This is a list of film-related events in 1994. 1993 in film 1994 in film 1995 in film 1993 in home video 1994 in home video 1995 in home video 1993 in television 1994 in television 1995 in television 1994 in film - Events. November 1 - George Lucas leaves the day-to-day operations of his filmmaking business and starts a sabbatical (while on sabbatical, ...

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Finney's accolades are numerous. He's received several nominations and awards from the prestigious awards societies of the entertainment industry. Albert Finney - Academy Awards Oscars. He has been nominated for the Best Actor Oscar four times, for Tom Jones, Murder On The Orient Express, The Dresser, and Under the Volcano. He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Erin Brockovich. Albert Finney - British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards BAFTA. Finney received a BAFTA nomination ...

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Albert Finney, Albert Finney - Career highlights, Albert Finney - Acclaim, Albert Finney - Academy Awards Oscars, Albert Finney - British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards BAFTA, Albert Finney - Emmy Awards, Albert Finney - Golden Globe Awards, Albert Finney - Laurel Awards, Albert Finney - Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Albert Finney - Oscars, Albert Finney - Screen Actors Guild, Albert Finney - Silver Berlin Bear, Albert Finney - Tony Awards, Albert Finney - Venice Film Festival, Albert Finney - Selected Filmography, Albert Finney - External link

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Julia Stiles - Television career. Stiles began her acting career in television roles. After two appearances as the computer punk "Erica" on the PBS series Ghostwriter in 1993 and 1994, she appeared as a guest star on the medical drama Chicago Hope. She has been seen in two made-for-TV movies: in Before Women Had Wings (1997) on CBS, she played opposite Ellen Burstyn and Oprah Winfrey in an adaptation of the novel by Connie May Fowler; and she played a teenage girl who finds herself pregnant a ...

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Billy Crystal (born March 14, 1947) is an American actor, writer, producer, and film director. He is 5' 6". Crystal was born in Long Beach, New York to Jewish-American parents Jack and Helen Crystal. His father worked at, and later managed, the Commodore Music Shop. His uncle was record producer Milt Gabler. He went to Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia on a baseball scholarship, having learned the game from his father, who pitched for St. John's University. Crystal, however never played a game at Marshall because ...

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Joseph Cotten - Early Life and Career. Born in Petersburg, Virginia, Cotten worked as an advertising agent after graduating from the Washington, D.C., Hickman School, where he studied acting. His work as a journalist, specifically a theatre critic, inspired him to become more involved in theatre productions, first in Virginia, and later in New York. Cotten made his Broadway debut in 1930, and soon became friends with up-and-coming actor/director/producer Orson Welles. In 1937 he joined Welles' Mercury Theater Company, with which he starred in productions o ...

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Joseph Cotten, Joseph Cotten - Biography and Career, Joseph Cotten - Early Life and Career, Joseph Cotten - Citizen Kane, Joseph Cotten - Collaborations with Welles, Joseph Cotten - The Forties and Fifties, Joseph Cotten - The Sixties and Seventies, Joseph Cotten - Heaven's Gate, Joseph Cotten - Legacy, Joseph Cotten - Filmography

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As a child his ambition was to play football for his beloved Manchester United, but he found himself to be a much better actor than he was a footballer, and inspired by television dramas such as Boys from the Blackstuff, he took to acting as his profession. He trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and first came to public attention as Derek Bentley in the 1991 film Let Him Have It, based on true events. However, it was a regular role in the TV series Cracker (1993–94) — culminating in his character's dramatic death in the second series ...

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Christopher Eccleston, Christopher Eccleston - Biography, Christopher Eccleston - Doctor Who, Christopher Eccleston - After the Doctor, Christopher Eccleston - Filmography, Christopher Eccleston - Television, Christopher Eccleston - Radio and Narration, Christopher Eccleston - Theatre, Christopher Eccleston - Selected Awards and Nominations, Christopher Eccleston - Film & Television, Christopher Eccleston - Notes/Trivia

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Quentin Tarantino - Director. My Best Friend's Birthday (1987) Reservoir Dogs (1992) Pulp Fiction (1994) ER (1995) Season 1; Episode 24: "Motherhood" (Director) Four Rooms (segment "The Man from Hollywood") (1995) Jackie Brown (1997) Kill Bill (Vol. 1 2003, Vol. 2 2004) Sin City (2005) (Special Guest Director) CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2005) '"Grave Danger: V ...

