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Fady Elsayed is an Egyptian-British actor who was born and raised in Islington, London, where he grew up playing football. He has studied a variety of fields in college including Media, Drama, and Psychology. Fady made his foray into acting with director Sally El Hosaini in a role that he auditioned for after learning from a friend that the director was looking for an Egyptian to play it, and he later was picked up for it.
Fady marked his breakthrough in 2012 through My Brother the Devil which propelled his name for a Best British Newcomer award nomination at the BFI London Film Festival. Fady's talent caught the attention of several international filmmakers and soon he starred in a number of international films, including Penny Dreadful, starring Eva Green, in which he played the role of a vampire, Class which is derived from the well-known adventure series Doctor Who, River TV series, starring renowned Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård, A Private War, starring Rosamund Pike, and Danish film Daniel by director Niels Arden Oplev, in addition to other film and TV projects.
The year 2020 marked one of Fady's most successful years, where he starred in a number of international TV series, including Baghdad Central and Little Birds, as well as the short drama film Ending. He is working on a number of cinematic projects including the two films Faith and London Boys. Most recently, Fady has been officially selected as the face of Puma's "The Porsche Legacy" collection. His latest updates include his preparation for a second season of The Gangs of London.- Writer
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Dashiell Hammett was born May 27, 1894, in St. Mary's County, Maryland, to Richard Hammett and Mary Bond. He joined the Baltimore branch of the Pinkerton Detective Agency in 1915. He enlisted in the US Army's Ambulance Corps in June 1918 and was posted to a camp 20 miles from Baltimore, where he caught the flu, which developed into tuberculosis. He was invalided out of the army in July 1919 and returned to Pinkerton's. Hammett entered the veterans hospital near Tacoma, Washington, with tuberculosis in 1920. Upon his release he worked at Pinkerton's Spokane branch. Hospitalized again with tuberculosis, he met and courted a nurse, Josephine Dolan. In February 1921 he was moved to an army hospital near San Diego. After he was released he married a now-pregnant Josie in San Francisco. Hammett worked for the San Francisco branch of Pinkerton's, but left the agency in 1921 or 22 due to ill health. He took a writing course and sold droll vignettes to "The Smart Set" magazine during 1922, and some short stories to other magazines. He began to sell detective stories to "The Black Mask" from 1923. After the birth of the couple's second daughter in 1926, Hammett gave up freelance writing and became an advertising copy writer for the jeweler Albert Samuels, but left after six months due to ill health. Forced by his tuberculosis to live apart from Jose and the children, the marriage eventually broke up. Hammett supported himself through writing, chiefly for "The Black Mask", now under editor Joe Shaw. Hammett's long short stories were republished in novel form by Alfred Knopf. In 1929 Hammett moved to New York. After the success of his novel "The Maltese Falcon", he was engaged as a screenwriter by Paramount Pictures and moved to Hollywood, where he met Lillian Hellman. He returned to New York in 1931, where he wrote "The Glass Key". "The Thin Man" was published as a magazine serial in 1933. Hammett was encouraged by Hearst to write the "Secret Agent X9" comic strip, which ran from 1934-35, his last original work. In 1942 he re-enlisted in the army and was posted to the Aleutian Islands off of Alaska, where he edited The Adakian. When discharged in 1945, he returned to New York and became President of the NY Civil Rights Congress. In July 1951 Hammett was subpoenaed to testify on the Civil Rights Congress' bail fund, and was jailed for refusing to answer questions. Upon his release from jail, he was presented with a bill by the Internal Revenue Service for $111,000 in back taxes. In failing health, he lived off and on with Hellman. In 1961 he was admitted to New York's Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, where he died on January 10.- Scott Hall was born into a military family on October 20, 1958. Due to the army life he grew up a traveler and spent his high school years at the All American High in Munich, Germany. When his family returned to the States he attended St Mary's College in Maryland, where he graduated with a degree in Pre Med, with hopes to become a children's doctor. By this time Scott was already training to be a wrestler. He made his ring debut in South Carolina in 1984, and was picked up by the now defunct AWA soon after.
