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Lesley-Anne Down was born on March 17, 1954 and raised in London, England. With the help of her father, she began modeling at age 10, acting in commercials, and winning several beauty contests. By the time she was 15, Down had completed four films and was voted "Britain's Most Beautiful Teenager". Lesley-Anne first gained international popularity as Georgina Worsley in the British series Upstairs, Downstairs (1971), which became a hit on PBS in the United States. She has starred in films, including The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976), A Little Night Music (1977), The Betsy (1978), The Great Train Robbery (1978), Hanover Street (1979), Rough Cut (1980) and Sphinx (1981). She starred in the television movies The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1982), Arch of Triumph (1984), Indiscreet (1988), and in the miniseries The Last Days of Pompeii (1984) and North & South: Book 1, North & South (1985).
Lesley-Anne appeared for six episodes as Stephanie Rogers in the prime-time television series Dallas (1978), on the CBS Network. Her previous daytime experience included roles as Olivia Richards in Sunset Beach (1997) and Lady Sheraton in Days of Our Lives (1965). She also made guest appearances on the television series The Nanny (1993) and Diagnosis Murder (1993). On stage, she has appeared in "Hamlet" and a musical version of "Great Expectations". As for her career, Lesley-Anne has earned Golden Globe Award nominations, German Bravo Awards, the British Best Actress Award, the Rose D'or Best Soap Opera Actress Award and the covers of numerous publications throughout the world, including Life Magazine. She was awarded the 2006 TV Soap Golden Boomerang Award for the most Popular Supporting Female for her role as Jackie Marone Knight on The Bold and the Beautiful (1987).
Lesley-Anne Down met her husband, cinematographer Don E. FauntLeRoy, while filming North & South: Book 1, North & South (1985). They live in Malibu, California with their son, George-Edward FauntLeRoy. She also has a son, Jackson Friedkin, from her earlier marriage to director William Friedkin and two stepchildren, Season FauntLeRoy and Juliana FauntLeRoy, from Don's previous marriage. When she's not on the set, Down prefers to spend her free time with her children and animals. She has an extensive collection of Victorian children's books, which she has collected since age 15.- Actor
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He may have made TV history as the first black game show host back in the 1970s, but the talents of singer/actor/musician Adam Wade extend far wider. Born Patrick Henry Wade, he grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In the late 1950s he served as a lab assistant for Dr. Jonas Salk, who invented the polio vaccine.
In 1959, he switched to performing and found in himself a smooth, gifted vocalist, his early influences being Johnny Mathis and Nat 'King' Cole. In 1960, he decided to make the journey to New York and pursue his dream. He signed with CoEd Records within a very short time and scored quickly with a string of mild successes including "Ruby" and "I Can't Help It." He also started traveling as a night-club entertainer playing all over the world and highlighting in such important venues as the Copacabana. The next year (1961) proved to be the peak of his recording success with "Take Good Care of Her," "Writing on the Wall" and "As If I Didn't Know" making the charts. Comparisons to Mathis at CoEd Records, however, damaged his momentum and he looked elsewhere, moving to Epic Records. Only one of his singles, "Crying in the Chapel," broke the "Top 100" charts.
In the late 1960s, he discovered voiceover work and started grooving as an actor. After appearing in the national tour of the musical "Hallelujah, Baby!" with Kim Weston and Julius LaRosa, the became a part of the film "blaxploitation" scene of the early 1970s. He bounced around in a few hip support roles such as Shaft (1971), Come Back Charleston Blue (1972), Across 110th Street (1972) and The Education of Sonny Carson (1974), among others. On television, he was seen in the soaps "The Guiding Light" and "Search for Tomorrow," and was a familiar presence on the popular black-oriented sitcoms of the day including "Sanford & Son", "The Jeffersons", "What's Happening", and "Good Times." The handsome actor became the first African-American to host a national television game show with Musical Chairs (1975). The resulting attention encouraged him to restart his recording career in a funkier vein on Kirshner Records in 1978 with songs including "Alexander's Soul Time Band".
He returned to acting and, in 1978, co-starred in an all-black cast of "Guys and Dolls" starring Leslie Uggams in Las Vegas. He also gave able support in such films as Texas Lightning (1981) and Kiss Me Goodbye (1982). An occasional stage director ("Cafe Society," "Guys and Dolls"), the gray-haired actor understudied Ben Vereen on Broadway in "I'm Not Rappaport" in 2002, and subsequently appeared in the movie Brother to Brother (2004). He took time out to go back to school (after forty years) and earned his BA and Master's degrees, at Lehman College and Brooklyn College, respectively. He was a speech and theater adjunct at LIU and Bloomfield College for some time and appears frequently on the L.A.-area stage.
