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North Sydney, Nova Scotia
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North Sydney is a former town and current community in Nova Scotias Cape Breton Regional Municipality. It acts as the link for the Trans-Canada Highway to Newfoundland and is often termed The Gateway To Newfoundland for that reason. Marine Atlantic ferries currently operate from North Sydneys terminal to the ports of Channel-Port aux Basques, the Crown Corporation is one of the largest employers in the area. North Sydney was settled around 1785 by European and Loyalist settlers, wooden shipbuilding declined in the 1860s, but the same decade saw the arrival of increasing numbers of steamships, drawn to North Sydney for bunker coal. By 1870 it was the fourth largest port in Canada dealing in ocean-going vessels, the community was incorporated as a town on April 24,1885. The railroad came to Cape Breton Island in 1891, at this time there were 2,513 people in North Sydney, as compared to 2,417 in Sydney. During the First and Second World Wars, North Sydney played an important role in the relay of information from Europe to both Ottawa and Washington, D. C. Its Western Union Cable office was where coded messages arrived from overseas, and were then relayed on to the rest of North America. On the morning of November 10,1918, the received a top-secret coded message from Europe stating that effective at 11 am on the next day, all fighting would cease on land, sea. This meant that the people of North Sydney, in particular Mrs. Annie Butler Smith, were the first to know of the end of the Great War. It is reported that on the night on November 10,1918, over 200 servicemen marched through the streets of the town to celebrate the end of the war, during the Great War, the United States Navy operated an air base in North Sydney. The base was used as a landing/launching area for seaplanes. Known as NAS North Sydney the base was located at Indian Beach while more permanent facilities were built at nearby Kellys Beach. The base was given the Naval postal address of 139 FPO New York, in command was Lt. Robert Donahue of the U. S. Coast Guard who operated under the direction of U. S. Navy Lt. Richard E. Byrd who was based in Halifax. The Kellys Beach base closed in early 1919 but was reactivated by the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. During the Second World War, on the night of October 13,1942, at 3,40 am on the morning of October 14, the Caribou was hit by a single torpedo on her starboard side,136 people perished. Although North Sydney does not have a very developed arts community, in 1995, scenes for Margarets Museum were filmed in the town. Most were shot on King Street, where a house was used as a managers house
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Canada
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Canada is a country in the northern half of North America. Canadas border with the United States is the worlds longest binational land border, the majority of the country has a cold or severely cold winter climate, but southerly areas are warm in summer. Canada is sparsely populated, the majority of its territory being dominated by forest and tundra. It is highly urbanized with 82 per cent of the 35.15 million people concentrated in large and medium-sized cities, One third of the population lives in the three largest cities, Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. Its capital is Ottawa, and other urban areas include Calgary, Edmonton, Quebec City, Winnipeg. Various aboriginal peoples had inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years prior to European colonization. Pursuant to the British North America Act, on July 1,1867, the colonies of Canada, New Brunswick and this began an accretion of provinces and territories to the mostly self-governing Dominion to the present ten provinces and three territories forming modern Canada. With the Constitution Act 1982, Canada took over authority, removing the last remaining ties of legal dependence on the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy, with Queen Elizabeth II being the head of state. The country is officially bilingual at the federal level and it is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many other countries. Its advanced economy is the eleventh largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources, Canadas long and complex relationship with the United States has had a significant impact on its economy and culture. Canada is a country and has the tenth highest nominal per capita income globally as well as the ninth highest ranking in the Human Development Index. It ranks among the highest in international measurements of government transparency, civil liberties, quality of life, economic freedom, Canada is an influential nation in the world, primarily due to its inclusive values, years of prosperity and stability, stable economy, and efficient military. While a variety of theories have been postulated for the origins of Canada. In 1535, indigenous inhabitants of the present-day Quebec City region used the word to direct French explorer Jacques Cartier to the village of Stadacona, from the 16th to the early 18th century Canada referred to the part of New France that lay along the St. Lawrence River. In 1791, the area became two British colonies called Upper Canada and Lower Canada collectively named The Canadas, until their union as the British Province of Canada in 1841. Upon Confederation in 1867, Canada was adopted as the name for the new country at the London Conference. The transition away from the use of Dominion was formally reflected in 1982 with the passage of the Canada Act, later that year, the name of national holiday was changed from Dominion Day to Canada Day
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Needham, Massachusetts
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Needham is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. A suburb of Boston, its population was 28,886 at the 2010 census and it is home to the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, an engineering school. Needham was first settled in 1680 with the purchase of a tract of land measuring 4 miles by 5 miles from Chief Nehoiden for the sum of 10 pounds,40 acres of land and it was officially incorporated in 1711. Originally part of the Dedham Grant, Needham split from Dedham and was named after the town of Needham Market in Suffolk, England, a neighbor of the English town of Dedham. By the 1770s settlers in the part of the town who had to travel a long distance to the meeting house on what is now Central Avenue sought to form a second parish in the town. Opposition to this desire created conflict, and in 1774 a mysterious fire destroyed the extant meeting house, some time afterwards the West Parish was formed. In 1857 the City of Boston began a project to fill in the Back Bay with landfill by filling the tidewater flats of the Charles River, the fill to reclaim the bay from the water was obtained from Needham, Massachusetts from the area of present-day Route 128. The firm of Goss and Munson, railroad contractors, built 6 miles of railroad from Needham, the filling of present-day Back Bay was completed by 1882, filling reached Kenmore Square in 1890, and finished in the Fens in 1900. The project was the largest of a number of reclamation projects, beginning in 1820. In 1865, William Carter established a knitting company in Needham Heights that would eventually become a major manufacturer. The site of Mill #1 currently houses the Avery Manor assisted living center, by the 1960s, the company owned seven mills in Massachusetts and the south. The Carter family sold the business in 1990, after which Carters, Inc. moved its headquarters to Atlanta, in the late 1860s William Emerson Baker moved to Needham. A notably wealthy man due to his having improved the mechanical sewing machine, Baker assembled a parcel of land exceeding 800 acres and he built two man made lakes on his property, including Sabrina lake near present-day Locust Lane. Baker turned part of his property into an amusement park with exotic animals, subterranean tunnels, in 1888 he built a sizable hotel, near the intersection of present-day Whitman Road and Charles River Street, called the Hotel Wellesley which had a capacity of over 300 guests. The hotel burned to the ground on December 19,1891 and this plant was located in the Charles River Village section of Needham with another large facility in New Jersey. The scientific dairy production facilities of the Walker-Gordon Dairy Farm were widely advertised and utilized modern advancements in the handling of milk products, in 1881 the West Parish was separately incorporated as the town of Wellesley. The following year, Needham and Wellesley high schools playing a annual football game on Thanksgiving. Also the longest running high school rivalry
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Canadian Americans
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Canadian Americans are American citizens or nationals who were born in and/or largely grew up in Canada, but later moved into the United States. It can also be used to refer to American-born citizens who either have parents who immigrated from Canada or have significant Canadian ancestry and/or identity, to others, especially for those living in New England or the Midwest, a Canadian-American is one whose ancestors came from Canada. The term Canadian refers to some as nationality, and to others as ethnicity, english-speaking Canadian immigrants easily integrate and assimilate into American culture and society as a result of the cultural similarities and in the vocabulary and accent in spoken English. French-speaking Canadians, because of language, culture, and religion, however, by the 3rd generation, the assimilation is complete, and the Canadian identity is more or less folklore. This took place, even half of the population of the province of Quebec emigrated to the US between 1840 and 1930. Many New England cities formed Little Canadas, but many of these have gradually disappeared and this cultural invisibility within the larger U. S. population is seen as creating stronger affinity amongst Canadians living in the U. S. than might otherwise exist. According to U. S. Census estimates the number of Americans of Canadian ancestry was around 640,000 in 2000, some sources have cited the number to possibly be over 1,000,000. Canadians who travel to the U. S. to escape their colder winter are known as snowbirds and they sometimes have residences in the Southern half of the U. S. Max Baucus, politician, former long-time U. S. Senator from Montana, and former U. S. S, marine hero Robert Goulet, singer and actor Mike Gravel, politician, former U. S. S. Representative from New York since 2013 Louis B, murray, politician and longtime U. S. Jack L. Warner, film executive Richard Verma, politician and former U. S. Alexander J. The bill allows state officials to hold ceremonies at the capitol and other places each year to honor Americans of Canadian ancestry. As a consequence of Article 3 of the Jay Treaty of 1794, official First Nations status, or in the US Native American status, also confers the right to live, jeffrey Simpson Star-Spangled Canadians, Canadians Living the American Dream
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World War II
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World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. It involved the vast majority of the worlds countries—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing alliances, the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. Marked by mass deaths of civilians, including the Holocaust and the bombing of industrial and population centres. These made World War II the deadliest conflict in human history, from late 1939 to early 1941, in a series of campaigns and treaties, Germany conquered or controlled much of continental Europe, and formed the Axis alliance with Italy and Japan. Under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union partitioned and annexed territories of their European neighbours, Poland, Finland, Romania and the Baltic states. In December 1941, Japan attacked the United States and European colonies in the Pacific Ocean, and quickly conquered much of the Western Pacific. The Axis advance halted in 1942 when Japan lost the critical Battle of Midway, near Hawaii, in 1944, the Western Allies invaded German-occupied France, while the Soviet Union regained all of its territorial losses and invaded Germany and its allies. During 1944 and 1945 the Japanese suffered major reverses in mainland Asia in South Central China and Burma, while the Allies crippled the Japanese Navy, thus ended the war in Asia, cementing the total victory of the Allies. World War II altered the political alignment and social structure of the world, the United Nations was established to foster international co-operation and prevent future conflicts. The victorious great powers—the United States, the Soviet Union, China, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and the United States emerged as rival superpowers, setting the stage for the Cold War, which lasted for the next 46 years. Meanwhile, the influence of European great powers waned, while the decolonisation of Asia, most countries whose industries had been damaged moved towards economic recovery. Political integration, especially in Europe, emerged as an effort to end pre-war enmities, the start of the war in Europe is generally held to be 1 September 1939, beginning with the German invasion of Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later. The dates for the beginning of war in the Pacific include the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War on 7 July 1937, or even the Japanese invasion of Manchuria on 19 September 1931. Others follow the British historian A. J. P. Taylor, who held that the Sino-Japanese War and war in Europe and its colonies occurred simultaneously and this article uses the conventional dating. Other starting dates sometimes used for World War II include the Italian invasion of Abyssinia on 3 October 1935. The British historian Antony Beevor views the beginning of World War II as the Battles of Khalkhin Gol fought between Japan and the forces of Mongolia and the Soviet Union from May to September 1939, the exact date of the wars end is also not universally agreed upon. It was generally accepted at the time that the war ended with the armistice of 14 August 1945, rather than the formal surrender of Japan
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Academy Awards
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The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname Oscar. The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS, the awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953. It is now live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Academy Awards ceremony is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music and recording – are modeled after the Academy Awards. The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2016, were held on February 26,2017, at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, the ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was broadcast on ABC. A total of 3,048 Oscars have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 88th, the first Academy Awards presentation was held on May 16,1929, at a private dinner function at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people. The post-awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel, the cost of guest tickets for that nights ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other participants in the industry of the time. The ceremony ran for 15 minutes, winners were announced to media three months earlier, however, that was changed for the second ceremony in 1930. Since then, for the rest of the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11,00 pm on the night of the awards. The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and he had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier, this made him the first Academy Award winner in history. With the fourth ceremony, however, the system changed, for the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27,1957, until then, foreign-language films had been honored with the Special Achievement Award. The 74th Academy Awards, held in 2002, presented the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, since 1973, all Academy Awards ceremonies always end with the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Academy also awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, see also § Awards of Merit categories The best known award is the Academy Award of Merit, more popularly known as the Oscar statuette. The five spokes represent the branches of the Academy, Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers. The model for the statuette is said to be Mexican actor Emilio El Indio Fernández, sculptor George Stanley sculpted Cedric Gibbons design. The statuettes presented at the ceremonies were gold-plated solid bronze
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Haing S. Ngor
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Haing Somnang Ngor was a Cambodian American gynecologist, obstetrician, actor, author, and refugee. Ngor is the first actor of Asian descent to win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His mother was Khmer and his father was of Chinese Teochew descent, Ngor and Harold Russell are the only two non-professional actors to win an Academy Award in an acting category. Ngor continued acting for the rest of his life, most notably in My Life, portraying spiritual healer Mr. Ho opposite Michael Keaton, born in Samrong Young, Bati district, Takeo province Cambodia, Ngor trained as a surgeon and gynecologist. He was practicing in the capital, Phnom Penh, in 1975 when Pol Pots Khmer Rouge seized control of the country and proclaimed it Democratic Kampuchea. He was compelled to conceal his education, medical skills, although a gynecologist, he was unable to treat his wife, who required a Caesarean section, because he would have been exposed, and both he and his wife would very probably have been killed. After the fall of the Khmer Rouge in 1979, Ngor worked as a doctor in a camp in Thailand. In America, Ngor was unable to resume his medical practice, in 1988, he wrote Haing Ngor, A Cambodian Odyssey, describing his life under the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. In the second edition of Survival in the Killing Fields, Roger Warner, Ngors co-author, the Dr. Haing S. Ngor Foundation was founded in his honor in 1997 to assist in raising funds for Cambodian aid. As part of his efforts, Ngor built an elementary school and operated a small sawmill that provided jobs. Ngors niece, Sophia Ngor Demetri, who testified at the trial of his murderers and with whom he arrived in the U. S. is the current president of the Foundation. Ngor was not initially interested in the role of Dith Pran, Ngor was the second Asian actor to ever win an Oscar. After appearing in The Killing Fields he told People magazine, I wanted to show the world how deep starvation is in Cambodia, Ngor went on to appear in various other onscreen projects, most memorably in Oliver Stones Heaven & Earth and the Vanishing Son miniseries. He also appeared in the Hong Kong film Eastern Condors, which was directed by and he also appeared in a supporting role in the 1989 Vietnam War drama The Iron Triangle. He guest-starred in a storyline on the acclaimed series China Beach as a wounded Cambodian POW who befriends Colleen McMurphy while under her care. He also guest-starred in an episode of Miami Vice called The Savage / Duty, next to The Killing Fields, Ngors most prominent feature film role was in My Life, the directorial debut of Academy Award-winning screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin. The Dr. Haing S. Ngor Foundation was organized in 1990 by Ngor, project Cambodia was the original foundation for The Dr. Haing S. Ngor Foundation, which was incorporated in 1997 after Ngors homicide as a 501 charitable organization. Ngors niece, Sophia Ngor Demetri, who testified at the trial of his murderers, on February 25,1996, Ngor was shot dead outside his home in Chinatown, in downtown Los Angeles, California
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Cathy O'Donnell
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Cathy ODonnell was an American actress, best remembered for her roles in films-noir. She was born Ann Steely in Siluria in Shelby County in central Alabama and she attended Oklahoma City University and studied drama at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts before beginning her career on stage, followed by motion pictures. While under contract with Samuel Goldwyn, ODonnell made her début in a role as a nightclub extra in Wonder Man. The film was directed by Nicholas Ray, the two actors later re-teamed for another film, Side Street. Later ODonnell starred in The Miniver Story, as Judy Miniver and she appeared as Barbara Waggoman, the love interest of James Stewarts character in the western The Man from Laramie. Her final film role was the characters sister Tirzah in William Wylers 1959 Academy Award winning Best Picture Ben-Hur. In the 1960s, she appeared in TV shows, appearing on such as Perry Mason, The Rebel. Her last screen appearance was in 1964, in an episode of Bonanza, at the age of 46, ODonnell died of a cancer-related cerebral hemorrhage, on her 22nd wedding anniversary. She is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California, Cathy ODonnell at the Internet Movie Database Cathy ODonnell at AllMovie Cathy ODonnell at Find a Grave Cathy ODonnell at Reel Classics
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The Best Years of Our Lives
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The Best Years of Our Lives is a 1946 American drama film directed by William Wyler and starring Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo, and Harold Russell. The film is about three United States servicemen readjusting to life after coming home from World War II. Samuel Goldwyn was inspired to produce a film about veterans after reading an August 7,1944, Goldwyn hired former war correspondent MacKinlay Kantor to write a screenplay. His work was first published as a novella, Glory for Me, robert E. Sherwood then adapted the novella as a screenplay. In addition to its success, the film quickly became a great commercial success upon release. It remains the sixth most-attended film of all time in the UK, the film had one of the highest viewing figures of all time, with ticket sales exceeding $20.4 million. After World War II, Fred Derry, Homer Parrish, Fred was a decorated Army Air Forces captain and bombardier in Europe. Homer lost both hands from burns suffered when his aircraft carrier was sunk, and now uses mechanical hook prostheses, Al served as an infantry platoon sergeant in the Pacific. All three have trouble adjusting to civilian life, Al has a comfortable home and a loving family, wife Milly, adult daughter Peggy, and college freshman son Rob. He returns to his old job as a loan officer. The bank president views his military experience as valuable in dealing with other returning servicemen, when Al approves a loan to a young Navy veteran, however, the president advises him against making a habit of it. Before the war, Fred had been an unskilled drugstore soda jerk and he wants something better, but the tight postwar job market forces him to return to his old job. Fred had met Marie while in training and married her shortly afterward. She became a waitress while Fred was overseas. Marie makes it clear she does not enjoy being married to a soda jerk. Homer was a quarterback and became engaged to his next door neighbor, Wilma. Both Homer and his parents now have trouble dealing with his disability and he does not want to burden Wilma with his handicap so he eventually pushes her away, although she still wants to marry him. Peggy meets Fred while bringing her home from a bar where the three men meet once again
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
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The attack, also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor, led to the United States entry into World War II. The Japanese military leadership referred to the attack as the Hawaii Operation and Operation AI, Japan intended the attack as a preventive action to keep the U. S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions they planned in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States. Over the next seven hours there were coordinated Japanese attacks on the U. S. -held Philippines, Guam and Wake Island and on the British Empire in Malaya, Singapore, the attack commenced at 7,48 a. m. The base was attacked by 353 Imperial Japanese fighter planes, bombers, all eight U. S. Navy battleships were damaged, with four sunk. All but the USS Arizona were later raised, and six were returned to service, the Japanese also sank or damaged three cruisers, three destroyers, an anti-aircraft training ship, and one minelayer. 188 U. S. aircraft were destroyed,2,403 Americans were killed and 1,178 others were wounded. Important base installations such as the station, shipyard, maintenance. Japanese losses were light,29 aircraft and five midget submarines lost, one Japanese sailor, Kazuo Sakamaki, was captured. The surprise attack came as a shock to the American people. The following day, December 8, the United States declared war on Japan, the U. S. responded with a declaration of war against Germany and Italy. Domestic support for non-interventionism, which had been fading since the Fall of France in 1940, Roosevelt to proclaim December 7,1941, a date which will live in infamy. Because the attack happened without a declaration of war and without explicit warning, over the next decade, Japan continued to expand into China, leading to all-out war between those countries in 1937. Japan spent considerable effort trying to isolate China and achieve sufficient resource independence to attain victory on the mainland, from December 1937, events such as the Japanese attack on USS Panay, the Allison incident, and the Nanking Massacre swung public opinion in the West sharply against Japan. Fearing Japanese expansion, the United States, the United Kingdom, in 1940, Japan invaded French Indochina in an effort to control supplies reaching China. The United States halted shipments of airplanes, parts, machine tools, and aviation gasoline to Japan, an invasion of the Philippines was also considered necessary by Japanese war planners. War Plan Orange had envisioned defending the Philippines with a 40 and this was opposed by Douglas MacArthur, who felt that he would need a force ten times that size, and was never implemented. By 1941, U. S. planners anticipated abandonment of the Philippines at the outbreak of war and orders to that effect were given in late 1941 to Admiral Thomas Hart, commander of the Asiatic Fleet
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United States Army
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The United States Armed Forces are the federal armed forces of the United States. They consist of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, from the time of its inception, the military played a decisive role in the history of the United States. A sense of unity and identity was forged as a result of victory in the First Barbary War. Even so, the Founders were suspicious of a permanent military force and it played an important role in the American Civil War, where leading generals on both sides were picked from members of the United States military. Not until the outbreak of World War II did a standing army become officially established. The National Security Act of 1947, adopted following World War II and during the Cold Wars onset, the U. S. military is one of the largest militaries in terms of number of personnel. It draws its personnel from a pool of paid volunteers. As of 2016, the United States spends about $580.3 billion annually to fund its military forces, put together, the United States constitutes roughly 40 percent of the worlds military expenditures. For the period 2010–14, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute found that the United States was the worlds largest exporter of major arms, the United States was also the worlds eighth largest importer of major weapons for the same period. The history of the U. S. military dates to 1775 and these forces demobilized in 1784 after the Treaty of Paris ended the War for Independence. All three services trace their origins to the founding of the Continental Army, the Continental Navy, the United States President is the U. S. militarys commander-in-chief. Rising tensions at various times with Britain and France and the ensuing Quasi-War and War of 1812 quickened the development of the U. S. Navy, the reserve branches formed a military strategic reserve during the Cold War, to be called into service in case of war. Time magazines Mark Thompson has suggested that with the War on Terror, Command over the armed forces is established in the United States Constitution. The sole power of command is vested in the President by Article II as Commander-in-Chief, the Constitution also allows for the creation of executive Departments headed principal officers whose opinion the President can require. This allowance in the Constitution formed the basis for creation of the Department of Defense in 1947 by the National Security Act, the Defense Department is headed by the Secretary of Defense, who is a civilian and member of the Cabinet. The Defense Secretary is second in the chain of command, just below the President. Together, the President and the Secretary of Defense comprise the National Command Authority, to coordinate military strategy with political affairs, the President has a National Security Council headed by the National Security Advisor. The collective body has only power to the President
