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W. S. Van Dyke Woodbridge Strong Van Dyke II (March 21, 1889 – February 5, 1943) was an American film director and writer who made several successful early sound films, including "Tarzan the Ape Man" in 1932, "The Thin Man" in 1934, "San Francisco" in 1936, and six popular musicals with Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald. He received two Academy Award nominations for Best Director for "The Thin Man" and "San Francisco", and directed four actors to Oscar nominations: William Powell, Spencer Tracy, Norma Shearer, and Robert Morley. Known as a reliable craftsman who made his films on schedule and under budget, he earned the name "One Take Woody" for his quick and efficient style of filming.
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Jake Kasdan Jacob "Jake" Kasdan (born October 28, 1974) is an American television and film director and occasional actor.
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James Kearns James William Kearns (born 1947) is the writer of the film "John Q" which starred Denzel Washington. He has also written several TV movies and episodes of television programs such as "Mr. Belvedere", "Jake and the Fatman", "Highway to Heaven" and "Dynasty". He is a spokesperson for the Bipolar Help Center, and currently resides in Venice, California.
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Ed Kassian Ed Kassian (born June 18, 1933) was a Canadian ice hockey player with the Penticton Vees. He won a gold medal at the 1955 World Ice Hockey Championships in West Germany. He also played for the Prince Albert Mintos, Saskatoon Quakers, Vancouver Canucks, New Westminster Royals, and Kamloops Elks.
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Rick Kavanian Richard "Rick" Horatio Kavanian (born 26 January 1971 in Munich) is a German actor, comedian, author and dubber of Armenian descent. He is famous for his cooperation with Michael Herbig, which led to many popular movie comedies and parodies, e.g. "Manitou's Shoe".
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Peter Van de Graaff Peter Van de Graaff (born November 9, 1961) is an American singer and radio personality. He is best known as the host of the Beethoven Satellite Network (BSN) overnight classical music service, which is carried over approximately 150 radio stations across the USA.
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Carson Parks Clarence Carson Parks II (26 April 1936 – 22 June 2005), often known as C. Carson Parks, was an American songwriter, music publisher, musician and singer, best known for writing the hit song "Somethin' Stupid". His younger brother is the composer Van Dyke Parks.
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Michael Swart Michael Richard Swart (born 1 October 1982) is a professional cricketer who is the current vice-captain of the Dutch national side and has represented them at both One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) level. Born in Australia, he formerly played for Western Australia in Australian domestic matches.
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The Cryan' Shames The Cryan' Shames are an American garage rock band from Hinsdale, Illinois. They originally formed as The Travelers, with founding members Tom Doody ("Toad"), Gerry Stone ("Stonehenge"), Dave Purple ("Grape") of The Prowlers, Denny Conroy from Possum River, and Jim Fairs from The Roosters, Jim Pilster ("J.C. Hooke", so named because he was born without a left hand and wore a hook), and Bill Hughes. The band's most successful moment came with their cover of The Searchers song, "Sugar and Spice".
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Timmy Williams Timmy Williams (born April 10, 1981 in Watertown, South Dakota) is an American comedian and radio personality. He is a member of the sketch comedy troupe "The Whitest Kids U' Know", and starred in its eponymous television show.
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Vandy Kaonn Vandy Kaonn (born in 1942) is a Khmer history and literature analyst and author of various books of philosophy, sociology, politics and history in Khmer and French. Kaonn studied sociology at the Sorbonne and graduated in 1970. He is now well known to most Cambodian people from the Khmer History programme on RFI (Radio France International en cambodgien).
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Kruger van Wyk Cornelius Francoius Kruger van Wyk (born 7 February 1980 in Wolmaransstad, South Africa) is a former New Zealand cricketer who plays for the Central Districts Stags. He is a wicketkeeper-batsman. He has played professionally in South Africa, New Zealand, Scotland and more recently Holland. He attended Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool (Afrikaans High School for Boys, also known as Affies), a popular and renowned public school located in Pretoria.
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Joey Forman Joey Forman (November 18, 1929 – December 9, 1982) was an American comedian and comic actor.
