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Arthur Stanley "Stan" Jefferson (16 June 1890 – 23 February 1965), known as Stan Laurel, was an English comic actor, writer and film director, famous as the first half of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy. His film acting career stretched between 1917 and 1951 and included a starring role in the Academy Award winning film The Music Box (1932). In 1961, Laurel was given a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award for his pioneering work in comedy. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Blvd.
Arthur Stanley Jefferson was born in his grandparents' house on 16 June 1890 at 3 Argyle Street, Ulverston, then in Lancashire. He had two brothers and a sister.
His parents, Arthur and Margaret ("Madge") Jefferson, were both active in the theatre and always very busy. In his early years, he spent much time living with his grandmother Sarah Metcalfe. Stan Jefferson attended school at King James I Grammar School, Bishop Auckland, County Durham and the King's School, Tynemouth, before moving with his parents to Glasgow, where he completed his education at Rutherglen Academy. His father managed Glasgow's Metropole Theatre where he began work. At the age of 16, with a natural affinity for the theatre, Jefferson gave his first professional performance on stage at the Panopticon in Glasgow.
Actors: Cristhian Andrews (producer), Cristhian Andrews (editor), Cristhian Andrews (composer), Anvita Sudarshan (producer), Anvita Sudarshan (producer), Anvita Sudarshan (writer), Anvita Sudarshan (writer), Anvita Sudarshan (director), Samat Turgunbaev (actor), Paavani Atrey (actor), Laurence Heyes (actor),
Plot: Sam, a young graduate who is tired of being unemployed, contacts a begging coordinator in New York, Bull, and takes up begging as a profession in Manhattan.Bull shows him a few locations, explains the logic of income generation in each location and directs on the method of begging in each place. Sam takes to begging and gets on with the job.
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Lauren Zima (actress), Jen Tolle (editor), Jen Tolle (producer), Jen Tolle (writer), Jen Tolle (director), Melissa Boatright (actress), Kyle Ayers (actor), Michaela Dehning (editor), Dan Friesen (actor), Young Woon Han (actor), Maggie Robbins (actress),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Cindy Iglesias (actress), Jamaal Smith (producer), Jamaal Smith (director), Jamaal Smith (editor), Jamaal Smith (producer), Jamaal Smith (writer), Talia Willis (actor), Indah Datau (miscellaneous crew), Clive Aden (actor),
Plot: Liberty runs into her ex-boyfriend who has been doing more than great since they broke up. He tries his best to make her feel deep regret for leaving him. Liberty tries to make him understand the emotional state he left her in. She finds the perfect way to express emotions in a way a man would easiest understand. She lets him have it.
Genres: Drama, Short, Thriller,Actors: Zayde Naquib (editor), Zayde Naquib (writer), Zayde Naquib (director), Amber Carson (producer), Amber Carson (actress), Volodya Shulga (actor), Robert Carson (composer), Jack Stulic (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Short,Actors: April Wade (actress), Chris Anderson (composer), Carol A. Compton (miscellaneous crew), Lisa Norcia (costume designer), Gia Franzia (actress), Russ Kingston (actor), James Glenn Dudelson (actor), Luke Guidici (actor), James Glenn Dudelson (director), James Glenn Dudelson (producer), Chris Morrissey (actor), Andre Hyland (actor), Jackeline Olivier (actress), Laszlo Bene (actor), Laszlo Bene (producer),
Plot: In 1968, in the Ravenside Military Hospital in a military facility in Pennsylvania, the army loses control of an experiment of a lethal bacteriologic weapon that changes the DNA and transforms human beings into zombies. A group of soldiers is sent to the hospital to eliminate the infected staff and interns but private DeLuca steals a test tube with the virus and hides it inside a vacuum flask. He is transformed into a zombie and killed but the vacuum flask falls in the grass. In the present days, a group of patients in the mental institution Ravenside Memorial Hospital finds the vacuum flask and later when one of them opens the vessel, the culture tube drops on the floor of a bathroom contaminating the group and their Dr. Donwynn.
