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Jean-Philippe Ricci

Jean-Philippe Ricci is a French actor. After studying acting in Marseille, Jean-Philippe Ricci is directed by Philippe Harel and Jacques Audiard. He played the role of Vetturi in A Prophet in 2009 with Niels Arestrup and Tahar Rahim. On television, he was the commissaire Damiani in Mafiosa (TV series) and Yvan Colonna in Pierre Schoeller's Les Anonymes about the assassination of Claude Érignac. Source: Article "Jean-Philippe Ricci" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Tahar Rahim

Cast · Known for The Eagle

Tahar Rahim (born 4 July 1981) is a French actor. His breakthrough performance was in the 2009 French film A Prophet, for which he won the César Award for Best Actor and Most Promising Actor. He has since starred as FBI agent Ali Soufan in the miniseries The Looming Tower and Judas in the film Mary Magdalene (both 2018). garnered critical acclaim and nominations for the Golden Globe Award and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for portraying Mohamedou Ould Salahi in The Mauritanian (2021). He received another Golden Globe Award nomination for portraying Charles Sobhraj in the miniseries The Serpent (2021).

Juliette Welfling

Editor · Known for Ocean's Eight

Juliette Welfling is a French film editor. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for her work in the 2007 movie The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. She has received the César Award for Best Editing for her work on this film as well as for five Jacques Audiard films: Regarde les hommes tomber (1994), The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005), A Prophet (2009), Rust and Bone (2012), and The Sisters Brothers (2018). Source: Article "Juliette Welfling" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Stéphane Fontaine

Cinematographer · Known for Conclave

Stéphane Fontaine is a French cinematographer. He graduated from the École nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière in 1985, and began his career as first assistant camera on films directed by Arnaud Desplechin, Jim Jarmusch, Leos Carax and Olivier Assayas, among others. He won the César Award for Best Cinematography in 2006 for The Beat That My Heart Skipped and in 2010 for A Prophet. Source: Article "Stéphane Fontaine" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Karim Leklou

Cast · Known for De Gaulle: Résistance

Karim Leklou (born June 20, 1982) is a French actor who started his career in small role in Jacques Audiard 's film A Prophet (2009) and followed by Suzanne and Grand Central. Leklou undertook a lead role in Hippocrate for both seasons (2018, 2021). He has also starred in Sons of Ramses (2022), For My Country (2022), and Time Out (2023). In 2025, at the 50th César Awards he won for Best Actor for his performance in Jim's Story.

Lee Strasberg

Cast · Known for The Godfather Part II

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Lee Strasberg was an American actor, director and acting teacher.  He cofounded, with directors Harold Clurman and Cheryl Crawford, the Group Theatre in 1931, which was hailed as "America's first true theatrical collective".  In 1951, he became director of the non-profit Actors Studio, in New York City, considered "the nation's most prestigious acting school".  In 1969, Strasberg founded the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City and in Hollywood to teach the work he pioneered. He is considered the "father of method acting in America," according to author Mel Gussow, and from the 1920s until his death in 1982 "he revolutionized the art of acting by having a profound influence on performance in American theater and movies".  From his base in New York, he trained several generations of theatre and film's most illustrious talents, including Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Julie Harris, Paul Newman, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and director Elia Kazan.  Former student Elia Kazan directed James Dean in East of Eden (1955), for which Kazan and Dean were nominated for Academy Awards. As a student, Dean wrote that Actors Studio was "the greatest school of the theater [and] the best thing that can happen to an actor".  Playwright Tennessee Williams, writer of A Streetcar Named Desire, said of Strasberg's actors, "They act from the inside out. They communicate emotions they really feel. They give you a sense of life." Directors like Sidney Lumet, a former student, have intentionally used actors skilled in Strasberg's "Method".  Kazan, in his autobiography, wrote, "He carried with him the aura of a prophet, a magician, a witch doctor, a psychoanalyst, and a feared father of a Jewish home.... [H]e was the force that held the thirty-odd members of the theatre together, and made them 'permanent.'"  :61 Today, Ellen Burstyn, Al Pacino, and Harvey Keitel lead this nonprofit studio dedicated to the development of actors, playwrights, and directors. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lee Strasberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Mike Hernandez

