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Jenny Agutter
Star of An American Werewolf in London
In Britain, Jenny Agutter is a respected stage actress; in America, she is remembered as the star of the fantasy films Logan's Run (1976)...
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Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck and his childhood friend Matt Damon wrote and starred in the 1998 film Good Will Hunting. The resulting Oscar for best original screenplay catapulted both to stardom. Affleck has appeared ...
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Adler, Stella
Adler, Stella (ăd'lur) , 1901–92, American actress, director, and acting teacher, b. New York City. The daughter of Jacob and Sarah Adler, stars in New York's Yiddish theater, she mad...
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Adams, Maude
Adams, Maude, 1872–1953, American actress, b. Salt Lake City, Utah. Her father's name was Kiskadden, but she used her mother's maiden name. She began acting at an early age and became leading l...
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Amy Adams
Redhead star of the movies Junebug and Enchanted
Actress Amy Adams played the gabby and guileless Ashley in the 2005 film Junebug, which earned her an Oscar nomination for best supporti...
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F. Murray Abraham
Having garnered a long list of theater credits in the '70s and early '80s, he played the part of composer Antonio Salieri in the movie Amadeus (1984), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor....
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Sebastiano del Piombo
(s bästyä´n d l pyôm´b ) (KEY) , c.1485–1547, Italian painter of the Venetian school, whose real name was Sebastiano Luciani. Although he was trained by Giovanni Bellini, his early work was influence...
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Schilling, Johannes
(y hän´ s sh l´ ng) (KEY) , 1828–1910, German sculptor. He is represented by many monuments in Germany, including the colossal Germania (1883), a national monument in the Niederwald, which is consider...
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Günther, Ignaz
( g´näts gün´t r) (KEY) , 1725–75, German sculptor. Günther produced numerous wood carvings that reveal mannerist and rococo influences. His elegant figures are elongated to the point of distortion, a...
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Abiram
( b ´r m) (KEY) , in the Bible. 1 Levite who died with his brother Dathan. 2 Son of a rebuilder of Jericho, associated obscurely with its foundations.
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Duchamp, Marcel
(märs l´ düshäN´) (KEY) , 1887–1968, French painter, brother of Raymond Duchamp-Villon and half-brother of Jacques Villon. Duchamp is noted for his cubist-futurist painting Nude Descending a Staircase...
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