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13th Airborne Division (United States)
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The 13th Airborne Division was an airborne forces formation of division-size of the United States Army that was active during World War II. The division was commanded for most of its existence by Major General Elbridge G. Chapman and it was officially activated in the United States in August 1943 at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, remaining active until February 1946, but never saw combat. After activation the division remained in the United States to complete its training and this training was completed by September 1944, but had to be extended by a further four months when the division provided replacements for the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions. The division also encountered delays in mounting large-scale training exercises due to a lack of aircraft in the United States. This shortage was caused by the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions taking priority over the 13th in terms of equipment due to the two serving in combat in Europe. As a consequence of these delays the division was not fully trained and combat-ready until January 1945, and was transferred to France, when the division arrived in France, it came under the command of the First Allied Airborne Army, which controlled all Allied airborne formations. The 13th Airborne Division was finally inactivated on 26 February 1946, when it was activated, the 13th Airborne Division was initially composed of the 515th Parachute Infantry Regiment, the 88th Glider Infantry Regiment and the 326th Glider Infantry Regiment. The divisions shoulder patch, a unicorn in orange on an ultramarine blue. A gold on black Airborne tab was worn above the insignia, during this period, the activities of the division primarily involved airborne training, as well as taking part in several training exercises. However, while training for the first four American airborne divisions was conducted during 1943. The divisional training exercise took place around Camp Mackall, North Carolina, a combination of poor visibility, and a lack of sufficient training for the pilots of the transport aircraft, resulted in the paratroopers being dispersed widely when dropped. A similar number of missed the third drop zone, although the majority were dropped in a relatively small area where they could gather. Further problems were encountered, as a plane crash killed eight paratroopers and four aircrew, overall, observers present for the exercise reported that they had been impressed with the performance of the glider-borne elements of the division. However, several noted that the training of the pilots for night formation flying. After these exercises had ended, the continued to train. These were caused when 1,652 men were removed from the division to provide reinforcements for U. S, Airborne units in the European Theater, this drastically reduced the strength of the division and forced it to extend its training period for a further four months. After completing its training in January the division was preparing to transfer to the Pacific Theatre in early 1945, however, the campaign in the Ardennes ended before the division could be transported there. The next chance for the 13th to participate in an airborne operation, the 517th had recently fought during the Ardennes campaign, and had received a Presidential Unit Citation for its actions
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Camp Mackall
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Camp Mackall is an active U. S. Army training facility located in eastern Richmond County and northern Scotland County, North Carolina, south of the town of Southern Pines. The facility is in proximity to and is a sub-installation of Fort Bragg. Camp Mackall is the setting of primary training to become a member of U. S. Army Special Forces, originally named Camp Hoffman, on February 8,1943, General Order Number 6 renamed the facility Camp Mackall in honor of Private John Thomas Mackall. He was born May 17,1920 in Ohio and grew up in Wellsville and he served in Company E, 2nd Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Seven paratroopers died at the scene and several were wounded, including Mackall and he was evacuated by air to a British hospital at Gibraltar where he died on November 12,1942. He had been wounded on November 8, the day construction began at the camp. He is buried in Glenview Cemetery in East Palestine, Ohio, the Mackall Army Airfield has two runways, 4/22 is 5,001 by 150 feet with an asphalt surface and 11/29 is 4,740 by 150 feet with a concrete surface. The Colonel James Nick Rowe Training Compound hosts SERE, SFAS and it is named for Col. James N. Rowe. The obstacle course at the camp, arguably the hardest obstacle course in the U. S. Army, is named the Nasty Nick in honor of Rowe
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Prosthesis
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In medicine, a prosthesis is an artificial device that replaces a missing body part, which may be lost through trauma, disease, or congenital conditions. A persons prosthetics should be designed and assembled according to the patients appearance, for instance, a patient may need a transradial prosthesis, but need to choose between an aesthetic functional device, a myoelectric device, a body-powered device, or an activity specific device. The patients future goals and economical capabilities may help choose between one or more devices. Craniofacial prostheses include intra-oral and extra-oral prostheses, extra-oral prostheses are further divided into hemifacial, auricular, nasal, orbital and ocular. Intra-oral prostheses include dental prostheses such as dentures, obturators, limb prostheses include both upper- and lower-extremity prostheses. A transradial prosthesis is a limb that replaces an arm missing below the elbow. Two main types of prosthetics are available, cable operated limbs work by attaching a harness and cable around the opposite shoulder of the damaged arm. The other form of prosthetics available are myoelectric arms and these work by sensing, via electrodes, when the muscles in the upper arm move, causing an artificial hand to open or close. In the prosthetic industry a trans-radial prosthetic arm is referred to as a BE or below elbow prosthesis. Lower-extremity prostheses provide replacements at varying levels of amputation and these include hip disarticulation, transfemoral prosthesis, knee disarticulation, transtibial prosthesis, Symes amputation, foot, partial foot, and toe. The two main subcategories of lower extremity prosthetic devices are trans-tibial and trans-femoral, a transfemoral prosthesis is an artificial limb that replaces a leg missing above the knee. Transfemoral amputees can have a difficult time regaining normal movement. In general, a transfemoral amputee must use approximately 80% more energy to walk than a person with two whole legs and this is due to the complexities in movement associated with the knee. In the prosthetic industry a trans-femoral prosthetic leg is often referred to as an AK or above the knee prosthesis, a transtibial prosthesis is an artificial limb that replaces a leg missing below the knee. A transtibial amputee is usually able to regain normal movement more readily than someone with an amputation, due in large part to retaining the knee. Lower extremity prosthetics describes artificially replaced limbs located at the hip level or lower, in the prosthetic industry a trans-tibial prosthetic leg is often referred to as a BK or below the knee prosthesis. Prosthetics have been mentioned throughout history, the earliest recorded mention is the warrior queen Vishpala in the Rigveda. The Egyptians were early pioneers of the idea, as shown by the wooden toe found on a body from the New Kingdom, roman bronze crowns have also been found, but their use could have been more aesthetic than medical
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Boston University
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Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, and is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The university has more than 3,900 faculty members and nearly 33,000 students and it offers bachelors degrees, masters degrees, and doctorates, and medical, dental, business, and law degrees through 17 schools and colleges on two urban campuses. The main campus is situated along the Charles River in Bostons Fenway-Kenmore and Allston neighborhoods, BU is categorized as an R1, Doctoral University in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. BU is a member of the Boston Consortium for Higher Education, the University was ranked 39th among undergraduate programs at national universities, and 32nd among global universities by U. S. News & World Report in its 2017 rankings. In 1876, BU professor Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in a BU lab, American Civil Rights Movement leader and 1964 Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. received his PhD in Theology from BU in 1955. The Boston University Terriers compete in the NCAAs Division I, BU athletic teams compete in the Patriot League, and Hockey East conferences, and their mascot is Rhett the Boston Terrier. Boston University is well known for hockey, in which it has won five national championships. The University organized formal Centennial observances both in 1939 and 1969, on April 24–25,1839 a group of Methodist ministers and laymen at the Old Bromfield Street Church in Boston elected to establish a Methodist theological school. Set up in Newbury, Vermont, the school was named the Newbury Biblical Institute, in 1847, the Congregational Society in Concord, New Hampshire, invited the Institute to relocate to Concord and offered a disused Congregational church building with a capacity of 1200 people. Other citizens of Concord covered the remodeling costs, one stipulation of the invitation was that the Institute remain in Concord for at least 20 years. The charter issued by New Hampshire designated the school the Methodist General Biblical Institute, with the agreed twenty years coming to a close, the Trustees of the Concord Biblical Institute purchased 30 acres on Aspinwall Hill in Brookline, Massachusetts, as a possible relocation site. The institute moved in 1867 to 23 Pinkney Street in Boston, in 1869, three Trustees of the Boston Theological Institute obtained from the Massachusetts Legislature a charter for a university by name of Boston University. These three were successful Boston businessmen and Methodist laymen, with a history of involvement in educational enterprises and they were Isaac Rich, Lee Claflin, and Jacob Sleeper, for whom Boston Universitys three West Campus dormitories are named. Lee Claflins son, William, was then Governor of Massachusetts, on account of the religious opinions he may entertain, provided, nonetheless, that this section shall not apply to the theological department of said University. Every department of the new university was open to all on an equal footing regardless of sex, race. The Boston Theological Institute was absorbed into Boston University in 1871 as the BU School of Theology, in January 1872 Isaac Rich died, leaving the vast bulk of his estate to a trust that would go to Boston University after ten years of growth while the University was organized. Most of this bequest consisted of real estate throughout the core of the city of Boston and was appraised at more than $1.5 million, Kilgore describes this as the largest single donation to an American college or university to that time
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William Wyler
