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Dustin Milligan was born in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada as Dustin Wallace Milligan. He is an actor, writer and producer, known for Extract (2009), 90210 (2010), Schitt's Creek (2014), Me Him Her (2015) Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2016), Rutherford Falls (2021), and The People We Hate at the Wedding (2022). He currently resides in Los Angeles, California.- Actor
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Afroman was born on 28 July 1974 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Disturbia (2007), A Thousand Words (2012) and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001).- Actress
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Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir was born on 28 July 1982 in Iceland. She is an actress and director, known for Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021), Sjáumst með Silvíu Nótt (2005) and Justice League (2017).- Writer
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Alberto Kenya Fujimori Inomoto is a Peruvian statesman, professor and former engineer who was President of Peru from 28 July 1990 until 22 November 2000. Frequently described as a dictator, he remains a controversial figure in Peruvian politics; his government is credited with the creation of Fujimorism, defeating the Shining Path insurgency and restoring Peru's macroeconomic stability, though Fujimori ended his presidency by fleeing Peru for Japan amid a major scandal involving corruption and human rights abuses. Even amid his prosecution in 2008 for crimes against humanity relating to his presidency, two-thirds of Peruvians polled voiced approval for his leadership in that period.- Actress
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Alexandra Chando was born on 28 July 1986 in Pennsylvania, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for The Lying Game (2011), Dead People (2015) and As the World Turns (1956).- Actress
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Alexis Arquette (born Robert Arquette) (death: September 11, 2016) was an American actress. Arquette was born in Los Angeles, the fourth of five children of Lewis Arquette, an actor and director, and Brenda Olivia "Mardi" (Nowak), a Jewish actress, poet, theater operator, activist, acting teacher, and therapist. Lewis's family's surname was originally "Arcouet"; Lewis's father was comedian Cliff Arquette, who went by the stage name of Charley Weaver. Arquette was distantly related to American explorer Meriwether Lewis. Actors Rosanna, Richmond, Patricia, and David Arquette are her siblings.- Alfie Curtis was born on July 28, 1930 in Stepney, London, England. Alfie began acting on various British television shows in 1973. With his tallish (5'10"), burly build, intimidating presence, and rough face (the latter was the result of a terrible childhood accident), Curtis was especially memorable as the belligerent Mos Eisley cantina-thug Dr. Cornelius Evazan who antagonizes Luke Skywalker ("I have the death-sentence on twelve systems") in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977). Alfie lived in a semi-detached house in the Essex town of Billericay for the last fourteen years of his life. Alfie Curtis died at age 87 on November 30, 2017.
- Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba was born on 28 July 1951 in Solares, Cantabria, Spain. He was married to Pilar Goya. He died on 10 May 2019 in Madrid, Spain.
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Andrew V. McLaglen was born on 28 July 1920 in Wandsworth, London, England, UK. He was a director and assistant director, known for The Wild Geese (1978), Fools' Parade (1971) and Hellfighters (1968). He was married to Sheila Anne Corbett, Sarah (Sally) Greenwood Pierce, Veda Ann Borg and Maria Margaret 'Peggy' Harrison. He died on 30 August 2014 in Friday Harbor, Washington, USA.- Angélica Gorodischer was born on 28 July 1928 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was a writer, known for La cámara oscura (2008). She was married to Sujer Gorodischer. She died on 5 February 2022 in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina.
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Ann Doran appeared in over 500 motion pictures and 1000 television shows, by one count. Starting at the age of four, she appeared in hundreds of silent films under assumed names so her father's family wouldn't find out. Rarely a featured player (although Charles Starrett's Rio Grande (1938) is a notable exception), she provided many a wonderful performance in support of the leads.- Actor
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Barak Hardley was born on 28 July 1975 in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Bounty Killer (2013), The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu (2009) and The Bronze (2015).- Actress
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Barbara La Marr was born in Yakima, Washington, on July 28, 1896, as Reatha Watson. Her childhood was mostly uneventful, mainly because Yakima--today a medium-sized city with a population of over 50, 000-wasn't exactly a beehive of activity. Her parents eventually moved to the Los Angeles area, where she began to explore the show business lifestyle in whatever form she could. Barbara loved the L.A. way of living and was forced to grow up fast. She was still Reatha at the time, but her arrest for dancing in burlesque while still a teen caused her to change her name to Barbara La Marr to avoid being associated with her past. Her passion was dancing and writing, but the powers-that-be in the movie industry thought she was meant for other things--her dazzling beauty captured the imagination of all who came across her path. Moving to New York, she was ultimately lured into the film world, her first picture being Harriet and the Piper (1920). She was still going by her married name of Barbara Deely (already working to shed her fourth husband) and was being dubbed "The Girl Who Is Too Beautiful." The next year she appeared in The Three Musketeers (1921) and Desperate Trails (1921). That same year, her role as Claudine Dupree in The Nut (1921) sent Barbara into super-stardom. Hordes of fans flocked to theaters to see this beautiful actress in movies such as Arabian Love (1922), Trifling Women (1922), Domestic Relations (1922) and The Prisoner of Zenda (1922) whose beauty kept them enthralled. In 1923, she kept up her frenzied filming pace with such pictures as Poor Men's Wives (1923), The Brass Bottle (1923) and Souls for Sale (1923). The public adored her, as evidenced by the volumes of fan mail she received, but Barbara was more interested in the late-night partying she was involved with. The combination of alcohol and drugs was, clearly, beginning to wear her down. She made four films in 1924 and three in 1925. Her last picture was The Girl from Montmartre (1926). On February 2, 1926, Barbara died of tuberculosis in Altadena, California. Her demise was, no doubt, brought about by her constant late-night partying. She had lived a lifetime and had made 30 films, but was only 29 when she died.- Producer
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Barry Katz is an Emmy and Grammy nominated TV-film-record producer, talent manager, and podcast host. He is universally known for representing iconic artists like Louie Anderson, Ken Jeong, Andy Dick, Hasan Minhaj, and Mike Epps, giving the first quality stage time in New York City and Boston to future stars like Kevin Hart, Ed Helms, Sarah Silverman, Anthony Clark, Dave Attell, Bobcat Goldthwait, Dana Gould, Timothy Olyphant, Denis Leary, and the late Patrice O'Neal, as well as helping launch the careers of some of the most extraordinary comedy artists in the business-including Dave Chappelle, Nick Swardson, Louie CK, Felipe Esparza, Bill Burr, Frank Caliendo, Marc Maron, Whitney Cummings, Bill Bellamy, Judah Friedlander, Wanda Sykes, Bert Kreischer, Jeff Dye, Jim Gaffigan, Dane Cook, Steve Byrne, Jeffrey Ross, Neil Brennan, and former and present SNL stars Darrell Hammond, Jay Mohr, Melissa Villasenor, Jim Breuer, and Tracy Morgan.
Throughout his career, Katz has sold 37 out of 38 stand-up comedy specials he produced and has brokered an unprecedented 100 TV development deals, created 3 television shows, and executive produced over 50 different specials, documentaries, reality shows, and scripted series including the YouTube TV produced Telethon for America (with Natalie Portman, Orlando Bloom, Jennifer Lawrence, Pete Davidson, Alicia Keys, Charlize Theron, Ray Romano, Chelsea Handler, and Jane Fonda), NBC's Whitney, Netflix's The Road Trick, FOX's Action, HBO's Tourgasm, Showtime's Jay Mohr: Happy. And A Lot, History Channel's Houdini: Unlocking the Mystery, TBS's Frank TV, Comedy Central's Whitney Cummings: Money Shot, HBO's Heidi Fleiss: The Would-be Madam of Crystal, the syndicated Bellamy/Tim Meadows/Jon Lovitz/Vivica Fox sitcom Mr. Box Office, and 7 seasons of the Emmy-nominated NBC series Last Comic Standing.
Katz started his involvement in the film business when he helped Chappelle and Neal Brennan (who eventually went on to create Chappelle's Show) sell the cult classic Half Baked to Universal Studios and went on to produce several films after that, including Employee of the Month (starring Jessica Simpson and Cook), Good Luck Chuck (starring Jessica Alba), My Best Friend's Girl (starring Kate Hudson and Alec Baldwin), I Killed JFK (about the only living person in history to admit to killing Kennedy), and Misery Loves Comedy (starring Tom Hanks, Amy Schumer, Judd Apatow, and Larry David).
Katz was the first manager to work with a comedy artist to use social media to accelerate their career, with Dane Cook. At the height of his popularity, he was able to press a button on his computer and sell out 2 shows in one night at Boston Garden and 2 shows in one night at Madison Square Garden for a total of 75,000 tickets sold in less than a week-which had never been done before. In the recording world, he has produced Grammy nominated, multiple gold, platinum, and double platinum albums, while becoming the only manager/producer to debut a comedy album in Billboard's top 5 national charts-twice.
In other facets of the business, Katz was one of the driving forces behind the launch of Comedy Dynamics, which has become one of the largest independent comedy production and distribution companies in the world. Additionally, he was involved in the original sale of the Emmy-nominated Comedy Central Roasts to the network, which has become one of the longest running, most profitable, annual specials franchises in the history of TV.- Composer
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Beverley Craven is a British singer-songwriter and pianist who achieved a relatively brief period of fame with her eponymous 1991 album, which reached number three and spent a year on the album chart, and its single "Promise Me", a beautiful love ballad which also reached number three, became an instant classic and a popular staple of radio playlists and romantic compilation albums.
Craven was from a musical background. Her mother played classical violin and Craven started playing piano at the age of seven. She attended art college, performed in bands and got her break when she became a backing vocalist for the legendary soul singer Bobby Womack. She was subsequently signed to a recording contract.
"Promise Me" was to be Craven's only top 30 single. Her next album, Love Scenes, charted highly at number four but didn't recapture the success of her debut and only stayed on the chart for 13 weeks. Her third album was her final album to chart to date, reaching number 46. In total, Craven has had six UK hit singles, four which reached the top 40.- Bill Crider was born on 28 July 1941 in Mexia, Texas, USA. He was a producer, known for Christmas with the Dead (2012). He was married to Judy. He died on 12 February 2018 in the USA.
- Bill Goodwin was born on 28 July 1910 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Spellbound (1945), Tea for Two (1950) and House of Horrors (1946). He was married to Philippa Hilber and Paula Winslowe. He died on 9 May 1958 in Palm Springs, California, USA.