Almost a decade later without hitting major success in the wrestling world, Scott signed with the WWF in 1992. Taking a character he had used previously in WCW, Scott expanded the Diamond Studd and turned him into a Cuban gangster, basing "The Bad Guy" Razor Ramon on the gangster movies he'd watched as a child.
After 3 successful years as Razor, and some great matches, including the Ladder Match against the Heartbreak Kid Shawn Michaels at Wrestlemania 10 (since voted the best Wrestlemania match of all time), Scott signed with WCW, where he had some of the most controversial years of his career. His May 1996 appearance on the Turner Broadcasting Monday Nitro program breathed life into a dying wrestling market when he instigated the New World Order. After winning several tag team golds with his best friend Kevin Nash, and a couple of singles US championships, Scott received an injury to his neck during a match with Jeff Jarrett in February 2000, which kept him off TV. Scott was fired from WCW in October of 2000, allegedly due to drunken behavior on a German tour prior to his injury.
In March 2001, Scott began to tour with New Japan. He did so well that New Japan invited him back several times throughout 2001. He also did a couple of independent shows around Florida and Alabama. In January 2002, Scott signed a two year deal with the WWF to bring back the New World Order with Kevin Nash and Hollywood Hulk Hogan. They made their first appearance in February. Scott faced Stone Cold Steve Austin at Wrestlemania X-8 in March, taking the loss. Granted custody of his two children and with a part time wrestling career, Hall finally found the balance he needed to go out a star. - Raven Grey Eagle was born on 25 May 1927 in St. Marys, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955). He died on 9 April 1998 in Glendale, California, USA.
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Charlie Shackleton was born on 15 August 1991 in St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London, England, UK. He is a producer and director, known for Fish Story (2017), Fear Itself (2015) and Beyond Clueless (2014).- Kansas Moehring was born on 9 July 1897 in St. Marys, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Out of Luck (1923), Shootin' for Love (1923) and Trailing Danger (1947). He died on 2 October 1968 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Tracy Brookshaw was born on 22 May 1975 in St. Marys, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress, known for TNA iMPACT! Wrestling (2004), TNA Xplosion (2002) and WEW on the Stroll to Destruction (2004). She has been married to Frankie Kazarian since 7 January 2010. They have one child.- Actress
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Buxom, gorgeous and voluptuous knockout Venice Kong was born on December 17, 1961 in St. Mary, Jamaica. Her father's family owned a bakery and a small market in St. Mary. Moreover, both Kong's mother and aunt worked as Playboy bunnies at Playboy's Jamaica resort. Venice moved with her mother to America when she was six years old. She eventually settled down in Los Angeles, California. Kong was the Playmate of the Month in the September, 1985 issue of "Playboy." She was the last Playboy Playmate to have a centerfold with a staple. Venice appeared in several "Playboy" videos and posed for a handful of "Playboy" newsstand special editions. Kong not only made a guest appearance on an episode of the TV show "Knight Rider," but also had small roles in the movies "My Man Adam," "Number One with a Bullet," and "Beverly Hills Cop II." Besides acting and modeling, Venice Kong has also worked in investment banking.- Director
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Perry Henzell was born on 7 March 1936 in Port Maria, St. Mary, Jamaica. He was a director and writer, known for The Harder They Come (1972), No Place Like Home (2006) and Camera Three (1954). He was married to Sally Densham. He died on 30 November 2006 in Treasure Beach, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica.- Joseph Julian was born on 9 June 1910 in St. Marys, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Dark Shadows (1966), The Mugger (1958) and That Night! (1957). He died on 11 March 1982 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Director William K. Howard was born in St. Marys, OH, in 1893. He studied engineering and law at Ohio State University but gravitated towards film distribution when he took a job as sales manager for Vitagraph. After serving in an artillery unit with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, he relocated to Hollywood and trained as an assistant director at Universal. Howard began directing films in 1921, first for Fox, then at Famous Players-Lasky (1924). Many of his early silents were commercially popular westerns, characterized by powerful images of rugged landscapes, often featuring sweeping plains and imposing monoliths. He excelled equally at spectacular action sequences, such as the one at the climax of Volcano (1926), set on the island of Martinique on the eve of the eruption of Mt. Pelee. Howard was also influenced by German expressionism--notably by the films of F.W. Murnau--as reflected, for example, in the stylized, somber look of White Gold (1927). This was the first of his films to attract critical notice, but, ironically, did less well at the box office than his others.