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William Wyler, born as Willy Wyler was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. Wyler received his first Oscar nomination for directing Dodsworth in 1936, starring Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton and Mary Astor, Film historian Ian Freer calls Wyler a bona fide perfectionist, whose penchant for retakes and an attempt to hone every last nuance, became the stuff of legend. Through his talent for staging, editing, and camera movement and he helped propel a number of actors to stardom, finding and directing Audrey Hepburn in her Hollywood debut film, Roman Holiday, and directing Barbra Streisand in her debut film, Funny Girl. He directed Olivia de Havilland to her second Oscar in The Heiress and Laurence Olivier in Wuthering Heights, Olivier credited Wyler with teaching him how to act for the screen. And Bette Davis, who received three Oscar nominations under his direction and won her second Oscar in Jezebel, said Wyler made her a far, far better actress than she had ever been. Other popular Wyler films include, Hells Heroes, Dodsworth, The Westerner, The Letter, Friendly Persuasion, The Big Country, The Childrens Hour, Wyler was born to a Jewish family in Mulhouse, Alsace. His Swiss father, Leopold, started as a traveling salesman which he turned into a thriving haberdashery business in Mulhouse. His mother, Melanie, was German, and a cousin of Carl Laemmle, during Wylers childhood, he attended a number of schools and developed a reputation as something of a hellraiser, being expelled more than once for misbehavior. His mother often took him and his older brother Robert to concerts, opera, sometimes at home his family and their friends would stage amateur theatricals for personal enjoyment. Wyler was supposed to take over the family business in Mulhouse. After World War I, he spent a year working in Paris at 100.000 Chemises selling shirts. He was so poor that he spent his time wandering around the Pigalle district. After realizing that Willy was not interested in the business, his mother, Melanie, contacted her distant cousin, Carl Laemmle who owned Universal Studios. Laemmle was in the habit of coming to Europe each year, in 1921, Wyler, while traveling as a Swiss citizen, met Laemmle who hired him to work at Universal Studios in New York. As Wyler said, America seemed as far away as the moon, booked onto a ship to New York with Laemmle upon his return voyage, he met a young Czech man, Paul Kohner, aboard the same ship. Their enjoyment of the first class trip was short-lived, however, after working in New York for several years, and even serving in the New York Army National Guard for a year, Wyler moved to Hollywood to become a director. Around 1923, Wyler arrived in Los Angeles and began work on the Universal Studios lot in the gang, cleaning the stages. His break came when he was hired as an assistant editor
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Fredric March
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Fredric March was a distinguished stage actor and one of Hollywoods most celebrated, versatile stars of the 1930s and 40s. March is the actor to have won both the Academy Award and the Tony Award twice. March was born in Racine, Wisconsin, the son of Cora Brown Marcher, a schoolteacher, and John F. Bickel, March attended the Winslow Elementary School, Racine High School, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. He appeared on Broadway in 1926, and by the end of the decade, March served in the United States Army during World War I as an artillery lieutenant. March received an Oscar nomination for the 4th Academy Awards in 1930 for The Royal Family of Broadway and he returned to Broadway after a ten-year absence in 1937 with a notable flop Yr. Obedient Husband, but after the success of Thornton Wilders The Skin of Our Teeth he focused as much on Broadway theatre as Hollywood. He also had successes in A Bell for Adano in 1944 and Gideon in 1961. He also starred in films as I Married a Witch and Another Part of the Forest during this period. On March 25,1954, March co-hosted the 26th Annual Academy Awards ceremony from New York City, marchs neighbor in Connecticut, playwright Arthur Miller, was thought to favor March to inaugurate the part of Willy Loman in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Death of a Salesman. In 1957, March was awarded The George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film. March co-starred with Spencer Tracy in the 1960 Stanley Kramer film Inherit the Wind, in which he played a version of famous orator. Marchs Bible-thumping character provided a rival for Tracys Clarence Darrow-inspired character, the recordings were narrated by Charles Collingwood, with March and his wife Florence Eldridge performing dramatic readings from historical documents and literature. Following surgery for cancer in 1970, it seemed his career was over, yet he managed to give one last performance in The Iceman Cometh, as the complicated Irish saloon keeper. March was married to actress Florence Eldridge from 1927 until his death in 1975 and he died from prostate cancer, at age 77, in Los Angeles, California, he was buried at his estate in New Milford, Connecticut. Throughout his life, he and his wife were supporters of the Democratic Party, biographies of March include Fredric March, Craftsman First, Star Second by Deborah C. Peterson, and Fredric March, A Consummate Actor by Charles Tranberg, Fredric March at the Internet Movie Database Fredric March at the Internet Broadway Database Photographs of Fredric March
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Dana Andrews
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Carver Dana Andrews was an American film actor. He was one of Hollywoods major stars of the 1940s, and continued acting, though generally in less prestigious roles, into the 1980s. One of his roles, and the one for which he received the most praise, was as war veteran Fred Derry in The Best Years of Our Lives. Andrews was born on a farmstead near Collins, Mississippi, the third of 13 children of Charles Forrest Andrews, a Baptist minister, the family subsequently moved to Huntsville, Texas, the birthplace of his younger siblings, including future Hollywood actor Steve Forrest. Andrews attended college at Sam Houston State University and studied business administration in Houston, in 1931, he traveled to Los Angeles, California, seeking opportunities as a singer. He worked various jobs, such as working at a gas station in Van Nuys, to help Andrews study music at night, The station owners stepped in. with a deal, $50 a week for full-time study, in exchange for a five-year share of possible later earnings. Andrews signed a contract with Samuel Goldwyn and nine years after arriving in Los Angeles was offered his first movie role in William Wylers The Westerner and he was also memorable as the gangster in the 1941 comedy Ball of Fire, again teaming with Cooper. In the 1943 movie adaptation of The Ox-Bow Incident with Henry Fonda, often cited as one of his best films, in 1945, he co-starred with Jeanne Crain in the musical State Fair. In 1947, he was voted the 23rd most popular star in the U. S and he played a brutal cop in Where the Sidewalk Ends, also with Tierney. Around this time, alcoholism began to derail Andrews career, by the middle 1950s, Andrews was acting almost exclusively in B-movies. A handful of films he starred in during the late 1950s, however, two movies for Fritz Lang in 1956, While the City Sleeps and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, and two for Jacques Tourneur, Night of the Demon and The Fearmakers, are well regarded. From 1952 to 1954, Andrews starred in the radio series I Was a Communist for the FBI about the experiences of Matt Cvetic, in 1963, he was elected president of the Screen Actors Guild. Andrews later appeared in a role as college president Tom Boswell on the NBC daytime soap opera Bright Promise from its premiere on September 29,1969 until March 1971. In 1960 he and Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. starred in The Crowded Sky, fifteen years later, Andrews and Zimbalist appeared in Airport 1975, Andrews playing a businessman pilot who has a heart attack and crashes his plane into a 747 that Zimbalist is flying. In the 1970s, Andrews was active in estate, telling a newspaper reporter that he had one hotel that brings in $200,000 a year. Andrews married Janet Murray on December 31,1932 and their son, David, was a musician and composer who died from a cerebral hemorrhage. Murray died in 1935 of pneumonia, on November 17,1939, Andrews married actress Mary Todd, by whom he had three children, Katharine, Stephen, and Susan. For two decades, the family lived in Toluca Lake, California, Andrews eventually brought his alcoholism under control and worked actively with the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence
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United States Navy
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The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U. S. Navy is the largest, most capable navy in the world, the U. S. Navy has the worlds largest aircraft carrier fleet, with ten in service, two in the reserve fleet, and three new carriers under construction. The service has 323,792 personnel on duty and 108,515 in the Navy Reserve. It has 274 deployable combat vessels and more than 3,700 operational aircraft as of October 2016, the U. S. Navy traces its origins to the Continental Navy, which was established during the American Revolutionary War and was effectively disbanded as a separate entity shortly thereafter. It played a role in the American Civil War by blockading the Confederacy. It played the role in the World War II defeat of Imperial Japan. The 21st century U. S. Navy maintains a global presence, deploying in strength in such areas as the Western Pacific, the Mediterranean. The Navy is administratively managed by the Department of the Navy, the Department of the Navy is itself a division of the Department of Defense, which is headed by the Secretary of Defense. The Chief of Naval Operations is an admiral and the senior naval officer of the Department of the Navy. The CNO may not be the highest ranking officer in the armed forces if the Chairman or the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The mission of the Navy is to maintain, train and equip combat-ready Naval forces capable of winning wars, deterring aggression, the United States Navy is a seaborne branch of the military of the United States. The Navys three primary areas of responsibility, The preparation of naval forces necessary for the prosecution of war. The development of aircraft, weapons, tactics, technique, organization, U. S. Navy training manuals state that the mission of the U. S. Armed Forces is to prepare and conduct prompt and sustained combat operations in support of the national interest, as part of that establishment, the U. S. Navys functions comprise sea control, power projection and nuclear deterrence, in addition to sealift duties. It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, the Navy was rooted in the colonial seafaring tradition, which produced a large community of sailors, captains, and shipbuilders. In the early stages of the American Revolutionary War, Massachusetts had its own Massachusetts Naval Militia, the establishment of a national navy was an issue of debate among the members of the Second Continental Congress. Supporters argued that a navy would protect shipping, defend the coast, detractors countered that challenging the British Royal Navy, then the worlds preeminent naval power, was a foolish undertaking. Commander in Chief George Washington resolved the debate when he commissioned the ocean-going schooner USS Hannah to interdict British merchant ships, and reported the captures to the Congress
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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered a performance in a supporting role while working within the film industry. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony held in 1937, Walter Brennan was the first winner of award for his role in Come. Initially, winners in both supporting acting categories were awarded instead of statuettes. Beginning with the 16th ceremony held in 1944, however, winners received full-sized statuettes, currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS, winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy. Since its inception, the award has given to 72 actors. Brennan has received the most awards in this category with three awards, Brennan, Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Nicholson, and Claude Rains were nominated on four occasions, more than any other actor. As of the 2017 ceremony, Mahershala Ali is the most recent winner in category for his role as Juan in Moonlight. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, University of Toronto Press, ISBN 978-1-55002-574-3. org The Academy Awards Database Oscar. com Complete Downloadable List of Academy Award Nominees
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Inside Moves
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Inside Moves is a 1980 American drama film directed by Richard Donner. The film is based on the book of the name by Todd Walton, with a script by then writing duo Valerie Curtin. After a suicide attempt leaves a man named Roary partially crippled, he finds living in a rundown house in Oakland. He spends a lot of time at a bar, which is full of other disabled people, and becomes best friends with Jerry. Jerry gains the attention and respect from the Golden State Warriors when he scrimmages a player, jerrys luck turns round when one of the professional basketball players lends him the money for an operation to fix his leg. Once he is healed, Jerry goes on to become a basketball star. However, he abandons his old friends by pretending they never existed, the movie also marked the return to the screen by disabled veteran Harold Russell, thirty-four years after his Oscar-winning role in The Best Years of Our Lives. Donners biographer James Christie relates how the director confused Cinematographer Kovács with his fellow Hungarian Vilmos Zsigmond, when Zsigmond dropped by the set to visit, Donner had T-shirts made up that read MY NAME IS NOT LÁSZLÓ and MY NAME IS NOT VILMOS for each of them. Later they switched shirts and confused everyone
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Dogtown (film)
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A failed actor returns to his small hometown, unaware that he has become a local celebrity. Taking advantage of his fame, he attempts to impress an old unrequited crush who has fallen into hard times. Trevor St. Natasha Gregson Wagner as Sara Ruth Van Horn, Phillips sister, rory Cochrane as Curtis Lasky, bully from Phillips past, close friends with Ezra The film was shot entirely in Torrance, California. Hickenlooper intentionally tried to make Ezra Good, Jon Favreaus character, compelling, russells part was written for him, though he had to be persuaded to take the role. Dogtown premiered at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival in April 1997, todd McCarthy of Variety called it an occasionally amusing melodrama that pales in comparison to Last Picture Show. 1998 Hermosa Beach Film Festival, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress 1998 Newport Beach Film Festival, Best Director Dogtown at the Internet Movie Database
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Trapper John, M.D.
