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Peter Evans (soldier)
Peter Evans may refer to: * Peter Evans (actor) (1950–1989), American actor * Peter Evans (musician), American musician, specializes in improvisation and avant-garde music * Peter Evans (musicologist) (1929–2018), British musicologist, author of ''The Music of Benjamin Britten'' * Peter Evans (restaurateur) (1926–2014), British restaurateur * Peter Evans (radio personality) (1927–1985), 3LO breakfast announcer 1965–1986 * Peter Evans (swimmer) (born 1961), Australian swimmer, won a gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics * Peter Evans (sailor) (born 1961), New Zealand Olympic sailor * Peter Evans (author) (died 2012), British journalist and author * Peter B. Evans (born 1944), political sociologist * Peter Evans, fictional character in the Tracy Letts play '' Bug'' See also * Peter Darvill-Evans Peter Darvill-Evans (born 1954) is an English writer and editor. Early life He was born and lived in Buckinghamshire until he went to university, graduating in 1975 from Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Evans (actor)
Peter Evans (May 27, 1950 – May 20, 1989) was an American actor. He won the 1976 Clarence Derwent Award and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for his portrayal of Richie in David Rabe's '' Streamers''. However, he was best known for his role as Russ Merman in the 1980s sitcom ''9 to 5''. Early life and education Evans was born in 1950 in Englewood, New Jersey, to Dudley and Caroline Evans. He had a brother, John Randall, and a sister, Elizabeth Temple. He attended Phillips Academy, Andover. In 1972, he graduated from Yale University. For three years, Evans attended the Central School of Speech and Drama. Career Theatre In 1975, Evans made his debut in the New York theater with David Storey's ''Life Class''. In 1976, Mike Nichols directed him in David Rabe's ''Streamers'', in which he portrayed Richie. His performance as Richie won him the Clarence Derwent Award and garnered him a Drama Desk Award nomination. In 1977, he appeared opposite Ellis Rabb in David Mamet's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Evans (musician)
Peter Evans is a improvising trumpeter who specializes in free improvisation and avant-garde music. Career Evans graduated from The Oberlin Conservatory of Music. He also studied at the New England Conservatory of Music's School of Preparatory Education. He has led the Peter Evans Quintet with Ron Stabinsky, Sam Pluta, Tom Blancarte, and Jim Black, the Zebulon trio with John Hebert and Kassa Overall, and was a member of the band Mostly Other People Do the Killing. He has worked with Peter Brötzmann, Mary Halvorson, Okkyung Lee, Evan Parker, Matana Roberts, Tyshawn Sorey, Dave Taylor, Weasel Walter, and John Zorn. He is a member of the International Contemporary Ensemble and Wet by the ICE, Yarn/Wire, the Donaueschingen Musiktage Festival, the Jerome Foundation's Emerging Artist Program, and was a 2014 Artist-in-Residence at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, New York. Evans performed at the 2016 Kanye West x Adidas fashion show in New York City. In 2011 Evans founded t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Evans (musicologist)
Peter Angus Evans (7 November 1929 – 1 January 2018) was an English musicologist, most noteworthy for his book ''The Music of Benjamin Britten''. Evans was born in West Hartlepool and received his early education at the local Grammar school. He studied with Arthur Hutchings and A.E.F. Dickinson at Durham University from 1947 to 1951 and gained a first-class BA in 1950. He taught music at Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury (1951–52) before gaining his Fellowship Diploma from the Royal College of Organists in 1952.Cummings, David M. (ed) ''International Who's Who in Music and Musician's Directory''. Psychology Press, 2000: p. 188 He was then appointed a lecturer at Durham University in 1953. He graduated with a BMus from Durham in that year and took the MA with a dissertation on 17th-century chamber music manuscripts in Durham Cathedral Library. He was awarded the DMus by the university in 1958. From 1961 to 1990 he was professor of music at the University of Southampton, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Evans (restaurateur)
Peter Evans (28 December 1926 – 19 July 2014 in Frinton-on-Sea) Princess Anne and Prince Charles were all visitors. The younger royals have followed: Prince William when romancing Kate Middleton and Prince Harry when pursuing Chelsy Davy. Inter alia, Hicks designed sets for Richard Lester's 1968 movie ''Petulia'', starring Julie Christie. Garnett's Chelsea Drugstore was immortalised in Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film ''A Clockwork Orange''. Early life Born in Highgate, London, his father, Lionel Oliver Evans, was an inventor and builder. Educated briefly at Belmont, Mill Hill, Evans then worked with his father until one row too far drove him to Ghana, West Africa. There, to spice up a boring life selling insurance, he wrote for the ''Daily Mirrors West African subsidiary, the ''Daily Graphic'', becoming their African and Wimbledon tennis correspondent. Eventually, his insurance employers realised he was spending more time on tennis than selling their product and he was fired ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Evans (radio Personality)
