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Kevin Smith (other)
Kevin Smith (born 1970) is an American filmmaker, actor and comedian Kevin Smith may also refer to: Sports American football *Kevin Smith (tight end) (born 1969), American football player for the Los Angeles Raiders and the Green Bay Packers *Kevin Smith (cornerback) (born 1970), American football player for the Dallas Cowboys *Kevin Smith (running back) (born 1986), American football player * Kevin Smith (wide receiver) (born 1991), American football wide receiver Australian rules football * Kevin R. Smith (1932–1991), Australian rules footballer for North Melbourne and Footscray * Kevin J. Smith (1934–2018), Australian rules footballer for Footscray *Kevin Smith (footballer, born 1942) (1942–2003), Australian rules footballer for Richmond Other sports * Kevin Smith (sailor) (born 1957), Canadian Olympic sailor *Kevin Smith (cricketer) (born 1957), English cricketer * Kevin Smith (canoeist) (born 1961), British sprint canoer *Kevin Smith (speedway rider) (born 1961), Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Smith
Kevin Patrick Smith (born August 2, 1970) is an American filmmaker, actor, comedian, comic book writer, author, YouTuber, and podcaster. He came to prominence with the low-budget comedy buddy film '' Clerks'' (1994), which he wrote, directed, co-produced, and acted in as the character Silent Bob of stoner duo Jay and Silent Bob, characters who also appeared in Smith's later films '' Mallrats'' (1995), '' Chasing Amy'' (1997), ''Dogma'' (1999), '' Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back'' (2001), '' Clerks II'' (2006), '' Jay and Silent Bob Reboot'' (2019), and '' Clerks III'' (2022) which are set primarily in his home state of New Jersey. While not strictly sequential, the films have crossover plot elements, character references, and a shared canon known as the " View Askewniverse", named after Smith's production company View Askew Productions, which he co-founded with Scott Mosier. Since 2011, Smith has mostly made horror films, including '' Red State'' (2011) and the "comedy horr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Smith (pitcher)
Kevin Patrick Smith (born May 13, 1997) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Gastonia Ghost Peppers of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. He was drafted by the New York Mets in the seventh round of the 2018 Major League Baseball draft. Career Smith attended Dunwoody High School in Dunwoody, Georgia, and played college baseball at the University of Georgia. In 2016 and 2017, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Orleans Firebirds of the Cape Cod Baseball League. New York Mets Smith was drafted by the New York Mets in the seventh round, with the 200th overall selection, of the 2018 Major League Baseball draft. Smith made his professional debut with the Low–A Brooklyn Cyclones, going 4–1 with a 0.76 ERA over innings. He started 2019 with the High–A St. Lucie Mets before being promoted to the Double–A Binghamton Rumble Ponies. Over 23 starts between the two clubs, Smith went 8–7 with a 3.15 ERA, striking out 130 over 117 innings. Balt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin H
Kevin () is the anglicized form of the Irish masculine given name (; mga, Caoimhghín ; sga, Cóemgein ; Latinized as ). It is composed of "dear; noble"; Old Irish and ("birth"; Old Irish ). The variant '' Kevan'' is anglicized from , an Irish diminutive form.''A Dictionary of First Names''. Oxford University Press (2007) s.v. "Kevin". The feminine version of the name is (anglicised as ''Keeva'' or ''Kweeva''). History Saint Kevin (d. 618) founded Glendalough abbey in the Kingdom of Leinster in 6th-century Ireland. Canonized in 1903, he is one of the patron saints of the Archdiocese of Dublin. Caomhán of Inisheer, the patron saint of Inisheer, Aran Islands, is properly anglicized ''Cavan'' or ''Kevan'', but often also referred to as "Kevin". The name was rarely given before the 20th century. In Ireland an early bearer of the anglicised name was Kevin Izod O'Doherty (1823–1905) a Young Irelander Young Ireland ( ga, Éire Óg, ) was a political and cultural ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Smith (editor)