Mike Hernandez is a man who's had several careers throughout his life, and now he's a full-time actor. In April of 2013, an acting opportunity literally fell into Mike's lap. A local talent agent who saw him reading Tarot cards at a psychic fair thought he was photogenic, had a good look and great energy, and an interesting presence. She also thought he might have the makings of a good actor, so she invited him to join her agency. Having no prior aspirations of becoming an actor, Mike thought the opportunity was too good to pass up. So, as he had done so many times before in his life, Mike took a chance and got into acting. His career soon took off and he appeared in TV shows such as "Escaping the Prophet", "Evil in Law" and "Best in Chow: Taco Wars Seattle", and in the films "Blue Sky Coffee" and "String Theory", both of which were shot in Seattle. He has also been in industrial videos for the likes of Boeing, Microsoft, the VA Hospital, Navos and Kaiser Permanente and done commercial work for various clients. It occurred to Mike that if he was really going to pursue his acting career seriously, he'd have to move to Hollywood - or at least somewhere in Los Angeles area. He did just that in September of 2015, initially moving to Woodland Hills. Mike started out in somewhat of a good position in that he had built up credentials in Seattle and already had both theatrical and commercial representation with LA's FireStarter Entertainment. Since landing in Hollywood, he's booked two recurring parts in HBO's "Veep" and ABC's "American Crime", roles in the independent films "Almost Home" and "The Honor List", and commercials and print ads for various national companies. His Hollywood career was off and running. Mike was born in 1955 in El Paso, Texas. He spent his late teens and early twenties working at Farah Manufacturing Company and at various Pizza Hut restaurants, and as a professional musician performing in all of the city's top music venues. In 1977, he made a fateful decision to join the Navy to become a Navy Musician. The Navy sent him to Seattle, WA, where he began his stint in the Pacific Northwest as a Navy Musician assigned to Navy Band Seattle. He then spent the next 39 years there as a professional musician; a database developer and consultant; an author and technical writer; a program/community/marketing manager at Microsoft; a technical speaker and trainer known throughout the United States, Europe and South America; a professional Tarot reader; and an actor. Mike now lives with his wife in Glendale, CA, where he pursues his acting career full-time and continues to study acting and improv. He still does Tarot readings and plays his guitar (he's been a guitarist for over 45 years), and is just having a blast being an actor.

Simone Kessell

Simone Kessell (born 19 August 1975) is a New Zealand television actress known for her role as Lt. Alicia Washington in the short-lived Fox science fiction television series Terra Nova. In 2016, Kessell starred opposite Ray Winstone on the short-lived ABC prime-time television fantasy soap opera Of Kings and Prophets. As of 2023she co-stars on the Showtime series Yellowjackets. Description above from the Wikipedia article Simone Kessell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Rick Macy