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Trapper John, M. D. is an American medical drama television series and spin-off of the film MASH. Pernell Roberts portrayed the character, a lovable surgeon who became a mentor and father figure in San Francisco. The show ran on CBS from September 23,1979 to September 4,1986, Roberts played the character more than twice as long as had Wayne Rogers in the TV series M*A*S*H. Trapper John, M. D. focuses on Dr. Trapper John McIntyre 28 years after his discharge from the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in the Korean War, during that time after the war, the character had mellowed considerably. He did not merely learn how to stop fighting the system but became a part of it, in a sense, Trapper showed tremendous compassion toward his patients, often violating established hospital procedures. Working with Trapper was a young professional named Dr. George Alonzo Gonzo Gates. His sense of humor and love of life also reflected elements of Trappers younger days, in the show, Gonzo resided in a motor home in the hospital parking lot. The show also involves supporting characters that served as hospital staff. One was Clara Starch Willoughby, a nurse who had served in the Korean War with Trapper and she was replaced by Ernestine Shoop. J. and Justin Jackpot Jackson, a young doctor always interested in wagers. Character actress Lurene Tuttle guest starred six times in different roles, in the 1984–1985 season, Trappers son, J. T. graduated from medical school and arrived at the hospital to work on his internship. When Gloria left the next fall, she was replaced by Libby Kegler, subsequent additions included the beautiful and mature administrator, Catherine Hackett, and ER service helicopter pilot and surgeon, Dr. Andy Pagano. This is due to a case in which the producers of the television series sought royalty payments on the grounds that Trapper John. The court found, however, that the series was a spin-off of the original movie – itself an adaptation of Richard Hookers MASH, Trapper John, M. D. at the Internet Movie Database Trapper John, M. D. at TV. com
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China Beach
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China Beach is an American dramatic television series set at an evacuation hospital during the Vietnam War. The title refers to My Khe beach in the city of Đà Nẵng, Vietnam, the ABC TV drama aired for four seasons, from 1988 to 1991. John Wells took over most of the beginning with the second season. The series also features the experiences of the characters when they return to the U. S. either on leave or at the end of their tours of duty. The show does not shy away from showing the brutality of war, the show is based on the book Home Before Morning written by former U. S. Army Nurse Lynda Van Devanter. The shows character Nurse Colleen McMurphy roughly follows Van Devanters experiences as a nurse in Vietnam, the TV show was cancelled before it could fully address McMurphys PTSD issues. Daniel was the youngest and a hippie who lived in a commune in 1967 and she was portrayed by Dana Delany, who won two Emmy awards for the role. Cherry White – a naive Red Cross volunteer from Iowa, she comes to China Beach to search for her brother Rick, a Marine Infantryman and she dies midway through the second season during the Tet offensive. She was portrayed by Nan Woods, sP4 Samuel Beckett, USA – a draftee and a preachers son from North Carolina, he works in the Graves Registration unit at China Beach. His job makes him unpopular with most of the other servicemen and he was portrayed by Michael Boatman. Karen Charlene K. C. Koloski – a cynical part-time prostitute and civilian volunteer, she comes to China Beach seeking to make her own wealth and she was portrayed by Marg Helgenberger. Captain Dick Richard, USA – a head surgeon and womanizer dealing with being drafted into Army and away from his family and he was portrayed by Robert Picardo. Captain Bartholomew Natch Austen, USAF – a jet fighter pilot and he was portrayed by Tim Ryan. Major Lila Garreau, USA – a World War II veteran and she was portrayed by Concetta Tomei. Corporal Boonwell Boonie Lanier, USMC – the friendly China Beach lifeguard and he was portrayed by Brian Wimmer. Wimmers character was originally named Lanier Boonwell and was referred to as such during the first season, staff Sergeant Evan Dodger Winslow, USMC – a moody Reconnaissance Marine, he serves and fights in the jungle mainly to keep other servicemen in his platoon alive. Nicknamed for his ability to dodge injury and death, he is known as a quiet sort who generally keeps to himself. He constantly displays the thousand yard stare, a dull blank facial expression common among shell-shocked soldiers who have too much death
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AMVETS
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The American Veterans, Inc. is a liberal volunteer-led organization formed by World War II veterans of the United States. It advocates for its members as well as for causes that it deems helpful to the nation at large, the group holds a Federal charter under Title 36 of the United States Code. The AMVETS Silver Helmet Award is an award to recognize excellence and achievement in Americanism, defense, rehabilitation, congressional service. Sometimes called the Veterans Oscar, the award is shaped like a small, recipients have included Edmund Muskie, Lyndon B. Johnson, Lee Greenwood, and Jack Quinn, the organization also gives out an award that used to be called the Peace Award, which in later years was called the Silver Helmet Peace Award, to honor people who promoted peace. AMVETS is frequently involved with ROTC and JROTC programs, a local chapter in the schools area may present awards, scholarships, and savings bonds to qualifying cadets in a unit. It has a number of organizations, which help to advance the aims. The bill was written in response to a scandal indicating that some VA hospitals were keeping secret waiting lists for care, national Commander John H. Miller Jr. John Miller argued that the Secretary of Veterans Affairs needed the ability to remove deadweight executives. Veterans Day Official A film clip Longines Chronoscope with Henry J. Mahady) is available at the Internet Archive Career Center
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Harry S. Truman
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Harry S. Truman was an American politician who served as the 33rd President of the United States, assuming the office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt during the waning months of World War II. In domestic affairs, he was a moderate Democrat whose liberal proposals were a continuation of Franklin Roosevelts New Deal, but the conservative-dominated Congress blocked most of them. He also used weapons to end World War II, desegregated the U. S. armed forces, supported a newly independent Israel. Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri, and spent most of his youth on his familys 600-acre farm near Independence, in the last months of World War I, he served in combat in France as an artillery officer with his National Guard unit. After the war, he owned a haberdashery in Kansas City, Missouri, and joined the Democratic Party. Truman was first elected to office as a county official in 1922. After serving as a United States Senator from Missouri and briefly as Vice President, he succeeded to the presidency on April 12,1945, upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Germany surrendered on Trumans 61st birthday, just a few weeks after he assumed the presidency, but the war with Imperial Japan raged on and was expected to last at least another year. Although this decision and the issues that arose as a result of it remain the subject of debate to this day. Truman presided over a surge in economic prosperity as America sought readjustment after long years of depression. His presidency was a point in foreign affairs, as the United States engaged in an internationalist foreign policy. Truman helped found the United Nations in 1945, issued the Truman Doctrine in 1947 to contain Communism and his political coalition was based on the white South, labor unions, farmers, ethnic groups, and traditional Democrats across the North. Truman was able to rally groups of supporters during the 1948 presidential election. The Soviet Union became an enemy in the Cold War, Truman oversaw the Berlin Airlift of 1948 and the creation of NATO in 1949, but was unable to stop Communists from taking over China. When communist North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950, he sent U. S. troops, after initial successes in Korea, however, the UN forces were thrown back by Chinese intervention, and the conflict was stalemated throughout the final years of Trumans presidency. Scholars, starting in 1962, ranked Trumans presidency as near great, Harry S. Truman was born on May 8,1884, in Lamar, Missouri, the oldest child of John Anderson Truman and Martha Ellen Young Truman. His parents chose the name Harry after his mothers brother, Harrison Harry Young, while the S did not stand for any one name, it was chosen as his middle initial to honor both of his grandfathers, Anderson Shipp Truman and Solomon Young. The initial has been written and printed followed by a period
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Douglas MacArthur
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Douglas MacArthur was an American five-star general and field marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and he received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Philippines Campaign, which made him and his father Arthur MacArthur, Jr. the first father and son to be awarded the medal. He was one of five men ever to rise to the rank of General of the Army in the US Army. During the 1914 United States occupation of Veracruz, he conducted a reconnaissance mission, in 1917, he was promoted from major to colonel and became chief of staff of the 42nd Division. From 1919 to 1922, MacArthur served as Superintendent of the U. S, Military Academy at West Point, where he attempted a series of reforms. His next assignment was in the Philippines, where in 1924 he was instrumental in quelling the Philippine Scout Mutiny, in 1925, he became the Armys youngest major general. He served on the martial of Brigadier General Billy Mitchell and was president of the American Olympic Committee during the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. In 1930, he became Chief of Staff of the United States Army, as such, he was involved in the expulsion of the Bonus Army protesters from Washington, D. C. in 1932, and the establishment and organization of the Civilian Conservation Corps. He retired from the US Army in 1937 to become Military Advisor to the Commonwealth Government of the Philippines, MacArthur was recalled to active duty in 1941 as commander of United States Army Forces in the Far East. A series of disasters followed, starting with the destruction of his air forces on 8 December 1941, MacArthurs forces were soon compelled to withdraw to Bataan, where they held out until May 1942. In March 1942, MacArthur, his family and his staff left nearby Corregidor Island in PT boats and escaped to Australia, upon his arrival in Australia, MacArthur gave a speech in which he famously promised I shall return to the Philippines. For his defense of the Philippines, MacArthur was awarded the Medal of Honor, after more than two years of fighting in the Pacific, he fulfilled a promise to return to the Philippines. He officially accepted Japans surrender on 2 September 1945, aboard USS Missouri anchored in Tokyo Bay, as the effective ruler of Japan, he oversaw sweeping economic, political and social changes. He led the United Nations Command in the Korean War until he was removed from command by President Harry S. Truman on 11 April 1951 and he later became Chairman of the Board of Remington Rand. A military brat, Douglas MacArthur was born 26 January 1880, at Little Rock Barracks, Little Rock, Arkansas, to Arthur MacArthur, Jr. a U. S. Army captain, Pinkney came from a prominent Norfolk, Virginia, family. Two of her brothers had fought for the South in the Civil War, Arthur and Pinky had three sons, of whom Douglas was the youngest, following Arthur III, born on 1 August 1876, and Malcolm, born on 17 October 1878. The family lived on a succession of Army posts in the American Old West, conditions were primitive, and Malcolm died of measles in 1883. In his memoir, Reminiscences, MacArthur wrote I learned to ride and shoot even before I could read or write—indeed and this time on the frontier ended in July 1889 when the family moved to Washington, D. C. where Douglas attended the Force Public School
