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420555 | Combinatorial optimization | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Combinatorial%20optimization | Combinatorial optimization
the following subclasses according to their approximability:
- "NPO(I)": Equals FPTAS. Contains the Knapsack problem.
- "NPO(II)": Equals PTAS. Contains the Makespan scheduling problem.
- "NPO(III)": :The class of NPO problems that have polynomial-time algorithms which computes solutions w... | 20,600 |
420555 | Combinatorial optimization | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Combinatorial%20optimization | Combinatorial optimization
by a ratio that is polynomial in a logarithm of the size of the input. In Hromkovic's book, all NPO(III)-problems are excluded from this class unless P=NP. Contains the set cover problem.
- "NPO(V)": :The class of NPO problems with polynomial-time algorithms approximating the optimal solutio... | 20,601 |
420555 | Combinatorial optimization | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Combinatorial%20optimization | Combinatorial optimization
NPO problems that are polynomially-bounded.
# Specific problems.
- Assignment problem
- Closure problem
- Constraint satisfaction problem
- Cutting stock problem
- Dominating set problem
- Integer programming
- Knapsack problem
- Minimum relevant variables in linear system
- Minimum... | 20,602 |
420555 | Combinatorial optimization | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Combinatorial%20optimization | Combinatorial optimization
stem
- Minimum spanning tree
- Nurse scheduling problem
- Set cover problem
- Traveling salesman problem
- Vehicle rescheduling problem
- Vehicle routing problem
- Weapon target assignment problem
# See also.
- Constraint Composite Graph
# References.
- "(Information on the largest... | 20,603 |
420560 | Edd Roush | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edd%20Roush | Edd Roush
Edd Roush
Edd J. Roush (May 8, 1893 – March 21, 1988) was a Major League Baseball player who was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962. He played the majority of his career at center field, led the National League in hitting twice, and had his best years with the Cincinnati Reds.
# Career.
Roush mad... | 20,604 |
420560 | Edd Roush | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edd%20Roush | Edd Roush
and won the National League batting title in 1917 and 1919, hitting .341 and .321. He was an important part of the Red's World Series championship in 1919, and for his entire life he insisted that even if the White Sox had played the 1919 World Series on the level, the Reds would have won.
Roush led the leag... | 20,605 |
420560 | Edd Roush | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edd%20Roush | Edd Roush
He sat out the 1930 season over a salary dispute.
Roush finished his 18-year career with a .323 lifetime average, 268 stolen bases and 182 triples. He never struck out more than 25 times in a season and had 30 inside-the-park home runs.
Roush, who used a massive 48-ounce Louisville Slugger (the heaviest bat... | 20,606 |
420560 | Edd Roush | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edd%20Roush | Edd Roush
residence. He frequently attended spring training and told stories of the old days. Roush spent most of his time in his hometown of Oakland City, where he served on the town and school boards and ran the Montgomery cemetery for 35 years.
He was one of the 22 players interviewed by Lawrence Ritter and include... | 20,607 |
420560 | Edd Roush | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edd%20Roush | Edd Roush
throw out the first ball at the last game at Crosley Field on June 24, 1970. Joe Morgan called Roush "the best of us all".
In 1981, Ritter and Donald Honig included Roush in their book "The 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time".
