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Ha Yu (actor)
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Wong Sing, better known by his stage name Ha Yu, is a Hong Kong actor who has been working on the television network TVB since the 1970s. Wong was born in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, in 1946 and he went to Hong Kong in 1962 and worked as a part-time actor during his studies there. Later, he joined the television station Rediffusion as an actor and he switched to another station, TVB, in 1974 and acted in a number of television series produced by TVB, especially in adaptations of wuxia novels by Gu Long. In early 1987, Wong co-hosted the variety show An Evening With the Stars aired on the Taiwanese television network TTV, in 2000, Wong returned to TVB and acted in some television series again. He won Best Supporting Actor at the 2005 TVB Anniversary Awards for his portrayal of a son in the sitcom My Family. In 2007, Wong acted in a few TVB dramas, most notably as Dai Bau in Heart of Greed and he won Best Actor at the 2008 TVB Anniversary Awards for his role as Gam Tai Jo in Moonlight Resonance. The Fun, the Luck & the Tycoon Jianghu Dream Love for All Seasons Dragon Reloaded Kung Fu Mahjong 3 The Vampire Who Admires Me Perfect Rivals ATM
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Ha Yu
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Chinese surname
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Chinese surnames are used by Han Chinese and Sinicized ethnic groups in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, Vietnam and among overseas Chinese communities. In ancient times two types of surnames existed, namely xing or lineage names, and shi or clan names, Chinese family names are patrilineal, passed from father to children. Women do not normally change their surnames upon marriage, except in places with more Western influences such as Hong Kong, traditionally Chinese surnames have been exogamous. The colloquial expressions laobaixing and bǎixìng are used in Chinese to mean ordinary folks, prior to the Warring States period, only the ruling families and the aristocratic elite had surnames. Historically there was also a difference between clan names or xing and lineages names or shi, Xing were surnames held by the noble clans. They generally are composed of a nü radical which has taken by some as evidence they originated from matriarchal societies based on maternal lineages. Another hypothesis has been proposed by sinologist Léon Vandermeersch upon observation of the evolution of characters in oracular scripture from the Shang dynasty through the Zhou, the female radical seems to appear at the Zhou period next to Shang sinograms indicating an ethnic group or a tribe. This combination seems to designate specifically a female and could mean lady of such or such clan, prior to the Qin Dynasty China was largely a fengjian society. In this way, a nobleman would hold a shi and a xing, after the states of China were unified by Qin Shi Huang in 221 BC, surnames gradually spread to the lower classes and the difference between xing and shi blurred. Many shi surnames survive to the present day, according to Kiang Kang-Hu, there are 18 sources from which Chinese surnames may be derived, while others suggested at least 24. The following are some of the sources, Xing, These were usually reserved for the central lineage of the royal family. Of these xings, only Jiang and Yao have survived in their form to modern days as frequently occurring surnames. Royal decree by the Emperor, such as Kuang, state name, Many nobles and commoners took the name of their state, either to show their continuing allegiance or as a matter of national and ethnic identity. These are some of the most common Chinese surnames, name of a fief or place of origin, Fiefdoms were often granted to collateral branches of the aristocracy and it was natural as part of the process of sub-surnaming for their names to be used. An example is Di, Marquis of Ouyangting, whose descendants took the surname Ouyang, there are some two hundred examples of this identified, often of two-character surnames, but few have survived to the present. Names of an ancestor, Like the previous example, this was also a common origin with close to 500 or 600 examples,200 of which are two-character surnames, often an ancestors courtesy name would be used. For example, Yuan Taotu took the character of his grandfathers courtesy name Boyuan as his surname. Sometimes titles granted to ancestors could also be taken as surnames, seniority within the family, In ancient usage, the characters of meng, zhong, shu and ji were used to denote the first, second, third and fourth eldest sons in a family
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Many village names in China are linked to surnames. Pictured is Jiajiayuan (贾家源), i.e. "
Jia Family 's Spring", in Honggang Town,
Tongshan County, Hubei
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Pinyin
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Pinyin, or Hànyǔ Pīnyīn, is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese in mainland China, Malaysia, Singapore, and Taiwan. It is often used to teach Standard Chinese, which is written using Chinese characters. The system includes four diacritics denoting tones, Pinyin without tone marks is used to spell Chinese names and words in languages written with the Latin alphabet, and also in certain computer input methods to enter Chinese characters. The pinyin system was developed in the 1950s by many linguists, including Zhou Youguang and it was published by the Chinese government in 1958 and revised several times. The International Organization for Standardization adopted pinyin as a standard in 1982. The system was adopted as the standard in Taiwan in 2009. The word Hànyǔ means the language of the Han people. In 1605, the Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci published Xizi Qiji in Beijing and this was the first book to use the Roman alphabet to write the Chinese language. Twenty years later, another Jesuit in China, Nicolas Trigault, neither book had much immediate impact on the way in which Chinese thought about their writing system, and the romanizations they described were intended more for Westerners than for the Chinese. One of the earliest Chinese thinkers to relate Western alphabets to Chinese was late Ming to early Qing Dynasty scholar-official, the first late Qing reformer to propose that China adopt a system of spelling was Song Shu. A student of the great scholars Yu Yue and Zhang Taiyan, Song had been to Japan and observed the effect of the kana syllabaries. This galvanized him into activity on a number of fronts, one of the most important being reform of the script, while Song did not himself actually create a system for spelling Sinitic languages, his discussion proved fertile and led to a proliferation of schemes for phonetic scripts. The Wade–Giles system was produced by Thomas Wade in 1859, and it was popular and used in English-language publications outside China until 1979. This Sin Wenz or New Writing was much more sophisticated than earlier alphabets. In 1940, several members attended a Border Region Sin Wenz Society convention. Mao Zedong and Zhu De, head of the army, both contributed their calligraphy for the masthead of the Sin Wenz Societys new journal. Outside the CCP, other prominent supporters included Sun Yat-sens son, Sun Fo, Cai Yuanpei, the countrys most prestigious educator, Tao Xingzhi, an educational reformer. Over thirty journals soon appeared written in Sin Wenz, plus large numbers of translations, biographies, some contemporary Chinese literature, and a spectrum of textbooks
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A school slogan asking elementary students to speak
Putonghua is annotated with pinyin, but without tonal marks.
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In
Yiling,
Yichang,
Hubei, text on road signs appears both in Chinese characters and in Hanyu Pinyin
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Standard Chinese
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Its pronunciation is based on the Beijing dialect, its vocabulary on the Mandarin dialects, and its grammar is based on written vernacular Chinese. Like other varieties of Chinese, Standard Chinese is a language with topic-prominent organization. It has more initial consonants but fewer vowels, final consonants, Standard Chinese is an analytic language, though with many compound words. There exist two standardised forms of the language, namely Putonghua in Mainland China and Guoyu in Taiwan, aside from a number of differences in pronunciation and vocabulary, Putonghua is written using simplified Chinese characters, while Guoyu is written using traditional Chinese characters. There are many characters that are identical between the two systems, in English, the governments of China and Hong Kong use Putonghua, Putonghua Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, and Mandarin, while those of Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia, use Mandarin. The name Putonghua also has a long, albeit unofficial, history and it was used as early as 1906 in writings by Zhu Wenxiong to differentiate a modern, standard Chinese from classical Chinese and other varieties of Chinese. For some linguists of the early 20th century, the Putonghua, or common tongue/speech, was different from the Guoyu. The former was a prestige variety, while the latter was the legal standard. Based on common understandings of the time, the two were, in fact, different, Guoyu was understood as formal vernacular Chinese, which is close to classical Chinese. By contrast, Putonghua was called the speech of the modern man. The use of the term Putonghua by left-leaning intellectuals such as Qu Qiubai, prior to this, the government used both terms interchangeably. In Taiwan, Guoyu continues to be the term for Standard Chinese. The term Putonghua, on the contrary, implies nothing more than the notion of a lingua franca, Huayu, or language of the Chinese nation, originally simply meant Chinese language, and was used in overseas communities to contrast Chinese with foreign languages. Over time, the desire to standardise the variety of Chinese spoken in these communities led to the adoption of the name Huayu to refer to Mandarin and it also incorporates the notion that Mandarin is usually not the national or common language of the areas in which overseas Chinese live. The term Mandarin is a translation of Guānhuà, which referred to the lingua franca of the late Chinese empire, in English, Mandarin may refer to the standard language, the dialect group as a whole, or to historic forms such as the late Imperial lingua franca. The name Modern Standard Mandarin is sometimes used by linguists who wish to distinguish the current state of the language from other northern. Chinese has long had considerable variation, hence prestige dialects have always existed. Confucius, for example, used yǎyán rather than colloquial regional dialects, rime books, which were written since the Northern and Southern dynasties, may also have reflected one or more systems of standard pronunciation during those times
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A poster outside of high school in
Yangzhou urges people to speak Putonghua
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Zhongguo Guanhua (中国官话/中國官話), or Medii Regni Communis Loquela ("Middle Kingdom's Common Speech"), used on the frontispiece of an early Chinese grammar published by
Étienne Fourmont (with
Arcadio Huang) in 1742
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Qingdao
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Qingdao is a city in eastern Shandong Province on the east coast of China. It is the largest city in its province, administered at the sub-provincial level, Qingdao has jurisdiction over six districts and four county-level cities. As of 2014 Qingdao had a population of 9,046,200 with a population of 6,188,100. Lying across the Shandong Peninsula and looking out to the Yellow Sea, it borders Yantai to the northeast, Weifang to the west, qīng in Chinese means cyan or greenish-blue, while dǎo means island. Qingdao is a seaport, naval base, and industrial centre. The worlds longest sea bridge, the Jiaozhou Bay Bridge, links the urban area of Qingdao with Huangdao district. It is also the site of the Tsingtao Brewery, the second largest brewery in China, in 2007, Qingdao was named as among Chinas top ten cities by the Chinese Cities Brand Value Report, which was released at the 2007 Beijing Summit of China Cities Forum. In 2009, Qingdao was named Chinas most livable city by the Chinese Institute of City Competitiveness, jiāoào, former name during the Qing dynasty. Qindao, additional modern name for the area, refers according to locals to the shape of the coastline, Tsingtao, Postal romanization Tsingtau, German name during the concession period, written in German romanization of Chinese. Jiaozhou, a name which refers to the Jiaozhou Bay. Kiaochow, Kiauchau, Kiautschou, romanizations of Jiaozhou, human settlement in the area dates back 6,000 years. The Dongyi nationality, one of the important origins of the Chinese nation, lived here and created the Dawenkou, Longshan, in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the town of Jimo was established, which was then the second largest one in the Shandong region. The area in which Qingdao is located today was named Jiaoao when it was administered by the Qing Dynasty on 14 June 1891, in 1891, the Qing government decided to make coastal Tsingtao a defense base against naval attack and began to improve Qingdaos existing fortifications. German naval officials observed and reported on this Chinese activity during a survey of Jiaozhou Bay in May 1897. Subsequently, German troops seized and occupied the fortification, China conceded the area to Germany the following year, and the Kiautschou Bay concession, as it became known, existed from 1898 to 1914. With an area of 552 square kilometres, it was located in the province of Shandong on the southern coast of the Shandong Peninsula in northern China. Jiaozhou was romanized as Kiaochow, Kiauchau or Kiao-Chau in English, the so-called Marktstrasse was nothing more than the old main street of the Chinese village of Tsingtao, and the buildings lining it were the former homes of fishermen and farmers. Having sold their property, they resettled their homes and fields in the further east
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Clockwise from top left: Qingdao skyline,
St. Michael's Cathedral, Qingdao harbour by night, a temple at the base of
Mount Lao, and
May Fourth Square
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Sketch map of Tsingtao, circa 1906
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Main gate of Chinese munitions depot, taken over by imperial navy, 1898
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Administration/commercial building, harbor area, 1912
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China
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China, officially the Peoples Republic of China, is a unitary sovereign state in East Asia and the worlds most populous country, with a population of over 1.381 billion. The state is governed by the Communist Party of China and its capital is Beijing, the countrys major urban areas include Shanghai, Guangzhou, Beijing, Chongqing, Shenzhen, Tianjin and Hong Kong. China is a power and a major regional power within Asia. Chinas landscape is vast and diverse, ranging from forest steppes, the Himalaya, Karakoram, Pamir and Tian Shan mountain ranges separate China from much of South and Central Asia. The Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, the third and sixth longest in the world, respectively, Chinas coastline along the Pacific Ocean is 14,500 kilometers long and is bounded by the Bohai, Yellow, East China and South China seas. China emerged as one of the worlds earliest civilizations in the basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. For millennia, Chinas political system was based on hereditary monarchies known as dynasties, in 1912, the Republic of China replaced the last dynasty and ruled the Chinese mainland until 1949, when it was defeated by the communist Peoples Liberation Army in the Chinese Civil War. The Communist Party established the Peoples Republic of China in Beijing on 1 October 1949, both the ROC and PRC continue to claim to be the legitimate government of all China, though the latter has more recognition in the world and controls more territory. China had the largest economy in the world for much of the last two years, during which it has seen cycles of prosperity and decline. Since the introduction of reforms in 1978, China has become one of the worlds fastest-growing major economies. As of 2016, it is the worlds second-largest economy by nominal GDP, China is also the worlds largest exporter and second-largest importer of goods. China is a nuclear weapons state and has the worlds largest standing army. The PRC is a member of the United Nations, as it replaced the ROC as a permanent member of the U. N. Security Council in 1971. China is also a member of numerous formal and informal multilateral organizations, including the WTO, APEC, BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the BCIM, the English name China is first attested in Richard Edens 1555 translation of the 1516 journal of the Portuguese explorer Duarte Barbosa. The demonym, that is, the name for the people, Portuguese China is thought to derive from Persian Chīn, and perhaps ultimately from Sanskrit Cīna. Cīna was first used in early Hindu scripture, including the Mahābhārata, there are, however, other suggestions for the derivation of China. The official name of the state is the Peoples Republic of China. The shorter form is China Zhōngguó, from zhōng and guó and it was then applied to the area around Luoyi during the Eastern Zhou and then to Chinas Central Plain before being used as an occasional synonym for the state under the Qing
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Yinxu, ruins of an ancient
palace dating from the
Shang Dynasty (14th century BCE)
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Some of the thousands of life-size
Terracotta Warriors of the
Qin Dynasty, c. 210 BCE
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The
Great Wall of China was built by several dynasties over two thousand years to protect the sedentary agricultural regions of the
Chinese interior from incursions by
nomadic pastoralists of the northern
steppes.