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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motion pictures. The Academys corporate management and general policies are overseen by a Board of Governors, the roster of the Academys approximately 6,000 motion picture professionals is a closely guarded secret. While the great majority of its members are based in the United States, the Academy is known around the world for its annual Academy Awards, now officially known as The Oscars. The Academy plans to open the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles in 2017, the notion of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences began with Louis B. He said he wanted to create an organization that would mediate labor disputes without unions and he met with actor Conrad Nagel, director Fred Niblo, and the head of the Association of Motion Picture Producers, Fred Beetsonto to discuss these matters. The idea of this elite club having a banquet was discussed. They also established that membership into the organization would only be open to people involved in one of the five branches of the industry, actors, directors, writers, technicians, and producers. That evening Mayer presented to those guests what he called the International Academy of Motion Picture Arts, everyone in the room that evening became a founder of the Academy. Several organizational meetings were held prior to the first official meeting held on May 6,1927 and their first organizational meeting was held on May 11. At that meeting Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. was elected as the first president of the Academy, while Fred Niblo was the first vice-president and that night, the Academy also bestowed its first honorary membership, to Thomas Edison. Initially, the Academy was broken down into five groups, or branches. The original five were, Producers, Actors, Directors, Writers, the initial concerns of the group had to do with labor. However, as went on, the organization moved further away from involvement in labor-management arbitrations and negotiations. By July 1928 the board of directors had approved a list of 12 awards to be presented, during July the voting system for the Awards was established, and the nomination and selection process began. This award of merit for distinctive achievement is what we know now as the Academy Award, the initial location of the organization was 6912 Hollywood Boulevard. In May 1928, the Academy authorized the construction of a state of the art screening room, the screening room was not completed until April 1929. With the publication of Report on Incandescent Illumination in 1928, the Academy began a history of publishing books to assist its members. Another early initiative concerned training Army Signal Corps officers, in 1929 Academy members in a joint venture with the University of Southern California created Americas first film school to further the art and science of moving pictures
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Wayland, Massachusetts
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Wayland is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 13,444 at the 2010 census, for geographic and demographic information on Cochituate, which is part of Wayland, please see the article Cochituate, Massachusetts. Wayland was the first settlement of Sudbury Plantation in 1639, the Town of East Sudbury was incorporated on April 10,1780, on land which had formerly been part of Sudbury. Both Wayland and Mellen became benefactors of the library, the first free public library in the state. The Wayland Free Public Library was established in 1848 and is arguably the first in Massachusetts The building was rebuilt in 1900, in 2010, Boston Duck Tours was asked to help transport flood victims in Wayland. Torrential rains had left Pelham Island area of Wayland isolated and the Ducks were brought in to ferry people in, the Wayland display server protocol is named after the town. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 15.9 square miles, of which 15.2 square miles is land and 0.7 square miles. Wayland borders Lincoln, Sudbury, Weston, Framingham, and Natick, as of the census of 2010, there were 13,444 people,4,808 households, and 3,676 families residing in the town. The population density was 859.9 people per square mile, there were 5,021 housing units at an average density of 310.8 per square mile. The racial makeup of the town was 87. 2% White,0. 9% African American,0. 0% Native American,9. 9% Asian,0. 0% Pacific Islander,0. 4% from other races, and 1. 6% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2. 4% of the population,16. 1% of all households were made up of individuals and 7. 6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.80 and the family size was 3.15. In the town, the population was out with 28. 7% under the age of 18,3. 4% from 18 to 24,24. 7% from 25 to 44,29. 0% from 45 to 64. The median age was 41 years, for every 100 females there were 93.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 87.6 males, the median income for a household in the town was $121,036, and the median income for a family was $204,033.47. Males had an income of $136,344 versus $60,875 for females. The per capita income for the town was $75,144, about 2. 1% of families and 2. 5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 1. 9% of those under age 18 and 2. 7% of those age 65 or over. Tom Scholz, guitarist for 1970s rock group Boston, their album was recorded in his basement in Wayland. by Wall & Gray
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Massachusetts
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It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island to the south, New Hampshire and Vermont to the north, and New York to the west. The state is named for the Massachusett tribe, which inhabited the area. The capital of Massachusetts and the most populous city in New England is Boston, over 80% of Massachusetts population lives in the Greater Boston metropolitan area, a region influential upon American history, academia, and industry. Originally dependent on agriculture, fishing and trade, Massachusetts was transformed into a manufacturing center during the Industrial Revolution, during the 20th century, Massachusetts economy shifted from manufacturing to services. Modern Massachusetts is a leader in biotechnology, engineering, higher education, finance. Plymouth was the site of the first colony in New England, founded in 1620 by the Pilgrims, in 1692, the town of Salem and surrounding areas experienced one of Americas most infamous cases of mass hysteria, the Salem witch trials. In 1777, General Henry Knox founded the Springfield Armory, which during the Industrial Revolution catalyzed numerous important technological advances, in 1786, Shays Rebellion, a populist revolt led by disaffected American Revolutionary War veterans, influenced the United States Constitutional Convention. In the 18th century, the Protestant First Great Awakening, which swept the Atlantic World, in the late 18th century, Boston became known as the Cradle of Liberty for the agitation there that led to the American Revolution. The entire Commonwealth of Massachusetts has played a commercial and cultural role in the history of the United States. Before the American Civil War, Massachusetts was a center for the abolitionist, temperance, in the late 19th century, the sports of basketball and volleyball were invented in the western Massachusetts cities of Springfield and Holyoke, respectively. Many prominent American political dynasties have hailed from the state, including the Adams, both Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also in Cambridge, have been ranked among the most highly regarded academic institutions in the world. Massachusetts public school students place among the top nations in the world in academic performance, the official name of the state is the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. While this designation is part of the official name, it has no practical implications. Massachusetts has the position and powers within the United States as other states. Massachusetts was originally inhabited by tribes of the Algonquian language family such as the Wampanoag, Narragansett, Nipmuc, Pocomtuc, Mahican, and Massachusett. While cultivation of crops like squash and corn supplemented their diets, villages consisted of lodges called wigwams as well as longhouses, and tribes were led by male or female elders known as sachems. Between 1617 and 1619, smallpox killed approximately 90% of the Massachusetts Bay Native Americans, the first English settlers in Massachusetts, the Pilgrims, arrived via the Mayflower at Plymouth in 1620, and developed friendly relations with the native Wampanoag people. This was the second successful permanent English colony in the part of North America that later became the United States, the event known as the First Thanksgiving was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World which lasted for three days
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Golden Globe Award
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel. In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish an honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as a figure within the entertainment industry. The official name of the award became the Cecil B. In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six and Donna Douglas, respectively, in 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned. It was unveiled at a conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show. The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars, gervais returned to host the 68th and 69th Golden Globe Awards the next two years. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th, 71st and 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, the Golden Globe Awards theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi. On January 7,2008, it was announced due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast. In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, however, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine, additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen, producing the Best Picture, and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each, behind them are Rosalind Russell and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with thirty, at the 46th Golden Globe Awards an anomaly occurred, a three way-tie for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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Find a Grave
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Find a Grave is a website that allows the public to search and add to an online database of cemetery records. It is owned by Ancestry. com, the worlds largest for-profit genealogy company, the site was created in 1995 by Salt Lake City resident Jim Tipton to support his hobby of visiting the burial sites of celebrities. He later added an online forum, Find a Grave was launched as a commercial entity in 1998, first as a trade name and then incorporated in 2000. The site later expanded to include graves of non-celebrities, in order to allow visitors to pay respect to their deceased relatives or friends. In 2013, Tipton sold Find a Grave to Ancestry. com, burial information is a wonderful source for people researching their family history. In a September 30,2013, press release, Ancestry, as of March 2017, Find a Grave contained over 159 million burial records and 75 million photos. The website contains listings of cemeteries and graves from around the world, american cemeteries are organized by state and county, and many cemetery records contain Google Maps and photographs of the cemeteries and gravesites. Individual grave records may contain dates and places of birth and death, biographical information, cemetery and plot information, photographs, Interment listings are added by individuals, genealogical societies, and other institutions such as the International Wargraves Photography Project. Contributors must register as members to submit listings, called memorials, the submitter becomes the manager of the listing but may transfer management. Only the current manager of a listing may edit it, although any member may use the features to send correction requests to the listings manager. Managers may add links to other listings of deceased spouses, parents, members may post requests for photos of a specific grave, these requests will be automatically sent to other members who have registered their location as being near that grave. Find a Grave also maintains lists of memorials of famous persons by their claim to fame, such as Medal of Honor recipients, religious figures, Find a Grave exercises editorial control over these listings. Canadian Headstones Interment. net National Cemetery Administrations Nationwide Gravesite Locator Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness Tombstone tourist Colker, web site answers grave concerns about stars. Web site attracts millions of grave-seekers, Find VIPs who R. I. P. through online cemetery. Genealogy, Find a Grave tremendous on many different levels, terre Haute, Indiana, Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. Archived from the original on May 14,2011, tip, Find a Grave has info youre dying to know. Tracking Down Relatives, Visiting Graves Virtually, media related to Images from Find A Grave at Wikimedia Commons Official website
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Walter Brennan
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Walter Andrew Brennan was an American actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1936,1938 and 1940, Brennan was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, less than two miles from his familys home in Swampscott. He was the second of three born to William John Brennan and the former Margaret Elizabeth Flanagan (June 4,1869 in Charlestown, Massachusetts – February 1,1955. His parents were both of Irish descent, the elder Brennan was an engineer and inventor, and young Walter studied engineering at Rindge Technical High School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. While in school, Brennan became interested in acting and he began to perform in vaudeville at the age of 15. While working as a clerk, he enlisted in the United States Army. After the war, he moved to Guatemala and raised pineapples before settling in Los Angeles, during the early 1920s, he made a fortune in the real estate market, but he lost most of his money during the 1925 real estate slump. Brennan also had bit parts in The Invisible Man, Girl Missing, the Three Stooges short Woman Haters, in the 1930s, he began appearing in higher-quality films and received more substantial roles as his talent was recognized. This culminated with his receiving the first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Swan Bostrom in the period film Come, two years later, he portrayed town drunk and accused murderer Muff Potter in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Throughout his career, Brennan was frequently called upon to play characters older than he was. The loss of teeth in a 1932 accident, rapidly thinning hair, thin build. He used these features to great effect, in many of his film roles, Brennan wore dentures, in Northwest Passage – a film set in the late 18th century – he wore a dental prosthesis which made him appear to have rotting and broken teeth. Brennan played the lead in Swamp Water, the first American film by the director Jean Renoir. In Sergeant York, he played a preacher and dry-goods store owner who advised the title character. Brennan and Cooper appeared in six films together, in 1942, he played the reporter Sam Blake, who befriended and encouraged Lou Gehrig in Pride of the Yankees. He was particularly skilled in playing the sidekick of the protagonist or the old man in films such as To Have and Have Not. From 1957 to 1963, he starred in the ABC television series The Real McCoys, after five years on ABC, The Real McCoys switched to CBS for a final season. Brennan joined with the creator, Irving Pincus, to form Brennan-Westgate Productions