Franklyn Richard “Rick” Macy is a veteran actor who has appeared in a number of films that appeal to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, of which he is also a member. Macy was born on October 18, 1953, and spent much of his youth playing baseball in Oregon where he grew up. He entered Brigham Young University with the intent to study journalism. But after one semester, he became bored with those classes and focused on acting, earning a bachelor’s degree in 1982. Macy has portrayed Joseph Smith Sr. in three movies: Emma Smith: My Story, The Restoration, and Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration. Most recently, he had roles in feature films Brigham City, Ephraim’s Rescue, and Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed. He had roles in films Outlaw Trail: The Treasure of Butch Cassidy, Return to the Secret Garden, Willy the Sparrow, The Butter Cream Gang in Secret of Treasure Mountain, Little Secrets, and Out of Step. He also appeared in television productions, Divided by Hate; Perfect Murder, Perfect Town; Shot in the Heart; and Touched by an Angel. He appeared as Helam in The Testaments: Of One Fold and One Shepherd, directed by Kieth Merrill. Of the experience he said: I really had no idea that The Testaments would impact my life so profoundly, but it did. The Book of Mormon segments of that film, shot in Hawaii, took about two months to film. As I strengthened my skills in acting I knew early on that this gift or talent that the Lord had given me would be used for missionary work and as such one tries to live the missionary life so that the Spirit can be with you to do whatever the Lord requires. [The scene where the blinded Helam is healed by Christ] was very poignant for me and, as I found out later, for many of the cast members and visitors that were on the set that day. We were told by one of the General Authorities that, though many of us had great talent in this field, it was not enough. The Lord would have to bless us beyond our natural abilities to do the work that this film meant to do. This last scene in the film was evidence of that very thing. The Lord blessed us with a great outpouring of his spirit. It was and still is very humbling to have been a part of that experience. After shooting that scene, and a couple others that followed, Kieth Merrill took me aside and said, “You realize I’m not the one directing this film, don’t you?” He has taught acting lessons for many years. He had a private workshop called The Actor’s Academy for sixteen years and was a part-time instructor at Pioneer High School for the Performing Arts. He and his wife, Marsha, live in Provo, Utah, and are the parents of three children.

Paul Eckstein

Paul Eckstein worked on a variety of projects during his entertainment career. Eckstein's career began with roles in "Law & Order" (1990-2010), "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1992-99) and "Star Trek: Voyager" (UPN, 1995-2001). He also appeared in the TV movie "Suspect Device" (Showtime, 1994-1995). Eckstein started in the industry by acting in films like the Morgan Freeman blockbuster crime picture "Seven" (1995). He continued to work steadily in television throughout the nineties and the early 2000s, appearing on "413 Hope Street" (Fox, 1997-98) and "First Wave" (Syfy, 1998-2001). He also landed a role in the miniseries "Bella Mafia" (1998). Eckstein continued to exercise his talent in the early 2000s through the 2010s, taking on a mix of projects like "Street Time" (Showtime, 2002-03), "The Dead Zone" (USA, 2002-07) and "Rollergirls" (A&E Network, 2005-06). His credits also expanded to "Narcos" (2014-). Eckstein most recently produced "Of Kings and Prophets" (ABC, 2016). Paul Eckstein died June 6, 2023 at the age of 59.

Abdullah II of Jordan

Abdullah II (Abdullah bin Hussein; born 30 January 1962) is the King of Jordan, having ascended the throne on 7 February 1999. He is a member of the Hashemites, who have been the reigning royal family of Jordan since 1921, and is traditionally regarded as a 41st-generation direct descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

Arthur C. Clarke

Writer · Known for 2001: A Space Odyssey

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was an English science-fiction writer, science writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, one of the most influential films of all time. Clarke was a science fiction writer, an avid populariser of space travel, and a futurist of a distinguished ability. He wrote many books and many essays for popular magazines. In 1961, he received the Kalinga Prize, a UNESCO award for popularising science. Clarke's science and science-fiction writings earned him the moniker "Prophet of the Space Age". His science-fiction writings in particular earned him a number of Hugo and Nebula awards, which along with a large readership, made him one of the towering figures of the genre. For many years Clarke, Robert Heinlein, and Isaac Asimov were known as the "Big Three" of science fiction. Clarke was a lifelong proponent of space travel. In 1934, while still a teenager, he joined the British Interplanetary Society. In 1945, he proposed a satellite communication system using geostationary orbits. He was the chairman of the British Interplanetary Society from 1946–1947 and again in 1951–1953. Clarke emigrated to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1956, to pursue his interest in scuba diving. That year, he discovered the underwater ruins of the ancient Koneswaram Temple in Trincomalee. Clarke augmented his popularity in the 1980s, as the host of television shows such as Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World. He lived in Sri Lanka until his death. Clarke was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1989 "for services to British cultural interests in Sri Lanka". He was knighted in 1998 and was awarded Sri Lanka's highest civil honour, Sri Lankabhimanya, in 2005.