Kevin Smith was an active British science fiction fan from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, producing such science fiction fanzines as ''Drilkjis'' (with Dave Langford) and ''Dot'', writing for fanzines (''Nabu'', ''Space Junk'', and others), chairing British science fiction conventions, editing a 1979 anthology of British fanwriting titled ''Mood 70'' for Seacon '79, the 37th World Science Fiction Convention, and serving from 1980 to 1982 as editor of ''Vector'', the critical journal of the British Science Fiction Association. He won the TransAtlantic Fan Fund The Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund, often known as ''TAFF'', is a crowdfunding project created in 1953 for the purpose of providing funds to bring well-known and popular members of science fiction fandom familiar to fans on both sides of the ocean, acro ... in 1982. References Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{scifi-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Smith (conservationist)
Kevin David Smith (21 November 1953 – 16 August 2005) was a New Zealand conservationist. Smith was born in Ōwhango, a small town in the King Country. He was active in the area of forest conservation. In 1985 Smith was employed by Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand as a West Coast conservation officer before being appointed as the Society's conservation director in 1989. He remained as the director until 2000 when he was employed as an adviser to Minister of Conservation Sandra Lee-Vercoe. He continued as an adviser to Minister of Conservation Chris Carter. He has been credited as playing a major role in conservation efforts in New Zealand, including being instrumental in ending the logging of native forests on the West Coast. He died suddenly on 16 August 2005 while cycling with his daughter in Wellington Wellington ( mi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara or ) is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Smith (businessman)
Sir Kevin Smith (born 22 May 1954) is a British businessman who was the chief executive, from January 2003 to 31 December 2011, of GKN plc. He joined GKN in November 1999 as managing director of GKN Aerospace. Born in Nelson, Lancashire, he attended Burnley College and the University of Central Lancashire, earning a bachelor's degree in business studies. Prior to GKN, he had been with British Aerospace (BAE plc) since 1980, first as a contracts officer. He advanced into the Commercial Directorate, where, by February 1990, he had become commercial director, as well as having been appointed to the Military Aircraft Ltd board. He served, lastly, as group managing director of the New Business division. Smith was created a Knight Bachelor in 2007. Smith joined Unitas Capital as a partner in 2012. Smith joined Rolls-Royce in 2016. Boards * Former non-executive director of Scottish and Southern Energy, Scottish and Southern Energy plc. * Served on the boards of: :: Saab AB :: Panavi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kojaque
Kevin Smith (born 1995), known professionally as Kojaque , is an Irish rapper and record producer from Cabra, Dublin. He is also a visual artist and filmmaker. Early life Smith grew up in Cabra, Dublin. His parents were originally from Co. Cavan. His father passed away when he was a child. He has three brothers, all of whom are also musicians. He attended St Declans College. He studied fine art in Dublin Institute of Technology and in 2017 received the RHA Student Graduate Award. Career Kojaque released his first single, Midnight Flower, in 2015. The music video for the song received media attention, as it featured the artist holding his breath underwater for three minutes while rapping the track. The mixtape attached to the single, Sunday Roast, was released in 2016. Kojaque released ''Deli Daydreams'', a concept album about the life of a deli worker, in 2018. It was nominated for the Choice Music Prize. In 2021, Kojaque released ''Town's Dead''. The album deals with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lovebug Starski
Kevin Smith (May 16, 1960 – February 8, 2018), best known by his stage name Lovebug Starski, was an American MC, musician, and record producer. He began his career as a record boy in 1971 as hip-hop first appeared in the Bronx, and he eventually became a DJ at the Disco Fever club in 1978. He is one of two people who may have come up with the term "hip-hop". Starski claimed that he coined the phrase, while trading the two words back and forth, while improvising lines with Keef Cowboy of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, at a farewell party for a friend who was headed into the Army. Career Starski recorded his first single, "Positive Life," on the Tayster record label in 1981. (The British Group MARRS would sample this in 1987 with the No. 1 single " Pump Up the Volume".) Later, he recorded a song for the soundtrack of the 1986 film ''Rappin, which was released on Atlantic Records, before recording his first album, ''House Rocker'', on Epic/CBS Records. This featured ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Smith (South African Actor)
