Celebrities born on août 24

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edward Neumeier (often credited as just Ed Neumeier) (born 1957) is a screenwriter best known for his work on the science fiction movies RoboCop and Starship Troopers. He wrote the latter's sequel, and most recently wrote and directed Starship Troopers 3: Marauder. Neumeier studied journalism at the University of California at Santa Cruz then attended the School of Motion Picture and Television at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). After completing his bachelor's degree at UCLA, Newmeier started work in the Hollywood film business, as a production assistant on the TV series Taxi, a proof-reader for Paramount Pictures and Columbia Pictures; and as a junior executive at the Universal Pictures company. Neumeier wrote his first outlines and film treatments for his first movie, RoboCop, as well as "spec" scripts. He declined an offer of a vice-presidency at Universal Pictures, to develop the screenplay for RoboCop, with Michael Miner. The rights to the screenplay were bought up by the Orion Pictures company, and was granted a budget of just under $15 million. Paul Verhoeven was assigned to make the movie. Neumeier also co-produced RoboCop, which was released in movie theaters in 1987 in North America and some other locations. This movie was a success, and it drew just over 50 million dollars' worth of ticket sales in the United States, alone. The success of RoboCop also motivated the production of two sequels, RoboCop 2 and RoboCop 3, and also two TV series, one live-action and one animated. Most of the creators of RoboCop had left before the production of these sequels. The first sequel to RoboCop, RoboCop 2, was planned to have its screenplay written by Neumeier. He had written a first draft of a screenplay for RoboCop 2, when a screenwriters' strike occurred. It prevented Neumeier from writing any more of the screenplay. The Orion Pictures company next decided to hire the comic book artist Frank Miller to work on his own screenplay for RoboCop 2. A decade after the first RoboCop movie was produced, Neumeier rejoined Paul Verhoeven to work on Starship Troopers, which was adapted from the novel with the same name by Robert A. Heinlein in 1959. With violence and satire thrown into a story of efforts by the human race to insure its survival (in ways similar to RoboCop at times, Starship Troopers seemed to have been more successful in Europe, Asia, etc., than in North America where it drew gross ticket sales of about $54 million at theaters, although Artforum magazine selected this film as one of the "10 most artistic [film] achievements of 1997". Neumeier also appeared in this film in the brief role of a man convicted of murder and sentenced to immediate execution. Description above from the Wikipedia article Edward Neumeier, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Charles Adams Claverie (August 28, 1949 – October 7, 2005), known by stage names Charlie Hamburger, Charlie Kennedy and Charles Rocket, was an American actor, comedian, musician, and television news reporter. He was a cast member on Saturday Night Live, played the villain Nicholas Andre in the film Dumb and Dumber, and played Dave Dennison in Disney's Hocus Pocus. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Masahiko Minami (南 雅彦, Minami Masahiko, born 1961) is a Japanese anime producer and president of animation studio Bones.

Pierre Barillet est un auteur de théâtre et un romancier français né à Paris le 24 août 1923 et mort dans la même ville le 8 janvier 2019. En association avec Jean-Pierre Gredy, il a écrit une trentaine de comédies qui, pour beaucoup, sont devenues des classiques du théâtre de boulevard et représentées dans le monde entier. Parmi celles-ci, on peut citer Le Don d'Adèle, Fleur de cactus, Quarante carats, Folle Amanda, Potiche ou Lily et Lily. Passionné de théâtre depuis l'enfance, Pierre Barillet, étudiant en droit, bénéficie des conseils et de l'appui de Jean Cocteau et de Christian Bérard. Alors qu'il effectue son service militaire en Allemagne en 1945, sa première pièce Les Héritiers, un sombre drame mauriacien, est interprétée à la Radiodiffusion française. Elle sera bientôt suivie au théâtre de Poche par Les Amants de Noël, une œuvre tout aussi noire, qui est reçue favorablement. Parallèlement, Pierre Barillet travaille à des adaptations radiophoniques de romans et à des émissions avec Agnès Capri. Mais c'est en 1950, avec Le Don d'Adèle, une comédie écrite «pour rire» avec son camarade d'université Jean-Pierre Gredy, qu'il va connaître une éclatante réussite. Consacrée par Louis Aragon, Elsa Triolet et toute la presse, la pièce tiendra l'affiche plus de mille représentations consécutives, et est reprise en permanence depuis sa création. Enchaînés par le succès et «condamnés» à faire rire, Barillet et Gredy vont régner presque sans partage sur le théâtre de «divertissement» (un qualificatif qu'ils préfèrent à celui de «théâtre de boulevard») pendant les trois décennies qui vont suivre. Jacqueline Maillan et Sophie Desmarets ont inspiré et interprété leurs œuvres les plus célèbres. Le succès du tandem ne se limite pas qu'à la France. De 1965 à 1975, Fleur de cactus, avec Lauren Bacall, et Quarante carats, créée par Julie Harris, battront des records de représentations à Broadway, avant d'être portés au cinéma à Hollywood. Fleur de cactus sera adapté en 1969 par Gene Saks et le film met en vedette Ingrid Bergman, Walter Matthau et Goldie Hawn. Quarante carats est réalisé en 1973 par Milton Katselas avec Liv Ullmann et Gene Kelly. Dans les années 1980, Pierre Barillet a aussi collaboré pour la télévision avec Élisabeth Badinter au scénario de Malesherbes, avocat du roi et de la mini-série Condorcet. À compter des années 1990, il se consacre davantage à l'écriture de biographies, essais et mémoires, comme Les Seigneurs du rire, ouvrage de référence sur Robert de Flers, Gaston Arman de Caillavet et Francis de Croisset, Quatre années sans relâche, qui traite de la vie théâtrale à Paris pendant l'Occupation allemande, et À la ville comme à la scène, une chronique des années pendant lesquelles ses propres pièces étaient jouées. En 2012, il publie un entretien, Bronia: Dernier amour de Raymond Radiguet (éd. La Tour verte), à partir des confidences de Bronia Perlmutter, épouse de René Clair. Pierre Barillet est officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres et chevalier de la Légion d'honneur. Il est marié au comédien Roland Oberlin. Ses obsèques ont eu lieu au cimetière de Vihiers (Maine-et-Loire). Source: Article "Pierre Barillet" de Wikipédia en français, soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Karen Arthur (born August 24, 1941) is an American film director, producer, and actress. Arthur has directed three feature films, including Lady Beware (1987) and The Mafu Cage (1978), but the majority of her work has been in television, where she has had a long and prolific career directing television movies and series. In 1985, she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series.

