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- Bashar al-Assad has been the Syrian Dictator since 2000, he was born on September 11, 1965 in Damascus, Syria. He has been married to Asma Al Akhras since December 2000. They have three children. He is the son of Hafez al-Assad who ran as dictator. He went to school to be a medical doctor. His brother Bassel died in a car crash in 1994. So after he was called back to the Syrian army and was prepared to be a dictator for the country Syria, in 2000 he became Dictator of Syria after his father passed away. He had made a reform on the Damascus Spring which led to the shutdown of Mezzeh prison and releasing the Muslim prisoners. During the War on Terror he allied with the West and interrogated people believed to be al-Qaeda suspects. In 2005 Rafic Hariri was assassinated in the car bombing at the hotel in Lebanon. Soon afterwards he was blamed for the terrorist attack. In 2007 he was reelected to run for dictatorship. On January 26, 2011 Mass protests in Syria began and riots occurred and the Syrian Army responded with violence against the protesters which led to the 9 year Syrian war. Many of the refugees escaped Syria due to the violence occurring in the cities. Assad sent his army to retake the cities held by rebels. He is accused of the war crimes including torturing people in prisons and killing people who opposed him, He is also known for human rights violation against his people and is accused of using chemical attacks in Syria. Assad fought to retake the cities of Syria including Appello. He received military support from Russia to stop the uprisings of the Syrian rebels. He is still trying to retake Syria affected by the Syrian War.
- Chafûrin was born on December 4, 1961 in Saitama, Japan as Hirotaka Shimasawa. He is an actor, known for Escaflowne (1996), Silent Möbius (1998) and Dragon Ball GT (1996). He also voiced as Shimajiro's Father in Shimajiro (1993) (TV Series) and also voiced in the Shimajiro films including Shimajirô to fufu no daibôken - sukue nanairo no hana (2013), Gekijouban Shimajirou no wao!: Shimajirou to kujira no uta (2014), Gekijouban Shimajirou no wao!: Shimajirou to ookina ki (2015), Gekijouban Shimajirou no wao!: Shimajirou to niji no oashisu (2017) ,Shimajiro and the Rainbow Oasis (2017), Shimajiro and the Rainbow Oasis (2018).
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Charles Martinet was born on September 17, 1955 in San Jose, California, USA as Charles Andre Martinet. He is an actor and writer, best known for voicing many characters in Nintendo games including Mario, Luigi, Wario, Waluigi, Baby Mario, and Baby Luigi, in video games including the Super Mario series and the spin-offs from 1991-2023. He has been involved in other Nintendo games such as the Super Smash Bros series, Super Punch Out (1994), Nintendo Puzzle Collection (2003), Yakuman Ds (2005) and Fortune Street (2011). He has also voiced Mario and Luigi in the Gamecube version of SSX on Tour (2005).
He also voiced for Space Quest 6: The Spinal Frontier (1995) as Pa Conshohocken, Ray Trace, PiTooie, and voiced Coliey Joe, Big Moe, Lar-Man in the Stooge Fighter 3 Mini Game as a brief side job for Sierra-Online company in 1995 before moving on to work for Nintendo on Super Mario 64, a Nintendo 64 game.
Charles Martinet starred in cameo film roles including Matlock (1989) in the episode "The Captain". He also played in The Dead Pool (1988), Nine Months (1995), and The Game (1997), he also did the character voices for Anastasia 1997. The non Disney animated movie Beauty and the Beast (1997) by Enchanted Tales.
Charles Martinet originally wanted to be in law school and wasn't interested in voice acting due to the fear of speaking in public, during his school year, one of his friends convinced him to drop out of Law School and become a voice actor, he finally decided to drop out of Law School and pursue after acting and voice acting. He voiced for Mario in Mario Teaches Typing (1991), and practiced voice acting as Super Mario, he later voiced in Super Punch Out (1994) on a Super Nintendo game and in 1995 voiced the some of the characters at Sierra-Online company in the PC game Space Quest 6: The Spinal Frontier (1995).
One day while Charles was relaxing at the beach, he got a phone call from his agent and was told that he got the part to play Super Mario in Super Mario 64 in the English version. Since then he has been voice acting for Nintendo video games. He also voiced in other video games including Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance (1999), Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds (2001), Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast (2002), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age (2004), Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time (2009), The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011), Dragon Ball Legends (2018).
On April 5th 2023, The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) released, which he voiced Mario's dad in many languages (English, Catalan, European French, German, Italian, and European Spanish) He also voiced Giuseppe in nearly every language.
