Who is a Welsh film animator/director who was born in Rhondda in Wales who graduated from the University of Wales with an HNC in Electronics, and worked on projects like the eighteenth spy film in the "James Bond" series, and the second to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond ?
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Marco Marenghi Marco Marenghi is a Welsh film animator/director who was born in Rhondda in Wales. He graduated from the University of Wales with an HNC in Electronics, and he worked for a microelectronics firm in Rhondda. He was laid off due to redundancy, and he briefly worked as a TV repairman before becoming unemployed. His wife encouraged him to take an animation course at the University of Glamorgan. After graduating with an HND in Animation, he worked for Framestore for four years on projects including the James Bond film "Tomorrow Never Dies" (1997) and the BBC television miniseries "Walking with Dinosaurs" (1999). DreamWorks hired Marenghi to work on films including "Minority Report" (2002). He moved to Sony Pictures Imageworks, where he worked as animation supervisor on films including "I Am Legend" (2007) and "Ghost Rider" (2007). He also worked as an animation director for Animal Logic for the film "Walking with Dinosaurs" (2013). The BBC featured Marenghi's dramatic career change and inspirational story in the documentary On Show: The Marco Marenghi Story (2004).
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Tomorrow Never Dies Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) is the eighteenth spy film in the "James Bond" series, and the second to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Directed by Roger Spottiswoode, with the screenplay written by Bruce Feirstein, the film follows Bond as he attempts to stop Elliot Carver, a power-mad media mogul, from engineering world events to initiate World War III.
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James Bond in film The James Bond film series is a British series of spy films based on the fictional character of MI6 agent James Bond, "007", who originally appeared in a series of books by Ian Fleming. It is one of the longest continually-running film series in history, having been in on-going production from 1962 to the present (with a six-year hiatus between 1989 and 1995). In that time Eon Productions has produced 24 films, most of them at Pinewood Studios. With a combined gross of over $7 billion to date, the films produced by Eon constitute the fourth-highest-grossing film series. Six actors have portrayed 007 in the Eon series, the latest being Daniel Craig.
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Peter A. Dowling Peter Anthony Dowling is a British screenwriter and film director. He was born in Salford, England, in 1969 and started his career in children's animation in both the UK and Germany, working on cartoons such as "The Raggy Dolls", "Benjamin Bluemchen" and "Renada".
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Moonraker (film) Moonraker (1979) is the eleventh spy film in the "James Bond" series, and the fourth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The third and final film in the series to be directed by Lewis Gilbert, it co-stars Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Corinne Cléry, and Richard Kiel. Bond investigates the theft of a space shuttle, leading him to Hugo Drax, the owner of the shuttle's manufacturing firm. Along with space scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond follows the trail from California to Venice, Rio de Janeiro, and the Amazon rainforest, and finally into outer space to prevent a plot to wipe out the world population and to re-create humanity with a master race.
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Mair Russell-Jones Mair Russell-Jones, born Mair Eluned Thomas (1917–2013), was a graduate in Music and German from Cardiff University who during the Second World War worked as a civilian codebreaker for the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park. She worked in Hut 6, decrypting messages in Enigma machine cipher.
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Sydney Padua Melina Sydney Padua is a graphic artist and animator based in London, England. She is the author of the "The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage" steampunk comic, and her animation work appears in several popular Hollywood films.
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Steve Purcell Steven Ross Purcell (born 1961) is an American cartoonist, animator, director and game designer. He is most widely known as the creator of "Sam & Max", an independent comic book series about a pair of anthropomorphic animal vigilantes and private investigators, for which Purcell received an Eisner Award in 2007. Since being a comic, the series has grown to incorporate an animated television series and several video games. A graduate of the California College of Arts and Craft, Purcell began his career creating comic strips for the college newsletter. He performed freelance work for Marvel Comics and Fishwrap Productions before publishing his first "Sam & Max" comic in 1987. Purcell was hired by LucasArts as an artist and animator in 1988, working on several titles within the company's adventure games era.
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Tom Warburton Thomas Warburton (born August 31, 1968), often credited as Mr. Warburton, is an American animator, producer, writer and designer. He is best known for creating the animated television series "". He also created the animated short "Kenny and the Chimp". Prior to that he served as production designer on the first season of "Beavis and Butt-Head" and was the lead character designer for the animated series "Pepper Ann". He is also the author of the book "A Thousand Times No". Since moving to Los Angeles in 2009 he has worked at Disney Television Animation serving as creative director on "Fish Hooks" and co-executive producer on "The 7D".
