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In All Friendship
1998
German soap opera about the staff of the fictional hospital "Sachsenklinik" in the city of Leipzig.
Robert McQuain
Cast · Known for The Andy Griffith Show
The only child of Jay David and Lena McQuain, "Bob" grew up in the Washington D.C. area, often visiting and spending summers at the McQuain homestead in Elkins, West Viriginia as well. He graduated from Fork Union Miltary Academy and later attended William and Mary College. Mr. McQuain's big break came when he appeared playing Sir Walter Raleigh in the famous outdoor theatre production of The Lost Colony of Roanoke, a wonderful historical production still on-going today in North Carolina where the historical event actually took place. This was also the venue in which actor, Andy Griffith had got his own early start. When Mr. Griffith returned to NC for a visit, he caught a performance and met Mr. McQuain. This lead to a subsequent friendship, an introduction to Andy's Agent, Mr. Richard Linc, and their circle of friends in the business, a move to Hollywood, years of behind-the-scenes studio work experience, several (14) small bit parts on the 1960s "The Andy Griffith Show," as well as Gunsmoke, Perry Mason and a made for TV Disney two-part movie called Bristol Face, all in the time-honored practice of grooming an actor for a beak in a leading role. However, Mr. McQuain was bucking up against a rival look- alike at the time with the sudden recent success of actor, James Garner. But, by this time, Mr. McQuain was finding more interest working behind the camera as manager of the Title, Optical and Special Effects Department at CFI, Consolidated Film Labs in Hollywood where he worked for ten very innovative years. He then made a move to use his natural likability and knowledge of the industry as a freelance agent booking talent on television and radio talk shows and promotion of all kinds. By 1975, times were changing, with the '72 L.A. earthquake, the oil crisis, and Holywood changing for good from it's golden era, Mr. McQuain pulled up roots leaving Hollywood for good and moved his family to Oregon. He became a licensed real estate agent and soon opened up his own brokerage office with agents and family being apart of it all. He also ran, successfully, for local political office. Tall, with a deep, booming voice, it was hard to forget the friendly Mr. McQuain once you met him. A devoted family man, he had a great interest in genealogy and researched the McQuain family lineage. Still working actively in commercial real estate and family financial planning to the end, Mr. McQuain died unexpectedly in December 1999. He was loved by a great many.
Geoffrey Cantor
Geoffrey graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College with a degree in theater. During his junior year, he attended the National Theater Institute (Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Conn), and continued his training at what is now the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, in London, England. As an actor, he has been seen on Screens large and small. Film credits include the Coen Brothers' Hail, Ceasar!, MIB3, Bird People, Beach Pillows, Syrup, Bart and Arnie's Guide to Friendship, Thanks for Sharing, The Longest Week, SAVVA, Man on a Ledge, Fair Game, Michael Mann's Public Enemies, When in Rome, The Notorious Betty Page, One Last Thing, Suburban Girl, and Heavy Petting. On TV he has been seen on Blacklist, Believe, The Americans, The Following, House of Cards, Deception, Zero Hour, Person of Interest, Pan Am, Damages, Smash, The Big C, Sopranos, Bored to Death, all of the Law & Order's, Mercy, Brotherhood, Life on Mars, Ed, Third Watch, The Bedford Diaries, The $treet, Queens' Supreme, All My Children, Guiding Light, and Spike TV's The Kill Point. He has also been involved with a number of Web-series, including The ONION, Candice Bushnell's The Broadroom, Karl Manhair-Postal Inspector, Good Medicine, and The Stay-at-Home Dad. His Stage work Includes Side Man (Broadway), Warren Leight's Sec 310, Row D, Seats 5&6, Dinner With Friends, Julie Taymor's Titus Andronicus, Saturday Sunday Monday, Denial (Long Wharf), Talley's Folly, Romeo and Juliet (Acting Company), and Lone Star (London and Edinburgh). Geoffrey has been featured in over 200 television and radio commercials, including two award-winning campaigns: Let It Out (Kleenex--the Good Listener), and Fair Enough (part of the Truth campaign). Geoffrey began directing in college, and in London, he developed the play-reading series Readings at One at the Duke of York's Theater in the West End. There he directed the London premier reading of Allan Knee's The Man Who was Peter Pan, upon which the film Finding Neverland was based. Other directing credits include Stripped (an original piece) in New York, For Our Daughters (Illuminart) in Staten Island, James Mclure's 1959 Pink Thunderbird (Lone Star