Jim Earl

Jim Earl is a stage and radio comedian, comedy writer, musician and cartoonist from California.
Earl received a degree in Art History from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1984, and then he began his comedy career in the stand-up comedy team of "Lank and Earl" with his high school friend Barry Lank. He later became a writer for "The Daily Show", winning the 2001 Emmy Award for "Outstanding Writing For A Variety, Music Or Comedy Program" and a 2000 Peabody award. After leaving the show, he wrote and performed for a number of Air America Radio's radio shows: The Randi Rhodes Show, Unfiltered with Lizz Winstead and Rachel Maddow and Morning Sedition, where he performed his regular bits: "War on Brains", "Rapture Watch", "Morning Remembrance", "Sammy the Stem Cell", "Todd Brad: Policy Analyst", and "The 5 W's Plus 3 of Journalism." His comedy for the former show is now available for download on his own site, jimearl.com. Upon returning to California, Earl reunited with former "Morning Sedition" host, Marc Maron, on the "Marc Maron Show", which premiered on Air America Radio on February 28, 2006, and had its last show on July 14, 2006.
In December 2006, Earl went on to become head writer for the Friday ITch, a comedy-news program for nerds, broadcast on Techweb.com. In 2007, Jim also became a staff writer for "Talkshow with Spike Feresten" on Fox TV.
Jim is currently a featured performer on both the Marc Maron podcast, WTF, and the David Feldman Show, where he regularly performs with his band, The Clutter Family. Their eponymous debut was released in April 2010.


Challenger (actor)

ASM Tofazzal Hossain (, known by his stage name Challenger; 195912 October 2010) was a Bangladeshi television and film actor.
He died on October 12, 2010.
Career.
Hossain was nicknamed "Challenger" by writer, director Humayun Ahmed, when he debuted his acting career in the television drama "Hablonger Bazare".
Personal life.
Actress Monira Mithu is Challenger's younger sister.


Hridoy Islam

Hridoy Islam is a Bangladeshi film actor. He won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Child Artist for the film "Taka" (2005).
Awards and nominations.
National Film Awards


Rob Corn

Robert L. Corn is an American television producer and director.
Corn has produced 61 out of 62 episodes of medical drama series "Grey's Anatomy", of which he has also directed thirty. Previously, he was also a producer and director of several episodes of the 1990s medical drama "Chicago Hope". Anabella Garcia, the daughter of the director says “The show when we started was very chaotic. But that’s the beauty of it.”
Corn lives in Santa Monica with his wife and two children.


Getawarayo

Getawarayo is a 1964 Sri Lankan drama film co-directed by Mike Wilson and Tissa Liyanasuriya and produced by Shesha Palihakkara. The film starring Gamini Fonseka in lead role along with Sobani Amarasinghe, Joe Abeywickrema, Jeevarani Kurukulasuriya and Tony Ranasinghe made supportive roles.
Screened on February 24, 1964, the film was a critically acclaimed production and a blockbuster. The movie won the Best Director and Best Film awards at the 1965 Sarasaviya Film Festival.
Plot.
A village fisherman Jayasena Fernando (Gamini Fonseka) acquires a job in the city at the company where his friend Semanaris (Joe Abeywickrama) works. As Jaya becomes successful he draws the ire of rich boatsman Lalith Hettiarachchi (Carl Gunasena) and the interest of his boss's daughter Surangani (Nilmini De Silva). Jaya gradually forgets about his former girlfriend Karuna (Sobini Amarasinghe) after a misunderstanding with her brother(Vincent Vaas) and begins vying for Sue's attention. In the end Jaya realizes that Sue doesn't matter to him and that he loves Karuna. He decides to go back home after beating Lalith in a motor boat race. Karuna however has married when Jaya returns and the film ends with him contemplating his future to the strains of Amaradeva's voice.
Tony Ranasinghe plays a newspaper reporter who is sympathetic to Jaya.
Production.
The movie was Sesha Palihakkara's second production. Gamini Fonseka was chosen to star in the film as he was becoming a major star at the time. It was first screened on February 26, 1964.
Soundtrack.
W.D. Amaradeva composed the majority of the movie's music. "Etha Gaw Ganan Durin" was sung by Narada Disasekara with lyrics by Mahagama Sekera and music by Amaradeva. Amaradeva composed and sang "Swarna Vimanaya" with lyrics by Madawela S. Ratnayake.


Isabelle Cornish

Isabelle Cornish (born 22 July 1994) is an Australian actress. She is known for her television roles, particularly in "Puberty Blues" and "Home and Away", and Crystal in the 2017 American television series "Inhumans".
Personal life.
She is the younger sister of actress Abbie Cornish. Her parents are Shelley and Barry Cornish. Isabelle has also modelled. She attended the Hunter School of the Performing Arts. Cornish is a vegetarian.
Career.
From March 2012, Cornish had a recurring role in "Home and Away" as Christy Clarke. In early 2014, the actress filmed a drama pilot called "Sea of Fire" in Vancouver. In March 2017, Cornish was cast as Crystal in the Marvel comics television series "Inhumans" which briefly aired on the American television network ABC.
Accolades.
The actress was crowned Australia's Prettiest Vegetarian 2013 by PETA Australia.


Craig Campbell (comedian)

Craig Campbell (born 1969) is a Canadian stand-up comedian, who now lives in Devon, England.
Career.
Campbell co-hosted Ed's Night Party (aka "Ed's Late Night") with Ed the Sock on Citytv in Toronto, Canada for several seasons, and also hosted "From Wimps to Warriors". He was also part of a comedy trio called The Dinks, with Tony Law and Dan Antopolski. He also appeared with Dennis Miller on "Mountain Madness" and performed with "Jim Carrey Live" and on "Just for Laughs".
In the UK he has appeared on "Russell Howard's Good News" on BBC Three and with Al Murray on "Edinburgh & Beyond". He also appeared in the second series of "Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow" on BBC One.
In November 2008 he toured Kazakhstan with UK comic Nick Wilty, performing in Almaty, Aktau and Atyrau.
He supported Frankie Boyle on his 2010 UK tour and performed his debut stand-up tour in 2011. He opened for Boyle on his 2012 tour.
He appeared on "Dave's One Night Stand" in April 2011, with Chris Addison and Jo Enright.
In November 2015 Craig performed in Moscow, Russia.
Campbell hosted a monthly comedy night in Tiverton, Devon. Due to the Coronavirus pandemic this has been cancelled.


Margot Cottens

Margot Noemí Cottens Costa (January 9, 1922 – January 2, 1999) was an Uruguayan actress who made most of her career in Spain.


Almost Grown (TV series)

Almost Grown is an American drama television series about a couple (played by Tim Daly and Eve Gordon), whose lives are explored during three time periods of their lives. The series was well received by critics, but aired for only 9 out of 13 episodes from November 27, 1988 until February 20, 1989 on CBS due to low ratings (it was placed in the same timeslot as "Monday Night Football" and "The NBC Monday Movie").
The series was co-created by David Chase.
DVD.
To date, the series has not been released on DVD.
Awards.
The list of awards and nominations for "Almost Grown"


Aminul Haque (actor)

Aminul Haque (1921–2011) was a Bangladeshi actor, known for his role in "Mukh O Mukhosh", the first Bengali-language feature film to be made in East Pakistan.
Honours, decorations, awards and distinctions.
Haque was awarded the Ekushey Padak in 1991 for his contributions to drama.


The Convicted

The Convicted (German: Die Vorbestraften) is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Rudolf Meinert and starring Eugen Klöpfer, Margarete Schlegel and Albert Steinrück. The film portrays a group of former prisoners who struggle to reintegrate into society.


Parminder Ghumman

Parminder Ghumman is an Indian voice actor who specializes for performing voices for local Indian productions and also dubs for foreign productions into the Hindi language, English, Punjabi, Urdu and Oriya.
He is a member of AVAIndia, which is an association group for Indian voice artists.
Dubbing career.
Parminder has been known for dubbing for Middle-age male characters, as well as relaxed and loud characters.


Begonia (musician)

Begonia is the stage name of Alexa Dirks, a Canadian pop singer-songwriter from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is most noted for her 2019 album "Fear", which was longlisted for the 2020 Polaris Music Prize and shortlisted for the Juno Award for Adult Alternative Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2021.
Formerly a member of the Juno Award winning band Chic Gamine, Dirks launched her solo career in 2017 with the EP "Lady in Mind". The EP's single "Juniper" reached #1 on the "Radio 2 Top 20".
The single "Hanging on a Line" was released in June 2019 as a preview of "Fear". She undertook a Canadian tour over the summer, before releasing "Fear" in September.


Tim Elston

Tim Elston is an Australian actor.
He was known for his acting roles on television as Detective Mitchell in "Bellamy", Doctor Scott Collins in "Prisoner" and police sergeant Warren Bryant in "Richmond Hill".


Brilliant Marriage

Brilliant Marriage is a 1936 American drama film directed by Phil Rosen and starring Joan Marsh, Ray Walker and Inez Courtney.


George Beauchamp (music hall)

Sarsfield Patrick Beauchamp (20 February 1862 – 28 December 1900), known professionally as George Beauchamp, was an English music hall singer and comedian.
He was born in Southwark, London, the son of a policeman, and in early life worked at a printing company, eventually becoming a compositor. By 1879, he joined a theatre company specialising in melodramas and Shakespeare, and in 1882 promoted himself as an "eccentric vocal character comedian". He appeared in shows and pantomimes in the north of England, and then in London, and made several visits to perform in the United States as well as one to Australia in 1898.
In the biography of Charles Morton, "The Father of the Music Halls", Beauchamp was described as "very eccentric but otherwise estimable... [a] really droll comic-singer, who had the funniest of faces..". His most successful songs included "Get Your Hair Cut" (written by Beauchamp with Charles Osborne and Fred Eplett, 1891), "She Was One of the Early Birds" (written by T. W. Connor, 1895), and "Has Anybody Seen Our Cat?" (also by Connor, 1899). The song "She Was One of the Early Birds" was his biggest success, described in "The Era" in 1895 as "the rage of London".
He married fellow performer Nellie Lingard in 1889, but she died of tuberculosis in late 1899, aged 31. Beauchamp continued to perform, but died in hospital in Liverpool while on tour the following year, aged 38. His death was from pneumonia, possibly the result of "a somewhat dissipated lifestyle".


