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Chagrin (surname)
Chagrin is a Hebrew-language surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Francis Chagrin (1905-1972), Romanian-born British composer * Julian Chagrin (born 1940), British-Israeli actor * Rolanda Chagrin Rolanda Chagrin (born 7 February 1957) is an Israeli actress and comedian. Biography Rolanda Chagrin was born in Bucharest and immigrated to Israel on 1961. Her childhood days she spent in Tel Aviv. Between 1977 and 1981, she studied acting at ... (born 1957), Israeli actress and comedian {{surname, Chagrin Hebrew-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Chagrin
Francis Chagrin (born Alexander Paucker, 15 November 1905 – 10 November 1972), was a composer of film scores and popular orchestral music, as well as a conductor. He was also the "organizer and chief moving spirit" who founded the Society for the Promotion of New Music. Career He was born in Bucharest, Romania to Jewish parents and at their insistence studied for an engineering degree in Zurich while secretly studying at that city's music conservatoire. He graduated in 1928 but when his family failed to support his musical ambitions, left home and moved to Paris where he adopted his new, French-sounding name. By playing in nightclubs and cafes and writing popular songs, he funded himself for two years, from 1933, at the Ecole Normale, where his teachers included Paul Dukas and Nadia Boulanger, and settled in England in 1936. At the outbreak of World War II, he was appointed musical adviser and composer-in-chief to the BBC French Service and the programme '. For this, he wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Chagrin
Julian Chagrin (born 22 February 1940) is a British-Israeli comedy actor. He is the husband of actress and comedian Rolanda Chagrin. Biography Chagrin was born in London. His father was the composer and conductor Francis Chagrin, who was born to Jewish parents in Bucharest, Romania, while his mother was Irish. He is perhaps best known as one of the tennis-playing mimes in the 1966 cult film ''Blowup'', and as the 'secret lemonade drinker' in a popular advert for R. White's Lemonade in the 1970s. After appearing in films such as ''Danger Route'' (1967), '' The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom'' (1968) and ''Alfred the Great'' (1969), he played Bill the Lizard in ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (1972), which notably featured Peter Sellers as the March Hare and Spike Milligan as the Gryphon, and he acted with Sellers and Milligan again in '' The Great McGonagall'' in 1974. He also appeared as Maxi Grease, an odious TV host, in "Superstar", an episode of ''The Goodies'', and as one half ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolanda Chagrin
Rolanda Chagrin (born 7 February 1957) is an Israeli actress and comedian. Biography Rolanda Chagrin was born in Bucharest and immigrated to Israel on 1961. Her childhood days she spent in Tel Aviv. Between 1977 and 1981, she studied acting at Tel Aviv University's Faculty for Theater and was cast for mainly dramatic roles, participating in the plays Mahagony, Waiting for Godot, The Balcony and plays by the Israeli playwright, Hanoch Levin. After she completed her studies, she was accepted in 1982 as an actress at the Neve Tzedek Theater in Tel Aviv, where she played in "Nashim Mukot", directed by Nola Chilton. That same year, she met her future husband, the actor Julian Chagrin at the Pantomime Festival in Kiryat Shmona. Later they toured the world together in a comedy show , appearing in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and Tasmania. Between 1983 and 1987, she participated in the writing, acting and direction of the comical television series "Hatismoret" (The Orchestr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
