
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Penn at an anti-war rally in Washington, D.C., January 27, 2007
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Ben Affleck
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Benjamin Geza Affleck-Boldt is an American actor and filmmaker. Born in Berkeley, California and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he acting as a child. He later appeared in the independent coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused and various Kevin Smith films including Chasing Amy, Affleck gained recognition when he and childhood friend Matt Damon won the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Good Will Hunting. He then established himself as a man in studio films including the disaster drama Armageddon, the war epic Pearl Harbor. After a career downturn, during which he appeared in Daredevil and Gigli, Afflecks directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone, which he also co-wrote, was well received. He then directed, co-wrote, and starred in the crime drama The Town. For the political thriller Argo, which he directed and starred in, Affleck won the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Director, and the Golden Globe, BAFTA and he starred in the psychological thriller Gone Girl. In 2016, Affleck began playing Batman in the DC Extended Universe, Affleck is the co-founder of the Eastern Congo Initiative, a grantmaking and advocacy-based nonprofit organization. He is also a member of the Democratic Party. His younger brother is actor Casey Affleck, with whom he has worked on films including Good Will Hunting. Following high-profile relationships with Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer Lopez, Affleck married Jennifer Garner in 2005, Affleck and Garner have three children together, and announced their separation in 2015. Benjamin Geza Affleck-Boldt was born on August 15,1972 in Berkeley and his family moved to Massachusetts when he was two, living in Falmouth, where his brother Casey was born, before settling in Cambridge. His mother, Christopher Anne Chris, was a Radcliffe College- and his father, Timothy Byers Affleck, worked sporadically as an auto mechanic, a carpenter, a bookie, an electrician, a bartender, and a janitor at Harvard University. In the mid-1960s, he had been an actor and stage manager with the Theater Company of Boston, during Afflecks childhood, his father had a self-described severe, chronic problem with alcoholism and Affleck has recalled him drinking all day, every day. His parents divorced when he was 12, and he and his brother lived with their mother. In the following years, his fathers life hit the skids, when Affleck was 16, his father moved to Indio, California to enter a rehabilitation facility and, after gaining sobriety, worked as an addiction counselor at the facility for many years. Affleck was raised in an active, liberal household. He and his brother were surrounded by people who worked in the arts, were taken to the theater by their mother
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Affleck at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con International
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Affleck visiting the USS Enterprise (CVN‑65) in Manama, Bahrain in 2003
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Affleck on the set of The Town in 2010
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Theo Chocolate, stocked by Whole Foods, is made with Congolese cocoa beans
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Colin Firth
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Colin Andrew Firth, CBE is an English actor. His films have grossed more than $3 billion from 42 releases worldwide, Firth has received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, two BAFTA Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as the Volpi Cup. Firths most notable and acclaimed role to date has been his 2010 portrayal of King George VI in The Kings Speech and this led to roles in films such as The English Patient, Bridget Joness Diary, Shakespeare in Love, and Love Actually. In 2009, Firth received widespread acclaim for his leading role in A Single Man, for which Firth gained his first Academy Award nomination. Firth starred in the spy movie Kingsman, The Secret Service in 2014. In 2011, Firth received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and he was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Winchester in 2007, and was made a Freeman of the City of London in 2012. He has campaigned for the rights of tribal peoples, and is a member of Survival International. Firth has also campaigned on issues of asylum seekers, refugees rights, and he commissioned and is credited as a co-author on a scientific paper on a study into the differences in brain structure between people of differing political orientations. Firth was born in the village of Grayshott, Hampshire, to parents who were both academics and teachers, Firth is the eldest of three children, he has a sister, Kate, an actress and voice coach, and a brother, Jonathan, an actor. Both of his parents were raised in India, because his grandparents, Congregationalist ministers, and his paternal grandfather. As a child, Firth travelled a lot due to his parents work and he also lived in St. Louis, Missouri when he was 11, which he has described as a difficult time. On returning to England, he attended the Montgomery of Alamein Secondary School and he was still an outsider and was the target of bullying. To counter this, he adopted the working class Hampshire accent. By the time he was 14, Firth had already decided to be a professional actor, until further education, he was not academically inclined, later saying in an interview, I didnt like school. I just thought it was boring and mediocre and nothing they taught me seemed to be of any interest at all, after his sixth form years, Firth moved to London and joined the National Youth Theatre. There, he made contacts in the acting world, from which he got a job in the wardrobe department at the National Theatre. From there, he went on to study at Drama Centre London, in 1984, Firth made his film debut in the role of Tommy Judd, Guy Bennetts straight, Marxist school friend in the screen adaptation of the play. This was the start of longstanding public feud between Firth and Everett, which was later resolved and he starred with Sir Laurence Olivier in Lost Empires, a TV adaptation of J. B
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Firth at the 2014 San Diego Comic Con International
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Firth at the 2009 Venice Film Festival
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Firth with Helena Bonham Carter filming The King's Speech in December 2009, which became his most critically acclaimed role to date.
