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Middendorf
Middendorf is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * J. William Middendorf, U.S. diplomat * John Middendorf, big wall rock climber * Tracy Middendorf, American television, movie, and stage actress * Alexander von Middendorff Alexander Theodor von Middendorff (russian: Алекса́ндр Фёдорович Ми́ддендорф; tr. ; 18 August 1815 – 24 January 1894) was a zoologist and explorer of Baltic German and Estonian extraction. He is known for his ex ..., Russian zoologist and explorer of Baltic-German origin. See also {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracy Middendorf
Tracy Lynn Middendorf (born January 26, 1970) is an American television, film, movie, and theatre, stage actress. Middendorf's most notable roles were in the horror film ''Wes Craven's New Nightmare'', the MTV series ''Scream (TV series), Scream'', and the HBO series ''Boardwalk Empire''. She also appeared in the Broadway theatre, Broadway production of ''Ah, Wilderness!''. She has won two Ovation Awards, one Drama-Logue Award, and one Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for her stage work, and also received an American Movie Award in 2015. Biography Acting career Middendorf was born in Miami Beach, Florida. She attended the State University of New York at Purchase, Conservatory of Theatrical Arts at SUNY Purchase before breaking into television as Carrie Brady on the daytime soap opera ''Days of Our Lives'' in 1992. The following year, she made her feature-film debut in the critically acclaimed ''Wes Craven's New Nightmare'', wherein she played the supporting role of Julie. Du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Middendorf
John Middendorf (born April 13, 1959, in New York City) is a big wall climber and designer of climbing equipment. In the 1980s, he climbed the hardest walls of Yosemite (including El Capitan and Half Dome), and in 1992 he climbed the largest rock wall in the world, Great Trango Tower. Also in the late 1980s and early 1990s, he pioneered numerous difficult big wall routes in Zion National Park. He is also a renowned portaledge designer and writer. Great Trango new route He achieved worldwide recognition in the climbing world in 1992 when he climbed the East Face of Great Trango Tower (6286 m a.s.l.) in Karakoram, Pakistan, with Xaver Bongard. As a lightweight, two man team, they were the first to climb the largest rock face involving big wall climbing of Great Trango Tower to its summit and make it down alive. (The East Face of Great Trango was climbed in 1984 via neighbor route, ''Norwegian Pillar'', by the team of the finest Norwegian climbers, but the summiters died on the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |