1896 in film - 1896 in film See also: 1895 in film, other events of 1896, 1897 in film, list of 'years in film'. Events January - In Britain, Birt Acres and Robert W. Paul developed their own film projector, the Theatrograph (later known as the Animatograph). January - In the United States, a projector called the Vitascope was designed by Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat. Armat began working with Thomas Edison to manufacture the Vitascope, which projected motion pictures. Pathé Frères film company founded April - Thomas Edison and Thomas Armat's Vitascope is used to project motion pictures in public screenings in New York City May 14 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia crowned in Moscow, in the first coronation ever recorded in film. French magician and filmmaker Georges.
Kathryn Bigelow - took up formal studies at the San Francisco Art Institute for two years before winning a prestigious scholarship to the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 1971. Bigelow entered the graduate film programme at Columbia University where she studied theory and criticism. Her first short film, The Set-Up (1978), is a 20-minute deconstruction of violence in film. After co-directing Mont Montgomery on the biker movie The Loveless (1982), she co-wrote and directed Near Dark (1987). After some other work Bigelow's star was definitely in the ascendant with the movie Strange Days (1995). Besides being a director, Bigelow has also modelled for a Gap ad as well as acted in Born in Flames (1983). Her TV credits include episodes of Homicide: Life on the Street (1997-1998), the post-Twin Peaks TV series Wild.
Kamal Hassan - he has been critically acclaimed for his various movie roles, mainly in the Tamil film industry. He made his screen debut with the Tamil movie Kalathur Kannamma at the tender age of 5. He got his break with K. Balachander's Telugu hit Maro Charithra. Besides Tamil, he has also performed in movies in Hindi and other languages. He has played a plethora of characters including a ventriloquist, an under-world don, a freedom-fighter, a classical dancer, a blind violinist, a dwarf clown and even a mentally challenged man. He is the winner of several Indian awards for acting. He has also received the best actor award at the Asian Film festivals held in 1983 and 1985 for Saagara Sangamam and Swathi Muthyam, respectively. He also ventured into film direction with Hey Ram,.
Ken Loach - Warwickshire and usually credited as Ken Loach) is a British film director. In December 2003, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Birmingham. Filmography Z Cars (1962) TV Series Diary of a Young Man (1964) (TV) 3 Clear Sundays (1965) (TV) Up the Junction (1965) (TV) The End of Arthur's Marriage (1965) (TV) Coming Out Party (1965) (TV) Cathy Come Home (1966) (TV) (as Kenneth Loach) In Two Minds (1967) (TV) Poor Cow (1967) The Golden Vision (1968) (TV) The Big Flame (1969) (TV) Kes (1969) (as Kenneth Loach) The Rank and the File (1971) (TV; part of the Play for Today series) The Save the Children Fund Film (1971) Family Life (1971) After a Lifetime (1971) (TV) A Misfortune (1973) (TV) Days of Hope (1975) (TV mini.
Kenny Baker - as the man inside of R2-D2 in the popular Star Wars film series. Baker, at 3 feet, 8 inches (112 cm) tall, was a circus and cabaret performer with entertainer Jack Purvis when George Lucas hired him to be the man inside of R2-D2 in Star Wars in 1977. Baker and actor Anthony Daniels, who plays C-3P0 in the films, are the only actors to appear in all five Star Wars films. Baker even played an additional role in 1983's Return of the Jedi, when he played one of the furry Ewoks. Other films Baker has appeared in include 1980's The Elephant Man, 1981's Time Bandits, 1984's Amadeus and the 1986 Jim Henson film Labyrinth. In the late 1990s, Baker launched a stand up comedy career..
Klaus Barbie - All told, the deportation of 7,500 people, 4,342 murders, and the arrest and torture of 14,311 resistance fighters were in some way attributed to his actions or commands. From 1945 to 1955, he was protected and employed by British and then American intelligence agents because of his "police skills". In 1955, Barbie, together with his wife and children, escaped to Bolivia. He lived in La Paz under the alias Klaus Altmann. He was identified in Bolivia in 1971 by the Klarsfelds (Nazi hunters), but it was only on January 18, 1983 that a new moderate government arrested and deported him to France. He was defended by Jacques Verges and his trial started on May 11, 1987 in Lyon. On July 4 of that year, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for.