# Death.
Roush died at the age of 94 on March 21, 1988, in Bradenton, Flo... | 20,608 |
420560 | Edd Roush | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edd%20Roush | Edd Roush
List of Major League Baseball career hits leaders
- List of Major League Baseball career triples leaders
- List of Major League Baseball career runs scored leaders
- List of Major League Baseball career stolen bases leaders
- List of Major League Baseball batting champions
- List of Major League Baseball... | 20,609 |
420534 | Full motion video | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Full%20motion%20video | Full motion video
Full motion video
A full motion video (FMV) is a video game narration technique that relies upon pre-recorded video files (rather than sprites, vectors, or 3D models) to display action in the game. While many games feature FMVs as a way to present information during cutscenes, games that are primaril... | 20,610 |
420534 | Full motion video | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Full%20motion%20video | Full motion video
era. A number of arcade games using FMV with Laserdiscs were released over the next three years and the technology was touted as the future of video games. Some games released in this era reused video footage from other sources while others had it purpose made. "Cliff Hanger", "Bega's Battle", and "Fi... | 20,611 |
420534 | Full motion video | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Full%20motion%20video | Full motion video
the allure of FMV and the Laserdisc had worn off, and the technology had disappeared from arcades by the end of 1987. RDI Video Systems ("Thayer's Quest") had branched out into making a home console called the Halcyon, but it failed and they went bankrupt. Cinematronics's fortunes fared little better ... | 20,612 |
420534 | Full motion video | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Full%20motion%20video | Full motion video
a game had gone up. These factors caused a resurgence of the popularity of Laserdiscs games in the arcade. American Laser Games released a light gun shooting game called "Mad Dog McCree" in 1990 and it was an instant hit and then in 1991 with "Who Shot Johnny Rock"? , a game that might be the first ev... | 20,613 |
420534 | Full motion video | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Full%20motion%20video | Full motion video
of 3D visuals.
Again, the fad passed quickly. The limited nature of the Laserdisc hampered interactivity and limited replayability, a key weakness in arcade games. American Laser, the chief producer of Laserdisc games during this era, had stopped making arcade games in 1994 and most other companies s... | 20,614 |
420534 | Full motion video | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Full%20motion%20video | Full motion video
capacities and mature, reliable technology allowed for much cheaper hardware than traditional hardware systems, and FMV cut-scenes became commonplace. FMV as a major gameplay component had disappeared by this time because of the limited gameplay options it allowed.
# Home systems.
In 1984, a home co... | 20,615 |
420534 | Full motion video | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Full%20motion%20video | Full motion video
moved to creating games on a CD, they became technically capable of utilizing more than a few minutes' worth of movies in a game. This gave rise to a slew of original FMV-based computer games such as "Night Trap" (1992), "The 7th Guest" (1993), "Voyeur" (1993), "Phantasmagoria" (1995), and "Daryl F. G... | 20,616 |
420534 | Full motion video | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Full%20motion%20video | Full motion video
special effects. Animated titles either cobbled together footage from old anime or used cheaper overseas animation producers to create their footage. In addition, the video quality in these early games was low, and the gameplay frequently did not live up to the hype becoming well-known failures in vid... | 20,617 |
420534 | Full motion video | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Full%20motion%20video | Full motion video
interactive technology. The personal computer was rapidly evolving during the early-to-mid 1990s from a simple text-based productivity device into a home entertainment machine. Gaming itself was also emerging from its niche market into the mainstream with the release of easier-to-use and more powerful... | 20,618 |
420534 | Full motion video | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Full%20motion%20video | Full motion video
release of the 32-bit PlayStation. The PlayStation was probably the first console to popularize FMVs (as opposed to earlier usage of FMV which was seen as a passing fad). A part of the machine's hardware was a dedicated M-JPEG processing unit which enabled far superior quality relative to other platfo... | 20,619 |
420534 | Full motion video | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Full%20motion%20video | Full motion video
in modern video game systems making it possible for in-game cinematics to have just as impressive visual quality. Digitized video footage of real actors in games generally ended for mainstream games in the early 2000s with a few exceptions such as "" released in 2006, "" released in 2010, "Tesla Effec... | 20,620 |
420534 | Full motion video | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Full%20motion%20video | Full motion video
1970s era Nintendo games used film and projectors. formats had the advantage of offering full frame video and sound without the quality problems of compressed video that would plague later formats like CDs.
