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Chinese personal names are names used by those from mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora overseas. Prior to the 20th century, educated Chinese also utilized a courtesy name or style name called zi by which they were known among those outside of their family and closest friends. From at least the time of the Shang dynasty, the Han Chinese observed a number of naming taboos regulating who may or may not use a given name. In general, using the given name connoted the speakers authority, peers and younger relatives were barred from speaking it. Owing to this, many historical Chinese figures – particularly emperors – used a half-dozen or more different names in different contexts and those possessing names identical to the emperors were frequently forced to change them. Although some terms in the ancient Chinese naming system, such as xìng and míng, are used today, they were used in different. Commoners possessed only a name, and the modern concept of a surname or family name did not yet exist at any level of society.3 billion citizens. In fact, just the top three – Wang, Li, and Zhang – cover more than 20% of the population. This homogeneity results from the majority of Han family names having only one character. Chinese surnames arose from two separate traditions, the xìng and the shì. The original xìng were clans of royalty at the Shang court, the shì did not originate from families, but denoted fiefs, states, and titles granted or recognized by the Shang court. Apart from the Jiang and Yao families, the original xìng have nearly disappeared, xìng is now used to describe the shì surnames which replaced them, while shì is used to refer to maiden names. The enormous modern clans sometimes share ancestral halls with one another, nonetheless, however tenuous these bonds sometimes are, it remains a minor taboo to marry someone with the same family name. In modern mainland China, it is the norm that a woman keeps her name unchanged. A child usually inherits his/her fathers surname, though the law explicitly states that a child may use either parents or the grandparents. It is also possible, though far less common, for a child to both parents surnames. In the older generations, it was common for a married woman to prepend her husbands surname to her own. This practice is now almost extinct in mainland China, though there are a few such as the name change of Gu Kailai, but survives in some Hong Kong, Macau
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The signature of Sun Yat-sen; in English Chinese people usually keep their names in Chinese order unless they live or travel abroad
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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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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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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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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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Beijing
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Beijing is the capital of the Peoples Republic of China and the worlds third most populous city proper. It is also one of the worlds most populous capital cities, the city, located in northern China, is governed as a direct-controlled municipality under the national government with 16 urban, suburban, and rural districts. Beijing is the second largest Chinese city by population after Shanghai and is the nations political, cultural. It is home to the headquarters of most of Chinas largest state-owned companies, and is a hub for the national highway, expressway, railway. The citys history dates back three millennia, as the last of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China, Beijing has been the political centre of the country for much of the past eight centuries. Beijing was the largest city in the world by population for much of the second millennium A. D, the city is renowned for its opulent palaces, temples, parks, gardens, tombs, walls and gates. Its art treasures and universities have made it centre of culture, encyclopædia Britannica notes that few cities in the world have served for so long as the political headquarters and cultural centre of an area as immense as China. Siheyuans, the traditional housing style, and hutongs, the narrow alleys between siheyuans, are major tourist attractions and are common in urban Beijing. The city hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics and was chosen to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, many of Beijings 91 universities consistently rank among the best in China, of which Peking University and Tsinghua University are ranked in the top 60 universities in the world. Beijings Zhongguancun area is known as Chinas Silicon Valley and Chinas center of innovation. According to the 2016 InterNations Expat Insider Survey, Beijing ranked first in Asia in the subcategory Personal Finance Index, expats live primarily in urban districts such as Dongcheng and Chaoyang in the east, or in suburban districts such as Shunyi. Over the past 3,000 years, the city of Beijing has had other names. The name Beijing, which means Northern Capital, was applied to the city in 1403 during the Ming Dynasty to distinguish the city from Nanjing, the English spelling is based on the pinyin romanisation of the two characters as they are pronounced in Standard Mandarin. Those dialects preserve the Middle Chinese pronunciation of 京 as kjaeng, the single Chinese character abbreviation for Beijing is 京, which appears on automobile license plates in the city. The official Latin alphabet abbreviation for Beijing is BJ, the earliest traces of human habitation in the Beijing municipality were found in the caves of Dragon Bone Hill near the village of Zhoukoudian in Fangshan District, where Peking Man lived. Homo erectus fossils from the date to 230,000 to 250,000 years ago. Paleolithic Homo sapiens also lived more recently, about 27,000 years ago. Archaeologists have found neolithic settlements throughout the municipality, including in Wangfujing, the first walled city in Beijing was Ji, a city from the 11th to 7th century BC
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Clockwise from top: Beijing CBD skyline, Tiananmen, Temple of Heaven, National Center for the Performing Arts, and Beijing National Stadium
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The museum at Zhoukoudian
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The Tianning Pagoda, built around 1120.
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Longevity Hill in Beijing where Kublai Khan wrote his poem.
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Film
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A film, also called a movie, motion picture, theatrical film or photoplay, is a series of still images which, when shown on a screen, creates the illusion of moving images due to the phi phenomenon. This optical illusion causes the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession, the process of filmmaking is both an art and an industry. The word cinema, short for cinematography, is used to refer to the industry of films. Films were originally recorded onto plastic film through a photochemical process, the adoption of CGI-based special effects led to the use of digital intermediates. Most contemporary films are now fully digital through the process of production, distribution. Films recorded in a form traditionally included an analogous optical soundtrack. It runs along a portion of the film exclusively reserved for it and is not projected, Films are cultural artifacts created by specific cultures. They reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them, Film is considered to be an important art form, a source of popular entertainment, and a powerful medium for educating—or indoctrinating—citizens. The visual basis of film gives it a power of communication. Some films have become popular worldwide attractions by using dubbing or subtitles to translate the dialog into the language of the viewer, some have criticized the film industrys glorification of violence and its potentially negative treatment of women. The individual images that make up a film are called frames, the perception of motion is due to a psychological effect called phi phenomenon. The name film originates from the fact that film has historically been the medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for a motion picture, including picture, picture show, moving picture, photoplay. The most common term in the United States is movie, while in Europe film is preferred. Terms for the field, in general, include the big screen, the screen, the movies, and cinema. In early years, the sheet was sometimes used instead of screen. Preceding film in origin by thousands of years, early plays and dances had elements common to film, scripts, sets, costumes, production, direction, actors, audiences, storyboards, much terminology later used in film theory and criticism apply, such as mise en scène. Owing to the lack of any technology for doing so, the moving images, the magic lantern, probably created by Christiaan Huygens in the 1650s, could be used to project animation, which was achieved by various types of mechanical slides
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A vintage Fox movietone motion picture camera
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The Berlin Wintergarten theatre was the site of the first cinema ever, with a short film presented by the Skladanowsky brothers on 1 November 1895. The image depicts a July 1940 variety show.
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A shot from Georges Méliès Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) (1902), an early narrative film.
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This 16 mm spring-wound Bolex "H16" Reflex camera is a popular entry level camera used in film schools.
