Biography Category
(Jo Sternberg), 1894–1969, Austrian-American film director and screenwriter. Von Sternberg, who worked in the United States from 1925, made films th...
(zhäN v g ´) (KEY) , 1905–34, French movie director, whose original name was Jean Almereyda. His reputation is based on two superb films: Zéro de...
(l k ´n v skôn´t ) (KEY) , 1906–76, Italian film director and writer, b. Milan as Luchino Visconti de Modrone. One of Italy’s most acclaimed d...
(v l nt ´n ) (KEY) , 1895–1926, American film actor, b. Italy as Rodolfo Guglielmi. He emigrated to the United States in 1913 and, after a brief ca...
(jôr´j väzä´r ) (KEY) , 1511–74, Italian architect, writer, and painter. He is best known for his entertaining biographies of artists, Vite de...
(vôks) (KEY) , 1824–95, American landscape architect, b. London. He emigrated (1857) to the United States with A. J. Downing, with whom he was firs...