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Sir Thomas Sean Connery (August 25, 1930 October 31, 2020) was a Scottish actor and producer who won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award), and three Golden Globes, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award.Connery was the first actor to portray the character James Bond in film, starring i ... ... ( read more! ) Shelley Alexis Duvall (July 7, 1949 July 11, 2024) was an American actress known for her portrayal of distinctive, often eccentric characters. She was the recipient of several accolades, including a Cannes Film Festival Award and a Peabody Award and nominations for a British Academy Film Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards.Born in Texas, Duvall be ... ... ( read more! ) John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, comedian, writer and film producer. He achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report. In the late 1960s he became a member of Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show Monty Pythons Flying Circus and the ... ... ( read more! ) Katherine Marie Helmond (July 5, 1929 February 23, 2019) was an American film, theater, and television actress, and director.Over her five decades of television acting, she was known for her starring role as ditzy matriarch Jessica Tate on the ABC prime time soap opera sitcom Soap (19771981) and her co-starring role as feisty mother Mona Robinson ... ... ( read more! ) Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert CBE (September 12, 1931 June 19, 2020) was an English actor. After beginning his career on the British stage as a leading member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he became a successful and prolific performer on television and in films. He received numerous accolades including two BAFTA Awards and a Tony Award, along with nom ... ... ( read more! ) Michael Edward Palin, CBE FRGS (born 5 May 1943) is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries. Palin wrote most of his comedic material with Terry Jones. Before Monty Python, they had worked on other shows such as The Ken Dodd ... ... ( read more! ) .Sir Ralph David Richardson (19 December 1902 10 October 1983) was an English actor, one of a group of theatrical knights of the mid-20th century who, though more closely associated with the stage, also appeared in several classic films.Richardson first became known for his work on stage in the 1930s. In the 1940s, together with Laurence Olivier, ... ... ( read more! ) Peter Vaughan (born Peter Ewart Ohm 4 April 1923 6 December 2016) was an English character actor known for many supporting roles in British film and television productions. He also acted extensively on the stage.He is perhaps best known for his role as Grouty in the sitcom Porridge and its 1979 film adaptation. Other parts included a recurring rol ... ... ( read more! ) David Hattersley Warner (29 July 1941 - 24 July 2022) was an English actor. Born on 29th July 1941 in Manchester, he attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked in the theatre before attaining prominence on screen in the early 1960s through his lead performance in the Karel Reisz film Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment, for which he wa ... ... ( read more! ) David Stephen Rappaport (23 November 1951 2 May 1990) was an English actor with achondroplasia. He appeared in the films Time Bandits and The Bride, and television series L.A. Law, The Wizard and Captain Planet and the Planeteers. He was 3 11" (1.19 m) in height. ... ... ( read more! ) Kenneth George "Kenny" Baker (24 August 1934 13 August 2016) was a British actor and musician, best known as the man inside R2-D2 in the popular Star Wars film series.Description above from the Wikipedia article Kenny Baker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. ... ... ( read more! ) Malcolm Watson Dixon (1934 9 April 2020) was an English actor, best known for playing the role of Strutter in the 1981 film Time Bandits. He had many roles which took advantage of his 124 cm (4 ft 1 in) height, such as ewoks and dwarfs. ... ... ( read more! ) Mike Edmonds is a British film and television actor with dwarfism, best known for his role as Little Ron in the childrens television series "Maid Marian and Her Merry Men", and for his roles in the feature films "Flash Gordon", "Time Bandits", and "Return of the Jedi". ... ... ( read more! ) Jack Purvis was a British film actor. Purvis was a dwarf, and thus was mainly cast in roles requiring actors of short stature. Purvis appeared as a different alien creature in each of the three films of the original Star Wars trilogy, and also appeared in three of director Terry Gilliams early fantasy films: Time Bandits, Brazil, and The Adventures ... ... ( read more! ) ...