- Woody Allen
Woody Allen is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. His large body of work and cerebral film style, mixing satire, wit and humor, have made him one of the most respected and prolific filmmakers in the modern era. Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the majority of them. For inspiration, Allen draws heavily on literature, philosophy, psychology, Judaism, … - Steve Martin
Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American comedian, writer, producer, actor, musician and composer. - Tim Robbins
Timothy Francis Robbins (born October 16, 1958) is an American Academy Award-winning actor, screenwriter, director, producer, activist and small time musician. He is the longtime partner of actress Susan Sarandon, with whom he shares strong liberal political views. - Michel Gondry
Michel Gondry, born May 8, 1963 (1964 according to some sources), is a French Academy Award winning screenwriter, film, commercial, and music video director noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en scène. - Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Charles Branagh (born December 10 1960) is an Emmy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated Northern Irish-born actor and film director. - Nick Cave
Nicholas Edward Cave (born September 22, 1957) is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and occasional actor. He is best known for his work in the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and his fascination with American music and its roots. He currently lives in Brighton & Hove in England. - Dan Aykroyd
Daniel Edward Aykroyd CM (born July 1, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning Canadian/American comedian, actor, screenwriter, and musician. He was an original cast member of "Saturday Night Live", an originator of the Blues Brothers (with John Belushi), and has had a long career as a film actor and screenwriter. - Noel Coward
Sir Noel Peirce Coward was an English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music. His forename is sometimes spelled with a diaeresis on the 'e' ("Noël"). Coward himself used this spelling only in later life. - Vincent Gallo
Vincent Gallo (born in Buffalo, New York on April 11, 1961) is an American movie actor and director, producer, screenwriter, and musician. Although he has had small roles in mainstream films such as "Goodfellas", he is most associated with independent movies. "Buffalo '66", which he wrote, directed, and starred in, is considered his most notable film. In the 1980s, Gallo worked as a figurative painter in New York City, … - Tracey Ullman
Tracey Ullman is best known for her TV series, "The Tracey Ullman Show" which aired on Fox from 1987 to 1990. She earned her first show business acclaim in "Four in a Million" for which she won a London Critics Award. Despite Ullman's role in "Girls on Top", it was BBC's popular Saturday night show "Three of a Kind" that gave her the first shot at creating characters, making her a household name throughout England. - Trey Parker
Randolph Severn "Trey" Parker III (born October 19, 1969) is an American animator, screenwriter, film director, voice actor, actor and musician. He is most noted as one of the creators of the animated series "South Park" along with Matt Stone. - Abel Ferrara
Abel Ferrara (born July 19, 1951 in The Bronx) is an American movie screenwriter and director. At the age of 15, he moved upstate where he met Nicholas St. John, a fellow classmate in high school who would go on to write several of his movies. Ferrara started out as a director by making amateur films on Super 8 including a five-minute short that would provide the basis for his 1979 film, "The Driller Killer", … - James Gunn
James Gunn (born August 5, 1970, St. Louis, Missouri) is an American writer, film maker, actor, musician and cartoonist. - Tupac Shakur
Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16 1971 - September 13 1996), also known by his stage names: 2Pac, Makaveli, or simply Pac, was an American artist renowned for his rap music, movie roles, poetry, and his social activism. He is recognized in the "Guinness Book of World Records" as the best selling hip-hop artist, with over seventy-five million albums sold worldwide including over fifty million in the United States alone. - Fran Walsh
Frances Walsh, MNZM, (born 1959), is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter and film producer and also a musician. She has been the partner of filmmaker Peter Jackson since 1987. They have two children, Billy Jackson and Katie Jackson. Fran has contributed to all of Jackson's films since they met at the end of "Bad Taste". - Harvey Fierstein
