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Olympic Gold
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From "Buffy" to "Angel" - AKA Spike
James Marsters
 

An Actor of Some Renown
Timothy Olyphant
 

From Broadway to the Movies
Harve Presnell


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Born to be an Inventor
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Part 2

 

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