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Hong Kong
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Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the Peoples Republic of China, is an autonomous territory on the Pearl River Delta of East Asia. Macau lies across the delta to the west, and the Chinese province of Guangdong borders the territory to the north. With a total area of 1,106 square kilometres. Hong Kong was later occupied by Japan during World War II until British control resumed in 1945, under the principle of one country, two systems, Hong Kong maintains a separate political and economic system from China. Except in military defence and foreign affairs, Hong Kong maintains its independent executive, legislative, in addition, Hong Kong develops relations directly with foreign states and international organisations in a broad range of appropriate fields. Hong Kong is one of the worlds most significant financial centres, with the highest Financial Development Index score and consistently ranks as the worlds most competitive and freest economic entity. As the worlds 8th largest trading entity, its legal tender, Hong Kongs tertiary sector dominated economy is characterised by simple taxation with a competitive level of corporate tax and supported by its independent judiciary system. However, while Hong Kong has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world and it has a very high Human Development Index ranking and the worlds longest life expectancy. Over 90% of the population use of well-developed public transportation. Seasonal air pollution with origins from neighbouring areas of Mainland China. Hong Kong was officially recorded in the 1842 Treaty of Nanking to encompass the entirety of the island, before 1842, the name referred to a small inlet—now Aberdeen Harbour —between Aberdeen Island and the southern coast of Hong Kong Island. Aberdeen was a point of contact between British sailors and local fishermen. Detailed and accurate romanisation systems for Cantonese were available and in use at the time, fragrance may refer to the sweet taste of the harbours fresh water estuarine influx of the Pearl River or to the incense from factories lining the coast of northern Kowloon. The incense was stored near Aberdeen Harbour for export before Hong Kong developed Victoria Harbour, the name had often been written as the single word Hongkong until the government adopted the current form in 1926. Nevertheless, a number of century-old institutions still retain the form, such as the Hongkong Post, Hongkong Electric. As of 1997, its name is the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the Peoples Republic of China. This is the title as mentioned in the Hong Kong Basic Law. Hong Kong has carried many nicknames, the most famous among those is the Pearl of the Orient, which reflected the impressive nightscape of the citys light decorations on the skyscrapers along both sides of the Victoria Harbour
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The Cenotaph in Hong Kong commemorates those who died in service in WWI and WWII.
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Stamp with portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, 1953
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Development of Hong Kong Island in 1986
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Action film
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Action film is a film genre in which the protagonist or protagonists end up in a series of challenges that typically include violence, extended fighting, physical feats, and frantic chases. Advancements in CGI have made it cheaper and easier to create action sequences, while action has long been a recurring component in films, the action film genre began to develop in the 1970s along with the increase of stunts and special effects. The genre is associated with the thriller and adventure film genres. Some historians consider The Great Train Robbery to be the first action film, during the 1920s and 1930s, action-based films were often swashbuckling adventure films in which actors, such as Douglas Fairbanks, wielded swords in period pieces or Westerns. The 1940s and 1950s saw action in a new form through war, the film, along with a war-adventure called The Guns of Navarone, inspired producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman to invest in their own spy-adventure, based on the novels of Ian Fleming. The long-running success of the James Bond films or series introduced a staple of the action film. Such larger-than-life characters were a veritable “one-man army”, able to dispatch villainous masterminds after cutting through their disposable henchmen in increasingly creative ways, such heroes are ready with one-liners, puns, and dry quips. The Bond films also used fast cutting, car chases, fist fights, a variety of weapons and gadgets, Dirty Harry essentially lifted its star, Clint Eastwood, out of his cowboy typecasting, and framed him as the archetypal hero of the urban action film. In many countries, restrictions on language, adult content, and violence had loosened up, in the 1970s, martial-arts films from Hong Kong became popular with Western audiences and inspired big budget films such as Bruce Lees Enter the Dragon. Chuck Norris blended martial arts with cops and robbers in films such as Good Guys Wear Black, from Japan, Sonny Chiba starred in his first martial arts movie in 1973 called the Karate Kiba. His breakthrough international hit was The Street Fighter series, which established him as the reigning Japanese martial arts actor in international cinema and he also played the role of Mas Oyama in Champion of Death, Karate Bearfighter, and Karate for Life. Chibas action films were not only bounded by martial arts, but also action thriller, jidaigeki, in the 1980s Hollywood produced many big budget action blockbusters with actors such as Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lorenzo Lamas, Michael Dudikoff, Charles Bronson and Bruce Willis. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas paid their homage to the Bond-inspired style with Raiders of the Lost Ark, in 1982, veteran actor Nick Nolte and rising comedian Eddie Murphy broke box office records with the action-comedy 48 Hrs. credited as the first buddy-cop movie. That same year, Sylvester Stallone starred in First Blood, the first installment in the Rambo film series made the character John Rambo a pop culture icon. 1984 saw the beginning of the Terminator starring Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger and this story provides one of the grittiest roles for a woman in action and Hamilton was required to put in extensive effort to develop a strong physique. The 1988 film, Die Hard, was influential on the development of the action genre. In the film, Bruce Willis plays a New York police detective who becomes embroiled in a terrorist take-over of a Los Angeles office building high-rise. The film set a pattern for a host of imitators, like Under Siege and Sudden Death, by the end of the 1980s, the influence of the successful action film could be felt in almost every genre
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Actor Sylvester Stallone starred as a troubled Vietnam war vet who becomes a "one man army" in the popular Rambo action films.
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Skateboard
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A skateboard is a type of sports equipment or toy used primarily for the activity of skateboarding. It usually consists of a specially designed maplewood board combined with a coating used for making smoother slides. Most skateboards are made with 7 plies of this wood, a skateboard is moved by pushing with one foot while the other remains on the board, or by pumping ones legs in structures such as a bowl or half pipe. A skateboard can also be used by standing on the deck while on a downward slope and allowing gravity to propel the board. If the riders leading foot is their right foot, he/she is said to ride goofy, if the leading foot is their left foot. If the rider is regular but chooses to ride goofy, he/she is said to be riding in switch. Recently, electric skateboards have also appeared and these no longer require the propelling of the skateboard by means of the feet, rather an electric motor propels the board, fed by an electric battery. There is no governing body that declares any regulations on what constitutes a skateboard or the parts from which it is assembled. Historically, the skateboard has conformed both to contemporary trends and to the array of stunts performed by riders/users, who require a certain functionality from the board. Of course, the shape depends largely upon its desired function. Longboards are a type of skateboard with a wheelbase and larger, softer wheels. The two main types of skateboards are the longboard and the shortboard, the shape of the board is also important, the skateboard must be concaved to perform tricks. Longboards are usually faster and are used for cruising and racing. See, Skateboarding The following descriptions cover skateboard parts that are most prevalent in popular, many parts exist with exotic or alternative constructions. A traditional complete skateboard consists of the deck, trucks, wheels, bushings, nuts and bolts to fasten the truck, older decks also included plastic parts such as side, tail, and nose guards. Modern decks vary in size, but most are 7 to 10.5 inches wide, wider decks can be used for greater stability when skateboarding. Standard skateboard decks are usually between 28 and 33 inches long, the underside of the deck can be printed with a design by the manufacturer, blank, or decorated by any other means. Long boards are usually over 36 inches long, plastic penny boards are typically about 22 inches long
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Skateboarder doing a trick in the air
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The side of a skateboard
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An Independent brand skateboard truck
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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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Theatrical release poster
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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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The Sino-Japanese War at Sea 1894
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The Sino-Japanese War at Sea 1894 is a 2012 Chinese historical war film directed and written by Feng Xiaoning, starring Lu Yi, Xia Yu and others. It is based on the events in the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895, with emphasis on the naval battles, the film premiered in China at the International Convention Centre in Weihai, Shandong, on 26 June 2012. The Sino-Japanese War at Sea 1894 is set in the late 19th century and based on the events of the First Sino-Japanese War, a young Deng Shichang enrols in the Fujian Naval Academy, where he meets his future colleagues such as Liu Buchan and Fang Boqian. In 1877, Liu, Fang, and others travel to London to further their studies at the Royal Naval College while Deng remains in China, some years later, Deng visits his classmates in London and meets Itō Sukeyuki, who is also studying there. The Guangxu Emperor wants to modernise and reform China but his efforts are hindered by Empress Dowager Cixi, who controls the emperor. The Qing Empires Beiyang Fleet is formed in the 1880s and is one of the largest naval fleets in Asia at the time. Meanwhile, in China, the funds originally designated for upgrading the Beiyang Fleet are used to renovate the Summer Palace to celebrate the empress dowagers 60th birthday. The First Sino-Japanese War breaks out in 1894, the navies of the two empires clash at the battles of Pungdo and the Yellow Sea. Deng Shichangs ship, the Zhiyuan, has been badly damaged, Deng gives orders for the Zhiyuan to ram the Japanese flagship Yoshino, but the Zhiyuan is sunk before it makes contact with the Yoshino. Deng stubbornly refuses to escape with the survivors and eventually drowns at sea with his pet dog, after their victory at the Yellow Sea, the Japanese follow up by launching a land invasion and win the Battle of Lüshun, after which they massacre the citys population. In the following year, the Japanese score another victory at the Battle of Weihaiwei, Itō Sukeyuki writes to Liu Buchan, his old classmate from the Royal Naval College, and asks him to surrender. Liu refuses and kills himself after blowing up his own warship, on 14 January 1895, the Japanese annex the Diaoyu Islands and rename them Senkaku Islands. Japan demands that the Qing Empire cedes Taiwan, Penghu, and the Liaodong Peninsula, Li rejects the terms and leaves. He is shot in the cheek by a Japanese fanatic on the way back, while recovering in hospital, he receives a telegraph from the Qing government instructing him to accept the Japanese terms. He signs the Treaty of Shimonoseki on 17 April 1895, before the film ends, the narrator of the film drops an old photograph of Deng Shichang and his classmates at the Fujian Naval Academy into the sea. The photograph sinks to the bottom of the sea and comes to rest in the wreckage of a warship, Lu Yi as Deng Shichang, the captain of the Zhiyuan. Lan Tian as Deng Shichang Xia Yu as Itō Sukeyuki, the Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet, yang Lixin as Ding Ruchang, an admiral of the Beiyang Fleet. Ma Guangze as Liu Buchan, an admiral of the Beiyang Fleet, lin Zijun as Liu Buchan Gong Jie as Liu Buchans sister Feng Weiduo as Liu Buchans sister Guo Jiaming as the Guangxu Emperor, the nominal ruler of the Qing Empire
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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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Ko Chun-hsiung
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Ko Chun-hsiung was a Taiwanese actor, director and politician. He had been acting since the 1960s and had appeared in more than 200 films and his career accolades included three Golden Horse Awards, two Asia Pacific Film Festival Awards for Best Actor, a Panama International Film Festival Award for Best Actor. In 2005, Chinese Film Association of Performance Art named Ko on the list of 100 Outstanding Artists in Chinese Film, Ko began his career by appearing in small roles before 1965. In 1967, Ko starred as Feng Ze in Ching-Zue Bais Lonely Seventeen, in 1974, Ko starred as Zhang Zizhong in the historical film The Everlasting Glory, which earned Ko his second Best Actor Award at the Asia Pacific Film Festival. In 1976, Ko acted in the historical film Eight Hundred Heroes directed by Shan-si Ting, playing the role of Xie Jinyuan, Ko won the Best Actor Award at the 1979 Golden Horse Awards for his performance in A Teacher of Great Soldiers. In 1981, Ko self-directed and performed in My Grandfather, which earned him a Best Actor Award at the Panama International Film Festival. In 1989, Ko starred as Duan Yihu, reuniting him with co-star Jackie Chan, who played Guo Zhenhua, in the comedy film Miracles. In 1999, Ko filmed in Cao Cao, he received the Best Actor Award at the 36th Golden Horse Awards, in 2012, Ko participated in the Taiwanese-language television drama Feng Shui Family. Ko became involved in politics in 1990, in 1996, Ko stood unsuccessfully in the Provisional Legislative Council Election in British Hong Kong. From 1 February 2005 to 31 January 2008, Ko served as the Legislative Yuan, in 2007, Ko joined the Taiwan Farmers Party, but was not reelected in the 2008 legislative elections. Originally wed to actress Chang Meiyao in 1970, he became the father of two children, Ko Yishan and Ko Pinyin and they divorced in 2004, as Ko was involved in an affair with Tsai Qinghua, who Ko married the next year. Kos second marriage produced two children, Ko Jianyu and Ko Zier. Chang, Kos first wife, died in 2012, Ko died on 6 December 2015 at Tri-Service General Hospital in Taipei, a year after being diagnosed with lung cancer. Chun Hsiung Ko at the Internet Movie Database O Chun-Hung at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase Ko Chun Hsiung at AllMovie
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Ko Chun-hsiung in Taipei in 2007.
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Chow Yun-fat
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Chow Yun-fat, SBS, previously known as Donald Chow, is a Hong Kong actor. He mainly plays in films and has won three Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actor and two Golden Horse Awards for Best Actor in Taiwan. In 2014, Chow was the second-highest earning actor in Hong Kong, earning HK$170 million, Chow was born in Lamma Island, Hong Kong, to a mother who was a cleaning lady and vegetable farmer, and a father who worked on a Shell Oil Company tanker. Chow grew up in a community on Lamma Island, in a house with no electricity. He woke up at dawn each morning to help his mother sell herbal jelly and Hakka tea-pudding on the streets and his family moved to Kowloon when he was ten. At seventeen, he left school to support the family by doing odd jobs including bellboy, postman, camera salesman. His life started to change when he responded to an advertisement and his actor-trainee application was accepted by TVB. He signed a contract with the studio and made his acting debut. Chow became a heartthrob and a face in soap operas that were exported internationally. Chow has been married twice, first in 1983, to Candice Yu, an actress from Asia Television, in 1986, Chow married Singaporean Jasmine Tan. The couple have no children, although Chow has a goddaughter, Celine Ng, when Chow appeared in the 1980 TV series The Bund on TVB, it did not take long for him to become a household name in Hong Kong. The series, about the rise and fall of a gangster in 1930s Shanghai, was a hit throughout Asia, although Chow continued his TV success, his goal was to become a big-screen actor. However, his ventures into low-budget films were disastrous. Success finally came when he teamed up with director John Woo in the 1986 gangster action-melodrama A Better Tomorrow, a Better Tomorrow won him his first Best Actor award at the Hong Kong Film Awards. It was the film in Hong Kong history at the time. Taking the opportunity, Chow quit TV entirely and he brought together his disparate personae in the 1989 film God of Gamblers, directed by the prolific Wong Jing, in which he was by turns suave charmer, a broad comedian and an action hero. The often tough demeanor and youthful appearance of Chow Yun-Fats characters has earned him the nickname Babyface Killer, the Los Angeles Times proclaimed Chow Yun-Fat the coolest actor in the world. In the mid 90s, Chow moved to Hollywood in an unsuccessful attempt to duplicate his success in Asia
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Chow Yun-fat at a red carpet event in 2007
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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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Order of St. Sylvester, 1993
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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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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 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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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.
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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
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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)
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Ermete Zacconi
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Ermete Zacconi was an Italian stage and film actor and a representative of naturalism and verism in acting. His leading ladies on stage were his wife Ines Cristina Bagni and he had lead roles in plays by William Shakespeare, Carlo Goldoni, Alfred de Musset, Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg. His most notable roles include Lemigrante, Summer Rain, Processo e morte di Socrate. Ermete Zacconi at the Internet Movie Database
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Fosco Giachetti
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Fosco Giachetti was an Italian actor. Fosco Giachetti was the protagonist of Lo squadrone bianco, directed by Augusto Genina, in 1942, he also co-starred in Goffredo Alessandrinis two part Noi Vivi and Addio Kira. Un colpo di pistola by Renato Castellani and Fari nella nebbia by Gianni Franciolini were not as successful as his earlier films, after the war, he returned to the stage. He worked in Spain with Edgar Neville in Nada and in Carne de horca and he had a supporting role in 1959 Dino Risis successful comedy Il mattatore. In 1964, he appeared in an adaptation of A. J. Cronins novel, in 2003, the Galleria Fosco Giachetti in Sesto Fiorentino was opened in his honor. Venice Film Festival Best Actor for Bengasi,1942 Fosco Giachetti at the Internet Movie Database
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Giachetti with Vera Carmi in Labbra serrate (1942)
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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
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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)
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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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Film still of the special TV presentation The Sad and Lonely Sundays (1976). Pictured are Jaffe (left) and Jack Albertson.
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Jean Gabin
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Jean Gabin was a French actor and sometime singer. Considered a key figure in French cinema, he starred in classic films including Pépé le Moko, La grande illusion, Le Quai des brumes, La bête humaine, Le jour se lève. Gabin was made a member of the Légion dhonneur in recognition of the important role he played in French cinema, Gabin was born Jean-Alexis Moncorgé in Paris, the son of Madeleine Petit and Ferdinand Moncorgé, a cafe entertainer whose stage name was Gabin. He grew up in the village of Mériel in the Seine-et-Oise département, the son of cabaret entertainers, he attended the Lycée Janson de Sailly. Gabin left school early, and worked as a laborer until the age of 19 when he entered business with a bit part in a Folies Bergères production. He continued performing in a variety of roles before going into the military. He was part of a troupe that toured South America, and his performances started getting noticed, and better stage roles came along that led to parts in two silent films in 1928. Two years later Gabin easily made the transition to talkies, in a 1930 Pathé Frères production titled Chacun sa Chance, playing secondary roles, he made more than a dozen films over the next four years, including films directed by Maurice and Jacques Tourneur. However, he only gained recognition for his performance in Maria Chapdelaine. He was then cast as a hero in a 1936 war drama titled La Bandera. The following year he teamed up with Duvivier again, this time in the highly successful Pépé le Moko and that same year he starred in the Jean Renoir film La Grande Illusion, an anti-war film that ran at a New York City theatre for an unprecedented six months. He was divorced from his wife in 1939. In the late 1930s Gabin was flooded with offers from Hollywood, for a time he turned them all down, after the German occupation of France in 1940, he joined Jean Renoir and Julien Duvivier in the United States. During his time in Hollywood, Gabin began a romance with actress Marlene Dietrich which lasted until 1948. However, his films in America – Moontide and The Impostor, Gabin was a difficult personality, he did serious damage to his Hollywood career while working for RKO Pictures. Scheduled to star in an RKO film, at the last minute he demanded Dietrich be given the co-starring role, after Gabin remained steadfast in his demand, he was fired, and the film project was shelved. Undaunted, he joined General Charles de Gaulles Free French Forces and earned the Médaille militaire, following D-Day, Gabin was part of the military contingent that entered a liberated Paris. He was hired by Marcel Carné in 1946 to star in the film, Les Portes de la Nuit, but his conduct got him fired again
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Gabin and Jacques Prévert in 1961.
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The Musée Jean Gabin.
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Bourvil
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For his performance in Le Corniaud, he won a Special Diploma at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. His father was killed in the First World War before Bourvil was born, as a result, he spent his entire childhood in the village of Bourville, the name of which inspired his stage name. He married Jeanne Lefrique on 23 January 1943, after a battle with Kahlers syndrome, which attacks the bone marrow, he died at the age of 53. He is buried in Montainville, Yvelines, bourvils characters not only managed to make viewers laugh, but also to save themselves, often unwittingly, from the Machiavellian designs of his adversaries. Bourvil was, however, also capable of more roles such as the handyman in LArbre de Noël. In this role he observes the relationship between a man he works for and the son who has fallen ill. The audience can identify with the character played by Bourvil, just as they can in his comic roles, one can also note his role of Thénardier in the film adaptation of Les Misérables, and his last role as the policeman Mattei in Jean-Pierre Melvilles Le Cercle rouge. In March 1948, Bourvil took part in the recording of Offenbachs The Tales of Hoffmann with artists of the Paris Opéra-Comique conducted by André Cluytens
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André Bourvil in 1967
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Alec Guinness
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Sir Alec Guinness CH CBE was an English actor. After an early career on the stage, he was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including The Ladykillers and he is also known for his portrayal of Obi-Wan Kenobi in George Lucass original Star Wars trilogy, receiving a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He also won a BAFTA Award, Golden Globe and a Tony Award, in 1959, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the arts. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960, the Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievement in 1980, Guinness was born at 155 Lauderdale Mansions South, Lauderdale Road, Maida Vale, as Alec Guinness de Cuffe. His mothers maiden name was Agnes Cuff and she was born 8 December 1890 to Edward Cuff and Mary Ann Benfield. On Guinnesss birth certificate, the space for the name shows Agnes de Cuffe. The space for the name says Alec Guinness. The column for name and surname of father is blank, the identity of Guinnesss father has never been officially confirmed. From 1875, under English law, when the birth of a child was registered. Guinness himself believed that his father was a Scottish banker, Andrew Geddes, Geddes occasionally visited Guinness and his mother, posing as an uncle. Guinnesss mother later had a marriage to a British soldier who had survived the Irish War of Independence. His behaviour was erratic or even violent. Guinness first worked writing advertising copy and he appeared at the Albery Theatre in 1936 at the age of 22, playing the role of Osric in John Gielguds successful production of Hamlet. Also in 1936, Guinness signed on with the Old Vic, in 1939, he took over for Michael Redgrave as Charleston in a road-show production of Robert Ardreys Thunder Rock. An early influence from afar was Stan Laurel, whom Guinness admired, Guinness continued playing Shakespearean roles throughout his career. In 1937, he played Aumerle in Richard II and Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice under the direction of John Gielgud and he starred in a 1938 production of Hamlet which won him acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1939, he adapted Great Expectations for the stage, playing Herbert Pocket, one of its viewers was a young British film editor, David Lean, who would later have Guinness reprise his role in Leans 1946 film adaptation of the play. Guinness served in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve in the Second World War, initially as a seaman in 1941 and he commanded a landing craft at the Allied invasion of Sicily, and later ferried supplies and agents to the Yugoslav partisans in the eastern Mediterranean theatre
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Sir Alec Guinness in 1973 by Allan Warren
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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
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John Mills