Ali Shahalom

Ali Shahalom (; born 15 October 1992), also known by his stage name Ali Official, is an English comedian and television presenter of Bangladeshi descent.
Early life.
Shahalom was born in Devon, England. He studied Drama and Theatre at GCSE and A-level. In 2011, he moved to London to study Marketing Communications at the University of Westminster. He then went on to work as a Digital Marketing Assistant for Warner Bros.
Career.
Since April 2011, Shahalom and his younger brother, Shaheen (born 2001), host their own channel on YouTube called Aliofficial1 with comedy sketches. Their comedy videos often relate back to their Bengali heritage and culture, and have subsequently attracted a large South-Asian following.
In July 2013, Shahalom appeared on Channel 4's "Ramadan Diaries". In 2014, he featured in two episodes of comedy web series "Corner Shop Show". Since May of the same year, he has hosted "The Variety Show" on Channel S, broadcast live every fortnight on Saturday at 8.30 pm. In July 2015, Shahalom made a guest appearance in episode 19 of "Badman's World".
In July 2013, Ali appeared on Channel 4's month-long documentary series, "Ramadan Diaries". In July 2015, he collaborated with Humza Arshad on episode 19 of "Badman's World". In October 2015, he performed on the "Sounds of Light" tour with musicians Safe Adam and Harris J. In December 2015, he went on a 20 city national tour with comedy trio Allah Made Me Funny and Guz Khan. Throughout 2017, Ali worked with BBC to script and star in Snapchat content, which went on to win a Social Buzz Award and a Digiday Award. In February 2017, Ali made a special guest appearance on BBC One's musical show "Let It Shine". In March 2017, Ali helped the social media planning for Channel 4's documentary "Extremely British Muslims". In April 2017, he did four shows across the United States. In May 2017, Ali performed at the West Yorkshire Playhouse for BBC Asian Network's "Comedy Night".
Recognition.
In October 2016, Shahalom was named one of the "Young British Muslim Millennials Changing The World" by "The Asian Today".


Crazylegs (film)

Crazylegs is a 1953 film about Elroy Hirsch's football career. In college (University of Wisconsin and University of Michigan) his unconventional dynamic running style allowed him to change directions in a multitude of ways. The media dubbed him "Crazylegs". The name stuck all through his professional career and life. The bulk of this film is centered on his college days. Crazylegs later became part of the foundation of the "Three End" with the LA Rams. This film captures the genuine quality of Hirsch’s personality, with Hirsch playing himself in the part.
The film premiered in Wausau, Wisconsin, Hirsch's hometown. Cotton Warburton's editing was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing.
Plot.
Elroy Hirsch's life is told from his days in a school in Wisconsin and then at the University of Wisconsin where he already excelled in sports. After military service, Elroy becomes a professional athlete and earns the nickname of Crazylegs, by which he became known internationally. An injury almost ends of his career, but in a typical case of personal overcoming, he achieves a triumphant return.


A Beautiful Soul (film)

A Beautiful Soul is a 2012 drama film directed by American director Jeffrey W. Byrd. The film was released May 4, 2012 and stars Deitrick Haddon, Lesley-Ann Brandt, and Harry Lennix.
Plot.
R&B superstar Andre Stephens (Deitrick Haddon) is on top of the world. He has success, fame, and fortune but spiritually he has lost his way. However, his "perfect" life is shattered when his entourage is brutally attacked, leaving Andre and his best friend Chris Johnson (Robert Ri'chard) clinging to life. On a spiritual journey that exists in a place that is neither on Earth nor in Heaven, Andre is given the opportunity to reevaluate his life and his faith. Andre realises he has a long way to go at church before being great.
Reception.
"Variety" gave a mostly negative review for "A Beautiful Soul", remarking that the "slackness of the storytelling has the effect of subjecting the low-budget pic’s supernatural elements to charm-killing scrutiny."


Carson Cole

Carson Cole (born 1965) is a Canadian folk singer, and lyricist. He is a graduate of Prairie College.
Biography.
Cole was born and raised in rural Alberta, Canada. At age 15 he released his first album, "Cure for the World", through Canadian Gospel label Praise Records. Cole was married at 22 and subsequently has had three children, shortly after being married he began doing bar gigs and touring with local talent to help support his family. Since then Cole has toured, extensively, Canada, the US and more recently Korea. Cole recently operated his own independent recording studio and label, Brownsound productions, which has seen the development or startup for scores of local and some widely popular bands and musicians. Currently Cole is signed with Dig It All Records, a relatively new Canadian label, and has struck a permanent promotional deal with Hype Publicity of Edmonton, Alberta.
Music.
Cole's music has its roots in Gospel and Blues. His first releases would be considered mainstream Gospel music at the time with hints of Blues and Rock influence. Coming into his own with his more recent albums, Cole's music could be considered Alternative Rock with notable Blues and Gospel Funk influence. Cole's range of talent is wide having played almost every genre of music from Industrial to Country. Cole's instrument of choice is the electric guitar, however he is known for playing almost any instrument that can make noise and experimenting with new and unusual instruments in some of his music.


Bunny Gibbons

Bunny Gibbons was a funfair owner in the 1950s, based in and around Rockford, Illinois.
"Ed Gein's Ghoul Car".
Gibbons' fair's most memorable attraction was the car of the infamous murderer Ed Gein. The car was a 1949 Ford sedan and had been used to transport the bodies which Gein had exhumed from local graveyards. Gibbons bought the car in an auction for Gein's estate, held in 1958. Fourteen different bids were placed for the car, yet Gibbons held out and won. Gibbons ended up paying the then-considerable amount of $760. Gibbons called his attraction the "Ed Gein Ghoul Car" and charged fair-goers 25¢ admission to see and have their pictures taken next to the car.
Controversy.
The car was first displayed in Seymour, Wisconsin in July 1958. In its first two days, the attraction pulled in more than 2,000 visitors. The exhibit was immediately embroiled in controversy, and officials from Mental Health America of Wisconsin fought to close the exhibit. Despite Gibbons's initial delight with the publicity, interest began to fade in the car. While visiting Slinger, Wisconsin, the town sheriff shut down the exhibit. Eventually, the state of Wisconsin banned the exhibit. Gibbons traveled with the fair to Southern Illinois, where he faded into obscurity.


Working Girls (2020 film)

Working Girls () is a 2020 Belgian drama film directed by Frédéric Fonteyne and Anne Paulicevich. It was selected as the Belgian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.
Synopsis.
Three prostitutes who work at the border between Belgium and France bury a body.


At the Top of the Stairs

At the Top of the Stairs () is a 1983 French drama film starring Danielle Darrieux, and was directed by Paul Vecchiali. It tells the story of a widow, who returns to a former house that had been hers 18 years after her husband was killed.


Le Mozart des pickpockets

Le Mozart des pickpockets (also known as The Mozart of Pickpockets) is a 2006 French short film. Written and directed by Philippe Pollet-Villard, it won the 2007 Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film. It was the only French submission in the category. Two days before, the film also won its national César Award.
Plot.
Richard and Philippe live hand to mouth, backing up a gang of Romanian pickpockets on the streets of Paris, posing as policemen who arrest a gang member while the others rifle the pockets and purses of gawkers. When all of the gang except Richard and Philippe are pinched, things look grim.
Then, Richard insists that they take in a wide-eyed immigrant lad, a deaf-mute left behind in the arrests. Philippe suggests a three-person pickpocket trick, using the boy, but when that goes spectacularly badly, they hit rock bottom.


Dust Be My Destiny

Dust Be My Destiny is a 1939 American drama film starring John Garfield as a man who gets into trouble after being sentenced to a work farm.
Plot.
Joe Bell (John Garfield) becomes embittered after he is jailed for 16 months for something he did not do. Later, he gets into a fight with a crook (played by an uncredited Ward Bond) and is sentenced to a work farm for 90 days. There, he becomes friends with Mabel Alden (Priscilla Lane), which displeases Charles Garreth (Stanley Ridges), her stepfather and the farm's foreman. The two men fight, and Joe knocks Garreth out. Panicking, the young couple flee and get married, only to learn that Garreth has died and that Joe is wanted for his murder.
Constantly on the move to avoid capture, Joe finally gets a break. He is in the right spot to take pictures of a bank robbery in progress. He uses them to get a job as a photographer at a newspaper run by Mike Leonard (Alan Hale). When the leader of the outfit tries to get the negatives, Joe saves Mike's life. Unfortunately, his own picture is put on the front page of various newspapers as a result. Joe tries to flee once more, but Mabel turns him in to the police, convinced that running away is the wrong thing to do.
At the trial, despite a parade of character witnesses in Joe's favor, the prosecutor (John Litel) seems to have the upper hand. Defense attorney Slim Jones (Moroni Olsen) calls Mabel to the stand. She convinces the jury to declare her husband innocent.
Reception.
"Boxoffice" wrote that the film was "an adroitly wrought screenplay provides a welcome mitigation of the theme's austerity through the injection of a vein of comedy and romance without detracting one whit from the strength of the feature, which is entertainment from start to finish and for all ages and classes... John Garfield was never better than in the part of a homeless youngster struggling against almost insurmountable odds for his place in the sun, while his performance is challenged all the way in an equally splendid portrayal by Priscilla Lane... Masterfully directed by Lewis Seiler".
"Variety" reviewed, "Although story is overlong and episodic, these deficiencies are partially overcome by excellent performances of Garfield and Miss Lane. Garfield has a role particularly tailored to general typing of recent film portrayals, and which will enhance his popularity. Miss Lane is competently sincere throughout, with several dramatic scenes rising far above the material provided... Yarn is slow in generating interest, and rather static in several spots, but there are other dramatic high spots to make it acceptable on the whole".
The "Los Angeles Times" wrote, "John Garfield and Priscilla Lane, who truly go to town with their acting together, have the leads. Their courtroom scenes are eminently fine, and moving... The picture is not satisfactory at the outset, but reaches an excellent climax".
Mae Tinee of the "Chicago Daily Tribune" wrote, "In many places it is sincere, workmanlike and credible production. At other times it's just ten, twent' thirt'--and ham. But the leads are so likable and some of the suspense so suspenseful that I think you'll chalk up Dust Be My Destiny as satisfactory entertainment".
Frank S. Nugent of the "New York Times" reviewed it as the "latest of the [Warner] Brothers' apparently interminable line of melodramas about the fate-dogged boys from the wrong side of the railroad tracks. Considering the practice they have had, it's not at all surprising that the picture goes its way smoothly, never missing a dramatic cue, a pause for laughter, a perfectly timed spurt of action when the utter futility of it all begins to grow too utterly utter If that's the measure of success, the Warners can chalk up another. Personally, we're tired of the formula. It's not even fun, any more, outguessing the script".


Sergio Matteucci

Sergio Matteucci (31 August 1931 - 4 November 2020) was an Italian voice actor and radio presenter.
Biography.
As a voice actor, he was known for lending his voice to the commentator of the animated series "Captain Tsubasa". He also lent his voice in " Fisherman Sanpei ", "Urusei Yatsura", "The Monster Kid", "Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines", "Lady Oscar" and in the movies "Rocky II" and "Rocky IV". He was also the radio commentator of "Tutto il calcio minuto per minuto" in the 1982-1983 season, and the voiceover of the match reports at the Olympic stadium in Rome during "Domenica Sprint". He died in Rome on November 4, 2020.


Paul Blackwell

Paul Blackwell (11 July 1954 – 24 February 2019) was an Australian stage actor and occasional film actor.
Early life.
He attended the National Institute of Dramatic Art from 1980 to 1982 and appeared in many productions from some of Australia's best-known theatre companies, including Company B, Sydney Theatre Company, State Theatre Company of South Australia, Patch Theatre and Opera Australia.
He appeared in several films, though often in small parts. His only major film role was in the 1996 film "The Quiet Room" directed by Rolf De Heer—it was critically acclaimed and was screened as part of the main competition of the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. In the last decades of his life, appearances included "Candy", directed by Neil Armfield and starring Heath Ledger, Geoffrey Rush and Abbie Cornish; "December Boys", starring Daniel Radcliffe; "Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueburger"; and the silent film "Dr. Plonk"—another collaboration with Rolf De Heer.
In 2017 Blackwell toured Australia playing Parsons in Headlong, Almeida Theatre and Nottingham Playhouse's production of Duncan MacMillan and Robert Icke's adaptation of George Orwell's 1984 for GWB Entertainment, Ambassador Theatre Group Asia Pacific and State Theatre Company of South Australia.
In 2019 Blackwell received a Premier’s Award for Lifetime Achievement posthumously in the South Australian Ruby Awards.