Harvey Fierstein (born June 6 1952) is a Tony Award-winning and Emmy Award-nominated American actor, playwright, and screenwriter. - Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor 's latest book, "Homegrown Democrat," was released on July 15, 2004. Here he offers the first four chapters for your perusal, courtesy of Viking Books. Dedicating the book to "all of the good Democratic-Farmer-Laborites of Minnesota," he offers "a few plain thoughts from the heart of America." - Mae West
Mae West (August 17, 1893 - November 22, 1980) was an American actress, playwright, screenwriter, and sex symbol. Famous for her bawdy double entendres, West made a name for herself in vaudeville and on the legitimate stage in New York before moving to Hollywood to become renowned as a comedienne, actress and writer in the motion picture industry. One of the most controversial stars of her day, West encountered many problems including censorship. - Breckin Meyer
Breckin Erin Meyer (born May 7, 1974) is an American actor and producer. - Nick Cassavetes
Nicholas David Rowland Cassavetes (born May 21, 1959) is an American actor and director. Cassavetes was born in New York City, New York, the son of actress Gena Rowlands and Greek-American actor and director John Cassavetes. He has appeared in the films "Face/Off", "The Wraith", "Life", and "The Astronaut's Wife", among others. He has directed several films, including "John Q", "Alpha Dog", "She's So Lovely", … - Tom Tykwer
Tom Tykwer (born May 23, 1965 in Wuppertal, Germany) is a German film director best known internationally for directing "Run Lola Run" (1998). Tykwer was fascinated by film from an early age. He started making amateur Super 8 films at the age of eleven and later helped out at a local arthouse cinema to see more movies, including those he was too young to buy tickets for. - Telly Savalas
Telly Savalas (January 21, 1922 - January 22, 1994) was a prominent Emmy Award-winning American film and television actor whose career spanned four decades. He was nominated for an Oscar in 1963 for his supporting role in "Birdman of Alcatraz". He also starred with Burt Lancaster in "The Young Savages" and "The Scalphunters". For the course of his long career, he was best known for his work playing the title role in the popular 1970s crime drama, … - Pauly Shore
Pauly Shore (born February 1, 1968) is an American actor and comedian, perhaps best known for starring in a series of comedy films in the 1990s. - Shel Silverstein
Sheldon Alan "Shel" Silverstein (September 25, 1930 - May 10, 1999) was an American poet, songwriter, musician, composer, cartoonist, screenwriter and author of children's books. He sometimes styled himself as Uncle Shelby especially for his early childrens books. To this day he remains one of the most beloved authors of children's books, similar to Dr. Seuss. Silverstein confirmed he never studied the poetry of others, … - Betty Comden
Betty Comden (May 3 1917 - November 23 2006) was born Basya Cohen in New York City on May 3 1917 (see ,,) although many sources cited 1915, 1918 and 1919 as possible years of birth. She died of heart failure following an undisclosed illness of several months at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan on Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 2006. Along with Adolph Green (1914 - 2002), Comden was one-half of the musical duo Comden and Green, … - Charles Aznavour
Charles Aznavour is an Armenian-French singer, songwriter and actor. Besides being one of France's most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the most well-known French singers abroad. He has appeared in more than 60 movies, composed more than 1000 songs (including 150 in English, 100 in Italian, 70 in Spanish, and 50 in German), and sold well over 100 million records. Aznavour started his global farewell tour in late 2006. - Peter Howitt
Peter Howitt (born May 5, 1957 in Manchester) is an English actor and film director. He first found success playing Joey Boswell in the British TV series "Bread". In 1998 he wrote and directed his first film, "Sliding Doors" (1998). Since then he has directed several films, including "AntiTrust" (2001), "Johnny English" (2003) and "Laws of Attraction" (2004). - Danielle Darrieux
Danielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette Darrieux (born May 1, 1917 in Bordeaux, Gironde, Aquitaine, France) is a French singer and actress. - Jean-Claude Brialy
Jean-Claude Brialy (born March 30, 1933 in Aumale, now Sour El-Ghozlane, Algeria – died May 302007 in Monthyon, Seine-et-Marne, France, from cancer) was a French actor, director and socialite who starred in French films. He became a star in the late 1950s when he was one of the most prolific actors of the French "nouvelle vague". He made films with such important nouvelle vague filmmakers as Claude Chabrol, Éric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Godard, Louis Malle, François Truffaut, … - Rossano Brazzi
