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American author, publisher, military officer and military lawyer [73] Luciana Frassati Gawronska: 1902–2007: 105: Polish-Italian author [74] Margot Gayle: 1908–2008: 100: American author and historical preservationist [75] Edward K. Gaylord: 1873–1974: 101: American newspaper publisher and philanthropist [76] Itche Goldberg: 1904–2006: 102
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in February 2025 ) and then linked below. 2025
American film actor and producer [76] Ellen Albertini Dow: 1913–2015: 101: American character actress [77] Orlando Drummond: 1919–2021: 101: Brazilian stage, television and film actor [78] Claire Du Brey: 1892–1993: 100: American film actress [79] Paulette Dubost: 1910–2011: 100: French actress [80] Marta Eggerth: 1912–2013: 101 ...
They are often popularized as individual characters rather than parts of the fictional work in which they appear. Stories involving individual detectives are well-suited to dramatic presentation, resulting in many popular theatre, television, and film characters. The first famous detective in fiction was Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin. [1]
This is a list of fictional doctors (characters that use the appellation "doctor", medical and otherwise), from literature, films, television, and other media.. Shakespeare created a doctor in his play Macbeth (c 1603) [1] with a "great many good doctors" having appeared in literature by the 1890s [2] and, in the early 1900s, the "rage for novel characters" included a number of "lady doctors". [3]
Formosa Betrayed – 2010 film by Adam Kane in which the murder of a Taiwanese-American professor takes an FBI agent to Taiwan, based on two murders which occurred in 1981 and 1984 Robin Hood – 2010 film by Ridley Scott features an assassination plot against King Richard the Lionheart but he is killed first in battle (A.D. 1199)
Larry Jeff McMurtry (June 3, 1936 – March 25, 2021) was an American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter whose work was predominantly set in either the Old West or contemporary Texas. [1] His novels included Horseman, Pass By (1962), The Last Picture Show (1966), and Terms of Endearment (1975), which were adapted into films.
His characters typically face internal and external obstacles in their search for self- and social acceptance. [6] Baldwin's work continues to influence artists and writers. His unfinished manuscript Remember This House was expanded and adapted as the 2016 documentary film I Am Not Your Negro, winning the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary.