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Oliver Hardy
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Oliver Norvell Babe Hardy was an American comic actor and one half of Laurel and Hardy, the classic double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted 25 years, from 1927 to 1951. He appeared with his comedy partner Stan Laurel in 107 short films, feature films and he was credited with his first film, Outwitting Dad, in 1914. In some of his works, he was billed as Babe Hardy. Oliver Hardy was born Norvell Hardy in Harlem, Georgia and his father Oliver was a Confederate veteran who had been wounded at the Battle of Antietam on September 17,1862. After his demobilization as an officer for Company K, 16th Georgia Regiment. He bought a share in a business and was elected full-time Tax Collector for Columbia County. Norvells mother Emily Norvell was the daughter of Thomas Benjamin Norvell and Mary Freeman, descended from Captain Hugh Norvell of Williamsburg, Virginia, Hardy and Norvell had married March 12,1890, it was the second marriage for the widow Emily, and the third for Oliver. He was of paternal English American descent and maternal Scottish American descent, the family moved to Madison in 1891, before Norvells birth. Emily Hardy owned a house in Harlem, which was either empty or rented out to tenant farmers, Norvell was likely born in Harlem, though some sources say that his birth occurred in Covington, his mothers hometown. His father died less than a year after his birth, Hardy was the youngest of five children. His older brother Sam Hardy died in a accident in the Oconee River. Hardy pulled his brother from the river but was unable to resuscitate him, as a child, Hardy was sometimes difficult. He was sent to Georgia Military College in Milledgeville as a youngster and he was sent to Young Harris College in north Georgia in the 1905-1906 school year fall semester when he was 13. He was in the junior high component of that institution of the time, Hardy had little interest in formal education, although he acquired an early interest in music and theater, possibly from his mothers tenants. He joined a group and later ran away from a boarding school near Atlanta to sing with the group. His mother recognized his talent for singing and sent him to Atlanta to study music, Hardy skipped some of his lessons to sing in the Alcazar Theater, a cinema, for US$3.50 a week. He subsequently decided to go back to Milledgeville, sometime prior to 1910, Hardy began styling himself Oliver Norvell Hardy, adding the first name Oliver as a tribute to his father. He appeared as Oliver N. Hardy in the 1910 U. S. census, Hardy was initiated into Freemasonry at Solomon Lodge No.20 in Jacksonville, Florida
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Ally Sheedy
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Alexandra Elizabeth Ally Sheedy is an American film and stage actress, as well as the author of two books. Following her film debut in 1983s Bad Boys, she became known as one of the Brat Pack group of actors in the films The Breakfast Club and she also acted in WarGames and Short Circuit. For her performance in Lisa Cholodenkos High Art, Sheedy won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead, Sheedy was born in New York City and has two siblings, brother Patrick and sister Meghan. Her mother, Charlotte, is a writer and press agent who was involved in womens and civil rights movements and her mother is Jewish and her father is of Irish Catholic background. Her maternal grandmother was from Odessa, Ukraine, Sheedy attended Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School in New York City, graduating in 1980. She started dancing with the American Ballet Theatre at age six and was planning to make it a full-time career, however, she gave up dance in favor of acting full-time. At age 12 she wrote a book, She Was Nice to Mice, on June 19,1975, she appeared on the game show To Tell the Truth in her role as a young writer. Sheedy started acting in stage productions as a teenager. The 1980s were her most active period, with roles in films such as WarGames, The Breakfast Club, St. Elmos Fire, Short Circuit. Sheedy starred alongside Radha Mitchell in the 1998 independent film High Art and her performance in High Art was recognized with awards from the Independent Spirit Awards, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and National Society of Film Critics. In 1999, Sheedy took over the role in the off-Broadway production of the musical Hedwig. She was the first female to play the part of the genderqueer Hedwig and that same year, she was cast as a lead actress in Sugar Town, an independent film, which featured an ensemble cast of actors and musicians. She was reunited with Breakfast Club co-star Anthony Michael Hall when she became a special guest star on his television show The Dead Zone, in the second-season episode Playing God, from 2003. Sheedy has also appeared in the episode Leapin Lizards of C. S. I. in which she played a woman who murdered her boyfriends wife while mixed up in a cult. On March 3,2008, Sheedy was introduced as the character Sarah, in 2009, she played the role of Mr. Yang on the USA Network television show Psych, a role that she reprised in the fourth season, fifth season, and seventh season finales. Sheedy dated Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora for less than a year in the 1980s and she stated in The Los Angeles Times that the relationship led her to abuse drugs, a claim Sambora denied. On April 12,1992, Sheedy married actor David Lansbury, the nephew of actress Angela Lansbury and son of Edgar Lansbury and their daughter Rebecca was born in 1994. In May 2008, Sheedy announced that she and Lansbury had filed for divorce
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Michael Ontkean
