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John M. Crowther
John M. Crowther (March 3, 1939 – April 27, 2018) was an American artist and writer known for the cartoons he produced for '' Mad'' magazine, oil portraits, and his writing for television and film. Career Crowther was born to Florence and Bosley Crowther, a film critic for ''The New York Times''. In 1957, he graduated from the George School of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, followed by Princeton in 1961. He studied art and theater in school, and had two successful performances on Broadway. His father's interest in Italian foreign films led him to furthering acting in Italy. In total he is credited with writing nine movies and television series; and at least six books. Outside of writing, Crowther performed in his biographical one-man shows that toured the United States called ''Einstein: A Stage Portrait''. and taught painting with his wife in Tuscany, Italy. He was a member of the Portrait Society of America. Bibliography Novels * ''Firebase'' (1975) Comics collections * ''Out ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bosley Crowther
Francis Bosley Crowther Jr. (July 13, 1905 – March 7, 1981) was an American journalist, writer, and film critic for ''The New York Times'' for 27 years. His work helped shape the careers of many actors, directors and screenwriters, though some of his reviews of popular films have been seen as unnecessarily harsh. Crowther was an advocate of foreign-language films in the 1950s and 1960s, particularly those of Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Ingmar Bergman, and Federico Fellini. Life and career Crowther was born Francis Bosley Crowther Jr. in Lutherville, Maryland, the son of Eliza Hay (née Leisenring, 1877–1960) and Francis Bosley Crowther (1874–1950). As a child, Crowther moved to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he published a neighborhood newspaper, ''The Evening Star''. His family moved to Washington, D.C., and Crowther graduated from Western High School in 1922. After two years of prep school at Woodberry Forest School, he entered Princeton University, wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damned River
''Damned River'' is a 1989 American action film directed by Michael Schroeder and co-written by John Crowther and Bayard Johnson. The film stars Stephen Shellen, Lisa Aliff, John Terlesky, Marc Poppel, Bradford Bancroft and Louis van Niekerk. The film was released on October 13, 1989, by United Artists. Cast *Stephen Shellen as Ray *Lisa Aliff as Anne *John Terlesky John Todd Terlesky (born May 30, 1961) is an American actor, film director, television director and screenwriter. As an actor, he is known for playing Deathstalker in the 1987 film ''Deathstalker II'', and Mike in ''Chopping Mall'' (1986). Life ... as Carl *Marc Poppel as Luke *Bradford Bancroft as Jerry *Louis van Niekerk as Von Hoenigen *Leslie Mongezi as Mavuso *Moses Ncube as Young Boy *Mtcheso Ncube as Witchdoctor *Todd Brownell as Von Hoenigen's Man *Joe Siabe as Von Hoenigen's Man *Tetrex Tshuma as Von Hoenigen's Man *Boniface Chivuvenga as Von Hoenigen's Man References External links * 1989 fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princeton University Alumni
Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. The institution moved to Newark, New Jersey, Newark in 1747 and then to its Mercer County, New Jersey, Mercer County campus in Princeton nine years later. It officially became a university in 1896 and was subsequently renamed Princeton University. The university is governed by the Trustees of Princeton University and has an endowment of $37.7 billion, the largest List of colleges and universities in the United States by endowment, endowment per student in the United States. Princeton provides undergraduate education, undergraduate and graduate education, graduate instruction in the hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George School Alumni
George may refer to: Names * George (given name) * George (surname) People * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Papagheorghe, also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George, son of Andrew I of Hungary Places South Africa * George, South Africa, a city ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa, a city * George, Missouri, a ghost town * George, Washington, a city * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Computing * George (algebraic compiler) also known as 'Laning and Zierler system', an algebraic compiler by Laning and Zierler in 1952 * GEORGE (computer), early computer built by Argonne National Laboratory in 1957 * GEORGE (operating system), a range of operating systems (George 1–4) for the ICT 1900 range of computers in the 1960s * GEORGE (programming language), an autocode system invented by Charles Leona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Deaths
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked below. 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 Earlier years ''Deaths in years earlier than this can usually be found in the main articles of the years.'' See also * Lists of deaths by day * Deaths by year (category) {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1939 Births
This year also marks the start of the World War II, Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history. Events Events related to World War II have a "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 ** Coming into effect in Nazi Germany of: *** The Protection of Young Persons Act (Germany), Protection of Young Persons Act, passed on April 30, 1938, the Working Hours Regulations. *** The small businesses obligation to maintain adequate accounting. *** The Jews name change decree. ** With his traditional call to the New Year in Nazi Germany, Führer and Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler addresses the members of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). ** The Hewlett-Packard technology and scientific instruments manufacturing company is founded by Bill Hewlett and David Packard, in a garage in Palo Alto, California, considered the birthplace of Silicon Valley. ** Philipp Etter takes over as President of the Swiss Confederation. ** The Third Soviet Five Year P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gahan Wilson
