What actor, known for his roles in movies like The Waterboy and The Wedding Singer, founded the company Happy Madison Productions?
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Happy Madison Productions Happy Madison Productions is an American film and television production company founded in 1996 by Adam Sandler which is best known for its comedy films. Happy Madison takes its name from the films "Happy Gilmore" and "Billy Madison", two box office successes starring Sandler himself, both produced by Robert Simonds. The elderly man depicted in the logo is Sandler's late father, Stanley.
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Adam Sandler Adam Richard Sandler (born September 9, 1966) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, film producer, and musician. After becoming a "Saturday Night Live" cast member, Sandler went on to star in many Hollywood feature films that combined have grossed over $2 billion at the box office. He is best known for his comedic roles, such as in the films "Billy Madison" (1995), the sports comedies "Happy Gilmore" (1996) and "The Waterboy" (1998), the romantic comedy "The Wedding Singer" (1998), "Big Daddy" (1999), and "Mr. Deeds" (2002), and voicing Dracula in "Hotel Transylvania" (2012) and "Hotel Transylvania 2" (2015). Several of his movies, most notably the widely panned "Jack and Jill", have gained harsh criticism, culminating in a shared second place in the number of Raspberry Awards (3) and Raspberry Award Nominations (11), in both cases second only to Sylvester Stallone. He has ventured into more dramatic territory with his roles in "Punch-Drunk Love" (2002), "Spanglish" (2004), "Reign Over Me" (2007), "Funny People" (2009) and "The Meyerowitz Stories" (2017).
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Rose King Rose King (1884–1967) was an American film actor and a Broadway lead. King was born Rose Koenig in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and returned there to retire.
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Bruce Abbott Bruce Paul Abbott (born July 28, 1954) is an American film, stage, and television actor. Originally beginning his career in theater, Abbott later gained notoriety for his role as Dr. Dan Cain in the cult sci-fi horror films "Re-Animator" (1985) and "Bride of Re-Animator" (1990).
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Don Most Don Most (born August 8, 1953) is an American actor best known for his role as Ralph Malph on the television series "Happy Days".
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Robert Hanley Robert Hanley (born June 17, 1947), also known as Broadway Bob. and Bob Hanley, is an American actor, entertainer, comedian, singer, and writer. Hanley has been cast in over 100 starring and co-starring roles in television variety, comedy and drama series including "Crazy Like a Fox" with Jack Warden, and "Pros & Cons" with James Earl Jones and Richard Crenna. Hanley hosted television game shows for the ABC and CBS networks, and, as stand-up comedian Broadway Bob, appeared on "The Merv Griffin Show". He headed the Robert Hanley Actors Studio for eighteen years. Currently, as a singer/entertainer with his own seventeen-piece orchestra, he performs at civic and fundraising events. He is the founder of the nonprofit Entertainment Fellowship.
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Theo Stockman Theo "Firecracker" Stockman (born December 27, 1984) is an American actor, singer, and disc jockey, known for his roles in Broadway musicals such as "Hair", "American Idiot", and "American Psycho", and for his role in the film "A Good Marriage".
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Madison Opera Madison Opera is a regional opera company based in Madison, Wisconsin. It was founded in 1961 as an extension of the Madison Symphony Orchestra and came to national prominence in 1993 with the commissioning and premiering of "Shining Brow", the opera about Frank Lloyd Wright by composer Daron Hagen and librettist Paul Muldoon.
