Jack London - Jack London Jack London, probably born John Griffith Chaney (January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916), was an American author of over 50 books. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Personal background 2 Early life 3 Early literary career (1898-1900) 4 Accusations of plagiarism 5 Beauty Ranch (1910-1917) 6 Political views 7 Death 8 Works 8.1 Short Stories 8.2 Nonfiction and Autobiographical Memoirs 9 Selected bibliography 9.3 Biographies and books about Jack London 9.4 Novels 9.5 Stories 9.6 Plays 10 External Links Personal background Jack London was born in San Francisco, California. Jack London's biological father is believed by Clarice Stasz and other biographers to have been the astrologer William Chaney. Chaney was in fact a distinguished and respectable figure; according to Stasz, "From the viewpoint of.
Jack the Ripper - Jack the Ripper Jack the Ripper is the pseudonym given to the serial killer active in the Whitechapel area of London, England in the second half of 1888. The name is taken from a letter by someone claiming to be the killer, published at the time of the killings. Although many theories have been advanced, Jack the Ripper's identity has not yet been determined, and may never be. The mythology surrounding the Ripper murders has become a complex muddle of genuine historical research, freewheeling conspiracy theory and folklore invention. The lack of an identity for the killer has allowed subsequent amateur sleuths to point their fingers at a large variety of candidates. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Victims 1.1 Possible victims 2 Media 3 Suspects 4.
Jack Lang (Australia) - Jack Lang (Australia) John Thomas Lang (December 21, 1876 - September 27, 1975) was a prominent Australian politician during the early twentieth century. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party, and the Premier of New South Wales for two terms, from 1925-27, and again from 1930-32. He is the only Premier of any Australian State to have been dismissed by the State Governor (the representative of the British monarch) without there being an election or parliamentary vote of no confidence. This was due to his refusal to pay interest on government loans borrowed from financiers in the United Kingdom at the height of the Great Depression. Jack Lang's Early Life John Thomas Lang - familiarly known as "Jack" and nicknamed "The Big Fella" during.
Jack Warner - Jack Warner Jack Warner is the name of two contemporary showbusiness personalities, one American and one British. This article is about Jack Warner, the head of Warner Brothers. For the British actor of the same name, see Jack Warner (actor) Jack Warner (August 2, 1892 - September 9, 1978) born, Jack Leonard Eichelbaum in London, Ontario, Canada, was the President and driving force behind the highly successful development of Warner Brothers Studios in Hollywood, California. The youngest of 12 children of Jewish immigrants from Poland, the rest of the Warner children were born in the United States. Jack Warner died on September 9, 1978 in Los Angeles, California and is buried in Home of Peace Cemetery in East Los Angeles, California. See also: Other Canadian pioneers.
Jack Webb - Jack Webb John Randolph "Jack" Webb (April 2, 1920 - December 23, 1982) was an American actor who is most famous for his role as a detective in the television series Dragnet. Webb grew up poor in the Rampart section of Los Angeles. After serving as a crewmember of a 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.
Jack Lynch - Jack Lynch John Mary "Jack" Lynch (15 August 1917 - 20 October 1999) was the fourth Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland. He served two periods as Taoiseach; 1966 to 1973 and 1977 to 1979. He was also a successful hurling and gaelic football star, winning All Ireland Medals for both sports. An Taoiseach Jack Lynch Rank: 4th First Term: November 10 1966 - March 14 1973 Second Term: July 5 1977 - December 11 1979 Predecessors: Sean Lemass, Liam Cosgrave Successors: Liam Cosgrave, Charles Haughey Date of Birth: August 15, 1917 Date of Death: October 20, 1999 Place of Birth: Cork, Ireland Profession: Barrister Political Party: Fianna Fáil Early Life John Mary Lynch was born on the 15 August 1917 in Cork City. From his.
Jack Warner (actor) - Jack Warner (actor) Jack Warner (October 24, 1896 - May 24, 1981) was a popular British film and television actor. He was born in London, England, his real name being Horace John Waters. His sisters would become well-known comediennes under the name Elsie and Doris Waters. Like them, Jack Warner made his name in music hall and radio, but he became known to cinema audiences as the father of the Huggett family in a series of popular films. It was in 1950 that Warner first played the role with which he would forever after be associated, that of PC George Dixon in the film, The Blue Lamp. Although the police constable was killed in the film, the character was revived for the long-running BBC television series,.