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Firth with wife Livia Firth in January 2011
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Philip Seymour Hoffman
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Philip Seymour Hoffman was an American actor, director, and producer of film and theater. Best known for his supporting and character roles – typically lowlifes, bullies. Drawn to theater as a teenager, Hoffman studied acting at New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts and he began his screen career in a 1991 episode of Law & Order and started to appear in films in 1992. He began to play leading roles, and for his portrayal of the author Truman Capote in Capote. The feature Jack Goes Boating marked his debut as a filmmaker, Hoffman was also an accomplished theater actor and director. He joined the off-Broadway LAByrinth Theater Company in 1995, where he directed, produced and his performances in three Broadway plays – True West, Long Days Journey into Night, and Death of a Salesman – all led to Tony Award nominations. Hoffman struggled with drug addiction as an adult, and relapsed in 2013 after many years of sobriety. Hoffman was born on July 23,1967, in the Rochester suburb of Fairport and his mother, Marilyn OConnor, came from nearby Waterloo and worked as an elementary school teacher before becoming a lawyer and eventually a family court judge. His father, Gordon Stowell Hoffman, was a native of Geneva, New York, along with one brother, Gordy, Hoffman had two sisters, Jill and Emily. Hoffman was baptized a Roman Catholic and attended Mass as a child and his parents divorced when he was nine, leaving the children to be raised primarily by their mother. Hoffmans childhood passion was sports, particularly wrestling and baseball, and he recalled in 2008, I was changed – permanently changed – by that experience. It was like a miracle to me, Hoffman developed a love for the theater, and proceeded to attend regularly with his mother, who was a lifelong enthusiast. He remembered that productions of Quilters and Alms for the Middle Class, at the age of 14, Hoffman suffered a neck injury that ended his sporting activity, and he began to consider acting. Encouraged by his mother, he joined a club. Acting gradually became a passion for Hoffman, I loved the camaraderie of it, the people, and thats when I decided it was what I wanted to do. At the age of 17, he was selected to attend the 1984 New York State Summer School of the Arts in Saratoga Springs, Miller later commented on Hoffmans popularity at the time, We were attracted to the fact that he was genuinely serious about what he was doing. Hoffman applied for several drama degree programs and was accepted to New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts, between starting on the program and graduating from Fairport High School, he continued his training at the Circle in the Square Theatres summer program. Hoffman had positive memories of his time at NYU, where he supported himself by working as an usher, with friends, he co-founded the Bullstoi Ensemble acting troupe
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Philip Seymour Hoffman at the Paris premiere of The Ides of March in October 2011
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The village of Fairport, New York, Hoffman's hometown
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Hoffman opposite Robert De Niro in Flawless (1999) as drag queen Rusty Zimmerman.
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Hoffman at Cannes in 2002 promoting Punch-Drunk Love
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Joaquin Phoenix
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Joaquín Rafael Phoenix, known formerly as Leaf Phoenix, is a Puerto Rican–born American actor, producer, music video director, musician and activist. For his work as an artist, Phoenix has received a Grammy Award, Phoenix started acting in television shows with his brother River Phoenix and sister Summer Phoenix. His first major release was in the comedy-drama film Parenthood. During his period as an actor he was credited as Leaf Phoenix. He received international attention for his portrayal of Commodus in the 2000 historical epic film Gladiator, to this date, he and River Phoenix hold the distinction of being the first and only brothers to be nominated for acting Academy Awards. Aside from his career, he has also ventured into directing music videos, as well as producing films. He has recorded an album, the soundtrack to Walk The Line, Phoenix is a social activist, lending his support to a number of charities and humanitarian organizations. He is also known for his animal rights advocacy. He has been a vegan since the age of three, and actively campaigns for PETA and In Defense of Animals, Phoenix was born Joaquín Rafael Bottom in the Río Piedras district of San Juan, Puerto Rico, to parents from the U. S. mainland. He is the third of five children, including River, Rain, Liberty and Summer and he also has a half-sister named Jodean from a previous relationship of his fathers. Phoenixs father, John Lee Bottom, originally from Fontana, California, was a lapsed Catholic, of English, Phoenixs mother, Arlyn, was born in the Bronx, New York, to Jewish parents whose families emigrated from Russia and Hungary. Arlyn left her family in 1968 and moved to California, later meeting Phoenixs father while hitchhiking and they married in 1969, then later joined a religious group, the Children of God, and began traveling throughout South America. His parents eventually became disenchanted with the Children of God, they made the decision to leave the group and they changed their last name to Phoenix, after the mythical bird that rises from its own ashes, symbolizing a new beginning. Around this time, Joaquín began calling himself Leaf, desiring to have a name like his siblings. Leaf became the name he used as a actor, until at age 15. He first used it as a credit in his big comeback film To Die For. In order to provide food and financial support for the family, in Los Angeles, his mother started working as a secretary for NBC, and his father worked as a landscaper. He went on to himself as a child actor before deciding to withdraw from acting for a while and travel to Mexico
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Phoenix at the New York Film Festival in 2014
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Phoenix in Cannes for The Yards in May 2000.
