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The CCH stands for Carol Christine Hilaria, her birth name. Most of her characters are enriched with positive attributes -- strength, confidence, integrity, strong-mindedness -- and it is a testament to the abilities of this four-time Emmy nominated actress that she continues on such a high plane in a five-decade career.
Born on Christmas Day 1952 in Guyana, she was raised on a sugar cane plantation. Her parents, Betsy Enid Arnella (James) and Ronald Urlington Pounder, moved the family to the States while she was still a young girl, but she and her sister were subsequently sent to a convent boarding school in Britain where they were introduced to art and the classics. Following high school graduation, she arrived in New York and studied at Ithaca College, where her acting talents were strongly tapped into. Regional and classical repertory theater followed, earning roles in such productions as "The Mighty Gents" (1979) with Morgan Freeman at the New York Shakespeare Festival and "Open Admissions" (1984), her Broadway debut. Other stage work includes "Coriolanus," "Antony and Cleopatra," "The Frog," "The Lodger" and "Mumbo Jumbo."
After bit/featured roles in All That Jazz (1979), I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can (1982) and Prizzi's Honor (1985), CCH earned cult status in the art-house film Bagdad Cafe (1987) (aka "Bagdad Café" in the US) as the offbeat owner of a roadside café. She continued to impress with support roles in Postcards from the Edge (1990), The Importance of Being Earnest (1992), an all-black version: as Miss Prism), Benny & Joon (1993), RoboCop 3 (1993), Sliver (1993), Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995),Face/Off (1997), Funny Valentines (1999), The Devil in Miss Jones 6 (1999), Baby of the Family (2002), Rain (2008), Orphan (2009), Avatar (2009) (as the voice of Mo'at, and its sequels), My Girlfriend's Back (2010). Home Again (2012) (as a Jamaican) and The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013).
Pounder's prominence came, however, with television. Often cast as succinct, professional types (doctors, policewoman, judges) or characters with a variety of accents, she is known for her understated intensity and earned an Emmy nomination for her stint on the hospital drama ER (1994). She has also performed in a number of highly acclaimed topical mini-movie dramas, including Go Tell It on the Mountain (1985), Common Ground (1990), Murder in Mississippi (1990), Little Girl Fly Away (1998), A Touch of Hope (1999), Boycott (2001), Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story (2004) (as Winnie Mandela) for which a number of kudos have come her way.
Millennium TV output includes regular/recurring roles on the series The Shield (2002) in which she earned an NAACP Award and Emmy nomination as Detective Claudette Wym; the social drama Ciencias del espacio (2008) as matriarch Mrs. Trainor, and NCIS: New Orleans (2014) as medical examiner Loretta Wade. She later found voice work in animated projects and video games.- Actress
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With a career spanning over a decade, Emmy-nominated Letitia Wright has cemented her position as one of the industry's most captivating young actresses. From her breakout role as ambitious Summerhouse resident Chantelle in Top Boy, to her critically acclaimed performance as Nish in Black Mirror, not forgetting her scene-stealing turn as Shuri - lead scientist and Princess of Wakanda in Black Panther, Wright has played an integral role in what are arguably the most culture defining projects of the last ten years and whose impact is still felt to this day.
In 2019, Wright won the BAFTA Rising Star Award and a SAG Award as part of Black Panther's 'Best Ensemble'. The film grossed over $1.3B at the global box office and was nominated for a 2019 Academy Award for 'Best Picture' - a first for a superhero film. In 2020, Wright had repeated success with a starring role in Steve McQueen's anthology series, Small Axe, where she played British Black Panther Party leader, Altheia Jones-LeCointe. Wright's episode, "Mangrove", was included in the Cannes 2020 official selection and the series was nominated for 2 Golden Globes, including Best Television Motion Picture. Wrights performance in Small Axe also gained her a leading actress nomination at the 2021 BAFTA Television Awards.
