Mansur Ark
Mansur Ark is an actor and composer, known for Ask 101 (2020), Dayi (2004) and Maske: Kimsin Sen? (2022).
Manta Yamamoto
Manta Yamamoto is known for Metroid: Other M (2010), Ore dake Level Up na Ken (2024) and Gojira: kessen kidô zôshoku toshi (2018).
Mantan Moreland
Although his bulgy-eyed brand of humor was once popular and considered funny, "second banana" character actor Mantan Moreland, who maintained a steadfast career playing cocky but jittery characters in late 1930s and early 1940s comedy, would later be ostracized for it. The talented funnyman, who gained his strongest recognition in a long string of comedy thrillers, would eventually find himself on the unemployment line. Born to a Dixieland bandleader just after the turn of the century in Louisiana on September 3, 1902, Mantan developed the itch to perform and often times ran away from home at age 14 to join circuses, minstrel shows and medicine shows. From these escapades, he sharpened his comic skills and developed routines and acts that eventually made a mark on the vaudeville stage, or what was then called the "chitlin' circuit." A solo performer by nature, he often teamed up with other famous comics (such as Ben Carter) to keep working, and became a deft performer of "indefinite talk" routines, wherein two quicksilver comics continually topped each other in mid-sentence, as if reading each other's mind (i.e., "Say, did you see...?" "Saw him just yesterday...did't look so good"). In 1927, he found work as a comedian in "Connie's Inn Frolics" in Harlem and worked steadily in the musical revue "Blackbirds of 1928" for , Mantan's focus and interest gradually shifted toward film, where he would appear in servile bits (butlers, shoeshine men, porters, chauffeurs, janitors, waiters, elevator operators). He made his film debut paired with one of his vaudeville partners, F.E. Miller (aka Flournoy Miller), in the one-reel short That's the Spirit (1933) as frightened night watchmen in a haunted pawn shop. His talent for making people laugh was not to be overlooked and he soon earned featured status in such Harlem-styled western parodies as Harlem on the Prairie (1937) and Two-Gun Man from Harlem (1938). Mantan managed to find a niche for himself in mainstream comedies of the late 1930's and 1940's playing the pop-eyed, superstitious, highly perceptive manservant running away from impending doom -- Millionaire Playboy (1940), Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery (1941), Cracked Nuts (1941), Revenge of the Zombies (1943) and the serial Mystery of the River Boat (1944). He had more prominence appearing as a corner ring man for a boxing story, played by real-life boxing champ Joe Louis and providing comedy relief along with Shemp Howard in the mystery horror opus The Strange Case of Doctor Rx (1942). He was occasionally given stereotyped ne-er-do-well leads in such vehicles as One Dark Night (1939) and Up Jumped the Devil (1941) and the musical short Tall, Tan, and Terrific (1946). He later starred in two self-named vehicles for Lucky Productions -- Mantan Messes Up (1946) and Mantan Runs for Mayor (1946). The comic actor also teamed up (as a character named "Jefferson") with a young, pint-sized white actor Frankie Darro in seven adventure comedies for Monogram Pictures -- Irish Luck (1939), Chasing Trouble (1940), On the Spot (1940), Laughing at Danger (1940), Up in the Air (1940), You're Out of Luck (1941) and The Gang's All Here (1941). Monogram later utilized his talents as chauffeur Birmingham Brown as comedy relief in 15 of the "Charlie Chan" mystery whoddunits beginning opposite Charlie Chan #2, Sidney Toler in Charlie Chan in the Secret Service (1944), and ending opposite Charlie Chan #3 The VIP: Episode #1.51 (2004) in The Sky Dragon (1949). Although haunted mansions were an ideal place for setting off his stereotyped character, Mantan would be haunted in a different way by this Hollywood success in years to follow. By the 1950s, racial attitudes began to change and, with the rise of the civil rights movement in the mid 1960's, what was once considered hilarious was now interpreted as offensive. Mantan and others, such as Stepin Fetchit, were unfairly ostracized and ridiculed by Hollywood for their past negative portrayals and lost work. In the late 1960s he managed a modest resurgence on TV and in commercials and occasional films, allowing him to work again with such comic heavyweights as Bill Cosby, Godfrey Cambridge and director Carl Reiner. He appeared in bit parts on such shows as "Julia," "The Bill Cosby Show," "Adam-12" and "Love, American Style." His later could be glimpsed in such films as The Patsy (1964), Enter Laughing (1967), the cult film Spider Baby or, the Maddest Story Ever Told (1967) and Watermelon Man (1970). His final movie was a bit part as an old man in The Young Nurses (1973). His return was all too brief, however, for Mantan, long suffering from ill health, died of a cerebral hemorrhage on September 28, 1973, just as he was starting to settle into working again. Today, audiences tend to be kinder and more understanding of Moreland, remembering him as a highly talented comic who, in the only way he knew, broke major barriers and opened the doors for others black actors to follow.
