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Jorge Luke was born in Mexico City. His career started with a movie called "There's always a first time" where he was a day player but soon after he caught the eyes of Mexican Directors and Producers and had an uninterrupted acting career as a leading man in film and television for over three decades. He worked in Hollywood and his breakthrough role was Kenitai in Ulzana's Raid with Burt Lancaster, he also co-starred in Clear and Present Danger with Harrison Ford, La Chevre with Franco Nero and played Col. Julio Figueroa in Oliver Stone's film El Salvador. He was married to actress Isela Vega with whom he had one daughter, Shaula Obscura Vega. Their marriage was short-lived and he never married again. He raised his only daughter as a single father and never stopped working. He also starred in the musical comedy West Side Story as Bernardo and in "So spoke Zarathustra" Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky. His last feature film was "Erase una vez en Durango".- Director
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Born in 1929, Metin Erksan is one of the first Turkish filmmakers who saw cinema as an art form apart from a mass entertaining medium. Having studied art history in Istanbul University and being the brother of a little known director named Cetin Karamanbey, Erksan found himself at a very early age in a favourable position to combine film practice with aesthetic concerns. He worked as his elder brother's assistant for a short while and made his first debut with the script of "Binnaz" (1950) shot for Atlas Film Production Company. As many other filmmakers of the era who took the seventh art seriously, Erksan worked as a columnist in papers and film periodicals before engaging in active filmmaking. Metin Erksan's first film as a director that also heralded the unique and controversial place he would later occupy in the history of Turkish cinema was 'Asik Veysel' in "Hayati" (1952). Telling the dramatic life of the famous blind poet and song writer Asik Veysel, the film was later prohibited by the censure committe for showing the Turkish land as "infertile". With the advent of the social realist movement following the 1960 Coup d'Etat in Turkey, Erksan established himself as the "enfant prodige" of the post 60 era. Among the best films made during this period (including the Golden Bear Awarded Susuz Yaz (Dry Summer)) Erksan's work occupy a central place. His films are the fruits of an eclectic mixture of modernist themes (i.e. individual loneliness), metaphysics (the fight of good vs evil), and notions of Marxism. As other "engagé" directors of the era who did not only saw them as artists but also as "social engineers", Erksan played a major role in the foundation of the Union of Turkish Film Workers and the Association of Turkish Filmmakers. He was also Turkish Labour Party's candidate of Istanbul in the General Elections of 1965. But it is important to stress that Erksan's films are primarily praised for their aesthetic maturity which coexisted (until 1965) with a firm social commitment. Like other filmmakers who had to work within the narrow confines of the Turkish film industry, Erksan also shot commercial films to survive within the liberal minded Pine Tree (Yesilcam) system. After 1965, he gradually abandoned his social outlook and made either market oriented popular films or violent personal phantasies focusing on themes of loneliness and obsessive love. After shooting short films and serials for the Turkish Radio and Television (TRT) in the 70s, Erksan completely gave up filmmaking after 1983. He started to teach at Istanbul Mimar Sinan University and is still working there, mostly isolated from the current discussions on modern Turkish cinema.- Actor
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Jason Noble was born on 15 October 1971 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Any Given Sunday (1999), Meet Prince Charming (1999) and Rotating Mirror (2007). He was married to Kristin. He died on 4 August 2012 in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.- David Lyn was born in 1927 in Porth, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK. He was an actor, known for Off to Philadelphia in the Morning (1978), St. Ives (1960) and The House Under the Water (1961). He died on 4 August 2012 in Cardiff, Wales, UK.
- Arnie Risen was born on 9 October 1924 in Williamstown, Kentucky, USA. He died on 4 August 2012 in Beachwood, Ohio, USA.
- Phil York was born on 2 January 1942 in Dallas, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Bad, Black and Beautiful (1975). He was married to Nina Toni Imburgia. He died on 4 August 2012 in Dallas County, Texas, USA.
- Renato Nicolini was born on 1 March 1942 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor, known for A proposito di Roma (1987), The Voyage of Captain Fracassa (1990) and Notturno bus (2007). He died on 4 August 2012 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Ruth L. Bail was born on 2 November 1925 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for Breakfast of Aliens (1993). She died on 4 August 2012 in West Hills, California, USA.
- Karol Kállay was born on 26 April 1926 in Cadca, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]. He was an actor, known for Kocka (1983). He died on 4 August 2012 in Bratislava, Slovakia.
- José Bastida was born in 1936 in Tetuan, Morocco. He was an actor, known for Cotolay (1965), I tre del Colorado (1965) and Kitosch, the Man Who Came from the North (1967). He died on 4 August 2012 in Spain.
- Josy Braun was born on 14 January 1938 in Luxembourg. He was an actor, known for De falschen hond (1989) and Déi zwéi vum Bierg (1985). He died on 4 August 2012 in Luxembourg.
- He was born in the hill country above Castle Island on the 6th of December 1925, in a blizzard. After working as a teacher he began writing as a journalist producing a column three times a week for the Evening Press. Now he writes for a variety of publications, including the Sunday World and Magill Magazine
He was, quite simply, one of Ireland's finest sports writers. Over a lengthy career, Con covered many of the greatest Irish and international sporting events, from classic gaelic football and hurling finals to soccer and rugby world cups, the Olympics and memorable race meetings at home and abroad. He has also written about sports biggest stars, from George Best to Muhammad Ali.
More Than a Game gathers together the finest examples of his sports journalism from the mid-1970s to the early 2000s. Con would guide you to some of the greatest moments and characters in world sport.