Klaus Maria Brandauer - in Istvan Szabo's Mephisto (1981) launched his career. He followed this with parts in Never Say Never Again (1983), Out of Africa (1985) and Szabo's Redl Ezredes (1985) and Hanussen (1988). He directed his first film in 1989, Georg Elser - Einer aus Deutschland, with himself in the title role. His other film roles have been in The Lightship (1986), Streets of Gold (1986), Burning Secret (1988), The Russia House (1990), White Fang (1991), Becoming Colette (1992) and Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999)..
Koyaanisqatsi - Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of balance is a documentary film directed by Godfrey Reggio which consists mostly of slow motion and time-lapse (fast motion) footage, starting with a cave painting, progressing to footage of various natural environmental phenomena such as waves and cloud formations, and then to footage of man-made events including traffic formations, bombings, and desolate urban landscapes. The film invites comparison between various natural and technological phenomena, for instance following a slow-motion shot of crashing waves with one of clouds billowing around a mountainside, or an aerial shot of a cityscape with one of a computer chip. The documentary has no dialogue but does feature the Hopi Indian word koyaanisqatsi chanted over a score by Philip Glass, as well as a few different Hopi prophecies in their native language; interpretation.
Kon Ichikawa - is one of the better known Japanese film directors and one of the most unpredictable. He gained his western credibility in the 1950s and 1960s with a number of bleak films - two antiwar films with The Burmese Harp and Fires on the Plain, Conflagration in which a priest burns down his temple to save it from spiritual pollution, Alone in the Pacific and the technically formidable An Actor's Revenge about a Kabuki actor. Most of these films are literary adaptations, often screen-written by his wife, Natto Wada, and when she ceased this activity at the end of the 1960s it marked a change in his films. It can be said that his main trait is technical expertise, irony, detachment and a drive for realism married with a complete spectrum of.
Kurtwood Smith - program. In the 1970s he began working regularly with the California Actors Theater in Los Gatos, California. He moved to Los Angeles to pursue a television and film career. In 1964 he married Cecilia Souza, from whom he had two children. He divorced in 1974. Since 1988, he has been married to actress Joan Pirkle. Smith has made several guest appearances in Star Trek including Anorax on the Voyager episode Year of Hell and the Federation President in Star Trek VI. He is probably best known as Red Forman on That '70s Show, which he has played since 1998. Filmography Teddy Bears' Picnic (2002) Girl, Interrupted (1999) Deep Impact (1998) A Bright Shining Lie (1998) Prefontaine (1997) Shelter (1997) Citizen Ruth (1996) Broken Arrow (1996) Time to Kill, A (1996) Under.
J. Seward Johnson, Jr. - largest work, a 70-foot five-part sculpture located at Haines Point in Washington, DC, Hitchhiker (1983), a statue along the side of a road leading away from the campus of Hofstra University, Allow Me (1984), a statue of man holding an umbrella, located in Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland, Oregon, and Déjeuner Déjá Vu (1994), located at Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey, a three-dimensional recreation of Edouard Manet's painting, Déjeuner Sur l'Herbe. He founded the Johnson Atelier Technical Institute of Sculpture, an educational, non-profit art casting and fabrication facility, in 1974. He was also one of the disinheritedheirs to the Johnson & Johnson Corporation fortune, notorious for their very public contesting of their father's will, which left nearly all of his half-billion-dollar fortune to his wife of twelve years, a.
January 1 - is first held. 1942 - World War II: The word "United Nations" is first officially used to describe the Allied pact. 1942 - USS Captor is acquired by the Navy as part of the Auxiliary Vessels Act. 1945 - USS California (BB-44) departs from Palau for the Luzon landings 1945 - USS Colorado (BB-45) Returns to Luzon on and participates in the preinvasion bombardments in Lingayen Gulf. 1945 - Bahawalpur State issues its own stamps. 1948 - Nationalisation of UK railways to form British Railways. 1948 - Enrico De Nicola becomes President of the State of Italy 1956 - End of Anglo-Egyptian Condominium in Sudan. 1959 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista overthrown by Fidel Castro. 1960 - Cameroon becomes independent 1960 - USS Raritan (LSM-540) is struck from the naval register. 1962.
January 26 - becomes Prime Minister of France 1948 - President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981, ending segregation in the United States Armed Forces. 1950 - India promulgates its constitution forming a republic and Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first president. 1956 - 1956 Winter Olympic Games open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. 1961 - John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician. This is the first time a woman holds this appointment. 1962 - Ranger 3 is launched to study the moon. The space probe later missed the moon by 22,000 miles. 1965 - Hindi becomes the official language of India. 1980 - Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations. 1983 - Lotus 1-2-3 is released. 1992 - Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia is going to stop targeting.