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The cast of Her at the New York Film Festival in 2013.
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Adam Driver
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Adam Douglas Driver is an American actor. He made his Broadway debut in Mrs. Warrens Profession, in 2011, he returned to Broadway in Man and Boy and made his feature film debut in J. Edgar. Driver has appeared in supporting roles in a range of films, including Lincoln, Frances Ha. He starred in While Were Young and won the Volpi Cup for his role in Hungry Hearts, as well as several best actor awards for his performance in Jim Jarmuschs Paterson. Driver gained worldwide attention and acclaim for playing the villain Kylo Ren in Star Wars, The Force Awakens and he is also the founder of Arts in the Armed Forces, a nonprofit that performs theater for all branches of the military, both in the US and abroad. Driver was born in Fontana, San Bernardino County, California, on November 19,1983, the son of Nancy Wright, a paralegal and his fathers family is from Arkansas and his mothers family is from Indiana. His stepfather, Rodney G. Wright, is a minister at a Baptist church, when Driver was seven years old, he moved with his mother and older sister April to her hometown of Mishawaka, Indiana, where he grew up. Driver had an upbringing, and sang in choir at church. Shortly after the September 11 attacks, Driver joined the United States Marine Corps and was assigned to Weapons Company, 1st Battalion and he served for two years and eight months with no deployments before breaking his sternum while mountain biking. He was medically discharged before his unit deployed to Iraq for the Iraq War, after leaving the Marine Corps, Driver attended the University of Indianapolis for a year, he transferred to the Juilliard School to study drama. Driver said that he was seen as an intimidating and volatile figure to his classmates and he was a member of the Drama Divisions Group 38, along with his future wife Joanne Tucker. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2009, following his graduation from Juilliard, Driver began acting in New York City, appearing in both Broadway and off-Broadway productions. Like many other aspiring actors, he worked as a busboy. Driver appeared in television shows and short films. He made his film debut in Clint Eastwoods J. Edgar. In 2012, Driver was cast in the current HBO hit comedy-drama series Girls, to date, he has received three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his role. Apart from appearing in the short film Not Waving But Drowning and he played Samuel Beckwith in Steven Spielbergs Lincoln and played Lev Shapiro in Noah Baumbachs Frances Ha. Driver appeared in four films in 2013, Bluebird, The F Word, as musician Al Cody in the Coen Brothers Inside Llewyn Davis, for his role in Hungry Hearts, Driver won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 71st Venice International Film Festival
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Driver at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con International
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Driver with wife Joanne Tucker at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival
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Fabrice Luchini
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Fabrice Luchini is a French stage and film actor. He has appeared in such as Potiche, The Women on the 6th Floor. For his role in the 2015 film Courted he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival, Fabrice Luchini was born in Paris, into an Italian immigrant family from Assisi who were greengrocers. He grew up around the neighbourhood of Goutte dOr in Pariss 18th arrondissement. When he was 13, his mother apprenticed him to a hairdresser in a parlour in Avenue Matignon. His first film role was in Tout peut arriver in 1969 and he then appeared in Éric Rohmers Le Genou de Claire in 1970 playing a small role as an adolescent. He went on to appear in Rohmers Perceval le Gallois and Les Nuits de la pleine lune, in 1990 he appeared in Christian Vincents La Discrète. In 2011, he collaborated in a book by Philippe Muray, also in 2011, he released Fabrice Luchini lit fragments dun discours amoureux through Audiolib. In 2012, he released Variations on CD and DVD on Barclay / Universal Music France Prix Jean Gabin César Award for Best Supporting Actor, for Tout ça. pour ça. Prix du Brigadier Silver George for Best Actor at the 29th Moscow International Film Festival Fabrice Luchini at the Internet Movie Database
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Luchini in February 2014
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Virtual International Authority File
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The Virtual International Authority File is an international authority file. It is a joint project of national libraries and operated by the Online Computer Library Center. The project was initiated by the US Library of Congress, the German National Library, the National Library of France joined the project on October 5,2007. The project transitions to a service of the OCLC on April 4,2012, the aim is to link the national authority files to a single virtual authority file. In this file, identical records from the different data sets are linked together, a VIAF record receives a standard data number, contains the primary see and see also records from the original records, and refers to the original authority records. The data are available online and are available for research and data exchange. Reciprocal updating uses the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting protocol, the file numbers are also being added to Wikipedia biographical articles and are incorporated into Wikidata. VIAFs clustering algorithm is run every month, as more data are added from participating libraries, clusters of authority records may coalesce or split, leading to some fluctuation in the VIAF identifier of certain authority records
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