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Biography of Lloyd Bridges (excerpt)
Lloyd Vernet Bridges, Jr. (January 15, 1913 - March 10, 1998) was an American actor. Bridges had success as a star in television series, and appeared in more than 150 films. Early life Bridges was born in San Leandro, California to Lloyd Vernet Bridges, Sr.
Biography of Kim Philby (excerpt)
Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby or H.A.R. Philby (OBE: 1946-1965), (1 January 1912 – 11 May 1988) was a high-ranking member of British intelligence, a communist, and spy for the Soviet Union's NKVD and KGB. In 1963, Philby was revealed as a member of the spy ring now known as the Cambridge Five, along with Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross.
Biography of Theodor Eicke (excerpt)
Theodor Eicke (October 17, 1892 - February 26, 1943) was a Nazi official, SS-Obergruppenführer, commander of the SS-Division (mot) Totenkopf of the Waffen-SS and one of the key figures in the establishment of concentration camps in Nazi Germany. His Nazi Party number was 114901 and his SS number was 2921.
Biography of Rudolf Höss (excerpt)
Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höß (in English commonly Hoess or Höss; November 25, 1901 (birth time and date source: Taeger quotes Hans-Jorg Walter, birth certificate - April 16, 1947) was an SS-Obersturmbannführer and from May 4, 1940 to November 1943 was the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, where the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum estimates more than a million people were killed.
Biography of Leonor Fini (excerpt)
Leonor Fini (30 August 1907 – 18 January 1996) was an Argentinian born Italian surrealist painter, designer, illustrator, and author, known for her depictions of powerful and erotic women. Career Fini had no formal artistic training, yet she was familiar with the traditional Renaissance and Mannerist styles encountered during her upbringing in Italy.
Biography of Pär Lagerkvist (excerpt)
Pär Fabian Lagerkvist (Växjo, Sweden, 23 May 1891 — 11 July 1974) was a Swedish author who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951. Lagerkvist wrote poems, plays, novels, stories, and essays of considerable expressive power and influence from his early 20s to his late 70s.
Biography of Paul Brunton (excerpt)
Paul Brunton (October 21, 1898 - July 27, 1981) was born Raphael Hurst, and later changed his name to Brunton Paul and then Paul Brunton. He was a British philosopher, mystic, traveler, and guru. He left a journalistic career to live among yogis, mystics, and holy men, and studied a wide variety of Eastern and Western esoteric teachings.
Biography of Julien Gracq (excerpt)
Julien Gracq (born July 27, 1910 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 19), died on December 22, 2007 in Angers) is the pen name of Louis Poirier, a French writer. He wrote novels, critiques, a play and some poetry.
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Amarillo is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Potter County. It is the 14th-most populous city in Texas and the largest city in the Texas Panhandle. A portion of the city extends into Randall County.
Biography of Fréhel (singer) (excerpt)
Fréhel (born Marguerite Boulc'h; July 13, 1891 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – February 3, 1951) was a French singer and actress. Born in Paris, France to a poor and dysfunctional Breton family, Marguerite Boulc'h was a child left to a life on the streets in the dark side of Paris.
Biography of Pierre Dac (excerpt)
André Isaac (August 15, 1893 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - February 9, 1975), better known as Pierre Dac was a French humorist and Resistance leader. He was born in Châlons-sur-Marne. During the German occupation of France in World War II, Pierre Dac was one of the speakers of Radio Londres.
Biography of Peter Lorre (excerpt)
Peter Lorre (June 26, 1904 – March 23, 1964), born László Löwenstein, was an Hungarian - born actor frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner in many American films. He made an international sensation in 1931 with his portrayal of a serial killer who preys on little girls in the German film M.
Biography of Léo Campion (excerpt)
Léo Campion, born March 24, 1905 in Paris 18e (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died March 6, 1992 in Paris, was a French singer, caricaturist, actor and humorist. Filmography (extracts) 1961 : Le Tracassin ou Les Plaisirs de la ville d'Alex Joffé.
