Halter (surname)
Halter is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Bill Halter, Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas *Ed Halter, film programmer, writer, and founder of Light Industry *Lars Halter, German-American journalist and currently General Chairman of the Steuben Parade *Marek Halter, French novelist *Paul Halter, French novelist *Shane Halter, American baseball player *Sydney Halter Gerald Sydney Halter, (April 18, 1905 – October 24, 1990) was a Canadian lawyer and the first commissioner of the Canadian Football League. Biography Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1924 and a Bachelor ...

Bill Halter
William A. Halter Jr (born November 30, 1960) is an American politician who served as the 18th lieutenant governor of Arkansas from 2007 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected to succeed the late Republican Winthrop Paul Rockefeller in 2006, defeating Republican challenger Jim Holt. Before his election as lieutenant governor, Halter served as the Deputy Commissioner (1999–2001) and Acting Commissioner (2001) of the Social Security Administration. He previously worked as a senior adviser in the Office of Management and Budget from 1993 to 1999. A native of North Little Rock, he is a graduate of Stanford University and Oxford University. He unsuccessfully challenged two-term incumbent Blanche Lincoln for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate, losing in the June 8, 2010, runoff after neither won a majority in the May primary. After the bruising primary, Lincoln lost to her Republican opponent John Boozman in the general election. Halter ran for the De ...
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Ed Halter
Ed Halter is a film programmer, writer, and founder of Light Industry, a microcinema in Brooklyn, New York. He currently teaches at Bard College, where he is Critic in Residence. Criticism His writing has been featured in ''Artforum'', '' The Believer'', ''Bookforum'', ''Cinema Scope'', ''frieze'', ''Little Joe'', ''Mousse'', Rhizome, Triple Canopy, and ''Village Voice.'' Halter is interested in the intersection of video games, digital media, and American experimental film. Books His first book '' From Sun Tzu to Xbox'' was released in 2006. He has edited the compilation ''Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty First Century'' (2015), with Lauren Cornell. His edited volume ''From The Third Eye: The Evergreen Review Film Reader'' was published by Seven Stories Press in 2018; it is a compilation of essays from '' Evergreen Review'' which were published from 1950-1970. Film programming Halter has programmed and worked on various film festivals, particularly the ...
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Lars Halter
Lars Halter (born November 29, 1973 in Rheinfelden, Germany) is a German journalist, who has also worked in the U.S. As a journalist he covered Wall Street for German TV stations n-tv and Deutsche Welle in Berlin, where he is currently a reporter and producer. Early life Lars Halter attended the Gymnasium in Schopfheim and later Lörrach. He focused early on economical studies, while working as a journalist for local newspapers mostly covering political and cultural events. He continued to work as a journalist and photographer, when he was drafted into the German Bundeswehr. Halter served in the emergency headquarters, when his battalion was helping to fight the great flood of 1997 at the Oder River. Journalism Halter moved to the US in 1998, first working as a freelance journalist from Los Angeles, before moving to New York City. Here, he worked at several German language newspapers serving the German-American community, holding positions as editor-in-chief of the New Yo ...
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Marek Halter
Marek Halter is a French writer and activist, known best for his historical novels, which have been translated into English, Polish, Hebrew, and many other languages. Biography He was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1936. During World War II, he and his parents escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto and fled to the Soviet Union, spending the remainder of the war in Ukraine, Moscow and finally in Kokand, in Uzbekistan. In 1945 he was chosen to travel to Moscow to present flowers to Joseph Stalin. In 1946 the family returned to Poland and in 1950, they emigrated to France, taking up residence in Paris. In 1946, he returned to Poland with his family, but he left for Paris in 1950, when he was fourteen, and studied pantomime under Marcel Marceau. He was admitted to the École nationale des beaux-arts to study painting. In 1954, he received the Deauville international prize, and was also awarded a prize at the Biennale d'Ancone. His first international exhibit was in 1955 in Buenos Air ...
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Paul Halter
Paul Halter (born 19 June 1956) is a French writer of crime fiction known for his locked room mystery, locked room mysteries.John PugmireMaster of Locked Room MysteryRetrieved 5 January 2018. Biography Halter was born 19 June 1956 in Haguenau, Bas-Rhin France and pursued technical studies in his youth before joining the Troupes de marine, French Marines in the hope of seeing the world. Disappointed with the lack of travel, he left the military and, for a while, sold life insurance while augmenting his income playing the guitar in the local dance orchestra. He gave up life insurance for a job in the state-owned telecommunications company, where he works in what is now known as France Télécom. Halter has been compared with the late John Dickson Carr, generally considered the 20th century master of the locked room genre. Throughout his more than forty books his genre has been almost entirely impossible crimes, and as a critic has said "Although strongly influenced by Carr and Agath ...
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Shane Halter
Shane David Halter (born November 8, 1969) is a former Major League Baseball utility player. High school years Halter attended Hooks High School in Hooks, Texas and was a letterman in football, basketball, baseball, track, and golf. Halter played for the Norfolk Tides, a minor league baseball team located in Norfolk, Virginia. Major League Baseball career Halter played for the Kansas City Royals (1997–1998), New York Mets (1999), Detroit Tigers (2000–2003), and Anaheim Angels (2004). Although he was essentially a backup player, he had notable power and he was adequate defensively in all infield and outfield positions. On October 1, 2000, Halter showed his versatility by playing all nine positions in a single game, joining Bert Campaneris (Kansas City Athletics, September 8, 1965), César Tovar (Minnesota Twins, September 22, 1968), Scott Sheldon ( Texas Rangers, September 6, 2000), and Andrew Romine (Detroit Tigers, September 30, 2017), in the select list of players to pl ...
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