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Liam John Neeson,OBE (born 7 June 1952) is an Irish actor who has been nominated for an Oscar, a BAFTA and three Golden Globe Awards. He has starred in a number of notable roles including Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List, Michael Collins in Michael Collins, Peyton Westlake in Darkman, Bryan Mills in Taken, Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars (the film Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace and episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars), Alfred Kinsey in Kinsey, Ra's al Ghul in Batman Begins, and the voice of Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia film series.
He starred in other notable films such as Excalibur, The Dead Pool, Nell, Rob Roy, Les Misérables, The Haunting, Love Actually, Kingdom of Heaven, Taken, Clash of the Titans, The A-Team, Unknown and The Grey, as well as smaller arthouse films (e.g. Deception, Breakfast on Pluto, Chloe). He was ranked at number 69 on Empire magazine's 100 greatest movie stars of all time in 1997.
He was born in Ballymena, County Antrim and educated at St Patrick's College (now St Patrick's, Dundonald), Ballymena Technical College and Queen's University Belfast. He moved to Dublin after university to further his acting career, joining the renowned Abbey Theatre. In the early 1990s, he moved again to the United States, where the wide acclaim for his performance in Schindler's List led to more high-profile work. He is widowed and lives in New York with his two sons.
Sir Patrick Stewart, OBE (born 13 July 1940) is an English film, television and stage actor, who has had a distinguished career in theatre and television. He is most widely known for his television and film roles, such as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and its successor films, Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men film series, and as the voice of Avery Bullock in American Dad!.
Stewart was born on 13 July 1940 in Mirfield, near Dewsbury in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. He is the son of Gladys (née Barrowclough), a weaver and textile worker, and Alfred Stewart, a Regimental Sergeant Major in the British Army who served with the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and previously worked as a general labourer and as a postman.
In a 2008 interview, Stewart said: "My father was a very potent individual, a very powerful man who got what he wanted. It was said that when he strode onto the parade ground, birds stopped singing. It was many, many years before I realised how my father inserted himself into my work. I've grown a moustache for Macbeth. My father didn't have one, but when I looked in the mirror just before I went on stage I saw my father's face staring straight back at me."
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Often referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records. His contribution to music, dance, and fashion, along with a much-publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene along with his brothers as a member of The Jackson 5 in 1964, and began his solo career in 1971.
In the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music. The music videos for his songs, including those of "Beat It", "Billie Jean", and "Thriller", were credited with transforming the medium into an art form and a promotional tool, and the popularity of these videos helped to bring the relatively new television channel MTV to fame. Videos such as "Black or White" and "Scream" made him a staple on MTV in the 1990s. Through stage performances and music videos, Jackson popularized a number of complicated dance techniques, such as the robot and the moonwalk, to which he gave the name. His distinctive musical sound and vocal style influenced numerous hip hop, post-disco, contemporary R&B, pop and rock artists.
Actors: Graham Gall (actor), Nicholas Hope (actor), Guy Gross (composer), Bill Young (actor), Tony Llewellyn-Jones (actor), Helen Morse (actress), Anna Grieve (producer), Peter Butt (writer), Peter Butt (editor), Peter Butt (director), Peter Butt (producer), Michael Howlett (actor), Martin Simpson (actor), David Callan (actor), Beverly Freeman (costume designer),
Genres: History,Actors: Pierre Granier-Deferre (writer), Michel Aumont (actor), Michel Piccoli (actor), Melvil Poupaud (actor), Samuel West (actor), Claude Ludovicy (miscellaneous crew), Ludmila Mikaël (actress), Claire Nebout (actress), Pierre Granier-Deferre (director), Jacques Fieschi (writer), Jean-Claude Schlim (miscellaneous crew), Erwin Provoost (producer), Anaïs Jeanneret (actress), Norbert Saada (producer), Jean-Marie Duprez (producer),
Genres: ,Actors: Charles Bernstein (composer), Ava Gardner (actress), Daniel T. Cahn (producer), William Forsythe (actor), Wings Hauser (actor), William Russ (actor), Cybill Shepherd (actress), Irma P. Hall (actress), Rance Howard (actor), Don Johnson (actor), James Gammon (actor), Bill Thurman (actor), Jason Robards (actor), Daniel T. Cahn (editor), Shay Cunliffe (costume designer),
Genres: Drama, Romance,Actors: Jacques Rispal (actor), Anthony Perkins (actor), Clément Harari (actor), Jean-Pierre Aumont (actor), Bernard Musson (actor), Jean Ozenne (actor), Charles Bouillaud (actor), René Hell (actor), Jean Hébey (actor), Billy Kearns (actor), Yves Brainville (actor), Jacques Marin (actor), Albert Michel (actor), Gabriel Gobin (actor), Albert Rémy (actor),
Plot: Lisa Macklin, an Italian woman, has a fight with her American husband Robert in a Paris night club. He leaves the next day for a business trip and Lisa says she does not want to see him again. She is with newspaperman Alan Stewart that evening when she learns Robert's plane has crashed with no survivors. Waking from sedation after the funeral, Lisa finds Robert in their flat, injured but alive. He was thrown clear of the crash by a lucky twist of fate. He now plans to collect the $120,000 insurance he took out at the airport. Once Lisa collects the money and turns it over to him, she will finally be rid of him. She attempts to get advice from Stewart, but he has been replaced by David Barnes. Lisa's life becomes a tortuous ordeal, at work, at home, faced with a fugitive husband and a growing love for David, who suspects everything. Finally her nightmare concludes when she finally gets the check and meets Robert. As they drive to the Belgian border, he reveals he never intended giving her up to Barnes or anyone else. If she dares go, he will tell the police all and she will be arrested--as accessory to fraud. Lisa realizes she must take the desperate step to freedom. Once taken, there is no turning back.
Keywords: bed, black-pumps, crash, female-stockinged-feet, female-stockinged-legs, hotel-room, insurance, italian-woman, nightclub, paris-franceActors: Richard Anderson (actor), Lee Remick (actress), Angela Lansbury (actress), Victor Rodman (actor), Val Avery (actor), Orson Welles (actor), Anthony Franciosa (actor), Eugene Jackson (actor), I. Stanford Jolley (actor), Robert Adler (actor), Paul Newman (actor), J. Pat O'Malley (actor), Byron Foulger (actor), Bill Walker (actor), Joanne Woodward (actress),
Plot: Ben Quick arrives in Frenchman's Bend, MS after being kicked out of another town for allegedly burning a barn for revenge. Will Varner owns just about everything in Frenchman's Bend and he hires Ben to work in his store. Will thinks his own son, Jody, who manages the store, lacks ambition and despairs of him getting his wife, Eula, pregnant. Will thinks his daughter, Clara, a schoolteacher, will never get married. He decides that Ben Quick might make a good husband for Clara to bring some new blood into the family.
Keywords: ambition, ambulance, arranged-marriage, arson, bare-chested-male, barge, barn, based-on-novel, battle-of-the-sexes, butler