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Harold Lloyd

photo: https://kittypackard.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/harold-lloyd.jpg Early Life, Entry Into Films Harold Lloyd in his most famous film, Safety Last. Lloyd, born in Burchard, Nebraska, had moved west with his family after his father failed in numerous business ventures. He had acted in theater since boyhood, and...

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Christopher Lloyd

photo: http://www.speakingofstories.org/images/Actors/Christopher_Lloyd_cropped_2006__2in.jpg Biography Christopher Lloyd For other people with the same name, see Christopher Lloyd (disambiguation) "Doc" Brown (Christopher Lloyd) and Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) from the movie Back to the Future. Christopher...

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Desmond Llewellyn

Biography Desmond Llewelyn as Q in Tomorrow Never Dies Desmond Llewelyn (September 12, 1914 – December 19, 1999) was a Welsh actor, famous for playing the fictional character of Q in the James Bond series of films. Q is the quartermaster of the MI6 gadget lab known as Q-branch. Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn was born in...

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John Lithgow

Biography John Arthur Lithgow (pronounced "lith-go") was born on October 19, 1945 in Rochester, New York. An accomplished actor, Lithgow is most recently best known for his starring role as Dick Solomon in the 1996-2001 NBC sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun, for which he received six Primetime Emmy Award nominations (one for each...

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Ray Liotta

Biography Film quotes From Goodfellas: "And when the cops, they assigned a whole army to stop Jimmy, what'd he do? He made them partners." "When they found Carbone in the meat truck, he was frozen so stiff it took them three days to thaw him out for the autopsy." "For a second, I thought I was...

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Larry Linville

Biography Larry Linville as Frank Burns on M*A*S*H. Larry Linville (September 29, 1939 – April 10, 2000) was an American actor. Larry Linville was born in Ojai, California, and is best known for his portrayal of obnoxious, self-important Major Frank Burns in the television series M*A*S*H. In stark contrast to the...

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Delroy Lindo

Biography Delroy Lindo (born November 18, 1952, Eltham, London, England, UK) is a British born, American actor. The son of Jamaican immigrant parents, Lindo was born and raised in Lewisham, England, where at age 5 on the strength of the nativity plays he appeared in became a stage actor. As a teenager he and his mother moved to...

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Max Linder

Biography Max Linder (December 16, 1883 – October 31, 1925) was an influential French pioneer of silent film. Contents 1 Birth and early career 2 Film 3 United States 4 Depression and suicide 5 Legacy 6 Selected coverage in the New York Times 7 External links 8 Selected filmography ...

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Jet Li

Biography As an athlete Jet Li participated in the sport of Wushu (non-sparring). He began his martial arts career as a member of the Beijing Wushu team, an athletic group organized to perform martial arts during the All China Games. As a member of the team, he received martial arts training and went on to win 15 gold medals and...

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Jerry Lewis

photo: http://jerry-lewis-telethon.edogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/jerry-lewis.jpg Biography Career Lewis was born in Newark, New Jersey to a Jewish American family, the son of a vaudeville performer named Danny Lewis, He began in burlesque in 1942 at age 16 (if the birth year of 1926 is correct) and married two years later...

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Jack Lemmon

Foto: 1 Biography Life and career He was born in an elevator in Newton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, where his father was a successful businessman. After attending Phillips Academy and Harvard University (becoming whilst there president of the Hasty Pudding Club) Lemmon joined the Navy, received V-12 training and...

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John Leguizamo

Biography John Leguizamo (born July 22, 1964 in Bogota, Colombia), is a comedian, actor and producer of Colombian-Puerto Rican descent working in the Hollywood film industry . John was born in Bogotá, Colombia. His father, Alberto Leguizamo, was a Puerto Rican Realtor living in Colombia who met and married a young Colombian...

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Christopher Lee

photo: http://www.getreadytorock.com/features/christopher_lee1.jpg Biography Early Life Lee was born in London in 1922, the son of Geoffrey Trollope Lee, a Lieutenant-Colonel in the 60th King's Royal Rifle Corps, and the Marchesina Estelle Marie Carandini di Sarzano, whose grandfather had been an Italian political refugee who had...

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Bruce Lee

Foto: 1 Biography Early life Bruce Lee was an American Born Chinese (ABC) born at the Chinese Hospital[2] in San Francisco to his Chinese father, Lee Hoi-Chuen and Chinese-German[3] mother Grace Lee. Names Lee's Cantonese name, Lee Jun Fan ( Mandarin Pinyin: Lǐ Zhènfán), literally means "invigorate...

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Denis Leary

photo: https://echotig8.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/bcf_leary_435.jpg Biography Early life Leary was born in Worcester, Massachusetts to Irish Catholic immigrants John Leary (an auto mechanic who died in 1985) and Nora (a maid); Leary holds both Irish and American citizenship. Through marriage, Leary is a distant cousin of talk...

