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Esteemed character actor Paul Stewart had a pair of the coldest orbs in town and made his living for decades playing dark, callous, shiftless villains, including a vast number of mobsters. Not a well-known name per se, he was nevertheless a reliable actor who seemed to have been born for the film noir and gangland crime drama genre with his premature silvery hair, dark thick brows and probing, deep-set eyes, all accentuated by a tough and penetrating Brooklyn accent.
Born in New York City on March 13, 1908, Stewart developed an interest for acting in his teens, making his Broadway debut with "Two Seconds" in 1931, following graduation from Columbia University. He had played a few more stage roles in New York when he met and made an impression on Orson Welles. As a result he became a founding member of the Mercury Theatre and a founding member of AFTRA when it was just a radio union.
Stewart's tough, guttural voice became a familiar sound on the 1930s airwaves and he was among the cast in the infamous Welles broadcast "The War of the Worlds." He married band singer/actress Peg La Centra (1910-1996) in 1939 and over the years they appeared together on many radio programs. She also provided singing voices for such stars as Susan Hayward on celluloid. Welles next put Stewart in his films, with the classic Citizen Kane (1941) as Raymond, Kane's wily valet, and Stewart found himself in demand as an untrustworthy character player.
Paul went on to essay a number of stark, sinister types to perfection, with roles in such films as Johnny Eager (1941), Mr. Lucky (1943), Champion (1949), Illegal Entry (1949), Twelve O'Clock High (1949), Carbine Williams (1952), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) and Kiss Me Deadly (1955).
On TV, Paul became a regular on a couple of short-lived series -- Top Secret (1954) and The Man Who Never Was (1966). In the 1950s Stewart turned to stage and TV directing as well, helming a number of popular crimers such as Peter Gunn (1958), Michael Shayne (1960), It Takes a Thief (1968), Hawaii Five-O (1968) and Remington Steele (1982). His voice also fit the bill for cartoons in the 1960s.
In 1974 Stewart suffered a heart attack while on location in New Mexico for Bite the Bullet (1975), but he returned sporadically to films, including the role of impresario Florenz Ziegfeld in W.C. Fields and Me (1976). He suffered a second and fatal heart attack in 1986 at age 77.- At the age of ten he became an orphan. His father was an early member of the Aydar Theosophical Society, which took over the education of his son and chose him as a world teacher and messiah. With the early loss of his mother in 1909, the then head of the Theosophical Society, Dr. Besant, the upbringing of the young Krishnamurti, who was adopted by him. According to the theosophists, a new Messiah was announced, which they saw in him. In preparation for his task as a world teacher, they set up the organization "Star of the East" in 1911, which operated worldwide and at whose head Jiddu Krishnamurti was placed. He represented the basic theosophical ideas of the universal brotherhood, according to which everyone and everything is filled with a cosmic consciousness and participates in it as a kin. Numerous currents such as Buddhism, Tantrism as well as yoga and guru teachings found their way into theosophical thought and were alternately decisive for the dogmatic foundation of the organization.
From 1922 onward, Jiddu Krishnamurti began to distance himself from the Theosophical Society and its spiritual teachings because he saw himself as too much absorbed - especially ideologically. This process lasted until August 3, 1929, when he finally separated from her. Since then, he has been less and less perceived by the public as a religious preacher. His audience experienced a worldly-minded philanthropist and admonisher who, with statements of values and existence, fundamentally called for people's intellectual freedom and, with one of his many key messages: "Truth is a country without predetermined paths," also warned against his own ideas as spiritual appropriation : Man may achieve his freedom through concentrated attention on his own mind and through knowledge of the nature of that mind. Self-knowledge and the knowledge of determining factors of a religious, ideological or political nature were his constant concerns in his work - with the goal of freedom and harmony between humans and nature.
In this context, Jiddu Krishnamurti asked questions about the ego and about thinking in its limitations; he recognized ideals as projections of thinking that distract from the actual problems and conflicts. Until the end of the 1960s, the thinker, without teaching of his own, was busy traveling and writing, which made him both popular and popular with the public. He wrote numerous speeches, newsletters, notebooks, diaries, notes, letters and books and traveled to Europe, Asia and the American continent, among other places. He not only founded numerous schools there, but also gained well-known personalities as friends such as the Irish playwright Bernard Shaw and the Indian politician Jawaharlal Nehru. His more than 60 publications, which have been translated into numerous languages, include titles such as "Perfect Freedom - The Krishnamurti Book", "On Love, The Truth is a Pathless Country" and "Education for the Art of Living - Letters to His Schools". - Composer
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Nelson Cavaquinho was born on 28 October 1910 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was a composer, known for Woman on Top (2000), Crossing the Line (2012) and Linha de Passe (2008). He died on 17 February 1986 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.