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Biff (name)
Biff is a given name, a nickname or part of a stage name. People Nickname * Biff Byford (born 1951), British lead singer of the heavy metal band Saxon * Frank Dunlap (1924–1993), Canadian Football League player * James T. Ellison (c. 1861–?), New York City gangster * William Grimes (journalist) (born 1950), former magazine writer, culture reporter, theater columnist, restaurant critic, book reviewer and a current obituary writer for ''The New York Times'' * Biff Henderson (born 1946), American stage manager and television personality on the ''Late Show with David Letterman'' * Biff Jones (1895–1980), former college football head coach and member of the College Football Hall of Fame * Biff Liff (1919–2015), born Samuel Liff, Tony Award-winning American Broadway manager and producer. * Biff McGuire (1926–2021), American stage and film actor * Biff Rose (born 1937), American comedian and singer-songwriter * Biff Schaller (1889–1939), Major League Baseball player * Biff Schl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Given Name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname. The term ''given name'' refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A ''Christian name'' is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom. In informal situations, given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner. In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used. The idioms 'on a first-name basis' and 'being on first-name terms' refer to the familiarity inherent in addressing someone by their given name. By contrast, a surname (also known as a family name, last name, or ''gentile name, gentile'' name) is normally inherited and shared with other members of one's immediate family. Regnal names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biff Wysong
Harlan "Biff" Wysong (April 13, 1905 – August 7, 1951) was a professional baseball pitcher. He played all or part of three seasons in Major League Baseball for the Cincinnati Reds. He appeared in 20 games from 1930 to 1932. External links * Major League Baseball pitchers Cincinnati Reds players Canton Terriers players Erie Sailors players Columbus Senators players Houston Buffaloes players Columbus Red Birds players Rochester Red Wings players Baseball players from Ohio People from Clinton County, Ohio 1905 births 1951 deaths {{US-baseball-pitcher-1900s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quinn Fabray
Quinn Fabray is a fictional character from the TV series ''Glee''. The character is portrayed by actress Dianna Agron, and has appeared in ''Glee'' from its pilot episode, first broadcast on May 19, 2009. She is the cheerleading captain at the fictional William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio, as well as a member of the school's glee club. In the first episode, Quinn is introduced as an antagonistic queen bee stock character. She joins the school glee club to spy on her boyfriend Finn Hudson (Cory Monteith) and becomes a spy for cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch); she remains part of the club after she is removed from the cheerleading team, the "Cheerios", due to her pregnancy. Over the course of the first season, her character matures and builds friendships with the other outcasts who make up the glee club. Quinn gives birth to a baby girl, Beth, whom she gives up for adoption. Quinn is also 16 years old when she had her baby. In the second season, she forms a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death Of A Salesman
''Death of a Salesman'' is a 1949 stage play written by American playwright Arthur Miller. The play premiered on Broadway in February 1949, running for 742 performances. It is a two-act tragedy set in late 1940s Brooklyn told through a montage of memories, dreams, and arguments of the protagonist Willy Loman, a travelling salesman who is disappointed with his life, and appears to be slipping into senility. The play contains a variety of themes, such as the American Dream, the anatomy of truth, and infidelity. It won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play. It is considered by some critics to be one of the greatest plays of the 20th century. Since its premiere, the play has been revived on Broadway five times, winning three Tony Awards for Best Revival. It has been adapted for the cinema on ten occasions, including a 1951 version from an adaptation by screenwriter Stanley Roberts, starring Fredric March. In 1999, ''New Yorker'' drama critic John Lahr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biff Hooper
Many characters have appeared in the fictional series of books about The Hardy Boys. Character history Original series At the beginning of the original Hardy Boys series, Frank is only 16 years old (as opposed to 18 after the revisions between 1959 and 1974) and both he and Joe want to follow in their famous father, Fenton Hardy's footsteps as detectives. When the father of one of their school friends is wrongly accused of stealing, the Hardy boys take it upon themselves to clear his name and solve the mystery. After Frank and Joe solve their first case, Fenton—although he had not wanted his sons to get into the detective business because of the dangers involved—starts asking for their help on some of his cases. Fenton and his boys working together play a bigger part in this series than in any of the following Hardy Boys series. In this series, Frank is in the same grade as Joe (who is a year younger), because he lost a year due to sickness, but in all the other series h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Strawberry Blonde
''The Strawberry Blonde'' is a 1941 American romantic comedy film directed by Raoul Walsh, starring James Cagney and Olivia de Havilland, and featuring Rita Hayworth, Alan Hale, Jack Carson, and George Tobias. Set in New York City around 1900, it features songs of that era such as "The Band Played On", " Bill Bailey", " Meet Me in St. Louis, Louie", " Wait Till The Sun Shines Nellie", and "Love Me and the World Is Mine". It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1941 for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture. The title is most often listed beginning with the word ''The'' (as it appears in the opening credits), but the film's posters and promotional materials called it simply ''Strawberry Blonde''. The film was a more lighthearted remake of the 1933 non-musical movie '' One Sunday Afternoon'', directed by Stephen Roberts and starring Gary Cooper. Unlike that earlier picture, it was a hit. In 1948, Walsh directed a third version of the story, also called '' One Sunday Aftern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biff Fowler
