Most commentators consider Marcel Mauss ( 1872 – 1950 ), nephew of the influential sociologist Émile Durkheim, to be the founder of the French anthropological tradition.

Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski () ( July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950 ) was a Polish-American philosopher and scientist.

13, No. 1 ( Feb., 1950 ), pp. 76 – 77.

* 1884 – Walter Huston, Canadian actor ( d. 1950 )

* 1950 – Cleo Odzer, American writer

* 1950 – Flavio Briatore, Italian businessman

* 1950 – David Cassidy, American actor, singer, songwriter and guitarist ( The Partridge Family )

* 1950 – Charles Fleischer, American actor

* 1950 – Dorian Harewood, American actor

Bradman was succeeded as Australian captain by Lindsay Hassett, who led the team to 4 – 1 victory in 1950 – 51.

* 1950 – Jussi Adler-Olsen, Danish author

* 1950 – Kathryn Harrold, American actress

* 1950 – Lance Ito, American judge

* 1950 – Sue Rodriguez, Canadian assisted suicide advocate ( d. 1994 )

* 1950 – Charles R. Drew, American physician ( b. 1904 )

* Nedelkovh, Aleksandar B. British and American Science Fiction Novel 1950 – 1980 with the Theme of Alternative History ( an Axiological Approach ).

* 1950 – Bunkhouse Buck, American wrestler

* 1950 – Jim Carroll, American poet and actor ( d. 2009 )

* 1950 – Roy Williams, American basketball coach

* 1950 – John Landis, American director

* 1950 – Jo Marie Payton, American actress

Spanish historiography was influenced by the " Annales School " starting in 1950 with Jaime Vincens Vives ( 1910 – 1960 ).

* 1879 – Bob Smith, American physician and surgeon, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous ( d. 1950 )

* 1950 – Willie Hall, American drummer ( The Bar-Kays )

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

* 1950 – Aloma Wright, American actress

Due to McCarthyism, Wright was blacklisted by Hollywood movie studio executives in the 1950s, but, in 1950, starred as the teenager Bigger Thomas ( Wright was 42 ) in an Argentinian film version of Native Son.

Teresa Wright and Lew Ayres in The Capture ( 1950 )

In the 1950s, Wright appeared in several unsuccessful films, including The Capture ( 1950 ), Something to Live For ( 1952 ), California Conquest ( 1952 ), The Steel Trap ( 1952 ), Count the Hours ( 1953 ), The Actress ( 1953 ), and Track of the Cat ( 1954 ) opposite Robert Mitchum again.

* Larkin Administration Building, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright ( demolished 1950 )

March 1950 debate moderated by C. Wright Mills.

* Jim Wright ( 1970s pitcher ) ( born 1950 ), Major League Baseball pitcher

Vincent Price, Harry Bartell and Jeff Corey were heard in the chilling " Three Skeleton Key " ( broadcast on 17 March 1950 ), the tale of three men trapped in an isolated lighthouse by thousands of rats ; the half-hour was adapted from an Esquire short story by the French writer George Toudouze and later remade for the 9 August 1953 broadcast starring William Conrad, Ben Wright and Jay Novello.

Wright served as president of several scholarly bodies, including the American Association of University Professors ( 1944 – 46 ), the American Political Science Association ( 1948 – 49 ), the International Political Science Association ( 1950 – 1952 ), and the American Society of International Law ( 1955 – 56 ).

From 1900 to 1950, Sinclair Lewis ( 1885 – 1951 ), William Faulkner ( 1897 – 1962 ), Henry Miller ( 1891 – 1980 ), Ernest Hemingway ( 1899 – 1961 ), John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), Richard Wright ( 1908 – 1960 ), William Saroyan ( 1908 – 1981 ), Nelson Algren ( 1909 – 1981 ), Paul Bowles ( 1910 – 1999 ), Jerome Salinger ( 1919 – 2009 ), Norman Mailer ( 1923 – 2007 ), and Gore Vidal ( 1925 – 2012 ).

* Joseph Wright ( rower ) ( 1864 – 1950 ), Canadian rower

* 1950: The Forsaken Garden: An Anthology of Poetry 1824 – 1909, edited with David Wright

* Homer: The Iliad ; verse translation in selection, with introduction and notes ; engravings by John Buckland Wright ( Folio Society, 1950 )

Scott stepped-down as the National Chairman, just before the CCF's biennial convention in Vancouver in July 1950, there was a rift between the farmer and labour wings. Percy Wright a Saskatchewan farmer and Member of Parliament, represented the farmer-wing, while MacInnis, represented the labour-wing.

The last two Barton Wright 0-6-0 locomotives left Goole shed in December 1950 for Wakefield and all of the seven Ivatt locomotives are thought to have worked on the line.

Wright was the Trainer of Lightweight contender Tommy Campbell in 1950.

: Billy Wright, 1950, 1954 and 1958

Under Warren Wright, Sr. and his wife Lucille Parker Wright who inherited the property on his death in 1950, Calumet was the number one money-earning farm in racing for twelve years and among the farm's great horses are Nellie Flag, Whirlaway, Armed, Citation, Two Lea, Mar-Kell, A Gleam, Twilight Tear, Mark-Ye-Well, A Glitter, Bewitch, Ponder, Coaltown, Hill Gail, Real Delight, Bardstown, Tim Tam, Forward Pass, Our Mims, Davona Dale, Alydar, and Before Dawn.

Some of his major public works included the Toussaint L ’ Ouverture Monument ( 1950 ) installed originally at the Haitian National Palace and the General Jean-Jacques Dessalines Monument ( 1952 ), in Port-au-Prince, Haiti ; Green Pastures: Walls of Jericho for the Harlem River Housing Project, and a sculpture of Rose McClendon ( 1932 ), the African American actress, for Frank Lloyd Wright ’ s Fallingwater House.

Wright worked extensively in American radio, supplying crisp, erudite diction as the radio incarnation of Sherlock Holmes ( 1949 – 1950 ) and Inspector Peter Black on Pursuit ( 1951 – 1952 ).

Edwin Wright served the U. S. federal government under President Harry S. Truman as General staff G-2 and Middle East specialist, Washington ( 1945 – 46 ); on the Bureau of Near East-South Asian-African Affairs, Department of State ( 1946 onwards ); country specialist ( 1946 – 47 ); advisor U. N. affairs ( 1947 – 50 ); and advisor on intelligence ( 1950 – 55 ).