Keywords: creature-feature, digit-in-title, number-in-title, numbered-sequel, prequel, second-part, sequel, sequel-to-cult-favorite, sequel-to-cult-horror, virusActors: Uwe Boll (director), Karyn Edwards (miscellaneous crew), Jonathan Shore (producer), Shawn Williamson (producer), Jason Crosby (miscellaneous crew), Jason Crosby (miscellaneous crew), Clint Howard (actor), Colin Lawrence (actor), Michael Eklund (actor), Uwe Boll (producer), Dave Parker (writer), Jay Brazeau (actor), Jürgen Prochnow (actor), Mark A. Altman (writer), Mark A. Altman (producer),
Plot: This film is a prequel to all of the The House of the Dead video games. Set on an island off the coast, a techno rave party attracts a diverse group of college coeds and a Coast Guard officer. Soon, they discover that their X-laced escapades are to be interrupted by zombies and monsters that attack them on the ground, from the air, and in the sea, ruled by an evil entity in the House of the Dead...
Keywords: axe, axe-in-the-chest, bad-smell, bare-breasts, based-on-video-game, beer, black-and-white-scene, blood, blood-spatter, boatActors: J.C. Kenny (actress), Neil Crone (actor), Peter MacNicol (actor), John DiMaggio (actor), George Wendt (actor), Vincent Schiavelli (actor), Kay Hawtrey (actress), Fred Willard (actor), Phillip Jarrett (actor), Howard Jerome (actor), Richard Karn (actor), Chris Hajian (composer), Sandy Gallin (producer), Dan Redican (actor), Adam Greydon Reid (actor),
Plot: The bulldog Liberty (who's thoughts we're able to hear) is the "First Dog of the USA", i.e. the president's dog. As such he has a lot of representative duties, but also many privileges which made him snobby and condescending towards other dogs. But one day when the young Nataniel takes him for a walk, he's mixed up with the stray dog Moocher who looks like his identical twin. Henceforth Moocher takes Liberty's place in the White House. From now on a different spirit reigns in the White House...
Keywords: boy, boy-dog-relationship, bulldog, dog, role-reversal, talking-animal, u.s.-president, white-houseActors: James J. Wilson (writer), James J. Wilson (director), Anna Bofarull (miscellaneous crew), Ricard Ridao (editor), Rodrigo Lamoso (actor), Paco Benjumea (actor), Jessica Ortega (actress), Sandra Pérez (actress), Xavi Guimerà (producer), Núria Espés (actress), Cristóbal Macedo (actor), Iván García (actor), Pedro Cufí (actor),
Genres: Crime, Short, Thriller,Actors: Lou Ferrigno (actor), Ted Markland (actor), Charles Dierkop (actor), Miles O'Keeffe (actor), Al White (actor), Richard Eden (actor), Gary Conway (actor), Stephen Liska (actor), Rick Zumwalt (actor), Mitzi Kapture (actress), Bruce Stubblefield (producer), Bryan Rasmussen (actor), Myrl A. Schreibman (writer), Michael Long (actor), Jude Narita (actress),
Plot: Liberty, Bash, and their friend Jesse served together in a war in Central America. Now Liberty and Bash work with youths, helping them stay out of crime and becoming a positive part of the community. But Jesse has gotten mixed up with drug lords, and when he turns up dead, it's up to Liberty & Bash to declare another war, this time on the home front.
Keywords: city, criminal, defense, drug-dealing, gang, gun, independent-film, police, vietnam-veteran, violenceActors: David L. Lander (actor), Georges Aminel (actor), Marshall Efron (actor), Alice Playten (actress), Roy Budd (composer), Bob Kaliban (actor), Roberta Wallach (actress), Marilyn Watelet (miscellaneous crew), Tony Hendra (writer), Marvin Silbersher (actor), Tony Hendra (miscellaneous crew), Picha (director), Picha (writer), Carole Androsky (actress), Ray Owens (actor),
Plot: In 1995, Italy annihilates Libya, which destroys Israel. Africa bombs Germany, which in turn attacks France. Luxembourg conquers England. Sweden, Monte Carlo and Switzerland immolate themselves. The Russians decide to liquidate the Americans, who unleash their nuclear fleet, leaving only two continents on the verge of World War IV. In the north, a mutated strain of males in America and Russia merge, forming the USSSR, in the south. All that is left of womankind retreat to their territory of Vaginia as dealing with the scenario of a Third World War.
Keywords: adult-animation, adult-humor, animated-sex, cartoon-nudity, cartoon-sex, cartoon-spoof, cartoon-violence, cult-director, cult-film, cult-film-reference