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Haden (name)
Haden is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname *Andy Haden (born 1950), New Zealand rugby union player *Ben Haden, American minister in the Presbyterian Church * Charles Harold Haden II (1937–2004), United States federal judge *Charlie Haden (1937–2014), American jazz musician *Sir Francis Seymour Haden, (1818-1910), English surgeon and etcher * George Haden (1788–1856), British engineer and inventor * J. V. Haden (dates unknown), English cricketer *Jack Haden (1914–1996), American football player * Joe Haden (born 1989), American footballer *Josh Haden (born 1968), American jazz musician *Nate Haden (born 1976), American actor *Oliver Haden, British actor *Pat Haden (born 1953), American football player, lawyer and athletic director *Petra Haden (born 1971), American violinist and singer *Rachel Haden (born 1971), American bass guitarist and singer * Sam Haden (born 1902), English soccer player *Sara Haden (1899–1981), American c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Haden
Andrew Maxwell Haden (26 September 195029 July 2020) was a New Zealand rugby union player and All Black captain. He played at lock for Auckland and New Zealand from 1972 until 1985. He also played club rugby in the United Kingdom and Italy. Life and career Haden was born in Wanganui on 26 September 1950. He attended Wanganui Boys' College. He made his All Black debut in 1972, and his Test debut against the British Lions in 1977, going on to make 41 Test appearances and scoring two tries. Of those 41 appearances, 8 were as captain of the All Blacks. Haden was noted for his powerful scrummage skills and for his imposing presence at the lineout. He played club rugby for Auckland, Harlequins in London and Algida Rome in Italy. Off the field, he published his autobiography, ''Boots ’n All'', in 1983. By receiving royalties from the book, he ostensibly tested the sport's strict amateurism rules in force back then. He ultimately prevailed, however, by claiming that being a w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baron Haden-Guest
Baron Haden-Guest, of Saling in the County of Essex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 2 February 1950 for the Labour Party politician Leslie Haden-Guest. He had previously represented Southwark North and Islington North in the House of Commons. His fourth son, the fourth Baron (who succeeded his half-brother in 1987, who in his turn had succeeded his brother in 1974), was a United Nations official for many years. The title is held by his son Christopher Guest, the fifth Baron, who succeeded him in 1996. Christopher Guest is a film director, writer, actor and musician, married to the actress Jamie Lee Curtis, who is therefore the current Lady Haden-Guest. Barons Haden-Guest (1950) *Leslie Haden-Guest, 1st Baron Haden-Guest (1877–1960) *Stephen Haden Haden-Guest, 2nd Baron Haden-Guest (1902–1974) *Richard Haden Haden-Guest, 3rd Baron Haden-Guest (1904–1987) * Peter Albert Michael Haden-Guest, 4th Baron Haden-Guest (1913–1996) * Chris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Haden
'' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'', a spin-off of the crime drama ''Law & Order'', follows the detectives who work in the "Special Victims Unit" of the 16th Precinct of the New York City Police Department, a unit that focuses on crimes involving rape, sexual assault, and child molestation, as well as any crime loosely connected with any of the three, such as domestic violence, kidnapping, and child abandonment. Since its debut in September 1999, the series has followed the career of Olivia Benson, as she progresses from the rank of Detective, working with a partner (initially Elliot Stabler, and later Nick Amaro), to Captain, replacing Donald Cragen as commanding officer of SVU, and then to Captain. The unit also has a prosecutor assigned from the District Attorney's office, and frequently interacts with medical examiners and psychiatrists. Three of the regular characters have appeared as regulars in other NBC series: Captain Donald Cragen (Florek), who was on the first three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haden Harrison Edwards
Haden Harrison Edwards (1812–1865) was a Texan, born in Virginia but brought to Nacogdoches as a youngster by his father, onetime ''empresario'' Haden Edwards. Haden Harrison Edwards worked as a livestock trader, soldier, politician and railroad executive. He founded the Sabine Pass and East Texas Railway and was that company's first president. . Retrieved on June 6, 2011. Military career Edwards was already a well-travelled cattle trader when the Texas Revolution broke out. He was soon elected captain of a company of volunteers which served ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haden Edwards
Haden Edwards (August 12, 1771 – August 14, 1849) was a Texas settler. Edwards County, Texas on the Edwards Plateau is named for him. In 1825, Edwards received a land grant from the Mexican government, allowing him to settle families in East Texas. His grant included the city of Nacogdoches, and Edwards soon angered many of the previous settlers. After his contract was revoked in 1826, Edwards and his brother declared the colony to be the Republic of Fredonia. He was forced to flee Mexico when the Mexican army arrived to put down the rebellion, and did not return until after the Texas Revolution had broken out. Early life Mexican Texas to American immigration, Edwards traveled to Mexico City, where he joined forces with Stephen F. Austin, among others, in a 3-year attempt to persuade various Mexican governments to pass a law to allow Americans to settle in Texas. In 1824 the Mexican federal government passed a General Colonization Law, which for the first time permitted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie Lee Curtis (born November 22, 1958) is an American actress, producer, children's author, and activist. She came to prominence with her portrayal of Lt. Barbara Duran on the ABC sitcom '' Operation Petticoat'' (1977–78). In 1978, she made her feature film debut playing Laurie Strode in John Carpenter's slasher film ''Halloween'', which established her as a scream queen and led to a string of parts in horror films such as '' The Fog'', '' Prom Night'', ''Terror Train'' (all 1980) and ''Roadgames'' (1981). She reprised the role of Laurie in the sequels '' Halloween II'' (1981), '' Halloween H20: 20 Years Later'' (1998), '' Halloween: Resurrection'' (2002), ''Halloween'' (2018), ''Halloween Kills'' (2021), and '' Halloween Ends'' (2022). Curtis's film work spans many genres, including the cult comedies ''Trading Places'' (1983)—for which she won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress—and ''A Fish Called Wanda'' (1988), for which she received a BAFTA nomination for Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Guest
Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest (born February 5, 1948) is an American-British screenwriter, composer, musician, director, actor, and comedian. Guest is most widely known in Hollywood for having written, directed, and starred in his series of comedy films shot in mock-documentary (mockumentary) style. Many scenes and character backgrounds in Guest's films are written and directed, although actors have no rehearsal time and the ensemble improvises scenes while filming them. The series of films began with ''This Is Spinal Tap'' (which he did not direct) and continued with ''Waiting for Guffman'', '' Best in Show'', ''A Mighty Wind'', '' For Your Consideration'', and ''Mascots''. Guest holds a hereditary British peerage as the 5th Baron Haden-Guest, and has publicly expressed a desire to see the House of Lords reformed as a democratically elected chamber. Though he was initially active in the Lords, his career there was cut short by the House of Lords Act 1999, whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Guest
Nicholas Haden-Guest (born May 5, 1951), known as Nicholas Guest, is an American actor who has appeared in various movie and television roles, including that of headmaster Patrick James Elliot in the teen sitcom ''USA High''. Since 2000, he has primarily worked as a voice actor. Personal life Guest was born in New York City, the son of Peter Haden-Guest, a British United Nations diplomat who later became the 4th Baron Haden-Guest, and his second wife, Jean Pauline Hindes, a former vice president of casting at CBS. Guest's maternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia. His paternal grandfather, the 1st Baron Haden-Guest, was a Labour Party politician who was a convert to Judaism, and his paternal grandmother's father was Colonel Albert Goldsmid, a British officer who founded the Jewish Lads' and Girls' Brigade and the Maccabaeans. Both of Guest's parents had become atheists, and Guest had no religious upbringing. More than a decade before he was born, his uncle D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Haden-Guest
Anthony Haden-Guest (born 2 February 1937) is a British-American writer, reporter, cartoonist, art critic, poet, and socialite who lives in New York City and London. He is a frequent contributor to major magazines and has had several books published. Family Born in Paris, Haden-Guest is the son of Peter Haden-Guest, 4th Baron Haden-Guest, Peter Haden-Guest, a United Nations diplomat who later became Baron Haden-Guest, The 4th Baron Haden-Guest. His mother was Elisabeth Furse, Elisabeth Haden-Guest, née Louise Ruth Wolpert. As Haden-Guest was born before his parents' marriage, upon his father's death the peerage passed to his younger half-brother, Christopher Guest, a comedian, actor, writer, director, musician and Grammy Award-winning composer. A humorous blurb on the back cover of ''The Chronicles of Now'', a book of Haden-Guest's cartoons, reads as follows: Boring, pompous, and a complete and utter waste of time. I don’t know what my brother was thinking.—Christopher Gues ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Haden-Guest, Lady Haden-Guest
Jean Pauline Haden-Guest, Baroness Haden-Guest (March 1, 1921 – February 10, 2017; née Genia Pauline Hindes) was an American theatre director and television executive. She was the Director of the American National Theater and Academy and served as the Vice President and Head of Talent at CBS. Haden-Guest was the second wife of Peter Haden-Guest, 4th Baron Haden-Guest. Early life and family Lady Haden-Guest was born Genia Pauline Hindes in New York City on March 1, 1921, to Russian Jewish immigrants Albert George Hindes and Freida Muldavin Sadvoronsky. She grew up being exposed to the arts and Russian and Jewish culture, and was influenced by the writings of Anton Chekhov. Her family spoke Yiddish, and she learned some of the language. Career Lady Haden-Guest served as Director of the American National Theater and Academy, a non-profit theatre production agency, before working as a representative for actors at the firm Wender & Associates. Later she worked for CBS, where s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Furse
Elisabeth Furse (30 August 1910 – 14 October 2002) was a Communist activist, World War II resistance escape route organizer, and London bistro proprietress. Early life She was born Louise Ruth Wolpert in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad), and brought up in Berlin. Her father, Paul Wolpert, was a Russian-speaking Latvian Jew and a wealthy textile merchant. She was nicknamed "Lisl" by an aunt, from which she derived Elisabeth, the name she later adopted for herself. Political activist As a teenager she joined the Communist Party, and in her early twenties collected money in France and England to help political refugees in Germany to escape the Nazis. In 1934, she married Bertie Coker, a fellow Communist. It was a marriage of convenience for a new nationality and legal residence outside Germany, where her activities with the Communists put her at risk of arrest and execution by the Gestapo. She left the Communist movement in 1934. Second World War Her second marriage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Haden-Guest, 4th Baron Haden-Guest
Peter Albert Michael Haden-Guest, 4th Baron Haden-Guest (29 August 1913 – 8 April 1996) was a British United Nations diplomat and member of the House of Lords. A dancer and choreographer who performed as ''Peter Michael'' with the Markova-Dolin Ballet, Ballet Divertissement, Ballet Theatre, Ballet Joos, and the Repertory Dance Theatre from 1935 until 1945, Haden-Guest was a United Nations official from 1946 to 1972. He inherited his title in 1987. Lord Haden-Guest was the fourth son of The 1st Baron Haden-Guest and Muriel Carmel (née Goldsmid), daughter of Albert Goldsmid (Muriel was the 1st Baron's second wife). Peter Haden-Guest's father was a convert to Judaism who had later "renounced" the religion. Haden-Guest's maternal grandparents were both converts to Judaism, though both were of partial Jewish ancestry. Haden-Guest was an atheist. Haden-Guest was married twice, his wives being: * Elisabeth Wolpert (née Louise Ruth Wolpert, 1910–2002), a German-born writer an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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