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Sybille Schmitz
Beautiful German actress Sybille Schmitz (1909-1955) started her career in the era of the silent cinema. With her typical face and her relaxed, slightly mysterious way of playing, she became a...
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Vivi Gioi
Italian actress Vivi Gioi (1917–1975) first excelled in the 'telefoni bianchi' comedies of the 1930s. During the war and the late 1940s, she starred in dramatic films. Her best known role is that in...
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Hanna Schygulla
German actress and chanson singer Hanna Schygulla (1943) was the icon of the New German Cinema of the 1970s and early 1980s. Schygulla was Rainer Werner Fassbinder's muse and anti-star, and over 12...
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Michel Piccoli
French actor Michel Piccoli (1925) has appeared in many different roles, from seducer to cop to gangster to Pope in more than 200 films and TV films. Among the directors he worked with are Jean Renoir,...
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Max Landa
Austrian actor Max Landa (1880-1933) with his trademark monocle started his career in silent films opposite Asta Nielsen. Later he starred as the elegant and cosmopolitan gentleman-detective Joe Deebs...
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Hugh Grant
With his bumbling English charm, Hugh Grant (1960) achieved international stardom in the romantic comedy Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994). The handsome Brit with his floppy hair and posh accent...
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Karl Ludwig Diehl
German film actor Karl Ludwig Diehl (1896-1958) appeared in 66 films between 1924 and 1957. Although he is forgotten now, he was one of the of the most prominent German film actors of the 1930s and...
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Seymour Hicks
Suave Seymour Hicks (1871-1949) was a successful British actor, music hall performer, playwright, screenwriter, actor-manager and producer. He became known, early in his career, for writing, starring...
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Jean-Claude Van Damme
Belgian martial artist and actor Jean-Claude Van Damme (1960) is best known for his Hollywood films of the 1980s and 1990s. His most successful films include Bloodsport (1988), Universal Soldier...
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Hans Pos (1958-2014)
On Tuesday 17 June, Dutch producer and director Hans Pos died. In 1987, he founded Shooting Star Filmcompany with Maria Peters, and Dave Schram. They produced several popular family films, like...
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Heidemarie Hatheyer
Austrian actress Heidemarie Hatheyer (1918-1990) appeared in 43 films between 1938 and 1988. After the war she was forbidden to act in films for some years, because of her work in the Nazi propaganda...
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Paul Lukas
Paul Lukas (1891-1971) was a Hungarian-born American actor. He had a successful stage and film career in Hungary, Germany and Austria, where he worked with Max Reinhardt. In 1927, he arrived in...
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Florent Pagny
French musician Florent Pagny (1961) acted in many French films. He records songs in French, Italian, Spanish and English, and his best known songs include the #1 hits N'importe quoi, Savoir aimer and...
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May Britt
Blonde, blue-eyed Swedish actress May Britt (1933) had a brief career as a film star in the 1950’s, first in Italy and later in the United States. She retired from the screen after she married Sammy...
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Jean Rochefort
Jean Rochefort (1930) is a French actor, with a career that has spanned over five decades. He is best known for the comedies Le Grand Blond avec Une Chasseure Noire/The Tall Blond Man with One Black...
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Alfred Gerasch
Alfred Gerasch (1877-1954) was a popular Austrian stage actor who belonged to the exclusive circle of the ‘Königlich-Kaiserlichen Hofschauspielern’ (Royal Court Actors). He also acted in several silent...
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Jacques Bergerac (1927-2014)
On 15 June, French actor Jacques Bergerac died at his home in Anglet in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques region of southwest France. He made a name for himself in European and Hollywood films such as the...
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Charles Chaplin
Tomorrow the Gates of Heaven will open for cinema lovers: the XXVIII edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato film festival starts at 28 June 2014! Actually, the festival is preceded from 25 till 28 June by The...
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Maria Jacobini
At Il Cinema Ritrovato film festival in Bologna, there is a special presentation of the Italian silent film Addio giovinezza/Good-bye youth (Augusto Genina, 1918). A copy of this film was found in...
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Zbigniew Cybulski
At the XXVIII edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato film festival in Bologna, Italy, there is a special section on Polish cinema and Cinemascope. Polish cinema came to international prominence with a...
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