Grant Cramer

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Grant Cramer (born November 10, 1961) is an American actor who has starred in films and on television. He is the son of actress Terry Moore. Grant's first feature film role was in 1980, when he starred in the horror film New Year's Evil. It wasn't until 1984, his big role came in the 1984 cult comedy film Hardbodies in which he played Scotty Palmer. His other big film was the cult classic 1988 Killer Klowns from Outer Space. He appeared in the 2001 film Mach 2. His most recent appearance was in the 2009 movie Follow the Prophet. Grant has starred on television shows, his first TV role was in the 1982 made-for-television movie Desperate Lives as a teen drug user. He starred in the hit CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless as the psychotic stalker Shawn Garrett from 1985-1986. He later returned to the soap in 1996 to play Adam Hunter, a love interest for Ashley Abbott. Grant has made guest appearances on television shows like The Facts of Life, Rags to Riches, and Murder, She Wrote. In recent years, Grant has turned his attention to writing, producing and directing. A short film he wrote, produced and directed, "Say Goodnight, Michael", won numerous awards including the Grand Jury Award at the New York Independent Film and Video festival. In 2008, he created and executive produced the VH1 series, "Old Skool with Terry and Gita", which is currently airing in over 20 countries internationally. Recently, he produced and directed the first-ever "cooking show for guys" called, "Cooking is For Play." Currently, he is producing an Action-Adventure, Horror 3D film called, The Fallen which, will be directed by Brett Leonard (Lawnmower Man) and stars Dominic Purcell, Vinnie Jones and Peter Stormare. The Fallen will begin lensing in March 2011. Description above from the Wikipedia article Grant Cramer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Moustapha Akkad

Producer · Known for Halloween

Moustapha Akkad (Arabic: مصطفى العقاد), born on July 1, 1930, in Aleppo, Syria, is an iconic figure in international cinema, a renowned director and producer of both Syrian and American origin. Moustapha Akkad's career is marked by a passion for filmmaking that led him, upon arriving in the United States with only $200, to pursue studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and then at the University of Southern California, where he earned a master's degree in film. His determination and talent attracted the attention of director Sam Peckinpah, who became his mentor and facilitated his professional debut as a producer at CBS, paving the way for a remarkable and socially engaged career. Akkad quickly distinguished himself through his commitment to fostering dialogue between cultures and telling the stories of major figures in the Arab and Muslim world. In 1976, he directed and produced "The Message (Muhammad, Messenger of God)," starring Anthony Quinn and Irene Papas in the English-language version, an epic recounting the beginnings of Islam and the life of the Prophet Muhammad. This project was particularly audacious, as Hollywood studios refused to finance it, leading Akkad to seek foreign support, notably from Morocco and Libya, to realize his artistic vision. To respect Muslim sensitivities, he consulted numerous scholars to ensure that the film biography of the Prophet Muhammad would serve as a bridge between cultures without offending beliefs. This masterpiece was followed in 1981 by "Lion of the Desert," in which Anthony Quinn portrayed Omar al-Mukhtar, the Libyan Bedouin leader fighting against Mussolini's Italian army in the Libyan desert. Despite an initially mixed reception, partly due to Libyan financing conditions, the film has gained recognition over the years as an important work in the history of cinema, embodying values ​​of emancipation and resistance. Akkad is also famous for producing the legendary "Halloween" horror film saga. Starting in 1978 with "Halloween," he revolutionized the slasher genre in the United States and left a lasting mark on popular culture with the character of Michael Myers. He produced most of the sequels, for a total of eight films, expanding the legend of the psychopathic killer and cementing his name in the history of genre cinema. His son, Malek Akkad, continues this family tradition by producing the installments released after his death. Moustapha Akkad's life tragically ended on November 11, 2005, in Amman, two days after he was seriously wounded in the Al-Qaeda suicide bombings at the hotel where he was staying, which also claimed the life of his daughter, Rima Akkad Monla. His work and commitment will remain etched in history, embodying intercultural dialogue, the memory of great figures, and the modernity of a cinema that is both universal and open to the world.