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Central Academy of Drama
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The Central Academy of Drama is a drama school in Beijing, China. It is located on 39 E Mianhua Hutong, Dongcheng Qu, Beijing Shi,100009 The academy was established in April 1950 and it was named by Mao Zedong. It inherited the drama department of Lu Xun Art Academy in Yanan, art school of North China University, many famous Chinese actors, actresses, and directors graduated from the Academy, such as Zhang Ziyi, Jiang Wen, Gong Li. It is regarded as one of the most prestigious schools in China, together with Beijing Film Academy. The Central Academy of Drama is a central subordinate university and it is also an art college directly under the Ministry of Education. It is the highest institution of education in art, the worlds leading art institutions. In Chinese drama, visual arts teaching and research center, the Asian Theater Education Centre is locating there. The Central Academy of Drama has engaged in the practice of drama and it is a world famous higher educational institute of arts, and holds the UNESCO CHAIR ON THEATRE EDUCATION. Note that class year indicates the year, not graduating year. chntheatre. edu. cn/
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The Central Academy of Drama
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In the Heat of the Sun
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In the Heat of the Sun is a 1994 film directed and written by Jiang Wen. This was Jiang Wens first foray into directing after years as a leading man, the film is based on author Wang Shuos novel Wild Beast. The film is set in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution and it is told from the perspective of Ma Xiaojun nicknamed Monkey, who is a teenage boy at the time. Jiang Wen cryptically suggested that famous movement during the Cultural revolution that most older people were sent to the countryside. China was actively preparing for military due to the Vietnam War, since Monkey and his friends were military children, their parents were off for military purposes. Most of the story happens during one summer, so the characters are even more free because there is no school. The events of that summer revolve around Monkeys dalliances with his male friends. However, Mi Lan falls in love with Monkeys friend, Liu Yiku and this film is significant in its unique perspective on the Cultural Revolution. It also acknowledges, as the narrator recalls, that he might have misremembered parts of his adolescence as stated in the prologue, Change has wiped out my memories. I cant tell whats imagined from whats real, as the director offers alternative or imagined versions to some events as people seek to romanticize their youthful memories, critic Raymond Zhou talked about this ambiguity in Jiang Wens movie, Ambiguity is a major characteristic. Though in many details, the movie reflects typical historical phenomenon of Cultural Revolution and that was why this movie was the one and only movie about the Cultural Revolution passed the censors during 1990s. The film was a co-production of three Chinese studios, and $2 million USD of the budget was generated from Hong Kong, derek Elley of Variety said that the film alters some 70% of the original novel and adds a mass of personal memories. The original title of film may be translated as Bright Sunny Days, han Dong - Ma Xiaojun Xia Yu - Ma Xiaojun. The character has the nickname Monkey in the film version, Monkey was the nickname of director Jiang Wen. Derek Elley of Variety says that Xia as Xiaojun has both an uncanny resemblance to Jiang himself and a combination of insolence and innocence. Feng Xiaogang - Mr. Hu, the teacher Geng Le - Liu Yiku Jiang Wen - Ma Xiaojun Ning Jing - Mi Lan Tao Hong - Yu Beibei. Larson states that Yu Beibei is a significant character in the first part of the film, all three enrolled in professional acting schools within a year of the films release and became successful actors. The Chinese version of the Soviet song Moscow Nights features prominently in the film, the film was commercially successful in China
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In the Heat of the Sun
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Jiang Wen
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Jiang Wen is a Chinese film actor, screenwriter, and director. As a director, he is grouped with the Sixth Generation that emerged in the 1990s. Jiang is also known internationally as an actor, having starred with Gong Li in Zhang Yimous debut film Red Sorghum. He is the brother of fellow actor Jiang Wu. Born in Tangshan, Hebei, in a family of military personnel, in 1980, he entered Chinas foremost acting school, the Central Academy of Drama, graduating in 1984. That same year, he started acting both on the stage and in films, in addition to these he also starred in Hibiscus Town, Black Snow, The Emperors Shadow and The Soong Sisters. Apart from Red Sorghum, Jiang also collaborated with Zhang Yimou for the 1997 film Keep Cool, Jiang wrote and directed his first film in 1994, In the Heat of the Sun, adapted from a novel by Wang Shuo. A tale set in the Cultural Revolution, it won for its lead actor Xia Yu the Best Actor prize at the Venice Film Festival. Jiangs second feature film, Devils on the Doorstep, set during the Japanese occupation of China in the early 1940s, in 2001 he was a member of the jury at the 23rd Moscow International Film Festival. Jiang has also acted in television series, such as Da Qing Fengyun, Jiang was married to French actress Sandrine Chenivesse, with whom he has a daughter. He is now married to Chinese actress Zhou Yun and they have two sons, in 2013 he was named as a member of the jury at the 70th Venice International Film Festival. Jiang co-starred in the Star Wars anthology film Rogue One, released in December 2016, in the film, he portrays Baze Malbus, a native of the moon of Jedha who is drawn into the war against the Galactic Empire. Jiangs father is Jiang Hongqi, a veteran of the Korean War. Described as taciturn and bookish, he played a role in his sons 2011 film, Let the Bullets Fly. Jiang Wens mother Gao Yang — “a cheerful. Jiang Wen is the eldest son in the family, in addition to his brother, Jiang Wu, he has a younger sister. Close to his family, Jiang Wen has a bond with his parents, whenever he is on site for shooting or acting. Each movie he makes, he saves the best seats for them, even on artistic composition, he sometimes resorts to them for advice. It was his parents endorsement on the novel of A Native of Beijing in New York that propelled Jiang Wen into his performance
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Jiang Wen at the
Deauville Asian Film Festival in
France in 2008
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Venice Film Festival
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The film festival is part of the Venice Biennale, which was founded by the Venetian City Council in 1895. The film festival has taken place in late August or early September on the island of the Lido, Venice. Screenings take place in the historic Palazzo del Cinema on the Lungomare Marconi, since its inception the Venice Film Festival has grown into one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world. The 74th Venice International Film Festival is scheduled to be held from 30 August to 9 September 2017, the first edition of the Venice Film Festival was carried out from the 6 to the 21 of August in 1932. The festival began with an idea of the president of the Venice Biennale Count Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata and Luciano De Feo, with good reason, the festival was considered the first international event of its type, receiving strong support from authorities. This first edition was held on the terrace of the Hotel Excelsior on the Venice Lido, and at that stage it was not a competitive event. The very first film to be shown in the history of the Festival was Rouben Mamoulians Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the second edition was held two years later, from 1 to 20 of August in 1934. For the first time it included a competition, at least 19 countries took part with over 300 accredited journalists. The Mussolini Cup was introduced for best foreign film and best Italian film, other awards were the Great Gold Medals of the National Fascist Association for Entertainment to best actor and actress. The prize for best foreign film went to Robert J. Flahertys Man of Aran and was a confirmation of the taste of the time for auteur documentaries, starting in 1935, the Festival became a yearly event under the direction of Ottavio Croze. The actors award was renamed Volpi Cup, in 1936 an international jury was nominated for the first time and in 1937 the new Cinema Palace, designed by the architect Luigi Quagliata, was inaugurated. The 1940s represent one of the most difficult moments for the review, the conclusion of the Second World War divides the decade in two. Before 1938 political pressures distorted and ruined the festival, in addition, few countries participated and there was an absolute monopoly of institutions and directors that were members of the Rome-Berlin Axis. The festival resumed full speed in 1946, after the war, with the return of normalcy, Venice once again became a great icon of the film world. In 1947 the festival was held at the Doges Palace, a most magnificent backdrop for hosting a record 90 thousand participants, surely it can be considered one of the greatest editions in the history of the festival. For the next twenty years the festival continued its development and expansion in accordance with the plan set in motion after the war. In 1963 the winds of change blow strongly during Luigi Chiarini’s directorship of the festival, during the years of his presidency, Chiarini aspired to renew the spirit and the structures of the festival, pushing for a total reorganization of the entire system. The social and political unrest of 1968 had strong repercussions on the Venice Bienniale, from 1969 to 1979 no prizes were awarded and the festival returned to the non-competitiveness of the first edition
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Venice Cinema Palace in 2009
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Venice Film Festival
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The
Doge's Palace in
Piazza San Marco hosted the 1947 edition.
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The 65th Venice International Film Festival
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The Painted Veil (2006 film)
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The Painted Veil is a 2006 American drama film directed by John Curran. The screenplay by Ron Nyswaner is based on the 1925 novel of the title by W. Somerset Maugham. Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Toby Jones, Anthony Wong Chau Sang and this is the third film adaptation of the Maugham book, following a 1934 film starring Greta Garbo and Herbert Marshall and a 1957 version called The Seventh Sin with Bill Travers and Eleanor Parker. On a brief trip back to London, earnest, bookish bacteriologist Walter Fane is dazzled by Kitty Garstin and he proposes, she accepts, and the couple honeymoon in Venice. They travel on to Walters medical post in Shanghai, where he is stationed in a government lab studying infectious diseases and they find themselves ill-suited, with Kitty much more interested in parties and the social life of the British expatriates. Kitty meets Charles Townsend, a married British vice consul, when Walter discovers his wifes infidelity, he seeks to punish her by threatening to divorce her on the grounds of adultery, if she doesnt accompany him to a small village in a remote area of China. He has volunteered to treat victims of a cholera epidemic sweeping through the area. Kitty begs to be allowed to him quietly, but he refuses. She hopes Townsend will leave his wife Dorothy and marry her, when she proposes this possibility to Charles, he declines to accept, despite earlier claiming to love Kitty. She is compelled to travel to the inland region with her husband. Walter and Kitty barely speak to other and, except for a cook. After visiting an orphanage run by a group of French nuns, Kitty volunteers her services and she is surprised to learn from the Mother Superior that her husband loves children, especially babies. In this setting, she begins to see him in a new light as she learns what a selfless, when he sees her with the children, he in turn realizes she is not the shallow, selfish person he thought her to be. As Walters anger and Kittys unhappiness subside, their marriage begins to blossom in the midst of the epidemic crisis and she soon learns she is pregnant, but is unsure who the father is. Walter – in love with Kitty again – assures her it doesnt matter, the cholera epidemic takes many victims. He contracts the disease and Kitty lovingly nurses him, but he dies, bereft and pregnant, she leaves China. Five years later, Kitty appears well-dressed and happy in London shopping with her young son Walter and they meet Townsend by chance on the street, and he suggests that Kitty meet with him. Asking young Walter his age, he realizes from the reply that he might be the boys father, Kitty rejects his overtures and walks away
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Theatrical release poster
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Shilpa Shetty
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Primarily known for her work in Hindi films, she has also appeared in Telugu, Tamil and Kannada language films. One of Indias most popular and high-profile celebrities, Shetty is the recipient of numerous accolades, as a teenager, Shetty did a few modelling assignments and appeared in several television commercials. She later made her debut in the 1993 thriller Baazigar that earned her nominations for the Filmfare Awards for Best Supporting Actress. She subsequently earned wide recognition with roles in the 1994 action comedy Main Khiladi Tu Anari. After this initial success in her career, Shettys films fared poorly at the box office for the five years. The 2000 box office hit Dhadkan marked a point in her career, earning her praise. Her acclaimed portrayal of an AIDS patient in the 2004 drama Phir Milenge garnered her several accolades, Shetty became a global figure after winning the 2007 British reality television series Celebrity Big Brother 5, with 63% of the final vote, following an international racism controversy. In addition to acting in films, Shetty is a prominent celebrity endorser for brands and products and she has featured as a celebrity host for the 2008 reality show Bigg Boss 2, and has served as a talent judge for the reality shows Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa and Nach Baliye. Since February 2009, Shetty is the co-owner of the Indian Premier League cricket team Rajasthan Royals and she turned into a film producer with the 2014 action film Dishkiyaaoon. Following a high-profile relationship with actor Akshay Kumar, Shetty married businessman Raj Kundra in 2009 and she was the judge of a TV dance reality show Super Dancer on Sony Entertainment channel. Shilpa Shetty was born to Tuluva community on 8 June 1975 in Mangalore and her father, Surendra and her mother, Sunanda are both manufacturers of tamper-proof water caps for the pharmaceutical industry. Sunanda produced one of Shilpas films, the Indo-Chinese drama The Desire and her younger sister, Shamita Shetty is also a Bollywood actress. They worked together once in the film Fareb, in Mumbai, Shetty attended St. Anthony Girls High School in Chembur, and later attended Podar College in Matunga. A trained Bharatanatyam dancer, she was also sports and was the captain of the volleyball team in schools. She has a belt in karate and is currently a dancesport expert. Shetty continued to pursue her career as a model, until she became an actress. In September 1992, Shetty signed for and began working on her first film - the romantic drama Gaata Rahe Mera Dil - which tells the story of an involved in a love triangle between two men. However, the film went unreleased, which meant that Shettys debut release was her film, Abbas-Mustans thriller Baazigar, alongside Shah Rukh Khan
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Shilpa Shetty on the sets of
Nach Baliye 5 in March 2013
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Shetty dressed as an abused tiger during the PETA campaign advertisement
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Shetty (left) and
Jade Goody (right) arguing in the
Celebrity Big Brother 5 house, 2007.
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Danielle Lloyd (left) and Shetty (right) at
Life in a... Metro premiere at
London 's
Leicester Square, 2007.