Led by a passion to create meaningful content within the industry, Wright's creative endeavors extended behind the scenes with the launch of her independent production company 3.16 Productions in 2020. The company joined forces with BRON Studios for their first forthcoming feature, Surrounded, starring Wright, Jamie Bell and the late Michael K. Williams. Wright also flexed her production muscles in the BAFTA-nominated, female-led anthology series I Am for Channel 4, developing the powerful story line for her episode "I Am Danielle" in creative partnership with director Dominic Savage.
2022 is set to be Wright's biggest year yet with upcoming projects including The Silent Twins, Ireland-set drama, Aisha, written and directed by Frank Berry also starring Josh O'Connor; as well as the long-awaited sequel to the Marvel/Disney blockbuster - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.- Writer
- Actress
- Producer
Whitney Ann Cummings is an American stand-up comedian, actress, writer, director, producer and pod-caster. A native of Washington, D.C., Cummings pursued a comedy career in Los Angeles after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, where she had studied with the intention of becoming a journalist. After beginning stand-up in 2004, she secured regular appearances as a round-table guest on Chelsea Lately. She subsequently created, produced, and starred in NBC's Whitney, a sitcom in which she portrayed a semi-fictionalized version of herself. The series ran for two seasons before being canceled in 2013. Simultaneously, Cummings created the CBS sitcom 2 Broke Girls, which also began in 2011, and concluded in 2017.
Cummings released her first hour-long stand-up special, Money Shot, in 2010 on Comedy Central. She followed this with a second stand-up special for the network, entitled I Love You (2014). Her third special, I'm Your Girlfriend, was released on HBO in 2016, and later delivered as an audio streaming album in 2021. Beginning in 2018, Cummings served as a producer and writer for the ABC revival of Roseanne, but left the project prior to its cancellation. Cummings's fourth special, Can I Touch It?, premiered on Netflix in July 2019.- Actor
- Director
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Leon Herbert was born in Georgetown, Guyana. Leon is an actor and director, known for Dune: Part Two (2024), Inside No. 9 (2014) and Death in Paradise (2011).- Greg Denny is an Executive Producer in the Motion Picture Industry.
Select credits of his work include 'The Apprentice', 'Thanksgiving', 'Shazam!', 'Suicide Squad', 'Slumberland', 'Xmen: Dark Phoenix', 'You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah', 'xXx: Return of Xander Cage', 'Pixels', 'Robocop', and 'Total Recall'.
Greg has been working within the Entertainment Industry for over 20 years with Warner Bros., Amazon MGM Studios, Netflix, The Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, and Sony Columbia Pictures. He has managed projects all over Canada as well as in Sri Lanka and the Dominican Republic. - Marc Gomes was born on 19 June 1960 in Georgetown, Guyana. He is an actor, known for The Crow: Stairway to Heaven (1998), Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye (2002) and Divas (1995).
- Danny Daniels was born on 1 November 1927 in Georgetown, British Guiana. He was an actor, known for Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994), Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995) and The Saint (1962). He was married to Berenice Grant. He died on 4 December 2010 in Inglewood, California, USA.
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- Soundtrack
William Austin was born on 12 June 1884 in Georgetown, British Guiana [now Guyana]. He was an actor, known for It (1927), Redheads on Parade (1935) and In Love with Love (1924). He died on 15 June 1975 in Newport Beach, California, USA.- Anthony Chinn was born in 1930 in Georgetown, Guyana. He was an actor, known for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), A View to a Kill (1985) and The Fifth Element (1997). He died on 22 October 2000 in Georgetown, Guyana.
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- Soundtrack
Norman Beaton was born on 31 October 1934 in Georgetown, British Guiana [now Guyana]. He was an actor, known for The Mighty Quinn (1989), Desmond's (1989) and Real Life (1984). He died on 13 December 1994 in Georgetown, Guyana.- Actor
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Bill McAdams, Jr. brings over 25 years of acting, directing, writing, and producing experience to the Entertainment Industry.
