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- Emile Gaboriau has been described both as the father of the detective novel and the Edgar Allan Poe of France. His fictional detective, Monsieur Lecoq, is thought to have been based on the "Mémoires" (1828-29) of Eugène-François Vidocq, a reformed petty criminal who helped establish the Police de Sûreté in Paris. Lecoq is considered a precursor of Sherlock Holmes. Gaboriau wrote 21 novels altogether.
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Mexican filmmaker, he studied at the International Film and Television School (EICTV) in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, specializing in Direction of Photography.
With extensive experience in film, television and new media, he has worked in various fields of film and audiovisual work as a director, producer and cinematographer. Collaborating with several TV channels, production houses and national and international news agencies such as Canal Once, Notimex, Sony, MTV, AJ+, Cmedia Films, Faro Aragón among others.
His second fiction short film as director "Under the last roof" produced by the IMCINE, obtained several international awards, such as the Audience and Jury Awards for best short film, at the Sardinia Queer Short Film Festival in Italy and has been presented in multiple national and international festivals.
His last short film "Atonement" was premiered and was Official Selection at the Morelia International Film Festival, the Havana International Film Festival and the International Film Festival in Central America Icaro, in 2020. Also obtained the Jury's Special Mention at the Primavera Film Festival Barcelona 2021.- Actor
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Álex Maruny is one of Spain's most promising actors. In 2010, he shot his first film, Tres metros sobre el cielo, by Fernando González Molina. One year later, he worked with Ventura Pons in Any de gracia and in 2012 with Javier Ruiz Caldera in Promoción fantasma. In 2014 Álex premiered Perdona si te llamo amor, directed by Joaquín Llamas. This same year, he was highlighted as 'one to watch' of his generation of actors by El Pais' men's magazine ICON, a notion that was re-validated with the success of his following film El club de los incomprendidos by Carlos Sedes. For this leading role, he was nominated Best Actor at Neox Fan Awards in October 2015. Next up Álex will premiere the film Barcelona, Nit D'hivern directed by Dani de la Orden in December and in 2016 the international film Risen directed by Kevin Reynolds and starring Joseph Fiennes. In television, Álex Maruny has worked on various successful series such as Seis hermanas, El barco, Luna, el misterio de Calenda and Pulseras rojas. Steven Spielberg later adapted Pulsera Rojas (The Red Band Society) for the US channel Fox. Alex speaks English fluently, as well as Catalan and Spanish, and has studied acting with Lorena Garcia, Laura Joy and Isaac Alcayde at various studios and schools.- Sexy and feline actress-singer-dancer, very popular in Argentina as "vedette" during the sixties and seventies. Since the late sixties she lived for a short time in Mexico, where she made some movies. Married then divorced actor Daniel Guerrero.
- Adopted by strict Methodist parents as a child, Georgia Sothern was discovered via a beauty pageant and became a burlesque artist in 1935. Her specialties were a 20-minute dance with two boa constrictors, "Elmer" and "Oscar", and her "Dance of the Wandering Hands". It was only in 1954 that she stopped stripping, to run a number of different nightclubs in the New York and Miami areas. Although she taught younger girls routines, she refused to divulge the secrets of her famous snake dance. She appeared intermittently in films throughout her career. In 1974 she retired to Florida, where she bred Persian cats.
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Zoie Palmer is an English-Canadian actress, born in Calne, Wiltshire, England, to parents of Irish and British descent. She earned her B.F.A. at York University in Toronto, Canada, in 2001; and has since been featured in a variety of film and television projects, including the critically acclaimed The Reagans (2003) as Patti Reagan and Out of the Ashes (2003) as Didi Goldstein; and starred as Abby in Devil's Perch (2005). Palmer has guest-starred in several television series, such as The CW action drama Nikita (2010) in the episode "Girl's Best Friend" as Anya Vimer; in the HBO Canada comedy Call Me Fitz (2010) episode "Don of Differently Abled" as Laura (2011); and the CTV crime drama The Listener (2009) episode "The Shooting" as Staff Sgt. McCoy (2012). She had a recurring role in the popular CTV music drama Instant Star (2004) as rock singer Patsy Sewer (2006-2007); was a co-lead in the Global drama The Guard (2008) as Carly Greig; and starred as Dr. Lauren Lewis in the groundbreaking Showcase supernatural drama Lost Girl (2010). Zoie played the main role of The Android in the science fiction series Dark Matter (2015). Film work includes the award winning short Terminal Venus (2003) as Annabelle; horror thriller Devil (2010) as Cheryl; crime thriller Cold Blooded (2012) as officer Frances Jane; comedy Sex After Kids (2013) as Lou; and the fantasy adventure Patch Town (2014) as Bethany. In 2011, Zoie Palmer was nominated for "Outstanding Performance - Female" by ACTRA for her performance as Haley in The Untitled Work of Paul Shepard (2010). She was awarded "Best Actor" for "Terminal Venus" at the 2004 Baja Film Festival (Mexico), and the "Gold Medallion Acting Award for Best Actress in a Feature Film" for "Cold Blooded" by the 2012 BareBones International Film Festival (US). In 2014, Palmer received the "Fan Choice Award for Favourite Canadian Screen Star" by the Canadian Screen Awards.- Zoë Foulks is a Los Angeles based actor known for All Day and a Night (2020), Girl in Red: I'll Call You Mine (2021), Starting Over (2022), The Gifted Ones (2018), When We Were Young and Unafraid (2019), The Cyber Project (2017), My Monster and I (2023), The Crossing Shore (2020)
- Poet, playwright, novelist and screenwriter Zoë Akins was born on the day before Halloween in 1886 in Humansville, Missouri. She was home-schooled before attending the Monticello Seminary in Godfrey, Illinois, and Hosmer Hall in St. Louis for her education. Akins lived in St. Louis for many years, writing poetry and contributing criticism to the magazine "Reedy's Mirror". As a writer she developed into a successful contributor to the leading magazines of the day.
Akins wrote 40 plays, starting with the sophisticated comedy "Papa" in 1914. "The Magical City", which was part of the repertory of the Washington Square Players' 1915-16 season, was her first Broadway production, opening on October 4, 1915. There were to be another 17 original plays of hers produced on Broadway over the next 30 years.
Her first big hit was "Declassée", which starred Ethel Barrymore and ran for 257 performances in the 1919-20 season. She did not have another big hit until "The Greeks Had a Word for It", which ran for 253 performances in the 1930-21 season. Her most famous play, "The Old Maid"--an adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel--ran for 305 performances from January through September 1935. The play brought Akins the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. None of her plays has ever been revived on Broadway.
