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Roger Cook (other)
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Roger Cook may refer to: * Roger Cook (graphic designer) (1930–2021), American artist * Roger Cook (journalist) (born 1943), New Zealand investigative journalist, best known in the UK * Roger Cook (landscaper) (1954–2024), American landscaper and television personality * Roger Cook (politician) (born 1965), politician from Western Australia * Roger Cook (songwriter) (born 1940), English singer, songwriter and record producer * Roger Cook, British academic and artist; played Christ in Derek Jarman's film '' The Garden'' * Roger Noel Cook (born 1946), British comics writer, musician and magazine publisher See also * * Cook (surname) Cook is an occupational surname of English origin. Notable people with the surname include: A * Aaron Cook (other), multiple people * Adam Cook (other), multiple people *A. J. Cook (born 1978), Canadian actress *A. J. Cook ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Cook (graphic Designer)
Rajie Cook (July 6, 1930 – February 6, 2021), also known as Roger Cook, was an American graphic designer, artist, Palestinian peace activist, humanitarian and photographer. Cook was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1930, into a Palestinian-Christian family. He was president of Cook and Shanosky Associates, a graphic design firm he founded in 1967. The firm produced all forms of corporate communications including: Corporate Identity, Advertising, Signage, Annual Reports and Brochures. His graphic design and photography have been used by IBM, Container Corporation of America, Montgomery Ward, Bristol Myers Squibb, Black & Decker, Volvo, Subaru, AT&T, New York Times, Bell Atlantic, BASF, Lenox, and a number of other major international corporations. He received the Presidential Award for Design Excellence from president Ronald Reagan and Elizabeth Dole on January 30, 1984 in the Indian Treaty Room of the Old Executive Office Building in Washington, DC. Juries under the auspices o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Cook (journalist)
Roger Lou Belvedere Cook (born 6 April 1943) is a New Zealand-born British investigative journalist and television broadcaster. In 1997, he won a British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA) special award "for 25 years of outstanding quality investigative reporting", for his show ''The Cook Report''. Early life Cook's parents were New Zealanders, but he was brought up in Australia, and began his career with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as a reporter and newsreader on both radio and television. In 1968, Cook moved to the United Kingdom where he joined BBC Radio 4's ''The World At One'' programme and subsequently worked on several other BBC radio and television programmes, including '' PM'', '' Nationwide'', and ''Newsnight''. ''Checkpoint'' In 1973, Cook created and presented the Radio 4 programme ''Checkpoint'', which specialised in investigating and exposing criminals, con-men, injustice and official incompetence, often confronting the subjects of the investi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Cook (landscaper)
Roger Cook is a former garden and landscape contractor on the PBS home renovation program ''This Old House'' from 1988 until 2020. He also appears on the associated programs ''Ask This Old House'' and ''Inside This Old House''. Biography In 1977, Cook received a Bachelor of Science degree in wildlife management and conservation law from the University of Maine. A certified landscape contractor in Massachusetts, Cook is an active member of the Massachusetts Arborist Association and has served as president of the board of directors of New England Grows and the Association of Landscape Contractors of Massachusetts. Cook owns and operates K & R Tree and Landscape Company, which he and his wife, Kathleen, founded in 1982. Cook's first appearance on ''This Old House'' was also in 1982. At the time, he was a landscape foreman with a private company and contributed to several ''This Old House'' projects, including the Bigelow Ranch and the Woburn House. In 1988, beginning with the Lex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Cook (politician)
Roger Hugh Cook (born 20 August 1965) is an Australian politician who is the current Deputy Premier of Western Australia, under Mark McGowan. He has been a member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia since 2008, representing the seat of Kwinana. He was elected deputy leader of the Labor Party ten days after first being elected to parliament, and continues to hold the position. Before entering politics, Cook worked as a public relations consultant. He had earlier been involved in student politics, serving as the first president of the National Union of Students. Early life Cook was born in Perth, and attended Scotch College.Roger Hugh Cook Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 2 December 2016. He went on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Cook (songwriter)
Roger Frederick Cook (born 19 August 1940) is an English singer, songwriter and record producer, who has written many hit records for other recording artists. He has also had a successful recording career in his own right. He is best known for his collaborations with Roger Greenaway. Cook's co-compositions have included "You've Got Your Troubles", and the transatlantic million selling songs, "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" and "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress". They were the first UK songwriting partnership to win an Ivor Novello Award as 'Songwriters of the Year' in two successive years. In 1997, Cook became the first and so far only British songwriter to enter the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Biography Early life Cook was born in Fishponds, Bristol, England. Most of the hits he has written have been in collaboration with Roger Greenaway, whom he originally met while they were members of a close harmony group, the Kestrels. Continuing on as a duo, Cook and Green ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Garden (1990 Film)
''The Garden'' is a 1990 United Kingdom, British art film, arthouse film directed by Derek Jarman and produced by James Mackay (film producer), James Mackay for Basilisk Communications, in association with Channel 4, British Screen, and ZDF. The film is loosely based on the story of Christ's crucifixion, except the figure of Christ is replaced with a gay, homosexual male couple. The film has been seen as an allegory of the suffering gays were going through during the AIDS crisis and their being ostracized by many in society. The film was entered into the 17th Moscow International Film Festival. Overview Lacking almost any dialogue, the film is shown as Jarman's own subjective musings, which are tempered by the reality of his own mortality—when HIV-positive Jarman made the film he was facing death from AIDS. Jarman reads a moving elegy to lost friends at the film's end. The film follows a seemingly innocent and loving homosexual, male couple whose idealistic existence i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Noel Cook
Roger Noel Cook (born 1946) is a British comics writer, musician, and magazine editor. Biography As a teenager, Cook began working at Polystyle Publications in 1962, becoming a staff writer on '' TV Comic'' in 1964. He wrote for various series in ''TV Comic'', including ''Doctor Who'', ''Tom and Jerry'' and '' Popeye''. His extensive work on the ''Doctor Who'' comic has led to him being described as the most prolific ''Doctor Who'' writer in any medium.A Writer Way Too Young: An Interview with Roger Noel Cook Altered Vistas, 2011 While at Polystyle, Cook, on lead vocals, formed the band Stud Leather with Alan Kirkham on guitar. The rest of the band were Haydn Gridley on bass, Johnny Aldrich on drums and Dickie Graves on backing vocals. The band was signed to DART (Dart Records) bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
