actor, director, producerBorn: 11/17/1944Birthplace: Neptune, New Jersey Film and television actor, director and producer who appeared in television's Taxi (1978–83) before moving to film. His…
pop-punk singer, actressBorn: 7/9/1964Birthplace: San Francisco Pop-punk singer, actress and songwriter known for her strong, emotional vocals, volatile behavior on- and offstage and for being the…
director, producer, screenwriter, critic, actor Born: 7/30/1939Birthplace: Kingston, New York A former film critic, he commenced his filmmaking career with Targets (1968), which he wrote, produced…
astronautDied: March 15, 2008 (northern Virginia) Best Known as: astronaut who was aboard NASA's space shuttle Columbia G. David Low was an astronaut who began…
GLORIOUS RINGSRING MATERIALFIND OUT MOREA system of shining rings makes Saturn a very distinctive planet. We see the rings from different angles at different times as the planet circles the…
(Encyclopedia) von Braun, Wernhervon Braun, Wernhervôn broun [key], 1912–77, German-American rocket scientist and astronautics engineer, b. Germany, grad. Berlin Technological Institute (B.S., 1932…
actressBorn: 1962Birthplace: York, England An acclaimed British stage actress, McTeer made her big-screen debut in 1986's Half Moon Street. Although she appeared in several other films, including…
Why do stars twinkle? We see the stars through the atmosphere. Their light passes through miles of constantly moving pockets and streams of air, which distort the image we get. The distortions are…
director, producer, actorBorn: 12/5/1905Birthplace: Vienna, Austria A stage actor and director in Vienna and on Broadway, Preminger began his Hollywood career by acting in movies in the early 1940s…
actressBorn: 11/5/1963Birthplace: Los Angeles This child star of the 1970s won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in Paper Moon (1973), in which she appeared with her father, Ryan O'Neal…
