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Curtis
Curtis or Curtiss is a common English given name and surname of Anglo-Norman origin, deriving from the Old French ''curteis'' (Modern French">-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ... ''curteis'' (Modern French ''courtois'') which was in turn derived from Latin ''cohors''. Nicknames include Curt, Curty and Curtie. The name means "polite, courteous, or well-bred". It is a compound of ''curt-'' "court" and ''-eis'' "-ish". The spelling ''u'' to render in Old French was mainly Anglo-Norman and Norman, when the spelling ''o'' was the usual Parisian French one, Modern French ''ou'' ''-eis'' is the Old French suffix for ''-ois'', Western French (including Anglo-Norman) keeps ''-eis'', simplified to ''-is'' in English. The word ''court'' shares the same etymology but retains a Modern French spelling, after the orthography had changed. It was brought to England (and subsequently, the rest of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Curtis
Anne Curtis-Smith (; born 17 February 1985) is an Australian-born Filipino actress, television host, entrepreneur and model. Known for her versatile work in film and television productions, she is one of the most successful and highest-paid Filipino actresses of her generation. She is a recipient of numerous accolades, including two FAMAS Awards, two Metro Manila Film Festival Awards, a Luna Award and four Box Office Entertainment Awards. She has been named multiple times by '' Tatler'' magazine as one of the most influential Filipinos in Asia. At age 12, Curtis made her film debut in the fantasy drama ''Magic Kingdom: Ang Alamat ng Damortis'' (1997). Her breakthrough came with her portrayal as a disfigured woman in the series '' Kampanerang Kuba'' (2005). She soon took more starring roles in films, generally in mainstream productions such as '' All About Love'' (2006), '' Ang Cute ng Ina Mo!'' (2007) and '' When Love Begins'' (2008). Curtis won the Metro Manila Film Festi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chad Curtis
Chad David Curtis (born November 6, 1968) is an American former professional baseball outfielder. Curtis played in Major League Baseball from 1992 to 2001 for the California Angels, Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers, Cleveland Indians, New York Yankees, and Texas Rangers. Curtis compiled a .264 career batting average and hit 101 home runs. In 2013, Curtis was convicted of sexually assaulting three underage female students while he was employed at Lakewood High School in Lake Odessa, Michigan. He served seven years in prison. Early life Born in Marion, Indiana, Curtis was raised in Middleville, Michigan, and Benson, Arizona. He attended Benson High School, where he played baseball and varsity football, but was kicked off the basketball team for being "too fiery" and becoming involved in fights. He then attended Grand Canyon University, Cochise College, and Yavapai College, playing baseball at all three colleges. Baseball career California Angels (1992–1994) Curti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Curtis
Adam Curtis (born 26 May 1955) is an English documentary filmmaker. Curtis began his career as a conventional documentary producer for the BBC throughout the 1980s and into the early 1990s. The release of '' Pandora's Box'' (1992) marked the introduction of Curtis's distinctive presentation that uses collage to explore aspects of sociology, psychology, philosophy and political history.Darke, Chris (17 July 2012)"Interview: Adam Curtis."'' Film Comment''. Archived frothe original./ref> His style has been described as involving, "whiplash digressions, menacing atmospherics and arpeggiated scores, and the near-psychedelic compilation of archival footage", narrated by Curtis himself with "patrician economy and assertion". His films have won five BAFTAs. Early life Adam Curtis was born in Dartford in Kent, and raised in nearby Platt. His father was Martin Curtis (1917–2002), a cinematographer with a socialist background. Curtis won a county scholarship and attended the Seve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Curtis
Alison Curtis (born 1 November 1977 in Kingston, Ontario, Canada) is a presenter of radio on Irish radio station Today FM She currently presents her own show, "Saturday Breakfast with Alison Curtis" on Today FM which airs every Saturday from 7 am to 10 am and since July 2016, has also presented "Sunday Breakfast with Alison Curtis" which airs every Sunday from 7 am to 9 am. She previously presented ''The Last Splash'' on Sunday nights and ''The Alison Curtis Show''. ''The Last Splash'' and, later, ''The Alison Curtis Show'', earned Curtis her three Best DJ Meteor nominations, though she narrowly lost out on the first two occasions to her Today FM colleague Ray D'Arcy and lost again in 2009, this time to her Today FM colleague Ray Foley. Curtis has written for '' Hot Press''. She is married to Anton Hegarty, the former bassist for Future Kings of Spain with whom she has a daughter. Early life Curtis was born and raised in Kingston, Ontario, but spent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Curtiss
Anthony Curtiss, pen name of Roy Abijah Curtiss Jr (born in Brooklyn, New York 10 May 1910, died 12 July 1981 in Karachi, Pakistan), also known in his later life as Muhammad Abdullah al-Hussein, was an American naturalist who wrote a short, and somewhat eccentric, book on the zoology of Tahiti. Early life Roy Abijah Curtiss Jr. was born on 19 May 1910 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Roy Abijah Curtiss (1880-1923), a wealthy business man who was the son and heir of Frank Curtiss former president of New York's Sixth Street Elevated Railway Society and Ethel Grace Quinn (1885-1974). His parents had married in 1907 and Roy was the oldest of their four boys. The family had an estate near Sheffield, Massachusetts and a town house on Eleventh Avenue near the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). A precocious boy, Curtiss developed an early interest in natural history, encouraged by his mother and his well traveled maternal grandmother who as well as having studied medicine wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catie Curtis