Doosri Sita

Doosri Sita is a 1974 Bollywood drama film directed by Gogi Anand. It stars Jaya Bhaduri in lead role. The music was composed by R. D. Burman.


Senorita from the West

Senorita from the West is a 1945 American comedy-drama film directed by Frank Strayer from an original screenplay by Howard Dimsdale. The picture stars Allan Jones and Bonita Granville, and was released by Universal Pictures on October 12, 1945.


The Boy from Indiana

The Boy from Indiana is a 1950 American sports drama film directed by John Rawlins and starring Lon McCallister, Billie Burke and George Cleveland. The film's sets were designed by the art director Lucius O. Croxton.


Chasing Eagle Rock

Chasing Eagle Rock is a 2015 film directed by Erick Avari and starring Michael Welch, Erick Avari, Rafael Morais, Edgar Morais, and Robert Cicchini.


About Sara

About Sara () is a 2005 Swedish drama film directed by Othman Karim. It won the Golden George at the 28th Moscow International Film Festival. The film is Karim's feature debut.


Saleem Sheikh

Saleem Sheikh (also spelled Saleem Shaikh) is a Pakistani film and television actor. As a child he first appeared on screen in one scene of PTV drama "Shama" in 1976, playing a young Javed Sheikh, who is his real brother. He worked for PTV children's plays as a child artist. Sheikh started his adult acting career in PTV's play "Sunehrey Din" 1989 by film director Shoaib Mansoor. His first film was "Mohabat ke saudagar" released in 1992.
Saleem Sheikh mostly works in television series such as "Makan, Anokha Ladla" and other sitcoms. Occasionally he acts as a guest star in films directed by his brother, actor-turned-director Javed Sheikh. He is the brother-in-law of television actor Behroze Sabzwari.


Marcus Tisdale

Marcus Tisdale is a comedian from the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2014 he released the viral YouTube video "Can You Smoke Crack In Front of SF Cops and Not Get Caught?" which garnered tens of thousands of Youtube views.


Girls of the Big House

Girls of the Big House is a 1945 American drama film directed by George Archainbaud and starring Lynne Roberts, Virginia Christine and Marion Martin.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Gano Chittenden.
Plot.
A college professor's daughter is convicted of a crime she didn't commit. Under an assumed name, Jeanne Crail, she is imprisoned with inmates including Bernice Meyers, who misses her boyfriend Smiley, and the condemned Alma Vlasek, who killed a policeman while waiting to ambush her cheating husband and his mistress.
Jeanne breaks out of jail to go see her sweetheart, lawyer Bart Sturgis. When her man Smiley visits prison, Bernice is infuriated by his attraction to Jeanne and attacks her with a knife. Jeanne ends up in solitary confinement. Alma, finally realizing who her husband's secret lover was, murders Bernice in the prison. Bart's efforts help clear Jeanne's name and win her release.


Harold Amenyah

Harold Amenyah (born 22 September 1989) is a Ghanaian
actor, TV personality, fashion icon, host and businessman who has
worked as a brand influencer for popular brands including
telecommunication giant Tigo.
Education.
Amenyah was born at Osu in Accra, Ghana, he
schooled at Mfantsipim School for his secondary education, he then
moved on to University of Ghana where he studied and earned a
bachelor's degree in Economics and Mathematics.
Career.
He made his acting debut starring in a 2012 TV series "
Xoxo".
Amenyah moved on to feature in several Ghanaian movies and series both Akan and English such as Xoxo, 4play Reloaded, Honour my tears, A
Sting in a Tale, Wedding Night, Every Woman Has A Story, Sadia and Eden. Amenyah became a household name after his commercial for
Telecommunication company, Tigo debuted " Drop that Yam" which also featured Ghanaian actress Naa Ashorkor.
In 2019, through the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture and a Barbados movie
production company, Amenyah and other Ghanaian actors were selected to star in a Year of return 2019 movie
titled "Joseph".
He played the character Nii.
Awards.
Celebrity
Series
category


Peter Lochran

Peter Lochran (born 14 September 1955 in Queensland, Australia) is an actor, who remains best known for his role as Dr. Peter Holland in the television soap opera "The Young Doctors". Prior to acting he was a radio station panel operator at 3AW in Melbourne, Australia.
After appearing in "The Young Doctors" from 1978 to 1982 he moved to the United States where he continued his soap career with roles in "Another World" and "Capitol".


Bobby Norfolk

Bobby Norfolk is an American storyteller and arts educator.
Information.
He has received three Emmy Awards as host for the television series "Gator Tales" and is also the host of the Emmy Award nominated cable series "Children's Theater at Bobby's House". Norfolk performs internationally for both children and adults and is also a regular performer at the National Storytelling Festival.
Background.
Bobby Norfolk began his career as a stand-up comedian. He started in a place called the Funny Bone. He was also an actor that worked with The St. Louis Black Rep and Imaginary Theater Company in St. Louis. Bobby Norfolk also worked as a National Park Service Ranger at the Gateway Arch. To start off his story-telling career, Norfolk made his first appearance in the year of 1979 at the St. Louis Storytelling Festival. This is where he discovered that he could combine his skills of acting and comedic work to become a talented storyteller. With this career, he received many honors and awards. On October 2009, Bobby Norfolk received the national Circle of Excellence Oracle Award that is presented by the National Storytelling Network. This award is given to the most prestigious storytellers. Within the time of his career, Norfolk has also created over ten CD's of storytelling. Some of these CD's have won the Parents Choice Gold Award. He has also co-authored eight children's books. Norfolk is known to travel not only nationally, but internationally as well giving performances, keynotes, and workshops for audiences. Now that he has been a past member of the Board of Directors for the National Storytelling Network, he now has the job of serving on the St. Louis Storytelling Festival Advisory Council. Bobby Norfolk also is a featured artist with Springboard to Learning and the Missouri Arts Council. He now currently owns a storytelling company that began in the year of 1989 that is known as Folktale Productions. He claims that his inspiration for telling stories began when his son was three years old. He would buy him books to read to him before he put his son down for bed at night. The more he read to his son, the more he realized that he would add his skill of theatricals into it. Since then on, he embarked on his journey of storytelling.


Knightwatch

Knightwatch is an American drama television series that aired on ABC from November 10, 1988 until January 19, 1989 as part of its fall 1988 lineup. It had been promoted as an original series in light of summer reruns continuing into the fall due to the 1988 Writers Guild of America Strike.
Summary.
"Knightwatch" centers around the activities of the "Knights of the City", a volunteer group set up to assist law enforcement. It was largely made up of ex-gang members (and was modeled after a similar real-life group, the Guardian Angels); the program focused on its charismatic leader, Tony Maldonado (Benjamin Bratt). Operating out of donated space in the basement of a church, the group practiced martial arts and other unarmed techniques since they were not commissioned police officers and did not use firearms. Keeping young people with violent pasts from reverting to this pattern in their new-found calling was a constant challenge to Tony, as were the interpersonal relationships constantly developing among his young colleagues.
"Knightwatch" was a Nielsen ratings failure. It struggled in its timeslot, airing against NBC's "The Cosby Show" and "A Different World" and CBS's "48 Hours". It was cancelled after 3 months on the air.
References.
Sources


Recompense (film)

Recompense is a lost 1925 American drama film directed by Harry Beaumont and written by Dorothy Farnum. It is based on the 1924 novel "Recompense" by Robert Keable. The film stars Marie Prevost, Monte Blue, John Roche, George Siegmann, Charles Stevens and Virginia Brown Faire. The film was released by Warner Bros. on April 26, 1925.
Box office.
According to Warner Bros the film earned $226,000 domestically and $37,000 foreign.


Gil Ozeri

Gil Ozeri is an American comedian, actor, and writer, best known for his work writing for "Brooklyn Nine-Nine", "Big Mouth", and "Happy Endings".
Career.
Ozeri started his comedy career with the Upright Citizens Brigade in New York, and has continued to collaborate with many fellow UCB actors, including Ben Schwartz, Jon Daly, and Adam Pally. In addition to his television writing, he has gained attention for making short, surreal videos released via Snapchat. He has also garnered attention for stunts involving watching marathons of the entirety of the television shows "Two and a Half Men" and "Entourage".
In April 2019, he was announced as a main cast member in an NBC pilot, "Friends-in-Law".
Ozeri appeared on "The George Lucas Talk Show" charity fundraiser, "The George Lucas Talk Show All Day Star Wars Movie Watch Along."
Personal life.
Ozeri is Jewish. In 2017, Ozeri tweeted that his mother's father was a Holocaust survivor and refugee, and that his father's parents were Yemeni Jews who, in 1948, were airlifted and taken in by Israel.


The All American (film)

The All American is a 1932 American pre-Code sports drama film directed by Russell Mack and written by Ferdinand Reyher and Frank Wead. The film stars Richard Arlen, Andy Devine and Gloria Stuart. It was given its premiere in Los Angeles on October 7, 1932, by Universal Pictures. Many noted real-life football players and a coach appeared uncredited in the film.
Plot.
College football hero Gary King's life changes for the worse when the allure of money results in a business arrangement with untrustworthy Willie Walsh and a romance with heiress Gloria Neuchard, changing all his previous plans.
Gary spurns sweetheart Ellen Steffens and puts off a promise to best friend Steve Kelly to launch a construction business together. His lavish spending on Gloria and gambling habit result in Gary falling deeply in debt.
In the meantime, Gary's younger brother Bob has become an All-American football star. Bob is married to Betty Poe and all is well until wealthy Gloria and scheming Willie turn up again. When a football game is scheduled between Bob's school and a team of older All-Stars, an opportunity arises for Gary to play against his brother and teach him not to make the same mistakes he did.
Cast.
Uncredited:
Reception.
"The New York Times" critic gave it a mixed review, writing, "As a dramatic entertainment, it is not quite so satisfactory. ... The scenarists in 'The All American' are too strenuous in their zeal to show the perils of national publicity for the young collegiates who have a battle to fight with life when they leave college." The reviewer did praise the "outstanding performance" of Gleason and noted that "Mr. Arlen is earnest and attractive in the principal rôle."


Bamba Bakary

Bamba Bakary is an Ivorian actor, comedian and television presenter from the Ivory Coast.
Formerly an air steward for Air Afrique, Bakary became an ambassador for the prevention of AIDS for Africans, including in his role as Moussa, in "Moussa le taximan". He is also the presenter of three shows on La Première (RTI) : "Tonnerre" which is shown regularly, "Le bon vieux temps" and "Bonne cuisine".


