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Silverman
Silverman may refer to: * a kind of living statue Surnames * Abraham George Silverman (1900–1973), American mathematician * Allan Silverman (born 1955), American philosopher * Barry G. Silverman (born 1951), American federal judge * Belle Miriam Silverman, better known as Beverly Sills (1929–2007), American singer * Ben Silverman, American TV producer * Ben Silverman (born 1987), Canadian professional PGA golfer * Bernard Silverman (born 1952), British statistician * Bernard Silverman (politician) (1838–1898), American politician * Billy Silverman (born 1962), American pro wrestling referee * Craig Silverman, Canadian journalist and media editor * David Silverman (other), several people * Debra T. Silverman, American biostatistician and cancer epidemiologist * Edwin Silverman (1898–1970), American theatre owner and operator * Erica Silverman, author of '' Big Pumpkin'' * Fred Silverman (1937–2020), American TV executive and producer * Jonathan Silverm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Silverman
Fred Silverman (September 13, 1937 – January 30, 2020) was an American television executive and producer. He worked as an executive at all of the Big Three television networks, and was responsible for bringing to television such programs as ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!'' (the original incarnation of the ''Scooby-Doo'' franchise, 1969–1970), ''All in the Family'' (1971–1979), ''The Waltons'' (1972–1981), and '' Charlie's Angels'' (1976–1981), as well as the miniseries '' Rich Man, Poor Man'' (1976), ''Roots'' (1977), and ''Shōgun'' (1980). For his success in programming such successful shows, ''Time'' magazine declared him "The Man with the Golden Gut" in 1977. Biography Early life and career Silverman was born in New York City, the son of Mildred, a homemaker, and William Silverman, a radio and television service repairman. His father was Jewish and his mother was Roman Catholic. He grew up in Rego Park, Queens, and attended Forest Hills High School. He graduated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Silverman
Benjamin Noah Silverman (born August 15, 1970) is an American media executive. He is the co-CEO and chairman of the entertainment production company Propagate. From 2007–2009, Silverman served as co-chairman of NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios. He is also an Emmy and Golden Globe-winning executive producer of such shows as ''The Office'', ''Jane The Virgin'', ''Ugly Betty'', ''Marco Polo'', ''The Tudors'' and ''The Biggest Loser''. Silverman also produced CW's praised '' No Tomorrow'' and Apple's first reality television show '' Planet of the Apps''. On July 10, 2014, The Banff World Media Festival presented Silverman with the ''Award of Excellence in Digital Innovation''. As of the fourth quarter 2016, Silverman's most recently released feature film ''Hands of Stone'' starring Edgar Ramirez, Robert De Niro and Usher, and was released theatrically in North America on August 26, 2016 through The Weinstein Company. Life and career Silverman was born in Pittsfield, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joy Silverman
Joy Silverman (born April 8, 1947) is an American socialite and Republican Party operative and fundraiser. Early life and education Silverman was born Joy Fererh on April 8, 1947, the daughter of Jeanette (née Rothenberg) and Ben Fererh. In 1951, her parents divorced and in 1955, she moved to Great Neck, New York with her mother's new husband, Marc Germont. She attended elementary school in Great Neck and also took Hebrew language, Hebrew classes at Temple Israel. She has one half-brother from her mother's second marriage, composer Bruce Wolosoff. Germont died of leukimia when Silverman was 12 and her mother married wealthy Long Island real estate developer Alvin Bibbs Wolosoff for whom she worked as a secretary. In 1964, she attended the Howard School for Girls in Bridgewater, Massachusetts and then studied liberal arts at the University of Maryland from 1965 to 1968 but dropped out. Career After college, Silverman went to work as a receptionist at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Silverman
Robert Herschel Silverman, Order of Canada, CM, born May 25, 1938 in Montreal is a noted Canadian pianist and piano pedagogue.Silverman at Encyclopedia of Music in Canada, accessed August 31, 2019 He was made Member of the Order of Canada in 2013. In 1998 he became the inaugural recipient of the Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award of the Ontario Arts Foundation. His widely acclaimed 10-CD recording of all thirty-two Beethoven sonatas was short-listed for a Juno Award for Best Classical Album: Solo or Chamber Ensemble. His Liszt recording was awarded the 1977 Grand Prix du disque by the Budapest Liszt Society. He lives in Vancouver with his wife and occasional duet partner, pianist Ellen (Nivert) Silverman. Education Although Silverman showed precocious outstanding musical abil ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Silverman
Ken Silverman (born November 1, 1975) is an American game programmer, best known for writing the Build engine. It was most notably utilized by ''Duke Nukem 3D'', ''Shadow Warrior'', ''Blood'', and more than a dozen other games in the mid- to late-1990s. Once considered the primary rival of John Carmack (later succeeded by Tim Sweeney), Silverman started work on the Build engine sometime before his first semester at Brown University in 1993, under a contract with Apogee Software. In the wake of ''Duke Nukem 3D'' and other Build engine games, Silverman left the commercial game industry. Silverman has been CTO and co-founder of Ardfry Imaging, LLC responsible for the PNG Compression tool PNGOUT. He is the founder and Chief Computer Scientist of VOXON, makers of the Voxiebox holographic 3D arcade game system. Projects Ken's Labyrinth ''Ken's Labyrinth'' is a first-person shooter video game coded by Silverman. It was originally released in 1993 as shareware by Epic MegaGames. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Silverman