and Laundry and Bourbon) in Brooklyn, Prey (NYfringe 2010), My Secret Public Seder (an Original Piece, written for and with members of the Bergen County JCCY), Winterglass (an original piece), and Cowboys II, by Sam Shepard. As a coach and teacher, he has worked all over the country with actors whose credits include all the major TV shows in New York, as well as film and theater. His students have also been accepted to some of the best theater programs in the country, including Ithaca, Fordham, Emerson, Michigan, Mason Gross, and UCSD. He has also developed flexible acting curriculum and programs for actors of all ages, skill levels, and experience. In his spare time, Geoffrey founded the The Chaucerbury Group, a Media company in New York whose clients include The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, The Children Heritage Foundation, and Columbia University. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Geoffrey Cantor
Günter Grabbert
Günter Grabbert (also: Günther Grabbert; born January 15, 1931 in Schwerin; died December 15, 2010 in Leipzig) was a German actor. Günter Grabbert came from the amateur drama movement and played his first roles in performances by a group of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship at the Pushkin House in Schwerin. From 1950 to 1953, he studied acting at the German Theater Institute Weimar Schloß Belvedere. From 1956, he was a member of the ensemble of the Leipzig Schauspielhaus. He was also a particularly busy actor in GDR cinema, for example in 1962 in “Beschreibung eines Sommers“ after Karl-Heinz Jakobs. As a dubbing actor, he lent his German voice to Lex Barker, among others. On the theater stage, Günter Grabbert played almost all the major roles - Faust as well as Mephisto, Richard III, Karl Moor, King Lear, Peer Gynt, Galileo Galilei, Goya, Nathan and Falstaff. As a reciter, he was on the road with his own literary programs - after reunification throughout Germany - with texts by Goethe, Schiller, Ringelnatz and Wilhelm Busch, among others, usually accompanied by the guitarist Frank Fröhlich. His art of performance has also been recorded on recordings and audio books. One of his first releases in this regard was a record with Josef Čapek's Geschichten vom Hündchen und vom Kätzchen. In 1986, he was awarded the National Prize II Class for Art and Literature as a member of the acting collective of the television film Ernst Thälmann. Grabbert continued to appear in film and television even after reunification. He lived in the Gohlis district of Leipzig until the end.
John Scurti
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Martin Scurti (b. Northport, New York) is an American actor. Scurti attended Fordham University, where he received a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts. One of his early major film roles was The Ref in 1993, alongside Denis Leary. Through the 1990s and early 2000s, Scurti worked mainly in television, landing small roles on episodes of shows such as Murphy Brown, Baywatch Nights, Spin City, Sex and the City, The $treet, Law & Order, Ed, and Monk. He maintained a friendship with Leary, and in 2004 Leary asked him to play Lt. Ken Shea in the series Rescue Me. Scurti has played Shea for all six seasons of the show, and has done some contributing as a writer. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Scurti, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Jeremy Stevens
Jeremy Stevens was an American writer and producer. Stevens earned a degree in theater at Brooklyn College before studying with acting coaches Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof. Several small off-Broadway roles led to his being added to the cast of the original Broadway production of Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys. While studying improvisational theatre, Stevens was offered his first opportunity to write for television on a variety show hosted by former Tonight Show bandleader Skitch Henderson. This led to more writing jobs in variety television, including Playboy After Dark, Saturday Night Live, and shows hosted by Mac Davis and Barbara Mandrell. Stevens won his first Emmy Award in 1972, as one of the founding writers of the children's television program The Electric Company for PBS. He would go on to write for such shows as Fernwood Tonight/America 2-Nite, The Richard Pryor Show, What's Happening?, Mork & Mindy, Dear John, and Coach. Stevens met writer Phil Rosenthal in the early 1990s, beginning a friendship that would lead to his joining the writing staff of Everybody Loves Raymond. He would remain for all nine seasons, serving as executive producer and earning two Emmys for Outstanding Comedy Series. Stevens traveled back and forth to Russia, spending the better part of seven years supervising the successful Russian version of Everybody Loves Raymond ('Voroniny'). Stevens died October 27, 2020, in Northridge, California. He was 82.