Jack Brymer - Jack Brymer Jack Brymer (27 January, 1915 - 15 September, 2003), born in South Shields, was a British clarinetist. He shared his birthday with one of his favourite composers, Mozart, and followed Reginald Kell as principal clarinetist of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra from 1947 to 1963. He was invited to this post by Sir Thomas Beecham, with some encouragement from one of his friends, the horn player Dennis Brain. Prior to this he had been a schoolmaster. When he left the RPO, he spent periods as principal in the BBC Symphony Orchestra (1963-1972) and the London Symphony Orchestra (1972-1986). Brymer made a number of commercial recordings, including several of Mozart's clarinet concerto. He was also responsible for recordings of wind music, including the complete set of.
Jack the Stripper - Jack the Stripper Jack the Stripper was the nickname given to an unknown serial killer responsible for what came to be known as the London "Nude" Murders, from 1964-1965. His victimology was similar to that of his legendary namesake. He murdered six prostitutes, whose nude bodies were discovered in various locations around London. Like the Jack the Ripper killings, the "Stripper"'s reign of terror seemed to cease on its own, and there were few solid clues for police to investigate. Though his identity remains unknown, crime writer Donald Rumbelow notes that the killer could have been a young man who committed suicide in South London at the time the murders ended. Though there was never any hard evidence to link him to the crimes (jewelry, etc.),.
Jack Chambers - Jack Chambers John "Jack" Chambers (March 25, 1931 - April 13, 1978) was a Canadian artist and filmmaker. Born in London, Ontario, he spent eight years (1953-1961) studying in Europe after studying at H. B. Beal Secondary School and the University of Western Ontario. While there he met Pablo Picasso, who suggested he continue his studies in Madrid. He called his own work "perceptual realism," a kind of surrealism based on his own dreams and memories and the existentialist philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. When he returned to London he worked with fellow London native Greg Curnoe. During this period he also made some short films, which influenced his painting (for example, painting on film negatives). In 1969 he was diagnosed with leukemia. For the rest of.
Jack Higgins - Jack Higgins Jack Higgins is the principal pseudonym of UK novelist Harry Patterson (b. 1929). Patterson is the author of more than sixty novels. Nearly have been thrillers of various types and, since his breakthrough novel The Eagle Has Landed in 1975, nearly all have been best-sellers. Life Patterson was born in the North of England on July 27, 1929. He moved to moved to Belfast, Northern Ireland with his mother after his parents' marriage foundered, and was raised there amid religious and political violence. First in Belfast and later in Leeds, Patterson proved to be an indifferent student and left school without completing his studies. He found a home in the British Army, however, and served two years as a non-commissioned officer in the Household.
Jack Agazarian - Jack Agazarian Jack Charles Stanmore Agazarian (1916 - March 29, 1945) was born in London, England, to an Armenian father and French mother He was educated in both France and England. After joining the Royal Air Force on the outbreak of the Second World War he was recruited as a wireless operator by the Special Operations Executive (SOE). In December 1942 Agazarian arrived in Paris to join the newly formed Prosper network and was joined later by his wife Francine. He occasionally worked for Henri Dericourt, a former French Air Force pilot whose job was to find landing grounds and arrange receptions for SOE agents arriving by air. He began to question Dericourt's loyalty and reported to London his own and other agents' suspicions. Agazarian became.
Jack Black (rat catcher) - Jack Black (rat catcher) Jack Black was rat catcher and mole destroyer by appointment to Her Majesty Queen Victoria during the 1860s. Black cut a striking figure in his self-made "uniform" of scarlet topcoat, waistcoat and breeches, with a huge leather belt inset with cast-iron rats. Black was, amongst other things, an accomplished dog breeder. He is quoted in Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor, Vol. 3 as saying: "I had a little rat dog--a black tan terrier by the name of Billy which was the greatest stock dog in London of that day. He was the father of the greatest portion of small black tan dogs in London now. I've been offered a sovereign per pound (in weight) for some of my little.