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Bill Hart was born on 28 July 1934 in Red Oak, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Escape from New York (1981), The Wild Bunch (1969) and The Way of the Gun (2000). He was married to Rina Solowitz and Charlene Roberson. He died on 2 January 2015 in Northridge, California, USA.- Billy Aaron Brown was born on 28 July 1981 in Clarinda, Iowa, USA. He is an actor, known for Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003), 8 Simple Rules (2002) and First Night (2007).
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The daughter of a musical conductor, fair-haired, matronly Brenda de Banzie appeared in around 40 films. As the result of two outstanding performances she became an unexpected star when well into her middle age. Brenda first came to public notice as a sixteen year old chorus girl on the London stage in "Du Barry Was a Lady" in 1942. By that time, she had already been treading the boards in repertory for some seven years. The theatre was, first and foremost, her preferred medium. In the early 1950s, she had an excellent run of top-billed performances at the West End which included "Venus Observed" with Laurence Olivier, and "Murder Mistaken", in which she played a wealthy hotel owner whose husband is plotting to bump her off for her money. For this, she won the coveted Clarence Derwent Award as Best Supporting Actress.
Critical plaudits tempted her to try her luck on screen, so Brenda eventually made her celluloid debut in Anthony Bushell's murder mystery The Long Dark Hall (1951). Her performance -- as a rather vulgar and dowdy boarding house landlady -- drew good notices, including one from Bosley Crowther of The New York Times. In 1954, director David Lean cast Brenda in her defining role as Maggie Hobson, an ambitious spinster, opposite Charles Laughton and John Mills in Hobson's Choice (1954). As it turned out, she pretty much stole every scene from her illustrious co-stars. Rather surprisingly, a BAFTA eluded her. In 1958, Brenda landed the prize role of Phoebe Rice, the bitter, alcoholic wife of a second-rate music hall performer (played superbly by Olivier) in John Osborne's The Entertainer (1960). She recreated her performance for Broadway and for the film version in 1960 and received a Tony Award nomination. Sadly, despite such promise her stock did not improve thereafter and she was relegated for the remainder of her career to matronly character roles. Brenda passed away on the operating table during surgery for a non-malignant brain tumor in March 1981.- Actress
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Brianne Banigan Leary was born on July 28, 1957 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. She is an American actress and inventor. She co-hosted the Disney Channel's second season of Walt Disney World Inside Out (1994), with George Foreman and J.D. Roth. She also hosted Animal Planet's Petsburgh USA (1998). She was a gymnastics champion in high school at Canyon Del Oro in Tucson, Arizona, USA, finishing in the top three at the State Championship in 1974. She went to Pima Junior College, also in Tucson, Arizona. She first appeared on television as a contestant on Match Game (1973) in 1976. She won several games, earning in excess of $9,000. She came back to the show, three years later, as a celebrity panelist, becoming the only person to appear on the show as both a contestant and a panelist. Brianne first appeared on television, playing "Lieutenant Nurse Susan Ames" on the NBC series, Black Sheep Squadron (1976) in 1977 to 1978. She is best-known as "Officer Sindy Cahill" in the second season of CHiPs (1977) from 1978 to 1979. Brianne made guest starring appearances on Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979); The Fall Guy (1981); Simon & Simon (1981); as Russian gymnast "Tania" in The Paper Chase (1978) episode, A Case of Detente (1979), in 1979; and 1st & Ten (1984). She also made an appearance on Battle of the Network Stars V (1978) in November 1978 and Battle of the Network Stars VI (1979) in May 1979. In 1996, she created a Canadian children's TV show, "Stickin' Around", with Robin Steele. In early 2000, she was a co-anchor on WNYW New York's "Good Day New York". In 2007, Leary received a patent for her "portable device for cleaning an animal's paw" product, "Pet Plunger". Her mother was the Assistant City Editor for the Arizona Daily Star and she is the cousin of writer Timothy Leary.- Brigit Forsyth was born on 28 July 1940 in Malton, Yorkshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Likely Lads (1976), Playing the Field (1998) and Doctor Who (1963). She was married to Brian Mills. She died on 1 December 2023 in the UK.
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While still in his teens, Bruce Abbott discovered the thrill and fulfillment of acting, and followed his dreams to Hollywood. Over the past 20 years, he's made a name for himself as a Dark Prince, excelling in roles that show the duality of human nature in such films as Re-Animator (1985) and Summer Heat (1987) and the TV series, Dark Justice (1991).- Manager
Bruce Tufeld was born on 28 July 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a manager. He was married to Emily Tufeld. He died on 15 January 2019 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
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Bud Luckey was an American animator, writer, director and voice actor from Montana known for his works at Pixar and Sesame Street. He directed and voiced the short film Boundin' before voicing Rick Dicker in The Incredibles and Jack-Jack Attack. He later voiced Chuckles from Toy Story 3 and Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh. He passed away in February 2018 due to an extended illness.- Cain Velasquez is an American mixed martial artist. He is known in the sports world for his career in the mixed martial arts organization Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is a former UFC Heavyweight Champion, with victories over Brock Lesnar and Junior Dos Santos. By the end of 2017, Velasquez was ranked #3 in UFC's official rankings. He is one of three children born to Mexican immigrant Efrain Velasquez and U.S. citizen Isabel. Velasquez made his fight debut in October 2006. He later met UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar in October 2010 at UFC 121 in a title match, where defeated Lesnar via Technical Knock-Out (TKO) in 4:12 of the first round. He later lost the title to Junior dos Santos at UFC on Fox in November 2011. He later faced dos Santos in a title rematch held at UFC 155 in December 2012. From 2006 to 2017, Velasquez fought a total of sixteen times and won fourteen of those matches.
In 2016, Velasquez began a film career, beginning with an appearance in the crime drama Term Life (2016), starring Vince Vaughn, Hailee Steinfeld and the late Bill Paxton. He quickly followed up with an appearance in the action drama Kickboxer: Vengeance (2016). In 2017, Velasquez appeared in the action-comedy Green Ghost and the Masters of the Stone (2021). - Actor
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Carlos Jacott was born on 28 July 1967 in the USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Being John Malkovich (1999) and She Spies (2002).- Lean, fair-haired Catherine Dale Owen, acclaimed as one of the world's ten most beautiful women of 1925, had the dubious distinction of co-starring in the film which did most to ruin John Gilbert's career in talking pictures. For most of the players concerned, His Glorious Night (1929) was anything, but. Provoking first giggles, then raucous laughter from the audience, Gilbert's excessively passionate declarations of love came out sounding high-pitched (either due to a problem with his voice or the sound recording of the time) and became all-the-more ridiculous, as they were delivered to Owen's icily phlegmatic Princess Orsolini (though the New York Times described her performance as 'captivatingly aloof'). In combination with the over-the-top dialogue (by Willard Mack), the total effect was comical rather than romantic.
Catherine Dale Owen graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and first appeared on Broadway in 'Little Women' in 1920. She appeared in several other productions during the 1920's, notably 'Trelawny of the Wells'. There was something very 'upper crust' about many of her performances (she did come from a well-to-do family in Louisville, Kentucky) and tended to feel most at home playing society or aristocratic types. In her films, reviewers chiefly commented about her 'uncommon beauty'. She was decorative (but little else) in The Case of Sergeant Grischa (1930). Arguably, her most successful role on the screen was in the first all-technicolour, all-sound musical, The Rogue Song (1930), opposite Lawrence Tibbett. A contemporary review declared "beauty is impersonated by Catherine Dale Owen, whose charms suffice for any picture" (NY Times, January 29, 1930). As it turned out, in the absence of a greater acting range, charms alone did not suffice, and, after another four minor films, Catherine graced the screen no more. - Charles is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He also took drama classes at Los Angeles City College and is a graduate of Cal. State at LA, receiving his BA in theatre arts. Aside from his many film and tv credits he is especially proud of his body of work in the LA theatre. He was a member of the company of angels for 25 years. He is a recipient of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for best performance by an actor for his role in The Caretaker and a dramalogue award for best performance by an actor.
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Cher Lloyd (born on 28 July 1993) is an English singer, songwriter, and rapper who rose to international prominence with the success of her debut studio album 'Sticks and Stones.' The lead single of the album, 'Swagger Jagger,' not only debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart, but also became highly popular in other parts of the world, thus heralding the entry of the young singer into the international music scene. Born in Malvern, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom. As a little girl she travelled around Wales with her parents in a caravan.into a family with a deep love for music, it did not take Cher long to realize which field to follow. Even as a little girl she displayed an innate talent for performing in front of others and actively participated in school and neighbourhood functions. As a student she studied performance arts and also attended the theatre arts school Stagecoach. Taking forward her passion, she auditioned for the reality completion show The X Factor UK (2004) many times before finally clearing the auditions in 2010. Her stint in the show brought her to limelight. Even though she was eventually eliminated from the competition, she was successful in gaining a contract with Syco Music which helped her launch her singing career. In addition to her musical skills, the young singer is also known for sporting a variety of tattoos on different parts of her body.
She was born with an innate love for music and displayed a strong love for performing in front of others even as a child. She studied performing arts at Dyson Perrins High School and also attended the theatre arts school Stagecoach.Though she regularly performed at school functions and parties, she wanted to take it forward and perform in front of bigger audiences. Thus she decided to audition for the reality television music competition The X Factor UK (2004). She was rejected many times before finally clearing the audition in 2010 with a rendition of the Keri Hilson version of 'Turn My Swag On'.She performed brilliantly in the competition during the initial few weeks but was eventually eliminated in fourth place. However, by this time she had become very popular among the audience and also the judges, and managed to attract the attention of executives at Syco Music who signed her to a contract.
Cher Lloyd released her debut single, 'Swagger Jagger' in July 2011. The single peaked at number one on the UK Singles Chart and number two in Ireland. It also debuted at number 79 on the Mega Top 100 in the Netherlands. Her second single, 'With Ur Love' and third single 'Want U Back' also performed exceedingly well.In November 2011, she released her debut album 'Sticks and Stones' which included all her previously released hit singles. The album entered the UK Albums Chart at number four and peaked at number seven in Ireland. It was ranked at number nine on the Billboard 200 in the United States. The album sold millions of copies worldwide within a few months of its release, thus establishing Cher as a rising musical star. Spurred by the resounding success of her debut album, she immediately started working on her next album. However, the release of her second album was considerably delayed due to certain unforeseen reasons. The album, aptly title 'Sorry I'm Late,' was released on 23 May 2014.While the album peaked at number 12 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart and at number 21 on the UK Albums Chart, it could not match the charting success of its predecessor. However, it still went on to become a massive commercial success and even outsold its predecessor! In July 2016, Cher Lloyd released her single 'Activated,' which will also be featured on her upcoming third studio album. As of May 2017, she was busy working on her new album.- Cole Williams was born on 28 July 1981. He is an actor, known for North Country (2005), Heroes: The Recruit (2008) and Veronica Mars (2004).
