- Steve Barron
Steve Barron (born May 4, 1956) is a director and producer, best known for directing the films "Coneheads" (1993), "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" (1990) and the innovative music video for a-ha's "Take on Me". He was born in Dublin, Ireland, the son of filmmaker Zelda Barron. He attended St Marylebone Grammar School, was in forms 1s, 2s and 3s, he supported Manchester United, he appeared in the film if very briefly. - Jon Hall
Jon Hall (February 23, 1915 - December 13, 1979) was an American film actor. Born Charles Hall Locher in Fresno, California and raised in Tahiti by his father, the Swiss-born actor Felix Locher, he was a nephew of James Norman Hall, one of the authors of The Mutiny on the Bounty. Hall began acting in films in 1935 in minor roles. He achieved success in 1937 when cast opposite another relative newcomer, Dorothy Lamour in "The Hurricane", … - Antoine Galland
Antoine Galland (April 4, 1646 - February 17, 1715) was a French orientalist and archaeologist, most famous as the first European translator of the "The Thousand and One Nights." (also known as "The Arabian Nights" in English). His version of the tales appeared in twelve volumes between 1704 and 1717 and exerted a huge influence on subsequent European literature and attitudes to the Islamic world. - Turhan Bey
Turhan Bey (born Turhan Gilbert Selahattin Sahultavy on March 30, 1922 in Vienna, First Austrian Republic (now Austria) is an American actor who was a popular Hollywood leading man of the 1940s. His father was a Turkish diplomat and his mother was a Czech industrialist. In 1930, young Turhan moved to the United States. He gravitated towards acting, and studied at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California. - Jim Carter
Jim Carter (born 1951) is an English actor noted for his roles on film and television. His film credits include "Shakespeare in Love", "Richard III", and "The Madness of King George". Television credits include "The Singing Detective", "Lipstick on Your Collar", "Arabian Nights", and the episode "Duty" of "Hornblower". He plays John Faa in "The Golden Compass" (2007), … - Milo Winter
Milo Winter was a book illustrator, who produced works for editions of "Aesop's Fables", "Arabian Nights", "Alice in Wonderland", "Gulliver's Travels", and others. He was born in Princeton, Illinois and trained at Chicago’s School of the Art Institute. He lived in Chicago until the early 1950's, when he moved to New York City. From 1947 to 1949, he was the art editor of Childcraft books and from 1949, … - Amira Casar
Amira Casar is a British-born French actress. Born on July 1, 1971, the daughter of a Kurdish father and a Russian opera singer, Casar grew up in England and Ireland. Discovered by photographer Helmut Newton, she worked as a model for Chanel and Jean-Paul Gaultier, studying drama in the "Conservatoire National D'Art Dramatique" in Paris. - Dyson Lovell
Dyson Lovell is a film producer and actor born on the 28 August 1940. He produced the film Endless Love which was nominated in 1981 for the Razzie Award for Worst Picture. His production credits include: *"Hamlet" *"Endless Love" *"Merlin" *"Arabian Nights" *"Jane Eyre" *"The Odyssey *"Alice in Wonderland" *"A Christmas Carol" *"Cleopatra" *"The Lion in Winter - George Fyler Townsend
Reverend George Fyler Townsend (1814-1900) was the translator of the standard English edition of "Aesop's Fables". Although there are more modern collections and translations, Townsend's volume of 350 fables introduced the practice of stating a succinct "moral" at the conclusion of each story, and continues to be influential. Several editions were published in his lifetime, and others since. - Alexander Golitzen
Alexander Golitzen, (Moscow, February 28, 1908 - San Diego, July 26, 2005) oversaw art direction on more than 300 movies. Alexander Golitzen was born in Moscow, but fled the country with his family during the Russian Revolution. Travelling via Siberia and China, they arrived in Seattle, where Alexander graduated from high school. He then attended the University of Washington, where he achieved a degree in architecture. He started his art direction career in Los Angeles, … - Pik-Sen Lim
Pik-Sen Lim is a Chinese-British actress who has appeared on British television since the 1950s. She was born in Penang, Malaysia. Later she moved to the United Kingdom to study drama at university. In 1964 she appeared in the hospital drama series "Emergency ward 10", playing a nurse. There she met scriptwriter Don Houghton, whom she married. Her daughter by him, Sara Houghton, is also an actress, … - Robin Raymond
Robin Raymond, sometimes credited as Robyn Raymond, was a film actress. She appeared in over 40 films including "Johnny Eager" (1942) and as a slave girl in "Arabian Nights" (1942). One of her most memorable roles may have been that of a good-hearted burlesque dancer, Tanya Zakoyla, in the film noir "The Glass Wall". - Thomas Dalziel
Thomas Dalziel was an engraver who joined the Dalziel Brothers in 1860. He was the fourth one to join, the firm had been founded in 1839 by George Dalziel and Edward Dalziel, and John Dalziel joined in 1852. Thomas Dalziel made many book illustrations, at first in a style much influenced by John Gilbert, and later developing a more personal manner. - Milton Prell
Milton Prell was a casino owner and developer most notable for his projects in Las Vegas. He was also good friends with Colonel Tom Parker, best known as the manager of Elvis Presley. Prell started in the gambling business with a bingo palace in California. Prell ordered that the prizes were to be given out honestly to the players and word got out that the place was honest. - Al-Khayzuran
Al-Khayzuran bint Atta (died 789) was the wife of the Abbasid Caliph Al-Mahdi and mother of both Caliphs Al-Hadi and Harun al-Rashid, the most famous of the Abbasids. She was from Jorash, Yemen. She was kidnapped from her home by a Bedouin who then sold her in a slave market near Mecca to Al-Mahdi during his pilgrimage. Later the caliph fell in love with her and married her. - James Ridley