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Breakup Buddies
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Breakup Buddies is a 2014 Chinese romantic comedy and road film, directed by Ning Hao. It stars Huang Bo and Xu Zheng as buddies on a wild 3, the film premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on September 7,2014, and was released domestically on September 30,2014. It grossed over $195 million to one of the highest-grossing films in China. Womanizer Hao Yi takes his best friend Geng Hao on a trip to Dali City — Chinas unofficial capital of one night stands — to help him recover from a devastating divorce. Years before, Kang Xiaoyu had traversed the route to Dali where she met her future husband. Derek Elley of Film Business Asia gave the film a 7 out of 10, calling it Ning Haos maturest film so far, the film grossed ¥1.16971 billion at the Chinese box office and a total of US$195.3 million internationally. The Guardians Phil Hoad mentioning the film as one of a few, giant, breakup Buddies at the Internet Movie Database
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Official poster
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Gleaming the Cube
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Gleaming the Cube is an American film released in 1989. It featured Christian Slater as Brian Kelly, a 16-year-old skateboarder investigating the death of his adopted Vietnamese brother, the skating technical advisor for the film was original Z-Boy Stacy Peralta. Tony Hawk and Tommy Guerrero, then members of the Bones Brigade, future lead singer of The Aquabats and creator of Yo Gabba Gabba. Christian Jacobs, also appears in the film as Gremic, the film received a moderate release in the United States from 20th Century Fox. The title of the film refers to the cryptic question Have you ever gleemed inside a cube. that Garry Scott Davis asked Neil Blender in an interview in the December 1983 issue of Thrasher magazine. In the film, Christian Slater’s character defines “gleaming the cube” as “pushing your limits to the edge. ”The DVD contains an egg, by highlighting the skateboard on the main menu. Brian Kelly is a high school student in Orange County. An avid skateboarder along with many of his friends, Brian is frequently at odds with his parents for his reckless behavior. When Vinh discovers an error in VACRFs shipping records, he brings it to his boss Colonel Trac. But when Vinh tries to further, Colonel Trac abruptly fires him. Determined to find out the truth, Vinh sneaks into Westpac Medical Supplies, the responsible for VACRFs shipping. He is then taken to a motel and interrogated by Lawndale and Bobby Nguyen. When Colonel Trac himself arrives at the motel, it is revealed that he and Lawndale are conspirators in a scheme to smuggle illegal weapons and ammunition to Vietnam. Convinced that Vinh poses no threat to their operation, Trac intends to set him free, the next morning, a housekeeper enters the room and finds Vinhs body hanging from a noose, purposely made to look like he committed suicide. After the funeral, Brian finds the same list of medical supplies Vinh was investigating in their room, while looking for someone to translate it, he encounters Bobby Nguyen who immediately begins to follow him. When Nguyen stops to use a pay phone, Brian slips unnoticed into the backseat of his car, in a secluded area, Nguyen meets with Trac and Lawndale and attempts to extort them for $50,000 and plane ticket to Bangkok in exchange for information on Brian. A struggle ensues, and Nguyen is inadvertently shot to death by Lawndale, when Trac and Lawndale depart, Brian flees to notify the police. However, when they arrive at the scene, the authorities find no trace of the crime, Brian confides in Detective Al Lucero, believing that his brother did not commit suicide
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Lucerne
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Lucerne is a city in central Switzerland, in the German-speaking portion of the country. Lucerne is the capital of the canton of Lucerne and part of the district of the same name. With a population of about 81,057 people, Lucerne is the most populous town in Central Switzerland, and a nexus of economics, transportation, culture, and media of this region. The citys urban area consists of 17 municipalities and towns located in three different cantons with a population of about 250,000 people. Owing to its location on the shores of Lake Lucerne and its outflow, one of the citys famous landmarks is the Chapel Bridge, a wooden bridge first erected in the 14th century. The official language of Lucerne is German, but the spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect. After the fall of the Roman Empire beginning in the 6th century, in 1178 Lucerne acquired its independence from the jurisdiction of Murbach Abbey, and the founding of the city proper probably occurred that same year. The city gained importance as a strategically located gateway for the commerce from the Gotthard trade route. By 1290 Lucerne had become a self-sufficient city of size with about 3000 inhabitants. About this time King Rudolph I von Habsburg gained authority over the Monastery of St. Leodegar and its lands, the populace was not content with the increasing Habsburg influence, and Lucerne allied with neighboring towns to seek independence from their rule. Along with Lucerne, the three other forest cantons of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden formed the eternal Swiss Confederacy, known as the Eidgenossenschaft, later the cities of Zürich, Zug and Bern joined the alliance. With the help of these additions, the rule of Austria over the area came to an end, the issue was settled by Lucerne’s victory over the Habsburgs in the Battle of Sempach in 1386. For Lucerne this victory ignited an era of expansion, the city shortly granted many rights to itself, rights which had been withheld by the Habsburgs until then. By this time the borders of Lucerne were approximately those of today, in 1415 Lucerne gained Reichsfreiheit from Emperor Sigismund and became a strong member of the Swiss confederacy. The city developed its infrastructure, raised taxes, and appointed its own local officials, the city’s population of 3000 dropped about 40% due to the Black Plague and several wars around 1350. In 1419 town records show the first witch trial against a male person, among the growing towns of the confederacy, Lucerne was especially popular in attracting new residents. As the confederacy broke up during Reformation after 1520, most cities became Protestant, after the victory of the Catholics over the Protestants in the Battle at Kappel in 1531, the Catholic towns dominated the confederacy. The future, however, belonged to the Protestant cities like Zürich, Bern and Basel, the former prominent position of Lucerne in the confederacy was lost forever
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Cala, My Dog!
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Cala, My Dog. is a 2003 Chinese comedy film directed by Lu Xuechang. The film had its premiere at the 2003 Berlin International Film Festival. The film follows a blue-collar worker in Beijing as he attempts to acquire a dog license in 18 hours for his beloved unlicensed Cala, the film was co-produced by the successful film director Feng Xiaogang. Though a comedy, Cala, My Dog. moves at a subdued pace, despite this, during its world premiere in Berlin, sales agents from Celestial Pictures billed the film as a more zany, traditional comedy. Lao Er lives a life as a laborer in Beijing with his wife Yu Lan, his son Liangliang and his beloved dog. Lao Ers life is thrown into turmoil when the government in an effort to control rabies, decrees that all unlicensed dogs are to be cast out of the city. Lao Er, determined to get his dog back, sends his son to coerce an uncle working in the pound to get the dog back, when that fails, he goes to his neighbor in order to use her dogs license to trick the pound. When that too fails, Lao Er becomes desperate, all dealing with a wife who becomes increasingly jealous over his visits to his neighbor. Ge You as Lao Er, the films protagonist, Lao Er, ding Jiali as Yu Lan, Lao Ers wife. Li Bin as Liangliang, Lao Ers son, Li Qinqin as Yang Li, Lao Ers neighbor and friend, her dog is the mother of Cala. Xia Yu as the police officer, Zhang Dali as Yang Lis ex-husband. The Story of Qiu Ju — Zhang Yimous 1992 satire presents another view on Chinese bureaucracy, admittedly one from an earlier decade. Cala, My Dog. at the Internet Movie Database Cala, My Dog. at AllMovie Cala, My Dog. at Rotten Tomatoes Cala, My Dog. from the Chinese Movie Database
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Electric Shadows
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Electric Shadows is a 2004 Chinese film directed by Xiao Jiang. The English title of the film is the translation for the Chinese term for movies or dian ying. Electric Shadows is the film of director Xiao Jiang, one of the few active female directors in China. Xiao and Cheng Qingsong wrote the screenplay, the film was produced by mainland Chinas Beijing Dadi Century and Hong Kongs Happy Pictures Culture Communication Company. The film begins when a young woman attacks a stranger. When he enters her apartment he discovers an apparent shrine to the 1930s actress Zhou Xuan, the films reverent attitude towards the power of film and particularly classic film has brought it comparison to, or at least reference to Italys Cinema Paradiso. Mao Xiaobing, a water delivery boy in Beijing, loves to watch movies. One day, however, while riding his bike, he is attacked by Ling-Ling, a young woman. Ling-Ling is promptly arrested, but refuses to say why she attacked Mao Xiaobing, asking him only to feed her fish, upon entering her apartment, however, Mao Xiaobing finds that Ling-Ling has created a veritable shrine to the 1930s film star, Zhou Xuan. When he stumbles upon her diary and begins reading, the film back to Ling-Lings mother as a young woman in Ningxia. Her mother had been working in radio when she became pregnant, branded a counter-revolutionary, she travels to the countryside where she befriends Pan, a movie-projectionist where the two eventually marry. Ling-Ling meanwhile, thinks that her father is a movie star of Zhou Xuans era. Mao Xiaobing had been hit by his father, and so Ling-Lings mother took care of him for some days, when Ling-Lings mother and Pan marry, Mao Xiaobing had been sent away to live with relatives by his father because Mao had been a troublemaker. Ling-Ling later recalls the time they were apart as miserable, saying also that the arrival of her brother was disgusting. Despite that, it is revealed that Ling-Ling learns to accept her younger brother. Mao Xiaobing later realizes that she has been watching over her parents, recalling the events, Pan explains that Bing-Bing had lied to their mother to get Ling-Ling out of the house. Both of them went up to the rooftop where she. After saying she would leave, Bing-Bing begs her not to leave, Pan then hits Ling-Ling for her brothers death, leaving her deaf in both ears
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Dragon Squad
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Dragon Squad is a 2005 Hong Kong action film co-written and directed by Daniel Lee, co-produced by Steven Seagal and starring Vanness Wu, Sammo Hung, Michael Biehn, Maggie Q, and Simon Yam. Interpol agent Wang Sun-Ho states that this is his first mission in a messy laundry hallway filled with fluff as if a gunfight had taken place there, the start shows a team of young INTERPOL agents arriving in Hong Kong to give testimony against recently captured crime boss Tiger Duen. They are greeted by Hon Sun, the one in charge of the case, however the escort of Tiger turns into a situation as the older Duen brother Panther Duen plans to rescue Tiger. The rescue attempt is aborted when the mistake a innocent civilian as the criminal attempting to break Tiger free. Meanwhile, an HKPD surveillance squad is eliminated by 5 operatives all of whom have military training, the real convoy transporting Tiger is ambushed and the operatives eliminate 7 officers on the scene. The INTERPOL agents arrive but fail to prevent their escape, causing Jie to lose his temper, Back at the HQ, Commander Hon Sun reprimands the agents for disobeying orders but lets them off the hook. Lok visits his brother while off duty, Ho decides to do some of his own investigations and Jun, Jie. It is revealed then that Petros is seeking revenge for the death of his brother Dominic, Kong Long was involved on a mission to take down Dominic and Tiger but because Kong didnt wait for backup it resulted in Tiger killing Dominic and the deaths of 6 officers. Later Lok, Ho and Suet save Kongs daughter from a fight in her own restaurant, the team then practice for their mission by improving their shooting accuracy in a local bar. After several team introductions and attempts from both sides to getting to know the players Captain Ko meets Petros in a cafe to initiate 2 phases of their mission. Ko will attempt to keep tabs on the INTERPOL agents while Petros will attempt to retrieve a microfilm which and it is rumoured to be in the hands of Panther Duen, and the only link is Yu Ching, Panthers girlfriend. As soon as Ko leaves the cafe, Petro randomly just happens to spot Ho walking down the street, Ho tries to hide his identity by pretending to be a visitor from out of town. Petros then retreats to a fortune teller temple where Ho attempts to take Petros down, Petros then finds Yu Ching being bullied and pretends to befriend her, Even letting himself get beaten up by 3 Chinese gangsters who finish their beating by throwing a dumpster on Petros. Yu Ching however is too trusting and even lets Petros into her house, meanwhile, it is revealed Ko has a rivalry with Kong which earned him his scar. Ko tries to kill Kong in a room with a machete to machete fight. Later Petros, Joe, Lee Chun Pei and Ko meet Panther for a deal for the microfilm and this only results in a gunfight with the operatives eliminating most of Panthers Triads. Ho and Lok arrive on the scene attempting to fight Ko but Ko just defeats them and leaves saying I dont have time for this and he later gets released on lack of evidence The Team then seeks advice from Kong on how to catch the operatives. Kong reluctly agrees to them hard
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Getting Home
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Getting Home is a 2007 Chinese comedy/drama film directed by Zhang Yang and starring Chinese comedian Zhao Benshan. It is episodic and follows two workers in their 50s, Zhao and Liu, along the way, Zhao meets a variety of figures, played by several of Chinas better known character actors. Getting Home is Zhang Yangs fifth feature film and it was produced by Filmko Entertainment of Hong Kong and the Beijing Jinqianshengshi Culture Media company of the Peoples Republic of China. International sales and distribution was by Fortissimo Films out of Amsterdam, Getting Homes original title derives from a Chinese proverb meaning A falling leaf returns to its roots. It is apparently based on a true story and this marked the first collaboration between Zhang and Filmko but the fifth with Fortissimo. Though the film documents Zhaos journey from Shenzhen to Chongqing, the majority of shooting took place in Yunnan, Getting Home had its Western debut in the 2007 Berlin International Film Festival on February 11,2007, as part of the festivals Panorama series. There it won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, since Berlin, Getting Home has made the rounds in the festival circuit, including Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival, Deauville and the New York Asian Film Festival. One critic notes that the film is a pitched and quite heartwarming drama about friendship and promises. Several magazines, including Variety and thats Beijing praised the performance of Zhao Benshan in particular as finely calibrated, Getting Home at the Internet Movie Database Getting Home at AllMovie Getting Home at Rotten Tomatoes Getting Home at the Chinese Movie Database Getting Home from distributor Fortissimo Films
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Hundred Flowers Award
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The Peoples Hundred Flower Award or Hundred Flowers Awards, the equivalent of Chinas Golden Globes, are considered, together with the Golden Rooster Awards, the most prestigious film awards in China. The awards were inaugurated by China Film Association in 1962 and sponsored by Popular Cinema magazine, the awards were formerly voted by the readers of Popular Cinema annually. Recent polls allow voters to cast ballots through SMS, the Internet or by phone call, voting is now no longer confined to readers of Popular Cinema. Award recipients receive a statuette in the shape of a goddess of Flowers, the 2nd Hundred Flowers Awards poll was held in 1963, but the poll was not conducted again until 1980, owing to the Cultural Revolution. It became an event from 1980 until 2004. Since 2004, the Hundred Flowers Awards ceremonies are held biennially, in 1992, the Golden Rooster and the Hundred Flowers Awards were combined into a single national festival. From 1980 to 2004, the yearly Hundred Flowers poll selects three films with the highest tallied votes as the Best Pictures of the year, since 2006, Chinese-language films from Taiwan and Hong Kong are also eligible for awards. Note also that since 2006, films in the past two years are eligible, the film with the highest number of votes is chosen as best picture, with two runners-up. Since 2006, China Film Association improves the ballot rules, the second ballot will have the public selecting the five nominations in each category by internet, mobile network, magazine votes and SMS. Each nominee will receive a Hundred Flowers Awards Nomination Certificate, the last ballot, a China official notary will randomly select 101 audience members, who voted in the second round and give a dedicated screening for all nominated pictures. Eventually, the 101 audience members will have a secret ballot and subsequently announce the winners