- Colin Douglas was born on 28 July 1912 in Newcastle, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Children of the New Forest (1964), Gamble for a Throne (1961) and The Crawling Eye (1958). He was married to Gina Cachia. He died on 21 December 1991 in London, England, UK.
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Colin Higgins was born on 28 July 1941 in Nouméa, New Caledonia, France. He was a writer and director, known for 9 to 5 (1980), Harold and Maude (1971) and Foul Play (1978). He died on 5 August 1988 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Producer
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Dana White was born in Manchester, Connecticut, and spent most of life in Las Vegas, Nevada. White liked boxing and competed as an amateur boxer. He opened some gyms where he created workout programs which combined boxing and aerobics. White attended Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas where met and became friends with fellow boxing fan Lorenzo Fertitta. Along with older brother Frank Fertitta III, Lorenzo became a boxing fan from attending events with their father, Frank Fertitta Jr., a successful former casino executive.
At a wedding in 1995, White, who at the time managed boxers and a few Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighters, reunited with Lorenzo Fertitta. It was how Fertitta first heard about the sport named MMA. By then, Lorenzo and older brother Frank had taken over casino operations from their father, and created additional casinos throughout Nevada under the brand Station Casinos. White took replaced Sal Garcia as manager of MMA fighters Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz, friends and trainers partners whom would compete in one of the first major MMA promotions: Ultimate Fighting Championship (2000).
White made an agreement with International Fighting Championships (IFC) to sell sponsorship on their behalf. He also got a fight for Liddell against Steve Heath at an IFC event on June 11, 2000. During the following November, UFC owner Robert B. Meyrowitz, suffering financially, had conversations with Lorenzo Fertitta about buying his company. Exactly how the idea came about is in question. White said he had brought up the idea with Fertitta, believing UFC was for sale. Meyrowitz-who later told author Clyde Gentry that he had not actively put the company up for sale-agreed to sell. According to Gentry, Fertitta stated that White had heard of Meyrowtiz's intentions from his brother, David Meyrowitz. Zuffa LLC was formed by Lorenzo and older brother Frank Fertitta III in January 2001, with them being equal majority owners. Lorenzo became Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, while White was given ten percent equity and the title of President. Zuffa bought UFC for $2 million on January 9, 2001. White stopped managing Ortiz and Liddell as a result of his new executive role in UFC. UFC's new owners were pivotal in lobbying different athletic jurisdictions to legalize the sport.
Three years after Zuffa acquired UFC, the promotion had a deficit in the $30 million plus range. Majority owners Lorenzo Fertitta and Frank Fertitta III decided that an increased television presence would turn the company profitable. The Ultimate Fighter was created, and Zuffa paid Spike TV $10 million for airtime. The show was produced between September and October 2004, and aired in 2005. It became a ratings success for Spike TV. During the first live finale of The Ultimate Fighter, a light-heavyweight fight between Forrest Griffin and Stephan Bonnar drew many viewers. Griffin won the judge's decision to become the competition's first winner and earned a UFC contract. Bonnar received a UFC contract although for his performance.The bout is credited for influencing Spike TV President 'Kevin Kay' (I) to not only renew the series, but pay Zuffa millions of dollars for the rights to air it over subsequent years.
Dana White became the public managerial face of UFC from interviews, leading press conferences, and supervising fighters facing off. The success of The Ultimate Fighter helped grow UFC, and increased White's profile. He became known as an aggressive, outspoken competitor who harshly criticized his own fighters and rivals, sometimes accompanied by profanity. When Affliction owner Tom Atencio decided to start a fight promotion, White banned Affliction from sponsoring UFC events. On the night of July 19, 2008, when Affliction held its first fight card, a Pay-Per-View named Affliction: Banned (2008), White counter-programmed with UFC: Silva vs. Irvin (2008). Vice President of Japan's Pride Fighting Championships (2006), Jerry Millen, was a detractor of White. While Millen was a guest on Scott Ferrall's Sirius XM radio program, White called in and had harsh words with Millen. Millen interviewed White's mother, June White, who wrote a book critical of her son. White once called Showtime Sports General Manager, Ken Hershman, an idiot. For years White and former client Tito Ortiz would go after each other in the media during and after Ortiz's time in UFC. The same went for former UFC heavyweight champion Josh Barnett, who has failed drug tests. White had top-ranked welterweight Jon Fitch released from his contract after Fitch refused to sign away the lifetime rights to his image for a UFC video game. Fitch complained that it was a power move by White because Fitch refused to sign away those rights for inadequate compensation. White said it had something to do with the "idiots" in charge of the gym in which Fitch trained, American Kickboxing Academy (AKA). Within a day an agreement was reached and Fitch was back under UFC contract. White had been complementary of Strikeforce (2006) CEO Scott Coker until Coker was able to sign Fedor Emelianenko to a contract. Emelianenko on various occasions had negotiated with UFC, but could not settle on terms. White had repeatedly stated that Emelinanenko had not fought high-level opponents when he dominated as heavyweight champion of Pride Fighting Championships. White dismissed Strikeforce as "Strike-Farce" and "bush league". In June 2010, there were reports that clothing company TapOut, which sponsored many UFC fighters, canceled a sponsorship deal with Strikeforce fighter Fedor Emelianenko as a result of UFC pressure. White confirmed this when asked by journalist Ariel Helwani, saying that it was the price of competing against UFC. When Zuffa acquired Strikeforce in March 2011, Coker was kept in Strikeforce with a 3-year contract. For many years under Zuffa ownership, White said women would never fight in the UFC because not enough compete in MMA to support a division. When Zuffa bought Strikeforce (2006) in March 2011, women's bouts continued. With her easy dominance of the bantamweight division, and growing popularity outside MMA, Strikeforce bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey lead White to change his mind as a result of Rousey's increasing popularity inside and outside of MMA. In 2012, Rousey became the first woman given a Zuffa contract to compete in UFC. White awarded Rousey the UFC women's bantamweight title, booked her to defend it against Liz Carmouche in the promotion's first women's bout at UFC 134. In 2013, retired former UFC heavyweight and light-heavyweight champion Randy Couture signed a deal with Viacom to be a coach on Fight Master: Bellator MMA (2013). Viacom owned rival promotion Bellator MMA. White banned Couture from cornering his son Ryan Couture at UFC events.Bellator Fighting Championships (2009) had established itself as major promotion under the tournaments created by Bjorn Rebney. Tensions between White and Rebney reached its highest in 2013 when free agent Eddie Alvarez was given permission by Bellator to negotiate with UFC. When UFC made Alvarez an offer, Rebney said Bellator matched it. Alvarez disputed this, which lead to a legal case. The case was settled with Alvarez re-signing with Bellator. A few months after his contract with Zuffa expired in 2014 Scott Coker was hired to replace Rebney at Bellator. Coker allowed Alvarez an early release from his contract to sign with UFC.
In 2014, UFC reached an agreement with Reebok for them to be the exclusive sponsor of UFC fighter attire during competition and select promotional appearances. Fighters complained that they would lose money without their own sponsors. Others fighters liked the idea because it meant they would spend less time trying to find sponsors before they compete. When UFC cut-man Jacob 'Stitch' Duran said in an interview that the deal would cost him a lot of money because he could not have his own sponsors, White ended his employment with UFC.
White has been criticized for his actions when it comes to the press. Loretta Hunt and Josh Gross were prohibited from getting UFC press credentials after writing stories White did not like. In an online video, White went on a profanity-laced diatribe against Hunt and her story citing a source which claimed that managers had been banned by UFC. Ken Pavia turned out to the Hunt's source. Pavia had been an agent to many UFC fighters. Zuffa sued Pavia for theft of secrets, alleging he illegally shared confidential UFC documents with Bjorn Rebney, who was named as a co-defendant in the suit. A few weeks later Bellator sued Zuffa for putting Jonathan Brookins on the The Ultimate Fighter because they claimed he was under contract to them. Journalist Ariel Helwani reported that White had him escorted from the arena during UFC 199 and banned from receiving future UFC press credentials. White and company were upset that Helwani reported that Brock Lesnar would be returning to UFC, despite their request not to. White actions resulted in criticisms from some in the media and some fans. The ban was ended a few days later.
White's harsh comments and those of some UFC fighters have been used by Culinary Union Local 226 in its anti-MMA efforts in New York, a state which banned professional MMA in 1997. The Culinary Union wanted workers in Station Casinos operated by UFC's then majority owners, the Fertitta brothers, to be unionized. When that did not happen, the group worked against Zuffa's cause in New York. Zuffa for years spent many millions of dollars in political contributions and lobbying efforts for New York to legalize professional MMA. In November 2011, Zuffa took New York State to federal court in a case that was entirely dismissed in 2015. Months after the dismissal, Zuffa filed another lawsuit, but in early 2016 New York made professional MMA legal. On July 11, 2016, Lorenzo Fertitta confirmed months of reports that UFC had been sold. In a television interview, Fertitta said the majority of UFC would be owned by William Morris Endeavor-International Management Group (WME-IMG). WME-IMG reportedly outbid other companies with a $4 billion offer to Zuffa. The Fertitta brothers would become minority owners, while Dana White retained the title of President and his minority ownership.- Daniel Raymont is a chameleonic performer whose acutely observed impersonations have fooled just about everyone he's met. His work reflects his culturally schizophrenic background. Born in New York, and raised by his Texan mother and Germanic-Argentine father in Mexico and D.C. only to spend time in London, Maine, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York. He currently lives between New York & Mexico. His film works includes "Que Viva Mexico", "Welcome Al Norte", "Middleground", "Rough Night", "The Babymoon", "The Angriest Man in Brooklyn", "Lucky N#mber", "The Truth About Lies", "Instructions Not Included (No Se Aceptan Devoluciones)", "The Good Heart", "Second City's BuzzKill", and "Bride Wars." His TV work includes "El Capo", "Mosquito Coast", "40 y 20", "Natural Born Narcos", "Parientes a la Fuerza", "Run Coyote Run", "Bull", "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, "The Carrie Diaries", "Law & Order: SVU", "Smash", "The Naked Brother's Band", "Knight's of Prosperity", and New Amsterdam." Daniel's theatrical work includes his solo show "The Store" based on his 10 years at Neiman-Marcus, Beverly Hills. It's a seven characters in 30 minutes, hilarious tale of fashion, commerce and revolution spices with incomparable wit. The show is now being developed as a comedic television series. He has also appeared in countless TV commercials including Tidy Cats, Heineken, Jose Cuervo, and Burger King as the German/Dutch fashion designer, Ugoff.
