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Mr. Harelik, a native Texan, grew up in the only Jewish family in the small town of Hamilton in central Texas, where his two biographical plays, The Immigrant and The Legacy, take place.
With Randal Myler, he co-wrote Hank Williams: Lost Highway, a biographical musical about the life of the country singer Hank Williams.
The Immigrant, The Musical, is based upon his play.- Actor
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LeVar Burton was born on 16 February 1957 in Landstuhl, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. He is an actor and director, known for Star Trek: Generations (1994), Star Trek: First Contact (1996) and Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987). He has been married to Stephanie Cozart Burton since 3 October 1992. They have one child.- Actor
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George Takei was born Hosato Takei in Los Angeles, California. His mother was born in Sacramento to Japanese parents & his father was born in Japan. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, he & his family were relocated from Los Angeles to the Rohwer Relocation Center in Arkansas. Later, they were moved to a camp at Tule Lake in Northern California. His first-hand knowledge of the unjust internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans in World War II, poignantly chronicled in his autobiography, created a lifelong interest in politics & community affairs.
After graduating from Los Angeles High School in 1956, he studied architecture at UC Berkeley. An ad in a Japanese community paper led to a summer job on the MGM lot where he dubbed 8 characters from Japanese into English for Rodan (1956). Bitten by the acting bug, he transferred to UCLA as a theater arts major. Contacting an agent he had met at MGM led to his appearance as an embittered soldier in postwar Japan in the Playhouse 90 (1956) production. Being spotted in a UCLA theater production by a Warner Bros. casting director led to his feature film debut in Ice Palace (1960), various roles in Hawaiian Eye (1959) &other feature work. In June 1960, he completed his degree at UCLA and studied at the Shakespeare Institute at Stratford-Upon-Avon in England that summer.
After starting a master's degree program at UCLA, he was cast in the socially relevant stage musical production Fly Blackbird! but was replaced when the show moved to New York. He took odd jobs until returning to his role at the end of the run. Getting little work in Manhattan, he returned to Los Angeles to continue his studies, once again appearing in TV & films. He earned his master's in 1964. Wanting a multi-racial crew, Gene Roddenberry cast him in Where No Man Has Gone Before, the second Star Trek (1966) pilot. Mr. Sulu remained a regular character when the series went into production. In the hiatus after the end of shooting the first season, he worked on The Green Berets (1968), playing a South Vietnamese Special Forces officer.
After Star Trek (1966) was canceled, he did guest stints in several TV shows, voiced Sulu for the animated Star Trek series & regularly appeared at Star Trek conventions. He also produced & hosted a public affairs show Expression East/West, which aired in Los Angeles from 1971-1973. That year, he ran for the L.A. City Council. Although he lost by a small margin, Mayor Tom Bradley appointed him to the board of directors of the Southern California Rapid Transit District, where he served until 1984 & contributed to plans for the subway. During this period, he co-wrote a sci-fi novel Mirror Friend, Mirror Foe. He campaigned to get more respect for his character in the Star Trek features, resulting in Sulu finally obtaining the rank of captain in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), a role reprised in the Star Trek: Voyager (1995) episode Flashback.
