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Jonathan Lynn is one of the last actors Orsen Welles used in a production. It was wonderful. He's very sharp, very sharp. It's funny I've been asked how weird it was to have a Brit do a church gospel movie

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Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 2
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