John Neville, C.M., OBE (born May 2 1925) is an English theatre and film actor who moved to Canada in 1972. He enjoyed a resurgence of international attention in the 1980s as a result of his starring role in Terry Gilliam's "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen". Neville was born on May 2, 1925 in London, educated at Chiswick County School for Boys, and after war service in the Royal Navy trained as an actor at RADA, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, …

Born in Toronto , Ontario , Sarah Polley is the youngest of five children born to Michael Polley , a British -born actor (he attended acting classes with Albert Finney in England before moving to Canada), and actress and casting director Diane Polley , who died of cancer just before Polley's 11th birthday. She attended Earl Haig Secondary School , but dropped out before graduating.

Robert Oliver Reed (February 13, 1938 - May 2, 1999) was an English actor known for his macho image on and off screen. His major films include "Oliver!", "Women in Love", "The Devils", "The Three Musketeers", "Tommy," "Castaway", "Lion of the Desert", and "Gladiator".

Charles McKeown (b.1946) is a British actor and writer, perhaps best known for his collaborations with Terry Gilliam. The two met while shooting "Monty Python's Life of Brian", while McKeown was doing bit parts in the film. Gilliam later casted him in "Time Bandits" as the Theater Manager. McKeown co-wrote the screenplay for "Brazil" (1985) with Gilliam and Tom Stoppard, for which they were collectively nominated for an Academy Award.

Jack Purvis (1937-November, 1997), was a British film actor. Purvis was a dwarf, and thus was mainly cast in roles requiring actors of short stature. Purvis appeared as a different alien creature in each of the three films of the original Star Wars trilogy, and also appeared in three of director Terry Gilliam's early fantasy movies, Time Bandits, Brazil and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.

Alison Steadman OBE (born on July 26 1945) is an award-winning English stage, television and film actress

Peter Jeffrey (18 April 1929 - 25 December 1999) was a British actor with many roles in television and film, he is best remembered as Inspector Trout in "The Abominable Dr. Phibes" (1971), and "Dr. Phibes Rises Again" (1972) Jeffrey was born in Bristol and educated at Harrow School and Pembroke College, Cambridge but had no formal training as an actor. After many years on stage with the Bristol Old Vic and the Royal Shakespeare Company, …

Dante Ferretti is an Italian art director and costume designer for films. He won his first, and so far only Academy Award for "The Aviator" (2004) for Art Direction, despite seven previous nominations. His nominations were for "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen", "Hamlet" (1990), "The Age of Innocence", "Interview with a Vampire", "Kundun", and "Gangs of New York". He was nominated for Best Costume Design for "Kundun".

Rudolf Erich Raspe was a German librarian, writer and scientist, and he was called by his biographer John Carswell a "rogue". He is best known for his collection of tall tales: "The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen", originally a satirical work with political aims. Raspe was born in Hanover, studied law and worked as a librarian for the university of Göttingen.

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I am one of those folks who lives maybe a half-step diagonally from everyone else. You know the type: always has to do things his own way, never picks the easy route, laughs in the face of "should do". Stubborn to a fault, but just clever enough to get away with it. Never shy about voicing his opinions.

In terms of academic... I graduated from Ibaraki University, Japan with a BA in History. My particular interest is in Mayan religion, especially the philosophy of life and death, mourning and funeral rites, and the mortuary system. Since my future thesis will deal with Mayan funeral issues primarily through the analysis of inscriptions, I am currently focusing on Mayan hieroglyphs acquisition.