Formerly married to Kay Wade, with whom he had three children, Adam remarried to entertainer Jeree Wade. They produced shows and performed together on cruise ships and in concert forums.- Alan Bursky was born on 17 March 1955 in the USA. He is an actor, known for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1975), The Drew Carey Show (1995) and Carla (1978).
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Alexander Bard was born on 17 March 1961 in Linköping, Östergötlands län, Sweden. He is an actor and composer, known for Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991), For Love or Money (1993) and Ha ett underbart liv (1992).- Music Department
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Alfred Newman is an American composer, arranger, and conductor of film music.
From his start as a music prodigy, he came to be regarded as a respected figure in the history of film music. He won nine Academy Awards and was nominated 45 times, contributing to the Newmans being the most nominated Academy Award extended family, with a collective 92 nominations in various music categories.
In a career spanning more than four decades, Newman composed the scores for over 200 motion pictures. Some of his most famous scores include All About Eve (1950), Anastasia (1956), Wuthering Heights (1939), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), The Mark of Zorro (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), The Song of Bernadette (1943), Captain from Castile (1947), Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955), The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), How the West Was Won (1962), The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), and his final score, Airport (1970), all of which were nominated for or won Academy Awards. He is perhaps best known for composing the fanfare which accompanies the studio logo at the beginning of 20th Century Fox's productions.
Newman was highly regarded as a conductor, and arranged and conducted many scores by other composers, including George Gershwin, Charles Chaplin, and Irving Berlin. He also conducted the music for many film adaptations of Broadway musicals (having worked on Broadway for ten years before coming to Hollywood), as well as many original Hollywood musicals.
He was among the first musicians to compose and conduct original music during Hollywood's Golden Age of movies, later becoming a respected and powerful music director in the history of Hollywood.- Allan Williams was born on 17 March 1930 in Bootle, Liverpool, England, UK. He was an actor, known for And the Beat Goes On (1996), Imagine: John Lennon (1988) and Some Other Guys: The Story of the Big Three (2017). He was married to Beryl. He died on 30 December 2016 in Liverpool, England, UK.
- Álvaro Recoba has been married to Lorena Perrone since 18 December 1997. They have two children.
- Amelia Heinle was born on 17 March 1973 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. She is an actress, known for The Young and the Restless (1973), The Limey (1999) and Loving (1983). She has been married to Thad Luckinbill since 3 March 2007. They have two children. She was previously married to Michael Weatherly.
- Ana Lopes is an award-winning actress known for her explosive performances. She often plays the headstrong and soulful romantic lead trapped in a toxic relationship. Ana was born in Coimbra and raised on the island of São Miguel, in the Azores. After graduating in Law in Lisbon and performing on many of the most prestigious Portuguese stages during college, she moved to Los Angeles to study Acting and Film. She has since then been working between the United States, the United Kingdom, and her native country.
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Andrew Goldberg was born on 17 March 1978 in White Plains, New York, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Big Mouth (2017), Family Guy (1999) and Human Resources (2022).- Andrew Paul was born on 17 March 1961 in Mile End, London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Scum (1979), Bugsy Malone (1976) and Bellman and True (1987). He has been married to Laura Shad since 1985. They have three children.
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Annie (Baria) Cavalero is an actor, writer and comedian. She was born in Colorado, grew up in northern California and lived in Texas before moving to Los Angeles. She is a graduate of the USC School of Cinematic Arts and got her start writing and performing in the Groundlings Sunday Company. She met her husband Tony Cavalero (Dewey on Nickelodeon's "School of Rock") when they were in the company together, and they were married August 1, 2015.- Actor
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Extremely gifted character actor whose face is readily familiar to the public but they can often not remember why. He tends to turn minor supporting roles into perfect studies in human frailty, strength, passion, avarice or anything else demanded by the role. Born on March 17, 1960, in Los Angeles, Arye Gross attended the University of California at Irvine and went on to study acting at the Conservatory at South Coast Repertory. He then became a member of the South Coast Repertory resident company for three years. This was followed by a year with El Teatro Campesino under the direction of Luis Valdez. Gross has appeared in a number of stage productions with a variety of companies in the Los Angeles area, including LATC, Pasedena Playhouse, Odyssey Theater Ensemble, MET Theater and Stages Theater Center. Gross' extensive stage credits include "La Bete" for the Stages Theatre Center, "Room Service" for the Pasadena Playhouse, "Three Sisters" for the Los Angeles Theatre Center, "Taming of the Shrew" and "Much Ado About Nothing" for the Grove Shakespeare Festival, "Troillus and Cressida" for the Globe Playhouse and "Screwball" and "Let's Play Two" for the South Coast Repertory Theatre.
