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Philippe Vonlanthen is a British Actors Equity, MEAA, SAG-AFTRA, & SAG-Awards Nominated stuntman, actor, writer & director. Originally from the Jura Mountain region of Switzerland, he was also raised by the West Sussex Coast in the UK. After living many years in Australia he is now based between NYC & Los Angeles. Philippe is also an accomplished Black Belt martial-artist, who fought successfully as a Champion Kickboxer in both the UK and Internationally. As an avid adventurer he has traveled around the World independently many times over, climbed to the summit of Mt. Fuji in Japan, trekked to Mt. Everest's Base Camp, run a 100 mile challenge that ended in front of The Matterhorn in Switzerland and was bitten by a snake in the Australian Bush during a moonlight hike up Mt Warning. He was also bitten by the Showbiz bug from a young age performing on-stage in Zürich, studying at the Lee Strasberg Studio in London, under Michael Billington, Marianna Hill , Anna Strasberg and further with Nancy Bishop. Philippe writes and directs his own projects under "Fondue Films", named in tribute to his Swiss roots. Philippe believes in giving back and volunteering for the Community wherever he finds himself.- Roland Amstutz was born on 12 January 1942 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He was an actor, known for Every Man for Himself (1980), Dobermann (1997) and The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak (1984). He died on 20 May 1997 in Recklinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- Louis Chevrolet was born on 25 December 1878 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchatel, Switzerland. He was married to Suzanne Treyvoux. He died on 6 June 1941 in Detroit, Michigan, United States.
- Chloe Luthi was born on the 26th of August 2003 in the Swiss Alps in La Chaux-De-Fonds Switzerland. She moved to Malaysia when she was 3 years old where she currently resides with her family. She is of Swiss and Chinese (Malaysian) descent. She has a younger brother, Dylan.
She is fluent in English & French with basic understanding in written and spoken Mandarin Chinese.
Chloe loved the arts and began ballet dancing at the age of 4, followed by piano, tap dancing and theatre lessons. Her parents recalled how she had always been an actress, wearing her mother's clothes, endless of dressing-ups and staging plays, and voluntarily posing as a favorite model in her father's passion for photography.
Mostly outdoors, she loves swimming, roller skating, wave boarding, ice-skating and have a hard time sitting still at any length of time.
Chloe became involved with acting when she joined the theatre at the age of 7 in her school. At the age of 8, she made her first stage appearance where she nailed a lead role in her school play with 17 pages of script. She joined many other school theatre productions since.
In 2013, she joined the 'Opera for Kids Workshop' in Carmen by the French composer Georges Bizet, helmed by a local performing establishment, the Eat, Sing & Travel production (ETS) . Despite it being small, script-less but a singing role, she was exposed to 4 days of public performance and participated alongside the likes of classical voices of sopranos amongst many other young talents and professional adults alike. She had since dabbled in voice-overs for commercial radio which she enjoys whenever time permits.
Chloe landed her first acting role in 2014 in Netflix's series 'Marco Polo', an American TV drama. Chloe plays Ling-Ling, the daughter of the Emperor in the epic 13th-century story of Marco Polo in courts of Kublai Khan. She appears in 7 episodes. Written and created by John Fusco, the show premiered on Netflix on December 12, 2014 and is produced by The Weinstein Company. The show was renewed for a 10-episode second season.
In the same year, Chloe extended her acting exposure being a voice actress (American accent), in an English-language horror film, directed by Singapore's film-maker Kelvin Tong. - Director
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Henry Brandt was born on 25 July 1921 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He was a director and writer, known for Quand nous étions petits enfants (1960), Le dernier printemps (1977) and Voyage chez les vivants (1970). He died on 26 July 1998 in Meyrannes, Gard, France.- In 1900, Le Corbusier trained as a painter, engraver and goldsmith at the École d'Art in his birthplace. From 1904 he began studying architecture there. Between 1907 and 1911 he traveled through Europe. During this time he was employed in well-known construction offices in different cities. In 1914 he succeeded in developing a skeletal system made of reinforced concrete called "Domino", which was intended for use in multi-story buildings. In 1917 the painter and architect settled in Paris. The following year, Le Corbusier created his first oil painting. This was followed by further pictures in which he painted his preferred motif, the structured still life, such as in the works "Vertical Guitar" or "Still Life with a Stack of Plates".