Catie Curtis (born May 22, 1965) is an American singer-songwriter working primarily in the folk rock idiom. Her most recent album recording, ''The Raft,'' was released in 2020. Career Curtis was raised in Saco, Maine. By the age of fifteen she was playing drums for a local theater company and in her late teens she sat in with Foreigner on a performance of " I Want to Know What Love Is". She graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island with a degree in history and moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where she began working the folk rock circuit. Curtis self-released the cassette-only ''Dandelion'' in 1989;Catie Curtis AllMusic. Retrieved 28 March 2013. her first CD, ''From Years to Hours'', in 1991; and her second CD, ''Truth from Lies'', in 1995. She did not gain wide recognit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathrine Curtis
Cathrine Curtis (1889 - 1955) was an American actress, film producer, investor, and radio personality. She was one of the first female film producers and was also a political organizer noted for her far-right and antisemitic views. Early life Curtis was born in Albany, New York, attended boarding school in a suburb of New York and graduated from St. Agnes High School in Albany. She attended New York University but left before graduating. Career Curtis owned and operated a ranch in Phoenix, Arizona. She began investing in stocks at the age of 15. In Phoenix, one of her neighbors was the novelist Harold Bell Wright, who invited her to Hollywood to play a role in his film, '' The Shepherd of the Hills''. Hollywood career While working on the film, she decided that she wanted to become a producer that she would stay in Los Angeles. Her first credit as a producer was on King Vidor's 1921 silent film '' The Sky Pilot''. She planned an adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Turner Curtis
Alice Turner Curtis (September 6, 1860 – July 10, 1958) was an American writer of juvenile historical fiction. She was probably best remembered by young readers of her day for ''The Little Maid's Historical Series'' (which comprises twenty-four books, starting with ''A Little Maid of Province Town''). She has written at least sixty published books (most of them were originally published by The Penn Publishing Company). Family Alice Turner was born in Sullivan, Maine, the youngest known child of John Vinal Turner (June 6, 1802 – December 31, 1886) and Susan Ann Spear (4 January 1824 – 26/27 May 1901). Her father and another relative (George D. Turner) were sailmakers. Reverend Charles R. Tenney married Alice to Irving Curtis (January 18, 1837 – November 18, 1910) on May 20, 1895, in Boston, Massachusetts, where they both resided at the time. She was listed in Daughters of the American Revolution, much as her father's father, Fobes Turner (October 26, 1766 – 1846) was li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Curtis (other)
Alan Curtis may refer to: * Alan Curtis (American actor) (1909–1953), American film actor * Alan Curtis (author) (born 1943), American social scientist, public policy advisor and author * Alan Curtis (British actor) (1930–2021), English actor and cricket announcer * Alan Curtis (footballer) (born 1954), former Welsh international footballer * Alan Curtis (harpsichordist) (1934–2015), American harpsichordist, musicologist, and conductor See also * Alan B. Curtiss (active since 1978), assistant director and producer of American films * Allen Curtis Allen Curtis (1877 – November 24, 1961), was an American film director of the silent era. He directed 278 films between 1913 and 1922. He was born in New York, New York and died in Hollywood, California Hollywood, sometimes inform ... (1877–1961), American film director * Allen Hiram Curtiss (1845–1907), botanist in the United States {{human name disambiguation, Curtis, Alan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Curtis (other)
Benjamin or Ben Curtis may refer to: * Benjamin Curtis (musician) (1978–2013), American musician * Benjamin Robbins Curtis (1809–1874), American jurist * Ben Curtis (golfer) (born 1977), American golfer * Ben Curtis (actor) (born 1980), American actor See also * Benjamin Curtis Porter (1843–1908), American artist {{hndis, Curtis, Benjamin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allen Curtis
Allen Curtis (1877 – November 24, 1961), was an American film director of the silent era. He directed 278 films between 1913 and 1922. He was born in New York, New York and died in Hollywood, California Hollywood, sometimes informally called Tinseltown, is a List of districts and neighborhoods in Los Angeles, neighborhood and district in the Central Los Angeles, central region of Los Angeles County, California, within the city of Los Angeles. .... Selected filmography * '' The Tramp Dentists'' (1913) * '' Almost an Actress'' (1913) * '' Poor Jake's Demise'' (1913) References External links * 1877 births 1961 deaths Film directors from New York City {{US-film-director-1870s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aubyn Curtiss
Aubyn Curtiss (July 1, 1925 – August 9, 2017) was an American politician in the state of Montana Montana ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota to the east, South Dakota to the southeast, Wyoming to the south, an .... She served in the Montana House of Representatives and Montana State Senate. References 1925 births 2017 deaths People from Stillwater County, Montana University of California, Los Angeles alumni Businesspeople from Montana Women state legislators in Montana Republican Party members of the Montana House of Representatives Republican Party Montana state senators People from Lincoln County, Montana 20th-century American businesspeople 20th-century members of the Montana Legislature 21st-century members of the Montana Legislature 21st-century American women politicians 20th-century American women politicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
