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  The Probert Encyclopaedia - People and Peoples (Jo-Jz)
John Byrom was an English poet and stenographer.
John Richard Jefferies was an English essayist and naturalist.
John Piper is an English painter born at Epsom in 1903.
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 John Wood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Wood (English actor) (born 1930), known for Shakespearean roles and his association with Tom Stoppard.
John Wood (governor) (1798-1880), governor of Illinois from 1860 to 1861.
John Stephens Wood (1885-1968), a chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee.
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 Saint John - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
John the Baptist, also known as John of Jerusalem, who baptised Jesus at the start of Jesus' ministry.
John the Apostle, one of the twelve apostles of Jesus, who is traditionally (but controversially) identified with the Evangelist, below (see Authorship of the Johannine works).
John the Evangelist, to whom the Gospel of John is attributed, often along with 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, and Revelation.
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 John Wood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
An English actor, known for Shakespearean roles and his association with Tom Stoppard.
An Australian actor, star of the long-running police drama Blue Heelers.
A U.S. federal judge, whose assassination in 1979 was the first murder of a sitting federal judge in the twentieth century, and launched the most expensive FBI investigation to date.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
John, Leslie and baby Meg moved back to Melbourne in 1974 to be near her grandparents.
John seized the opportunity to get back on the stage, appearing in Chess, The Musical, Love Letters, Away, A Flea In Her Ear, Another Time, King of Country, Jonah, The Trackers of Oxyrhyncus, Brittanicus and For Julia from 1990 to 1992.
John always has creative ideas circulating in his head and he currently has several projects on the brew, including a children's television series, a sitcom, a stage play and a movie.
www.aussietv.net /bhonline/media/articles/misc/seven/sevenjohnwood.htm   (1244 words)

  
 Richard III with Ian McKellen
The majority of actors are convincing, for instance Jim Broadbent as Buckingham, Jim Carter as Prime Minister Lord Hastings, Nigel Hawthorne as Clarene and Maggie Smith as the Duchess of York, Richard's mother.
That really is such a pity because Shakespeare's own accent was probably closer to a North American one than to a modern English accent." Despite these explanations, Annette Bening is not convincing in her role as Queen Elizabeth.
Actor Ian McKellen played Richard III on a world tour with the Royal National Theatre.
www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo4/richard.htm   (1101 words)

  
 John Wood (English actor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other people with similar names, see John Wood (disambiguation).
John Wood (born January 1, 1930) is an English actor.
In his stage career, his name is associated with Shakespeare (he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in the 1970s) and with Tom Stoppard (Wood won a Tony Award in 1976 for the role of Henry Carr in Stoppard's Travesties, and was nominated for an Olivier Award in 1997 for the role of A.
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 St John's Wood
I have been told that St John's Wood is located on a plot of land that belonged to the Order of St John hence the name.
I personally think that Paul still lives in St Johns Wood, 2 years ago I was in Regents Park and He and Heather walked past me with their dog, just one day before I saw him in concert.
in st. john's wood there is the ordanance (sp?) on ordanance hill which is a nicer looking pub with great food and neat lights (big tree branches with lights put on them).
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 John Neville
John Neville made eleven movies between 1957 and 1971, then one in 1979 and another in 1988.
It is generally considered to be a solid movie, as it was lavishly produced (for the times).
Neville would play Holmes on stage in the mid-seventies, succeeding John Wood in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of William Gillette’s play.
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 The Johns Hopkins University Press 03
Exploring the cultural context in which both English providence tales and their American counterparts emerged—focusing in particular on the way in which the providence tale folded the religious spirit of inquiry and truth-seeking into the new science and empiricism of the seventeenth century—Hartman offers a provocative reassessment of the origins of American literature.
John Wood Sweet is an assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Douglas Anderson is the Sterling Goodman Professor of English at the University of Georgia.
www.mnstate.edu /seabooks/johnshopkins03.html   (8573 words)