Biography of Enid Blyton (excerpt)
Enid Mary Blyton (11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was a British children's writer known as both Enid Blyton and Mary Pollock. She was one of the most successful children's storytellers of the twentieth century. Once described as a "one-woman fiction machine", she is noted for numerous series of books based on recurring characters and designed for different age groups.
Biography of Charles Boyer (excerpt)
Charles Boyer (August 28, 1899 – August 26, 1978) was a four-time Academy Award-nominated French actor who starred in a number of classic Hollywood films, and made a long successful career. His most famous role was in the 1944 film Gaslight.
Biography of Aldo Gucci (excerpt)
Aldo Gucci , born May 23, 1905 in Florence is an Italian entrepreneur. He is one of two sons of Guccio Gucci, founder of the famed fashion empire.
Biography of Erich von Manstein (excerpt)
Erich von Manstein (November 24, 1887 – June 9, 1973) served the German military as a lifelong professional soldier. He became one of the most prominent commanders of Germany's World War II armed forces (Wehrmacht). During World War II he attained the rank of Field Marshal (Generalfeldmarschall) and was held in high esteem by his fellow officers as one of the Wehrmacht's best military strategists.
Biography of Paul Meurisse (excerpt)
Paul Gustave Pierre Meurisse, born December 21, 1912 in Dunkerque, died January 19, 1979 in à Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French actor and comedian. Selected filmography 1941 : Ne bougez plus, de Pierre Caron - Hector, le mélancolique 1941 : Montmartre-sur-Seine, de Georges Lacombe - Paul
Biography of David Ben-Gurion (excerpt)
David Ben-Gurion (help·info) (October 16, 1886 - December 1, 1973) was the first Prime Minister of Israel. Ben-Gurion's passion for Zionism, which began early in life, culminated in his instrumental role in the founding of the state of Israel. After leading Israel to victory in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Ben-Gurion helped build the state institutions and oversaw the absorption of vast numbers of Jews from all over the world.
Biography of Tex Avery (excerpt)
Frederick Bean "Fred/Tex" Avery (February 26, 1908 – August 26, 1980) was an American animator, cartoonist, and director, famous for producing animated cartoons during The Golden Age of Hollywood animation. He did his most significant work for the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, creating the characters of Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Droopy, Screwy Squirrel, and developing Porky Pig and Chilly Willy (this last one for the Walter Lantz Studio) into regular cartoon characters.
Biography of Charles Addams (excerpt)
Charles Samuel Addams (7 January 1912 - 29 September 1988) was an American cartoonist known for his particularly black humor and macabre characters. Some of the recurring characters, who became known as The Addams Family, became the basis for two live-action television series, two cartoon series, and three motion pictures.
Biography of Luis César Amadori (excerpt)
Luis César Amadori (28 May 1902, Pescara, Abruzzi, Italy - 5 June 1977 in Buenos Aires) was an Italian - Argentine film director and screenwriter, and one of the most influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era.
Biography of Cesar Romero (excerpt)
Cesar Julio Romero, Jr. (February 15, 1907 – January 1, 1994) was an American film and television actor who was active in film, radio, and television for almost sixty years. His wide range of screen roles included Latin lovers, historical figures in costume dramas, characters in light domestic comedies, and as The Joker in television's Batman series.
Biography of René Bousquet (excerpt)
René Bousquet (11 May 1909 – 8 June 1993) was a high-ranking French civil servant, who served as secretary general of the Vichy regime police from May 1942 to the 31 December 1943. René Bousquet was born to a radical-socialist notary in Montauban.
Biography of Olga Solbelli (excerpt)
Olga Solbelli (11 May 1898 – 8 September 1976) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 85 films between 1939 and 1967. She was born in Verghereto and died in Bologna. Filmography (extracts) 1967 Assalto al tesoro di stato Madame Angot 1966 Les colts de la violence
Biography of Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza (excerpt)
Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza became by marriage duchess of Orléans, of Valois, of Chartres, of Guise, of Enghien, of Vendome, of Penthievre, of Aumale, of Nemours and of Montpensier, dauphine of Auvergne, princess of Joinville, princess of Condé, etc., titular Countess of Paris.
