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Mandell
Mandell is a surname and a given name: Notable people with the surname include: *Arnold J. Mandell, American neuroscientist and psychiatrist *Barbara Mandell (1920–1998), British television journalist and travel writer *Daniel Mandell (1895–1987), American film editor *Eleni Mandell (born 1969), American singer-songwriter * Koby Mandell, Israeli-American child, killed in 2001 by Palestinian terrorists *Richard Mandell (born 1968), American golf course architect *Robert Mandell, American animated series and film director and producer *Robert Mandell (conductor) (born 1929), American conductor *Sammy Mandell (born 1904), boxer *Sherri Mandell, Israeli author and activist *Steve Mandell (–2018), American bluegrass guitarist and banjoist Notable people with the given name include: *Edward Mandell House (1858–1938), American diplomat, politician, and presidential advisor *Mandell Berman (born 1917), businessman and philanthropist * Mandell Creighton (1843–1901), English histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandell Creighton
Mandell Creighton (; 5 July 1843 – 14 January 1901) was a British historian and a bishop of the Church of England. A scholar of the Renaissance papacy, Creighton was the first occupant of the Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Dixie Chair of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge, a professorship established around the time that history was emerging as an independent academic discipline. He was also the first editor of the ''English Historical Review'', the oldest English language academic journal in the field of history. Creighton had a second career as a cleric in the Church of England. He served as a Perpetual curacy, parish priest in Embleton, Northumberland and later, successively, as a Canon Residentiary of Worcester Cathedral, the Bishop of Peterborough and the Bishop of London. His moderation and worldliness drew praise from Queen Victoria and won notice from politicians. It was widely thought at the time that Creighton would have become ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Mandell (conductor)
Robert Mandell (22 August 1929 – 25 April 2020) was an American-born British-based conductor. He conducted family and children's concerts, and stage musicals. Biography Early life and education Robert Mandell was born in New York City in August 1929, and was the youngest of four children. At the age of eight, Robert acted on the stage and in radio shows under the professional names Bobby Lee and Robert Lee. He worked on noted American radio shows such as '' Let's Pretend'' and ''Ellery Queen''. His Broadway stage credits include the original season of ''Lady in the Dark'' with Gertrude Lawrence.''Lady In the Dark'' also marked a personal triumph for Danny Kaye in that it is the Broadway show that launched his major entertainment career. Mandell played Tad Lincoln in ''Yours, A. Lincoln'', starring Vincent Price.''The New York Times'' review of ''Yours A. Lincoln'' by Paul Horgan, based on the Otto Eisenschmidl book ''Why Was Lincoln Murdered?''. Vincent Price was in the leadin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder Of Koby Mandell And Yosef Ishran
The murders of Koby Mandell and Yosef Ishran occurred on 8 May 2001, when two Jewish teenagers, Yaakov "Koby" Mandell and Yosef Ishran, were killed on the outskirts of the Israeli settlement of Tekoa in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where they lived with their families. The identity of the killers has never been determined, though Israel and a number of sources state that unidentified Palestinian terrorists were responsible. Koby Mandell was an Israeli-American, his family having emigrated from the United States to Israel in 1996, and the murders resulted in legislation by the U.S. Congress aimed at strengthening the U.S. response to the killing of Americans overseas. In response to his death, Koby's parents set up the Koby Mandell Foundation to provide support for families bereaved by terrorist attacks. Disappearance and discovery Koby Mandell ( he, קובי מנדל) and Yosef Ishran ( he, יוסף איש-רן) were two Israeli teens, 13 and 14 years old. Koby was a citize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleni Mandell
Eleni Mandell is an American singer-songwriter. Since 2000, she has published albums through Zedtone Records in Toronto, Ontario, which in 2012 began licensing her releases to Yep Roc in the United States, and Make My Day in Europe. She is also a member of folk supergroup The Living Sisters with Inara George and Becky Stark. Mandell attended punk and underground rock shows while growing up in Los Angeles in the 1980s. She was inspired as a young songwriter by Tom Waits, X, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, and Randy Newman. Chuck E. Weiss, a socialite musician and associate of Tom Waits, was a mentor to Mandell. Eleni Mandell's first album, ''Wishbone'' (1998), was produced by Jon Brion. Her second album, ''Thrill,'' was released in 2000, earning her comparisons to PJ Harvey and Tom Waits. Around 2001, ''The New Yorker'' magazine described Mandell "as perhaps the best unsigned artist in the business." In the same year, Mandell won the Los Angeles Regional Poll at The 1st Independent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sammy Mandell
Sammy Mandell (a.k.a. Samuel Mandella; February 5, 1904 – November 7, 1967) was an American World lightweight boxing champion from 1926-1930. Born in Rockford, Illinois, and named Salvatore Mandala, he was known as the "Rockford Sheik" due to his Rudolph Valentino like good looks and as the "Rockford Flash" due to his fast hands and foot speed. His father was an Albanian and his mother Italian. Statistical boxing website BoxRec ranks Mandell as the 13th greatest lightweight boxer to have ever lived. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1998. Amateur career Mandell developed his fighting skills at the Camp Grant barracks in Rockford, Illinois. He was too young and underweight to join the army, weighing 105 lbs. Despite this, his persistence in hanging around the wrestling and boxing training areas saw him gain permission to join in with the military personnel. The camp boxing instructor at the time was Fred Dyer, "The Singing Boxer," who reca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherri Mandell