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China Radio International
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China Radio International is the Peoples Republic of China state-owned international radio broadcaster, currently headquartered in Babaoshan, a subdistrict of Beijing. Formerly Radio Beijing, and originally Radio Peking, it was founded on December 3,1941, CRI also publishes online dailies called Beijing News and Beijing International. CRI adopts the PRC Governments stance on issues such as the Political status of Taiwan. CRI claims that it endeavours to promote relations between the PRC and the world. And it is trying to employ new media to compete with international media. Unlike those broadcasters, CRIs control via indirect majority ownership or financial support of stations in various nations is not published. Its overseas reporting involves 65 languages, CRI has the most comprehensive foreign service in Asia. Radio was first introduced in China in the 1920s and 1930s, however, few households had radio receivers. A few cities had commercial stations, most usage of radio was for political purpose, frequently on a local area level. The Chinese Communist Party first used radio in Yanan in March 1940 with a transmitter imported from Moscow, xinhua New Chinese Radio went on the air from Yanan on December 30,1940. The station moved from the Taihang Mountains to the capital, Peking and its name was changed to Radio Peking on April 10,1950 and to Radio Beijing in 1983. On January 1,1993 the name of the station was again changed and its online broadcasting platform—— China International Broadcasting Network（CIBN）was formally established in 2011. CRI broadcasts via shortwave radio, satellite and the Internet in English, there are also numerous AM and FM relays. Shortwave broadcasts in English are targeted at North America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, Asia, CRI maintains direct shortwave broadcasts to developed, media-rich countries in North America and Europe, even as major Western broadcasters reduce or discontinue such broadcasts. At the beginning of 1984, it started to broadcast home service to the Beijing area on AM and its aim is to make CRI News Radio a first-class national news radio brand and its slogans are First News, News First, On-the-Spot China, Live World etc. CRI News Radio can be online and in Beijing on the radio on 90.5 FM, in Tianjin 90.6 FM, in Chongqing 91.7 FM, in Guangdong, Hong Kong. Tángrénjiē, a programme about overseas Chinese Weather forecasts around China Sports This broadcast was originally targeted at London in the United Kingdom, in 2006, they removed the London reference, which was part of the introduction as Ni hao London. The programme sounds like a kindergarten English lesson in the USA using very simple sentences, the analogy is similar to Christmas music broadcasts in the United States
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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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Fu Biao
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Fu Biao was a Chinese actor. Fu Biao was born in the family of an officer on September 27,1963. After graduating from school, he entered a film academy in Beijing to learn acting. As a film actor, he acted for the first time in the Shanghai Triad, from 1997 he acted in several New Year films directed by Feng Xiaogang and became a recognizable actor. Fu Biao married actress Zhang Qiufang in 1989 and they portrayed a married couple in several films, including The Dream Factory, Rhapsody of Spring, Happy Times, and several TV series, including Promise of Fate and Wife which they co-starred. Zhang Qiufang also had a role in Sorry Baby. In 2006, Zhang published a memoir Yin Ji about her marriage with Fu, the book also included some of Fus writing after his cancer diagnosis, as well as commemorative essays by family members and some of their celebrity friends. Fu Biaos son Fu Zien, born in 1991, graduated from Beijing Film Academys Directing Institute, Fu Biao at the Internet Movie Database
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Pu Cunxin
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Pu Cunxin, also transliterated as Pu Quanxin is a Chinese actor who serves as Chairman of China Theatre Association since July 2015. He is or was a member of the Beijing Experimental Theater Troupe and he could not walk normally because he had poliomyelitis when he was 2 year old. Pus classmates always made fun of him, called him Pu cripple, at the age of 9, Pu received a surgery for his leg, enabling him to walk normally. He was sad about his nickname, but he never gave up on his life or blamed anyone and he said, I can walk normally without walking stick after 9 years old. I wanted to leave the school as soon as possible so that none can ever call me Pu Cripple, but the most important thing is I have to face myself, now I can run and play basketball just like others. The reason he became an actor is because of his father, Pu father was a famous actor in Beijing. Pu always followed his father to the theater for his performances, Pu fell in love with acting day by day, eventually becoming an actor himself. Pu wrote an autobiography in 2008 called “I know where the light is” In the autobiography, he wrote 3 session about his childhood, how he became an actor, Pu is not only an actor, he is also famous for philanthropy. Pu has been contribute to philanthropy for many years, back in 2002, he received a reward from Moving China as one of the persons who most inspired China during that year, because he has made great contribution to promoted preventing AIDS. Pu also found “Pu Cunxin Loving fund” helping children in poor areas receive education and/or medical treatment, some famous people like Pu are leading Chinese philanthropy, by doing so, they can remind more and more people to get involved in Philanthropy. Another thing about Pu is, he has represented many public service advertisements and he encourages people to do things that are good for the public. In 2013, he finished his eleventh blood donation at the age of 60, when he was leading the blood donation, many people followed and donated their blood as well. Pu Cunxin at the Internet Movie Database Pu Cunxin at the Chinese Movie Database
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Zhang Hanyu
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Zhang Hanyu is a Chinese actor. Zhang graduated from the Beijing Central Academy of Drama in 1988 and he started his career by doing Mandarin voice dubbing for films such as Shark Tale, The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, and Troy. He was called Feng Xiaogangs imperial dragon casing, and earned the appreciation of Feng, in 2007, Zhang was cast as a lead character for the first time in the war drama film Assembly, which grossed a record 260 million RMB in box office earnings. Zhangs performance propelled him to fame and placed him among the ranks of first-class Chinese film stars, in 2008, Zhang also won the Best Actor Award at the 29th Hundred Flowers Awards and the Best Leading Actor Award at the Golden Horse Film Awards. The following year, Zhang won the Outstanding Actor Award at the Huabiao Awards, Zhang Hanyu at the Internet Movie Database Zhang Hanyus blog on Sina. com
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Donnie Yen
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Donnie Yen, also known as Yen Ji-dan, is a Chinese actor, martial artist, film director, producer, action choreographer, and multiple-time world wushu tournament champion. Yen is credited by many for contributing to the popularisation of the martial arts style known as Wing Chun. He played Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man in the 2008 film Ip Man and this has led to an increase in the number of people taking up Wing Chun, leading to hundreds of new Wing Chun schools being opened up in mainland China and other parts of Asia. Ip Chun, the eldest son of Ip Man, even mentioned that he is grateful to Yen for making his family art popular, Yen is widely credited for bringing mixed martial arts into the mainstream of Chinese culture by choreographing MMA in many of his recent films. Seen as one of the most popular stars in Asia of the early 2000s. Yen earned HK$220 million from four films and six advertisements in 2013, Yen was born in Guangzhou, China. Yens mother, Bow-sim Mark, is a Fu Style Wudangquan and Tai Chi grandmaster, when he was two years old, his family moved to Hong Kong and then to Boston when he was 11. His younger sister, Chris Yen, is also a martial artist and actress, at a young age, under the influence of his mother, Yen developed an interest in martial arts and began experimenting with various styles, including tai chi and other traditional Chinese martial arts. Yen then started karate when he was nine, Yen focused on practising wushu seriously at the age of fourteen after dropping out of school. His parents were concerned that he was spending too much time in Bostons Combat Zone, when Yen decided to return to the United States, he made a side-trip to Hong Kong, where he met action choreographer Yuen Woo-ping. Yen finally started taekwondo at around the age of sixteen, Yen also came from a family of musicians. His mother is a soprano, in addition to being a martial arts teacher in Boston, from a young age, he was taught by his parents to play musical instruments, including the piano. He also knows hip-hop dancing and breakdancing, Yens first step into the film industry was in 1984 when he landed his first starring role in the 1984 film Drunken Tai Chi. After filming Drunken Tai Chi and Tiger Cage, Yen made his role as General Nap-lan in Once Upon a Time in China II. Yen had a role in the film Iron Monkey in 1993. Yen and Li appeared together again in the 2002 film, Hero, where Yen played a fighter who fought with Lis character. The film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2003 Academy Awards. In 1995, Yen starred as Chen Zhen in the television series Fist of Fury produced by ATV, Yen reprised his role as Chen Zhen in the 2010 film Legend of the Fist, The Return of Chen Zhen
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Huang Bo
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Huang Bo is a Chinese actor. He was born in Qingdao, Shandong and graduated from Beijing Film Academy, Huang Bo was born in Qingdao, in 1974. His parents both worked in the government, before Huang became an actor, he used to be a bar singer, dance instructor, film dubber, factory owner, and had many other work experiences. During the time of being a bar singer, he even had his own band, in 2000, his friend Gao Hu introduced him to director Guan Hu by chance, which began Huangs acting career. In 2000, Huang Bo wanted to study in the Beijing Film Academy, however, in 2002, Huang Bo finally got admitted to the Academy, studying in dubbing. Two years later, Huang Bo graduated from college, and became a voice actor. Before Huang Bos breakout role in the 2006 film Crazy Stone, in the year of 2006, Huang Bo participated in director Ning Hao’s latest film Crazy Stone, which garnered him much exposure. In 2007, Huang won his first major award, for Best Supporting Actor at the 7th annual Chinese Film Media Awards. Moreover, his performance in the film Cow won him the Best Actor award at the 46th Golden Horse Awards, Huang Bo was considered as one of the top actors in China in 2010. During the two years between 2010 and 2011, Huang Bo performed in 5 films, and also started his music career, in 2012, Huang Bo hosted the 49th Golden Horse Awards, and his latest film Lost in Thailand became the top-grossing domestic film at the Chinese box-office. The nickname of Huang Bos wife is Xiao Ou, and they married in 2007, Huang Bos daughter was born in July,2011. Huang Bo at the Internet Movie Database
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Nick Cheung
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Nick Cheung Ka-fai is a Hong Kong actor and director. He is a former Royal Hong Kong Police officer for four years and he then worked for Danny Lees film production company. His film debut is Thank you, Sir. as a student at the Royal Hong Kong Cadet School, from 1989 to 1994, he worked at the television station ATV World. Later, he left ATV and joined another station, TVB and he left TVB in 2001, and worked mainly on films. His fame was built on Wong Jings comedy at first, and he was nominated for his first Hong Kong film award in 1999, and won his first award in 2009 for his role in Beast Stalker. He has been nominated many times at the Hong Kong Film Awards, Cheung met Hong Kong actress Esther Kwan while he was still working at ATV. They married on 8 December 2003 in Australia and their daughter, Brittany Cheung, was born on 24 January 2006. Cheung earned 75 million HKD in 2014, Cheung has also provided Cantonese voice dubs for foreign films and television programmes. Giant Robot Magazine Issue 63,2009 Nick Cheung at the Internet Movie Database Nick Cheung Ka-Fai at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase Nick Cheung on LoveHKFilm. com Nick Cheung at the Hong Kong Cinemagic
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Sihung Lung
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Sihung Lung was a Chinese actor in the cinema of Taiwan who appeared in over 100 films and was best known for playing paternal roles in films including Eat Drink Man Woman and The Wedding Banquet. He frequently collaborated with award-winning director Ang Lee, notably cast in such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Lung enlisted in Chiang Kai-sheks army as a teenager to fight the Chinese Communist Party, after they seized control of mainland China, he escaped to Taiwan, where he was selected to join an army-sponsored acting troupe. His experience playing an array of roles for the army troupe later led his being cast in over 100 Chinese-language films and in Taiwanese soap operas, typically playing criminals or tough guys. By the time he appeared as Sir Te, guardian of a sword in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. He died of liver failure in 2002 at the age of 72, manchu people in Taiwan Sihung Lung at the Internet Movie Database Sihung Lung at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase
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Jackie Chan
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Chan Kong-sang, SBS, MBE, PMW, known professionally as Jackie Chan, is a Hong Kong martial artist, actor, film director, producer, stuntman, and singer. In his movies, he is known for his fighting style, comic timing, use of improvised weapons, and innovative stunts. He has trained in Kung Fu and Hapkido and he has been acting since the 1960s and has appeared in over 150 films. Chan has received stars on the Hong Kong Avenue of Stars, and he has been referenced in various pop songs, cartoons, and video games. He is a trained vocalist and is also a Cantopop and Mandopop star, having released a number of albums. He is also a notable philanthropist, in 2015, Forbes magazine estimated his net worth to be $350 million. Chan was born on 7 April 1954, in British Hong Kong, as Chan Kong-sang, to Charles and Lee-Lee Chan and his mother or parents nicknamed him Pao-pao Chinese, 炮炮 because the energetic child was always rolling around. His parents worked for the French ambassador in Hong Kong, Chan attended the Nah-Hwa Primary School on Hong Kong Island, where he failed his first year, after which his parents withdrew him from the school. In 1960, his father emigrated to Canberra, Australia, to work as the cook for the American embassy, and Chan was sent to the China Drama Academy. Chan trained rigorously for the decade, excelling in martial arts. He eventually became part of the Seven Little Fortunes, a group made up of the schools best students. Chan became close friends with group members Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao. After entering the industry, Chan along with Sammo Hung got the opportunity to train in hapkido under the grand master Jin Pal Kim. Jackie Chan also trained in other styles of arts such as Karate, Judo, Taekwondo. He began his career by appearing in roles at the age of five as a child actor. At age eight, he appeared with some of his fellow Little Fortunes in the film Big, Chan appeared with Li again the following year, in The Love Eterne and had a small role in King Hus 1966 film Come Drink with Me. In 1971, after an appearance as an extra in another kung fu film, A Touch of Zen, at seventeen, he worked as a stuntman in the Bruce Lee films Fist of Fury and Enter the Dragon under the stage name Chan Yuen Lung. He received his first starring role later that year in Little Tiger of Canton that had a release in Hong Kong in 1973
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Chan at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008
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Jackie Chan began his film career as a
stuntman in the
Bruce Lee films
Fist of Fury (1972) and
Enter the Dragon (1973, pictured).
