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John Singer (actor)
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John Singer may refer to: * Seymour Jonathan Singer (1924–2017), cell biologist and author * John Singer (homeschooler) (1931–1979), American killed in a standoff over homeschooling *John Singer (actor, born 1923) (1923–1987), English actor * John Singer (16th-century actor) (fl. 1594–1602?), English actor and dramatist *John Webb Singer (1819–1904), British businessman *John Singer, a mute character in Carson McCullers' novel ''The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter'' (1940) See also * Jonathan Singer (other) *John Singer Sargent John Singer Sargent (; January 12, 1856 – April 15, 1925) was an American expatriate artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian era, Edwardian-era luxury. He created roughly 900 oil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seymour Jonathan Singer
Seymour Jonathan Singer (May 23, 1924 – February 2, 2017) was an American cell biologist and professor of biology, emeritus, at the University of California, San Diego. Biography Singer was born in New York City and attended Columbia University, where he earned his B.A. in 1943. He received his doctorate from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1947. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Linus Pauling at Caltech during 1947–1948, where he, along with Harvey Itano, co-discovered the basis of abnormal hemoglobin in sickle-cell anemia, reported in the famous paper " Sickle Cell Anemia, a Molecular Disease". He worked for the U.S. Public Health Service between 1948 and 1950. He joined the Chemistry Department at Yale University as assistant professor in 1951, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1957 and Professor in 1960. There he developed the ferritin-antibody, which was the first electron-dense reagent used for cell staining in electron microscopy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Singer (homeschooler)
John Singer (January 6, 1931 – January 18, 1979) was a farmer in Utah who was killed in a stand-off with state government agents while resisting arrest. Biography Singer was born in New York City. His parents, who were German immigrants, returned to Dresden in 1932, where his father was a Nazi and joined the Schutzstaffel. Singer himself joined the Hitler Youth, an experience which led him to become racist, but hate regimentation. Singer's mother was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) but her husband forbade her from practicing her religion. They divorced in 1945 and Singer returned to the United States with his mother. Singer married Vickie Lemon in 1965 with whom he had seven children and lived on a farm in Marion, Utah in Summit County. In 1970 Singer was excommunicated from the LDS Church for not "sustaining the presidency." In 1978 he entered into a second marriage with Shirley Black, who was still married to another man with four chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Singer (actor, Born 1923)
John Harold Singer (4 December 1923 – 7 July 1987), also known as Johnny Singer, was an English actor. Singer was born in Hastings, Sussex, England, and began as a child actor, popular in the 1930s, and known for ''Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street'' (1936). In later years he continued to act in numerous films, including '' In Which We Serve'' (1942) and '' The Cruel Sea'' (1953). He died on 7 July 1987 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. His son, Steven Singer, became a TV scriptwriter.Steven Singer , BFI Filmography * '' Further Up the Creek'' (1958) – as despatch rider * '' Track the Man Down'' (1955) – as police detective (uncredited) * '' Up to His Neck'' (1954) – as R/T rating (uncredited) * ''Betrayed'' (1954) – as paratrooper (uncredited) * ''Forbidden Cargo'' (1954) – as seaman (uncredited) * ''The Cruel Sea'' (1953) – as Gray * '' Come Back Peter'' (1953) as Ted * ''The Brave Don't Cry'' (1952) – as Tam Stewart * '' Whispering Smith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Singer (16th-century Actor)
John Singer (fl. 1594–1602?) was an English actor and dramatist. Biography Singer was with Queen Elizabeth's company and the admiral's (Lord Charles Howard, earl of Nottingham) at the Rose Theatre from 1594 to 1602. He played the part of Assinego the clown in ‘Tamar Cham’ on 2 October 1602, and received from Philip Henslowe Philip Henslowe ( – 6 January 1616) was an Elizabethan theatrical entrepreneur and impresario. Henslowe's modern reputation rests on the survival of his diary, a primary source for information about the theatrical world of Renaissance London. ... on 13 January 1602 the sum of 5l. for his ‘playe called Syngers Vollentarye.’ He is said by Collier to have been ‘a great popular favourite, and the leader of a company of comedians, not at the Globe or Blackfriars, but at some theatre where the was well known and greatly applauded’ (Engl. Dram. Pœt. iii. 209, ed. 1879). Collier credits him with the authorship of a collection of his merry sallie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Webb Singer
John Webb Singer (23 February 1819 – 6 May 1904) was an English businessman who created a substantial art foundry in Frome, Somerset, known for its statuary and ecclesiastical products. He had assembled immense collections of antique jewellery, rings, wine glasses, snuffboxes, stamps. He took a prominent part in both local and national politics, serving on the Local Board and its successor the Urban District Council, founding the Frome Art School and helping to create the Frome Literary and Scientific Institution (now the Frome Museum). He worked with the leading bronze sculptors of his day. Early life John Webb was born in Frome, Somerset, the only son of Joseph Singer by his second wife. Joseph was an architect and builder, though he was listed as a mason at his son's birth, living in the Butts, and as a carpenter on a daughter's birth in 1820. John Webb was named after his uncle, a farmer at Roddenberry near Longleat, who had been murdered six years before. His fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
''The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter'' (1940) is the debut novel of American author Carson McCullers, who was 23 at the time of publication. It is a Southern Gothic novel about a deaf man named John Singer and the people he encounters in a 1930s mill town in the U.S. state of Georgia. The novel was received positively both as a realist commentary on social conflict and as a parable about fascism. Title The title appears to originate from the poem "The Lonely Hunter", written by the Scottish poet William Sharp under the pseudonym Fiona MacLeod, which uses the refrain "But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill." Plot The book begins with a focus on the relationship between friends John Singer and Spiros Antonapoulos, who are both deaf and have lived together for several years. Due to Antanapoulos' increasingly frequent alcohol-induced misbehaviour, he is put into an insane asylum far away from town, despite Singer's attempts at intervention. Now alone, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Singer (other)
Jonathan Singer may refer to: * Jonathan Singer (politician), Colorado state legislator * Jonathan Singer (journalist), progressive blogger * Jonathan M. Singer, podiatrist and photographer * Jon Singer, Shockwave Radio Theater * Seymour Jonathan Singer Seymour Jonathan Singer (May 23, 1924 – February 2, 2017) was an American cell biologist and professor of biology, emeritus, at the University of California, San Diego. Biography Singer was born in New York City and attended Columbia Univer ..., American cell biologist See also * John Singer (other) {{hndis, Singer, Jonathan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