With the onset of talking pictures, Howard made the rounds of the major studios, acquiring a reputation for turning out superior melodramas. He became increasingly prodigious, turning out two or three pictures per year. He did some of his best work at Fox between 1928-33. This included one of the first multiple-story films made up to that point, the shipboard mystery Transatlantic (1931). A formula that would become commonplace during the 1970s, it was aptly described by "Variety" as "an aquatic Grand Hotel (1932)". However, unlike "Grand Hotel", "Transatlantic" was less about performance and dialogue than it was about mobile camera movement, tracking shots, clever angles and neat visual touches, such as a climactic chase through the stylized interior of the ship, where steam and inventive expressionist lighting devices helped to convey a threatening and claustrophobic atmosphere.
Howard reached his peak with the compact courtroom drama The Trial of Vivienne Ware (1932), characterized again by fluid camera work and prodigious use of flashbacks. Even more innovative was The Power and the Glory (1933). This seedy tale of a railway tycoon's rise to the top and his inevitable corruption by power is often referred to as a precursor to Citizen Kane (1941). It employs the same technique of narrative flashback and has as misanthropic a view of human nature. In the opinion of Mordaunt Hall, commenting for "The New York Times": "no little praise for the excellence of this film is due to William K. Howard for the direction and to Preston Sturges, who is responsible for the story and its development" (August 17, 1933).
After brief spells at MGM (1934-35) and Paramount (1935-36), Howard crossed the Atlantic to work on three films for Alexander Korda. Best of these was the excellent Fire Over England (1937), a lavish costume epic about the defeat of the Spanish armada in the 16th century. Visually and dramatically one of his best films, its success was due in no small measure to the fact that Howard had been able to hire his favorite cinematographer, fellow American James Wong Howe, as well as having on board the excellent Russian-born art director Lazare Meerson. After Howard returned home, he found worthwhile assignments difficult to come by and his career went into sudden free fall. It is unclear whether this was due to his increasing struggle with alcoholism or to a notorious incident in 1936, in which he ordered his production supervisor off the set (of The Princess Comes Across (1936)) for "too much interference", in keeping with new guidelines set by the Screen Directors Guild. Whatever the true reasons for his decline, Howard finished his career directing routine second features. After being replaced by Lloyd Bacon as director of Knute Rockne All American (1940) for being "excessively slow", he had his last unsuccessful comeback attempt with the James Cagney vehicle Johnny Come Lately (1943). Howard made two more films--one for "B" studio Republic Pictures and the other for bottom-of-the-barrel Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC)--before calling it quits in 1946. He died in February 1954 at the age of 60. There is a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Vine Street that bears his name.- Mary Kate was signed with the world famous Wilhelmina Models agency in New York City at age 9 and has modeled in campaigns for H&M, Justice, Limited Too, Express and Nike to name a few and has appeared in numerous commercials. Most notably she has posed in spreads for American Vogue and Vogue Bambini and has appeared in several spreads for Supermodel's Unlimited Magazine and has been named to their annual "Most Beautiful" models feature twice. She grew up primarily in Connecticut and is the daughter of celebrity photographer Catherine Fiehn, Her father is environmentalist Anthony Malat.