Charles Martinet retired as the voice of Mario, Luigi, Wario, Waluigi, Baby Mario and Baby Luigi in the Mario games on August 21st 2023 and became a Mario Ambassador for Nintendo the same day. His last Nintendo game he worked on before retiring was Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope (2022) as the voice of Mario and Luigi (although that game got ''The Tower of Doooom'' and ''The Last Spark Hunter'' DLC released in 2023, and featured his voice) He was replaced by Kevin Afghani starting from Super Mario Bros. Wonder (2023). However, Martinet's voice is still being reused in remakes and rereleases of Mario games which he voiced Mario, Luigi, Wario, Waluigi, Baby Mario and Baby Luigi in, starting from Mario vs. Donkey Kong (2024).- Devon White was born on December 29, 1962 in Kingston, Jamaica. He is known for 1992 American League Championship Series (1992), 1986 American League Championship Series (1986) and Prime 9 (2009). In 1993 he made a Guest Appearance in the TV show Under the Umbrella Tree (1986-1993) in the episode Baseball Fever.
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Hisayuki Toriumi was born on October 29, 1941. He was a director and producer, known for Speed Racer (1967), Gatchaman The Movie (1978), G-Force: Guardians of Space (1987) and Gatchaman (1972), He also created and directed the Shimajiro TV series in 1993. He died on January 23, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan.- Writer
- Director
Jenny Nimmo is a British book author best known for her eight Charlie Bone book series also known as Children of the Red King, in 1970 she became the director of the British children's TV show Jackanory. She also wrote the The Snow Spider trilogy books which became a TV adaptation of The Snow Spider was created in 1988 as a TV mini-series followed with Emlyn's Moon and concluded with The Chestnut Soldier. In 1990 she released a book called Ultramarine, later in 1994 she released a book called Griffins Castle. In 2002 she released the Charlie Bone book series A midnight for Charlie Bone 2002, followed up with seven sequels, The Time Twister, The Blue Boa, The Castle of Mirrors, Charlie Bone and the Hidden King, Charlie Bone and the Wilderness Wolf, Charlie Bone and the Shadow of Badlock concluding with Charlie Bone and the Red Knight in 2009. She released a book spinoff called Henry and the Guardians of the Lost in 2016. In 2020 a TV show remake of The Snow Spider was released as a mini-series. As of right now there's no official film adaptation for the Charile Bone TV or film series at this time.- Kim Jong-un was born on January 8, 1984 in Pyongyang, North Korea. He is appeared in many documentaries including, Panorama (1953) and Dennis Rodman's Big Bang in PyongYang (2015). He went to boarding school in Switzerland. He has been married to Sol-Ju Ri since 2009. They have three children. On 17 December 2011, Kim Jong-il died and Kim Jong-un took over as the dictator of North Korea. He is the current Dictator for North Korea. He has a military parade in honor of his father and his country. On 12 December 2013, Kim ordered the execution of his uncle Jang Song-Thaek for treason. On November 24, 2014 a movie called The Interview (2014) featured an actor portraying Kim Jong-un caused controversy and a group of hackers hacked Sony Pictures website, despite this the controversial film The Interview was released in theaters and on home video. He is suspected to have killed his half-brother, Jong-Nam Kim, in Malaysia airport in February 2017. Kim Jong-Un was and still is involved with the nuclear missile launches. He and Donald Trump had a war of words in 2017 and almost got the war started, then the South Korean Olympics begin in 2018 and he has limited his nuclear missile tests. Later on in 2018 he and Donald Trump agreed to meet in Singapore and On 12 June, Kim held his first summit with US President Donald Trump and signed a declaration and they both shook hands. On 30 June 2019, Kim again met with President Donald Trump at the Demilitarized zone between North and South Korea and shook hands.
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Kikuko Inoue was born on September 25, 1964 in Yokosuka, Japan. She is an actress, best known for Shimajiro (TV Series) as Shimajiro's Mother, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (2006), Lunar: The Silver Star (1992) and Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger (2011). She also voiced as Shimajiro's Mother in the Shimajiro films including Shimajirô to fufu no daibôken - sukue nanairo no hana (2013), Gekijouban Shimajirou no wao!: Shimajirou to kujira no uta (2014), Gekijouban Shimajirou no wao!: Shimajirou to ookina ki (2015), The Shimajiro Movie: Shimajiro in Bookland (2016), Gekijouban Shimajirou no wao!: Shimajirou to niji no oashisu (2017), Shimajiro and the Rainbow Oasis (2017), Shimajiro and the Rainbow Oasis (2018).- Lethe Tatge was an Actress for the LDS Motion Picture Studios. She was born on December 26, 1893 in Midway Utah. She married Francis C. Tatge in 1934 who later died in 1954. She appeared in many Church films by The Church of Jesus Christ including "How Near To The Angels" (1956), "Unto The Least Of These" (1959), "Til Death Do Us Part" (1960), "Windows of Heaven" (1963), "The Mailbox" (1977), "Joseph Smith: The Man" (1980) She died on February 1, 1986.
