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Clifton Ko Clifton Ko (; born 1958) is a Hong Kong film director, actor, producer and scriptwriter. He graduated from Kwun Tong Maryknoll College, and entered TV and film industry in late 1970s, firstly worked with director Clifford Choi. In this period he wrote Choi's "No U-Turn" (1981) and "Teenage Dreamers" (), and John Woo's comedy "Once a Thief". In 1982 Ko entered Raymond Wong's the newly founded Cinema City & Films Co., and directed his first film "The Happy Ghost" in 1984. The film series, like all his major works, is a slapstick comedy with moral teaching, family value, and optimism. Ko, together the company, is prolific in making "Chinese New Year movies". Important titles include family comedy series "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World" (beginning in 1987); "Chicken and Duck Talk", a collaboration with comedian/writer Michael Hui; and ensemble comedy series "All's Well, Ends Well" (beginning in 1992); and "It's a Wonderful Life" (1994) (Stokes).
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It's a Wonderful Life It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas fantasy comedy-drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra, based on the short story "The Greatest Gift", which Philip Van Doren Stern wrote in 1939 and published privately in 1945. The film is considered one of the most loved films in American cinema and has become traditional viewing during the Christmas season.
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Erica Cho Erica Cho is a bi-coastal (Philadelphia and Los Angeles) visual artist, animator, and filmmaker. She is a visiting assistant professor at Swarthmore College in the Film and Media Studies department. Cho has acted as a film curator for the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival since 2011, and organized and founded the first Tri-Co Film Festival in 2012. She is also a recipient of the Creative Capital Moving Image Award.
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Frank Mosvold Frank Mosvold (born 7 May 1965) is a Norwegian film and television producer. He has a B.S. in economics from Babson College (Wellesley, Ma) and Master in fine art in film production from Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles, CA). In 1996 Frank Mosvold started his own production company, Kool Produktion AS. He has produced several award winning shorts, including the Terje Vigen award at the Norwegian Short Film Festival for the film "An Accidental Story". In 2004 he started making animated television series together with Tom Petter Hansen and Trond Morten Venaasen. Together they have produced the animated television series "Hubert" and "Sunshine Kathy (also known as Ella Bella Bingo)".
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Henry Cohen (civil servant) Henry Cohen (1922–1999) was appointed in 1946 the director of Föhrenwald, the third-largest Displaced Persons camp in the American sector of post-World War II Germany. A native of New York City and a child of Jewish immigrants from Lithuania, Cohen was a graduate of City College of New York. During World War II, he served as an infantryman in the U.S. Army.
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Les Schneider Leslie (Les) George Schneider (born December 13, 1939) grew up in Woodstock & Staten Island, New York. He and his younger brother Wayne were raised by their grandmother and grandfather. He attended New Dorp High School from 1953 to 1957 and was captain of the school's undefeated and tie-free PSAL championship football team in 1956 and attended the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO from 1957 to 1961. Shortly thereafter he began his tour of duty in Vietnam as the captain of search and rescue missions ("Crown Rescue") using DC-4 and C-130 Hercules Aircraft.
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Chan Chung Wing Chan Chung Wing, also known as C.C. Wing, was the first Chinese American lawyer in California (State Bar Number 2326). Wing was born in 1890 as the son of Chinese merchants in a Canton village. He graduated from the University of St. Ignatius College of Law (now known as the University of San Francisco School of Law) in 1918 and started working as a lawyer in the San Francisco community.
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Duncan Sloss Duncan John Sloss, CBE (19 June 1881 – 1964) was a British scholar. He was the vice-chancellor of the University of Hong Kong from 1937 to 1949.
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Feng Feng Feng Feng (; 1 December 1916 – 16 February 2000) was a veteran Hong Kong actor. He began his career as a leading man in 1946. An accident in 1949 left the left side of his face paralysed, but, while no longer able to attract leading roles, he enjoyed a long career as a character actor, appearing in films alongside such stars as Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung. He was the father of Fung Bo Bo, a child star of the 1960s, and Fung Hak On, an actor known for playing villainous roles in several kung fu/action comedies of the 1970s and 1980s.
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Leo Amino Leo Amino was a Japanese-American sculptor. Born in 1911 in Taiwan, to Japanese parents, he spent much of his early life in Tokyo, where his father's calligraphy and his mother's floral design interested him in working in art. He immigrated to the United States in 1929, enrolling at San Mateo Junior College before briefly attending New York University. In 1937 he began studying direct carving at under Chaim Gross at the American Artists School, with his pieces being included in the 1939 New York World's Fair.