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Johnny English Johnny English is a 2003 British-American spy comedy film parodying the James Bond secret agent genre infused with comedy similar to Atkinson's Mr. Bean character. The film stars Rowan Atkinson, Natalie Imbruglia, Ben Miller and John Malkovich. The screenplay was written by Bond writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, with William Davies, and the film was directed by Peter Howitt. It is the first installment of the "Johnny English film series".
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The Mouse from H.U.N.G.E.R. The Mouse from H.U.N.G.E.R. is a 1967 "Tom and Jerry" cartoon directed by Abe Levitow and produced by Chuck Jones. The title is a pun on the 1964 spy show "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." (also made by MGM), which was airing on NBC at the time.
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Dominic Sutherland Dominic Sutherland (born 1972) studied History and Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is a British television director and producer.
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Night Watch (1995 film) Night Watch (also known as Detonator II: Night Watch) is a 1995 American television spy film directed by David Jackson starring Pierce Brosnan and Alexandra Paul. The film, also known as "Alistair MacLean's Nightwatch", was shot in Hong Kong. The film aired on the USA Network.
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Mohammed Saeed Harib Mohammed Saeed Harib (Arabic: محمد سعيد حارب‎ ‎ ; born in 1978, in Dubai) is an animator from the United Arab Emirates, accredited as the creator and producer of "FREEJ"; an animated UAE cartoon series. Harib is a Northeastern University graduate, majoring in General Arts and Animation, and holds the distinction as the first 3D cartoon animator from the Middle East.
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Stanislav Sokolov Stanislav Mihaylovich Sokolov (Russian: Станислав Михайлович Соколов ; born May 18, 1947) is a Russian stop-motion animation director. He graduated from VGIK in 1971 and has since then worked with Studios Soyuzmultfilm, DEFA, Christmasfilms and S4C. He was awarded a number of prizes for his films, most notably an Emmy in 1992 for his contribution to The Animated Shakespeare series. Sokolov is teaching at VGIK, where he is Professor for Animation and Computer Graphics.
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Charles Russhon Charles J. Russhon (March 23, 1911 - June 26, 1982) was an American photographer and Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force who later became noted for his role as a technical adviser and liaison officer on the Sean Connery and Roger Moore James Bond films of the 1960s and 1970s.
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Dave Wasson David "Dave" Wasson is an American television producer, director, screenwriter, animator and art director. He graduated from the California Institute of the Arts with a B.F.A. He is best known for creating "Time Squad" and directing and writing on the series "Mickey Mouse Shorts". He was the supervising director of "Making Fiends" and was the executive producer and director of the series "The Buzz on Maggie". Also, he is the author/illustrator of the children's book "The Big Ideas of Buster Bickles".
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Rupert Penry-Jones Rupert William Penry-Jones (born 22 September 1970) is an English actor, best known for his roles as Adam Carter in the BBC One spy drama series "Spooks", Clive Reader QC in the BBC One legal drama "Silk", policeman DI Joseph Chandler in the ITV murder mystery series "Whitechapel", and Mr. Quinlan in the FX horror series "The Strain".
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Morgan O'Neill Morgan O'Neill is an Australian writer, director, actor and producer. He is also an accomplished professional musician. Having earned an honors degree in Literature from the University of Sydney, he subsequently graduated from Australia's prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) with a BA in Performing Arts (Acting) in 1998. Since then he has worked extensively in all facets of the entertainment industry, both in Australia and the US, with television roles including All Saints, Water rats and "Sea Patrol". O'Neill also appeared in "Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles", "", "Supernova", "Little Oberon" and the 2012 Netflix movie, "The Factory".
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You Only Live Twice (film) You Only Live Twice (1967) is the fifth spy film in the "James Bond" series, and the fifth to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film's screenplay was written by Roald Dahl, and loosely based on Ian Fleming's 1964 novel of the same name. It is the first "James Bond" film to discard most of Fleming's plot, using only a few characters and locations from the book as the background for an entirely new story.
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Iwan Bala Iwan Bala (born Richard Iwan Ellis Roberts) is a Welsh artist, born May 1956 in Sarnau, Merionethshire, near Bala.
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Teenage Wasteland (film) Teenage Wasteland is a 2006 drama film written and directed by Welsh director Andrew Jones. It was funded through the independent film company Steel & Glass Films Ltd. The film is a cinema-verite style look into the lives of several disenchanted teens and their dysfunctional home lives in Swansea, south Wales. The cast members are relative unknowns and the characters are all based on people director Jones knew. The scenes featuring the teenagers at home with their parents are shot in black-and-white and the scenes of the teenage characters outside the home are shot in colour.