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Jet Li and Jackie Chan
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Jackie Chan on the set of Chinese Zodiac (May 2, 2012)
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Tony Leung Chiu-wai
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Tony Leung Chiu-wai is a Hong Kong actor and C-pop singer. He was the winner of Cannes Film Festival for Best Actor for his role in Wong Kar-wais film In the Mood for Love, Leung is also a seven-time winner of Hong Kong Film Award and three-time winner of Golden Horse Film Awards. Leung also stars in three Venice Film Festival Golden Lion-winning films, including A City of Sadness, Cyclo and Lust, Caution, Leung also stars in Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-nominated film Hero. The 2002 book East Asian Film Stars describes Leung as undoubtedly one of the most successful and widely-acclaimed Hong Kong actors of his generation, with a broad, Leung was born in Hong Kong. Leungs early childhood was punctuated with parents quarrels and arguments about money, a mischievous boy in his early years, Leungs personality changed when his father, a chronic gambler, left the family when he was eight, he and his younger sister were brought up by their mother. Leung was a reticent, quiet child and he has said that his childhood experiences paved the way for his acting career, which allows him to openly express his feelings, You dont know what happened, just one day your pop disappears. And from that day on I try not to communicate with anyone, im so afraid to talk to my classmates, afraid that if someone says something about family I wont know what to do. So thats why I love acting, because I can express all my feelings the way I couldnt for so long, and then when I went to TV it all came out, I cried and I wasnt ashamed. The audience thinks its the characters feelings, but really its my feelings, Leung went to private school, but he quit at the age of 15 due to financial difficulties. He was a teenager who was very close to his mother. During an interview on the making of Hero, he says that he sees his mother as his definition of a hero for having brought up two children alone. After quitting his studies, Leung worked in a variety of jobs, first as a runner at his uncles shop. Around the age of 16 he met actor and comedian Stephen Chow who influenced his decision to become an actor. In 1982, he passed the courses of television channel TVB. Due to his looks, TVB cast him as host of a childrens programme,430 Space Shuttle. Leung enjoyed comedies during his years, it was for these he became well known. So, in the 1980s, he was named as one of TVBs Five Tigers along with Andy Lau, Felix Wong, Michael Miu, Leung starred in the highly successful Police Cadet TV serial in 1984. Since then they have worked together on The Yangs Saga, Days of Being Wild, Ashes of Time, In the Mood for Love, Hero, interviewed by Wong Kar Wai, Leung said that he considered Maggie to be his alter ego
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Leung at the
2007 Toronto International Film Festival
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Leung's hand print and autograph at the
Avenue of Stars in Hong Kong.
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Liu Ye (actor)
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Liu Ye is a Chinese actor. Liu began his career as a student majoring in performing arts at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing. Liu was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a postman in one of his first films, Postmen in the Mountains. Shortly after his graduation, Liu won Best Actor at the 38th Golden Horse Awards for his performance as a homosexual man in Lan Yu. Three years later, he clinched Best Actor with his role in The Foliage at the 24th Golden Rooster Awards. In addition, several of Lius films have featured in many international film festivals, for example Lan Yu, Balzac. Instead of making use of his physical appearance to become a teen idol. He has been praised and roped in by directors such as Stanley Kwan, Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou and John Woo. Lius first Hollywood film Dark Matter, based on the 1991 University of Iowa shooting, was screened at international film festivals in 2007. Starring opposite Meryl Streep, Liu played the role of a Chinese physics postgraduate named Liu Xing, Dark Matter won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and was released in the United States in April 2008. Lius first villainous role was in Connected, a remake of the American film Cellular, Liu starred in Lu Chuans 2009 film City of Life and Death, which pays tribute to the victims of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre. In the 2011 film The Founding of a Party, it was reported that Liu was required to gain 10 kg in order to play a 30-year-old Mao Zedong, Liu married French photographer Anais Martane in Beijing on July 5,2009. Their first child, a son named Noé, was born on October 10,2010 in France, a few years after, they had a daughter called Nina. Liu Ye at the Internet Movie Database
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Liu Ye
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Leon Lai
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Leon Lai-ming, BBS, MH is a Hong Kong actor and Cantopop singer. He is one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Hong Kong and he uses the stage name Li Ming or Lai Ming which literally means dawn. Lai was born in Beijing, China as Lai Chit, initially and his family was originally from Meixian. His parents divorced when he was four and he migrated with his Indonesian Chinese father, Lai Xinsheng to Hong Kong during the Cultural Revolution in China. At the age of 15, he attended Kingsway Princeton College in the United Kingdom, Lai initially worked as a salesperson for a mobile phone company. After being awarded second-runner-up in the 1986 New Talent Singing Awards, in the same year he also obtained an artist contract from Capital Artists. He did not release any albums for four years, as a result, his teacher, Dai, arranged to have him signed a contract with Polygram, later known as Universal Music. In Polygram, he released his first album Leon and subsequent album Meet in the Rain, after several years at Polygram, he signed a new contract with Sony Music on 23 March 1998. Together with Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau and Aaron Kwok, Lai was among the four most popular male singers during the 1990s, in 1990 he won his first 1990 Jade Solid Gold Top 10 Awards and 1990 RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards. He followed up to win the Most Popular Male Singer award in 1993 and 1995 for TVB Jade Solid Gold, in 1996, he collaborated with composer-producer Steve Barakatt on his album Feel. Two years later in 1998, he became the first HK singer to reach the Top 10 K-pop chart with the song After loving you, in 1999 he announced that he would no longer accept any more awards in Hong Kong. In 2002 he was selected to sing Charged up, the 2002 FIFA World Cup theme song for the Greater China region, in 2004, he became the first Hong Kong singer to represent the territory at the first Asia Song Festival held in South Korea. Lai was selected to be the ambassador of the 6th Winter Asian Games to be held Changchun in 2007 and he sang the Games theme song and took part in the torch relay. He then joined Michael Wong and Janice Vidal held a three-day Magic Live charity concert at Star Hall, apart from being a solo artist, Lai has co-operated with other artists. In 2004, Lai formed a new production company, A Music, East Asia Record Production Company Limited. The first album produced by the company, Dawn was released in September of that year, the album, Dawn, was released with minimum promotion as Lai went to Mainland China for a movie shoot on the day of the albums release. To bring in new excitements for his music, Lai invited a music producer Jonathan Lee from Taiwan in 2005 to produce his new mandarin album A Story. However, by doing so he had to give up the opportunity for a role in a big budget Taiwan movie Gui Si due to conflicts in his schedules
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Leon Lai
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Andy Lau
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Andy Lau Tak-wah, BBS, MH, JP is a Hong Kong actor, singer and film producer. He has been one of Hong Kongs most commercially successful film actors since the mid-1980s, in the 1990s, Lau was branded by the media as one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Cantopop. Lau was entered into the Guinness World Records for the Most Awards Won by a Cantopop Male Artist, by April 2000, he had already won a total unprecedented 292 awards. In 2005, Lau was awarded No.1 Box office Actor 1985–2005 of Hong Kong, yielding a total box office of HK$1,733,275,816 for shooting 108 films in the past 20 years. In 2007, Lau was also awarded the Nielsen Box Office Star of Asia by the Nielsen Company, Andy Lau was born in Tai Po, Hong Kong. A son of a fireman, as a young boy Lau had to fetch water for his family up to eight times a day because their house was not equipped with plumbing. He later graduated from a Band One secondary school, Ho Lap College in San Po Kong and he was named as Lau Fook-Wing during his academic years. Lau converted to Buddhism in the 1980s and he was raised in a nominally Buddhist household and is now a follower of the Lingyan Mountain Temple in Taiwan. In 2008, Lau married Malaysian Chinese Carol Chu after 24 years of speculation over their relationship, the couple were married in Las Vegas. On 9 May 2012, Chu gave birth to his first child, in January 2017 Lau was seriously injured after being thrown off a horse during a film shoot in Thailand. In 1981, Lau signed up for the artist training program offered by TVB, the lead role which led to his initial popularity was in the 1982 TVB series The Emissary. In 1983, Laus role as Yang Guo in the TVB wuxia series The Return of the Condor Heroes further increased his popularity, from then on, he would take on many of the lead roles in many of the TVB series. In September 1983, TVB was looking to increase their ratings in competition with Korea, the station then created the show TVB All-star challenge featuring almost the entire line-up of the most popular actors and singers at the time. Lau along with Tony Leung, Michael Miu, Felix Wong, in the late 80s, Lau left TVB due to contract problems. TVB wanted to him to an exclusive five-year contract which Lau refused to sign. He then focused on his film career, in 1981, Lau made a guest appearance in one of Susanna Kwans music video and caught the eye of the manager Teddy Robin. Teddy Robin then gave Lau a chance to play a role in the movie Once Upon a Rainbow. This was the first step in Laus film acting career and he was then given a role in Ann Huis 1982 film, Boat People
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Andy Lau being interviewed at the 29th
Hong Kong International Film Festival (2005).
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Andy Lau's wax figure at
Madame Tussauds Hong Kong
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Lau's hand print and autograph at the
Avenue of Stars in Hong Kong
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Andy Lau in concert 2011
35.
Aaron Kwok
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Aaron Kwok Fu-shing is a Hong Kong singer, dancer and actor. Active since the 1980s, Kwok is considered one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Hong Kong, Kwoks onstage dancing and displays is influenced by Michael Jackson. While most of his songs are in the genre, he has experimented with rock and roll, ballad, rock, R&B, soul, electronica. Kwok earned 130 million HKD in 2014 and he received the Ten Most Outstanding Young Persons Award in 2003. Kwok graduated from St. Josephs College in Hong Kong, after graduating from secondary school, Kwok worked as a junior staff in King Fook Gold & Jewellery Co. Ltd. His father, who owns a small retail store, desired that he gain experience in the business with the view of eventually handing the family business over to him. If not for one of Kwoks brothers taking over the gold business, in 1984, he was fired for prolonged absenteeism caused by a foot muscle injury from trying the splits at a party. After being fired from the company in 1984, at the age of 19, Kwok joined a dancer training course at TVB. Kwok then performed in videos and variety shows for other singers. In 1987 he was transferred to the department of the talent training course and became a TV actor. In 1990 he did a TV commercial in Taiwan for the Honda motorcycle DJ-1RR, the commercial gained him instant popularity with Taiwanese girls, and he immediately burst onto the music scene. Kwok then began his career with three mandopop albums including the famous song Loving You Forever to accompany his dance moves. After his success in Taiwan, he returned to Hong Kong in 1991 to do Cantopop, the next few years saw his popularity reach fever-pitch, and he was soon ranked as one of the Four Heavenly Kings. Kwok became one of Hong Kong and Asias most prominent pop stars and he won his first major awards with the 1991 Jade Solid Gold Top 10 Awards and 1991 RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards. He would then win an award every year until 2001. As a solo performer, his concerts in Hong Kong, mainland China, United States, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia. In 1999 he won his first Asia Pacific most popular artist award, Aaron Kwok will begin his 2011 tour on 16 April and his first stop is in Shanghai. Aaron Kwok has also created the choreography with Sunny Wong for the group As One, janet Jackson collaborated with Aaron Kwok and Ricky Martin for international versions of Ask for More, a promotional single and commercial released as part of an advertising campaign for Pepsi
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Aaron Kwok
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Aaron performing in San Franscisco
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Aaron Kwok's 2010 Clio Cup China race car.
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Ethan Juan
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Ethan Juan was born on 8 November 1982. He is a Chinese actor and model and he is sometimes credited as Juan Ching-Tien or Ruan Jing-Tian. His nicknames include Xiao Tian, Si Xiao Hai, Ruan 7 Tian and he rose to prominence in the Taiwanese drama Fated to Love You, and is the 2010 Best Leading Actor winner of the 47th Golden Horse Awards for his role in Monga. Ruan grew up in Taichung, Taiwan and he comes from a military family, in which his father is a soldier, his mother a military nurse, and younger brother an airforce pilot. As a competitive swimmer in his years, Juans numerous achievements. However, owing to his rebellious streak as a teenager, he dropped out. Thereafter, he held several part-time jobs, during this time, Juan also attended and later graduated from the private Hsing Wu University with a major in Tourism. It was in 2002 when he accompanied a friend to an audition that he was discovered by the talent agency and began his first showbiz career starring in Penny Tais Qdult Film, Juan was a full-time adult model before turning to acting. Juan began his career in the entertainment industry with Catwalk Modelling Agency. As a model, he starred in the videos of several popular artistes, including but not limited to Stefanie Sun, A-Mei. He also made his debut in the scene with Michael the Archangel. Subsequently, Juan took on other such as Green Forest, My Home. However, despite proving promising, Juans career failed to take off and he made an average of NT$200,000 per year, a measly amount hardly enough for anyone to live comfortably in Taipei. As a result, he had no electric and water supplies, no car and it was only with his lead role as Ji Cunxi in 2008 Idol Drama Fated to Love You that he gained popularity. This drama hence marked the point in Juans career, as he increasingly gained recognition for his acting skills. Juans winning of Best Male Lead at the 47th Golden Horse Awards based on his role as Monk in Monga further served as strong testament to his acting skills. After receiving the award, he experienced an increase in status and attention. Juan served one year of service in lieu of military service due to his flat feet in Taiwan
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2010
Taipei International Book Exhibition Monga Photobook Event
37.
Lee Kang-sheng
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Lee Kang-sheng is a Taiwanese actor, film director, and screenwriter. He has appeared in all of Tsai Ming-liangs feature films, lees directorial efforts include The Missing in 2003 and Help Me Eros in 2007. In 1989, Lee was working at an arcade when he was asked by Tsai Ming-liang to act in his TV film and this started a working relationship that has lasted 20 years, and Tsai said that he would never make another movie without Lee. Lee has received recognition for his acting, winning the Best Actor Award at the 2002 Cinemanila International Film Festival for What Time Is It There and he was nominated for a Golden Horse Award in 1994 for Vive LAmour. Lee won several awards with his debut, The Missing. At the 2004 Rotterdam International Film Festival, he won the KNF Award, the NETPAC Award, and his second directorial effort, Help Me Eros in 2007, was nominated for a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. It won a jury award at the 2007 World Film Festival of Bangkok
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Lee Kang-sheng at the 2007 World Film Festival of Bangkok.
38.
