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Big Gorilla


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Thank You Sheba. Try this one:

 

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Is it Peter Falk of the Columbo detective series



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It is Peter Falk of the Colombo Detective series. Your turn Sandy..

Peter Michael Falk was an American actor, best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in the long-running television series Columbo, for which he received four Primetime Emmy Awards and one Golden Globe Award.Wikipedia
 
Born: 16 September 1927, New York City, New York, United States
Died: 23 June 2011, Beverly Hills, California, United States
Height: 1.68 m
Cause of death: Pneumonia
Spouse: Shera Danese (m. 19772011), Alyce Mayo (m. 19601976)
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Thanks BG who is this?

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OK time for a clue, This lady is a British Novelist.



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sandman55 wrote:

OK time for a clue.




Don't you mean JK biggrin

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Your almost there Bill biggrin



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Why didn't he just post the whole name ?   Very easy now.



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I think he is just adding to the clue so it is open to someone solving it, what about you Sheba?



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No one else seems to want it. 

J.K. Rowling ?



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Ypu have it Sheba. I'm sorry it took a while for me to get back, I didn't get an email to this thread. I have clicked again "Email me whenever there is a new post to this topic." so fingers crossed. 

Joanne Rowling, CH, OBE, FRSL, FRCPE (/rol/; born 31 July 1965), who writes under the pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist and screenwriterwho is best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series. The books have won multiple awards, and sold more than 400 million copies.[1] They have become the best-selling book series in history[2] and been the basis for a series of films, over which Rowling had overall approval on the scripts[3] and was a producer on the final films in the series.[4]

Born in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, Rowling was working as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International when she conceived the idea for the Harry Potter series while on a delayed train from Manchester to London in 1990.[5] The seven-year period that followed saw the death of her mother, birth of her first child, divorce from her first husband and relative poverty until the first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was published in 1997. There were six sequels, of which the last, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, was released in 2007. Since then, Rowling has written four books for adult readers: The Casual Vacancy (2012) andunder the pseudonym Robert Galbraiththe crime fictionnovels The Cuckoo's Calling (2013), The Silkworm (2014) and Career of Evil (2015).[6]

Rowling has lived a "rags to riches" life story, in which she progressed from living on state benefits to multi-millionaire status within five years. She is the United Kingdom's best-selling living author, with sales in excess of £238M.[7] The 2016 Sunday Times Rich List estimated Rowling's fortune at £600 million, ranking her as the joint 197th richest person in the UK.[8]Time magazine named her as a runner-up for its 2007 Person of the Year, noting the social, moral, and political inspiration she has given her fans.[9] In October 2010, Rowling was named the "Most Influential Woman in Britain" by leading magazine editors.[10] She has supported charities including Comic Relief, One Parent Families, Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Lumos.



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Thanks Sandy. This will be easy.

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Cheers,

Sheba. 

 

 

 

 



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Reminds me of a young John Mills



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Not John Mills Pete.  This guy is a Yank.



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George Orson Wells ... in his younger days..



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You got him BG.  Your turn.



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Gosh, he was a good looking young man.



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jules47 wrote:

Gosh, he was a good looking young man.

 I thought you were talking about me !!!biggrinbiggrinbiggrin



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Thank you again Sheba. here is an easy one :

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Gday...

The previous bloke was good looking, 'parrently.

I guess this bloke is saucy then.

cheers - John



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A young Marlin Brando



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All yours Sandy... Marlin Brando it is...

Marlon Brando
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Marlon Brando Jr. was an American actor, film director, and activist. He is widely credited with bringing realism to film acting, helping to popularize the Stanislavski system of acting, studying with Stella Adler in the 1940s.
 
Born: 3 April 1924, Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Died: 1 July 2004, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States
Children: Christian Brando, Cheyenne Brando, MORE
Did you know: Marlon Brando has the eighth-most Academy Award nominations (8) in four acting categories of all time. 


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Thanks BG who is this teenager. The photo was taken in 1966.

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OK time for a clue He studied law at the Saint Petersburg State University 



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It's Vladimir Putin. 

I knew last night but as I'm not a regular on here thought I'd see if any regular folks knew 

Dianne 



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You have it Dianne so where do you have for us and your welcome to contribute even if your not a regular, the more the merrier.

 

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (/putn/; Russian:  , IPA: [vdimr vdimrvt putn] (About this sound listen); born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician serving as President of the Russian Federation since 7 May 2012, previously holding the position from 2000 until 2008.[2][3][4] He was Prime Minister of the Russian Federation from 1999 until 2000, and again from 2008 until 2012.[5] During his second term as Prime Minister, he was the chairman of the ruling United Russia party.[2]

Vladimir Putin was born in Leningrad in the Soviet Union. He studied law at the Saint Petersburg State University, graduating in 1975.[6] Putin was a KGB foreign intelligence officer for 16 years, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel before retiring in 1991 to enter politics in Saint Petersburg. He moved to Moscow in 1996 and joined President Boris Yeltsin's administration, rising quickly through the ranks and becoming Acting President on 31 December 1999, when Yeltsin resigned. Putin won the subsequent 2000 presidential election by a 53% to 30% margin, thus avoiding a runoff with his Communist Party of the Russian Federation opponent, Gennady Zyuganov.[7] He was re-elected President in 2004 with 72% of the vote.

During Vladimir Putin's first presidency, the Russian economy grew for eight straight years, and GDP measured in purchasing power increased by 72%.[8][9] The growth was a result of the 2000s commodities boom, high oil prices, and prudent economic and fiscal policies.[10][11] Because of constitutionally mandated term limits, Putin was ineligible to run for a third consecutive presidential term in 2008. The 2008 presidential election was won by Dmitry Medvedev, who appointed Putin Prime Minister, what some opponents considered the beginning of a period of "tandemocracy".[12] In September 2011, after presidential terms were extended from four to six years,[13] Putin announced he would seek a third term as president. He won the March 2012 presidential election with 64% of the vote, a result which aligned with pre-election polling.[14] Falling oil prices coupled with international sanctions imposed at the beginning of 2014 after Russia's annexation of Crimea and military intervention in Eastern Ukraine led to GDP shrinking by 3.7% in 2015, though the Russian economy rebounded in 2016 with 0.3% GDP growth and is officially out of the recession.[15][16][17][18] On 6 December 2017, he announced his intention to run for a fourth term. The election will be held in March 2018, with a term until 2024.[19][20]

Under Putin's leadership, Russia has scored poorly in Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index and experienced democratic backsliding according to both the Economist Intelligence Unit's Democracy Index and Freedom House's Freedom in the World index. Experts no longer consider Russia a democracy.[21][22] Putin has enjoyed high domestic approval ratings during his career (mostly higher than 70%), and received extensive international attention as one of the world's most powerful leaders.



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Thank you. This is a portrait of an important gent born in Greendale Victoria. 

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John Cain Senior 34 Premier of Victoria



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You are correct.    smile

 

Who will we pick next ? 



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