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Thomas Beck (composer)
Thomas Beck may refer to: * Thomas Beck (actor) (1909–1995), American film and stage actor * Thomas Beck (politician) (1819–?), politician in the Texas House of Representatives * Thomas Alcock Beck (1795–1846), English historian * Thomas Snow Beck (1814–1877), British doctor * Thomas Beck (footballer) (born 1981), Liechtenstein football striker * Thomas Beck (cricketer), English cricketer * Thomas Beck (engineer) Thomas George Gordon Beck (2 August 1900 – 6 January 1948) was a New Zealand civil engineer who had a leading role in public works engineering projects in New Zealand. Early life Beck was born in Palmerston, New Zealand, Palmerston, Otago, i ... (1900–1948), New Zealand irrigation engineer See also * Thomas Bek (other) * Tom Beck (other) {{hndis, Beck, Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Beck (actor)
Thomas Beck (December 29, 1909 – September 23, 1995) was an American film and stage actor during the mid to late 1930s, who first attracted attention playing juvenile leads in several Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto films. Early life Born in New York City, Beck entered college with the intention of becoming a doctor but abandoned that for engineering. Career His first professional work was in a stock company and he later played on Broadway. His work interested film executives who sent him to Hollywood. Beck was featured in 28 films in his career, with notable roles in several Charlie Chan films: ''Charlie Chan in Paris'' (1935), '' Charlie Chan in Egypt'' (1935), ''Charlie Chan at the Race Track'' (1936), and ''Charlie Chan at the Opera'' (1936). He also worked opposite Will Rogers in '' Life Begins at 40'' (1935), in which he played the spoiled son of a landowner; appeared as a French legionnaire in '' Under Two Flags'' (1936), played Pastor Schultz, the village priest, in Shirley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Beck (politician)
Thomas Beck (born , date of death unknown) was an American Republican politician who served three terms in the Texas House of Representatives. Various sources list his birthplace as Kentucky, Mississippi, or Virginia. He moved to Texas about 1842 and began farming in Grimes County. According to his biographical sketch in the 1879 Texas Legislative Manual, he served in the Confederate Army for four months at Fort Smith, Arkansas. During his time in the legislature he served on the following committees: Privileges and Elections, Agriculture and Stock Raising, and Roads, Bridges, and Ferries. He also supported funding for what is now the historically black Prairie View A&M University in Prairie View, Texas. He worked to pass legislation which prevents children from being employed without the permission of their parents. Beck and his wife, Martha, had at least three children. He and 51 other African American Texas state officeholders from the 19th century are commemorated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Alcock Beck
Thomas Alcock Beck (1795–1846) was an English author known for writing ''Annales Furnesienses'' (1844), a history of Furness Abbey, which was dedicated by permission to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and which contained twenty-six steel engravings and several woodcuts. Beck was a long-term resident of Hawkshead in Lancashire, where his parents had lived at The Grove. He used a wheelchair for much of his life, being unable to walk due to a spinal complaint. At one time he had attended Hawkshead Grammar School and he matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1814, but left without taking a degree. Around 1819, he commenced the building of his regency mansion Esthwaite Lodge (subsequently a youth hostel), to the design of George Webster. The grounds were specially laid out with easy gradients for his wheelchair. Besides other antiquarian interests, he also edited Dr. William Close's unfinished work ''An Itinerary of Furness''. Marriage On 25 April 1838 he married Elizabeth Fel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Snow Beck
Thomas Snow Beck Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons, FRCS (1814 – 6 January 1877) was a British doctor and surgeon. He qualified as a doctor in London. In 1845, he was awarded the Royal Society's Royal Medal for his unpublished paper entitled ''On the nerves of the uterus''. The paper was later published, but the award was disputed by the London-resident Scottish surgeon Robert Lee (midwifery), Robert Lee, who had published an earlier paper on the subject and reached different conclusions. This controversy led to reform of the award process for the Royal Medal, and is thought to have contributed to the resignation of both the President and Secretary of the Royal Society. Beck also carried out other work on nerves, including work in 1846 on differentiation between white and gray Dorsal ramus of spinal nerve, rami. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1851. SourcesEntry for Beck in the Royal Society's Library and Archive ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
