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  Sam Wanamaker - Biography - Moviefone
Actor/director Sam Wanamaker was one of those whose career was nearly derailed by the machinations of Senator McCarthy and his House Un-American Activities Committee.
Between 1943 and 1946, Wanamaker was in the U.S. Army.
After making another film in Britain, Wanamaker learned that he too was about to be investigated and had been fllisted; therefore, Wanamaker elected to remain in England.
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  Probert Encyclopaedia: Actors (Sa-Sh)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sam Armstrong was an American actor and writer.
Sam Elliott is an American actor, producer and writer.
Sam Neill (real name Nigel Neill) is an Irish born New Zealand actor, director, writer and editor.
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 sam wanamaker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sam Wanamaker (June 14, 1919 - December 18, 1993) was an American actor and director.
Born in Chicago, Wanamaker left the States in the late 1940s because he thought he might be fllisted due to his leftist convictions (see McCarthyism).
Wanamaker was instrumental in rebuilding the Globe Theatre in London.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /Sam_Wanamaker.html   (148 words)

  
 Zoe Wanamaker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zoë Wanamaker (born May 13, 1949 in New York) is an American-born British actress who lives and works in the United Kingdom.
She is the daughter of the late Jewish American film actor/director Sam Wanamaker, who came to Britain after being fllisted during the 1950s; he led the project to rebuild the Globe Theatre in London.
Wanamaker voiced a CGI character named Cassandra in the Doctor Who episode The End of the World (2005), and will reprise the role in the first episode of the 2006 series (tentatively entitled New Earth).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zoe_Wanamaker   (207 words)

  
 Sam Wanamaker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
His wife, Charlotte Holland Wanamaker was a radio soap star in the 1940's.
Sam later began a long-standing relationship with actress Jan Sterling while she was married to Paul Douglas.
He is survived by three daughters, Abby Wanamaker, actress Zoe Wanamaker, and Jessica Wanamaker.
www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Sam_Wanamaker   (198 words)

  
 Variety.com - Sam Wanamaker
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Wanamaker, who was born in Chicago and got his early stage training at the Goodman Theatre there, worked in Britain when he was fllisted in the 1950s during the McCarthy era.
Wanamaker is survived by his wife, Charlotte, and three daughters, Abby, Jessica and the actress Zoe Wanamaker.
www.variety.com /article/VR116650?categoryid=25&cs=1   (428 words)

  
 Egobrowser: Sam Wanamaker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sam Wanamaker was made a CBE, in recognition of the "remarkable contribution he has made to relations between Britain and the US and, of course.
Sam Wanamaker died in 1993 but he was able to see construction begin on the Globe in the late 80's.
Sam Wanamaker was extremely interested in seeing the place where the Globe Theatre had stood.
blog.outer-court.com /egobrowser/Sam-Wanamaker.html   (145 words)

  
 Zoe Wanamaker and the Electra Complex
Wanamaker is sitting in the Green Room at McCarter Theater working on a tray of take-out sushi during a lunchtime rehearsal break, talking about her title role in Sophocles' classic Greek tragedy, "Electra." Electra is a woman who persists in mourning her father, Agamemnon, years after his grisly murder at his wife's own hand.
She is the daughter of the late Sam Wanamaker, a prominent American expatriate actor and director of stage and film whose enthusiasm, tenacity, and energy inspired the 28-year effort to rebuild a replica of the Globe Theater in Southwark, London.
Sam Wanamaker is also remembered for his performances as Iago to Paul Robeson's "Othello." In 1959 the pair performed "Othello" in a seven-month run in Stratford-on-Avon.
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 Sam Wanamaker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Actor/director Sam Wanamaker was one of those whose career was nearly derailed by the machinations of Senator McCarthy and his House Un-American Activities Committee.
Between 1943 and 1946, Wanamaker was in the U.S. Army.
In the 1960s, Wanamaker resumed his acting career in internationally produced films such as The Concrete Jungle (1962) and The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1965).
www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P115914   (287 words)

  
 Lesson 3.2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sam Wanamaker was the son of Maurice and Molly Watenmaker, Russian Jews whose families fled to U.S. in 1905.
Wanamaker eventually went to Drake University to study law, but his real interest was in acting.
Wanamaker was "in." Wanamaker became the West End's favorite American actor, and played in almost every role that called for a "brash and virile" American.
www.wpi.edu /Academics/Depts/HUA/TT/Globe/32.html   (858 words)

  
 Southwark Council | Discover Southwark | Blue Plaques | Blue Plaques 2003 | Blue Plaques Winners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sam Wanamaker (1919 - 1993) was well known as an American actor/director, but perhaps best known as the founder of the Shakespeare Globe Trust in Southwark.
Amongst Sam Wanamaker’s many other career successes, he acted in over a dozen television shows for US networks and acted /directed in over 50 films including The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines.
Sam Wanamaker died in 1993 of cancer, and his daughter Zoe continues his acting legacy.
www.southwark.gov.uk /DiscoverSouthwark/BluePlaquesSection/BluePlaques2003/BPWinners.html   (5608 words)

  
 Sam Wanamaker - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This book is a gorgeously illustrated tribute to a 400-year-old dream fulfilled.
American actor Sam Wanamaker was stunned in the 1960s to learn that a London cabdriver could not show him the site of William Shakespeare's original theater, the famed "wooden O," nor was the site marked in any way....
Uncle Sam and his nephews, in French, or The French verb as taught with the "Wanamaker, Strawbridge & Conard" scheme of returning stem changes as a pastime to little children
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /sam_wanamaker.htm   (185 words)

  
 Playbill News: Jessica Wanamaker Leaves Drama League Director Post After Three Months
Wanamaker is the sister of acclaimed British actress Zoe Wanamaker and the daughter of late actor Sam Wanamaker, the man who single-handed willed London's Globe Theater complex into being.
Wanamaker served as an arts administrator with The Wooster Group, The Builders' Association, and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
She is the youngest daughter of Sam Wanamaker, the fllisted American actor who found a new artistic home in England.
www.playbill.com /news/article/91241.html   (492 words)

  
 Tulsa Historical Society | Exhibits
The collection tracks the Championship from the beginnings of match play to the modern era of stroke play, from Champions like Gene Sarazen and Walter Hagen to today’s sports icons such as Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods.
From the inaugural Championship in 1916 through 2006, visitors will discover two images of the PGA Champion, one hoisting the Wanamaker Trophy and one in action.
The exhibit memorabilia features Slammin’ Sam Snead’s trademark straw hat, John Daly’s driver, and Tiger Woods’ shoes.
www.tulsahistory.org /exhibits/pga.htm   (387 words)

  
 Sam Wanamaker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
ARTS: THEATRE: The girl can't help it; Zoe Wanamaker is the matriarch of television's most popular sitcom and enjoys another life as theatre royalty.
Wanamaker, Sam (1919-1993)(Adopted name of Samuel Watenmaker) (The Hutchinson Dictionary of the Arts)
The Great Globe Itself: Sam Wanamaker's 'Shakespeare's Globe.' (Businessman's construction of a building in the UK based on an original Elizabethan playhouse called the Globe Theater.) (Antiquity)
www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0764155.html   (241 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: DVD: Baby Boom (Widescreen)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
I'm not much of a Sam Sheppard fan, either, but this is one of the movies I loved him in.
The settings, from the hustle-bustle of a cheerfully skewed Manhattan office and environs, to the Christmas-card perfection (but don't be fooled!) of a Vermont farmhouse, pull you in, and add color to a predictable but funny plot.
Sam Shepard lends his trademark subtlety and attractiveness as a Vermont vet.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000542C9   (1609 words)

  
 SGC History
Almost as soon as Sam Wanamaker announced that he would take up the elusive task of trying to reconstruct Shakespeare's Globe Playhouse in London, he turned to the United States to raise money.
The United States was the major source of funding for the project in its formative years and a leader in generating academic support for it.
Sam Wanamaker is president and Chicagoan Lee A. Freeman Sr.
www.sgc.umd.edu /SGCHistory.html   (2058 words)

  
 Caxtonian: April 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
hose of us who have literary interests are probably aware of Sam Wanamaker as the force behind the rebuilding of Shakespeare’s Globe on the South Bank of London’s Thames River.
Sam was a high school mate of mine in the 1930s at Chicago’s Tuley High School, and in choosing further education, he chose the Goodman Drama School in Chicago on advice of our high school drama teacher, who recognized his acting talent.
Sam Wanamaker (1919-1993), Chicago actor/director responsible for the building of Shakespeare’s Globe.
www.caxtonclub.org /reading/2003/Apr/wanamker2.htm   (263 words)