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Daniela Mercury was born on 28 July 1965 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. She is an actress and composer, known for Mandacaru (1997), The King of the Cattle (1996) and Ways of the Heart (2007). She has been married to Malu Verçosa since 12 October 2013. She was previously married to Marco Scabia and Zalther Póvoas.- Actor
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Danny Mann was born on 28 July 1951 in Mobile, Alabama, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Babe (1995), Balto (1995) and Up (2009).- Producer
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Although younger brother Dwayne Hickman (born 1934) is probably the better-remembered sibling today with his cult following as TV's favorite lovestruck teenager Dobie Gillis and a few "Beach Party" films, it is Darryl Hickman who is certainly the more prolific brother in the movies. At one time, he was deemed one of Hollywood's most talented child stars of World War II and post-war film.
Hickman was born in Hollywood, California on July 28, 1931, to Milton Hickman, an insurance salesman, and his wife Katherine, a mother-turned-stage mother. Taking dance classes at age 3, Darryl's looks and talent were discovered by his dance school director who eventually had him placed with a child troupe at age 5 (Meglin School for Kiddies). Paramount Studios subsequently took notice and signed him to a contract, making his unbilled film debut as Ronald Colman's son in the classic adventure The Prisoner of Zenda (1937). The child then appeared briefly in a second Colman film, If I Were King (1938). Darryl would grow up within the studio system and on the studio sets. Fellow classmates would include such stars as Jackie Cooper.
Appearing in the Bing Crosby musical biopic The Star Maker (1939), Crosby took notice of young Darryl's promise and referred him to his talent agent brother Everett Crosby. Everett was impressed as well, and took Darryl under his wing. Placed in the Paramount films Untamed (1940) and The Way of All Flesh (1940), the boy was eventually featured in his most prominent role, that of young, impoverished Winfield Joad in the classic film The Grapes of Wrath (1940). MGM quickly showed interest and bought out the boy's Paramount contract.
A popular loan-out child player, Darryl appeared in a "poverty row" version of one of Jack London's more popular adventure stories Sign of the Wolf (1941); appeared in 12-year-old Shirley Temple's last film for Fox Young People (1940); showed up in Universal's Mob Town (1941) and another Fox film Young America (1942). While at MGM, Darryl found himself working with the studio's top echelon of stars including Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor and Mickey Rooney. Notable in-house roles included that of "Flip" in Men of Boys Town (1941), "Johnny Smith" in Joe Smith, American (1942), "(young) Blackie" in Northwest Rangers (1942); "Jeb" in the Tracy/Hepburn drama Keeper of the Flame (1942), "Etienne" in Assignment in Brittany (1943), and as young "Lionel" in the classic "Americana" film The Human Comedy (1943).
Darryl progressed from child to juvenile parts with equal skill. He was featured in the role of WWI flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker as a lad in the biopic Captain Eddie (1945) starring Fred MacMurray and also featuring brother Dwayne; played composer Ira as a teenager in the Gershwin story Rhapsody in Blue (1945); reunited with Shirley Temple in the "Corliss Archer" comedy Kiss and Tell (1945); played the ill-fated brother-in-law of evil Gene Tierney in the drama Leave Her to Heaven (1945); portrayed the younger version of Van Heflin in the film noir The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946); tangled with priest Pat O'Brien as a young troublemaker in the "Boy's Town"-like crime drama Fighting Father Dunne (1948); was upgraded to Shirley Temple's boyfriend in the light comedy A Kiss for Corliss (1949); played a prep school problem along with co-star Dean Stockwell in the comedy The Happy Years (1950) and a disturbed ranch caretaker along with equally disturbed older sister Mercedes McCambridge in the heavy meller Lightning Strikes Twice (1951).
Darryl attended the Immaculate Heart Grammar School in Los Angeles as well as the studio schools at Paramount and then MGM. In September of 1951, 20-year-old Darryl, who had grown unhappy and disenchanted with Hollywood and the studio system in its inability to protect child actors, abandoned his career and entered a monastery, the Passionist Seminary, with the intent on becoming a priest. Within a year, however, he left when he realized he was not cut out for a life in the priesthood.
Trying to regain his acting momentum proved admirable and challenging. He began on 50's TV with guest shots on such shows as "Sky King," "The Lone Ranger," "Annie Oakley," "Biff Baker, U.S.A., "Perry Mason," "Public Defenders," "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," "Wanted: Dead or Alive," "Gunsmoke," "The Millionaire" and several anthology programs. He also guested on brother Dwayne's popular "Dobie Gillis" TV show. On the film front, he found featured roles in Destination Gobi (1953), Island in the Sky (1953), Prisoner of War (1954), Tea and Sympathy (1956), The Persuader (1957) and The Tingler (1959).
By the early 1960's, as film and TV offers began to dry up, Darryl wisely moved behind the scenes. Starting out as a TV writer, he eventually became a program executive. In the 70's he briefly attempted TV producing. In later years he would also become a respected acting coach in the Los Angeles area. Never leaving acting altogether, he made 60's and 70's guest appearances on such shows as "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color," "Dr. Kildare," "Love, American Style," "All in the Family" and "Maude," before finding an "in" with an abundance of 80's animated voice work: Space Stars (1981), Pac-Man (1982), The Biskitts (1983), The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible (1985) and A Pup Named Scooby-Doo (1988). One of his last visible appearances was in a 1999 episode of "The Nanny."
Darryl married actress Pamela Lincoln, whom he first met on the film set of The Tingler (1959). They had one child, but divorced in 1982. He is married presently to production assistant Lynda Farmer Hickman.- David Viñas was born on 28 July 1929 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a writer, known for El jefe (1958), Cocaine Wars (1985) and Dar la cara (1962). He died on 10 March 2011 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Deborah Voorhees is the powerhouse her production company Voorhees Films, which has produced her most recent film is 13 Fanboy, which comes out October 22, 2021 in select theaters and on most major VOD, InDemand, and Pay-Per-View platforms. "The new film by director Deborah Voorhees follows the real-life cast of Friday the 13th and other horror icons as they are relentlessly stalked and gruesomely killed by a maniac who is obsessed with them and their films. This suspenseful shocker is loaded with old-school slasher film kills, gore and an intelligent and relevant story that delves into the psychology of stalking," writes Brian Steward, Fantasm Presents.
In 2015, Voorhees' screenplay Genevieve was an official selection of the Beverly Hills Film Festival. Her short film and music video Hip Hop Hamlet was an official selection of Kenneth Branagh's Shakespeare Film Festival, in Stratford-upon-Avon, England and played in 2016 at the Elsinore Shakespeare Conference in Denmark, as did her short film Othello: Good Night My Sweet. In 2014, Voorhees released her first full-length feature film Billy Shakespeare, which asks, What if William Shakespeare never existed until? Our Modern Bard is caught in a love triangle of confused sexuality, cross dressing, mistaken identity, and bedroom trysts. The film won the Bardie Award from The Shakespeare Standard. The quirky, off-beat film has been compared to the indie hit Waiting for Guffman and is now available on Amazon and IndieReign.com. Voorhees wrote, directed and produced the indie film, with her company Voorhees Films (VoorheesFilms.com).
The film has received many stellar reviews: "Billy Shakespeare" is a spicy little independent film by Deborah Voorhees that imagines what might happen if William Shakespeare tried to make it as a writer in today's Hollywood rather than Elizabethan England. Quirky characters, compromising situations, and the kind of deadpan humor that fans of Waiting For Guffman will recognize collide with hilarious moments of camp to create a madcap world in which young Billy just can't get a break," writes Ellen Dostal with Broadway World. "...hilarious campy romp," says film critic Robert Kirchgassner with The Examiner. "Billy Shakespeare...for any Shakespeare lover should not miss for the world," writes Germana Maciocci, Italian film and theater critic with The Shakespeare Standard. "No other Billy like it! He's out of the box!" writes Arje Shaw Broadway playwright and creator of The Sonnet Man Hip Hop Shakespeare Fusion "Jason D. Johnson's interpretation of the title role is a marvel of emotional complexity. The element of comedy is at once rambunctious and bittersweet," writes film critic Michael H. Price "Definitely a future cult movie like Rocky Horror Picture Show," Sharon Stewart, fan Voorhees has just completed editing a dark comedy she directed titled Catching Up, written by New York playwright Tom Sime, and sent it to her award-winning composer Tamer Ciray. The film is about a socialite who becomes morbidly fascinated with an ex-con's past.
Voorhees' career as a writer began in 1990 at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. As a 16-year veteran journalist (mostly with The Dallas Morning News), she has covered a variety of stories: a mother on death row for killing her abusive husband, a schizophrenic psyche patient at the Austin State Hospital (who's also a nationally known folk artist), the fall of communism through the eyes of a Russian immigrant, a profile on Texas rancher Nan West (she's good with a gun, but never goes into town unless she dons a dress), a horseback adventure through the Badlands of Mexico (she rode illegally across the border for that story), master African-American muralist John Biggers' journey through the white art world.
Besides shooting indie films and music videos, Voorhees also shoots live concerts and theatrical and dance stage productions. Before directing and writing screenplays, Voorhees worked in Hollywood as an actress for Paramount Pictures horror franchise Friday the 13th, Part V, CBS's nighttime drama Dallas, NBC's detective drama Riptide, the day-time soap Days of Our Lives and many others.
Voorhees has also taught Acting for Film at Eastern New Mexico University as well as British Literature and journalism in Texas and New Mexico. As a journalist, she has written and edited for The Dallas Morning News, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Front Desk magazine, Modern Luxury magazine, and The Shakespeare Standard. Learn more about Voorhees and her company at VoorheesFilms.com.- Actress
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Young was raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. She earned her BFA from Scripps College (in Claremont, California) and continued her acting at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in London. She began sculpting in 1977 at Scripps College, learning her craft under the tutelage of renowned sculptor Aldo Casanova. In Italy, she expanded her talents by working in Carrara marble with Italian artisans. In 2006, four of Dey's pieces were selected as Los Angeles County Museum's Special Projects and exhibited on the Art and Architecture Tour. This honor was again bestowed in 2012. In 2011, her work was selected by the National Sculpture Society to be featured online in their "LOVE" exhibition. On celluloid, she may be best-known for her roles in Pretty Woman (1990), Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979), Spaceballs (1987), Melrose Place (1992), and various Star Trek series, to name a few. She is a lifetime member of The Actor's Studio.- Producer
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Dick Ebersol was born on 28 July 1947 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Friday Night (1983), NBC Sunday Night Football (2006) and Beijing 2008: Games of the XXIX Olympiad (2008). He has been married to Susan Saint James since 21 November 1981. They have three children. He was previously married to Susan Stafford.- Dominic Jephcott was born on 28 July 1957 in Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Emmerdale Farm (1972), Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story (1987) and Paradise Postponed (1986).