James Ridley (1736-1765) was an author was educated at University College, Oxford. He is mainly remembered for his Oriental pastiche "Tales of the Genii", a set of stories based on those of the "Arabian Nights". - Glenn Carter
Glenn Carter is an actor and singer, and songwriter. He grew up in Liverpool. He has appeared in London's West End numerous times in such productions as "Grease", "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat", "Chess", "Godspell", "Whistle Down The Wind", and "Les Misérables". There he landed the role of Simon in "Jesus Christ Superstar", another Andrew Lloyd Webber musical production. - Ja'Far Ibn Yahya
Ja'far bin Yahya Barmaki (767-803) was the son of a Persian Vizier (Yahya ibn Khalid) of the Arab Abbasid Chaliph, Harun al-Rashid, from whom he inherited that position. He was a member of the influential Barmakids family. He was beheaded in 803 for allegedly having an affair with Harun al-Rashid's sister Abbasa. He had a reputation as a patron of the sciences, and did much to introduce Greek science into Baghdad, … - Acquanetta
Burnu Acquanetta (July 17, 1921 - August 16, 2004), nicknamed "The Venezuelan Volcano," was a B-movie actress known for her B movie acting and exotic beauty. She was born Burnu Acquanetta in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and raised in Norristown, Pennsylvania as Mildred Davenport after she was given up by her biological parents. Burnu means "burning fire, deep water". Acquanetta started her career as a model in New York City with Harry Conover. - Richie Rome
Richie Rome, born in Philadelphia, was a prominent American producer, arranger and orchestra conductor during the 1970s. Richie Rome began his career composing arrangements in the 1960s, with, as one of his earliest professional works, a medley of "Green Apples" and "Something" by The O'Jays (from their Neptune album "The O'Jays in Philadelphia". In collaboration with, and as arranger for, producer Jacques Morali, Mr. - Júlio César De Mello E Souza
Júlio César de Mello e Souza was a Brazilian writer and mathematics professor. He is well known in Brazil and abroad by his books on recreational mathematics, most of them published under the pen names of Malba Tahan and Breno de Alencar Bianco. He has been called by one biographer "the only mathematics teacher who ever became as famous as a soccer player". He wrote 69 books of tales and 51 of mathematics and other subjects, … - George John Pinwell
George John Pinwell (1842 - September 8, 1875), was a British watercolour painter. He was born at Wycombe, and educated at Heatherley's Academy. He belonged to the little group of watercolour painters which included Frederick Walker and Arthur Boyd Houghton, a group whose style was directly derived from the practice of drawing upon wood for book illustration. Pinwell was one of the most delightful book illustrators of his day, poetic in imagination, … - Gerald Home
Gerald Home is the actor who played Tessek, Squid Head and the Mon Calamari Officer in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. He also worked as a puppeteer on the movie version of Little Shop of Horrors. He was born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on October 18, 1950, and emigrated to Australia with his family when he was 16. - Joseph Perles
Joseph Perles, Jewish rabbi, was born in Hungary on November 26, 1835, and died at Münich on March 4, 1894. Having received his early instruction in the Talmud from his father, Baruch Asher Perles, he was educated successively at the gymnasium of his native city, was one of the first rabbis trained at the new type of rabbinical seminary at Breslau, and the university of that city (Oriental philology and philosophy; Ph.D. 1859, … - Steingrímur Thorsteinsson
Steingrímur Thorsteinsson was an Icelandic poet and writer. He translated many works of literature into Icelandic, including Arabian Nights and the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen. - Bertil Mårtensson
Bertil Mårtensson is a Swedish author of science fiction and fantasy and also an academic philosopher. Since his youth, Mårtensson has written mainly science fiction short stories and novels, and a lengthy fantasy trilogy published in 1979-83 and in a revised edition in 1997. His work has in style and themes been compared by Swedish critics to those of Clifford D. Simak, Theodore Sturgeon, Arabian Nights and J. R. R. Tolkien. - Peggy Satterlee
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I take alot of black and white photos. I take alot of photos, period. I recently discovered that I like sewing and making clothes - Ironiclly, people like them and are buying them!! I have a 56 year old .22cal pistol. I can make a KILLLLLER pecan pie and/or pound cake. I run alot. I skate less than I run. I pee more than I run or skate, but I guess that's kinda normal. - Taira Layner
life is good. i'm happy. - Dave Beyer
You Were An Owl. - Krystle Roberts
i am. - Amanda
I love traveling, seeing new places and pushing the limits. The coolest place I've been was to the bottom of the Atlantic ocean (3 atmospheres, not bad for a silly civilian!). I'm not afraid of work, and I love to take on the impossible. Loyalty is everything to me, either you have it or you don't. I also love to laugh - at everything. - Monica Edwards
Apparently I'm capable of producing miracles... - Arden
I am 22, a full-time student at UCF (one year to go!), and a performer in Orlando. I was born and raised here in Orlando, and although I love my home, one day I will go far and away for big adventures! I guess thats all you need to know for now! - Cheryl Siegel
I am a performer with a great interest in aerial training and other challenges. I am fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to train with and understudy with New Vision Cirque and Dance Company as a dancer and aerialist working on fabric and lyra. I currently work for SeaWorld Orlando as a Pearl Diver and at Arabian Nights as an actress. I also substitute teach for a couple of local dance studios. I love to travel as well.
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