In 1919 he published the magazine "L'Esprit Nouveau". In it he published his avant-garde architectural concepts. For the first time during this time he marked his contributions with the pseudonym "Le Corbusier". In the same year he published his "Manifesto of Purism", in which he propagated elementary, geometric shapes. Le Corbusier's "Radiant City", an urban planning concept for a city with three million inhabitants, was published in 1922. The outstanding and groundbreaking features were the separate traffic routes for cars and pedestrians as well as large residential units in combination with retail and commercial businesses. He also designed these architectural concepts in basic geometric shapes. The reaction among experts to Le Corbusier's designs was divided.
Le Corbusier devoted himself to painting until 1922. His images are technical objects that he created in a mixture of cubist, neo-plasticist and dadaist styles. After that he only occasionally returned to painting. His work also included furniture designs and groundbreaking theoretical writings. In 1923, Le Corbusier's work was published under the title "Vers une Architecture" as a collection of his specialist writings. In this, the master builder sees architecture as "a clever, correct and wonderful play of united bodies in the light". He used both functionalist and artistic elements in his architecture. In the same year he took part in a Bauhaus exhibition in Weimar.
He had contacts with fellow architects Walter Gropius and Bruno Taut. In 1927, Le Corbusier was involved in the construction of the Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart with some designs. The following year he was one of the co-founders of the "Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne", or CIAM for short. Le Corbusier became a sought-after urban planner who worked worldwide from 1929 onwards. He designed important buildings everywhere, such as the Salvation Army night shelter in Paris, which was completed between 1929 and 1933. Or he planned the Swiss House of the Cité universitaire in Paris, which was built from 1930 to 1932. In 1930, Le Corbusier married Yvonne Gallis. From 1936 to 1945 he delivered the design for the Ministry of Education in Rio de Janeiro. The provocatively new thing about it was the use of sun protection elements as a facade design.
With this, Le Corbusier set groundbreaking accents in design according to functional specifications. As a supporter of the French Vichy government, the architect returned to Paris in 1943. There he founded the "Association of Designers for Architectural Renewal". The aim of this institution was to help with reconstruction together with young architects after the end of the Second World War. From 1946 onwards, Le Corbusier built in a style that approached sculptural forms. The Unité d'habitation in Marseille is an example of this. Between 1950 and 1954, the pilgrimage church of Notre-Dame-du-Haut in Ronchamps was built according to his plans. From 1961 to 1964, the building he planned for the Carpenter Center for Visual Art at Harvard University in Cambridge was completed.
Le Corbusier died on August 27, 1965 near Cap Martin in France. - Writer
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Blaise Cendrars was born on 1 September 1887 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He was a writer and director, known for La Venere nera (1923), Sutter's Gold (1936) and Um Filme 100% Brasileiro (1985). He was married to Raymone and Félicie Poznanska. He died on 21 January 1961 in Paris, France.- Actor
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Denis Grüring was born on 14 April 1955 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Canton de Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He is an actor and director, known for Les vacances de M. Bulot (2023), Parlez-moi de Vous (2016) and Course Pour Suite (2016).- Leonardo Piepoli was born on 2 September 1971 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
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Sylvie Lazzarini was born in 1972 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. She is an assistant director and director, known for Zwei Jahre und ein Tag (2004), Adrian und der Wolf (2000) and L'air de rien (2015).- Charles-Henri Barbier was born on 29 August 1902 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Canton de Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Charles-Henri was a writer, known for Pionniers (1936). Charles-Henri died on 16 May 1984 in Basel, Kanton Basel Stadt, Switzerland.
- Pierre Aubert was born on 3 March 1927 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He died on 8 June 2016 in Switzerland.
- René Richard was born on 1 December 1895 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. He was married to N. Cimon. He died on 31 March 1982 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada.
- Born in 1982, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
Leonard Kocan is a professionally trained Swiss French and German Actor and former Architect, working on a wide range of projects in Film, Theatre and Commercials across Europe. He is a native speaker in French and German (both mother tongues) and fluent in English (Acting studies and Theatre engagements in New York).
He trained at the New York Film Academy Acting Conservatory program, graduating in 2010, where he was a recipient of the Jerry Sherlock first year Grant. Prior to that, he earned a Master's degree of Science in Architecture from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich and Lausanne in 2007, and completed his mandatory Military service in the Swiss Armed Forces in 2002.
He has appeared in plays at the Schauspielhaus Zurich, the Berliner Ensemble, the Center Stage New York, Wild Project Theatre and The Players Club Gramercy Park in Manhattan. His film credits include the Swiss crime TV series Wilder, Swiss TV Drama Neumatt (Netflix), Swiss TV Drama Die Beschatter, the upcoming Richard Wagner Biopic "The Zurich Affair - Wagner's One and Only Love" and comedic ad campaigns for London based Scandinavian Styling Brand Dappad.