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Elida Gay Palmer was born on 28 July 1934 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was a writer and actress, known for Delito (1962), El curandero (1955) and Barrio Gris (1954). She was married to Alberto D'Aversa and Nelson Luiz de Toledo Piza. She died on 16 April 1995 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.- Music Department
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Eliza Swenson is an American film actress born in Quincy, California to parents Terry (a law enforcement officer) and Penelope (an education professor and administrator). She was born on July 28, 1982, the sixth of seven siblings and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music Media and Sound Engineering from Brigham Young University. She was first known for her roles in horror films as well as the direct-to-video mockbusters produced by The Asylum before venturing on to produce, edit, co-write, and star in the theatrically released film Dorothy and the Witches of Oz (2011). The multi-talented Swenson brought her sense of humor and comedic stylings to the Nickelodeon television series Drake & Josh (2004). In addition to her acting ability, she has composed several film scores including the music from 'Dorothy and the Witches of Oz' available on iTunes. She writes for her Goth/Rock band The Divine Madness under the alias Victoria Mazze, whose music has found its way onto Showtime's The Tudors (2007) as well as the Japanese manga series Bizenghast.- Actress
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Elizabeth Berkley was born in Farmington Hills, Michigan, to Jere, a gift basket business owner and Fred Berkley, a lawyer. She has an older brother, Jason (b. 1969). Her family is Jewish. By five, she was taking tap and jazz classes with Barbara Fink and ballet classes at Detroit Dance Company. She danced "Swan Lake" with principals from the American Ballet Theatre and for five years she performed in the NYC Ballet's holiday production of "The Nutcracker" in Detroit. Roles in community theatre followed in such plays as "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown", "Gypsy" and "Eleemosynary". She placed as a finalist at the "Look of the Year" contest promoted by Elite Agency. At 13 she began modeling for Elite's New York division and that led to print work and TV commercials.
Her first on-screen job was a small part in Gimme a Break! (1981), followed by a leading role in the critically acclaimed short Platinum Blonde (1988) and a supporting part in the TV movie Frog (1988). In 1988 her family eventually relocated to California to let Elizabeth pursuing a career in Hollywood. After guest roles in series like TV 101 (1988) and Day by Day (1988), she landed a regular role in Saved by the Bell (1989). After four seasons and a TV movie, she left the show to try to break into features films. In 1994, after several roles in television and straight-to-video films, she booked the coveted role of Nomi Malone in Showgirls (1995). Unexpectedly, the much-anticipated film bombed at the box office and was destroyed by critics. After leaving CAA, she signed with United Talent Agency and began rebuilding her film career with some small roles in major films (The First Wives Club (1996) and Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday (1999)) and leading parts in quality indies (including Taxman (1998) and The Real Blonde (1997)).
In 1999 she played Lenny Bruce's wife in the acclaimed West End production of "Lenny", directed by Sir Peter Hall and starring Eddie Izzard. Her performance in Dylan Kidd's Roger Dodger (2002), released in 2002 after a successful festival tour, impressed the critics. The box-office hit "Sly Fox" marked her Broadway debut in 2004 but it was her performance in the Off-Broadway production "Hurlyburly" (directed by Scott Elliott and co-starring Ethan Hawke, Parker Posey and Wallace Shawn) that earned her the best reviews of her career and a public apology from The New York Times.
She appeared for several seasons in the hit series CSI: Miami (2002) as Julia Winston, and in the final season of Showtime's The L Word (2004). Thanks to television syndication of Saved by the Bell (1989), Elizabeth is a favorite among a whole new generation of teen girls. Elizabeth has been making life-changing connections with these girls over the past seven years through Ask Elizabeth, her not-for-profit organization that includes self-esteem workshops she facilitates as a volunteer in schools and for youth organizations, a thriving website (ask-elizabeth.com) that hosts digital content as a way to be of continued service to girls and, most recently, her book "Ask Elizabeth" (published by Penguin), which made The New York Times' best-seller list. This nationwide movement has affected the lives of over 100,000 girls and counting. She was also a featured contributor on Oprah.com, bridging the communication gap between mothers and daughters.
Berkley is married to artist Greg Lauren and the couple has one son, Sky Cole Lauren, born in 2012. She is 5'10", and she has been a vegetarian her entire life. She enjoys yoga, dancing and singing. She attended UCLA where she studied English Literature. Berkley is active in numerous outreach programs including dance classes for young teens and physically and mentally challenged youth; volunteer work with the elderly at the Motion Pictures Home for the Aging; Women's Cancer Research Fund, the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary and the Humane Society.- Actor
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Emiliano Ruschel won the Best Lead Actor Award at the LABRFF, Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival 2014, for the movie "Forever Nevermore". Emiliano began his work in the visual arts with only five years of age doing publicity, then began attending the school of fine arts at the age of 8. At age of 12 he was in his first play. Since then he's been in as many as 15 plays.
He appeared in more than 10 featured movies and in multiple Tv Series. Emiliano attended college and studied acting with excellent professionals, such as: Fátima Toledo (coach from "City of God), Margie Haber (coach of Brad Pitt, Hale Berry) Bernard Hiller, Robert Castle and Jon Korkes among others.
His work at the series "Lovely Psycho" and "More vs. Slum" was released at Multishow, produced by Carlos Diegues a Cannes nominated director. Emiliano also worked in the movie VIP's, directed by ToniKo Melo, with the actor Wagner Moura (Narcos) produced by Fernando Meirelles (City of God) Oscar nominee.
Emiliano latest film is "Maverick: Manhunt Brazil", where Ruschel acted and directed the movie. The film Won four awards including the Spot Light Award in the Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival and the Best Independent Film at the International Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro. The movie it's been distributed in more than 200 countries in all platforms including Amazon Prime.- Actress
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Emily Ricks Hahn was born on 28 July 2000 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Beautifully Broken (2018), Toy Story 3 (2010) and Camp Cool Kids (2017).- Actor
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Evan Farmer brings a diverse array of talents to TLC's While You Were Out (2002) as the host of the hit home design series. In addition to his music career and roles on screens large and small, Evan studied architecture at Tulane University and has worked as a draftsman and as a graphics designer at several firms. He also owns his own business (Renovolution) renovating single-family homes, and has a strong interest in carpentry and restoration. Evan's on-camera presence, combined with his education and real-life experiences, make him a perfect fit to host While You Were Out.
Evan is well known for his television role in which he portrayed heartthrob Jerry O'Keefe, in MTV's smash-hit and first ever Made-For-TV-Movie 2gether (2000). He also recorded lead vocals for the soundtrack and follow up album, which together went platinum worldwide. The success of the movie spawned a weekly MTV series of the same name, with Evan continuing in the lead role. Evan has also guest hosted MTV's Total Request Live (1998) for Carson Daly - the cable networks most-watched program.
The popularity of 2gether (2000) led Evan to an even bigger showcase for his talent performing as an opening act for Britney Spears during her 2000 "Oops I Did It Again" summer tour. Evan also previously toured with the hit Russian Pop-Rock group "Ha-Ha" (pronounced Na-Na), where he sang and played guitar in sold-out arenas throughout Russia.
Evan also has a film career and has acted in films such as Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) and Shaft (2000) starring Samuel L. Jackson.
Evan's small screen credits include guest-starring roles on the television series JAG (1995) and a recurring role on CBS's Guiding Light (1952). Evan also lent his voice talent to the popular animated comedy series Daria (1997), for three years.
Evan currently resides in New York City.- Frances Lee McCain was born on 28 July 1944 in York, Pennsylvania, USA. She is an actress, known for Back to the Future (1985), Gremlins (1984) and Footloose (1984).
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Francis Veber was born on 28 July 1937 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France. He is a writer and director, known for Le Dîner de Cons (1998), The Birdcage (1996) and Ruby & Quentin (2003). He has been married to Françoise Veber since 11 January 1964. They have two children.- Gabriel Pimentel was born on 28 July 1979 in San Fernando Valley, California, USA. He is an actor, known for The Master of Disguise (2002), Tropic Thunder (2008) and Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003).
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Geoffrey Moore was born on 28 July 1966 in London, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Hard Hunted (1992), Fit to Kill (1993) and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1973). He has been married to Loulou Moore since 1998. They have two children.- George Cisar was born on 28 July 1912 in Cicero, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959), The Ford Television Theatre (1952) and Dennis the Menace (1959). He died on 13 June 1979 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
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George Webster was born in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for The Doll Factory (2023), Wedding Season (2022) and Industry (2020).- Actress
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Georgia Engel was born on 28 July 1948 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. She was an actress, known for Everybody Loves Raymond (1996), The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970) and Open Season (2006). She died on 12 April 2019 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.- Actor
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Gerald Casale was born on 28 July 1948 in Ravenna, Ohio, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Tank Girl (1995), Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1995) and Casino (1995). He has been married to Krista Napp since 11 September 2015.- Gloria Montes was born on 28 July 1925 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was an actress, known for Los peores del barrio (1955), La gran ruta (1971) and El picnic de los Campanelli (1972). She was married to ???. She died on 18 December 2021 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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His career began with a bit part at Skansenteatern in Hjalmar Bergman's play 'Markurells i Wadköping' in 1955. The following year he debuted in the movie Swing it, fröken (1956) playing against Alice Babs. He got speech lessons from actress Sif Ruud and worked behind the camera in his father's and Ingmar Bergman's movies. He applied for acting studies at the Royal Dramatic Theatre but failed, but went on to act at Stockholms Stadsteater instead. He also met his first wife, Fatima Ekman whom he married in secret. During the 1960s and 1970s he made a lot of work together with 'Hasseåtage', Hans Alfredson and Tage Danielsson as well as many plays for Sveriges Television. For TV he created the chaplinesque figure 'Papphammar'. During the 1980s his fame grew even bigger with the successes in the movies about 'Jönssonligan', starting with Beware of the Jonsson Gang! (1981). He has also shown his talent both in dramas and criminal fiction, such as the movies about criminal inspector Martin Beck, for example in _Polis polis potatismos (1993)_.- Griselda Gambaro was born on 28 July 1928 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a writer, known for Homenaje a Teatro Abierto (2013), País cerrado, teatro abierto (1990) and La mandrágora (1997). He has been married to Juan Carlos Distéfano since 1955. They have two children.