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George Lazenby

Biography George Lazenby was born in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia and served in the Australian Army Special forces and as a military unarmed combat instructor. He moved to London in 1964; working as a car salesman and as a model, then as an actor in advertising, by 1968, he was the highest-paid model in the world (it...

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Martin Lawrence

Biography Early life Lawrence was born in Frankfurt, Germany, where his father, John Lawrence, served in the US military. When Lawrence was six, his family relocated to Landover, Maryland; two years later his father left the family. His mother, Chlora, worked as a cashier at various department stores to support Martin and...

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Jude Law

photo: http://imstars.aufeminin.com/stars/fan/jude-law/jude-law-20050220-26677.jpg Biography Life The son of two teachers, Law was educated at John Ball Primary School in Blackheath, and Alleyn's School in Dulwich where he took on various roles, contributing to the school's illustrious acting tradition. Career...

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Charles Laughton

photo: http://content8.flixster.com/photo/37/93/65/3793650_tml.jpg Charles Laughton as photographed in 1940 by Carl Van Vechten Charles Laughton (July 1, 1899 - December 15, 1962) was a British-born American stage and film actor. Early Life and Career Rise Laughton was born in...

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John Larroquette

Biography Personal and Family He has three children with his wife, Elizabeth Ann Cookson. He is also a registered member of the Libertarian Party, a fact to which he alluded when he made an appearance on Dennis Miller's CNBC show on the "Varsity Panel". During an appearance on Tom Snyder's show, Larroquette mentioned...

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Frank Langella

photo: http://www.filmofilia.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Frank-Langella.jpg Biography Frank Langella (born January 1, 1940 in Bayonne, New Jersey) is an American stage and film actor. He has twice won the Tony Award for Best Featured (Supporting) Actor in a Play, in 1975 and 2002, twice been nominated for Best Leading...

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Fritz Lang

Biography Early life and career Metropolis - Lang's famous 1927 science fiction movie Born in Vienna, Lang grew up the second son of an architect. Both his father and his mother were practising Roman Catholics, as was Lang himself; indeed he was baptized in the Schottenkirche near his family's home. Lang took up civil...

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Michael Landon

Biography Early life Born Eugene Maurice Orowitz in the Queens suburban area of Forest Hills, New York, he and his family moved to Collingswood, New Jersey in 1941, where his father accepted a job in working at the eater, while his mother became a popular comedienne of the 1940s. It was at the time while watching the 1949 movie...

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Martin Landau

photo: http://www.wildwoodbytheseafilmfest.com/images/270px-Martin-landau.jpg Biography As Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood—a performance which earned him an Oscar Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell and Martin Landau in Space: 1999 (1976) Landau was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, and at the age of 17 began working as a...

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Burt Lancaster

photo: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5w84d_aWDxU/S8DiRnTUfuI/AAAAAAAABP4/D3Zdo1cahFI/s1600/burt.jpg Biography Quotes Most people seem to think I’m the kind of guy who shaves with a blowtorch. Actually, I’m bookish and worrisome. Academy Awards for Best Actor 1953: From Here to Eternity - Nomination...

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Lash La

photo: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1MHO_3PJY2U/SYJa5-2iClI/AAAAAAAACO4/l7rN7vtIfdg/s400/Lash+Larue.jpg Biography Lash La Rue (June 14, 1917–May 21, 1996) was an actor noted for his roles in low-budget Westerns. Lash La Rue Born Alfred LaRue in Gretna, Louisiana, USA of Cajun ancestry, he was raised in various towns...

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Samuel L. Jackson

photo: http://static.topfilm.ro/p/Samuel-L-Jackson.jpg Biography Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21, 1948) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. He is the highest grossing actor of all time, as the films he has appeared in have a combined gross of $3.8 billion [1]. Contents 1 Early life 2 Career...

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Dilip Kumar

Biography Dilip Kumar in Jugnu (1947) (full picture shows Noor Jehan next to him) Dilip Kumar (born December 11, 1922) is an Indian film actor and Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha). He is the recipient of India's highest award for cinematic excellence, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award and also the Nishan-e-Imtiaz, Pakistan's highest...

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Kris Kristofferson

Biography Early life Although born in Brownsville, Texas, he moved around much as a youth, finally settling down in San Mateo, California, where he graduated from high school. An aspiring writer, Kristofferson earned a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University (Merton College, Oxford) after previously attending Pomona...

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Yaphet Kotto

Biography This article is about the American actor. For the Santa Cruz emo band go to Yaphet Kotto (band) Yaphet Kotto starring on Homicide. Yaphet Frederick Kotto (born November 15, 1937 in New York City) is an American actor. His father was a Igbo Jew from Cameroon and Kotto is a practicing Jew by faith. His father was royalty...

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