Her play "Daddy's Gone A-Hunting" was the first to be adapted by Hollywood, serving as the basis for the 1925 film of the same name (Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1925)) directed by Frank Borzage. Hollywood also bought "Declassée" (which it adapted twice, as a 1925 silent 0Déclassé (1925)] and as a 1928 sound film, Her Private Life (1929)) and "The Moon-Flower", which was turned into Eve's Secret (1925). In 1930 she became a screenwriter herself, writing the dialogue for Sarah and Son (1930), a "woman's picture" directed by Dorothy Arzner, the sole woman director to successfully make the transition from silents to sound in Hollywood. Akins and Arzner would also collaborate on Anybody's Woman (1930), Working Girls (1931) and Christopher Strong (1933), Katharine Hepburn's second film; her debut was in Morning Glory (1933), based on an Akins play that did not make it to Broadway. The role brought Hepburn the first of her four Academy Awards as Best Actress.
Apart from the movies made from her plays and her novel "Pardon My Glove" (adapted as Ladies Love Brutes (1930)), Akins wrote, adapted or contributed the story to 15 motion pictures. Her most famous film, as a contributing writer, was the classic Camille (1936), which she worked on along with James Hilton and Frances Marion.
Zoë Atkins died in Los Angeles, California, on October 29, 1958, one day before what would have been her 72nd birthday. - Actor
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Ziya Farajzada is an American multifaceted individual known for his prowess in the entertainment industry and outdoor pursuits. As a skilled stuntman and actor, he has brought thrilling performances to the screen, showcasing his daring abilities. Beyond the camera, Ziya is an avid outdoors endurance athlete, conquering challenges that push his physical and mental limits. His passion for both the art of stunts and the exhilaration of outdoor adventures defines his dynamic and adventurous spirit.- Actress
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Zinnia Sayegh is a Hollywood actress. She is passionate about acting. She has studied at and graduated from the New York Film Academy. Zinnia Sayegh is an Arab-American actress born on August 23rd, 1991.
Zinnia Sayegh has worked on numerous Films, T.V. Shows, Music Videos, live Theatrical Shows and Commercials.
Zinnia Sayegh lost her 18 year old sister Tanya 7 years ago in a horrific train accident that was all over the news. Her dream of being an actress has catapulted my ambitions to follow in her footsteps and stand-in for my sister in Hollywood."Despite the tragedy, Zinnia is putting together the pieces of her broken heart and is launching her career in acting after extensive training at the New York Film Academy.- Writer
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Zia Mojabi is an LA-based stage and screen writer. His writing career began at college in Cambridge, England, where he wrote and directed sketch comedies for the campus company. He also directed the alumni productions of a few British stage standards while at Birmingham University. After getting his degree, he moved to Spain, working at Madrid's prestigious Filmoteca Nacional while studying film theory, polishing his Spanish and co-writing with various Madrid writers. He later emigrated to Canada where he wrote and directed some experimental shorts and one teleplay for the Toronto-based CableNet which won him the CableNet award. He then moved to LA to fully focus on the business and pleasures of writing and directing for movies and television. In addition to his writing-directing career, Zia has also served as the senior vice president of Nielsen Entertainment, the premier motion picture research and marketing firm where he advised Sony, Paramount, Disney, Fox and Universal.- Zena Keefe was born in San Francisco, California, on June 26, 1896. The actress who was to make a total of 28 films started her career at the age of 16 when she played a bit part in The Hieroglyphic (1912). After The Gamblers (1912) later that year, four years elapsed before she would appear onscreen again, in The Rail Rider (1916). Her first real meaty role, however, came later that year when she played "Mary Winslow" in Her Maternal Right (1916). For the rest of her career she was not as busy as she would have liked--in the film industry's early years it was not unusual for performers to make 20 films a year, but Zena was turning out only three or four. She stayed with her craft throughout the 1920s, making her final film in 1924, Trouping with Ellen (1924).
On November 16, 1977, Zena Keefe died at the age of 81 in Danvers, Massachusetts. - Art Director
Tse-tung Mao, along with Yat-sen Sun and Kai-Shek Chiang, was one of the most important figures to modern Chinese history. Born to a peasant family--his father was a farmer--in Shaoshan, China, on December 26, 1893, Mao was raised in the grinding poverty of rural Hunan province, where he developed a hatred of the Imperial Chinese government while still a boy. In 1911 Mao left school to join the revolution against Manchu rule. In the years that followed, Mao grew increasingly more radical, and in 1921 became one of the founding members of the Chinese Communist Party. When a power struggle between the Communists and Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists erupted into open warfare in 1927, Mao proclaimed "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" and eagerly joined the fight. Badly outnumbered by Chaing's army, the Communists were slowly driven out of eastern China and, on the brink of defeat, Mao led a retreat to the mountains of the northwest in 1934, a 6,000-mile trek that became known as "The Long March". Mao emerged as one of the top field commanders and became the chairman of the Chinese People's Communist Party.
After forming a new headquarters at Yenan, Mao remodeled the shattered Red Army into a powerful guerrilla force. By 1937 they were fighting the invading Japanese army from their bases in Manchuria. Striking a truce with the Nationalists, the Communists formed an uneasy alliance with Chaing's army to fight the invading Japanese. After the defeat of Japan in World War II in 1945, Mao's forces soon renewed their struggle against the Nationalists for control of China. By striking where Chiang was weak and cultivating the support of the rural peasants, the Communists were able to negate the Nationalist army's overwhelming superiority in men and materials, and by late 1948 the tide had turned against Chiang. In January 1949 Peking fell to the Red Army, forcing Chaing to flee into exile in Taiwan. In October, 1949 Canton, the last Nationalist stronghold, surrendered and on December 7, 1949, the last Nationalists fled to Taiwan, leaving Mao as the undisputed leader of the newly formed People's Republic of China.
Mao established control on China with a "rule of law" similar to the one in the Soviet Union and began to rebuild the war-torn country. A cunning, intelligent and frequently ruthless leader, Mao slowly helped China grow to become a world power. Relations with the US remained cold, and Mao sent Chinese "volunteers"--who were actually regular troops of the Chinese army--to fight with his Communist allies in North Korea in the early 1950s when they were on the verge of defeat after having initially invaded South Korea. Relations remained cold after China tested its first nuclear weapon in the late 1950s. Mao's so-called "five-year plans" to rebuild the farming and industrial economy cost the lives of millions of peasants and political opponents who spoke out against his policies. As relations with the Soviet Union deteriorated in the late 1960s, relations with the US slowly improved and in 1972 the US and China officially established diplomatic relations, with the US officially recognizing the People's Republic of China.