He has run several marathons and was in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Torch Relay. He received a star on Hollywood Boulevard's Walk of Fame in 1986. He also left his signature & hand print in cement at the Chinese Theater in 1991. His 1994 autobiography, To the Stars, was well-received. He remains active as a stage, TV & film actor as well as as an advocate for the interests of Japanese Americans.- Actor
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The youngest of four siblings, Brian George was born in Jerusalem to Jewish parents in July 1952. Both of his parents had immigrated to Israel from India. His father was born in Iraq but raised in Bombay and his mother was born and raised in India. When Brian was a year old, the family immigrated to London. Brian attended an all-boys school in London. In 1966, the family moved to Toronto and he attended public high school, followed by the University of Toronto, where he became involved in theater. George left before graduation and formed an unsuccessful theater group. He joined The Second City, where he trained with comedy greats including John Candy, among others. His career in acting and voice-over work has flourished ever since.- Actor
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From February 2014 Dakin is taking on the iconic role of Mickey, the grizzled no-mercy trainer in ROCKY, THE MUSICAL at Broadway's Winter Gardens Theatre. This role was originally played by veteran screen actor Burgess Meredith in the original 1976 movie and he received an Academy award nomination for his achievement.- Actress
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Iris Bahr was born in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. Iris is an actor and writer, known for Hacks (2021), Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000) and Svetlana (2010).- Actor
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Paul Willson was born on 25 December 1945 in Fairmont, Minnesota, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Office Space (1999), Barstow 2008 (2001) and The Goodbye Girl (1977).- Christopher Neiman was born on 28 June 1966 in the USA. He is an actor, known for American Horror Story (2011), The Longest Yard (2005) and Ally McBeal (1997).
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Born in Detroit, Michigan. Prady began working in entertainment in 1982 at 'Jim Henson' Productions (then "Henson Associates") in New York. Prady worked on a variety of projects there, including writing for the "Jim Henson Hour" and writing "MuppetVision 3-D." the 3-D Muppet Movie that appears at Walt Disney World in Florida. In addition to his work with the Muppets, Prady has written a number of television specials including the "Presidential Inaugral Celebration for Children, " for which he won a CableAce Award, and "Miss Piggy's Hollywood, " for which he received a WGA award nomination. Prady co-wrote "The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson", for which he received an Emmy nomination and a WGA award. He was a co-producer and writer for the series "Dream On" on HBO. Among his other sitcom credits are The Cosby Show (1984) and Married... with Children (1987). He served as producer and consulting producer on the NBC series Caroline in the City (1995) served as co-executive producer on the ABC series Dharma & Greg (1997). At present he is writing and co-executive producing The Big Bang Theory (2007) which he also co-created.- Actor
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Jeff Witzke was born in Michigan, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Money Monster (2016), Labor Day (2013) and Thank You for Smoking (2005).- Music Department
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Being the son of a violinist Vivaldi started playing the violin himself early in his life. In 1703 he became priest and in 1716 the director of a conservatory of the church in Venice. Being a famous violinist he gave concerts all over Europe also composing a lot of violin concerts and other string works. There is not much information about his life only that he died in poverty in Vienna.- Composer
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Harry Warren was born on 24 December 1893 in Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for The Shape of Water (2017), An Affair to Remember (1957) and Sphere (1998). He was married to Josephine Wensler. He died on 22 September 1981 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Music Department
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Johann Strauss (or Johann Strauss son), one of Austrian music's most famous names who studied music secretly against his father's will, later became the leader of his father's band and the indisputable "waltz king"; his waltz 'On the Beautiful Blue Danube', is the main theme in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
He was born Johann Sebastian Strauss on October 25, 1825, in Vienna, Austria. His father was the composer Johann Strauss Sr. Young Johann Strauss studied music secretly with his father's first violinist in the Strauss orchestra. He was reprimanded by his father who wanted him to be a banker. He continued studies of counterpoint, harmony, and violin, and concentrated fully on a career as a composer at the age of 17, when his father left the family.
Young Strauss made his debut at the Dommayer's Casino in Hietzing, the upscale district of Vienna. He became the rival of his father and gained popularity performing with his own orchestra. He took the side of revolutionaries when Vienna was racked up by the bourgeois revolution of 1848. He publicly played La Marseillaise and was hauled up by the Viennese authorities. That caused him denial of position of the Hofballmusikdirektor (Royal Ball Music Director). His career continued after the death of his father in 1849, which allowed the merger of two Strauss orchestras under the baton of Johann Strauss.
