Antwerp Convention is pleased to announce our star guests!
Caroline Munro
007 fans will have the chance to meet Bond girl Caroline Munro. Munro played in one of Roger Moore’s most popular James Bond entries on the big screen
According to Munro, her career took off in 1966 when her mother and photographer friend entered some headshots of her to Britain’s The Evening News “Face of the Year” contest. This led to modelling chores, her first job being for Vogue magazine at the age of 17. She moved to London to pursue top modelling jobs and became a major cover girl for fashion and TV advertisements while there. Decorative bit parts came her way in such films as Casino Royale (1967) and Where’s Jack? (1969).
In 1977, Munro turned down the opportunity to play villainess Ursa in Superman in favor of what would become her most celebrated film appearance, the ill-fated helicopter pilot Naomi in the Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, who seductively winks at Bond while trying to gun him down from her helicopter. In her role as Naomi, she holds the distinction of being the first woman ever undeniably killed by James Bond.
Munro continued to work in numerous British and European horror and science fiction films through the 1970s and 1980s, most notably Starcrash (1979) with David Hasselhoff, Christopher Plummer and Marjoe Gortner. Munro’s career continued to thrive well in the 1980s, appearing in many slasher and Eurotrash productions. Her first film shot on American soil was the William Lustig production Maniac (1980). This was soon followed by the “multi-award winning, shot during the Cannes Film Festival” shocker The Last Horror Film (1982) (directed by David Winters), in which she was reunited with her Maniac co-star Joe Spinell. She had a cameo role in the cult classic slasher Don’t Open ‘Til Christmas as a singer (1984), Slaughter High (1986), Paul Naschy‘s Howl of the Devil (1987), and Jess Franco‘sFaceless (1988), followed in rapid succession.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0613098/
Carel Struycken
Carel Struycken (born July 30, 1948) is best known for playing Mr. Homn on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and Lurch in the films The Addams Family and Addams Family Values. He is an exceptionally tall man at 2.13 metres (7 feet) and thus is often called upon to play character or comedic roles in which height plays a major part.
Struycken was born in The Hague, Netherlands. When he was 4 years old his family moved to Curaçao, an island in the Caribbean. At 16 he returned to his home country, where he finished secondary school. He graduated from the directing program at the film school in Amsterdam. Following that, he spent a year at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.
Struycken was “discovered” as an actor at the corner of Hollywood and Vine in Los Angeles by a lady who had abandoned her car in the middle of the street, calling after him: “We need you for a movie!”. The movie was Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The turning point in his acting career however was playing the antagonist Terak in Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, based on the Ewok creatures from Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. Notably Struycken was featured as Mr. Homn on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. He also co-starred as Fidel in the 1987 film The Witches of Eastwick and as Lurch in the The Addams Family films. More recent Struycken was seen in Men in Black, Babylon5, Twin Peaks and Oblivion.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0835393/
Brian Muir
Brian Ian Muir, perhaps one of the most respected sculptors and artists in the industry has been working in film for over 40 years in a career spanning since 1968. He has created many recognizable characters, sets and props for adverts, TV, film and out of industry work. He is perhaps most famous for his work on Star Wars as the sculptor of ‘Darth Vader’s helmet’.
As a teen Brian started a 4 year apprenticeship in woodwork and sculpture design at the Associated British Production Corporation (Elstree Studios), talent and clearly gifted Brian at the age of 20 was hired by Bradfords, London, UK where he was instructed to design a Coat of Arms for the Crown Court and a Plaque for the New London Stock Exchange, which was unveiled by the Queen of England.
During his time at ABPC, Brian was commissioned to work on a number of films, including Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Willow and more. Brian then went on to form his own design company (Elstree Design and Construction) which he ran successfully for over 10 years, in which he was responsible for the modeling of countless films, such as the James Bond series.
In 2009 Brian wrote his autobiography ‘In The Shadow Of Vader’ which has been rated with 5 stars on online shopping store, Amazon for over 2 years. It tells the story of Brians time in the film industry.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0611333/
Sarah Douglas
Sarah Douglas is an English actress. Her first major role was that of Ursa in Superman (1978) and Superman II (1980) having beaten a staggering 600 actresses to the part. In 1984, she played another fantasy villainess in Conan the Destroyer as the evil Queen Taramis. Douglas also continued to appear on television, and was a series regular in the short-lived British sitcom Thundercloud in 1979. Throughout the 1980s, she went on to appear in a variety of guest roles in UK and US series such as The Professionals, Bergerac, Hotel,Sledge Hammer!, and Remington Steele. However, her most prominent television role is that of Pamela Lynch in the primetime soap opera Falcon Crest, which she played for two seasons from 1983–85. She also played another “Pamela” in the 1984 television miniseries V: The Final Battle.
