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Lige Curry
Lige is a given name. Notable people with this name include: * Lige Clarke (1942–1975), American LGBT activist, journalist and author * Lige Conley (1897–1937), American actor of the silent era * Lige Gardner (1846–1901), Texas gunfighter sketched in the book titled Pages from a Worker's Life by William Z * Lige ( zh, 理格, links=no, labels=no), Chinese name of Teodorico Pedrini Teodorico Pedrini, C.M. (June 30, 1671 – December 10, 1746), also known by his Chinese name De Lige (), was an Italian Vincentian priest, musician and composer, but he was mainly a missionary at the imperial court of China for 36 years. Ped ..., Italian priest and musician See also * ''Lige'' is also a Danish word similar to the English word ''like'', and it thus appears on titles: {{given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lige Clarke
Elijah Hadyn "Lige" Clarke (February 22, 1942 − February 10, 1975) was an American LGBT activist, journalist and author. He was the author of two books with his lover, Jack Nichols. Early life Clarke was born on February 22, 1942 in Cave Branch, an unincorporated community in Knott County, Kentucky, just outside of the town of Hindman, where he grew up and attended school. Clarke was a graduate of Eastern Kentucky University and later left Kentucky and joined the United States Army. Career By the early 1960s, Clarke worked for the United States Department of Defense in Washington, D.C. He held "a host of security clearances." Clarke and Nichols created and wrote "The Homosexual Citizen" as a continuation to their original column written for ''The Mattachine Review'' beginning around 1965. It was published in ''Screw'' magazine. It was the first regular LGBT-interest column printed in a non-LGBT publication. By 1972, they edited ''Gay'', the first weekly national homosexual ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lige Conley
Lige Conley (born Elijah Crommie; December 5, 1897 – December 11, 1937) was an American actor of the silent film, silent era. He appeared in 140 films between 1915 and 1938. Biography As Lige Crommie, the curly-haired young comedian joined the stock company of the Mack Sennett studio in 1915. In 1917 he moved to the up-and-coming Hal Roach studio, then producing one-reel comedies with Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, and Snub Pollard. The Roach comedies credited the actor as "Lige Cromley," but since Lloyd and company dominated their pictures, which were limited to single reels, there was little chance for Lige to distinguish himself. He returned to Sennett as a stock player, again as Lige Crommie. When Sennett director Fred Fishback left Sennett for his own unit at Universal Pictures. Lige soon joined him there. In 1921 the comic finally achieved stardom at Educational Pictures, where he appeared in a long string of brisk, elaborately staged two-reel comedies produced by Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lige Gardner
Elijah Gardner, known as Lige Gardner, (c. 1846 – c. 1901) was a Texas gunfighter sketched in the book titled ''Pages from a Worker's Life'' by William Z. Foster. Early life Gardner was born in 1846 at Mississippi to an aristocratic Southern family. His family owned a plantation with slaves, but lost everything in the American Civil War. Gardner was described as "slight of build and dark-complexioned" in appearance. Life as a gunfighter The family migrated to Texas after the Civil War. Gardner married and fathered five children, being a farmer. He then learned he had Bright's disease and would often boast, "If I've got to cash in I might as well take along some of my enemies". Gardner's reputation as a gunman led to the killings of "two white men and several Negroes", according to William Z. Foster. Notoriety Gardner hired out his skills with a gun to the Southern Pacific railroad in the winter of 1901 in Eastern Texas, which was described as "tough country" where holdups wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |