Tag: National Medal of Arts

Georgia O’Keeffe

(1887–1986) Georgia Totto O’Keeffe The artist’s works: Black Spot No. 3 1919 Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Lake George Reflection c.1921–1922 Private collection Pink Spirea c.1922 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence Dark Abstraction 1924 Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Fall Maple…

Julie Harris

(1925–2013) Julia Ann Harris Filmography as Actress: HouseSitter 1992 Director: Frank Oz Starring: Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn   Born December 2 1925 Grosse Pointe Park, MI (USA) Died August 24 2013 West Chatham, MA (USA) Cause of death Cancer (breast) Occupation Actress Awards American…

Barbra Streisand

(1942) Barbara Joan Streisand Filmography as Actress: The Way We Were 1973 Director: Sydney Pollack Starring: Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford     Meet the Fockers 2004 Director: Jay Roach Starring: Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller     Little Fockers 2010 Director: Paul Weitz Starring: Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller…

Kirk Douglas

(1916–2020) Issur Danielovitch Demsky Filmography as Actor: Lust for Life 1956 Directors: Vincente Minnelli, George Cukor Starring: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn     Spartacus 1960 Director: Stanley Kubrick Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier   Born December 9 1916 Amsterdam, NY (USA) Died…

Jessica Tandy

(1909–1994) Jessie Alice Tandy Filmography as Actress: The Birds 1963 Director: Alfred Hitchcock Starring: Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor   Born June 7 1909 Stoke Newington, London (England) Died September 11 1994 Easton, CT (USA) Cause of death Cancer Husband Jack Hawkins (1910-1973) Husband Hume…

Robert Redford

(1936) Charles Robert Redford, Jr. Filmography as Actor: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 Director: George Roy Hill Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford     The Way We Were 1973 Director: Sydney Pollack Starring: Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford   Born August 18 1936 Santa…

James Earl Jones

(1931) Filmography as Actor: Jesus of Nazareth 1977 Director: Franco Zeffirelli Starring: Robert Powell, Olivia Hussey   Born January 17 1931 Arkabutla, MS (USA) Occupation Actor Awards Academy Honorary Award Emmy Golden Globe Awards Grammy Kennedy Center Honors Awards National Medal of Arts…

Mike Nichols

(1931–2014) Michael Igor Peschkowsky Filmography as Director: The Graduate 1967 Director: Mike Nichols Starring: Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman     Working Girl 1988 Director: Mike Nichols Starring: Harrison Ford, Melanie Griffith     Filmography as Producer: The Remains of the Day 1993…

Helen Hayes

(1900–1993) Helen Hayes MacArthur, née Brown Filmography as Actress: Airport 1970 Director: George Seaton Starring: Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin   Born October 10 1900 Washington, DC (USA) Died March 17 1993 Nyack, NY (USA) Cause of death Heart Failure Occupation…

Billy Wilder

(1906–2002) Samuel Wilder Filmography as Director: Sunset Boulevard 1950 Director: Billy Wilder Starring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson     Sabrina 1954 Director: Billy Wilder Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn     Love in the Afternoon 1957 Director: Billy Wilder Starring: Gary Cooper, Audrey…