Biography Category
(David Warren Brubeck) (br ´b k) (KEY) , 1920–, American pianist and composer, b. Concord, Calif. Brubeck began studying piano at the age of four a...
1900–1967, American film actor, b. Milwaukee, Wis. He began his career as an actor in summer stock and went into film work in 1930. His fine charact...
(b ´z nk t) (KEY) , 1848–1923, English philosopher, educated at Oxford. He lectured there (1871–81) and at St. Andrews (1903–8). His major work...
(zhäN-lük gôdär´) (KEY) , 1930–, French film director and scriptwriter, b. Paris. Godard is probably the most influential of the French New Wav...
1935–, American musician and singer, b. Macon, Ga., as Richard Wayne Penniman. One of the first rock musicians in the 1950s, he recorded “Tutti Fr...
(Edward Kennedy Ellington), 1899–1974, American jazz musician and composer, b. Washington, D.C. Ellington made his first professional appearance as ...