Walt Gorney

Cast · Known for Friday the 13th

Character actor Walt Gorney was born on April 12, 1912 in Vienna, Austria. He came to the United States of America when he was ten years old and lived with his family in Massachusetts, USA. In 1946, Gorney moved to an apartment in Greenwich Village in New York City, USA. Gorney appeared in a handful of movies in minor roles; he was usually cast as bums or average working class types. With his lean, stringy build, gaunt face, croaky voice, and intense off center movie/film presence, Gorney was perfectly cast as local town eccentric and grim prophet of doom, Crazy Ralph in the horror classic Friday the 13th (1980). He returned as Crazy Ralph in Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) and did the opening narration for Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988). Outside of his regrettably sparse movie credits, Walt had a long and respectable career acting on the stage. Gorney was a member of the theatrical group, the Provincetown Players in the early 1950s. - IMDb Mini Biography By: woodyanders

Mireille Mossé

Guest of the National Theatre Opera. The theatre, opera, film, television and radio actress Mireille Mossé hails from Toulon, France. In addition to studying English and Spanish, she also attended several drama courses. She acts in German and English, as well as French. The most noteworthy roles she has created in theatre productions over the past decade are Nell in Beckett’s Endgame (Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, 1995), Ariel in Shakespeare’s The Tempest (M. C. L. A. Nantes, 2003), the Guard and the prophet Teiresias in Sophocles’s Antigone (Théâtre National de Toulouse, 2004), Winnie in Beckett’s Happy Days (Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, 2006), etc. When it comes to opera, she has primarily appeared in productions by the stage directors Ursel and Karl-Ernst Herrmann. In Mozart’s opera La finta giardiniera she rendered the silent role of Amor. The production was premiered at Théâtre Royal du Parc in Brussels (1986) and was subsequently presented at Théâtre de la Monnaie, where it was recorded on video (1989). It was also staged at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York (1990) and at Salzburger Festspiele (1992). In the scenic spectacle Ombra felice, set to Mozart’s music, she portrayed the role of the Actress. It was premiered at Salzburger Festspiele (1994) and subsequently presented at Comédie de Montpellier, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris and at Opéra de Lille (1997). Mireille Mossé has also appeared in several films; for example, The Swimming Pool (2002), directed by F. Ozon; La fille sur le pont (The Girl on the Bridge, 1999), directed by P. Leconte; La cité des enfants perdus (The City of Lost Children, 1995), directed by J.-P. Jeunet and M. Caro. She has regularly collaborated with the France Culture station within Radio France. Update: September 2008

Dorothy Loudon

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dorothy Loudon (September 17, 1925 – November 15, 2003) was an American actress and singer. She won the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical in 1977 for her performance as Miss Hannigan in Annie. Loudon was also nominated for Tony Awards for her lead performances in the musicals The Fig Leaves Are Falling and Ballroom, as well as a Golden Globe award for her appearances on The Garry Moore Show. Loudon was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1925 (she later shaved eight years off her age) and raised in Claremont, New Hampshire and Indianapolis, Indiana. She attended Syracuse University on a drama scholarship but did not graduate, and moved to New York City to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She began singing in night clubs, mingling song with ad-libbed comedy patter, and was featured on television on The Perry Como Show and The Ed Sullivan Show. Loudon made her stage debut in 1962 in The World of Jules Feiffer, a play with incidental music by Stephen Sondheim, under the direction of Mike Nichols. That same year she made her Broadway debut in Nowhere to Go but Up, which ran only two weeks but earned her good reviews and the Theatre World Award. In 1969, The Fig Leaves Are Falling ran for only four performances, although it won her the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance and a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical. Loudon was chosen as the replacement for Carol Burnett when Burnett left The Garry Moore Show in 1962. Although that collaboration was not altogether successful, the excellent reviews she received the same year for her Broadway debut in Nowhere to Go but Up proved prophetic. Coincidentally, the two roles Loudon later played so successfully on Broadway stage —Miss Hannigan and Dotty Otley — were both played by Burnett onscreen. She also was a frequent guest star on many New York based comedy and game shows. In 1979, Loudon starred in the television series Dorothy, in which she portrayed a former showgirl teaching music and drama at a boarding school for girls. It lasted only one season. She appeared in only two films, playing an agent in the film Garbo Talks (1984) and a Southern eccentric in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997).