  
 ISGC Chronology
Note the schedule next to Sam in the picture.
Through the early Seventies, the Globe Trust sponsors a fund raising series of theatre in a temporary tent that approximated the dynamics of an Elizabethan playhouse.
Sam is appropriately happy after the four year court battle.
www.sgc.umd.edu /chro1.htm   (488 words)

  
 Sam Wanamaker's plaque unveiled < Features < London SE1
The blue plaque commemorating Sam Wanamaker's vision for the Globe Theatre was unveiled on Friday morning by Zoe Wanamaker, and Sam's brother Will who had flown in for the weekend of activities to celebrate Sam's birthday.
Certainly there was a wonderful buzz of activity with many school groups and Globe volunteers gathered for the occasion.
Dr Wanamaker later took a bunch of sweet williams and love-in-a-mist to Southwark Cathedral where they have been placed by the memorials to Edmund Shakespeare and Sam himself.
www.london-se1.co.uk /news/view.php?ArtID=568   (148 words)

  
 Sam Wanamaker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This replica is almost exact in every detail (apart from adhering to Twentieth Century fire/safety regulations) to the construction of the original.The audience watch and feel a play in the same way as they would have done in Shakespeare's time.
The Globe was fully restored and opened in the late 1990s, too late sadly for Sam to see the fruits of his long labour of love.
Discuss this name with other users on IMDb message board for Sam Wanamaker
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 Sam Shepard Current Month TV Schedule
Starring Diane Keaton, Sam Wanamaker, Harold Ramis, Pat Hingle, Sam Shepard, James Spader, Britt Leach, Victoria Jackson, Mary Gross, Kim Sebastian.
Starring Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz, Robert J Wilke, Jackie Shultis, Stuart Margolin, Tim Scott, Richard Libertini.
Starring Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard, Graham Greene, Fred Ward, Fred Dalton Thompson, Sheila Tousey, Ted Thin Elk, John Trudell, Julius Drum, Sarah Brave.
www.tv-now.com /stars/samshep.html   (678 words)

  
 Shakespeare's Globe :: The Sam Wanamaker Award
The Sam Wanamaker Award was instituted by the Globe in 1994 to celebrate work which has increased the understanding and enjoyment of Shakespeare, and which has a similar quality to Sam Wanamaker's own pioneering work.
On Thursday 14 June, Sam's birthday, the Sam Wanamaker Award for 2007 was given jointly to Jenny Tiramani, Claire van Kampen and Mark Rylance, in recognition of their achievements during the theatre's founding years.
For his Animated Tales of Shakespeare (itself the subject of an exhibition at the Globe in 1995)
www.shakespeares-globe.org /information/samwanamakeraward   (188 words)

  
 [Videolib] documentary about Shakespeare's Globe Theatre & Sam Wanamaker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment 1993 not 1997...could this be it Rebuilding Shakespeare's Globe Sam Wanamaker 1993 English Visual Material : Videorecording : VHS tape 1 videocassette (16 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
London : Shakespeare Globe Trust [distributor], This program documents the Shakespearean Globes throughout the world and the concept and construction of the latest globe in Britain, William Shakespeare's home land.
When completed, the International Shakespeare Globe Center will provide a place for everyone, in which to study and enjoy the distinctive plays, on their own stage, of the greatest exponent of the English language, and within yards of the original stage where William Shakespeare himself wrote and performed.
www.lib.berkeley.edu /pipermail/videolib/2003-December/002036.html   (320 words)

  
 City of London : Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
Here, Shakespeare worked and wrote many of his greatest plays.
London had to wait 350 years until Sam Wanamaker brought it back to life.
1970 - Sam Wanamaker establishes Globe Playhouse Trust with central objective of raising funds to rebuild the Globe.
www.city-of-london.com /shakespeares-globe-theatre.html   (1261 words)

  
 Sam Wanamaker Movies on VHS Tape @ Filmbug   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sam Wanamaker Movies on VHS Tape @ Filmbug
Movies on VHS tape with or related to Sam Wanamaker.
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1965)
www.filmbug.com /db/329767-22   (89 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Video: Baby Boom (1987)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
She moves to this Vermont home where everything you can think of goes wrong, she gets "yupped" and "noped" by everyone there, and basically goes crazy and vows she will go back to New York.
But then she meets Dr. Cooper (Sam Shepard) and everything slowly changes for her.
Given a chance to return to NYC with her baby food, she decides to stay on the farm.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6304112254?v=glance   (1823 words)

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