Ellen Kennedy
Ellen Kennedy (born January 2, 1958, in London, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actress, voice actress, singer, and stage actress based in Vancouver. She has been active since 1986 and is a member of Vancouver TheatreSports, where she has appeared in X-Mas Files, TheatreSports Interactive, the touring version of See BC, and Star Trick, the Musical. On stage she has performed in Nunsense (as Sister Mary Amnesia, at the Citadel) and Something's Afoot (as Lettie, at Persephone Theatre), and co-wrote, performed in, and won a Jessie Award for All Grown Up, which first ran at the Arts Club Theatre. In addition to theatre, she sings jazz and swing around Vancouver and works regularly as an animation voice-over artist. Her voice work spans hundreds of episodes and films across animation and anime dubbing. She is best known for voicing Mrs. Pteranodon in Dinosaur Train (2009–2021, 158 episodes), multiple ponies in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (2013–2019, including Mane-iac, Dusty Pages, Ma Hooffield, and the Chimera), 75 episodes of Krypto the Superdog (2005), and Queen Genevieve in Barbie as The Princess & the Pauper (2004). Other notable voice credits include Barbie in A Mermaid Tale (2010), Barbie: Princess Charm School (2011), Planet Hulk (2010), Candy Land: The Great Lollipop Adventure (2005), X-Men: Evolution (2000–2003), Transformers: Armada (2003), Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu (2012, as the Empress), and Tom and Jerry Tales (2006). In anime dubbing she voiced Lebia Maverick in Silent Möbius: The Motion Picture (2008), Shirin Bakhtiar in Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (2007–2008), and Kyoko Otonashi in Maison Ikkoku. In live-action film and television, Kennedy appeared as a Woman in The Final Cut (2004, starring Robin Williams), Mother Agnes in Chestnut: Hero of Central Park (2004, with Abigail Breslin), a Concession Lady in Air Buddies (2006), and Ruth in Magic Stocking (2015, Hallmark). More recent live-action credits include The Last Bridesmaid (2019), Three Wise Men and a Baby (2022), This Time Each Year (2024), and Accused: The Karen Read Story (2026). On television she has also appeared in iZombie (2015), Prison Break (2005), Being Ian (2004), and Loudermilk (2017).
Friedrich von Ledebur
Friedrich Anton Maria Hubertus Bonifacius Graf von Ledebur-Wicheln (June 3, 1900 – December 25, 1986) was an Austrian actor who was known for Moby Dick (1956), Alexander the Great (1955) and Slaughterhouse-Five (1972). Ledebur was born in Nisko, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Poland) in 1900. Friedrich enlisted in the Austro-Hungarian Imperial Army in 1916, and was an officer in the Austrian Cavalry Division during the last years of World War I. In the 1930s Ledebur became a close friend of Charles Bedaux, with whom he traveled extensively in Africa and Canada. After the war, Ledebur spent the next two decades travelling the world, working all manner of odd jobs from gold mining to deep sea diving, to riding and winning prize money at rodeos. Ledebur settled in the United States in 1939 and anglicised his name to 'Frederick'. A close friendship with fellow adventurer and director John Huston, gave Ledebur his entrée to character acting. In 1945, von Ledebur made his film debut. He later appeared in Alexander the Great (1955), and played chief harpooneer Queequeg, a South Sea chieftain, in the film Moby Dick (1956). "Better a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian", Herman Melville's Ishmael famously says of Queequeg in the book and the film. He appeared as Brother Christophorus in The Twilight Zone episode "The Howling Man". Source: Article "Friedrich von Ledebur" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Niki Reiser
Niki Reiser (born 12 May 1958) is a Swiss film score composer and flautist. He is considered one of the most outstanding film composers of the German-speaking countries, winning the German Film Award five times. His debut was in 1986 the score for the film Du mich auch, directed by Dani Levy, for whom he has composed all further scores. He had his breakthrough with the music for the film Beyond Silence, directed by Caroline Link in 1996. Niki Reiser was born in 1958 in Reinach, Aargau in Switzerland, the son of a pastor and a nurse. Before he came to Basel age twelve, where he has lived since, he spent four years in Schaffhausen. In addition to classical flute lessons a child, he invented his own melodies on the piano. In his youth he played in several bands, composed pieces for them and for theater performances at school. In the 1970s, Reiser studied classical