Peter Evans (1927–1985) was a breakfast radio announcer on the Australian Broadcasting Commission's station 3LO (now 774 ABC Melbourne). Prior to this, he had been a broadcaster at Melbourne commercial radio station Talking Lifestyle 1278, 3XY. His ABC program ran for over two decades from 1965 until 1985 and for much of that period was the highest rating breakfast radio program in Melbourne, Victoria, Melbourne. The radio show was also relayed and aired through ABC Radio in Brisbane Queensland. Evans was renowned for his eccentricities and often came across as a bitter and grumpy man, seemingly detached from the present and displaying a greater fondness for the bygone era of the British Empire than for the country he had resided in for the majority of his life. He repeatedly broke traditional broadcasting guidelines by such acts as allowing periods of several seconds of silence to be broadcast. Coming from a Culture of Wales, Welsh background and bearing the common Welsh surna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Evans (swimmer)
Peter Maxwell Evans (born 1 August 1961) is an Australian breaststroke swimmer of the 1980s who won four Olympic medals, including a gold in the 4×100 m medley relay at the 1980 Moscow Olympics as part of the Quietly Confident Quartet. He also won consecutive bronze medals in the 100 m breaststroke at the 1980 Olympics and the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. The son of prominent Western Australian businessman and politician Max Evans, Evans had a late start to his swimming career, making his debut at the Australian Championships in his hometown of Perth, aged 17. Despite placing second in the 100 m breaststroke, he was not selected for Australia, and instead travelled to the United Kingdom to train under David Haller. During this period, he quickly improved his times and rose from outside the top 200 into the top 25 in the world rankings. Evans returned to Australia in 1980 and qualified for the Olympics in both the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke. A sprin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Evans (sailor)
Peter Evans (born 1961) is a New Zealand sailor (sport), sailor who has competed in two Olympic Games and in six America's Cup campaigns. Early years Evans was born in 1961 and grew up in Devonport, New Zealand, Devonport. He is a member of the Wakatere Boating Club. He started sailing Frostbite (dinghy), Frostbites before earning several National Championships in Sabot (dinghy), Sabots, Starling (dinghy), Starlings and Laser (dinghy), Lasers. He then moved to sailing in a Europe (dinghy), Europe before moving to the 470 (dinghy), 470 Olympic class. Olympics Evans, alongside Sean Reeves, sailed in a 470 at the Sailing at the 1984 Summer Olympics – 470, 1984 Summer Olympics, finishing 14th. That year, they also finished third at the 470 World Championships in Auckland. He again represented New Zealand at the 1988 Summer Olympics in the Sailing at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 470, men's 470 event, this time finishing in 6th place with Simon Mander. He later coached the sai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Evans (author)
Peter Evans was a British journalist who wrote for the '' Daily Express'', and also wrote several unauthorized biographies of public figures including Aristotle Onassis and the Kennedy family. He died, age 78, in 2012. Publications * ''Nemesis: The True Story of Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O, and the Love Triangle That Brought Down the Kennedys'' (2004) (ReganBooks) * ''Ari: The Life and Times of Aristotle Socrates Onassis'' * '' Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations'' (2013) * ''The Mask Behind the Mask, a Life of Peter Sellers'' * ''Goodbye Baby & Amen'' * ''The Englishman's Daughter'' * ''Titles'' * ''Behind Palace Doors'' (with Nigel Dempster Nigel Richard Patton Dempster (1 November 1941 in Calcutta, India – 12 July 2007 in Ham, Surrey) was a British journalist, author, broadcaster and diarist. Best known for his celebrity gossip columns in newspapers, his work appeared in the '' ...) References British biographers British journalists 2012 deaths {{UK-jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter B
Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) Culture * Peter (actor) (born 1952), stage name Shinnosuke Ikehata, Japanese dancer and actor * Peter (album), ''Peter'' (album), a 1993 EP by Canadian band Eric's Trip * Peter (1934 film), ''Peter'' (1934 film), a 1934 film directed by Henry Koster *Peter (2021 film), ''Peter'' (2021 film), Marathi language film * Peter (Fringe episode), "Peter" (''Fringe'' episode), an episode of the television series ''Fringe'' * Peter (novel), ''Peter'' (novel), a 1908 book by Francis Hopkinson Smith * Peter (short story), "Peter" (short story), an 1892 short story by Willa Cather Animals * Peter, the Lord's cat, cat at Lord's Cricket Ground in London * Peter (chief mouser), Chief Mouser between 1929 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bug (play)
''Bug'' is a play by American playwright Tracy Letts. Exploring themes of paranoia and conspiracy theories, the play tells the story of a woman who, as she spends time with a newly acquainted man in her motel room, starts sharing more and more of his paranoias. It premiered in London 1996, and was also performed around the United States between 2000 and 2004. The play was adapted into a film of the same name directed by William Friedkin in 2006, with Letts writing the screenplay and Michael Shannon, who had played the male lead role of Peter in the original London production and in some American versions, reprising his role. Synopsis Most of the play takes place in a seedy motel room. Lonely cocktail waitress Agnes lives there, hiding from her violent ex-husband Jerry Goss, an ex-con. One night, her lesbian biker friend R.C. introduces her to Peter, a Gulf War veteran who might be AWOL. She gets involved with Peter, who grows increasingly paranoid about the war in Iraq, UFOs, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
