Biography Category
(y n ´p s) (KEY) , b. c.347, Greek Neoplatonic philosopher, whose Lives of the Philosophers and Sophists is a most valuable primary source. His cont...
1901–60, American film actor, b. Cadiz, Ohio. He began his career in films in 1930 and soon after became a star. He won an Academy Award in 1934 for...
1948–, British theatrical composer. A member of a successful musical family, he began composing musicals as a teenager; Joseph and the Amazing Techn...
( m´bl k s) (KEY) , d. c.330, Syrian philosopher, a leading exponent of Neoplatonism. A pupil of Porphyry, he was deeply impressed by the doctrines ...
(yûr´g n hä´bûrmäs) (KEY) , 1929–, German philosopher. He is a professor at the Univ. of Frankfurt (emeritus since 1994) and is the best-known...
(Charles Robert Redford, Jr.), 1937–, American actor and director, b. Santa Monica, Calif. Blond, with a perennially boyish handsomeness and an appe...