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Tom Cruise filmography Tom Cruise is an American actor and producer who made his film debut with a minor role in the 1981 romantic drama "Endless Love". Two years later he made his breakthrough by starring in the romantic comedy "Risky Business" (1983), which garnered Cruise his first nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. In 1986, Cruise played a fighter pilot in the Tony Scott-directed action drama "Top Gun" (the highest-grossing film that year), and also starred opposite Paul Newman in the Martin Scorsese-directed drama "The Color of Money". Two years later he played opposite Dustin Hoffman in the Academy Award for Best Picture-winning drama "Rain Man" (1988), and also appeared in the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture-winning romantic drama "Cocktail" (1988). In doing so Cruise became the first and only person as of 2014 to star in a Best Picture Oscar winner and a Worst Picture Razzie winner in the same year. His next role was as anti-war activist Ron Kovic in the drama adaptation of Kovic's memoir of the same name, "Born on the Fourth of July" (1989). For his performance Cruise received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama and his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
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Adam Fields Adam Fields is an American executive, entrepreneur, and film and television producer. During his career, he has produced movies for Sony Pictures, Miramax, 20th Century Fox, Universal, Warner Bros., Relativity Media, and Broad Green Pictures. He founded his own production company in 1984, producing movies including "Great Balls of Fire!", "Brokedown Palace", "Johnny Be Good", "Donnie Darko", "Vision Quest", "Limitless", "The Wedding Ringer", and "Money Train". Fields’ most notable contributions as an executive include "An American Werewolf in London", "Sixteen Candles" and "The Breakfast Club". He also produced "Bad Santa 2", and "". Fields also executive produced the multi-platinum soundtracks for "Flashdance" and "Endless Love". In 1990, Fields founded Preview Tech, a firm that partnered with national consumer electronic stores to air studio and network trailers on their in-store television monitors. Fields sold Preview Tech 18 months later in a multimillion-dollar deal.
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Kevin Doyle (actor) Kevin Doyle (born 10 April 1960) is an English actor, born in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire. He is known for many roles, including DS John Wadsworth in "Happy Valley" and in the TV series "The Lakes" (as the character John Parr), "Coronation Street" and "The Crimson Field". Doyle played valet/footman Joseph Molesley in the TV series "Downton Abbey".
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Jeff Bridges Jeffrey Leon Bridges (born December 4, 1949) is an American actor, singer and producer. He comes from a prominent acting family and appeared on the television series "Sea Hunt" (1958–60), with his father, Lloyd Bridges and brother, Beau Bridges. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Otis "Bad" Blake in the 2009 film "Crazy Heart", and earned Academy Award nominations for his roles in "The Last Picture Show" (1971), "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" (1974), "Starman" (1984), "The Contender" (2000), "True Grit" (2010), and "Hell or High Water" (2016). His other films include "Tron" (1982), "Jagged Edge" (1985), "The Fabulous Baker Boys" (1989), "The Fisher King" (1991), "Fearless" (1993), "The Big Lebowski" (1998), "Seabiscuit" (2003), "Iron Man" (2008), "" (2010), and "The Giver" (2014).
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Orlando Bloom Bloom subsequently established himself as a leading man in Hollywood films such as Balian de Ibelin in Ridley Scott's "Kingdom of Heaven" (2005) and "Elizabethtown" (2005). He made his professional stage debut in West End's "In Celebration" at the Duke of York's Theatre in London in 2007 and starred in a Broadway adaption of "Romeo and Juliet" in 2013. In 2009, Bloom was named a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. In 2015 he received the BAFTA Britannia Humanitarian Award.
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Sam Slovick Samuel J. "Sam" Slovick (born June 23, 1958) is an American actor, musician, and writer.
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Nellie Bellflower Nellie Bellflower (born May 1, 1946 in Phoenix, Arizona) is an American actress and voice artist who provided the voice of Princess Ariel in the Ruby-Spears animated television series "Thundarr the Barbarian". She has also been in "The Last Unicorn" (voice), Rankin/Bass "The Return of the King", "Americathon", the miniseries "East of Eden", and guest roles on various TV shows such as "Barnaby Jones", "Barney Miller", "Starsky and Hutch", and "Happy Days" as Fonzie's ex-fiancée Maureen Johnson, a.k.a. "The Lone Stripper", in the Season 2 episode of the series titled "Fonzie's Getting Married" (episode #13). Nellie has been involved in movie production with three projects: "The Girl in Melanie Klein" (2008), "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day" (2008) and "Finding Neverland" (2004), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award as Producer for Best Picture. She is married to Michael Mislove.