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Joseph Schildkraut
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Joseph Schildkraut was an Austrian-American stage and film actor. Schildkraut was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of Erna, the younger Schildkraut moved to the United States in the early 1900s. He appeared in many Broadway productions, among the plays that he starred in was a notable production of Peer Gynt. In 1921, Schildkraut played the role in the first American stage production of Ferenc Molnárs Liliom. He then began working in silent movies, although he did return to the stage occasionally and he had early success in film as the Chevalier de Vaudrey in D. W. Griffiths Orphans of the Storm with Lillian Gish. Later, he was featured in Cecil B, deMilles epic 1927 film The King of Kings, as Judas Iscariot. Schildrauts father Rudolf also appeared in the film, Joseph Schildkraut also played a Viennese-accented, non-singing Gaylord Ravenal in the 1929 part-talkie film version of Edna Ferbers Show Boat. Schildkraut received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Alfred Dreyfus in The Life of Emile Zola, Schildkraut is perhaps best remembered today for playing the role of Otto Frank in both the original stage production and film version of The Diary of Anne Frank. Schildkraut also hosted and starred in Joseph Schildkraut Presents, a series on the DuMont Television Network from October 1953 to January 1954. In 1961, during the 3rd season of The Twilight Zone, he made his first appearance on episode 9 and he later played an elderly man in The Trade-Ins in season 3, episode 31 of the same show. In 1963, he was nominated for a Best Actor Emmy Award for his performance in a guest starring role on NBCs Sam Benedict legal drama which starred Edmond OBrien and his first marriage was to actress Elise Bartlett in 1923, they divorced in 1931. He married Mary McKay in 1932, she died in 1961, in 1963, Schildkraut married Leonora Rogers, who survived him. Schildkraut died at his home in New York City of a heart attack and he is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. List of German-speaking Academy Award winners and nominees Joseph Schildkraut, My Father and I, as told to Leo Lania, Joseph Schildkraut at the Internet Movie Database Joseph Schildkraut at the Internet Broadway Database Photographs and literature Joseph Schildkraut at Find a Grave
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Thomas Mitchell (actor)
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Thomas John Mitchell was an American actor. Mitchell was the first male actor to win an Oscar, an Emmy, nominated twice for an Oscar, first for The Hurricane, he won the Best Supporting Actor award for Stagecoach, later, he would be nominated three times for an Emmy Award. He was nominated twice, in 1952 and 1953, for his role in the medical drama The Doctor, nominated again in 1955, for an appearance on a weekly anthology series, he did not win. In addition to being an actor, he was also a director, playwright, Mitchell was born to Irish immigrants in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He came from a family of journalists and civic leaders, both his father and brother were newspaper reporters, and his nephew, James P. Mitchell, later served as Dwight Eisenhowers Secretary of Labor. The younger Mitchell also became a reporter after graduating from St. Patrick High School in Elizabeth. However, Mitchell soon found that he enjoyed writing comic theatrical skits much more than chasing late-breaking scoops, in 1927 Mitchell joined The Lambs. He became an actor in 1913, at one point touring with Charles Coburns Shakespeare Company, even while playing leading roles on Broadway into the 1920s Mitchell would continue to write. One of the plays he co-authored, Little Accident, was made into a film by Hollywood. Mitchells first credited role was in the 1923 film Six Cylinder Love. Mitchells breakthrough role was as the embezzler in Frank Capras film Lost Horizon, following this performance, he was much in demand in Hollywood. That same year, he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his performance in The Hurricane, over the next few years, Mitchell appeared in many significant films. Forty-three of the films in which he acted, were made in the 10-year period from 1936-1946. In 1939 alone he had key roles in Stagecoach, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Only Angels Have Wings, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, in his acceptance speech, he quipped, I didnt know I was that good. He is probably best known to audiences today for his role as sad sack Uncle Billy in Capras Christmas classic Its a Wonderful Life with James Stewart, in 1954, he starred in the television version of the radio program, Mayor of the Town. In 1955, he played Kris Kringle in The 20th Century-Fox Hour version of The Miracle on 34th Street opposite Teresa Wright, in 1959, he starred in thirty-nine episodes of the syndicated television series, Glencannon, which had aired two years earlier in the United Kingdom. In the early 1960s, Mitchell originated the stage role Columbo, later made famous on NBC and ABC television by Peter Falk, Mitchell died at age 70 from peritoneal mesothelioma in Beverly Hills, California. In 1953, Mitchell became the first person to win the crown of acting awards
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Donald Crisp
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Donald Crisp was an English-born, United States-based film actor. He was a producer, director and screenwriter. His career lasted from the silent film era into the 1960s. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1942 for his performance in How Green Was My Valley, Donald Crisp was born in Bow, London at the family home on 27 July 1882. He was one of eight born to James and Elizabeth Crisp. He was educated at the University of Oxford after serving as a trooper in the 10th Hussars in the Boer War, Crisp claimed to be of Scottish descent. While travelling on the S/S Carmania to America in July 1906, fisher, who immediately offered him a job with his company. Crisp spent his first year in New York City in Grand Opera, and it was while touring with the company in the United States and Cuba that Crisp first became interested in the theatre. By 1910, Crisp, now using the name Donald, was working as a manager for the renowned entertainer, composer, playwright. It was during this time he met and befriended film director D. W. Griffith, when Griffith ventured west, to seek his fortune in Hollywood in 1912, Crisp accompanied him. From 1908 to 1930, Crisp, in addition to directing dozens of films, also appeared in nearly 100 silent films, one notable exception was his casting by Griffith as General Ulysses S. Grant in Griffiths landmark film The Birth of a Nation in 1915. Another was his role in Griffiths 1919 film Broken Blossoms as Battling Burrows and this experience fostered a similar passion in Crisp to become a director in his own right. His first directing credit was Little Country Mouse, made in 1914, many directors would find themselves turning out a dozen or more films in a single year at this time. Over the next fifteen years, Crisp directed some 70 films in all, most notably The Navigator with Buster Keaton and Don Q and his final directorial effort was the film The Runaway Bride. Between working for Griffith and other producers, along with his acting roles. During the Second World War, Crisp answered the call to duty at a time when his career was at its peak. This time, he served in United States Army Reserve, where he rose to the rank of Colonel, with the advent of talkies, Crisp abandoned directing and devoted himself entirely to acting after 1930. He became a sought after character actor
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Van Heflin
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Van Heflin was an American theatre, radio and film actor. He played mostly character parts over the course of his film career and he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Johnny Eager. Heflin was born Emmett Evan Heflin, Jr. in Walters, Oklahoma, the son of Fanny Bleecker and Dr. Emmett Evan Heflin and he was of Irish and French ancestry. Heflins sister was Daytime Emmy-nominated actress Frances Heflin, Heflin attended Classen High School in Oklahoma City and the University of Oklahoma, where he received a bachelors degree in 1932 and was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He earned a degree in theater at Yale University. Heflin began his career on Broadway in the early 1930s before being signed to a contract by RKO Radio Pictures. He made his debut in A Woman Rebels, opposite Katharine Hepburn. MGM began to groom him as a man in B movies. Heflin continued to hone his skills throughout the early 1940s. Heflin served during World War II in the United States Army Air Corps as a cameraman in the Ninth Air Force in Europe. Heflin also performed on stage throughout his acting career, playing a huge variety of roles in both films and on stage, probably his best-known film became the 1953 classic western Shane, in which he co-starred with Alan Ladd. As Joe Starrett, the plain, honest farmer who tries to unite a small community of sodbusters his performance is a bedrock of the film, although it was not recognised among the awards of 1953. The Adventures of Philip Marlowe was a detective drama that aired from June 17,1947, through September 15,1951. He also acted on the Lux Radio Theatre, Suspense, Cavalcade of America and his film Cry of Battle was playing at the Texas Theatre in Dallas on November 22,1963. His name and the title appear on the marquee. It was that theater where Lee Harvey Oswald was apprehended in the aftermath of President Kennedys assassination, Heflin appeared in a short but dramatic role as an eyewitness of Jesus raising of Lazarus from death in the 1965 Bible film, The Greatest Story Ever Told. After seeing the miracle he ran from Bethany to the walls of Jerusalem and he played D. O. Guerrero, a failure who schemes to blow himself up on an airliner so that his wife can collect on a life insurance policy. After a six-month marriage to actress Eleanor Shaw, he married RKO contract player Frances Neal and they had two daughters, actresses Vana OBrien and Cathleen Heflin, and a son, Tracy
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Charles Coburn
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Charles Douville Coburn was an American film and theatre actor. Best known for his work in comedies, Coburn received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for 1943s The More the Merrier, Coburn was born in Macon, Georgia, the son of Scotch-Irish Americans Emma Louise Sprigman and Moses Douville Coburn. Growing up in Savannah, he started out at age 14 doing odd jobs at the local Savannah Theater, handing out programs, ushering, by age 17 or 18, he was the theater manager. He later became an actor, making his debut on Broadway in 1901, Coburn formed an acting company with actress Ivah Wills in 1905. In addition to managing the company, the couple performed frequently on Broadway, after his wifes death in 1937, Coburn relocated to Los Angeles, California and began film work. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a retired millionaire playing Cupid in The More the Merrier in 1943 and he was also nominated for The Devil and Miss Jones in 1941 and The Green Years in 1946. Other notable film credits include Of Human Hearts, The Lady Eve, Kings Row, The Constant Nymph, Heaven Can Wait, Wilson, Impact, The Paradine Case, Everybody Does It, monkey Business, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and John Paul Jones. He usually played comedic parts, but Kings Row and Wilson were dramatic parts, for his contributions to motion pictures, in 1960, Coburn was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6268 Hollywood Boulevard. Coburn was a member of the White Citizens Councils, a group which opposed racial integration, Coburn married Ivah Wills on January 29,1906 in Atlanta, Georgia. Ivah died on December 3,1937 in New York City of congestive heart failure, Coburn married Winifred Natzka on June 30,1959 in Los Angeles. She was the widow of the New Zealand bass opera singer Oscar Natzka and they had one child, a daughter. Coburn died from an attack on August 30,1961
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Barry Fitzgerald
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Barry Fitzgerald was an Irish stage, film and television actor. In a career spanning almost forty years, he appeared in notable films as Bringing Up Baby, The Long Voyage Home, How Green Was My Valley, None but the Lonely Heart. For Going My Way, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He was born William Joseph Shields in Walworth Road, Portobello, Dublin, Ireland and his father was Irish and his mother was German. He was the brother of Irish actor Arthur Shields. He went to Skerrys College, Dublin, before going on to work in the civil service and his career with the Abbey Theatre was from 1914–1936 where he was involved in numerous productions. By 1929, he turned to acting full-time and he was briefly a roommate of famed playwright Seán OCasey and starred in such plays as OCaseys Juno and the Paycock and the premiere of The Silver Tassie. Between 1931 and 1936 he appeared in three plays by Irish Playwright Teresa Deevy—A Disciple, In Search of Valour and Katie Roche, Fitzgerald went to Hollywood to star in another OCasey work, The Plough and the Stars, directed by John Ford. He had a successful Hollywood career in films as The Long Voyage Home, How Green Was My Valley, And Then There Were None, The Naked City. In 1945, Fitzgerald achieved a unique Academy Awards feat, an avid golfer, he later accidentally decapitated his Oscar while practicing his golf swing. During World War II, Oscar statuettes were made of plaster instead of gold-plated bronze to accommodate wartime metal shortages, the Academy provided Fitzgerald with a replacement statuette. Fitzgerald returned to live in Dublin in 1959, where he lived at 2 Seafield Ave and he died, as William Joseph Shields, in St Patricks Hospital, James Street, on 4 January 1961. Fitzgerald has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for pictures at 6252 Hollywood Boulevard. List of actors with Academy Award nominations and Hollywood Walk of Fame stars List of people on stamps of Ireland Boylan, Henry