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Dominic Grant is a Post Production Supervisor and award winning British film producer raised in South-London and now based in Berkshire. Alongside providing Post Production Supervisor services on big budget features and HETV shows, Dominic is developing a small number of exciting independent feature film projects and offers a Producing and Post Producing consultancy service to filmmakers of all.- Henry Carvill was born on 11 May 1866 in St. Mary's, Nova Scotia, Canada. He was an actor, known for To Hell with the Kaiser! (1918), The Great Victory, Wilson or the Kaiser? The Fall of the Hohenzollerns (1919) and The Turn of the Wheel (1918). He died on 11 March 1941 in London, England, UK.
- Jenifer Dillow was born in St. Mary's County, Maryland, USA. She is known for Mother's Day (2016), Everything Before Us (2015) and Dirty Dancing (2017).
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Ini Kamoze was born on 9 October 1957 in Port Maria, St. Mary, Jamaica. He is an actor and composer, known for Everest (2015), Bad Boys (1995) and 21 Jump Street (2012).- Writer
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George Bricker was born on 18 July 1898 in St. Mary's, Ohio, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Blonde Alibi (1946), Tangier Incident (1953) and A Man's World (1942). He died on 22 January 1955 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
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Lee 'Scratch' Perry was born on 20 March 1936 in St. Mary, Jamaica. He was an actor and composer, known for Fool's Gold (2008), The Beach (2000) and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998). He was married to Mireille Campbell and Pauline "Isha" Morrison. He died on 29 August 2021 in Lucea, Jamaica.- Writer
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Born the youngest of ten children of John Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (always called "Col") was bullied so viciously by his elder brother that he ran away from home at the age of seven. Though he was discovered and returned the next morning, the memory of that night would provide fodder for his later poetry. After his father's death, Col was sent to live with his hard-drinking Uncle John Bowden, who would often take his ten-year-old nephew with him to the taverns.
After the deaths of two of his siblings in the early 1790s, Col wrote "Monody," and in trying to conquer both his melancholy and an illness, he became addicted to laudanum opium. After unsuccessful attempts to handle both college and mounting debts, Col ran away and joined the army in 1793. As he was entirely unsuited to military service, his brother managed to arrange his discharge by reason of insanity and Col returned to college, where he became good friends with a political radical named Robert Southey. Col met and married Robert Southey's sister-in-law, Sara Fricker, and tried to be a respectable family man. Depressed by the death of his infant son and persistent illness, Col moved to Malta, where he spied for the British Crown. He separated from his wife, became estranged from his children, and despite numerous tries, was unable to break his opium habit. Samuel Taylor Coleridge died 25th of July, 1834.- Robert Rendel was born on 2 December 1884 in St. Marys Abbots, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Four Feathers (1939), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1931) and Twice Branded (1936). He died on 9 May 1944 in Marylebone, London, England, UK.
- Arthur Michael William Matthews was born on 15 October 2018 in Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital, London, England, UK.
- Chuck Daly was born on 20 July 1930 in St. Mary's, Pennsylvania, USA. He was married to Theresa Cierlitsky. He died on 9 May 2009 in Jupiter, Florida, USA.
- Champion diver Georgia Coleman was born on January 23, 1912 in St. Maries, Idaho. Georgia had been diving for only six months when she made the 1928 Olympic team at age sixteen. Coleman won both a bronze medal in women's springboard diving and a silver medal in women's platform diving at the 1928 Olympics. Georgia went on to win a gold medal in women's springboard diving and a second silver medal in women's platform diving at the 1932 Olympics. She was the first female athlete to perform a 2 1/2 forward somersault in competition. Moreover, Coleman won every U.S. national title in 1929 and was beaten only once in the next four years. In addition, Georgia won a total of eleven Amateur Athletic Union championships while competing for the Los Angeles Athletic Club. Coleman contracted polio in 1937, but learned to swim again prior to her death from pneumonia at the tragically young age of twenty-eight on September 14, 1940.
- This vibrant young actress was bit by the acting bug while spending a summer in New York City. After landing two national commercials and several small television and film roles in the Big Apple, she packed up and headed west to Hollywood. There, she continues acting in television shows and films.
- Blue Philpott was born on 12 May 1988 in St. Mary's, The Isles Of Scilly, England, UK. She is an actress, known for When the Whales Came (1989).