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Death By Lightning
''Death By Lightning'' is an upcoming American historical drama miniseries created by Mike Makowsky, based on the 2011 non-fiction book ''Destiny of the Republic'' by Candice Millard. Premise The show depicts the presidency of James A. Garfield, leading up to his assassination by Charles J. Guiteau, who had been an admirer of his. Cast Main * Michael Shannon as James A. Garfield * Matthew Macfadyen as Charles J. Guiteau * Nick Offerman as Chester A. Arthur * Betty Gilpin as Lucretia Garfield * Bradley Whitford as James Blaine * Shea Whigham as Roscoe Conkling Recurring * Barry Shabaka Henley as Blanche Bruce * Paula Malcomson as Franny Scoville * Tuppence Middleton as Kate Chase Sprague * Laura Marcus as Mollie Garfield * Vondie Curtis-Hall as Frederick Douglass * Željko Ivanek as Doctor Willard Bliss * Archie Fisher as Joe Brown * Kyle Soller as Robert Todd Lincoln * Ben Miles as George Scoville * Madeleine Crow as Mary Scoville * Evelyn Crow as Bertha Scoville * Shaun Park ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Makowsky
Mike Makowsky (born May 9, 1991) is an American screenwriter and producer. He wrote the true crime dramedy film '' Bad Education'', which premiered on HBO in 2020. He has also written the films ''Take Me'' and ''I Think We're Alone Now''. Early life and career Makowsky was born in Bayside, New York, and raised in the Long Island suburb of Roslyn. In 2004, while he was in the seventh grade at the Roslyn Union Free School District, school superintendent Dr. Frank Tassone and various administrative colleagues were arrested in what would become the largest public school embezzlement in American history. Makowsky graduated from Roslyn High School and Brown University, then moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career as screenwriter. His first feature film credit was the independent dark comedy '' Take Me'', which was produced by the Duplass brothers and distributed by Netflix. He then wrote and produced his second film, ''I Think We're Alone Now'', which was helmed by Reed Morano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucretia Garfield
Lucretia Garfield ( Rudolph; April 19, 1832 – March 14, 1918) was the first lady of the United States from March to September 1881, as the wife of James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States. Born in Garrettsville, Ohio, Garfield first met her husband at Geauga Seminary. After a long courtship, they married in 1858. Their early years were difficult, as James was often away and became romantically involved with other women. They would eventually have seven children together, five of whom lived to adulthood. Highly educated and knowledgeable of Washington politics, Garfield was a regular adviser for her husband, and she assisted him in his front porch campaign for the presidency. She was well regarded during her brief period in the White House, but after only a few months contracted malaria and went to Long Branch, New Jersey, to recuperate. On July 2 1881, her husband was shot and mortally wounded by Charles Guiteau. He remained on his deathbed for months, d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyle Soller
Kyle William Soller (born July 1, 1983) is an American-born, UK-based film, stage, and television actor. His accolades include three ''Evening Standard'' Theatre Awards as well as the 2019 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance in '' The Inheritance'', staged at the Young Vic Theatre in 2018. Soller has appeared in films such as ''Anna Karenina'' (2012) and '' Marrowbone'' (2017), and on television in '' Poldark'' (2015–2016), '' Andor'' (2022–2025), and '' Bodies'' (2023). Early life and education Soller was born on July 1, 1983, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and raised in Alexandria, Virginia. He attended Mount Vernon High School before going on to study art history the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. During his third year of studies, he spent a semester abroad studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, and was offered admission into the academy. Soller left the College of William & Mary and relocated to London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Stanley-Brown
Joseph Stanley-Brown (February 3rd, 1858 - May 17th, 1941) served as private secretary to the twentieth President of the United States, James A. Garfield. He would completely devote himself to Garfield, as seen when Garfield asked "What can I do for you?" at their first meeting, prompting Brown to respond, "It's not what you can do for me, but what I can do for you, sir." Brown would serve as Garfield's secretary during his brief presidency, controlling the office-seekers that ran rampant due to the spoils system, which Garfield's vice president Chester Arthur would eventually reform. He married President Garfield's daughter Mary "Mollie" Garfield in 1888. Brown was born in Washington, D.C. and attended Washington, D.C. public schools where he learned shorthand and typing. He went to the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University and studied geology. Brown served as a stenographer for John Wesley Powell, the founder of the United States Geological Survey. Brown was also involve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor Willard Bliss
