(Encyclopedia) Henry II, 973–1024, Holy Roman emperor (1014–24) and German king (1002–24), last of the Saxon line. He succeeded his father as duke of Bavaria. When Otto III died without an heir,…
producerBorn: 4/26/1910Birthplace: Osaka, Japan Tanaka produced more than 200 films and is best known as the creator of Godzilla, the towering embodiment of post-World War II anxiety. The classic…
actressBorn: 10/6/1963Birthplace: Wilmington, Delaware Actress who got her start playing the girl-next-door in movies like Adventures in Babysitting (1987) and Back to the Future, parts II and III…
actressBorn: 6/9/1981Birthplace: Jerusalem, Israel As displayed in feature films such asThe Professional (1994) and Beautiful Girls (1996), Portman has already mastered the cute-yet-poised…
(Encyclopedia) Lorenz, KonradLorenz, Konradkônˈrät lôrˈĕnts [key], 1903–89, Austrian zoologist and ethologist. He received medical training at the Univ. of Vienna and spent two years at the medical…
(James Maitland Stewart)actorBorn: 5/20/1908Birthplace: Indiana, Pennsylvania Nominated for five Academy Awards during his lifetime, winning Best Actor for The Philadelphia Story (1940), Stewart…
(Noriyuki Morita)actorBorn: 8/28/1932Birthplace: Berkeley, California This Japanese-American actor, who lived in a Japanese internment camp during World War II, programmed computers before becoming…
actorBorn: 10/1/1930Birthplace: Limerick, Ireland Though born in Ireland, he has played the part of English kings, Arthur in the film version of Lerner and Loewe's Camelot (1967) and Richard I in…
(Carl Adolf Von Sydow)actor, directorBorn: 4/10/1929Birthplace: Lund, Sweden Versatile character actor equally at home in Hollywood films, like Conan the Barbarian (1981), on TV as in Kojak: The…