Zhang Yimou
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Zhang Yimou is a Chinese film director, producer, writer and actor, and former cinematographer. He is counted amongst the Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers, having made his debut in 1987 with Red Sorghum. In 1993, he was a member of the jury at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival, Zhang directed the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games, which received considerable international acclaim. One of Zhangs recurrent themes is the resilience of Chinese people in the face of hardship and adversity, a theme which has been explored in such films as To Live and Not One Less. His films are noted for their rich use of colour, as can be seen in some of his early films, like Raise the Red Lantern. His highest budgeted film to date is the 2016 monster film titled The Great Wall, set in Imperial China, Zhang was born in Xian, the capital of Shaanxi province. As a result, Zhang faced difficulties in his early life, during this time he took up painting and amateur still photography. In 1978, he went to Beijing Film Academy and majored in photography and he has an Honorary Doctorate Degree from Boston University and also one from Harvard University. After a personal appeal to the Ministry of Culture, and showing a portfolio of his photographic works. Zhang graduated with the class of 1982, which also included Chen Kaige, Tian Zhuangzhuang, the class went on to form the core of the Fifth Generation, who were a part of an artistic reemergence in China after the end of the Cultural Revolution. Zhang and his co-graduates were assigned to regional studios. This led to the production of Zhang Junzhaos One and Eight, on which Zhang Yimou worked as director of photography, Yellow Earth is today widely considered the inaugural film of the Fifth Generation directors. In 1985, after moving back to his town of Xian, Zhang was engaged as cinematographer and lead actor for director Wu Tianmings upcoming film Old Well. The lead role won Zhang a Best Actor award at the Tokyo International Film Festival,1987 saw the release of Zhangs directorial debut, Red Sorghum, starring Chinese actress Gong Li in her first leading role. Codename Cougar, an experiment in the political thriller genre, was released in 1989, featuring Gong Li. However, it garnered less-than-positive reviews at home and Zhang himself later dismissed the film as his worst, in the same year, Zhang began work on his next project, the period drama Ju Dou. In 1989, he was a member of the jury at the 16th Moscow International Film Festival, after the success of Ju Dou, Zhang began work on Raise the Red Lantern. Based on Su Tongs novel Wives and Concubines, the film depicted the realities of life in a family compound during the 1920s
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Zhang at the
15th Busan International Film Festival
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Volpi Cup for Best Actor
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The Volpi Cup is the principal award given to actors at the Venice Film Festival and is named in honor of Count Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata, the founder of the Venice Film Festival. ‡ – indicates the performance was nominated for an Academy Award The festival was officially competitive for the first time in 1934. The acting award was named Grande medaglia doro dellAssociazione Nazionale Fascista dello Spettacolo per il migliore attore, after a four-year hiatus caused by the war, the festival was once again competitive in 1947. The acting award in the immediate post-war period was named Premio Internazionale per il migliore attore, the winners did not receive cup-shaped awards but were instead given rectangular plaques. In 1988, for the first time in 20 years, the most recognizable prizes of the festival were re-established, the two acting award was officially named Coppa Volpi per la migliore interpretazione maschile. The Venice Film Festival at the IMDb Coppa Volpi for best actors since 1935 from La Biennale website Enrico Lancia, I premi del cinema, Gremese Editore,1998
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Jack Lemmon holding his Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the closing ceremony of the Venice Film Festival in 1992
40.
Paul Muni
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Paul Muni was an American stage and film actor who grew up in Chicago. He started his career in the Yiddish theatre. During the 1930s, he was considered one of the most prestigious actors at the Warner Brothers studio, and was given the rare privilege of choosing which parts he wanted. He was also skilled in using makeup techniques, a talent he learned from his parents, who were also actors. At the age of 12, he played the role of an 80-year-old man, in one of his films, Seven Faces. He made 25 films and won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the 1936 film The Story of Louis Pasteur. He also starred in numerous Broadway plays and won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role in the 1955 production of Inherit the Wind. His Hebrew name was Meshilem, he was also called Frederich Meier Weisenfreund, born to a Jewish family in Lemberg, Galicia and his parents were Salli and Phillip Weisenfreund. He learned Yiddish as his first language, when he was seven, he emigrated with his family to the United States in 1902, they settled in Chicago. As a boy, he was known as Moony and he started his acting career in the Yiddish theatre in Chicago with his parents, who were both actors. As a teenager, he developed a skill in creating makeup, Film historian Robert Osborne notes that Munis makeup skills were so creative, that for most of his roles, he transformed his appearance so completely, he was dubbed the New Lon Chaney. In his first stage role at the age of 12, Muni played the role of an 80-year-old man and he was quickly recognized by Maurice Schwartz, who signed him up with his Yiddish Art Theater. Edward G. Robinson and Paul Muni were cousins to Charles M. Fritz, Muni began acting on Broadway in 1926. His first role was that of an elderly Jewish man in the play We Americans, written by playwrights Max Siegel and it was the first time that he ever acted in English. In 1921, he married Bella Finkel, an actress in the Yiddish theatre and they remained married until Munis death in 1967. In 1929 Muni was signed by Fox and his name was simplified and anglicized to Paul Muni. His acting talents were recognized and he received an Oscar nomination for his first film, The Valiant. His second film, Seven Faces, was also a financial failure, unhappy with the roles offered him, he returned to Broadway, where he starred in a major hit play, Counselor at Law
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His makeup skills were used for The Story of Louis Pasteur
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New York City opening of A Flag is Born (1946)
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Paul Muni in the trailer for Scarface.
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Emil Jannings
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Emil Jannings was a German actor, popular in 1920s Hollywood. He was the first Oscar recipient, honored with the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 1929 ceremony, to date, he is still the only German to have won the Best Actor Oscar. Jannings is best known for his collaborations with F. W. Murnau and Josef von Sternberg, including 1930s The Blue Angel, with Marlene Dietrich. Der blaue Engel was meant as a vehicle for Jannings to score a place for himself in the new medium of sound film, Jannings later starred in a number of Nazi propaganda films, which made him unemployable as an actor after the fall of the Third Reich. He was christened Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz in Rorschach, Switzerland, the son of Emil Janenz, an American businessman from St. Louis, and his wife Margarethe, originally from Germany. Jannings held German citizenship, while he was young the family moved to Leipzig in the German Empire. Jannings ran away from school and went to sea, when he returned to Görlitz, his mother finally allowed him to begin a traineeship at the town state theatre, where Jannings started his stage career. From 1901 onwards he worked with theatre companies in Bremen, Nuremberg, Leipzig, Königsberg. Jannings made his breakthrough in 1918 with his role as Judge Adam in Kleists Broken Jug at the Schauspielhaus, Jannings was a theater actor who went into films, though he remained dissatisfied with the limited expressive possibilities in the silent era. Having signed a contract with the UFA production company, he starred in Die Augen der Mumie Ma and Madame DuBarry, both with Pola Negri in the main female part. He also performed in the 1922 film version of Othello and in F. W. Murnaus The Last Laugh, as a proud, Jannings worked with Murnau on two other films, playing the title character in Herr Tartüff, and as Mephistopheles in Faust. His increasing popularity enabled Jannings to sign an agreement with Paramount Pictures and eventually follow his acting colleagues Lubitsch and he started his career in 1927 with The Way of All Flesh directed by Victor Fleming and in the following year performed in Josef von Sternbergs The Last Command. In 1929 Jannings won the first Best Actor Oscar for his work in both films and he and Sternberg also cooperated in Street of Sin, though they actually differed about Jannings acting in front of the camera. His Hollywood career came to an end with the advent of talkies as his thick German accent was difficult to understand and his dialogue was initially dubbed by another actor in the part-talkie The Patriot directed by Ernst Lubitsch, although Jannings own voice was restored after he objected. Returning to Europe, he starred opposite Marlene Dietrich in the 1930 film The Blue Angel, according to Susan Orlean, author of Rin Tin Tin, The Life and The Legend, Jannings was not actually the winner of the first best actor vote, but the runner-up. While researching her book, Orlean discovered that it was in fact Rin Tin Tin, the German Shepherd dog, one of the biggest movie stars of his time, who won the vote. The Academy, however, worried about not being taken seriously if they gave the first Oscar to a dog, after the Nazi Machtergreifung in 1933, Jannings continued his career in the service of Nazism and cinema. He also performed in his role in The Broken Jug directed by Gustav Ucicky
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Oscar winner Jannings back in Berlin, May 1929
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Jannings as Kreon in
Hasenclever 's Antigone,
Großes Schauspielhaus, 1920
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Jannings with Minister Goebbels on
Wolfgangsee, 1938
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Leslie Howard (actor)
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Leslie Howard was an English stage and film actor, director and producer. Howard also wrote stories and articles for The New York Times, The New Yorker. Howard was one of the biggest box-office draws and movie idols of the 1930s but is probably best remembered for playing Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind, Howards Second World War activities included acting and filmmaking. Howard was born Leslie Howard Steiner to a British mother, Lilian, Howard was educated at Alleyns School, London. He worked as a clerk before enlisting at the outbreak of the Great War. He served in the British Army as a subaltern in the Northamptonshire Yeomanry but suffered shell shock, Outward Bound and The Green Hat. He became an undisputed Broadway star in Her Cardboard Lover, Howard would return, however, many times—later repeating the Standish role in the 1933 film version of Berkeley Square. The stage, however, continued to be an important part of his career, Howard frequently juggled acting, producing and directing duties in the Broadway productions in which he starred. Howard was also a dramatist and starred in the Broadway production of his play, Murray Hill and he played Matt Denant in John Galsworthys 1927 Broadway production Escape in which he first made his mark as a dramatic actor. His stage triumphs continued with The Animal Kingdom and The Petrified Forest and he later repeated both roles in the film versions. Howards production, his stage role, lasted for only 39 performances before closing. Howard was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1981, in 1920 Howard suggested forming a film production company, British Comedy Films Ltd. to his friend Adrian Brunel. The two eventually settled on the name Minerva Flims Ltd, the Companys Board of Directors consisted of Howard, Brunel, C. Aubrey Smith, Nigel Playfair and A. A. Milne, one of the Companys investors was H. G. Wells. Early films include four written by A. A. Milne, including The Bump, aubrey Smith, Twice Two, Five Pounds Reward, and Bookworms, the latter two starring Howard. Some of these survive in the archives of the British Film Institute. Following his move to Hollywood, Howard often played stiff upper lipped Englishmen and he appeared in the film version of Outward Bound, though in a different role than the one he portrayed on Broadway. He had second billing under Norma Shearer in A Free Soul and he starred in the film version of Berkeley Square, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor
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Still of Leslie Howard as Ashley Wilkes in
Gone with the Wind (1939)
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Bette Davis and Howard in
Of Human Bondage (1934).
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with
Myrna Loy in The Animal Kingdom (1932)
43.
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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Ernst Deutsch
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Ernst Deutsch, also known as Ernest Dorian, was an Austrian actor. In 1916, his performance as the protagonist in the world première of Walter Hasenclevers Expressionist play The Son in Dresden was praised, Deutsch also played the antihero Famulus in Paul Wegeners The Golem, How He Came into the World in 1920. He is known by English-speaking audiences for his role as Baron Kurtz in Carol Reeds 1949 film noir, Deutsch was the son of Prague-based German merchant Ludwig Kraus and his wife, Louise. He married childhood friend Anuschka Fuchsin in 1922, anuschkas cousin, Herbert Fuchs of Robettin, was the brother-in-law of author Franz Werfel. Deutsch grew up in Prague, and attended high school and he was a skilled tennis player, ranking seventh on the Austro-Hungarian tennis list. After high school, Deutsch served in the army and he was a childhood friend of Franz Werfel. In 1914, Deutsch made his debut for Berthold Viertel at the Peoples Theatre in Vienna. After a short season in Prague, Edgar Licho hired him for the Albert Theatre in Dresden, in Dresden, Deutsch played Franz Moor in Schillers The Robbers and Moritz Stiefel in Frank Wedekinds Spring Awakening. His performance in the role of Hasenclevers The Son, which premiered on 8 October 1916, established him as an Expressionist actor. In 1917, Deutsch went to the Volksbühne in Berlin and he appeared until 1933 on a number of stages in the city, gave guest performances in Hamburg, Munich and Vienna, and participated in a tour of South America. Beginning in 1916, Deutsch appeared in 42 silent films, in April 1933, he left Germany due to Nazi antisemitism. Deutsch returned to Vienna and Prague, gave guest performances in Zurich, Brussels, in 1938 he emigrated to New York City and played briefly on Broadway in 1939 before moving to Hollywood, where he became an American citizen. Beginning 1942 he appeared as Ernest Dorian in Hollywood films, primarily as Nazis, after a 1946 stay in Buenos Aires, Deutsch returned to Vienna via Paris the following year. In Vienna, he became a member of the Burgtheater, at the National Theatre Deutsch appeared in The Helpers of God, about Red Cross founder Henri Dunant, in 1948. Three years later he moved back to Berlin, appearing at the Schiller and Schlossparktheater, Deutsch also toured in Germany and abroad. Deutschs film roles included Baron Kurtz in Carol Reeds film noir, The Third Man, starring Orson Welles and he received the Volpi Cup as Best Actor at the 9th Venice International Film Festival in 1948 Venice Film Festival for his performance in Der Prozeß. Deutschs performances in the role of Gotthold Ephraim Lessings Nathan the Wise. He played Nathan for more than 2,000 performances, Deutsch died on 22 March 1969 in Berlin, and is buried in the Jewish cemetery on the Berlin highway
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Ernst Deutsch (in his gym, 1931)
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The Ernst Deutsch Theater in Hamburg-Uhlenhorst
45.