Jack Cade - Jack Cade The leader of the 1450 Peasants Revolt which took place in the time of King Henry VI in England. The peasants set up HQ in Southwark before storming London Bridge but they were defeated and Cade's head ended up on a pike on the Bridge..
John 'Mad Jack' Fuller - John 'Mad Jack' Fuller John Fuller (February 20, 1757 - April 11, 1834), better known as "Mad Jack" Fuller (although he himself preferred to be called "Honest John" Fuller) was Squire of the hamlet of Brightling, in Sussex (now East Sussex), and is well known as a builder of follies, and as a philanthropist, patron of the arts and sciences. He purchased and commissioned many paintings from J.M.W. Turner. He was sponsor and mentor to Michael Faraday. Early life Fuller was born on February 20, 1757 in North Stoneham, Hampshire. He was christened in the village of Waldron, near Heathfield in Sussex (now East Sussex), in the south of England. His parents were the Reverend Henry Fuller (January 15, 1713 - July 23, 1761) and his wife Frances,.
East End of London - East End of London The East End is an area of London, England to the east of Tower Bridge and north of the River Thames. East End The term may refer to, in a limited sense, the Tower Hamlets only, but is also used to encompass a wider area including Waltham Forest, Hackney, and Newham. The East End used to be the site of many of the London docks. Historically it is one of the poorest areas of London. In 1888 the area became notorious as the site of the crimes of Jack the Ripper, and in the 1960s it was the area most associated with gangster activity, most notably that of the Krays. Over the 20th century, the docks declined in use as they were replaced by.
Kalle Päätalo - his family from the age of 14 in his father's profession. At the same time, he dreamed about becoming a writer and read avidly, being much influenced by Jack London's Martin Eden and Mika Waltari's guidebook for aspiring writers. His war service in Winter War and Continuation War was cut short by being wounded. After the wars, he moved to Tampere where he studied at technical school, becoming a building contractor, and wrote short stories that were published in various magazines. He was married twice and had two daughters by the second marriage. Päätalo debuted as a novelist in 1958 with a novel set at a building site in Tampere. In his second novel Our Daily Bread, the first book in the five-volume Koillismaa series, he turned to his native region..
Kenneth Williams - On... films as well as notable radio comedies with Tony Hancock and Kenneth Horne. Born in London and educated at Lylph Stanley School, Williams was then apprenticed as a draughtsman. His relationship with his parents - he hated his father and adored his mother - was key to the development of his later character. He joined the army aged 18, part of the Royal Engineers survey section in Bombay, but later he joined Combined Services Entertainment. After the war he had a number of roles in repertory theatre. He was discovered after playing the Dauphin in George Bernard Shaw's St Joan in 1954; but few serious roles lent themselves to his style of delivery. He had his break in radio comedy with Hancock's Half Hour from 1954 and then Round the.
Kiefer Sutherland - 21, 1966) is an actor. He was born in London, England, but raised in Canada. He is the son of Donald Sutherland and Shirley Douglas, both actors themselves, and the grandson of Canadian statesman Tommy Douglas. Sutherland is well known for his role as special agent Jack Bauer in U.S. television show 24. He has also appeared in several films. His first major role was in the 1984 Canadian film The Bad Boy, which earned him a Genie award nomination for best actor. Kiefer Sutherland played the role of Dr. Daniel Schreber in Dark City (1998), and the caller in the 2002 film Phone Booth..
King Mob - who daubed the slogan His Majesty King Mob on the walls of Newgate prison in London during the 1800s. King Mob allegedly planned a series of audacious actions that included blowing up a waterfall in England’s Lake District, blowing up the poet Wordsworth’s house with Coleridge Lives graffiti and hanging peacocks in London’s Holland Park. However these were never carried out. The plan that did get put into action was based on Black Mask’s ‘mill-in at Macy’s.’ King Mob turned up at the Selfriges store in London with one of them dressed as Santa Claus and proceeded to give away all the store’s toys to children. The police were called and the children made to give the toys back. King Mob also produced the King Mob Echo which celebrated killers like.
