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Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, Italian pronunciation: [ˈɛnnjo morriˈkoːne], (born November 10, 1928) is an Italian composer and conductor, who has written music for more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces. Morricone is most famous for his work in the Spaghetti Westerns directed by his friend Sergio Leone, including A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) but his career includes a wide range of composition genres making him one of the film world's most versatile artists. He is considered as one of the most influential film music composers of the 20th century.
Born in Rome, Italy, Morricone took up the trumpet as a child and attended the National Academy of Santa Cecilia to take lessons on the instrument at the age of nine. He formally entered a conservatory at the age of 12, enrolling in a four-year harmony programme. He received his trumpet diploma in 1946 and started working professionally, composing the music to "Il Mattino" ("The Morning"). Morricone soon gained popularity by writing his first background music for radio dramas and quickly moved into film.
Stevland Hardaway Morris (born May 13, 1950 as Stevland Hardaway Judkins), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, a child prodigy who developed into one of the most creative musical figures of the late 20th century. Blind since shortly after birth, Wonder signed with Motown's Tamla label at the age of eleven, and continues to perform and record for Motown to this day.
Among Wonder's best known works are singles such as "Superstition", "Sir Duke", "I Wish" and "I Just Called to Say I Love You". Well known albums also include Talking Book, Innervisions and Songs in the Key of Life. He has recorded more than thirty U.S. top ten hits and received twenty-two Grammy Awards, the most ever awarded to a male solo artist. Wonder is also noted for his work as an activist for political causes, including his 1980 campaign to make Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a holiday in the United States. In 2009, Wonder was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace. In 2008, Billboard magazine released a list of the Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists to celebrate the US singles chart's fiftieth anniversary, with Wonder at number five.
Actors: David de Keyser (actor), Badi Uzzaman (actor), James Greene (actor), Stuart Hancock (composer), June Watson (actress), M.J. McMahon (producer), John Atterbury (actor), Elizabeth Mitchell (producer), Jonathan Slinger (actor), Neil Layton (miscellaneous crew), Matthew Jones (producer), Sean McArdell (producer), Oscar Plewes (writer), Oscar Plewes (director), Gemma Thirkettle (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Albi just wants to enjoy a quiet drink with his lifelong partner Dee. Problem is the Twin Willows retirement home has an alcohol shortage on its hands. Worst of all it's Christmas and the other residents are not happy either. So in the dead of night a plan for a militant booze heist is being hatched... Gin & Dry is a funny and heartbreaking story about drinking habits, memory and accepting who we are in our old age. It is a reflective look at the relationship between our favourite tipple and our greatest love.
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Short,Actors: Michel Aumont (actor), Michèle Moretti (actress), Marie-France Pisier (actress), Éric Neveux (composer), Jean Bigot (miscellaneous crew), Serge Hazanavicius (actor), Serge Meynard (director), Serge Meynard (writer), Malik Zidi (actor), Paul Fonteyn (producer), Catherine Davenier (actress), Émilie Dequenne (actress), Catherine Gorne-Achdjian (costume designer), Olivier Brocheriou (actor), Sophie Le Tellier (actress),
Genres: Crime,Actors: Luis Reynoso (actor), Mario Almada (actor), Bernardo Larraguivel (editor), Miguel Kahan (producer), Marcos Almada (producer), Marcos Almada (actor), Marcos Almada (actor), Homero Guadarrama (producer), Homero Guadarrama (director), Homero Guadarrama (writer), Homero Guadarrama (writer), Energetic Music (composer), Elizabeth Macari (actress), Francisco Martínez (actor), Elizabeth Macari (actress),
Genres: Action, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi,Actors: Laurence Olivier (actor), Vivien Leigh (actress), Shane Briant (actor), Brian May (composer), Jerome Ehlers (actor), Anthony Higgins (actor), Robert Threadgold (miscellaneous crew), Sandra Levy (producer), Edward McQueen-Mason (editor), Jacek Koman (actor), John Lee (actor), Roger Simpson (writer), Roger Simpson (producer), Gary Files (actor), Ross Dimsey (producer),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Héctor López (miscellaneous crew), Pedro Armendáriz Jr. (actor), René Barrera (actor), Quintín Bulnes (actor), Pascual García Peña (actor), Andrés García (actor), Jeffrey Hunter (actor), Federico Curiel (writer), Enrico C. Cabiati (composer), Federico Curiel (director), Raul J. Casso (editor), 'Chema' Hernandez (miscellaneous crew), Víctor Alcocer (actor), José Eduardo Pérez (actor), Francisco Reiguera (actor),
Plot: Billy Hayes, the marshal, discovers that the bandit whom he has been pursuing so long, and who has for months been torching his county, is none other than an old friend from childhood. Upon being confronted with the truth, the friend draws his gun, and Billy is forced to kill him in justifiable defense. Overwhelmed by guilt, he renounces his office and swears to never use arms again. He rides off toward the town where he and his old friend grew up together. Upon arriving there, he soon becomes involved in a dangerous situation, where Billy must decide whether he will fulfill his promise to keep away from arms, or intervene to save the honor of a woman and the life of an innocent man.