Joseph Cotten
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Joseph Cheshire Cotten, Jr. was an American film, stage, radio and television actor. Cotten achieved prominence on Broadway, starring in the stage productions of The Philadelphia Story. He first gained fame in the Orson Welles film Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons. He went on to one of the leading Hollywood actors of the 1940s, appearing in films such as Shadow of a Doubt, Love Letters, Duel in the Sun, Portrait of Jennie, The Third Man. One of his films was Michael Ciminos Heavens Gate. Joseph Cotten was born in 1905 in Petersburg, Virginia, the first of three born to Joseph Cheshire Cotten, Sr. an assistant postmaster, and Sally Willson Cotten. He grew up in the Tidewater region and showed an aptitude for drama, in 1923, when Cotten was 18, his family arranged for him to receive private lessons at the Hickman School of Expression in Washington, D. C. and underwrote his expenses. He earned spending money playing professional football on Sundays, for $25 a quarter, after graduation, he earned enough money as a lifeguard at Wilcox Lake to pay back his familys loan, with interest. He worked as an agent, and his work as a theatre critic inspired him to become involved in theatre productions, first in Virginia. Cotten made his Broadway debut in 1930, in 1934 Cotten met and became friends with Orson Welles, a fellow cast member on CBS Radios The American School of the Air. Welles regarded Cotten as a brilliant comic actor, and gave him the role in his Federal Theatre Project farce. Cotten was sure that Horse Eats Hat won him the notice of his future Broadway costar, Cotten made his film debut in the Welles-directed short, Too Much Johnson, a comedy that was intended to complement the aborted 1938 Mercury stage production of William Gillettes 1890 play. The film was never screened in public and was lost until 2013, Cotten returned to Broadway in 1939, creating the role of C. K. Dexter Haven opposite Katharine Hepburns Tracy Lord in the original production of Philip Barrys The Philadelphia Story. The play ran for a year at the Shubert Theatre, Hayward suggested that they call Cottens good pal, Orson Welles. Hes been making big waves out here, Hayward said, maybe nobody in Hollywood ever heard of the Shubert Theatre in New York, but everybody certainly knows about the Mercury Theatre in New York. After the success of Welless War of the Worlds 1938 Halloween radio broadcast, the two-picture deal promised full creative control for the young director below an agreed budget limit, and Welless intention was to feature the Mercury Players in his productions. Shooting had still not begun on a Welles film after a year, in mid-1940 filming began on Citizen Kane, portraying the life of a press magnate who starts out as an idealist but eventually turns into a corrupt, lonely old man. The film featured Cotten prominently in the role of Kanes best friend Jedediah Leland, nominated for nine Academy Awards in 1942, the film won only for Best Screenplay, for Mankiewicz and Welles
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The Joseph Cotten Show (1957)
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Joseph Cotten modeled for
The American Magazine (September 1931)
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Joseph Cotten in
Horse Eats Hat (1936)
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Joseph Cotten and
Edgar Barrier during the shooting of film sequences for the stage production
Too Much Johnson (1938)
46.
Sam Jaffe
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Sam Jaffe was an American actor, teacher, musician, and engineer. He may be best remembered for playing the role in Gunga Din. He was born Shalom Jaffe to Heida and Barnett Jaffe, a Russian Jewish family in New York City and his mother, Ada Jaffe, was a Yiddish actress in Odessa, Ukraine, prior to moving to the United States, his father was a jeweler. He was the youngest of four children, his siblings were Abraham, Sophie, as a child, he appeared in Yiddish theater productions with his mother, who after moving to the United States became a prominent actress and vaudeville star. He graduated from Townsend Harris High School and studied engineering at City College of New York and he later attended Columbia University for graduate studies. He also worked for years as a teacher, and then dean, of mathematics at the Bronx Cultural Institute. As a young man, he lived in Greenwich Village in the apartment building as a young John Huston. The two men became friends and remained so for life. Jaffe was later to star in two of Hustons films, The Asphalt Jungle and The Barbarian and the Geisha, jaffes closest friends included Zero Mostel, Edward G. Robinson, Ray Bradbury, and Igor Stravinsky. He began to work in film in 1934, rising to prominence with his very first role as the mad Tsar Peter III in The Scarlet Empress, in 1938, Jaffe was forty-seven years old when he played the title role of water boy Gunga Din. He also made an appearance in The Adventures of Robin Hood. Jaffe was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses during the 1950s, despite this, he was hired first by Robert Wise for The Day the Earth Stood Still and then by director William Wyler for his role in the 1959 Academy Award-winning version of Ben-Hur. Jaffe co-starred in the ABC television series, Ben Casey as Dr. David Zorba from 1961 to 1965 alongside Vince Edwards and he also made many guest-starring roles on other series, including Batman as Mr. Zoltan Zorba, and the Western Alias Smith and Jones. In 1975, he co-starred as a doctor who is murdered by Janet Leigh in the Columbo episode Forgotten Lady. He also appeared with an all-star cast in the TV pilot film of Rod Serlings Night Gallery, Jaffe was married to American operatic soprano and musical comedy star Lillian Taiz from 1926 until her death from cancer in 1941. In 1956, he married actress Bettye Ackerman, with whom he later co-starred in Ben Casey and she died on November 20,2006. He had no children from either marriage, sam Jaffe died of cancer in Beverly Hills, California 14 days after his 93rd birthday. His interment was in Eden Memorial Park Cemetery, the Law and Mr. Nobody - Alex Zubatuk S. W. A. T
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Sam Jaffe
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Film still of the special TV presentation The Sad and Lonely Sundays (1976). Pictured are Jaffe (left) and
Jack Albertson.
47.
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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Circa 1940
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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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Kenneth More
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Kenneth Gilbert More, CBE was an English film and stage actor. Raised to stardom by the car based film-comedy Genevieve, he appeared in many roles as a carefree. His biggest hits from this period include Raising a Riot, Reach for the Sky and he starred in Doctor in the House, the first of the popular Doctor film series. He also enjoyed a revival in the much-acclaimed TV adaptation of The Forsyte Saga, Kenneth More was born in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, the only son of Charles Gilbert More, a Royal Naval Air Service pilot, and Edith Winifred Watkins, the daughter of a Cardiff solicitor. He was educated at Victoria College, Jersey, having spent part of his childhood in the Channel Islands, after he left school, he followed the family tradition by training as a civil engineer. He gave up his training and worked for a while in Sainsburys, when More was 17 his father died, and he applied to join the RAF, but failed the medical test for equilibrium. He went to Canada, intending to work as a fur trapper and he was soon promoted to playing straight man in the Revudeville comedy routines, appearing in his first sketch in August 1935. He played there for a year, which led to regular work in repertory, including Newcastle, performing in plays such as Burke and Hare. He continued this work until the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, More received a commission as a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and saw active service aboard the cruiser HMS Aurora and the aircraft carrier HMS Victorious. On demobilisation in 1946 he worked for the Wolverhampton repertory company, then appeared on stage in the West End in And No Birds Sing, then played Badger in a TV adaptation of Toad of Toad Hall. He was seen by Noël Coward playing a role on stage in Power Without Glory. His earliest bit parts in films date from before the war, for a small role in Scott of the Antarctic, he was paid ₤500. His parts grew larger and he achieved a notable success in The Way Things Go with Ronald Squire. Roland Culver recommended More audition for a part in a new play by Terence Rattigan, The Deep Blue Sea, he was successful and achieved tremendous critical acclaim in the role of Freddie. Director Henry Cornelius approached More during the run of The Deep Blue Sea, the resulting film was a success at the British box office, as was Doctor in the House, for which More received a BAFTA Award as best newcomer. The Deep Blue Sea was adapted for television in 1954 and seen by an audience of 11 million, More signed a five-year contract with Sir Alexander Korda at £10,000 a year. The first film was never made and the second with another actor, Korda also wanted More to star in a new version of The Four Feathers, Storm Over the Nile but he turned it down. However More did accept Kordas offer to appear in an adaptation of The Deep Blue Sea gaining the Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival for his performance
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Kenneth More in 1969
49.
Anthony Franciosa
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Anthony Franciosa, usually billed as Tony Franciosa during the height of his career, was an American film, TV and stage actor. He made several films, including A Face in the Crowd. In television, along with minor parts, he played lead roles in five television series. However, he began as a stage actor, gaining a Tony Award nomination for the drug-addiction play A Hatful of Rain. Born Anthony George Papaleo to an Italian-American family, and raised by his mother and aunt, in 1948, Franciosa joined the Cherry Lane Theatre Group off Broadway. In the meantime, he worked a variety of jobs which included being a waiter, dishwasher, day laborer, several years later he garnered rave reviews and a Tony Award nomination for his Broadway performance of the play A Hatful of Rain. When he reprised his role in the version in 1957. He also appeared in a prominent co-starring role in the Frank Sinatra film Assault on a Queen and was later in the 70s film of the Jackie Collins book The World Is Full of Married Men. He guest-starred in the television series The Greatest Show on Earth, Jack Palances circus drama and that same season, he appeared in the ABC medical drama about psychiatry, Breaking Point. Unfortunately for Franciosa, he lost the part, because Darrow had arrived on the set, right on time and he was fired from the series because of his temper. He also played roles in television miniseries, such as Aspen. In the 1980s, he starred in the Aaron Spelling-produced series Finder of Lost Loves, in the 1985 revival of The Twilight Zone, he appeared in the third-season episode Crazy As a Soup Sandwich, playing a gangster who is revealed to be the ultimate demon. Franciosas final film was City Hall, a 1996 drama starring Al Pacino and John Cusack, billed as Anthony Franciosa, he won the 1960 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for the role Sam Lawson in Career, opposite Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine. Franciosa was married four times, and had three children and his first wife, Beatrice Bakalyar, was a writer. They were married from 1952 to 1957 and his second wife was Oscar-winning actress Shelley Winters, they were married from May 4,1957 until their divorce in 1960, they had no children. Her death preceded his by five days and his third wife, the former Judith Balaban, is the author of the book The Bridesmaids, about her friend Princess Grace of Monaco, in whose wedding she served as a bridesmaid. This marriage produced Franciosas only daughter, Nina and his last wife was Rita Theil, by whom he had two sons, Marco and Christopher. Marco Franciosa is an organic farmer, Rita, his last wife, when asked about Anthonys hair-trigger temper said, He was never taught how to control his temper
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Publicity photo, 1969
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With
Robert Stack and
Gene Barry in
The Name of the Game (1968)
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With Laraine Stephens in a publicity photo for
Matt Helm in 1975
50.
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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Alec Guinness – 1938
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Guinness with
Rita Tushingham in
Doctor Zhivago
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The graves of Sir Alec Guinness and his wife in Petersfield, Hampshire
51.
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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Sir John Mills
CBE
John Mills
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The Wick on Richmond Hill in
Richmond,
Greater London, was the family home for many years
52.
Toshiro Mifune
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Toshiro Mifune was a Japanese actor who appeared in almost 170 feature films. He is best known for his 16-film collaboration with filmmaker Akira Kurosawa in such works as Rashomon, Seven Samurai, The Hidden Fortress, Throne of Blood, and Yojimbo. He also portrayed Musashi Miyamoto in Hiroshi Inagakis Samurai Trilogy, Lord Toranaga in the NBC TV miniseries Shōgun, Toshiro Mifune was born on 1 April 1920 in Qingdao, Shandong, China, to Japanese parents. His parents were Methodist missionaries working there, Mifune grew up with his parents and two younger siblings in Dalian, Liaoning, China, and, from 4 to 19 years of age, in Manchuria. Mifune was a Christian born to Missionary parents, in his youth, Mifune worked in the photography shop of his father Tokuzo, a commercial photographer and importer who had emigrated from northern Japan. In 1947, one of Mifunes friends who worked for the Photography Department of Toho Productions suggested Mifune try out for the Photography Department and he was accepted for a position as an assistant cameraman. At this time, a number of Toho actors, after a prolonged strike, had left to form their own company. Toho then organized a new faces contest to find new talent, Mifunes friends submitted an application and photo, without his knowledge. He was accepted, along with 48 others, and allowed to take a screen test for Kajirō Yamamoto, instructed to mime anger, he drew from his wartime experiences. Yamamoto took a liking to Mifune, recommending him to director Senkichi Taniguchi and this led to Mifunes first feature role, in Shin Baka Jidai. Kurosawa was originally going to skip the event, but showed up when an actress he knew told him of one actor who seemed especially promising, Kurosawa later wrote that he entered the audition to see a young man reeling around the room in a violent frenzy. It was as frightening as watching a wounded beast trying to break loose, when an exhausted Mifune finished his scene, he sat down and gave the judges an ominous stare. Kurosawa, however, had found his muse, I am a person rarely impressed by actors, he later said. But in the case of Mifune I was completely overwhelmed, one of Mifunes fellow performers, one of the 32 women chosen during the new faces contest, was Sachiko Yoshimine. Eight years Mifunes junior, she came from a respected Tokyo family and they fell in love and Mifune soon proposed marriage. Director Senkichi Taniguchi, with the help of Akira Kurosawa, convinced the Yoshimine family to allow the marriage and it took place in February 1950. In November of the year, their first son, Shirō was born. In 1955, they had a son, Takeshi
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Toshiro Mifune – detail from poster of the film
Scandal (1950)
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Toshiro Mifune's grave in
Kawasaki, Kanagawa.
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Mifune in Drunken Angel (1948)
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Mifune while filming Hell in the Pacific (1968)
53.
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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in
Desert Fury (1947)
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Lancaster and
Nick Cravat, performing with the
Federal Theatre Project Circus (1935–38)
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Cravat and Lancaster performing on the horizontal bars
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With
Deborah Kerr in
From Here to Eternity (1953)
54.