As he got older, Mao's legendary large appetite resulted in his being grossly overweight by age 60, and his being a heavy smoker also contributed to his growing health problems, but he still remained in firm control of his country. Mao died in 1976 at age 82.- Zechariah James Towner grew up in southern California before attending San Francisco State University. After spending many years in the Bay Area film scene working as a set electrician and gaffer, Zechariah relocated to Los Angeles where he resides working and a director. Zechariah specializes in stylized content with a genre bent.
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Zebunnisa Bangash or Zeb is an upcoming artist originally from Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. She and her cousin sister 'Haniya Aslam' or 'Haniya' (the duo are popularly known as Zeb and Haniya) started a pop band on their own by writing songs and experimenting, during their college days in 2007. Zeb studied Economics and History of Art and Haniya was pursuing Computer Science and Anthropology in a University in United States.
Zeb has been singing since age eight and has been training as a vocalist since 1998 with acclaimed Ustad Mubarak Ali Khan. She is ethnic Pashtun. With Haniya, her first cousin, their first song came to life in sessions at an abandoned cafe in the basement of Zeb's dorm. It is called 'Chup'. Later on in 2008, it became an album having 9 songs named 'Chup".
Together, Zeb and Haniya have appeared in three seasons of Coke Studio (Pakistan) since 2008. Both have performed amazing songs of their own amalgamated with the art of the then Coke Studio producer, Rohail Hyat.
Since then, popularity of Zeb and Haniya reached in India and was hand picked by the popular music producer A R Rahman. Zebunnisa was asked to sing a solo song 'Ajnabi' in the bollywood movie Madra Cafe (2013) by Rahman, and then had performed a very beautiful song 'Sooha Saha' of Bollywood movie Highway (2014) again for him.- Director
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Zbigniew Rybczynski (Rib-chin-ski) was born on January 27, 1949, in Lodz, Poland, but was raised in Warsaw, where he attended an arts high school and was trained as a painter. He went on to study cinematography at the world-renowned Lodz Film School, where he began experimenting with the film medium. His first projects were Kwadrat (1972) and "Take Five" (1972). Along with his other works, they broke new ground in the use of pixelation, optical printing, animation and other compositional film devices. "Zbig", as he's known, was active in the avant-garde group Warsztat Formy Filmowej and he cooperated with Se-Ma-For Studios in Lodz, where his art movies were shot, including Plamuz (1973), Zupa (1975), Nowa ksiazka (1976) and Tango (1981). At the same time he worked as a cinematographer on several feature films, including shorts by 'Andrzej Baranski', Piotr Andrejew and the acclaimed The Dancing Hawk (1977) by 'Grzegorz Krolikiewicz'.
Between 1977 and 1983 Rybczynski worked in Austria, where Weg Zum Nachbarn (1977) and Mein Fenster (1979) were made. He also set up a visual effects studio in Vienna for Austrian TV. As the director of photography, co-writer and editor, he contributed to the cult horror feature Angst (1983) (also known as "Fear"), directed by Gerald Kargl. In the meantime, Zbig was involved in the Solidarity (Solidarnosc) movement in Poland. When martial law was declared, he received political asylum in Austria and it was there that he learned of his Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film nomination for "Tango". After winning the Oscar for that film in 1983, Zbig and his family emigrated to the US and settled in New York City. At his Manhattan and Hoboken (NJ) studios, equipped with state-of-the-art high definition video, Rybczynski conceived and produced - as the first filmmaker ever- pioneer video films using HD technology. In 1984 he was assigned by
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Zander Stone grew up In Fairfield, IA. He always loved acting and performing. In high school he participated in numerous Community Theater Productions. After graduating from University of Iowa with a BFA in Cinema he moved to Los Angeles, CA to pursue acting and filmmaking. He studies his craft at Anthony Meindl's Actors Workshop in Hollywood and attends improv classes at Upright Citizens Brigade.- Director
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Zak Knutson is an producer/writer/director based out of Los Angeles.
In 2005 he co-founded Chop Shop Entertainment, a filmed entertainment company that supplies added value materials to all of the major studios, and a large number of independents. Chop Shop Entertainment supplied more movie based content for the internet than most companies in the industry. Zak parted ways with Chop Shop in 2015
Zak Knutson spent the summer of 2010 in Mexico City filming Get the Gringo, starring Mel Gibson.- Zaidee Jackson in Augusta, Georgia, in 1898 to Alice and C.J. Jackson, both sharecroppers. In 1923, she first danced as a chorus girl with the Lafayette Players. She eventually made her way to Paris in 1927. She rose to significance, while touring England in 1928, where she sang on the BBC and performed at the Cafe Anglais. Despite a growing popularity in London, she returned to Paris, appearing at the Chez Zelli's, Sheherazade, Chez Florence and dancing nude at Chez Les Nudistes in 1933. In France, Egypt, Monte Carlo, England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and all over Europe, she had sung in the finest cabarets, hotels and theaters and appeared in three motion pictures. She had been the favorite of the international set, such as Elsa Maxwell and Prince Henry, the Duke of Kent.
In 1937, while running a club in Monte Carlo, she met and married Romanian engineer and race car driver, Barbu Neamtu, and returned with him to Romania, where she became a popular attraction at the exclusive La Zissu Cabaret in Bucharest throughout the late '30s and '40s. In 1951, while performing in Romania during the Communist Era, she was accused of being a Communist and her American passport was revoked. She occasionally had difficulty in Romania, discrimination from the nightclub owners, her estate in the countryside was seized by the government as National Property and her husband was arrested by the Romanian secret police and thrown into a labor camp. With the help of her family and President Eisenhower, she gained American citizenship in 1956, when she returned to performing in the United States.
She died on December 15, 1970, is buried in Waterbury, Connecticut. - Zackary F. Schrock was born in Springfield Missouri he is the fifth child out of six children. Zack began acting at the age of 8 playing Tiny Tim in the production of " Scrooge" at the age of 9 Zack did a commercial for a dental office singing" All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth". At the age of 10 Zack was the cover model of the Spring and Summer copies of Peekaboo Magazine . At the age of 13 Zack appeared in the commercial Lumi along with the music video of " Seize the moment ". On a Local level Zack played "Death" in the play " Death Knocks" by Woody Allen. Zack continues with acting and vocal training. Zack is also known for his talented ability for voice overs .
- Zachary Washington was born in Waycross, GA during the month of May in 1983. Zachary was raised by his mother (Shirley Washington Townsend) and his stepfather (Adrian Armstrong), his biological father was available most times but, majority of the time it was his stepfather. Around the age of 15 Zachary had a very traumatic experience when his older brother passed while being held in a juvenile facility in Georgia. Though it took a while to recover, Zachary managed by the grace of God to be strong and press forward. Shortly after the passing of his brother a young minister and his wife (Carlos White & Chenille White) began to mentor Zachary and welcome him into their circle. In high school Zachary was a phenomenal track &Field athlete and was offer scholarships and several universities but after much thought Zachary decided after High School to join the United States Marine Corps. After the Marine Zachary Attended The Art Institute of Ft. Lauderdale where he received an Associates of Arts in Broadcasting TV/Radio. He would later go on to South Florida Bible College and theological Seminary and attain an Associates of Arts in Biblical Studies and later a Bachelors of Arts Science in Christian Clinical Counseling.