music with an emphasis on flute in Basel. From 1980 to 1984 he studied in Boston at the Berklee College of Music jazz and classical music with a focus on film music. From 1984 to 1986, Reiser lived partly in Europe, mostly in Switzerland, where he continued his studies in composition in Basel. In workshops in the U.S., he met Ennio Morricone and Jerry Goldsmith who influenced his music. During this time he composed his first pieces for movies. During this period he also toured as a jazz flutist with the ensemble People, which he had co-founded. In 1986, Reiser moved back to Europe where he met the film director Dani Levy. He composed the music for his first film Du mich auch. The film was a surprising success throughout Europe and was nominated for the Golden Camera at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1987. This encounter started a lasting friendship, resulting in Reiser composing the music for all of Levy's films. At that time Reiser joined the klezmer band Kolsimcha as a flutist, and composed several pieces for the group. On two world tours he played with the band in Carnegie Hall and at the Montreux Jazz Festival, among others. When Reiser realised that it was impossible to be a flutist and a composer at the same time, he concentrated on composition. In addition to working with Levy, he also composed for Caroline Link, whom he met in 1996. His breakthrough came with the music for her movie Beyond Silence. For her film Nowhere in Africa, Reiser studied African music in Nairobi. The influences of indigenous Kenyan music can be seen in the score he composed for the film. In addition to cinema and TV films, he also wrote music for the theater. In 2008 he worked again for Link for A Year Ago in Winter. The score won both the Preis der deutschen Filmkritik and the Deutscher Filmpreis of 2009. Reiser has his studio in Basel's Gundeldingerfeld. He is on the board of the Deutsche Filmakademie since its inception in 2003. Source: Article "Niki Reiser" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Merriwether Williams
Merriwether St. John Williams (born March 28, 1968) is an American television writer, former Nickelodeon executive and actress, who has worked on television shows such as Happy Tree Friends, SpongeBob SquarePants, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Camp Lazlo, and Adventure Time. After leaving the executive ranks at Nickelodeon, she wrote outlines for SpongeBob SquarePants and a couple episodes of The Angry Beavers. In 2003, she developed and became the show-runner and head writer of the short-lived Showtime animated sitcom Free For All. In 2005, she became the head of story for Camp Lazlo at Cartoon Network. More recently, Williams has written several episodes for Adventure Time, Littlest Pet Shop, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, and Pig Goat Banana Cricket. She has also written an episode for Johnny Test and Pound Puppies. She is currently co-producer and writer on Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer. She has also co-written the films Good Time Max, The Ape, and Fool's Gold with actor James Franco. From Wikipedia (us), the free encyclopedia
Arthur Allan Seidelman
Arthur Allan Seidelman is an award-winning American television, film, and theatre director and an occasional writer, producer and actor. Most of Seidelman's career has been spent in television directing movies such as Macbeth, Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes, Poker Alice, A Friendship in Vienna, Grace and Glorie, Harvest of Fire, Kate's Secret, The Runaway, and A Christmas Carol-The Musical; episodes of series such as Fame, The Paper Chase, Knots Landing, Hill Street Blues, Magnum, P.I., Murder, She Wrote, Trapper John, M.D., L.A. Law, and A Year in the Life, among others; and several episodes of the ABC Afterschool Special series. The latter won him two Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Individual Direction in Children's Programming. He received additional Emmy nominations for Hill Street Blues, I Love Liberty, and as host of the PBS series Actors on Acting. He also has won the Writers Guild of America Award for his contribution to the 1982 all-star variety special I Love Liberty, featuring Barbra Streisand, Shirley MacLaine, Jane Fonda, and Dionne Warwick, as well as two Christopher Awards. He has also won The Peabody Award, the Humanitas Award, The Western Heritage Award and numerous awards from international film festivals, including the Milagro Award for the Best American Independent Film for The Sisters. Seidelman most recently guest starred in the final episode of ER. Seidelman's Broadway career has been less