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La Salle College La Salle College (LSC; Chinese: 喇沙書院, Cantonese jyutping: laa3 sa1 syu1 jyun2) is a highly selective boys' secondary school in Hong Kong. It was established by the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, a Roman Catholic religious teaching order founded by St. John Baptist de La Salle.
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Hong Kong Adventist College Hong Kong Adventist College (HKAC) is a co-educational institution of higher learning located in Sai Kung, New Territories, Hong Kong. The college is owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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Jacob Brent Jacob 'Jazzy' Brent (born August 14, 1973) is an American stage actor who is most famous for his role as the Magical Mr. Mistoffelees in the video production of CATS which was filmed in 1998. He graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts in 1991. Jacob also worked with the ALICE workshop, a musical based on Alice in Wonderland as well as his own showcase at the Sadlers Wells Theatre. In 2002, he worked with choreography during the Elan Awards and the Dance with Dancers Millennium Gala for the New York City Ballet. Jacob now donates his time and talent to San Jose Children's Musical Theatre, where he is directing their 2008 production of "Peter Pan" as well as their 2009 Spring Production of Leonard Bernstein's "Candide". He holds a Masters of Fine Arts from San Diego State University. In 2016, Brent was appointed Assistant Professor of Dance at Shenandoah University. There, he instructs students in the art of becoming "Jazz Warriors".
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Ronnie Chan Ronnie Chan Chi-chung (; born 1949 in Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong entrepreneur.
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Gus Lee Gus Lee (born 1946) is a best-selling American author and ethicist. He was born in San Francisco, a place he recounts in his childhood memoir/novel "China Boy" (1991). He attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point but did not graduate, did graduate study in East Asian History and obtained a J.D. (law) degree from the University of California, Davis School of Law (King Hall). At Davis, Lee served as an Assistant Dean of Students for the Educational Opportunity Program and project coordinator for Asian American Studies. He returned to the Army as a lawyer, serving as a Command Judge Advocate, a U.S. Senate ethics investigator and legal adviser to the worldwide Connelly Investigation. He was a whistle blower, which involuntarily launched him into his work as an ethicist and "couragist." He later became a senior deputy district attorney, acting deputy attorney general and senior executive for legal education for the State of California. In the corporate arena, he has been an executive vice-president, chief operating officer and vice-president. He is now a chief learning officer.
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Merrill College Merrill College is a residential college at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The theme of the college, and the name of its freshman core course, is "cultural identities and global consciousness."
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Peter James Cooper Peter James Cooper (born Peter James Sanguesa Cooper) is an American film producer and writer, and businessman. He attended Strake Jesuit College Preparatory in Houston, Texas, and is a graduate of Texas A&M University.
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Eldred D. Jones Professor Eldred Durosimi Jones (born 6 January 1925) is a Sierra Leonean academic and literary critic. Jones is known for his book "Othello's Countrymen: A Study of Africa in the Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama". He is a former principal of Fourah Bay College.
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College (1927 film) College is a 1927 comedy-drama silent film directed by James W. Horne and Buster Keaton, and starring Keaton, Anne Cornwall, and Harold Goodwin.
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King's College, Hong Kong King's College (), often informally referred to simply as King's or K.C., is a single-sex boys' government-funded secondary school located at 63A Bonham Road, Mid-levels, Hong Kong. Nowaday, King's College in Hong Kong serves as a secondary education institution for pupils in forms 1–6. King's College is highly selective; only accepting 8 per cent of applicants in 2012. On 2 December 2011, the Antiquities and Monuments Office declared King's College a monument under the Antiquities and Monuments Ordinance.
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Allyn Bromley Allyn Bromley (born 1928) is an American printmaker and art educator who was born in San Francisco. She first came to Hawaii in 1952, and subsequently moved to Waikiki, where she lived for nine years. From 1961-1965, she lived in Europe, returning to Hawaii in 1965. She received a BFA from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1968 and an MFA from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1971.
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Buddy Cops Buddy Cops, also known as Holy Beast Cops (), is a 2016 Hong Kong-Chinese action crime comedy film directed by Peter Chik and starring Bosco Wong, King Kong Li, Kate Tsui and Charmaine Fong. Filming officially began on 2 April 2012 and wrapped up on 25 May 2012. The film was released on 21 April 2016 in Hong Kong and in China by Huace Pictures (Tianjing) on 22 April 2016.