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Emma Thompson (born 15 April 1959) is a British actress, comedian and screenwriter. She first came to prominence in 1987 in two BBC TV series, Tutti Frutti and Fortunes of War. Her first major film role was in the 1989 romantic comedy The Tall Guy. In 1992, Thompson won multiple acting awards, including an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress, for her performance in the British drama Howards End. The following year Thompson garnered dual Academy Award nominations, as Best Actress for The Remains of the Day and as Best Supporting Actress for In the Name of the Father.
In 1995, Thompson scripted and starred in Sense and Sensibility, a film adaptation of the Jane Austen novel of the same name, which earned her an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role among other awards. Other notable film and television credits have included the Harry Potter film series, Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Wit (2001), Love Actually (2003), Angels in America (2003), Nanny McPhee (2005), Stranger than Fiction (2006), Last Chance Harvey (2008), An Education (2009) and Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010).
Michael Austin Cera ( /ˈsɛrə/; born June 7, 1988) is a Canadian actor best known for his roles in Arrested Development, Youth in Revolt, Superbad, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist and Juno. In 2010, he won the Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.
Cera was born in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. He is the son of Linda, a native of Quebec, and Luigi Cera, a technician who is originally from Sicily. His parents both worked for Xerox. Cera has an older sister, Jordan, and a younger sister, Molly. He became interested in acting after viewing Ghostbusters repeatedly when sick with the chicken pox at the age of three. He memorized all the dialogue and idolized Bill Murray. He enrolled in The Second City Toronto and took improvisation classes.
He attended Conestoga Public School, Robert H. Lagerquist Senior Public School and Heart Lake Secondary School until grade nine, but then completed school online through grade 12.
His first role was an unpaid appearance in a Tim Hortons summer camp commercial. That eventually led to a Pillsbury commercial in which he poked the Pillsbury Doughboy, his first role with lines.
Actors: Michael Smiley (actor), Justin Edgar (producer), Justin Edgar (director), Justin Edgar (writer), Colin Pons (producer), Laurence Saunders (actor), Dominic Coleman (actor), Alex Usborne (producer), Andrew Cooke (producer), Barry May-Leybourne (miscellaneous crew), Vincent Watts (composer), Gareth Jones (producer), Matt Betteridge (miscellaneous crew), David Proud (miscellaneous crew), Sean Connolly (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Shane Rimmer (actor), Paul T.T. Easter (actor), Daniel Pemberton (composer), Paul T.T. Easter (actor), Ed Bishop (actor), John Hurt (actor), Harry S. Truman (actor), Janet Suzman (actress), Eric Meyers (actor), Hirohito (actor), Martin McDougall (actor), Paul Wilmshurst (writer), Paul Wilmshurst (producer), Paul Wilmshurst (director), Garry Cooper (actor),
Plot: Landmark dramadoc telling the story of the atomic bomb and its impact on the people of Hiroshima. The film mixes testimony, archive, CGI and full-scale reconstruction to communicate the detailed content and context of this terrible event. Screened in 30 other countries around the world on the 60th anniversary.
Keywords: archive-footage, atomic-bomb, hiroshima-japan, historical-reenactment, japan, nuclear-bomb, nuclear-explosion, nuclear-weapon, radiation-sickness, talking-headActors: Hoi Mang (actor), Bruce Lee (actor), Tony Liu (actor), Billy Chan (actor), Sammo Hung Kam-Bo (actor), Siu Hung Cham (actor), Phillip Ko (actor), Chok Chow Cheung (actor), Roy Chiao (actor), Alan Chui Chung San (actor), Fat Chung (actor), Jackie Chan (actor), Lung Chan (actor), Li Jen Ho (actor), Mars (actor),
Plot: Enter the Dragon revolves around the three main characters. Lee, a man recruited by an agency to investigate a tournament hosted by Han, since they believe he has an Opium trade there. Roper and Williams are former army buddies since Vietnam and they enter the tournament due to different problems that they have. Roper is on the run from the Mafia due to his gambling debts, while Williams is harassed by racist police officers and defends himself from them and uses the car for his getaway. It is a deadly tournament that they will enter on an island. Lee's job is to get the other two out of there alive.
