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AndOr
Andor may refer to: * ''Andor'' (TV series), a television series in the ''Star Wars'' universe **Cassian Andor, the titular character * Andor (''Wheel of Time''), a country in Robert Jordan's ''The Wheel of Time'' novels * Andor Technology, a manufacturer of scientific digital cameras * And/or, a grammatical conjunction (and logical disjunction) * Andor (also known as Andoria), the homeworld of the fictional species Andorian, from ''Star Trek''. * Númenor (or Andor), a fictional place in J. R. R. Tolkien's writings * A planet in the television series ''The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers'' People Surname * László Andor (born 1966), Hungarian economist and politician Given name * Andor Ajtay (1903–1975), Hungarian actor * Andor Basch (1885–1944), Hungarian painter * Andor Deli (born 1977), Hungarian politician * Andor Gomme (1930–2008), British scholar of English literature and architectural history * Andor Jaross (1896–1946), Hungarian politician and Nazi collab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andor (TV Series)
''Andor'', also known as ''Star Wars: Andor'', is an American science-fiction action-adventure television series created by Tony Gilroy for the streaming service Disney+. It is the fourth live-action series in the ''Star Wars'' franchise, as well as a prequel to both the spin-off film ''Rogue One'' (2016) and the original ''Star Wars'' film (1977). The series follows thief-turned- Rebel spy Cassian Andor during the five years that lead to the events of the two above-mentioned films. Diego Luna reprises his role as Cassian Andor and also serves as an executive producer. The ensemble cast also includes Kyle Soller, Adria Arjona, Fiona Shaw, Stellan Skarsgård, Denise Gough, Genevieve O'Reilly, Faye Marsay, Varada Sethu, and Elizabeth Dulau, among others. Lucasfilm announced a series focused on Andor in November 2018, with Luna attached and Stephen Schiff hired as showrunner. Schiff was replaced by ''Rogue One'' co-writer Gilroy as creator and showrunner in April 2020. Filming b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andor Deli
Andor Deli (born 2 May 1977) is a Hungarian politician from Vojvodina, Serbia, and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Hungary's Fidesz since 2014. Career Andor Deli was born into an ethnic Hungarian family in Bečej, SFR Yugoslavia ( hu, Óbecse; today Serbia) on 2 May 1977. He attended the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Law, where earned a degree of jurist in 2000. He won a research scholarship to the Europa-Institut at Saarland University for a trimester in 2003. He passed a judicial examination in 2004. He earned a master's degree at the University of Novi Sad in 2008. Deli joined the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (SVM–VMSZ) in 2001. He worked for the Provincial Secretariat for Education, Administration and National Community in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in different positions from 2002 to 2014. He was appointed head of the secretariat and thus became a Vice President of the Government of Vojvodina in 2012. Deli was elected a Member of the Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andorra (other)
Andorra is a country in Europe. Andorra may also refer to: Places Spain * Andorra-Sierra de Arcos, a comarca in Aragon * Andorra, a town and municipality in Province of Teruel, Spain Elsewhere * Andorra, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a neighborhood in Northwest Philadelphia * Andorra la Vella, the capital of Andorra Other *FC Andorra, a football club in Andorra la Vella, Andorra, that plays in the Spanish league system * Andorra CF, a football team in Andorra, Teruel, Spain * ''Andorra'' (album), a 2007 album by Caribou * ''Andorra'' (novel), a 1997 novel by Peter Cameron * ''Andorra'' (play), a play by Max Frisch * ''Andorra'' (film), a 2019 film directed by Fred Schepisi See also * Andora, a town on the Italian Riviera * Endora (other) Endora may refer to: Fictional topics Fictional people * Endora (''Bewitched''), the magical mother-in-law portrayed by Agnes Moorehead on the TV sitcom ''Bewitched'' * Endora Lenox, the good witch character on the television so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andor Toth Jr
Andor may refer to: * ''Andor'' (TV series), a television series in the ''Star Wars'' universe **Cassian Andor, the titular character * Andor (''Wheel of Time''), a country in Robert Jordan's ''The Wheel of Time'' novels * Andor Technology, a manufacturer of scientific digital cameras * And/or, a grammatical conjunction (and logical disjunction) * Andor (also known as Andoria), the homeworld of the fictional species Andorian, from ''Star Trek''. * Númenor (or Andor), a fictional place in J. R. R. Tolkien's writings * A planet in the television series ''The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers'' People Surname * László Andor (born 1966), Hungarian economist and politician Given name * Andor Ajtay (1903–1975), Hungarian actor * Andor Basch (1885–1944), Hungarian painter * Andor Deli (born 1977), Hungarian politician * Andor Gomme (1930–2008), British scholar of English literature and architectural history * Andor Jaross (1896–1946), Hungarian politician and Nazi collab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andor Toth
Andor John Toth (June 16, 1925 – November 28, 2006) was an American classical violinist, conductor and educator with a musical career spanning over six decades. Toth played his violin on the World War II battlefields of Aachen, Germany; performed with the NBC Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini in 1943 at age 18; and formed several chamber music ensembles, including the Oberlin String Quartet, the New Hungarian Quartet, and the Stanford String Quartet. For 15 years he was the violinist in the Alma Trio. Toth conducted orchestras in Cleveland, Denver and Houston. In 1969, he was the founding concertmaster of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra under Neville Marriner. Toth taught at five important colleges and universities, and recorded for Vox, Decca Records and Eclectra Records. Early years Born in Manhattan in 1925 as the son of Hungarian immigrants, Toth began playing violin as a child. While he was still a graduate student at the Juilliard School, he launched his caree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andor Lilienthal