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Michael Leonard Ontkean is a retired Canadian actor. He is known for the 1970s crime drama The Rookies, the films Slap Shot and Making Love, Ontkean was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, the son of Muriel, an actress, and Leonard Ontkean, a boxer and actor. He was an actor in Vancouver and he appeared on the Canadian television series Hudsons Bay. His family later relocated to Toronto, where he attended St. Michaels Choir School, Holy Rosary and later, Ontkean also grew up playing hockey and he earned a hockey scholarship to the University of New Hampshire, a Division I program playing in the ECAC. In his three years on the varsity program, Ontkean scored 63 goals and 111 points in 85 games played and he led the team in goal scoring his junior year with 30 goals, and was second behind fellow Canadian Louis Frigon his senior year. Ontkeans hockey skill played a role in his landing the role of Ned Braden in Slap Shot. In 1979 he appeared in the first episode of Tales of the Unexpected. Other early movie roles included Voices with Amy Irving, Willie & Phil with Margot Kidder, The Blood of Others, The Allnighter and Maid to Order, Claras Heart with Whoopi Goldberg, Making Love is about a married man who discovers his homosexuality. According to Hiller, the reaction of most actors was to him not to even consider them for the role. The film reunited Ontkean with Kate Jackson, the two had previously co-starred together in The Rookies, many years later, Ontkean tried to prevent clips from the film from being shown in The Celluloid Closet, a 1996 documentary about LGBT characters in film, but he was unsuccessful. Ontkean appeared as Sheriff Harry S. Truman in David Lynchs Twin Peaks and he filmed scenes for Twin Peaks, Fire Walk With Me but, like many others from the original TV series, his scenes were deleted from the final film. As a result of his retirement, Ontkean will not be reprising his role of Sheriff Harry S. Truman in the 2017 revival of Twin Peaks. Ontkean had a role on Foxs short-lived series North Shore in 2004. He also featured in the 2011 film The Descendants, which was his last role before he decided to retire from acting, married to Jamie Smith Jackson, Ontkean now resides in Hawaii. Michael Ontkean at the Internet Movie Database Michael Ontkeans career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database
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Valerie Perrine
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Valerie Ritchie Perrine is an American actress and model. Perrine was born in Galveston, Texas, the daughter of Winifred Renee, a dancer who appeared in Earl Carrolls Vanities, and Kenneth Perrine and her mother was Scottish, from Helensburgh in Dunbartonshire. Owing to her fathers career, Perrine lived in locations as the family moved to different posts. She began her career as a Las Vegas showgirl, some believe she made her film debut with an uncredited part in Diamonds Are Forever, but this is not true. She played soft-core pornography actress Montana Wildhack in Kurt Vonneguts Slaughterhouse-Five, Perrine was photographed for a pictorial layout in the May 1972 issue of Playboy, later appearing on the cover in August 1981. Only a few PBS stations nationwide were adventurous enough to carry the program, later in 1973, she appeared in the episode When the Girls Came Out to Play of the romantic anthology television series Love Story. She was Carlotta Monti in the biopic W. C, one of her best-remembered movie roles came as Miss Eve Teschmacher, moll of criminal mastermind Lex Luthor, in Superman. For this role, she was nominated for the 1979 Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress and she reprised her role as Miss Teschmacher in Superman II. Perrine played Charlotta Steele, ex-wife of a rodeo champion played by Robert Redford and her career grew uneven after an appearance in Cant Stop the Music, for which she was nominated for a Razzie Award for Worst Actress. This film has become a cult classic. In 1982, she played the role of Marcy, the wife of a police officer. In the years since then, Perrine has worked in lower-profile projects, in 1995, Perrine made a guest appearance on the series Homicide, Life on the Street, playing an ex-wife of Richard Belzers Detective John Munch. Official website Valerie Perrine at the Internet Movie Database
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Dick Shawn
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Dick Shawn was an American actor and comedian. He played a variety of supporting roles and was a prolific character actor. S. D. in The Producers. Shawn was born Richard Schulefand in Buffalo, New York and raised in adjacent Lackawanna and he also provided the Snow Misers voice in The Year Without a Santa Claus. He had continued success with his comedy act that he successfully performed for over 35 years in nightclubs around the world. His award-winning one-man stage show, The Second Greatest Entertainer in the Whole Wide World, was performed with a unique opening. When the audience entered the theater, they saw a stage with a pile of bricks in stage center. When the play began, Shawn emerged from the pile of bricks, the startling effect of this required complete concentration and breath control because the slightest movement of the bricks could ruin the surprise appearance. He was a frequent speaker at the infamous Friars Club Roasts in Los Angeles and New York. His many TV appearances included The Ed Sullivan Show, TV movies, sitcoms, dramas including St. Elsewhere and Magnum, P. I. Shawn was married to Rita Bachner in 1946, and they had four children, Amy, Wendy, Adam, and Jennifer. He had one grandchild, Rachel Travolta and he was a longtime resident of Englewood, New Jersey. The audience initially assumed that it was part of his act, but after he had remained motionless on the stage for several minutes, a stage hand examined him and asked if a physician was present. After CPR had been initiated, the audience was asked to leave the auditorium, many began leaving—still unsure of what they had witnessed—only after paramedics arrived. A notice in the following days San Diego Union newspaper clarified that Shawn had indeed died during the performance and he is interred at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery, a Jewish cemetery, in Culver City, California. DuBois in The Producers on YouTube
