director, screenwriter, producerBorn: 2/11/1909Birthplace: Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Academy Award-winning film director, screenwriter and producer who directed Dragonwyck (1946), The Ghost and…
director, producer, writerBorn: 5/9/1940Birthplace: North Bergen, New Jersey Director, producer, and writer of the Oscar-winning films Terms of Endearment (1983) and As Good As It Gets (1997), as…
actorBorn: 12/21/1948Birthplace: Washington, D.C. Film actor best known for his role as a Bible-thumping hit man in Pulp Fiction (1994). Although he had already appeared in other big hits such as…
engineer and inventorBorn: 1935Birthplace: Georgia A native of Georgia, Clarence Elder founded Elder Systems Incorporated, a research and development company located in Baltimore, Maryland. Elder…
inventorBorn: 1791Birthplace: New York, N.Y. A tailor in New York City, Jennings is credited with being the first African American to hold a U.S. patent. The patent, which was issued in 1821, was…
JOHNSON, Ben, a Representative from Kentucky; born near Bardstown, Nelson County, Ky., May 20, 1858; pursued preparatory studies; was graduated from St. Maryâs College, Marion County, Ky.,…
actorBorn: 4/18/1956Birthplace: Biloxi, Mississippi Older brother of actress Julia Roberts, Eric Roberts appeared on the stage as a child and starred in the 1989 Broadway production of Burn This.…
(Encyclopedia) Gwathmey, RobertGwathmey, Robertgwăthˈmē [key], 1903–88, American painter, b. Richmond, Va. Gwathmey taught at Cooper Union from 1942 to 1968. Among the first white artists to portray…
(Encyclopedia) Kett or Ket, Robert, d. 1549, English rebel. He led an agrarian revolt in 1549 as a protest against the enclosure of common land for sheep grazing. With 16,000 men he blockaded Norwich…
JOHNSON, James, a Representative from Virginia; born in Virginia, birth date unknown; completed preparatory studies; was graduated from the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.,…
