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Dashiell is both a male given name and a surname. People Notable people with the name include: ;First name *Dashiell Eaves (born 1974), American actor * Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961), American author * Dashiell Mihok (born 1974), American actor ;Middle name *George Dashiell Bayard (1835–1862), United States Army general *Robert Laurenson Dashiell Davidson (1909–1998), American philatelist *Isaac Dashiell Jones (1806–1893), American politician in Maryland ;Last name * Aaron Dashiell (21st century), American football safety *Doug Dashiell (1905–1975), American football coach *John Dashiell (1888–1975), American psychologist *Margaret May Dashiell (1867–1958), American artist and writer *Paul Dashiell (1867–1937), American football coach, brother of Robert *Robert B. Dashiell (1860–1899), American naval officer and ordnance expert, brother of Paul *Russell DaShiell (born 1947), American guitarist *Wally Dashiell (1902–1972), American baseball shortstop *William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dashiell Eaves
Dashiell Eaves is an American actor. He lives in New York City. Theater Eaves began his professional career in 1993 at age nineteen when he joined the original American cast of the Off-Broadway percussion show ''Stomp''. Three years later he left that show after being cast as the Courier in Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of ''1776''. Since then he has appeared in other Broadway productions, ''The Sound of Music'' (Rolf), ''James Joyce's The Dead'' (Michael), ''The Lieutenant of Inishmore'' (Joey), Martin McDonagh's ''A Behanding in Spokane'' as Thomas Ledbury in the 2007 production of Helen Edmundson's ''Coram Boy'' at the Imperial Theatre, “A Time to Kill”, as Bob Cratchit in “ A Christmas Carol“ directed by Matthew Warchus, and in “Sing Street“, a rock musical based on the Irish film by the same name. Eaves has appeared Off-Broadway in Lynn Nottage’s “Fabulation” at Signature Theater, ''Luck of the Irish'' at LCT3 (Lincoln Center), ''The Lieuten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell DaShiell
Russell DaShiell (born July 23, 1947) is an American guitarist who has recorded as a solo artist as well as playing in bands such as Crowfoot and the Don Harrison Band, and with Harvey Mandel, Phil Everly and Norman Greenbaum. Russell was also one of the first people to have a Les Paul humbucker bridge pickup in a strat in 1970. Career Born in Philadelphia, DaShiell lived on Oahu, Hawaii between the ages of three and fifteen, taking up guitar at the age of fourteen.Ruhlmann, WilliamRussell DaShiell Biography, Allmusic. Retrieved June 29, 2013 He moved with his parents to Florida in 1963, where he formed a band that played cover songs in the local beach clubs. He then joined Doug Killmer's band The Sonics, which after the addition of drummer Rick Jaeger became The Beau Gentry in 1965.Accardi, Joseph J. (2008) ''Beloit's Club Pop House'', Arcadia Publishing, , p. 96 The Beau Gentry spent the next year in Florida developing a following, and in 1966 they were booked for a summer tou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lemony Snicket
Lemony Snicket is the pen name of American author Daniel Handler (born February 28, 1970). Handler has published several children's books under the name, most notably ''A Series of Unfortunate Events'', which has sold over 60 million copies and spawned a 2004 film and TV series from 2017 to 2019. Lemony Snicket also serves as both the fictional narrator and a character in ''A Series of Unfortunate Events'', as well as the main character in its prequel, a four-part book series titled ''All the Wrong Questions''. In ''A Series of Unfortunate Events'', Snicket investigates and re-tells the story of the Baudelaire orphans. The series ''All the Wrong Questions'' is written as a mock-autobiography, and follows Snicket through his childhood and apprenticeship to the Volunteer Fire Department (V.F.D.) Snicket is also the subject of a fictional autobiography titled '' Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography'' and a pamphlet called ''13 Shocking Secrets You'll Wish You Never Knew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Who Could That Be At This Hour?