Michelle Horn

Cast · Known for Strong Medicine

Michelle Horn (born February 28, 1987) is an American actress known for her work in the TV shows Strong Medicine and Family Law. Horn is also known for her voiceover work in Disney's Lion King 2: Simba's Pride as the lion cub Kiara. Her voice can be heard in Lion King-related merchandise such as software, plushes, toys and video games. Horn also costarred with Bruce Willis in the 2005 feature Hostage, Loving Annabelle and Eliza Pinchley on Family Guy. She also guest starred in two episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "Tears of the Prophets" and "Penumbra", as Sahgi, a young Bajoran resident of Deep Space Nine. ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Robin Atkin Downes

Cast · Known for How to Train Your Dragon, The Strain, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

Born in London, England, Robin Atkin Downes is an English actor who is one of the most prolific voice-over actors in Los Angeles. He is well known for his work in film, television and voice acting. He is best known for playing Atoq Navarro and Tenzin in the Uncharted series, Kazuhira "Kaz" Miller in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, the Prophet of Regret in Halo 2 and Halo Wars, Travis Touchdown, the main protagonist in the No More Heroes series, Minh Young Kim, Kantus and Chaps in Gears of War and Gears of War 2, The Medic in Team Fortress 2, Luxord in Kingdom Hearts II, and hundreds of other games. He is currently working on many animated series including Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes and Star Wars: The Clone Wars. He also voiced Ack in the March release of How to Train Your Dragon and a new voice of Mumm-Ra in the upcoming ThunderCats. He is married to Michelle Ann Young. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robin Atkin Downes,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Terence Stamp

Cast · Known for Smallville

Terence Henry Stamp (July 22, 1938 – August 17, 2025) was an English actor. After training at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London he started his acting career in 1962. He has been referred to as the “master of the brooding silence” by The Guardian. His performance in the title role of Billy Budd, his film debut, earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor and a BAFTA nomination for Best Newcomer. Associated with the Swinging London scene of the 1960s – during which time he was in high-profile relationships with actress Julie Christie and supermodel Jean Shrimpton – Stamp was among the subjects photographed by David Bailey for a set titled Box of Pin-Ups. Stamp played butterfly collector Freddie Clegg in The Collector (1965), and in 1967 appeared in Far from the Madding Crowd, starring opposite Christie. His other major roles include playing archvillain General Zod in Superman and Superman II, tough guy Wilson in The Limey, Supreme Chancellor Valorum in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, transgender woman Bernadette Bassinger in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, ghost antagonist Ramsley in The Haunted Mansion, Stick in Elektra, Pekwarsky in Wanted, Siegfried in Get Smart, Terrence Bundley in Yes Man, the Prophet of Truth in Halo 3, Mankar Camoran in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and General Ludwig Beck in Valkyrie. He has appeared in two Tim Burton films, Big Eyes (2014) and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016).