He graduated from The Catholic University of America in 1994 with a double major in Theater Arts and Philosophy. Bill took a train up to Camden Yards in Baltimore with his senior baseball picture and handed it to the casting director of the film Major League 2. The next month he was a utility baseball player earning his first film credit.
His career began as a stand-in for Matt Damon on The Rainmaker.
Bill continued working with Matt Damon as his personal photo double for such films as the Academy Award winning, Good Will Hunting, Rounders and Dogma.
Bill was able to gain "hands on" experience by working with Academy Award wining actors, writers, directors and cinematographers which earned him jobs working along side of Steven Spielberg on Amistad and David Lynch on The Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive. He wrote his first feature film, Gallows Road, while working on set of Good Will Hunting. 16 years later after losing his younger brother in a motorcycle accident he made Gallows Road, Starring Kevin Sorbo and Ernie Hudson for John.
Bill has directed many award-winning PSA's and feature films, enjoying his creative path of storytelling.- Thomas Baptiste was born on 17 March 1929 in Georgetown, British Guiana. He was an actor, known for The Wild Geese (1978), Amin: The Rise and Fall (1981) and The Ipcress File (1965). He died on 6 December 2018 in Brighton & Hove, East Sussex, England, UK.
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Cast in a number of racially-motivated British films during the 1950s and 1960s, actor Harry Baird was born in Georgetown, Guyana (then called British Guiana) on May 12, 1931 and received his education both in Canada and England.
Famed director Carol Reed gave Harry his film break in 1954 at age 23 when he cast the actor in the smallish role of a black boxer named Jamaica in A Kid for Two Farthings (1955), a tale that dealt with the tense ethnic struggles of London's East End. A year later Harry made a minor stage bow in the musical "Kismet" at the Stoll theatre in London. Although he continued sporadically before live audiences, including a role in Jean Genet's "The Blacks" in 1961, his stronger focus would be in the cinema and on TV where he often took to stunt work just to keep himself in front of the lens.
His first lead on TV was as Rhodes Reason's bearer, Atimbu, in the low-budget White Hunter (1957) adventure series. Moviegoers first took notice of Harry, however, with his stirring portrayal of a young black brutalized by the police in the film Sapphire (1959), a role that helped him continue into the next decade. Extremely good-looking and physically fit, he rarely managed to attain leads, primarily due to the lack of parts at the time for men of his race. He did find regular supporting roles on TV, however, including the series Secret Agent (1964) and the science-fiction program UFO (1970).
As jobs grew scarce into the 60s Harry traveled to other parts of Europe, especially Italy and France, to find work. Some were even leads or co-leads. He played well-muscled action heroes in a handful of Italian spectacles and "spaghetti" westerns and scored a personal triumph in France with first-time director Melvin Van Peebles' landmark low-budget film The Story of a Three Day Pass (1967), in which he starred as a black American GI who falls in love with a white French girl (played by the late Nicole Berger) while on leave in Paris. Sadly, Ms. Berger was killed in a car accident shortly after filming the movie.
Other films around this time included Bryan Forbes' classic The Whisperers (1967) starring Edith Evans, The Touchables (1968), in which the athletic actor played a gay wrestler named "Lillywhite," the Edgar Allan Poe adaptation The Oblong Box (1969) with Vincent Price, and friend Michael Caine's picture The Italian Job (1969). In the 1970s Harry was diagnosed with glaucoma.