Gahan Allen Wilson (February 18, 1930 – November 21, 2019) was an American author, cartoonist and illustrator known for his cartoons depicting horror-fantasy situations. Biography Wilson was born in Evanston, Illinois, and was inspired by the work of the satiric '' Mad'' and '' Punch'' cartoonists, and 1950s science fiction films. His cartoons and prose fiction appeared regularly in ''Playboy'', ''Collier's'' and ''The New Yorker'' for nearly 50 years. He was a regular contributor to the '' National Lampoon'' humor magazine. He published cartoons and film reviews for ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction''. From 1992 through end of publication, he prepared all the front covers for the annual book ''Passport to World Band Radio''. Wilson was a movie review columnist for '' The Twilight Zone Magazine'' and a book critic for ''Realms of Fantasy'' magazine. Wilson wrote and illustrated a short story for Harlan Ellison's anthology '' Again, Dangerous Visions'' (1972). He als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marvin Townsend
Marvin Townsend (July 2, 1915 - November 26, 1999) was an American cartoonist known for his gag comics featured in various publications including ''Treasure Chest Fun and Fact'', ''Cartoon Spice'', and pulp magazines such as ''Amazing Stories'', '' Argosy'' and others. Townsend was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Bibliography A significant collection of his materials, including fan mail and a Certificate of Merit for cartooning, are housed in the Syracuse University Syracuse University (informally 'Cuse or SU) is a Private university, private research university in Syracuse, New York, United States. It was established in 1870 with roots in the Methodist Episcopal Church but has been nonsectarian since 1920 ... Library. *''Laugh Out'' (1970) *''Ghostly Ghastly Cartoons'' (1971) *''Laugh It Up'' (1974) As Illustrator *''Moontoons Jokes & Riddles'' (1970) *''Fun for All: Jokes and Cartoons to Make You Laugh'' (1977) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Townsend, Marvin 1915 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angus Oblong
Angus Oblong (born David Adam Walker; August 28, 1976) is an American writer and illustrator best known for his work '' Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children'' (1999) and the 2001 animated television series ''The Oblongs''. The character Milo—which appeared in his ''Creepy Susie'' book—was based on a young version of himself; the Milo that appeared on the television show ''The Oblongs'' was a less exaggerated version of the character from the book. Oblong had many favorite cartoons growing up, such as ''Looney Tunes'', ''Animaniacs'', ''Freakazoid!'', and ''Earthworm Jim''. He was also influenced by distorted characters from the ''Dick and Jane'' books, Brothers Grimm fairy tales, and some real life oddities in ''Ripley's Believe It or Not!''. Early years Oblong was born David Adam Walker on August 28, 1976, in Sacramento, California, to Elizabeth Marie (née Angus), a former preschool teacher turned homemaker, and Dr. Robert David Walker, MD, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorin Morgan-Richards
Lorin Morgan-Richards (born February 16, 1975) is an American author, illustrator, and songwriter, primarily known for his young adult fiction and Gothic Western comedy series ''The Goodbye Family''. In the past, Morgan-Richards served as the publisher of ''Celtic Family Magazine'', and was the founder of the Los Angeles St. David's Day Festival, one of the largest Welsh festivals of its kind in the United States. Morgan-Richards was born in Beebetown, Ohio, and is of Swiss people, Swiss (Amish) and Welsh people, Welsh descent. Early years Morgan-Richards was raised in an old converted one-room schoolhouse in Beebetown, Ohio, that had a well for water. His mother (a student of fine art) taught him the basics of drawing and music composition on the family pump organ. He also credited his imagination on the plentiful books his family owned, creative isolation, and the sheer number of animals they took care of, many of which he incorporated into his early drawings and writings. M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Larson
Gary Larson (born August 14, 1950) is an American cartoonist who created ''The Far Side'', a single-panel cartoon series that was syndicated internationally to more than 1,900 newspapers for fifteen years. The series ended on January 1, 1995, though since 2020 Larson has published additional comics online. His twenty-three books of collected cartoons have combined sales of more than forty-five million copies. Early life and education Larson was born and raised in University Place, Washington, in suburban Tacoma, Washington, Tacoma, the son of Verner, a car salesman, and Doris, a secretary. He graduated from Curtis Senior High School in University Place and from Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, Pullman with a degree in communications. During high school and college, he played jazz guitar and banjo. Larson said his family has "a morbid sense of humor", and that he was influenced by the "paranoid" sense of humor of his older brother, Dan. Dan played pranks on G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Crumb
Robert Dennis Crumb (; born August 30, 1943) is an American artist who often signs his work R. Crumb. His work displays a nostalgia for American folk culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and satire of contemporary American culture. Crumb contributed to many of the seminal works of the underground comix movement in the 1960s, including being a founder of the first successful underground comix publication, ''Zap Comix'', contributing to all 16 issues. He was additionally contributing to the '' East Village Other'' and many other publications, including a variety of one-off and anthology comics. During this time, inspired by psychedelics and cartoons from the 1920s and 1930s, he introduced a wide variety of characters that became extremely popular, including countercultural icons Fritz the Cat and Mr. Natural, and the images from his '' Keep On Truckin''' strip. Sexual themes abounded in all these projects, often shading into scatological and pornographic com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
