Biography Category
(h ´g ) (KEY) (Hoagland Howard Carmichael), 1899–1981, American songwriter, pianist, and singer, b. Bloomington, Ind. While still a student at Ind...
(f d r ´k f l-l ´n ) (KEY) , 1920–93, Italian film director. After World War II he wrote screenplays for such neorealistic films as Rossellini’...
1890–1941, American jazz musician, composer, and band leader, originally named Ferdinand Joseph Lamothe, b. Gulfport, La. He began studying piano as...
1561–1626, English philosopher, essayist, and statesman, b. London, educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and at Gray’s Inn. He was the son of S...
(l ôN´ brün´shv k) (KEY) , 1869–1944, French philosopher, b. Paris. From 1909 until his death he taught at the Sorbonne. Brunschvicg’s philoso...
(Joseph Francis Keaton), 1895–1966, American movie actor, b. Piqua, Kans. Considered one of the greatest comic actors in film history, Keaton used h...