He was forced to retire as the impairment worsened and he eventually went completely blind. He remained upbeat and positive in later years as he adapted to his handicap and took classes on film history among other interests. He was married and divorced and survived by a stepdaughter when he died of cancer at age 73 in London on February 13, 2005.- Actor
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Paul Michael Slayton (born March 11, 1981), better known by his stage name Paul Wall, is an American rapper and DJ. He has spent much of his career affiliated with Swishahouse Records, and has released several albums under the label and collaborated with numerous other rappers signed to the label. He began his career performing alongside fellow Houston artist Chamillionaire, with whom he released several albums, including 2002's independently released Get Ya Mind Correct. In 2005, he was signed to Atlantic Records and became successful with his major label debut The Peoples Champ, which was followed up by Get Money, Stay True followed in 2007. He has been nominated for one Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance as a Duo or Group for the song "Grillz", his collaboration with rapper Nelly.- Actor
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Dan Jackson was born in 1925 in South America, Guyana. He was an actor, known for Mysterious Island (1961), playing Cpl. Neb Nugent. The film was set during the Civil War where a group of Union soldiers and two Confederates end up on a strange Pacific island. Dan is also known for A High Wind in Jamaica, directed by Alexander Mackendrick where he played a pirate.
Other credits include: Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965) and The Mind of Mr. Soames (1970).- Actress
- Producer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Mary Jean McAdams (AKA: Mary Jean Bentley) "MJ" was born on April 5, 1972 at Georgetown Hospital in Washington, DC. She was the second child born to Dr. William W. McAdams and Grace McAdams. Her Father was a professional baseball and football player, a high school teacher, coach and Athletic Director, a college coach, and University Professor. Her Mother was a local actress, singer, writer and later became a screenwriter. MJ was raised along with her three brothers in various states including, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and Ohio. At the very early age of 6, she began singing in church with her mother and later sang in school choir landing solo parts for Dorothy in "The Wizard of OZ," Maria in "West Side Story" and Liesl in "The Sound of Music."
MJ and her brothers would always perform for their parents on Friday Nights which was later coined "Friday Night Fun Night."
At Seventeen, MJ signed with a Modeling Agency in Washington DC. Given her compassion for people and her father's illness which led to a liver transplant, she decided to go to college and study nursing. She graduated from George Mason University with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Upon graduation, she commissioned into the United States Navy Nurse Corps to fulfill her passion to serve her country. She was stationed in Virginia Beach and was able to continue pursuing acting and signed with a local agent and shortly landed roles in a few Television Series, Ghost Stories and The New Detectives along with numerous regional and national commercials.
After her active duty commitment was fulfilled, she moved to Nashville to continue her acting/ singing-songwriting career. There she landed roles in several major motion pictures: The Last Castle, starring Robert Redford and James Gandolfini; We Were Soldiers, starring Mel Gibson; Sweet Home Alabama starring Reese Witherspoon; and the Grand Jury Winner of 2005 Sundance Film Festival, Forty Shades of Blue, starring Rip Torn.
She is Founder/ CEO of Little Faith Pictures, a Family and Faith film production company in Fort Worth, Texas.- Actor
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Extremely prolific actor/director of the silent screen, on Broadway from 1905. Hoyt joined the acting fraternity through the recommendations of an uncle, who worked as dramatic editor for a Cleveland tabloid. Signed by theatrical producer George C. Tyler (1868-1946), he began on stage (earning $10 per week), playing up to ten different parts. He made his Hollywood debut in 1916 with Universal. Short, balding and usually bespectacled, he managed to forge a 30-year career by playing a succession of 'little men', be they mild-mannered professors, henpecked husbands or easily intimidated minor officials. Looking perpetually befuddled was Hoyt's stock-in-trade. He was particularly effective as Professor Summerlee in The Lost World (1925) (directed by his younger brother Harry O. Hoyt), as the confused motel owner of It Happened One Night (1934) and as Mayor Tillinghast in The Great McGinty (1940). The better part of Hoyt's screen career, however, consisted of uncredited bits. For his last seven years in the business (1940-47), he was regularly employed as a member of Preston Sturges personal entourage of stock players at Paramount.- Producer
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Kwesi Dickson was born on 3 December 1967 in Georgetown, Guyana. He is a producer and production manager, known for The Occupant, Cracks (2009) and SAS: Red Notice (2021). He has been married to Martha Elisa since 8 November 1997. They have two children.- Editor
- Editorial Department
- Actor
Tom Costain was born on 24 August 1971 in Georgetown, Ontario, Canada. He is an editor and actor, known for Hustle (2022), The Matrix (1999) and Johnny Mnemonic (1995).- Gordon Case was born on 27 September 1948 in Georgetown, Guyana. He was an actor, known for The Day of the Triffids (1981), Aggro seizeman (1975) and Muscle Beach Party (1964). He died on 9 July 2020 in London, England, UK.
