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Garson (surname)
Garson is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Gerald Garson (1932–2016), American lawyer, former New York Supreme Court Justice and convicted felon *Greer Garson (1904–1996), British actress, won the Best Actress Oscar for ''Mrs. Miniver'' (1942) * Margaret Garson (1927–2020), Australian physician and cytogenetics researcher * Mary Garson, Australian biochemist and academic * Mary Garson (nun) (1921–2007), Scottish nun *Mike Garson (born 1945), American jazz pianist *Mort Garson (1924–2008), Canadian-born composer and arranger, electronic music pioneer * Scott Garson (born 1976), American college basketball coach *Stuart Garson (1898–1977), Canadian politician, former Premier of Manitoba and federal cabinet minister *William Garson (1856–1911), Scottish-born Ontario and Manitoba businessman and political figure *Willie Garson William Garson Paszamant (February 20, 1964September 21, 2021) was an American actor. He appeared in over 75 films and more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Garson
Gerald Phillip Garson (August 3, 1932 — February 6, 2016) was an American lawyer and New York Supreme Court Justice who heard matrimonial divorce and child custody cases in Brooklyn.Brick, Michael, "Judge is Called Robed Robber or Just the Victim of a Setup" , ''The New York Times'', April 18, 2007. Retrieved July 20, 2010. He was convicted in 2007 of accepting bribes to manipulate the outcomes of divorce proceedings. , ''The New York Times'', April 20, 2007. Retrieved July 20, 2007. Garson was imprisoned from June 2007 until December 2009. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greer Garson
Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson (29 September 1904 – 6 April 1996) was an English-American actress and singer. She was a major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer who became popular during the Second World War for her portrayal of strong women on the homefront; listed by the ''Motion Picture Herald'' as one of America's top-ten box office draws from 1942 to 1946. The fourth most-nominated woman for the Best Actress Oscar, Garson received seven Academy Award nominations, including a record-tying (with Bette Davis) five consecutive nominations (1941–1945) in the actress category, winning for her performance in the title role of the 1942 film ''Mrs. Miniver''. Early life Greer Garson was born on 29 September 1904Troyan, p. 8. in Manor Park, East Ham (then in Essex, now part of Greater London), the only child of Nancy Sophia "Nina" (née Greer; 1880–1958) and George Garson (1865–1906), a commercial clerk in a London importing business. Her father was born in London to Scottish pare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Award For Best Actress
The Academy Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role in a film released that year. The award is traditionally presented by the previous year's Best Actor winner. The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929 with Janet Gaynor receiving the award for her roles in '' 7th Heaven'', '' Street Angel'', and ''Sunrise''. Currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS; winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy. In the first three years of the awards, actresses were nominated as the best in their categories. At that time, all of their work during the qualifying period (as many as three films, in some cases) was listed after the award. However, during the 3rd ceremony held in 1930, only one of those films was cited in ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Garson
Olga Margaret Garson (4 October 1927 – 17 May 2020), better known as Margaret Garson, was an Australian physician and cytogenetics researcher. Academic career Olga Margaret Garson was born on 4 October 1927 in Benalla, Victoria. She graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1951 and undertook further training in haematology and pathology. She was employed as pathology registrar at The Alfred Hospital from 1954 to 1957. She accompanied her husband to the United States in 1961 and worked as research fellow at the University of Texas. Returning to Melbourne in 1964 she was research fellow at the University of Melbourne in the Department of Medicine at St Vincent's Hospital. Her work in cytogenetics continued there and she was promoted to Director of the Department of Cytogenics in 1982 until her retirement in 1992. Garson was president of Haematology Society of Australia in 1988–89 and was later made a life member of the Haematology Society of Australia and New Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Garson
Mary Jean Garson (born 6 November 1953) is an organic chemist and academic in Australia. She currently works for the University of Queensland. Early life Garson was born in Rugby, England, the daughter of an engineer and botanist. She took her B.A with Honours from the University of Cambridge, Newnham College in 1974. Garson's focus was the natural sciences, specializing in chemistry. She obtained an MA in Natural Sciences and she took her PhD in organic chemistry from Cambridge in 1977. Career Garson won a Royal Society postdoctoral fellowship after her PhD, undertaking research in Rome, Italy from 1977–1978. She continued her research at New Hall at Cambridge on a college research fellowship from 1978–1981. She worked as a medicinal chemist from 1981–1983 at Smith Kline and French Research Ltd in Welwyn, England,. Garson won a Queen Elizabeth II Research Fellowship from James Cook University (1983–1986), based in the Townsville region to research the bioactive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Garson (nun)
