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In July 1996, it was announced Eddie Murphy would star in the buddy comedy Life. [7] [8] The film was the result of a pitch Murphy gave to Brian Grazer, whom Murphy previously worked with on The Nutty Professor. [9] The film was the first of a two-movie deal between Murphy and Imagine Entertainment, the second being Bowfinger. [9] [10]
American actor and singer; father of conductor Lorin Maazel [156] Kurt Maetzig: 1911–2012: 101: German film director [157] Maciej Maciejewski: 1914–2018: 103: Polish actor [158] Martin Magner: 1900–2002: 101: German-American theatre and television director and producer [159] Włada Majewska: 1911–2011: 100: Polish radio journalist ...
Bernard Herrmann (born Maximillian Herman; June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975) was an American composer and conductor [1] best known for his work in film scoring. As a conductor, he championed the music of lesser-known composers.
Marius Re Goring CBE FRSL (23 May 1912 – 30 September 1998) was an English stage and screen actor. [1] He is best remembered for the four films he made with Powell & Pressburger, particularly as Conductor 71 in A Matter of Life and Death and as Julian Craster in The Red Shoes. [2]
His father, Lincoln Maazel (1903–2009), [5] was a singer, teacher of voice and piano, and an actor (he co-starred in George A. Romero's 1978 horror movie Martin); and his mother, Marion "Marie" Shulman Maazel (1894–1992), [6] founded the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra. [7] Maazel was a child prodigy and had perfect pitch. [8]
A resident of West Deptford Township, Herman and his Democratic running mate H. Donald Stewart were elected to represent the 3rd Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly in 1973, the first election in which the 40-district legislature was established under the terms of the 1964 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Reynolds v.
Williams scored more than 200 films, including Breaking Away, for which he received a 1980 Oscar nomination; All of Me; Swing Shift; Cuba; and The Grass Harp.. On television, his music accompanied Columbo, Lou Grant, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, The Streets of San Francisco, and The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd.
Elmer Bernstein (/ ˈ b ɜːr n s t iː n / BURN-steen; April 4, 1922 – August 18, 2004) [1] [2] was an American composer and conductor. In a career that spanned over five decades, he composed "some of the most recognizable and memorable themes in Hollywood history", including over 150 original film scores, as well as scores for nearly 80 television productions. [3]