With the re-popularization of FMV games in the early 1990s following the advent of CD-ROM, hig... | 20,621 |
420534 | Full motion video | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Full%20motion%20video | Full motion video
(e.g., Cinepak for Sega CD games) or used their own proprietary format (e.g. the Philips CD-i). Video quality steadily increased as CPUs became more powerful to support higher quality video compression and decompression. "The 7th Guest", one of the first megahit multiple-CD-ROM games, was one of the f... | 20,622 |
420534 | Full motion video | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Full%20motion%20video | Full motion video
very limited video quality, due to the limitations of the machines the games needed to run on. Ghosting and distortion of high-motion scenes, heavy pixelization, and limited color palettes were prominent visual problems. However, each game pushed the technological envelope and was typically seen as im... | 20,623 |
420534 | Full motion video | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Full%20motion%20video | Full motion video
was made possible with the Cine-Active engine, based on the QuickTime 2.0 codec.
"" was one of the most significant FMV titles made in 1994, featuring big-name Hollywood actors. The video quality in the game suffered significantly from the aforementioned problems and was almost visually indecipherabl... | 20,624 |
420534 | Full motion video | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Full%20motion%20video | Full motion video
video on a PC. Wing Commander IV was also the first game to have used actual film (rather than video tape) to record the FMV scenes which attributed to the ability to create a DVD-quality transfer.
An exception to the rule was "The 11th Hour", the sequel to "The 7th Guest". "11th Hour" featured 640×4... | 20,625 |
420534 | Full motion video | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Full%20motion%20video | Full motion video
to select an option which played the videos at a quarter-size resolution in black-and-white.
As FMV established itself in the market as a growing game technology, a small company called RAD Game Tools appeared on the market with their 256-color FMV format Smacker. Developers took to the format, and t... | 20,626 |
420534 | Full motion video | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Full%20motion%20video | Full motion video
and Sega chose the software route. Sega worked both internally on optimizing technology such as Cinepak, and externally by licensing video decompression technology from the NY based Duck Corporation. While Duck's offering won praise for its quality (showcased in games like Enemy Zero, major Launch tit... | 20,627 |
420534 | Full motion video | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Full%20motion%20video | Full motion video
to "Phantasmagoria", "" and other titles. It was reported that versions for PlayStation and GameCube were developed, but the last console version released was for Sega's short-lived Dreamcast.
As the popularity of games loaded with live-action and FMV faded out in the late 1990s, and with Smacker bec... | 20,628 |
420534 | Full motion video | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Full%20motion%20video | Full motion video
for the console market (likely fueled by the direct support for DVD support in newer generation consoles) and focused its formats instead on internet delivered video. Duck went public as On2 Technologies and later generations of its technology was licensed by Adobe, Skype and was eventually bought (al... | 20,629 |
420534 | Full motion video | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Full%20motion%20video | Full motion video
ts technology was licensed by Adobe, Skype and was eventually bought (along with the company) by Google as the foundation for WebM. An early open source version of that work also appears as the renamed Theora codec of the Xiph Project.
Windows Media Video, DivX, Flash Video, Theora and WebM are also ... | 20,630 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
James Goldsmith
Sir James Michael Goldsmith (26 February 1933 – 18 July 1997) was an Anglo-French financier, tycoon and politician who was a member of the prominent Goldsmith family.
In 1994 he was elected to represent a French constituency as a Member of the European Parliament. He founded the short-... | 20,631 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
him: "Jimmy Goldsmith was one of the most powerful and dynamic personalities that this generation has seen. He was enormously generous, and fiercely loyal to the causes he espoused".
