Karel Reisz - Karel Reisz Karel Reisz (born 1926, Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, died London, UK 2002) was a Jewish refugee who became one of the most important film-makers in post war Britain. Reisz joined the Royal Air Force towards the end of the war, after the death of his parents at Auschwitz. After the war, he studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge, and began to write for film journals, including Sight and Sound. He co-founded Sequence with Lindsay Anderson and Gavin Lambert in 1947. He was also a founder member of the Free Cinema documentary movement. His 1959 film We Are the Lambeth Boys was a naturalistic depiction of the members of a South London boys' club, which was unusual in showing the life of working-class teenagers as it was, with.
Isadora - Bragg, Margaret Drabble and Clive Exton from the books My Life by Isadora Duncan and Isadora Duncan an Intimate Portrait by Sewell Stokes. It was directed by Karel Reisz. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress (Vanessa Redgrave)..
Act Without Words I - of reach. Later, a knotted rope descends, which the man tries to climb up, but it is let out, and he ends up back on the ground. Eventually he seems to give up, and sits on one of the cubes. After a while, this is pulled up from beneath him, and he is left on the ground at the end of the play. Just as Beckett's Act Without Words II has been compared to the myth of Sisyphus, the man in Act Without Words I is often compared to Tantalus, who stood in a pool of water which receded every time he bent to drink it. A filmed version of Act Without Words I was directed by Karel Reisz for the Beckett on Film project..
Albert Finney - The Entertainer (1960), but his real breakthrough came with his portrayal of a disillusioned factory worker in Karel Reisz's film of Alan Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. This led to a series of "angry young man" roles in kitchen sink dramas, most notably 1963's Tom Jones (for which he turned down the role of T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia). His television roles include the lead in Dennis Potter's final two plays: Karaoke and Cold Lazarus. In the latter he played a frozen, disembodied head. From 1970 to 1978, he was married to the French actor Anouk Aimée. Selected filmography Traffic (2000) Erin Brockovich (2000) Simpatico (1999) The Browning Version (1994) Miller's Crossing (1990) Under the Volcano (1984) The Dresser (1983) Murder on the Orient Express (1974) Tom Jones.
Alan Sillitoe - 1955, Sillitoe commenced work on Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, which was published in 1958. Influenced in part by the stripped down prose of Hemingway, the book attempts to convey the attitudes and situation of a young factory worker (Arthur Seaton) faced with the inevitable end of his youthful philandering. It was adapted as a film by Karel Reisz in 1960, with Albert Finney as Arthur Seaton. His story The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, which concerns the rebellion of a borstal boy with a talent for running, won the Hawthornden Prize in 1959. It was also adapted into a film, this time directed by Tony Richardson, and starring Tom Courtenay (1962). In 1990, he was awarded an honorary degree from Nottingham Trent University. Sillitoe has written many more novels,.
Terence Rattigan - life, like Ross, Man and Boy, In Praise of Love, and Cause Celebre stand up with the finest of his other work. He was diagnosed as having leukemia in 1962 and recovered 2 years later, but again fell ill in 1968. He disliked the Swinging Britain of the 1960s and moved abroad, living for the rest of the sixties in Bermuda, and living off lucrative, but forgettable screenplays (for a time he was the highest-paid screenwriter in the world). He was knighted in the early seventies and moved back to Britain where he experienced a minor revival in his reputation before his death in 1977. Fifteen years after his death, largely through a magnificent revival of The Deep Blue Sea, at the Almeida Theatre, London, directed by Karel Reisz, Rattigan came.
The French Lieutenant's Woman - that Fowles had laid down, Harold Pinter, who adapted the work for the screen, decided to make his own sort of confusion. He did this by revealing a story within a story -- showing us the lives of the actors who portray Fowles's characters. The viewer frequently does not know if what he or she is seeing is the story, or the actors' lives being unfolded before us. The movie stars Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons. It was directed by Karel Reisz. It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Meryl Streep), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. Locations Lyme Regis.
November 25 - 1844 - Karl Benz, engineer (d. 1929) 1846 - Carry Nation, temperance advocate (d. 1911) 1874 - Joe Gans, American boxer (d. 1910) 1881 - Pope John XXIII (d. 1963) 1893 - Joseph Krutch, American naturalist, author (d. 1970) 1895 - Ludvík Svoboda politician and Czechoslovakia President (d. 1979) 1896 - Virgil Thomson, composer, music critic (d. 1989) 1913 - Lewis Thomas, physician, essayist (d. 1993) 1914 - Léon Zitrone, animator 1914 - Joe DiMaggio, baseball player (d. 1999) 1915 - Augusto Pinochet, Chilean politician 1920 - Ricardo Montalban, actor 1926 - Poul Anderson, science fiction writer (d. 2001) 1933 - Kathryn Grant, actress 1940 - Reinhard Furrer, physicist, astronaut (d. 1995) 1944 - Ben Stein, actor, game show host, political consultant 1947 - John Larroquette, actor 1952 - Imran Khan,.