Melanie Beddie

Melanie Beddie is a professional actor, director, dramaturg and acting teacher. She has been working in Australia for over thirty years. She completed a BA in English and Philosophy at Sydney University from 1981-1984. It was here, through an association with Sydney University Dramatic Society (SUDS) and she acted in and directed numerous productions with the society. She was President of SUDS in 1983.
Melanie moved from Sydney to Melbourne to train as an actor at the VCA School of Drama from 1985-1987. Since graduating she has worked nationally as an actor in film and TV, and across a wide range of professional companies such as Melbourne Theatre Company, Playbox, Arena, Going Through Stages, Hothouse, and Playworks and at the Australian National Playwrights Conferences.
In addition to working as an actor, Melanie has established two independent theatre companies and was an artistic director of the $5 Theatre Company and also the Branch Theatre Company. Both companies have commissioned a large number of new works with Australian writers.
Melanie has directed productions at The Melbourne Theatre Company, Playbox, Hothouse, La Mama, Playworks, and Hit Productions as well as in smaller companies and in drama schools. She is the recipient of industry awards including the Director’s Choice Award for Infectious, which was a cross art form cabaret, and a Green Room Award for Best Director for Traitors by Stephen Sewell that also received four other Green Room nominations. In 2001, she directed an award-winning production of Raindancers at MTC and in 2009, she co-directed, with Rachael Maza, the highly acclaimed Sisters of Gelam which was nominated for a Deadly Award which are National Indigenous Arts and Community Awards.
Melanie works widely as a dramaturg in professional theatre and was the resident dramaturg at the Melbourne Theatre Company in 1998-1999. She received the Inaugural Dramaturgy Fellowship from the Australia Council and a Gloria Award from NIDA.


Koriass

Koriass is the stage name of Emmanuel Dubois (born March 12, 1984), a Canadian rapper from Quebec. He is a two-time winner of the Prix Félix for Best Hip Hop Album, in 2014 for "Rue des Saules" and in 2016 for "Love Suprême", was a shortlisted finalist for the Juno Award for Francophone Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2017 for "Love Suprême", and won the Echo Songwriting Prize in the French division in 2012 for his song "St-Eustache".
He received another Juno Award nomination for Francophone Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2020, for his 2019 album "La nuit des longs couteaux".


Kuntu Blankson

Kuntu Blankson (1955-2018) was a Ghanaian actor who was very popular for the roles he played on a popular Ghanaian TV series known as Akan Drama in the late 1990s.


Mirtha Reid

Mirtha Reid (1918–1981) was a Uruguayan stage and film actress. She was born as María Luisa Queirolo in Uruguay, but spent most of her career in Argentina where she adopted her stage name. She acted predominantly in the theatre, but also appeared in a handful of films.


Mark Hentemann

Mark Henry Hentemann is an American screenwriter and television creator / executive producer. He is executive producer and former showrunner of the animated series "Family Guy", where he started as a writer in its first season. In addition, Hentemann has also provided voices for many minor characters on "Family Guy", including the "Phony Guy", Opie, and Eddie the Ostrich.
Hentemann has also written for the "Late Show with David Letterman", created the series "3 South" for MTV, and also the animated series, "Bordertown" for Fox in 2016<ref name="fox.com/schedule"></ref> on the network's "Sunday Funday" lineup, which Seth MacFarlane and he executive produced.
Career.
Hentemann grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and began his career as a greeting card writer and illustrator for American Greetings. His cards caught the interest of David Letterman and allowed him his first job in television writing for "The Late Show".
Mark Hentemann has written, produced and provided voice acting on several half-hours, including "Off-Centre" (WBTV), "Run of the House" (WBTV) "3 South", which he created for MTV. He also created the animated series Bordertown for FOX, on which he voice acted, created and executive produced.
Hentemann has twice been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award (including a nomination for Outstanding Comedy Series).
Hentemann has also been a long time real estate investor. He has published articles and appeared on several podcasts. He is co-founder of the investment company Quantum Capital (Quantumcapitalinc.com), which invests in multifamily real estate.
In high school, Hentemann drew caricatures at Sea World in Cleveland, Ohio, and was struck by lightning.
Personal life.
Mark Hentemann lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, Lynne, and has three children, one of whom, Tatum, does occasional voices for "Family Guy" and "American Dad!". Hentemann attended Cleveland Saint Ignatius High School and Miami University.


Giovanni Falcone (film)

Giovanni Falcone is a 1993 Italian biographical drama film written and directed by Giuseppe Ferrara. It is based on real life events of the prosecuting magistrate Giovanni Falcone who was killed by mafia in 1992.


The Bookseller Gave Up Bathing

The Bookseller Gave Up Bathing () is a 1969 Swedish drama film directed by Jarl Kulle.


Jean Paul Leroux

Jean-Paul Leroux (born January 7, 1976) is a Venezuelan film actor. His career started in small roles in theater, but his true career started in the critically acclaimed movie "Secuestro Express" in 2005, along with Argentine actress Mía Maestro. He also appeared in the 2006 Venezuelan film "Elipsis" along with Gaby Espino, Edgar Ramirez and Christina Dieckmann among others. He acted in the unrealesed Spanish-Venezuelan film "Lo Que Tiene el Otro", directed by Miguel Perello. He also played the starring role in "Por Un Polvo", a Venezuelan Film by Carlos Malave. In 2007 he acted in the Colombian Film "La Vida era en Serio" directed by Monica Borda. And recently played the starring role in the Venezuelan Film "Las Caras del Diablo"


Black Swans (film)

Black Swans () is a 2005 Dutch drama film.
The film won a Golden Calf for best sound at the Netherlands Film Festival in 2005.
Plot.
Marleen (Carice van Houten) works as a volunteer in a rest home in Spain. When she meets Vince (Dragan Bakema) they are attracted to each other. Their passionate relationship has its ups and downs, and eventually Marleen ends up in a hospital. The film ends when Marleen walks into the sea.
Production.
The film is set and filmed at the Costa de Almería in Spain in 2003. Due to financial problems the film was not released until 2005.


Gehra Daag

Gehra Daag is a 1963 Bollywood romantic crime drama film directed by O. P. Ralhan. A moderate box-office success, the film became the ninth highest earning film of 1963, earning an approximate gross of Rs.1,40,00,000 and a net of Rs.70,00,000. The film stars Rajendra Kumar, Mala Sinha, Lalita Pawar, Usha Kiron, Madan Puri and Manmohan Krishna.
Plot.
Shanker, kills a fellow mate to protect his sister's honour. He spends his next ten years in prison for that which his family hides and tells everyone that he is in Africa. After his sentence he meets Shobha due to exchange of parcels in a shop, Later he meets Shobha and her mother whom he saves from drowning due an accidental fall from the ship, she now treats Shankar as a son. He returns and meets Usha and grown up sister Asha. Usha is married to Ramesh and has two children, Asha's marriage is broken when Shankar's imprisonment is revealed. He is saved from committing suicide by Shobha, who loves him and takes him along, Shobha's mother approves of their marriage. When the truth is revealed that the fellow mate he killed accidentally was actually Shobha's brother, Shankar confesses the truth to Shobha's mother, who rebukes him for killing her son. But the jailer convinces her to forgive Shankar as he has repented for all the years spent in jail. Again Shankar goes to commit suicide, but in turn saves Shobha from drowning, finally the mother forgives him for not losing another son. The jailer assures his son's marriage to his sister Asha.
Music.
The film's music was composed by Ravi and the lyrics were penned by Shakeel Badayuni.


David Copperfield (comedian)

David Copperfield (born Stanley Barlow, 1947, Doncaster, West Riding of Yorkshire) is a British comedian who is best known for his role in the 1980s BBC sketch show "Three of a Kind", in which he starred alongside Tracey Ullman and Lenny Henry.
Early life.
Copperfield began his professional career performing in various cabaret venues.
Career.
His first TV appearances were on the "Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club." His big break in TV earned him appearances on "Wogan" and "Cliff and Friends". "Three of a Kind" ran from 1981 to 1983. After that, Copperfield worked on his own shows, "Coppers & Co" and "Copperfield Comedy Company". He then worked on cruise liners as an entertainer under the name "David Copperfield – Not the Magician", including the QE2 on its final voyage to Dubai. In addition to comedy he sings, plays the violin, piano, guitar and mandolin and performs ventriloquism. He is particularly renowned for his acclaimed version of "Classical Gas".


Dave Johns

Dave Johns is an English comedian, actor, and writer. He is best known for his breakthrough role as Daniel Blake in the 2016 Ken Loach film "I, Daniel Blake".
Career.
Johns has appeared on "Never Mind the Buzzcocks" (four times), "8 Out of 10 Cats", "Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive", "28 Acts in 28 Minutes" and as an actor, he has appeared on "Mud", "Time Gentlemen Please", "Inspector George Gently", and "Harry Hill" as God.
In 2009, he and Owen O'Neill dramatised Stephen King's "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" for the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin.
In 2016, he starred as the title character in the Ken Loach film "I, Daniel Blake" in a critically acclaimed performance described as "powerful", "a welcome comic touch", and "all the more moving for its restraint".


Frank Shuster

Frank Shuster, (September 5, 1916 – January 13, 2002) was a Canadian comedian best known as a member of the comedy duo Wayne and Shuster, alongside Johnny Wayne.
Life and career.
Shuster was born to a Jewish immigrant family in Toronto, Ontario, and spent part of his childhood in Niagara Falls. His family returned to Toronto in time for Shuster to attend high school at Toronto's Harbord Collegiate Institute, where he met Johnny Wayne in 1930. The two would soon be performing sketches and routines at school talent shows, continuing to do the same when they both attended the University of Toronto.
By the early 1940s Wayne and Shuster began appearing on local radio station CFRB, and during World War II they joined the Canadian Army as performers, entertaining Canadian troops, and performed on the CBC Radio series "The Army Show". After the war, the duo appeared on CBC radio and television, becoming a network fixture with regular appearances from the 1940s through the 1980s. They appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show over 66 times. The duo would remain a comedy team for 60 years, until Wayne's death in 1990.
In 1996, Shuster was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Personal life.
Shuster was married to Ruth Shuster and had two children: Rosie and Steve. Rosie Shuster was a comedy writer for "Saturday Night Live" and other television programs, and former wife of Lorne Michaels. Steve Shuster, a standup comic, writer, musician, and actor, died in 2017 at the age of 67.
He was also the cousin of Joe Shuster, co-creator of "Superman".
Death.
Frank Shuster died on January 13, 2002, in Toronto, Ontario.


Junia-T

Junia-T is the stage name of Jonathan Lindo, a Canadian rapper from Toronto, Ontario. He is most noted for his album "Studio Monk", which was longlisted for the 2020 Polaris Music Prize.
He was previously associated with the duo Smash Brovaz, who released the album "Think It’s A Game?" in 2012. Junia-T then released his solo debut "Eye See You" in 2014. Discouraged by the album's lack of success, he considered quitting the music business for a time, but found his creative perspective refreshed after joining Addy Papa's Riot Club sessions. He signed with Pirates Blend, "Studio Monk", his second album, was released on that label in January 2020.
He also works as touring DJ with Jessie Reyez, who contributed vocals on both of Junia-T's solo albums.