# Early life.
His father Frank Goldsmith changed the family name from the German "Goldschmidt" to the English "Goldsmit... | 20,632 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
moved to London in 1895. His father had had to flee France with his family when Nazi Germany overran the country in 1940, only just managing to escape on the last over-loaded ship from the French port of exit, leaving behind their hotels and much of their property. His father and grandfather had lived i... | 20,633 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
Millfield, and Eton College, which he left early in 1949 at the age of 16, after winning a horse racing bet of £10 on a three-horsed accumulator Lewes, winning £8,000 (equivalent to about £262,000 in March 2017). With his winnings he decided that he should leave Eton immediately; in a speech at his boar... | 20,634 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
to bankruptcy several times. His successes included winning the British franchise for Alka-Seltzer and introducing low-cost generic drugs to the UK. He has been described in the tabloid press or by those with a contrary political agenda as a greenmail corporate raider and asset stripper, a categorisatio... | 20,635 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
that it would provide a career for the older son, Edward. But Edward had little interest in business and was more engaged with his pioneering environmental activism. After a publicity stunt involving an arthritic racehorse, sales escalated and, within a couple of years, the staff had been expanded from ... | 20,636 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
but sold out his share to Zilkha who went on to develop it with great success.
With the financial backing of Sir Isaac Wolfson, he acquired diverse food companies quoted on the London Stock Exchange as Cavenham Foods in 1965. Initially, the group had an annual turnover of £27m and negligible profits. H... | 20,637 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
launched a bid for Bovril, which was a much larger company with a diverse portfolio including several strong brands (including Marmite, Ambrosia, Virol and Jaffajuice), dairies and dairy farms, and cattle ranches in Argentina. It was run by the third generation of the founding family and Goldsmith concl... | 20,638 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
ranches. Sales of other parts of the company recouped almost all of the £13m that the acquisition had cost him. Some years later, he sold the brand names to Beecham for £36m. Later, he took over Allied Distributors, who owned a miscellaneous portfolio of grocery stores and small chains, including the Li... | 20,639 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
companies registered in the UK and abroad. These included the French company Générale Occidentale and Hong Kong and then Cayman-registered General Oriental Investments.
In early 1973, Goldsmith travelled to New York to assess US business opportunities, followed by a tour round Central and South America... | 20,640 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
operations of the chain, but he ran into continuous obstruction from both unions and management.
During the 1960s and '70s, Goldsmith received financing from the banking arm of the conglomerate Slater Walker, of which he succeeded founder Jim Slater as Chairman following the company's collapse and resc... | 20,641 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
in America, built a private holding company, Cavenham Forest Industries, which became one of the largest private owners of timberland and one of the top-five timber-holding companies of any type in America. Goldsmith and Franklin identified a quirk in American accounting whereby companies with substanti... | 20,642 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
around $900m.
With this insight, Goldsmith began raids that left him with a holding company owning huge tracts of timberland acquired at virtually no net cost. The majority of the pulp and paper assets were sold to James River Corporation in 1986, which in turn became a part of Georgia-Pacific in 2000.... | 20,643 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
campaign against Goldsmith, involving unions, the press and politicians at state and federal level.
Goldsmith retired to Mexico in 1987, having anticipated the market crash that year and liquidated his assets. However, he continued corporate raiding, including an attempt on British-American Tobacco in ... | 20,644 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
a lower-profile, but also profitable, global "private equity style" investment operation. By 1994, executives working in his employ in Hong Kong had built a substantial position in the intermediation of global strategic raw-material flows.
Studies of public filings have found signs of the same Goldsmit... | 20,645 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
to position capital before a trend became obvious to others. The group was also a major backer of the Hong Kong-based and Singapore listed major raw material player Noble Group, with low-profile long-time Goldsmith protégé Tobias Brown serving for many years as the company's non-executive chairman. Alth... | 20,646 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
some key challenges facing mankind, with a focus particularly on the fields of modern intensive farming and the use of nuclear power. This area had been a lifelong passion of his brother, Edward, but Goldsmith himself had shown little interest publicly in the topic during his business career. The book r... | 20,647 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
entitled the 'J.M.G. Foundation', which supports a range of activism opposed to the commercial advance of Genetically Modified Organisms in farm production.
# Goldsmith and the press.
Goldsmith is known for his legal attack on the magazine "Private Eye", which referred to him as "Sir Jams" and in Gold... | 20,648 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
libel actions arose from a piece that "Private Eye" published following the disappearance of Lord Lucan after the murder of his children's nanny. The article stated (incorrectly) that Goldsmith had participated in a meeting called by John Aspinall after Lucan's disappearance, and further claimed that th... | 20,649 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
make him a gift of that sum).
