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The Barber (other)
The Barber may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''The Barber'', a 1915 short comedy film starring Ben Turpin * The Barber (1916 film), a short comedy film * ''The Barber'' (2014 film), a thriller * "The Barber" (short story), a short story by Flannery O'Connor * "The Barber" (''Seinfeld''), an episode of ''Seinfeld'' People * Ralph Daniello or the Barber (1886–1925), New York mobster, murderer and informant * John Factor or Jake the Barber (1882–1984), gangster and con artist * Sal Maglie or the Barber (1917–1992), Major League Baseball pitcher * Brutus Beefcake or the Barber, American professional wrestler See also * The Barber of Bagdad * The Barber of Birmingham * The Barber of Seville * The Barber of Siberia ''The Barber of Siberia'' (, translit. ''Sibirskiy tsiryulnik'') is a 1998 Russian drama film that re-united the Academy Award-winning team of director, writer, producer and actor Nikita Mikhalkov, screenwriter Rustam Ibragimbekov and produ ... * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Turpin
Bernard "Ben" Turpin (September 19, 1869 – July 1, 1940) was an American comedian and actor, best remembered for his work in silent films. His trademarks were his Esotropia, cross-eyed appearance and adeptness at vigorous physical comedy. A sometimes vaudeville performer, he was "discovered" for film while working as the janitor for Essanay Studios in Chicago. Turpin went on to work with notable performers such as Charlie Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy, and was a part of the Mack Sennett studio team. He is believed to have been the first filmed "victim" of the Pieing, pie in the face gag. When sound came to films, Turpin chose to retire, having invested profitably in real estate, although he did do occasional cameos. Personal life Turpin was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on September 19, 1869,His birth date was given as September 19, 1869, but other years were used at various times in his Hollywood publicity material. In the 1900 United States Census he used the year "1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Barber (1916 Film)
''The Barber'' is a 1916 short comedy film by William D. Foster. The silent film A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, w ... was shot in black and white. The film's story depicts a barber overhearing a customer who seeks a Spanish language teacher for his wife, imposters, and hijinks. The film was funded in part by Henry "Teenan" Jones, owner of The Elite Café. The film stars Anna Holt, Howard Kelly, and Edgar Lillison. References 1916 films 1916 short films 1916 comedy films Silent American comedy short films African-American comedy films Films about hairdressers {{AfricanAmerican-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Barber (2014 Film)
''The Barber'' is a 2014 American thriller film directed by Basel Owies and starring Scott Glenn. It is Owies's feature directorial debut. Cast *Scott Glenn as Eugene Van Wingerdt / Francis Allen Visser *Chris Coy as John McCormack * Kristen Hager as Audrey Bennett *Stephen Tobolowsky as Chief Gary Hardaway * Max Arciniega as Luis Ramirez * Olivia Taylor Dudley as Kelli *Lydia Hearst as Melissa *Tim Dezam as Capt. Phil Baroni *Valorie Hubbard as Grace * Thomas Calabro as Thomas McCormack Release The film premiered at the Busan International Film Festival on October 3, 2014. It was then released in limited theaters and on VOD on March 27, 2015. Reception The film has a 20% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Oktay Ege Kozak of IndieWire graded the film a D. Tirdad Derakhshani of ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'' awarded the film two and a half stars out of four. Dennis Harvey of ''Variety Variety may refer to: Arts and entertainment Entertainment formats * Variety (radio) * Varie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Barber (short Story)
"The Barber" is an early short story by the American author Flannery O'Connor Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925August 3, 1964) was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She wrote two novels and 31 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries. O'Connor was a Southern writer who of .... It is one of the six stories included in O'Connor's 1947 master's thesis ''The Geranium: A Collection of Short Stories'' and was first published in ''New Signatures I: A Selection of College Writing'' in 1948. It later appeared in the 1971 collection '' The Complete Stories''. The story involves a professor who feels a need to explain his liberal political views to a conservative barbershop. Critical Reception Tim Lieder notes that a story about a man trying to argue racists out of their racism lands differently after 8 years of Obama. "A story about a guy who thinks that he can argue with racists and argue racists out of their racism or at least into a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Barber (Seinfeld)
"The Barber" is the 72nd episode of the NBC sitcom ''Seinfeld''. It is the eighth episode of the fifth season, and first aired on November 11, 1993. The episode deals with Jerry's struggle to get a good haircut without offending his usual barber, who is bad at cutting hair. Meanwhile, George begins showing up to work at a company which he is not sure has actually hired him. Plot At a job interview, George's interviewer, Mr. Tuttle, is cut off mid-sentence by a telephone call, and sends George away without saying whether he has been hired. Tuttle told George that one of the things that make George such an attractive hire is that he can "understand everything immediately", so George is afraid to call and ask for clarification. He decides to just show up, assuming that he has been hired, while Tuttle is out of town. This way, even if he was ''not'' hired, he will be "ensconced" in the company by the time Tuttle returns. Elaine asks Jerry to get a haircut in order to look nice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Daniello
Ralph Daniello (born Alfonso Pepe; 1886 – August 15, 1925), also known as "The Barber" was an Italian-born New York criminal who belonged to the Brooklyn Navy Street Gang and participated in a major gang slaying in the Mafia-Camorra War. In 1917, Daniello eventually became an informant for the New York police and helped destroy the Camorra in New York, Camorra crime gangs in Brooklyn. Daniello's testimony helped to clear up 23 homicide cases in New York. Early life Daniello was born in Pagani, Campania in 1886 as Alfonso Pepe.Raffaele Daniello GangRule.com In Italy he was arrested for attacking a woman and on suspicion of involvement in a murder. After his escape from prison in 1906 he made his way to the French port of Le Havre, from which he sailed to New York where he was smuggled in illegally. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Factor