Genres: Western,Actors: Gustavo Rojo (actor), Alfonso Rojas (actor), Andrea Aureli (actor), Charly Bravo (actor), Luis Barboo (actor), Alberto de Mendoza (actor), Ernest Borgnine (actor), George Hilton (actor), José Manuel Martín (actor), Andrés Mejuto (actor), Manuel de Blas (actor), Antonio Molino Rojo (actor), Antonio Pica (actor), George Rigaud (actor), Claudio Trionfi (actor),
Plot: A soldier deserts his outfit the night before a major battle, after receiving an urgent message. He heads across the border to Mexico to marry his pregnant girlfriend before she gives birth. Her father had forbidden their marriage, but the soldier is determined. Circumstances turn the soldier into an outlaw who vows vengeance on everyone involved.
Keywords: army, bullring, cholera, civil-war, death-of-child, deserter, hired-killer, mexican-border, revenge, spaghetti-westernActors: Anna Hill Johnstone (costume designer), Charles Dierkop (actor), Morgan Freeman (actor), Sidney Lumet (director), Rod Steiger (actor), Brock Peters (actor), Quincy Jones (composer), Geraldine Fitzgerald (actress), Ralph Rosenblum (editor), Reni Santoni (actor), Raymond St. Jacques (actor), Robert Dahdah (actor), Jaime Sánchez (actor), Juano Hernandez (actor), John McCurry (actor),
Plot: In a poor neighborhood of New York, the bitter and lonely Jewish pawnbroker Sol Nazerman is a survivor from Auschwitz that has no emotions or feelings. Sol lost his dearest family and friends in the war and his faith in God and belief in mankind. Now he only cares for money and is haunted by daydreams, actually flashbacks from the period of the concentration camp. Sol's assistant is the ambitious Latino Jesus Ortiz, who wants to learn with Sol how to run a business of his own. When Sol realizes that the obscure laundry business he has with the powerful gangster Rodriguez comes also from brothels, Sol recalls the fate of his beloved wife in the concentration camp and has a nervous breakdown. His attitude leads Jesus Ortiz to tragedy and Sol finds a way to cry.
Keywords: based-on-novel, concentration-camp, drag-show, female-impersonator, flashback, harlem-manhattan-new-york-city, holocaust, holocaust-survivor, independent-film, jewishActors: John S. Robertson (director), Ed Brady (actor), Edwards Davis (actor), Pat Harmon (actor), Selmer Jackson (actor), Ivan Linow (actor), Richard Tucker (actor), Gene Havlick (editor), Evelyn Brent (actress), Jo Swerling (writer), Harry Cohn (producer), Josephine Dunn (actress), Edward Shulter (miscellaneous crew), Robert Ames (actor), Zack Williams (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Emanuel Gregers (actor), Bertel Krause (actor), Valdemar Møller (actor), Emilie Sannom (actress), Peter S. Andersen (actor), Charles Løwaas (actor),
Genres: Drama, Short,