Biography of Marc Allégret (excerpt)
Marc Allégret (December 22, 1900 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - November 3, 1973) was a French screenwriter and film director. Born in Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland, he was the elder brother of Yves Allégret. Marc was educated to be a lawyer. Allégret became André Gide's lover when he was fifteen and Gide was forty-seven.
Biography of William Powell (excerpt)
William Horatio Powell (July 29, 1892 – March 5, 1984) was an American actor, noted for his sophisticated, cynical portrayals. A major star at MGM, he was paired with Myrna Loy in fourteen films, including the popular Thin Man series in which Powell and Loy played Nick and Nora Charles.
Biography of Michael Collins (Irish leader) (excerpt)
Michael John ("Mick") Collins (Irish: Mícheál Seán Ó Coileáin; 16 October 1890 – 22 August 1922) was an Irish revolutionary leader, Minister for Finance and MP for Cork South in the First Dáil of 1919, Director of Intelligence for the IRA, and member of the Irish delegation during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations.
Biography of Francis Ponge (excerpt)
Francis Jean Gaston Alfred Ponge (March 27, 1899 - August 6, 1988) was a French essayist and poet. In many ways, he combined the two--essay and poem--into a single artform. Life Francis Ponge was born in Montpellier, France, in 1899. He studied law at Paris and literature at Strasbourg.
Biography of Adi Dassler (excerpt)
Adolf "Adi" Dassler (November 3, 1900 in Herzogenaurach (Germany) - September 6, 1978 in Herzogenaurach), mainly known as Adi Dassler, is the founder of the German sportswear company Adidas. Trained as a baker, Adi Dassler started to produce his own sports shoes in his mother's wash kitchen after his return from World War I.
Biography of Roger Frison-Roche (excerpt)
Roger Frison-Roche (February 10, 1096 in Paris - December 17, 1999 in Chamonix) is a French writer and explorer. Bibliography (extracts) L'Appel du Hoggar (1937) Premier de cordée (1938) La Grande Crevasse (1948) La Piste oubliée (1950) La Montagne aux écritures (1952)
Biography of Giorgio Morandi (excerpt)
Giorgio Morandi (June 20, 1890 – June 18, 1964) was an Italian painter who specialized in still life. Giorgio Morandi was born in Bologna. In 1907 he went to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti. The works of his formative years show him experimenting with an idiom related to Cézanne and to Cubism, with a brief digression into a Futurist style in 1914.
Biography of John Garfield (excerpt)
John Garfield (March 4, 1913 – May 21, 1952) was an Academy Award nominated American actor. Garfield was especially adept at playing brooding, rebellious, working-class character roles. Garfield is acknowledged as the predecessor of such Method-style American film stars as Marlon Brando, James Dean, and Montgomery Clift.
Biography of Vercors (writer) (excerpt)
Jean Bruller (February 26, 1902 - June 10, 1991) was a French writer and illustrator who co-founded Les Éditions de Minuit with Pierre de Lescure. During the World War II occupation of northern France he joined the resistance and his texts were published under the pseudonym Vercors.
Biography of Bruno Hauptmann (excerpt)
Bruno Richard Hauptmann (November 26, 1899 – April 3, 1936) was a German carpenter and former criminal, sentenced to death and executed for the abduction and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month old son of famous pilots Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
Biography of Andrée Aga Khan (excerpt)
Andrée Carron, born August 15, 1898 in Chambéry, was the third wife of Sultan Mahommed Shah, Aga Khan III. He married, on 7 December 1929 (civil), in Aix-les-Bains, France, and 13 December 1929 (religious), in Bombay, India, Andrée Joséphine Carron (1898 - 1976).
Biography of Gayelord Hauser (excerpt)
Dr. Bengamin Gayelord Hauser (1895-1984), popularly known as Gayelord Hauser, was an American nutritionist, self-help author, and promoter of "the natural way of eating" during the mid-20th century. He promoted foods rich in Vitamin B and discouraged consumption of sugar and white flour.