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Sir John Mills, CBE was an English actor who appeared in more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades. On screen, he often played people who are not at all exceptional and he received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in Ryans Daughter. Mills was born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills in Norfolk but grew up in Felixstowe, Suffolk, the son of Edith, a box office manager, and Lewis Mills. His spent his years in the village of Belton where his father was the headmaster of the village school. He first felt the thrill of performing at a concert in the hall when six years old. He lived in a modest house in Gainsborough Road Felixstowe until 1929 and his older sister was Annette Mills, remembered as presenter of BBC Televisions Muffin the Mule. Upon leaving school he worked as a clerk at a corn merchants in Ipswich before finding employment in London as a traveller for the Sanitas Disinfectant Company. In September 1939, at the start of the Second World War and he was later commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, but in 1942 he received a medical discharge because of a stomach ulcer. Mills took an early interest in acting, making his professional début at the London Hippodrome in The Five OClock Girl in 1929 and he also starred in the Noël Coward revue Words and Music. He made his film début in The Midshipmaid, and appeared as Colley in the 1939 film version of Goodbye, Mr Chips, in 1942, he starred in Noël Cowards In Which We Serve. Mills took the lead in Great Expectations in 1946, and subsequently made his career playing traditionally British heroes such as Captain Scott in Scott of the Antarctic. After Morning Departure he made a series of films but bounced back with war dramas, such as The Colditz Story, Above Us the Waves. From 1959 through the mid-1960s, Mills starred in films alongside his daughter Hayley. Their first film together was the 1959 crime drama Tiger Bay, as Colonel Barrow in Tunes of Glory, Mills won the best Actor Award at the 1960 Venice Film Festival. For his role as the village idiot in Ryans Daughter — a complete departure from his usual style – Mills won an Best Supporting Actor Oscar and his most famous television role was probably as the title character in Quatermass for ITV in 1979. Mills also starred as Gus, The Theatre Cat in the version of the musical Cats in 1998. The film was produced and written by Jonathan Mills, directed and edited by Marcus Dillistone, millss last cinema appearance was playing a tramp in Lights 2, the cinematographer was Jack Cardiff. They had last worked together on Scott of the Antarctic in 1948 and their combined age was 186 years, a cinema record
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The Wick on Richmond Hill in Richmond, Greater London, was the family home for many years
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Albert Finney
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Albert Finney is an English actor. Beginning in the theatre, Finney was especially successful in plays by William Shakespeare before he switched to films and he achieved prominence in films in the early 1960s, his debut being The Entertainer, directed by Tony Richardson, who had directed him in theatre plays various times before. He became a leading Free Cinema figure, and has maintained a career in theatre, film. Finney was born in the Charlestown area of Pendleton, Salford, Lancashire, England and he was educated at Tootal Drive Primary School, Salford Grammar School and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. In February 1956 John Fernald, principal of RADA, gave Finney his first major role as Shakespeares Troilus in the Vanbrugh Theatres student production of Ian Dallas play The Face of Love. Finney graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, then in 1959 he appeared at Stratford in Coriolanus, replacing a sick Laurence Olivier. This led to a series of Angry Young Man roles in kitchen sink dramas, before he starred in the Academy Award-winning 1963 film Tom Jones. Prior to this, Finney had been chosen to play T. E. Lawrence in David Leans production of Lawrence of Arabia after a successful, however, Finney baulked at signing a multi-year contract for producer Sam Spiegel and chose not to accept the role. The success of Tom Jones saw British exhibitors vote Finney the ninth most popular star at the box office in 1963, after Charlie Bubbles, which he also directed, his film appearances became less frequent as he focused more on acting on stage. During this period, one of his film roles was as Agatha Christies Belgian master detective Hercule Poirot in the 1974 film Murder On The Orient Express. Finney became so known for the role that he complained that it typecast him for a number of years. People really do think I am 300 pounds with a French accent he said and he also sings in Tim Burtons Corpse Bride. In the latter he played a frozen, disembodied head, Finney also made an appearance at Roger Waters The Wall Concert in Berlin, where he played The Judge during the performance of The Trial. Even with his success on the big screen, Finney never abandoned his stage performances and he continued his association with the National Theatre Company at the Old Vic in London, where he performed in the mid-1960s in Shakespeares Much Ado About Nothing and Chekovs The Cherry Orchard. He won an Olivier Award for Orphans in 1986 and has won three Evening Standard Theatre Awards for Best Actor, in 2002 his critically acclaimed portrayal of Winston Churchill in The Gathering Storm won him BAFTA and Emmy awards as Best Actor. He also played the role in the television series My Uncle Silas, based on the short stories by H. E. Bates, about a roguish. The show ran for two series from 2000 until 2003, by his first wife, Jane Wenham, he has a son, Simon, who works in the film industry as a camera operator. From 1970 to 1978, he was married to French actress Anouk Aimée, in May 2011, Finney disclosed that he had been receiving treatment for kidney cancer
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Albert Finney in 1966
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Tom Courtenay
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He received a knighthood in February 2001 for his service to cinema and theatre. Courtenay was born in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, the son of Annie Eliza and Thomas Henry Courtenay and he attended Kingston High School and studied drama at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. In 1963, he played that same role in the film version. He said of Albert Finney, We both have the problem, overcoming the flat harsh speech of the North. Courtenays film debut was in 1962 with Private Potter, directed by Finnish-born director Caspar Wrede, for these performances Courtenay was awarded the 1962 BAFTA Award for most promising newcomer and the 1963 BAFTA Award for best actor respectively. For his role as the revolutionary leader Pasha Antipov in Doctor Zhivago, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Despite being catapulted to fame by the films, Courtenay has said that he has not particularly enjoyed film acting. In 1968 Courtenay began an association with Manchester when he played in The Playboy of the Western World for the Century Theatre at Manchester University directed by Michael Elliott. His first roles for the Royal Exchange were as Faulkland in Richard Brinsley Sheridans The Rivals, since then he has played a variety of roles, including in 1999 the leading role in the theatres production of King Lear, and in 2001 Uncle Vanya. Courtenays working relationship with Wrede returned to film when he played the role in the latters 1970 production of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. His best known film role since then was in The Dresser, both Courtenay and Finney received nominations for Best Actor in the 1984 Academy Awards for their roles, losing to Robert Duvall. He played the father of Derek Bentley in the 1991 film Let Him Have It, Courtenays television and radio appearances have been relatively few, but have included She Stoops to Conquer in 1971 on BBC and several Ayckbourn plays. He appeared in I Heard the Owl Call My Name on US television in 1973, in 1994 he starred as Quilp opposite Peter Ustinov in a Disney Channel made for television version of The Old Curiosity Shop. Rather unexpectedly, he had a role as the anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski in the 1995 US TV film Young Indiana Jones. In 1998 he teamed with Albert Finney again for the acclaimed BBC drama A Rather English Marriage and he played the role of God, opposite Sebastian Graham-Jones, in Ben Steiners radio play A Brief Interruption, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004. In the same year, he played the role of Stanley Laurel in Neil Brands radio play Stan, also for Radio 4, he played the title role in Nick Leathers The Domino Man of Lancashire and Maurice in Richard Lumsdens Man in the Moon, both broadcast in 2007. Courtenay also appeared in the 2008 Christmas special of the BBC show The Royle Family, playing the role of Daves father and it later transferred to the Comedy Theatre in the West End in London. In 2008 he appeared in the BBC adaptation of Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens, playing William Dorrit, in March 2011, he joined the cast of Gambit, a film starring fellow RADA alumnus Alan Rickman that began filming in May
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Courtenay at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival, February 2015
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Courtenay in Paris at a premiere of Quartet, March 2013.