  
 John Wood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
John Wood was born on 14th July 1946 in Wandin North, Victoria, to a working class family to whom acting was "not what one did professionally".
At the age of 21 years old John was accepted into NIDA in Sydney in 1967 and graduated in 1969.
John has been married to his wife Leslie (below) for over 30 years and they have two grown up daughters, Meg and Lexie.
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 The Adelphi Theatre 1806-1900: The 1871-1872 Season
A comparison between the general representation of the play in Paris and that in London would explain why in one city the drama is prized and studied as an art, while in the other it can scarcely obtain the support of men of intellect as an amusement (9 March 1871, pp.
Fechter, a great actor and innovator in the techniques of acting and play production, must indeed have stood out in the Adelphi company of this season.
It showed off all his good points: his love-making, which gained for him the suffrages of crowds of women playgoers, for nothing at all like it had been seen on the English stage; his scenes of passion in the more melodramatic parts; his wonderful fencing; the elan of the whole.
www.emich.edu /public/english/adelphi_calendar/hst1871.htm   (975 words)

  
 Dion Boucicault's Adaptation of Charles Dickens's "The Cricket on the Hearth" ("Dot")
These actors were attracted to the character of old Caleb and the part grew and grew in prominence as they added lines and elaborated the business over the years they acted in the play.
In a wood Titania and Oberon met with Fairy Home who told them she was guarding the hearth of the Peerybingles.
Morley does not indicate why Agnes did not recreate her American performance as Dot; it is quite probable that her pregnancy (which culminated in the birth of her fourth child, Patrice, in August) prevented her performing; in any event, Louise Keeley, daughter of the famous actor-manager couple, took the role in the Adelphi production.
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 John
John is the English form of a Hebrew name, Yohanan, Johanan, or Yochanan.
In the Anglo-Saxon period of English history, John was a rare, religious name.
English economist who revolutionized the study of economics.
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 TIME.com: Dance of Words -- Nov. 10, 1975 -- Page 2
At 45, he is a sport among English actors.
His idol was the late Louis Jouvet, an actor of ineffable urbanity.
There is not a line, a move, a prop or a costume that Wood has not examined carefully nor, for that matter, a fellow actor.
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 Hard Boiled
But the story - as always with John Wood - is very thin.
The director was born in 1946 as Ng Yu-Sum in Guangzhou, in the Chinese province of Canton.
In Hong Kong John Woo's father contracted TB and the big fire of 1953 destroyed their home - the family was homeless for a while and had some hard times.
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 Shadowlands. A Hollywood Jesus visual film review.
It is a rare and precious thing: a well- made major motion picture that deals honestly with people whose driving force in life is faith.
I was interested in John Schuurman's remarks about the excellent movie, Shadowlands.
The only American connection I can think of is the inclusion of Debra Winger and the actor who plays her son [Mazzoli(?)].
www.hollywoodjesus.com /shadowlands.htm   (896 words)

  
 BBC News | ENTERTAINMENT | Baby.com for actress Emma
The baby was born at The Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth, St John's Wood, London, at 0900 on Saturday, and weighed 7.5lbs, her agent Lorraine Hamilton said.
The father, Emma's partner - actor Greg Wise - said they still hadn't made a decision on a name.
Thompson, who is divorced from actor Kenneth Branagh, has not been idle over the past several months.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/552739.stm   (256 words)

  
 Tom Bell Biography :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
He dropped out of school when he was 15 to pursue acting and, with the exception of a stint in the armed forces, has had few spells of unemployment.
Bell subsequently appeared as Emily Lloyd's sleazy lover in "Wish You Were Here" (1987), as a petty thief in "The Krays" (1990), opposite Sir John Gielgud in "Prospero's Books' (1991) and as the head of a family that offers shelter to a troubled young woman in the period drama "Feast of July" (1995).
Bell has been active in British TV from the 1960s, appearing in series and specials, and was seen worldwide as Adolph Eichmann in the miniseries "Holocaust".
www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/200105   (746 words)