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Johnny Jordaan Johnny Jordaan was the pseudonym for Johannes Hendricus van Musscher (7 February 1924 – 8 January 1989), a Dutch singer of popular music, in particular the genre known as "levenslied", a Dutch variety of the French "chanson". He was well known for his songs about the city of Amsterdam, especially the Jordaan district (the genre dedicated to the neighborhood is known as the "Jordaanlied"), which he sang in a typical "hiccuping Mokum vibrato", "Mokum" being the Hebrew-derived nickname for the Amsterdam inner city area. In the 1950s, Johnny Jordaan rose almost instantly to the level of national celebrity and became the "uncrowned king of the "Jordaanlied"", and his hit song "Geef mij maar Amsterdam" is one of the songs Amsterdammers identify with most.
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Omar Kent Dykes Omar Kent Dykes (born Kent Dykes, 1950, McComb, Mississippi, United States) is an American blues guitarist and singer, living in Austin, Texas. In 1973 he formed the band, Omar & the Howlers. The band plays electric Texas blues, rock and roll and blues-rock. Dykes has also had a successful career as a solo artist, and regularly toured European countries.
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Van Wyck, South Carolina Van Wyck is a town in the panhandle of Lancaster County, South Carolina, United States. The name "Van Wyck" comes from a Dutch habitational name for someone from any of the many places in the Netherlands named Wijk, from the Dutch word "wijk", meaning "district" or "settlement". There are several ways of pronouncing the name of the community—"Van Wick", "Van Wack", and "Van Wike". Families who have lived in the area since its founding in the 1880s generally pronounce it "Van Wack". On August 15, 2017, the residents of the community voted to incorporate it as a town.
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Jake Grey Jake Grey (born 17 February 1984) is a rugby union prop who plays for SCOPA and Samoa.
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James W. Jones James William Jones (1843 – 26 April 1920) was a South Australian surveyor. He was the son of civil engineer Thomas Jones, founder of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows in South Australia. He studied at J. L. Young's Adelaide Educational Institution. He was soon working for his father on the Port Elliot to Goolwa tramway, for which his father received official criticism. He joined the State public service as a draughtsman in 1865 and was appointed Chief Surveyor then Deputy Surveyor-General in the Department of Survey and Crown Lands. He explored the area north-east of Eucla in 1880, and discovered the Kudna rockhole and catacombs, an immense network of limestone caves, lakes and underground passages under the Nullarbor Plain. He was appointed Conservator of Water in 1887 and Secretary to the Commissioner of Works in 1902. He was secretary of the South Australia branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia from its foundation in 1885 to 1894. He was elected president of the Institute of Surveyors in 1912. He was chairman and president of the Harbors and Marine Board in 1914. He was secretary of the Cheer-Up Society during the First World War.
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Robin van der Laan Robin van der Laan (born Robertus Petrus van der Laan on 5 September 1968) is a Dutch former footballer who spent most of his senior career in English football. He now works as the director of his own football school in Canada, also working as a senior coach for Manchester United Soccer Schools.
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Phil Hartman Philip Edward "Phil" Hartman (September 24, 1948May 28, 1998; born Hartmann) was a Canadian-American actor, voice actor, comedian, screenwriter and graphic artist. Born in Brantford, Ontario, Hartman and his family moved to the United States in 1958. After graduating from California State University, Northridge, with a degree in graphic arts, he designed album covers for bands like Poco and America. Hartman joined the comedy group The Groundlings in 1975 and there helped comedian Paul Reubens develop his character Pee-wee Herman. Hartman co-wrote the screenplay for the film "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" and made recurring appearances as Captain Carl on Reubens' show "Pee-wee's Playhouse".
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Doran William Cannon Doran William Cannon (1937–2005) was born in Toledo, Ohio, and graduated from Columbia College. While working on his MBA at Columbia University, which he received in 1962, he made his first film, "Going Up". Several years later he wrote, produced, and directed his first feature, "The Square Root of Zero" (1964). In 1965 he left New York City for Hollywood, where he wrote the original scripts for Otto Preminger's "Skidoo" (1968) and Robert Altman's "Brewster McCloud" (1970). Cannon wrote "Authorship: The Dynamic Principles of Writing Creatively", and taught creative writing.
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Hilary Van Dyke Hilary Van Dyke (born October 30, 1970) is an American actress and singer who began her career in TV advertisements before landing the role of Marilyn Munster in "The Munsters Today", replacing the actress in the original pilot episodes, Mary Ellen Dunbar.