Biography of Paul Ricoeur (excerpt)
Paul Ricœur (born February 27, 1913 in Valence France (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died May 20, 2005 in Chatenay Malabry, France) was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutic interpretation. As such, he is connected to two other major hermeneutic phenomenologists, Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer.
Biography of Joan Bennett (excerpt)
Joan Geraldine Bennett (February 27, 1910 – December 7, 1990) was an Emmy-nominated American film actress who also achieved success later in life as a television actress. Early life Bennett, the youngest of three daughters, was born in Palisades Park, New Jersey, the daughter of stage actors Richard Bennett and Adrienne Morrison, and the younger sister of actresses Constance and Barbara Bennett (the mother of Morton Downey, Jr.
Biography of Suzanne Lenglen (excerpt)
Suzanne Rachel Flore Lenglen (24 May 1899 – 4 July 1938) was a French tennis player who won 31 Grand Slam titles from 1914 through 1926. A flamboyant, trendsetting athlete, she was the first female tennis celebrity and one of the first international female sport stars, named La Divine (the divine one) by the French press.
Biography of Théodore Monod (excerpt)
Théodore André Monod (Rouen, April 9, 1902 (birth time source: his birth certificate) - Versailles, November 22, 2000) was a French naturalist, explorer, and humanist scholar. Exploration In the course of his career, Monod was made director of the Institut Français d’Afrique Noire, professor at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, member of the Académie des sciences d'outre-mer in 1949, member of the Académie de Marine in 1957, and member of the Académie des Sciences in 1963.
Biography of Erich Hückel (excerpt)
Erich Armand Arthur Joseph Hückel (August 9, 1896 - February 16, 1980) was a German physicist and physical chemist. He is known for two major contributions: The Debye-Hückel theory of electrolytic solutions The Hückel method of approximate molecular orbital (MO) calculations on π electron systems.
Biography of Irving Berlin (excerpt)
Irving Berlin (IPA: /ˈɜrvɪŋ ˈbɜrlɪn/) (May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989) was an American composer and lyricist, and one of the most prolific American songwriters in history. Berlin was one of the few Tin Pan Alley/Broadway songwriters who wrote both lyrics and music for his songs.
Biography of Totò (excerpt)
Prince Antonio Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno De Curtis di Bisanzio Gagliardi, best known by his stage name Totò (Italian pronunciation: ; 15 February 1898 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, birth certificate)–15 April 1967) or as Antonio De Curtis, and nicknamed il principe della risata ("the prince of laughter"), was an Italian comedian, film and theatre actor, writer, singer and songwriter.
Biography of Mathilde Gabriel-Péri (excerpt)
Mathilde Rose Thérèse Gabriel-Péri (7 June 1902 – 16 December 1981) was a French politician. She was elected to the National Assembly in 1945 as one of the first group of French women in parliament. She served in the National Assembly until 1958.
Biography of Olivier Messiaen (excerpt)
Olivier Messiaen (December 10, 1908 – April 27, 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist. He entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 11, and numbered Paul Dukas, Maurice Emmanuel, Charles-Marie Widor and Marcel Dupré among his teachers. He was appointed organist at the church of La Trinité in Paris in 1931, a post he held until his death.
Biography of Austin Osman Spare (excerpt)
Austin Osman Spare (December 30, 1886 - May 15, 1956) was an English artist who developed idiosyncratic magical techniques including automatic writing, automatic drawing and sigilization based on his theories of the relationship between the conscious and unconscious self. His artistic work is characterized by skilled draughtsmanship exhibiting a complete mastery of the use of the line, and often employs monstrous or fantastic magical and sexual imagery.
Biography of Alfred Rosenberg (excerpt)
Alfred Rosenberg (January 12, 1893 Reval (today Tallinn) – October 16, 1946) was an early and intellectually influential member of the Nazi party, who later held several important posts in the Nazi government. He is considered the main author of key Nazi ideological creeds, including its racial theory, persecution of the Jews, Lebensraum, abolition of the Treaty of Versailles, and opposition to "degenerate" modern art.
Biography of Aaron Copland (excerpt)
Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American composer of concert and film music, as well as an accomplished pianist. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as “the dean of American composers. |
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