John Factor (October 8, 1892 – January 22, 1984), born Iakov Faktorowicz and widely known as Jake "The Barber" Factor, was a Prohibition-era gangster and con artist affiliated with the Chicago Outfit. Biography Factor was born Iakov Faktorowicz on October 8, 1892, in Łódź, Congress Poland, to Avrum (Abraham) Iakov Faktorowicz and his wife, Leah. His father was a rabbi, and he had one sibling, a sister, Dena. His family left Poland before the Bolshevik revolution and refused to register for citizenship in Stalin's USSR, thus forfeiting their Russian citizenship and leaving them stateless. Like his more-famous older half-brother, Max Factor, he had trained at an early age in haircare, which led to his mob nickname "Jake the Barber". The family emigrated to the United States in 1906.Steamship Passenger List, S/S ''Haverford'', March 1906. https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8769/images/PAT840_51-0429?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&queryId=acbc7a0d5a4b9da254886b4dd33606b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sal Maglie
Salvatore Anthony Maglie (April 26, 1917 – December 28, 1992) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher and later, a scout and a pitching coach. He played from 1945 to 1958 for the New York Giants, Cleveland Indians, Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Yankees, and St. Louis Cardinals. Maglie was known as "Sal the Barber", because he gave close shaves—that is, pitched inside to hitters. A gentle personality off the field went unnoticed during games, his foreboding physical appearance contributing to his menacing presence on a pitcher's mound. He was the last of 14 players to play for the Giants, Dodgers and Yankees at a time when all three teams were in New York City. During a 10-year major league baseball career, Maglie compiled 119 wins, 862 strikeouts, and a 3.15 earned run average. Born and raised in Niagara Falls, New York, Maglie had to play ball secretly growing up because his parents discouraged it. Signed by the Buffalo Bisons of the International League in 1938, he pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brutus Beefcake
Edward Harrison Leslie (born April 21, 1957) is an American retired professional wrestler, best known for his work in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) under the ring name Brutus "the Barber" Beefcake. He later worked for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) under a wide variety of names. Leslie held nine titles throughout his career, and is a former WWF World Tag Team Champion with Greg Valentine. He also competed for major singles titles on pay-per-view and television, headlining Starrcade 1994, in a match against then- WCW World Heavyweight Champion Hulk Hogan. Leslie was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2019 by Hogan. The career of Leslie is highlighted on the 44th episode (fifth season and fourth episode) of the '' Dark Side of the Ring''. Professional wrestling career Early career (1977–1984) Leslie began his career at the side of Terry Bollea in 1977. At the time, the two were billed as brothers. Leslie was Ed Boulder when Bollea wrestled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Barber Of Bagdad
''Der Barbier von Bagdad'' (''The Barber of Baghdad'') is a comic opera in two acts by Peter Cornelius to a German libretto by the composer, based on ''The Tale of the Tailor'' and ''The Barber’s Stories of his Six Brothers'' in ''One Thousand and One Nights''. The first of three operas by Cornelius, the piece was first performed at the Hoftheater in Weimar on 15 December 1858.Holden, p. 88 Performance history Cornelius planned the work as a one-act comedy, but on the advice of Franz Liszt expanded it to two. Franz Liszt later arranged the second overture for orchestra (S.352). Unlike most German comic operas of the period, which have spoken dialogue, ''Der Barbier von Bagdad'' is through composed. Cornelius offered the inventive and complex opera as an alternative to the contemporary German opera composers such as Richard Wagner, whose ideological fervor he found overwhelming. At its first performance the opera was a failure, and it was not played again in the composer's lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Barber Of Birmingham
''The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement'' is a 2011 documentary film about James Armstrong, one of the unsung heroes of the Civil Rights Movement. Summary A World War II veteran and an original flag bearer for the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches, Armstrong has run a voter education program out of his barbershop in Birmingham, Alabama for 50 years. The film was co-directed and produced by Gail Dolgin and Robin Fryday. Accolades It premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, three months after Dolgin's death in October 2010 from breast cancer. It was named best short documentary at the Ashland Independent Film Festival. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) at the 84th Academy Awards. It later aired on television on the PBS series '' POV''. See also * Civil rights movement in popular culture The history of the 1954 to 1968 American civil rights movement has been depicted and documented in film, song, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Barber Of Seville
''The Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution'' ( ) is an ''opera buffa'' (comic opera) in two acts composed by Gioachino Rossini with an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais's French comedy '' The Barber of Seville'' (1775). The premiere of Rossini's opera (under the title ''Almaviva, o sia L'inutile precauzione'') took place on 20 February 1816 at the Teatro Argentina, Rome, with designs by Angelo Toselli. Rossini's ''Barber of Seville'' is considered to be one of the greatest masterpieces of comedy within music, and has been described as the opera buffa of all "opere buffe". After two centuries, it remains a popular work. Composition history Rossini's opera recounts the events of the first of the three plays by French playwright Pierre Beaumarchais that revolve around the clever and enterprising character named Figaro, the barber of the title. Mozart's opera '' The Marriage of Figaro,'' composed 30 years earlier in 178 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