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Jacques Perrin
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Jacques Perrin is a French actor and filmmaker. He is occasionally credited as Jacques Simonet, Simonet was his fathers name and Perrin his mothers. His father, Alexandre Simonet, was a theatre director, Perrin was trained as an actor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur dArt Dramatique. He was given his first juvenile film roles by Italian director Valerio Zurlini and he also gave over 400 performances of LAnnée du bac on the Paris stage. He played opposite Claudia Cardinale in the romantic comedy La Ragazza con la valigia and played the brother in Family Diary with Marcello Mastroianni. He was also the adult Salvatore in the international hit Cinema Paradiso and he won two Best Actor awards at the Venice Film Festival in 1966 for the Italian film Almost a Man and the Spanish film The Search. At 27, he created a studio and produced and acted in Z, directed by Costa Gavras and starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Yves Montand, Z received an Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 1969. He collaborated with Costa Gavras again in État de Siège in 1973, both films had political themes, and Perrin continued this trend with a documentary on the Algerian uprising and a film on the Chilean presidency of Salvador Allende. In 1973 Perrin produced - and starred alongside Claude Jade as his love interest - the first film of Benoît Lamy, the film acclaimed 14 international awards. Perrin produced another Oscar-winning film in 1976, La Victoire en chantant by director Jean-Jacques Annaud, in 1977, he embarked on Le Désert des Tartares, again starring Trintignant. The cast included such actors as Max von Sydow, but was not very successful. His recent successes have been the animal films Microcosmos and Le Peuple Migrateur and he also played the role of the old Pierre Morhange, narrator of the very internationally successful film The Chorus, that he also produced. The young Pépinot was played by his younger son Maxence and he was made Knight of the Ordre national du Mérite in 1985, promoted Officer in 1997 and promoted Commander in 2003. He was made Knight of the Légion dhonneur in 1990 and promoted Officer in 2007 and he has three sons, Mathieu, born 1975, Maxence, born 1995, and Lancelot, born 2000. Jacques Perrin at the Internet Movie Database
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Perrin at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
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David Alan Grier
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David Alan Grier is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his work on the comedy television show In Living Color. Grier graduated from Detroits magnet high school, Cass Tech, and received a B. A. from the University of Michigan, and an M. F. A. from the Yale School of Drama in 1981. When Grier was young, his family marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. in a March on Poverty in Detroit, where King gave an early version of the I Have A Dream speech. Immediately after graduating from Yale, Grier landed the role of Jackie Robinson in the short-lived Broadway musical The First, directed by Martin Charnin, Grier got his start on the National Public Radio radio drama adaptation of Star Wars in 1981. He was the voice of a nameless X-wing fighter pilot during the Battle of Yavin, Grier was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical and won the Theatre World Award for The First. He later starred as James Thunder Early in the hit Broadway musical Dreamgirls, Grier made his film debut in 1983 in Streamers, directed by Robert Altman. He won the Golden Lion for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival for the film and he also appeared in the Negro Ensemble Company production A Soldiers Play and reprised his role in the film version A Soldiers Story. Although primarily known for his work, Grier began to shift towards comedy, making memorable appearances in the cult films Amazon Women on the Moon. Keenen Ivory Wayans, the director of Sucka, cast Grier in his new variety show In Living Color and it became a ratings hit and won an Emmy for Outstanding Variety Series. Grier became a popular cast member through his characters, which ranged from children to crotchety old men. Among his prominent characters were obnoxious, megaphone-blaring shop teacher Al MacAfee and he also played Rev. Leon Lonnie Love on the TV series Martin. Grier appeared with Tom Arnold in the 1997 comedy McHales Navy as Ensign Charles Parker, in 1999, he made a guest appearance as himself in the Aw, Here it Goes to Hollywood episode of Nickelodeons sitcom, Kenan & Kel. After the cancellation of In Living Color, Grier starred in the short-lived sitcoms The Preston Episodes, Damon, Grier had a cameo in the Robert De Niro and Edward Burns movie 15 Minutes as a Central Park mugger. In a departure from the roles he often played on In Living Color. He began doing comedy and began hosting the Comedy Central series Premium Blend. He was ranked no.94 on Comedy Central 100 Greatest Stand-Ups, Grier returned to Broadway to perform in the musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. In 2002, Grier joined the cast of the improv-based ABC sitcom, during this time, he continued to appear in comedy films but also returned to drama in the films Baadasssss. and The Woodsman
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Grier in August 2007
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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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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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River Phoenix
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River Jude Phoenix was an American actor, musician, and activist. He was the brother of Rain Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix, Liberty Phoenix. Phoenixs work encompassed 24 films and television appearances, and his rise to fame led to his status as a teen idol and he began his acting career at age 10, in television commercials. He starred in the science fiction adventure film Explorers, and had his first notable role in 1986s Stand By Me, a coming-of-age film based on the novella The Body by Stephen King. For his performance in the latter, Phoenix garnered enormous praise and won a Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival, along with Best Actor from the National Society of Film Critics. On October 31,1993, Phoenix collapsed and died of combined drug intoxication following an overdose on the sidewalk outside the West Hollywood nightclub The Viper Room at the age of 23. At the time of his death, Phoenix had been in the middle of filming Dark Blood, Phoenix was born on August 23,1970 in Madras, Oregon, the first child of Arlyn Dunetz and John Lee Bottom. Phoenixs parents named him after the river of life from the Hermann Hesse novel Siddhartha, in an interview with People, Phoenix described his parents as hippieish. His mother was born in the Bronx, New York to Jewish parents whose families had emigrated from Russia and his father was a lapsed Catholic from Fontana, California, of English, German, and French ancestry. In 1968, Phoenixs mother left her family in New York City, while hitchhiking in northern California she met John Lee Bottom. They married on September 13,1969, less than a year after meeting, Phoenixs family moved cross country when he was very young. Phoenix was raised in Micanopy, Florida, a suburb of Gainesville. Phoenix has stated that they lived in a desperate situation, Phoenix often played guitar while he and his sister sang on street corners for money and food to support their ever-growing family. Screenwriter Naomi Foner later commented, He was totally, totally without education, I mean, he could read and write, and he had an appetite for it, but he had no deep roots into any kind of sense of history or literature. In 1973 the family joined a controversial Christian new religious movement, called the Children of God, the family had settled in Caracas, Venezuela where the Children of God had stationed them to work as missionaries and fruit gatherers. Although Phoenix rarely talked about the cult, he was quoted by Arlyn Phoenix in a 1994 Esquire article as having said Theyre disgusting, theyre ruining peoples lives. In an interview with Details magazine in November 1991, Phoenix stated he lost his virginity at age four while in the Children of God and he sought to attract rich disciples through sex. In the late 1970s, Rivers family moved in with Arlyns parents in Florida, the family officially changed their name to Phoenix, after the mythical bird that rises from its own ashes, symbolizing a new beginning