The matter was made more serious by an action being brought for criminal libel in addition to the civil suits. This was a common law offence that had not been the basis of a prosecution for over fifty years, with a precedent which required a criminal libel to be "so seriou... | 20,650 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
Barbara Conway, who wrote the "Scrutineer" column in the City pages of the "Daily Telegraph"; he expressed the hope that she would "choke on her own vomit". In November 1977, Goldsmith made an appearance on "The Money Programme" on BBC television when he accused the programme of making up lies about him... | 20,651 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
as Sir Lawrence Wildman is introduced.
# Into politics.
Goldsmith had become increasingly concerned throughout the 1980s about the nature of the European Economic Community, and harboured a deepening suspicion that at its core lay a desire for the domination of the European continent by Germany, a sus... | 20,652 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
on Channel 4 Television as part of its "Opinions" political commentary series, the text of which was published in "The Times" the following day under the title "Creating a Superstate is the way to destroy Europe". In the mid-1990s he financially supported a Eurosceptic think tank entitled the European F... | 20,653 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
through mass foreign migration, driven by a pursuance of short term economic advantage, which he posited was fatally flawed in societal concept and brought with it great societal dangers. As an economic alternative he espoused a restoration of Classical Liberalism, and a return to Mercantilism. He also ... | 20,654 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
the "Majorité pour l'autre Europe" party, and subsequently became the leader of the eurosceptic Europe of Nations group within the European Parliament.
## The Referendum Party.
In the early 1990s, with the removal of Margaret Thatcher from the United Kingdom's Prime Ministerial office by the Tories, a... | 20,655 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
Liberal Democrats parties, all of which supported the United Kingdom's incorporation into the European Union.
In consequence, in 1994 Goldsmith founded and financed The Referendum Party in the United Kingdom, modeled upon the "Majorité pour l'autre Europe", with the objective of seeking a referendum fo... | 20,656 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
media culpability in playing down its supranational ambitions, and pouring scorn on a Westminster parliamentary political order that he stated had failed the nation and was now willfully betraying its governmental sovereignty.
During the 1997 electoral campaign Goldsmith had mailed to approximately fiv... | 20,657 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
1997 Westminster parliamentary general election, Goldsmith stood as a candidate for the Referendum Party in the London constituency of Putney, against the former Conservative Minister David Mellor, MP, in an electoral contest in which Goldsmith polled 3.5% of the vote. The declaration of the Putney resu... | 20,658 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
Mellor (who had lost his seat to the Labour Party candidate) and Goldsmith developed on stage after Mellor, in what was to be his valedictory address from politics, personally insulted Goldsmith's candidacy, during which part of the crowd, Goldsmith and some of the other candidates began a gleefully def... | 20,659 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
for new political parties or maverick politicians to establish themselves. He was also terminally ill during the election, a fact which he had kept secret beyond his closest personal circle, and which had limited his ability to campaign. The 1,518 votes that his candidacy had garnered had not in itself ... | 20,660 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
was "dead in the water", and indeed the party did disappear with Goldsmith's death two months after the election. However, many of the Referendum Party's activists and voters would go on to join and support the nascent United Kingdom Independence Party, which would ultimately lead a sea-change in the na... | 20,661 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
three times, and some assumed that he coined the phrase "When a man marries his mistress, he creates a job vacancy." However, the phrase was actually coined by Sacha Guitry.
His first wife, whom he married when 20, was the Bolivian heiress "Doña" María Isabel Patiño y Borbón, the 17-year-old daughter o... | 20,662 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
the heiress pregnant and the Patiños insisting the pair separate, the couple eloped in January 1954. The marriage was brief: rendered comatose by a cerebral haemorrhage in her seventh month of pregnancy, Maria Isabel Patiño de Goldsmith died in May 1954. Her only child, Isabel, was delivered by caesarea... | 20,663 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
Alix (born in 1964). This marriage was dissolved by divorce in 1978 but they shared a house in Paris until his death and he built her a house on his Cuixmala estate. His son Manes worked for FIFA and CONCAF and has also owned football teams in Mexico. His daughter Alix took over his properties in Mexico... | 20,664 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
and Zacharias (born in 1975); they went on to have a third child, Benjamin (born in 1980). Zac and Jemima Khan have both become much reported-upon figures in the media, the former being a Conservative MP for Richmond Park from 2010 to 2016 and again from 2017, and the latter a journalist who was married... | 20,665 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
of Orléans), with whom he had two more children, Jethro and Charlotte. Charlotte married Philip Colbert and has a daughter.
Speculation about Goldsmith's romantic life was a popular topic in the British media: for example, there were claims in the press that James Goldsmith was the father of the family... | 20,666 |
420538 | James Goldsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith
981. (The Conservative Monday Club distributed this booklet).
- Geoffrey Wansell, "Sir James Goldsmith", HarperCollins, 1982, / .
- Geoffrey Wansell, "Tycoon: Life of James Goldsmith", HarperCollins, 1987, / .
Richard Ingrams, "Goldenballs!" London: Harriman House, 1993. .
- "The Mayfair Set", a 199... | 20,667 |
420537 | Stewart Granger | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stewart%20Granger | Stewart Granger
Stewart Granger
Stewart Granger (born James Lablache Stewart; 6 May 191316 August 1993) was an English film actor, mainly associated with heroic and romantic leading roles. He was a popular leading man from the 1940s to the early 1960s, rising to fame through his appearances in the Gainsborough melodra... | 20,668 |
420537 | Stewart Granger | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stewart%20Granger | Stewart Granger
an actor, he was advised to change his name in order to avoid being confused with the American actor James Stewart. Granger was his Scottish grandmother's maiden name. Offscreen friends and colleagues continued to call him Jimmy for the rest of his life, but to the general public he became Stewart Grang... | 20,669 |
420537 | Stewart Granger | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stewart%20Granger | Stewart Granger
initially at Hull Repertory Theatre and then, after a pay dispute, at Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Here he met Elspeth March, a leading actress with the company, who became his first wife. His productions at Birmingham included "The Courageous Sex" and "Victoria, Queen and Empress"; he also acted at th... | 20,670 |
420537 | Stewart Granger | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stewart%20Granger | Stewart Granger
Cummings. He also acted opposite them both in "The Good Natured Man". In London he was in "Autumn" with Flora Robson and "The House in the Square" (1940).
Granger had small roles in the film "So This Is London" (1939) and "Convoy" (1940).
## War service and after 1940–43.
At the outbreak of the Secon... | 20,671 |
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audition for the film that turned him into a star. Granger had been recommended by Donat, who most recently worked with Granger on stage in "To Dream Again".
### Gainsborough melodramas 1943–46.
Granger's first starring film role was as the acid-tongued Rokeby in the Gainsborough Pictures period melo... | 20,672 |
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Mason, and added Jean Kent. "The New York Times" reported that Granger "is a young man worth watching. The customers... like his dark looks and his dash; he puts them in mind, they say of Cary Grant." It was the second most popular film at the British box office in 1944.
Another hit was "Love Story" (1... | 20,673 |
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more Gainsborough melodrama, another hit. Also popular was "Caesar and Cleopatra", supporting Claude Rains and Vivien Leigh; this film lost money because of its high production cost but was widely seen, and was the first of Granger's films to be a hit in the USA. At the end of 1945 British exhibitors vo... | 20,674 |
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Magic Bow" (1946), with Calvert and Kent, where Granger played Niccolò Paganini That year he was voted the third-most popular British star, and the sixth-most popular overall.