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Zhang Yimou (Simplified: 张艺谋; Traditional: 張藝謀; Hanyu Pinyin: Zhāng Yìmóu) (born November 14, 1950) is a Chinese filmmaker and cinematographer who made his directorial debut in 1987 with the film Red Sorghum. He was born in the ancient Chinese city of Xi'an in Shaanxi Province. An overaged student who was accepted only after extensive appeals, Zhang graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1982 along with compatriots Chen Kaige and Tian Zhuangzhuang. He then began working as ...

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Day was born Doris Mary Ann von Kappelhoff in Evanston, Ohio to German immigrants. The second of two children, she was named "Doris" after silent movie actress Doris Kenyon, whom her mother liked. Her family was Catholic, despite her parents' divorce. She later embraced Christian Science. Day started out as a dancer, winning a contract that enabled her to travel to Hollywood with her partner, Jerry Doherty, in 1936, but turned to singing when she injured her leg in an auto accident in 1937. She sang with the big bands of Barney ...

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Doris Day, Doris Day - Biography, Doris Day - Songs, Doris Day - Filmography, Doris Day - Albums

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Richardson has a number of film and television projects in various stages of production: Gideon's Daughter [TV] (Completed) Stella Provoked (Completed) — Veronica Scott Merlin's Apprentice [TV] (Completed) — Lady of the Lake Southland Tales (Post-Production) Spinning Into Butter (Post-Production) — Catherine Kenney Puffball (Pre-Production) — Mabs See also:

Miranda Richardson, Miranda Richardson - Biography, Miranda Richardson - Declined roles, Miranda Richardson - Projects in production, Miranda Richardson - Filmography, Miranda Richardson - Theatre, Miranda Richardson - Repertory theatre, Miranda Richardson - Professional theatre, Miranda Richardson - Awards and nominations

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Carrey was born and grew up in the Toronto suburb of Newmarket, Ontario to a family with some French Canadian roots (the original surname was Carree). A comedian from an early age, Carrey mailed his résumé to The Carol Burnett Show when he was 10 years old. The teachers in Carrey's high school gave him a few minutes at the end of each school day to do a stand-up comedy routine for his classmates. The Carrey family fell on hard times and were forced to move to the Toronto suburb of Scarborough, where they took security ...

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Ghost - Ghost messengers. A popular genre of literature from the early Renaissance to the early twentieth century was the Dialogues of the Dead. These were based upon the Witch of Endor story and the visions of Hades found in both Homer's Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid. In Odyssey, Odysseus travels to Hades and sees the shades of his former colleagues, including some he did not know were dead, and pours out fresh blood, which the dead hunger for, until he can find Tiresias and get ...

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Marilyn Monroe was born on June 1, 1926 in the charity ward of the Los Angeles County Hospital. Her registered name was Norma Jeane Mortenson, but her grandmother, Della Monroe Grainger, later had her baptized as Norma Jeane Baker. For a while most biographers believed her biological father was very likely to be Charles Stanley Gifford, a salesman for the studio where Monroe's mother, the late Gladys Pearl Monroe Baker Eley, worked as a film-cutter. However her birth certificate lists Norwegian Martin Edward Mortenson as her biological father, and in later years some biographers have leaned towards believing tha ...

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Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn Monroe - Early life, Marilyn Monroe - Career, Marilyn Monroe - Marriages, Marilyn Monroe - James Dougherty, Marilyn Monroe - Joe DiMaggio, Marilyn Monroe - Arthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe - Death and aftermath, Marilyn Monroe - Miscellaneous, Marilyn Monroe - Awards and nominations, Marilyn Monroe - Marilyn Monroe in popular culture, Marilyn Monroe - Depictions/Movie References, Marilyn Monroe - Films, Marilyn Monroe - Television

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"Rock the Boat" went on to become a posthumous hit on radio (reaching number two on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles charts and number 14 on the Hot 100) and video channels, and the news of Aaliyah's death gave her album a notable sales boost, pushing it to number one on the Billboard 200. The album's two subsequent singles, "More than A Woman" reached number seven on Billboard's Hot R&B singles chart and number 25 on Hot 100. "I Care 4 U" reached number three on Billboard's Hot R&B singles chart and number 16 on the Hot 100, the latt ...