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Born and raised in Louisiana, Zachary A. Johnson grew up playing jazz and classical saxophone and piano. As a young man, he liked to compose music and work with musicians in his high school to perform them at events and in class. Music has always been a driving force for him. Zachary enjoys thinking outside the box and is not afraid to take chances with his music. There was just something about being able to move people with music that Zachary loved. Ultimately, Zachary knew he wanted to write music for film. Zachary graduated from Louisiana State University (LSU) with a bachelor's of Music Composition in 2021. Zachary was able to finally realize his true passion for writing music for film while pursuing his education at New York University (NYU) in their graduate screen-scoring program. While at NYU, Zachary has collaborated successfully with many different directors, producers, and animators on numerous projects, many of which are being showcased at festivals around the world. His goal is to spread diversity and create memories for audiences across the globe for generations to come.- Actor
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Zachariah Axel was born in Denver, CO. American actor, writer, and producer known for his role on the television series 'The Rookie' (2019) and for his shorts 'A Man Apart' and 'Innocuous'.
In addition to his work as a filmmaker, Zach spent 15 years in professional sports, culminating in a Stanley Cup Championship with the Los Angeles Kings in 2014.- Producer
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Zach Goldbaum is an award-winning journalist, writer, director, and producer, known for his work on The Opposition w/ Jordan Klepper and as the host of Noisey on Viceland.
As a journalist, he's embedded with the largest criminal organization in Brazil, shared one-on-one dinners with international superstars from the K-pop scene, and spent weeks with Blood gang members in Compton. He's interviewed Kendrick Lamar, Danny Brown, and Killer Mike among others, and he's written features on the rise of country rap for VICE Magazine and Detroit's alarming trend of violence related to Cartier sunglasses for Racked.
Zach was also a director and performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade theater, and his short films, pilots and scripts have been featured in the YoFi Film Festival, LA Comedy Festival, and the New York Television Festival.- Zach Consalvo is a beat smith known as A.Part-2. He is also a poet and rhyme writer known as Emergesense. He has been writing poems for over 10 years. Around 8th grade, he purchased the Cubase Studio Program to start recording beats on. From there he moved to Double Turntables in High School and concentrated on literal deejaying for a time. From there, he purchased a Korgn Electribe Es-1 so he could sample his record collection and turn amazing sounds into amazing beats. He also practiced with Garage Band through midi keyboards and a MPD 16. Since then he has moved on to a MPC to evolve his unique sounds.
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Yoko Kohmoto is a producer-writer based in NYC. She has produced short films and music videos that have been selected for Vimeo Staff Pick, Short of the Week, American Black Film Festival, CAAMFest, and Hawai'i International Film Festival, among several others. Yoko recently completed her MFA in Film at Columbia University, where she was a recipient of the prestigious Campbell Award for the School of the Arts as well as the Arthur Krim Memorial Scholarship for Excellence in Producing.- Director
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Yinusa A. Korede is a young Film Maker, Director and Editor. Born in Lagos, Nigeria. Graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Creative Arts:Theatre Art from the prestigious University of Lagos. He is constantly concerned about learning new ways and techniques of film making, as well as expressing his creative prowess in the best possible way to creating long lasting and impactful contents.- Actor
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He was born in 1999 in Eskisehir. He took part in various school and municipal theaters. He started his education at Selcuk University, Faculty of Communication, Radio, TV and Cinema department in 2018. He presented a radio show at Radio University. He took part in two short films as his final homework. He wrote the script for the movie Esref Saati (2022), directed and played the leading role in the movie. He also helped with the script and acted as an actor in the movie Araf (2022). In the same year, he appeared in several commercials. In 2023, he studied for acting at the Istanbul Drama Art Academy. He took the lead role in the short film Five Little Sins. He played a Bosnian character in the Dayton Series on the Tabii platform. Most recently, he appeared in the Disney+ original series The Search.- Actor
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Yiannis was born in Greece, studied drama, acting, got involved with Greek Culture. He is a theater and film director, member of: "Greek Theatrical Authors Society" (E.E.Th.S), "Greek Directors Guild" (G.D.G.), "Greek Actors' Union" (H.A.U.) & "International Theatre Institute" (I.T.I). Yiannis was an artistic director of one of the 15 state-municipal regional theaters of Greece (from 2010 to 2016). He teaches drama, improvisation and directing in drama schools and Universities. He has written, translated and adapted-dramatized plays that have been staged in professional scenes, many of them have been published (short stories, plays, theatrical metaphors of fairy tales etc).- Yassine Fennane - nicknamed "Okine" - was born September 14, 1978 in Rabat, Morocco.
After studying arts in Paris, he wrote and directed his first short film Little wound in 2002. After a few experiences assistant director, he wrote several screenplays brought to the screen by other filmmakers whose Destin family short Younes Reggab. In 2004, he wrote and directed three short films, Danger Man, The future is now and white shirt, black tie, which will be followed by Trust fighter. From 2005, he produced three TV movies in the Film Industry project / Made in Morocco (production Nabil Ayouch) - Go Back to Hell, Brave and Agadir Underground, El Haykel "Skeleton" is his first feature film. He realized with Ali El Mejboud - Series One hour in hell Al Aoula chain. - Yasmin is a professionally trained Actress and Singer based in North West London in the United Kingdom. Although she has a background in various key production roles in the media industry; such as advertising, television film and music, Yasmin has always had a real passion for the performing arts, acting and singing in particular. After studying at Ray Shell's Voice Production Drama at Pineapple Dance Studio's, for two years, in the principles of Theatre and Dance. She then went on to study Theatre studies at The College of North West London before studying for her Acting Degree. In 2003 she went on to study for her BA Hons degree in Drama and Education at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Today Yasmin has worked in film and TV where she started as a film extra and background artist performing in many feature films and television dramas but was extremely keen to progress forward in her acting career, she keen to take on new and challenging acting roles. So that she is best able to demonstrate her acting and performing skills by performing in a variety of roles within variously productions. Yasmin's approach to all aspects of her work is with great enthusiasm, determination, confidence and most importantly professionalism. Yasmin is a very capable and dynamic actress and has a wide range of abilities.