Brian Ian Francis "Biff" Fowler is a fictional character from the British television soap opera ''Emmerdale'', played by Stuart Wade from 1994 until 1999. Wade reprised his role as Biff in 2005 in a one-off appearance for Seth Armstrong's (Stan Richards) funeral. Development Three weeks after starting drama college, Wade was cast as Biff. He was initially contracted for five months. He was introduced as a friend of Luke McAllister (Noah Huntley). Of his character, Wade commented "He's a bit of a thug. He strikes up a friendship with Luke because they share a passion for bikes. And he's just the type of guy to lead Luke astray." Biff and Luke were members of the show's new "brat pack", along with Luke's sister Jessica McAllister (Camilla Power) and Dolores Sharp (Samantha Hurst). The characters were credited with giving the soap "a whole new look", and their friendship and romance storylines also become popular with viewers. Wade reprised the role in 2005 for Seth Armstrong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biff Brewster
Biff Brewster is the central character in a series of 13 adventure and mystery novels for adolescent boys written by Andy Adams. The series was published by Grosset & Dunlap between 1960 and 1965. Most titles were published in hardcover with full color dustjackets, but, like other Grosset & Dunlap juvenile series of the era, production costs were cut by dispensing with the dust jackets and featuring full color cover illustrations in their stead. This occurred only with the last three books in the series, and later reprints of the first three.Axe, John. ''All About Collecting Boys' Series Books.'' Hobby House Press, Inc., 2002. List of titles #Brazilian Gold Mine Mystery' (1960) #Mystery of the Chinese Ring' (1960) #Hawaiian Sea Hunt Mystery' (1960) #''Mystery of the Mexican Treasure'' (1961) #''African Ivory Mystery'' (1961) #''Alaska Ghost Glacier Mystery'' (1961) #Mystery of the Ambush in India' (1962) #''Mystery of the Caribbean Pearls'' (1962) #''Egyptian Scarab Mystery'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
''The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter'' (1940) is the debut novel by the American author Carson McCullers; she was 23 at the time of publication. It is about a deaf man named John Singer and the people he encounters in a 1930s mill town in the US state of Georgia. A. S. Knowles, Jr., author of "Six Bronze Petals and Two Red: Carson McCullers in the Forties," wrote that the book "still seems to capture he author'stotal sensibility more completely than her other works." Frederic I. Carpenter wrote in ''The English Journal'' that the novel "essentially ..described the struggle of all these lonely people to come to terms with their world, to become members of their society, to find human love—in short, to become mature." - CITED: p. 317 Title The title comes from the poem "The Lonely Hunter" by the Scottish poet William Sharp, who used the pseudonym "Fiona MacLeod". "Deep in the heart of Summer, sweet is life to me still, But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill." ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biff Baker, U
Biff or BIFF may refer to: People * Biff (name), a given name or nickname * Biff (cartoon), British cartoon strip Computer-related terms * biff (Unix), a UNIX mail notification program. * BIFF, also B1FF or B1ff, a pseudonym used on Usenet and Internet * BIFF, the Binary Interchange File Format, used by Microsoft Excel Film festivals * Bakersfield Independent Film Festival * Bahamas International Film Festival * Beijing International Film Festival * Beloit International Film Festival * Bergen International Film Festival * Berkshire International Film Festival * Berlin Independent Film Festival * Berlin International Film Festival * Bogota International Film Festival * Boston International Film Festival * Boulder International Film Festival * Brisbane International Film Festival * Brooklyn International Film Festival, former name of the Brooklyn Film Festival * Brussels International Film Festival (other), various film festivals in Brussels * Busan International Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biff Elliot
Biff Elliot (born Leon Shalek; July 26, 1923 – August 15, 2012) was an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as popular detective Mike Hammer in the 1953 version of ''I, the Jury'' and for his guest appearance as Schmitter in the ''Star Trek'' episode " The Devil in the Dark". Personal life Biff Elliot was born Leon Shalek in Lynn, Massachusetts, the son of Susan (née Bernstein) and Israel Shalek. He was the youngest of three brothers and his ancestors were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. His father opened a burlap bag-manufacturing business in Presque Isle, Maine. His eldest brother, Irwin Elliot Shalek (Win Elliot) was a popular radio and television host and sports commentator. His other brother Stanley was president of his father's business. Elliot took the nickname of Biff when he became involved with amateur Golden Glove boxing. After his mother learned of his fighting and canceled any further fights, Elliot played other sports, including track ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Preston
Donald Ward Preston (born September 21, 1932) is an American jazz and rock keyboardist. He is known for working with Frank Zappa from the mid 1960s to the mid 1970s. Biography Preston was born into a family of musicians in Detroit and began studying music at an early age. His father played saxophone and trumpet, and had been offered the lead trumpet chair in the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. Upon moving the family to Detroit, Don's father became the staff arranger for NBC, and was the composer-in-residence for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Don took sporadic lessons on the piano from the age of about five. In 1950 Preston began a stint in the Army, serving in Trieste, Italy and playing in the Army band (initially piano, bass drum and glockenspiel) alongside Herbie Mann. In Trieste he shared a barracks with fellow recruit Buzz Gardner, who introduced him to contemporary classical composers such as Béla Bartók, Anton Webern, Alban Berg and Arnold Schoenberg. Preston took up the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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