Jonathan Elihu Silverman (born August 5, 1966) is an American actor, known for his roles in the comedy films ''Brighton Beach Memoirs'', ''Weekend at Bernie's'', and its sequel ''Weekend at Bernie's II''. Early life and education Silverman was born in Los Angeles, California, to a Jewish family. He is the son of Devora (née Halaban) and Hillel Emanuel Silverman, a rabbi. He is the grandson of famous Conservative Rabbi Morris Silverman. His mother is from Jerusalem, where her family has lived since the establishment of Israel. He graduated Beverly Hills High School in 1984 and is friends with David Schwimmer, who was a classmate. Career Silverman is known for his roles the films ''Girls Just Want to Have Fun'' (1985),''Girls Just Want to Have Fun'' '' |
Ben Silverman (golfer)
Ben Silverman (born November 15, 1987) is a Canadian professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour. In 2017 he won the Price Cutter Charity Championship. Early and personal life Silverman was born in Thornhill, Ontario, in Canada, to Howard and Maureen Silverman, and is Jewish. He played golf at Vaughan Secondary School in Vaughan, Ontario. Silverman attended Johnson & Wales University in Florida for two years, and then Florida Atlantic University, where Silverman obtained a bachelor's degree in psychology in 2010. He was a walk-on on the golf teams of both schools. Silverman lives in West Palm Beach, Florida. He and his wife, Morgan, have one son. Professional career Silverman turned pro in 2010. He joined the PGA Tour Canada in 2014. In 2015, he qualified for the Web.com Tour for 2016 via the qualifying tournament, and in 2017 won the Price Cutter Charity Championship on his way to 10th place on the end of season money list to graduate to the elite PGA Tour for 2018. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Silverman
Laura Jane Silverman (born June 10, 1966) is an American actress and the older sister of actress and comedian Sarah Silverman. She acted in '' Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic'' and ''The Sarah Silverman Program'' portraying a fictionalized version of herself. She also stars as Jane Benson on '' The Comeback'' with Lisa Kudrow and voiced Laura, the sarcastic receptionist on the animated comedy television series ''Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist''. Her dramatic roles include guest appearances in ''House'' and ''Nurse Jackie''. Silverman was born to Beth Ann O'Hara and Donald Silverman. Her parents divorced and each remarried (to John O'Hara and Janice, respectively). She has three sisters: screenwriter Jodyne, comedian Sarah Silverman, and Rabbi Susan Silverman. Her brother Jeffrey Michael died when he was 3 months old. Their family is Jewish. Silverman graduated from Tufts University Tufts University is a private research university on the border of Medford and Somerville, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Silverman
Sir Bernard Walter Silverman, (born 22 February 1952) is a British statistician and former Anglican clergyman. He was Master of St Peter's College, Oxford, from 1 October 2003 to 31 December 2009. He is a member of the Statistics Department at Oxford University, and has also been attached to the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, and the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance. He has been a member of the Council of Oxford University and of the Council of the Royal Society.Council for 2008/9 of the He was briefly president of the |
Joseph Silverman
Joseph Silverman (August 25, 1860 in Ohio – July 26, 1930 in New York City), was a leading American Reform rabbi and author. He was the first American born rabbi to serve in New York City. Born in Cincinnati, he attended the University of Cincinnati and received a Doctor of Divinity from the Hebrew Union College in 1887, from which he received his rabbinic ordination three years earlier. In 1887, he married and subsequently had five children with his wife Henrietta. He was Rabbi of Temple Emanu-El, Dallas, Texas, September 1884 to June 1885; rabbi of Congregation B'nai Israel, Galveston, Texas July, 1885 to February 20, 1888. While in Texas he was a circuit preacher to the Jewish communities in the vicinity of Dallas and Galveston, and aided in organizing many Sabbath schools and congregations. He was consulting editor of the ''Jewish Encyclopedia'' (Funk & Wagnalls). He helped organize the Religious Congress of the World's Fair in Chicago, 1893, where his address on this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Silverman
Peter Guy Silverman (5 July 1931 – 7 October 2021) was a Canadian broadcast journalist based in Toronto, Ontario. His television journalism career began in 1974 as a reporter for Global Television Network's first years. In 1981, he moved to Citytv where he became a reporter for that station's City''Pulse'' news program (now known as City''News''). He was host of ''Silverman Helps'', an ombudsman-type feature for consumers that began in 1989, and ended on 4 June 2008 when he was dismissed without cause by Citytv's owner, Rogers Media. In September 2008, Silverman joined Toronto radio station CFRB to host a Saturday morning radio show called ''The Peter Silverman Show''. Born in Montreal he graduated from Sir George Williams University, one of Concordia University's founding institutions, with a BA in 1953. From 1953 to 1968 Silverman lived in the UK working for Institute of Race Relations and served in the British Army (Territorial Army) Emergency Reserve (TAER) rising to r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham George Silverman
Abraham George Silverman was a mathematician and statistician who was a member of the Soviet Ware Group. Biography Silverman graduated from Harvard University. In the early days of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, he worked for the Railroad Retirement Board in Washington, D.C., as director of research. From there he found employment in the Federal Coordinator of Transport, the United States Tariff Commission and the Labor Advisory Board of the National Recovery Administration. During World War II, Silverman was a civilian economic adviser and Chief of Analysis and Plans to the Assistant Chief of the Army Air Forces Air Staff for Material and Services Division, assigned to the Pentagon. Silverman allegedly supplied documents from the Pentagon to the Silvermaster group of Soviet spies. Silverman knew Greg Silvermaster to be a conduit for Communist Party USA General secretary, Earl Browder. In 1941, Silverman was on loan to the US Treasury Department and worked for a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
