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List Of People From Redding, Connecticut
People associated with Redding, Connecticut, listed in the area they are best known: Actors, musicians and entertainers * Paul Avgerinos (born 1957), musician and electronic music composer * Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990), composer and conductor, lived on Fox Run Road in the 1950s * Michael Ian Black (born 1971), actor, comedian and author * Ritchie Blackmore (born 1945), musician, former resident * John Byrum (born 1947), motion picture director, screenwriter, and producer, long-time resident of West Redding * Diana Canova (born 1953), actress; spouse of Grammy Award-winning producer Elliott Scheiner * Rachel Crothers (1979–1958), playwright and director * Hume Cronyn (1911–2003), Academy Award-nominated actor, lived with his wife, Jessica Tandy, on Stepney Road in the 1940s and 1950s * Morton DaCosta (1914–1989), director and producer of films and Broadway shows * Daryl Hall (born 1946), musician with Hall & Oates, lived on Topstone Road * Jascha Heifetz (1901–1987), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Redding, Connecticut
Redding is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 8,765 at the 2020 census. History Early settlement and establishment At the time colonials began receiving grants for land within the boundaries of present-day Redding, Native American trails crossed through portions of the area, including the Berkshire Path running north–south. In 1639, Roger Ludlow (also referenced as Roger Ludlowe in many accounts) purchased land from local Native Americans to establish Fairfield, and in 1668 Fairfield purchased another tract of land then called Northfield, which comprised land that is now part of Redding. "National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet, Redding Center Historic District," U.S. Department of the Interior, 1992-10-01. Retrieved 2014-04-30. For settlement purposes, Fairfield authorities divided the newly available land into parcels dubbed "long lots" at the time, which north–south measured no more than a third of a mile wide but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kirkpatrick (musician)
John Michael Kirkpatrick (born 8 August 1947) is an English player of free reed instruments. In London John Kirkpatrick was born in Chiswick, London, England. As a child he sang in the choir and played piano. In 1959, he joined the Hammersmith Morris Men, in the second week of their existence, beginning a career-long love of folk music. In 1970, he became a regular at a folk club in the Roebuck pub in Tottenham Court Road and led the resident group, Dingle's Chillybom Band. The club hosted a film show of Morris dancing and Ashley Hutchings turned up. It was the beginning of a long musical relationship. In 1972 he teamed up with Ashley and others on the album ''Morris On''. In 1972, Kirkpatrick recorded his first solo album ''Jump at the Sun'' which included Richard Thompson on acoustic guitar. In Shropshire In 1973, Kirkpatrick moved to Shropshire and married Sue Harris. After seeing a dance team called Gloucestershire Old Spot Morris Dancers, he formed Shropshire Bedlam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Piotr
Derek Piotr is a folklorist, vocalist, and composer. Career Piotr released the album ''Agora'' in 2011. In 2012 his work was nominated for Prix Ars Electronica. In 2016, Piotr released the glitch album ''Drono''. ''Forest People Pop'' was released in 2017. His 2018 album ''Grunt'' was completed in collaboration with Kevin Drumm. "Grunt" is the Polish word for "earth" or "dirt". The album received mostly positive reviews, with ''PopMatters'' describing the material as being "equipped with all of the hypnotic powers of its contemporaries" and ''Cyclic Defros''t calling it "intricately constructed and frequently jarring". He released the remix EPs ''Earth Edit'' and ''Underlined'' in 2018, followed by ''Repeating Bloom'' in January 2019. He released the album ''Avia'' in July 2019. At the end of 2019, Piotr began researching Appalachian folk music for a new solo album. Through these folklore studies he discovered singer Lena Bare Turbyfill, whose last living daughter he tracke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Pinter
Mark Pinter (born March 7, 1950) is an American actor best known for his numerous roles in daytime soap operas. Early life and education Pinter was born in Decorah, Iowa. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in theatre arts from Iowa State University and a Master of Fine Arts from the Hilberry Theatre at Wayne State University. Career Acting Often cast as a villain, Pinter has been a contract player on such shows as ''Love of Life'', ''Guiding Light'', ''As the World Turns'', '' Loving'', and ''All My Children''. His most famous role was that of crooked politician Grant Harrison on '' Another World'' (1991–99), for which he won the Soap Opera Digest Award for Best Villain in 1996. In addition to his work in daytime television, Pinter has guest-starred on numerous primetime television series such as Law and Order and performed extensively on regional theatre stages across the country. He has also appeared in Norman Jewison's ''Other People's Money'' and Cameron Crowe's ''Vanilla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colleen Zenk Pinter
Colleen Zenk is an American actress, best known for her role as Barbara Ryan in the daytime TV drama ''As the World Turns'', a role she played from September 1978 until the show ended in September 2010. Zenk was born in Barrington, Illinois, and studied drama at The Catholic University of America. Her goal was to be a dancer, but a knee injury ended her dancing career. She appeared in print ads and TV commercials at the beginning of her career, including several commercials for Kellogg's. Career In 1980, Zenk co-starred on Broadway with musical theatre legends Chita Rivera and Donald O'Connor in the sequel to ''Bye Bye Birdie'' titled ''Bring Back Birdie''. She also appeared with Albert Finney and Carol Burnett, in the 1982 movie musical ''Annie'' directed by John Huston. In 1982, Zenk was also the focus of a commercial for L'eggs pantyhose. In 1991, she was one of three actors - along with fellow daytime performers Deidre Hall and Leslie Charleson - to appear in the leading ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Newman (actor)