''Isidingo'' is a South African soap opera, with dialogue mostly in English and isiXhosa. The series premiered on SABC 3 in July 1998 and was broadcast evenings on SABC 3 from Monday to Friday at 19:00. Until 2001 it was titled ''Isidingo: The Need''. Created by Gray Hofmeyr, the story is loosely based on another popular soap opera created by Hofmeyr, ''The Villagers'', that was broadcast during the apartheid era in South Africa. Former series Head Writers include Neil McCarthy, Mitzi Booysen, Ilse van Hermert, Christian Blomkamp, Busisiwe Ntintili, Loyiso Maqoma, Liam J Stratton, Rosalind Butler, Rohan Dickson, Bongi Ndaba, and Duduzile Zamantungwa Mabaso. On 29 November 2019 the SABC announced that the production had been cancelled, with the final broadcast being aired on 12 March 2020. Premise The main characters include the Haines family, the Matabanes, Vusi Moletsane the mine manager and the various residents of the boarding house owned by Maggie Webster. Barker Haines ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Smith (New Zealand Actor)
Kevin Tod Smith (16 March 1963 – 15 February 2002) was a New Zealand actor and musician, best known for starring as the Greek god of war, Ares, in the TV series ''Hercules: The Legendary Journeys'' and in its two spin-offs – '' Xena: Warrior Princess'' and ''Young Hercules''. He died in a fall at a film studio in China. Early life Kevin Smith was born in Auckland in 1963. His mother was of Tongan and German ancestry and his father (of English descent) hailed from New Zealand. Smith's family moved to the South Island town of Timaru when he was eleven. He attended Timaru Boys' High School from 1976 to 1979. He was involved in the drama club at his high school. Smith played in rock and roll bands during high school, working out each morning at the gym and watching television in the afternoon.''New Zealand Herald'' (17 February 2003). He painted and played rugby and hoped to become a member of New Zealand's world-famous rugby team, the All Blacks. At the age of 17, Smith mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Smith (musician)
Kevin Smith (born February 20, 1956, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American composer, arranger, producer, vocalist and keyboardist who is Chicago-based. He is a current member of the rhythm and blues band known as the Chicago Catz. Biography Musical education and influences As a child, Smith always listened to the music around him, from church broadcasts with his grandmother to television shows like American Bandstand, Shindig!, Rock Concert, Midnight Special, and Lawrence Welk. On the radio, he heard jazz, country, rock & roll, classical and R&B. When he was about seven or eight a neighbor had a piano and Smith learned boogie-woogie in F sharp and " Heart & Soul" in C by ear. He started playing the saxophone in the fourth grade, when he learned to read music. He attended Thornwood High School, then Kishwaukee College and Northern Illinois University. Kevin's musical influences are Maurice Ravel, Clarence Wheeler, Chuck Mangione, Quincy Jones, Leonard Bernstein, James Brow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Smith (Australian Actor)
Kevin Smith (1953–2005) was an actor who worked for with the Belvoir Theatre Company in Sydney playing roles in Shakespeare and modern works. He was also known as the narrator of Dreamtime animations and the storyteller of Dreamtime stories on Australian TV. He narrated the stage version of Tim Winton's ''Cloudstreet'' that toured Australia. Smith was the eldest of seven children born to Keith and Patricia Smith. His mother was Murramarang; his father Walbunga. At the end of the 1960s, Smith moved to Sydney, where he trained as a boxer and got an apprenticeship as a mould maker. After attending a theatre workshop, Smith found his niche and his acting career began. He played many support roles on TV and in film. His last performance on film was in the Ray Lawrence film ''Jindabyne Jindabyne () is a town in south-east New South Wales, Australia that overlooks Lake Jindabyne near the Snowy Mountains, in Snowy Monaro Regional Council. It is a popular holiday destinati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
