Early life. Stone was born in New York City, the son of a French woman named Jacqueline (née Goddet) and Louis Stone (born Louis Silverstein), a stockbroker. He grew up in Manhattan and Stamford, Connecticut.His parents met during World War II, when his father was fighting as a part of the Allied force in France. Stone's American-born father was Jewish, whereas his French …

Leben und Karriere. Oliver Stones Vater, Louis Stone, ist jüdischer Herkunft, seine Mutter eine in Frankreich geborene Katholikin.Die Eltern einigten sich auf den Kompromiss, Oliver episkopalisch zu erziehen. Stone ist später zum Buddhismus konvertiert. Die Familie war wohlhabend, der Sohn ging auf die Trinity-School in Manhattan, bevor er auf „The Hill School“ …

William Oliver Stone (ur. 15 września 1946 w Nowym Jorku) – amerykański reżyser filmowy, scenarzysta i producent. Był jedenastokrotnie nominowany do Oscara, jako scenarzysta, producent i reżyser.Zdobył trzy Oscary, za scenariusz do filmu Midnight Express (1978) oraz reżyserię Plutonu (1986) i Urodzonego 4 lipca (1989). Otrzymał dwa wyróżnienia Gildii …

Production Casting. The film used mostly young unknowns, among them Mark Lester (), Shani Wallis and Jack Wild as The Artful Dodger, but also featured Hugh Griffith, an Oscar winner for Ben-Hur, in the role of the Magistrate. Harry Secombe, who played Mr. Bumble, was well known in Britain but not in the United States, and Oliver Reed, who played Bill Sikes, had just begun …

Oliver! is a coming-of-age stage musical, with book, music and lyrics by Lionel Bart.The musical is based upon the 1838 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.. It premiered at the Wimbledon Theatre, southwest London in 1960 before opening in the West End, where it enjoyed a record-breaking long run. Oliver! ran on Broadway, after being brought to the U.S. by producer David …

JFK (released under the subtitle The Story That Won’t Go Away) is a 1991 American epic political thriller film written and directed by Oliver Stone.The film examines the events leading up to the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963 and its alleged cover-up, through the eyes of former New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.Garrison filed charges against Clay Shaw for his …

Oliver ist ein männlicher Vorname, der vor allem im englischsprachigen Raum auch als Familienname verbreitet ist. Im deutschen Sprachraum trat der Vorname Oliver ab den späten 1950er Jahren auf. Die feminine Version des Namens ist Olivia, Olivera oder Livia. In Frankreich ist er als Olivier und in Italien als Oliviero verbreitet.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (March 8, 1841 – March 6, 1935) was an American jurist and legal scholar who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932. He is one of the most widely cited U.S. Supreme Court justices and most influential American common law judges in history, noted for his long service, pithy opinions—particularly …

Snowden is a 2016 biographical thriller film directed by Oliver Stone and written by Stone and Kieran Fitzgerald. Based on the books The Snowden Files (2014) by Luke Harding and Time of the Octopus (2015) by Anatoly Kucherena, the film stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Edward Snowden, a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) subcontractor and whistleblower who copied …

Oliver Eaton Williamson (September 27, 1932 – May 21, 2020) was an American economist, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, which he shared with Elinor Ostrom.. His contributions to transaction cost economics and the theory of the firm are influential in the social sciences.