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Sam Peckinpah
Born: Feb 21, 1925 in Fresno, California
Died: Dec 28, 1984 in Inglewood, California
Occupation: Writer, Director, Actor, Active: '50s-'70s Major Genres: Western, Action
Career Highlights: The Wild Bunch, Ride the High Country, The Ballad of Cable Hogue
First Major Screen Credit: Gunsmoke: Yorky (1956)
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Samuel Goldwyn
Born: Aug 17, 1879 in Warsaw, Poland
Died: Jan 31, 1974 in Los Angeles, California
Occupation: Writer, Active: '20s-'40s Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
Career Highlights: The Best Years of Our Lives, Greed, Wuthering Heights
First Major Screen Credit: The Penalty (1920)
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San Sebastián International Film Festival
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Satyajit Ray
Born: May 02, 1921 in Calcutta, India
Died: Apr 23, 1992 in Calcutta, India
Occupation: Director, Writer, Active: '50s-'90s Major Genres: Drama
Career Highlights: The World of Apu, Pather Panchali, Devi
First Major Screen Credit: The River (1951)
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Saul Zaentz
Born: Feb 28, 1921 in Passaic, New Jersey
Occupation: Actor, Active: '70s-2000s Major Genres: Drama, Adventure
Career Highlights: Amadeus, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The English Patient
First Major Screen Credit: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
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Sean Connery
Born: Aug 25, 1930 in Edinburgh, Scotland
Occupation: Actor, Director, Active: '50s-'90s Major Genres: Action, Drama
Career Highlights: Goldfinger, The Untouchables, From Russia With Love
First Major Screen Credit: The Escaper's Club (1956)
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Sergei Eisenstein
Born: Jan 23, 1898 in Riga, Latvia
Died: Feb 11, 1948 in Moscow, Russia
Occupation: Director, Writer, Active: '20s-'40s Major Genres: Historical Film, Epic
Career Highlights: Battleship Potemkin, Alexander Nevsky, October
First Major Screen Credit: Strike (1925)
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Sergio Leone
Born: Jan 23, 1921 in Rome, Italy
Died: Apr 30, 1989 in Rome, Italy
Occupation: Writer, Director, Active: '60s-'80s Major Genres: Western, Adventure
Career Highlights: Once Upon a Time in the West, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, For a Few Dollars More
First Major Screen Credit: Afrodite, Dea Dell'amore (1958)
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Shirley MacLaine
Born: Apr 24, 1934 in Richmond, Virginia
Occupation: Actor, Writer, Director, Active: '50s-2000s Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
Career Highlights: Terms of Endearment, The Apartment, Around the World in 80 Days
First Major Screen Credit: Artists and Models (1955)
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Shirley Temple
Born: Apr 23, 1928 in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California
Occupation: Actor, Active: '30s-'40s Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
Career Highlights: Fort Apache, Since You Went Away, Wee Willie Winkie
First Major Screen Credit: The Kid's Last Fight (1933)
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Sidney Poitier
Born: Feb 20, 1927 in Miami, Florida
Occupation: Actor, Director, Active: '50s-'90s Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
Career Highlights: A Raisin in the Sun, Lilies of the Field, Blackboard Jungle
First Major Screen Credit: No Way Out (1950)
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Sophia Loren
Born: Sep 20, 1934 in Rome, Italy
Occupation: Actor Active: '50s-'70s Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
Career Highlights: Marriage Italian Style, Two Women, El Cid
First Major Screen Credit: Aida (1951)
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Spencer Tracy
Born: Apr 05, 1900 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Died: Jun 10, 1967
Occupation: Actor Active: '30s-'60s Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
Career Highlights: Inherit the Wind, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Old Man and the Sea
First Major Screen Credit: Up the River (1930)
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Stan Brakhage
Born: Jan 14, 1933 in Kansas City, Missouri
Died: Mar 09, 2003 in Victoria, British Columbia
Occupation: Director, Actor, Cinematographer, Writer, Active: '50s-2000s Major Genres: Avant-garde / Experimental
Career Highlights: Dog Star Man, Black Ice, Skein
First Major Screen Credit: Desistfilm (1954)
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Stan Laurel
Born: Jun 16, 1890 in Ulverston, England
Died: Feb 23, 1965
Occupation: Actor, Director, Writer, Active: '20s-'40s Major Genres: Comedy
Career Highlights: Big Business, Way Out West, The Music Box
First Major Screen Credit: Frauds and Frenzies (1918)
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Stanley Donen
Born: Apr 13, 1924 in Columbia, South Carolina
Occupation: Director, Active: '40s-'80s Major Genres: Musical, Comedy
Career Highlights: On the Town, Bedazzled, Two for the Road
First Major Screen Credit: Cover Girl (1944)
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Stanley Kubrick
Born: Jul 26, 1928 in Bronx, New York City, New York
Died: Mar 07, 1999 in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Occupation: Director, Writer, Cinematographer, Active: '50s-'80s Major Genres: Drama, War
Career Highlights: Barry Lyndon, A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey
First Major Screen Credit: Day of the Fight (1950)
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Steve Allen
Born: Dec 26, 1921 in New York City, New York
Died: Oct 30, 2000 in Encino, California
Occupation: Actor, Active: '60s-'90s Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
Career Highlights: GoodFellas, The Benny Goodman Story, College Confidential
First Major Screen Credit: Down Memory Lane (1949)
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Steve McQueen
Born: Mar 24, 1930 in Beech Grove, Indiana
Died: Nov 07, 1980
Occupation: Actor, Active: '50s-'80s, 2000s Major Genres: Drama, Film, TV & Radio
Career Highlights: The Magnificent Seven, Papillon, Hell Is for Heroes
First Major Screen Credit: The Blob (1958)
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Steven Spielberg
Born: Dec 18, 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio
Occupation: Director, Actor, Active: '80s-??s Major Genres: Science Fiction, Drama
Career Highlights: Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
First Major Screen Credit: Night Gallery (1969)