Rocky Johnson (born Wayde Douglas Bowles) was a Canadian professional wrestler. During his wrestling career, he became a National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) Georgia Champion and a NWA Southern Heavyweight Memphis Champion, as well as winning many other championships. Along with his partner Tony Atlas, Johnson was part of the first black tag team to win the World Tag Team championship in WWE. He was the father of American actor and former professional wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.

Richard Lowry began making super 8 films as a young teen, then after seeing 'Star Wars' committed himself to becoming a serious filmmaker. Lowry's first film, 'Hawk Jones', starred an all-child cast and was filmed in his hometown of Moline, Illinois. The film has since established a cult following and as of August, 2014, is playing in movie theaters nationwide as part of the Alamo Drafthouse film circuit. Lowry has directed several independent features which have been distributed worldwide, two of which were produced for Dark Horse Comics. 'Monarch of the Moon', a satire of the 40's serials, was hailed by film critic Leonard Maltin as "...the film Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow' aspired to be." With his latest feature 'Dominion' completed, Lowry has one film in pre-production and several in development, including an 'ultimate Star Wars short fan film'.

Ava Marie DuVernay (born August 24, 1972) is an American director, screenwriter, producer, and former rapper. In the 1990s, DuVernay was active in the Los Angeles underground hip hop scene, performing under the names AvA and Eve, and as one half of the duo Figures of Speech with fellow female MC Ronda Ross (aka Jyant). DuVernay's debut film, music documentary "This Is the Life" (2008), chronicled the rise and enduring influence of the scene of which she had been a part, focusing on its epicenter at the famous open mic nights in the Good Life Cafe, where many major west coast underground hip hop artists got their starts. At the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, DuVernay won the Best Director Prize for her second feature film "Middle of Nowhere", becoming the first African-American woman to win the award. For her work on "Selma" (2014), DuVernay was the first black female director to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award and also the first to have her film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, though she was not nominated for Best Director. In 2017, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for her political documentary "13th" (2016).

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Peppino De Filippo (August 24, 1903 - January 26, 1980) was an Italian actor. De Filippo was born in Naples, brother of actor and dramatist Eduardo De Filippo and of Titina. He made his stage debut at the age of six. He played in several movies such as Rome-Paris-Rome, Variety Lights, A Day in Court, Ferdinand I, King of Naples and Boccaccio '70. He is however most remembered for his several artistic partnerships with Totò, on movies such as Totò, Peppino e la malafemmina and La banda degli onesti. He died in Rome.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Chu Tien-wen (Chinese: 朱天文, born August 24, 1956 in Taipei, Taiwan) is one of Taiwan's most prominent writers. She is the daughter of Chu Hsi-ning and the older sister of Chu Tien-hsin. Some of her literary works include "Fin-de-Siècle Splendour" (1990) and Notes of a Desolate Man (1994). She wrote many of the scripts for the famous Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien. Her screenwriting credits include movies like Taipei Story, The Puppetmaster, Goodbye South, Goodbye, Millenium Mambo, City of Sadness (1989) and many more. Description above from the Wikipedia article Chu Tien-wen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia​

Florence Blot, de son vrai nom Marguerite Louise Léontine Digneffe, est une actrice française née le 24 août 1912 dans le 1er arrondissement de Paris et morte le 9 octobre 1994 à Saint-Maurice (Val-de-Marne). Sa voix particulière, ainsi que ses mimiques, lui valent de nombreux petits rôles de femme bavarde, voire acariâtre, comme dans Jo de Jean Girault, avec Louis de Funès, où elle joue Mlle Cramusel, une employée d'agence immobilière, ou dans Fantômas se déchaîne où elle campe une passagère contrariée dans le train Paris-Rome. À la télévision, elle apparaît à plusieurs reprises dans la série Les Cinq Dernières Minutes avec Raymond Souplex et dans Au théâtre ce soir de Pierre Sabbagh. Florence Blot tournera dans la publicité pour la marque Paic citron («Avec Paic citron, la vaisselle étincelle!»), à la télévision pendant de nombreuses années. Elle est inhumée au cimetière parisien de Bagneux (Hauts-de-Seine). Source: Article "Florence Blot" de Wikipédia en français, soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Cha Soon-hyeong also known as DIENO is a South Korean Actor, Model, and Singer.