Andor (André, Andre, Andrei) Arnoldovich LilienthalReuben Fine, ''The World's Great Chess Games'', Dover Publications, 1983, p. 216. . (5 May 1911 – 8 May 2010) was a Hungarian and Soviet chess player. In his long career, he played against ten male and female world champions, beating Emanuel Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, Max Euwe, Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, and Vera Menchik.Slobodan AdzicHe Has Beaten Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine as well as Old Age! ChessBase News, May 30, 2005. At the time of his death, he was the oldest living grandmaster (since surpassed by Yuri Averbakh), and the last surviving person from the original group of grandmasters awarded the title by FIDE in 1950. Biography Lilienthal, of Jewish origin, was born in Moscow, Russian Empire, and moved to Hungary at the age of two. David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld, ''The Oxford Companion to Chess'' (2nd ed. 1992), Oxford University Press, p. 226. . He played for Hungary in three Chess O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Kertész
André Kertész (; 2 July 1894 – 28 September 1985), born Andor Kertész, was a Hungarian-born photographer known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic composition (visual arts), composition and the photo essay. In the early years of his career, his then-unorthodox camera angles and style prevented his work from gaining wider recognition. Kertész never felt that he had gained the worldwide recognition he deserved. Today he is considered one of the seminal figures of photojournalism. Expected by his family to work as a stockbroker, Kertész pursued photography independently as an Autodidacticism, autodidact, and his early work was published primarily in magazines, a major market in those years. This continued until much later in his life, when Kertész stopped accepting commissions. He served briefly in World War I and moved to Paris in 1925, then the artistic capital of the world, against the wishes of his family. In Paris he worked for France's first illustra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andor Jaross
Andor Jaross (23 May 1896 – 11 April 1946) was an ethnic Hungarian politician most active in interwar Czechoslovakia and later in Hungary during World War II. He also notably collaborated with the Nazis. Born in Komáromcsehi, in the Komárom County of the Kingdom of Hungary (present-day Čechy, Slovakia), he became general secretary of the United Hungarian Party, a group that sought to unite parts of Czechoslovakia with Hungary.Philip Rees, ''Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890'', Simon & Schuster, 1990, p. 197 As national chairman of the party he sought to forge a united Hungarian identity, claiming in his inaugural address that 'every member of the Hungarian minority should take a united stand on the issues of today and tomorrow'. Although effectively subordinate to János Esterházy in the party, Jaross became a well-known international figure, notably accepting an invitation to London from the Hungarian Committee of the House of Commons to present H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andor Gomme
Austin Harvey Gomme ''known as'' Andor Gomme (7 May 1930 – 19 September 2008) was a British scholar of English literature and architectural history. He was a frequent reviewer for the ''Times Literary Supplement'', an author of books on both literary criticism and architectural history, and Chair of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, whose journal, ''Architectural History'', he edited for many years. Life and career Andor was the son of Arnold Wycombe Gomme, a British classical scholar and Professor of Ancient History at the University of Glasgow and Phyllis Kate Harvey. The first name Andor was originally a nickname, and began as a family joke for the unborn baby (or babies) of unknown sex. He studied at Clare College, Cambridge, where he was taught by F.R. Leavis and attained a First Class Honours degree in Moral Sciences. He was appointed to a three-year fellowship at Gonville and Caius College in 1956. In 1960, he married fellow scholar Susan Koechlin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andor Basch
Andor Basch (Budapest, 1885 – Budapest, 1944) was a Hungarian painter whose works have been featured in the Hungarian National Gallery The Hungarian National Gallery (also known as Magyar Nemzeti Galéria), was established in 1957 as the national art museum. It is located in Buda Castle in Budapest, Hungary. Its collections cover Hungarian art in all genres, including the works .... References * * * 1885 births 1944 suicides Artists from Budapest Académie Julian alumni Painters who committed suicide Suicides in Hungary Jewish painters 20th-century Hungarian painters 20th-century Hungarian male artists 1944 deaths Hungarian male painters {{Hungary-painter-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassian Andor
Cassian Andor is a fictional character in the ''Star Wars'' franchise, primarily portrayed by actor Diego Luna. Introduced in the feature film ''Rogue One'' (2016) as a supporting character, he is the protagonist of the ongoing prequel television series '' Andor'' (2022–present). He begins his life as an orphan on the abandoned mining planet Kenari. After being adopted and taken from his home by scavengers, he grows up on the industrial planet Ferrix. As a young man, he smuggles stolen Imperial ship components before joining the Rebel Alliance. During the events of ''Rogue One'', he is a pilot, intelligence officer for the Rebel Alliance, and leader of Rogue One, a rebel unit that steals the plans to the Death Star, a weapon powerful enough to destroy a planet. The character has received a mixed response from critics, with praise for Luna's performance but some criticism for his writing. As the first Mexican lead actor and one of the first Latino leads in a ''Star Wars'' film, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andor Ajtay
Andor Ajtay (1903–1975) was a Hungarian Kossuth Prize-winning (1954) actor. Selected filmography * ''Lady Seeks a Room'' (1937) * ''I defended a woman'' (1938) * ''Two Girls on the Street'' (1939) * ''Orient Express'' (1943) * ''Two Wishes'' (1957) * ''Cantata A cantata (; ; literally "sung", past participle feminine singular of the Italian verb ''cantare'', "to sing") is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir. The meaning of ...'' (1963) * '' Imposztorok'' (1969) References External links * 1903 births 1975 deaths Hungarian male film actors 20th-century Hungarian male actors {{Hungary-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