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
Albert Finney
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Matthew Modine
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Matthew Avery Modine is an American film actor. Modine, the youngest of seven children, was born in Loma Linda, California, the son of Dolores, a bookkeeper, and Mark Alexander Modine, who managed drive-in theaters. He is a nephew of a stage actress Nola Modine Fairbanks, Modine lived in Utah for several years, moving every year or two. The drive-in theaters his father managed were being torn down because the land beneath them exceeded the value of the theaters, the Modines moved to Imperial Beach, California where Matthew attended secondary school. After graduation, Matthew moved to New York City to pursue his interests in art, Modines first film role was in John Sayles film Baby Its You. His performance caught the eye of director Harold Becker, who cast him in Vision Quest, Modine appeared in the sex comedy Private School, co-starring Phoebe Cates and Betsy Russell. Modine played Mel Gibsons brother in Mrs. Soffel and starred with Nicolas Cage in Alan Parkers Birdy, the actor also famously turned down the role of LT Pete Maverick Mitchell in Top Gun, because he felt the films pro-military stance went against his politics. Modine may be best known for his role as Private Joker, subsequently, Modine played the dangerous young criminal Treat in Alan Pakulas film adaptation of Lyle Kesslers stageplay Orphans. Modine played the goofy, earnest FBI agent Mike Downey in Jonathan Demmes screwball comedy Married to the Mob opposite Michelle Pfeiffer, in 1990, he led the cast of Memphis Belle, a fictionalized account of the famous B-17 Flying Fortress. Modine has twice been nominated for an Emmy Award, first, for his performance in And the Band Played On, in 1995, he appeared opposite Geena Davis in the romantic action-adventure film Cutthroat Island. Modine made his directorial debut with If. Rabbit, which came after the success of three short films debuting at the Sundance Film Festival, When I Was a Boy, Smoking written by David Sedaris, the dark comedy, I Think I Thought, debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film tells the story of a Thinker who ends up in Thinkers Anonymous, other short films include To Kill an American, Cowboy, and The Love Film. In 2011, he completed Jesus Was a Commie, an avant garde-dialectical conversation about the world, Modine co-directed the short film with Terence Ziegler, the editor of I Think I Thought. Modines short films have played internationally, in 2003, he guest starred in The West Wing episode, The Long Goodbye. He portrayed the character Marco, who went to school with C. J. Cregg. Modine agreed to take the role because he is a friend of Janneys. That same year, he played Fritz Gerlich in the CBS miniseries Hitler, in 2004, Modine appeared in Funky Monkey as ex-football star turned spy Alec McCall, who teams up with super-chimp Clemens and his friend Michael Dean to take down the villainous Flick
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Modine at a
New York Knicks vs
Miami Heat game in May 2012
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Modine in April 2006
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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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Don Ameche
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Don Ameche was an American actor and voice artist. After touring in vaudeville, he featured in many biographical films and he continued to appear on Broadway, as well as on radio and TV, where he was host and commentator for International Showtime, covering circus and ice-shows all over Europe. Ameche was married to his wife Honore for 54 years, Ameche won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Cocoon. Ameche was born Dominic Felix Amici in Kenosha, Wisconsin on May 31,1908 and his father, Felice Amici, was a bartender from Italy from Montemonaco, Ascoli Piceno, Marche. His mother, Barbara Etta Hertel, was of Scottish, Irish and he had three brothers, Umberto, James, and Louis, and four sisters, Elizabeth, Catherine, Mary and Anna. Ameche attended Marquette University, Loras College, and the University of Wisconsin, Ameche had intended to study law, but he found theatricals more interesting and decided on a stage career. He was instrumental in forming and leading the group the year before play began. Ameche was married to Honore Prendergast from 1932 until her death in 1986, one, Ron Ameche, owned a restaurant, Ameches Pumpernickel in Coralville, Iowa. He had two daughters, Connie and Bonnie, Ameches younger brother, Jim Ameche, was also a well-known actor. His brother Bert was an architect who worked for the U. S. Navy in Port Hueneme, California, and then the U. S. Postal Service in Los Angeles, California. He enjoyed the experience and got a lead in Jerry For Short in New York, followed by a tour in vaudeville with Texas Guinan until she dropped him from the act. He made his debut in 1935, and by the late 1930s, had established himself as a major actor in Hollywood. He appeared in films as Alexanders Ragtime Band, and as the title character in The Story of Alexander Graham Bell. In the 1940 film Go West, Groucho Marx proclaims, Telephone and this is 1870, Don Ameche hasnt invented the telephone yet. While in the 1941 film Ball of Fire, Barbara Stanwycks character discusses the ameche slang usage, Do you know what this means, another highlight was co-starring with Gene Tierney in Ernst Lubitschs Heaven Can Wait in 1943, a film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. In 1940, he was voted the 21st-most-popular star in Hollywood, in 1944 he reportedly earned $247,677 for 1943, making him the second highest earner at 20th Century Fox after Spyros Skouras. Ameche played so many roles based on people that on one of his radio broadcasts, Fred Allen joked. Soon afterwards, in Its in the Bag. which starred Allen, Ameche and fellow veteran actor Ralph Bellamy were eventually cast in John Landis Trading Places in 1983, playing rich brothers intent on ruining an innocent man for the sake of a one-dollar bet
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Ameche on the set of International Showtime in September 1964
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Ameche and
Carmen Miranda in
That Night in Rio (1941)
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Ameche as the host of International Showtime in 1962
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Ameche in the 1938 film
Alexander's Ragtime Band
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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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Massimo Troisi
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Massimo Troisi was an Italian actor, film director, and poet. He is best known for his role as Mario Ruoppolo in the 1994 film Il Postino, Troisi was born into a large family in San Giorgio a Cremano, a town near Naples. His father was a train engineer, some of his family experiences were later told in his first movies. After high school, Troisi wrote some inspired by his favourite author, Pier Paolo Pasolini. Troisi started his career as a cabaret showman in 1972, as a member of the comic trio called I Saraceni and, later. His mates were De Caro and Arena and they gained national fame on the radio and increased it consistently from 1977 onwards eventually becoming TV stars with the shows Non Stop, La sberla and Luna Park. Troisi soon gained the status of leader of the trio and he was noted for his use of facial mimicry and of apparently confused speech—in these he drew inspiration from such famous figures of Neapolitan comedy as Totò, and Eduardo and Peppino De Filippo. Troisi wrote, directed, and starred in his first film and he achieved wide success and critical praise, establishing himself as one of the most talented new Italian directors of the 1980s. Like his second movie, Ricomincio da tre is centered on the love life of a Neapolitan character, partly inspired by Troisis youth. Scusate il ritardo, similar to the one, was released in 1983. After some small acting roles, in 1987 Troisi directed Le vie del Signore sono finite, the movie won a Silver Ribbon for best screenplay. In the following years, he starred alongside Marcello Mastroianni, in Ettore Scolas Splendor, Che ora è. and his last movie as director was Pensavo fosse amore, invece era un calesse, again centering on the everyday difficulties of love between a man and a woman. Troisi came to fame through the success of Il Postino. Troisi died in 1994 of an attack in his sisters house in Ostia twelve hours after the main filming on Il Postino had finished. It was reported that he postponed surgery to complete the film and he was posthumously nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role. He is one of seven actors to be posthumously nominated for an acting Academy Award. A good friend of the musician and singer Pino Daniele, he wrote lyrics for his music or adapted his poetry for it. Eduardo De Filippo, father of Neapolitan theatre of the 20th century, said of him that he was an actor of the future
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Massimo Troisi
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Jack Lemmon
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John Uhler Jack Lemmon III was an American actor and musician. Lemmon was an eight time Academy Award nominee, with two wins, Lemmon was born on February 8,1925, in an elevator at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. He was the child of Mildred Burgess LaRue and John Uhler Lemmon. His paternal grandmother was from an Irish immigrant family, Lemmon attended John Ward Elementary School in Newton and the Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts. During his acceptance of his lifetime achievement award, he stated that he knew he wanted to be an actor from the age of eight, after graduation in 1947, Lemmon took up acting professionally, working on radio, television and Broadway. He studied acting under coach Uta Hagen and he was enamored of the piano and learned to play it on his own. He could also play the harmonica, guitar, organ, and he was close friends with actors Tony Curtis, Ernie Kovacs, Walter Matthau and Kevin Spacey. He made two films with Curtis, and eleven with Matthau, early in Lemmons career he met comedian Ernie Kovacs while co-starring with him in Operation Mad Ball. Lemmon and Kovacs became close friends and appeared together in two subsequent films, Bell, Book and Candle and It Happened to Jane, in 1977, PBS broadcast a compilation series of Kovacs television work, and Lemmon served as the narrator of the series. Lemmon discussed his friendship with Kovacs in the documentary Ernie Kovacs and he was a favorite of director Billy Wilder, starring in the films Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Irma la Douce, The Fortune Cookie, Avanti. The Front Page, and Buddy Buddy, the biography quotes Lemmon as saying, I am particularly susceptible to the parts I play. If my character was having a breakdown, I started to have one. Bell, Book and Candle and It Happened to Jane and How to Murder Your Wife, quine also directed Lemmons screen test when the actor was signed by Columbia. Lemmons singing voice was first heard on two film soundtracks in 1955, Three for the Show with Betty Grable and My Sister Eileen and he also performed songs in the 1956 film You Cant Run Away from It with Stubby Kaye and June Allyson. His first solo album A Twist of Lemmon was released in 1958 on Epic Records, while filming Some Like It Hot with Marilyn Monroe in 1959, Lemmon released a second album, Some Like It Hot. Both featured Lemmons singing and piano solos, the two Epic albums were later released as A Twist of Lemmon/Some Like It Hot, a single cd on Collectors Choice Music, in 2001. Two singles, Daphne/Sleepy Lagoon and Im Forever Blowing Bubbles/I Cover the Waterfront did not appear on either album, Epic released a third single in 1960, Lemmons piano solo of the theme to the film The Apartment, backed with his own composition Lemmon Blues. In 1963, Lemmon released an album, this time on Capitol Records
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Jack Lemmon in 1968.
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Charlie Chaplin (right) receiving an Honorary Academy Award from Lemmon at the
44th Academy Awards in 1972
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Lemmon in 1988
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Jack Lemmon's grave
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Fabrizio Bentivoglio
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Fabrizio Bentivoglio is an Italian cinema and theatre actor and a screenwriter. Fabrizio Bentivoglio was born in Milan, after only one season in the juvenile team of Inter, he left his sporting career because of an injury to his left knee and attended the school of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan. He debuted on stage acting in Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare, continuing his studies in medicine, he then moved to Rome. With Dario de Luca and in association with Studio Universal he founded the Tipota Movie Company, with the band Piccola Orchestra Avion Travel he has staged the show La guerra vista dalla luna. He has also filmed the short film Típota and has completed a tour performing his own songs, the soundtrack of Eternity and a Day by Theo Angelopoulos contains the track The Poet, with Bentivoglios voice
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Fabrizio Bentivoglio in 2011
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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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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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Stefano Accorsi
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Stefano Lelio Beniamino Accorsi is an Italian actor. He graduated from Bolognas Theatrical School in 1993, and acted in the theatre for several years before moving to cinema, in 1995 he played the lead in Jack Frusciante è uscito dal gruppo, one of his best known films. In 1998 he worked with Daniele Luchetti in I Piccoli Maestri, in the same year he won three prizes for his role in Radiofreccia, directed by rock star Luciano Ligabue, including David di Donatello for Best Actor. He was the lead in the successful film Lultimo bacio and he won the leading role in Maria de Medeiros’ Capitães de Abril, and has worked with director Nanni Moretti in The Sons Room. In 2001, Accorsi also had the role in Ferzan Özpeteks Le fate ignoranti. This film was a big success in Italy and in Turkey, and Accorsi and he also starred in David Blairs Tabloid TV and in Marco Pontis Santa Maradona. Then Accorsi acted in the TV film Il giovane Casanova by Giacomo Battiato and he didnt make any more films for about a year, during which time he went to France. He went to the Venice International Film Festival 2003 as a member of the jury, in 2004 he shot two movies, Ovunque sei, directed by Michele Placido, where he plays the role of an emergency care doctor, and Lamore ritrovato, directed by Carlo Mazzacurati. Accorsi works with Diane Kruger in Les Brigades du Tigre and with Julie Depardieu in La Faute à Fidel and he then acts in Un baiser sil vous plaît in 2007 and its sequel Baciami ancora in 2010. Accorsi was engaged to Corsican supermodel Laetitia Casta and they have one son and one daughter together, Orlando, born on 21 September 2006 and Athena, born on 29 August 2009. Fratelli e sorelle Un Posto Voci notturne Jack Frusciante è uscito dal gruppo La mia generazione Vesna va veloce Naja I piccoli maestri Radiofreccia Più leggero non basta Ormai è fatta
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Stefano Accorsi
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David Strathairn
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David Russell Strathairn is an American actor. Strathairn was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for portraying journalist Edward R. Murrow in Good Night and he is also recognized for his role as CIA Deputy Director Noah Vosen in the 2007 film The Bourne Ultimatum, a role he reprised in 2012s The Bourne Legacy. He played a prominent role as Dr. Lee Rosen on the Syfy series Alphas from 2011 to 2012 and he was nominated for an Emmy and Golden Globe for his role in the TV film Temple Grandin. Strathairn was born in San Francisco, California, the second of three children of Thomas Scott Strathairn, Jr. a physician and Mary Frances, a nurse. Strathairn attended Redwood High School in Larkspur, California, and graduated from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts and he studied clowning at the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College in Venice, Florida, and briefly worked as a clown in a traveling circus. Strathairn was nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal of CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow in the 2005 biopic Good Night. The film explored Murrows clash with Senator Joseph McCarthy over McCarthys Communist witch-hunt in the 1950s, Strathairn also received Best Actor Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations for his performance. In 2010, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for his portrayal of Dr. Carlock in the HBO television film Temple Grandin, Strathairn is a character actor, appearing in supporting roles in many independent and Hollywood films. In this capacity, he has co-starred in Twisted as a psychiatrist, in The River Wild as a husband and he has worked with his Williams College classmate and director John Sayles. He made his debut in Return of the Secaucus 7. Alongside Sayles, he played one of the men in black in the 1983 film The Brother from Another Planet, Strathairn created the role of Edwin Booth with Maryann Plunkett in a workshop production of Booth. A House Divided, by W. Stuart McDowell, at The Players in New York, Strathairn had a recurring role on the hit television drama The Sopranos. Strathairn starred in the episode, Out Where the Buses Dont Run. In 2006 he did an ad for then congressional candidate Kirsten Gillibrand. He reprised his role as Edward R. Murrow in a similar to the one from Good Night, and Good Luck. Strathairn plays the role in the 2007 independent film, Steel Toes. The film is based on Gows stage play Cherry Docs, in which Strathairn starred for its American premiere at the Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia and he played a role in the summer 2007 film The Bourne Ultimatum and appeared in Paramount Pictures childrens film The Spiderwick Chronicles as Arthur Spiderwick. Strathairn appeared in the American Experience PBS anthology series documentary, The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer and he first played Oppenheimer in the 1989 CBS TV movie Day One
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Strathairn at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con
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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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Silvio Orlando
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Silvio Orlando is an Italian actor. He worked with numerous Italian directors such as Nanni Moretti, Daniele Luchetti, Carlo Mazzacurati, Gabriele Salvatores and he also took part in several TV series. Orlando in 1988 directed two works written by Peppino De Filippo, Don Rafelo o trumbone and Cupido scherza e spazza. In 2008 he was protagonist of Roberto Paci Dalòs play Lassedio delle ceneri
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Silvio Orlando
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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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