Rossano Brazzi (September 18, 1916 - December 24, 1994) was an Italian actor. Brazzi was born in Bologna, and attended San Marco University in Florence, Italy, a city in which he lived since the age of four. He made his film debut in a 1939 Italian film. Brazzi had an extensive filmography, much of it in Italian and French films, but the film that propelled him to international fame was " Three Coins in the Fountain" (1954), a Hollywood blockbuster, … - John Duigan
John Lawless Duigan, (born June 19, 1949 in Hampshire, England) is a film director. Duigan emigrated to Australia in 1961, having been born to an Australian father. He is related to many Australian performers, being the brother of Virginia Duigan (wife of Bruce Beresford) and uncle of Trilby Beresford. Duigan directed 23 films, including "Romero", "The Parole Officer", "Sirens", and "Head in the Clouds". - Tim Russ
Timothy Darrell Russ (born on June 22, 1956 in Washington, DC) is an American actor, film director, screenwriter, and musician. He is best known for his role on "Star Trek: Voyager" as Lieutenant Commander Tuvok. Russ also made an appearance in the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "Starship Mine" and in the "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" episode "Through the Looking Glass", where he played the mirror universe version of Tuvok, … - Julie Brown
Julie Ann Brown (born August 31, 1962) is an American actor, stand-up comic, comedic singer-songwriter and screenwriter. Brown is perhaps best known for her work in the 1980s, where she often played a quintessential valley girl character. Much of her comedy has revolved around the mocking of famous people (with a strong and frequently revisited focus on Madonna). However, unlike some comedians who claim to love the celebrities they mock, … - RuPaul
RuPaul (born RuPaul Andre Charles on November 17, 1960), and named after Paul Bergeron, is an American drag performer, dance music singer, actor, and songwriter who gained worldwide fame in the 1990s; appearing in a wide variety of television programs, films, and musical albums. Though a catty attitude is often associated with drag queens, RuPaul intentionally displayed a "love one another" attitude to be set apart from them. - Lilli Palmer
Lilli Palmer, born Lillie Marie Peiser was a German actress. Palmer, who took her surname from an English actress she admired, was one of three daughters born to Dr. Alfred Peiser, a German Jewish surgeon, and Rose Lissman, an Austrian Jewish stage actress in Posen, Prussia, Germany (then - after WW I - Poznań, Poland). She studied drama in Berlin before fleeing to Paris in 1933 following the Nazi takeover. - Robert B. Sherman
Robert B. Sherman (born December 19, 1925) (see also: "Sherman Brothers") is an Academy Award-winning American songwriter who specializes in musical films with his brother Richard M. Sherman. Some of Sherman's best known writing includes the songs from "Mary Poppins", "The Jungle Book", "Winnie the Pooh", "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", "The Slipper and the Rose" and the theme park song, "It's a Small World (after all)". - Lucas Grabeel
Lucas Stephen Grabeel (born November 23, 1984) is an American actor and singer. He is perhaps best known for his role as Ryan Evans in the Disney Channel Original Movie "High School Musical" and its sequel "High School Musical 2" and as Ethan Dalloway in the third and fourth installments of "Halloweentown" - "Halloweentown High" and Return to Halloweentown. - Richard M. Sherman
Richard M. Sherman (born June 12, 1928) (see also: "Sherman Brothers") is an Academy Award-winning Jewish-American songwriter who specializes in musical film with his brother Robert B. Sherman. Some of the Sherman Brothers' best known writing includes the songs from "Mary Poppins", "The Jungle Book", "Winnie the Pooh", "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", "The Slipper and the Rose" and the theme park song, "It's a Small World (after all)". - Dan Gilroy
"Dan Gilroy" is an American screenwriter. He has written the movies "Freejack", the Dennis Hopper film, "Chasers", and "Two for the Money" starring his wife, Rene Russo. He was one (of many) writers to contribute to the defunct film "Superman Lives". He also starred as Gordon Goose in Mother Goose Rock N' Rhyme. He has also had an active career in music as a member of the Breakfast Club, … - James Bernard
James Bernard (1925 - 12 July 2001) was a British film composer. He is remembered almost exclusively for the music he composed for the Hammer horror films of the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Undoubtedly his most famous was "Horror of Dracula" in 1958, for which he composed a motif based on the sound "Dra-cu-laaaaa". Other memorable Hammer scores included "The Curse of Frankenstein" (1957), "Kiss of the Vampire" (1962), …
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