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Phoenix at the 61st Academy Awards in March 1989
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Phoenix as young Indiana Jones
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Phoenix and Martha Plimpton on the red carpet at the 61st Academy Awards, 1989
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The Viper Room on Sunset Strip, where Phoenix collapsed on the sidewalk
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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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Chris Penn
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Christopher Shannon Chris Penn was an American film and television actor. Penn was found dead in his condominium on January 24,2006, an autopsy revealed the primary cause for his death was nonspecific cardiomyopathy. Penn was born in Los Angeles, California, the youngest of three born to Leo Penn, an actor and director, and Eileen Ryan, an actress. His paternal grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Lithuania and Russia, and his mother was a Roman Catholic of Italian, according to Penns mother, Leo Penn may have had distant Sephardic ancestry, as the familys surname was originally Piñón. His brothers are actor Sean Penn and musician Michael Penn, Penn started acting at the age of 12 at the Loft Studio and made his film debut in 1979’s Charlie and the Talking Buzzard, starring Christopher Hanks. In 1983, he was featured in Francis Ford Coppola’s youth drama Rumble Fish and appeared in the high school football drama All the Right Moves as the best friend of Tom Cruises character. Penn, who had a belt in karate, appeared in the 1989 motion picture Best of the Best as Travis Brickley. The film also starred James Earl Jones, Sally Kirkland, Eric Roberts, Phillip Rhee, Penn reprised his role in 1993s Best of the Best 2. Two of his memorable performances were in Reservoir Dogs as Nice Guy Eddie. In 1996 he won the award for Best Supporting Actor at the Venice Film Festival for The Funeral, in 1990, Chris was cast in a season one episode of The Young Riders. He appeared as a villain and was killed by Josh Brolins character William Hickok, in Robert Altmans 1993 ensemble film Short Cuts, Penn played a troubled swimming pool cleaner who is disturbed by his wifes profession to which Penns character is sometimes obliged to listen. He also appeared as a guy in a criminal conspiracy in Murder by Numbers. Penn appears in Jay-Zs Can I Get A.1998 music video as a bartender who mixes drinks and dances. In 2001, Penn was meant to appear in American Pie 2 as Steve Stiflers father, however, they appeared on the deleted scene reel from the movies DVD. Penn then went on to co-star opposite Peter Berg as the brothers of Corky in Corky Romano. In 2003, he appeared on the Will & Grace episode, Fanilow, as Barry Manilows tour director, Penn was featured in an episode of the television crime drama Law & Order, Criminal Intent during the 2004–2005 season. He was also featured on the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto, Penn played himself on a 2005 episode of the HBO series Entourage. He appeared in The Darwin Awards, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival one day after his death, Penn was found dead in his Santa Monica condominium on January 24,2006, aged 40
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Chris Penn in Corky Romano (2001)
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Javier Bardem
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Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem is a Spanish actor. Bardem won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the psychopathic assassin Anton Chigurh in the 2007 Coen brothers film No Country for Old Men. Bardem has also won a Screen Actors Guild Award, a BAFTA, five Goya Awards and he is the first Spanish actor to be nominated for an Oscar, as well as the first Spaniard to win one. He received his third Academy Award nomination, and second Best Actor nomination, Bardem was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands, Spain. His mother, Pilar Bardem, is an actress, and his father, the two separated shortly after his birth. Both his older brother and sister, Carlos and Mónica, are actors and he also comes from a political background, as his uncle Juan Antonio was imprisoned by Franco for his anti-fascist films. Bardem was brought up in the Roman Catholic faith by his grandmother, as a child, he spent time at theatres and on film sets. At age six, he made his first film appearance, in Fernando Fernán Gómezs El Pícaro and he also played rugby for the junior Spanish National Team. Though he grew up in a full of actors, Bardem did not see himself going into the family business. Actually, painting was his first love and he went on to study painting for four years at Madrids Escuela de Artes y Oficios. In need of money he took acting jobs to support his painting, but he also says he was a bad painter and eventually abandoned that career pursuit. In 1989, for the Spanish comedy show El Día Por Delante, he had to wear a Superman costume for a comedic sketch, Bardem has confessed to having worked as a stripper during his struggling acting career. Bardem came to notice in a role in his first major motion picture, The Ages of Lulu. The film, which starred a teenaged Penélope Cruz, was a major international success. He then starred again in Lunas next film Golden Balls, Bardems talent did not go unnoticed in the English-speaking world. In 1997, John Malkovich was the first to him, then a 27-year-old, for a role in English. His first English-speaking role came that year, in with director Álex de la Iglesias Perdita Durango. After starring in two dozen films in his native country, he gained international recognition in Julian Schnabels Before Night Falls in 2000
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Bardem at a ceremony to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on November 8, 2012
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Javier Bardem and the Coen brothers at the Cannes Film Festival 2007
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Bardem with co-stars for the film Biutiful at Cannes 2010
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Bardem at the 83rd Academy Awards, 27 February 2011
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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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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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Brad Pitt
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William Bradley Brad Pitt in Shawnee Oklahoma. He is an American actor and producer and he has received multiple awards and nominations including an Academy Award as producer under his own company Plan B Entertainment. Pitt first gained recognition as a hitchhiker in the road movie Thelma & Louise. His first leading roles in big-budget productions came with the dramas A River Runs Through It and Legends of the Fall, Pitt starred in the cult film Fight Club and the heist film Oceans Eleven and its sequels, Oceans Twelve and Oceans Thirteen. As a public figure, Pitt has been cited as one of the most influential and powerful people in the American entertainment industry, as well as the worlds most attractive man and his personal life is also the subject of wide publicity. Divorced from actress Jennifer Aniston, to whom he was married for five years and they have six children together, three of whom were adopted internationally. In September 2016, Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt, William Bradley Pitt was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, to William Bill Alvin Pitt, manager of a trucking company, and Jane Etta, a school counsellor. The family soon moved to Springfield, Missouri, where he lived together with his siblings, Douglas. Pitt has described Springfield as Mark Twain country, Jesse James country, having grown up with a lot of hills, Pitt attended Kickapoo High School, where he was a member of the golf, swimming and tennis teams. He participated in the schools Key and Forensics clubs, in school debates, following his graduation from high school, Pitt enrolled in the University of Missouri in 1982, majoring in journalism with a focus on advertising. As graduation approached, Pitt did not feel ready to settle down and he loved films—a portal into different worlds for me—and, since