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Jeff Allen (comedian) Jeff Allen (born Jeffrey Allen Mishler; June 5, 1956) is an American comedian best known for his film Happy Wife, Happy Life, Revisited. He is also known for his starring roles in several full-length comedy films, including: Bananas, Thou Shalt Laugh, Apostles of Comedy, and Apostles of Comedy: Onwards and Upwards. Allen currently tours the United States performing in churches, corporate venues and comedy clubs.
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Stanley Donen Stanley Donen ( ; born April 13, 1924) is an American film director and choreographer whose most celebrated works are "Singin' in the Rain" and "On the Town", both of which he co-directed with actor and dancer Gene Kelly. His other noteworthy films include "Royal Wedding", "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers", "Funny Face", "Indiscreet", "Damn Yankees!", "Charade", and "Two for the Road". He received an Honorary Academy Award in 1998 for his body of work and a Career Golden Lion from the Venice Film Festival in 2004. He was hailed by film critic David Quinlan as "the King of the Hollywood musicals". Donen married five times and had three children. His current long term partner is film director and comedian Elaine May.
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Kenneth Thomson (actor) Kenneth Thomson (January 7, 1899 – January 26, 1967) was an American character actor active during the silent and early sound film eras. He, along with his wife Alden Gay, was a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild. The group was founded after meetings held at the Thomsons' home during 1933. During his brief twelve-year career in front of the camera, he appeared in over 60 films. After appearing in several Broadway plays during the early and mid-1920s, Thomson would make his film debut with a starring role in 1926's "Risky Business". Over the next four years, he would appear in over a dozen films, in either starring or featured roles. In 1930 alone he would appear in ten films, half of which were in starring roles, such as "Lawful Larceny", which also starred Bebe Daniels and Lowell Sherman (who also directed), and "Reno", whose other stars were Ruth Roland and Montagu Love; the other half would see him in featured roles as in "A Notorious Affair", starring Billie Dove, Basil Rathbone, and Kay Francis. During the rest of the 1930s, he would appear in numerous films, mostly in either supporting or featured roles, such as "The Little Giant" (1933), starring Edward G. Robinson and Mary Astor, and "Hop-Along Cassidy" (1935), starring William Boyd; although he occasionally would have a starring role, as in opposite Harold Lloyd in 1932's "Movie Crazy".
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Lakeshore Entertainment Lakeshore Entertainment Group, LLC is an American independent film production, finance, and former international sales and distribution company founded in 1994 by Tom Rosenberg and Ted Tannebaum (1933–2002). Lakeshore Entertainment is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. The company has produced over 60 films, including the Academy Award-winning "Million Dollar Baby". Sigurjón Sighvatsson was the company's first president and served from its founding until 1998. He was replaced by producer Gary Lucchesi. The company also has a record label division, Lakeshore Records. In 2013, the company launched a television division, and in 2015, they launched a digital studio, Off the Dock, that targets the YouTube demographic.
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Finn Wittrock Peter "Finn" Wittrock, Jr. (born October 28, 1984) is an American actor and screenwriter. He began his career in guest roles on several television shows. He made his film debut in 2004, in "Halloweentown High" before returning to films in the 2010 film "Twelve". After studying theater at The Juilliard School, he was a regular in the soap opera, "All My Children," from 2009 to 2011, while performing in several theatrical productions. In 2011, he performed in playwright Tony Kushner's Off-Broadway play "The Illusion" and made his Broadway debut in 2012 as Happy Loman in the revival of Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman", directed by Mike Nichols.
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Tobias Beer Tobias Beer (born 1976) is an English actor. Born in Cambridge, he studied at Oxford University and the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art . He has worked predominantly in the theatre, and his credits include: "Great Expectations", "Merry Wives of Windsor" (with Judi Dench, Simon Callow and Alistair McGowan), "Twelfth Night" and "The Comedy of Errors" (all for the Royal Shakespeare Company); "The Changeling" for Cheek by Jowl, directed by Declan Donnellan; "Cymbeline", "Twelfth Night", "Macbeth" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" for the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park In 2015 he will return to the RSC in Death of a Salesman.
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Happy Days (musical) Happy Days is a musical with a book by Garry Marshall and music and lyrics by Paul Williams, based on the ABC TV series of the same name.