- Hannah Lochner was born on 28 July 1993 in Ontario, Canada. She is an actress, known for Dawn of the Dead (2004), Firehouse Dog (2007) and Jack and Jill vs. the World (2008).
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Hugh Corcoran was born on 28 July 1947 in Santa Monica, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Manitou (1978), Opposing Force (1986) and Welcome Home, Johnny (1973). He has been married to Stefani Nervig since 25 September 1981. They have one child. He was previously married to Janice L Wright.- Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (28 July 1954 - 5 March 2013) was a Venezuelan politician who was president of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013, except for a brief period in 2002. Chávez was also leader of the Fifth Republic Movement political party from its foundation in 1997 until 2007, when it merged with several other parties to form the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), which he led until 2012.
- Jo In-Sung was born in July 28, 1981 in Seoul. He made his debut as a model. However, he started to have an acting career in 2000, however he received the public attention through the TV drama Piano alongside actor Go-Soo. He then starred in the 2003 romance movie The Classic. By 2004, he joined another TV-Series What Happened in Bali, alongside Ha Ji Won in which he won Baeksang Arts Awards for Best Actor in TV series. He's also famous for his high number for commercials for some brands. He did his mandatory military service from April 6 2009-May 4, 2011. One of his last works before serving was the Frozen Flower, in which he worked with the same director for A Dirty Carnival (2006). He made his comeback appearance in the television series That Winter, the Wind Blows, starring alongside Song Hye-Kyo. In 2016, he in a film alongside Jung Woo-Sung, which was directed by Han Jae-Rim.
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Born on July 28, 1976 as Jacoby Dakota Shaddix he has three sons Makaile, Jagger, and Brixton. Makaile Cielo Shaddix born March 24, 2002 at 3:34 am making him 11 almost 12 years old. Jagger Monroe Shaddix born September 13, 2004 making him 9 years old. Brixton Gabriel Shaddix born September 17, 2013 at 9:45 am making him six months old. Jacoby has been sober for over two years and recently was out with the organization run it forward which was started by Jason Harper. Jacoby's favorite football team is the San Francisco 49ers.- Jacqueline Lee Bouvier was born on July 28, 1929 in Southampton, New York, to Janet Norton (Lee) and John Vernou "Blackjack" Bouvier III, a stockbroker. Her sister Caroline Lee (aka Lee Radziwill) was born four years after her. Her mother was of Irish descent and her father had French, English, German, and Scottish ancestry.
Jackie lived in posh penthouse apartments in New York City until her parents divorced when she was about six. Several years later her mother married Hugh D. Auchincloss and Jackie became the stepsister of two brothers and a sister from Hugh's previous marriages. Soon there were another brother and sister as a result of the new marriage.
Jackie attended boarding schools and then Vassar. After two years, though, she got tired of schools and spent her junior year studying at the Sorbonne in Paris. When she got back to the US she did not want to go back to Vassar, so she enrolled in George Washington University in Washington, DC, graduating in 1951. She took a job at the CIA and in January of 1952 went to work at a Washington newspaper as a photographer. During an assignment, she met U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy, who was 12 years her senior. They were married on September 12, 1953. After having one stillborn daughter, Arabella Kennedy, along came Caroline Kennedy, on November 27, 1957. Their first son John Kennedy Jr., who was born on November 25, 1960. In 1961 John Kennedy became the 35th President of the US. Jackie spent the White House years doing her best to save the historical landmarks around Washington. In August of 1963 she went into labor with their fourth child, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, but sadly, he died shortly after birth. Jackie was not scheduled to go to Texas with her husband, but decided to go as a means of perhaps putting the death of Patrick behind them. She was sitting next to him in the open-air limousine on November 22, 1963, when JFK was assassinated.
In 1968 her brother-in-law, Robert F. Kennedy, was also assassinated. The combination of the death of two children and the murders of her husband and brother-in-law proved to be too much for her, and she came to the conclusion that she and her family could not live safely in the US any longer. On October 20, 1968, she married Greek shipping magnate, Aristotle Onassis. After he died in the mid-'70s she returned to New York and became a book editor. She dedicated the last 20 years of her life to her children, her grandchildren and her friend Maurice Tempelsman. In the early 1990s she found out she had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and died on May 19, 1994. Shortly after her death there was a sale of some of her prized possessions. Arnold Schwarzenegger spent more than a million dollars on some of the things to honor the aunt and uncle of his wife, Maria Shriver. - Actor
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Jacques D'Amboise was trained in the School of American Ballet before joining the New York City Ballet in 1950. He soon went on to become a principal dancer. For over 3 decades, he danced with NYCB. During that time, he also choreographed several ballets. In 1976, D'Amboise founded the National Dance Institute in New York City, teaching children how to dance. NDI has since expanded into other cities and internationally. D'Amboise's efforts with NDI were filmed in documentary form in 1982 -- winning the Academy Award. D'Amboise has four children -- his daughter, Charlotte d'Amboise, has appeared in films, and his son, Christopher d'Amboise, is an accomplished dancer.- Actor
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James is an American Albanian Actor/Director/Producer, born in Kosovo. His family arrived in the United States when he was two years old and he was raised in New York City. James started his career studying at the Stella Adler Conservatory under the tutelage of Elaine Stritch. He resides in New York City with his wife and two daughters.- Actor
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Jed Boeger Bernard is an American actor, originally from the Sacramento, California area based in Los Angeles. Bernard has appeared in dozens of films, television shows and stage productions, including "Clemency", Chinonye Chukwu's 2019 Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning death row drama. He plays the "Death Watch Officer" with scenes with Alfre Woodward, Aldis Hodge, Richard Schiff, and Michael O'Neil.
Bernard was born in Yuba City, California on July 28. He is of Italian, French, German and Swedish ancestry.
He grew up playing Basketball and soccer, and graduated from Gridley Union High School, located in Gridley, California. He has also lived in Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Zurich, Switzerland; and Guadalajara, Mexico before moving to Los Angeles.
Majored in Business Administration / Minor in Drama at California State University, Chico.
Jed Boeger Bernard began his acting career in typical fashion: performing in school productions and community theatre. He is also fluent in English, Spanish, Dutch and German.- Writer
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James Robert "Jim" Davis is a professional cartoonist, television writer, and television producer from Marion, Indiana. His main claim to fame has been the creation of the long-running comic strip "Garfield" (1978-), featuring a cantankerous cat and a memorable group of supporting characters. The strip has been adapted into three animated television series, 12 prime-time television specials, two theatrical films, and a number of video games. Davis also created the short-lived comic strip "U.S. Acres" (1986-1989), featuring a group of anthropomorphic barnyard animals. This strip was also adapted in animated form. It inspired a series of spin-off children's books.
In 1945, Davis was born in Marion, Indiana. The city is primarily known as the base for the Indiana Wesleyan University, the largest evangelical Christian university in the Midwestern United States. Davis parents' were farmers, named James William "Jim" Davis and Anna Catherine "Betty" Carter. Davis was primarily raised on a small cow farm, located in the vicinity of Fairmount, Indiana. Fairmount serves as a bedroom community for nearby Marion. Davis parents' primarily owned Aberdeen Angus cows, members of a Scottish breed of small beef cattle. The breed was first imported into the United States in 1873.
Davis received his secondary education at the Fairmount High School. He joined the staff of the school newspaper, "The Breeze". He eventually served as the newspaper's art editor. While working there, he created a comic strip about school life. He used the strip's characters to illustrate his senior yearbook.
Davis received his tertiary education at the Ball State University, a public research university located in Muncie, Indiana. He studied both art and business. Following his graduation graduation, he intended to become a professional newspaper cartoonist. In 1969, Davis was hired as an assistant by experienced cartoonist Tom K. Ryan (1926-2019). From 1969 to 1978, Davis worked as an assistant artist in the Western comedy strip "Tumbleweeds" (1965-2007). The comic strip's protagonist was the laconic cowboy Tumbleweeds, a man who was content to drift through life.
Davis aspired to create a comic strip of his own. His first effort was the strip "Gnorm Gnat" (1973-1975), published by the newspaper "The Pendleton Times" in Indiana. It featured anthropomorphic insects, with the main character Gnorm Gnat serving as a comedic straight man to his zanier supporting cast. Davis tried for years to sign a deal to have this comic strip syndicated nationwide. He kept facing rejection by various syndicates. He was told that he had a good art style, and a good sense for gags. But that readers would have trouble relating to insect characters. Davis decided to end this comic strip, and to start a replacement.
Davis decided to research other people's syndicated comic strips, trying to find out what made them popular. He noticed that there were numerous strips about animals, many of them featuring pet dogs. He realized that people related well to the idea of a pet animal, but figured that creating another comic strip about a dog would make his work unlikely to stand out. He realized that there were no comic strips about pet cats, so he decided to create a comic strip about a pet cat. Davis created the locally published comic strip "Jon" (1976-1978), featuring the relationship of a pet owner and his cat. He created the character Garfield for this comic strip. He based the character's personality on his own cantankerous grandfather, who was named James A. Garfield Davis.
In 1948, Davis signed a deal with United Feature Syndicate. They agreed to syndicate his comic strip for national distribution. He launched the revised comic strip "Garfield" on June 19, 1978. It was published in 41 newspapers, Davis' first work to have such a wide distribution. A Sunday version of the comic strip was launched June 25, 1978.
Davis gradually changed Garfield's design over the first years of the comic strip. By 1983, Garfield had become a bipedal animal. Garfield was far more successful than Davis had expected. By 1981, it was published in 850 newspapers and had accumulated over 15 million dollars in merchandise. David founded the company "Paws, Inc." (1981-) to handle the licensing rights to the comic strip and its characters. He started employing both artists (as assistants) and licensing administrators.
Davis signed a deal with producers Bill Melendez and Lee Mendelson for the creation of the first Garfield television special, "Here Comes Garfield" (1982). Both men had previously produced television specials for the comic strip "Peanuts". The director of the special was Phil Roman, while Davis himself handled the screenplay. The special reached an audience of about 50 million people, and was nominated for the "Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program". Based on this success, other 11 television specials were created between 1983 and 1991. All of them were nominated for Emmy Awards, and four of them won the Award.