Jason Deline

Jason Deline (born October 20) is an actor, voice actor, and voice-over coach. director, film producer, writer and comedian.
He is most famous for his role as Ernie in "Ready or Not", and for voicing the character of Drago in "Bakugan Battle Brawlers" and its reboot "Bakugan Battle Planet". He also voices Benkei in and ', and provided the voice of Glen in Beyblade's spin-off "BeyWheelz". Jason also voiced the character Bow Hothoof in the ' episode "Parental Glideance".
Jason can be seen in "", as well as the Robert Zemeckis film "The Walk" starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ben Kingsley. He also recently starred in the BBC miniseries "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell," as well as .
Jason is also the voice of many TV and radio commercials, including for such clients as Dodge Ram, Mucho Burrito, Subaru, Coke, Tim Hortons, Tums, Mitsubishi, Movie Central, Coleman, Sleep Country, and Rona.
Jason is a founding member of the sketch comedy troupe Radio Vault, and created the popular Find Your Voice voice-over workshops, as well as the Voice-over for Improvisers workshop at The Second City.


Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection

Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection is a 1953 American short film directed by Stan Brakhage. Shot while in Brakhage's native Denver, the film stars Larry Jordan (credited as Lawrence Jordan) who later went on to become a film director. Filming was done in Nevadaville, Colorado. Like his other films at the time, it was shot on 16mm film, is black and white and features no dialogue.
Plot.
The plot involves four young men and two young women who are out on a drive. After the car breaks down near an abandoned mine, one of the girls begins to explore the mine, while the rivalry between two of her male admirers becomes violent and leads to dire consequences.
Release.
The film saw a DVD release in 2007 by Kino on the two disc film collection "Avant-Garde 2: Experimental Cinema 1928-1954" alongside "Interim", "The Way to Shadow Garden" and "The Extraordinary Child".
Archive.
Film elements for "Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection" are held by the Academy Film Archive as part of the Stan Brakhage Collection. The film was preserved by the archive in 2005.


Jessica Harcourt

Jessica Harcourt (1905–1988) was an Australian mannequin, authoress and actress, best known for playing a leading role in "For the Term of His Natural Life" (1927).
Biography.
Jessica Edna Harcourt was born on 7 April 1905 in Woollahra, Sydney. She was the daughter of Aubrey William Harcourt, a mercer, and Ada Hobson. Harcourt believed her family were direct descendants of Ivo d'Harcourt, a companion of William the Conqueror. As a young woman working as a programme seller at Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney, she first caught the eye of Sir John Longstaff, and then her beauty attracted the attention of George Highland, a producer of J. C. Williamson Ltd. She became a chorus girl, appearing in "Whirled into Happiness" in 1924. She was quickly dubbed "Australia's loveliest girl". Longstaff described her as “more English than Australian, her lovely coloring and features, combined with character and high intelligence, give her very high rank among the many beautiful women I have seen.” Harcourt recognised the opportunity of advancing her career and undertook to do intensive elocution lessons, saying "I don't care how hard I have to work so long as I amount to something in the end." Harcourt received requests for her photo from international newspapers so they could place her face alongside their own beauties. Harcourt started modelling and not long after arriving in Melbourne, was already working as a mannequin for Buckley and Nunn.
Harcourt made her cinema debut as Sara Purfoy in "For the Term of His Natural Life." Filming commenced in 1926 and locations included Port Arthur and Launceston, Tasmania and Master Pictures' studio in Bondi, NSW. Of her performance, the director Norman Dawn said Harcourt had "acted capitally" in an emotional scene and "her film prospects were good".
In an interview with the "Australian Women's Weekly", Harcourt recalled her surprise at being cast as Sarah Purfoy. She said "...when it was offered to me, I was astounded. I still am! Most of the actresses in Sydney wanted it and there I was, 19, with no acting experience, and I got it!"
Not long after completing filming, Harcourt was off with Norman Dawn to Suva, Fiji to film an adaption of Beatrice Grimshaw's novel "Conn of the Coral Seas", a tropical comedy/drama. The filming on location was to include "500 war canoes and outriggers and 2000 native warriors dancing in full war dress with clubs and spears". Filming was to take six weeks and Harcourt made it back to Australia in time for the premiere of her first movie "For the Term of His Natural Life". The film was released as "The Adorable Outcast" and had limited box office success.
In 1928 Harcourt was cast as widow Ruby Russell in the movie "The Russell Affair" which was filmed in and around Sydney, including Hyde Park and the private homes of socially prominent Sydney families.
Portraits of Harcourt.
Longstaff painted several portraits of her, one of which hung in the National Gallery in London. A second portrait was exhibited at the "Twenty Melbourne Artists' Exhibition" at the Athenaeum Hall in 1925 and purchased by the Felton Bequest for the National Gallery of Victoria for 250 guineas. A miniature portrait of Harcourt, painted in watercolour on ivory by Melbourne miniaturist Ada Whiting, was selected as a finalist in the 1925 Archibald Prize. The miniature hung alongside a similar Whiting miniature of her younger sister, Rene Harcourt, who was regarded as one of the it girls of the day and who had also appeared with her sister in the stage production of "Wildflower." Whiting's portrait of Harcourt subsequently hung in the Paris Salon in 1934 and is now in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria. Another portrait of Harcourt by Mrs E.M. Robb was exhibited at the 1932 Paris Salon and Ernest Buckmaster's portrait of Harcourt was a finalist in the 1936 Archibald Prize. Monte Luke, a well-known photographer of the Strand Arcade, Sydney won a silver plaque at a photographic competition in London in 1925 with one of his many photographic portraits of Harcourt.
Later years.
During the 1930s, Harcourt was under contract to J. C. Williamson's, and touring Australia as a mannequin. She produced a number of fashion shows, wrote newspaper articles, and had a short story entitled "The Mystery Submarine" published in The Home Magazine. Harcourt created a range of beauty products called "Jessica Harcourt Beauty Preparations" scented with orange blossom and presented in Wedgewood blue and white containers. In 1938 she married the Australian author F. J. "Fred" Thwaites at St John's Church, Toorak and retired from acting. She said that Thwaites did not approve of her acting, "so she devoted the rest of her time to typing manuscripts". They had two children and remained married until his death in 1979.
In 1981 she appeared at the Sydney Film Festival for the premiere of the restoration of "For the Term of His Natural Life".
Theatre Credits.
"Whirled into Happiness", 1924, His Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne
"A Night Out," 1924
"Wildflower", 1925. His Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne
"The Vagabond King", 1928
Hello Paris, 1930
"Rio Rita", 1930
Movie credits.
Harcourt was regarded as a "silent screen star" as she only ever appeared in silent movies.


Kabuli Kid

Kabuli Kid is a 2008 French-Afghan drama film directed by Barmak Akram. It stars Haji Gul Aser, Leena Alam, Valéry Schatz and Amélie Glenn. The film, about a Kabul-based taxi driver who finds an infant left in his back seat, was screened at the 65th Venice International Film Festival. It was produced by Fidélité Films, 4 à 4 Productions, and Les Auteurs Associés.
Reception.
The film was critically acclaimed. "Variety" wrote: "Observation and narrative are so skillfully intertwined that every detail gestates a potential full-blown story and every story point teems with cultural contradictions. Thus, when Khaled’s wife Leena Alam slips among the veiled women waiting to claim the infant, she silently unleashes a subversively alternate point of view. Highly accomplished tech credits reinforce pic’s authenticity."


David A. Arnold

David A. Arnold (born March 15, 1968) is an American stand-up comedian, sitcom writer and actor.
Stand-up comedy.
Arnold has been performing since 1997. He performed at the Montreal Comedy Festival, on "Jamie Foxx Presents Laffapalooza" (Comedy Central) with Jamie Foxx and Cedric the Entertainer, "The Tom Joyner Show", "Baisden After Dark", "Comics Unleashed" with Byron Allen, "ComicView", "The Mo'Nique Show", "Entourage" (HBO) and "Def Comedy Jam".
Sitcom writer and actor.
Arnold currently serves as writer/producer for the hit Netflix show Fuller House. Arnold has written episodes of several comedy shows, including "Meet the Browns" (TBS), "The Rickey Smiley Show" (TV One), "Raising Whitley" (OWN), "Tyler Perry's House of Payne" (TBS), and "The Tony Rock Project" (MyNetworkTV). Arnold appeared in several television series including "Meet the Browns" (TBS), "A Series of Unfortunate People" and "The Tony Rock Project" (MyNetworkTV).
Arnold has his own stand-up comedy special on Netflix, "".
Personal.
Arnold is married to Julie L. Harkness and has two children - Anna-Grace (13) and Ashlyn (11). He also has two sisters, Tammi Carson and Devaki Youngblood.


Sam Atwell

Samuel Atwell (born 6 April 1979) is an Australian actor, producer, writer and director.
Born in Nambour, Queensland, he and his family lived in Indonesia for 6 years before returning to Queensland where he grew up in Brisbane. He has always had a passion for acting and pursued speech and drama courses throughout school. Atwell did some work with Channel 7 at the end of primary school and Children's TV for 'UNICEF', and also completed a short film made for television. In year 11, with the help of teachers and other students, he formed a school-sponsored theatre company that produced plays such as "Property of the Clan", "All Stops Out" and "Dags".
Atwell was also credited being the first drama captain in his school's history. After high school he attended Queensland University of Technology where he completed a B.A. in acting and then moved to Sydney after finishing at the age of 20. His credits include "City Loop", an independent film completed while he was at the university, "The Wayne Manifesto", "All Saints", and the Hal McElroy film "Mr. Reliable".
Atwell finished a film called "Acting Out" with Lara Cox before taking up the role of "Kane Phillips" in the soap opera "Home and Away". He also played the role of Craig Palmer in another Aussie soap, headLand. In his spare time, Atwell enjoys going to the movies, reading, writing and is trying to produce a short film this year as well as working on his own theatre and film company. He has produced his own plays, including "Savage/Love" which he co-produced and starred in alongside former "Home and Away" co-stars Stephanie Chaves-Jacobsen and Leah Pappin.
Atwell recently starred in a TV Pilot entitled 'Call Back' by Australian Writer Kate Toon.
Atwell currently works as a script consultant on the Irish soap Fair City.


Melodies of a White Night

Melodies of a White Night (; ) is a 1976 romantic drama directed by Sergei Solovyov.
Plot.
A Japanese pianist (Komaki Kurihara) travels to the Soviet Union to better understand the country's composers' production. She falls in love with Soviet composer Ilya (Yury Solomin), who has lost his parents in the Siege of Leningrad and also his wife during childbirth. The lovers enjoy Leningrad's white summer nights, and Ilya starts composing a piano concert inspired by Yuko. A couple of years later, they meet again in Japan in Kyoto, where Ilya is conducting his piano concert, and Yuko is the soloist. Ilya finds out that Yuko is a widow and starts to experience feelings of guilt.


My Forbidden Past

My Forbidden Past is a 1951 film directed by Robert Stevenson. It stars Robert Mitchum and Ava Gardner. Adapted by Leopold Atlas from Polan Banks novel "Carriage Entrance".
Plot.
In 1890s New Orleans, wrongly believing Barbara Beaurevelle (Ava Gardner) had stood him up on the eve of their elopement, Dr. Mark Lucas (Robert Mitchum) has returned from South America accompanied by Corinne (Janis Carter), a woman he married on the rebound. Determined to win him back, Barbara bribes her cousin (Melvyn Douglas) to break up the marriage, a cold-blooded scheme that ends in death and the doctor suspected of murder.
Production.
The film was to star Ann Sheridan. Under her contract she had co star approval. RKO claimed she refused all the names offered her and thus terminated the contract, replacing her with Ava Gardner. Sheridan sued RKO for $350,000. The case went to trial and in February 1951 the jury awarded her $55,162, being the minimum amount Sheridan would have earned during filming from April to August 1949 plus $5,162 for costs. It was shown that Sheridan would have approved Mitchum as a co star.
Reception.
The film recorded a loss of $700,000.