  
 Useless Facts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
"John has a long moustache" was the coded-signal used by the French Resistance in WWII to mobilize their forces once the Allies had landed on the Normandy beaches.
Top English soccer club Liverpool were formed because their local enemies, Everton, couldn't pay the rent for their stadium.
John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and was found in a warehouse.
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 Barnes & Noble.com - DVD, Movie, Video: John Wayne: Angel & Badman / Blue Steel, DVD
John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen, Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond
A classic western, one of John Wayne's best ever, it will have viewer appeal for generations to come.
Filmed after some of his World War Two roles, John plays a maturing gunslinger who had a troubled youth.
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 The Wedding Date   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Queen Latifah, Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, and Denis Leary lend their famous voices to the soon-to-be-extinct CGI fauna in "Ice Age: The Meltdown," now on DVD.
We'd all joke about the culture clash nature of the production and actually tried to bring some of those 'American actor versus English actor' moments to our scenes, whether it was playing up on the different ways we speak, react or carry ourselves.
The American actors were impressed with the ease with which the English crew handled the inclement weather.
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 Amazon.com: WarGames: DVD: John Badham,Matthew Broderick,Dabney Coleman,John Wood,Ally Sheedy,Barry Corbin,Juanin ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Actors: Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy, Barry Corbin, See more
David realizes that his only chance is to find Dr. Falken (John Wood), the man who created the program, and have it disabled before its too late.
John Badham - Director, Lawrence Lasker - Writer (Written by), Walter F. Parkes - Writer (Written by), Leonard Goldberg - Producer (executive producer), Richard Hashimoto - Producer (associate producer), Harold Schneider - Producer (producer), Bruce McNall - Producer (producer)...
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 Amazon.com: Sabrina: DVD: Harrison Ford,Julia Ormond,Greg Kinnear,Nancy Marchand,John Wood,Richard Crenna,Angie ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
What laughs there are blow in from the supporting roles: Sabrina's father (John Wood), the elder Mrs.
Greg Kinnear as David Larrabee, Nancy Marchand as Maude Larrabee, John Wood as Tom Fairchild, Richard Crenna as Patrick Tyson, John Wood as Tom Fairchild, Richard Crenna as Patrick Tyson, Angie Dickinson as Mrs.
Ingrid Tyson, Lauren Holly as Elizabeth Tyson, MD, Dana Ivey as Mack, Miriam Colon as Rosa, Elizabeth Franz as Joanna, Fanny Ardant as Irène, Valérie Lemercier as Martine, Patrick Bruel as Louis, Becky Ann Baker as Linda, Paul Giamatti as Scott, John C. Vennema as Ron...
www.amazon.com /Sabrina-Harrison-Ford/dp/B00005S6K8   (2183 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Citizen X (Full Screen): DVD: Chris Gerolmo,Stephen Rea,Donald Sutherland,Max von Sydow,Jeffrey DeMunn,Joss ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Originally cablecast on HBO February 25, 1995, Donald Sutherland won the Golden Globe for Supporting Role Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture Made for TV in 1996 and also the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Special in 1995.
A quick nightime search of the wooded area where the body was found is completed with eight MORE bodies found in varying degrees of decomposition and desication.
All are children, boys and girls alike and have been murdered, raped and mutilated in some very odd ways.
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 Hollywood's Attic: Classics and not so Classics
In his first starring role, Roddy McDowall portrays an English boy named Hugh, who is sent to stay with an American family on the "sunny side" of the pond in order to escape the Nazi blitz.
Evelyn Laye, John Boles, Leon Errol, Lilyan Tashman.
Stanley Lupino, Claire Luce, John Wood, Vaudevillian inherits the title of Lord, but must hire his pals to rescue him from a flmailing former girlfriend.
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 Ralph Fiennes-News and Views
This interview with John Le Carre includes his explanation about how the book came to be, how the film was purchased, and how he feels about the difference between the book and the film.
The leading lady Richard woods said that, "This is not places the museum the ancient painting, still is brimming with the modern thought way in under the 30's coats." But she also thought, such theme very fashion, can attract the modern age young audience.
Natasha had her hair in rollers when I arrived and as she was waiting for her hairdresser, she took time to explain her role to me. Ralph was also preparing for his scene but greeted me warmly with a resounding hug and kiss.
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