Doctor Willard Bliss (August 18, 1825 – February 21, 1889; his given name was ''Doctor'') was an American physician and pseudo-expert in ballistic trauma, who treated President of the United States James A. Garfield after his Assassination of James A. Garfield, shooting in July 1881 until his death two and a half months later. Early life and career D.W. Bliss was born in Brutus, New York, to Obediah Bliss (1792–1863) and Marilla Pool (1795–1857). Bliss's first and middle names (Doctor and Willard) were inspired by Samuel Willard (physician), Samuel Willard, a surgeon from New England. During his youth, the Bliss family lived in Savoy, Massachusetts. Bliss had one brother, Zenas (July 4, 1832 – April 23, 1877). Bliss treated Zachary Taylor for malaria at Fort Jesup, Louisiana, in 1844. Bliss studied at Cleveland Medical College, submitting his thesis on ''Pseudarthrosis or False-Joint'' in 1849. He advertised and sold cundurango, a product of ''Ruehssia cundurango'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Željko Ivanek
Željko Ivanek (; ; born August 15, 1957) is a Slovenian-American actor of Croat descent. Ivanek's film credits include '' Courage Under Fire'' (1996), '' Donnie Brasco'' (1997), '' Hannibal'', '' Black Hawk Down'' (both 2001), '' Unfaithful'' (2002), '' The Manchurian Candidate'' (2004), '' Live Free or Die Hard'' (2007), '' The Bourne Legacy'', '' Argo'', '' Seven Psychopaths'' (all 2012). He has appeared in several films by Lars von Trier, including '' Dancer in the Dark'' (2000), '' Dogville'' (2003), and '' Manderlay'' (2005). In 2017, he appeared in '' Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri'', receiving a Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance. Ivanek portrayed Ray Fiske on the FX television series '' Damages'' (2007–2010), for which he won the 2008 Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor. He also appeared as Ed Danvers on '' Homicide: Life on the Street'' (1993–1999) and Russell Jackson on the CBS drama '' Madam Secretary'' (2014–2019), and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, February 14, 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, Abolitionism in the United States, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He was the most important leader of the movement for African-American Civil rights movement (1865–1896), civil rights in the 19th century. After escaping from slavery in Maryland in 1838, Douglass became a national leader of the Abolitionism in the United States, abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York (state), New York and gained fame for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Accordingly, he was described by abolitionists in his time as a living counterexample to claims by supporters of slavery that enslaved people lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Northern United States, Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been enslaved. It was in response to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vondie Curtis-Hall
Vondie Curtis-Hall (born September 30, 1950) is an American actor, film director, and television director. As an actor, he is known for his role as Dr. Dennis Hancock on the CBS medical drama '' Chicago Hope'' created by David E. Kelley and as Ben Urich in the Marvel Cinematic Universe TV series '' Daredevil''. He wrote and directed the cult film '' Gridlock'd''. Early life Curtis-Hall was born in Detroit, Michigan Michigan ( ) is a peninsular U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, ..., the son of Angeline, a nurse, and Curtis Hall, a construction company owner. Designer Kevan Hall is the brother of Vondie. They also have a sister, Sherrie. All of them attended Presentation Our Lady of Victory grade school in Detroit where they were taught by the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the first and oldes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Chase Sprague
Katherine Jane Chase Sprague (August 13, 1840 – July 31, 1899) was a Washington, D.C., Washington socialite, society hostess during the American Civil War. During the war, she married Rhode Island Governor William Sprague (1830-1915), William Sprague. She was the daughter of Ohio politician Salmon P. Chase, who served as United States Secretary of the Treasury, Treasury Secretary during President Abraham Lincoln's first administration and later Chief Justice of the United States. She was a strong supporter of her widowed father's presidential ambitions that, had he been successful, would have made her acting First Lady of the United States, First Lady. Early life Kate was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the daughter of Salmon Chase and his second wife Eliza Ann Smith. Eliza Chase died shortly after Kate's fifth birthday; Chase later married Sara Bella Ludlow with whom Kate had a difficult relationship. Kate Chase was educated at the Haines School in New York City, where she learn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