## Rank Organisation 1947–49.
Granger went over to Rank, for whom he made a series of historical dramas: "Captain Boycott" (19... | 20,675 |
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was one of his few films of which he was proud. However it was a disappointment at the box office, as was "Blanche Fury".
Granger wanted a change of pace and so appeared in "Woman Hater" (1948), a comedy with Edwige Feuillère. In 1949 Granger was reported as earning around £30,000 a year.
That year Gr... | 20,676 |
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years on, Simmons had transformed from a promising newcomer into a star – and a very attractive young woman. They married the following year in a bizarre wedding ceremony organised by Howard Hughes – one of his private aircraft flew the couple to Tucson, Arizona, where they were married, mainly among st... | 20,677 |
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with the Rank Organisation, and his thoughts turned to Hollywood.
## MGM 1950-1957.
In 1949 Granger made his move; MGM was looking for someone to play H. Rider Haggard's hero Allan Quatermain in a film version of "King Solomon's Mines". Errol Flynn was offered the role but turned it down; Granger's si... | 20,678 |
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action comedy "Soldiers Three" (1951). Granger followed it with location work for "Constable Pedley" in Canada. This was put on hold so Granger could make a light comedy, "The Light Touch", in a role meant for Cary Grant. It was a box office disappointment. However filming resumed on "Constable Pedley" ... | 20,679 |
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Stewart Granger was a dreadful person, rude... just awful. Just being in his presence was bad. I thought at one point the crew was going to kill him." However the resulting film was a notable critical and commercial success.
After this came the remake of "The Prisoner of Zenda" (1952), for which his th... | 20,680 |
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(1953), playing Thomas Seymour. The film was popular, though it did not recover its cost, and it remained a favourite of Granger's.
He had a commercial success in "All the Brothers Were Valiant" (1953), playing a villain opposite Robert Taylor. Granger lost out on "A Star Is Born", which went to James ... | 20,681 |
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of 1757, a man who rules a gang of cut-throat smugglers with an iron fist until he is softened by a 10-year-old boy who worships him and who believes only the best of him. The film was directed by Fritz Lang and produced by John Houseman, a former associate of Orson Welles. It was a flop.
Granger and T... | 20,682 |
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officer with whom (in a change from the novel) she ultimately fell in love.
Gardner was in Granger's next film, "The Little Hut" (1957), a sex farce which proved a surprise smash at the box office. He followed it with a minor Western, "Gun Glory" (1957). It was his last film under his MGM contract. Gra... | 20,683 |
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Century Fox, "Harry Black" (1958), partly shot in India. He went to Britain to be in a thriller "The Whole Truth" (1958) then returned to Los Angeles to support John Wayne in a comic "northern", "North to Alaska" (1960). By now his marriage to Simmons had ended and Granger decided to move to Europe.
##... | 20,684 |
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Peter Finch, and the Fregonese and Farrow films were never made. Granger did go to Britain to appear in a thriller "The Secret Partner" (1961) for MGM.
He went to Italy and played Lot in Robert Aldrich's "Sodom and Gomorrah" (1962), filmed in Rome. When "Sodom" started filming Granger announced he had ... | 20,685 |
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action film and "Swordsman of Siena" (1963), a swashbuckler. "Dark Memory" was not made. Granger was in a war film "The Secret Invasion" (1964) for Roger Corman shot in Yugoslavia.
In Germany, Granger acted in the role of Old Surehand in three Western films adapted from novels by German author Karl May... | 20,686 |
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(1966).
Granger starred in several Eurospy films such as "Red Dragon" (1965), a West Germany-Italian film shot in Hong Kong; and "Requiem for a Secret Agent" (1966). He did "The Crooked Road" (1965), with Robert Ryan under the direction of Don Chaffey in Yugoslavia; "Target for Killing" (1966), a crime... | 20,687 |
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talk about". He later estimated that he made more than $1.5 million in the 1960s but lost all of it.
## US television.
Granger returned to the US and made a TV film "Any Second Now" (1969).