David Mills (comedian)

David Mills is a London-based American actor, comedian and cabaret performer who won the Hackney Empire's New Act of the Year competition in 2011. He has regularly appeared as sidekick on fellow US comic Scott Capurro's live chat shows, as well as successful shows at the St. James Theatre, London and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
He appears with Meryl Streep in the 2016 film "Florence Foster Jenkins" as Augustus Corbin.


Tom Caltabiano

Tom Caltabiano is a writer and stand-up comedian. He directed and co-starred in the documentary "95 Miles to Go" with longtime friend Ray Romano. He was a writer/producer on "Everybody Loves Raymond" and took over 30,000 behind-the-scenes photos of the show. Caltabiano was a guest host for CBS's "The Late, Late Show" in 2004 when Craig Kilborn abruptly exited. He was the inspiration for Terry Elliott, the character Scott Bakula played on TNT's "Men of a Certain Age".


La ragazza di Bube (film)

La ragazza di Bube is a 1963 Italian crime film drama directed by Luigi Comencini and starring Claudia Cardinale and George Chakiris.
In terms of plot the film is a relatively faithful adaptation of Carlo Cassola’s 1960 novel "La ragazza di Bube"; but its atmosphere is distinctly different, as the protagonists Mara and Bube, adolescents in the book, are interpreted here as young adults.
The film was nominated for a Golden Bear Award at the 14th Berlin International Film Festival and won best production at the David di Donatello Awards. Claudia Cardinale was awarded the Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress ("Migliore Attrice Protagonista") by the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists for her performance in the role of as Mara.
The film was released in the United States in 1964 with the title Bebo's Girl.
Reception.
In a contemporary review, Hawk. of "Variety" gave the film a positive review, praising Cardinale specifically in the role, declaring "it should win her solid recognition everywhere." The review also praised Gianni di Venanzo's photography noting that his "chiaroscuro work on settings, as well as his fine closeups of Miss Cardinale especially, are of the highest standard."


Henry Chan

Henry F. Chan () is an American film and television director. He has directed over 200 episodes of television for all major U.S. networks. In 2013, he directed his first Chinese language film, "100 Days" (真愛100天) in Taiwan.
Career.
At the beginning of his career, Chan won a Primetime Emmy Award for editing "The Cosby Show" in 1986, he was also nominated again the following year. He made his directorial debut, directing "A Different World".
Chan has since directed episodes of "The Comedy Get Down, Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life", "Fresh Off the Boat", "Zoe Ever After", "A to Z", "Growing Up Fisher", "The Neighbors", "Whitney", "Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23", "10 Things I Hate About You", "Let's Stay Together", "Kitchen Confidential", "Living Single", "Moesha", "The Parkers", "Girlfriends", "The King of Queens", "Scrubs", "Lizzie McGuire" and a few other series.
Henry's Chinese comedy series "Rich House, Poor House" 王子富愁记，aired on Youku in January 2018. In 2003, Henry directed his first film "Gas" starring Flex Alexander and Khalil Kain.


Dense (film)

Dense is a 2004 American television short film directed and written by Vanessa Williams and Shari Poindexter, and aired on the TV channel Showtime.
Plot.
A man gives his girlfriend an ultimatum: to drop her career to start a family or he will leave her. She begins to question the relationship realizing maybe she was dense.


Darrin Rose

Darrin Rose (born Darrin Rowsell) is a Canadian stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. He was host of the Canadian remake of "Match Game" in 2012–15, and played Bill the bartender on the sitcom Mr. D for eight seasons.
Early life.
Born in Oshawa, Rose graduated from Concordia University. He owned a software company and worked in marketing for Heinz before getting into comedy after his friend Cabbie Richards became successful on TSN.
Career.
Rose started stand-up after watching the Jerry Seinfeld documentary Comedian. He had his own stand-up special on CTV, which earned him a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Performance in a Comedy/Variety Special. He did stand-up on The Late Late Show twice, and was on Last Comic Standing. Rose got his first big break on TV when he became a regular on Much Music's "Video on Trial," and its spin-off Love Court"." He later played Bill the Bartender on the CBC Television series "Mr. D," and was nominated for Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy for his role. He was the host of Match Game on the Comedy Network, the Canadian version of the long-running American game show. He played Coach Malloy in the Disney movie The Swap and attended the premiere in Hollywood. He wrote on the CBS sitcom "Happy Together" starring Damon Wayans Jr. in Los Angeles. He wrote and directed the short film "One Last Last Heist," which played at many film festivals and was an Official Selection of the Tribeca Film Festival, it was nominated for Best Narrative Short.


Jeffrey D. Brown

Jeffrey D. Brown is an American film and television director, film producer and screenwriter. He is best known for the directing, producing and writing the short film "Molly's Pilgrim" for which he won an Academy Award in 1986 for Best Live Action Short Film.
Brown also has directing credits in other television series including; "The Wonder Years", "L.A. Law", "Hooperman", "Freshman Dorm", "Baby Boom" and an episode of "CBS Schoolbreak Special".
Brown has also produced and co-wrote the films "Pontiac Moon" (1994) starring Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen and "Dream with the Fishes" (1997), both in collaboration with Finn Taylor. He directed the narrative feature film "Sold" (2014) based on Patricia McCormick's novel "Sold".


Milo Cawthorne

Milo Cawthorne (born 30 April 1989) is a New Zealand actor who played Ziggy Grover from the children's television series "Power Rangers RPM".
Career.
Cawthorne began acting as a teenager with a role on the TV show "P.E.T. Detectives". After graduating from secondary school, he chose to forgo a college education and continue pursuing an acting career. He appeared in children's television shows such as "Secret Agent Men," "Amazing Extraordinary Friends, Maddigan's Quest, and Power Rangers RPM." In "Power Rangers RPM" he played the Green Ranger, Ziggy Grover, a bumbling reformed ex-cartel member.
Cawthorne had starring roles in the WWI mini-series "When We Go To War" and the movies "Blood Punch" and "Deathgasm;" in the latter he acted alongside another former Power Ranger, Kimberly Crossman.
Cawthorne was nominated for Best Actor for his role in "Blood Punch" at the 2014 Hoboken International Film Festival in the United States, and was nominated for Best Actor: for "Blood Punch" at the 2017 Rialto Channel New Zealand Film Awards (The Moas).
Cawthorne has also appeared in several major New Zealand theatre productions, including "The History Boys" at the Maidment Theatre.
Personal life.
In June 2013, Cawthorne married actress Olivia Tennet, who he had been dating since they co-starred on "Power Rangers RPM". However, as of June 2016, the couple had split up.


Idalia Anreus

Idalia Anreus (1932 – January 3, 1998) was a Cuban actress who worked in both theatre and film. A self-taught actress, she began working in children's theatre through her younger sister, theatre actress Gladys Anreus. In the late 1960s and early 1970s she worked in the Teatro Estudio theatre group, and by the late 1970s she had moved on to the Teatro Politico Bertold Brecht group.
In 1968 she married film director Manuel Octavio Gómez; she would appear in leading roles in many of his films. Her first film was the 1966 "La salación", a comedy directed by her future husband, where two of her sisters, Dinorah and Nereyda also acted. She appeared in eleven films between 1966 and 1983. Throat cancer forced her retirement from acting by the mid 1980s. She died of a heart attack when she was visiting her sisters in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
She won the award for Best Actress at the 7th Moscow International Film Festival for her role in "Los dias del agua".


Terror Ship

Terror Ship, also known as Dangerous Voyage, is a 1953 film directed by Vernon Sewell and starring William Lundigan, Naomi Chance, and Vincent Ball.
Premise.
Author Peter Duncan investigates the circumstances of a damaged yacht and its crew who are taken under tow off the English coast and the subsequent disappearance of the crew before they reach land.


Baharon Phool Barsao

Baharon Phool Barsao is a 1972 Bollywood romance film. The film stars Dheeraj Kumar.


Kif Tebbi

Kif Tebbi is a 1928 Italian silent war film directed by Mario Camerini. The film portrays the Italo-Turkish War. A young Italian-educated Libyan nobleman is summoned to fight for the Ottoman Empire when war breaks out in 1911, but eventually decides to change sides and support Italy.
Production.
The film promoted the Italian Fascist regime's imperial policies in Libya and in wider Africa. While privately funded (although the government supported its production) the film foreshadowed future collaborations between the film industry and the Italian state.


Painful Maturity

Painful Maturity () is 1980 South Korean melodrama film directed by Park Chul-soo.
Plot.
Su-jin, a girl prone to lapses into unconsciousness, is saved by Kyung-ho when she passes out on the street. After Kyung-ho leaves her in a hospital, he leaves on a three-month voyage. Hoping to meet him on his return, Su-jin goes to see his ship on its scheduled arrival. She passes out, and Kyung-ho is not on the ship. Jang-won, a medical student, falls in love with Su-jin during her recuperation, but must give her up when Kyung-ho returns.


Tony Tornado

Antonio Viana Gomes, better known as Tony Tornado or Toni Tornado (Mirante do Paranapanema, May 26, 1930), is a Brazilian actor and singer. In 1970 he won the Brazilian stage of the V International Song Festival with the soul song "BR-3".
Biography.
Son of a Guyanese father and a Brazilian mother, at 11 years old Tony ran away from home and ended up in Rio de Janeiro where he became a street kid and made a living selling peanuts and shining shoes.
At 18 he served in the Deodoro School of Parachuting along with the future TV presenter and entrepreneur Silvio Santos. In 1957, he fought in the Suez Canal.
Tony began his artistic career in the 60s with the stage name Tony Checker, lip-synching and dancing on "Hoje é dia de Rock" show of Jair Taumaturgo. That time Tony imitated singers Chubby Checker and Little Richard. Even in the 60s, he traveled to the United States where he lived for five years in New York.
In New York, Tony served as drug dealer and pimp, to deceive the immigration department, pretending to be an employee of a car wash. At that time, Tony met another Brazilian who also lived in New York, the also singer Tim Maia.
Back in Brazil in 1969, he worked in the group of Ed Lincoln and also sang at night with the pseudonym Johnny Bradfort, the owner of the club forced him to pretend to be a foreigner.
In 1970, he adopted the name with he came to be known, "Tony Tornado". Influenced by James Brown, Tony was one of the artists who introduced soul music and funk in Brazilian music.
That same year, alongside Trio Ternura defended the song BR-3, which got the first place in the festival. His first role on television was in 1972, in the 1972 telenovela "Jerônimo" on TV Tupi.
Tornado often participates in several soap operas and miniseries, although almost never in prominent roles. The biggest role of his career on TV was Gregório Fortunato,"The Dark Angel", the chief of the security of the president and statesman Getúlio Vargas in the 1993 miniseries Agosto, based on the work of Rubem Fonseca. Another important role of his career was the foreman Rodésio, who worked for Viúva Porcina (Regina Duarte) in Roque Santeiro.
Tornado was married to actress Arlete Salles in the 70's. He is father of the also actor and singer Lincoln Tornado
Currently, Tornado returned to performing on stages all over Brazil singing his greatest hits, accompanied by the band Funkessência and Lincoln Tornado.