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R.B. Greaves was born on 28 November 1943 in Georgetown, British Guiana [now Guyana]. He was married to Maura Dhu Studi, Sandra Golden and Claire Francis. He died on 27 September 2012 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
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Ramsay Hill was born on 30 November 1889 in Georgetown, Guyana. He was an actor, known for One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), The Ten Commandments (1956) and Everybody's Old Man (1936). He died on 3 February 1976 in Van Nuys, California, USA.- Hayden Stevenson was born on 2 July 1877 in Georgetown, Kentucky, USA. He was an actor, known for The Abysmal Brute (1923), Blake of Scotland Yard (1927) and Let's Go (1922). He was married to Louise J. Stevenson. He died on 31 January 1952 in West Los Angeles, California, USA.
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- Actress
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Jessica Moreno was born in Georgetown, Washington, District of Columbia, USA. She is known for Club Dread (2004), Black Dynamite (2009) and The Librarian: Quest for the Spear (2004).- Actor
- Composer
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Up and coming rapper Red Cafe was born on December 18, 1976 in Guyana. He grew up in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn. Red Cafe is a prominent New York City mixtape artist who is a frequently collaborates with fellow Brooklyn artist Fabolous, amongst others. After being previously signed to Capital, Arista, and RCA, and no actual album release, he eventually signed with Akon's Konvict Records and broke through mainstream in the summer of 2008 with the "Paper Touchin' Remix". Red Cafe is currently prepping for his first major label album release "The Shakedown". (January 2009)- Director
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J Darin Wales started his directing career early on when he directed his first "production" while still in the 5th grade in the small town of Florence, Texas. He is, like any good Texan, extremely proud of his Texas heritage and won't hesitate to tell you about it. J Darin Wales is the 4th child of A. N. and Dorothy Wales of Florence. He has one sister and two brothers.
Following his graduation from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, Wales pursued a career of coaching and teaching for the next eight years or so. He received an MA in Education from Baylor University in 1984. During the years of 1989-90, Wales took part in an extended missions trip that changed the course of his life forever. While serving with the organization Youth With A Mission (YWAM) on board the M/V Anastasis, he fell in love again with storytelling and began to piece together video shorts for the crew and the organization. Soon after his missions stint in Africa and Northern Europe, he attended film school at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia, graduating in 1997 with an MS in Communication. There he met his lovely wife, Lorene Duran. They were married in 1996.
Starting out as a professional editor, Wales soon began directing training videos for a local company in Virginia Beach and eventually began freelance directing for companies such as New Dominion Pictures, The Discovery Channel, and The National Geographic Channel. Mr. Wales' television directorial debut was for the series "The New Detectives". His first short film was "Wynona'$ Wrecker", which garnered him several festival awards as a student film. Darin recently won the Virginia Filmmaker Award at the James River Film Festival for his work on his short film "PLiNK". He continues to freelance direct, on occasion for Discovery ID, and has plans for an independent feature in the future.- Champion track and field athlete Foy Draper was born on November 26, 1911 in Georgetown, Texas. Draper attended the University of Southern California, where he won the IC4A championship in the 200 m in 1935. Moreover, at the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, Germany Foy ran the third leg for the American 4 x 100 m relay team that won the gold medal with a world record time of 39.8. In addition, Draper reportedly held the world record for the 100 y dash at a time when it would have been a hand-timed 9.4. During World War II Foy served as a pilot on the twin-engine attack bomber A-20B 'Havoc' in Thelepte, Tunisia. On January 4, 1943 Draper and two crew members took off to fly to Fonduck, Tunisia to participate in the battle of Kasserine Pass. Foy and his two crew members never returned from said flight. His date of death is often cited as February 1, 1943. Draper's memory is honored at the North Africa American Cemetery and Memorial that's administered by the American Battle Monuments Commission in Carthage, Tunisia.