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Aaliyah, Aaliyah - Life and career, Aaliyah - Childhood and early career, Aaliyah - One in a Million 1996, Aaliyah - Movie roles and soundtracks, Aaliyah - Aaliyah 2001, Aaliyah - Death, Aaliyah - Legacy, Aaliyah - Trivia, Aaliyah - Discography, Aaliyah - Albums, Aaliyah - Chart Singles, Aaliyah - Filmography

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At the age of thirteen, Donald's parents sent him to the New York Military Academy hoping to channel his energy and assertiveness in a positive manner. Trump attended Fordham University before transferring to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. After graduating in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in economics, he joined his father's real estate company. Trump moved to Manhattan in 1971. In his book, Art of the Deal, Trump discusses his undergraduate career: "After I graduated from the New York Mil ...

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De Niro was born in New York City, the son of Robert De Niro, Sr., an abstract expressionist painter, sculptor, and poet of Italian descent (De Niro's grandfather was an Italian immigrant from Molise), and Virginia Admiral, also a painter. They had met at the painting classes of Hans Hoffman in Provincetown, Massachusetts. His parents divorced when he was two years old. A biographer, John Baxter, claims that his father was homosexual, and had relationships with poet Robert Duncan, playwright ...

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Born Issur Danielovitch Demsky in Amsterdam, New York to Herschel Danielovitch and Bryna Sanglel, poor Belarusian Jewish parents (who came from Homel, also known as Gomel). He was on the wrestling team at St. Lawrence University. To help make his way through college, he thought getting an acting scholarship might work. His talents got him noticed at the acclaimed American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, where he soon received a scholarship, along side classmate Betty Joan Perske (better, and soon to be known as Lauren Bacal ...

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Kirk Douglas, Kirk Douglas - Early Life, Kirk Douglas - Career, Kirk Douglas - Filmography, Kirk Douglas - Bibliography, Kirk Douglas - External link

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Here are all the current members of Phil's touring band. Phil Collins - drums, lead vocals Gerald Albright - saxophone Bill Cantos - backing vocals Ronnie Caryl - rhythm guitar, backing vocals Brad Cole - keyboards, vocoder on In The Air Tonight. Luis Conte - percussion Lynne Fiddmont-Lindsey - backing vocals Dan Fornero - trumpet Connie Jackson-Comegys - backing vocals Amy Keys - backing vocals Harry Kim - trumpet, Horns directorSee also:

Phil Collins, Phil Collins - Childhood, Phil Collins - Flaming Youth, Phil Collins - From Genesis to Revelation, Phil Collins - Solo career, Phil Collins - Appearances in Pop Culture, Phil Collins - Films, Phil Collins - Biography, Phil Collins - Band, Phil Collins - Former touring band musicians, Phil Collins - Former studio musicians, Phil Collins - Albums, Phil Collins - Hit singles, Phil Collins - External link

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For a detailed listing of albums, singles, and production/songwriting work Prince has done for other musicians, please see Prince discography. Prince artist - Top Twenty albums. The following albums reached the Top Twenty on either the U.S. Billboard 200 albums chart, or the UK Albums Chart. Prince artist - Top Ten singles. The following singles reached the Top Ten on one or more of the following charts: the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, the U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart, the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Mus ...

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Although her sister Jackie Collins is a best-selling writer, Joan Collins has ventured into writing on a handful of occasions. Her two best-selling memoirs are Past Imperfect (1978) and Second Act (1996). She has written several best-selling fictional novels: Prime Time, Love & Desire & Hate, Infamous, Star Quality and Misfortune's Daughters. On February 29, 1996, Collins won a U.S. $2 million suit with Random House for breach of contract. Humiliated by the claims that sh ...

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Joan Collins, Joan Collins - Family and Early Life, Joan Collins - Early Film Career, Joan Collins - Dynasty, Joan Collins - After Dynasty, Joan Collins - Marriage and Family, Joan Collins - Personal Politics, Joan Collins - Homes, Joan Collins - Books, Joan Collins - Titles, Joan Collins - Awards, Joan Collins - Filmography, Joan Collins - Theatrical credits, Joan Collins - Television credits

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