Marek Vašut (born May 5, 1960) is a Czech film, stage, and television actor, best known for his appearances in Help! I'm a Teenage Outlaw and Thief Takers.

Vašut had first travelled to New York to attend the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, secondly attended the University of California, Davis, thirdly attended The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, fourthly attended the Gymnasium J. Nerudy, a French high school in Prague. Vašut was honored a full sponsored fulbright scholar in Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.

Vašut is most widely known for appearing in the action-filled movie Blade II. He is currently working on the films Solomon Kane which is being filmed, and The Crown of Vyšehrad which is a Czech American movie currently on post-production.

Juraj Jakubisko (b. 30 April 1938, Kojšov, Czechoslovakia) is a Slovak film director. In his movies he managed to catch life's most beautiful colors, unhinge the poetry behind the ordinary and to be ahead of his time without forgetting his roots.

He is currently based in Prague.

Before entering the film industry, Jakubisko taught still photography at a Bratislava secondary school for applied arts and worked for a television in Košice. In 1960 he moved to Prague where he attended the FAMU (Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts - [1]), studying direction under Václav Wasserman's tuition. He graduated in 1965. After his studies Jakubisko worked with Alfréd Radok at the Laterna magika [2] theater in Prague and began winning international acclaim with his experimental short films before making his first feature Crucial Years or Christ's Years (Kristove roky, 1967).

The promising career of the young director was heavily crippled by the communist regime. He managed to complete only 3 films before he was sidetracked in the difficult period following the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion which crushed the Prague Spring reform period in Czechoslovakia. During that period, he made a few documentaries. Fortunately the situation got gradually better so that he could film Three Sacks of Cement and a Live Rooster (Tri vrecia cementu a živý kohút, 1976) although it was not released until 1978.

Eva Pilarová - born on 9 August 1939 in Brno, is a Czech singer and actress. Four times winner of the Golden Nightingale in category singers in accordance to the reader's poll Czech Nightingale.^{[citation needed]} In 1967 she won the International Intervision Song Contest in Bavaria and was awarded the Grand Prix du Disque for her interpretation of "Requiem".

She was singing since childhood, including classical music. In 1960 she became a member of Semafor theater where she performed, among other things, with the legendary couple Jiří Suchý and Jiří Šlitr.^{[citation needed]} In 1962 for a short time left to sing in Theaters Rokoko, but in 1964 returned to Semafor. In the same year they also played a minor role in the film If a Thousand Clarinets (as a chorus-singer of the girl school - with Naďa Urbánková and others). During her long singing career she sang large number of hits including duets with Waldemar Matuška, Karel Gott and other singers.^{[citation needed]}

Eva Pilarová is a singer with a voice flowing with addition of superior singing technique. With the increasing trend are increasingly focuses on the genres of jazz and swing area. In 1977, to continue to act, she signed the Anticharta.^{[clarification needed]}

Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (/stəˈloʊn/; born July 6, 1946), commonly known as Sylvester Stallone, and nicknamed Sly Stallone, is an American actor, filmmaker, screenwriter, film director and occasional painter. Stallone is known for his machismo and Hollywood action roles. Two of the notable characters he has portrayed are boxer Rocky Balboa and soldier John Rambo. The Rocky and Rambo franchises, along with several other films, strengthened his reputation as an actor and his box office earnings.

Stallone's film Rocky was inducted into the National Film Registry as well as having its film props placed in the Smithsonian Museum. Stallone's use of the front entrance to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the Rocky series led the area to be nicknamed the Rocky Steps. Philadelphia has a statue of his Rocky character placed permanently near the museum, on the right side before the steps. It was announced on December 7, 2010 that Stallone was voted into boxing's Hall of Fame.

Sylvester Stallone was born Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone in New York City, the elder son of Frank Stallone, Sr., a hairdresser, and Jackie Stallone (born Jacqueline Labofish), an astrologer, former dancer, and promoter of women's wrestling. His younger brother is actor and musician Frank Stallone. Stallone's father was born in Gioia del Colle, Apulia, Italy, and emigrated to the United States as a child. Stallone's mother is of half Russian Jewish and half French descent.