In the 1990s, she returned to science fiction, guest-starring in the Babylon 5 first season episode “Deathwalker” (1994), and in the Stargate SG-1 second season two-part episode “The Tok’ra”. Douglas has also appeared in a variety of genre films, including Solarbabies, The Return of Swamp Thing, The Stepford Husbands, Beastmaster 2, and Return of the Living Dead 3. She also voiced characters in episodes of several animated TV series, including Iron Man, The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, Superman: The Animated Series, and Batman of the Future.
More recent, Douglas voiced the character of Professor Meadows in the video game “Blood of The Cybermen”, part of the Doctor Who: The Adventure Games series which was made available for free download from the official Doctor Who website. She is also credited as the voice of ‘The Entity’ in the third game, simply named “TARDIS”. She plays Jones, a class 14 super computer, in the latest adventure game, “Shadows of the Vashta Nerada”.Douglas has also voiced a recurring role on the upcoming animated series of Green Lantern, due to air in 2012. She is also involved with a sci-fi audio series entitled The Flashback, which has been in production on both sides of the Atlantic. Douglas’s latest genre movie, Strippers Vs Werewolves, is currently in production. The film co-stars Robert Englund, Steven Berkoff, Adele Silva and Billy Murray.
http://www.sarah-douglas.com/index.html
Gerald Home
Gerald Home (born October 18, 1950) is best known as the mime artist/actor of Tessek the Quarren and a Mon Calamari officer in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.
He has had a wide and varied career as an actor: on the big screen, he appeared in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, and worked as a puppeteer on Little Shop of Horrors, operating Audrey II the flesh-eating plant. Other film work includes London Boulevard and Hideo Nakata’s Chatroom. His many TV appearances include: Casualty, The Boot Street Band, Spitting Image, Situation Critical, Jenny’s War, Keeping Mum, Harry’s Mad, Time Gentlemen Please, Pay & Display, Paul Dreams of Bette, The Scarlet and the Black and Shane. He has appeared in theatres all around the United Kingdom in plays including A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Christmas Carol, Treasure Island, Alice in Wonderland, The Winter’s Tale, Salad Days, Bell, Book and Candle, The Gingerbread Man, Aladdin, SUS, The Country Wife, The Wizard of Oz and Dreams of Anne Frank. He also toured the UK and France in the mime show Prufrock.
Gerald has also appeared at many conventions and shows, meeting lots of Star Wars fans around the globe. He is an Honorary Member of many fan groups, including the 501st Legion and the Rebel Legion, Star Wars Hungary, the Jedi Outcasts of Italy, Holored Estelar Seville, the Star Wars Club Portugal, the Shadow Legion of Denmark, the Milton Keynes Garrison and the Bydgoski Fanklub in Poland. He was made an Honorary Jedi Master by the Jedi Knights of Cleveland, is “Godfather” to L’Alliance Impériale in Quebec, Canada, and is a Senator on the Galactic Knights Imperial Senate in the UK. He has his own club in Spain – The CalamariMen Club, in appreciation of the two characters he played in Return of The Jedi, and in 2007, he narrated a 30th anniversary concert of Star Wars music, in Spanish, in Valencia, Spain, in aid of local charities. In 2008, he co-founded the Star Wars Outer Rim Alliance (SWORA), an international alliance of many Star Wars fan groups from all around the world.
http://geraldhome.dr-maul.com/
Andrew Wildman
Andrew Wildman is a designer/illustrator of some 25 years industry experience. His work as an illustrator has been used in advertising and publishing but it is for his work in the field of comics that he is best known illustrating for books such asTransformers, The X-Men, Spider-Man and Venom. Further work includes character and environment design for the TV and Video Games industries.
Andrew was Head Character Designer for the animated TV show Legend of The Dragon, Production Designer for the children’s animated TV show The Matt Hatter Chronicles and storyboard artist for the BBC on The Fades and Doctor Who.
2009 saw the appearance of the strip, Frontier for British comic The DFC with writer, Jason Cobley. The collected episodes of Frontier are now published as a graphic novel by Print Media Publications.
Andrew is currently collaborating again with Simon Furman on the eagerly anticipated Transformers comic book series, Transformers: ReGeneration One. He is also creating a Children’s TV series with Bob the Builder scriptwriter, Simon Jowett and developing his own Graphic Novel, HORIZON
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wildman
Erik Kriek
Erik Kriek (Amsterdam 1966) is probably best known for his internationally acclaimed, wordless, faux-superhero comic Gutsman, which tells us of the exploits of the self styled ‘Masked Defender of Male Inadequacy’ Gutsman and his troubled relationships with Tigra, his Tiger-skin clad paramour, and her relatives. Kriek is also quite a prolific and widely published illustrator and his retro, tongue-in-cheek, pop-culture-saturated artwork has adorned just about every printable surface by now; from snow- and skateboards to record sleeves and from posters to book covers.
