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'Mad' Mike Hughes was born on 9 February 1956 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for Rocketman (2019), Death Valley Girls: (One Less Thing) Before I Die (2018) and Homemade Astronauts (2021). He died on 22 February 2020 in Barstow, California, USA.- Aaron Freeman was born on 8 June 1956 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an actor, known for American Playhouse (1980), Things Are Tough All Over (1982) and Teachers (1984). He has been married to Sharon Rosenzweig since 2007. He was previously married to Wanda Christine.
- Aaron Kyle was born on 6 April 1956 in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Aaron Lustig was born on 17 September 1956 in Rochester, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Edward Scissorhands (1990), The Day After Tomorrow (2004) and Darkman (1990).- Director
- Additional Crew
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Aart van Asperen was born on 16 August 1956 in Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands. He is a director and assistant director, known for Medisch Centrum West (1988), Goede tijden, slechte tijden (1990) and Goudkust (1996).- Actor
- Production Manager
Abbas Rashidi was born on 8 January 1956 in Abadan, Iran. He is an actor and production manager, known for Liberation (2019), The Madness (2020) and Ability (2018). He has been married to Massoumeh Ansari since 29 October 1979. They have one child.- Director
- Producer
- Editor
Abi Feijó was born on 18 June 1956 in Braga, Portugal. He is a director and producer, known for The Outlaws (1993), Oh Que Calma (1985) and Clandestino (2000).- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Director
Achim Poulheim was born on 25 October 1956. He is a cinematographer and director, known for Wings of Desire (1987), Christiane F. (1981) and Das Sommeralbum (1992).- Ad Melkert was born on 12 February 1956 in Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
- Adalberto Parra was born on 11 October 1956 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is an actor, known for Mañana es para siempre (2008), Vecinos (2005) and Gritos de muerte y libertad (2010).
- Actor
- Director
- Producer
Adam Arkin was born on 19 August 1956 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Get Shorty (2017), A Serious Man (2009) and Sons of Anarchy (2008).- Writer
- Producer
- Director
Adam Brooks was born on 3 September 1956 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is a writer and producer, known for Definitely, Maybe (2008), Whatever Works (2009) and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004).- Producer
- Additional Crew
Adam Lancman was born on 21 May 1956 in Poland. He was a producer, known for Shadowrun (1993), Total Eclipse (1994) and Gex (1995). He was married to Marlene Lancman. He died on 6 March 2005 in Melbourne, Australia.- Director
- Actor
- Producer
Adam Nimoy was born on 9 August 1956 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a director and actor, known for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) and Babylon 5 (1993). He was previously married to Terry Farrell, Martha and Nancy Nimoy.- Actress
- Writer
Adam Rogatty was born on 30 January 1956 in Ilawa, Warminsko-Mazurskie, Poland. She is an actress and writer, known for Mokry szmal (1986) and Biala wizytówka (1989).- Son of the late film and stage actor David Tomlinson and brother of Producer and 1st Assistant Film director Henry Tomlinson. Theatre includes seasons at Birmingham and Bristol followed by 'Falkland Sound' at the Chichester Festival Theatre; St Joan, The Spanish Tragedy, The 1st Olympics at the National Theatre; Viva at Stratford East. Now MD of James Adam Furniture Ltd..
- Adan Sanchez was born on 2 September 1956 in Stamford, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Wishbone (1995), Wishbone's Dog Days of the West (1998) and Project Eliminator (1991). He died on 24 June 1998 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
- Adilgerey Magomedtagirov was born on 1 November 1956 in Gonada, Gunib Raion, Dagestan ASSR, RSFSR, USSR [now Dagestan, Russia]. He died on 5 June 2009 in Makhachkala, Republic of Dagestan, Russia.
- Actor
- Director
- Producer
Adrian Mills was born on 16 July 1956 in Oakham, Rutland, England, UK. He is an actor and director, known for Doctor Who (1963), Corners (1987) and Tricky Business (1989).- Additional Crew
- Director
- Actress
Adriana Barraza was born on 5 March 1956 in Toluca, Estado de Mexico, Mexico. She is a director and actress, known for Babel (2006), Blue Beetle (2023) and Drag Me to Hell (2009). She has been married to Arnaldo Pipke since 29 April 2005. She was previously married to Carlos Valsagna.- Adriana Trandafir is a Romanian film and theater actress .She was born on April 26, 1956 in Bascov, Romania. She graduated from Institute of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography in 1979.In 1977, she plays first role in the movie Pentru patrie.Other notable roles in films : Ciocolata cu alune (1979) ,Europolis (2010) ,Sacrificiul (2019) .Play on the stage of the theater ''Odeon'' in Bucharest.2004 Uniter Award for Best Supporting Actress.She is married with Bogdan .She has two children: Maria Speranta and Stefan.