Morgan! - stop his ex-wife from remarrying. It stars David Warner, Vanessa Redgrave and Robert Stephens. The movie was written by David Mercer and directed by Karel Reisz. It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Vanessa Redgrave) and Best Costume Design, Black-and-White..
List of Czechs - Also Czech-born Politicians Edvard Benes Václav Havel Jan Masaryk Tomas Masaryk Authors and Poets Karel Capek Jaroslav Foglar Jaroslav Hasek Václav Havel Bohumil Hrabal Milan Kundera Karel Hynek Macha Jan Neruda Ferdinand Peroutka Jaroslav Seifert Composers Antonin Dvorak Zdenek Fibich Leos Janacek Bohuslav Martinu Josef Myslivecek Oskar Nedbal Vitezslav Novák Bedrich Smetana Johann Stamitz Karel Stamitz Josef Suk Jaromir Vejvoda, author of the Beer Barrel Polka Jan Zach Jan Dismas Zelenka Filmmakers Milos Forman, film director Jiri Menzel, film director, actor Karel Reisz, film director Jan Svankmajer, film director, animator Jan Sverák, film director, actor Karel Zeman, film director Painters Vaclav Brozik Emil Filla Wenceslaus Hollar Jan Kupecky Frantisek Kupka Alfons Mucha Scientists Bernard Bolzano, philosopher, mathematician, and theologian Jaroslav Heyrovsky, scientist, Nobel laureate Bedrich Hrozný, scientist, deciphered Hittite language Jan.
List of people by name: Re - film director Reiner, Rob, (born 1947), film director Reines, Frederick, (1918-1998), physicist (1995 Nobel Prize Reinhardt, Django, (1910-1953), Jazz musician Reinhardt, Max, (1873-1943), German director and actor Reinhold, Erasmus, (1511-1553), astronomer Reinhold, Judge, (born 1956), actor Reiniger, Lotte, (1899-1981), film director Reinking, Ann, (born 1949), actress, dancer, choreographer Reiser, Paul, (born 1957), actor Reiser, Rio, (1950-1996), singer Reis, Johann Philipp, (1834-1874), physicist and inventor Reisz, Karel, (1926-2002), film director Reith, John Charles Walsham, (1889-1971), aka Lord Reith, first Director General of BBC Reitman, Ivan, (born 1946), Director and Producer Reitsch, Hanna, (1912-1979), German female aviator Reitz, Albert S, (born 1879), American Baptist evangelist Rejlander, Oscar Gustave, (1813-1875), photographer Relander, Lauri Kristian, (1883-1942), president of Finland 1925-1931 Remarque, Erich Maria, (1898-1970), German novelist Rembrandt, (1606-1669), Dutch painter Remec, Miha, (born 1928), author.
Karel Doorman - Karel Doorman Karel Willem Frederik Marie Doorman (April 23, 1889 - February 28, 1942) was a Dutch admiral (Dutch: schout-bij-nacht) during World War II. Karel Doorman commanded a Combined Strike Force of Dutch, American, British en Australian ships that operated around the Dutch East Indies. This fleet consisted of cruisers and destroyers. In February 1942 a battle was fought between the Combined Strike Force and a much stronger Japanese task force in the Java Sea. This battle proved a disaster for the Allies. Doorman became a Dutch maritime icon, after transmitting his last words to the fleet: "I am attacking, all ships follow me!" ("Ik val aan, alle schepen volg mij!"). Karel Doorman died when his flagship De Ruyter (named after the famous Dutch Admiral Michiel.
Karel Appel - Karel Appel Karel Appel (born April 25, 1921) is a painter, born in Amsterdam. He studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten there from 1940 to 1943 and started exhibiting in 1946. He was influenced by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Jean Dubuffet and joined the Nederlandse Experimentele Groep and joined CoBrA in 1948. His 1949 fresco in the Amsterdam City Hall caused controversy and was covered up for ten years. In 1950 he moved to Paris and then developed his international reputation travelling to Mexico, the USA, Yugoslavia and Brazil. He is particularly noted for his mural work and now lives between New York and Florence..
