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Whitfield (given Name)
Whitfield is a masculine given name borne by: * Whitfield Connor (1916–1988), American actor, director and producer * Whitfield Cook (1909–2003), American writer of screenplays, stage plays, short stories and novels * Whitfield Crane (born 1968), American rock singer * Whitfield Daukes (1877–1954), Anglican bishop * Whitfield Diffie (born 1944), American cryptographer and mathematician * Whitfield Jack (1906–1989), US Army officer * Whitfield Lovell Whitfield Lovell (born October 2, 1959) is a contemporary African-American artist who is known primarily for his drawings of African-American individuals from the first half of the 20th century. Lovell creates these drawings in pencil, oil stick, ... (born 1959), African-American artist {{given name English-language masculine given names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitfield Connor
Whitfield Connor (December 3, 1916 – July 16, 1988) was an American actor, director and producer. Career Connor started in radio in the 1930s. In 1945 he made his Broadway debut as Horatio in a production of Hamlet and by 1948 had won his first theatrical award, a Theatre World Award for his portrayal of Macduff in Macbeth starring Michael Redgrave. In 1960 Connor appeared on Broadway playing the father of Jane Fonda's character in ''There Was a Little Girl''. He stepped into the play almost at the last minute when Louis Jean Heydt collapsed and died in the wings during the Boston run. The next morning he was asked to take over the role and he studied the part on the plane from New York to Boston. He appeared in the films ''Tap Roots'', ''Scarlet Angel'', ''Prince of Pirates'', ''The President's Lady'', ''City of Bad Men'', ''The Saracen Blade'' and ''BUtterfield 8''. He appeared in the television series ''The Bigelow Theatre'', ''Guiding Light'', '' Dragnet'', ''The Lor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitfield Cook
George Whitfield Cook III (April 9, 1909 – November 12, 2003) was an American writer of screenplays, stage plays, short stories and novels, best known for his contributions to two Alfred Hitchcock films, ''Stage Fright'' and '' Strangers on a Train''. He also wrote scripts for several TV series, including ''Suspense'', ''Climax!'' and ''Playhouse 90''. Life and career George Whitfield Cook III was born on April 9, 1909 in Montclair, New Jersey, the son of engineer George Whitfield Cook Jr., and his wife, the former Hortense Heyse. He began writing short stories as a child and later cited Walter de la Mare and Virginia Woolf as major influences. He attended and graduated from the Yale School of Drama. Cook began his career as a writer in the late thirties with stories in ''The American Mercury'', ''Story'' and ''Cosmopolitan''. One of these stories, "The Unfaithful," won an O. Henry Award in the "Best First-Published" category in 1943. In the early forties, Cook wrote a ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitfield Crane
William Whitfield Crane IV (born January 19, 1968) is an American singer and founding member and lead vocalist of the rock band Ugly Kid Joe, which was formed in 1989. He has also worked in music outside his band, from performing guest vocals on numerous songs to contributing to musical efforts with other rock bands such as Life of Agony, Another Animal, and Richards/Crane. Early life Crane was born on January 19, 1968, in Palo Alto, California''.'' His father left the family when Crane was little. After his father's departure, Crane started to be interested in rock music. Work outside Ugly Kid Joe During Ugly Kid Joe's inactivity, Crane went on a year-long tour with New York hard rock band Life of Agony before forming Medication with ex-Machine Head guitarist Logan Mader. Due to a series of internal issues, Medication disbanded in February 2003. Over the years, Crane has performed guest vocals on several songs, including "Reaching Out" with Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray (from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitfield Daukes
Francis Whitfield Daukes (27 March 1877 – 30 July 1954) was a Church of England bishop. Daukes was born into a clerical family as the eldest son of the Reverend Samuel Whitfield Daukes, sometime Vicar of Holy Trinity, Beckenham. He was educated at Harrow and Oriel College, Oxford. He studied for ordination at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and his first appointment was as a Curate at South Lambeth. From 1905 until 1914 he was Vicar of St Saviour, Denmark Park. After this he was Rural Dean of Greenwich and then of the Three Towns Three Towns is a term used to refer to several groups of towns. United Kingdom There are several groups of towns in the United Kingdom referred to as the Three Towns, many of which form contiguous settlements, or are in close proximity to each ... before being appointed Archdeacon of Plymouth. From 1934 until 1950 he was the second Bishop of the area. A man with the clearest sense of fairness, he died on 30 July 1954. Notes 187 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitfield Diffie
Bailey Whitfield 'Whit' Diffie (born June 5, 1944), ForMemRS, is an American cryptographer and mathematician and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography along with Martin Hellman and Ralph Merkle. Diffie and Hellman's 1976 paper ''New Directions in Cryptography'' introduced a radically new method of distributing cryptographic keys, that helped solve key distribution—a fundamental problem in cryptography. Their technique became known as Diffie–Hellman key exchange. The article stimulated the almost immediate public development of a new class of encryption algorithms, the asymmetric key algorithms. After a long career at Sun Microsystems, where he became a Sun Fellow, Diffie served for two and a half years as Vice President for Information Security and Cryptography at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (2010–2012). He has also served as a visiting scholar (2009–2010) and affiliate (2010–2012) at the Freeman Spogli Institute's Center for Intern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitfield Jack
George Whitfield Jack, Jr., known as Whitfield Jack or Whit Jack (July 10, 1906 – April 23, 1989), was a United States Army colonel in World War II, a major general of the United States Army Reserve, and a Shreveport, Louisiana Shreveport ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is the third most populous city in Louisiana after New Orleans and Baton Rouge, respectively. The Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area, with a population of 393,406 in 2020, is t ... attorney. Jack was the son of judge George W. Jack and brother of Louisiana politician Wellborn Jack. References 1906 births 1989 deaths People from Shreveport, Louisiana Louisiana lawyers Louisiana Democrats Centenary College of Louisiana alumni United States Military Academy alumni Yale Law School alumni Tulane University Law School alumni United States Army officers United States Army personnel of World War II Recipients of the Legion of Merit Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitfield Lovell
Whitfield Lovell (born October 2, 1959) is a contemporary African-American artist who is known primarily for his drawings of African-American individuals from the first half of the 20th century. Lovell creates these drawings in pencil, oil stick, or charcoal on paper, wood, or directly on walls. In his most recent work, these drawings are paired with found objects that Lovell collects at flea markets and antique shops. Early career Born October 2, 1959 in the Bronx, New York to Gladys Glover Lovell, an elementary school teacher from South Carolina, and Allister Lovell, a postal clerk and photographer of West Indian descent. Whitfield Lovell grew up in the Bronx and attended The High School of Music and Art in Manhattan. During high school, he also participated in a variety of extracurricular art programs: the Metropolitan Museum of Art High School Program, the Whitney Museum Art Resources Center, the New York State Summer School for the Arts in Fredonia, New York, and the Coo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English-language Masculine Given Names
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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