- Adriana Xenides was born on 9 January 1956 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was an actress, known for Golden Fiddles (1991), Angel Baby (1995) and A Current Affair (1971). She was married to Micheal Xenides, Frank Cortazzo and Robert Phillips. She died on 7 June 2010 in Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Adriane Lenox was born on 11 September 1956 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. She is an actress, known for Black Snake Moan (2006), The Blind Side (2009) and Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007).- Adrienn Zahorán was born on 5 June 1956 in Békéscsaba, Hungary.
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Afric Simone was born on 17 July 1956 in Maputo, Mozambique. He is known for Born to Win (2014), The Margin (1976) and Billy and Buddy (2013).- Agata Rzeszewska was born on 2 January 1956 in Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland. She is an actress, known for Pierwsza milosc (2004), Szarada (1977) and True Law (2012).
- Agim Bajko was born on 10 February 1956 in Tirana, Albania. He is an actor, known for Edhe kështu edhe ashtu (1989), Dashi pa brirë (1993) and Binarët (1987).
- Agim Mujo was born on 23 March 1956 in Tirana, Albania. He was an actor, known for Malet me blerim mbuluar (1971) and Guximtarët (1970). He died on 21 September 2019 in Rome, Italy.
- Agnieszka Kotulanka was born on 26 October 1956 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. She was an actress, known for Television Theater (1953), Rzeka klamstwa (1989) and Wielki tydzien (1995). She was married to Jacek Sas-Uhrynowski. She died on 20 February 2018 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Ahmad Nurradin was born on 26 August 1956 in Texas, USA. He is an actor, known for Together Brothers (1974) and Women of San Quentin (1983).
- Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Ahmed Bouchaala was born on 19 June 1956. He is a director and writer, known for Made in France (2001), Pour l'amour de Dieu (2006) and Krim (1995).- Actor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Casting Director
Ahmed Boulane was born in Salé, Morocco. He was expelled from school three times, and was only 16 when they threw him out for good. However, this didn't stop him from learning to speak four languages fluently.
Boulane was an actor with the Moroccan National Theater Company and the national Moroccan radio theater troupe from 1974 to 1977. His first job in the cinema was with Nabyl Lahlou in a wacky Moroccan movie, "Al-Kanfoudi". He was hired to play the part of a young, unemployed man, but Boulane found it impossible to leave the set once he had finished being an actor. He tried his hand at being a boom operator and grip (both of these too physically strenuous for him), and eventually finished the film as a floor assistant.
But Ahmed Boulane had been bitten by the bug, a passion that has been the motor for a rich and varied career in cinema and television as actor, location manager, assistant director, casting director, and awarded screenwriter/director/producer. During the past 40 years he has worked on more than 50 feature films and documentaries and more than a hundred commercials, both Moroccan and international. The names of Giuliano Montaldo, Alan Pakula, Carlo Di Palma, Phillipe de Broca, Jean Delannoy, Nicholas Roeg, and William Friedkin appear on his long C.V.
During the mid-90s he began to feel restless. He decided to add a nationality; he became an Irish citizen in 1995. And he decided he needed to direct his own projects. The result... in 1996 he created his production company, Boulane-O'Bryne Production (BO'B Prod), to produce "Voyage dans le Passé" ("Past Recollections") and "Ali, Rabiaa et les autres" ("Ali, Rabiaa and the Others"), two films that earned him both critical acclaim and the respect of the public.
His film "Les anges de Satan" ("The Satanic Angels") was released in March, 2007. The film is based on a true story: the controversial arrest of fourteen young Moroccan hard rock musicians falsely accused of adhering to Satanism.
His feature film "Le retour du fils" ("The Return of the Son") was selected as "Coup de coeur" in the 12th Marrakech International Film Festival in 2012.
His latest film "La Isla" ("The Island"), a political comedy in co-production between Morocco and Spain, was selected as "Coup de coeur" in the 15th Marrakech International Film Festival in 2015 and won the best comedy award in a festival in Cordoba, Columbia.
In 2019 he wrote his autobiography "Ma vie est belle", translated into English "What a Beautiful Life".- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Ahmed Imtiaz Bulbul is a renowned music composer in Bangladesh. He is known for composing many of the country's most patriotic songs along with creating songs and background scores for hundreds of movies. He has won many awards, including the Ekushe Padak in 2010.
Bulbul was a freedom fighter in the liberation war of 71 at the age of 15.- Aida Pierce was born on 15 August 1956 in Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico. She is an actress, known for Table Dance (2007), Se equivocó la cigüeña (1993) and Cándido Pérez, especialista en señoras (1991).
- Aileen Wuornos was born on 29 February 1956 in Rochester, Michigan, USA. She was married to Lewis Gratz Fell. She died on 9 October 2002 in Raiford, Florida, USA.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Aissa Wayne was born on 31 March 1956 in Burbank, California, USA. She is an actress, known for McLintock! (1963), The Alamo (1960) and Hollywood Greats (1977).- Akiko Kana was born on 8 March 1956 in Tokyo, Japan. She is an actress, known for Samurai Reincarnation (1981), Besutogai (1990) and The Inugami Family (1976).
