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Edward Arnold "Eddie" Chapman (16 November 1914 – 11 December 1997) was an English criminal and wartime spy. During the Second World War he offered his services to Nazi Germany as a spy and a traitor and subsequently became a British double agent.
His British Secret Service handlers code named him 'Zigzag' in
acknowledgement of his rather erratic personal history. He had a number
of criminal aliases known by the British police, amongst them Edward
Edwards, Arnold Thompson and Edward Simpson. His German codename was Fritz Graumann or, later, after endearing himself to his German cronies, its diminutive form of Fritzchen.
Gary Manny "Mani" Mounfield (born 16 November 1962, Crumpsall, Manchester) is an English rock bassist, best known for being a member of The Stone Roses and Primal Scream.
He has a distinctive playing style that combines a fast moving rock
style with a dance rhythm or dub groove. During the first album of The
Stone Roses period Mounfield became synonymous with a Rickenbacker 4005 Jackson Pollock-influenced paint splattered bass guitar.
Paul Scholes is an English footballer, a one-club man who has played his entire professional career for Manchester United. Born in Salford, but later moving to Langley, Scholes excelled in both cricket
and football whilst at school. He first trained with Manchester United
at the age of 14 after being spotted by a scout visiting his school,
signing for them as an apprentice on leaving school in 1991, and turning
professional in 1993. He made his full debut for United in the 1994–95 season. He went on to play a key part in the club's Treble-winning success in the 1998–99 season, and has won ten Premier League, three FA Cup and two UEFA Champions League winners medals.
Joanna Pettet (born Joanna Jane Salmon on 16 November 1942 in London, England) is a former British actress
ReplyDeleteHer parents, Harold Nigel Edgerton Salmon, a British Royal Air Force pilot killed in World War II, and mother, Cecily J. Tremaine, were married in London in 1940. After the war, her widowed mother remarried and settled in Canada, where young Joanna was adopted by her stepfather and assumed his surname of "Pettet".
She studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse, as well as at the Lincoln Center, and got her start on Broadway in such plays as Take Her, She's Mine, The Chinese Prime Minister and Poor Richard, with Alan Bates and Gene Hackman, before she was discovered by director Sidney Lumet for his sumptuous 1966 film adaptation of Mary McCarthy's novel, The Group. The success of that film launched a film career that included roles in The Night of the Generals (1967), as Mata Bond in the James Bond spoof Casino Royale (1967), Peter Yates's Robbery with Stanley Baker (1967), the strange Western drama Blue (1968) with Terence Stamp, and the Victorian period comedy, The Best House in London (1969).
In 1968 she married the American actor Alex Cord and gave birth to a son later that year. She and Cord were divorced in 1989 after 21 years of marriage. She never remarried.
Although she co-starred with actor Rod Taylor in the 1980 thriller, Cry of the Innocent, her feature film appearances became sporadic. However, Pettet re-emerged as the star of over a dozen made-for-television movies, including The Delphi Bureau (1972), The Weekend Nun (1972), Footsteps (1972), Pioneer Woman (1973), A Cry in the Wilderness (1974), The Desperate Miles (1975), The Hancocks (1976), Sex and the Married Woman (1977), and The Return of Frank Cannon (1980). She also starred in the NBC miniseries Captains and the Kings (1976), guest-starred four times on the classic Rod Serling anthology series Night Gallery, was a frequent guest on both Fantasy Island and The Love Boat (appearing three separate times on each series), and had a recurring role on Knots Landing in 1983 as Janet Baines, an LAPD homicide detective investigating the murder of singer Ciji Dunne (played by Lisa Hartman
Also this day is a birthday of British actress Gemma Atkinson. She was born on 16 November 1984 in Bury, Greater Manchester. She is an English actress, television personality and glamour and lingerie model.
ReplyDeleteAtkinson made her debut video game appearance in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (2008) in the role of Lt. Eva McKenna, which she reprised in Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Uprising (2009). She also took part in EA's "Be The One" event in Trafalgar Square on 29 October 2008, which forms part of the London Games Festival.
Atkinson has also played Goldie Lookin Chain's love interest in the music video for the single "R'n'B" and featured on the cover of the CD single release.
In theatre, Atkinson appeared in Peter Pan at the Manchester Opera House in December 2008. She took the title role alongside John Thomson who played Captain Hook.
Other TV roles included appearing as herself in the pilot for Plus One, part of the pilot series Comedy Showcase in October 2009. In early April 2009 she finished filming for an episode of The Bill. She plays Ria Crossley the girlfriend of a drug dealer.
In film, Atkinson has appeared in the British independent film Boogie Woogie, which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in June 2009.
As for the present projects, it is known that Atkinson has just started filming for BBC1s Casualty. She was initially on the show for three months last year 2011, but she confirmed via Twitter that she is currently filming new episodes in Cardiff. She's filming until August 2012.