successful. Billy, a 1969 musical adaptation of Billy Budd, closed on opening night. Vieux Carré, a 1977 play by Tennessee Williams, ran for six performances, and in 2003, Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks closed less than two months after it began previews. He directed a revival of The Most Happy Fella for the New York City Opera in 1991. He has had considerable success off-Broadway with acclaimed productions of The Ceremony of Innocence, by Ronald Ribman, Awake and Sing by Clifford Odets and Hamp by John Wilson, among others. He directed Madama Butterfly for Santa Barbara Opera and The Gypsy Princess for Opera Pacific. In Los Angeles, he has directed major revivals of Hair, Of Thee I Sing, Mack and Mabel, The Boys From Syracuse, Follies and others. For regional theatres, he has directed Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Little Foxes, A Man for All Seasons, The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd, Romeo and Juliet, Stop the World - I Want to Get Off, and The Tempest, among others. In addition, he served as the Administrator of the Forum Theatre (now the Mitzi Newhouse) for the Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center and as Artistic Director of Theatre Vanguard in Los Angeles. Description above from the Wikipedia article Arthur Allan Seidelman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Arthur Rubinstein
Arthur Rubinstein (Polish: Artur Rubinstein; 28 January 1887 – 20 December 1982) was a Polish-American pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time. He received international acclaim for his performances of the music written by a variety of composers and many regard him as one of the greatest Chopin interpreters of his time. He played in public for eight decades. Artur Rubinstein was born in Łódź, Congress Poland (part of the Russian Empire for the entire time Rubinstein resided there) on 28 January 1887, to a Jewish family. He was the youngest of seven children of Felicja Blima Fajga (née Heiman) and Izaak Rubinstein. His father owned a small textile factory. Rubinstein's birth name was to be Leo, but his eight-year-old brother claimed that "His name must be Artur. Since Artur X (a neighbour's son) plays the violin so nicely, the baby may also become a great musician!". Thus, he was called Artur, although in English-speaking countries, he preferred to be known as Arthur Rubinstein. His United States impresario Sol Hurok, however, insisted he be billed as Artur, and records were released in the West under both versions of his name. At age two, Rubinstein demonstrated absolute pitch and a fascination with the piano, watching his elder sister's piano lessons. By the age of four, he was recognised as a child prodigy. His father had a predilection for the violin and offered Rubinstein a violin; but Rubinstein rejected it because he thought his instinct was for harmony and polyphony. The Hungarian violinist Joseph Joachim, on hearing the four-year-old child play the piano, was greatly impressed, telling Arthur's family, "This boy may become a very great musician—he certainly has the talent for it... When the time comes for serious study, bring him to me, and I shall be glad to supervise his artistic education." On 14 December 1894, seven-year-old Arthur Rubinstein had his debut with pieces by Mozart, Schubert and Mendelssohn. When he became ten years of age, Rubinstein moved to Berlin to continue his studies, and gave his first performance with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1900, at the age of 13. Joseph Joachim recommended Karl Heinrich Barth as the boy's piano teacher. As a student of Barth, Rubinstein inherited a renowned pedagogical lineage: Barth was himself a pupil of Liszt, who had been taught by Czerny, who had in turn been a pupil of Beethoven. In 1904, Rubinstein moved to Paris to launch his career in earnest, where he met the composers Maurice Ravel and Paul Dukas and the violinist Jacques Thibaud. He also played Camille Saint-Saëns' Piano Concerto No. 2 in the presence of the composer. Through the family of Juliusz Wertheim, whose understanding of Chopin's genius inspired Rubinstein, he formed friendships with the violinist Paul Kochanski and composer Karol Szymanowski. ... Source: Article "Arthur Rubinstein" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Jack Landron