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Masami Suzuki is an actress, known for Shimajiro (1993) as Nyakkii Momoyama and voice replacement for Saori Sugimoto in 2017-2018 and in 2021 when Saori Sugimoto passed away. She also voiced in The Slayers (1995), One Piece (1999) and Dragon Ball Z Kai (2009).- Actor
- Music Department
Mummy D. is a Japanese actor and a music rapper, known for Transit Girls (2015), Quartet (2017), Dele (2018). He also made a guest start appearance in Gekijouban Shimajirou no wao!: Shimajirou to niji no oashisu (2017) which is also known as Shimajiro and the Rainbow Oasis (2017), as MC Spike the cactus puppet and performed the rap song "Let's play before! Let's beat Teshima!".- Phillip Browne is an actor, known for The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Grass (2003), According to Bex (2003), Casualty (2003), My Family, (2010) Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps (2008), Parents of the Band (2010), Money (2010) and Love Soup (2005). He is also a Jazz musician and released his music album The Journey.
- Randy Brake is an actor also known as Randy Blake. He was Born in Birmingham, Alabama, USA, he is known for The Vancouver Asahi (2014). He also played as Mr. Brakes in Shimajiro in the Live Action Shimajiro TV segments. He toured the United States and Japan as a crown of the Ringling Brothers Circus, the largest and oldest circus group in the United States, and later taught at Ringling Crown College. Since 1998, he has been a comedian at the Tokyo Disneyland Diamond Horseshoe Review for three years. From 2001, he has worked extensively with comedians, show-writers and directors at Universal Studios Japan. His arts are not limited to them, and they cover a wide variety of areas, including fire-eating and mime. And, as a comical magician, musician and juggler.
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Rémi Gazel was a French composer from Montpellier, France who was best known for the Rayman video game music on the Playstation 1. Gazel was a self-taught artist who also pursued digital technology including digital art, web design, and video making. Gazel died from cancer on May 25th, 2019 at the age of 41.- Saori Sugimoto was bornin Kanagawa, Japan. She was an actress, known for Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (1995), She also voiced as Nyakkii Momoyama / Ramurin in the Shimajiro TV series and in the Shimajiro films including, Shimajiro: A Wonderful Adventure (2014), Shimajiro and the Rainbow Oasis (2017) and Shimajiro to Sora Tobu Fune (2021). Her final voice role is Shimajirou to Kirakira Oukoku no Ouji-sama (2022) which was released one year after her death. She died on October 21, 2021 from anorexia-induced heart failure.
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Steve Harwell was born on January 9, 1967 in Santa Clara, California, USA as Steven Scott Harwell. In 1994 Steve Harwell formed a rock band callled Smash Mouth and they released their first album Fush Yu Mang with the song "Walkin' on the Sun" which became a big hit along with the remake song "Why Can't We Be Friends?" by the group "War". Later on he released an album in 1999 called Astro Lounge with their song "All Star" and "Then the Morning Comes" which became a hit on the Billboards chart. In 2001 Steve Harwell appeared in the 2001 American Comedy film "Rat Race" as a cameo guest. Later that year, an album called "Smash Mouth" was released with the remake song "I'm a Believer" by the Monkees but was delayed due to the death of Steve Harwell's son Presley Scott Harwell who died that year. He also released the song "Getting Better" for "The Cat in the Hat" 2003 film. He also released the credit song I wanna be like you" for the 2003 Disney movie "The Jungle Book 2". He also composed 2 songs "Beside Myself" and "Everything Just Crazy" for the 2013 South Korean cartoon film "Pororo, the Racing Adventure". In 2016 during his live concert tour on Stage, Steve Harwell collapsed on stage and was rushed to the hospital. He later recovered and continues his rock music tours up until 2023. One of his last concerts on stage was at the Orem Utah Scera Shell concert on May 27, 2023. On September 4, he died in Bosie Idaho from liver failure.- Tatsuya Gashûin was born on December 10, 1950 in Tokyo, Japan as Akinosuke Sugano. He is an actor, known for the 2 Shimajiro films including Gekijouban Shimajirou no wao!: Shimajirou to kujira no uta (2014) as the voice puppet of Hermit Crab, Gekijouban Shimajirou no wao!: Shimajirou to ookina ki as the voice puppet of Froggie, he also voiced in Spirited Away (2001), Howl's Moving Castle (2004) and Kamen Rider W (2009).