January 18 - Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden. 1958 - Willie O'Ree, the first African American National Hockey League player, make his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins. 1964 - The Beatles appear on the Billboard magazine charts for the first time 1967 - Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler," is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life in prison. 1975 - The Jeffersons debuts on CBS. 1977 - Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious "legionnaire's disease." 1977 - Australia's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney killing 83. 1978 - The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture. 1983 - The International Olympic.
Jar Jar Binks - looks something vaguely like an anthropomorphized duck. It is commonly speculated by detractors that Jar Jar represents a cynical turn in Lucas' epic, pandering to the commercial incentive by the inclusion of what amounts to little more than a highly marketable "gimmick". The appearance of Jar Jar, before, during and after the release of the film on a rash of merchandise products and in almost ubiquitous marketing tie-ins and cross promotions did little to allay the fear that Lucas had, indeed, 'sold out'. (It should be noted that similar charges were levelled at the appearance of the teddy-bear like Ewoks in 1983's Return of the Jedi.) Some of the more venomous and piercing charges against the character of Jar Jar (and subsequently against Lucas, his creator) suggest that Jar Jar represents.
Jaws - Jaws Jaws is a 1975 film which tells the story of a resort town's sheriff who tries to protect beachgoers from the predations of a great white shark, only to be opposed by the businessmen of the town. It stars Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss and Lorraine Gary. The movie was adapted by Peter Benchley, Carl Gottlieb, John Milius (uncredited), Howard Sackler (uncredited) and Robert Shaw (uncredited) from the novel by Benchley. It was directed by Steven Spielberg. It won Academy Awards for Best Film Editing, Best Music, Original Score (John Williams) and Best Sound. It was also nominated for Best Picture. The film is consistently on the Internet Movie Database's list of top 250 films and was #48 on American Film Institute's 100 Years, 100 Movies and.
Jack Webb - B-26 in World War II he starred in a radio show about a private detective, Pat Novak for Hire. Webb had a role in the 1948 police action movie He Walked By Night. The film was made in docudrama style and first gave Webb the idea for Dragnet. After getting assitance from, and riding along with, Los Angeles Police personnel Webb produced Dragnet which premiered in 1949 on the NBC network. Sponsored by Fatima cigarettes, Dragnet starred Webb as Joe Friday and Barton Yarborough as Ben Romero. They played detective sergeants working various divisions. Walter Schumann did the theme song for the show. Webb announced the show in first person as the character Joe Friday and maintained almost fanatical attention to detail and realism. This and his management style alienated many.
Jacqueline Bisset - 1973, she participated in Francois Truffaut's movie Day for Night, where she earned the respect of European critics and movie goers as a serious actress. In 1977, Bisset made great strides towards becoming a better known entertainer in North America with her movie The Deep, co-starring Robert Shaw, where her appearance swimming underwater wearing only a t-shirt made many to credit her with beginning a world wide revolution that led to a "wet t-shirt contest craze". At the time, Newsweek magazine declared her to be "the most beautiful film actress of all time". Soon thereafter she played in the movies Rich and Famous with Candice Bergen, and Under The Volcano with Albert Finney, which was made in 1984 and gave her a Golden Globe award nomination. In 1978 she had already.
Jandek - tracked down a "Jandek-like person" and gave an account of these events in the August 1999 issue of Texas Monthly. Jandek's first release was titled Ready for the House (originally recorded under the name the Units) in 1978 and was given the serial number 0739. Discography: Ready for the House (1978) Six and Six (1981) Later On(1981) Chair Beside a Window (1982) Living in a Moon so Blue (1982) Staring at the Cellophane (1982) Your Turn to Fall (1983) The Rocks Crumble (1983) Interstellar Discussion (1984) Nine-Thirty (1985) Foreign Keys (1985) Telegraph Melts (1986) Follow Your Footsteps (1986) Modern Dances (1987) Blue Corpse(1987) You Walk Alone (1988) On the Way (1988) The Living End (1989) Somebody in the Snow (1990) One Foot in the North (1991) Lost Cause (1992) Twelfth Apostle.
Jane Alexander - Kramer vs. Kramer. She also starred in the television productions of Eleanor and Franklin and Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years. Other television movies include Playing for Time, Calamity Jane, Malice in Wonderland, Blood & Orchids, In Love and War and Daughter of the Streets. In 1983 she received another Oscar nomination for the post-nuclear war film Testament. In 1993, President Bill Clinton appointed her as the head of the National Endowment for the Arts..