Frederick R. Newman (born May 6, 1952) is an American actor, comedian, composer, SFX artist using his voice, and former talk show host. Career Newman's first job in New York City was at ''Newsweek''. After doing comedy, Newman soon capitalized on his unique vocalizations, and Peter Workman (Workman Publishing) signed Fred to write the best-selling book ''MouthSounds'' (first published in 1980 with a vinyl record insert, and updated with a CD in 2004). Newman was an actor and sound-effects artist on Garrison Keillor's live radio variety show ''A Prairie Home Companion''. In an audience favorite feature of the program, Keillor tells an apparently impromptu story that is funny because it requires Newman to strain to supply rapid-fire sound effects for unusual occurrences and obscure animals. Newman was featured in an interview with Jane Pauley on ''CBS Sunday Morning'' and the segment was nominated for an Emmy. He has also done character voices and sound effects in numerous film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmen Mathews
Carmen Sylvia Mathews (May 8, 1911 – August 31, 1995) was an American actress and environmentalist. Biography Mathews was born in Philadelphia. She studied first at Bennett Junior College and then in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She began her professional acting appearance with the Stratford-on-Avon Shakespearean Company before moving back to the United States. Her Shakespearean roles included Ophelia in ''Hamlet'' and the Queen in ''Richard II''. Her film credits include ''Butterfield 8'' (1960), ''A Rage to Live'' (1965), ''Rabbit, Run'' (1970), '' Sounder'' (1972), ''Top of the Hill'' (1980) and ''Daniel'' (1983). On television she performed on a wide variety of series over a span of four decades. A few of those series include appearances on six episodes of ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' (1955–65), as well as roles in a 1961 episode of ''The Twilight Zone,'' a 1964 episode of '' The Fugitive,'' and a 1972 episode of ''Cannon''. One of her more mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lori March
Lori March (March 6, 1923 – March 19, 2013) was an American television actress. She was best known for her roles on daytime soap operas. Her obituary on the Television Academy's web site noted that she "was dubbed 'First Lady of Daytime Television.'" Early years March was born in Hollywood, California. She was the daughter of Theodore von Eltz, an actor, and Peggy Prior, a screenwriter. Poet Joseph Moncure March was her adoptive father. She attended Beverly Hills High School. She studied theatre at HB Studio in New York City. Stage March's Broadway credits include ''Giants, Sons of Giants'' (1961), ''The Chalk Garden'' (1955), and ''Charley's Aunt'' (1953). Television March played Lenore Bradley on the soap opera ''The Brighter Day''. Her other soap operas and roles included '' Three Steps to Heaven'' (Jennifer), ''As the World Turns'' (Nurse Harris), ''The Secret Storm'' (Valerie Hill Ames Northcoate), '' One Life to Live'' (Adele Huddleston), ''The Edge of Night'' (Mrs. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joel Barlow High School
Joel Barlow High School is a public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades in Redding, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. The school serves Easton and Redding students. The school is the sole institution in the Region 9 School District of Connecticut, made up of the towns of Redding and Easton, which each have their own public school systems for education up to the eighth grade. The Board of Education acts as its own Board of Finance, and although it reports to the boards of finance in both towns, they have no control over the school budget. Each year a referendum is held on the school budget and must be passed by a majority of voters in the two towns. As of the 2015-16 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,008 students and 71.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.1:1. There were 33 students (3.3% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 12 (1.2% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meat Loaf
Michael Lee Aday (born Marvin Lee Aday; September 27, 1947 – January 20, 2022), known professionally as Meat Loaf, was an American rock singer and actor. He was noted for his powerful, wide-ranging voice and theatrical live shows. He is on the list of best-selling music artists. His ''Bat Out of Hell'' trilogy — ''Bat Out of Hell'' (1977), '' Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell'' (1993), and '' Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose'' (2006) — has sold more than 100 million records worldwide. The first album stayed on the charts for over nine years, still sells an estimated 200,000 copies annually, and is on the list of best-selling albums. After the commercial success of ''Bat Out of Hell'' and ''Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell'', and earning a Grammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance for the song "I'd Do Anything for Love", Aday nevertheless experienced some difficulty establishing a steady career within the United States. The key to this succes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enoch Light
Enoch Henry Light (August 18, 1907 – July 31, 1978) was an American classically trained violinist, danceband leader, and recording engineer. As the leader of various dance bands that recorded as early as March 1927 and continuing through at least 1940, Light and his band primarily worked in various hotels in New York. For a time in 1928 he also led a band in Paris. In the 1930s Light also studied conducting with the French conductor Maurice Frigara in Paris. Throughout the 1930s, Light and his outfits were steadily employed in the generally more upscale hotel restaurants and ballrooms in New York that catered to providing polite ambiance for dining and functional dance music of current popular songs rather than out-and-out jazz. At some point his band was tagged The Light Brigade and they often broadcast over radio live from the Hotel Taft in New York, where they had a long residency. Through 1940, Light and his band recorded for various labels including Brunswick, ARC, Voca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Levinson
Barry Lee Levinson (born April 6, 1942) is an American filmmaker, comedian and actor. Levinson's best-known works are mid-budget comedy drama and drama films such as '' Diner'' (1982); ''The Natural'' (1984); ''Good Morning, Vietnam'' (1987); '' Bugsy'' (1991); and ''Wag the Dog'' (1997). He won the Academy Award for Best Director for ''Rain Man'' (1988). In 2021, he co-executive produced the Hulu miniseries '' Dopesick'' and directed the first two episodes. Early life Levinson is of Russian-Jewish descent. After growing up in Forest Park, Baltimore and graduating from Forest Park Senior High School in 1960, Levinson attended Baltimore City Community College and American University in Washington, D.C. at the American University School of Communication, where he studied broadcast journalism. He then moved to Los Angeles to work as an actor and writer and performed comedy routines. Levinson at one time shared an apartment with would-be drug smuggler (and subject of the movie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