films were not made in Missouri, he decided to go to where they were made. Two weeks before earning his degree, Pitt left the university and moved to Los Angeles, while struggling to establish himself in Los Angeles, Pitt took lessons from acting coach Roy London. Pitts acting career began in 1987, with uncredited parts in the films No Way Out, No Mans Land and his television debut came in May 1987 with a two-episode role on the NBC soap opera Another World. In November of the same year Pitt had a guest appearance on the ABC sitcom Growing Pains and he appeared in four episodes of the CBS primetime series Dallas between December 1987 and February 1988 as Randy, the boyfriend of Charlie Wade. Later in 1988, Pitt made a guest appearance on the Fox police drama 21 Jump Street, in the same year, the Yugoslavian–U. S. Co-production The Dark Side of the Sun gave Pitt his first leading film role, the film was shelved at the outbreak of the Croatian War of Independence, and was not released until 1997. He made guest appearances on television series Head of the Class, Freddys Nightmares, Thirtysomething, and Growing Pains. Pitt was cast as Billy Canton, an addict who takes advantage of a young runaway in the 1990 NBC television movie Too Young to Die. the story of an abused teenager sentenced to death for a murder
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Pitt at the premiere of Fury in Washington D.C, October 2014
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Pitt at the 2007 Palm Springs International Film Festival
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Pitt, George Clooney, Matt Damon, Andy García, Julia Roberts, cast of Ocean's Eleven and director Steven Soderbergh in December 2001
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Pitt in 2001
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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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Colin Firth
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Colin Andrew Firth, CBE is an English actor. His films have grossed more than $3 billion from 42 releases worldwide, Firth has received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, two BAFTA Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as the Volpi Cup. Firths most notable and acclaimed role to date has been his 2010 portrayal of King George VI in The Kings Speech and this led to roles in films such as The English Patient, Bridget Joness Diary, Shakespeare in Love, and Love Actually. In 2009, Firth received widespread acclaim for his leading role in A Single Man, for which Firth gained his first Academy Award nomination. Firth starred in the spy movie Kingsman, The Secret Service in 2014. In 2011, Firth received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and he was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Winchester in 2007, and was made a Freeman of the City of London in 2012. He has campaigned for the rights of tribal peoples, and is a member of Survival International. Firth has also campaigned on issues of asylum seekers, refugees rights, and he commissioned and is credited as a co-author on a scientific paper on a study into the differences in brain structure between people of differing political orientations. Firth was born in the village of Grayshott, Hampshire, to parents who were both academics and teachers, Firth is the eldest of three children, he has a sister, Kate, an actress and voice coach, and a brother, Jonathan, an actor. Both of his parents were raised in India, because his grandparents, Congregationalist ministers, and his paternal grandfather. As a child, Firth travelled a lot due to his parents work and he also lived in St. Louis, Missouri when he was 11, which he has described as a difficult time. On returning to England, he attended the Montgomery of Alamein Secondary School and he was still an outsider and was the target of bullying. To counter this, he adopted the working class Hampshire accent. By the time he was 14, Firth had already decided to be a professional actor, until further education, he was not academically inclined, later saying in an interview, I didnt like school. I just thought it was boring and mediocre and nothing they taught me seemed to be of any interest at all, after his sixth form years, Firth moved to London and joined the National Youth Theatre. There, he made contacts in the acting world, from which he got a job in the wardrobe department at the National Theatre. From there, he went on to study at Drama Centre London, in 1984, Firth made his film debut in the role of Tommy Judd, Guy Bennetts straight, Marxist school friend in the screen adaptation of the play. This was the start of longstanding public feud between Firth and Everett, which was later resolved and he starred with Sir Laurence Olivier in Lost Empires, a TV adaptation of J. B
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Firth at the 2014 San Diego Comic Con International
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Firth at the 2009 Venice Film Festival
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Firth with Helena Bonham Carter filming The King's Speech in December 2009, which became his most critically acclaimed role to date.
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Firth with wife Livia Firth in January 2011
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Vincent Gallo
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Vincent Vito Gallo, Jr. is an American actor, director, model, musician and painter. In the early 2000s, he released solo recordings on Warp Records. Vincent Gallo was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Janet, a hair-dresser, both of his parents emigrated from Sicily, Italy. During Gallos artistic period in the 1980s, when he worked as a musician and painter in New York City and he made the short film If You Feel Froggy, Jump and appeared in the 1981 film Downtown 81 with painter Jean-Michel Basquiat. In 1984, Gallo acted in The Way It Is by Eric Mitchell, after starring in the obscure 1989 film Docs Kingdom, he began acting in small parts in more well-known films such as Goodfellas, The House of the Spirits, and The Perez Family. French director Claire Denis hired Gallo to act in films such as the short film Keep It for Yourself. Go Home, and its follow-up feature Nénette et Boni, in 1998, his directorial debut film Buffalo 66 was nominated for, but did not win, an award for Best First Feature at the Independent Spirit Awards. Gallo made this drama for $1.5 M, serving as writer, director, lead actor, the release of Buffalo 66 gained him a solid fan base. In 2003, Gallo starred in and directed the film The Brown Bunny, which chronicles a motorcycle racers cross-country road trip, according to Andrea LeVasseur of Allmovie, The Brown Bunny premiered to much derision at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. Film critic Roger Ebert stated that The Brown Bunny was the worst film in the history of Cannes, Gallo retorted by calling Ebert a fat pig with the physique of a slave trader and put a hex on Ebert, wishing him colon cancer. Ebert then responded – paraphrasing a statement made by Winston Churchill – that, although I am fat, one day I will be thin, Gallo and Ebert later made up, and Ebert ended up giving a thumbs up to the finished version of The Brown Bunny. In 2010, Gallo won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 67th Venice International Film Festival for his role in Essential Killing, Gallo plays the two largest roles in the film, the English-speaking Sheriff and the Italian speaking assassin. He co-starred with Kōichi Satō and Yoo Ji-tae in Junji Sakamotos 2013 film, at the age of 16, Gallo moved to New York City and was a later member of the band Gray, with visual artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Gray played at such as Maxs Kansas City, CBGBs, Hurrahs. A few of Grays recordings appear on the soundtrack for the film Downtown 81, Gallo played in a band called Bohack which recorded an album entitled It Took Several Wives. When Bohack disbanded, Gallo turned his attention to acting, directing and he wrote songs for the soundtrack of the 1998 film Buffalo 66. He played in a band with Lukas Haas called Bunny. On August 3,2013 Vincent Gallo headlined the 3rd Annual San Frandelic Summer Fest in San Francisco, Gallo directed music videos for the songs Going Inside by John Frusciante, and Anemone by LArc-en-Ciel
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Gallo in 2004
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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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