Based on the success of Garfield in animation, Davis went to work on creating an animated television series about the character. He served as the producer of "Garfield and Friends" (1988-1994). Veteran comic book writer Mark Evanier was hired as the series' head writer. The series lasted for 7 seasons and 121 episodes. The series was considered quite successful, but its production cost kept rising. The network CBS eventually ended the series. Its end was one of a series of cost-cutting measures for the network, as CBS was facing financial problems in the mid-1990s. The series found further success in syndication.
In 1994, Davis (through Paws, Inc.) purchased all rights to the previously published Garfield comic strips from the United Feature Syndicate. Davis was the sole owner of the comic strip series from 1994 to 2019, while having the right to license reprints of the strip.
In the late 1990s, Davis stopped drawing the "Garfield" comic strip. He only provided rough sketches for subsequent comic strips, while the main artists for the strip were his long-term assistants Brett Koth and Gary Barker. Davis remained as the strip's main writer.
In 2000, Davis and his frequent collaborator Brett Koth launched a new comic strip, based on the toy character "Mr. Potato Head". The strip was not particularly successful, and ended in 2003. In 2002, "Garfield" became the world's most syndicated strip. It was published in 2,570 different newspapers across several countries, and had an estimated reading audience of 263 million people.
In 2006, Davis joined the faculty of the Ball State University as an adjunct professor. He lectured students "on the creative and business aspects of the comics industry". In 2011, Davis started drawing comics digitally through using a graphics tablet. He kept his older hand-painted "Garfield" strips in a climate-controlled safe, until he could figure what to do with his art archives. In 2019, he started selling parts of his archives at auctions.
In 2019, Davis sold Paws, Inc. to the media conglomerate Viacom. The rights to the "Garfield" comic strip and its global merchandising were transferred to Nickelodeon, one of Viacom's subsidiaries. As part of the deal, Davis would continue to supervise the production of the comic strip. The main offices of Paws Inc. were transferred from Muncie, Indiana to the skyscraper "One Astor Plaza" in New York City.
By 2022, Davis was 76-years-old. He continues supervising the production of the "Garfield" comic strip from his home in Indiana. He has spend most of his life in his home state, and seems to have no plans to move out or to retire. He has had two marriages, and has raised several of his own children and two step-children. While the comic strip market has declined in the 21st century, the popularity of Davis' cantankerous cat has never faded.- Actor
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Joe E. Brown happily claimed that he was the only youngster in show business who ran away from home to join the circus with the blessings of his parents. In 1902, the ten-year-old Brown joined a circus tumbling act called the Five Marvellous Ashtons that toured various circuses and vaudeville theaters. Joe later began adding comedy bits into his vaudeville act and added more as it became popular. In 1920 he debuted on Broadway in an all-star review called "Jim Jam Jems". As he developed skits and comedy routines throughout the 1920s, he built up his confidence and his popularity soared. The same could not be said for his debut in movies. Hired for a non-comedy role in The Circus Kid (1928), he played a lion tamer whose fate is death. He didn't register with the public until he signed with Warner Brothers in 1929 to do comedy roles in the film adaptations of Broadway shows such as Sally (1929) and Top Speed (1930). Joe would be well known for his loud yell, his infectious grin and his cavernous mouth. Since many of his films revolved around sports, his natural athletic ability, combined with the physical comedy, made them hits. In Local Boy Makes Good (1931), Joe played a botanist who becomes a track star. As he had briefly played semi-pro baseball, he was a natural for films like Fireman, Save My Child! (1932), in which he played a pitcher who was also a fireman. Two of his biggest hits also involved the game of baseball, Elmer, the Great (1933) and Alibi Ike (1935). In his contract with Warners, he had it written that he would have his own baseball team at the studio to play when he was able. Joe was one of the top ten moneymaking stars for 1933 and 1936. In 1937, he left Warners to make films for David L. Loew, and it was a disaster. Most of the films were cheaply made with poor production values, and only a few were successful. Two of the better ones were Riding on Air (1937) and The Gladiator (1938). Brown always called signing with Loew his biggest professional mistake, and with Loew his popularity fell. By the end of the 1930s he was working in "B" material, which would have been unimaginable less than five years earlier. With the advent of World War II, Joe worked tirelessly to entertain the troops while his film career floundered. Their enthusiastic response enabled Joe to overcome the death of his son, Captain Donald Brown, on a training flight. In 1947 Joe was back in the biz and back on stage in a road company tour of the comedy "Harvey". His first movie role in three years was as a small-town minister in the drama The Tender Years (1948). Even though he gave a good performance, it would be another three years before he was again on the big screen, in the big-budget 1951 remake of Show Boat (1951), in which he played Cap'n Andy Hawks. When his film career became almost nonexistent, Joe worked on radio and in television. He starred as the clown in the drama The Buick Circus Hour (1952) from 1952 to 1953 and made guest appearances on a number of other shows in the 1950s and early 1960s. His peers regarded him as one of the few truly nice people in Hollywood. After a few small movie roles in the 1950s, he was discovered by a new generation as the millionaire Osgood Fielding III in Billy Wilder's classic Some Like It Hot (1959), uttering the immortal last line of the film, "Well, nobody's perfect."- John Ashbery was born on 28 July 1927 in Rochester, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for The Forbidden Room (2015), How to Take a Bath (2009) and Lines of the Hand (2015). He was married to David Kermani. He died on 3 September 2017 in Hudson, New York, USA.
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John David Washington is an American actor, producer, and former professional football player. He played college football at Morehouse College and signed with the St. Louis Rams as an Undrafted free agent in 2006. Professionally, Washington spent four years as the running back for the United Football League's Sacramento Mountain Lions. Washington shifted to an acting career like his father, Denzel Washington, and mother, Pauletta. He was part of the main cast of the HBO comedy series Ballers (2015-2019). His breakthrough came playing Ron Stallworth in Spike Lee's 2018 crime film BlacKkKlansman, for which he received both Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. In 2020, he starred in Christopher Nolan's science fiction action-thriller film Tenet, for which he won the Saturn Award for Best Actor.- Director
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Jon McMurray was born on 28 July 1988 in Calgary, Canada. He was a director and actor, known for Jon James: The Life (2018) and Salad Days (2002). He died on 20 October 2018 in Westwold, British Columbia, Canada.- Actor
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Jonathan Gold was born on 28 July 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Hype! (1996), Documentary Now! (2015) and City of Gold (2015). He was married to Laurie Ochoa. He died on 21 July 2018 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Director
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José Solé was born on 28 July 1928 in Mexico City, Mexico. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Los caudillos (1968), De la tierra a la luna (1969) and El juicio de Martín Cortés (1974). He was married to María Teresa Calderón López. He died on 15 February 2017 in Mexico City, Mexico.- Juan Alberto Schiaffino was born on 28 July 1925 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He died on 13 November 2002.
- Juan Carlos de Seta was born on 28 July 1930 in Lanús, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was an actor, known for El tinglado de la risa (1970), Detective de señoras (1990) and Vivir con alegría (1979). He died in March 1990 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Yum Jung-ah was born on 28 July 1972 in Seoul, South Korea. She is an actress, known for A Tale of Two Sisters (2003), The Big Swindle (2004) and Cart (2014). She has been married to Il Heo since 30 December 2006. They have two children.- Kate Cook was born on 28 July 1983 in Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. She died on 3 March 2019 in Lowood, Queensland, Australia.
- Kristine Jepson was born on 28 July 1962 in Iowa, USA. She was an actress, known for The Metropolitan Opera Presents (1977), Wonders Are Many (2007) and Independent Lens (1999). She died on 21 April 2017 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Seemingly suave, cultivated actor by nature, definitely huge in both talent and girth, and capable of playing much older than he was, Hollywood of the early '40s tragically lost Laird Cregar before it could fully comprehend on how to best utilize his obvious gifts. He was born Samuel Laird Cregar in a well-to-do section of Philadelphia, eventually dropping his first name after forging an acting career. At age eight his parents sent him to England and enrolled him at the Winchester Academy. During his school's off time, his pique in acting escalated after being employed as a page boy with the Stratford-on-Avon Players. Thereafter, his mind was set to become a professional actor. Returning to the U.S., he attended Episcopal Academy in Philadelphia and the Douglas Adams School in Longport, New Jersey. Again, he found meager jobs, such as an usher, in order to stay close to the theater. Awarded a scholarship to the Pasadena Community Playhouse, he trained there for two years before going out on his own and finding minor work on the bi-coastal stage and finding minuscule parts in films.
Laird's break came of his own making. After witnessing Robert Morley's triumph in the title role of "Oscar Wilde" on Broadway, Laird set upon finding backing for his own version of the play. Debuting in Los Angeles and finding resounding success there as well as in San Francisco, film studios began competing for his services with Twentieth Century-Fox winning out. He made his feature debut opposite Paul Muni in Hudson's Bay (1940) in the boisterous role of a fur trapper and solidified his movie standing by appearing flamboyantly as a bullfighting critic at odds with Tyrone Power's matador in the popular Technicolor classic Blood and Sand (1941). He then went on to show a scene-stealing prowess for stylish farce as one of Jack Benny "suitors" in the drag comedy Charley's Aunt (1941).
By the time Laird cut a mean, sinister path in I Wake Up Screaming (1941), playing a detective so insanely hung up on a murdered girl (Carole Landis) that he deliberately frames an innocent man (Victor Mature) for her crime, it was obvious films could rely on him for any of their comedic or dramatic ventures. There seemed nothing he couldn't do, but it was obvious audiences loved him as the 300 lb. man you love to hate - goaded on by his nefarious doings in the film noir classic This Gun for Hire (1942) starring Alan Ladd and Rings on Her Fingers (1942) with Gene Tierney.
On the Los Angeles theater front he gave Monty Woolley a run for the money in Woolley's signature stage role of Sheridan Whiteside in "The Man Who Came to Dinner". Along with the good came some contrived roles in a few mediocre films ranging from training officers to hammy-styled pirates. Even so, he usually stood out among the other actors in some fashion. He even played the Devil himself in the exquisitely humor-laced Ernst Lubitsch comedy Heaven Can Wait (1943).
His film career was capped by his definitive Jack the Ripper in The Lodger (1944). Investing the psychotic role with an intense, gripping realism and off-putting, oily charm, he led a brilliantly seasoned cast and relished a death scene in the film (in truth, the real-life serial killer was never caught) that dared to forever stereotype him as a Sydney Greenstreet-like villain. Unfortunately, his early death robbed film audiences of seeing what course Laird's career would have taken. Sure enough, his last celluloid offering in Hangover Square (1945) was as another despicable character with murder on its maniacal mind. Top-lining a cast that included Linda Darnell (as an object of his affection), and George Sanders, he this time portrayed a temperamental composer who suffers from a split personality disorder and, prone to periodic blackouts, commits brutal murders. Another compelling death scene had his mad character wildly pounding out a concerto while the room around him goes up in flames and the ceiling crashes down on him.
Laird's obsession with avoiding the inevitable stereotype as a "heavy heavy" and wistful pursuit of a romantic leading man career compelled him to go on a reckless, unsupervised crash diet (from 300 lbs to 200 lbs), which is evident by his drastically trimmed-down look in his last film. This proved too strenuous on his system and he was forced to undergo surgery for a severe stomach disorder. His 30-year-old heart gave out on the morning of December 9, 1944, only days after his operation. He was survived by his mother.- Actor
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Gray was known in the film business as a dependable "player" and to the public as a doting son. Throughout his Hollywood career he lived with his parents or his mother until his marriage in 1935. Built the home he shared with his parents, Henry and Mamie Gray. Henry died in 1932, Larry continued to share a home with his mother until Dolores Del Rio introduced him to Maria Luisa Figueroa and a "romance blossomed into an engagement." (Los Angeles Times. August 8, 1935)- Actress
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Born in Madrid to a British mother and 'Gaditano' father, Leonor's first years were driven by her desire to become a ballerina. When she was eight years old she began studying classical ballet, but her dreams were cut short by an injury to her knee. This led her to change into the field of acting where she took her first steps in amateur theatre in various cultural centres. In1993, her first break in cinema arrived with Pablo Llorca's 'Jardin colgantes.' After this, Leonor moved to London to train at the Actor's Centre, taking advantage of the fact that she is a native English speaker. On her return to Spain, and after performances in various television series, Leonor consolidated her place in the film industry by gaining a Goya nomination for Best Actress in Antonio Mercero's 'La hora de la valientes'(1998). She would go on to work alongside Cayetana Guillén Cuervo in the series, 'Raquel busca su sitio' and would take the lead role in Bigas Luna's 'Son de Mar'(2001). In 2002,she featured in Daniel Fejerman and Inés París' comedy, 'A mi madre le gustan las mujeres', with a leading role that saw her nominated again for a Goya Award. For this same part she was awarded the Fotogramas de Plata for Best Actress. In the same year, Pedro Almodóvar released 'Hable con ella,' a film that contributed to her growing prestige and in which she took the part of a ballerina in a coma. Later she would star in numerous films, including Isabel Coixet's 'Mividasinmi,' Cesc Gay's 'Enlaciudad', Patrick Alessadrin's French comedy, 'Mauvais esprit', Joaquín Oristrell's 'Inconscientes', Manuel Huerga's 'Salvador', Glenio Bonder's 'Belle du seigneur', Alex de la Iglesias' 'The Oxford Murders', and Alessandro Baricco's 'Lezione 21'(2007). In parallel to her film career, Leonor Watling has also had success as a singer and songwriter for the group Marlango, with whom she has released five albums: Marlango (2004), Automatic Imperfection(2005), The Electrical Morning (2007), Life in theTreehouse (2010),and Undia extraordinario (2012). Between 2008 and 2012,the actress films Andrucha Waddington's 'Lope', 'Lo mejor de Eva' directed by Mariano Barroso and Joan Carr-Wiggin's 'If I were you.' In 2013, she repeats shooting with Cesc Gay in the movie 'Una pistola en cada mano.' Her latest films have been 'The Food Guide to Love' by Dominic Harari, and Isabel Coixet's 'Another me'. In 2014, she shoots in Malta, 'Clavius,' together with Joseph Fiennes and Tom Felton. In 2016, Leonor stars in the Antena 3 series 'Pulsaciones 'with Pablo Derqui. She also performs in the film 'Muse' by Jaume Balagueró. In 2018,she joins the Telecinco serie 'Vivir sin permiso,'starring José Coronado and Álex González- Actress
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Linda Kelsey was born on 28 July 1946 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. She is an actress, known for Lou Grant (1977), A Family Torn Apart (1993) and Day by Day (1988). She has been married to Glenn Nellist Strand since 20 May 1979. They have two children. She was previously married to Bill Grivna.- Lindsay Kay Hayward was born on 28 July 1987 in Walnut Creek, California, USA. She is an actress, known for WWE NXT (2010), Gimme My Money and Grey's Anatomy (2005).
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Diminutive Irish-Italian Lisa Gastoni began her acting career in Britain after her family settled there in 1948. Though she had initially wanted to be an architect, she changed her mind and became a model and then an actress, making her debut screen appearance in 1954. She appeared mostly in B-movies, at one time under contract to British Lion. Her first featured role of note was in the naval farce The Baby and the Battleship (1956), followed by a few leads in comedies like Three Men in a Boat (1956) and Second Fiddle (1957), or crime thrillers like Menace in the Night (1957), Thunder Over Tangier (1957) and Prescription for Murder (1958). She also guest starred in two episodes of ITV's Danger Man (1960). She was briefly married in the mid-50s to a physics professor.
In 1961, Gastoni returned to Italy, following a second marriage to a Greek actor. She was immediately elevated to higher profile roles, beginning with that of legendary pirate Mary Read in the swashbuckling adventure Queen of the Seas (1961). She also paid her inevitable ornamental dues in a handful of sword-and-sandal spectacles. However, by the middle of the decade, Gastoni began to shed her 'good girl' image to parlay her prominence into a series of effective villainous portrayals: the nefarious Milady de Winter in I quattro moschettieri (1964), Lucrezia Borgia in L'uomo che ride (1966) and the wife of gangster Luciano Luttring ("the machine gun soloist") in Carlo Lizzani's Wake Up and Die (1966). This role won her a Best Actress Silver Ribbon, followed in 1968 with a Golden Plate at the David di Donatello Awards (the Italian equivalent of the Oscars) for her performance in the morbidly perverse drama Come Play with Me (1968).
In the 70s, Gastoni had yet more critical success playing seductive or sexually frustrated middle-class women in avant garde productions like Amore amaro (1974) (the story of two lovers separated by age, social background and irreconcilable political ideologies) and the morally ambiguous drama Submission (1976). She also played Benito Mussolini's mistress, Claretta Petacci, in The Last 4 Days (1974). Less well received (despite a famous score by Ennio Morricone) was the excessively arty erotic fantasy Maddalena (1971), a curious and belated foray into psychedelics.
Gastoni absented herself from the screen between 1979 and 2005 to pursue other muses (painting and writing). A more recent performance in the drama Sacred Heart (2005) won her a Best Supporting Actress nomination at the David di Donatello Awards.- Actress
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Lori Loughlin was born on 28 July 1964 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Summerland (2004), When Calls the Heart (2014) and Full House (1987). She has been married to Mossimo Giannulli since 27 November 1997. They have two children. She was previously married to Michael Burns.- Producer
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He was born in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Barbareschi grew up in Milan with his father Francesco Saverio Barbareschi, who was an engineer and entrepreneur with a partisan past (battle name Luca and white partisan in the Passerini brigade in Varese) and his mother Maria Antonietta Hirsch, an economist of Jewish origin.
He was married to Patrizia Fachini. He is father of Eleonora , Angelica and Beatrice.
Subsequently during 90' he was the partner of the actress Lucrezia Lante Della Rovere for seven years.
He is married with Elena Monorchio, daughter of the former state accountant general Andrea, with whom he had two children: Maddalena and Francesco Saverio.
In the 2008, he became Member of the Italian Parliament. Member of the Italian Parliament.- Luis Aragonés was born on 28 July 1938 in Hortaleza [now in Madrid], Madrid, Spain. He died on 1 February 2014 in Fuencarral-El Pardo, Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
- Mabel Manzotti was born on 28 July 1938 in La Violetta, Pergamino, Argentina. She was an actress, known for Vidas robadas (2008), Vamos a soñar por el amor (1971) and Blum (1970). She died on 25 January 2012 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Madison Carabello was born on 28 July 2002. She is an actress, known for Medium (2005) and Pretty Little Liars (2010).
- Maisie Dee was born on 28 July 1985 in Manchester, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Game of Thrones (2011) and Extreme Raheem (2021).
- Manu Ginóbili was born on 28 July 1977 in Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is an actor, known for The Equalizer 2 Promo (2018), The NBA on TNT (1988) and León, reflejos de una pasión (2015). He has been married to Marianela Orono since 11 July 2004. They have three children.
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Marcin Kowalczyk was born on 28 July 1987 in Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland. He is an actor, known for You Are God (2012), Alpha (2018) and How I Became a Gangster (2019).- Mark Vandebrake was born on 28 July 1980 in Granite Falls, Minnesota, USA. He is an actor, known for Willow (1988).
- In 1999 Maksim graduated from high school - 2. V. Tikhonov in Saratov with a silver medal. Back in school years thought of admission to medical school, but by the end of the school changed his mind and decided to enter the Faculty of Law, Volga Region Academy of Public Service. P. Stolypin. But the case led him to the theater department. District Ball medalists led Vladimir Smirnov, a student of V. Ermakova. The evening held a variety of games and competitions and Smirnov noticed Maksim, Valentina gave the phone and urged to try forces in the theater department. Maksim gave the entrance examination once in two universities: the Academy of Civil Service and in the theater department of the Saratov Conservatory. As a result, he was accepted to study at the theater, and at once on the second year.
His first major role was Nijinsky in the graduation performance "Clown of God."
In 2002, Maksim Matveyev graduated from the theater department of the Saratov State Conservatory. Sobinov (V. Ermakova course). In 2006 - Moscow Art Theatre School (course of I. Zolotovitsky and S. Zemtsov). At the end of the school-studio he was accepted into the troupe of Moscow Art Theatre. Anton Chekhov, where he made his debut in the play "The Piemonte Beast", playing the role of a knight there Zhofreya. He has an extensive list of leading roles on the Moscow Art Theatre stage: The Drunks - Laurence; The Last Sacrifice - Dulchin; The Karamazovs - Perkhotin, Miusov, Expert, Professor, Pathologist; An Ideal Husband. A Comedy - actor
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Michael Hitchcock was born in Defiance, Ohio and later raised in Western Springs, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. He attributes many of his offbeat characters on his midwestern upbringing. Hitchcock received his Bachelor of Science degree from Northwestern University's School of Speech and a Master of Fine Arts degree from U.C.L.A.'s film school. Hitchcock is an alumnus of the Los Angeles comedy and improvisational troupe "The Groundlings."