Biography Category
( l-g zä´l ) (KEY) , 1058–1111, Islamic theologian, philosopher, and mystic. He was born at Tus in Khorasan, of Persian origin. He is considered t...
(zhäN r nwär´) (KEY) , 1894–1979, French film director and writer, b. Paris; son of Pierre Auguste Renoir. He made his first film in 1926. Gather...
1617–88, English theologian and philosopher. He was a noted representative of the Cambridge Platonists. Cudworth’s most ambitious work, The True I...
(läng) (KEY) , 1890–1976, German-American film director, b. Vienna. His silent and early sound films, such as Metropolis (1926), are marked by bril...
(Joseph Francis Keaton), 1895–1966, American movie actor, b. Piqua, Kans. Considered one of the greatest comic actors in film history, Keaton used h...
(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...