John Doe

John Doe (born John Nommensen Duchac on February 25, 1954 in Decatur, Illinois) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, poet and bass player. Doe founded the much-praised L.A. punk band X, of which he is still an active member. His musical compositions and performances span the rock, country and folk music genres. As an actor, he has dozens of television appearances and several movies to his credit, including the role of Jeff Parker in the television series Roswell. In addition to X, Doe performs with the country-folk-punk band The Knitters and has released records as a solo artist. In the early 1980s, he performed on two albums by The Flesh Eaters. In the 1989 biopic Great Balls of Fire!, Doe played Jerry Lee Lewis's cousin-turned-father-in-law J. W. Brown. Doe starred in the 1992 film Roadside Prophets and in the 1998 short Lone Greasers. Other movie acting credits include Road House, Vanishing Point, Salvador, Boogie Nights, The Specials, The Good Girl, Gypsy 83 and Pure Country. As a musician with X, he has two feature-length concert films, several music videos, and an extended performance-and-interview sequence in The Decline of Western Civilization, Penelope Spheeris's seminal documentary about the early-1980s L.A. punk scene. Along with co-writer Exene Cervenka, Doe composed most of the songs recorded by X. Wild Gift, an album from that band's heyday, was named "Record of the Year" by Rolling Stone, The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times. With Dave Alvin, he co-wrote two of the songs on the Blasters' 1984 album Hard Line, "Just Another Sunday" and "Little Honey". In the 1992 movie The Bodyguard (starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston), it was Doe's version of "I Will Always Love You" that plays on the jukebox when Costner and Houston's characters are dancing. It was released on audio cassette by Warner Bros. in September 1992, but is difficult to obtain (though bootleg copies can be downloaded from the Internet). No version is believed to have been released on CD. "The Meanest Man in the World" by Doe was featured in Season 4 of the television series Friday Night Lights and included on the second soundtrack album. John Doe released an album with Canadian indie rock band The Sadies called Country Club on April 14, 2009. The album features covers of country classics along with original songs. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Doe (musician), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Gary Olsen

Gary Olsen was an English actor. Olsen was born in London and lived with an aunt and uncle, after losing both his parents at an early age. He attended the Archbishop Tenison's Church of England School in Kennington. After school he joined various junior stage groups and toured with fringe theatrical companies, such as Incubus, and Lumiere and Son, until late 1976. At this point he immersed himself in the punk rock scene until returning to theatre in 1978. Later he helped develop the musical production Up on the Roof, in which he starred in 1987 at London's Donmar and Apollo theatres. He made his screen debut in 1979 as Rory Storm in The Birth Of The Beatles, and appeared in numerous British films and television programmes, including playing PC Dave Litten in the first series of The Bill, but achieved fame only with the role of Ben in the sitcom 2point4 Children (1991–1999). He played a starring film role as Arthur Hoyle alongside Samantha Janus and Neil Morrissey in the rugby league comedy, Up 'n' Under. He appeared in many TV adverts, notably the 1996 National Westminster Bank advertising campaign. In addition to his screen appearances he made numerous stage appearances including Rocky Horror Picture Show and What the Butler Saw. He also played 'Pope Liberty III' in the Australian production of the controversial musical Bad Boy Johnny and the Prophets of Doom. Olsen also displayed his comic talents as Steve in The Comic Strip Presents' send up of The Fly, called The Yob. He also starred with Brian Bovell in the 1986 TV series Prospects about two likely lads in the Docklands trying to get ahead but usually failing. After a ten month fight with cancer, Olsen died in Victoria, where he had emigrated following his diagnosis. He left a widow, Australian second wife Jane, and their two children, a son and a daughter. He was 42 years old.