Yasmin is a well-spoken and well-educated individual with a dynamic personality. Originally born in Guyana in South America, she moved to the United Kingdom at an early aged and is seen as a black Londoner. She is an actress and singer/songwriter as well as a mother and daughter. - Writer
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Brazilian born with dual citizenship, Yara began script writing while working as a background movie extra in Los Angeles, CA. She joined local independent film associations and started writing a novel. She is the author "Dark Knights, A Vampire Tale" available on amazon.com. as well as Fraternity of Blood Trilogy - Book one, When Darkness Falls is also available on Kindle/Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Casting Director, writer and independent producer in the Palm Springs, CA area- Animation Department
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Yale Gracey was a Disney Imagineer, writer, and layout artist for many Disney animated shorts and full-length features, including classics such as "The Three Caballeros" and "Fantasia". Gracey joined the company in 1939 as a layout artist for "Pinocchio".
By 1961, through years of hands-on experimentation and curiosity, Yale began his second career at Disney as a special effects and lighting artist at Walt Disney Imagineering - then WED Enterprises. He designed many of the special effects for the Pirates of the Caribbean and Haunted Mansion attractions at Disneyland. Gracey retired from the company on October 4, 1975. He became widely recognized for the iconic 'grim grinning ghosts' that inhabit the Haunted Mansion as well as the realistic flames burning the overtaken city in Pirates of the Caribbean.
Gracey is also responsible for creating unique and creative illusions for Walt Disney's most beloved attractions including the Carousel of Progress for the 1964-65 New York World'd Fair. The simple, elegant illusion of glimmering pixie dust developed for the Carousel of Progress was later used in Space Mountain to block out the surrounding roller coaster structure. For the original EPCOT Center, Gracey created the breathtaking 'CenterCore' finale of the much missed World of Motion attraction.
On September 5, 1983, Gracey was shot and killed in Los Angeles by a burglar. His wife was injured in the attack. Gracey and his wife, Beverly, were staying overnight at their cabana at the Bel Air Bay Club, on Pacific Coast Highway in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of western Los Angeles. The shooting was reported at approximately 2:30 a.m. by another club member. A police spokesman indicated that Gracey and his wife were both asleep when an unknown intruder entered and shot them both, then fled onto the beach. A motive was not determined, and there were no suspects.- Actor
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Xavier Galindo immigrated from Peru to San Francisco at the age of 15 escaping the turmoil of a country suffering from human rights violations and guerrilla warfare. As an emancipated teenager, he submerged himself deeply into the San Francisco Latino culture in both positive and negative realms. This provided him with a rich understanding of the San Francisco experience for Latinos.
While studying at San Francisco State University, he was approached by a casting director for a television show. Xavier dove deep into the world of acting and from there he was able to find other passions; writing and directing. His first project was picked to represent San Francisco State University in a national college competition- Producer
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Xanvier's most recent Line Producing credit is the upcoming BFI-backed project "Blackout" He was the Production manager of the BFI Flare celebrated feature film "In From The Side". He's credits also include the short film "Drowning", working alongside Producer Crispin Buxton ("The Souvenir"), and co-producer on the Roundhouse short "Thanks for Coming". He further assisted on the upcoming BBC series "The Gallows Pole" and BIFA-winning "Flux Gourmet". His shorts have screened a various BAFTA-qualifying film festivals. Currently, he's actively developing a slate of shorts and feature film projects.- Producer
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Worthington Miner is not a name always mentioned in the histories written about the earliest days of network television in America; he hasn't always received the acclaim often accorded to writers like Rod Serling and Paddy Chayefsky and directors like Franklin J. Schaffner and Sidney Lumet. This is no minor historical oversight, for Miner was one of the true pioneers of television. He not only wrote, produced and directed important television programs from the earliest days of the medium, but he also developed many of the crew positions still used in television productions to this day. Miner left CBS for NBC over a contract dispute in 1952, ending his fabled reign at Studio One (1948), one of the most impressive shows during the first decade of network television. At NBC his creative skills were never fully utilized and by the time he left the network he had become disenchanted with the path television was taking.- Composer
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Wladyslaw Szpilman was born in 1911 in Sosnowiec. On leaving school, he went to Warsaw to study music (piano) in the Chopin School of Music, under Professor Jozef Smidowicz, and later, under Professor Aleksander Michalowski (both scholars of Franz List). In 1931 he went to Berlin to the Academy of Music studying under Professor Leonid Kreutzer and Arthur Schnabel (piano) and Professor Franz Schreker (composition). At this time he wrote his Violin Concerto, Piano Suite "Zycie Maszyn" (The Life of Machines), Concertino for piano with Orchestra, many works for piano and violin and also some songs. In 1935 Szpilman entered the Polish Radio, where, except during the war, he worked until 1963. In 1946, he published his book "Death of a City" - memories from 1939 to 1945. Since 1945, Szpilman has appeared in concerts as a soloist and with chamber groups in Poland, throughout Europe and in America. He and Bronislav Gimpel formed a very successful piano duet in 1932, which grew in 1962 to the Warsaw Piano Quintet, that performed about 2,500 concerts until 1987 worldwide, with the exception of Australia. In 1936 he also started his career as a composer of songs (about 500). About 150 of them were in Poland's pop charts and they are "evergreens" of Polish pop music culture to this day. In the 50s he wrote also about 40 songs for children, for which he received in 1955 the award of the Polish Composers Union. He also wrote many orchestral pieces (ballet, Small Overture, etc.), musicals, music for children's theater and music for about 50 children's radio broadcasts, as well as film music: "Wrzos" (1937); "Dr. Murek" (1939); "Pokoj Zwyciezy Swiat" (1950); "Call My Wife" (1957), and others. In 1961, he initiated and organized the Sopot International Song Festival in Poland, and also founded the Polish Union of Authors of Popular Music. In 1964, he became a member of Presidium of Polish Composers Union, and ZAIKS (Polish ASCAP). In April 1998, his book "Death of the City" will be published by ECON Verlag, a leading German publisher, with commentary by a famous German writer and poet: Wolf Biermann.- Actress
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Winter Williams (formally known as Ashley C. Williams) is an American actress known for playing leads in the cult horror film The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009), the award winning revenge thriller Julia (2014) and Albanian Gangster (2018). She grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia, and began acting on stage professionally at the age of ten.
Winter was unschooled during her high school years while pursuing acting full time. She then moved to New York City to attend The American Academy of Dramatic Arts (where she received the Charles Jehlenger Award for Excellence in Acting). Winter has "trod the boards" at New York's Off Broadway stages including The Ellen Stewart Theater, the Cherry Lane Theaters, 59E59 Theaters and Center Stage NY.- Producer
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Winston Miller began his film career as a juvenile actor in silent films. He attended Pinceton University and, in 1937, went to work for Republic Pictures as a screenwriter. He assisted David O. Selznick in rewriting the screenplay for Gone with the Wind (1939), later taking time out of his career to serve in the Marines during WWII. Leaving the film industry in 1959, he joined Universal Studios in 1960, where he produced for television, and was a producer for the series Cannon (1971) from 1971-75. In 1966 Miller chaired the Permanent Charities Committee and also served on the Motion Picture and Television Fund board of directors.