Robin Hogarth

Robin Hogarth (born 1948) is the British record producer of two Soweto Gospel Choir Grammy Award-winning albums: "Blessed" in 2006 and "African Spirit" in 2008.


Dorothy Young

Dorothy Lena Young (May 3, 1907March 20, 2011) was an American entertainer who worked as a stage assistant to magician Harry Houdini from 1925 to 1926. She later became a Broadway actress as well as a touring dancer.
Career.
She was selected by Houdini because she was shorter than he was. She left the act two months prior to his death on October 31, 1926. She appeared in the several Houdini documentaries.
After his death, Young, the daughter of a Methodist minister, appeared on Broadway in "Jarnegan" (1928–29), "Conquest" (1933), and "New Faces of 1936" (1936). After leaving acting, she and her second husband, Gilbert Kiamie, toured the world as the Latin dancing team of "Dorothy and Gilbert".
She was the author of two novels loosely based on her life: "Diary Without Dates" and "Dancing on a Dime", the latter of which was made into a feature film in 1940 by Universal Studios, as well as the booklet "Touring with Houdini", published in 2003.
Personal life.
Her first husband, Robert Perkins, died after 13 years of marriage. Her second husband, Gilbert Kiamie, died in 1992. Young, the last surviving member of Houdini's touring show, died in Tinton Falls, New Jersey, on March 20, 2011, aged 103.


Main Street After Dark

Main Street After Dark is a 1945 American drama film directed by Edward L. Cahn and written by John C. Higgins and Karl Kamb. The film stars Edward Arnold, Selena Royle, Tom Trout, Audrey Totter, Dan Duryea, Hume Cronyn and Dorothy Morris. The film was released on January 12, 1945, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Plot.
Lt. Lorrigan has his hands full with the Dibson criminal family. Ma Dibson's thieving son Lefty is about to get out of prison. Her daughter Rosalie and Lefty's wife Jessie Belle pick up military servicemen in bars and steal from them.
Lorrigan keeps an eye on all. He frisks Lefty's brother Posey, warning the Dibsons to keep out of trouble. Lefty immediately plans to rob McBain, owner of the bar where Rosalie and Jessie Belle fleece the servicemen.
Using guns from pawnbroker Keller, expressly against Ma's wishes, Lefty falls into Lt. Lorrigan's trap, with undercover cops disguised as soldiers. In the struggle, Posey is accidentally shot. Lefty, Ma and the girls are all placed under arrest.


Drums of Tahiti

Drums of Tahiti is a 1954 American south seas adventure film directed by William Castle and starring Dennis O'Keefe and Patricia Medina. "Drums of Tahiti" was released in 3-D, and was one of three 3-D movies made by director William Castle.
Plot.
In 1877, Tahitians under the rule of aging Queen Pomare (Frances Brandt) dislike their position as a French protectorate and quietly plan a new war with assistance from Britain.
Production.
Filming started 15 June 1953.


Mistress Pamela

Mistress Pamela is a 1973 British sex comedy drama film directed by Jim O'Connolly and starring Ann Michelle, Dudley Foster, Anna Quayle and Anthony Sharp. It was loosely based on the 1740 novel "Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded" by Samuel Richardson.
Plot.
In the eighteenth century, Pamela, a servant girl in the household of Lord Devenish, must fight off the advances of her young master - a gentleman determined to have Pamela as his mistress.
Critical reception.
"Time Out" wrote, "Richardson's 18th century classic Pamela clearly dredged up for its bawdy possibilities...About all the film has in common with the original is a notable lack of humour."


California Winter

California Winter is an American drama film from 2012 written and directed by Odin Ozdil.
Synopsis.
In 2005, Clara Morales begins an upward career in real estate, encouraging risky loans to their customers in order to afford the homes above their means. Loans that she did not fully understand. Also advises the father to take such a loan. With the onset of the housing market slump of 2008, the house of the father of Clara goes to auction, now she tries to save her childhood home which brings you new problems.


Leaving L.A.

Leaving L.A. is an American drama television series that aired from April 12 until June 14, 1997.
Premise.
Drama with black humor about the Los Angeles County Coroner's office, where the employees examine the recently deceased.


Fugitive Road

Fugitive Road is a 1934 American comedy drama film directed by Frank R. Strayer and starring Erich von Stroheim, Wera Engels and Leslie Fenton. It is set a border post in Austria following World War I. A variety of different people trying to cross the border end up stranded there, including an American gangster and a naïve young Russian woman hoping to sail to New York to join her brother.
It was shot at the Universal Studios with sets designed by the art director Edward C. Jewell.


Caribe (2004 film)

Caribe is a 2004 Costa Rican drama film directed by Esteban Ramírez. It was selected as the Costa Rican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 78th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.


Paul Smith (music industry executive)

Paul Smith is probably best known as the founder and manager of Blast First, the British alternative record label that released artists such as Sonic Youth, the Butthole Surfers, Big Black and Dinosaur Jr. in the UK. He continued to manage the artists and work in the music industry when Blast First was bought by Mute Records. Now he runs the very small label "Blast First Petite" on which he develops and sometime releases stuff that was refused by Mute's Blast First, including Rivulets and HTRK. He now has an exclusive contract with Pan Sonic.
In 2002 he produced a multimedia performance event at the Barbican to mark the release of Iain Sinclair's book "London Orbital". The event featured a diverse range of artists from the literary and music worlds including J.G. Ballard and Bill Drummond.
Paul Smith also produced the final British tour of Ken Kesey, taking him on a bus tour around festivals in summer 1997. He is also known for a record label of spoken word performances by famous counter-culture authors from the beat generation to Iain Sinclair and Stewart Home.


Big Executive

Big Executive is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Erle C. Kenton and written by Alice Duer Miller and Laurence Stallings. The film stars Ricardo Cortez, Richard Bennett, Sharon Lynn, Dorothy Peterson, Barton MacLane and Charles Middleton. The film was released on August 8, 1933, by Paramount Pictures.


Altid ballade

Altid ballade (English: "Nothing but trouble") is a 1955 Danish drama film directed by Gabriel Axel which focuses on a working-class family. The film was a remake of Edith Carlmar's 1954 film "Aldri annet enn bråk", and Axel's début as a film director.
Sigrid Horne-Rasmussen received a Bodil Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her role as Helga Nielsen.


Kristina Lilley

Kristina Lilley is a Colombian actress best known for numerous roles in Spanish-language soap operas. Recently, she has appeared in several telenovelas produced by Telemundo, which she is known for playing the roles of Gabriela Acevedo de Elizondo in Pasión de Gavilanes, and Edelmira Carranza de Guerrero in La Tormenta. Her latest TV series is "Dame Chocolate", where she portrayed the role of Grace Remington.
Lilley was born in New York City to American diplomat John Lilley and Norwegian mother Ellen Christensen, who was born in Bergen. Her family moved to Colombia when she was three years old; Lilley identifies herself with Colombian culture. She studied biology at the Pontifical Xavierian University before becoming an actress. She speaks both Spanish, and English with a New York accent fluently. She has two daughters: Maegan (b. 5 January 1989) and Rakel Suárez (b. 4 December 1993).


Marty Brill (comedian)

Martin S. Brill (May 6, 1932 – January 23, 2021) was an American comedian, writer, actor and musician who appeared regularly on 1960s and 1970s TV in both variety shows ("The Ed Sullivan Show", "The Merv Griffin Show", "The Tonight Show") and sitcoms ("The New Dick Van Dyke Show", "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"). In the late 1970s, Marty Brill did some writing in the 1970s for the "New Soupy Sales Show," also occasionally playing characters on the show, especially after Soupy's longtime sidekick (Clyde Adler) took ill during production of the series.
He also was the lyricist for the short lived 1964 Broadway musical "Cafe Crown".
Brill was born in Chicago, Illinois in May 1932. He also voiced King Koo Koo in the 1977 film "" and sang one of the film's songs. He died in January 2021 at the age of 88.
Discography.
He was involved with a comedy album called "The Other Family". This was a take-off on "The First Family" but about the Khrushchevs in the Kremlin.
He dubbed The Six Shooter into Japanese - mentioned on SiriusXM Radio Classics.


Lily Dampier

Lily Dampier (Jan 1859 or 1867 or 1868 -6 February 1915) was an Australian actor of stage and screen. She was the daughter of Alfred Dampier and married to Alfred Rolfe.
Her best known stage parts were Sylvia in "For the Term of His Natural Life" and Kate in "Robbery Under Arms". She also performed many roles from Shakespeare and worked in England.
A contemporary described her as a better actress than her sister Rose:
 Certainly she was the more forceful, physically, and vocally, but she was disqualified for high tragic roles by the fact that she had ridiculously small feet for a well developed woman, and used to walk in mincing and tottering steps in moments when rhythmic striding was needed.
An earlier secret marriage in 1889 had ended in divorce and her sister also died young. She married Rolfe in 1893.
Death.
Lily was staying in Williams St, West Melbourne when she took ill. Her husband was filming in Sydney and was going to take her to a private hospital when she died. According to contemporary reports, "her death occurred rather suddenly'.
Her mother died shortly after Lily died.


Des Dowling

Des Dowling is an Australian comedian, actor, writer and producer, best known for his work on Australian TV shows including "The Wedge", "Agony Uncles", "Coxy's Big Break," "Mark Loves Sharon, Kinne, Talk To the Animals and Manspace."
Career.
Dowling began his career as a news and current affairs reporter working for ABC Television, Nine Television Network and the Seven Network. He left journalism in 1997 after deciding that a career that made people laugh rather than made them cry would be a nobler profession. Dowling began his comedy career in the series "Headliners" where he played himself, and this led to radio work at 101.1 MIX FM and 3AW, and also to a regular spot on SEN Sports radio. Dowling has written and performed several shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and performed stand-up in Canada and the UK.
He is known for his sketch comedy writing, having written and produced for the" AFL Footy Show" and the Logie award nominated mockumentary series "Mark Loves Sharon". He currently writes for Channel 10's Family Feud
Dowling is the co-founder of the Albury-Wodonga Comedy Festival and runs his own booking agency for comedians, www.funnyguys.com.au
Personal life.
Dowling lives in rural Victoria with his wife Jen Dowling and their three children.


El derecho de nacer (film)

El derecho de nacer ("The Right to Be Born") is a 1952 Mexican film directed by Zacarías Gómez Urquiza and starring Gloria Marín, Jorge Mistral and Martha Roth. It is based on a Cuban radionovela (radioplay) of the same name by Félix B. Caignet. The movie broke box office records in Mexico when it was first released; during its release in Mexico City in June 1952, it was shown at the downtown Cine Orfeón for seven straight weeks.
Plot.
María Teresa (Bárbara Gil) is a wealthy young woman who finds herself unmarried and pregnant. She approaches a doctor (Jorge Mistral) to obtain an abortion with the hopes of avoiding a scandal that would affect her family. The doctor, hoping to convince her otherwise, flashes back to an incident of his life to explain his "right to life" stance.


