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Jan-Michael Vincent is a retired American actor best known for his role as helicopter pilot Stringfellow Hawke on the 1980s U.S. television series... Airwolf . Vincent was born July 15, 1944 in Denver, Colorado, to Doris and Lloyd Vincent. His family moved to Hanford, California, when Jan-Michael was in his teens. Vincent attended Ventura College in Ventura California. He was finishing a stint in the National Guard when a talent scout was struck by his all-American looks. Jan-Michael Vincent's first acting job was in the movie The Bandits , co-directed by and starring Robert Conrad, in 1967. His career took off in the late 1960s when casting agent Dick Clayton signed him to Universal Studios. Vincent made an appearance on the Dragnet 1968 episode, "The Grenade," as a muscular high school student who suffered an acid attack by a mentally unstable classmate. He also appeared in the "Danger Island" segments of Hanna-Barbera's Banana Splits series as Link .
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Ariane Koizumi is known as a fashion model and actress . She is of Japanese and Dutch parentage. Koizumi grew up in the Riverdale section of the... Bronx, New York, and later modeled for numerous top designers, including Yves Saint-Laurent, Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel, Giorgio Armani, Rei Kawakubo for Comme des Garçons and Jean Paul Gautier. She appeared in Vogue, Elle, Harper's Bazaar and other top publications and worked in the runways of Paris, Rome, Milan, Tokyo and other fashion centers worldwide. In 1985, she starred in Michael Cimino's film Year of the Dragon, in which she played the role of Chinese-American television reporter Tracy Tzu, who falls in love with the fanatical cop Stanley White, played by Mickey Rourke. For this role, she was nominated for two Razzie Awards. Koizumi subsequently had a cameo in Abel Ferrara's King of New York. Koizumi was married to artist Juan Gómez, with whom she has three children, Antonia Gómez, Simona Gómez and Manuel Gómez.
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Pauline Lord was an American stage and film actress She was born in Hanford, California to Edward Lord and Sara Foster. When the family moved to San... Francisco she attended Holy Rosary Academy where she discovered her vocation from participating in a school play. She studied acting at the Alcazar Theatre in San Francisco and at only thirteen, she debuted professionally with the Belasco Stock Company in the play Are You A Mason? where her first role was that of a maid. The comedian Nat Goodwin saw her act and invited her to look him up if she ever got to New York. Three years later, after the San Francisco Fire, at the age of sixteen, she made the trip and, true to his words, Goodwin put her to work with several tour engagements. Her first New York success was in January 1912 as Ruth Lenox in The Talker followed up by more tours and vaudeville parts. Her next hit was in August 1917 as Sadie in The Deluge directed by Arthur Hopkins. It was not until 2 November 1921 that she again scored another hit where she starred in the title role of Eugene O’Neill's Anna Christie at the Vaudeville Theatre on Broadway.
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Matthew James "Matt" Shively, Jr. is an American actor best known for his role as Ryan Laserbeam on the Nickelodeon television series True Jackson,... VP. Beginning in June 2011, he began appearing in the Nickelodeon series The Troop as Kirby. Shively was born in Hanford, California. He became interested in acting in the fourth grade after seeing Shia LeBeouf on the television program Even Stevens, and LeBeouf remains his inspiration for acting. He has been a long-time fan of the Canadian television show Degrassi: The Next Generation. He also had a band with his good friend Sterling Knight named Connecting Channels. Shively has had only a few roles. He had a minor part in the 2007 film Rattle Basket, and another small part on an episode of Zoey 101. He auditioned several times for the part of Ryan on True Jackson, VP, and was told he didn't get it. He was called back two weeks later, tested for the role, and won the part. The show has received positive reviews. Beginning in June 2011, he will play Sky on Winx Club. Shively joined the cast of the Nickelodeon show The Troop in its second season as the character Kirby Bancroft-Cadworth III.
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Lennie Moore is an American composer, conductor, orchestrator of music for video games, film, TV, and Multi-media. In a career that spans over two... decades, Lennie Moore has been a proven force as an accomplished composer, conductor, orchestrator and arranger of music for video games, film, and television He is best known as the composer of the 1999 video game Outcast, and most recently, the Watchmen Motion Comic episodic web series. He has composed music on ten films, orchestrated for other composers on dozens of feature films and television movies, over 125 commercials, in addition to many video games including Outcast , Magic the Gathering: Duel of the Planeswalkers, Dirty Harry , Dragonshard, The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring, and additional music for Snoopy vs. the Red Baron and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. Lennie recently won a G.A.N.G. Award for the Watchmen Motion Comic web series. He also teaches Composing for Games courses at UCLA Extension and the USC Thornton School of Music SMPTV program.
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