His tour de force as the lackey sent to fetch famed singer Dixie Leonard (Bette Midler) for a TV show in For the Boys (1991) provided what would have been an otherwise mediocre film with all its pivotal moments upon which the story would turn. The most important growth of a character in that film turns out to be that of his who goes from a "go-fer" to his own man as a result of his tender encounter with Dixie as she tells him her life story. However, as usual, his performance appeared a seamless part of the whole. In another era, a great character actor such as Gross would be more widely appreciated and celebrated. Many viewers will recall his appearance as the wronged husband in Minority Report (2002) which demanded a change from a loving family man to a betrayed husband falling victim to murderous rage all within a few minutes time. Simply superb.- Astrid Whettnall was born on 17 March 1971. She is an actress, known for Road to Istanbul (2016), The Missing (2014) and In the Name of the Son (2012).
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Ben Cooke was born on 17 March 1974 in Leeds, England, UK. He is an actor and assistant director, known for Casino Royale (2006), Skyfall (2012) and The Bourne Ultimatum (2007).- Bernard Farcy was born on 17 March 1949 in Lyon, Rhône, Rhône-Alpes, France. He is an actor, known for Taxi (1998), Taxi 4 (2007) and Taxi 3 (2003).
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Bill Marchant was born William Geoffrey Marchant in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on March 17, 1964 to Ruth and Murray Marchant. By the age of ten, Bill and his family had settled in Georgetown, Ontario, where his acting career began at the age of 14. At 18, he attended the drama program at the University of Guelph. In addition to his work as an actor, he has directed several film projects including his award-winning debut feature "Everyone" (2004). Mr. Marchant is also an accomplished musician, having produced and co-written the albums "Odlum" and "Seven Miles Out" with singer-songwriter Michael Chase. Tracks have been featured on Showtime's Queer as Folk (2000), Fox Television's Higher Ground (2000), and the feature film Suspicious River, directed by Lynne Stopkewich.- Music Department
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Billy Corgan was born on 17 March 1967 in Elk Grove, Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for Batman & Robin (1997), Stigmata (1999) and Ransom (1996). He has been married to Chloe Mendel since 16 September 2023. They have two children. He was previously married to Christine Fabian.- Actor
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Silent western actor Bob Curwood was born in Romania in 1899 as John Balas Belasco. His parents were non-professionals Maria and Russen Balas Belasco. His movie-name was changed to Bub Curwood when he was given the lead role in a series of silent western and Royal-Canadian-Mounted shorts at Universal Pictures Corporation, circa 1925. Curwood starred in 26 silent shorts but his strong accent and inability to speak English bought an end to his career when Universal started producing sound films. Some sources credit John Balas Belasco as being a relative of either Universal-president Carl Laemmle, or Mr. Laemmle's wife. Most likely true as no studio in the history of American films had more relatives of the boss on its payroll than Universal.- Actor
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Brent Roam was born on 17 March 1971 in Bridgeton, Missouri, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Deep Blue Sea (1999), Tremors 4: The Legend Begins (2004) and Toolbox Murders (2004).- Born in Berlin, Germany. After her role in Metropolis (1927) she made a string of movies in which she almost always had the starring role, easily making the transition to sound films. Her last film was An Ideal Spouse (1935) which was released in 1935. She died on June 11th 1996 of heart failure in Ascona, Switzerland.
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Since SVH, Brittany has starred in Dawson's Creek, Joe Dirt and 2, other shows and movies and starred in the long series The Game. She battled stage four non-Hodgkin's's lymphoma and survived. She married her husband Adam Touni in 2017 and have now become parents to a daughter named Hope via surrogacy.- Actor
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Bryan Dechart was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and raised outside Detroit, Michigan. Graduated with honors from New York University with a BFA in Acting. He studied at the Meisner Extension, the Experimental Theater Wing, the Viewpoints Studio, Stonestreet Studios for Film and Television and trained in Commedia dell'arte in Florence, Italy.- Actor
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Cameron Thor was born on 17 March 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Jurassic Park (1993), Hook (1991) and A Few Good Men (1992). He is married to Alice Carter. They have one child.