Mary Sunniva Garson MBE (3 October 1921 – 8 March 2007) was a Scottish nun. A Catholic convert from Presbyterianism, she bought a house to form a community after being convinced wider action was necessary to help the infirm, after visiting a semi-blind elderly woman caring for two people. As her work began to steadily increase, Garson purchased a second house which allowed her to expand and began to provide sheltered accommodation. The community was later recognised as a pious union in 1959, and she became known as "Sister Mary Garson". Her group later expanded overseas and adopted the Rule of St Benedict in 1978. Biography Early life Garson was born on 3 October 1921 in Dedend in Udny Green, Aberdeenshire. She was the only daughter and the oldest of four children of the merchant seaman and later harbour master David Garson and his wife Jessie, ''née'' Anderson. Garson was brought up a Presbyterian. She was educated at Invergordon Academy, and later went on to gradu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Garson
Michael David Garson (born July 29, 1945) is an American pianist, who has worked with David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, St. Vincent, Duran Duran, Free Flight and The Smashing Pumpkins. Early career Garson went to Lafayette High School in Brooklyn. After graduating from Brooklyn College with a music degree in 1970, Garson was a member of rock/country/jazz band Brethren with Rick Marotta, Tom Cosgrove and Stu Woods. They recorded two albums, ''Brethren'' (1970) and ''Moment of Truth'' (1971), on the Tiffany label, which featured guest piano and liner notes by Dr. John (and album photography by Murray Head, who scored a hit with "Say it Ain't So Joe", "Jesus Christ Superstar", and later with the single " One Night in Bangkok"). Garson played on the '' I'm the One'' (1972) album by early 1970s experimental artist Annette Peacock. David Bowie asked Peacock to join him on a tour; she declined, but Garson began an enduring working relationship with Bowie. Work with David Bowie Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mort Garson
Morton Sanford Garson (20 July 1924 – 4 January 2008) was a Canadian composer, arranger, songwriter, and pioneer of electronic music. He is best known for his albums in the 1960s and 1970s, such as '' Mother Earth's Plantasia'' (1976), He also co-wrote several hit songs, including "Our Day Will Come", a hit for Ruby & the Romantics. According to Allmusic, "Mort Garson boasts one of the most unique and outright bizarre resumés in popular music, spanning from easy listening to occult-influenced space-age electronic pop." Early life Mort Garson was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, the son of Russian Jewish refugees.Camilla Aisa, "Totally Wired", ''Shindig!'', No.108, October 2020, pp.52-55 He later moved to New York City where he studied music at the Juilliard School of Music. He worked as a pianist and arranger before being called into the Army near the end of World War II. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Garson
Scott Jon Garson (born April 24, 1976) is an American basketball coach who is currently an assistant coach at Santa Clara University. Prior to that, Garson was an assistant men's basketball coach at UCLA and the University of Utah. From 2013 to 2018, Garson was head coach at the College of Idaho. Early life and education Born in Tarzana, California, Garson grew up in a Jewish family in Calabasas and graduated from Harvard-Westlake School in 1994. After high school, Garson initially attended Washington University in St. Louis and played at guard in basketball and pitcher in baseball in 1994–95. In 1995, Garson transferred to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He graduated from UCSB in 1999 with a B.A. in law and society. While a student at UCSB, Garson was a production assistant for '' The Jim Rome Show'' in the summer of 1996 and worked for the United States Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs in the summer of 1997. From 1996 to 1998, Garson was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Garson
Stuart Sinclair Garson (December 1, 1898 – May 5, 1977) was a Canadian politician and lawyer. He served as the 12th premier of Manitoba from 1943 to 1948, and later became a Federal cabinet minister. Life and career Born in St. Catharines, Ontario, the son of William Garson and Margaret Annable, Garson came to Manitoba with his parents in 1901. He received a Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Manitoba in 1918 and was called to the bar a year later. He practised law in Ashern, Manitoba, from 1919 to 1928. Garson was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for the riding of Fairford in 1927 as a Progressive, defeating incumbent Liberal Albert Kirvan. He defeated again Kirvan in 1932, and faced only minor competition for the remainder of his time in the Manitoba legislature. In early 1932, Garson was one of the founding members of the province's Liberal-Progressive coalition. Garson was sworn in as provincial Treasurer on September 21, 1936. He a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Garson
William C. W. Garson (May 6, 1856 – 1911) was a Scotland, Scottish-born Ontario and Manitoba businessman and political figure. He represented Lincoln (electoral district), Lincoln in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal Party of Ontario, Liberal member from 1886 to 1890. He was born in Kirkwall, Orkney Islands in 1856, the son of Robert Garson, and moved to St. Catharines, Ontario, St. Catharines, Canada West with his family in 1857. He served as a captain in the local militia. Garson was trained as a masonry, mason and became a construction contractor. In 1895, he married Margaret Annable. Garson moved to Winnipeg in 1901 where he served on the Board of Control and helped establish the city's publicly owned hydroelectric system. He helped develop limestone quarries near Tyndall, Manitoba, Tyndall, the source of the Tyndall Stone later used in the construction of the provincial parliament buildings and the Canadian Museum of Civilization. Garson continued to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