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Brian Ransom grew up on the outskirts of a small rural farm town in Illinois spending most days taking apart his toys to see how they worked, then one day, in 1978, his parents let him watch Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park and he knew he wanted to be a face painted rock-n-roller. But he soon took off the face paint and replaced his air guitar with a video camera and headed to the deep south to attend the Savannah College of Art and Design. After receiving a B.F.A degree in video production, Brian moved to Atlanta, Georgia where he began working as a video/LED technician on movies, television and music videos. After seeing a growing interest by producers, directors and director of photographers for utilizing LED technology specifically for lighting, backdrops, car processes, enhanced environments and extended reality, he moved to Los Angeles and has become a highly sought after LED consultant and project manager for the film & television production industry.- Actor
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Troy Amos-Ross was born on 17 July 1975 in Georgetown, Guyana. He is an actor, known for Cinderella Man (2005), Phantom Punch (2008) and Lost Girl (2010).- Actor
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Mike McKenzie was born on 17 September 1922 in Georgetown, Guyana. He was an actor and writer, known for The Stick Up (1977), Tales of the Unexpected (1979) and Dream House (1997). He was married to Liz McKenzie. He died in December 1999 in Spain.- Actor
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Ruston Kelly was born on 31 July 1988 in Georgetown, South Carolina, USA. He is an actor, known for American Anthems (2022), Front Row Boston: In Studio (2016) and Ruston Kelly & Kacey Musgraves: Forever/To June This Morning (2018). He has been married to Kacey Musgraves since 14 October 2017.- Ismay Andrews was born on 28 February 1895 in Georgetown, British Guiana. She is known for The Black King (1932). She was previously married to Raymond Percival Talma.
- Born in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana), Adams was educated at the Moco Teachers' Training College in Jamaica where he graduated with honors. He began his career in teaching being a headmaster in British Guaiana, a master on staff at Trinidad College. He was also a qualified Engineering Draughtsman. He gave up teaching to move to Britain intending to become a barrister. Penniless, he took any job he could whilst studying law, resulting in paid jobs as wrester, professional boxer, artist model, journalist and singer. He contemplated becoming a opera singer but became involved in the acting scene in London. After voice training he made his first stage appearance in "Stevedore" with Paul Robeson at the Embassy Theatre, London. Shortly after he was given lead roles in "All God's Chillun" and "Emperor Jones" and became a recognised name on stage, radio and television. Simultaneously he began his film career, initially for Ealing in "Midshipman Easy". During the war he served as an A.R.P. (Air Raid Patrol) warden and also worked in a factory to assist in the war effort.
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Maiko Watson was born on 29 April 1981 in Georgetown, Guyana. She is an actress and writer, known for Barbara James (2003), Potion (2011) and Sugar Jones: How Much Longer (2001).- Tagenarine Chanderpaul was born on 31 May 1996 in Georgetown, Guyana. He is an actor, known for '83 (2021) and Frank Worrell Trophy (1960).
- E.R. Braithwaite was born on 27 June 1912 in Georgetown, British Guiana. He was a writer, known for To Sir, with Love (1967), To Sir, with Love (1974) and To Sir, with Love II (1996). He was married to Sibyl Allen. He died on 12 December 2016 in Rockville, Maryland, USA.
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- Editor
Cindy Hing was born on 19 September 1977 in Georgetown, Guyana. She is a producer and writer, known for On the Town in The Palm Beaches on PBS (2016), Issues Reports (2008) and Day Tripping in the Palm Beaches (2024).- Actor
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Tommy Eytle was born on 16 July 1926 in Georgetown, British Guiana. He was an actor and composer, known for EastEnders (1985), Secret Agent (1964) and The Seventh Scroll (1999). He was married to Avis D'Ornellas. He died on 19 June 2007 in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK.- Clive Lloyd was born on 31 August 1944 in Queenstown, Georgetown, Demerara, British Guiana.