- Writer
- Director
- Animation Department
A Japanese manga artist, best known for the series Banana Fish, who graduated from Musashino Art University. She received an Excellence Award for manga at the Japan Media Arts Festival for Umimachi Diary in 2007, from which a film adaptation titled Our Little Sister was released in 2015. Also, she twice won the Shogakukan Manga Awards for shojo, for Kisshou Tennyo in 1984 and for Yasha in 2002.- Akio Chen was born on 29 September 1956 in Taipei, Taiwan. He is an actor, known for Old Fox (2023), The Teenage Psychic (2017) and Quanli guocheng (2012).
- Music Department
Akira Wada was born on 26 August 1956 in Tokyo, Japan. He is known for Sunset Hills Hotel (1987). He died on 28 March 2021 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.- Director
- Art Department
- Writer
Akitarô Daichi was born on 15 January 1956 in Gunma, Japan. He is a director and writer, known for Fruits Basket (2001), Grave of the Fireflies (1988) and Now and Then, Here and There (1999).- Al Baker was born on 9 December 1956 in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
- Actor
- Producer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Al Corley was born on 22 May 1956 in Wichita, Kansas, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Dynasty (1981), The Ice Road (2021) and Don Juan DeMarco (1994). He was previously married to Jessika Cardinahl.- Al Harris was born on 31 December 1956 in Bangor, Maine, USA.
- Al Hayter was born on 18 August 1956 in Pasadena, Texas, USA. He is an actor, known for Lost in the Sun (2015), The Man Who Came Back (2008) and The Texas Triangle (2011).
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Al Tantay was born on 15 March 1956. He is an actor and director, known for Sanggano't 'sanggago (2001), Bihagin: Bilibid Boys (1981) and Gumapang ka sa lusak (2010).- Al Trautwig was born on 26 February 1956. He is an actor, known for Cool Runnings (1993), Run All Night (2015) and MSG Network: New York Knicks Basketball (1969).
- Alain Ducasse is an iconic chef with decades in the business, several restaurants under his belt, and an eponymous restaurant group with its hand in everything from actual restaurant operations to consultancy to cooking schools and beyond, Ducasse is a verifiable culinary force. He operates a number of restaurants including Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester which holds three stars (the top ranking) in the Michelin Guide. The name Alain Ducasse has become synonymous with fine dining.
He was born in Orthez, but educated on a farm in Castel-Sarrazin in southwestern France. He began his culinary journey in 1972 with an apprenticeship at the Pavillon Landais restaurant in Soustons. From there, Ducasse sweated his way through the ranks of several French kitchens, eventually landing at Moulin de Mougins where he began playing with the contours of the Provençale cuisine for which he is now so very, very well known.
Head chef positions followed, and soon enough Ducasse was earning his first Michelin stars as executive chef of La Terrasse in Juan-les-Pins in 1984. More stars would follow. As chef de cuisine for the Hôtel de Paris in Monte Carlo, Ducasse helped earn Louis XV three stars-making it the first hotel restaurant to earn three stars in the history of the guide.
Ducasse would maintain strong ties to the hotel world, opening his own inn in Provence in 1995 and opening his own restaurants in hotels from Paris to New York City's own Essex House Hotel.
Alain Ducasse's restaurants, cooking schools, cookbooks, and consulting activities had revenues of $15.9 million in 2002. Since that time, Ducasse has been expanding his reach. Alain Ducasse has also opened a cooking school for the general public in Paris and another for chefs (ADF), which also works for the European Space Agency to develop astronaut meals to be taken into space.
In 2005, Ducasse opened his first Asian restaurant in Tokyo, Japan.
With restaurants stretching from Tokyo to Las Vegas, a slew of important cookbooks, and legions of chefs training in his kitchens across the globe, Ducasse is slowly working his way towards a culinary version of world domination.
Nowadays this culinary mastermind is more CEO than chef as he oversees the day-to-day operations of his Alain Ducasse Group, an entrepreneurial outfit that includes his restaurants, inns, cooking schools, and consulting activities. In 2002 alone, the group brought in revenues of $15.9 million, and it is showing no signs of slowing down. Ducasse now has 14 restaurants in seven countries, including France, England, the United States, Lebanon, Japan, Mauritius, and Saint-Tropez, making him the first French chef to truly go global. - Alain Perrin was born on 7 October 1956 in Lure, Haute-Saône, France. He is an actor, known for To the North of Katmandu (1986), UEFA Champions League (1992) and Match of the Day (1964).
- Additional Crew
Alajos Németh was born on 20 October 1956 in Budapest, Hungary. He is known for Vérrel és kötéllel (1990) and A Dal (2012).