Slimane Benaïssa

Cast · Known for Plus belle la vie

Slimane Benaïssa (in Arabic: سليمان بنعيسى), born on December 11, 1943, in Guelma in eastern Algeria, he is one of the pioneers of Algerian Popular Theater, but above all an internationally recognized director. Slimane Benaïssa's two sons, Mehdi Benaïssa and Khaled Benaïssa, also practice an artistic discipline. However, his university career is not, a priori, that of a literary person, he began studying Mathematics before doing his military service in 1965 in Cherchell. The ruins of the Roman theater of ancient Caesarea in Mauritania (now Cherchell) will have more resonance in him than the bugle of the military barracks, he then began a career in theater in 1967. At that time, he wrote Boualem Zid El Goudem (Boualem goes forward), at the same time as he co-directed the first amateur theater troupe in Algeria, "Théâtre et Culture". Close to Kateb Yacine, he adapted La Poudre d'Intelligence for the theater, this work will continue with the translation into dialectal Arabic of all his work, with in particular a collaboration for the dialectal formatting of Mohamed Prends Ta Valise (which will tour in France in 1970 and 1971), Palestine Trahie, Le Roi de l'Ouest and La Guerre De Deux Mille Ans. In 1978 he created his own independent theatre company in Algeria, within which he staged Boualem Zid El Goudem, then Youm El Djem'a (Friday), El Mahgour (The Contempt), Babour Ghraq (The Sinking Boat), which was performed more than 500 times in less than six years, and Rak Khouya Ou Ana Chkoune? (Beyond the Veil). Since its creation, the troupe has performed more than 1,200 times in Algeria and abroad (France, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Kuwait, Malta, Tunisia). After more than twenty years of theatre activity in his country, Slimane Benaïssa was forced to go into exile in France in 1993. The same year he won the Grand Prix Francophone from the Société des Auteurs et des Compositeurs Dramatiques (SACD). From 1995 to 1997, he was an associate professor at the Faculty of Letters at the University of Limoges and supervised internships in Luxembourg (1995), Dijon (2003) and Massilly (2004). His first novel "Le Fils De L'Amertume", published by Plon, was a great success. Adapted for the theater on the occasion of the Avignon Festival by the GRAT company of Jean-Louis Hourdin, the play was revived at the MC93 Bobigny before undertaking an impressive tour in France and Switzerland. Following this success, Slimane Benaïssa was appointed in 2000 by the President of the French Republic as a member of the High Council of the Francophonie. The show Prophète Sans Dieu was programmed at the Théâtre International de Langue Française (TILF) in Paris. After a tour, the play was presented at the 2001 Avignon Festival. In 2005, he became an honorary Doctor of the National Institute of Oriental Languages ​​and Civilizations (INALCO). The text Au-delà Du Voile was republished by Lansman in 2008 and staged at the Avignon Festival by Agnès Renault of the company the Arcade.

David Goodis

David Loeb Goodis (March 2, 1917 – January 7, 1967) was an American writer of crime fiction noted for his output of short stories and novels in the noir fiction genre. Born in Philadelphia, Goodis alternately resided there and in New York City and Hollywood during his professional years. According to critic Dennis Drabelle, "Despite his [university] education, a combination of ethnicity (Jewish) and temperament allowed him to empathize with outsiders: the working poor, the unjustly accused, fugitives, criminals." Goodis was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the oldest child of William Goodis and Mollie Halpern Goodis. William Goodis was a Russian-Jewish émigré born in 1882 who had arrived in America with his mother in 1890. David Goodis's mother, Mollie Halpern, was born in Pennsylvania also into a family of Russian-Jewish émigrés. In Philadelphia, Goodis's father co-owned a newspaper dealership and later went into the textile business as the William Goodis Company. A brother, Jerome, born in 1920, died of meningitis at age three. In 1922, another brother, Herbert, was born into the family. Goodis attended Simon Gratz High School and was engaged in student affairs, editing the school newspaper, serving as student council president, and participating in athletics as a member of both the track and swim teams. He also had the distinction of being chosen valedictorian for the graduating class of 1935, delivering a speech entitled "Youth Looks at Peace". As a college student, he continued and expanded on the interests he had pursued as a high school student, contributing to the student newspaper as both writer and cartoonist. It was during this period that he purportedly tried his hand at novel writing with a book titled Ignited. The novel was never published, and no copy of it has been discovered. Goodis later claimed: "The title was prophetic. Eventually, I threw it into the furnace." Goodis graduated from Temple University in 1938 with a degree in journalism. While working at an advertising agency, Goodis started writing his first published novel, Retreat from Oblivion. After it was published by Dutton in 1939, Goodis moved to New York City, where he wrote under several pseudonyms for pulp magazines, including Battle Birds, Daredevil Aces, Dime Mystery, Horror Stories, Terror Tales and Western Tales, sometimes churning out 10,000 words a day. The first pulp story published under his own name, titled "Mistress of the White Slave King", appeared in Gangland Detective Stories (November 1939). Over a five-and-a-half-year period, according to some sources, he produced five million words for the pulp magazines. While the quantity of his output far eclipses that of his predecessors Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, unlike theirs, the vast majority of his pulp stories have never been reprinted. ... Source: Article "David Goodis" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.