In 1970 he appeared as Colonial Mackenzie on the TV western series "Men From Shiloh" in the episode titled Colo... | 20,688 |
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by the lack of character development for his role.
He played Sherlock Holmes in a poorly received 1972 TV film version of "The Hound of the Baskervilles".
## Retirement.
In the 1970s Granger retired from acting and went to live in southern Spain, where he invested in real estate and resided in Estepo... | 20,689 |
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to stage a military coup in an African nation. His character then makes a deal with the existing government, and betrays the mercenaries.
In 1980 he was diagnosed with lung cancer and told he had three months to live. Granger later said, "I was 67 and had smoked 60 cigarettes a day for 40 years, but th... | 20,690 |
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publication of his autobiography "Sparks Fly Upward", claiming he was bored. Granger spent the last decade of his life appearing on stage and television including playing Prince Philip in "The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana"(1982), a guest role in the TV series in "The Fall Guy" starring Lee Majors,... | 20,691 |
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at Duke University for a three-week run, followed by performances in Baltimore and Boston before opening on 14 November 1989 on Broadway.
# Personal life.
He was married three times:
- Elspeth March (1938–1948); two children, Jamie and Lindsay
- Jean Simmons (1950–1960), (with whom he had starred in... | 20,692 |
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went on to have an affair. When asked about this revelation, Kerr's response was, "What a gallant man he is."
In 1956 Granger became a naturalised citizen of the United States.
He died in Santa Monica, California, on August 16, 1993, from prostate and bone cancer at the age of 80.
His niece is "Antiq... | 20,693 |
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(1958).
# Complete filmography.
- "The Song You Gave Me" (1933) as Waiter (uncredited)
- "A Southern Maid" (1933) (uncredited)
- "Give Her a Ring" (1934) as Diner (uncredited)
- "Over the Garden Wall" (1934) (uncredited)
- "A Southern Maid" (1934) (uncredited)
- "I Spy" (1934) (uncredited)
- "Un... | 20,694 |
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"Madonna of the Seven Moons" (1945) as Nino
- "Waterloo Road" (1945) as Ted Purvis
- "Caesar and Cleopatra" (1945) as Apollodorus
- "Caravan" (1946) as Richard Darrell
- "The Magic Bow" (1946) as Nicolo Paganini
- "Captain Boycott" (1947) as Hugh Davin
- "Blanche Fury" (1948) as Philip Thorn
- "S... | 20,695 |
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(1952) as Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf V
- "Salome" (1953) as Commander Claudius
- "Young Bess" (1953) as Thomas Seymour
- "All the Brothers Were Valiant" (1953) as Mark Shore
- "Beau Brummell" (1954) as Beau Brummell
- "Green Fire" (1954) as Rian X. Mitchell
- "Moonfleet" (1955) as Jeremy Fox
... | 20,696 |
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aka John Wilson
- "Sodom and Gomorrah" (1962) as Lot
- "The Legion's Last Patrol" (US: "Commando") (1962) as Captain Le Blanc
- "Swordsman of Siena" (1962) as Thomas Stanswood
- "The Shortest Day" (1963) as Avvocato (uncredited)
- "The Secret Invasion" (1964) as Maj. Richard Mace
- "Among Vultures... | 20,697 |
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Supt. Cooper-Smith
- "The Last Safari" (1967) as Miles Gilchrist
- "Any Second Now" (1969 TV movie) as Paul Dennison
- "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (1972 TV movie) as Sherlock Holmes
- "The Wild Geese" (1978) as Sir Edward Matherson
- "The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana" (1982 TV movie) as P... | 20,698 |
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"Digger's Republic" for Leslie Arliss as Stafford Parker (1946) – this became "Diamond City" with David Farrar in the role instead
- "Self-Made Man" (1947) from a script by Alan Campbell about a cocky type who comes out of the RAF and makes and loses a million dollars
- "Christopher Columbus" in the t... | 20,699 |
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