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Mike Phillips was born in Georgetown, Guyana. He is known for Blood Rights (1990), Sleuths, Sorcerers & Spies: Andrew Marr's Paperback Heroes (2016) and Days That Shook the BBC (2022).- Actor
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Born in Georgetown, SC, acting has always been in Myles' blood. Growing up watching his parents perform church plays at the age of 3, inspired him to take the stage as well. He first started performing his own routines for his family members at cookouts and gatherings at the age of 4, before actually stepping in front of the camera at age 8. He moved to Atlanta, GA in 2008 when he was 10 years old and took a break from acting before returning to it in 2012 when he started taking acting classes at The Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, GA. Myles started attending New Manchester High School in August 2011, but didn't start acting in school productions until 2013, after he had concluded at The Alliance. He graduated from New Manchester High School's Fine Arts Magnet Education Program in 2015 with a Drama seal and performed the lead in A Raisin in the Sun under direction from Robert John Connor. Myles then continued his education at University of West Georgia for 3 semesters before transferring to The New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts in 2017. At NYCDA, Myles studied Meisner Technique under Amy Horne & Steve Perlmutter. He also was taught Scene Study under Jay Goldenberg, Richard Omar, Abigail Zealey Bess and Ruth Nerken. Myles graduated with an Associate's Degree in Film and Television Performance from NYCDA in 2018.- Bhojraj Harry was born on December 20th 1990. He was born and raised in a small country in South America named Guyana. Bhojraj Harry has served in the United States Marine Corp from the Years 2009 to 2015. During his time in service, he completed two combat tours to Afghanistan. He has also trained in several forms of Martial Arts, such as Tae Kwon do, MMA and Marine Corp Martial Arts.
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Christopher Brasher was born on 21 August 1928 in Georgetown, British Guiana [now Guyana]. He was a writer and producer, known for The Deepest hole in the world - Documentary (1972), Commonwealth Games 1958 (1958) and Matters of Life and Death (1967). He was married to Shirley Brasher. He died on 28 February 2003 in Chaddleworth, Berkshire, England, UK.- Visual Effects
- Transportation Department
- Special Effects
Gumby, Godzilla, HG Wells and Ray Harryhausen form the foundation of Jamie's love for special effects. With eyes glued to the magical images glowing from the TV, the seed was being planted deep. On a trip to California, when he asked how they made Gumby move, his father told him of stop-motion animation and gave him his first Gumby. It was that long ride back to Maryland where he fantasized about making his own Gumby movies.
Fireball XL5, Star Trek, Bewitched, Lost in Space and My Favorite Martin add fuel to his interests in special effects, so by 1966 armed with the family's 8mm movie camera, he finally got the chance to explore making films for himself.
There were a few attempts at stop motion animation but mostly you saw things disappear, explode and move about in an unnatural manner. As you might guess, there were many "test" reels with just a couple of "full feature films" getting produced.
When personal computers began to show up in the late '70s, he dove into the wonderful world of tape drives and basic programming, soon discovering that he had an unusual rapport with the beasts. The big project this decade was converting "Start Trek" the basic game over to the more contemporary "Battle Star Galactica" for the Pet 2000, many Cylons died that year, I'm here to say.
This talent eventually got him work at Autodesk, Inc. in 1986 in their Product Support group. During this time he became a key player in Autodesk's animation software development working with John Walker on Autodesk's first animation package, AutoFlix (for use with AutoCAD and AutoShade), and then moving on to do all the development on AutoFlix 2.0 which included the Animation Tool Kit for AutoCAD.
Using this early PC based animation software, along with Autodesk Animator, he helped Nano Technologist Eric Drexler (author of Engines of Creation) to visualize how nano machines might look. This animation was used in the BBC documentary "Little by Little" and was the first time an Autodesk animation product had been used for broadcast television.
