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James Edward Sheridan (July 15, 1922 – December 21, 2015) was a professor emeritus in the Department of History at Northwestern University and the author of a number of books on modern Chinese history, such as China in Disintegration: The Republican Era in Chinese History and the biography Chinese Warlord: The Career of Feng Yu-Hsiang.
James Sheridan (Medal of Honor) (1830–1893), American Civil War sailor; James E. Sheridan (1922–2015), professor of history and author; Jim Sheridan (born 1949), Irish film director; Jamey Sheridan (James Patrick Sheridan, born 1951), American actor; James Joseph Sheridan (1951–2014), Irish pianist, composer, arranger and music historian
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 1751 – 7 July 1816) was an Anglo-Irish playwright, writer and Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1780 to 1812, representing the constituencies of Stafford, Westminster and Ilchester.
James Sheridan Knowles (12 May 1784 – 30 November 1862) was an Irish dramatist and actor. A relative of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Knowles enjoyed success writing plays for the leading West End theatres. Later in his career he also produced several novels.
James Knowles (1759 – 8 February 1840) was an Irish schoolteacher and, late in life, the author of A Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary of the English Language. He was the father of the actor and dramatist James Sheridan Knowles .
Fortescue is an 1846 three-volume novel by the Irish writer James Sheridan Knowles. [1] He had for many years been a leading West End playwright, but by this stage his career was in gradual decline and he turned to novel-writing. It is set in Cork where Knowles was born and raised.
James Dean on the set of 1955's 'Rebel Without a Cause' One of the more significant relationships the book addresses is the one Dean had with Elizabeth Taylor , his costar in the 1956 film Giant .
Jim Sheridan (born 6 February 1949) is an Irish playwright and filmmaker. Between 1989 and 1993, Sheridan directed three critically acclaimed films set in Ireland , My Left Foot (1989), The Field (1990), and In the Name of the Father (1993), and later directed the films The Boxer (1997), In America (2003), and Brothers (2009).