On this occasion however, Kriek will be signing his new, long anticipated comicbook ‘Het Onzienbare’ (From Beyond) which contains graphic adaptations of five chilling tales by horror’s dark prince H.P. Lovecraft. Horror and nasty, macabre stuff have been a lifelong fascination for Erik and this book is a long cherished ambition fulfilled. It also entails quite a departure from the Gutsman books and maybe a whole new direction as a graphic storyteller.
Erik will be signing his book between 13:00 and 16:00 hrs.
Nick Percival
Nick Percival is an award-winning writer, illustrator and CG animation director specializing in high-detail concept/production design for Film, Videogames and TV.
Nick has produced artwork for World of Warcraft, Magic the Gathering, D&D and publishers such as Marvel, 2000AD (Judge Dredd, Slaine), BOOM! Studios (Clive Barker’s Hellraiser), IDW Publishing, Titan Books, Abaddon Books, Fangoria and Radical. He worked for clients such as Sony, EA, MARVEL, Microsoft Game Studios, MTV,Warner Bros., Sci-Fi Channel, History Channel, Activision, Eidos, Hasbro, Atari, Village, Roadshow, Wizards of the Coast, Games Workshop, Upper Deck Entertainment, Future Publishing, Rebellion, Johnny Depp’s Infinitum Nihil and many more.
He is the creator of the award-winning ‘LEGENDS: The Enchanted’ – an original hardcover graphic novel published by Radical Books and now in development as a feature film.
http://nickpercival.daportfolio.com/
Ralf van der Hoeven
Ralf van der Hoeven is a very talented and congenial guy and a shooting star in the world of illustration. His work was discovered early on by Brabant Strip, a Belgian association of comic book lovers. They were the first ones to publish his illustrations in their magazine P@per. From there on he went to make some impressive images for Dark Dragon Books, witch appeared in Red Sonja part 5. Followed by an exclusive artbook on Conan for the same publisher. The last copies of this amazing work of art will be on sale at the Antwerp Convention, so make shure to be there early enough before they completely sell out. Currently he is working in great secrecy on his first major comic book project. It has already gathered a lot of international interest by publishers who are looking forward to publish it in their own countries. Despite all the succes and attention Ralf remains a hard working, down to earth illustrator who always makes time to relish his fans with the most elaborate sketches and original works that he sells at very moderate prices.
http://ralfvdhoeven.blogspot.com/
Romano Molenaar
http://www.romanomolenaar.com/
Jorg De Vos
http://jorgdevos.blogspot.com/
Claudio Simonetti
Is an Italian composer who has specialized in the scores for Italian and American horror films since the 1970s. He was also the keyboard player for the Italian progressive rock band Cherry Five/Goblin.
Simonetti is probably best-known for his electronic score to the George A. Romero classic Dawn of the Dead, but is also highly-regarded for his work in the films of Italian horror maestro Dario Argento, with whom he has worked almost exclusively since 1975. Goblin’s score to his film Profondo rosso was one of the highest-selling horror movie soundtracks ever produced. With Goblin he also wrote and recorded the soundtracks for ‘Suspiria’ (Dari Argento) and ‘Dawn of the dead’ (George C. Romero), a great box-office succes in the USA. The succesful collaboration with the director Dario Argento continued in 1984 with the soundtrack ‘Phenomena’ (Creepers), in 1985 ‘Demons’ and in 1988 with ‘Opera’.
Claudio had also an interesting solo career as an electronic musician. In 1979, with Giancarlo Meo, he formed perhaps his best-known project behind singer Vivien Vee (Viviana Andreattini), whose song “Give Me a Break” became a minor hit in the American dance charts. Later Vivien Vee tracks particularly “Blue Disease” from 1983, showcased some of the darker and edgier sounds familiar from the Goblin years. Another project was Easy Going, with “Fear” from 1979, also an American hit. In 1983, he was the central member of the Italo disco group Crazy Gang. In 1999, Simonetti formed the heavy metal band Daemonia, which has recorded updated versions of Goblin favorites in addition to original material. Daemonia has also contributed tracks to U.S. DVD releases of Italian horror movies. He composed the title track Mater Lacrimarum for The Mother of Tears soundtrack, the song features background vocals by Dani Filth. In 2009, Claudio collaborated with the Los Angeles Heavy Metal band Rusty Eye. He played keyboard on “Mondo Cane” and “Wings of the Demon” from the album “Possessor”.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006294/
