duardo De Filippo Italian: ; 24 May 1900 – 31 October 1984, also known simply as Eduardo, was an Italian actor, playwright, and screenwriter, best known for his Neapolitan works Filumena Marturano and Napoli Milionaria. Considered one of the most important italian artists of the 20th century, Eduardo was the author of many theatrical dramas staged and directed by himself first and later awarded
Gino Cervi Italian pronunciation: ; 3 May 1901 – 3 January 1974 was an Italian actor. Contents 1Life and career 2Selected filmography 3Bibliography 4Notes 5External links Life and career Cervi was born in Bologna as Luigi Cervi. His father was the theatre critic Antonio Cervi. In 1928, he married Nini Gordini (one of his partners) and they had a son, Tonino Cervi. Gino
Tino Caspanello b. 1983 is an Italian playwright, actor, set designer, and director. Contents 1Life 2Original Plays 3Publications 4References 5External links Life Tino Caspanello was born in Pagliara, Messina province, Italy. In 1983 he graduated in Scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts Pietro Vannucci in Perugia and in 1993 he founded the theatre company Teatro Pubblico Incanto. He started to write plays in 1990. In 2003 his
Francesco “Nino” Castelnuovo born 28 October 1936 is an Italian actor of film, stage and television. Castelnuovo appeared as Guy Foucher in the French-language musical film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and as D’Agostino in the romantic-drama The English Patient (1996). His other films include the drama Rocco and His Brothers (1960), the sexploitation Camille 2000 (1969), the black-comedy L’emmerdeur (A Pain in the …, 1973), the giallo film Il prato macchiato di rosso (1973),
Roberto Remigio Benigni Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI Italian pronunciation: ; born 27 October 1952 is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director. He gained international recognition for writing, directing and starring in the holocaust comedy-drama film Life Is Beautiful (1997), for which he received the Academy Awards for Best Actor (the first for a non-English speaking male performance) and Best International Feature Film.
Anne 6 February 1665 – 1 August 1714 was Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland between 8 March 1702 and 1 May 1707. On 1 May 1707, under the Acts of Union, the kingdoms of England and Scotland united as a single sovereign state known as Great Britain. She continued to reign as Queen of Great Britain and Ireland until her death in 1714. Anne was born in the reign of Charles
John 24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216 was King of England from 1199 until his death in 1216. He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France, resulting in the collapse of the Angevin Empire and contributing to the subsequent growth in power of the French Capetian dynasty during the 13th century. The baronial
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, DStJ, PC, FRS, HonFRSC Roberts; 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013 was a British politician and stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold that office.
Sir William Bower Forwood KBE DL 21 January 1840 – 23 March 1928 was an English merchant, shipowner and politician. He was a wealthy businessman and a local politician in Liverpool who raised money for the building of the Liverpool Overhead Railway and Liverpool Cathedral. Contents 1Early life and business 2Civic and charitable work 3Personal life 4References 5External links Early
Joseph Chamberlain 8 July 1836 – 2 July 1914 was a British statesman who was first a radical Liberal, then, after opposing home rule for Ireland, a Liberal Unionist, and eventually served as a leading imperialist in coalition with the Conservatives. He split both major British parties in the course of his career. He was father, by different marriages, of Austen Chamberlain and of