Jack Landrón is an Afro-Puerto Rican folksinger, songwriter, and actor. Because he was known as "Jackie Washington" early in his career, he is often confused with the Canadian Jackie Washington, who was a blues and jazz performer. He can be seen currently starring in the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless. The move from Puerta De Tierra section of San Juan Puerto Rico to the very New England town of Boston, MA was motivated by his parents' belief that better schools, a better education, and a better life, would be available to young Juan Candido Washington y Landron. So, it was there that the actor Jack Landron began his episodic American journey. He quickly became proficient in English. With this proficiency came a love for the spoken word, in its many forms. His grandfather's thick Spanish accent, the lilt of his Grandmother's West Indian speech pattern, the Yiddish dialect of the nurturing old couple who lived next door, all found a place in young Jack's talent for mimicry. In later years this proved most helpful when doing voice-over work. After a lack luster college years (Emerson, in Boston) for which he paid with earnings from his successful folk singing career (Club 47 in Cambridge, was his start), Jackie Washington, went to Mississippi in the spring of 1964. Here he became a founding member of the renowned Free Southern Theatre. One night, while performing, he attracted the attention of the Rev. Martin Luther King. This resulted in a memorable time as a personal assistant to the revered Civil Rights icon. After leaving Mississippi, he went to NYC and got deeply involved in TV & Theatre. He appeared in the NBC children's series "First Look", which required him to join AFTRA. He discovered that a Jackie Washington already existed in AFTRA, so, he used his other name, Jack Landron. He was then cast in the TV premiere of "10 Blocks on the Camino Real" (Tennessee Williams), which featured the legendary actress Lotte Lenya, with whom Jack formed a warm, and lasting friendship. Acting jobs at the famed Negro Ensemble Theatre, the Puerto Rican traveling theatre, AMAS Repertory Theatre, and the NY Shakespeare Festival, among others, poured in for Jack. Marriage and Parenthood-and eventual single Parenthood- made it necessary to secure daytime employment, which led Jack to a long career of commercials, Industrials, and voice-over work. In 2012, with the children grown, Jack shifted his base of operation to Los Angeles, where work in independent films coincided with a renewed career as a singer/songwriter, marked by the release of a CD entitled "Curbside Cotillion".
Lil' Kim
Lil’ Kim (born Kimberly Denise Jones on July 11, 1974, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, actress, and model known for her sexually explicit lyrics, bold fashion, and pioneering role in female hip-hop & pop culture. Standing just 4′11″, she earned her stage name from her petite stature. Discovered by The Notorious B.I.G. (with whom she had a romantic relationship), she joined his group Junior M.A.F.I.A. in 1994; their album Conspiracy (1995) produced hits featuring her. Her solo debut, Hard Core (1996), went double platinum and established her as a trailblazer with songs like “No Time” and “Crush on You.” Follow-up albums included The Notorious K.I.M. (2000), La Bella Mafia (2003), The Naked Truth (2005) & 9 (2019). She scored a worldwide No. 1 hit and a Grammy with the 2001 collaboration “Lady Marmalade” (with Christina Aguilera, P!nk, and Mýa). Lil’ Kim has appeared in several films and television projects over the years. In 1999 she made her feature-film debut in the teen comedy She’s All That, playing Alex, a stylish friend of the main characters. She followed this with a brief cameo as herself in Ben Stiller’s fashion satire Zoolander (2001), then took a supporting role as Tina Parker in the sports comedy Juwanna Mann (2002). In 2003 she portrayed Chastity, a member of an all-female outlaw gang, in the Western Gang of Roses. The next year she appeared as herself in the dance film You Got Served and in the comedy Nora’s Hair Salon. She also provided the voice of Sweet Chiffon in the animated feature Lil’ Pimp (2005) and later played Xavier’s Daughter in the parody Superhero Movie (2008). More recently she appeared as Zsa Zsa Hottest in the 2021 holiday TV movie Miracles Across 125th Street. On television, Lil’ Kim starred in the 2006 reality series Lil’ Kim: Countdown to Lockdown, which documented her life leading up to her prison sentence. She served as a judge on the competition shows The Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll (2007) and its spin-off Girlicious (2008). In 2009 she competed on season 8 of Dancing with the Stars, partnered with Derek Hough. Her most recent major reality project was the 2019 VH1 series Girls Cruise, which she also executive-produced; the show followed her, Mýa, TLC’s Chilli, and a group of friends on a Caribbean cruise centered on friendship and personal growth.
