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Samuel Barclay Beckett (/ ˈ b ɛ k ɪ t / ⓘ; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish-born existentialist writer of novels, plays, short stories and poems. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic experiences of life, often coupled with black comedy and nonsense.
The decision to award Samuel Beckett was controversial within the Swedish Academy. While some members of the Nobel committee was enthusiastic about the idea of awarding Beckett, the Nobel committee chairman Anders Österling had serious doubts that Beckett's writing was in the spirit of Alfred Nobel's will. In 1964 he had argued that he "would ...
Scott Hastings Beckett (October 4, 1929 [1] – May 10, 1968) was an American actor. He began his career as a child actor in the Our Gang shorts and later costarred on Rocky Jones, Space Ranger . Early life and career
Dr. Samuel John Beckett is a fictional character and the protagonist on the 1989-1993 science fiction television series Quantum Leap, played by Scott Bakula. [1]Initially, the audience knows very little about Beckett, much as he knows little about himself due to holes in his memory dubbed the "Swiss cheese effect"—a side effect from the time travel (an effective trope to allow the writers to ...
For her portrayal of Kate Beckett, Stana Katic was nominated at the 2009 Satellite Awards for Best Actress in a Drama Series [8] and won in 2012 the PRISM Award for Best Performance in a Drama Episode. [9] Beckett was listed in AfterEllen.com's Top 50 Favorite Female TV Characters. [10] Radio Times included her in its list of the Ten Strong TV ...
For the better part of the last six months, Beckett has been living in Tennessee at St. Jude's Hospital, battling ATRT brain cancer - a very rare, fast-growing tumour. Family of three-year-old ...
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"By the time he died, I wasn't surprised," she admitted. "I was incredibly sad. I hadn’t heard from him in four days. They sent police officers to check on him, and then I was told, 'He's gone.'"