Strauss took his united orchestra on extensive tours in Austria, Germany, Poland, Italy, France, and Britain. Russian Tsar Alexander II commissioned Strauss to play at Pavlovsk, the royal suburb of St. Peterburg. There was the opening of a new railway and a landmark concert hall for Russian aristocracy. Strauss also accepted commissions to play for the Grand Prince Michael in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 1853, when the commissions became too much to be handled, his mother persuaded younger brother Joseph to take over the helm of the Strauss Orchestra. Strauss eventually toured and concertized to an exhaustion and was confined to a sanatorium to recuperate as he was suffering from neuralgia. He was married three times and had complications with the Catholic Church which refused to grant him a divorce. Strauss had to change his religion and nationality in order to get married to the woman he loved; he became a citizen of German Duchy of Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha. After that he became free to marry his third wife Adele, who encouraged his creative talent in his later years.
Johann Strauss was the most sought after composer of dance music in the second half of the 19th Century. His influence is felt in the music of the operetta maestro Franz Lehár and other composers. Among his admirers were Richard Wagner, Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss and other prominent composers. Strauss wrote Die Fledermaus (The Bat), Der Zigeunerbaron (The Gypsy Baron), Wiener Blut (The Viennese Blood), and other popular operettas. His exquisite waltzes: The Blue Danube, Tales from the Vienna Wood, Man only Lives Once, On the Beautiful Blue Danube, and many other waltzes made Johann Strauss the indisputable "waltz king" of the 19th century. He died of pneumonia on June 3, 1899, in Vienna, and was laid to rest in the cemetery of Zentralfriedhof in Vienna, Austria.- Make-Up Department
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Margie Kaklamanos is known for Planet of the Apes (2001), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and Allegiant (2016).- Actor
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Noël De Souza grew up in Secunderbad in what is today the southern Indian state of Telangana. As a youth, he aspired to become a writer, first by submitting articles to his local newspaper and later writing reviews of Indian films. He entered the U.S. in 1948 to attend the University of California, Berkeley. While studying for a degree in architecture, he was hired by the Indian publication Cine Blitz to write about Hollywood, an activity he continued subsequently for the Times of India. Finding work hard to come by, he briefly returned the country of his birth to take up a managerial position with a paint company. Finding this job instantly distasteful, De Souza found himself back in the U.S. in 1955, determined to forge a career in Hollywood.
He began in show biz by taking an acting course at the Pasadena Playhouse. After Sabu, he became one of just two actors from India to have 'made it' in the film capital at this time, following his screen debut as a Mexican in an episode of The Loretta Young Show (1953). Often typecast in exotic ethnic roles, he later declared: "So I usually ended up playing Mexicans or Italians.Talk about diversity! I'd have to change my parentage for every role." Nonetheless, De Souza had no trouble making himself known in show biz, due to long-standing friendships with American producer Stanley Rubin and French director Serge Bourguignon who helped him to meet "nearly every actor, actress and director in Hollywood". De Souza played supporting roles of diverse ethnicity in several movies. More often, he appeared as clerks, porters, chauffeurs, officers or doctors in such popular TV shows as The Outer Limits (1963), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964), Mission: Impossible (1966) to Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974) and Star Trek: Voyager (1995) (as a holodeck simulation of Mahatma Gandhi.
In addition to acting, De Souza has continued to work as a freelance journalist and occasional interviewer of people associated with the film industry (including actors like George Clooney and Christian Bale). He was associated for some years with the Golden Globe Awards, maintaining an affiliation with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and The Dick Clark Company, who, in collaboration, produce the prestigious Golden Globe Awards show. In 2016, he was nominated for an International Cinematographers Guild (ICG) Publicist Media Award.- Camera and Electrical Department
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George Santo Pietro is known for The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Interstellar (2014) and Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire (2023). He has been married to Melissa Mascari since 8 October 2005.- Actress
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Linda Harcharic is known for A Dangerous Woman (1993), The Kennedy Assassinations (1992) and Florence Henderson's Looking Great, Feeling Great (1990).- Art Department
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