Grant Withers
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Grant Withers (January 17, 1905, Pueblo, Colorado – March 27, 1959, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California), born Granville G. Withers, was a prolific American film actor with a sizeable body of work. With early beginnings in the silent era, Withers moved into talkies establishing himself with an impressive list of headlined features as a young and handsome male lead. As his career progressed, his importance diminished, but he did manage a 10-year contract at Republic Pictures. His friendships with both John Ford and John Wayne secured him a spot in nine of Wayne's films, but later roles dwindled to supporting parts, mainly as villains in B-movies, serials, and finally television. He appeared in the late 1950s in two episodes of the syndicated western series 26 Men, set in Arizona, where he had earlier eloped with Loretta Young. His life in film, five unsuccessful marriages, and a tragic end had all the makings of its own Hollywood drama. Description above from the Wikipedia article Grant Withers, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
José Giovanni
José Giovanni (22 June 1923, Paris, France – 24 April 2004, Lausanne, Switzerland) was the pseudonym of Joseph Damiani, a French writer and film-maker of Corsican origin who became a naturalized Swiss citizen in 1986. A former collaborationist and criminal who at one time was sentenced to death, Giovanni often drew his inspiration from personal experience or from real gangsters, such as Abel Danos in his 1960 film Classe tous risques, overlooking that they had been members of the French Gestapo. In his films as well as his novels, while praising masculine friendships and advocating the confrontation of the individual against the world, he often championed the underworld but was always careful to hide his own links with the Nazi occupiers of France during World War II. Of Corsican descent, Joseph Damiani received a good education, studying at the Collège Stanislas de Paris and the Lycée Janson de Sailly. His father, a professional gambler who was sentenced to a year in prison for running an illegal casino, owned a hotel in the French Alps in Chamonix. Joseph worked there as a young man and became fascinated by mountain climbing. From April to September 1943 Damiani was a member of Jeunesse et Montagne (Youth and Mountain) in Chamonix, part of the Vichy Government youth movement controlled by Pierre Laval. In February 1944 Damiani came to Paris and through his father's friend, the LVF leader Simon Sabiani, he joined Jacques Doriot's fascist French Popular Party (PPF). His maternal uncle, Ange Paul Santolini alias "Santos", who ran a restaurant patronized by the Gestapo, and his elder brother, Paul Damiani, a member of the Vichy paramilitary Milice, introduced Joseph into the Pigalle underworld. In March 1944 Joseph Damiani went to Marseille where he became a member of the German Schutzkorps (SK), an organization which hunted down Service du travail obligatoire - STO (Compulsory Work Service) dodgers. He served as bodyguard to its Marseille chief and took part in many arrests, often blackmailing his victims. In Lyon, in August 1944, posing as a German police officer along with an accomplice (Orloff, a Gestapo agent who was shot for treason at the Liberation), Damiani blackmailed Joseph Gourentzeig and his brother-in-law Georges Edberg, two Jews who were in hiding. Gourentzeig had bribed a member of the Milice - a friend of Damiani’s – in an attempt to secure his parents' release from a detention camp. They were not freed and Gourentzeig's father, Jacob, was shot by the Germans shortly after, on 21 August 1944, along with 109 Jewish hostages in the Bron (Lyon airport) massacre. After the Liberation in Paris on 18 May 1945, Joseph Damiani, his brother Paul, Georges Accad, a former Gestapo agent, and Jacques Ménassole, a former member of the Milice wearing a French Army lieutenant's uniform - all posing as Military Intelligence officers - abducted Haïm Cohen, a wine merchant, accusing him of being a black marketeer. He was tortured until he gave them the key to his safe and a check for 105,000 francs. He was then shot and his body thrown into the Seine. Joseph Damiani cashed the check at Barclay's Bank under the identity of "Count J. de Montreuil". ... Source: Article "José Giovanni" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Joyce DiDonato
In all her endeavors, both on and off the stage, Joyce DiDonato engages audiences through her energy, imagination, and commitment to her art form. Through these qualities, and with a constantly questing spirit, she has nurtured the vocal, musical and dramatic talents that have taken her to the pinnacle of her profession as a performer. Equally, they serve her as an eloquent and formidable advocate for the transformative power of the arts as she takes music far beyond the world’s great stages – to educational institutions, refugee camps, and maximum-security prisons. “Music heals,” she has said, “and it can fire people up with purpose and courage to change the world.” The winner of multiple Grammys and the 2018 Olivier Award, Kansas-born Joyce DiDonato is, in the words of the New Yorker, “perhaps the most potent female singer of her generation”, her voice having been described by The Times as “nothing less than 24-carat gold”. For all its beauty and agility, its true impact lies in Joyce’s capacity to illuminate character and meaning through nuances of colour and phrasing and her unfailingly communicative way with the text.
