Biography Category
(hôrm zd´ räsäm´) (KEY) , 1826–1910, Turkish archaeologist. He assisted Sir Austen Henry Layard in Nineveh in 1845–47 and 1849–51, studying...
(Jean Baptiste Reinhardt), 1910–53, Belgian-born Gypsy jazz guitarist. Reinhardt began playing the guitar professionally at 12. He was severely burn...
(Eugene Wesley Roddenberry), 1921–91, American television writer and producer, b. El Paso, Tex. After being awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross a...
(sätyä´j t r , r ) (KEY) , 1921–92, Indian film director, b. Calcutta. His subtle, austere, and delicately lyrical films made him one of the outs...
1893–1973, American movie actor, b. Bucharest, Romania, as Emmanuel Goldberg. He made his stage debut in New York City in 1915. A short, tough-looki...
(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...