He died of a heart attack in Los Angeles in 1994.- Additional Crew
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Winnie Carrillo was born and raised in Guatemala, and later moved to Boston, where she earned a bachelor's degree on screenwriting at Emerson College. She then earned her graduate degree from the Peter Stark Producers Program at the University of Southern California, and is currently based in Los Angeles, where she works as a Studio Executive.- Actor
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Wilson was born in Dover, N.J. and lived there the first 15 years of his life. He later moved to McAllen,Tx. and graduated high school in Phoenixville,Pa. When he turned 19 he touched down in Southern California. His dream was to become a rap artist, which he pursued for many years, making music with groups such as Latin Bomb Squad, N.T.S and The Suspects. While being in the streets of L.A. he also veered towards the Gang life, but it didn't stop him from following his dreams and realizing he had choices.
Wilson also had a passion for acting looking up to Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino as his favorite Thespians. he started acting classes and did a few background jobs, one being Sons of Anarchy (season 4 episode 9). In 2006, Wilson booked his first feature film called The Blue Hour. As he began to gain ground in his new found profession, Wilson realized before it was too late, that Gang life wasn't for him. His family and his career is all he focuses on now. Recently, Wilson booked a CoStar role on the new show "Scorpion". He loves what he does and appreciates the opportunities given to him.- Writer
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Independent writer/producer/director William Winckler comes from a show-business background. His late father, Robert Winkler--aka "Bobby" Winkler--was a famous child actor during the Golden Age of Hollywood. As an adult he became a successful entertainment attorney. He followed in his father's footsteps, but in a slightly different path.
William studied acting and directing at UCLA with the late Don Richardson, director/teacher to Anne Bancroft, Grace Kelly, Zero Mostel, John Cassavetes, Elizabeth Montgomery and countless other stars. He learned a great deal from Don, and applied it to his acting and directing career.
From the mid to the late 1980s, William worked as an actor in various TV series, films and theater. He then wrote and produced two syndicated series of his own, the animated sci-fi show Tekkaman the Space Knight (1984) and the all-dwarf comedy/variety series Short Ribbs (1989), starring the late Billy Barty. When the internet boom hit, William was head of development for a science-fiction entertainment company, developing star-driven feature films and shorts for internet webcast and DVD.
The late Jonathan Harris, best known for his starring role as "Dr. Smith," in the classic TV series Lost in Space (1965), was William's close mentor throughout the 1990s and taught him a great deal about the business.
Winckler formed William Winckler Productions Inc., in 2001 to write, produce and direct low-budget feature films in the sci-fi, fantasy, horror and adventure genres. His sexy action comedy, The Double-D Avenger (2001) has been a great creative and financial success for him, being a top cult movie best seller in America, and internationally in France and French-speaking Europe, in Japan, and many other countries.
William Winckler continues to produce feature films. He absolutely loves classic sci-fi, horror and fantasy films from the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, and he has a huge collection of related memorabilia, toy robots, action figures, etc., in his personal collection.- Actor
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William Talman is best known for his role as Hamilton Burger, the district attorney who perpetually lost to Perry Mason in the long-running series Perry Mason (1957). Talman was an accomplished screenwriter and stage and screen actor, and appeared in numerous roles on television as a character actor from the mid-'50s until his death from lung cancer in August of 1968.
He was born William Whitney Talman Jr. on February 4, 1915, in Detroit, Michigan, the first son of William Talman Sr. and Ada B. Talman. His father was vice-president of an electrical company that manufactured industrial heat-measuring recording devices and yachts. During an interview with "TV Guide" in April of 1963, Talman told writer Richard Gehman that his father made a good deal of money, "enough to send me to school in a limousine each day. Public school. That meant I had to fight my way in and out." In school Talman developed an avid interest in athletics, especially boxing and baseball. He furthered his interest in boxing early in life by fighting on the local parish boxing team of the Episcopal Church. At one point in his life he played semi-professional baseball. He was educated at Cranbrook School and later attended Dartmouth College, where his interest in acting first took hold. He left Dartmouth in his sophomore year after an incident in which a freshman he knew "loaned" him a car so that he could go visit a girlfriend at Smith College. A bus forced the car off of the road and it hit a tree. A boy who was with them was killed and it later turned out that the car was stolen. Talman was asked to resign from Dartmouth, which he did. Although invited back the next year, he never returned.
Talman began his acting career on Broadway in the early 1940s. His first roles were in "Beverly Hills", "Yokel Boy" and "Of Mice and Men." He was appearing in "Spring Again" at Henry Miller's Theatre in January of 1942 when he received his draft notice for induction into the US army. Prior to leaving for active duty he married actress Lynne Carter. He entered the army as a private and saw 30 months of service in the Pacific, where he won a commission and eventually was promoted to the rank of major. During the war his assignments included the managing of a school that trained soldiers to put on shows. At one point he was in charge of training boxing and baseball teams. He was proud of the fact that his teams won both the boxing and baseball championships of the Western Pacific. Talman returned to Broadway after the war. Two of his more notable postwar roles were in Joseph M. Hyman's and Bernard Hart's production of "Dear Ruth" in 1946 and Henry Adrian's production of "A Young Man's Fancy" in 1947. In 1949 the actor moved to Hollywood and began making films. His first picture was Red, Hot and Blue (1949), in which he played gangster Bunny Harris. Other movie and television roles soon followed. In 1951 his wife sued him for divorce, citing extreme cruelty. She claimed that Talman had criticized her publicly in front of their friends. The divorce was granted in September of 1952 with custody of the couple's three-year-old daughter, Lynda, and 24% of Talman's income awarded to his former spouse. He went on to perform in over 17 films, several of which he starred in. Some of his more notable films include The Racket (1951), Armored Car Robbery (1950), Smoke Signal (1955), Big House, U.S.A. (1955), One Minute to Zero (1952) and Two-Gun Lady (1955). His best known role was as escaped killer and kidnapper Emmett Myers in the classic film noir The Hitch-Hiker (1953), directed by Ida Lupino. He also co-wrote two feature films, I've Lived Before (1956) and Joe Dakota (1957).