Keywords: action-hero, african-american, afro, alarm, animal-fight, animal-in-title, applause, asian, b-movie, banquetActors: Oswald Hafenrichter (editor), Timothy Bateson (actor), Maurice Denham (actor), Gordon Jackson (actor), Richard Johnson (actor), Sam Wanamaker (actor), Barbara Bouchet (actress), Diana Dors (actress), Carol Lynley (actress), Sylvia Syms (actress), Max Rosenberg (producer), Milton Subotsky (producer), Harry Andrews (actor), Reg Lye (actor), Ted Willis (producer),
Plot: Jonas Wilde, a British secret service agent licensed to kill, returns from a successful mission determined to resign. Canning, his London superior, agrees to forward his resignation if Wilde eliminates a Czechoslovakian scientist defector now being held by the Americans. With the help of a housekeeper, Rhoda Gooderich, Wilde kills the scientist but is himself captured and interrogated by CIA agent Lucinda. After Lucinda tells Wilde that someone in his organization is causing fellow British agents to be killed by mistake, Wilde escapes to look for Canning, who mysteriously has disappeared. Accompanied by Canning's wife, Barbara, Wilde heads for the leader's base in the Channel Islands and learns from Stern, a fellow agent, that still another member of their unit, Peter Ravenspur, has been murdered.
Keywords: based-on-novel, bound-and-gagged, british-secret-service, channel-islands, cia-agent, czechoslovakian, defector, double-agent, espionage, fogActors: Bernard Bresslaw (actor), John Barry (actor), Philip Green (composer), Don Sharp (director), Pamela Davies (miscellaneous crew), Philip Green (actor), Michael Medwin (actor), John Jympson (editor), Walter Hudd (actor), Angela Douglas (actress), Tommy Steele (actor), Bruce Beeby (actor), Janet Henfrey (actress), Richard Goolden (actor), Edward Cast (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Musical,Actors: John Trumper (editor), Richard Wattis (actor), Sean Barrett (actor), Mark Dignam (actor), Donald Ogden Stewart (writer), John Rae (actor), Alastair Sim (actor), Colin Gordon (actor), John Mills (actor), Rita Davison (miscellaneous crew), Philip Leacock (director), Marie Lohr (actress), Andrew Ray (actor), Bruce Montgomery (composer), Roger MacDougall (writer),
Plot: It concerns a pacifist husband who is so involved in his "causes" he totally neglects his wife and two sons. The wife, ready to leave her husband, finds the schoolmaster knocking on their door informing them their boys are going to be expelled for fighting, which he finds ironic in as much as the father is a known pacifist. When they get to the school their sons have disappeared.
Keywords: based-on-playActors: Joan Sims (actress), John Warren (actor), Marjorie Rhodes (actress), Joan Hickson (actress), Ronald Adam (actor), Campbell Singer (actor), Meredith Edwards (actor), Aubrey Mather (actor), Martin Miller (actor), Alfie Bass (actor), Charles Hawtrey (actor), Hal Osmond (actor), Nicholas Parsons (actor), Wilfrid Hyde-White (actor), Mona Washbourne (actress),
Plot: Under a complicated bequest from her uncle, Myrtle stands to inherit $2,000,000 if her ex-husband doesn't have any male heirs on the way, else he gets the cash. She journies from New York to England, and finally tracks him down with his heavily pregnant new wife. Should she try and woo him back or challenge the legality of the new marriage?
Keywords: based-on-play, birth, childbirth, expectant-father, expectant-mother, giving-birth, inheritance, pregnancy, pregnant-wife, title-directed-by-femaleActors: Cyril Raymond (writer), Edwin Richfield (actor), Renée Glynne (miscellaneous crew), Vernon Sewell (actor), Vernon Sewell (director), Vernon Sewell (producer), Cyril Raymond (actor), Nigel Patrick (actor), Nigel Patrick (writer), Walter Tennyson (producer), Darcy Conyers (actor), Frank Spencer (composer), Joan Carroll (actress), Dolly Bouwmeester (actress), John Basings (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: June Gittelson (actress), Sam Ash (actor), Alfred P. James (actor), Jane Darwell (actress), Edward Earle (actor), John Boles (actor), Joyce Compton (actress), Russ Clark (actor), Frank Conroy (actor), Philo McCullough (actor), Frank Melton (actor), Broderick O'Farrell (actor), Carlton Griffin (actor), Astrid Allwyn (actress), Grace Goodall (actress),
Plot: The title represents the hopeful, ambitious students at a hospital training school and is primarily a story of the stern discipline and laborious physical and mental toil they endure in order to become nurses and join the White Parade. It is told mainly through the character of June Arden who finds romance with Ronald Hall III on the way, with side stories of the other girls who find failure, success, laughs and tears on the way. The forerunner of umpteen dozens of TV series over the past forty years.
Keywords: based-on-novel, color-in-title, nurse, nursing, nursing-school, nursing-student, student-nurseActors: Conrad Veidt (actor), Heinrich George (actor), Fritz Kortner (actor), Julius Brandt (actor), Ewald André Dupont (director), Tala Birell (actress), Frank Harvey (writer),
Genres: Drama,