Broken Promise

Broken Promise () is a 2009 drama film directed by Jiří Chlumský and starring Samuel Spišák, Ondřej Vetchý and Zuzana Porubjaková. The film was Slovakia's submission to the 82nd Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film won the main prize at the 2009 Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival. "Broken Promise" received nine nominations at the 2010 Sun in a Net Awards, but succeeded in winning just one, awarded to Michal Novinski for the film's music.


Crying for Love

Crying for Love (Danish: "Dig og Mig") is a Danish feature film.
Written and directed by Christian E. Christiansen in 2008. It is based on the short film "At Night", which was nominated for an Oscar in 2008.


John Kennedy (puppeteer)

John Kennedy (born November 17, 1967) is an American puppeteer who has worked with The Jim Henson Company since 1990. He hails from Plainfield, Indiana. From 1991 until 2003, Kennedy took over Jim Henson's role of Dr. Teeth, after which Bill Barretta took over in 2005. Kennedy has also performed Kermit the Frog on Disney Cruise Line, replacing Steve Whitmire.
Books.
Kennedy has written instructional books on puppeteering, aimed at younger audiences:


Eighteen and Anxious

Eighteen and Anxious is a 1957 American drama film directed by Joe Parker and written by Katherine Eunson and Dale Eunson. The film stars William Campbell, Martha Scott, Jackie Loughery, Jim Backus, Ron Hagerthy and Jackie Coogan. The film was released on November 15, 1957, by Republic Pictures.
Plot.
Judy Graham, just 18 years old, elopes to Mexico with boyfriend Jack, only to have him killed there. Judy returns to the disapproval of mother Lottie and stepfather Harvey, as well as disbelief from Jack's parents, the Baynes, who doubt the girl's story and accuse her of loose morals.
Judy realizes she is pregnant. She and older friend Ava go to Tijuana to find the marriage license, but no paperwork for a "Bayne" is found. She eventually gives birth to a baby boy, but doesn't wish to see him. Lottie has a change of heart and cares for the child. Jack's parents discover the wedding license in their son's belongings, mistakenly listed as "Payne," and forgive Judy, but she's appalled by their hypocrisy.
After finding a job and beginning a relationship with a boy, Danny Fuller, a smooth talker named Pete Bailey seduces her, only to jilt Judy on what she believes is her wedding day. A car she mistook as a marriage gift is actually a goodbye from Pete, who abandons her. A distraught Judy gets into a car crash. Danny rescues her from the wreck, expressing his hope that everyone will make up to Judy for their previous behavior toward her.


Mike Minogue (actor)

Mike Minogue is a New Zealand television and film actor. He plays Officer Minogue in the television series, "Wellington Paranormal".
Biography.
Minogue worked in the production side of the film industry on a number of films including "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", "The Hobbit trilogy", "District 9", "The Adventures of" "Tintin" and "Avatar" before auditioning for a role in "Separation City" in 2011.
He auditioned for a part in the 2014 film "What We Do in the Shadows". Minogue played Officer Minogue in the film and continues the same role in the spin-off television series "Wellington Paranormal." He won a New Zealand Television Award for this role in 2019.
He also played the role of a hunter in "Hunt For The Wilderpeople".
Minogue developed and starred in web/tv series "The Water Cooler" in 2016. He has also produced a number of short films.


The Autumnal Mother

The Autumnal Mother (Persian: "مادر پاییزی") is a 2012 Iranian drama film written and directed by Sirous Ranjbar.
Plot.
Saeed, whose wife is missing, has never been in love. His son has autism. A nurse enters the house in the presence of Saeed. It's time to see that love is life.


Colleen Anne Fitzpatrick

Colleen Anne Fitzpatrick (5 January 1938 – 12 August 2017) was an Australian model, actress and filmmaker.
Fitzpatrick was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia of Irish descent. A prominent international catwalk, television and photographic model from 1959 to 1972, Fitzpatrick appeared in over 200 commercials, on countless magazine covers, and was contracted for various campaigns including Ford cars, becoming famous for her comedic flair working with the likes of John Cleese. Fitzpatrick trained as an actor with American Hayes Gordon at The Ensemble Studios of Sydney's Ensemble Theatre. She was a company member of The Sydney Theatre Company, formerly The Old Tote Theatre Company from 1972 to 1974 including productions of 'King Lear', 'Threepenny Opera', 'Playboy of the Western World', 'Richard II', 'Macbeth' and David Williamson's 'What If You Died Tomorrow?' opening the Sydney Opera House in 1973. Other theatre work includes 'Pride and Prejudice', 'The House of Bernarda Alba', 'In the Boom Boom Room', 'Crimes of the Heart' for the Ensemble Rep, and 'When in Rome' for the Ensemble Theatre. Also "night, Mother' and 'A Day in the Death of Joe Egg' for Belvoir St Theatre.
Film and television work includes lead roles in "The Pleasure Girls" made in 1965 about a model finding herself swept up in swinging sixties London also starring Klaus Kinski, "Games for Parents and Other Children", "A Girl's Own Story" by Jane Campion, "Rebel", starring Matt Dillon, the "Bodyline (miniseries)" as Donald Bradman's mother, "Police Rescue", 12 episodes of "Sons and Daughters (Australian TV series)" as the evil Jean Hopkins, "Home and Away", "Outbreak of Hostilities", "The Four Minute Mile", "A Country Practice", "Whipping Boy" and "Soldier Soldier".
Fitzpatrick completed a Bachelor of Arts (communications) majoring in film at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). Formerly married to actor Max Cullen from 1973 to 1987, they have one daughter, actress Katharine Cullen born 9 June 1975 and a grandson William Richards born 17 August 2013.
Fitzpatrick died peacefully on 12 August 2017 from Motor Neurone Disease.


Alex Nussbaum

Alex Nussbaum is a comedian, actor and writer.
He has been nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award for Best Male Standup.
He has appeared on "Just For Laughs", "Comedy Now!", and is a regular judge on the MuchMusic show "Video on Trial".
He previously played the show's antagonist, Big Nose, as well as many guest characters in the short lived Cartoon Network show "Pink Panther and Pals".


Amparo Grisales

Amparo Grisales de Tessarolo (born September 19, 1956) is a Colombian actress. She starred in the 2007 Telemundo serial "Madre Luna" ("Mother Moon"). She also appeared with tenor Plácido Domingo in a music video of the Peruvian song, "La Flor de la Canela", from his 1994 Grammy-nominated album, "De Mi Alma Latina".


Passenger Pigeons (film)

Passenger Pigeons is a 2010 mumblecore drama film written and directed by filmmaker Martha Stephens and her feature film debut.
Synopsis.
4 different stories intersect after a miner dies in an accident in an East Kentucky coalmine. The brother of the dead miner, Moses (Bryan Marshall) comes home to visit his family for the first time in years. When the mine closes temporarily, Jesse (Kentucker Audley) spends the time off with his girlfriend Elva (Caroline White). Buck (Earl Lynn Nelson) is an executive with the mining company who comes to town to investigate the mine's safety. Buck is soon to retire and uses the trip to show his replacement Nolan (Brendan McFadden) the ropes. Annie (Karrie Crouse), an activist from Washington D.C., uses the incident as means to drum up support against surface mining.
Release.
"Passenger Pigeons" premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival on March 13, 2010 and was released on DVD October 15, 2013.


Cheryl Blaylock

Cheryl Blaylock (also known as Cheryl Blalock) is an American puppeteer, actress and comedian who performed the title character on "Eureeka's Castle" from 1989 to 1991. Blaylock is originally from Kalamazoo, Michigan. Before she starred in the title role on "Eureeka's Castle", she performed on "Sesame Street" and in "The Muppets Take Manhattan". After "Eureeka's Castle", Blaylock played characters on other projects like "Oobi", "The Adventures of Timmy the Tooth", "The Reunion", and "Blue's Room".


Somewhere Slow

Somewhere Slow is a 2013 American romantic crime drama film written and directed by Jeremy O'Keefe. It stars Jessalyn Gilsig, Graham Patrick Martin, David Costabile, Wallace Langham, Robert Forster and Lindsay Crouse. It had its world premiere at the 2013 Cinequest Film Festival and won Best Narrative Feature at the 2013 Brooklyn Film Festival.
The film was produced by Christopher Sepulveda and Michael Anderson of Logolite Entertainment, Jessalyn Gilsig's Lady in the Tree Productions and Jeremy O'Keefe's Tax-Free Films. The film was acquired by Screen Media Films and was released in the United States beginning on January 31, 2014.
Plot.
In Wilmington, Delaware, Anna Thompson sells beauty products to doctors but her company lets her go when her performance is not up to par. She is a chain smoker and bulimic and feels the need to run away from her life. When she narrowly misses being the victim of an armed robbery in a store, she gets on a bus and travels to where her family used to have a vacation cottage in Massachusetts. Along the way she meets Travis (who calls himself Danny), who is also running away from his problems.


The Beloved Bachelor

The Beloved Bachelor is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Lloyd Corrigan, and written by Sidney Buchman, Raymond Griffith, Agnes Brand Leahy and Edward Peple. The film stars Paul Lukas, Dorothy Jordan, Vivienne Osborne, Charlie Ruggles, Marjorie Gateson, Harold Minjir and John Breeden. The film was released on October 24, 1931, by Paramount Pictures.


Memory House

Memory House () is a 2020 drama film directed by João Paulo Miranda Maria. The film was part of the selection of the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival.
The film was named as an Official Selection of the 2020 Cannes Film Festival, although it was not able to screen at Cannes due to the cancellation of the festival in light of the COVID-19 pandemic in France.
The film won the Roger Ebert Award at the 2020 Chicago International Film Festival.


Herschel Sparber

Herschel Sparber (born October 18, 1943) is an American actor and Broadway performer. He is unusually tall, at 6 feet, 9 inches.
Early life.
Sparber was born in Gary, Indiana on October 18, 1943.
Career.
A few of his standout roles include the role of "Big Jule" in Broadway's revival of "Guys and Dolls" with Nathan Lane and Faith Prince, playing the President of the United Federation of Planets, "Jaresh-Inyo", in a pair of episodes of TV's "", acting in several TV shows and specials, including a recurring character on "Boy Meets World", and a multi-episode role in "NYPD Blue".
Sparber is doing voices for video game characters, cartoons, and did a brief dub-over in the 2005 movie "Serenity".


Motorcycles (film)

Motorcycles () is a 1949 Czech drama film directed by Martin Frič.


Arizona Summer

Arizona Summer is a family film directed by Joey Travolta. The plot is about Brent Butler (Gemini Barnett), a wiser-than-his years youngster. A modern-day Tom Sawyer. The majority of the story takes place at a boys and girls camp owned and operated by Travers (Lee Majors), who has spent a lifetime of quietly helping adolescents become confident young adults. In addition to the full gamut of camp activities, adventures, practical jokes, and conflict resolution there is the underlying theme that bolsters the importance of a positive father-son relationship.


Shelley Jensen

Shelley Jensen is an American television director and producer.
He has directed episodes for a number of notable television series including "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air", "Friends", "Amen", "What I Like About You", "The Drew Carey Show", "Webster", "The Suite Life on Deck", "Sonny with a Chance", "I'm in the Band", "Good Luck Charlie", "Austin & Ally" and other series.
Jensen won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1996 for his directing work on Disney Channel's "Adventures in Wonderland" winning alongside David Grossman and Gary Halvorson.