Talman married actress Barbara Read in 1952. The couple had two children, Barbie and Billy, but they separated in September of 1959. In a tragic turn of events, his former wife took her own life in December of 1963 by closing up her house and turning on the gas jets. Notes she left behind blamed ill health for her action. In March of 1960 Talman made headlines when he was arrested during a police raid of an alleged "wild nude party" being held at the home of an acquaintance, Richard Reibold. The incident caused CBS to invoke a morals clause in his contract that cost him his job on "Perry Mason." The charges were eventually dropped after a trial that was closely followed by the newspapers and sensationalized by the tabloids. Talman always maintained his innocence, and following the trial the judge in the case criticized the police for arresting him. He remained off the show until December of 1960, when CBS reinstated him after a flood of fan mail from supporters. He married Margaret (Peggy) Flanigan and adopted her two children from a previous marriage, Steve and Debbie. After the "Perry Mason" show ended in 1966, Talman went on a six-week tour of Vietnam to entertain the troops. Upon his return home, it was discovered that he had lung cancer. His last film was The Ballad of Josie (1967), with Doris Day.
Near the end of his life, Talman did something that, while common nowadays, was an extraordinarily courageous thing for an actor to do at that time. A heavy smoker for most of his life, he was angered by a newspaper article he read about actors being afraid to make anti-smoking messages for fear of losing opportunities to make lucrative cigarette commercials. He decided to do something about it. Talman volunteered to make a short film for the American Cancer Society, part of which was shown in late 1968 and 1969 as a television anti-smoking commercial. He was the first actor to ever make such a commercial. When the message was being filmed, Talman knew he was dying, was in a great deal of pain and was in fact under heavy sedation for it. The short film begins, "Before I die I want to do what I can to leave a world free of cancer for my six children . . . ",
William Talman died of cardiac arrest due to complications from lung cancer at West Valley Community Hospital in Encino, California, on August 30, 1968, at the age of 53. Although his life was short, he left an enduring legacy through his writing, his acting, his heroism and his never-ending championing of the underdog.- Production Manager
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William Self was born June 21, 1921, in Dayton, Ohio. He graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in Political Science in 1943. He worked a year in advertising before beginning a career in acting in 1944. From 1944 to 1952 he acted in over 30 films, one of his largest roles being that of Cpl. Barnes in Howard Hawks' The Thing from Another World (1951).
In 1952 Self began his producing career as an Assistant Producer on the TV series China Smith (1952). Later that same year he was named Associate Producer of the Schlitz Playhouse (1951), which aired on CBS. In 1953 his title was elevated to Producer, reflecting the fact that there had never been any other producer during his time on the series. During his tenure he produced 208 episodes. He also directed four episodes: The Last Out (1955), The Careless Cadet (1955), The Night They Won the Oscar (1956) and The Letter (1956). In 1957 Self produced The Frank Sinatra Show (1957) on ABC. Upon completion of that project, he was employed by CBS as a program executive. His first job was to produce the pilot for The Twilight Zone (1959).
In 1958 he moved to 20th Century-Fox Television as an Executive Producer. Over a period of 15 years with Fox, Self was promoted to Vice President in Charge of Production for Television, to Executive Vice President for Television, to President 20th Century-Fox Television,and finally to Vice President 20th Century-Fox Corp. During this period Fox supplied 44 series to the networks, including M*A*S*H (1972), Batman (1966), Peyton Place (1964), Lost in Space (1965) and 12 O'Clock High (1964).
In 1975 Self joined Mike Frankovich in forming Frankovich/Self Productions. The partnership resulted in two feature films: The Shootist (1976) starring John Wayne, Lauren Bacall and James Stewart, and From Noon Till Three (1976) starring Charles Bronson. Self returned to CBS in 1975 as Vice President Head of the West Coast. Later he was named Vice President in Charge of Movies and Miniseries. While in this position, he produced over 250 movies and many miniseries. In 1982 he was offered the position of President of CBS Theatrical Film Division. Ten films were produced under his supervision.
He left CBS in 1985 to form Self Productions, Inc. Hallmark Hall of Fame sponsored his first production, The Tenth Man (1988) starring Anthony Hopkins. Later Self partnered with Glenn Close to form a new production company, Sarah Productions. This company provided Hallmark Hall of Fame with three television movies: Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991), Skylark (1993) and Sarah, Plain & Tall: Winter's End (1999).
Bill married Margaret Flynn in 1941. They remained together until her death in 2007. He has two children, Edwin and Barbara. Self is a Trustee of the Motion Picture and Television Fund, the John Tracy Clinic for Deaf Children, and The Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming. He is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the Directors Guild of America, and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.- Prolific and versatile character actor William Sanderson was born on January 10, 1944, in Memphis, Tennessee. His mother was an elementary school teacher and his father was a landscape designer. William served two years in the US Army. Following his military service he attended Southern Methodist University. He earned both a BBA degree and a JD law degree from Memphis State University. William went to New York to try his luck as an actor. He studied his craft with Herbert Berghof and William Hickey.
Sanderson began his acting career in off-Broadway stage productions and appeared in several independent pictures. He gave a superbly lively and intense performance as vicious racist and escaped convict Jessie Lee Kane in the brutal exploitation feature Fight for Your Life (1977). William was likewise marvelous as gentle toymaker J.F. Sebastian in the fantastic science-fiction cult favorite Blade Runner (1982). He has played his fair share of loathsome bad guys (he refers to these particular characters as "prairie scum"), such as nasty lout Calvin in Raggedy Man (1981), lowlife hick Lee Dollarhide in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) and weaselly criminal Snow in Lone Wolf McQuade (1983). Not surprisingly, considering his distinctive Southern drawl, he has also appeared in such westerns as the comedy Wagons East (1994), Crossfire Trail (2001), Monte Walsh (2003), Andersonville (1996), Gods and Generals (2003) and the acclaimed TV mini-series Lonesome Dove (1989) (one of several projects in which Sanderson has acted alongside Tommy Lee Jones). Sanderson gave a lovely and touching portrayal in a rare lead role as emotionally dysfunctional recovering alcoholic ukulele minstrel Stanley Myer in the poignant indie drama Stanley's Gig (2000). He achieved his greatest popularity, however, as flaky backwoodsman Larry on the hit sitcom Newhart (1982) on which he uttered the memorable catchphrase, "I'm Larry. This is my brother Darryl and this is my other brother Darryl." More recently Sanderson had a terrific role as conniving hotel proprietor E.B. Farnum on the sensationally gritty cable western TV series Deadwood (2004). Among the TV shows William has done guest spots on are The Practice (1997), The Pretender (1996), ER (1994), The X-Files (1993), Walker, Texas Ranger (1993), Sirens (1993), Matlock (1986), Babylon 5 (1993), Married... with Children (1987), The Twilight Zone (1985), Knight Rider (1982), Coach (1989), The Dukes of Hazzard (1979) and Starsky and Hutch (1975).
