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Christopher Guest Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest (born February 5, 1948), simply known as Christopher Guest, is an English-American screenwriter, composer, musician, director, actor, and comedian who holds dual British and American citizenship. Guest is most widely known in Hollywood for having written, directed and starred in his series of comedy films shot in mock-documentary (mockumentary) style. Many scenes and character backgrounds in Guest's films are written and directed, although actors have no rehearsal time and the ensemble improvise scenes while filming them. The series of films began with "This Is Spinal Tap" (directed by Rob Reiner), and continued with "Waiting for Guffman", "Best In Show", "A Mighty Wind", "For Your Consideration", and "Mascots".
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Thomas Schlamme Thomas David Schlamme (pronounced "Shla-Me"; born May 22, 1950) is an American television director, known particularly for his collaboration with Aaron Sorkin. He has also been a producer.
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John Rodney Guest John Rodney Guest, FRS (b. 27 December 1935) is a British molecular microbiologist.
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Christopher Milne Chris Milne (born 24 May 1950) is an Australian actor and award-winning writer who has scripted numerous episodes of "Prisoner" and "Neighbours", as well as appearing on the shows as a performer. He also originated the character of Philip Martin on the Australian soap opera "Neighbours", in 1985 (when the program debut originally on Network Seven) before Ian Rawlings was cast in the role. He was also Ben Mazzini in "Water Under The Bridge".
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Christopher Kummer Christopher Kummer (born March 18, 1975) in Frankfurt) is a Professor of Finance at Hult International Business School and Advisor.
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Christopher Wenner Christopher Wenner, now better known as Max Stahl, (born 6 December 1954), is a British journalist and former television presenter.
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Winter Comes Home Winter Comes Home was a live album credited to David Thomas and his Legs, released in 1982, in which Thomas was supported by Chris Cutler and Lindsay Cooper. Trouser Press reports that the album "mixes intellectual stand-up comedy with winning performances". The album did not appear in the 1997 anthology "Monster", and has never been released on CD, and David Thomas has pronounced the album to have been officially "disappeared":
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Chris Remo Chris Remo is an American video game designer, composer, writer, and former journalist. As a journalist, he contributed to the original Idle Thumbs website and later co-founded its flagship podcast in 2008. He also wrote for Shacknews and was the Editor at Large for Gamasutra until 2010. He composed the music for "Thirty Flights of Loving", "Gone Home", "Spacebase DF-9" and "Firewatch". He co-wrote "The Cave" with Ron Gilbert at Double Fine Productions. In early 2014, he left Double Fine to join his Idle Thumbs co-stars, Jake Rodkin and Sean Vanaman, at Campo Santo, where he contributed to the studio's acclaimed narrative adventure game Firewatch as a game and story designer, composer, and audio director.
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Dominic Schram Dominic Schram, sometimes spelled Schramm (24 October 1722 - 21 September 1797) was a German Benedictine theologian and canonist.
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Thomas Schrefl Thomas Schrefl (born 26 March 1965 in Sankt Pölten) is an Austrian physicist. Currently he is Professor of Communications & Simulation Engineering at the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences. Between 2004 and 2008 he was Professor of Functional Materials at the University of Sheffield. From 2000 to 2006, he led the micromagnetism group at the Vienna University of Technology.
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Chris von Rohr Christoph "Chris" von Rohr (born 24 October 1951 in Solothurn) is a Swiss rock musician, record producer, author, columnist, radio and television presenter. He is best known for being a member and founder of the hard rock band, Krokus.
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Christopher S. Friend Christopher S. "Chris" Friend (born December 21, 1972) is an American chemist and politician who represents the 137th Assembly District of the New York State Assembly. He is a Republican and represents parts of Schuyler and Chemung Counties.
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Thomas Joseph Tormey Thomas J. Tormey, Garda Síochána 14986A and recipient of the Scott Medal, was born in 1943.
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Thomas Schie Thomas Schie (born 1 December 1975 in Oslo) is a former racing and rally driver. He previously competed in the International Formula 3000, Swedish Touring Car Championship and World Rally Championship.
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Christopher Ward (conductor) Christopher Ward (born 18 March 1980) is a British conductor. He is currently working as 1st Kapellmeister at the Saarländisches Staatstheater.
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Thomas Anselmi Thomas Anselmi was the lead singer with Canadian bands Slow, Copyright (a.k.a.©,), and MIRROR. He was one of the partners at The Waldorf Hotel before its closure in 2013. He is currently operating the Arrival Agency, an event planning company.
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Thomas Merton Thomas Merton, O.C.S.O. (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968) was an American Catholic writer, theologian and mystic. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, he was a poet, social activist, and student of comparative religion. In 1949, he was ordained to the priesthood and given the name Father Louis.
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Christopher and His Kind Christopher and His Kind is a memoir by Christopher Isherwood, published in 1976, in which he expounded events in his life from 1929 to 1939, including his years in Berlin which were the inspiration for his popular novel "Goodbye to Berlin."
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Anders Blume Anders Blume (born December 7, 1985), is a Danish "" commentator and co-founder of RoomOnFire. He has been present as a caster at all of the Valve Corporation sponsored CS:GO Majors, with the exception of EMS One Katowice 2014. He has worked for a wide variety of tournament organisers including Electronic Sports League (ESL), Dreamhack and Gfinity. He is more often than not paired with Auguste 'Semmler' Massonnat, also a co-founder of RoomOnFire, for his casts. He is famous for his energetic casts, including the use of what has become his catchphrase, "Are you kidding me?". In 2015, he won the Golden Joystick award for eSports icon of the year.
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Jumbo Schreiner Thomas "Jumbo" Schreiner (born 24 November 1967, in Munich) is a German actor and presenter.
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Kristopher Schau Kristopher Hugh Martin Schau (born 12 August 1970) is a Norwegian musician, TV host, comedian, author, and songwriter. He was born in Oslo.
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Matthew Costello Matthew J. Costello (born 1948) is the author or coauthor of numerous novels and nonfiction works. His articles have appeared in publications including the "Los Angeles Times" and "Sports Illustrated". He scripted Trilobyte's bestselling CD-ROM interactive dramas "The 7th Guest" and its sequel "The 11th Hour", as well as many other videogames.