Sherri Mandell is an Israeli-American author, mother and activist. She is best known as the mother of Koby Mandell, a thirteen-year-old American boy who was murdered near their home in Tekoa in May 2001. Sherri Mandell and her husband, Rabbi Seth Mandell, founded the Koby Mandell Foundation, and she wrote a book about the murder, ''The Blessing of a Broken Heart''. Education and professional history Mandell was born in New York and graduated from Cornell University in 1977. She received an M.A. in creative writing from Colorado State University and taught writing at the University of Maryland and at Penn State University. She is the author of ''Writers of the Holocaust,'' and has written for numerous magazines and journals, including ''The Washington Post'', ''The Denver Post'' and ''The Jerusalem Post'', and ''Hadassah Magazine''. She and her husband currently write a blog at JPost.coHeart Earned Wisdom Family Sherri and Seth Mandell briefly lived in Israel, where she gav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Mandell House
Edward Mandell House (July 26, 1858 – March 28, 1938) was an American diplomat, and an adviser to President Woodrow Wilson. He was known as Colonel House, although his rank was honorary and he had performed no military service. He was a highly influential back-stage politician in Texas before becoming a key supporter of the presidential bid of Wilson in 1912 by managing his campaign, beginning in July 1911. Having a self-effacing manner, he did not hold office but was an "executive agent", Wilson's chief adviser on European politics and diplomacy during World War I (1914–1918). He became a government official as one of the five American commissioners to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. In 1919, Wilson broke with House and many other top advisers, believing they had deceived him at Paris. Early years He was born July 26, 1858, in Houston, Texas, the last of seven children of Mary Elizabeth (Shearn) and Thomas William House Sr. His father was an emigrant from England by wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Mandell
Daniel Mandell (August 13, 1895 - June 8, 1987) was an American film editor with more than 70 film credits. His first editing credit was for '' The Turmoil'' in 1924. From '' Dodsworth'' (1936) to ''Porgy and Bess'' (1959), Mandell worked for Samuel Goldwyn Productions. He had notable collaborations with directors William Wyler (1933–1946) and Billy Wilder (1957–1966). Mandell's last credit was for ''The Fortune Cookie'' in 1966. Mandell won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for ''The Pride of the Yankees'' (1942; directed by Sam Wood), ''The Best Years of Our Lives'' (1946; directed by William Wyler), and ''The Apartment'' (1960; directed by Billy Wilder). No editor has won more than three Academy Awards, and only three others have won three times: Ralph Dawson, Michael Kahn, and Thelma Schoonmaker. Mandell was nominated for the Academy Award for two additional films, ''The Little Foxes'' (1941; directed by William Wyler) and ''Witness for the Prosecution'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Mandell
Allada Barbara Grenville Wells (15 July 1920 – 25 August 1998), known professionally as Barbara Mandell, was a British journalist, broadcaster, newsreader and travel writer. She became the United Kingdom's first female newsreader after she was recruited to present the Midday News on the newly launched Independent Television in 1955. Life and career Mandell was born in London, England, daughter of Royal Navy Lieutenant-Commander Yvo Hedworth Fortescue Grenville Wells, later deputy editor of '' The Rand Daily Mail'', and Clara Isabella, daughter of Henry Wheaton, of The Abbey, Cambridge. The Wells family were shipbuilders who rose to the rank of landed gentry, owning Bickley Hall, Kent and Holmewood, Huntingdonshire until selling them during the nineteenth century. Yvo Wells was a maternal grandson of Sir John Croft, 2nd Baronet, and on his father's side a great-grandson of the politician William Jolliffe, 1st Baron Hylton and a descendant of the Barons Cottesloe and Earls o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Mandell
Stephen Arnold "Steve" Mandell ( – March 14, 2018) was an American bluegrass guitarist and banjoist. Most notably, he is known for the 1973 instrumental hit "Dueling Banjos," recorded in duo with Eric Weissberg and was awarded a Grammy. Life and career Mandell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and grew up in Mount Vernon and New Rochelle, New York. In the early 1960s, along with mandolinist David Grisman, he was part of the Garrett Mountain Boys. In the 1960s and 1970s, Mandell was a prominent session musician, and he played on Judy Collins live album ''The Judy Collins Concert'' (1964) and studio album '' True Stories and Other Dreams'' (1973), among others. In 1972, Mandell recorded "Dueling Banjos" with another session musician, Eric Weissberg. In 1973, the single peaked at No. 2 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, No. 5 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles, and No. 1 on Adult Contemporary chart, and the tune was the theme of the 1972 film ''Deliverance''. The song was als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandell Berman
Mandell "Bill" Berman (1917–2016) was the businessman (housing construction industry) and philanthropist behind the Mandell L. and Madeleine H. Berman Foundation,McGinity, KerenAssociation for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Lifetime Achievement Award Announcement December 19, 2010 which supports Jewish education, and research and study of the contemporary American Jewish community. His philanthropic focus was on the storage, dissemination, and preservation of Jewish data, as well as Jewish education and special education.A Philanthropist Crunches The Numbers Tamar Snyder, New York Jewish Week, November 25, 2009 Biography Berman was born (1917) and grew up in Detroit, Michigan, one of four siblings. His mother was from |
Robert Mandell
Robert Mandell is an American animated series and film writer, director and producer. Mandell headed New Frontier Productions/New Frontier Entertainment and Red Sky Entertainment. He is now the head of the company Voyager. Robert Mandell is best known as the creator, producer and co-writer of the 1986–1987 animated series ''The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers'' (the "Collection1" edition of ''Galaxy Rangers'' features a 14-minute video interview with Mandell about his career as well as an audio commentary track). Later he created the 1995–1996 animated series ''Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders'' and wrote or co-wrote and directed its episodes. He was also a writer and executive producer for the American version of ''Thunderbirds 2086'' (in association with Barry Gray) and an executive producer for ''The King and I'' and the '' Ace Ventura, Pet Detective'' animated TV series, among other credits. As of 2011, Mandell has been the Chief Creative Officer and CEO of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