He has also done voices for numerous cartoon characters, radio commercials and books on tape. Outside of his substantial film and TV credits, William has acted on stage in productions of such plays as "The Taming of the Shrew," "When Ya Comin' Back, Red Ryder?," "Insect Comedy," "To Kill a Mockingbird," "Dutchman," "Fishing," "Authentic Life of Billy the Kid," "Tobacco Road," and "Scotch Rocks." William Sanderson lives in Burbank, California, with his wife Sharon Wix. - William Obanhein was born on October 19, 1924 in Massachusetts, USA. By profession he was a police officer; he served in the police force of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, from 1951 to 1985, rising to the rank of Chief of Police. In Alice's Restaurant (1969), inspired by a true story, he played a fictionalized version of himself, his only significant acting role. He died on September 11, 1994.
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William Mishkin was a major distributor of sex-oriented exploitation films in New York in the 1950s and '60s. His companies, William Mishkin Motion Pictures and Constitution Films, were responsible for distributing and in some cases financing films by 'Gerald Intrator' (The Orgy at Lil's Place (1963) and The Sexperts: Touched by Temptation (1965)) and several now lost films by Andy Milligan. He was a significant distributor of burlesque films in the New York market in the 1950s and was famous for importing relatively tame European features and dressing them up for US release with salacious titles and lurid advertising campaigns. Essentially conservative, his career tapered off around the time of the rise of hardcore. His son Lew Mishkin took control of the company during the 1970s and quickly drove it into the ground.- Director
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Born and raised in Lansing, Michigan, William Malone was inspired by films during weekly trips to the Lucian Theater to see the latest releases of horror films. By age 14 he was making home movies with an 8mm camera and designing monster masks for himself and friends to wear for Halloween.
Malone moved to Los Angeles at age 19 to become a rock star, but a friend's request drew him back into mask-making, which led him to a job with Don Post Studios in makeup and costume, as well as mask making. It was Malone who designed and sculpted the mask used for the character of Michael Myers for Halloween (1978), which he used from the mold of a previous design used by William Shatner.
Malone also worked as a make up artist for Dan Curtis NBC TV movie The Norliss Tapes (1973) and even acted in a few credited and uncredited parts in films, mostly notably playing Beatle George Harrison in I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), which recreated the Fab Four's 1964 appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show (1948). Malone also developed a reputation as a collector of old movie props left over from various science-fiction films.
After attending classes at UCLA to study directing under the tutelage of Gilbert Cates--a former DGA president--Malone decided to make a gamble with his first movie. Scraping together around $74,000, he wrote and directed the sci-fi horror shocker Scared to Death (1980), which was clearly inspired by the Ridley Scott movie film Alien (1979), which was a terror tale of a genetic creature haunting the sewers of Los Angeles. Despite being a mild box-office his, Malone was not recognized by major film studios. In 1984, with grant of more than $1 million, Malone went back to the director's chair with Creature (1985) (aka "Titan Find"), which starred Klaus Kinski and was also inspired by "Alien". The film was nominated for a Saturn Award at the 1985 Academy of Science Fiction and Horror films.
Malone spent the next 14 years as a director for episodic TV series, beginning with such projects as the anthology series Freddy's Nightmares (1988) and a few episodes of the HBO series Tales from the Crypt (1989). He also directed a short-lived TV series called Sleepwalkers (1997) as well as the made-for-TV movie W.E.I.R.D. World (1995). In 1999 Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis hired Malone to direct the SFX-studded House on Haunted Hill (1999). a remake of the Vincent Price film House on Haunted Hill (1959), which Malone clearly remembered from repeated viewings from his childhood and was happy to come on board as director.
In 2002 Malone pressed ahead with his own feature Feardotcom (2002), about a police detective's investigation of a website that kills its viewers. Malone's work on that film gave him the opportunity to join the Director's Guild, where in 2005 he was invited by Masters of Horror (2005) creator Mick Garris to direct an episode for the series, "The Fair Haired Child", adapted from a screen play my Matt Greenberg.
He is currently in development of Thallium's Box, a new independent feature film that will shoot in the winter of 2019.- Writer
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William Marien Conselman was at the time of his death one of Hollywood's best-paid writers. Like many others, he came from the ranks of newspaper writers, having worked on papers in both Los Angeles and New York. In 1925 Conselman, along with artist Charles Plumb, started the daily comic strip "Ella Cinders", a modern version of the Cinderella story. The strip would stay in syndication until 1961. Conselman's entrance into the film industry as a gag writer came as a result of work he did in the mid-20s for a Hollywood studio publicity department.
Conselman was the oldest of three children born to Henry and Marian Connely Conselman. His father was originally from Pennsylvania, where his parents settled after arriving from Germany. Henry was employed in the theater districts in New York as a carpenter. Marian was born in Ireland and came to America at an early age.
Conselman and his wife Mina were both collectors. He loved to cook and had a large collection of dishes, while her passion was acquiring sculptured hands. They had two children: daughter Diedre was, for a while, married to tennis champion Don Budge and son William Conselman Jr. who would also have a career in Hollywood. William Marien Conselman died at home after a month's illness. His early death at the age of 43 was attributed to a liver ailment.- Handsome William Joyce was born on October 21, 1930, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and raised in New Rochelle, New York. His childhood dream was to become a major-league baseball pitcher (he even worked out with the New York Yankees in 1947). However, Joyce was introduced to acting after he entered the army and became the star, writer and producer of "Camp Pickett Reveille Roundup." He made his film debut in 1954 with an uncredited bit part as a dancer in the comedy musical Top Banana (1954) (he had previously appeared in an early 1950s Broadway stage production of this particular musical).
William had his only lead role as hunky pulp adventure novelist Tom Harris in the low-budget zombie horror picture I Eat Your Skin (1971). He had secondary parts in Lifeguard (1976), The Parallax View (1974) (in one of his customary politician roles) and The Young Nurses (1973). He was a regular recurring cast member on the daytime soap operas Somerset (1970) and Days of Our Lives (1965). Among the many TV shows William did guest spots on are Hunter (1984), Knots Landing (1979), Falcon Crest (1981), Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983), Knight Rider (1982), Lou Grant (1977), Barnaby Jones (1973), The Rockford Files (1974), The F.B.I. (1965), Cannon (1971), The Real McCoys (1957), Lawman (1958), The Rifleman (1958), Rawhide (1959), The Restless Gun (1957) and Conflict (1956).
Outside of his film and television work, Joyce acted in Broadway stage productions of "Damn Yankees" and "Bye Bye Birdie."
He retired from acting in the late 1980s, and died at age 67 on September 3, 1998, in Encino, California.