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James Dunn (actor)
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James Howard Dunn was an American film actor. Born in New York City, Dunn was the son of a Wall Street stockbroker and he joined his father in his business for three years. Dunn started his entertainment career in vaudeville before progressing to films at Paramounts Astoria studios in the late 1920s starting as an extra, after a gap where he appeared in stock companies, he returned to films. He was signed by Fox in 1931, making 22 films, Dunn made a strong first impression with his first role, in director Frank Borzages Bad Girl. A butchered recutting and partial reshooting of Erich von Stroheims film Walking Down Broadway with Boots Mallory, dunns early successes included four Shirley Temple films in 1934, Baby Take a Bow, Stand Up and Cheer. Change of Heart and Bright Eyes, the roles that followed did nothing to further his career, and during the late 1930s his prospects were further diminished by a battle with alcoholism. In 1945 his performance in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn earned him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and he portrayed an alcoholic but good-natured Irish father, a dreamer whose presence brought joy to those around him even though he was never a success in the traditional sense. His success was short-lived and by the beginning of the 1950s, he was unemployed, bankrupt, after 1950, he appeared in only three feature films, but continued working in television until his death. From 1954 to 1956, he appeared in the NBC sitcom Its a Great Life as Earl Morgan, Dunn also made appearances in many other television programs in the 1950s and 1960s, mostly in guest-starring roles. His first, to Edna OLier, ended in divorce and he was married to the actress Frances Gifford from 1938 until 1942. He married his wife, Edna Rush in 1945, who survived him at his death in 1967 at the age of 65 from complications following stomach surgery in Santa Monica. James Dunn has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for his contributions to motion pictures at 6555 Hollywood Boulevard, and television at 7010 Hollywood Boulevard. Remembering Jimmy, The Life and Films of James Dunn James Dunn at the Internet Movie Database James Dunn at the Internet Broadway Database James Dunn at Virtual History
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Edmund Gwenn
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Edmund Gwenn was an English actor. He received a second Golden Globe and another Academy Award nomination for the comedy film Mister 880. As a stage actor in the West End and on Broadway, he was associated with a range of works by modern playwrights, including Bernard Shaw, John Galsworthy. After the Second World War, he lived in the United States where he had a career in Hollywood. Gwenn was born Edmund John Kellaway in Wandsworth, London and his brother was the actor Arthur Chesney and his cousin, Cecil Kellaway. Gwenn was educated at St. Olaves School and later at Kings College London and he began his acting career in the theatre in 1895, and learnt his craft as a member of Willie Edouins company, playing brash comic roles. In 1901 he married Minnie Terry, niece of the famous actress Ellen Terry, in the same year he went to Australia and acted there for three years with the J. C. Williamson company. His wife accompanied him and when Gwenn was in a production of Ben Hur that was a disastrous failure and he also appeared in plays by Granville-Barker, John Galsworthy and other contemporaries. In Barries What Every Woman Knows in the role of the over-enthusiastic James Wylie he impressed the producer Charles Frohman, in 1912 Gwenn went into management in partnership with Hilda Trevelyan. His career was interrupted by his service during the First World War. During the war Gwenns marriage broke up and was dissolved and his ex-wife remarried but remained on affectionate terms with him. Gwenn began his career in 1916. A notable early role was a recreation of his stage character Hornblower in a silent fim of The Skin Game and his debut in a talking picture was in an adaptation of Shaws How He Lied to Her Husband, made at Elstree in 1931. His final British film role, as a capitalist trying to take over a brewery in Cheer Boys Cheer is credited with being the first authentic Ealing comedy. Gwenn appeared in more than eighty films, including Pride and Prejudice, Cheers for Miss Bishop, Of Human Bondage, george Cukors Sylvia Scarlett was his first appearance in a Hollywood film, as Katharine Hepburns father. He settled in Hollywood in 1940 and became part of its British colony and he had a small role as a Cockney assassin in a Hitchcock film, Foreign Correspondent in 1940. For his Father Christmas role in Miracle on 34th Street he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and he received a second Oscar nomination for his role in Mister 880. Near the end of his career he played one of the roles in Hitchcocks The Trouble with Harry
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Walter Huston
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Walter Thomas Huston was a Canadian-born American actor and singer. Huston won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Huston was born in Toronto, Ontario, where he attended Winchester Street Public School. He was the son of Elizabeth and Robert Moore Houghston, a farmer who founded a construction company. He was of Scottish and Irish descent and he had a brother and two sisters, one of whom was the theatrical voice coach Margaret Carrington. His family moved, before his birth, from Orangeville, Ontario where they were farmers, as a young man, he worked in construction and in his spare time attended the Shaw School of Acting. He made his debut in 1902. He went on to tour in In Convict Stripes, a play by Hal Reid, father of Wallace Reid and he again toured in another play The Sign of the Cross. In 1904, he married Rhea Gore and gave up acting to work as a manager of power stations in Nevada. He maintained these jobs until 1909, in 1909, his marriage foundering, he appeared with an older actress named Bayonne Whipple. They were billed as Whipple and Huston and, in 1915, vaudeville was their livelihood into the 1920s. Huston began his Broadway career on January 22,1924 and he appeared in a play, Mr. Pitt. Several more Broadway plays solidified his fame, e. g. Desire Under the Elms, Kongo, The Barker, Elmer the Great, once talkies began in Hollywood, he achieved fame in both character roles and as a leading man. His first major role was portraying the villainous Trampas in the western The Virginian with Gary Cooper and he starred as the title character in the Broadway theatrical adaptation of Sinclair Lewiss novel Dodsworth in 1934 and the plays film version two years later. For his role as Sam Dodsworth, Huston won the New York Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and was nominated for the Academy Award, Huston remained busy throughout the 1930s and 1940s, both on stage and screen. He performed September Song in the original Broadway production of Knickerbocker Holiday in 1938, in 1941, Walter Huston portrayed the part of the ships captain, who is shot while delivering the black bird to Sam Spade in the Maltese Falcon. Walters son, John Huston, directed the picture, John Huston, as a practical joke, had his father enter the scene and die over 10 different takes. In 1948, he played Howard in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, travens novel, which told the story of three gold diggers in 1920s post-revolution Mexico. In the 1950 release of the entitled, September Affair, starring Joan Fontaine and Joseph Cotten
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Dean Jagger
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Dean Jeffries Jagger was an American film, stage and television actor who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Henry Kings Twelve OClock High. Born Dean Jeffries, or Dean Jeffries Jagger, in Columbus Grove or Lima, Ohio, while at Wabash, he was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity and played football. He dropped out in his year, realizing he was not suited to an academic life. For a few semesters, he taught all eight grades in an elementary school, Jagger studied acting at Chicagos Lyceum Arts Conservatory. He joined a company as Spencer Tracys replacement. He performed in vaudeville, on the radio and on stage, through the 1930s and 1940s, he performed in a number of Broadway plays, including the original production of Tobacco Road. Jagger made his debut in The Woman from Hell with Mary Astor. He became a character actor and appeared in almost 100 films in a career that lasted until shortly before his death. Jagger made his breakthrough with his portrayal of Brigham Young in Brigham Young, according to George D. Pyper, a technical consultant on the film who had personally known Brigham Young, Jagger not only resembled Young, he also spoke like him and had many of his mannerisms. Thirty-two years later, in 1972 he was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and he received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Twelve OClock High. In the film, he played the retread World War I veteran, col. Harvey Stovall, who acts as an advisor to the commander, General Savage. He appeared in the biblical epic The Robe as the weaver Justus of Cana, Jagger also portrayed the father of Elvis Presleys character in 1958s King Creole. He was the manager for an evangelist played by Jean Simmons in the acclaimed 1960 drama Elmer Gantry. For the 1956 British science-fiction film X the Unknown, Jagger refused to work with director Joseph Losey because Losey was on the Hollywood blacklist, Losey was removed from the project after a few days of shooting and replaced with Leslie Norman. In 1971, Jagger appeared on The Partridge Family and he played a prospector named Charlie in the Christmas episode Dont Bring Your Guns to Town, Santa. He won a Daytime Emmy award for a guest appearance in the religious series This Is the Life and he played dozens of TV dramatic roles, including an episode of The Twilight Zone called Static. In an early episode of the television series Kung Fu, Jagger appeared as Caines grandfather, who wants little to do with him, Dean Jagger has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1523 Vine Street for his contribution to motion pictures. In later life, Dean Jagger suffered from disease and died in his sleep in Santa Monica
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George Sanders
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George Henry Sanders was an English film and television actor, singer-songwriter, music composer, and author. His career as an actor spanned more than 40 years and his upper-class English accent and bass voice often led him to be cast as sophisticated but villainous characters. Sanders was born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, at number 6 Petrovski Ostrov and his parents were Henry Peter Ernest Sanders, and Margarethe Jenny Bertha Sanders, who was born in Saint Petersburg, of mostly German, but also Estonian and Scottish, ancestry. The actor Tom Conway was George Sanderss elder brother and their younger sister, Margaret Sanders, was born in 1912. George Sanders was 11 when, in 1917, at the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, like his brother, he attended Bedales School and Brighton College, a boys independent school in Brighton, then went on to Manchester Technical College. After graduating he worked at an agency, where the company secretary. Sanders made his British film debut in 1929, seven years later, after a series of British films, he took his first role in an American production in Lloyds of London as Lord Everett Stacy. His smooth upper-class English accent, his manner and his suave, superior. He played a smooth American Nazi in Confessions of a Nazi Spy with Edward G. Robinson. Rage in Heaven, a film noir, cast him as the trustworthy good guy whose best friend, Robert Montgomery, goes murderously insane and sets him up for the rap. By 1942, Sanders handed the role of the Falcon to his brother Tom, the only other film in which the two acting siblings appeared together was Death of a Scoundrel, in which they also played brothers. Sanders played Lord Henry Wotton in the version of The Picture of Dorian Gray and was the third lead in the elegiacThe Ghost and Mrs. Muir with Gene Tierney. Sanders starred with Angela Lansbury in Albert Lewins The Private Affairs of Bel Ami, Sanders and Lansbury also featured in Cecil B. deMilles biblical epic Samson and Delilah. For his role as the acerbic, cold-blooded theatre critic Addison DeWitt in All About Eve Sanders won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He then starred as Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert in Ivanhoe, dying in a duel with Robert Taylor after professing his love for the Jewish maiden Rebecca, Sanders starred as King Richard the Lionheart in King Richard and the Crusaders. Peter Sellers and Sanders appeared together in the Pink Panther sequel A Shot in the Dark, Sanders had earlier inspired Sellerss character Hercules Grytpype-Thynne in the BBC radio comedy series The Goon Show. Sanders went into television with the series The George Sanders Mystery Theater. He played an upper-crust English villain, G. Emory Partridge, in two episodes of The Man From U. N. C. L. E. in 1965, The Gazebo in the Maze Affair and The Yukon Affair