Working closely with the Yost Group (the authors of Animator Pro and Autodesk's 3D Studio software), he assisted in the design and testing of the software, often defining the methods that could be used to achieve a wide range of special effects.
When 3D Studio was a few months away from release, Gary Yost realized a need to "production test" this new product, so thanks to his previous involvement with Autodesk Animator, he was given the "unofficial" duty to manage a collection of computers (not networked) that were quickly assembled for the making of "The Bored Room".
As far as anyone seems to know, the industry term "Render Farm" was coined during this production by Bob Bennett when he was commenting on Jamie's regular attire of farmer's bib coveralls.
Leveraging the production experience from "Bored Room" and producing many of the initial animations that Autodesk used to promote its products, Jamie founded and managed Autodesk's first internal team of digital artists whose charter was to do production testing with the byproduct of producing material for Autodesk's Marketing needs.
This production group grew to about 15 employees and went from a group with tech to an autonomous group reporting to the director of corporate marketing. They were producing everything from promotional CD ROMS to images for ads, posters and of course corporate videos - all the while delivering design testing and feedback for now a wide range of Autodesk's products, not just 3D Studio.
Realizing the potential for the burgeoning 3D effects market Jamie left Autodesk to pursue a new path using the tools he helped to create. In 1995 he opened up a small one man studio at "Jr. Walker Ranch" (in Lucas Valley) and founded "digital phenomena", specializing in digital image effects.
One of the first projects was assisting the completion of Paramount's Film _Virtuosity_ He created special visual effects depicting Denzel Washington's virtual fall and subsequent atomization in the film's climactic ending sequences. This was one of the first times PC based software was employed for doing a majority of the special effects in a major film.
Shortly there after Kevin O'Lone (Jamie's brother-in-law) joined dph to grow it into a larger business and in 12 months we did just that. At our peak they had 14 staff members (plus a good number of interns) doing simultaneous work on films, games and broadcast projects.
In early 1998 they were prepared to move into doing series television after creating the "sales kit" for "Real Life adventures of Jules Verne" but the client decided to go with another group located in Montreal Canada (don't you hate it when that happens.) Unfortunately they had put too many eggs in that basket, so at that point they decided to cut their losses and move back to Jr. Walker Ranch to reduce our overhead.
Most of the dph staff moved on and stayed within "the biz", you'll find their names within the credits of many of today's blockbuster FX films. And so it goes.- Actor
- Stunts
Started as a jockey and steeple-chase rider, then worked on "Lucky" Baldwin's ranch in Arcadia, California. Joined Ringling Bros. Circus and then with Burgess Pawnee Indian Show. Played in Vaudeville before being with Universal Film Company for six years, beginning in 1912. Was in Fox westerns with William Farnum for one year, with William S. Hart for three years and worked for Leo Maloney circa 1925 through 1929.- Ron Bobb Semple was born on 10 December 1952 in Georgetown, Guyana. He was an actor, known for See You Yesterday (2019), Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor (2013) and Truth (2007). He died on 13 January 2022 in Tampa, Florida, USA.
- Composer
- Music Department
- Additional Crew
Euel Box was born on 31 December 1928 in Georgetown, Texas, USA. Euel was a composer, known for Benji (1974), Garfield: The Movie (2004) and Charge of the Model T's (1977). Euel died on 28 February 2017 in Austin, Texas, USA.- Joshua Ufkes was born on 22 November 1986 in Georgetown, Ontario, Canada. Joshua is known for A Girl, a Boy, a Penny and a Very, Very, Very Long Road (2019).
- Actress
- Set Decorator
Diana Sookdeo was born on 29 January 1969 in Georgetown, Guyana. She is an actress and set decorator, known for Wild Thing (1987) and The Basement Girl (2000).- Andrew York was born on 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, British Guiana. He was a writer, known for Danger Route (1967) and The Book Programme (1973). He died on 2 November 2017 in Guernsey, Channel Islands, England, UK.