Michele Weaver
Michele Weaver works in all four categories of theater, commercial, film and television. She first got noticed starring in the two short films Diana Leigh (1960s musical) and Daughters of Eve ( Civil War Drama, AFI). She has played Dorothy Dandridge in The Nicolas Brothers Tribute and Marylin "A New Musical' at the 1400 seat Alex Theater as well. Most recently she is starring in two new films: Illicit ,next to David Ramsey and Vivica A. Fox as well as 2 Lava 2 Lantuala, where she plays Steve Guttenberg's step daughter, Raya, in the sequel of the SyFy Channel Franchise Lavalantula. Other credits include Switched at Birth on Abc Family, Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life on Fox, Short-Com Comedy Hour with Charlie Murphy, and Sistercode starring Amber Rose, Drew Sidora and Eva Marcille.
Chris Palermo
Chris has more than twenty years experience in all aspects of stunt work, specializing in vehicles. His Awards & Achievements: 2009 California Rally Champion G2 2009 Rally America Southwest Champion G2 California Rally Series: Rookie Of The Year 4 Nominations: World Stunt Awards: Swordfish, Avengers, 22 Jumpstreet, Live By Night 2 Wins: Sag Award, Best Stunt Ensemble, Star Trek 2010, Jason Bourne 2017 6 Nominations: Sag Award, Best Stunt Ensemble 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2017
Marabina Jaimes
Cast · Known for Cow and Chicken
Marabina Jaimes is a powerful presence in all areas of entertainment. Best known as "Mara", the Emmy Award Winning Host of "Storytime!" on PBS, with guests such as Ellen Degeneres, Glynn Turman, Angela Basset, Edward James Olmos, and Ruben Blades to name a few.
Shayna Wayne
Shayna Wayne is an on-air personality in All Elite Wrestling. She is the mother of wrestler Nick Wayne.
Zach Bryan
Born in Japan and raised on the flats of Oklahoma, nostalgia evoking songs in all genres from the singer-songwriter to his new trend of alternative rock go everywhere from heartland to heartbreak. His music inspirations are derived from acts like Bon Iver, Otis Redding, Kings of Leon, Gillian Welch and Jason Isbell. He has actively discussed always trying to be a crossroad between all of them. After serving eight years on active duty in the Navy and planning to stay there, he released an acoustic album with his naval peers in a one bedroom Air Bnb in Jacksonville, Florida. It was there his life would change forever landing him offers from every record label from East to West. He then stayed in the Navy for another year and a half. After conflict’s in his own mind about staying in the Navy or pursuing music started to arise, the United States Navy thought it would be best to honorably discharge him to pursue music. From his sold out shows at 1,000 cap venues to 70,000 cap stadiums, his meteoric rise as a songwriter and the catalog he has constructed through the last five short years; it seems he will be writing and recording for a long time. His most recent release was on October 16th with his, ‘Young Manhood & Other Donatable Organs.’ In 2027 you can find him on tour with his band made up of his best friends from Oklahoma and a few friends added along the way. Find him at a stadium near you.