''Who Could That Be at This Hour?'' is the first novel of the Children's literature, children's novel series ''All the Wrong Questions'' by Lemony Snicket, a series set before the events of ''A Series of Unfortunate Events''. The novel tells the story of a young Lemony Snicket, who is apprenticing for the V.F.D. under the worst-ranked agent, S. Theodora Markson. The book was published on October 23, 2012, by Little, Brown and Company and illustrated by Seth (cartoonist), Seth. Plot The novel begins with a cover sheet indicating a recipient named "Walleye", CCed to the V.F.D. headquarters. The story begins in the Hemlock Tearoom and Stationery Shop, where a twelve-year-old Lemony Snicket escapes his current chaperones, who are masquerading as his parents, to apprentice under S. Theodora Markson, the 52nd ranked V.F.D. member on a list of 52. After learning that his current chaperones were trying to knock him out with tea laced with laudanum, Snicket escapes with Markson in a green ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minority Report (film)
''Minority Report'' is a 2002 American science fiction action film directed by Steven Spielberg, loosely based on the 1956 short story "The Minority Report" by Philip K. Dick. The film is set in Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia in the year 2054, where Precrime, a specialized police department, apprehends criminals based on foreknowledge provided by three psychics called " precogs". The cast stars Tom Cruise as Precrime Chief John Anderton, Colin Farrell as Department of Justice agent Danny Witwer, Samantha Morton as precog Agatha Lively, and Max von Sydow as Precrime director Lamar Burgess. The film combines elements of tech noir, whodunit, thriller and science fiction genres, as well as a traditional chase film, as the main protagonist is accused of a crime he has not committed and becomes a fugitive.Buckland. pp. 193–5. Spielberg characterized the story as "fifty percent character and fifty percent very complicated storytelling with layers and layers of murder myste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Incredibles
''The Incredibles'' is a 2004 American computer-animated superhero film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Written and directed by Brad Bird, it stars the voices of Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Sarah Vowell, Spencer Fox, Jason Lee, Samuel L. Jackson, and Elizabeth Peña. Set in a retro-futuristic version of the 1960s, the film follows Bob and Helen Parr, a couple of superheroes, known as Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl, who hide their powers in accordance with a government mandate, and attempt to live a quiet suburban life with their three children. However, Bob's desire to help people draws the entire family into a confrontation with a vengeful fan-turned-foe. Bird, who was Pixar's first outside director, developed the film as an extension of the 1960s comic books and spy films from his boyhood and personal family life. He pitched the film to Pixar after Warner Bros.' box office disappointment of his first feature, ''The Iron Giant'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dashiell Robert Parr
Dashiell Robert Parr is a fictional character created by Brad Bird for the Pixar franchise ''The Incredibles''. The character is voiced by Spencer Fox in the first film and Huckleberry Milner in the second film. Restless, relentless and curious, Dash sports a hearty sense of adventure and a boundless supply of energy. Born with the remarkable power of super speed, he longs to be free to use his powers at his leisure, and chafes against the admonishment by his parents, in particular his mother, that his powers must be kept a secret. Dash has been recognized as one of Pixar's greatest characters by many prominent media publications. Development When designing the Parrs, Brad Bird wanted each of their superpowers to be related to their personality. Observing that 10-year-old boys are prone to hyperactivity, he conceived Dash as "the average 10-year-old boy that can move twice as fast as anybody else". The filmmakers cast rising eleven-year-old Spencer Fox who made his feature film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Gibbs
Stuart Gibbs (born June 11, 1969) is an American author who has written mostly mystery and humor books that are aimed for tweens and teens. Gibbs' books have been described as "fun, fast-paced." and "entertaining". He has wrote six book series: the ''FunJungle'' series, the ''Moon Base Alpha'' series, the ''Spy School'' series, the ''Charlie Thorne'' series, the ''Last Musketeer'' and ''Once Upon a Tim.'' He also wrote a Batman comic called ''Bruce Wayne: Not Super''. Gibbs wrote screenplays for ''Showdown'' (1993), ''See Spot Run'' (2001), and ''Repli-Kate'' (2002). Personal life Gibbs was born in 1969 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, moved to Washington, D.C. at five, and moved to San Antonio, Texas, when he was seven. He attended the University of Pennsylvania. Books FunJungle series The FunJungle series is about a boy named Theodore (Teddy) Fitzroy who lives with his family in the largest zoo in America, the (fictional) titular FunJungle. Teddy and his friends solve vario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Robert Dashiell
Brigadier General William Robert Dashiell (3 April 1863 – 16 March 1939) was a United States Army officer. He notably participated in the Philippine–American War and World War I. Early life and education Dashiell was born Mecklenburg County, Virginia on 3 April 1863. He graduated from the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, New York, in 1888, where he was a classmate of several future general officers, such as Peyton C. March, William M. Morrow, James W. McAndrew, Robert Lee Howze, Peter Charles Harris, Eli Alva Helmick, Henry Jervey Jr., William Voorhees Judson, John Louis Hayden, Edward Anderson, William H. Hart, Charles Aloysius Hedekin and William S. Peirce. Dashiell later graduated from the Army School of the Line (1909) and the Army War College (1915). Military career After graduation, Dashiell was commissioned second lieutenant with the 8th Infantry Regiment at Fort D. A. Russell in Wyoming. He took part in conflicts with American I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wally Dashiell
John Wallace Dashiell (May 9, 1902 – May 20, 1972) was an American professional baseball shortstop. He played one game in Major League Baseball, for the 1924 Chicago White Sox. Dashiell's professional career spanned 1923 to 1938, plus a single game in 1941. He played over 1300 games in Minor League Baseball, initially in the farm system of the Philadelphia Athletics. On April 20, 1924, Dashiell appeared in his lone major-league game. With the Chicago White Sox hosting the Cleveland Indians, Dashiell entered the game in the third inning, replacing starting shortstop Hervey McClellan. In three plate appearances, Dashiell recorded a ground out, a pop out, and a sacrifice bunt. Defensively, he had one putout, one assist, and one error. The White Sox won the game, 5–4. Dashiell later was a minor-league manager from 1934 to 1948 in the West Dixie League, East Texas League, Southeastern League and Texas League The Texas League is a Minor League Baseball league which has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert B
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dashiell Hammett
Samuel Dashiell Hammett (; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade ('' The Maltese Falcon''), Nick and Nora Charles (''The Thin Man''), the Continental Op (''Red Harvest'' and '' The Dain Curse'') and the comic strip character Secret Agent X-9. Hammett "is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time". In his obituary in ''The New York Times'', he was described as "the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction." ''Time'' included Hammett's 1929 novel ''Red Harvest'' on its list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. In 1990, the Crime Writers' Association picked three of his five novels for their list of '' The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time''. Five years later, four out of five of his novels made '' The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