Mantas Jankavicius
Mantas was born in Vilnius, but later he and his parents moved to Kedainiai. Mantas started singing in Kedainiai rock band when he was age 13. When he was age 19, he went back to Vilnius and studied at Vilnius conservatory for 4 years. During these years he sand at "La Vita" band. They released an album. After one member left the band, Mantas decided to start his solo carrier. At 2001 he participated in the competition "Fizz Superstar" which held in Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia and reached the final. After the competition Mantas received a lot of producers deals to cooperate. With them, Mantas recorded some songs.
Mantas Zemleckas
Mantas Zemleckas is known for Sinefilija (2021), Nikdo me nemá rád and Peledu kalnas (2018).
Manthan Darji
Manthan Darji is known for Bambai Meri Jaan (2023).
Manthira Moorthy
Manthira Moorthy is known for Ayodhi (2023).
Manti Te'o
Mantosh Kumar
Mantosh Kumar is known for Dallas & Robo (2018), Bhumi (2016) and Hard to Change the World (2014).
Mantovani
Annunzio Paolo Mantovani was born November 15, 1905, in Venice, Italy, the son of a violinist who performed at La Scala under the baton of maestro Arturo Toscanini. Born into a musical household, Mantovani was taught the piano and music theory while a youth. When Mantovani's father was appointed conductor of the orchestra at London's Covent Garden theater in 1912, he moved with his family to England, which became his life-long home. Following in his father's footsteps, Mantovani switched to violin at the age of 14, though he remained adept at the piano, which he used for composing music. At the age of 16, he made his debut as a professional violinist. As a member of a touring orchestra, he quickly matured as a performer and became a featured soloist. Appointed the conductor of the Hotel Metropole Orchestra in 1925, Mantovani made his first recordings with the group in 1928. Mantovani's critical reputation as a virtuoso on the violin was established in 1930 and 1931 with a series of recitals. It was at this time, he organized the Tipica Orchestra to make radio broadcasts from London's tony Monseigneur restaurant. The Tipica Orchestra successfully toured England while recording for multiple labels in the period of 1932-1936, winding up on Columbia. Mantovani and the Tipica Orchestra scored major hits in the United States with "Red Sails in the Sunset" and "Serenade to the Night," after which Columbia changed the billing on the records to "Mantovani & His Orchestra." In 1940, Mantovani left Columbia and signed with Decca, which would be his label for the next 33 years. Mantovani & His Orchestra were extremely popular in England during the early 1940s. During World War II, Mantovani served as musical director for a number of theatrical productions, but after the end of the war, Mantovani turned away from live performance and concentrated on recording. With arranger Ronald Binge, the former accordion-player for the Tipica Orchestra, Mantovania developed the lush sound he became famous for: the "cascading strings" (also known as "tumbling strings" effect. This emphasis on the string section that was his signature became a hallmark of "easy listening" music (also known as "light orchestral" music). The cascading strings effect (which was used frequently in movie and television scores for a generation afterwards by Mantovani imitators) was first employed on the 1951 single "Charmaine." The single sold over 1 million copies and opened the U.S. market to Mantovani's music for the first time since the mid-1930's. Mantovani became a hit machine, releasing a plethora of hit singles in the early to mid-1950s, including "Song from Moulin Rouge," a #1 platter in 1953. Mantovani co-wrote and arranged (and backed with his orchestra) David Whitfield on his own #1 British smash "Cara Mia" in 1954, which cracked the U.S. Top Ten. He began recording long-playing records for Decca and its London subsidiary in 1954, and although the change-over of popular music to rock 'n roll limited his success on the singles chart, his albums sold millions, particularly in the U.S. Over 40 Mantovani albums registered on the U.S. pop charts from 1955 to 1972, with 27 reaching the Top 40 and 11 scaling the heights into the Top Ten. His biggest hits were linked to the movies: "Film Encores," which went #1 in 1957 (his sole chart-topping LP), and "Mantovani Plays Music From 'Exodus' and Other Great Themes," a #2 hit in 1961. The "Exodus" LP moved over 1 million copies and remained on the charts for almost a year. As the 1960s wore on, Mantovani's brand of pleasant, easy listening music increasingly diverged from mainstream tastes (and began to be seen as old-fashioned, something that belonged to the pre-rock 1950s along with round-screened, B+W TV sets). HIs LPs placed lower and lower on the charts, until they no longer charted at all after 1972's eponymous "Annunzio Paolo Mantovani." When the Decca label was dissolved and absorbed into MCA in 1973, his recording career came to an end. In all, he had recorded over 50 albums of his distinct brand of light orchestral music since the early 1950s. Annunzio Paolo Mantovani died on March 30, 1980 at his country home in Tunbridge Wells, England. He was 74 years old.