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Tom Skerritt
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Thomas Roy Tom Skerritt is an American actor who has appeared in more than forty films and more than two hundred television episodes since 1962. He is known for his roles in MASH, Alien, Top Gun, A River Runs Through It, Up in Smoke, Skerritt has earned several awards and nominations, including a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1993 for Picket Fences. Skerritt was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Helen, a homemaker, and Roy Skerritt and he is the youngest of three children. A1951 graduate of Detroits Mackenzie High School, Skerritt attended Wayne State University, Skerritt served a tour of duty in the United States Air Force. Skerritt made his debut in War Hunt, produced by Terry Sanders. In 1988, he starred with Nancy Allen and Lara Flynn Boyle in Poltergeist III, in 1989, he played the role of Thomas Drummond Drum Eatenton in Steel Magnolias, it was a highly acclaimed movie. In 1992, he appeared in the critically acclaimed Robert Redford-directed film A River Runs Through It, Skerritt guest-starred in the television series The Real McCoys, as a letter carrier in the episode Aunt Win Steps In. In another Death Valley Days episode, A Sense of Justice, he played a young Roy Bean in San Diego, California,1850, with his older brother, Joshua Bean, played by Tris Coffin. He also appeared in the ABC series, Twelve OClock High, five episodes, Gunsmoke, also five episodes) and he then appeared in CBSs Picket Fences, in the role of Sheriff Jimmy Brock, for which he won an Emmy Award. More recently, he has starred in Homeland Security and The Grid and he portrayed the deceased William Walker on Brothers and Sisters, having appeared in the pilot as well as in several flashbacks scenes. This was his time playing the husband of Sally Field. He played the role of Ezekiel on ABC Familys Fallen miniseries and he also appeared as the guide on the showcase website for Microsofts Windows Vista operating system. He lent his voice in the video game Gun, where he voices as Clay Allison and he guest-starred in seasons three and four of Leverage as Nate Fords father. In February 2012, Skerritt played the role in Pacific Northwest Ballets production of Don Quixote. In 2014, Skerritt was reunited with ex-Picket Fences co-star, Lauren Holly, Skerritt is a co-founder of TheFilmSchool, in which he is also an instructor. Since 1988, he has divided his life between his Lake Washington home in suburban Seattle, Washington, and a second home on Lopez Island in the San Juan Islands. Skerritts first wife, Charlotte, is the mother of Skerritts three older children and his second wife, Sue, operates a Seattle bed and breakfast. She and Skerritt had one child Colin, Skerritt has an adopted daughter with his current wife Julie Tokahashi
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Georges Delerue
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Georges Delerue was a French composer who composed over 350 scores for cinema and television. Delerue won numerous important film awards, including an Academy Award for A Little Romance. The French newspaper Le Figaro named him the Mozart of cinema, Delerue was the first composer to win three consecutive César Awards for Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, Love on the Run, and The Last Metro. Georges Delerue was named Commander of Arts and Letters, one of Frances highest honours, Georges Delerue was born 12 March 1925 in Roubaix, France to Georges Delerue and Marie Lhoest. He was raised in a household, his grandfather led an amateur chorale group and his mother sang. By the age of fourteen he was playing clarinet at the music conservatory. In 1940 he was forced to abandon his studies at the Turgot Institute in order to work at a factory to support his family. He continued playing clarinet with bands, eventually transitioning to piano under the instruction of Madame Picavet-Bacquart. He studied Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, and Grieg, following a long convalescence after being diagnosed with scoliosis, Georges decided to become a composer. In 1945, following his studies at the Roubaix conservatory, Delerue was accepted into the Conservatoire de Paris, to help support himself, he took jobs playing at dances, baptisms, marriages, and funerals—even performing jazz in the piano bars near the Paris Opera. In 1947 he received a mention for the Rome Prize. That year at the Theater Festival of Avignon, Delerue conducted a performance of Scheherazade, in the 1949 Rome Prize competition, he won the First Second Grand Prize, and the First Prize for Composition. He began writing music during the late 1940s, including for the Théâtre National Populaire, Comédie-Française. He also became friends with Maurice Jarre and Pierre Boulez, by the early 1950s Delerue was composing music for short films and writing theatrical music for the Théâtre Babylone and the Opéra Comique. In 1952 he began directing the orchestra of the Club dEssai for French National Radio and Television, in 1954 he wrote his first compositions for historical spectacles of light and sound, Lisieux and The Liberation of Paris. In 1955 he composed his Concert Symphony for Piano and Orchestra, in 1959 he composed his first score for a feature film, Le bel âge. He composed the music for Flemming Flindts ballet, Enetime, based on Ionescos play, during his 42 years career he put his talent to the service of nearly 200 feature movies,125 short ones,70 TV films and 35 TV serials. The soundtrack for war docudrama by Pierre Schoendoerffer, Diên Biên Phu, was one of the notable works
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