Karel Ancerl - Karel Ancerl Karel Ančerl (April 11, 1908 - July 3, 1973) was a Czech conductor. He studied under Hermann Scherchen and later worked with Vaclav Talich among others. From 1933 to 1939 and again from 1947 to 1950 he conducted for Prague radio. From 1950 to 1968 he was conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, and from 1969 to his death conducted the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. He died in Toronto. He was particularly noted for his interpretation of music by Czech composers..
Karel van het Reve - Karel van het Reve Karel van het Reve (May 19, 1921 - March 4, 1999) was a Dutch writer, translator and literary historian, teaching and writing on Russian literature. He was born in Amsterdam. Raised as a communist, he lost his 'faith' in his twenties and became an active critic and opponent of the Soviet regime. With his help, work of dissident Andrei Sakharov was smuggled to the west, and his Alexander Herzen Foundation published dissident Soviet literature. He is considered to be one of the finest Dutch essayists, his interests ranging from the fallacies of Marxism to nude beach etiquette. His works include a history of Russian literature, 2 novels and several collections of essays. His brother, Gerard Reve, is one of the great post-war.
Karel Hynek Macha - Karel Hynek Macha Karel Hynek Mácha (1810 - November 5, 1836) was a Czech romantic poet. His lyrical epic poem Máj (May), which was published in 1836 shortly before his death, was judged by his contemporaries as immoral and a threat to society. His reputation improved after his death and Máj is now regarded as the classic work of Czech Romanticism. He is buried at the Cemetery of Slavín in Prague, Czech Republic.. The film Karel Hynek Macha was made in 1937.\n.
Karel Capek - Karel Capek Karel Čapek (January 9, 1890 - December 25, 1938), one of the most important Czech language writers of 20th century. He coined the frequently used international word robot, which first appeared in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) in 1920. For English speakers, the name is pronounced something like CHAP-ek. (or in SAMPA: ['tSapek]). Karel Čapek wrote with intelligence and humor on a wide variety of subjects. His works are known not only for interesting and exact describing of reality, but also for his excellent work with the Czech language. He is perhaps best known as a science fiction author, who wrote long before science fiction became established as separate genre. He can be counted as one of founders of classical non-hardcore European science.
Karl of Austria - Otto Franz Joseph, younger brother of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand (whose assassination triggered off World War I), and of Princess Josepha of Saxony. In 1911 he was married to Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma, a daughter of the exiled Duke of Parma. Their oldest son and current head of the Habsburg family is Otto von Habsburg, who served as a German Member of the European Parliament. Names in other languages of the Austro-Hungarian Empire: German: Karl I, Czech: Karel I, Slovak: Karol IV, Hungarian: IV Károly Preceded by: Franz Josef of Austria Emperors of Austria Succeeded by: monarchy and empire abolished and replaced with republics.
January 9 - 1829 - Thomas William Robertson, English playwright 1829 - Adolf von Schlagintweit, German explorer 1839 - John Knowles Paine, composer 1843 - Christiaan A Ulder, composer 1851 - Giuseppi Gallignani, composer 1851 - Luis Coloma, Spanish Jesuit writer, theologian 1854 - Jennie Jerome, American society beauty (†1921) 1856 - Anton Askerc, priest, poet 1856 - Lizette Woodworth Reese, poet 1856 - Stevan Mokranjac, composer 1857 - Henry B. Fuller, writer 1859 - Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, women's rights leader, founder of the League of Women Voters 1859 - Frederik Pijper, Dutch vicar, church historian 1864 - Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician (†1926) 1866 - Albert Baertsoen, Flemish painter, etcher 1867 - Jacques Urlus, Dutch opera singer 1868 - S. P. L. Sřrensen, Danish chemist (†1939) 1870 - Joseph B.
Joseph Stefan - finished gymnasium as the best student in his class he thought for a while joining the Benedictine order but he soon abandoned his idea, because his great interest for physics prevailed, and left for Vienna in 1853 to study mathematics and physics. His professor of physics in gymnasium was Karel Robida who wrote the first Slovene physics textbook. Stefan then graduated in mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna in 1857. During his student years, he also wrote and published a number poems in Slovene. He taught physics at the University of Vienna, was Director of the Physical Institute from 1866, Vice-President of the Vienna Academy of Sciences and member of several scientific institutions in Europe. He published nearly 80 scientific articles, mostly in the Bulletins of the Vienna Academy.
